Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 28, 1889, Page 4

BEE: FRIDAY . THE DAILY - P e ISHED EVERY MORNING, —e TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION, D nily (Morning Rdition) including Sunday Teo, Ofte YOAT......... w0 Forsix Months ForThres Montid e Omalin Sunday Address. One Year. ... 200 Weekly 1fee, One Year oy Poam Omann Ocs, Nee buliding, N. W, Corner Seventeenth and FArnam Streats. Cnicago Office, 57 Hookery Building. New York ( Rooms 14 and 15 Tribume Boilding, Washington Office, No. 513 Four- Tecnth Streot, CORRESPONDENCE, 1| communications relating to news and edi. torinlTomtret AhoUIA Do addressed to the Rditor tho liee o BUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and_remittances shotiid ‘be addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omahn irafts, echecks and postoftice orders to Demade pAYADIA 10 the order of the company. The Bee Pablisking Company, Proprietors. E. lF(‘SIiW:\’l‘HIl. Editor, i A THE lD)ul.Y BEK. Sworn Statement ot OCirculation. tate of Nobraska, !('»um;» of Douglas, }“ o 0 e, mailed to any orge It, Tzschuck, secretary ot The e Pub- £Company, does solemnly swear that the Icirenlation of Tne DAILY BEE for the week ending June 224, 1550, was as follows: 1 W) 1 Eundny, June 16, 8 M@ day, June 17 . Tuesaav, June 18, .. Wedneeday, June 10 Thuraday, June 2 Average......... G TZECHUCK, Eworn to hefors me_and snbscribed to in my DIesence this 220 day of June, A. D, 18, FEIL, Notary Publie. Stato of Nebraskn, | County of liouglas, | % George . Tzschuck, being duly sworn, oses and says that ho Is secretary of The I3 bublishing company, that the actual average delly circulation o' Tiie Duily llec for, tho month of June, 1865, 19,242 coples: for July, JEBR, 18,033 copies; for August, 1885, 18,183 coples for Feptomber, 1488, 18,154 coples: ' for October T8, 18484 coples; 'for November, 188, 15,93} copies: tor December, [88% 18,293 coples: for Junuary, 1880, 18,574 coples:’ for v, 183, 96 coples: ‘for Maren, 1 April, 1880, 18,50 cople: copl S eal.] D! 1 jed in my sence this #d day of June. A. 4 Notary Publ THE county hospital has hecome a chronic sore and the county surgeons lack the nerve to apply tho knife. EE—— TRUSTS are coming to the front with amighty bound. A rubber shoe trust is the latest fl eece-lined scheme to tor- ture men’s soles and purses. SouTi CAROLINA is fl Australian plan of voting. systom would be an tissue ballots and false counts. ng with the Almost any . IF sOME people are di to ques- tion Meyers’ ability as an architect, all must agree that his peviodical bills are perfection in size, design and finish. IF THE railroad managers wili join hands with the development association in its effort to induce an influxof thrifty settlers and foreign capital from the east, there would be no question as to the outcome. TWo hundred and fifty dollars a month rent for the tumble-down poor- house is rather steep. The old rookery wouldn’t rent for seventy-five dollurs a month, even for a road-house. 1T WILL be time enough to consider the rejuvenated cowshed scheme when the Union Pacific submits plans and specifications of the terms on which it will permit eastern roads to enier the city with unbroken trains. THE alien labor law goes into effect in Illinois July 1. After that date no aliens can be employed on state or mu- nicipal public works. Ina few months the law will be numbered among the dead statutes of the state. TurE Flathead Indians are nursing a huge boil, which may requirea poultice of government lead to reduce. If they &ro anxious to explore the happy hunt- ing grounds they can not devise a more effective method than train wrecking. St—— Trre collapse of a large land improve- ment ana electric motor company for three-quarters of a million at St. Paul, Minn., isa sad example of a syndicate banking on the favors of o fickle ecity council for a right of way through tho sureets of that city. THE inter-stato commerce railway as- sociation refuses to allow the St. Josoph & Grand Island to meet the grain rate of the Iremont, Blkhorn & Missouri Valley from points in Nebraska to St. Paul, on the ground that a ‘‘goat’s- horn” route has no right to compete with a direct route. It is now in order for the “‘goat-horn” to buck vigorousiy against the ruling. Tix Ohio republican platform is not # particularly suggestive enunciation of principles. It speaks out unequivo- cally for protection, which it was ex- pected to do. Not even the republicans of Pennsylvania are more devoted to the policy of maintaining the war tariff than are those of Ohio, and it was well understood that they intended to make their fight this yoar on the issue of pro- teotion. Beyond this the platform con- tains little invitng comment. The re- sult of fighting over the tariff battle in Ohio may have some influence on the next congress, but this will depend n good deal upon the attitude of the dem- ocratic party in thut state on the sub- jeet. PLANS for the building of an exten- sive beef and pork packing establishe ment have been perfectea at Minneap- olis, and if the plant be erocted, ai endeavor will be made to supply all the meat necessary for consumption in that state. The enterprise shows the hollowness upon which the local inspaction