Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 11, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ———— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dafly (Morning Rdition) including SUNDAY B, One Ye £ for 8ix Mont! ‘or Thros Months. Tix OMANA BUNDAY ress, One Year . WrrKLY Br, One Yea iy WL c®, No,014 an ARNAM Ao Oryiom, b Rookany BUILGING. YORK OFrFice, ROOMS 14 AND BUN N T, W akHiNGToN OFFiCR, NO. 618 RTEENTR BTREET. CORRRSFONDENCE. n nieations relating tomews and edl- Yorl matter should be addressed to the EDITOR oy THE "IIA“U LRTTERS, d remittances should be PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMATIA. c A postoflice orders to be made payable to the order of the company. o Beo Publishing Company, Proprietors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Orrculation. Etate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, }se. George BB, Tzschilck, secrota Nshing company, does solemn! acthal circuiation of ik D, eok ending April 6. 1850, was Sunday, Monday, April 1 Tuesdny, April 2, Wednesday, April ril 4 of the lee Pub- swear that the v HEe for the follows: """" GEOKGE B. TZSCHUCK. Svorn to vefors me nd subseribed to in iy resence this sth day o pril. A. D. 9, e, N. P. FRIL, Notary Public., State of Nobrask: Vil George 1 uck, betng duly sworn, de- oses and says tha ho 18 secratary of the Hee Pibilshing company, that tho ac averags daily circulatio of THE DALy for the month ot March, IR, 19,08 coples; for April 18744 cop or 18,18 ay, 183, 19,243 coples; for Jul for August, 1583, TR1E copies; for September, 1838, 18,15 cooles: for October, 188, 18034 coples: for N ber, 1888, 1,086 copies; for December, 188, 18,223 coples; for January, I8, 13574 copiés; for Fob- ry, ), 18,1 copies bl EORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before mo and subscribed in my ‘presonce this 2d day of March. A. D. 1%, : . P. FEIL' Notary Public. 2 THE BIECHLER ACQUITTAL. Tt was a sentimental verdict—largely due to hysterics, tears, sobs, and the mesmeric influence of an audience of the gentler sex that overpowerad every juryman and robbed him of his sober senses. The prosecution was rather weak, not #0 much in its elocution as in the hand- ling of the testimony. The murder of King was admitted. King was a very bad man morally, but the law does not justify killing except in self-defense or by accident. £ Mary Harris, the Washington treas- ury clerk who shot her seducer, was ac- quitted on the ground of emotional in- sanity. Asa matter of fact sho was al- lowed to go free because she had been ruined by the man she murdered. There was no proof that Miss Biech- ler had been the victim of seduction*by King. If she shot King while emotion- ally insane, there was too much method in her madness. Grant that she had been wronged by a very bad man, the right to take his life cannot be jus- tified under pretense of law. Madelaing Sturlatta hot and killed her paramour, Stiles, in the corridor of the Palmer house in Chicago four years ago. The circumstances leading up to the killing were almost identical with the tragedy that took place at the Pax- ton house last November. Stiles was a leading member of the Chicago board of trade. The most eminent Chicago lawyers defended the Sturlatta woman, who was one of the handsomest girls in that city. The jury in that case re- turned a verdict of manslaughter, and Sturlatta was sent to Joliet for a term of years. Very few cases can be cited where a woman of her character has been ac- quitted under like circumstances. Pub- lic sympathy has doubtless been with Miss Biechler, but the law has not been vindicated. s meen. kota has set the prairies afire. Ty Parnell commission is & monu- mental sign of degenerate Times. THE wise candidate for federal office should see that his biographer gives his birthplace as Indiana. WneN tke park commissioners gets fairly under way we shall have to add a landscape architect to the listof city of- ficials. Tne Union Pacific announces & re- duction of immigrant sleeping car rates and tearfully pleads that competition compels. The public is expected to make up the deficit in some way. Now that the Biechler-King trial is practically over the judges of our dis- trict court will begin to hear applicants for the park commissionership. The salary of a park commissioner is not so much an object as the perquisites. TFor aman with a pair of wooden legs, Commissioner Tanner is the most ef- fective kicker in office. The exercise gives him pain, but he feels it his sacréd duty to keep the democratic of- fice-holders on the run. THE attempt to form a tin trust in England has proven a failure. That country at present enjoysa monopoly of the product, and until the Black Hills tin mines become active competitors there will be no occasion for a tin product combination. HENRY GEORGE is about to return to the country with his single tax idea, improved and reinforced by a German and a Frenchman. This tax reform trinity will make a tourof the states and keep one or more eyes on the re- ceipts at the