Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 24, 1889, Page 4

Bz, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESD . THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, ———— TRRMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. Datly (Morning Rdition) including SUNDAY, B, Ono Yoar. .. . or 8ix Months % OMAHA SUNDAY address, One Year ‘WrERKLY BEx, One Yoar OMANA OFFicE, Nos. 014 an HICAGO OFFIOR, 107 ROOKERY ! New Yonk Oreice, ROoMS 14 AND 16 TRISUN® UILDING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTEENTH BTRERT. - CORRBSPONDENOR. All communications reluting to news and edi- @orial matter should be addressed Lo the EDITOR THY BEE, i NUSINKSS LETTERS, 11 bustness letters and remittances should be lfirmd to Tne DBee PUsLIsHiNG COMPANY, MAMA. Drafts, checks and postoffios oraers to made payablé to thewrder of the company. Yi¢ Beg Pavlishing Company, Proprictors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor, Notice to Agents and Subscribers. In order to successfully rectify any fanlt in the delivery of papers, it is absolutely neces- sary that wo know the date on which papers ‘were late or missing, I Iate, give the time and train on which BER should have reached your town. Also state from what direction, 5o hat we can locate the trouble and apply the proper remedy. Papers are frequently carried by & town through the carelessness of the route agents, and when this oocurs, we can, with full nformation, place the blame where it belong: We will conalder it & favor if agents and suo- scribers will notify us at once when Tue BDre falis to reach them promptly THE DAILY BEE. . Sworn Statement ot Cirounlation. . Btateof Nebraska, | County of Douglas, {** George b, Tzschucz, secrotary of the Tles Pub. 1shing company, dows solemnly swear that the actual circulation of THE DAILY ke for the week ending April 20. 1850, was as follows 7 Tuesday, Avril 16 Wednesday, April 17 Thursday, April 18 . Friday. Aprii 10 Baturday, April 20 Average..... ceren o Bl 8 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bworti to hefore me and subscribed to in my presence this 20th_day of April, A. D. 188, Beal, N, P. FEIL, Notary Publte, Stato of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, (5% George ‘B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- 8 and says that he is secretary of the Bee Dlishing company, that the actual average daily oireulation of Tik DALY liew for the month of April, 1885, 18,744 copies; for May, 1888, 18,183 coples: for Juno, 188% 19,33 copies: for Jily, 1884, 18,083 ceplos; for Augiat, 1468, coples; for September, 1883, 15,154 cople October, 188, 18,084 coples; R0 B Ie) 001 8,025 R8I (18,650 for Novembe 18,080 copies; for Decomber, 1888, 18,2 for January, 1839, 18,574 coples: for €80, 18,00 coples; for March, 1859, 18, GEORGE B, T78C Sworn to betore me and subscribed Presciice this 16th dag of April, A. D.. 1850 N. P. FEIL, Notary Publ has emphatically declured for law and order. Pennsyl- ‘vunia comes next and then Nebraska. LET the truth be recorded at any cost. The Omaha board of trade ex- cursionists took water at Long Pine. PLOWING up dynamite bombs is not to be encouraged among Nebraska's farm- ers. It isnot on the whole a healthful eccupation, despite the fact that it was successfully done at Ashland the other day. MICHIGAN likewise swings into the line of those statos which, after trying prohibition, have repudiated it. A high license bill has passed the legisia- ture and 15 now 1n the hands of the governor. GENERAL MAHONE, of Virginia, has swooped down on Washington and wants a voice in the distribution of offices in the Old Dominion. But President Har- rison does noj display any anxiety to consult his wish Tie Union Pacific has determined nou to compete longer with a street rail- way in making rates on its suburban traflic between Omaha and Couneil Bluffs. The dignity of a railroad must ‘be preserved, cost what iv Mn. POPPLETON had better be care- ful how he makes statements to the ef- ‘fect tnat he would build a three hun- dred thousand- dollar hotel on the ex- position site if that building were Ye- moved. His proposition may be taken up. THERE {8 no reason to complain of the volume of our export trade to Europe as eompured witn the corresponding period last year. Since June 1, 1888, we shipped four hundred and nine millions worth of exports, a gain of fifteen millions over the same time 1887-8. NEwW Yourx is already experiencing an improvement in the appearance of the streets cleared of the unsightly tel- egraph poles. For the first time in many yeurs an unobstructed view of the sky can be obtained in the business dis- tricts. The streets look wider and the buildings more imposing. Now that the work of removing overhead wives has boegun, the peopls of that city ave determined t0 make a clean sweep of it. Tk Washburn & Moon Manufactur- fng company has entored suit for dam- _Bges against the Omuha Barb Wire ecompany