Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 6, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. -t TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dgly orning Fdition) including BUNDAY ik, One Year. “ - Months. MA dress, OMARAOF 108, Nos, 14 nn NAMBTRRET. TOAGO OFFICE, 57 HOOKERY BUILDING. AW YOIK OFFIER, ROOMS 14 AND 15 THIBUNE UTLDING. INGTON O¥FiOR, NO. 518 RTRENTH BTRERT. CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edl. Sorial matter should besddressed to the EDITOR oF TiE I} JUSINESS LETTERS, 11 business [etters and remittances should be ressod to Tk BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAMA. Drafts, checks and postollice orders 1o e made payabls to the order of the company. ke Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY ¥ Sworn Statement of Oirculation. Etate of Nebraska, | o » County of Douglas, { George . Tuschuck, secrotary ot The fes Pub- NsbingCompany, dods solemnly swear that the mctual circulation of Tne DAiLy ke for the ‘week ending June 1, 15859, was as follows: Funday, May 2. ¥ Monday, May 27 Tuesany, Mo, Weanesday, Ma; Thuraday, May Friday, Ma, Baturd Average. ... 3 GEOKGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to hefora me and subscribed to in my presence this 1st day of June, A. 1), 1880, Seal, N. P. FELL, Notary Publie. Btate of Nebraska, County_of, Do Georgo 1. T belng duly sworn, de- ?0!0! and says that he is secretary of The Des Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of' The Daily Beo for the month of Jun or July, 8K, 15,083 coples: for Anirust, 185, 13,138 copies Tor Xe, 4 15151 coples: ' for October, R, November, coples; t ., 1588 Jannary, 1880, 18574 coples for Marcn, 158 ), 18,600 cople: 18, o f worn 5 boefore me and’ siibscribed in my (Seal.] ~ presence this i day of June, A. 1 N. P. FEIL, Notary Public, | s {88 WISCONSIN is enjoy of profound rest from political turmoil. The state treasury is empty. MORMONS are migrating to Manitoba, The temperature of Utah is becoming 100 high for their health. DorrLArs tallk louder than words. Expressions of sympathy, to be effec- tive, should be written on sight drafts. THE biennial mania for a market house is ripening in Omaha. It is not likely to be any more dangerous than its predecessors. THE bids of the gas and electric light companies promise a better and cheaper system of street lighting than Omaha has heretofore enjoyed. LET there be no delay in the compil- ation of the revised ordinances. They should be issued as soon as possible and certeinly not later than the fjrst of August. THE board of public works and the council should put the screws on the irrepressible adventurers and straw bidders who secure contracts for paving and other public works and fail to live up to their agreements. TuE railroad commissioners of Mis- souri have decided to reduce local freight rates. The announcement re- minds us that Nebraska once had a rai rond commission. Has it been lost in the flood?. Ir Bismarck ever placed any faith in the democratic yarn that Blaine is a sick man, he must have felt very much like having some one give him a healthy and vigorous kick after the Bamoa conference. ——— *“T1s an ill wind that blows nobody good.” The Johustown disaster is giv- ing life insurance the greatest boom in ‘years. A picture of the flood is all that is necessary to convince a man of the uncertainties of life and the benefits of & fat policy to his survivors. PROHIBITION 15 a boon to one branch of industry in Kansas. The state uni- versity is about to graduate a class of pharmacists, ‘*full of youth and enthu- siasm for a great and growing profes- sion.” The drug store is the favored child of prohibition in Kan M. ROUVIER, the French premier, $as issued orders to his subordinates fostructing them to do ail in their power towards helping his party to re- tain its prestige. The great French- man has probably been taking lessons from a democratic civil service re- former, E——— Tae Virginia political factions fhreaten to secede unless the local ®poils are equally divided among them. If the **cohesive power of public office” s necessary to hold the Virginian wran- glers, the sooner they are turned adrift, the better for the country. Let us have peace. THERE is but sixty-six cents differ- ence between the first cost of stone and wooden pavement per yard. Property owners will consult their pockets by gelecting the former. Stone lasts for- ever, while wooden block rots and must Ppe replaced within five years. The ron is always the cheapest, and in this nstance, it means agreat saving to tax- payers. ———— It wouLp appear from the bids handed in to the council for lighting the city that each incandescent light would cost the city per month as much ms each gas lamp costs the city per year. In other words, if the city be lighted by electricity, and the cost of that service per annum be kept down to the price of gas, each electric light would have to take the place of twelve gas lamps. The question is, can it be done? “ONE touch of nature makes the ‘whole world kin.” One of the first towns to respond to the ory for aid for the flood sdfferers was Jucksonville, a., whose people recently folt the rav- es of death and the succoring hand of humanity, Scourged in the fires of misfortune, they knew the benefit of ptaid, and their limited means ded to