Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 21, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. — —-—— TRERMS OF SURSCRIPTION, Datly Morning Edition) including SUNDAY 1k, One Year. For Six Monthi ¥or Three Months e OMAA SBUNDAY bn, nadress, One Year WeRKLY BEE, Ono Year. o-muovnq.Nm.mnnnmnnuu!flu T CHICAGO OFFICE, 507 ROOKERY BUILDING. NEw YORK OFFicR, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNR UILDING, WASHINGTON OFFicE, NO. 518 FounTeeNTn BTREET, N18S LETTERS, All hunlno::‘l’:t'l.nn d rerittances should bs addressod to Tiw 1 nran I, COMPANT, OMAHA. Drafts, o And postoflice orders to be made payablé % mu order of the company. ke Bec Publishing Company, Propictors, E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of (irculation. Btate of Nebraska, } County of Douglas, George I3, Tzschuck, secretary of the Bee Pub- shing company, does solemnly swear that the &l circulation of Tk DALY Bee for the ending March 16, 1880, was as follows: Bunday, March 10 Wednesday, March 1. Thureday, March 14. Friday. March 15 Baturday, March 16. GEORGE 1. 17 Sworn to betore me and nubw‘rlhml to in my ‘presence this 16th day of March, A. D, 188, Seal. N. P. FEIL, Nulny Publie. Btato of Nebraska, County of Doug] Georgy B, T280LCK, bnln duly sworn, do- Joica aud says that b 18 secrotary of tho oo bilshing company, that the actual ayerage daily circulatio’ of Tre DALy BEE for the month ot March, 188, 10,10 copies;, for April 1 18,744 coples; 1888, ] goples; _ for | sune, 1% 4 coples;. o 16,058 _‘coples; for August, 1883, m&\copxan for sull;‘umher, 1888, 18, 164 covles: for Octover, 4 coples; for Novem. ber, 1883, n«u«uopl ror Decemboer, 1858, 18,223 coples; for January, 159, 14,574 coplés; for Feb- rlmry o] l&wflcob’l"!;l B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before mo and :umcrlbua in my prasence this 2d dnfi of March, A. D. . FEIL Notary Public. " Timi assault on the state houso sino- curos was a cyclone of rustic weath. Keep it rolling. ‘Wirn two councilmen on the Motor pay roll, Mercer has no fear of trouble from that quarter. HAsTINGS is afflicted with natural gas. The pipe line from the state capi- tol has been fractured. Tne BEE ' has been carcful to reflect “the true sentiment of the taxpayers “of thiscity in reference to the new post- office location Tur Oklahoma boomers have har- vested their first crop of lead. The prospect is blooming for an early planting of the first settlers. TnHe experimental farm will go on ex- perimenting on the most expeditious means of digging three thousand dol- lars out of the state treasury. COUNCILMAN COUNSMAN is the chief -advocate of the Motor’s raid on Sher- mon avenue. A profitable contract has .a powerful effect on Counsman’s callous conscience. IF THERE are any more privileges loose in the city which the corporations "have overlooked, now is the time to bag _them. If yousee what you want, don’t bother to ask for it. Mg. HATHAWAY'S assertion that his plan for medopolizing the state print- ing is the essence of economy, is suf- ficient to kill the bill. The legislature has no use for economy. TiE resurrection of Valentine and his candidacy for a federal office is sufficient inspiration for every political corpse in Nebraska to shuffle his bones in the white house. Let the grave yards yawn. THE claims of Stout and Kennard should be buried as deep as Butler’s, They are not entitled to the slightest consideration at the hands of honest men The courts are open to legitimato cluimants. TEE Canadian fire-eaters improve gvery opportunity to insult the Amer- ican flag and spurn the hand of concilia- tion. A vigorous spunking is neces- sary to reduce the abnormal bump o( a nation of lunatics. INSPIRED by the suc of the Grant mounument, New Yorkers now threaten to commemorate the deeds of Ericsson in marble. The works of the great in- {Jenter deserve something more sub- @antial than a monument of wind. TaE withdrawal of the nomination of Eugene Schuyler for assistant socretary of state, is a timely rebuke to the anglo- maniues of the country, and emphasizes the general demand that the sycophants of monarchies should not represent this government at home or abroad. THE chief advocate of the public printing bill is out with a statement in which he attempts to show that the pro- posed method is more profitable to the state than the present contract system. Mr. Hathaway’s wild yearning for econpmy in state matters is so notorious that his patriotic efforts to boost him- self into office and monopolize the state printing for four 'years is the natural result of overflowing unselfishness, In matters affecting himself Hathaway is troubled with enlargementof the heart.’ The legislature should spare him to his family, —— Tug entorprise of Kearney is a model which more pretentious cities in Ne- ‘braska can copy without infringing on ‘the patent. For five years the residents have been a unit in every movement to advance the interests of the city. They did not ask for outside assistance until . thoy had advantagoes in turn to offer for the investment., The great canal, which furnishes a waterpower un- equalled in the west, is a4 monument to their energy. They did not build bet- ter than they knew. They estimated the cost and the benefits to acerue and backed their judgment with their money. They “‘cast their bread upon the waters,” and eastern capital 15 now flowing in at a rate that promises to wmake Kearney in fact as in name, *'the Miuneapolis of the west.” THEY DON'T WANT IT. The proceedings in the Canadian par- liament Tuesday will prove somewhal disconraging to the advooates of com- mercial union both in the United States and the Dominion. It was demonstrated by the vote on a resolution favorable to closer trade relations with this country that the party onposed to the surrender of Canada’s independent commorcial position is stitl largely in the majority, and while it.may be true that some in- roads have been made upon its strength since the agitation became general and earnest, it is evident that years may elapse, unless unlooked-for conditions ariso, before it can be overcome. It is clear that a majority of the Canadian people at present bolieve in the policy of commercial independence and have faith in the future of the country under the operation of that policy. Projec- tion has not, indeed, produced the re- sults that were promised. If it has brought advantage to some sections it has been a drawback to others. But there has been u moderate growth of aggregato prosperity, not necessarily due to this policy, since it was entered upon, and this is sufficient to maintain the faith and zoal of its supporters. The nationa feeling is also strong. The argument that commerocial union means political union appeals to the patriotism of the people. They are naturally apprehen- sive of any alliance that might lead to the complete domination of the greater country, of whose political institutions and methods they have not yet acquired the highest admiration. The seotiment of loyalty to the British government also has its influence. Although tho fiscal policy of *Canada 1s not favorable to Kngland, that 1s felt to be in the na- ture of a family affair, supplying no justification for joining hands with Eng- land’s commercial rival and thercby more seriously crippling her trade on this continent. Tt is not to be supposed, however, that this one discouraging blow will put an end to the agitation for commercial union, The party in Canada favorable to this policy cannot be so easily put down, and those who advocate it in this country are quite as earnest. It is said that the resolution which passed the house of representatives near the close of thelast congress, declaring that the United States will consider a proposi- tion for commercial union whenever the government of the Dominion of Canada has declared a desire to establish it, is w be revived in the next congress, and it is thought the administration will be found favorable to the policy. This, however, may de- pend a great deal upon what is devel- oped in the meantime regarding Cana- dian feeling, and this may be very ma- terially affected in one direction or the other by the result of negotiations re- specting the fisheries and other matters which must soon receive the attention of the administration. One thing is obvious, the idea of political union must be ubandoned if anything is to come of efforts for commercial union. With all due deference to some distinguished ex- ponents of this idea, it is clearly a waste of time toadvocate it, and urging it will assuredly vetard the growth, both in this country and in Canada, of the healthier and more practicable tendency toward freer commercial relations. The an- nexation of any part of Canada would bo approved by a very small number of the American people, and undoubtedly such a proposition would be overwheimingly rejected by the people of the Dominion. COLLAPSE OF A MONOPOLY. The great French copper syndicate, after a desperate effort to save itself, has gone to pieces. We referred somo days ago to the distressed condition of this monopoly and the circumstances that produced it, there being a vast ac- cumulation of stock and the refusal of English buyers to further proposed ex- actions of the monopoly. The price contracted to be paid by the syndicate fcr copper, in order to enable it to con- trol the world’s product, was so liberal as to greatly stimulate production, and the supply in excess of the demand be- gan to accumulate as long ago as the middle of last ar, The syndicate, however, maintained its price, and even after its stock on hand had grown to enormous proportions and it had failed in its effort to have production decreased, it boldly announced an ad- vance of the price. This led the Eng- lish buyers to withdraw from the mar- ket, and then it was that the downfall of the monopoly ‘became imminent. The value of its shares rapidly de- clined, there was a run on the financial institution in Paris which was its chief backer, one of the officials of which com- mitted suicide to escape the calamity itis now evident he foresaw, and