for allegea infringement of tho barbed wire patent. The suit is evidently a bluff to compal the Omnba ecompany o join a syndicate which attempts sto regulate the product and price of an article so essontisl to the furmers of the praivio states, Several courts have alregdy decided agninst the ©ivims of the syndicate, THE output of coal in Colorado lust year is computed at two millions, two hundred thousand tons, valued a4 the Jmines at about five million dollurs. Although this is an increase, as com- & apared with the output of 1889, Colorado ~ ranks only eleventh among the counl ‘producing states, Colorado, however, soon destined to rank high us a coat state. The quality of her coal is unsur- passed, and the cousumption of it in ‘wast quantities awaits only the develop- meut of the trans-Missouri tates. Tite spectacle of the low groggories of the lurge cities of Massachusetts fighting for the adoption of the prohib- itory luw was one of the peculiurities of ‘the cumpaign just ended. It was thoir purpose to ald the pronibitlouists in earrying the amendnient, confident thut In Boston, Lowell, Lawrence, and other manufacturing centers, where prohibi- ion could not be enforced, they would ke able to curry on the liguor trallie ;l:mm vestratut. Happily the sober, mon sense of the people of Massa- @husotts carried the day for high li- . ®enso and local optioi UNIFORM RATLROAD LEGISLATION. Judge Cooley, chairman of the inter- state commerce commission, delivered an address in 8t. Louis, a fow days ago, on the railroad situation, and was sub- sequently interviewed on the samo sub- ject. He takes an encouraging view of the future, so far as the regulation of the railroads by law is concerned. He thinks the law is better obeyed than at first, and that there is a much better spirit manifested in regard to it on the part of the railrond managers. From the enforcement of the law he ex- pects several important results. He thinks there will be a gradual removal of antagonisms that now 8o seriously af- fect the railroad business, that the diffi- culties of the business and the princi- ples that must be recognized in its man- agement will gradually come to be bot- ter understood, and while railroad man- agers will more carefully regard, than they sometimes have, the rights of the general public, so the general public will view in a more charitable ana dis- passionate lirht the efforts of the man- agers to accommodate business and other interbsts, Judge Cooley is not an advocate of tho government ownership of raiiroads, though he intimated that the regula- tion of the business of the roads would be greatly simplified if they were under one control. This, in effect, is what is sought to be accomplished by the ‘“‘gen- tlemen’s agreement,”’ the operation of which is now on trial. But the matter of nighest importance, in the opinion of the judge, is uniform law, such as the inter-state commerce act secures. Instead of this law encouraging unfriendly legis- lation in the states, Judge Cooley thinks the effect will be quite the con- trary. His opinion was that in time state regulation will not be so much in- gisted upon, and when it is it will con- form to congressional legislation. The existing law is not perfect. The per- fect law is a matter of evolution. The people, including the railroad man- agers, must be educated up to it, and Judge Cooley thinks the managers will in time come to see what the best of them see now, that regulation by the general government is a necessity to the best results for either the roads or the public. This favorable view of the future of the railroad situation, so . far asit has relation to law, ought to be reassuring. It could not have any better authoriv than the chairman of the interstate commerce commission. But i liza- tion will depend a great deal upon the vigor and firmness with which the commission shall enforce] the luw, and there is room for improvement in this respect. Just wnow the rail- roads of the country are certainly mani- festing a better disposition than ever before to comply with the inter-state commerce act, and it is very much to be hoped that this spirit will continue. If it shall, there cun be little doubt that the geueral public “will view in a more charitable and dispassionate light the efforts of the managers to accommodate business and other interests,” and 1t will be only a question of time when the people of the states will bo disposed, if they are not alveady so, to conforin rail- road regulation to the legislation of congress. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS COMING. Mayor Broatch has been advised that the special committee of the United States senate on our relations with Canada will arrive in Omaha on the morning of May 4, and remain in the city until the evening of that day. The committee consists of Senators Hour, Hale, Pugh, Doiph, Butler and Voor- hees, and it is understood that their trip will extond to the extreme north- west, where they will investigate the commereial relations there with Can- ada, having veference, doubtless, to the growing competition in that quarter of the American and Canadian railroad and shipping interests. The siuation along the Manitoba frontier will also be investigated, and the committee will visit other points at which commercial relations with the Dominion may need to be looked into. The mayor is also informed that on May 13, the secretary of war, with Major - General Scofield, Major - Gen- eral Crooks, Adjutant-General Drum, Colonel Barr, and other distinguished militury men, will be in Omaha and re- main a day or longer. It will be proper to show these distinguizhed visitors some public resped® und courtesy,and it is suggested that steps be taken to do this. There should at least be a public recep- tion arranged for, so that all persons desiring to pay their respects could do s0, and such social courtesy and enter- tuinment might be tendered as would be uppropriate and likely to be accepted. Itis very likely that neither the sena- torial committce nor the military vis- itors would desire any elaborate pre; rations for receiving and cilertaining them, but they would doubtless not de- chne & public menifestation of respect, and it is proper sivable that this HITTING AT THE WRONG HEAD. 'he democratic newspapers are shouting in chovrus over what they sup- posed to be a great discovery preju- dieial to Postmaster-General Wana- maker. Some one sent to the New York Times a trade circular issued by Wana- mauker & Brown, of Philadelphia, which had got into the hands of w postmaster somewhere in Virginia, The Zimes printed the circular, with extended editorial comment, iv which it was as- sumed that the Warvamaker of the firm that sent out the eiveular and the post- master-general were one and the samo person,and, of course, deplorving the cir- cumstance of the firm of which a cabi- net officer was the leading member using bis position to advance its in- tereats, That journal expressed the hope that the postmaster-general would be able to explain that ho had no knowledge of this business, but it was compelled to regard the matter as put- ting the head of the postol depart- ment in & very unenviable light, and indeed humilialing the coun of course the asupposed discovery was seized upon with avidity by the acino- eratic press, te whick Postmaster-Gen- eral Wanamaker is a peculiarly atcrac- tive target, and a great variety of affected virtuous indignation has been indulged in. It turns out, as was to have been ex- pected, that the Times and its imitators have been hitting at the wrong head. The circular was certainly sent out by Wanamaker & Brown, and it reached not only one but many postmasters, but it is Mr. William Wanamaker, and not Mr. John Wanamaker, the postmaster- general, who is the memberof ths firm. The Philadelphia Ledger, whose trust- worthiness no fair-minded person will question, thus explains the matter: “Just such circulars have been sont out year after year, nddrossed not only to post- masters, but to ministers, merchants, lawyers and other prominent people in various towns and villages throughout the count The sending out of this particular series of circulars bogan last autumn, before tho election last year, and, of course, before there was any Postmaster-General Wanamaker.” John Wanamaker, the head of the postoffice department, the Ledger oxplains, has no control whatever over the affairs of the firm which sent out the circular, and no responsibility for its management. The Zimes might have saved itself and many other papers from the ridic- ulous position in which this mare’s nest has placed it. if it had taken the trouble, which cvery careful and reputable newspaper should take, to properly in- form itself, and in this case the infor- mation wns ensily accessible. But a point was to be made, ns it thought, ugainsta member of the administration, and it struck out blindly. Meanwhile, Postmaster-General Wannmaker goes on attending strictly to the duties ot hie department, unharmed, and daily growing stronger in the respect and confidence of the country IDLE TALK. All the talk about the city buying the gas works and water works is wasted breath. The city has no money with which tobuy out the gas company, much less the water works company. The pur- chase of these two plants would involve an outlay of more than a million and a half. The city is limited in its author- ity to issue bonds above ten per cent of its assessed valuation. The bonds al- ready voted for public improvements prajected for the next two years, and the bouds ubout to be voted on for the construction of public school buildings, will absorb about ail we can ue within the ten per cent limit, unless our assessment is very ma- terially raised during the coming year. While the actual value of pro- perty in Omaha exceeds one hundred millions, it would be almost ruinous to raise the asscssment