Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 7, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ——— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dadly (Morning Rditdon) including BUNDAY BER, One Year. for §ix Months. . r Three Month OMANA SUNDAY address, Ono Year. ‘WeskLy Bex, One Y . 200 OMANA OFFiCR, Nos, 011 and 918 FARNAM STREET, HICAGO OFFIOR, 17 ROOKRRY BUILDING. #W ¥ ORK OFFiCE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUX! UILDING, WASHINGTON OFFice, No. 618 RTEENTH BTREET. CORRESPONDENCR. ATl communications relnting to news and edi- Sorial Baiter should be addressed to the EDITOR ©F THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERS 11 business lotters and rem|ttances should be dressod to Tik 1ikE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to e made payable to the order of the company. ¥ie Bee Putlishing Company, Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. ° waS 3 233 THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, » County of Douglas, }“"- George B, Tzschuck, secreta HehingCompany, dovs solemni mctual circulation of THe DAILY Ik for the week ending June 1, 1859, was as follows: Eunday, May v v Monday, May 2 0f The Ree Pub- y swear that the Wednesday, May ¥ Thursday, Say 5 7 day, May 3 3 Baturday, !Il 8,654 Average.. GEORGE B, 17 Eworn to before nie and subscribed to in my presence this 1st day of June, A. D. 1880, Senl. . P. FEIL, Notary Public, . Btate of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, { 55 George B. Tzschuck, belng duly sworn, de- 508 and says that he 1s socretary of The'liee Lublishing compny, that the ctual average dally circulation of' The Daily Bee for the month of June, 188, 19,22 coples: for July, E8K, 18,033 coples; for Augzust, 1885, 15,183 coples: for Beptember, 1984, 14,154 coples: ' for October, mmi 15,084 coples; for November, 18:8, 18,08} | 888, copies; for Decem ber, \ 18,223 coples; ‘for Junuary, 1889, 18674 coples:’ for February, 1889, 18,906 les; for Marcn, 1880, 18,854 copies; for Apri 18,660 coples; for' May, 159, 18,600 s, N0 LoDl O ST UOR, eodms. 0. iworn to before me and subscribed in my [Seal.] g;:;em‘o this 3d day of June, A. D., " N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. ANOTHER bridge across the Missouri at Omahal Stranger things than that have happened. PENNSYLVANIA votes on prohibition on the 18th inst. The result is a fore- gone conclusion. The state has too much water already. OMAHA cannot tolerate a contractor’s combine. The experience of this city last year demands that this scheme be nipped early in the bud. THE result of the school election is certain to produce beneficial results. Symptoms of economy are already no- ticeable in the management. IT is not surprising that governments should wrangle and threaten to shoot over seal-skins. Countless families have been wrecked and fortunes lost by that insidious foe of domestic peace. —————— ‘THE management of the Omaha stock- yards will find some juicy meat for di- gestion in the weekly report of western packing business. The figuresare com- mended to their earnest consideration. MONTANA will come into the union with a clean balance sheet. After a few years of statehood the record will _be treasured as a certificate of youthful _industry on a cash basis, Statebood and debt are inseparable. ‘WITH feasting and fattening on extra * allowances of government rations, it is “hardly to be expected that the Rosebud Jndians are 1n any hurry to ratify the -::reament 80 long as there is anything “¥o eat in sight. BOSTON capital has again shown its faith in Omaha realty by the recent Jarge investments of Frederick L. mes. And yet, Micawber-like, Omaha apitalists are holding their hands 1in their pockets waiting for something to turn up. THE property owner who signs for ‘wooden blocks instead of clean and dur- able stone for the sake of saving a few dollars, does that which will rise up to lague and pester him and make life a urden within five years. THE verdict of two thousand dollars swarded to the plaintiff in the suit for damages brought against the city for dnjuries sustained in falling into an un- protected trench, should be a warning to derelict contractors and city officials an charge of public wor Bur little actual progress can be ex- pected in improving the already exist- ing parks during the summer season. The park commission, however, is prop- erly making plaus for beautifying these pleasure grounds during the fall and winter 8o as to have the work well under way early next spring. A CONSOLIDATION of Utah's railroads into one corporation seems imperative in order to insure efficient service. The local roads of the territory are in a bad way. It would be to their advantage as well as 1o the interest of the territory if they were put under careful manage- ment, such as consolidation is likely to Bring about. THE school census of Nebraska shows that there are three hundred and poventy-five thousand children in the tate, or a total population of nearly eleven hundred thousand. In 1870 the population of the state was 122,093; in 2880, 452,402, and in 