the syndi- cate has since been struggling hard and vainly to save itself. It appealed to American copper producers to reduce the contract price twenty per cent, which was acceded to, and it was thought this might enable the monop- oly to tide over but it had strained its credit to the fartherest limit and had to go down. There will be no general regret that this monster trust has been wrecked, although a great many must suffer thereby. The holders of its stock and of other stocks in which it was inter- ested will lose heavily, the fnancial institutions it has ruined will result in great loss to others, doubtless wiping out the fortunes of many and the copper industry of the world will experience a period of depressioc. But for every ten who will lose, ten thousand will gain while a very valuable lessou has been supplied in illustration of the evil and danger of such monop- olies, There is nothing to be urged in defense of the copper syndicate. None of the arguments that are used by the apologists of other trusts will apply to it. It wassimply a gigantic scheme to control the world’s supply of one of the most valuable metals for the purpose of plunder, aud for a long vime it was able to carry out its purpose. It is hardly possible that there will be an attémpt to revive the syndicate, and the copper market may be expected to speedily find a normal condition, In the process of rendjustment the mining industry will suffer somewhat, and the effect may be to close up temporarily some of the smallor mines, but with a reduced price the consumption of copper will be greatly increased, and it cannot be long before the situation becomes again as satisfactory as before the advent of the wrecked monopoly, e Blind indifforonce of Sixteenth street property owners and business men to the invasion and despoiling of Sher- man avenue by street car tracks is unac- countable. The streetderived its prom- inenco and activity from the fact that from Nicholas north it afforded an un- obstructed driveway tothe northern lim- its of the city. It was dedicated by popular consent and official action ‘as the gatoway of o system of boulevards which the city hoped to perfect at an early day. It attracted people from all parts of the city, and became the pride and joy of the thousands who daily thronged the thoroughfare for pleasure and recreation. It made the business section of the street a panorama of ac- tive life, and gave it a distinctive char- acter not possessed by any other street in the city. To permit its ruin as a driveway will result in a positive in- jury to business, and rob the people of their rights. Tie building o( the Omaha, Dodge City & Southern railroad wall open up an important section of the state and south- west to the jobbers of this city. If the plans outlined in our dispatches are carried out, five hundred miles of road will be completed this year, the work to be pushed from both Dodge City and Omaha. Ivis needless to speculate on the advantages which the construction of this line will insure to the country penetrated and the thriving cities along its route. It will pince the Omaha stock market in direct commu- nication with the cattle ranges of wes- tern Kansas and Indian territory and partially overcome the losses caused by the rainbow lines penetrating Nebraska from the south. The business men of the city should assist in every possible way the building of this road. It will will cut the Gordian knot which binds the railroad systems in this vicinity. THe secretary of the American iron and steel association, in a recent report on the condition of the iron markets of the world, reaches the conclusion that the iron industries of the United States nave touched the lowest point of a period of doprossion, and that the as- sured prospect is increased demand, with a resumption of the employment of furnaces and mills at low but fairly remunerative prices. He does not an- ticipate an exceptional degree of activ- ity, but a sound and healthy improve- ment that will insure satisfactory re- sults. The iron industry is so consid- erable a factor in the business of the country that a promise of its revival from a well informed and conservative source is of general interest. It is the rule that when the iron industry is prosperous all other industries are doing, well. GENERAL GOFF, rightfully governor- elect of West Virginia, is not seeking a federal office. He has a great right to defend, and he proposes to exhaust every legitimate effort to maintain it. General Goff will have the respect of his party and of the country in aoing this. He would worthily fill any office the administration might give, and un- doubtedly the usurping democratic politicians of West Virginia would wel- come his acceptance of an office under the government, but he is not the sort of a man to abandon the republicuns of his state and leave the field to the enemy after they have been fairly heaten. It was little less than an insult to suppose General Goff would accept a federal office under existing circum- stances, and those who