up to fifty per cent of the actual valuation unless the whole state would make its assessments at the same ratio. ‘I'hat is not likely to happen until we have on of our revenue laws and a radical change of the whole tax system. There is, however, another barrier to the wild-cat scheme of buying out the waterworks, The charter of the ci waterworks company, which is in th nature of a contract with the c fixes a limit of twenty year from the date thereof as the time when the city may acquire the waterworks by purchase, after appraise- ment. The twenty years will expire in the year 1901. Until then, the city cannot take possession of the water- works by purchase, unless the company be willing to sell out,and the city as- sume its enormous bonded debt. The only possible ground upon which the city could take possession would be failure of the waterworks company to comply with its charter provisions. That the compuny 1s vulnerable on that point is a matter of common notoriety, but the process under which the city might take po: ion would take years of litig tion and over a million in cash by the time the seizure of the works was sanc- tioned by the courts. THE observation made by Mr. Andrew J. Carnegie that if the trusts are left to themselves they will go to pieces from sheer dead weight seems to be aptly il- lustrated in the breaking up of the oat meal trust. For some years it appears the affairs of the oat meal trust went on swimmingly. The orice of that proauct went up as the mills of the country con- solidated under one management. The handsome profitsof the business tempted men outside of the trust to go into the making of oatmeal for the purposes of being taken into the combination or being paid a royulty to close up shop. The result was that the trust has been ghed down by the heavy load of sup- porting more mills than «the consump- tion of oat meal warranted. A break has followed. The trust hus gone to pieces, and each mill is thrown oa its oW resources. - S e——— 2 roll of members holding certifi- cates of election to the mext house of representatives has been made up and contains one hundred and sixty-four republicans and one hundred and sixt, one democrats, On the face of this statement it would look as if the repub- licans had a majority of three. It would seem, however, that under the present membership of the house their majovity upon & close party question will be re- duced toone, due to the fact that a quoruw of the house, as now constituted, is one hundred and sixty-three. It is not likely, under the circumstances, an extra session will be insisted before the election of the new that upon members of congress from the states T soon to ba admitted. It 18 expected to add at least five to the working major- ity. CHAIRM AN BALCOMBE complains that the salaries of {uspectors are not suffi- ut to command the best class of me- chani If the amount were double the city would still be aficted with men whose chief qualification is polit- leal iufluence. The city council, how- ever, should provide for the payment of inspectors monthly, It is a great wrong to compel employes to work three to six months without pay. In many instances it places them under obligations to contractors for peouniary favors, which must necessarily be detri- mental to the interests of the city. —— Wiest VIRGINIA is not a large state, and its republican vote is by no means 1 Al sure, yet it has fared better than most states at the hands of the administra- tion, having secured a number of lu- crative and responsible offices, among them that of interna¥ revenue commis- sioner. The republicans of Ohio, Illi- nois and Nebraska, for example, are warranted in foeling, a little sore at be- ing almost ignorad when the little state severed from old Virginia is so favored, but perhaps if they will seriously re- flect on it they will vonclude it is their own fault. High License in Missouri, Denper News. $ligh liconse has strong hopes of succe ss in the Missouri legislature. Frank Jawes was temperate, —en Passion Week at Albany. New York World. Judging from the dsplay of temper among the senators at Albany during the Inst fow days this has been, indeed, Passion Week. Women R Gotting Their Rights. St. Paul Globe., A court in Maryland has recently decided that @ woman is responsible for her hus- bafid's debts, Women are moving of to- wards their rights. Comple Chicago Times, Red ant, White house. Red hair, W o b he Everlasting Oar Stove. Philadelphia Ledger, A conl stove in a buggage car did its part on Wednesday, when an exuross train was wrocked on the Pittsburg & Erie railvay. With the adventof summer their dangor will be forgotten and winter will' probably return and find travelers again menacad by the fate of roasting alive that yearly threat- ens them, -— Their Blood on Gould’s Heat Phitadelphia Re 1. It is greatly to be regretted that life should have been lost in the work of tearing away the unsightly poles and