Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 5, 1889, Page 13

"HE NERVE 2 0 sil THE OMAHA ‘DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MAY 5. 188)—-SIXTEEN PAGES. Displayed by sidewalk clothiers in their efforts to hoodwink the public is ASTONISHING Almost daily you are confronted with blazen banners announcing a sale of clothing at half regular price, business and generously offer to bequeath their stock to the public at fifty cents on the dollar. vain to call it back by scant music, but the judge, can both come and buy their clothes, furnishings, or head gear, knowing that they are notonly good and reliable, but are sold at onc and always the low- We take this occasion to invite all, after having looked through the odds and ends of Mark Down, Shoddy & Co., to visit our store Southwest corner est prices. It is no use. e nothing but facts Others state they are to retire from the cares of Others finding their business has taken wings and flown, try in se stereotype “Mark Down” and other worthless attractions, have always proven a failure in the end. public tell us they “have been there before.” The We find there is but one way to secure and mantain custom;and that is, to act honestly, justly and uprightly toward the public, by selling them only such goods as will give them perfect satisfaction, and at honest prices; and under all circumstances to advertis This is the platform on which we first started, and to which we have atall times adhered. Hence our phenominal success. Fakers of trashy clothing, as well as agents of high cost clothing, have had their day and trade is fast coming to the house which does business on the legitimate, where the rich and poor, judge or no 15th and Douglas st. and look through our suits for men and youths for $10.00. Every garment is of this season’s make, which we sell at prices far below all competitors. P. S.—You will find bargains in all our departments and our goods new and fresh, and of the latest designs and patterns. OUR MOTTO, Money cheerfully retunded if goods do not suit, BROWNING, KING & CO. - Largest Manufacturers and Retailers of Clothing in the World. Southwest Corner 15th and P_puglas Streets, Omaha, Nebraska. ’ A NEW ARMY OF NIHILISTS. The Czar's Tyranical Policy Threat- ~ns a Bloody Outbreak. DICTATORS IN THE PROVINCES. Petty Officials Who May Override Forms of Law--Education for Russian Women — Current Events in St. Petersburg. Scourged to Desperation. S1. PETERSBURG, April 2.—[Special Correspondence of THE BEE.]—Nothing whatever is known in Petersburg about the reported attack on the czar, and if such an attack did take place it is known nnly to H. M. and the English corre- spondent who made 1t public, It is true that it is worth the living, if not the liberty of un official to speak, or for an editor to write about such incidents of Russian court life, but still, if the story were true there would have been a leak- age of particulars somewhere, which is not the case. On the other hand, had such an attack followed the Borki miracle not a member of tne liberal party in either Petersburg or Moscow would have been in the least surprised at the news. It may be set down as a dead certainty that before many months are out not one, but a whole series of attacks will be made against the czar. His days of grace are well nigh passed, and poople ure waiting anxiously for some manifestation of that spiritof re- form, of which so much was said on his accession, The scourging with scorpions how- ever, goes on vigorously. Tolstoi’s in- famous project of instituting a number of so-called ‘“crown prefects of dis- tricts,” is on the eve of being accepted Dy the czar. - These prefects, who will be petty dictators in the districts under their control, and who are to have ab- solute power over the police and magis- trates, may ba looked upon asso many workmen sent out from Gatschina to demolish the ridiculously small edifice of liberty which it has waken the Rus- sian people centuries to build up. An- Y T RS EDTIE FA) thozoughly disgust the people and to destroy what remnants of affection and loyalty to the czar remain. They may be regarded as the sappers of A NEW ARMY OF NIHILISTS, Discontent is general, and for the fel- lowing roasons, beyond the reactionary home policy of the czar: 1. The incertitude occasioned by the claborate preparations for war, 2. The uncertain and wavering for- eign policy of the government. 