suggested it knew little of his courage and fidelity. A PATRIOTIC party by the name of ‘Wakeman has opened a literary bursau in Kansas City for the purpose of boast- ing the movement to raise the salaries of congressmen and senators. M Wakeman observes, with painful ear- nestness, that “‘a great wrong” is being perpetrated, that the subject is a deli- cate one, for the members to discuss, and that they ‘‘are both to move in this matter.” He does not volunteer any information on the source: of his in- spiration, nor furnish specifications of the ‘‘great wrong” under which our statesmen labor., They are too modoest to advocate the measure themselves, but their ears are unfurled to catch the first faint rumbling of popular approval to make the grab, If the penurious sum of five thousand a year does not satisfy their ambition, their resignation will be cheerfully accepted. Thousands of amateur statesmen are aching for their shoes. THeE determiuation of a majority of the senate to apply the pruning kaife to the extravagant appropriations engi- neered by the plundering combine in the house, will be heartily seconded by every taxpayer of the state. No one de- sires to cripple state institutions or im- pair their usefuitness by denying rea- sonable appropriations to carry them on, but the line must be drawn between legitimate expenses and the voting of extravagant sums, and the knife uuplmd at the root. The fighting friends of economy in the house have done yeo- man service for the state, but they have not been able to successfully cope with the combine and cut down the bills which mask the plunder. That duty will fall to the senate, and it is hoped that body will do its duly vigorously and fearlessly. —— THE business men and residents of Sixteenth street who have not been co- erced by the Motor, and. every citizen who desires to maintain the only fam- ily driveway in the city, should give active aid and counsel to the mayor and city attorney in their efforts to pre- serve Sherman avenue for the people and check the grasping avarice of cor- porations. The people have some rights which street car companies should be forced to respect. E———— Tuge residents of Sherman avenue who have been gulled by the sleek- tongued motor people into signingaway their birthright, will dothemselves and the city an irvepurable injury. The cluin that o street cur track will benefit property mlsrl in that section is ab. surd. It will ‘be a positive damage, if the courts permit it to goon. In eyery city in the country the most desirable and valuable residence property is that which fronts on $he boulevards, becauso they are free from the noise and bustle of business andare reserved exclusively for pleasure and recreation. If there was a lack of street car facilities in the neighborhood 6f Sherman avenue, there would be some, justification for the motor’s boomers, but the four parallel streets on the west affora ample and convenient means of transportation to and from the north. The authorities should exhaust every means to prevent the ruin of Omaha’s only boulevard. M. LINTON, in his report to the secretary of the treasury regarding a postoffice site in Omaha, omitted to refer to the recommendation of the site made by the meeting of citizens held at the council chamber pursuant to the request of Mr. Linton. It is per- haps fair to infer from this that the treasury agent did not think well of that location, but as we understand the character of his mission, it was not simply to report his own views, but to obtain and submit the popular expres- sion regarding available sites. As it is, Mr. Linton made a partial repre- sentation to the secretary, and that official has done wisely in deferring his decision until further inspection shall be made of the several sites offered. GoOD reasons having buen presonted to the prosident agaiustsending Colonel Fred Grant as minister to China, where the government should be represented by an experienced lawyer, he appointed the colonel minister to Austria-Hun- gary. The position is of equal dignity and compensation with tha Chinese mission, and unquestionably better suited to Colonel Grant. This recogni- tion of the eldest son of General Grant will be satisfactory to men of all parties, and undoubtedly he will fill the position with credit to himself and the country. IT is said that Colonel New, editor of the Indianapolis Journal, could have had a diplomatic mission if he had de- sived it, but he had a preference for the consular service with the London post at bis comwand. Financially, this is the most desirable oflice under the gov- ernment, its revenue amounting to twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars a year, while the consul has no such costly demands upon him, socially and otherwise, as a minister has, Colonel New is thovoughly qualified for the po- sition, and will make a valuable and ef- ficient consul. Accommonating Mr. Greely. Chicago Inter-Ocean. General Greely is trying to please this ad- ministgation with ' the weather, and has scored a great success. S Democratic Patriots. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Let it be known, to the credit of the Demo- cratic officeholders, that not one of them hias yet been 8o uupatriotic as to insist upon quitting the service when requested to go on drawing his salary until further notice. IO PR S An Inviting Field. Neiw York World, For perspiring patriots who wait an office right away there would scem to be a wag- nificent opening in the Indian territory, Six- teen federal ofiicers have veen killed in the territory inside of a year, Deputy. marshal- ships, gentlemen? ~—— Lord Lindales Arctic Trip. St. Louis Post-Dispateh. If Lord Lindale effects an entrauce into the cold and exclusive arctic circle, on the borders of which he is said to be, the circlo will take an_extensive drop in public estima- tion. But perhaps some one who will warm things up'is wanted thers iy A Shameful Position, Chicago Times, A member of the Canadian parliament objects to the proposed extradition bill because, as he says, it would keep millions of dollars out of the country which Canada cannot afford to lose. This able statesman evidently thinks thav Canada should remain a nation of receivers of stolen goods. bRl Advice to the Boomers. Glohe-Democerat, Those who think of setthng in Oklahoma should not be in a hurry about starting for that much-advertised region, The lauds are not likely to be opened to settlement vefore July or August, and no advantage can be gained by going there sooner than that. In fact, the law 15 so framed asto deprive of homestead rights those who snall seel to secure claims by anticipating the action of the govermment in the matter of establishing land oftices and othierwise providing for orderly and prover scttlement, sl eeligoing} Lucrative Literary Work. Kansas City Journal, “A Half Hour With a Philadelphia Au- thor,” is the titlo of an editorial in the New York Sun, devoted to moclk admiration of the advertisements which appear in the Philadelphia papers signed ‘“John Waua- maker.” Weo submit to Mr, Dana that Mr Wanamaker is o successful author. What is the modern test of successful authorship? The financial returns, to be sure, and Mr. ‘Wanamaker has found advertising very lucra- tive. PG THE AFTERNOON TEA. Lady Randolph Churchill is affecting pale green in ner costumes. There are 000 women in charge of post- offices in the United $tates, Countess Virginia Knox di Montercole has refused to accept any overtures from her husband, and she has decided to go on the stage. Women are being ‘granted permission to practice medicine in Russia with the restric- tion that they shall_attend only women and children. Mrs. Harrison is looking for a housekeeper. She finds that the care of the white house will be a great nuisance to her unless she has assistance, Parls women uow heve & whim for natural flowers. They are worn on the shoulder, epaulette fashion, where thoy are in no dun- ger of being crushed. Lucie Lefrauce lived ten years next door t0 her sister in Moutreal without knowing it and then the pair became known to each other through their grocer. A girl in Norwalk, Conn., refused to get married after all the guests had assembled, explaining that she had made up with au old lover and intended soon to go with him to the altar, Mrs. [James G. Blaine, jr., says the reason she has chosen the theatrical profession is that she fears thatif she went lato comio opera, owing to her deep countralto voice, she [ quired of such ofiicers. The empress of Austria carries a traveling basket fitted up so that she is able to make soup on the cars. It has silver sauce pans with gold handles, and tho empross declares that she can malke in it better broth than any chef can concoot. Mary Anderson may feol the need of rest from Lady Macbeth's tribulations, but Mrs. Potter goes right along with Cleopatra and laughs and grows fat over the tempestuous career of the “Ser- pent of Old Nile.” One of the American girls who was pre- sonted at the queen’s drawingroom was 80 embarrassed that she mado quite & faux pas. She wholly ignored the queen until after she had saluted the princess of Wales, when she suddenly turned around and astonished her majesty by saying: *“Oh, I beg your pardon, madame,” grabbed her royal hand, kissed it and hurried along the line. The queen, who is a terribje stickler about mat- ters of etiquette, at first looked angry, and then, catching sight of the amused smile of the princess of Wales, she burst into a pleas- ant laugh and sent the discomfitted debut- ante away with a few kindly words, PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Whitelaw Reid's title is clear to a mission in France, President Harrison and six members of his cabinet are Presbyterians. Proctor and Rusk are outside the pious circle, The Philadelphia North American sug- gosts that three of a kind ought to beat & king high in the Samoan conferonce. Postmaster General Wanamaker declares that the stamp of piety may pass St. Peter, but the postage stamp goes in his business. Some brilliant statistician estimates that the diamonds