Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 1, 1889, Page 4

'THE OMAHA DAILY E MONDAY J ULY N gasg 1889, THE DAILY BEE. l‘lJllthllIwD EVERY MORNING, GISORTPTION. fof) including Sunday TERMS OF D ally (Morning E Teo, One Year. Forsix Months.. ForThree Months ... 1100 Seive Tlie Omaha Sunday fice, mafled to any nddress, Ono Year...... ... . . Weekly I'ee, One Year. . P Omana_Offee, Beo Tritiding, N. W, Sevanicenth and Farnam Strsste. Cnicago Office, 37 Rookery Buflding. New York Office, Rooms 14 and 15 Tribune Butldin; Washington Office, No. 513 Four- teenth Street, CORRESPONDRNUE, All communieations relating to nows and edi- torinl matter should be addressed to the Editor o the lee. BUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should be addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha Urafts, ehocks and postofiice orders €6 bemade payablo to the order of the company. ~ TNgBec Pulishing Company, Proprictors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. Cotner THE DAILY BEE. Eworn Statement of Oirculation. !'IN‘ of Nebraska, }“. unty of Douglas, lvvrvruen Tzschuck, secrotary of The Ree Pub. NehingCompany, does solemnly swear that the sctual circulation of Tug DA ‘week ending June 20th, 1550, was as follows: Funday. Jnne 23 Monday, June Tuesday, June Wednesday,June 2 Thuraday, June 27 Friday, June 28 Baturday, June Averuge.. GEONGE B, TZ8CHL Ewern to before me and subscribed to in my Trerence this 20th day of June, A. D. 1889, Eel. N. P. FEIL, Notary Publie, State ot Nebraska, | Ccunty of Douglas. { %% George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- poses and says that ho'ls secretary of The fiee Publishing company, that tho actual average y ‘circulation of The Daily Beo for t month of 1688, 18,033 cop une, 1888, 10,242 copl for July. for August, | 53 copies: Tor Heptembar, 1485, 15,154 coples: " for October, 14,84 cop! for th.ml)al‘, 1888, 18,086 coplesi for December, 18%, 1822 copies; for January, 1889, 18,574 coples: for February 18,066 ¢ h‘ for Marcn, 1880, 18,551 copie: Apri), 1 550 copies; for' May, 1 coples, iEO. B, T78CH T Sworn to before me and subscribed in my {Senl.] presence this 2 day of June, A. D 0, P. FEIL, Notary Public. Tue report that Chicago absorbed Milwaukee during the annexation fever is true, but 1t was bottled. IT LOOKS as though that by the time snow ilies the park commission will be ready to beautify Jofferson square by the uddition of a few settees. i announcement from Wa that” the political mill another turn this week the unxiety of the ofl hington will be given will increase cokor. LIKE a smouldering blaze the war be- twaen the rival stroet car companies starts out afresh. But we suspect that this is only the prelude to u consolida- tion. Titi practice of smashing raiiroad agreements: with bombs should be de- precated. To require managers to wear coats-of-mail this simmering weather is refined cruelty boilod down. CONTINUOUS wet weather has seri ously injured growing corn in Illinois, and a failure of the crop is feared. Ne- braske will cheerfully make up the de- ficit. The outlook in this state is the most promising in yen BEN BurLer has decided to treat Admiral Porter hereafter with silent contempt, while Admiral Porter has announced that he will have nothing more to say concerning General Butler. The country will feel gra Tue new boundaries of Chicago are Indiana on the south, Wisconsin on the north, Lake Michigan on the castand St. Louis on the west. [llinois is practically wiped out of the map. It would not be surprising if Chicago swallowed Mis- souri and St. Louis before 1900. I 1t takes thirty-five thousand bar- rels of cement to cover one hundred and eighty-six thousand square yards of con- erete foundation and but twenty-three thousand barrels wore used, how much will the bondsmen of certain cedar block paving contractors be called upon to forfeit to the city? Tre Union Pacific protests against the returns of the recent tax assessors on its property us being too high. That surprises no one. The Union Pacific is suffering from a chyonic complaint of tax-shirking and would object were its millions of property in this county as- sessed but one dollar FREDERICK L. AMBES = has demonstrated his faith in Omaha realty by purchusing another large tract of business property, and pro- ceeding at once to the erection of a mammoth building in the wholesale district. And still Omaha capitalists are holding on to their morey bags waiting for something to turn up. — ConroRAL TANNER deservesa warm welcome from the old soldiers of Ne- braska. A companion on the battle- field, a staunch advocate of their inter- ests on the forum, and a strong friend in oftice, he has earned their regard, and they should testify their esteem by making his visit to the state a round