beef bill in Minuesota was euvacted. It was en- acted on the ground that the public health was endangered by the use of packed dressed beof., It seems inecon- sistent, therefore, that Minuneapolis should now propose to engage in the very business which the laws of the state frown uvon. However, there is grim consolation in this fact, If Min- nosota will not eat dvessed beol pro- pared in Nobraska and elsewhere, sho will at loast be obliged to patronize more liberally tho siock markets of northern Nebraska, to the benetit of our furmers. improvement ou rorirres 1 fowa, Politieni affairs in Towa are becoming interesting, and are attracting atten- tion beyond the boundaries of that state. From all reports there apvears to be adivision among republicans upon the two vital issues of the railway ques- tion and prohibition, but more particu- larly upon the former. It is represented that Senator Allison, who has been in conference with lending republicans of the state, counsels o less radical poliey than has been pursued with respect to the railroads, while Governor Larrabee insists that tho policy which has been adopted is wiso, and should Dbe dhered to. In a recent interview the governor sald the johbers and shippers of Towa are genorally sntisfied with the rates, the cxprossions of dis- satisfuction coming largely from those who enjoved special rates before the present low tariff took efTact. “No backward stop should be taken,” said the governor, “‘and wo should not per- mit any equivoention by our pubiic ofti- cors who have to deal with railroad questions.” Tt is entively probable that this voices the sentimons of a large majority of Towa vepublicans, yet under the pressure of growing complaints from business sources that thoir interests are suffering in consequence of the retalin- tory attitude of the Iroads the moder: ate views of Senator Alhson and others are not unlikely to have some weight. Atany rate the indications are that thore will ba somothing of a struggle to detsrmine whether the party shall tako a backward step on the railway question oradhere to the position it has takon, with the chances in favor of the latter. As to prohibition, it is not quostionable that the number of republicans who are hoeartily tired of it, on practieal grounds, is steadily increaging, but th re still greatly in the minority, s0 that no change at present in the attitude of the party on this question is to be expected. The vepublicans of Tos abun dant materinl from which to seleet o candidate for governor, there being at least half a dozen aspirants, Very lit- tle is said regarding democratic plany S The former will doubt- usual, be determined upon after ns have announced thew icy, while as to the prospects vhere s n to oxpect a different result this year from that of past years. SIMON CAMERON. There was in the cavcer of the late Simon Cameron muct for the emula- tion of American yonth. Whatover faults he may have had a politician, in private life and in business, his recti~ tude was ncver questioned. Amoug what are called self-made men, none was more distinctively than he the architect of his own fortune. Orphaned at the age of seven, he rose from poverty 10 great wealth by industry and honest means, With no other educational ad- vantages than those afiorded by the printing ofice, he graw to be sought after and honored in the councils of the greatest polit- ical leaders of his time, and Lo ex an influence as potent “and as aching as any of them. liven those who differed with him politically were compelled to respect his vigor of his patviotism, hs large lib- 3 ndliness of heart, his de- to his friends, and his unfailing gratitude to thosc who had befriended him in his youth,extended even to their posterity. Those who knew most of Mr. Cameron sponk of him as having been, in all the relations of lifs most genial man, ever ready to forgive and forget, while his generosity was great and widely extended. What better or nobler epitaph could any man desire as the record of ninety years of most active and usefullife. It was a remarkable career which Simon Cameron volunta- rily ended, so far as its public relations were concerned, a dozen years ago, and now that he is dead all men may con- scientiously vender to his character as a man and citizen the tribute of sincere spect. ANOTHER SENATORIAL TOUR. There is promise of an unusual amount of special information for the attention of the United States senate from the numerous committees of that body en- gaged in investigations. Committees have been studying our commereial and railway relations with Canada, another is to investigate the question of irriga- tion, and still another1s to examine into the condition of Indian tribes along the northern border of the United States, This last committee, of which Senutor Dawes is chairman, will start for the® scene of its labors and pleas- ures next Monday, going first to Port Townsend, Washington tevritory, whence it will proceed by government steamer to Alaska, The resolution of the senate direct- ing this investigation authorizes the committee to examine into the condi tion of all the northern tribes, espec- ially the Indians on the White Barth reservation in Minnesota. It is also to investigate the conduct of