Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 18, 1889, Page 2

HE OMAHA DAILY BEXE : MONDAY, MARCH 18 THE PATRON SAINT OF ERIN, Bt. Patrick's Memory Revered By Nebraska and Iowa Irishmen. REV. P.F. M'CARTHY'S PANEGYRIC A Parade i Which A, O. H. Divisions From Six Cities With At tractive Regalin Take Part. §t. Patrick’s Day. The A. O. H. yesterday celebrated in a magnificent manner, the festival of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. The programme was well arranged and every thing, despite the inclemency of the weather, | was carried out according to programme, ro- Slocting great credit upon Messrs, Connolly and Kilgallon, the committoe in charge. The celebration was the first of the kind Omaha %as had in fifteen years, and it is not at all unlikely that it will lead hereafter to an annual public observance of the day. . At9 o'clock In the morning the local mem- hers of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division No. 1, bogan to ussemble in _their hall, Thirteenth and Jackson stroets. There ‘was an attractive array of shamrocks and een ribbons upon_almost every coat, At 180 o'clock President Doudali called the mssemblage to order, and the A. O. H. band of fifteen pleces inspiringly played the ap- ropriate plece, “St. Patrick’s Day," which $Was rootbd with tumuituous applnuse, Upon calling the roll nearly all of the 150 members responded to their names, and after onning the regalia Grand Marshal Michacl liard began to organize his ranks. The men were graded in size sud were formed in the order of march two abrea: ; At 10 o'clock the South Omahia order, divi- sion No. arrived, marshaled by Chief of Police Mahoney, and sixty- five uniformed members in line. This delegation joined the local order at their headquarters, and was soon followed by that rom Lincoln, thirty-tive strong in full rega- i, and under command of Marshal James Kelly. At 10:15the mombers of the order formed as follows on South Thirtcenth sireet. Grund_marshal, Michael Dallard; faides, Poter Doudall, J. P. Maloney and James Kolley. Richard O'Keeffe, stato delegate; Thomas ‘Hoctor, state treasurer; Henry McKendry, county delegate and Charles Hagorty, state Bocretary; Ancient Order bf Hibornian band ; color bearers, Michael Hogan, Daniel Me: Bride, Edward Cogan and William Ken- nedy. y. South Omaha Division No. 8, sixty-five on, under command of Marshal Maloney. Eicoin Division No. 3 thirty-five men, un- der command of Marshal Kelley. Omal ivision No. 1. 147 men, under command of arshal Doudall. In this form they marched in one division rom Jackson street north on Thirteenth to oward, east on Howard to Ninth, and north on Ninth to the cathedral, Within a radius of three blocks of the cathiedral, the streets and sidewalks were literally jammed with citizens who were bent on viewing the emeraid and gold regalias of Erin's loyal sons. Arniving 1 front of the cathedral the pand discoursed “Wearing of the Green," while the procession was filing into the ohurch. Unfortunately, the Iowa delega- tion, composed of orders from Vail, Sioux ity, Duulap and Council Bluffs, was be- ated, but was on hand just as the rear of the procession had disappeared in the en- traunce. The Towa delegation was headed by Dol- y's band and marched in rauk as follows Chief Marshal Cusick; ai rhé J. J. Jordan, W. H.'Burns, M. Murphy and B. McCarthy. Sioux City division, No. 8, thirty mem- reb_of the Hibernian guards under com- B Gt Gaptaln J¢ 3. Jovdsa ana W, H. Burns; Dunlap, sixteen of division 4, under Inond of Marshal Mln:rhy; Vail, 'twelve f division 2, commanded by B. McCarthy : Council Bluffs, sixty-five of division No. 1, under command of M. J. Morris, This delegation was ushered into the ca- thedral by officers of the local order and was ust on time for the opening services at 0:30 8. m. . __The church was unable to accommodate all : the Hibernians with regalia, and as a conse- quence a number of the visiting delegates were compelled to remain without during the ceremonies. Solemn high mass was chanted by Rev. P. ¥F. McCarthy, Father Carroll acting as deacon and Father Kelley as sub-deacon. The sermon was delivered by Father Me- Carthy, who, without text entered upon an parnest and eloquent panegyric of the patron samnt. He spoke as follows: ““The object of this morning’s cxtraordi- nary display is to thank Almighty God for the light of divine faith and to honor the great saint whom God made use of to_bring 0 our ancestors the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is now more than 1,400 years sice St. Patrick estaolished the christian religion in Iretand. He was one of the most extraordi- ary men that ever lived. It is not known here he was born. It makes no_difference 1o us, howover, where he first saw the light of day. Itis sufficient for us to know that ho labored and prayed for more than sixty otes in behalf of the Irish people: that he ifted them out of the darkness of paganism into the glorioussunlight of he has been the means proximate and remote of bringing about the ‘eternal salvation and happiess of millions of Irsh meu and women from his own day down to the present. No greater love can any man give than to lay down his life for his neighbor. St. Patrick was willing to sufter martyrdom. He notually spent sixty years in praying, fasting, preaching, suffering, not that he might save us from some temporal evil, mnot that he right procure +/"for us worldly riches and y onors, but that he might give us somethingwmore valuable than all the weaith, than all the honors, than even life itsolf; namely, the faith of JesusfChrist, which is the substance of things to be hoped for, which is the germ, the seed, - the very first spark of everlasting glory. Never did man, before or since, do as much for our people. Never, before or siuce, was a man 'so ardently loved by the Irish people as the glorious, im- mortal St. Patrick. “We dolight, this morning, in gomg back imagination through the centuries that lie tween us and the glorious kaster day whoen our patron saint first appeared on the hill of Tara. We love to think of him as he ap- in the presence of tho Kking, tho mobles, and the oards of Krin. Crozier in band una with mitre shining brighter than the diamon of “the east on his head, his mantle envelop- ing his stately form, he stood forth in that distinguished assembly to tell the story of God's reat love for mun; low, in the begin- ming, God had created man a perfect being of his kind and placed hfm in the undst of it describuble earthly felicity; how, after man had forfeited his happiness ing his glorious 4 tiny bereafter, God bad mercy and sent only begotten Son w die or the « huwman: race to redecm ~ 4t from s and to restore all ghat had been lost. - For the first tune, these bards and wiso men heard of the mystery of the trinity, the mcarnation, death and resur- rection of the Son of God, and the operation Jn the church of the Holy Ghost. 