4. The favor at the court of M. de Giors, whose Gorman origin and well known vassalage to Bismarck render him the most unpopular man in the em- pire outside the walls of Gatschina. 4. The deplovable state of the Russian fortresses, which, according to General Radetski, in spite of the enormous sums spent upon them, are totally inadequate for modern requirements. 6. The recent statement of General Teherevine in the presence of the ozar that the Russian army rifle is in every way inferior to the weapons of the other Enropean armies. 6. The inoreasing persecution of the Raskolm and other dissenters. 7. The many vecent gross violations of the corumon law, as in 3he case of the illegal application of the death penalty. foeliis in cousideration of this general u{ ng of discontent that it is safe to ¢ that before long Russia will be toy scone of outrages to which even ibe most sanguinary exploitsof the nihilists will have been but child’s play. The vigorous campaign instituted by the minister procurator of the holy synod (minister of religion) Poviedonostzefr, against the dissenters nud carried out by means of agents whose duty it is to work upon the superstitions of the peas- aunts, is already beginuing to bear fruit of sweet savor to the bigots of the court. In the viliage of Rebedelawka, the peasants have attacked a number of schtundisti dissenters who refused to allow a child to be baptised. The schtundisti were severely beaten and exposed, tied hand foot, in a market place. The persons who took part in the outrage have just been sentenced to various heavy terms of im- prisonment. It is understood, however, that by order of the Produrator, the sentence will be remitted. Apropos of the recent decision of the government to re-open the HIGH SCIOOLS FOR WOMEN, it may be remarked that these were originally founded by private initiative chiefly with a view to the formation of women doctors, in the decade of 1870~ 1880. After the death of Alexander II. the government closed all these schools except the one at Petersburg. The rea- son of this was that the professors, be- ing maintained by private subsoriptions were entirely indopendent of the gov- ernment. Three years ago the Peters- burg school was also closed, on the pre- text of remodelling the scholastic pro- gramme. Recently. however, thanks to the increasing efforts of the Society for the Protection of Female Instruc- tion, the minister determined to allow the Petersburg school to be re-opened under certain restrictive conditions. Since this decision has been made a large number of subscriptions have been sent in towards the expenses ol the school. Curiously enough many of the sums (including one of 50,000 roubles trom General Schaniawski) figure on the list as in commemoration of the Barki miracle. At the same time Mos- cow, Odessa, Kazan, Kieff and Karkoft are all petitioning to be allowed to reopen their school for women. T'his is Swing's great offense to the govern- ment, who see in it an antagonistic spirit, The empress has been earning great poputarity in the army by the following generous act: On Mondwy morning last every soldier in the guards in Peters- burg received & handsome brier-wood pipe, silver mounted and engraved with the czarina’s initials, as a present from her majesty. Nor were the soldier’s wives forgott and each received an elegant kerchief, or coiffure, such ns Russian women wear, in the imperial colors. These acts of pure kindness on the part of the royal lady are, of course, being sneered at by the radicals, who say, ‘‘No constitution, but a pipe for Mfehbe\. or a kerchief for Michaela.” A flagrant violation of the common law which restricts the infliction of the | death penalty to political offences has taken place at Medwicditza (Don.), where Convicts Mordanine and Oou- zinko have béen hanged, Their crime was the murder of the prison governor, and no doubt the punishment was mer- ited, if it had been legal. The attitude of the two men on the scaffold was calm and dignified. Mordanine, before dying, addressed the assembled conviets, and insisted on the illegality of bis punish- ment, while admitting that he deserved death. He ended with an appeal to the Cossacks to remember their rights. This affair has produced a groat impres- sion in the country. Miss Sosiedoma has made hersell quite a reputation among the good peo le of Slmfi-ropol. where she is known y the soubriguet of “'DAUGHIER OF THE PRISON,” This youug lady, who is only twenty- two years of age, and remarkably beau- tiful, has passed morve than sixteen vears of her life in jail. Her debut in the world was in prison. Her parents were both habitual criminals, her father 1 being a notorious horsethief. During her brief visits to the outer world Miss Sosiedoma exercised the profession of cook, but invariably returned to jail on sentences fol wlt on her emp{]u.