of enthusiastic receptions. again Tux month of June has closed under more thun ordinary favorable conditions affecting business, . Reports from Chi- cago and other western points are es- pecially encouraging, as the volume of trade is somewhat larger than usual av this season, A buoyant feeling conse- quently prevails through the country and the prospects are bright for @ large fall trade, —— Tae damage done to the Pennsyl- wania railroad by the Conemaugh flood it was officially stated would not exceed one and three-quarter million of dollars, There are fow railronds in the country which could sustain this unexpected loss without seriously erippling their resources, But the Pennsylvania does not propose to allow this little accident torufile a single hair of its head, but will call upon the lines affected to pay this gigantic amount out of surplus earnings. The current net revenues and dividends will therefore not be cur- tailed in any way, except by such losses ns were sustained through the inter- rupted trafie. THE NEW FISCAL YEAR. The governmant's new fiscal year be- gins to-day, and the appropriations of the last session of congress. amounting to nearly four hundred million dollars, become available. The disbursements from the national treasury for July are usually larger than for any other month of the year, and they are very sure to be so for the present month. For one thing there will be an extraordinary demand upon the pension appropriation to take up the vouchers issued in ex- coss of last year'§ appropriation. In some other directions,also, the treasury will pay out more than it is usu- ally called upon to do in July, and pors haps only in the easo of the interost on the public debt will it disburse less than has been the rule. The boginning of a flscal year nocessitates n certain amount of readjnstment to new condi- tions. There must be a balancing of old books and new accounts opened, and while tho treasury system under which 4l this is done is vory nourly porfoct, the force of the department will have a decidedly busy time for a few days, por- forming the vust amount of routine work which the change imposes upon it. There is some interest fn finan- cial circles regarding the question whether the incoming of the new fiscal yonr will bring about any change in the policy of the treasury, which thus far under the presont administration has been kopt very close to the lines of its predecessor, Will there be any de- parture in the matter of bond purchases and in that of allowing a considerable amount of public money to remain on deposit with the banks? The secretary 6f the troasury has during the past four months declined to permit the hond- holdors o dictate the price which the government should pay for bonds. Will he continue in this course, or having the necessity before him of pro- viding for the sinking fund, which will require the purchuse of bonds to the amount of ahout forty-five million dol- lars, will he deem it expedient to pay better prices until this amount is se- cured? The importance of the action of the secretary in this matter is in the question whether the sum to be thus drawn from the treasury shall be dis- tributed over many months or be largely or wholly disbursed in time to meet the increased currency require- ments of the fall business, and undoube- edly this consideration will have weight in determining the policy of the treusury. So far as the deposits with the banks are concerned. it is not believed that these will be sud- denly disturbed. They have been some- whatreduced under the present ad- ministration, and it is not probable that their withdrawal will be more rapid than it has been. It is impossible to predict with any degree of certainty whether the autumn demand for money will be materially, if at all, greater than last year, and if it should not be much increased, the re- sources of the money market will be suf- ficient to meet it without extraordinary assistance from the treasury. There has been a contraction of the circula- tion during the past two months, but it is still more than twenty millions in excess of this date last year and much greater than it has been at other periods of marked prosperity. The general feeling i financial circles ap- P to be one of confidence that the policy of the treasury will be guided by what shall appear to be the linancial needs of the country and will be such as to prevent any serious disturbance of the money market resulting [rom the locking up of money needed in the channels of business. PUSHING FOR STATEHOOD. The people of Idaho are determined to make a strenuous effort to secure statehood with the least possible dolay. A constitutional convention will be held on the fourth instant, although there is no congressional authority for it, and the next