450 well did Patrick preach, and so strictly and heroically did he live in accordance with the principles of morality, which he taught, that his success was immediate, and soon became universal throughout the nation of tho Irish, His sovere and holy voice went atraight o tho hearts of the lrish people, it have wlways been quick and gencrous in he love whicn they have extended to those awho have taken the trouble to treat them Kindly and decently.” Father MeCarthy then concisely and elo- uently reviewed more winutely some of the fo-lubors of St. Patriok, the wonderful suc- eoss which attended them and ineradicable manner i which he had planted tho seed of ‘ohristianity in the Irish heart. In proof of #his he referved to the religlous persecution g which the Irish peoble have been sub- hristianity ; that and the manner in which they have thstood all attempts to disposess them of jeir cherished faith. Souio of the horrors persccutions he painted m lurid rs, aud, in bringing to close his admir- addross, said b difiicult to keep the law of when It 8 L0 bo 10 our interest or & gratitica- 0 the passions to violate it. As & peo- you have proved this to be possible. In consists your chief glory. Had you your religion m the time of tho A OF awmable deughter Eltzabeth, the likelihood is you would be ich and prosperous West Britons to-day. 'Your natural intelligence, quick energy and bravery would have compeiled worldly prosperity. to bow before you. This would be & fruit loas_celebration or commemoration of St. Patrick, my friends, if weo did not re- flect serionsly upon the dutics, the responsi- bilitios which devolve upon us as the de- positories of the Catholic faith which we have inherited from our ancestors. We owe a sacred duty to our posterity, This country is going to be the greatest the world has ever seen. W are the only people in it who have a clear, full and definite body of christian doctrine. We are fast hecoming the only people who have any positive christian truth at all. As it has been tho dostiny of your people to keep alive the chris- tian Catholio faith and to_extend it through- out the British emmro and the United States it seems that we are destined to be as pre- servers anjongst English_speaking races in the centuries to come. You are bound, in consequence, therefore,to transmit it to your children. The way to do this is to secure for your children a christian education and to sot before them your own irreproach- ablo examples, Try to be good and model citizens of this great and glorious country. God hns already done wonderful things through the Irish, Greater things are to come. I have po doubt that the remotest posterity of man would rise up t bless the Irish as the sturdiest and most successful de- fenders of the christian religion thas God has ever raisad.” Mozart's Twelfth mass was sung by the choir in_an admirablo manner, the ac- companiment being excellently played by John Schenl, of Dayton, O., who is tem- porarily sojourning with John' A. Creighton. The choir, with the regular and auxiliary singera, are as follows: iss Fannie Arnold, Mrs. Owen Me- Caffrey, Mrs. Thos, Fitzmorris, Mrs. R. Downey, Mrs. Maher, Miss Eila' Kennedy, Mrs, Breman, Miss Maggie Swift, Miss Johnston, Mids Hitt, Miss Powers, Miss Moriarity, Miss Brady, Lieutenant Kinzie,. Jules Lombard, Krnest Burke, John Bau- mer, Mr. Hitt, John Mullen, J. C. Swift, Dr. E. Arnold, Richard Mahe Flotow’s “Tantum Ergo” at the offertory was sung by Licutenant Kinzie and Dr. K. Arnold. Shortly after high noon the services con- cluded, and the procession reassembled in an order which included all visiting divisions. "The brocession moved north on Ninth to Farnam, west to Thirteenth, north to Doug- las, west to Sixteenth, north to Cuming; countermarch—south to Farnam, east to Thirteenth, south on Thirteenth to the A. O. H. headquarters on Thirteenth and Jackson streets, Upon arriving at the hall the banners and flags were stored away, and the visiting orders were escorted to_the Misses M- Carthy's restaurant on South Thirteenth street, where refreshments were provided for tho visitors by the home order. In all 22 plates were spread. The landladies had provided for the emergency and the tgbles were creaking under a heavy load of ddiicacies. After luncheon the headquarters was again visited, and the afternoon was spent with singing, recitations and other social en- joyments. ‘The A. O. H. bands occasionally contributed to the programme by discoursin, national airs which were both familliar an appreciated. The Evening Ceremony. Green was the favorite color at Boyds' last night, where it tinted the programme, deco- rated the gentlemen and adorned the ladies. Not even the damp, gloomy weather seemed to have any effect on it, but like the cause of Ireland, gleamed brightest under the most unfavorable circumstances. It was thera in all shades, from the darker colors of the sash to the bright little shamrock, and it kept crowding 1nto the suditorium until by 8:30 o'clock, hundreds of emblems could be distinguished throughout the hall Av that hour the band of the A. O. H. filed upon the stage, and in_their neat uniforms formed an approprinte background while thoy played the opening overture. As the strains of the music died away and the play- ers passed behind the scenes, Chairman O'Keefe made the cmel'l(n§l address, and after drlnklns a toast to the day in the cold water allowed by Mayor Broatch, he bade the audience an Irishman’s welcome. Inci- dentally he mentioned that the A. O. H. numbered 400,000. rde was followed by the St. Philomena choir in an excellent rendition of ‘‘My Country, 'Tis of Thee,” with Mr. Jules Lombard as soloist. Next came an ad- dress from the Rev. P. F. McCurthy. and his theme was ‘“St. Patrick.” He concluded an eloquent address by say- ing: ‘“Who knows but by next St. Patrick’s day we shall sce all our hopes for the wel- fave of the country we love so well fully and completely realized?"” Once more the A. O. H. band come on, and rendered a number of selections from Irish melodies. They were followed by Miss Stacia Crowley in a recitation of an original poem entitled “Robert Emmett.” It was hard to suy whether the poem or the manner in which it was recited were mnost entitled to credit, but in both she showed herself to be a true daughter of