door. THE council has acted very prudently _in submitting the question of the legal- “ity of the paving contracts to the city «attorney. The method pursued by the board of public works involved many points that might vitiate the tax levy, and it is best for all concerned that the contract should be let under strict com- pliance with the law. UNDER its contract with the board of education tho city has obligated itselt to adopt such plans for the city hall as will be satisfuctory to both the city council and the board of education. The board has appointed a committee with full power to represent its wishes in the premises, and it is only proper that this committee be consulted before the plans are adopted and proposals made for the construction of the build- ing. — THE Boston (Flobe takes the Dakota prairie fires asa text fora sermon on the benuties of the eastern climate, and exclaims: *“Why should any one wish toleave tho safe and comfortable east for the perilous and unsettled west?’ Simply because it affords the toiling slaves of the east scope for energy and talents eircumscribed; it enables them to secure homes and independence, with brains and industry for capital, It guarantees freedom from unjust laws, which, in Massachusetts, proclaim idle- ness a crime, and punish men applying for work with sixty and ninety days’ im- prisonment at hard labor, . e——— THERE is one thing that the city seems to have ignored entirely in con- nection with the extension of street railways. When tracks are laid upon a street paved with stone blocks a guan- tity of the stone necessarily has to be taken up and removed to make way for the rails. What becomes of this stone? What has become of the stone that hus ‘already been taken up on many of our principal thoroughfares? Has the city been reimbursed for the stone curmed away, and if so, why should not the proceeds be refunded to property owners according to their pro- portion of frontage? If the street rail- roads have appropriated paving mater- fal without paying for it, is it not right and proper for the city engineer to mske an cstimate of the stone taken away, so that the city can present its IR to the respective railway compa- nies? This littie item of stone may smount to ssveral tbousaud dollare by this time, AS TO SUBWAYS. In the very near future every large city will have to construct subways under its principal thoroughfares large enough to hold telegraph, telephone and eclectric lighting wires, steam heat- ing pipes, gasand water mains and sew- erage conduits. Such a subway will be practically a tunnel with a tramway to convey pipes and materials with the greatest facility, and with exits and air-shafts at street or alley crossings, While the construction of such sub- ways would necessarily involve an outlay of hundreds of thousands of dol- lars, it would forever do away with the cutting up of pavements by gas, water and heating companies, and would afford the most accessible means of keeping in repair the pipes and wires that now constitute a source of con- tinual annoyance and danger to the public. em of subways that merely os the placing of electric wires in insulated troughs and trenches could possibly be as convenient and safe as a tunnel, in which the wires and pipes would at all times of the day and night be within reach. With tho grant of right-of-way fran- chises enjoyed by corporations that now have the use of our streets without cost, a reasonable license tax exacted by the city to pay for maintaining the tunnel subway will be cheerfully paid. And even if the charge should also include purt of the interest on the cost of the tunnel, any city could very properly compel the use of the subway by all companies that have franclises. It is not expected that any city can afford to build costly subways under every street, but the time is near at hand when the streets that have tho heaviest traffic must be cleared of all obstructions overhead, and the road- ways must be made permanent regard- less of water, gas and heating compa- nies. A CONFLICT OF ‘OPOLIES. ‘When monopolists fall out there is some chance of the people getting their rights. The castern iron manufactur- ers, or more particularly those of Penn- sylvania, arc arvayed against the rail- vonds. Excessive freight charges are the ground of complaint. A compari- son of rail rates to and from the fur- naces about Birmingham, Alabama, with rates to and from furnaces in the territory east of the Allegheny moun- tains, shows the advantage to be largely with the southern manufacturing cen- ter. Itis found, also, that competing western manufacturers enjoy some ad- vantage. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, whose interests being assafled has become something of an anti-monopolist so far as the railronds which must haul his pro- ducts are concerned, shows that as com- pared with freights to points béyond Pittsburg the iron manufacturers of that city pay double the “rate per ton per mile on ore that their western com- petitors do, and two and a half times as much on coke. There is a discrimina- tion against Pittsburg on crude mater- ial of over a dollar & ton, and the manu- facturers east of that city are said to be in a still worse plight. The exac- tions of the railvoad companies, it is asserted, take from them all the ad- vantages of nearness to the point of largest consumption, and leave them at the merey of the cheap ivon of southern manufacturers and the cheap freights of southern carriers. It has been foreseen that the develop- ment of the iron industries of the south was certain to, in time, offer a very formidable competition to similar in- dustries in the east, preventing the manufacturers of the latter section from continuing to reap the vich harvests of the past, hut while this competition has already boen somewhat felt, it could not have s0 soon become serious but for the more favorable conditions as to railroad charges which the southern ‘manufact- urers enjoy. The iron manufacturers of Pennsylvania are in the hands of a railroad monopoly, as relentless as they themselves once were, the necessitics of which are great and the greed of which is alnost insatinble. The southern man- ufacturers are under no such disadvan- tage. The railronds of the south upon which thoy vely can pursue a glorious policy looking to the building up of these industries; because, in the fivst place, they are less dependent for reve- nue upon these sources, and, in the sce- MOX things is entirely natural. roads are in asituation where they must make their tariffs so as to meet their unmatural exigencies, or go the south. orange until the nece: aspects this issue is of ve The mtethods upon which the The combination that has in all the The under the new condition of The rail- result way of bankrupts, while the {ndustrial interests upon which they rely assert that they mnst have relief or surrender to the advancing compotition of tha ‘It would be better,” says the Philadelphia Record, “that a dozen railroads should be swamped than that a great state should be robhed of its natural industrial advantages,” but the railroad managers will be very likely to stoutly object to this tum, and they are the masters of the situation. Tt is the manufacturers who are appeal- ing to bo saved, not they, and they may be expected to continue sucking the ity of abandon- ing the operation becomes so urgent that it can not be longer disrogarded. In its industrial and general economic y great inter- est, and it 15 quite possible that the so- lution of the problem may be of advan- tage to the whole people. DECLINE OF IMMIGRATION. There appears to be a reaction in the movement of immigrants to this coun- try. The figures for the three months of the current year show a auite marked falling-off from those of the correspond- ing period of last year. Doubtuless the explanation of this is to be found chiefly in the fact that some of the South American countries are offering extra- ordinary inducements to immigrants from Europe. Brazil andthe Avgentine Republic are particularly active in en- couraging immigration, not only giving free transportation from European countries, but assuring» employment for astated period. So liberal a policy could not fail to bring a most generous response, and in the past year those countries have added largely to their population from Europe, while the tide of immigration is evidently still flowing vigorously in that direction. Another cause of the deciine in im- migration to this country is, of course. the agitation for a stricter enforcement of the existing laws for its regulation, the demand for more restrictive legis- lation, and the disposition that has been shown to extend the period of naturali- ization. Although nothing was done by the last congress relative to thissubject, it is understood that a more vigorous policy will hereafter be pursued in car- rying out existing laws, and this knowl- edge will serve the good purpose of pre- venting the immigration from Europe of the objectionable classes. Foreign gov- ernments will not attemot to send to us people whom we will not accept, and steamship companies will not run the risk of the penalties by bringing over such people. It may perhaps, fairi be assumed, therefore, that the imm grants we are now getting are of a de- able class, and in this view the de- cline is vot a matter to cause any re- gret. But the question of further restric- tions has not been disposed of, and very likely to be again brought promi- nently before the country by the next congress. In considering this question the course of immigration in the mean- time must have an important bearing upon public opinion. If such a change of policy as has been proposed would operate to still further reduce immigra- tion to our shores and force it into other channels, as there can be no doubt it would, the country may well pause to inquire whether such a result is to be desired. When we are creating new states and opening up new territory, is it wise to erect any barrier that may re- tard the growth of these new common- wealths? A faithful