the impulses of their gen- 8rous huarta EXTRA SESSION GOSSIP. There is still uncertainty rogarding an extra session of congress. It has re- cently been reported from Washington that republican senators have been ad- vised at the white house that it will be important for them to be within call in October. On the other hand, the be- liof is expressed that the president will not call an extra session. The proba- bility is that no very serious attention has yet been given the matter by the president, there being no urgency for its consideration. Shortly after the incoming of the administration there was a very general leeling among re- publican members of congress that the situation imperatively required an extra session, but there has at uo time been any intimation from the presidaent as to what view he held. Tf a majority of the republican members deem it expe- dient to call congress together in Octo- ber the president will doubtless acqui- esce; but he will very likely not act in the matter except upon such represen- tation. The only consideration that now has any great weight upon the question is the certainty of a protracted fight over tho rul These the repub- licans aro intent upon changing so that the minority can not block and thwart legislation desired by the majority, and their effort to do so will be met with a stubborn resistance. If the contest thus assured is not entered upon until the regular time of meoting in Decem- ber a month or two of the regular ses- sion will certainly be consumed in this way, whereas it is possible that if con- gress were to meet in October the fight might be brought to a conclusion by the date at which the regular session would commence. There can be no doubt as to the de- termination of the democratic minority to solidly and persistently resist any change in the rules. On this, if on nothing else, they can be depended upon to ‘‘get together and to remain united. Under the existing rules they possess an advantage for the obstruction and defeat of legislation objectionable to them, which these propose to hold on to, if it be possible to do so. A demo- cratic genator is quoted as saying that o parlinmentary struggle, such as the county has seldom witnessed, will begin the moment almost the house comes together. *‘It will be a con- 7 said this senator, “of partisan from the start, and I give the republicans notice that it will be im- portant for them to have every onc of their men present from the beginning. Our people do not intend to make any surrender of position or of principle.” This unquestionably represents the feel- ing of every democratic member of con- gress, and the party whip will be vigorously employed, if nec- essary, to keep all of them in line. The principle they will con- tend for is simply that of enabling the minority to defeat the will of the majority. Unfortunately, that majority will be 80 narrow that it will be a very dillicult matter to defeat the purpose of the op- position by the usual method of pro- cedure. As the roll of the house has been officially made up by the clerk the republican majority is three. The eloction of representatives in the now states will probably 1increase the ma- jority to eight. This 1sa very narrow margin in & house composed of three hundred and twenty-five mombers, and in order that the repub- licans may carry out their plan, every one of their men, as the democratic senator already quoted said, will have to be present from the be- ginning. Having thus in view the cer- tainty of a prolonged contest, the ques- tion is whether it shall be entered upon amonth or two in advance of the regular date for the assembling of congress, or deferred until the constitutional time of meeting and thus be allowed to consume perhaps months of the regular session. A FEW FIGURES. Mr. Hitchcock was very cavefui, in his issue of Tuesday, to avoid a con- templation of the figures given by Tie Brg, which show positively that this paper has over six thousand paying city subscribers in a given territory to the World’s twenty-eight hundred odd pa- pers, a large proportion of the latter being delivered on trial. Our figures are taken from a census just about com- pleted and are absolutely correet. Mr. Hitcheock figures out that the total circulation of his paper exceeds by about 200 the total circuletion of T EVENING BEE. In this estimate he in- ciudes his entire exchange list, his cir- culation at Council Bluffs and hundreds of papers that lie unsold on the couri- tersof newsdealers in every village in the state. When he deals with for- eign advertising agents he claims to have a circulation of three or four thou- sand owside of Omaha, and when he deals with the merchants of Omaha, he claims that all his circulation is in this city, Whom does he victimize in his imposture? Assuredly not the mer- chants of Omaha who are familiar with the sharp practice. On the other hand when he computes the circulation of Tue EVENING BEE, which notoriously is entirely in the city and is not used as an exchange with other papers, he carefully omits T SUNDAY BEE, which also covers the fleld which his paper covers and in addition a very large field that he can never hope to cover? Why does he not incorporate THE SUNDAY BEEin his daily average, as he does THE SUNDAY WonrLp? Where would he land in such a comparison? In