Krin, with all the elo- quence and poety that is characteristic of its children. As no encores were permitted, she was unable to respond to repeated calls, but was made the recipient of an elegant bouquet, Lieutenant Kinzie followed in the solo, “Come Back to Erin,” and woh well-deserved applause. In fact the audience compelled him_ to break the rules and respond which he did and in response sang the “Girl of Kildare.” NextT.J. Ma- honey spoke eloguently on the Ireland of to- day, which can_only bo_appreciated in the Ireland of the future. Referring to the Ire- land of the past he sketched it down through the dark ages tothe day when a hundred years before Justini gave the world his insti- tutes or King John the magna charta Irelund was given a book of rights, in which was outlined an elective form of government. Passing down to the present, he spoke of the infamous coercion act, familiar to all read- ers, and the prevailing conditions. *‘Ap elec- tion to-day,” he said, “would place Giadstone once more at the helm, and he would give a measure of freedom to Ireland, that would stamp him as the greatest statesman of the age. He brought b omarks to a close with an eloquent peroration. Walter Kmerson who was present kindly consented to give a cornet solo. His reputa- tion is world wide, and he did it justice. The sivery notes seemed to speak as they rang out, and swelled through the building while the audience listened to the old familiar airs of *‘Killarney” and **The Last Rose of Sum- mer,” as they had never heard them before. Heo was rapturously encored,and was followed by the A. O- H. band, which also did itself justice. ‘The solo, *‘Kathleen Mavourneen,’ by Miss Fannio Arnold, came next ana was sung in a munner that brought down the houseand led her to vespond with @ lullaby. She, 00, was presented with an elegant bouquet. Jumes J, Cumins recited the patriotic poem, ‘Erin's Flag" in a very accoptable manner, and was loudly applauded, Jules Lombard sang the “Harp of Tar: So woll is he known to the lovers of music that it 18 suflicient to say that he sang it in his best style, and to an sudienco that thoroughly adpreciated it, and as a mark of their ap- proval presented hini with & beautiful floral dosign of a harp. The Hon, . K., C. Lally, of Vail, Ta,, paid a graceful tribute to the press of America for the aid it had extended to the cause of Ireland, and then spoke of the bright days of that country, before its soil had been pol- luted by the foot of the Saxon iuvader. Its vory beauty and richness was the cause of his rest it from its rightful owner: He gave a historical sketch of tho long stru, g'e to obtain freedom from a galling boud- age, coming down to the foul plot 1o cause the oyerthrow of Parnell, his ussoci- ates, and the cause of Ireland it self, If the time should ever come when constitutional agitation is nought and an appeal to arms is reccasary, then land’s battle will be fought, but oi her own s0il 8,000 miles away. A duet by Licutenant Kinzio and Jules Lombard-was followed by J. P, Murphy and tho St. Philomena choir singiog “God Save Ireland.” hroughout the musicale Miss Clara Roeder and Mr, Martin Cahu oficiated s Accompanists, and to them, as well as the performers, was due the success of the hon- orad tribute paid by Omaha to St. Patrick. A Tribute to Ireland. Rev. Father Boyle, of St. Peters, yoster- day morning delivered an eloquent sermon which took its character from the day. It was @ tribute to Ireland, to the Irish char- acter as impressed upon history, but particu. lexly to the patron. St. Patvick. It dotailed tho life of this wonderful man so faras could be done in a brief addross, and iu his example found the hope that some other might rise who who would be instruniental in restoring Erin to hior oneo proud position as a factor and leader in ewillzation. The reverend speaker appealed to Irish pride to glory in its moble _ancestry, ~and touched o chord in the broast of avery hearer by Pithos and sincerity, The picture he drew of the former grandure of Ireland was historically correct and im- plicd much research. But it was the other picture of the old home across the sea that appealed most strongly to those whose minds even wander back to the time when they sought the emblomatic shamock in the islo which song and story has christoned *‘The Gem of the Sea, ———— SOUTH OMAHA. Notes About she City. City clerk Hoctor was busy during the last of tho week drawing warrants for grading claims on_ 25th, 26th, 27th, 30th, and J. strects, The entire amount for which war- rants have been drawn is about 15,000, George ., has gone to Hammond, Ind., to make a visit of a fortnight with his relatives and friends, George J. Seltzer, the boss butcher at the packing hotuses of Swift & Company has boon appointed deputy high ohief ranger and or- ganizer of the state of Nebraska for the In- dependent Order of Foresters. German Court Teutonia Independent Order of Ioresters, selectod Dr. W. H. Slabaugh as medical examiner. Bohemian Court John Huss, Independent Order of Rangers, will meet in National hall Tuesday evening to elect officers. City Engineer E. B. Towle, on being agked about the reported trouble in the engi- neer's corps, said that he had nothing to say, only that all of the force had been laid off, and as for the charge of his drawing the sal- ary and not doing tho work, he had done actual work for all moneys received by him. W. M, Cole has been gl\'en a permit to bulid a frame cottage on Twentyfifth street nlnrl feounty road, Cotner and Archer’s addi- tion. A petition is being circulated and is receiv- ing many signatures to have Twentieth street graded south from N, through the hol- low, connecting south of Q 'street, in Brown park. Messrs. John Casey, Michael Flaherty, Peter J. Murray, Harry Condon, James Red- mond, Dennis Garrick, Patrick Ryan, Patrick Kelly, Joseph Shelley, Michacl Stiles and Frank Desmond, the happy upper ten, went over to Missouri Valley Saturday to spend Sunday with friends. John Jensen, or John Johnson, an obstrap- erous and immodest Swede, Saturday after- noon went into an N street saloon and, di- vesting himself of his trousers, went out on the street and began playing the innocent Adam. Marshal Maloncy nabbed him wifh his arresting grip and after considerable inef- fectual resistance and all the bucking possi- ble, he was lodged in the city jail. To-day Mr. Jensen will answer before Judge Reuther. Knight of Pythias lodge, learning of the serious cendition of Frank H, Marshall, have taken chagge of his case. Complaints are numerous from citizens ro- siding near Twenty-first and N streets about the offensive garbage and offal dumped there in the pond made by the fill. The stench is sickening. —_—————— Three Arrested. Charles Edenburg, E. Miles and G. W. Mays were arrested yesterday for selling liquor on Sunday. They are employes of disreputable houses, where the landladies did not think the mayor's order applied to them, but some of their customers informed the police. e Unlawful Celebration. Isaac Beedel celevrated the 17th by threat- ening to shoot his wife. The weapon is a shotgun of ancient make, and would be_dan- gerous if used as a club, They reside at Nineteenth and Harney streets, it ey The Fall River Strike. FALL RivER, Mass., March 17.