the Indian agents and their subordinates and em- ployes at any of the agencies in that quarter, with a view to ascertaining whether any of them have neglected their duties or have abused their au- thority in their dealings with the [n- dians,and examine into the disteibution of anuuitics or other appropriations, made for the benefit of the Indiun tribes, by said agents, Thoere was good reason for directing this investigation. Ior several years there have boen numerous complaints that tho Indian teibes in the northwest were not boing justly dealt with by the agents, that they were being deprivel of a part of the provision made for them by the government, and that theageuts were enriching themselves at the ex- pense of the Indiaus. A number of well-authenticated cases of this kind were brought to the attention of the interior department under the last administration, but owing to the in- difference and generally loose manage- ment of the prodecessor of the present commissioner very little attention was paid to charges of delinguency on the part of Tndian agents. It is notori- ous that many of the agents appointed under the last administration were men totdlly unfit for this service, and it was to huve been expected that they would take every advantage of their oppor- tunity to despoil both the Tndians and the government, That a great deal of rasoality will be brought to light if the sonato committee shall make its investigation thorough, whioh it1s fully empowered to do, there can be no doubt, and it is als o to bo expected that the inquiry will result in suggesting reforms in the Indian service that will be to the material advantage of the government and the Indians. There is undoubtedly neoded a oloser super- vision of agents than is now had, and perhaps thoy should also be allowed fewer privilogos than they now onjoy. But the prime nocossity is that only such mon shall be appointed to this sor- viea as have an established chavacter for intogrity which may rensonably be expected to resist the temptation to unduly profit by it, and hitherto there has not boen sufficiont care to solect such mon. LEL HIM PROCEED. “Honest” Jim Creighton has been nosing around the assessment rolls in the county court house with the avowed purpose of lodging complaint against ‘The Beo Building company and urging the county commissioners to raise the assessmont on Tie Bee building. This is in accord with the eternal fitness of things. Rotten Pavement Jim has spent about half of his time every year in beseiging the commissionersand eity council to cut down his own assessmonts, which have always been way below that of his neighbors. A man with his record as a tax- shivker and raider upon taxpaying citizens who have been imposed on by his paving jobs is the proper person to complain about low valuation of the proporty helonging to othoer tax-payers. Tk Bek building this spring on tho same bas always heen adopted in the assessment of untinished and unproductive build- ings. No favor has been extended to its owners in placing them on an equal footing to assessment with foreign corporations like the New York Life,or resident corporations like the First Na- tional, Merchants’ National and other banks while their buildings were under constroction, Let Rotten Pavement all means file his protest against Tir Ber building, in which he wants to see the crows roost. He can rest assured, however, that every lot and parcel of land assessed for anybody by the name of Creighron will be inventoried and brought to pub- lic notice and its valuation compared with that of Tue Bpk building. The axpayers of Omaha will then have a chance to know who is bearing his just burden of taxes and who is imposing upon the community. Jim by SUCCESS OF ARBITRATION. The controversy between the Union Pacific and the engineers and firemen has been amicably settled by arbit tion. The decision of the board is s signal victory for the operatives. It holds that a branch of the Union Pacific cannot be separated from the system for the purpose of reducing wages with- out violating the contract entered into between the compaty and the mea in 1887. The company attempted to set this contract aside, so far as it related to certain branches in Kansas, without consulting the second party to the con- tract, and the result of the contention thus forced was a defeat of the company with the weapons of its own choice. We congratulate the men and the company on this satisiactory set- tlement of a dispute, which .for a time, seriously menaced the business intevests of the west. A strike on the Union Pacific system would have been disastrous to all concerned. With the distressing vesults of the Burlington strike still visible in the west, it would have been the height of folly for the men, as well as the company, to precip- itate a walk-out for the trifling sum in- volved, and when the company pro- posed acbitration TiE Brg urged its acceptance, confident thatthe men were in the right, and that an honest, dis- passionate examination of their eclaims would result in their favor. The decision aflirms the wisdom of the course taken by tho men. It is a sub- stantial victory for arbitration, for con- servatism, and for justice, and poings to tho one successful way of