wires that line the strects of New York; yet the lesson of the ixth avenue nccident will not be barren of £o0d results, since the men will bo taught to exercise greator care in handling the danger- ous stuff. The responsibility for the fatal casualty must be laid at the doors of the tele graph and electric lighting compauies, who should have removed the pcles long ugo. High Licsnse Gord Enough. Hi s Journal, A short time ago prohibition wi in New Hampshire. They have high license law, and very wissly concluded to leave good enough alone. sbraska comes next and will not be backward in fol- lowing in the footstdps of that state. Her citizens are not yét foolhardy easugh to throw over their shouldeps the immense rov- enue derived from the saloons, nor do they intend to turn the ligpor trafic over to a band of outlaws s aefeated n excellent - —— An Untarnished Record. Greeley Leader, Judge Groff, of Omabu, is recommended to fill the vacaucy 1n thp injor-stats commerce commission. We balieve the seloction to be agood one, as Judga Grolt is parfoctly com- petent, is a man wao|thorouzhiy under- stands the law and stands bafors the peopie with an vutarnished recorl. Ho is a man S with ‘A cloar mint ani hands free to work for-his couatry’s bt interasts. As we have alroady shid, w2 balieve the ss- lection an excellent ono, and that a united effort shoull ba muils to sscara the ap- pointmont of Judge GroT to the inter-state commission, 2 - HITS AND MISSES, Eli Perkins hurriealy returned to Omaha when he heard of the World's circulation af- fidavit. As a prevaricator, Eli does not pro- pose to tolerate a rival in the we An Omaha compauy invented a prepara- tion for cooling hot boxes just ut a time when democratic office holders are chafing under the collar. The whaling of the Minncapolis team in Omaha is accounted for. The city kept some four hundred of its strikers at home. Candidates for park commissioners are vlooming outright on tho corners, but many of them will be left if the court kuows itself. Chief Seavey does not want newspaper re- porters to wear stars for fear they may bo mistaken for detectives. Newspuper re porters as a rule are good detectives, and the chief might pool fssues with them. In refer- ence to the badges, something should be done to enable a reporter to convince any of- ficer that ho is a member of the press and en- titled to certain privileges necessary in the carrying on of his work successfully. How will the judges of the district court be able to make their selection of park com- missioners when they have not been fur- nished with copies of the revised charter de- fining their duties? There has not been a suggestion of a union depot for four weeks. We do not desire to ruthlessly disturb the dead, but merely to remind the people that it is time to see that its grave is kept groen R s DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. A Senatori=}’ Committee =iid War De- partment Ofiialy Coming. Mayor Broat<li received a letter vesterday from Sesator Manderson informing him that thie senate committee “on our relations with Canada" will arrive in Onlaha about! o'ciock a. m. May 4, and remain all day. He asks that proper arrangements be made to_enter- tain them. Senators Hoar, Hale, Aulison, Dolph, Pug, Butler 'and Voorhees compose the committee, They will be accompanied by their wives, and a force of clerks, making fifteen peopie in the party. ‘The senator also gives notice that on tho 13th of May the seorotary of war will be here, ac- companied by Generals) Schofield, * Crook and Drum, Colonel Barr, und other promi- nent army ofiicials. 1lo 'Suggosts that, they, too, should recefve the recognition and attention due them. Mayor Hroatch said he had laid thess matters before the Omaha and Union clubs, with intimations that theyought to take them up and do the right thing. It is hia opinion that the Oma- ha club should entertain the senate party and let the Union club take care of the dis- tinguished military vi e L Lo Ll INAUGURAL ANNIVERSARY. to be Hel® at the Grand Opera Honse, The pagtors of the First Methodist, First Presvyterian, first Luth- eran and First Christian churches have ar- ranged for Inaugural Anniversary services on Aprii 80, at 10 o'clock, at the Grand opara house, The Post band, aided by singers, will furnist the music. Geogral Wheaton and staff ave expected to be vreseut, Bishop Newman will preside, Mavor Broatch will read the president's proclamation, Mr. B. BB, Young will be musical director. Short ad- dresses will be delvered by Doctors Harsha, Detwiler and 1Bisbhop Newman, Seripture lessons will be read by Dr. John Williamson and prayers off :red by Doctors Martin and House. Al pastors and churches who will partici- pate are cordially invited to do so, aund all ministers prosent are expected to occupy seuts on the stage. It is rejucsted that, on Sunday next, the pastors who will particl pate with usin this soervi anpounce it to their