fact, where would his “baking powder mark” be if Tue SUNDAY BEE, with its eighteen to twenty thousand paid subscribers was placed as a set-off against his alleged circulation of papers strewn promiscu- ously in people’s yards and scattered broadeast over the country? We have stated, and we repeat, that in agiven territory within the limits of Omaha in which Tue Beg delivers by carrier over six thousand of its dailies, Mr. Hitcheock scatters promiscuously for pay and on trial less than tweuty- niuve hundred dailies. We have the name of every subscriber, and will present them in due form at the proper time, if he insists on an exhibit. In this connection it might be well o observe that while the three other dailies of Omaha have been throwing their paparsright and lefs, scouring the 1THE OMAHA DAILY BEH: THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1889, city from conter to ciroumforence by & company of solicitors, drumming up subseribers and throwing their papers upon the people, TrE Bk has held its own legitimate circulation without any gpecial exertion to increase it. THe Begrfcirculates between eighteen and twenty thousand papers steadily to peo- ple who want it and pay for it. Tue BEE is the only newspaper in Omaha that is firmly established and on a paying basis, and will continue to lead the procession. AID FOR THE SUFFERERS. The meeting at Boyd’s opera house last night evidenced the determination of the people of Omaha to give substan- tial aid to the homeless victims of the Conemaugh food. No disaster in our time appeals so strongly to the genor- osity of the people. There is no time for wasting words in thrilling appeals. Theo story of the havoce told every day in the dispatches is sufficient to induce every man, woman and child to contrib- ute according to their means to relieve the distress in the valley of death. Omaha cannot afford to lag in the rear in this great work of humanity. She has given generously to the suffer- ers by fire and storm. Her purses were loosened and the contents lavishly poured out when Chicago wept amid her ruins. The victims of the great izzard weve liberally provided for, the unfortunates of the grasshopper plague were relioved by the prompt as- sistance of charitable people, The sur- vivors of the Johustown floods are the wards of the poople. All that they pos- sessed has been swept away. Family, friends, fortune, have gone down in the besom of a destructive torrent. They are houscless and helpless, naked and hungry, with nothing left to lighten their overwhelming sorrow. Plagues and pestilence threaten to fol- low in the wake of the flood. Bowed down with unspeakable grief, they are in no condition to resist disecase. They need instant succor to save from dispair and death. They need cash, not a long- range sympath, ivery man in receipt of wages, every professional man and merchant, every family can afford to give a trifle and swell Omaha’s contribution to credita- ble total. MEMORABLE CALAMITIES. The destruction of Johnstown and con tiguous towns has no parallel in the history of the country. The details of the disaster appall the mind. Maps,dia- grams and vivid description can not comprehend the awful ruin wrought in an hour. Where thriving cities were, desolation reigns. Where hundreds of busy workshops stood, where the hum of industry mingled with the activities of trade, and where thousands of homes evidenced the thrift of the inhabitants, there is nothing but a vast sea of ruins, the graveyard of thousands of human beings. It is doubtful if the total loss of life will ever be known. Estimates range from five to fifteen thousand. It isal- most certain to exceed ten thousand, or one-fourth of the population of the de- vastated valley. An unknown number are buried beneath the debris of the disaster. To recover them is an almost hopeless tasic. Aucient or modern history records but few disasters approaching this in destructive fury and suddeness. Ver- suvius completed the ruin of Pompeii and Herculaneum by burying the val- ley of the Campana under twenty to eighty feet of lava, rock and ashes. The convulsion of Lisbon in 1755, lev- eled tho greater portion of the city in an instant, killing forty thousand per- sons. Like the Johnstown aster, fire followed to complete the work of de- struction. ‘Within the last ten years the world has witnessed convulsions of nature, of ap- palling magnitude and destructiveness. Less than two yearsago fifteen thousand persons were killed by an earthquake in Yun Nan, China. In 1887,the valley of the Yellow river in China was over- whelmed with floods, which depopu- lated and destroyed thousands of miles of country. One hundred thousand people lost their lives; and nearly two million were rendered homseless and desiitute. The Java earthquake of 1833 ranks among the most destructive to life and property of which there is any record, The shor vaged an area of land one hundred miles square, and extended into the sea for a great distance. The lowest estimate of the loss of life was fifty thousand, though it was nearer eighty thousand. Two towns were de- stroyed by lava, one swallowed up by openings in the earth, and twenty de- stroyed by tidal waves which swept the coasts. The earthquake which rocked the Tsland of Ischia, off the coast of Italy, destroyed four thousand lives in a