umicably and profitably adjusting controversies be- tweon labor and eapitol. ABOUT CEMENT. There should be no monopoly per- mitted in cemeut or other materials used in public works. No material should, however, be used unless it can stand the prescribed test. In spite of everything that can be done some monopolies will continue. Forinstance, nobody can compete with the Trinadad asphaltum, because its production is con- fined to one corporation. -This 1s not irue, however, in the matter of cement. There should be at least four or five difforent brands of cement good enough tobe used in paving. It is generally understood that Portland cement se vory quickly, and thorefore must be used exclusively in such works as re- quire hardening in the shortest possi- blo time. TFor building purposes a cement that hardens very quickly is not the most desirable. A building must settle, and the cement must settle with the brick, stone and iron, or there will be fissures and cracks in the walls, If the paving be done before freezing weather, it is not material whether Milwaukee, Lowmsville or Utica cement is used. If, however, the paving is to be done during the months of October and November, when frost is liable to set in, the cement should mecessarily be of such quality as to settle quickly, or it will be practically useless. There is no doubt that Utiea cement is good enough for building purposes and good enough for paving purposes if the pave- ments are laid during the summer months. This position is taken on the assump- tion that the contractors will be held strictly to specifications gotten up honestly and based upon experience. The very best of cement, if mixed out of proportion with other ingredients, will be of no use. 'This fact is exempli- fled in some of our sidewalks, We have granolythic sidewalks that with- staud weather and wear, and we have some that will not last longer than one - senson. AN of them may have been laid in tld\-hm.l cement, and in one case the" eontractor has been honest, using the<differont materials in proper proportiogi pin another instance he has stmply mggle o surface showing, with a very littlé cement in a substrata of sand, Such work accounts for the differenceV i\ sidewalk materinls as well as the difference in prices. Gran- olythic paggment cannot be laid down for less thyn a fixed vrice, and anybody who may gat, it cheaper caunot expect durable mgterial to be used, THr tens of thousands of people throughout the country ¥ho contributed 1o the relief of the Conemaugh sufferers have a right to know what disposition has beon made of the tunds in the hands of the various relief committoes. Tt is es- timated that the reported loss of prop- orty at Johnstown and olsewhers has been exaggerated. The total loss, not including the damage sustained by the Pennsylvania railroad and the Camby iron works, can not be move than eight or nine millions instead of from twenty to thirty millions, as fivst reported. In all, the nggregate 1oss of houses in the Conemaugh valley may be safely osti- matod at two thoasand. Tt soems to be the purnose of Governor Beaverand the relief committoes to rebuild as many small housos as tho moeans ab their com- mand will allow, not to exceed a total cost of a half a milli This will ¢or- tainly go far in giving the neely citi- zens a new start in life untilthey can get upon their feet again. It may bo noc- essary, morcover, to spend a million to clean up the streets. But the pressing ced of the hour 1s for funds to buy the necessaries of life in ordor to feed, clothe and house the thousands of home - less women and childven of that gric stricken region. Although the gener- osity of the American people has put in tho handsof the relief committes funas that can not fall much short of three millions of dollars, a sacond appaal has just been made from Johnstown thas all moneys contributad for the sufferers and held by the mayors of cities be seut at onc There is little question but that the cry for aid will meet with generous response, and that additional sums wiil be collected for the unfortunate region. Fonr reasons bost known to California the prople of that state are looking for- ward to the annexation or purchase of Lower Californin, California has no more use for that peninsula than a wagon has for five wheels. It may, of course, revive the mining excitement, or possibly ereate a land boom, but both of these hopes are delusive. At any rate, Mexico is too jealous of her barren strip in the, Pacific to give it to the Tnited Statesfor love or money, and Culifornia i3 likely to be sorely disap- pomted if she be in earnest to possess Lower Califdrfia, OF the si¥ hindred thousand shares representing Union Pacitic stock, flve hundred shares are owned in Ne- braska, ona hundred in Utah, twenty- seven i Wyoming and five in Colo- do. Thatmity explain why the Union Pacific treatd the terrvitory throuzh which it runs as foreign and only fit to be looted. Tk governor of Loui drew a tight rope avound the prize ring when he issued proclamation in antic tion of the Sullivan-Kilrain mili pro- hibiting prize fighting in that state. T Alton is evidently a troublesome thorn in the side of western railroads. Wyoming's Pittshurg Chronicls Wyoming is fit for statehood