—The situa- tion of the strike is unchanged. Every mill ‘will shut down to morrow, as many operators desire to participate in St. Patrick's celebra- tion. Most of the mills will resume again on Tuesday, although mauy will_not start up until the weavers are ready to return to work. It 18 expected that Tuesday will be the most critical day of the strike, If the ‘weavers can hold together until that day the struggle will likely be prolonged. e Storms on the Atiantic Coast. HioaLAND Liaur, Mass., March 17.—A northwest gale, almost equalling in violence and duration the blizzard of March of last year, shows no signs of abating to-night. The wind at times reaches a velocity of fifty miles an hour, driving the sea against the cliffs along the entirecoast. No disaster has thus far been reported. — Too Much Salvation Army. ‘Copeka, Kan., March 17.—[Special Tele- gram to Tur Bee.]—George -Butler, a weaithy farmer of Jewell county, was placed in the inssne asylum to-day. His in- sanity is the result of religious excitement, caused by attendance on the meetings of the Salvation Army. PR R To Avert Judicial Liquidation. Panrs, March 17.— At a meeting of the di- vectors of the Bank of France it was decided to make an additional advance of 20,000,000 francs, on condition that a similar sum be subscribed elsewhere, in order to avert judi- cial liquidation of the Comptoir d’Escompte's affairs, e Killed a Hundred Frenchmen. HaMpura, March 17.—A dispatch from Tien Tsin to a Hamburg correspondent, says it is reported there that natives have risen on the Kwangsi frontior, and that they de- stroyed ten block bouses and killed a hup- dred Freuchmen. B French Bankers Suspend Payment. PARris, March 17.—Tavande & Cie, bankers of Le Mans, have suspended. Their liabili- ties amount to several million francs. e Ulbach is Not Dead, Panris, March 17.—The report of the death of Louis Ulbach, the Frenca novelist, was erroneous, — A Dakota Legisiator's Prayer. A few days ago & number of the Da- kota legislature went on a junketing trip, and that day,in the house, the chaplain being absent, one of the memg bers, according to the Casper (Wyo.) Mail, offered prayer, as follows: *Oh, Lord, bless this house. Of course, as can be seen by careful obser- vation, there are not many of us here, the majority having gone on a junket- ing tour to Grand Fork. Oh, Lord,thou knowest their moiives in, going. If it is 1n the best interest of the country (which seems to me very doubtful) thou wilt bless them; but if 1t is for the way- ward pleasures of this wicked world, thou mayest do with them what seem- est best in thine eyes. They havegone, oh Lord, where the unnns.r{ng beauties of the northland dwell and the cunning jack-pot doth allure; they have gone to the home of the boomer and the *flush,” to the land of Jud Lamoure, but foolish and wicked as the expedition may seem, we ask thee for the sake of their wives and children not to visit thy wrath upon them too severely, Oh, Lord,smile thou urou the prohibition cause and let thy blessing be with the woman suffrage measure, and save us all at last—junk- eters and all, if powle‘ Evidently Had. New York Morning Journal: City Cousin—Did you eyer have your por- trait taken? Country Cousin—Yes; someone stole my locket at the Poulsontown fair. An Imperative Necessity. ‘What pure air is to an unhealthy lo- cality, what spring cleaning is to the neat housekeeper, 50 is Hood’s Sarsapa- rilla to everybody, at tnis season. The body needs to be thoroughly renovated, the blood purified and vitalized, the gorms of disease destroyed. ofula, salt rheum,and all other blood disorders are cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the wmost popular aud successful spring medicine. SOLONS OF THE LOWER HOUSE Biographies ot S6mo of the Law- makers at Linocoln. INCIDENTS OF. THEIR LIVES. [ - The Records They Have Made Dure ing the Present Session of the Logislatwro-Many Self- Made' Men. Brief Biographics. Tue Ber recontly published short biogra- phies of the farmer mombers of the lower house. Below will bo found sketchos of the other members of that body : Hon, Otto Abrahamson, of Kearnoy, was born in Sweden in 1839. When eighteon years of age he came to America with his arents, and settled in Jefferson county, owa. 'Tho next year ho removed to Hender: son county, Illinois, where he took up the occupation of farming. When the war broke out he enlisted in the Tenth Illinois infantry, and participated in many of the most stub: bornly contested battles, among them Island No. 10, Missionary Ridge, Corinth, Reseca, Jonesboro, and several engagements around Atlanta. He marched with Sherman on his ever momorable raid through Georgia and Jthe Carolinas and took part in the final battle with Johnston's forces at Bentonvill When the ‘‘cruel war was over” he re- turned to Henry county, Iowa, and settled on a farm, and afterward opened a_store in the town of Swedesburg. In 1876 he re- moved to Kearney county and invosted largely in real estate, of which he now owns several Lhouam es. At present he 18 en- gaged in the m ntile business in the town of Axtell, in the center of a large Swedish settlement. As a representative Mr. Abra- hamson is careful and rather counservative and prefers to err, if at all, on the side of charity. He is ono of the quiot members, but is seldom out of his seat and never shirks a vote. Hon. A. E. Cady of Howa Watertown, W in 1 His father was one of the ecarly settlers of Milwaukee, and 1n connection with his nephew, Hon, H. J. Hannell, afterwards governor of the state, he opened the first wholesale hard- ware store in Wisconsin, Mr. Cady lived in Watertown until he was eleven years of age, when his parents removed to Chicago, and then to DeSoto, in Missouri, near St. Louis. In 1870 his parents changed their location to Red Oak, la.,, and here Mr. Cady learned the printer’s trade. In 1873, he went to Fon Du Lae, Wis,, where hewas connected for some time with the business department of the LaBelle Wagon company. He re- turned to Milwaukee in 1876 and kept books in the hardware store of Jones & Laughlin. In 1877, he again turned his steps westward and landed at Schuyler, in this state, where le soon afterwards purchased the Sun, which he edited until January, 1884, when he sold out and removed to St. Paul, Howard county, and accepted the presidency of the Flirst National bank. Mr. Cady was one of the prominent candidates for speaker, but withdrew in the interest of harmony. He has taken from the first a leading po: tion on the floor, and while not given to mak- ing long speeches, . his points tell. He is the anthor of the high license amendment among others, and of tne bill providing for the eiec- tion of railroad commissioners, and also of the bill for the gncouragement of the beet sugar industry. Mr. {jady is & determined foe of extravagarce @nd jobbery in every form and lead the fight in the knocking out the bogus $50,000° claim of ex-Governor Butler. 