mo- ment, leveled three towns and partially destroyed five. Two years before , the town of Chio, Greece, was shaken by an earthquake and five thousand lives lost. One thousand lives were lost by a sim- ilar convulsion in Asiatic Turkey in 1883, A terrific hurricane swept through southern England and northern France in 1884, destroying a vast amount of property on land and sea. One hundred lives were lost in Great Britain alone. The floods in Germany and Hungary in 1583 swept away fifteen hundred lives and property worth millions. During 1885 a terrible earthquake ravaged one thousand square miles of Spain, destroying fifteen towns, twenty thousand buildings and three thousand lives. The shocks continued for twenty days, causing a loss of one hundred mil- lion dollars. A few months iater the vale of Cashmere was shaken by an earthquake, killing three thousand per- sons, forty thousand head of stock and destroying seventy-five thousand build- ings. A year later six towns in Greece wore leveled by a like destructive agency, killing five hundred and wounding one thousand persons. The South Carolius earthquake is of compurative recent occurrence The loss of life was small, consid- ering the amount of property destroyed. Compared with the Johnstown dis- aster, the Mill river flood 1 Massa- chusetts fifteen years ago pales into in- significance. The veservoir covered oue huadred and twenty-four acres with an average depth of twenty-four foot, and furnished a resorve supply ot water for five facfory towns. Four vil- lages were swopt away by this flood, two hundred lives lost and one and a half million dollars worth of prop- erty destroyed. No flood since'Noah’s time has boen 80 destructive of ‘life as the Johnstown disaster. N The Conemaugh vosorvoir served no good purpose. [g was the rotreat of sports, the pleasure ground of idlencss. For seven years it stood like the shadow of death over ‘the valley, and no measures were taken to remove the con- stantly increasing danger. It is useless to speculate now on what might have been. The harm is done, the ruin is complete and irredecmable. Noamount of post mortem indignation can lighten the awful gloom of that ro- gion or relieve the orushing sorrows of the saved. Parents can not be restored to their children or children to their The ruined homes can be restored and repeopled, the factories and stores rebuilt, and the thrift and picturesque beauty of the valley restored by the mellowing hand of time, but the story of death and destruction will ever remain a lamentable record of man’s in- difference to surrounding dangoers. Presir TARRISON has set an ex- ample of sympathy with the surviv- ors of the Johnstown ealaraity, and of active interest in their behalf, which will be universally commended. Im- wediately on learning of the disaster he proffered whatever assistance the government could render in forwarding tents and rations, and also teleg a personal contribution to the may the stricken city. At a meeting of the citizens of Washington on Tuesday night he presided, and in appro- priate terms presented the claims of the sufferers to benevolent con- sideration. The result was that ten thousand dollars were subscribed on the spot. The dignity of the presiden- tial office was in nowise sacrificed by this course of its incumbent, but rather will the man and the office be elevated thereby in the toem of all right- thinking men. President Harrison has, by his conduct in this matter, drawn the people more closely to the exalted sta- tion he occupies without in the least de- gree impairing its character. Tie first practical steps toward state- hood have been taken in Wyoming. Governor Warren has issued a procla- mation calling for an election. to be held the first Monday in"July for dele- gates to a constitutional convention. The convention will meet the first week in September, and the result of its labors will be submitted for rejection or ratification at the November election. There is a widespread disposition among the peopld to set aside partisan- ship pending the statehood campaign, which may last a year or two,and pull together as a unit for the boon of home rule and equal rights. By this plaa they will not antagonize the great par- ties and secura greatet consideration than is otherwise possible. MINNESOTA has developed an asylum scandal approaching that of Cook county. A singular feature of the in- vestigation is the remarkable memory of the superintendent. The death of a patient under circumstances pointing to murder created so slight an im- pression on his mind that he did not re- port it to the trustees. A forgetful memory is a most convenient shelter for men in public station. Eraur years ago Kate Shelly, then in her teens, imperiled her life to save a passenger train from plunging iuto the Des Moines river, and succeded. Now she is reluctantly telling the story of her heroism to save her mother’s home from the grip of a mortgage. The incident is a pointed 1llustration of the ingratitude of a railroad corporation. This Britain Bowled Up, Boston Herald, The British paval officer who wants to fight this country has evidently been Behrinz up. —— Mammoth Gamblers, Cincinnati Commereial, Betting on horse racing is just as demoral- izing, o far as it goes, as betting on grain and stock markets. But where tens of dol- lars aro