in one par- ticular. Of her adult population only 23-5 per cent are itliterates, = - Had Enough Water. Louisville Courier-Journal. The prohibition fight in Pennsyivania came on at the wrong time for the temper- ance people. No stote has suffered so much from water this year as Pennsylvania. B The Throry of High License, Minncapolis Journal, The saloon is never a blessing. ways a curse; but it 1s less of a curse at £250 than ut 525, and still less at $1,000. That 1s the theory of high license, and the theory is substantiated by the fac ‘ace! orlc Press, How much longer will the probibitionists of New York state be like the fool in the boat who was. rowing down the river and thougit and thought all the time he was row- ing up the river, because he was faciug that way? Turn around. b Didn'c Tempt Him, Chicazo Herald. A Cincinnati paper, says: ‘“Altnough a lover of the national game, the president has yet to appoint o base ball player to an important and lucrative oftice.” Not even the salary of the presidency itself would tempt a good ball player. —~~— The Better Way to Fight It Springfield Republican, The liquoygtrgfc can be Lest fought through the adielition ot public school sentl- ment and effectively reguluted by towns and gtis) where, through local op- tion, the majobity of a community will be pledged to suippat the law." - It is al- The Sala It Fit 0 Circumstance: Q@icyo Miter-Ocean, High licens| the low doggerios, and local optigh Wil enable overy town and county that piRss prolibitiow 1o’ put in force alawto aoufbifate the saloon. The third party pronibittonlsts demand everything they ask for opthby will have nothing in the way of reforms== -~ iful Objeer. N ) k Herald, Postu aster Higgins, of Fort Wayne, re- fused to recelve money for the Johnstown sufferers because beer was sold at the pienic by means of which the fund was realized Higgins would probably rofused to be shaved in & barber shop where bay rum was used. Suct u wau deserves public pity. o NITS AND MISSES, Policeman Bloom looked into the schooner when it foamed, and lost his hoad, A man who cannot distinguish between ginger ale and lager deservos decapitation. It is reported that Hascall will start a fall exposition st the poor house, With a few svetious of his nerve sandwiched with the occnpants the show would draw like a poultice on a boil, “The Omahas should treat their gucsts lib- erally. Placo a kog of Milwaukee on each of tho bases and sco how Ezra Sutton's aggregation steals the bases, The report that a plumber is missing in Omaha is evidently unfounded. The chancos are he has hid himself from the muddening throng to commune with his bill, Misfortunes nover come ‘sigly but in Aroves. The antouncément that the gov- ernor of Louislana had decided to prevent the Sullivan-Kilrain mill in that section created wild dismay in the Douglas county building, The commissioners had decided to take in the show for the purpose of getting a few pointers from distinguished vrofessors of science. Their disappointment is renderod keener by the fact that they must pursue the ancient monotonous style of county governs ment, with amoccasional slug in the side to @ive a little variety to lire. Tt will require something better than Utiea cemont to cover up tho rottanness in wooden block pavement. Tho enterprising managors of Spirit Lake Xnow & good thing when they feel it,and thoy posscss the nerve to protect tho flow of shekels at any cost. ——ae STATE AND THRRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, The Presbyterians of York have tendered acall to Rev, J. D, Countermine, The rye hurvest has begun in Harlan county and the yield is above the average. An offeort 18 being made at Kearney to have the Wostern Union establish an up- town oftice. The cars for the South Beatrico line have arrived and the road will be in operation in a day or two, The defeated side in the York scliool elec~ tion make the villainous assertion that thoe victory was won by a fow women and tneir hen-peckad husbands. . The Kearney ministors have voquested tho Enterprise to discontinue its Sunday edition, but the paper will continue o be printed on the first aay of tho week. Many hogs and cattle belonging to 3. IY, Myers. of Benedict, were bitten by a mad doy four wecks ago and several of thom have since died of hydropnobia. M. J. Golsten, the absconding Fremont merchant, is reported to have vaid a brief visit to his old home Wednesday and then left for the west, though some believe he is still in town in hiding. A dime’s worth of Roman candles in the hands of a Tecumsch youth fired ) worth of pyrotechuics in H. M. Summor's storo window aud causea a conflagration which called out the fire department. The Columbus Telegram says that a young man came infrom the country the other t with his two sisters and made a tour of city, soliciting “business” for tho women. Indignant citizens threaten to horsewhip the brate if he makes his appear- ance in town again, Dan Coughlin, of Grand Island, rondmas- ter on the second division of the Union Pa- cific, is believed to be insane, He had a quarrel with his_landlady, and one of the boarders taking her part, Coughlin tried to brain him with a hatchet. Ho was promptiy knocked down and is now in jail. The fittieth