congress will be promptly besioged to make provision for admitting the territory to state- hood. In reply to the statements that the territory does not contain the con- ditious necessary to become a state, the advocates of admission claim a popula- tion of ome hundred and twenty- five thousand, a property valuu- tion of sixty million dollars, with a railway mileage of one thousand miles, nearly four hun- dred schools, and a debt amounting to but two hundred thousand dollars. The fact is also sot forth that within a few years Idaho has advanced from the ninth to the fifth place in the produc- tion of bullion, contributing to the wealth of the country gold and silver to the value of one hundred and twenty million dollars, besides iron, copper and other metals. All this is certainly very much in Idaho’s favor, but the future growth of the territory 18 largely dependent upon the do- velopment of its agricultural resources by moans of irrigation, and until this is accomplished the appeal of her paople for statehood is likely to encounter op- position, The experience with Nevadu must prove discouraging to the eiforts of the people of Idaho until that terri- tory has attained the conditions for successful agriculture which will in- sure a steady increase of populatio Mineral resources alone, howaver ox tensive, will not proyide what is nece: sary to maintain a state government, and except in thess Idaho is very de- ficient. The ambition and eute of her people are to be cominended, but thoy are fostering a hope thut is likely to be long deferred. ONE hardly kunows whether to take the news seriously or not that emanat: from London to the effect that synli- cates are being formed in England for the purpose of buying up the principal mercantile and manufacturing interests in the leading cities of this country, While it ‘may be true that an English company has succeoded in obtaining control of some of the great brewing establishments in America, it is a ques-, tion whether these operations are to be extended in the absorbtion of th tail dry goods trade as well. There seems no particular reason why the breweries and the dry goods stores should espe- cially be singled out for purchase in preference to dis 0s, clothing stores or other wercantile lines of trude unless it be the deliberate plan of the English to come over here with oceans of money and buy us out. Let the no- tion, moreover, once get abroad that the British are willing to pay spot cash for a well-ostablished paying mercan- tile establishment, and there is little question that our shrewd business men will not bo the losers by the sale of their stock, stand and good will. Moreover, what is the Americon store keeper to do when his pockets will be filled with British gold? Men who have spent their lives in mercantile pursuits will not be apt tolay down their arms and let the English carry on the business of thiscountry. Should such an extraordinary event really take place, it is more than likely that the American merchant would. start up his particular line of business next door to his English competitor and win back his trade. The reports that the Eng- lish intend to buy up the American dry goods business must therefore be taken with abig grain of salt when there are 80 many inviting opportunities for in- vestment through the length and breadth of this country without en- cronchmaent upon the old established fields of trade. MASSACHUSETTS passed a ballot re- form Iaw which will veceive its first practical test at tho state clection this year. The triends of the measure have found it necessary to form a ballot re- form league, whose business it will be to see that the provisions of the act shall be faithfully carried out to the letter, and to keep the wicked politicians and election offlcers from tampering with the voters. Now all this may be emi- nently proper and effective. But it goes 1o prove that the new fangled bal- lot law is not self-acting and infallible, but needs a “league” to keep its eye fixed. on the complicated machine leat a cog should siip and smash things generally. The truth is, however, if the same precautions were taken under our long established election laws there would be no necessity of going off to Australin to adopt its impracti- cable scheme. If every timo an elec- tion takes place in Massachusetts unde the new fangled system. it be neces- sary for “‘leagues” to protect the sacred- ness of the ballot box, the very purpose for which the new law was intended will be defeated and Massachusetts will have gained nothing in purifying elec- tion methods by its expensive and com- plicated election machinery Tie blow recently administered to the cotton sced oil trust by the civil dis- trict court at New Orleans may not very seriously dumage that monopoly. since 16 