lost av the race tracks, thousands arc lost in the gaming practices known as speculation. Bl 2 R Mr. Oleveland 1n New York. Attanta Constitution, The one dark spot in the horizon of Mr. Cleveland’s prospect of becoming the next democratic presidential nominee is the probability that the party in his state will not endorso him. o Jake Will Relieve Chauncey. Chicago News. The Hon. Jake Kilrain has revurned to this conntry from Kurope, presumably for the purpose of doing the talklng for the con- tinent while the Hon. Chauncey Depow takes his annual play spell abroad, il et Don't Overtalk, New York Sun. As a conspicuous candidate for president, Major McKinley should be careful abuut making too many 'speeches. Experience does not show that speecnifying is helpful to a candidate, Even talking well won't save a wan if he talks too miuch. e What They Wore. He was a Kafir bold She was a Zulu maid; All his deep loye he told As o'er the sand they strayed, Pleasant their lives must be Theirs was simplicity, Theirs was no guile, Plain in their bappinoss, Simple in their style of dress Shown in mo fashion book; All be wore was & look Brimful of tenderness— She wore a swile. e But Rill Got There Chicago Journal, Governor Hill was bissed at the Cleveland banquet. The mugwumps were doubtless the hissers. Governor Hill can very well afford to be hissed by Cleveland’s friends. He “got there,” and Cleveland didu’t, ———— ‘When the Serpent Oame. ITowa State Reguster, ‘The moral of this item is plain: For forty- elght years there was not a law case in the town of Meddybembs, Me.; neither was there a lawyer. But two weeks ago a law- yerh ung out his sign in this primitive Para. diso, and now two citizons are golng to law over a fence law. — - NEWS COMMENT. Five hundred and fifty ncres of land, a span of mares, wagon, harnoss, farming im - plements and tools, a cow, and 850 with which to build awhouse, are part of the in- ducements offered to every male Sioux ta, give up his rights to the reservations and go to housckeeping. There is many a white man who would thank his lucky stars to berin life on one-quarter of this capital. The recent defeat of the Mormons at Ogden has aroused the saints to provent the possibility of any such occurrence in the coming municipal election at Salt Lake. ‘They do not propose to be caught napping again, judging by the large number of naturalization papers now being issued to newly arrived converts from the old world, and by the interest suddenly taken in poli- tics by all classes of the faithful. The continuation of the large gold exports shows little sign of abating, and is exciting the wonder of commercial circles masmuch a8 the surplus in tho hands of New York bankers keeps on growing. This is a condi- tion which challenges the study and explana- tion of financial experts. © ussia is making an attempt to embark in tho pork packing industry, Here is another chance for Chicago to the complain to the inter-state commerce commission. The good work of removing the overhead wire nuisance in the city of Now York still oes on. nee the first of January some- thing like twelve bundred wiles of wire have beon removed. It is quite evident that waen New York determines to doanything,she does it effectively. The prospects for the early admi: Idako to statehood are seriously embaroassed by the preponderanco of Mormon voters over the gentile population. The balunce of power of that territory is virtually in the hands of the Mormons, and they have dic- tated more than once the choice of dolegate: to congress. In the eventof u consiitutional convention, there is little doubt that the Mormons would attempt to capture it and color the constitution for the proposed state to their own liking, The situation is an un- fortunate one, and Ideho had better make up her mind to face 1t. —_— STATE A RRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The Atkinson high school turned out two graduates this year. The Cvster County Farmers' Ailiance meets at Broken Bow on the 11th inst. Ten pupils were graduated from the Sew- ard high school at its annual commence- ment, The new mayor and councilmen of Friend have closed the saloons and drug stores on Sunday. Prof. J. M. Scott has been re-elected super- intendent of the Columbus schools for the ensuing year. About four hundred mares and colts have been received from Oregon by the Kearney Horse company. An_extensive programme has been pre- pared for the Nebraska Sangerbund, which meets at Grand Island June 13 to 16, The new Friend fair association is bound to have good races, and 18 putting the track in fine shape for a meeting July 4 und 5. Hay is so plentiful in Garfield county that a Burwell man has fenced in his large gar- den with bales of pressed hay, placed side by side. Seventy-five dollars reward has been offered for the capture of the thief who stole a team from Eph Anderson, of Wayne, Muay 31, . Arthur Edwards, of Hastings, has passed the examination, and has been appointed to the West Point c: hip from the Second congressional distric! A mare belonging to John Earner, of Red Cloud, recently guve birth to a colt that weighs but twenty-five pounds, measures thirty-two inches in length, heighth thirty- one inches, girth twenty-tive inches, length across hips six inches. The mare weighs 1,100 pounds and the sire of the colt is