anniversary of the wedding of John Cox and wife, of Sterling, was eole- brate their many friends at their home Tues The old people are now soventy and seventy-six years of age, and served. Many valuablo presents w to ¢gladden the hearts of the old people and a tine dinver served. A German lady living near Columbus took her daughter to town_the other day to sce the circus, but when it was time to go home the young lady announced that she pre! ed city lifo, and did not propose to leave. The old lady finaily succeedea in carrying the girl home, but ‘the latter declared ~she would elope with the first tramp that came along, The ¥ y has sold out all its vrivileges to the Thompson- Houston Klectric railway company. The new cowpany proposes putting in an electric running from t Lawn to West thence south through Kenwood completing the circuit at East Lawn, making in all a distance of about twelve miles. lowa Itews. Brick is the choice of Davenport business men for paving. The town of Anita, Cass county, was named after a Spanish lady, Anita Cowles, twenty years ago. Eight horses have been stolen from Sioux n the last month, and in every caso the thief has made good his esca Burlington has no saloons now, but u few dozen “cnfes” take their place with as much atisfaction as ever to the people who like their “‘budge.” An effort is being made to change the date of the regatta of the lowa Amateur Rowing association at Spirit Lake, from July 30 and 31 to July 24 and 2! Louise Opal, a motherless gir! of sevou- teen, was drowned in a pond near Oskaloosa Tuesday. It is supposed she was hing, as most of her clothing was found upon the shore. A two-year-old baby of Charles Sling: land, a farmer living two miles cast of K dora, was poisoned by drinking somo fly- poison preparation, and died in terrible agony. At a convention of Iowa marshals held in Oskaloosa a committee was appointed to draft a bill to be presented to the logisluture providing ‘that tramps and all other com- n vagrants shall be imiprisoned for one year and compelled to wor! Tho Cattolics of Cedar Rapids will build a new church next year, on the site of the prosent structure of the church of the Im alate Conception, Th wehased dditional lot so that thoy plat 14)x140, and upon this & new church is to be 60x125, at 8 cost of not less than Dakota, Blunt will have a fair thi Dwo new sehnol houses a at Miller. “Tho farmers of Faulk county hold monthly horse fairs, Watertown's new completion. Cattle are dying in the vicinity of Howard owing to the bad condition of tho water. A colored barber of Grand Forks has or- dered his coffin and is quietly waiting for death, Stephon F. Molior, one of the leading citizens of Deadwood, died at the Hot Springs last week. The Riverside Ranche company, n few miles from Fort Abralam Lincoln, hiwe gono into Buffalo raising, s minister Is My christian hearers, 1 your attention this mornin verse of lot No. 24, of block grow's addition. The largest ditch in Dakota has just been completed at Minnesela, It is twelve miles long, ten feet wide and three feet deep. The charter conveys the right Lo take 1,0 0 inck The water is used by the Miunnesala Mill company. An exchango, in speaking of the storm of the 17th inst., says: Near Washburn, N, D., the sky was black with a mamwoth flock of dugks, estimated at from 500,000 to 1,000,000, Suddenly there cawe in quick succession four vivid flashies of lightning, and swarms of birds fell in heaps to e eround. It is thought at least 10,000 wero killed, Miss Sarah Murphy, of Wahpeton, died at Great Falls, Mont., of abortio Among her effects was found & marriage certificato with C. £. Hinman, of Wahpoton. Hinman has a wife in Wisconsin, The certificate, pur- ported to have been issued by a justico of Wabipeton, hig boen declared & forgery angd the marriage a mock wmarriage. Hinman is in jail. fall, ing erected motor line 18 nearing credited with I will bri to tho fi 0. 3, of Petti- ——— Mapleson's Venture a Flat Fallurve. (Copyright 1839 by James Gordon Bennstt.| Loxvox, June 27.—|New York Herald Cable—Special to Tue Bee |—Once more an opera scason at Her Majesty's theater has proved an utter failure. The syndicate of gentlemen who backed Colonel Mapleson have been mulcted to the tune of £5,000, and to-morrow a new syndicate, composed of Mapleson’s late coadjutors and a few addi- tional gentlemen, will take over the theater on a seven years' lease. Under the now regime the gallaut colonel will be sovercly excluded, For a disordered liver try Beecha's P THE JOLLY TRAVELING MF,Nl Entertaln the Happy Dootors and the Blithe Funeral Directors. LINCOLN FLOCKS TO THE PARKS. Fully Fifteon Hundred Enjoy the Day at Cushman—Bold Hog Thieves—City News and Notes. B LINCOLN HUREAU OF Tite OMA®A Baw, 100 P & The undertakers, doctors and druggists of Nobraska are cortainly a drawing lot of fol- lows, judging from tho great throng that crowded the park to-day to take part in the traveling men’s outing, now >n with tho ir resistloss energy chavactoristic of tho Kknights of tho grip, who aro vieing with onch other to make the outing a sucooss. Tho attendance was much largor than was even anticipated. Fully fiftoen hundred people wore at tho pack, and of the numbor fully two hundred and fifty