\'urs. She has a most _irascible temper. Her last term in prison was a punishment for having cxKresscd in open court her opinion that the Tolta magistrates were *‘all pigs,”” She had just been sentenced to exile in Siveria, and on hearing this sentence pronounced she thanked the judges kindly and said, *'T am so sick of eing in prison that if you had sent me back theve I should have thrashed every man of you.” HIS IDEA OF JUSTICE. On Tuesday morning last two cabl eutered the courtyard of the palace os the minister of finance and drove up to the entrance of hisexcellency’s private apartments. One of these cabs was laden with trunks, portmanteaux, books and articles of private property; the other contained. an old gentleman dre in the uniform of an official of the treasury, who sprang out and made for the enttunce. The porter, barring the way, asked him his business. ‘'L have come,” he said, *‘to see the minis- ter, John Alexesiefitsch, and 1 have come to stay. Be kind enough to look after my luggage whilst I take charge of the pillow cases and bedding.” The porter, stupefied by this strange an- swer, asked the old gentlemann to wait; and rushed off to tell one of the ushers of his arrival and request. Meanwhile the old gentleman, followed by the cab- man carrying his luggage, made his way into the antechamber, and, Having arranged his bedding on one of the vel- vet benches, was about to take off his coat, when the official came on the scene. “‘What are you doing, and what do you want?”’ he asks. “I am making myself at home,” an- swers the old gentleman in a calm voice, as he begins to unlace his boots. 1 have come to see the minister. I am an official in the N. department of tho ministry of finance.” *Did His Excellency send for you?” “Oh, no! Only he turned me out of my post before I have been ‘tried and convicted on a charge that is being brought against me, and so I have made up my mind to stay with His Excellency whilst the prosecution is being got up. I cannot sleep in the street, and as His Excellency bas turned me out of doors, it is, you will admit, clearly his duty, 10 provide me with a home ‘until [ am found guilty of the oftence for which he has made me homeless. *“T'hen, I suppose, you are personally known to the minister?” No, 1 have not that honor. And now, please show me to a private room and carry up my property.’ The usher not knowing what to do, goes and tells his excellency’ssecretary, to whom the old gentleman calmly re- peats his story and his request to be shown toa comfortable room and to have somebody carry up his property. The secretary asks him if he is out of his mind. The old gentleman does not think so, and secms to think his logic unattackabie, As no reasoning will convince him the volice is sent for and he is ignominiously thrown into the street with his property. Itis not quite clear whether the muau was really in earnest or had hit on this curious de- vice for the uurroue of bringing his grievances divectly under the minist notice. The laugh of St. Petersburg is, however, entirely on his side. Another set of coiners was at the em1 of last week discovered amongst the prisoners in Meletopolejeal in Crimea, The governor of this prison had been | for some time past convinced that coin- ing was being carried on, but had never been able to place the offenders until one night a peculiarly pungent oder rising above the usual smell of cheap tobacco fumes put him on the scent. He discovered that the convicts melted the lead for 10 cent pieces in little cups over charcoal fires which they lighted on the floor of their cells, dissimulating their operations behind their clothes. The casting of the coins was carried out in bed under the bed clothes. Three 16 cent pieces, 1t transpired, were con- sidered an excellent night’s work by each of the coiners. In a petition which has just been ad- dressed to the czar by the Russian Evangelical union, H. M. is prayed to put astop to the unceasing religious persecutions which are being carried out in the empire at the instigation of the procurators of the holy synod. The petitioners—amongst the number of whom are included such eminent Evan- gelical pastors as I'. Berrego, G. Gode, L. Neville and others—insist on