in the country are worth $1,000,000,000, This is exclusive of the hotel clerks, Jake Kilrain sailed for Europe last week. -When Sullivan heard the news he rushed to Boston and drowned his grief in a bucket of booze. Miss Tin Kats is the name of a Japanese student at Wellesloy college. The stock of bootjucks in the neighborhiood has visibly increased. Postmaster General Wanamaker recontly said in Washington that in the preceding two days hs had met only two men who did not want a postofiice. The Chicago clergyman who attacked the divorce courts a few weeks ago is congratu- lating himself on having made an impression. His church is closed. Mr, John Scott Harrison, brother of the prosident, is talked of as the democratic candidate for mnayor of Kansas City, but it is not believed he would accept the nomina- tion. The dignity that doth hedge a chief justice is as useless as the barriers of the poetic lock- smith when love craves its mate. If Pauline and Matt had not gone to Milwaukee all would haye been forgiven. A colored crook in Jail in Kansas City was ted by ten women, all claiming to be his wives. The heartless turnkey refused to turn him over to their tender embraces, fear- ing a sudden raisc in the wool market. Charles E. Bonner, of Montana, was an office boy in Mew York twenty-three years ugo, and borrowed the money to take him west. He is now worth $4,000,000. The stis full of such examples, but the ma- of them luck. the four millions and a sipted bill for the passage money. The preliminary hoot of Waterloo's shoe- maker mayor has relieved the anxicty of the His sole object 1n accepting the office is to mend the ways of the town, to heel the lame and crooked and stitch the rents in the uppers stratum. His awl is staked on the work, and he is rcady to peg out if failure follows. Senator Sherman said at a recent dinner party: “If there is any sct of men in the United States who deserve the sympathy of the people it is the officers of the cabinet.” And there are several able statesmen in the country who are hungering and thirsting after that kind of sympathy. The appointment of Mr. Palmer to the Spanish mission will break up one of the pleasantest senatorial coteries which ever exisisted in Washington, Says a local jour- nal: It will also break up a noted vocal or- ganization, viz, the quartet composod of Messrs, Palmer and Manderson, When they sang they sang so hard that no other persons were necessary to the quartet.” The approaching state election in Rhode Island on April 8 will receive its chief inter- est from the fact that seven thousand or more naturalized citizens will cast their maiden votes at that time. The proportion s new vote, together with the registry us from native-horn citizens with the totul vote of the state, is difficult to obtain at this time; but in Providence there are 13,426 names on the registry list, of which 2,399 are new voters under the Bourn amendment, and 2,417 are ordinary additions to the tey ist. I the personal property and real estate yoters this year equal last year's list, the total vote in Proyvidence will be about 21,000, or nearly 5,000 more than in 1555, GOOD-BY Twelve Local Dogberrys Must Find Other Occupationy, ‘The legislature has just passed a bill pro- vidirtg for a reduction in the numver of jus- tices of the peace in metropolitan citios. ““What will be the effect?” of the bill, was asked of several, judges, justices and law- yers. Not having informed themselves as to its provisions they were rather backward in expressing an opinion, However, they all scemed to think that six justices would be able to attend to all the business now re- At present it is di- vided between eightoen, but not more than one-third of them have anything to do. At leasi twelve of them and twelve constables do hardly cnough business in a year to pay for their salt. 1t is the general impression that with but six justices lawyers of considerable ability would aspire to" the office, As it is now, & great majority of the cases tried receive such irrogular treatment ment that they g0 up on appeals. Conse- quentiy the district court is burdened with a lot of petty litigations which not only worry the judges, clerks and everybody else, but prevents the progress of more important matters, ———— The Commercial National Bank. Bids for building the proposed Commercial National bank at Farnam and Sixteenth were opeued yestorday. The bidders are Ar- thur Johnson, Winecote & Riley, J. G. Salis- bury, Arthur & Herd, J. Hyan & Co., Will- iam Lester, Richards & Co, John W, Hart, M. T. Murphy, and K. N. Withnell. The fig: ures range in amount all the way from £59,000 to §8,000. The plans (nllloruflll'ucluru built of stone G6 feew wide, 72 feet long and three storics high, The coutract has not boeen uwarded. The old city hall building upon the site of which the new bank is to Le crected is to be torn Gown and moved away in picoas. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. When Baby was sick, we gave hor Castoria. ‘When she was & Child, she cried for Castoria, When shie became Miss, she cluug to Castoria, Whn she had Children, sho gave thew Custoria, LINCOLN NEWS AND NOTES, "A Somewhat Remarkable Case In the District Court, MINEHART'S TRIAL CONCLUDED. Several Witnesses Examined Yester- day, But No New Facts of Im- portance Elicited —General LINCOLN BUREAU OF THE OMATA Ban, 1020 P Strest, LixcoLy, March 20, This morning & somewhat important caso whas begun before Judge Field and ajury— begun and broke down. It was that of Nancy Brown vs George Mrown et al to ro- cover damages under the Slocum law. The allegations were that in March, 1838, Wilillam H. Brown, the then husband of Nancy Brown, became intoxicated in the saloon of George Brown, on the east side of the gov- ernment square; that he started home at might, lost his way, fell into a deep pool in the Antelopo creek, was rescued by neigh- bors, carried to his home, and there died of an acute attack of pleurisy, brought on, it was alloged, by the wetting he got and his physical condition. This suit was commenced to recover §,000 damages by his widow, she having four children to support, her own by a previous marriage. In October last she remarried, and so the damages she claimod was for the time of her widowhood. George Brown had also died. His widow was poor, no attempt was made to hold his estate, and so his surc- tics had to bear the brunt of this action. The defense, if it had been entered on, would have been that William Brown's wife had married; that when attompting to get her husband’s army pension, a different statement a8 to the cause of his doath than that set out in the petition was given, and also that for weeks before the accident William Brown had not drank at all in the Brown's saioon. After other proof had been given two men wore put on the stand for the plaintiff, and they said that they had not seen the deceased in Brown’s saloon. Mr. Maule, of counsel for the plaintiff, said that this tastimony took them by surprise, previous statements to counsel huving been different to the testi- mony. They had other witnesses, but it was no use going furthor, and thoy asked the court to direct a verdict, which was done, it being for the defendants. On the balance of the claims of plaintiff and defendant in the orange cider ocase, the jury gave to the defendants, Hargreaves Bros., a recovery of $246. Mincheart's Trial Concluded, The trial of the Methodist Episcopal church vs. Rev. James Minehart is on the eve of closing. Nine witnesses were intro- duced for the prosecution and thirty-six for the defense. The church restod on " last I'ri- day, and the accused called his last witness at last evening's sossion. The morning _was occupied by the church in rebuttal. Noth- ing new, however, was developed, Thenine were faithful in allegiance to the testimony given, or at least every oue of them recalled. As before stated by Tne BEg, the church, or the prosecution, feels confident that a case. has been made against the accused. Thirt at least, of the witnessed on tho stand for the defense arceaually confident that the charges have fallen flat. It 1s useless to say that there has been no conflict in the evidence ad- duced. To give the testimony of last night and to-day would be but to rehash what has already been written and read. Nothing sub- stantially new has been elicited. At the call of the aiteruoon session of the investigation, Mr. Minechart rose to his feet and after a fow preparatory remarks humbly said he was sorry for a sovers criticism he had made upon a ruling of the chair during the morn- ing's session, It certainly had the ring of manliness. The confession prompted com- mendatory remarks from Elder Britt and others on the jury and Presiding Elder Miller, who frankly expressed willing for- giveness. Minehart again arose and said: Seelings seem to be mutual, and the good old song, ‘Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in christian love,’ might be in oraer.” “Let it besung,” said the presiding clder, and the chorus of Voices thut sounded the hotes of this familiar piece gave no evidence that a trial was in progress, that whichever way s, must lead to a hopeless division of a now numbers over two hundred and fifty. This fact is conceded by both sides. It has two big ones. One represents sixty or soventy persons and & quarter of a million dollars, and the other twice that num- ber, minus any coasiderable part of tue wealth, The testimony will make about eight hun- dred paces of ordinary foolscap written out. It was taken i detail by a stenographer. Fred and Herman Eichey, Mrs. C. E. Gould, G. H. Vaughn, J. H. Steven, Mrs. Dora Doyle, H. McCurdy, Rev. Mattie Williams, W.'D. Smock and W. D. Howard were the last witnesses called for the defense in the order named. The last for the church in re- buttal, Mr. G. J. Culbertson, evidently lost his temper under the searching cross-exam- ination by the accused. He spoice very much as thou his “word”” was the matter in con- troversy. If the testimony of the thirty witnesses for the accused can be re- lied upon it w!ll not be worth vory muoh on change