wero traveling mon. And, indeed, u jollior lot of ho got together for @ good time, proverbial urbanity ~ was displayed to-day in L3 vory remarkable dogree. They disbursed their courtesios on y hand, with that extravagant, whole- souled manner socharacteristic with them. The outing trawn left tho depot at 2:9% olclock sharp. IMive coaches woro fillod past all comfort, but tho ridejof three short miles was soon over and the pleasures following more than compensated for tho unplensant- ness of tho Lriv out. Tho German military bandl discoursed sweet music, intorsporsing the exorcisos of the afternoon, Thore was no ond to tho amusenionts of the day—boat- ing, swimming, swinging, ball playing, horse back riding and racing. - d the address of the day. Tt a scholarly offort and abounded in good things said in # brilliant w The professor was listened to with marked atten- tion After Prof. Shrev talk to the under- takors and travolers, the military band dis. coursed several choice pieces of music, to the delight of tha numerous boating partics, and then led the crowd to the grand standy where the rules governing the tournamont wore read and oxplained by Captain Agey. They provided that the 150 yurd dash should be made 1 twelve soconds, “each contostant to have five trials, tho one’ getting the most rings to be declared the winner. Threo rings were hung by wires from ex- tended aurms ovor tho course, equal distances apart. The contestants drew their places by lot. Those taking rings at tho first dash were Bert Ruffoer 1, Eddie Vauhorn 2 and Park Garroutte 2, Vanhorn and Garroutte ticing. The second n Bert Ruffner 1, Eddie Vanhorn 3 and Fred Doolittle 3, making Vauhorn and Doolittle a tie, routte and 1 for Doolittle, two contestants 1u puting the latter the lead and ticing them on 4 rings. On the fourth dash Bddie Van. horn secured 2 rings aud Doolittle and Gar- routte 1 gach, ticing these three coutestants on b rings each. Here 0 excitement was intense, us it was possiblo for one of four riders to win by securing all of the rings on the fifth dash. But the fifth and last dash resultod in Bert Ruffaer taking 1, Fred Doo- little 1 and Park Garroutte 2, the latter win- ning the first prize, a fine saddlo, having taken 7 rings in the five dashes. F'red Doo- little took the second prize, a brialo; Eddio Vanhorn the third, a_pair of silver mounted spurs, and Bert Ruffner the fourtn, a handsome riding whip, The prizes wero donated by Whitman & Co., and the Lincoln Saddlery ocompany. The managers of this most enjoyable ainment wore Captain Agey, starter; P. W, Pounds, George Clark and Phil Jacobs, judges and timekeepers, and Fred A. Wilson, score. The boys received their priz from the hands of Captain Guatehel, who bestowed them in o few kindly words. iollowing the tournament came a game of vall between two select nines of traveling mien, captained by L. W. Gar- routte and Happy Cal Dimond, the tea man, U kept up his reputa- tion of dealing from the bottom, by sclecting the lean men of the fraternity, while Garroutte ch tho fat men. V Lansing, who was present, bid off the honors of wmpiring the wame av 25, und was duly in- stalled, but the other boys cujollea him “into whacking up in advance. The bidding for this houor was spirited betweon Lansing and Dean. At the close of the fourth inning the game wau called, Garroutte having ro- 1 a bloody noso from oneof his pitcher's rves, The gamo™ was in favor of the fats by a score of 7 to The evening was- spdht in dancing, the German military band furnishing a full Hog Thicves Sharply Pursued. E. W. Osborn, a farmer living eight miles northwest of Waverly, had n lively experi- enso this morning, Ho was awakened about 3o'clock by a noise in his barn yard and get- ting up hurriodly he saw a team standing by his barn and four or five men endeavoring to get away with some of his norkors, He dressed quickly and_ran down 1nto the yard. The thieves heard him approach and drove oft at a rapid paco. He looked into his pon and found one hog gone, and quickly saddting his horse he gave chase. He followod tho hen about two miles west of tho cams up within a quarter of a milo of One of tho thieves rodo bugk toward Osborn with a cocked revolver and ordered him to turn. In the face of sueh convineing cvidence Osborn took the back track for sev- miles, but whon the tiiof gave up the ase Osborn agwin took up the trail When he renchied North Fourtoenth strest, ho discovered evidences of the fellows hav- Ing unlonded tho stolen property, but as he was anxions to catch the fellows, he did not 8ton to investigate. Hoe sent word to the police.station and in the moanwhile kept up the chase. On South Twenty-cighth stroet ho again caught sight of the thioves, but at that point his horse gave out_and a mounted policoman coming up, he left tho latter to continue the pursuit. It scems that the farmaors in the northonst part of the county have had quite a numbor of hogs stoien, and on Tuesday night formed a vigilance ‘com- mittoo and a detail of men was postod yes. terday at & point whore it was supposed the thioves would make their next appoarance, Tho thieves woro tod sharp, howevor, and making a long detour struck Osborn's plac At 1 o'clock this morning the thioves were being pursued