relig- ious liberty for all, while pointing out that those who differ only slightly in creed from that of the establishel Orthodox church are just as badly treated as the Romaun Catholics nnd the Lutheran Protestants. It is remarked here that Messrs. . Gode, Neville and fellow petitioners might just as well have chalked their reclamations on the soles of their boots. Mr. G. Mirazoff, of Tiflis, is sending to the Paris exnibition SAMUILES OF TEA grown in his plantations in the neigh- borhood of his town which are de- scribed as equal in quality to the finest Chinese growths. Mr. Mirazoff is per- haps the ouly one of the many persons who have tried tea planting in Cau- casus who has met with any success. A lack of a technical knowledge has rendered the efforts of the vast majority ?( the Caucasian planters entirely fruit- o0ss. Carakal, the principal town in the province of Semvietschensk, in Asia Minor, 18 to be rechristened *‘Peze- walsk,” in honor of the celebrated ex- plorer of that name. Carakal was founded in 1863 and numbers to-day 50,000 inhabitants, Trade is v pros- crous, industries are developing, and, ike Tascnkent, the town is lighted with the electric light, Of late the farmers aroudd this town have been worried by the exploits of a new species of fieid mide, who have devastated the harvests ina whole dis! and are ap- pearing thig yeéar in still greater num- bers. R The state of affalrs in and around Saschkent ‘proves once more that in point of econbmic administration the Russian goveknment is perhaps the most advanced of any, The most favor- able results ' have been produced by the ambulances established in the city, awaking the sympa- thy of {he' Asiatics by the fact that in their diseases h incureble havé been successfully treat- ed, The respectful treatment of the Asiatic women by the Russians has also done much to dispose the natives favor- ably towardeshem. The Credit bank, instituted by the government to help the agriculturalists and to protect them against the usurers, is fully appreciated and is rendering excellent public ser- herto reputed vice. The culture of cotton seems to be developing at & rapid rate. Whereas in 1 only five hectares were planted, in 1857 no leas than 14,000 were under oul- ture. In 1888 the production of cotton amounted to 200,000 pounds (thirty-six nounds) of spun yarns, of a gross value of 1,200,000 roubles. RopertT H. SHERARD. “Darby O'Brien has succeedod the veteran Dave Faust as captain of the Brooklyns, T0 PLOUGH LAKE MANAWA. Object of the Rejuvenated Omaha Boat Club. AN AMATEUR BASEBALL LEAGUE Interesting Sparkles of Sport of All Kinds and From All Parts of the Sporting World—Eto., Etc., Ete. The Boat Club Reorganized. The Omaha boat club has been reorgan- ized, and takes a new lease of life under promising auspices. Four years ago It started out with a hurrah, and built a fine boat house at Cut Off lake. Unfortunately, however, the weeds in the lake made it im- possible to Go good rowing and the enthu- siusm of the members faded. A fow of the zealous lovers of the sport, however, doter- mined to keep the organization alive and re- moved the club house and headquarters to Lake Manawa, on the Iowa side, They now have the club house handsomely fitted up, and have about 31,500 worth of boats. The dam that was built at Man- awa raises the water several inches and makes the rowing course an exception- ally flue one. With the establishment of the club in its new quarters, tho old members are coming back and the outlook for a season of fine sport is especially promiing. 1t 18 too late, now, for the club to thiuk of sending_ @ representation 1o tho Spint Luke regatta in June; but the members wiil have a number of local contests at Manawa and will fit_themselves for elub work next sea- son. The present officers of the club, to whom credit is due for the wori of reorguni- zation are: President, W. R. Morris; secre- tary, E. M. Garfield; treasurer, Charlos L. Deuel; captain, J, S. White, Scriptural Warrants For Base Ball, “Speaking of the Omaha preachers' ser- mons against base ball,” said a crank the other day, **here’s a list of scriptural war- rants for piaying base ball, which mignt be doubled, if nccessary.” Here is the list: And Joshua made a league with them— Joshua ix, 15, I made wise men captains,—Deuteronomy xi, 15. When Paul had appesled to be reserved.— Acts xxv, 2L . And Abner said to Jacob, letthe young men urise and play.—I1 Samuel ii, 14. ‘The points of a digmond.