and strict enforce- ment of existing laws no one objects to. There is no difference of opinion as to the desirability of keeping out the classes whose exclusion is provided for by those laws, but we believe the great majority of intelligent men regard them as suflicient. WILL OBEY THE LAW, At the first meating of the Inter-state Commerce Railway association, since Mr, Walker, of the national commis- sion, was made its chairman, there was a unanimous decision to enforce the in- ter-state commerce law, or rather to comply with its provisions. This was but a repetition of a previous expros-- sion by the association, or, atany rate, of alarge majority of its members, and itis hardly to be supposed that Mr. Walker would have accepted the chair- manship without assurance that the law was to be obeyed, and that he was tobe properly sustained in requiring obedience to it. The railroad officials connected with the association under- stand that Mr. Walker is committed to the support of the law and to the inter- pretations of its provisions thus far made. The public understands that his selection was made as an evidence of the good faith of the association. With the renewed assurance given of the purpose of the association, it may now reasonably be hoped that the railroads represented in that body will give a faithful and earnest compliance with the law, and that the public will hear nothing more of the damaging charges which the national commission has been compelled to investigate within the past few months. The railroad situation is improving, though perhaps slowly, and there is every reason to believe this condition of affairs can be advanced by an honest and faithful compliance with every provision and requirement of the inter-state commerce act, Railroad managers onght certainly to be, by this time, convinced of the wisdom and ex- pediency of this course. Four members of the commission to negotiate with the Sioux for a reduction of their reservation in Dakota, have been selected, They are William War- ner, of Missouri, ex-Governor Charles Koster, of Ohio, John B. King, of Ne- THE OMAHA DAILY ond place, they are not compelled by like exigencies to exact extrome freight tariffs. railroads of Pennsylvania have been conducted have been entirely monopo- listic, and they have been until now supported in this policy by the manu- facturers. existed between them has, past years, taken no account of the in- terests and rights of the people. braska, and finfi\r-flonernl Crook. The fitth member had not been decided upon. The selection'of 'so many western men will go far to-insure success. They are familiar with the ways of the Tndians, and will avoid the mistakes which re- sulted in the failure of the former com- mission. Sucgess means the addition of eleven million adros of land to the pub- lic domain of Diakota, and the leveling of the barrierd which have retarded sot- tlement and pravented railroads from extending thefr ifnes and developing the resourcesiof the territory. —— e Tre Omaha Subway company is con- vinced that “‘there was nothing in it.” —_— Uncle Sam and Dom Pedro. Chicago Trivune, Uncle Sam—See here, Pedro, what's the reason we can't be neighborly!? Now, I've got some things I'd like to sell you, andI feel it to be my duty—— Dom Pedro (of Brazil)—Hang your duty! - This Could be Chicagn Tribune, “1 will be your wife, Mr. Cahokia, said the beautiful St. Louis girl, ‘‘when Jay Gould builds his union depot in this city."”” With a hollow groan he took his hat and went forth into the darkness, a hopeless and desolate man, socalized, i How Stanley and Emin Met. Chicago Tribuns. Stanley (raising his hat)—Emin presume? Emin Bey—Yes, sir. can do for youl Stanley—I have como to rescue you. Emin Bey (compassionately) —Thanks, my good man, thanks. (To native)—Umslopo- gaas, take this poor fellow out and give him a square meal, —-— THE AFTER Bey, 1 Is there anything I OON TEA. Miss Ethel Huxley, daughter of the illus- trious scientist, is engaged to her late sister’s fvidower, the Hon. 4. Collier, They can’t be married in England, of conrse, so next month the whole Huxley family has to go over to Christiana for the wedding, which is allow- able under Norwegian law. Marcellite Thorn Garner, the daughter of the late William T. Garner, of Poughkecpsic, expends $10,000 a year for dresses alone. When her father was drowned in his yacht Mohawk, a few years ago, he left her a for- tune of $10,000,000, Mrs. Mackay is still trying to retain her grip on the attentions of the Prince of Wales, Learning that he was tiring of her, sho ar- ranged for an elaborate dinner and sent him the menu with her invitation. He weak- ened, The cable man at the other end says, “Mr. Mackay’s stromg hold with the prince is that she knows exactly how to tickle his stomach.” “Does Miss Hysee sing!” asked a trav- eling man of a friend who had just intro- duced him to a youhg lady. “Well, that's largely a matter of faith.” “I don’t understand you.” “It depends altogether on which you be- lieve—her mother or her neighbors.”” “Aa