a well known horse. The colt is healthy and lively and perfectly developed. Saloonkeeper Otis, of Lindsay, took unto himself a wife the other day, and the same eyvening a crowd of about two hundred called on the newly-wedded couple and gave them a “shivaree.” Eighteen kegs of beer put the visitors to a lovely mood, and while they were enjoying a shooting match, a young son of Ernest Nethen was wounded in the groin, narrowly escuping instant death. A romantic wedding took place at Nemaha City a few days ago, the high contracting parties being S, D. Ewing, aged seventy- four, and Mrs, Grifiith, aged fifty-five, both residents of Richardson county. The couple met on a passenger train from Auburn, and, concluding that they were suited for each other, they alighted at Nemaha City, pro- cured a marriage license, sent for a preacher and were spliced, the whole operation being performed so expeditiously that inside of an hour they were back at the depot ready to take the tramn for Falls City. Commencement week at Doane college, Crete, will begin with the baccalaureate ser~ mon by Dr. J. I, Duryea, of Omaha, Sanday morning, June 23. Dr. A. R. Thain, of Omaha, will give the address to the Y. M. C. A. Sunaay evening: Monday evening, Dawes oratoric: ‘Tuesday morning, senior preparatory exhibitio nes cvening, Hesperian club exhibition; Wednesday even- ing, commencement concert; Thursday morn- ing, commencement, followed by atumm din- ner. The graduates of all colleges, wherever situated and of whatever name, receive a cordial invitation to this dinner as guests of Doane college, and are requested to an- nounce their coming by letter to the secre- tary of the faculty. i'rof. H. H. Hosford. ‘The letter should be sent by June 2 This is an attempt, for the first time in the history of Nebraska, it is believed, to bring together all colloge graduates, L renew old college as- sociations, fon of lowa Items. The Gilman Odd Fellows have m oved into their now hall. Two Mason City young ladies have been arrested for stealing eggs. One hundred and fifty agrests were made in Des Moines during May. Forty-one interments, were mado in Des Mowes cemeteries during May. Poisonous myrh in the pastures about Eldora has resulted in the death of many COWS. ‘I'he institute for the feeble minded had an average of 416 nmates during the moutn of May. The state library coutains 54,000 volumes according to the catalogue, which 18 just out. Charles Floyd, of Center Point, has begnn the publication of the lowa Advocate, in the interests of the Sous of Veteraus, Rev. John Hood, for eleven years pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Cedar Rapids, has removed to Galesburg, Iil. While Mrs, H. T, Smith, living thres miles south of Malcom, was returniug home frow a neighbor's, Sunday night she was assaulted by unknown rufiians, She was dragged from thic cart in which she was riding and shock- ingly mistreated. 1t is thought she will dio from her injuries, The assailants have not been capuured, Dakota, Rapid City will celebrate the Fourth in grand style, Saloon licenses will cost $1,000 at James town, after July 1. The Sioux Fails motor line will commence runuing trains June 15, The Islack Hills Soldiers' and Sailors' nsso- ciation has a mewmbership of 300, ‘Phe Black Hills millers have formed a trust to regulate the price of tlour. A new truss bridge is being built by the Milwaukeo company over tht Sioux river east of Canton, Two carloads of machinery for the Harney Peak Tin Mining compauy arrived in Dead- wood last week. A quadruple wedding took place at Stand- g Hock, recently, four Sioux maidens and four young warriors being wmarried by Cutholic priest, 1 the prosence of 500 ln- NON-PARTISAN CONVENTION. The Third Partyites Downed in the Prohibition Camp, WOULD TAKE THE DEVIL'S DUES, One Enthusiastio Reformer Sees no Objection to Even Satan Be« coming a Member if He'll Pay the Fee. 1020 P Streer, LixcoLy, June 5. The so-called non-partisan convention was called to order to-day at 2 o'clock by John A. Dempster, of Fillmore county, On tak- ing the platform he called upon Rev. Heau- nan, of Butler county, to offer prayer, aftor which he read the call and proceeded to stato the object of the ‘meeting. Among other things he said: “Iwant it distinctly understood that the object of tho convention is purely non-parti- san. Wo have met together, not as republi- caus, or democrats, or prohibitionists, or union labor men, but as representative peo- ple of the great state of Nebraska, who de- siro the suppression of the liquor traMo in the state. Let it be understood from the first that the convention shall not be per- mitted to consider the aggrandizementof any person, clique or clan, and that it shall es- chew politics in every sense of the word.” Mr, Dempster was roundly applauded at the close of his remarks, indicating that the two or three hundred people gathered in Bohannan's hall were in hearty sympathy vith what the speaker had to say. To his hat's the further pleasure of the house,"” Atkinson was named _and temporary chairman, and Erick Johnson and A, C. Corbin temporary sec- retary. Atkinson, on jtakmg the gavel, em- phasized Dempster's opening remurks, and thoe house proceeded to business, Deputy Attorney-General Stewart moved the ap- pointment of a committee of six on plan of campaige and