1885, 740,000. These figures tell the story of Ne- braska’s marvelous growth from infancy .30 robust manhood. Tue board of public works did the pight thang in claiming the forfeit money put up as an evidence of good faith by the Kansas City contractors. @ attempt of these adventurers to bulldoze the board into returning the money was the coolest specimen of gall dmported into this city for some time, Xf anything the board was too lenient in dealing with them. They were iven ample time to file their bonds and in work, but they refused to do either, and demanded the return of gheir money because they were disap- inted in railroad rates. The city hus n damaged by the delay in public works and hundreds of workmen have been kept idle by these jobbers and triflers. The board should see toitthat pperations are begun promptly on all ‘pontracts. / WHAT MAY FOLLOW. There is very great and reasonable fonr that a disastrous epldemic of typhoid fever may result from the Johnstown flood. The cities of Pitts- burg and Alleghany, with a population of three hundred and fifty thousand, drink the waters of the Alleghany river, down which corpses and debris must flow unless stopped above. The day after the flood the water of the river was thick with mud. The flood that swept through Johnstown cleaned out hundreds of cesspools. TH® contents of these, with the manure of barnyarde, the dirt from henneries and swamps, and refuse and filth of all kinds, were .carried down into the Alleghany river. In addition to -this there are the bodies of tho drowned. Some of these will, in all likelihood, be secreted among the de- bris and never be found. Hundrods of carcasses of animals of various kinds are also in the river, and these will de- cay and throw out an animal poison. When all these polluting and poisonous agoncios are considered it is obvious that the people who drink the waters of the Alloghany have good reason for so- rious apprehension. Those who live in the neighborhood of Johnstown are in still greater danger of an epidemic. If the estimates of the numbers drowned are approximately correct, there are thousands of bodies decomposing beneath the mud, many of these perhaps at nogreat distance below the surface. Correspondents have stated that the stench of the bodies of the dead which have been recovered, was almost unendurable, and it impregnated the air for miles around. The condi- tion will be much worse when the mud, covering the unfound bodies, dries and the summer sun does its work upon the decomposing remains. It would seem inevitable that for the next five or six months, or until frosts come, the atmosphere for miles around Johns- town must be heavily surcharged with the poisonous exhalations from putre- fying dead bodies, and only the most vigorously healthy can inhale this air continuously without suffering seri- ously from it. All the conditions are certainly such as to warrznt the fear that a devastating epidemic may result from the flood and add thousands of victims to the terrible list made by the Johnstown calamity. Undoubtedly whatever precautions against this, science can take will be promptiytaken, but it is to be apprehended that the very best and all that can be done will not be sufficient to wholly avert the dangor. A typhoid fever epidemic would be a fearful sequel to the most terrible calamity of modern times. NEBRASKA SUGAR BEETS. A wrong impression has obtained with some regarding the quality of sugar beets grown in Nebraska. Ac- cording to an analysis of Nebraska beets made last year by the division of chem- mistry of the department of ag riculture they contained between fifteen and six- teen per cent of sugar. Commissioner Colman said: *If beets of this quality can be grown in large quantities in your locality, it certainly would in- dicate that you have u fine soil and climate for the production of beet sugar.” There is no question with those competent to judge that in portions of Nebraska beets of equally good quality with those analyzed by the de- partment of agriculture can be grown in abundance. Mr. C. C. Hawkins, of Wellfleet, who has given a great deal of attention to the cultivation of the sugar beet, says, in a communication to THe BF “By comparison with the beets of Germany and France, it is apparent that the Ne- braska sugar beets are vastly superior. The beets raised in Nebraska yield fifteen and sixteen per cent of sugar, while the beets raised in Ger- many and France yield only eight and nine per cent.” He alsosays: “*The sugar beet requires a light sandy loam, soil that will not bake, and that is very porous; too much moisture is detrimen- tal to the quality of the beet. It will wot grow in a wet, soggy soil. The beauty of the soil in western and parts of eastern Nebraska, is that the rain never remains on the ground. It quickly drains, and the moisture is absorbed for future use. This is why better crops are raised with less rain in this state than in Towa or any of the states east of the Missouri river, and the soi being more porous can stand more moisture without detriment to the crops.” Two companies have been