Boston girl lives on atmospheric elec- tricity. That's better than beans, Bella—Don’t T logk like a perfect fright in my new sacque, thoughi Clara (absent mindedly)—Yes. Bella—You mean thiug! Tllnever speak toyou again aslong as I live. Every morning that I meet her I am prone to look her way, And I think 1f T but knew her I should ask her hand some day; But I'm sure that I should tell her Ere my suit 1 did begin 1 would love her truer, better, If she shook that monkey skin. Miss Nellie Gould, the ‘iwizard’s" eldest and favorite daughter, has the neat sum of six million dollurs to her account. Mrs. Russell Harrison is an own cousin of Murs. Robert Lincoln. It was at the home of the then Secretary of War Lincoln that Mrs. Harrison stayed as a guest during tie carly days of her engagement to Mr. Russell Har- rison, and only returned to her western home in time to make arrangements for her wedding. In connection with this fact quite a coincidence occurs in relation to the mar- riage of Mrs. Harrisow’s parents. Ex-Sena- tor and Mrs. Saunders, first met each other and were weddod during a visit of Mrs, Saunders at the home of Mrs. Robert Lincolu’s father, Judge Harlan, then on the supreme bench, A Texas woman, known simply as Widow Callahan, owns 50,000 sheep, and is one of the largest stock owners in the country. There are many Texans who hate to see her retain her distinguished title. Mrs. Robert Lincoln used to be known as “pretty Mary Harlan,” Mrs. Cleveland will not visit George W. Childs’ country place, “Wooten,” this spring to drive the colts formerly owned by General Grant, as was her intention. Her visit has been postponed until next fall, i Cornering Russian Petrolenm. The Rothschild’s have secured control of more than half the trade is Russian petro- leum. S Thé World's Sky Scraper. They say that the New York World build- ing will bo the highest in that city. It will contain a restauraut and reading room, B . 'Loup City's Proposed Canal, Lour Ciry, Neb, Avpril 9.—[Special to Tne Bee.|—Since the founding of this city it has been town falk that an excellent water power canal could and would sometime be constructed, as it was known that the Loup atthis point has a heavy fall. A few years ago Hiram Parker, a heavy owner in the town site, had a survey and estimate made for a canal two miles long, which, however, progressed no further for some cause. But it started the pot to boiling. Recently a board of trade was grganized and through its efforts the services’of a civil engincer from Lincoln have been secured to make a survey and estimate for acanal which will furnish power for all future needs of this city, He s prograssed far onough to ascertain that the scheme s easily practicable. By tap- ping the Middle Loup river ata point about ten miles above Loup City a fall of some seven and a half feet to the mile is secured, and knowing the amount of water the Loup will furnish he considers it a better and more easily and cheaply consummated pro- ject than the famous Kearney canal. In the construction thefe will be but about two miles of what might be classed as heavy work, that is the two miles on the east end where the canal g0¢8 into the canyon in the yicinity of the briclke yard and passing around the back of the Reservoir hull and emptying into the ‘Deadhorse” creek near Cap Winkleman's. At this point the canyon can easily be dammed 80 that a lake fully three miles by six miles will be formed. The citi- zens are enthusiastic over this report and anxiously await an estimate of the cost, when, in all probability, a stock company will be lormulrmld work begun as so00n as possible. Mr, John Hogue, & heavy real estate owner, proposcs to take 15,000 of tho canal stock and others will follow bis ex- ample. ———— No Brown in It. CuLpugTsoN, Neb., April 0.—[Special to Tue Bek. |—In a dispateh from Culbertson it was stated that the contest at the late vil- lage election was “Brown and anti-Brown." The respectable citizens of the pluce naig- nantly deny the statement and declare vhat Brown cut no figure in the contest whatever, ‘The bond election in this county resulted inavote of four to ono in favor of bonding the county for $10,000 to pay the floating in- debtedness. E: THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1839 STATE AND TEHRITORY, towa. Scott county unionista expect to raise a rousing crop this yoar, Grundy county farmers will plant a groat deal of bariey this season. A Benton county toacher privilege of punishing one of his girl pupils, Will Cherry, formerly of the Larimer Journal, will establish a republican paper at Afton. J. M. Joseph, of Spaulding, has purchased one hundred carp for his pond and will intro- duce fish farming. Frank Sawyer, of Creston, has been ap- pointed postal clerk on the Council Bluffs and Kansas City run. Frank Brignan, of Poweshiek county, has been appointed as one of the delogates to represent Iowa at the Paris exposition, Touching the hoof rot in teattlo at Fort Dodge the state veterinary surgeon reports that the discase was not