1 Hon A. Coleman;, of Polk, was born in the year 1850 i Bunker Hill, Macoupin county, Tllinois. Five yoars afterwards his parents removed to Green county, in the same state, where Mr. Colom: ew up as a sturdy farmer boy, attending school in winter and working hard in summer. In 1869 he moved to Minburn, Dallas county, Iowa, where he leurned the drug’business and followed it and the practice of ‘medicine for nine years. Mr. Coleman moved to Stromsburg 1n .1878 and continued ‘the practice of medicine. Five years ago he, united his political for- tunes with the anti-monopoly and afterwards the union labor party, and Is the only repre- sentative of that party in the legislaturo. He was elected by a combination with the democrats. Mr. Coleman does not pelieve in sham reform. He favors radical meas- ures to correct the cvils growing out of cor- poration abuses. Hon. John A, Dempster, of Fillmore, was born in Dundee, 11L., in 1340, and raised on a farm and received a good common school education. In 1861 he obeyed the call of his country and enlisted in the Fifty- Iilinois infantry, took partin some of the bloodisst battles of the war—some seventeen different engagements. Among these were Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Reseca, Altoona and Atlanta, and marched with “Sherman to the Sea,” and heard the boom of rebel cannons in the closing battles of the war at Raleigh and Bentonville. Returning by way of Washington, he was present at the final grand review of the army, when more than nine million soldiers laid down their arms and returned to the peaceful pur- suits of life. Mr. Demster took up his abode at Rochelle, Iil., for a few years, and in 1871 came to Fillmore county and took up @ homestead, enduring all the privations of the pioneer settler, In 1 he moved to Genoa, in the same county, built one of the first business houses and entered upon the life of a mer- chact. He ecarly becamo identified with county politics and filled the ofiice of county superintendent of schools for six years. He has taken a prominent part in all moral re- forms agitating the state, and is the author of the complusory education law now on the statute books. He was clected to the legis- lature two years ago and was one of the strongest supporters of the claims of Sena- tor Van Wyck and a leader of the anti-mo- nopoly element. He was a prominent candi- dat for speaker of the present house, and the recoguized leader of the submission forces. Hon. Fremont Everett, who represents the float distrit, composed of Burk and Wash- ington, was born in Allamakee county, Iowa, in 1855, When thirteen years of age he came to Burt_county with his parents, who located near Lyons. Mr. Everett attended school und read law in Onawa, Iowa, and was admitted to the bar in 1879, 'He settled at Lyons and soon was in possession of an excellent practice. He is a ropublican by m- stinct and training and is strongly tinctured with prohibition and anti-monopoly sonti- ments, Mr. £verett, or ‘‘the little man from Burd as he is generally called, is one of the most valuable members of the house. Heis active and vigilant in endeavoring to protect the state treasury from the hungry horde of harpies now swooping down upon it and scrutinizes each item closely, often propos- ing amendments to lop off some unnecessary item, He does not make long spoeches but his clear cut questions often confuse the schemers and loby] reveals the weak- ness of extravagrant'or bogus claims. Hon. J. J. Farley, of Hamilton, was born on a farm near Oseeola, Clark county, lowa, in 1853, and has the @istinction of being tho first native male child born m that county, He received his education at the high school in Osceola. 1In 1881, luolg:l any with three other youug men, h§ started out to soel his fortune. They first'trned tneir course to- ward the north, in where in the then Farmngton, Minn. was born in nding to locate some- ds of Dakota, but at tracted rawmstorm overtook thew, aud Mr: Farley turned his steps homeward. In Ilebruary, 1852, he came to Nebraska and Jlocated at Aurora, where he was engaged in the livery business for one year. Ho then moved to Marquette, in the same county;andopened a real ostate He is now president of the al 1u politics he is care- ful and prudent; favors keeping a tight rein on the railroads and other corporations, and an economic and judicious expenditure of the public funds. Mr. Farley énjoys the distine- tion of being one of the three bachelors in the house, though how. long this state ot affuirs may continue is open to conjecture, Hon. E. A, Gilbert, of York, was born in Car! Mocoupin i in of his father and in 1876 he was admitted to practice before the supreme court. He practiced law in his native place until 1854, when he woved to York vounty and opened upa general law business and is now a member of the firm of Scowt & Gilbert, well known practitioners of York courty. Gilbert is & careful und vonscientious legisia- tor. He is strongly opposed 10 jobs and ex- travagance aud has signalized “himself by makiug well-airected efforts w lop off need- less expenditures 1n every department of state and enact Liws 10 suppress usury, and for the control of insurance companies, banks, railroads and othar corporations. Hon. C. L. Hall, of Lancaster, first opened his eyes to the light in tho town ot Jeffcrson, Ashtabuia county, Ohio. He attended a com- mon school and in 1577 he attended Hiram college, which has the honor of claiming the late President Garfield as its most illustrious graduate, Mr. Hall studied law and taugnt 8chool by turn, and in 1932 ho was admitted to the bar and soon afterwards