does no business in Louisiana, but none the less the decision against the trust is important as demonstrating the power of the courts and the adequacy of legal protection against public mon- opoly. It is a valuabie addition to judi- cial opinions that an ingenious attempt to evade rosponsibility by departing from the recognized legal forms, and assuming corporate powers without eor- porate organization, cannot succeed. It reasserts the principle that the courts have authority to interfere where dan- gerous powers have been assumed and the attempt mude to suppress competi- tion and evade accountability regard- less of the interests of the public. This result of two or three years’ litigation is altogether satisfactory to the enemies of trust monopoly. THE testimony of John F. Carll, a well known specialist who has made petroleum development in this country a careful study, is to the effect that the supply will soon be unequal to the de- mand. The country is using up the swored accumulations of ages quickly and wastefully, and unless new fields are discoyvered the drain will in a com- paratively short time exhaust Pennsyi- vania’s oil beds. Happily the virgin potroleum fields of Wyoming and Colo- rado will soon be able to supply any shortage that may arise, and in time will supplant Pennsylvania as the great oil producing vegion. The development of great industries isawaiting the open- ing of vhese scemingly inexhaustible potroleum mines in the heart of the Rocky mounta and the day will be one of great promise to the entire west. scems destined to be one of the great states of the union in MONTAN wealth and populadon. According to the report of Mr, Anderson, agent of the agricultural department, the level lands of northern and eastern Montana are not surpassed for wheat growing by the famous wheat lands of Minnesota and Dakota, und the progress of wheat cultivation is very rapid. Investiga- tion shows the arid region of the terri- tory to be much less than has been sup- posed, and what there is it is believed can easily bo reclaimed. Ttisa splendid territory both in area and resourcos, and must inevitably become the home of a very lurge and prosperous popula- tion. THE dea Mitchell removes one of the most unique characters in the educationnl world, For wmore than fifty years she was identifie] as a lead- ing astronomist, und made her name famous in 1847 by the discovery of the great comet of that year. Ior nearly aquarier of a century Maria Mitchell occupied the high post of professor of astronomy at Vassar collego, whore she distinguished herself in her life work. Her memory will long be cherished not alone by Vassar college, but by the t scientists of the age asa woman of rare scquirements and of a Bigh in- tellect, 11 condition of the miners at Braid- wood, Il a startling exhibition of the power and greed of monopolies. The nmien and their families are actaally heing starved into submission, and the petty tyrants in charge of the mines have endeavored to suppress the truth to prevent outside aid. Pcople who are shocked by accounts of the eruelties practiced in the Siberian mines need not go far from home for a parallel. THE Rev. Spurgeon, son of the noted London preacher, recently asser At the chief weakness of Amevican aracter was *‘money, money, money— rraspiug for money.” In view of the anxiety of English syndicates to monopolize our mines, railronds, brow- eries, and last, but not least, our dry goods trade, Mr. Spurgeon’s remarks have a metallie sound. Tt is hardly possible that the English millionaires are shioping their cash into this coun- try for pattiotic purposes. They are not conspictibs for generosity or un- selfishness, Tie Brooklyn keeper of tho insane who, by mistake, awallowed a dose of carbolic acid intended for a patient, committed a gieator mistake when he settled in the city of churches. He should nave followed the march of em- pire and squatted in Chicago or Minne- apolis, where members of his profession smash the bones of the weak and harm- less to improve their appetite. A Southern Tribute. Macon Tetegraph, Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes endeared her- self to all by her gracious womanliness as mistress of the white house, i, Entirely Consistent. Chicago News, Pennsylvanians are sadly inconsistent. Last week they jumped on a prohibition law with both feet and this week they hanged a red-nosed man, IS . Weh Trained. Chicagn Herald. Tamagno, the tenor, is said to be the highest-salaried male singer in the world. He used to assist his father in the bottling of mineral water, and then it was that he developed his talent for heavy charging. St it Will Wasto no More Powder. Philadelphia Press. All efforts to entice Admiral Porter into making o reply to General Butler's latest charge have