contagious, but was f‘nlllml by a smuton the heads of the hay od. William Searsy, said to be the oldest resi. dent of Keokuk county, died the other day while sitting in his buggy, aged_seventy-five years, He had started for Sigourney, in company with his son, but being taken ill they had turned about for home. The city council of the town of Cherokee at a recent meeting passed au ordinance to the effect that all gates within the corpora- tion be hung so as to swing away from the sidewalk, with instructivns to the city mar- shal to strictly enforeo it. The ordinance is the outcome of a suit for damages instituted by a geutleman who sustained & nuwber of injuries by colliding with a gate that was swung across the walk on a dark night. id 800 for the Wyoming and Colorado. The work of laying the foundation for the new Union Pacitic shops at Cheyenne has been begun. The members of the Wyoming stock grow- ers’ association own or ropresent nearly half & million cattle. The Rock Springs Miner says sheep men are getting ready to shear, but complain of a scarcity of water. The Wyoming White Ash coal company, of Bessemer, with a capital of $300,000, has been incorporated. Several Wyoming cattlomen will drive their herds to Montana this year on account of the encroachmentt of settlers on the ranges, The Wyoming insane asylum at Evanston is nearly ready to receive patients, and there are already enough to take every room in the building. A herd of elk numbering 1,000 head was seen on a point of the mountains near the residence of Mr. Robinson, on Upper Elk, ‘Wyo., one day last week. Uncle John Herrick, who served in the first Wyoming legislature, and subsequently as sergeant-at-arms, is very comfortably provided for at the soldiers’ home in Vir- ginia, Rrawlins is considerably excited over the discovery of a seven-foot vein of fine coking coal, The find is located about forty miles south, just over the range. Ixperts pro- nounce the coal a pure bituminous. It cokes readily, being pronounced by experts to bo equal to the best Pennsylvania. Charles H. Crosthwaite, who was con- victed in Durango, Colo., of murder in the first degroe for killing his partner in a dis- puteabout a cabin, and who was sentenced to be hanged January 25, thon respited on the ground that he was nsane, has now been formally pronounced of unsound mind, and his ntence 1s commuted to confine- ment for life in an insane asylum. The wagon road leading to thé Horseshoe mine in Colorado is filled in with rock from the waste dump. The passage of teams over ay pulverized the rock and a heavy off the loose dirt, showing streaks of silver in the roadbed. An assay of the material in the waste dump with which the roadbed was ballasted, showed a value of $200 a to THE CRO; ——————— PROSPECTS, Monthly Report of the Dep of Agriculture. WASHINGTON, April 10.—The crop report- ing service of the department of agriculture for April relates to the condition of winter grain and of farm animals as they go out of winter quarters, Seeding wheat was some- what delayed in the middle states by early autumn rains, and west of Ohio by dry weather in September and October. Later conditions were favorablein both sections, with mild and drier weather east and a fair supply of moisture in the west. In thesouth ment the condition of the soil for seeding was gen- erally favorable. In California au- tumn ins were followed by dry season in winter, but _refreshing showers in ‘March caused the germination of the lately sown and a vigorous growth of the carly seeded arca. There was little protection, excopt for a short time in midwinter in the latitude of lieavy winter snow; consequently the more northern breadths are somewhat brown in_color and patches in wet soil aro winter killed, yet the temperature has been s0 mild with 80 few sudden extromes that the present condition is very zood. “The plants are generally well rooted and have been growing over a_ large part of tho arca through the inter. The general average condition is 40—n the same as the April condition of the crop of 1556, which fell at harvest to 878, That of 1583 was 82, and of the previous year S8.1. The condition of the large ) op of 1884 was 054, going up t. The present condition by ia, 93; Missouri, § Fhie condition n the s from 90 to U7, in good condition. The Mild weather has en favorablo to farm animals, which are in high condition. The gencral average for horses is 04.5; cattle, 98, 13 swine, 9 Tho estimated lossc se and all other losses during the past year bas also been much less than usual. flarin o THE LOYAL LEGION CONGRESS, The Members K ertained at a Ban- quot By the Ohio Commandery. CixeiNNaTr, April 10.