located in Lincoln and opened a law offfce, Mr. Hall is the only mem from Lancaster county who voted for submission. He is a debater of no mean ability and is universally conceded to be the wit of the house, Few members, un- loss strongly entrenched behind the truth and having full knowledge of the subject have much show before the sharp questions with which Mr. Hall is wont to confuse his opponents. Among other bills, he is the author ot the maximum tariff, ‘which is designed to fix an absolute schedule ©f rates on all shipments of freight between all points in the state. Hon. J. R Hanna, of Greeley, was born ard ed on a m near Vinton, Benton county, lowa, till seventeen years of age. He raduated at Cornell colloge, Mount Vernon, a., 1 1884, and began at once the study of law. He was admitted to the bar of the su- prome court of Towa in 1886, He pra aw in Vinton, Ia., with Judge Gilchri ar, In March, 1887, he moved to Greeley Conter ana opened a law office. He is vico president of the Groeley State bank, is actively engaged n a law and col- lection business, and the legal adviser of the bank with which he is connected. Mr. Hauna 1s the youngest member of tho legislature, being only twenty-seven years of age. He has taken high rank as a careful, prudent legislator, mindful of the interests of the many rather than the privileges of the few. Hon. Willis A. Harding, of Burt, was born in Sandy Creek, Oswego county, N. Y., in 1838, and lived on a farm until fifteen years of age. He attended the academy at Mexico for soveral terms and taught school five win- ters. At the opening of the rebellion he en- listad in the Twenty-fourth Now York in- fantry and was severely wounded at the second battle of Buil Run. After leaving the service he graduated at the Eastman Na- tional business college, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and for three years remained there as a teacher. He then removed to his native town and engaged in the general merchandise busi- ness for twelve years. In August, 1582, ho came west and settled in Oakland, Burt county, in the drug business. He was elected last fall as a republican by about one thou- sand. The submission question being a prominent issue in that county, he received a strong and hearty support from the friends of that measure, Mr. Hard- ng is a quiet, painstaking _legislator, favoring ecconoly, equity and equality, and believes in an economy of time us well as money, and therefore is not one of the talking members. He has no pet schemes of his own, is not linked with any combine, and will be found voting on the right side of every question and for the best nterests of the general public and his own constitucncy. Hon. Edward Hooper, of Hall, is a native of Monmouthshire, South Wales, where he was born in 1836, He came to Awerica n 1861, and located at Omaha, where he fol- lowad the trade of a blacksmith for three years. In 1864 he moved to Hall county, Where ho is now engaged as proprietor of an iron foundry. Mr. Hooper has been largely identified with the materiai advancement and growth of Hall county. He has been twice elected mayor of Grand Island and held the office of county treasurer for two successive torms, Mr. Hooper is essentiatly a self-made man, and in both business and politics he has met with well merited suc- cess. Ia the legisature he is 1dentified with the anti-monopoly element and votes steadily along this line. Hon. Eric Johnson, of Phelps, was bora in Sweden in 1838. He came to America in the spring of 1846, with his parents, who were the first pioneers of the Swedish emigrants that are now so numerous in the northwest, the first settlements being made in Henry county, Tllinois, where Johnson located and resided uatil 1873, In that year he removed to Kansas, engaging in farming and mer- cantile enterprises, Tho _‘“grasshopper raid” of 1874-75 stranded him financially, and in the spring of 1576 he returned to Illinois, his former home, where he resided until 1882, when he accepted a fedaral appoint- mént at Washington. In July, 1883, he camo to Nebraska, the first year editing the Stromsburg Republican. In July of the fol- lowing year he removed to Hoidrege, where he has had a very successful career as an editor and publisher. He was elected as an independent republican to the legislature by a plurality of 174 votes. Mr. Johnson has practicaily had no school ad- vantages whatever either inhis mother tongue or in the English language. The schools of his boyhood days In Iliinois were of the most primitive character, und did not extend beyond the primary studies. Spring, sum- mer and sutumn months had to be spent. on the farm. President Lincoln’s proclamation in 1871 for *100,000 more” volunteers found Johnson seitled down as a farmer, when he responded, and September, 1861, enlisted as a private in company D, Fift; venth regi- ment, Illinois volunteers. At the subsequent organization of the company he was elected first licutenant, and after the battle of Shiloh he was elected captain. * As a legislator he 1s ranked among the most radical anti-monopoly element, and ably sustains his reputation in this respect. Hon. F. Keiper, of Pierce, is of Penn- sylvauia German parentage, and was born at Easton, Pa., February 2§, 1836. He en- joyed the advantages of the excellent public schools of his native place until he was fif- teen years of age, when ho entered a store as clerk, continued at that up to 1856, when he went to Morgan county, Indiana, and subsequently studied medicine there with his brother, Dr. . B. Keiper. He graduated av the Rush medical .college in Chicago in 1865, and cnjoyed an extensive medical practice up to his retirement from business some seven yoars ago. He settled at Pierce in I where he still resides. Dr, Keiper has trav eled extensively i the old world and the new, muking good use of the opportunities furnished by travel. While Pierce county always clects the republican county ticket during gubernatorial contests, Dr. Keiper has had the good fortune to carry his county both times, having cen a member also of the Twentieth legislature. Dr, Keiper is a pronounced an- timonopolist and promptly returns bis rail- road passes. believing it unwise, to put it mildly, for legislators to receive these com- pliments the lavish distribution of which to favorites pFevents the roads from reducing their passenger rates to the general public. Dr. Keiper's voice and vote are both heard in favor of economy in public expenditures. Hon. Henry Ley, of Wayne, was born in 1851, in Kon du Lac, Wis,, where he resided for eight years, He thea moved with his parents 0 Jordan, Scott