constitution and by-laws, two from each of the three congressional dis- tricts, The following gentlemen were ap- pointed: From the First, John M. Stewart, of Lancaster, and John C. Yutzy, of Rich- aadson: the Second, W. S. Raudall, of Clay, and Dr. Iitch, of Adams; the Third, Fre- Everett, of Burt, and W. W. Woods, 12 an, At this point several orators aired themselves on the.question of perma- nent organization, but the gentleman from Seward got there and the temporary organiz ation was made permanent. To calm the storm, 3. F. Wright, of Charles City, Ila., president of the Temperance State alliance, was called for, and he spread the eagle for fully a half hour, but instead of calming the storm he created one, The preliminary one was but & little ruction. But he doubtless accomplished the purpose for which he was called. The *“amen corner’ was the whole room when he had finished his address. He had promised the assistance of Towa in the struggle, and the mind of one could not help but wander to the record of “*holes in the wall” all over the state. Dr. Creighton, of the Wesiyan univorsity, wok up the cry, having been called to make aspeech, He'read extracts from a magazine regurdiag the happiness in Kansas since the abolition of the traflic in that state, 1f not a prohibition party it was a prohibi- tion convention that gathered at Bohanan's hall, If non-partisan the same kind of talk was indulged in during the late campaign in all parts of the state by third-party prohibi- tionists. But the convention was enthusi- astic if not large, and the afternoon was put in by speech-makers, experimentalists, if you will, but some of them were rattlors. Colonel C. J. Cole, of Illinois, added his mite to the interest of the occasion. The committee on constitution reported, and a highly interesting discussion ensued. ‘The actors svread themselves, and the lis- teners cheercd as points werc made. 1t was finally decided tfiat the title of the orguniza- tion should be the Nobraska Non-Partisan Prohibition league, and the articles were changed to conform with the name. This was gall and wormwood 1o the third party- ites. They strugeled earnestly to have the word non-partisan stricken out, but 1t availed them nothinz. A prominent lady ‘was heard to say in anaudible voice, “That,s a terrible mistake.” One article of the constitution provides for tho organization of auxilury leagues in every county of the state, alsothat county leagues have authority to organize auxiliar- 1es in every school district of cach county. Persons of every age or sex can become members of any league by subscribing to the constitution and paying the sum of $L. An effort was made to prescribe membership, but it wouldn’t work. One enthusiast said he would accept the fee from Satan himself if ilh would help to down the terrors of alco- hol. ‘An effort was also made to fix the age of membership at nincteen years, This, too, was voted down. Adjournment was then taken until 7:30 o'clock this evening. To the evident disappointment of a great many people who attended the evening and concluding session of the non-partisan con- vention, who climbed the tiresome stairways of Bohanan’s hall to listen to the flights of oratory, it was decided to complete the or- ganization of the state league und adjourn sine die. Accordingly C. A. Atkiuson, of Lincoln, was clected prosident; John ' A. Dempster, of Geneva, and Mrs. Angie New- man, of Lincoln, -presidents; C. A, Robbins, of Lincoln, sceretary; Henry Hill, of Beatrice, treasul The following e: also selected : irst Congressional District—E., O. Kit- e, of Beatrice; Mrs. Jennie Holmes, of cumseh; C. I. Creighton and John M. art, of Lincoln; H. Gilkeson, of Wahoo; John Dale, of Omahba. cond Congressional District—Dr. H. P. Fitch, of Hastings: E. S. Abbot, of Crete; H. C.'Harman, of Ulysses; W. 5. Randall, of Fairfield. Third Congressional District — Thomas Darnell, of St. Paul; James Whitehead, of Redfern; Fremont Everett, of Lyons; A. C. Squires, of Thomas county. Juage Wright then addressed the conspic- uously light house, arousing considerablo en- thusiasm, and the contemplated thres days’ convention cume to an abrupt close. Not more than two hundred and fifty poople stayed to hear the judge sound the note of war. All in all the convention did not prove 10 be a crowning Success, The following were among the prominent Nebraskans in attendance at the convention : Profs. Brown and Perry, of Doune col- lege, Crete; Adjutant General Cole, Repre- sentative Whitehead, of Custer county: Editor W. 8. Randall, of the F News; Rev. Moulton, of Geneva; L. G. Hurd, of Clay tive Alexander, of Jones, of Blue Sy C! mquire, of Bedford; Representative Mc county; Dr. Fitch, of the ndent, Rev. George Scoty, of LINCOLN BUREAU or TAm OMAmA Ban, } C A, clected utive committee was irfleld aperin Hastings Indep Sution, The School Census, The school census for the past flve years has arranged an annual increase of 20,000 school children, The number of school chit- dren wultiplied by 3.2 gives the popula- tion of the state, This was veritied by tho federal census in 1850, and also by tho state census in 1885, The school census of 1530 gives a school population of 317,000. Now, using the multiple 8.2, it will be seen that the population of this state 18 approximately 1,074,000, Adaing the average annual