—Over three huadroed. and fifty members of the Loyal Legion sat down t0 a banquet at the Gibson houso to- night, given by the Ohio commandery in honor of the Loyal Legion congress, ‘Which is in session here, Captain C. Cadle, jr., made an address of welcome to the congress of the order for the Ohio commandery, and Major-General Rutherford 13. Hayes, presi- dent of the congress, responded. The toasts und responses were as follows “Our future army and navy,” Major- General Jacob D. Cox, Ohio commandery; “Tho Old Vermont Brigade,” Brigadier- Tex from di General L. A, Grant, Minnesota; *The military ~ order of the Lo, of the United State n Major W. H. Lamert, Pennsylvan “The baby commanders of 'the last quadr nial,” Brevet Lieutenant Colonel W. R, Smedburg, Cualiforma; *‘Massachusetts in Ohlo,” Brevet Major General Edward W, Kincks, Massachusotts; “Soldier and citi zen,” Licutenant James L. High, Illinois; “The battle-field,” C. §. Manderson, Ne- braska. Lettors of regret wero recoived from Pres. ident Harrison, General Sherman, Senator Sherinan, Secretary Proctor, of the war de- partment; Rusk, secretary of agriculture; Becretary Tracy, of the nnv. ecrotary Noble, of the interior departmént; Judge W, Q. Gresham, General J. M. Schofleld aud General Wager Swayne. BB D rect Taxation For Australia. Sroxey, N. 5. W., April 10.--The budget for the coming year was presented in parlia- ment to-day. The goverament proposes to abolish all specific duties and impose direct taxation in their stead. Tho measure, if adopted, will go into effect at the beginning of the new year. z THE DEVOY-EGAN SQUABBLE. Interviews With Prominent Mem- bera of the Lincoln League THE MATTER OF LITTLE MOMENT, Cass County's Conrt Honse Matter— New Nebraska Corporations—The Supreme Court Procosdings— General and Personal. 1029 P Street, Lavcouy, April 10, As Hon. Patrick Egan is in New York and could not be seen, Tiw Brn representative to-day intorviowed Prosident Fitzgerald and Secretary Sutton, of the Irish National league, 1n the matter of yosterday's Asso- ciated press dispatchos, relating to the Devoy-Egan controversy, now exciting a good deal of interest in the east. “I can say,” said Mr. Fitzgorald, “that the league has nothing to do with the per- sonal grievances of anybody, and no atten- tion will be paid to the resolutions spoken of in the dispatches. The chances are that when the matter is sifted, the publie will find that Devoy is sore because he tried to run the league in New York and was ousted by Ford. He has since boen quarrelsome, and probably imagines that Mr. Egan haa something to do with his peremptory fall ce. I don't think his exposures will LixcorX BUreAu o T OMATA Han, ! about Devoy,” sald D 'y “‘He is a member of the National league in New York, but has not taken a very prominent part in it for some time, I think he was formerly editor of a paper called the Nation, and his newspaper experience, 1 suppose, accounts for his ability to use strong language. He was a prisoner the same time with O'Donovan Rosa in Ireland, three or four years ago. But the matter between him and Mr. gan is a personal quarrel, and can have no connection with the affairs of the league. 1regard the attempt to connect the league with it as a great picce of impertinence, 1 understand that a copy of the resolutions, passed at a meeting of the loague in New York, will bo sent to Mr. Fitzgerald here, but I can safely say that neither he, nor any other person holding membership in the league here will touch them with a forty-foot pole. No one has any authority in lecague matters in this country above that of the delegates to the national convention, and the proposition of Devoy to have Mr. Parnell ap- point a committee to investigate the work- ings of the league in America will not re- ceive the slightest attention from him. He matters to occupy his attention into the private vances or personal quarrels that may exist between members of the league in this country. I do not know the exact nature of the quarrel be- tween Devoy and Egan, but I think it has wholly to do with politics.” Compelling a Court House Boom. Not long since the citizens of Plattsmouth petitioned the county cominissioners of Cass county to issue a call for an election to vote bonds for the erection of a new court house, This the board declined to do, although urged by nearly every citizen of the county seat. ‘The reason given for this manifest stubborn- ness 18 because the commissioners look upon Weepiog Water as the proper place for the county town. But the vote for ‘‘removal’ last fall was overwhelmingly in favor of Plattsmouth and, consequently, the citizens of the place are very anxious to securoa badly needea new court house for the county, thus sticking another pin for permanency, and making it manifestly impossible for fu- ture removal and constant agitation. As the commissioners refuse to make the call the citizens of Plattsmouth propose to try a hand at compulsion, and have therefore com- menced mandamus proceedings in the su- preme court for this end. Frank Carruth, president of the ns National bank, and A. N. Sullivan and Byron Clark, attorneys of the city, were here to-day to take the initiatory steps. These gentlemen are happy in the thought that they can compela court house boom in Cass count, Mill and Seeder Company. On a subscribed capital stock ot $20,000, the Mill and Seeder company, of St. Paul, organized