formed in Nebraska for the manufacture of beet sugar. The machinery for the com- pany at Grand Island is now being pur- chased in Germany, and the Wellfleet company will begin the refinery in the autumn. The men who have in- vested in these enterprises have the fullest confidence in being able to ob- tain an ample supply of beets of excel- lent quality. The experiment merits hearty encouragement. THE NATIONAL FINANCES. The statement of treasury operations for the mouth of May shows some things of interest. There is a steady, though gradual, growth of the surplus. Silver continues to accumulate in the trousury vaults, bond purchasesdecline, the rev- enues of the government are shown to be larger than last year, and theve has been little decrease made in the amount of the deposits of public money with the banks, The increase of the surplus during May was two and a half mill- ion dollars, but the aggregate is still less than at the begiu- ning of the year., The revenues for the month were more than three million dollars in excess of the correspouding: month last year, and the indications are that for the fiscal year ending June 30 the revenues of the government will exceed those of last year oy yuite teu willion dolla These facts supply texts that onght to interest economists and statesmen. One in particular, the stoady increase of the surplus, suggests that the deain being made upon the people at atime when the industrics and trade of the country are depressed calls for alleviation. There are very few interests which are making any money, aud the outlook for the most encouraging character. There isno marked indication that the situa- tion will become worse, but on the other hand there is no great promise of im- provement. Under such circumstances the continued piling up of money in the treasury is oppressive. Of course thero is nothing to be done now, but when congress returns to the consideration of the question of reducing taxation the situation of the treasury and of the country should receive its very careful attontion. Tt is not possible to justify the accumulation of a vast surplus even when the country is in the highest state of prosperity, and the matter becomes far more serious when excessive reve- nues are taken from the people at a time of general depression, That there must be relief in this respect is obvious. The continued accumulation of silver in the vaults of the treasury presents a question that cong will be called upon to give early attention to. The comnage of the present year will be about thirty-two million dol- lars, and thus far not a dollar of it has gone into the circulation. The big vault constructed under the treasury to accommodate the silver hoard is now practically filled, and additional pro- vision will soon have to be made for storing the increasing supply of silver dollars, Treasurer Huston is reported to be opposed to an increase of silver coinage, and it scoms probable that this will be found to be the attitude of the administration. The troas- urer, however, is not unfavor- able to increased purchasos of silver bullion. He is reported as saying thatif the goverment was com- pelled to purchase the maximum amount of silver bullion allowed by the Bland act, four million dollars a month, he had no objection so long as the silver purchased would remain in ingots, and be stored in that shape. He was not prepared to say that he thought the government ought not to increase its purchases of silver, and could see good reasons for its doing so, but he is not favorable to increasing the coinage. The significance of Treasurer Huston’s attitude in this matteris the fact that he is in inti- mate relations with the president and will probably have as much influence with him as any other member of the administration THE total cost of the Canadian Pa- cific is snid to have been one hundred and sixty-five millions. It has been enviched by the Dominion government with subsidies of one kind or another to the value of two hundred and fifteen millions. While at first blush this may seem a bonanza to thay railroad, per- mitting it to make serious inroads upon trade rightfully belonging to American lines, it 1s well to keep in mind that the people of Canada ara taxed for these largesses, and will be obliged to make good every dollar lost by the reclkless- noss of the Canadian Pacific. The pol- icy of the Dominion government ap- pears to be to rob Peter to pay Paul. But this sort of thing can not go on forever. Some day the patient Cann- dian taxpayer will rofuse longer to carry this increasing burden, and the bubble of the Canadian Pacific’s suc- cess will be prick Tig assertion that Fort Omaha can not be enlarged is a malicious fabrica- tion. The late legislature granted the government the right of eminent do- main, and it can at any time exercise that right in Douglas, Washington or Suipy counties. If congress repeals the law authorizing the removal, the gov- ernment can condemn as much land as is necessary surrounding the fort, and enlarge and improve it to the extent of the money appropriated. There is plenty of desirable