—Jeremiah xvii, 1, And the children of Israel shall pitch.— Numbers i, 52. ob had pitehed. —Genesis xxxl, 25, So Israel and Absalom pitched in the fund of Gilead.—LI Samucl xvi, 26, svery one to his fleld, —Nehemiah xili, 1g. When they were iu the fleld. —Genesis % On the base No striker.—I Timothy i, Thou shalt fan them,—Isaiah xii, 16, Run now.—II Kings iv, 20. I shall not slide.—Psalms xxxvi, L. Make a sucrifice.—Numbers xv, 8. Thou shalt steal.—Exodus x, 15, It was an error.—Icclesiastés v, 6. Bring me home.—Judges xi, 9. When Haman came home He will come home.—Proverbs vii, 20, He gave judgment. —Jeremiah xxxix, b. Then catled he them in.—Acts x, 23, The record of Jobn.—Jonn i, 19, iv, 1 Kings vii, 4. ther v, 10, A The material f league is first cla: ity League. @ city umateur base ball and abundant, although no actior has yet been taken toward such an organization. Therearo six good local teams ulready organized in the city, with one in South Omaha and one in Council Bluffs. The city teams are Garneau's Snowflakos, under 1tus McKelvey's w i he Union Pacifics, Soud Farrish’'s Corkers, Crane brothers, the C. E. Maynes and the Beacons. The trouble in the city leaguo, last year resulting from an indiscriminate picking of men for all match games, has made the man- @gers of the present teaws hesitato before going nto another league. The only thing 10 be done 1 to sign the players in each club and adhere to the rules in all contests. Farrish's toam alroady has dates at Grand 1sland, Norfoll, Kearney aud West Point. Notes of Sport. Minneapolis wants Murk Baldwin. The Omahas are playing great ball. Jake Kilrain will get home from England May 24, Billiardist Slosson is said to be losing his eyesight. Will Brynan, Sioux City’sJold manager, is in Toronto. Cruiser has been fired and will hardly ve raced until fall, Dempsey says Sullivan will whip Kilrain in twenty minutes. Freeman has Milwaukee in the soup for $600 advance money, Dr. Carver has an offer of $300 a week to travel with Forepaugh. Selee has a prize in Canavan, who is doing remarkable work in the left garden, Milwaukee has released Klusman. and Freoman will go 100, it is reportod. A yearling brother to Foxhall died at Woodburn farm, Kentucky, recently, Minneapolis has signed J. G. Mitchell, a star pitcher of the New England league. Five hundred horses have already been entered for the May races in Louisvilie. It is reported that Iastian will take Wil- linmson's place as short stop in the Chicago team. A base ball game on ico was played at Echo Lake, near Idaho Springs, Colo,, on Sunday. Sioux City has released Third Baseman Bradley and signed Flanagan, of lust yoar's Detroit team. Little Davy Force is getting guyed fear- fully wherever he goes. He is a good umpire just the same, About $50,000 has been subscribed toward building a club house and a new half-mile track at Kansas City. ‘The Boston $10,000 stallion race for horses of the 2:19 cluss will be trotted at Beacon Park on September 18, Herr, of the Milwaukees, is & great ball ulltyor. and would be a favorite if he could eep his voice corked up. Jack Messitt won the season shaving ticket offered by Billy Wagner for the first Omaha man making three home runs, Minneapolis has sold Hanrahan, the best player it had, to Cleveland, and bought Dwyer and Darling of the Chicago club. 5t. Paul has the nerve to claim the best infield in the Western association in Hawes, Werrick, Reilley and Overrated Pickett, K Milwaukee's crack pitcher, is laid up with sore e With sore eyes and swelled neads the Brewers scem to be hav- inga hard time of it. The five men in order whom Peter Juckson has still to whip are Slavin, Ashton, Killen, l\'i“‘mn and Sullivan, The championship is still a Wells ioug way off. nk P. Slavin, the Australian heavy- weight, has scared the life out of Jem Smith or Charlie Mitchell by a challenge for a fight with either of them for £,000 & side, On May 27, four of the lady bicycle riders, Willinms, Woods, Oakes and Baldwin, will enter o six duy's race, four hoursa day, against two lady equestriennes from Kansas City ne lady bicycle riders leave to-morrow for New York to cnter the six days' eight- hours-a-day which begins at Madison Square garden ' May 13, Eck says that Armaindo or Williams will win the race, John S, Prince will leave to-morrow for Chicago to go into trainiog for the profes sional race, which will be a feature of the tournament, which commences in Chicago ou May 18. ' Morgun will also go into the Field sliooting in this locality may be_said