congregations and invite them to at- tend. A, W. Lauag, Chairman Com. on Programue. Bervice aptist, First MURDERED WHILE SLEEPING A Very Mysterious Tragedy at the Capital City. THE VICTIM A COLORED MAN, Strong Cironmstantial Evidence Leads to the Arrest of Two Per- sons for Complicity in the Crime, LINCOLN BUREAD oF Tie Owana Bew, } 1029 P Staser, Lixcowy, April 23, Tho murder of Bob Woods, one of the best known colored men of Lincoln, has been the talk of the day. All day long tho sidewalk in front of Heaton's undoertaking rooms was crowded with peoplo, most of whom were colored, talking of the man, his oadities of character, and the flendishness of the crime Last night, about 11 o'clock, Sheriff Me- lick and Coroner Shoemakor were notified that a man had been found dead in bea at 420 A street, between Fourth and Fifth, and that foul play was suspected. The name of the victim was not given, and the informa- tion on the whole was somewhat vague, but, accompanied by the eaptain of the night po- lico, thoy wont to the scenc. It was nearly miduight when they arrived. Dut it took but a glance for them to determine that it was 10t a case of suicide, as thoy at first supposed, and that a fleadish crime had boen committod. 1Bob Woods was found lying m his own bed, with ghastly wounds in his shoulders and at the base of his skull, cold in death, and he had evidently been dead fully two hours. A jury was specdily impanelled, but littlo could be done aud adjournment was taken until this morning. 3 ¢ of Mrs. Woods is” substantially nt to church early 1n the evening, accompanied by all of the children with one exception, We returned home about 10:30 o'clock. 1 spoke to 1ob on going into the Louse, but as he made no reply 1 thought he was asleep, and sat_down on the bed and commenced to take off my shoes. 1 spoke to him again, louder than I did the first time, and s 'ho kept so still I touched him and my hand came in contact with the blood. I called to the children and told them that their father had vecn killed and they ran_for the neighbors, This is all I know about the matter,” and s the woman concluded lier storv she burst into tears, and she was joined in_her sobs by seven fatherless children, wiio for the first timo seemed to appreciate the situation. Mrs, Wood also stated that she aid not know that Bob had an enemy inall the world. But she was evidently mistaken, for the gaping wounds told a very different stor: As per adjournment, the jury mot this morning lock, but soon after ad- journed until 7 o'clock’ this evenmg. In the ts wore made, John urtis, two colored men putation. It is suid that Curtis and Woods have had more or less trouble dur- ing the past winter. ¢ have been bofore the police court for fighting and_disturbing the peace at least half a dozen times. It is aid that Woods wus jealous over the inti- of Curtis and Mrs. Woods. If the neighbors can be taken, there was certainly a liason between the two, which B3ob 1wt only rebuked but took into his own hands to mete out punishment. He took Ins wifc to task and in an altercation with her over ner alleged shortcomings, he stabbed her with a kuife, awhilc ago, and served a term in the comnty jail for his awk- warduess. This was during the past winter, For a while mat smoothly with Bob at hom had an old fashioned fist althcugh past seventy years of age, he camo out tirst bost. Mrs, Woods is a_buxom woman, not more than thirty years of agze, und the apple of Curtis’ ¢ Curtis wanted Mrs. Woods and hor husband’s little property. He and Tay- lor are said 1o be chums. ~ Last night, just after Mrs. Woods and the chilaren had gone to chureh, Tavlor ealicd on Bob and want ed bim to drink with bim. This he_declined to . ‘Taylor was persistent, when i3ob, in his characteristic way, acel ing to poison him. ed him of want- ‘These facts aro related by the litle girl who remained at home her father. Taylor went away in a n, and in a little while the fathor and went to bed, and evidently to sleep in a few moments, the child evea failing to hear the discharge of the gun that took her fath- er's Life. Eph Corneal states that he saw Taylor loading a shotzun a day or two before the shooting, aud he asked him what he was Zoirn, to shoot. Taylor, in a significant way, said: L am’ going to shoot a ‘nigeer,’ aud if T am success- ful, U'll get €50 for1t.” Eph says there was nothing much in this, only that the slugs and buckshot that he loaded the gun with are just like the ones that were taken from Bob's wounds and the bed. Tom Roge another colorod man, also savs that Tuylor told him at one time tnat he could get $50 to kill Woods, and that he bad a mind to take it. He also says that Taylor atmost told him that Curtis offered him vhe mon “1 knew he meant Curtis, any way, from the way he said iv.” These are the leas circumstances that tc the arrest of these m and the opin- n is becoming strong that the right parti are in the hands of the authorities, It isalso