land in the vicinity, and a sufficient amount of it can be added to the present reservation to make it sufficient for all military needs, and certainly for the money required to purchase the Bellevue site. The ele- gant buildings, the grateful shade, and the magnificent parnde ground are a protest against removal. Tre Hampton (Va.) Normal and Agricultural institute is contributing much toward solving the negro problem in that section. It begins at the founda- t1on of industry and good citizenship by teaching pupils how to edrn their own living, and practices what it teaches. ‘Within a few years four hundred and fitty pupils have earned nearly fifty thousand dollars in various work con- nected with the institute. The success of this plan demonstrates anow the value of industrial education. In this wstance the allowauce for work done proves a great incentive to the pupils, giving them an early experience in the practical side of life, and making them strong in character and example, influential in duties are now so high on n lard containing cotton seed oil, that the commodity is practically shut out of the country, France by tak- ing this action followed England, Ger- many, Cannda and Mexico to protect her people from the consumption of adulterated food, The effect of this ex- clusion in one sense can not but be salu- tary. It will bring the American pork packer and lard reliner to his senses as fur, at loast, as the foreign trade is con- cerned, The danger is, however, that the homo market wiil be flonded with the whole stock of inferior and delete- rious compounds, while the foreigner will enjoy the pure article. Tre good people of West Farnam street are in the position of the man who locked his barn door after his horse was stolen. After a lupse of two years they propose to bring suit against the contractors who laid the wooden pave- ment of that street on the ground that the blocks were rotten at the time they wore laid. They are likely, however, to extract very littlo satisfaction at this lute day, and haye themselves on blame for not heeding the warnings to udiate wooden pavements. The lesson, however, should not be lost on taxpayers and property owners whose streots ave to be paved this season, ’ Wirl two committees of the United 1 Buates sonate enguged in the investiga- the immediate future is by no meuns o!l tion of the relations of the United States with Canada, considerable light is being thrown upon the various problems, particularly the Canadian railroads and fishories, affecting our in- terests. The administration is, there- fore. likely to await the report of these commissions before committing itself to a fixed policy in doaling with interna- tional questions. The senators now en- gaged in the task have consequently a grave duty to perform. EEeea———— At the fiest appeal for aid from the Conemaugh disaster James Gordon Bennett cabled a subscription to Mayor Grant of New York of ten thousand doliars. Mr. D. B. King sent his chock for one thousand dollars and offered to send to Johnstown nt his own expense an engineer and a thousand workmen to aid in the k of clearing away the debris. With all her faults New York has hor generous citizens who can well afford to make princely contributions when occasion demands it, and are al- ways among the ficst to help suffering humanity, T drift of business on upper Par- nam is a perplexing conundrum to the mossbucks, The explanation is fur- nished 1 the enterprise of property owners, who build magnificent blocks with all modern conveniences for the transaction of business. The own- ers of the shoddy structures which dis- grace the present business center of the street will learn when it is too late that they cannot retain their advantages with fire traps and one and two-story shanties. S Investigate the Dim» Museums. Buffalo Express. Still rarer than a day in June wump about these day: —_——— Life is Still Wor th Living. Washington Press, If this country were half as wicked as the pessimistic mugs paint it, sheol would be a shut-up shop. is & mug- e A Museums Don't Get *, Boston Herald. The engagement of the heroine of the re cent Chicago divorce case ns o theatrical star shows that the dime muse are not yet monopolizing ull the monstrosities which the country produc Tm All. g i Groping For a Hypothesis. Courier-Tournal, Mr. Clendenning, of Pennsylvania, who is Just dead at the age of 101 yoars, never used in any form. He must have been born extremoly healthy to have lived 0 long, ut least without tobaceo. el Vi) Prudence and £hilanthropy. Philadtohige Press. Mr. George W.Childs, whose remins- cences in Lippincott's aro so interesting, does not mention in-them his habitual pr: tice of not giving letters or ¢-vds of intro- duction to people. 1 rarcly, very rarely, do it, uudllmvur!