failed. Admiral Porter has not retreated. -He 18 simply sleeping on his arms until there 1s some fighting to do that is worthy of tho name. @ - Well Fitted Fora Pug. Chi 0 inter Ocean. A gorilla in the Bombay Zoological gar- dons takes a barof iron two inches thick and bends it double in his hand, and with one bite of his teeth he shivers a mahogany kuot into mateh wood. He could easily break the record in a sparring match, g Z Admirable Diplomac; Baltimore American. The beauty of Mr. Blaine's work is that America, after along season of humiliation and submission to petty German insults, been triumphantly vindicated—not only in our own estimation, but by the consensus of opinion in Europe and the British islands. There has been no bluster, buta simple statement of the case of the United § backed by a’courageous demand for dealing, somdthing that Bismarck appreciate if he does not entirely relish. LR b Merely a Military Courtesy. Boston Advertiser, Up to the point of indemnity, absolutely every diplomatic’ victory at the Berlin con- ference hau been fwon by the representatives of the United States. This was 8o apparent that English newspapers were commenting upon the fact with astonishment and German newspapers with chagrin. The time had come when Bismarck must get something or lose all self-respect, and when Blaine could grant something without sacrificing any real advantage. The mominal indemnity which has been promised may be compared to the side arms thav a surrendering milita is allowed to retain after he has delivered up his sword. ates, fair can . TRIBUTES TO ENTERPRISE, Enterprise and Genius, Culbertson Sun. Tk BeE is without question the newspa- per of the west, and Tue B building is a monument to the enterprise and genius of its founder, Hon. E. Rosewater. A Crowning Triumph. Unadilla Times, Every year of Tnk Bee's life has been warked by triumphs, and the last is a crown- ing one. All the harm this sheet can say for Tux Ber is to wish it many more years of vrosperity and success. it oo B Grace, Grit and Gumption. Verdon Vedelte, Tie Brz is now located in the largest fire- proof building in America. The history of Tur Ber is simply another illustration of what grace, grit and gumption will do for a person or corporation in a few years. The City May Feel Proud. Rapid City (Dak.) Journal, Though Mr. Rosewater has made many enemies during tha past eightcen years, he hasat all times given Omaha an excellent newspaper, and one of which the city may feel proud. The history of the hard and un- ceasing effort necessary to build up such a paper as e Bre could not be written in sixteen puges. Such efforts command cess. The Bennets of Nebraska, Blair Republican. Eighteen years ago Tuz Ovana Beg was born in very obscure surroundings in tho then little city of Omaba. Its coming an mission scemed hardly worth a thought or conjecture. In the outset its struggle for in- fluence and business was surrounded with triais and discouragements. Its . editor's ability, courage and undaunted per- sistence made him a host of bitter enomies and a Jurge number of warm, admiring friends. Tne Bee grew and thrived exceedingly under adverse circum- stances. Its circulation expanded until it ranks with the leading party orgaus of the great northwest, Much of this phenomenal growth is to be aseribed to its location in a city and state glowing with new enterprises, and with pol and civil advancement making great ds for bold and progres- sive journalism sewater is the Lennett of Nebraska joiitaBlism. Hisuew ofice, into which the vast bysiucss of Tie moved on Wedngsfay of this w pare with the hist mudml news, lishments in A mx Europe. Indevend- ence day it wilf? own open for the in- spection of nll?a ns who may desire to view it. Earned t and Fayor, Grangs a'l‘;'lm Independent, Between Chigfga and San Iraucisco there is no such an aehigyement as the ercction of Rosewater's eig ¥, 132x132 feet, marble balled I3ee-hivebit not so much on accouut of tins great, palatial building, or on account of his financial success, which has enabled him to erect this monument to his and Tue Beg's career, we think, is Hosewater to be praised, but on account of his mentai ability, his energy, and the consistent defense of the people's interests, which are the foundation of Tur BEw's progress and its present grand position as one of the best papers in the United States. We have known Mr Rose- water when he was & little operator in a lit- tle tolegraph ofiice on Twelfth or Thirteenth street in Omaha, without any assisting eon nections and without any financial means. Out of nothing but his own wmental power, his indomitable will, his fearlessuess under the most adverse circumstances, he has formed the powerful paper wh never yielded to bribes or threats of tae mighty,al- ways