county, Minnesota, and assisted his father in opening up a farm. In 1870-1 he acted as a timekeoper for & bridge crew on the railroad between St. Paul and Duluth. He returned again to his home in the next year and opened a general store m Jordan in 1877. In 1881 he came to Ne- braska and located at Wayne, aud emburked in the same business. Hon. P, F. O'Sullivan of Cuming, was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1344. In 1858 his parents removed to Port Huron, Mick., where Mr, O'Suilivan atténded the high school. He enlisted in the Twenty-second Michigan infantry in 1863, and joined vhe Army of the Cumberland. He took part in the bloody battle of Kenesaw Mountain, and in the se- ries of engagements around Atlauta and at Janesboro. Lu 1865 he was mustered out ot the service and returnad to Port Huron, where he purchased an {nterest in the Port Huron Commercial newspaper, and con tinued to edit iv_uutil June, 1868, In that year he removed to Omaha, and after about #1x months’ work on tue Herald, in company with Charles Collins, J. D. Caloun and others hie established 'the Evening Times, which six months afterwards was removed to Sioux City, " wnere it is still published. Mr. O'Sullivan was connected with the paper for one year, and, then in company with the late . M. McDonagh he started the Dakota Clty Mail. He returned to Omaha in 1871, \mdy'ullnwr:ll the busines of clerk for overnment grain coutractors, G. H. & J. 5. “ollins. In 1874, he removed to West Poiat, and two years afterwards he established the Progress, a paper he managed for eleven yoars. Ho s now eogaged in the book and news busines. He is the only old soldier aud member of the G. A. R, on side of the house. The lurgoest district, with possioly one ex coption, in tho state, composad of the counties of Cheyenue, Scott, Bluff, Deuel, Perkins, Keith, Lincoln, Archur, McPherson, Baoner and Kimball, represented in the lower house by Henry St. Rayner, of Sidney. Mr. Rayner was born in tue city of London in His father was o geutloman farmer When thirteen whe democratic 1857, and cattle commissione: years of age Mr. Rayner’ arents came to ‘America, and for three years were residents of New York City. They afterwards woved l to Detroit, where Mr. Raynmer ongaged in book-keeping. In 1877 ho turned his_steps wostward and stopped for a while inNorth Platte. In 1878 ho wandered up to the Black Hills, and was blockaded for weeks ia the mining cam 1879 he rotu g " y ing modicine with Dr. Kimball, of the United States army, which he comploted in threa yenrs. In 1882 he took up the study of law in the office of Judgo Heist, and in 1581 was admitted to the bar. In 185 ho went to Ann Arbor and graduated in of the next year in the legal profo: Ro then ro- turned to Sidney and weat into_ partugrahip with Judgo Heist. Ho is a smooth and con- vincing speakor and commands the attention of tho house when he rises to speak. As & logislator Mr. Rayner has given spocial at- tention to the state farm management and the university muddle, and is the author, among others, of a bill to_divorce the uni: versity from the industrial school. Hon. A. L. Towle was bora in Salem Mass., in 180, and is the “‘most traveled in the legislature, At the age or fif- he went to sea, ‘shipping be- foro the mast” His first voyage was from New York to San ancisco. He followed the sea for soven yoars and doubled Capo Horn twice and_ tho Cape of Good Hope three times. In 1861 he joined an independent battalion, and after- wards was master of an armed transport on the eastern waters, In 1865 he camo west and landed in Colorado and followed the occupation of a miutl-wright. He lived in Central City, Cheyenne and Laramio City, and was employed by the government in building forts. For a while he ran a lumber yard at Green River. Tho year 1569 found m in_ Omaha, where he worked on the Union Pacific bridge, and subsequeatly fol- lowed the same occupation in_Kansas. In 1871 ho left Omaha with the *“Bruce colony” and located at Creighton, and for five years followed the plow. In 1875 he was elected county clerk of Knox county and moved to Niobrara, where he became engaged in - the hotel business, which ho still follows. M. Towle is & natural orator. Ho_does not talk long, but speaks with telling effect and con- vineing power. He commands the respoct of the whole house when he rises to address the spoaker, and has laid many a bad meas- ure in its little grave by a witty spooch or a sarcastic romark. Representative S. A. Truesdell, of Thayer, was born on a Wayne coufuty, Pennsylvania, farm in 1842, and lived in that state and in Now York until thirty years of ago. He attended the Susquehanna Valley seminary at Franklin, N. Y., and a_seminary at Bing- hamton. He ran a stage line in_conncetion with othier parties from Chenango Forks up the Chenango valley to Norwich from 1850 to 1875, and afterwards wont into the Sus- quehanna Valloy bunk at Binghamtom as bookkeeper, where he remained two years. In 1879 he came west and located at Careton, Thayer county, and opened out & general morchandise and drug_store, of which he still has charge. Mr. Truesdell is a_carcful and conservative legislator. Ho aims to_bo just to all interests and to follow tho prin- ciplo “of the groatest good to the greatest number” at all times. He is now serving his second term in the house. Hon. B. R. B. Weber, of Saundors, first saw the light of day in' a_farm houso near Springfiald, 1L, in 1853. His paronts were were well acquainted with Abraham Lincoln, and the “martyr president” often held the subject of this sketch on his knee, a fact which Mr. Weber vividly remombers. Tho father and elder brothors of Mr. Weber obeyed the call of their country and marched southward when the drum beat to arms, leaving to young Weber tho full charge of o 640 acre farm which ne managed with signal success. In 1877 he came to Saundors county and pur- chased @ furm near Valparaiso, and aft wards added others, among_them a fine fr1 farm from which Lo Las sold as much as 1,500 bushels of apples in a single season, and’ on which he now resides. He taught school for several winters, and in 1850 and 1851 was en rolling clerk of the state senate, and was elocted district clerk af Saunders county_ in 1882, a position he held for four years. ~Mr. Waober has _proved a very useful logislator, Ho has taken a firm and decided stand against extravagance aud_jobbery in overy form, aud is the author of a bill compelling railroads to list their property for taxation, a measure of very great importance to the tax- payers. He has been a delegate to almost all county and state or