}u v name to a blank paper or anythin; ch I do not myself write. This is necessitated by the number of uses the signature of any well known or wealthy man can be put to,”” said he recently, when asled for o letter to one of his intimates. -—— It Appealed to AllL Ciristiaw Intelligencer. An lowa farmer, who balieved in tworstrings to his bow, put ap in his s sign having garden BOYS, DON'T TOUCH THESE 2 MELONS, FOR THEY ARE GREEN AND GOD SEES You. Things arc looking up just now on upper Farnam. Owing to the absorbing sensations of the pust fow days every paper in Omaha neg- lected to mention the fact that the shotgun campaiga was a dog-gone good thing. Stund from under. Another bridge is ma- torializing. And now it is S, P. Morse who is moving toward E—th and F—m. Great men always gravitate toward the heights. From reports which are rifeit appears that Mr. Frederick L. Ames' visit to Omaha means more hervy investmonts here. —~— NEWS COMMENT. Ludwig Vonhinkelsteinhauserbloser is a Cmemnati man, Ludwig should marry. He has name enough for two. 1f Denver people don't stop killing them- selves the place will soon be as dead us S—t L—s. According to a New York young man who was cut down while trying to make his exit by the rope route, hungng is a pleasant sen- sation. It is to be hoped, however, that this form of amusement will not become a fad. Assistant Postmaster-General Clarkson is beating the carpets in his ofiice, and fourth ctass democratic postmasters tremble as they { hear the sound five hundred miles away. A meeting of Kilkenny cats is harmonious compared with the recent conferences held in Chicago by the general freight agents of western railroads, The Italian government is alarmed at the proportionsof emigrations from that country, and wiil adopt stringent measures to check it The remarkable inducements held out by the Argentine Republic to foster immigra- tion has drawn to that, country within the past few years an unprecedented number of immigrants. On good - authority it is stated that no less than thrge hun and sevenuy- five thousand will be added L) the population this year. This is awecord surpussed by thau of the United Stdfes 'slone. Under this steady pressure of fncréased numbers the public lands are being rapidly taken up, and ren! estate values ave rising. Of all coun- tries of South Americd the Argentine Ro- public resembies th¢ Unifted States in char- acter, enterprise and progress, The infusion of new blood can not fail to bear a lasting impression upon thal colintry. With its un- bounded natural resources, its skilled indus- tries and energetic population a bright fature is 10 store for the ATgemine Republic, whose friendship and trade the United States could well cultivate. L L THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY, J. R. Sovereign, editor of the Industrial West, and state master workman of the lowa Koights of Labor, is making a tour of the state. In Massachusetts, according to the census of 1885, boots and shoes, building, clothing, cotton goods, machinery, wetals and woolen fabrics employed 271,421 persous, or 6575 per cent of all engaged in factory work, There were 99,746 persous employed in making tex- tiles, of whom 40,310 were women. Nearly onc-eighth of the persons ongaged in manu- factures sere unnaturalized foreigners. Of this number 11,433 are suld to be illiterate, Ve decreaso of child labor within the ten years his boeu very murked. The average size of families in the state ia\increasing, the gain, however, bemg almost wholly with mothers of foreign birth. English letter in American Manufacturer: 1t is stated that there is already a scarcity of puddlers, and that this scarcity will be- come more marked later on. In the Shef- field and Rotherham district under-hands can not be obtained-~the men alleging that the work is too hard and the hours too long for the wages given. Many men appear to have left the trade altogether and will not return. The Philadelphia Roal Estate Record says: "'The building record for the present year ia Philadelphia—barring, of courso, any finan- cial or business disturbance not anticipated at the present timo—will certainly ectipse that of any previous year in the history of the city.” It says the prohibition oloction incident is keeping money hid and delaying operations, Alexundrin (Va.) Gazotte: The material prosperity of the south doesn’t compara with that it enjoyed thirty years ago; the vigorous life apparent in a few isolated loealities in the south is derived from tho southern fathers of the men who manifest it; and the influences which refine and clevate human existence have always been potential 1 the south, Newark (N. J.) bakers now work ten hours per day and twelve on Saturday. Some Brooklyu men have gamed the demand for eleven hours and thirteen ‘on Saturday. Olio farmers will organizo to got 10 cents per gallon for milk in summer ana 15 during the winter. The dealers sell milk in Cleve- land for 5 and 6 cents during the summer and 6 and 7 the rest of the year, New Orleans bricklay old scale—; St. Louis barbers get half of their receipts for wages “Topeka, Ko of eleatric ra Minnesota pays 81 per bushel for grass- hopver egas. Southern textile manufacturors have or- gavnized. Pittsburg bricklayers get & hours. Buffalo bricklayers get $3 for nine hours. Palace Car Pullman cmploys over eight thousand men. Des Moines tatks of a trades university. California sent 