fighting for the people, aud receiving | the thanks and material encouragement of the people. Ho'has, in the past, desorved and earned the peoplo’s respoct and favor, and tho ha- trod and hostility of the people’s cnemios. And wo are convinced that n the faturo he will doserve and earn them as he did in the past. e INDUSTRIAL THE FIELD. Money is being raised in Canada w con- struct an Atlantic cable to cost $2,000,000. Of the one hundred thousand miners lately on strike sixty thousand are now at work. India has now ninety-seven cotton mills, employing 15,840 looms and 2,875,739 spindles An international congress of chronometry will be held in Paris, commencing on the 7th of September next. The riveters in several of the shipbuilding yards along the Clyde in Scotland have re- coivod an advance of ten per cent. In wages, The Canadian Pacifio railway propose building large car works in tne state of Maine at a point on their line through the state. The firat of & set of three cars driven by eloctricity are now rumning in Paris. The cars aro of & heavy description and carry forty-nine passengers. The South Australian government have made arrangements by which an engine driver who has run his trains for two years without accident, shall be presented with #50. Building is golng on exteusively in the city of Jerusalem, Paiestine. Houses more or less ornamonted in exterior are being run up in blocks and the area of the city is ex- tending in every direction. In England the railway signalmen are a very poorly paid class of people, receiving only 81 per day and working twelve hours per day, excopt at Leeds and other large cen- ters. where eight hours is the rule. The cotton industry is beginning to flour- ish in Greece and there are scveral mills among her classic isles in which both spin- ning and weaving are carried on. It is Greck cotton that is generaliy used in these mills. In 3,267 factories in Berlin, German, are 4,970 apprentices, being sixty six avpren- tices to every 1,000 workingmen. Some at- tempts were made to increase the proportion of apprentices lately, but they were bitterly opposed. At Glenarm, on the coast of County An- trim, there are whiting mills which give em- ployment to nearly half the population. Whiting is the slacked lime ground down and cleansed. The wages of the men aver- age from $3.50 to $1 per weelk. s S S STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The assessed valuation of Butler county is 61 15. The output of the North Platte crcamery is 1,100 pounas daily. \Imll-flm coun i here this year on ML 1. Griftin, Valpars I has taken possossion of the office. Rev. J. V. Dimon, pastor of the Wymore Congregational church, has resigned. Wayne received fifty-six cars of cattle duriog June and shipped forty-six cars. Smith & Seely have succceded W. W. Brooks as proprietors of the Fairbury Dem: ocrat. Prof. K. H. Watson, principal of the Val- paraiso school for two years, has been re. elected. Hans Vease, asixt farmer, hanged hims day last weck. Newport expects to have the best buttor and chieeso factory in the state if $2,300 in stock is suvscribed. The contract has boen lot for building the Lutheran college at Wayne, tae structure to be finishel in ninety days. The merchants of Fairmont have organ- i7ed u branch of the Retail Merchants’ asso- ciation of Towa, Nebraska and Kansas. Horse thieves are operating in Custer county, two farmers near Callaway losing valuable animals on the same night Jast weel. A gang of burglars, composed of threo men and two women, has been discovered at Rosebud, Adams county, and the mombers placed under arrest. Laghtning struck the residence of Mxs. R. A. KKing, four miles from Wallace, instantly killing a thirteen-year-old boy and 50 sevorely shocking Miss King as to render her deaf and speechless, The Beatrice Express has sent cards to many of the state press inviting them to make its Chautauqua headquarters thoir stopping place during the essembly. Tme Bek acknowledges the courtesy, Wellfleot, Lincoln county, had its first ser- mon Sunday weok, in a now store build before200 prople. ' Dr. Fredericlk Tomkins, barrister-at-law of London, was the preacher. An Episcopal church will be built. Berry Bros. & Co, have their diamond drill down sixty feet in the search for coal at Fairbury. Tuo contract calls for 500 feet, and in case a twenty-six inch vein of coal is found, £4,000, which has boen raised by sub- scription, will b paid for the discovery. J. W. Stratton, of Wahoo, has purchased the unfinished opers house at Valparaiso and is now finishing it up i accordance with the old plan. The A. I and A. M. and L. O. 0. F. lodges will occupy the upper room, while the lower room will be fitted up for a hall. The Fairbury Driving association has made great preparations for the 4th and 5th