sharply, indead, so sharply, that when they reached tho crook a fow miles south of the city thoy jumped from their wagon, swam tho orock and broko for tho timber, thus making good their oscape. But thoir toam and wagon was taken in by tho ofMcers and can bo had by thoir ownors calling at police headquartors and proving PrOPOELY. Two Now Banks. Atticles incorporating the “Nubraska State Bank” and the **Bank of Axtelt,” wore filod in the oMo of the socretary of state to-day. The formor organized with an authorized capital atock of £100,000 and the lattor with £20,000, and thoir respoctive places of busi- ness aro b Wost Point, Ouming county, and Axtell, K ney county, Tho ' purposo of each _ is to doa general banking business. Tncorpora- tors of tho first: 1. £\ Kloko, J. L. The third dash rosulted in 2 for Gar- Y Thomus D. Thompson, 8, H, Kalm, ¢ Korb, Ferden and Kook and Hudson I, noa. GOL t sond Stewart, James M. Sewell and owart, City News and Notes. Treasuror J. K. Hill to-day recerved a draft for £25.35 from the M. K. church of Wayne for the benefit of the Johnstown sufforors, County Attornoy earns has fllod his brief beforo the state board of sccrotaries in the case of Lan roounty v the 13, & M. railroad company. Attornoys for the ro spondent gunounce that thoy will filo thoie brief to-morrow. An carly docision in the case may bo expected, Governor Thayer to-day issued a procla- mation offering u reward of §200 for tho ar- rest and conviction of the murdorer of George Plammer, who was murdored in I'urnas county on the night of June 22, by 1C PErsON OF POrsons unknown he stato ex rel William I+, Tennison vs, J. 8. MceCardel, cler of the village of Greenwood 8 county, mandamus, an original o s flled for. trial in the su- prgme court to-day. he grocery storo of Jake and Sol Oppon- heimer, at the corner of O and Twenty- soventh strocts, was cntored last night by burglars. They sccured £15 worth of cigars and a small amount ot moncy, This is the third burglury in three nights on street, and the morchants out that way rogistoring a vigorous kick against the ef- ficioney of Cordor's new policomen. Two men named I'rink and Williams were arrested last evening churged with cracking M. D. Welch's safe on ‘Tues- night of last week. The féllows were arraigned this morning, pleadod not wuilty, and tho trial was set for to-morrow afternoon. Frink had nothing to say, buv Williams alloged that ho can prove an alibi by the clork of the St. Chal and his room wmat; papers, bonds and notes, amounting to 0,000, were found last evening in the rear of o house about two blocks from where the robbery was committed, and Ieland sccures tho fifth anaual con- vention of Nebraska's undertakers, o O'HALLORAN THE LOPEKMENT The Girl's Father Don't Beliove She Has ne Astray. 81, Pavi, Minu,, June 27.-~Dennis O'Hal- loran, the father of Miss Agnes O'Halloran, who cloped with Artist Hitchcock from Paris, is t. Paul undertaker, sixty-five years of age. When told of his daughter's act, he was unable to speak intelligently of the affair. He diseredited the story,and said he had just receiveda letter from Miss Ewmms O'Halloran, another daughter, who said she (Miss Agnos) and M M. N. Mealy, the third daughtor, were preparing to leave Paris May 15 for Florence, going thenee to Venice, oxpecting to arrive at that point about June 20. Miss Emma did not mention the uequaintance of Miss Agnes with Artist Hitchcoek. The girl, howover, had given much attention of ' late years to painting, and had latoly Secured the admis- sion of two of her pictires to the Parls salon. She was a_petito girl of a little more than twenty-one years, very aftable, very popu- lar, and moved in leading Catholic society circles of St. Paul. Sho and her sistors left St. I’aul for Paris in February. ——— INDIANS THREATEN REVENGE, The Flatheads Say They Will Wreck Northern Pacific Trains. HeneNa, Mont., June 27.—The latest ad- vices from Missoula regarding the troublo with the Flathead Indians, say they have threatened to wreck the trains and destroy the tracks of the Northern Pacific railroad, Superintendont Dickinson has telegraphod the governor and war department for troops to protect the proverty of the ruilroud com- pan; The Indiuns arereported to have sent their women and children to the hills, which means that tho troublo is not ended yet. Iv will not be surprising if the troops have to kill a doze mor 5 ed In- dians vefol vestored. Tho rofusul of the chicfs to deliver up the Indian wur- derers is iooked upon as a declaration of hos- THE FRESHET. (1 A womeLess, drifting band are we, Yet lucky in a high degree, For when the house was swept away Before the freshet yesterday, To find the bottom went the cans, Along with kettles, spoons, and pans; But safe above the house and mill, The ' IVORY S0AP ' was floating still! { For, strange to say, "tis not sonfined | To cleaning things of every kind, From coarsest cloth to finest lace, From painted walls to pimpled face, But proves indeed the greatest prize, When rain descends and rivers rise; So while we have a life to save, We'll praisethe Soap thatrides thewave!® A WORD OF WARNING. they ARE NOT, but lik the genuine, Ask for “lIvory" SofP and insist upon getting it. Copyright 1656, by Procter & Uemble.