8,500,000 to Europe last year. ‘Woonsocket French Canaaians will run a co-operative cotton mill. Laconia, N. H., claims to lead the east in woolen hosiery manufacture. Cotton sced, which used to be thrown away, now makes 25,000,000 gallons of oil yearly. ‘The Cincinnati Post says the wages of the 1,100 girl shoe workers there have been cut 50 per cent in a year. rs will work for the rents. - ads with soventeen miles for nine pounds of honoy - STATE JOTTINGS. Nebrasga. Fifty divines attended the district con- vention of the M. E. conference at Ponca. The York Butter and Cheese association has closed the contract for the necvssary plant, to cost $1,500. unty Judge J. M. Hiatt, of Orleans, has med and his place has been filled by G. 1. Beall, of Alma. Dixon county farmers are confident that they will harvest the best crop this fall that has been secured for a good many seasons. The citizens of Tekamah want water works and the city council will be asked to call an election 1o vote the necessary funds. A Hastings lady whose husband has lost all his money at the gaming tavle has cansed the arrest of ‘two gamblers who won the money. The employes of the Dempster Manufac- turing company, at Beatri ¢ orgunized o mutual insurance association, covering sickness, accidents and de: A farmer who has been a son county for seventeen years reports that in that tiine corn has ne been so far ad- vanced at this season of the year, Lightning roa peddlers have been working the old games on the farmers of Butler county and have added a few variations, re- sulting in their reaping a good harvest. ‘The citizens of Palmer hell a meeting Wednesday for the purpose of arranging i Fourti of July celebration, but changed their minds and concluded to send the funds raised 10 the Johustown suffercrs. The wife of Bill Owens, a worthless Plattsmouth man, who left him because he abused her and started for the home of her parents in Ohio, died on the train while en- route. Owens is thought to be going mad, The natural gas entervrise in Hastings is still alive und arly ready to commeunce boring. The officers of the company have closed a contract with a firm in Stillwater, Minn , to dig the well. and the parties are ident of John- expected in a few gays with all the neces- sary apparatus for the business. The Dixon County Agricultural society has decided upon Septemiber 24, 25, 26 und 27 as che date for the holding o he annual county fair. ‘The socicty announces that the usual balloon ascensions and such other at- tractions will bo done away with, and new feutures introduced, The ‘secoud’ day will be known as old sottlers day, and will bo ob- served by an ox roast and big duner, Tho stone walls for the foundation of the Sisters o Visitation academny, at Hastings, huve been completed and 4 large force of workmen has begun laying brick. The front walls will be of pressed brick of Hastings manufacture, and more than a million brick will be required in the construction of the building. Myron Van Fleet, a prominent citizen of Hastings, bad his' foot accidently caught and wrenched severely by one of the traces while driving a horse recently. The injury was supposed to ba slight at the time, ~but the surgeon has found a displacement of the ankle bones that will require some time, after being adjusted, for nature to repair, Towa 1tems. Burlington is paving with brick, James C. Patterson, a promment hotel man at Keokulk, is dead. Montrose offers a bonus to socure a can- ning factory and a flouring mill. Preston people rate saloon koeepers and drug store proprietors about the same, Four are in trouble, The annual meeting of the Central lowa Trotting circuit will be held at~ Des Moines June 18, 19 and 20. Mrs. Burnet, a citizen of Onawa, got a di- vorce from her husband at the last term of court on the grounds of desertion, and i less than three weeks she married him over again, Dubuaue and Des Moines are indirectly affected by the Pennsylvauia flood. Both cities are extending their street railways and the iron to be used has been ordered from the works destroyed by the Johnstown catastrophe, A purse of $100 has been presented to Andy and Sam Jones, tho Henderson county boys who braved the storm and went to the rescue of the passengers on tho ill-fated steamer Eyerett, that was capsized in the Mississippi a short distance above Luriington not loug sice. Rev. C. P. Williams, chaplain of the peni tentiary at Fort Madison, says oard ploying, awbling and the theaterare the most potent ‘actors in the devzlopment of criminals, and along with the social dauce can account for a large per ceut of the inmutes of our jails and penitentiaries. The report of the penitentiary at Fort Madison for May shows an average of 884 conyiets, ‘Tne report of the lowi Idiers' bome at Marshalltown shows 374 inmates during the same month, That of the Towa Orphans' home at Davenport shows an ayer. agefor the wonth of eighty-three soldiers’ orphans and 238 other orphans. ; - e A Minister's Misfortune. Yamktox, Dak., June 0.