in crease for just fivo years, the population * of the state in 1580 will reach 1,075,000, and State Superintendent Lane says it will uot vary 10,000 from the figures given. Abropos to this the state superinten roports to Auditor Benton, from the certifi- asurer Hill, made on the 21st day of May, 1589, there are now in his Lands and subject’ to apportioument, school moneys —— Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. When Dlaby was sick, we gave her Castoria. ‘When she was & Child, she eried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she elung to Castoria, Whao she had Children, she gave them Castoria which are derived as follows: Intorost on Uaitod States bonds, £300; interost on stato bonds, $13,050.00; stato tax, £00,724.80; in- torost'on county bonds, $10,344.50; interest on unpaid principal school lands, $144,211.42; leaso sohool lands, $33,031. total, 8192, . 402.78. From this, however, the premiumn and accrued intcrest on bonds purchusod, amounting t) #4,543.47, should bo deducto !, which loaves the actual amount for disburso- ment $317,619.20, Boramlin, Not Hayden, The mista are cloaring away in the sensa- tlonal arrest of Washington Scramlin, at Nobraska City, a fow dags ago, on ths in- formation that he, and no other, was Bennot Hayden the heartiess murderer of J. I Branhall, at Red Oak, In, i 1832, soven yoars ago. Sherift John Willham, of Ne- braska City, passed through Lincoln, to. lln{ en route home, accompanied by David Scramlin, of Hartwoll, Buffalo county, & brother of the unfortunate Washington, whom 80 many insist is somebody elso. David, in conversation with Tur Hes ropre- sentative, said that there is no doubt but what the man in custody at Nebraska City is {flu brother, and held without warrant of aw, “Why," said he, ‘‘my brother was serving a two years’ sontence in the Nebraska peni- tentiary when that murder in Towa was com- mitted.” “What for1" queried Tie Bee man. “Well, I don't hardly know, but I guess ho insisted, once upon a time, that he had a right to a husband's priviloges with anothor man's wife. Any way, he was tried, con- victed and sentenced for rape. But Wash- fugton wouldn't kill any one. I guess he didn’t want to confess that he had been in tho pen, and for this reason he has had a good deal of unnocessary trouble. I am go- inz to Nebraska City, and will soon clear him, and I hope he will quit living in the ground and act more like a human being.” The board of public lands and buildings mado an oficial visit ot the stato peniton- tiary to-day. It will be remembered that the legislaturoe appropriated $10,000 for the con- struction of sowerago there, and the board went out to look the ground over and settlo preliminaries for advertising contracts and letting the same. It1s remarked that the lato legislature made an appropriation of §2,000 for beautify- ine the state houso grounas, but that the board of public lands and buildings has for- gotten the fact. The grounds are full of rubbish and it would seem that they have been planted to pigweed. City News and Notes. A movement for tho arrest of Deidtrich Deirks was sworn out by Hearich Franz- moyer, to-day, charging him with assault with a deadly weapon, towit: “A revolvor loaded with bullet and powder.” The com- plaint was filed betore Judge Stewart, and the parties live in the south part of the county. The arrest will be made, to-morrow, by Sheriff Melick. By actual count 255 delegates are in at- tendance at the prohibition convention, rop- resenting the different counties of the stato. Out of ninety counties but fifty-one are rep- vesented. Lancaster county furnished 14 of the 255 delegates. T THE AFTERNOON TEA. Though for many years the bustle, like an athlete on his muscle, has maintained its place successfully in spite of gibe and jeer, Yet so hard has been the tussle that at last it has to hustle, or 'will find itself fore ever relegated to the rear. A lady is likely to have her skirts whisked about 80 that good shoes and protty stock- ings are of primary importance. An English millionaire paid 10,000 florins for the privilege of kissing the check of the fair Princess d’ Aremberg at a recent charity fair held in Vienna. Ella—How do you like Mr. Mashi Thear he called the other night. Ethel—I think he's fearfully horrid. He asked me if I could play on the piano, aud I told him that I couldn’t play much. “And what then?” “That was all.” The monarch ocean condescends To kiss & muddy shore: And oft a pretty nostril lends Its beauty to a snore, I know that all this isn't news, But it may help you when You wonder pretty women choose To marry ugly men. A new industry has heen invented by & clever English girl. She calls herself an ac- countant and auditor for large households. She finds plenty of employment in looking after the business of a few families of large expenditures whose heads have not taste for the work. HE, Nay, hold me not—I must be going; Unwind thine arms and set me free, The moments fly—I must be doing Braver deeds than kissing thee, SIE, Have then thy will—I would not bind thee “Though it were death to set thee free. Ah me! dost think that thou wilt find thee A sweeter fate than kissing meft The Baroness Gripenburg has started a woman's rights paper in Finnish called Home and Society. 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