in the future, Every unprejudiced person in the room could have very little aympathy with either the witness or what he said. Ho was worked up to a fover hoat. Rev. Prosson commenced tho argument for the church at 8 o'clock. He wili be fol- lowed by Rov. Minehart, in his own defense, This will closo the case, and the jury will roport its findings and sentence of guilty or not gum‘ will bo passed. If guilty, Mine- hart wil bounced from the church, 1f not, ho wm be sustained at Grace church and continued as its pastor throughout the conferenoe year, One of ita prominent members said to Tre Ber ropresentative to-day: “If Minehart has to go the majority of Grace church g0 with him." It is the general _impression, however, that he will bo found guilty on the charge of teaching dootrines contrary to the tenets of tho Mothodist churcn, and temporarily sus- pended from ministerial work, if not perma- nently, It goes without saying that the charge of Iying falls flat, and that it is not even believed, in heart, by the party or Knrllol who 'proferred’ it. If not a good Methodist, Minohart has certaialy n proven to be a good man, Supreme Court Proceedings. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy vs Abra- hamson, dismissed. Botts'vs Sims, submitted on motion to modify decree. The following causes were arguod and sub- mitted: Barlass vs Braasche, Capps vs Adawms county. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail- road company vs James (two cases), Error from the district court of York county, Af- firmed. Opinion by Justico Maxwell. Rawlins vs Kennard, Krror from the dis- trict court of Lancastor county, Reversed and remanded. Opinion by Justice Maxwell. Hamilton vs Fleming Krror from_ the district court of York county, Reversed un- less remittitur of $30 bo filed within thirty days, Opinion by Chief Justico Roose. Bollong vs Schuyler National Bank. BEe- ror from the district court of Colfax county. . Afirmed. Opinion by Chief Justice Roose. McCroery vs Schaffer. Avpeal from tho district court of Nomaha county. Modified, Opinion by Chief Justico Roese. Kinney vs Hews, Error from the district court of Richardson county. Afirmed. Opine ion by Justice Cobb. Southard et al vs Bryant. Error from tho district court of Gago county. Revorsed and remandod. Opinion by Justice Maxwell. Missouri Pacific Ralway Co. vs Vande. venter, Error from the distriot court of Richardson county. Affirmed. Opinion by Justice Cobb. City News and Notes. Governor Thayer is in Grand Island, but will return home to-morrow morning. o is said to be after Hammond with a sharp stek if he is found to be guilty as charged. Fitzsimmons is carefully guarded at the jail. But the triends of his victim, William Reed, will bide the course of the law. They express themsclves as having no foars but what the law will mete out a terrible ven- geanoe, SR WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT. Views and Interviews Caught in Hotel Corridors and Elsewhere. Ben Barrows, chief descriptive writer fog the Union Pacific road, returoed Tuesday from a flying trip to Denver, Salt Lake city, Ogden and Cheyenne. He says that all these places are getting to the front rapidly, but Ogaen has a regular high pressure, 160 pounds of steam to the square inch boom and everything is flying wild. *‘I saw scores of real estate speculators there,” said he, “from Omaha, Kansas City and Denver, sailing in on $50 investments, expecting to make $400 out of them in two or three days. Salt Lake is rather conservative just now, but Den- ver grows right along. In the matter of fine residences shoe is surpassing every other town. On Capitol hill I saw at least one hundred new houses going up, the cheapest one of which is to cost not less thau $10, Some of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley boys are enjoying the sensational pleasure just now of telling a_good story on Conductor George Haynes, who runs one of the through passenger trains. The last trip he made, among the passengers who got aboard at Omaha wasa widow and seven children traveling on one ticket. The only baggage they seemod to have was a large clothes basket, which, to the casual observer, appeared to be filled with extra ward: robe. The old lady and her largest offspring, carried it into the coach, where they took seats and did the best they could toward getting it hid between the scats and outof the way. Still one-half the basket protruded and nearly blockaded the passage way., When Haynes went through taking up uickets he stumbled over the obstacle and angrily ordered the brakeman to get it out of that and into the baggage car. Then the poor woman got excited, threw her arms around Haynes' neck and begged him not to move the basket as she had two babies stowed away in it. The conductor wilted and said no more, e The First Funeral Over the Bridge. Mr. Burkett, the undertaker, says that the assertion in Tue Bee recently that the fu- neral of three days ago was the first to pass over the bridge is untrue. 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