be at an end for this season. Allthe ducks have hiea themselves to their porthern breediug haunts, and tho fow snipe to be found hereabouts are not enough to encour- age the sportsmen to make an effort to bag any of them. - An Indiana wowman who had been twice divorced from one man recently appeared at his home in Peru and askea permission to he married in his parlor to 8 man who accomp nied her. Consent was given, and the couble were united, with husband No. 1 and his sec- ond wife as wituesses, RELIGI0US, Our cousul at Pekin rep~~ts that the total number of Americans res ing in China iy 1,022, of whom 508 are misei naries. A jubilee meeting was heid March 6 by the congregations of all the Methodist Episcopal churches of Cleveland, O. Over one thom sand souls had beeu converted in that city since January 1. How well the orthodox Friends attend to educational interests is shown by their re- port that of 791 children of school uge in the yearly meeting, more thau 600 are educated in Fricnds' schools. Bvangelist Moody intends to found a train- ing academy ana to that ond has purchased of Judge Anthony the lot and three bouses in the rear of the Chicago avenue church and baving a frontage of 125 feot on Pearson street. The Mo doc Indians were once savage fight. ers. During the pust dozen years about g-ll :.ne tribe have beeu converted to christian- ty. i One chief is a Quaker preacl es every evidence stian, There are 2,000 Icelanders in the oity of Winnipeg, and a Presbyterian mission has been formed under the careof & converted Icelander. An Icelanaic hymn book has been printed, and there are two Icelandic newspapers. ' No church organization has yet been begun among these children of the uorth, but there are ovidences that this wil soon be needed. The protestant church of Spain numbers at present 113 chapels ana school houses, 111 parochial schools, with 61 male and 78 female toachers, 2,545 boys and 2,005 girls. There are 80 Sunday schools with 183 helpers and 8.231 scholars. The churches aro ministered unto by 56 pastors and 35 evangolists, Tha uuwmber of regular attendants of divine sers vice is 9,164; of communicants 3,443, Pastor F. Flieduer reports steady progress on all sides, Marshal Booth, in Chicago, said that withs in twelve years 1,000,000 men und women have boen rescued from the slums and trans. formed into self-supporting, sober, christian citizens by the work of the Salvation Army. He Is prepared to establish at once in Lons don ten more rescue homes, for 800 girls, and also to establish ten food and shelter depota —s1x for women and children only, and four for men—with a capacity of 1,000 bufllgfir night for women and 500 for men, apd 200,- 000 meals per week, or at the rate of 547,600 beds and 10,400,000" meals per anoum, He appeals for §15,000 to meet the expenses of fitting up and’ furnishing the said twenty buil dings. and of being @ sincere Lt CONNUBIALITIES, Turec daughters were married out of the * same family one duy last week at Owens- burg, Conn, A girl of twelve and & man of forty-five were the applicants for a marriage license at Goldboro, N. C., a few days ago. Mayor Grant performod his first marring ceromony on Tuesduy. Heing now to the business, he forgot to kiss the bride, A Miss Pants was married o a Mr. Ovor- all recently at a little town in Ohio, and the question is who will wear the breeches in that family. A widow by the namo of Kaue buried her fifth husband on a Tuesday and married her sixth on Wednesday of the same wesk in Northfield, Conn. At a recent ceremony in New York elty, the groom was cmbarrassed at the altar, l{o could not find the wedding-ring, but the knot was tied just the same, For a wodding present Hiram C. Oglivie of Scotland received the family bible, which had been handed down at the marriage of the eldest son of the family for three gener- tions. When a father in Madagascar gets the Ides that his daughter ought to marry he puts @ rope around her neck and leads her ';on.u and the first young man he offers her 10 hat £ot to take her or forfeit 100 yams, Cards are out for the weddiog of Pol Aundrew F. West, of Princeton ml{u (5; Miss Lucy Marshall Randolph, to take in the South Street Presbyterian alvx Morristown, N. J., May ¢, ' The new German emperor not oply mi matches for his sister and sister-in-lew au; other kin, but he tells them what sors dresses they shall wear, If ho had an Amer- ican girl for a sistor he would quit this busis ness 80 quickly thaet (L would muke bis head swim,