—|Special Tele- gram to Tax Bue |—Rev. u.ll: F.'zr'::hy; pastor of the (ongregation ol 0! lYunkwu. was thrown from his buggy this, moruln:‘ oa the Nebraska side, nsar Yank- brokeu, h?nd"v.‘:‘ otherwise MONEY MAKING MEYER MIXED LaxcoLy, June 6, It has just come 10 light that Counciiman Louie Meyer is a veritablo all-around man, and it looks strongly as though seif-aggran- dizement has beon his soie object in private as well as public life. Apropos of the public smirching he is receiving at the hands of the councilmanic investigating committee, comes one to inquire into his private business af- fairs that will lay tho tirst in the shades of obscurity. One Barry, an old-time expressman of Lincoln, had, when the memorable ' boom struck the city, several acres of land adjoin- ing Lincoln, which ho sold, and realized a good many thousand - dollars therefrom, During Barry’s somewhat eventful business carcer he became acquainted with Louie Moyer. It seems that Barry mado this all- around business man his “financial agent, and it transpires that he has become an im: becile intellectually and his wifo a confirmed inebriate. Both are incapablo of business whatever, Meyer in his possession, it 18 said, ail the valuablo pavers and notes and mortgages of this do- crepit old couple, and at the same time has a larze amount of charges and claims against this property for goods furnished them. His accounts aré said to show large claims for beer furnishad to them from month to month, ageregating a sum way up into the thousands, Barry's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Gordon, of Portiand, Ore., ar- rived here a short time since and called upon Mr. Meyer and demanded an accounting of the funds and valuable papers in his hand, whichut this hour has not_been compli vi At the meeting Mr. Gordon severely ised Meyer for having furnished his wife's father and mother with the beer, and also for urging upon the infirm couple a trip to Ircland, their birthplace. Proceedings in the courts will be begun at once by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon to have the aged couplie placed in charge of a guardian, and to sce that the old peoplo_aro properly cared for. Some rich developments are expected in Moyer's charges and claims against the estate. The poor old couple are indeed to be pitied, and they now have the sympathy of their neighbors and fricnds. Barry has a son who_is prominent among raiiroad men. Lettors have been re- ceived from him concerning this matter by Mr. Gordon, in which he says proceed with this matter at once and see that justice is done to the old folks, and he will stand by him to the end. Mr. Gordon also says that Meyer has urged upon Mr. und Mrs. Barry large amounts of goods that they had no earthly use for, and for no other purpose on earth than to run up an unreasonable account against the estate. Ho 1s very indignant, and says the courts shall ventilate the matter for all it is worth, Tried the Smicide Route. Charlie Fox, one of Lincoln's fast young nen, trica to shuflle off this mortal coil last night at Carder’s hotel. For a time Charlie was employed in Ewing’s clothing store, and was regarded as onc of the good boys of earth, but habits of dissipatiou fettered him and he commenced the downward climb, During the past few weeks he has been sell- ing patent medicines from house to house, and occasionally gave way to despondency. Yesterday he purchased some morphine, and on retiring took a very large dose. For- tunately, however, his brother, who is the night clerk at Carder’s, discovered his con- dition, and a physician was called and reme- dies given to arouse him from a deathly stupor. Success finally crowned the efforts of aitendunts, and this morning he was past all danger. Charlie, h refuses to give any reason for his t, and his friends r that he will another at- tempt upon his life and propose to keep him 1020 P Streer, } husband and lrunm\clln? any has wife under close surveillanc Besides the brother mentioned, arley has no relatives in this t of the countr Barring his dis- sipated habits he is generally regarded a likely young man, and an effort will oe made 10 secure his reformation and a better state of mind. A Lincoln Boy Shot. Mrs. George Bostater received a telegram this afternoon from Coroner Anderson, of Castle Rock, Col., announcing that William E. Reese had shot himself and asking what Qisposition should be made of the body. The purticulars of the shooting were not given and it1s not known whether it was a suicide or an accident. Undertaker Heaton tele- graphoed an answer for Mrs. Bostater, tho mother of the young man, authorizing his body to be sent here at once. Young Reeso left Lincoln last Monday and did not apprise In Private Deals of a Very Peculiar Oharacter, ANOTHER SENSATIONAL STORY. The Courts Will Air It—Sccretary Garber Writes the Union Pa« cific Folks a Pointed Letter —~News Notes. LINCOLN BURPAU OF TR OMA®A 13nn, his folks that he was going. They did nod know that ho had left the city until the tele- gram was rocoived. Ho was seventoen years of ago and has made his home with his aunt, Mrs. T, P. Quick, sinco the doath of her husband. Flo ‘was’ employed for a time in