congressional conven- tions from his county since he has livd in the state, and was at the Chicago convention as proxy alternate for Green, Firat congress- fonal disurict. He_is now conducting a real estate business at Valparaiso, but lives on his farm. Hon. F. W. Whyman of Gage was born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, in 1854, When about thirteen years of age he removed with his parents to Gage county and settled on a farm near the town of Adams. In 1882 he moved into the abovelown and opened @ general store, meanwhile learning the drug busiuess. One yoar later he ~ engaged m the drug trade, in which he 1s still engaged. Mr. Whyman isnota politician ss the word goes. He does not engage in politics merely for rove- nue, but rather directs his offorts toward ro- moving long time abuses and 8o condveting the party organization that 1t will have the confidence and support of the people, As & logislator he is quite careful and consoien tions, and aims to secure the enaotment of luws that will promote the general wolfaro, Hon. Justin A. Wilcox, of Red Willow, was born in Canaan, Columbia county, New York, and lived on & farm until ho was nino- toon years of age. Ho enlisted in Auznnk 1862, in the One Hundred and Twenty-eighti New York, and afterwards accopted the commission of heutenant in tho Thirty- eighth Unitod States colored troops, and served till the close of the war, In %?(70 he moved to Gilman, I11., and for two years fol- lowed the plow and then engaged in mer- chandisin, In 1884 ho moved his stock of roods to McCook, in this state, and opened out a general store. Mr. Wilcox is one of the silent membors, though when necossary he can talk and say what he mea As & member of the committee on ms ho signed the minority report in fighting the £30,000 claim of ex-Governor Butler, and materially aided in defeating the measure on the floor of the house Dr. J. C. Yutzy, of Richardson, was born about forty-five years ago in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, ona farm, where ho continued to reside u: he arrived at man- hood. In August, 1 he enlisted in the Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania infantry, and took part in some of the most severa battles of the war. He was badly wounded at New Marlket, in Virginia, in May, 1564, and foll into the hands of the rebels. He spont six weeks in Bello Isle, and for an_ogqual length of time endured the horrors of Libby prison. He was also confined in the stockade o Salisbury for some four months, and hea the booming of Sherman's cannon in the closing battles of the war. Ho was paroled on the 32d of February, 1805 and returned homo in June of the same year and bagan the study of dentistr In the same year ho located in Me; where he con- tinued to reside until 'some ten years ago, when he located at Falls Cis n this state. ket s, Will you suffer with dyspepsia and liver complaint? Shiloh’s guaranteed to cure you. For sale by Goodman Drug C The Pension Businoess. Dr. D. C. Gensteh, until recently chief of pension examiners in the bureau at Wash- ington, av his own request has been sent to this district, the pension business in N braska h ng increased to such magnitude as to render it too much for one man to attend to, as herctofore. nsteh's dis- trict will'be Omaha and Sarpy conunty, while D. W. Merrow, who has been examiner for Nebraska for some time, will at- tend to the pension business of the other portions of the state, Dr. Gensteh has leave of absence until the 24th instaat, but an urgent case having presented itself at Springfield, he will waive his leave and go there to-day to attend to it. There is considerable old business to be at- tended to, and as new cases are continually being presented to the bureau, the doctor ex- pects to have his hands full of business for some time to come. He will occupy an office in the postofice building. ——— We recommend the use of Augostura Bitters to our friends who suifer with despepsia, but_only the genuine, manu- factured by Dr. Siegert & Sons. At druggists. ——— A New Church. Moumouth Park Methodist church, northwestern suburbs, was dedicated yester- day afternoon by Bishop Newman. The con- grogation was large, and was composed of the best people in that viginity. They got to the church before the rain set in. Bishop Newman's subject was “Holinesé Becometh Thy House.” After the sermon, contribu- tions were asked, and 8500 was raised within a short time, Sl The Councilmen Return, Last Wednesday President Lee, of the municipal council, and Councilmen Bailey, Schriver, Schaeffer, Kaspar, Saunders and Lowry, City Engincer Tillson and_ex-Coun- cilman’ Kitchen went down to Chicago to take u look at the subway systems of thau city. They returned vesterday more or loss enthused with what they had seen und learned upon their tou ¥atal Accident on the B. & O, LA, 0., March 17.—It is reported here that a freight trainon the Baltimore & Ohio backed into a west bound limited ex press at Deshler this morning, killing the engineer of the passenger train and seriously mjuring the firemen. Makes the Weak Strong 1f you are run down, or have that tired feo as a resnlt of overwork or the effect of the chang: ngseason, you should take that Lest of all tonies ana blood puritiers, Hood's Ear wparilla, It puri fles and enriches the blood, toues the stomae rouses the torpid liver and kidn creates appetite and bulldsup the sysiem. Thonsands who have taken it with eneflt, testify that Hood's Sarsapariila “makes the weak stronz.” “Itook Hood's Sarsaparilla for loss of appetite, Jdyspepsia, and general langour: vas tamount of good, and ] haveno he: recommending it.”.J. W. WILLEFORD,Quin That Tired Feeling “I was very much yun down in health, had no strength and no juclina » ao anything. I iavenow been taking Hood's Sarsaparilla about a month and that tired feeling has left m appetite has returned, und takeit ull i likeanewrian, Wealltake Hood's Sursup: sy LAt AM, North Coumbus, Ohiio For five yea was sick every spring, but last year began in February to take Hood" o Tilla, 1used five bottles and have sick day sinc W. SLoAN, Milton, N. B. 1f you decide w tako 1ood's 5 ritla do not be induced to buy any other. 10f ifood’s Sarsaparitla wilt convince able person that it possesses great m that nearly srding to die- ctions, does produce positive benefit Its pocu- ar curative power 18 shown by muny remarke able cures, have taken three bottles of Hood's Sarsapa- 1t the pest blood medicine I 1t builds me up, makes me better, gives me a good appetite and im- s my heaith generally,” Mis. A, P. 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