recently, the articles of in- corporation of which were filed in the offico of the secretary of state to-day. The aru- cles indicate the purpose of the company to etary Sutton be to manufacture mills, secders and other machinery in common use on the farm and to scll the same. It is under- stood that the company can become perpetual if so determined by a majority of the stock- holders interested. The following are the incorporators: Harvey Wilcox, . N. Mc- Donald, C. D. Shanstrom, John W, Lest- with, J. H. Hildebrandt and L. H. Corey. The business of the company has oo menced. Thirty-six Saloons Licensed. Last evenlng the new oity ex: cise board formally mot for the first time. Tho meetingwas held in the oMco of the city engineer immediately after the adjournment of the city counoil, Previous to this, however, the members of the board had an informal talk over the work and outlined a policy regard- ing it At the evening meeting the saloon men were present in force. Thirty-six applications for saloon licenses were filed with tho board, A number of tho bonds were found to be irrogular and flnal action on the petitions was postponed until this morning. At this meeting the talk was strong that remonstronces would bo filed against Ed Church, Charlay McMahon and Bud Lindsay, but as they did not abpear licanses were granted, togethor with thoso of the other applicants. The docket was cloared of all potitions aud liconses to-day at 4 o'clock. Supreme Court Prooeedings, Charles H. Sloan, Esq., was admitted to practice, Missouri Paciflc railway company dewater, Motion sug. dim rec. Sustainod _The following causes wore 00 ntinued Neipert vs Wilson, Roach vs Hawkinson, Barnes va McMurtry, Olds Wagon Works vi Benedict, Fischer 'vs Coons, Burke va Magoe. Dickerson vs Dickerson, Appeal from the district court of Johnson county. Modified. Opinion by Justice Cobb. Carlile & Co. vs Dauchy. Error from thn district court of Otoe county. Afirmed. Opinion by Justice Maxwoll. Sprague vs Warren, Error from the dis trict court of Kearney county. Reversed and remanded. — Opinion by Justice Max well. Winslow vs State. Error from tho district court_court of Johnson county. Reversed and remanded. Opinion by Chiof Justice Roesc. Downing va Glenn, Error from the dis- trict court of Kearnoy county, Affirmed. Opinton by Chief Justico Reese. Mulloy 'vs Kyle. Appeal from the distriet court of Lancaster county. Afirmed. Opin: ion by Chief Justico Reeso. Veith vs McMurtry. Appeal from the dis trict court of Lancaster county, Reversed and decree for piaintiff. Opinion by Justice Maxweli Van City News and Notes, The board of secrotaries of the state board of transportation go to Covington to-morrow 10 see what can bo done toward settlement of the depot muddie at that place. If mattors can not be adjusted a day will be set for Learing the complaint in the near future. teprosentatives Christy of Clay and Sweet of Merrick were here to-day looking over old landmarks. The gentlemen expiess a firm determination to retire from politics. Fred McDonald, of the Capital hotol, and his party, wiil start for Oklahoma to-morrow morning. Mack says he proposes to look over that portion of earth’s paradise to his heart's content. Russel G. Errett, editor of the Christiar Standard, Cincinnati, O., is in the city, the uest of Itev. Charles B. Newmau, pastor of the First Christian church. Harvey P. Barrett has resigned his posi- tion on the Omaha Herald, in this city, and will go1nto South Dalkota soon to help that blossoming part of the union develop into statehood. Mr. Barrett is a live newspaper man, ‘The arrest of. Rev. Father Kennedy, for- merly a parish priest in this city, in Fillmore county, yesterday, on the charge of bastardy, is regarded nere ’generally as an attempt at blackmatl. Father Keunnedy is very favora- bly known in Lincoln. Ed Woolley, of Weeping Water, was in Lincoln to-day looking after some legal mat: ters in which he 1s decply intercsted. A Vision ot Lovelines: Miss Mabel Wright, the New York boauty, is thus described by a weexly paper: ‘‘Her features are are delicately chiseled as those of the ideal Greek slave, and her neck it swan-like in its undulating grace. Her com- plexion is dazzlingly fair, but her cheeks have all the bloom of a sun-kissed peach; her daintily-curved lips, which possess a cruel fascination of her own, aro red as Caribbean coral, while her deep, almond-shaped eyes 100k out from under their languid lids with a peculiarly haughty, yet encouraging gaze." And after all this she is still unmarried. —————— 2 Cost of the Paris Exposition. The total cost of the Paris exposition is ex pected to be §10,000,000. The governmen contributes the greater part, and the city of Paris most of the rest. B A Connecticut Fish Story. Ernest Hull, of Lyme, Conn., caught a big striped bass off shore in a novel way. The fish was floating on the waves seemingly be. numbed with the cold. Mr. Hull thrust an oar into its gills and towed it ashore. It weighed 43§ pounds. 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