tho Missouri Pacific ticket offico and later 1 Heorpolsheimer’s storo, whero he quit be- cause, 8 ho said, the salary was too small. The remains will probably arrive hore on the morning train, Notarial Appointments, Tho governor to-day made the followinz notarial appointmonts: Duncan M. Forgan, Alliance, Box Butte county; William 8. Redman, Morna, Custer county; Charles H. Silkworth, Omaha, Douglas county; H. A. Babcock, Lincoln, Lancaster county; B. A Bourne, Nebraska City, Nomaha county: A. M. Robbins, Ord, Valley county; M. M, Gote ter, Ord, Valiey county. Ante, Or Give the Reason Why. Since the hearing of the Sutherland-Man~ ning complaints at Tekamah the board of secretaries has had a good deal of trouble to socure the needed information from the Union Pacifio people, which the following lettor will explicitly explain. Tho board is bent on having the information, or will know the reason why: LixcorN, Neb. Kelly, June 5, 18%0.—W. R. Altornoy Union Pacitic Railway, Omaha.—Dear Sir: I begto enclose herc- with copy of a letter, dated April 22, 1880, te your people requesting certain information also copy of a letter similarly addressed, and aated May 15, sont as a tracer of the fors mor one. This ofico has been do- nied common courtesy respocting tliese communications, Neither acknowledgment of their receipt, or answer to their requests has been received here, The information was requested in an ine formal way, not because it was doemed un- important, or bocause it was only personal desire of one of the secrotaries, but bocause the writer deemed the interests of all con- cerned best subserved by amicable and and unrestricted intercourse between the com- mission and_railway oficials. If your peo- plo are of a different mind, I should like to be informed of it now, and will be guided ao- cordingly in the future, The coul statement was wanted. Compils g the statément from ordinary railway ao- counts is not partioularly burdensome. All other companies iu the stato cheerfully and promptly complied with a similar request, V;/é! want the statement from the Union Pa~ cifie. 1f it can only be had by invoking the ald of our courts, with all the attendant pub= Jicity, why, then it will be bad in that way, books will be produced in evidence of why the information is not forthcoming, I sincerely trust that intercourse necessary between the working force of the board of transportation and Union Pacific officials may be in no way uupleasant. Ican assure you of the oxistenco of & disposition on th@ part of the sccretaries here, to ask of the railroad people uothing unreasonable or an-~ necessary, but only that which pormits the discharge'of duty, - Yours truly, W. 8. GanbER" City News and Notes. The case of Lavina Fostor, Mary A. Mo Kee and sixty-one others vs James Devinney and Robert Frost has been filed in the su- preme court for trial, on error from the district court of Johnson county. This is one of that cou nty's celebrated liquor cases. The case of Marshal M. Barney vs Joseph Brinkham, on error from Iearney couaty, ‘was also filed for trial. The bank examiners, Messrs. McNaugh- ton, Brink and Sanders, ar in_the city to- day preparing blanks for the report of bankers, and also blanks to facilitate in ex- aminations. John Brown, sheriff of Cedar county, was here to day to commit Albert E. McCoy to the state penitentiary to serve a torm of two years for cattle stealing. This commitmient raises the number of convicts in the state pen to 877. Henry Johnson, a one-eyed colored youth, twenty years of ago. was arrested to-day on the complaint of Ella Bdrns, also colored, charging him with seduction. Ella is a half- witted girl, and the case on the surface is peculiarly aggravating. The case will be heard before Judge Stewart. The county board of equaliza- tion will meet at the office of the county clerk on next Tuesday and re- main in session twenty days, to satisfy any claim county tax payers may bring forward for adjustmount or equalization, Dietrich Deirks, charged with felonious assault on Heury Franzmeyer, was brought in from Olive Branch precinct this afternoon by an under sheriff. He asked and secured a continuance until the 14th. Mrs. Ann Houser, who was arrcstod yes- terday by the police on complaint of Lulu Henry, who charged that she had sworn to kill her, was again arrestod to-day on a war- rant issued frow the county court. On ar- raignment this afternoon before Jnd(r'e Stew- art she entered the plea of not guilty, an her trial was set for L0-mOrrow morning av o'clock. The Fedawa will contest still takes up the time of Judge Field and a jury in the district court. Mrs. Margarct Fedawa was on the stand nearly all day. The case is certainly a remarkable one. ~ While involving large in- terests it has been tried without a single jar, the sole object seeming to_be a thorough and searching investigation. It is quite probable that the case will be given to the jury soi tune to-morrow. 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Ask for “Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting ite Copyright, 1886, by Procler & Gesable