strongly suspected that Mrs, Woods knows more avout the matter than she has told, and that, notwithstunding her straight story, there is cnough evidence in hand now to warrant _her ar for complicity in the crime. In most parts of the city Woods has n regarded as a harmless, inoffenSive citi st The coroner's jury commenced taking tes- at 8 0'clock sharp this evening. The s above told was substuntially corrob- . In the testimony, however, it de- veloped that the child sieeping with Mr. Woods was a_sn instoad of a daughter. children were sleeping in an ad- room, but the shot awakenod none of .” One of the children testificd heuring thing faliing like shattered glass but nothing more, Shots arc of too frequent oceurrence i the neighborhood of the trag- edy o attract speeial attention. One witness stated that he heard a snot fired last night, but that ii sounded away off. Mrs, Woods'and” fwo daughters, Eliw and Stella, D3, Robins, Payne, Eaton, Hateh and; 5. M. Mellick, Bdwin Proctor es M. Downing, A.' Debos and J, C. the stand. “Phe t time and hrought in a vprdict that Woods came to his deatls from a goushot wound inflicted by John I and that Amands Woods and Charles Ciirtis, were accossories before the fact. urthe taut the death-wound was inflicted pr tatedly ana with intent to kill. Stockham C reamery Asscciation. ‘fhe Stockham Creamory association flled articles of incorportion in _tho oftice of the secretary of siate to-day. Principal place of business, Stockham, Hamilton county, ) braska. The association authorizes 4 capital stock of #4,100, which is divided into ~5arcs of #0 each, Business commences on the date of certificato that the_shares haye beo subscribed and paid up. The manufaciur and sale of creaiery products is the purpose for which the company was organized, Li- corporators: J. Sharp, 4. D. Evan Joseph Stockham, orge Siler, A Hough, J. C. Adwr, J. W. Stokerborg, 5. I Burg, William ' Stephions, Gustave (3us and it £, Wright. City News and Notes, Mrs, Henry Zimmerman, who lives threa miles southeast of the city, was thrown trol a buggy on O street yesterday afternoon wnd one of her logs was broken. Sho was othor- wise severely brused. Ihe reception to kigan will take place aext ‘Thursday evening at the Capital hotel, It will by under the auspices of the Irish Na tional league. A train of six Pullina reached this place yeste ing nearly eignty fin bloodod horses con- signed w0 Senator Stanford, of California, They wero laid off here for o rest The Knights of Pythias have succ securg special ralts for one round trip for those wishing 1o encampment at Columbus in July The opposition sprinklers of Pairchild were busy yesterday stroels It made the stro but the fun will come wh w collect for the work The election iu the Fourth ward for woun- cilman in place of Grabwi proved a sirpr | to those who thought ths ewicas nowmi: jur, lace st day morniog bLear k cars cdad fare for i attend th Dinges waterin nice and w the two men would be choson without opposition, Every« thing went smoothly tll late n the afternoon, when the friends of Hamilton, who was defeated in the cau. ous, began to rush in, to the consternation of the Cooperites. When the votes wero counted it was found that Hamilton had o majority, though it was quite small. Ham- ilton claims that ho did not know of the move, but intimates that he will qualify and fill the office. Church Howe was in the city yesterday. He declares that he can hardly remember tho time when he usod to be in politics, it WAS 80 long ago. The Nebraska woolen mills are again in operation, having received an infusion of now blood and recovered from the tempor- ary financial embarrassment of a fow weeks ago. The Lancaster County Ploneers' associ tion was formed at the county ocourt rooms Inst night, Some of the Lincoln stroet railway lines aro talking of adopting electricity as a mo- tive power, The automatic chess player at the Eden Musee was beaten Monday by ono of the bell boys at the Capital hotel, It is roported that the New Republio will shortly wriggle out of the difficulty caused by the recent attachment, under an order of the courts, and will resume its old standing I: the leading prohibition organ of the state. —_—— GREAT MEN. Colonel Ochiltreo and Eaward Sanborn are now known as the Corsican brothers, Eddie Annon, the Adonis of the Produce Exchange, is one of the best steeplechase riders in the country, James Norton Winslow is genorally ac- oredited with being the handsomest skipper in the New York Yacht club, Secretary Blaine says that for two hun- dred and ten consulates there have been thirty-tive hundred applications. James Russell Lowell has a great affection for Philadelphia, which he says should be re- Rarded as a Mocea by overy patriotic Amer- ican. Thomas Nast, the artist, has aceepted a place on the San Francisco Examiner as car- toonist extraordinary. The Pacific coast is wvery proud of him. The Rev. Dr. Talmage is credited, no doubt wrongfully, with this odd examvle of mixed metaphor: “We pursue a shadow—tho bub- ble bursts and leaves ashes in our hands.” Jules Champagne, a Montreal magistrate, recently awarded $20 damages against Medard Paquette for attompting to kiss a girl against her wiil before he had popped the question, N John Bright was thoe only cabinet minister who never kuelt to the queen, his reason being that he could not render to an earthly potentato the homage which he owed to tho Supreme Being alone. Senator Beck is said to be engaged to Miss Marzaret Cameron, a clerk in the quarter- master genoral’s office in Washington, She is a comely person, and is said to have touched the senator’'s susceptiblo heart by her sweet singing of Scotch ballads. Sir Charles Russell, who recentiy defended Parnell, is not a believer in the Bismarckian method ef firing up with brandy while un- dergoing a great mental strain. During his recent speech, which lastod through five court days, no drink save cocoa passed his lips. r Thomas Gladstone left an estate of 46,000 acres in Kincardineshire, which passes in fee-simple to his son, Sir John, who is an uncompromising tory. The ostate is a mag- nificent wooded country and is overlooked by Fasque house, one of the fincst mansions in Scotland. King George, of Greece, is suffering mar- tyrdom from neuralgia and gout, and it is be- lieved that his desire for complete rest as an alleviation for his pain will hasten his abdi- cation in favor of Crown Prince Consian- tine. Queen Olga, who is a grand duchess of Russia, docs not share her husband’s desire to vacate his throne. Mr. Mutsu, the Japanese ambassador to the Uniced States, is one of the best edu- cated diplomats of bis time. Ho spoaks a half-dozen languages fluently and reads and writes several more. His wife is quite a musician, having a pure alto voice aud being especially skillful on & Japanese instrument resembling the mandolin Postmuster-General Wanamaker is some-, times found at his office at 7 o'clock in the morning. The long hours and the hard work don’t appear to tell on him. His early com- ing and late going is ths talk of the depart- ment. He is in his office in the morning be- fore the #8600 clerk arrives, and there is no- body left at night when he goes home except the night watch, — No Smalipox There. Ararantor, Neb., April 22,--To the Editor of Tur Bee: In justice to this to your subscribers here, will you kin lish the enclosed sworn statement of chairman of our village board re; Compound. Your nerves are unstrung. Your di-~ ipposed existenco of smallpox hers. Re« spoctfully, Fraxk C. CoNpoN. The State of Nebraska, Furnas County, 8: 1, B. B. Wright, chairman of the board of trustees of the village of Arapahos, stato of Nebraska, boing first duly sworn, deposo and say that there is not now, nor has thero been within a year, a caso of smallpox within the corporate limits of saia village of Ara- pahoe, Owing to the report that one or two cases oxisted some miles south of the villago, measures wero taken to provent the neigh: bors of those said to bo afilicted from coming into the town, this being the only grounds kootwn o mo for the many exaggorated 1e- ports regarding the disoaso horo, Epoar B, Wriaur, Subscribed in my presence and sworn to beforo me this 22d day of April 1850, |SEAL] Prrry L. Hor, Notary Public. cstntefcctnis A NEW DEPARTURRE. The Pacifioc Expross to Bulld a Mam« moth Bullding. For a long time President Morseman, of the Pacific Express company, has boon quiotly conducting negotiations for the pur- chase of grounds and the erection of a build- ing for the main offices and headauarters ¢ the company in this city., Yesterday he su ceeded in closing a deal with the Commer- oial National bank people for that portion of the lots at Farnam and Sixtoonth stroots which will not be oocupied by the new bank structure, fronting on Sixteenth streot and the alley. The price pmd 18 as yet kept secret. On that site the company proposes to commence the erection at once of an_ edi- fice adapted to and arranged especially for its business. Mr. Morseman safd: *'Our plans are not fully matured.thorefora, until they have beon I dou't care to give out a detailed statement as to what the building wiil be like,” It was learned, novertheloss, that the structure contemplated will b either sixty or sixty-six feet square, flve stories ungn constructed of brick, 'stono and iron, fire: proof throughout, modern in all of its ap- pointments and vreditable in overy way to the great corporation occupying it. Its con- struction marks a doparture by the compan, from its old policy of renting all the build- ings which it uses. In no other city in which the Pacific Express doos business does it own any property outside of stables, and this move demonstrates the faith which the cow- pany's officials have fn the permanent prose perity of Omaha. il Swift Punishment. 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