inst. Company D will aid in the entertain- ment by drilling in 1ts new $1,500 uniforms, and a corps of twenty young ladies, under comunand of Captain’ Bills, will be a most at- tract ture Patrick Duddy, s Holt connty farmer, paid an insurance notd on his cattle one day last weelk, and the next morning two o7 iis cows were'struck by lightning. Al Donaldson, one of Duddy’s neighbors, also paid his m- surance the same day and had a horso killed by lizhtaing during the saie storm, Henry Lohofer, a farmer living near Av- cadia, was robbed of 3230 lust weok, tho pro- coeds of thesale of #load of logs. The money was loft with Mrs. Lohofor at tho house and the rest of the family went out to work. Late in the afternoon a man came in dressed in woman’s clothes and chloroformod Mrs. Lohofer, ransacked the house, took tho 250'ana that'was the last of hiuw, stmaster, ear-old Pierce county I to a step-ladder one fowa Iteyns, ‘Tramps are troated with a ball and chain at Sibley. Onawa is sure of having a creamery and cheese factory 0. C. Scott has been clected president of the alnwni association of the stute uni- versity. ‘Phere have been ample rains all over Iowa during the past week 1o make sura erops of everything. 1t is claimed that the undortak only business men in Otumwa th of poor trade, O'Brien county offers 825 a ton for coal mined 1n that county, in order to encourage the dovelopuient of lier resources. 1l endeavor 1o secure the indus- the legisla- ablish next winter. pidly on tho new and the cornor- are the compluin Proposes to Work is progressing court house al Sac City stone will be Jaid with Masonic ceremonices Warden Crossley, of the Fort Madi penitentiary, has Daid 3,500 into the stau ¢ of surplus funds. He paid in in the samoe manner during the year An automatic bartender is now in use in Dyersville, which has 5, 10 and 25 cent slots. 1y dropping the amount in one of the open- ings, 8 chosen beverage immediately ap pears. An enterprising young man of Fort Dodge aring for publication in book form a ry of the “cow question” in that city. It will contain everything written or said in uce to the subject, and many illustra- tions will be presen! Mino Inspector Gildroy says the coal busi- ness is improving somewhat nt What Cheer; that there is 4 great deal of prospesting goiug on around that city, and the result 1s o number of fine veins have been discovered and are being opened up. A Carthage boy ten years of age recontly played a novel trick on a_companion, which resultod in doubling the boy up, but without sorious ending. The precocious boy seeded a lot of cherries and substitutod cathartic pills. He then sent for a playmate and made a \\'n(mr that he could eat more chorrios, seods all, than the boon companion. Thoy started. The boy ato cherries, stones and all, and gave the neighbor boy cathartic pills with cherries. Tho boy’s parents had to send for a physician. Dakota, The damageé to crops in Dickey county has been exageerated. Silver ore lias been struck mine at Bald Mountain, Last Wednesday's storm dostroyed & unburned brick at Elk Point, ‘The Vermillion roller mills have been ro- paired and aro again running, Rev. H. G. Mondenhall has been elocted president of Jamestown colley A flock of sheep near Huron yielded its owner eleven pounds of wool per head. 'ha buffalo herd located in Buffalo park at South' Sioux Falls is the third largest in the worls ‘The Methiodists of the Hitcheock district have commenced @ two \wooks' camp meet- ing at Hitchcook. The Minnehalia county court house will be built by the Sioux ialls Granite company and will cost §: . Nick Halyerson, who was shot by the marshal of Dovil's Lake whilo resisting ar- rest hus lost the uso of his right arm. Purses aggrogating £3,100 are offered for the trotting events at the South Dakota fair to be held at Aberdeen, Septomber 23 to 27. ‘The foundation walls for the canning fac- tory to be erected in Sioux Palls, are boing laid. The main building is to be 70x74 foct and two storics high, with a boiler room 24x27 fe . 1t is estimated that less than 10 por cent of the lands fit for agriculture in South Da- kota are yet located. The %) per cont yet unoccupied is_capablo of sustaining a popu- lation of 5,000,000 people. Capitalists of Devil's Lake aro perfootini a scheme to build & railroad from Devil's Lake to Fargo. ‘I'ne road will be known as tho Devil's Lake, argo & Northwostern, The distance betwoen Dovil's Lako ai Fargo is 118 miles, air line. A meeting will be held next Saturday night for the purpose of perfecting the orzanization, Tho road will be a private enterprise, pure and simple. —— Silver at Ho New York Commereial Bultetin, June 19, No ful observer of the course of finan- cial discussion in Burope can doubt that pub- lic sentiment is forming r in 15 Germany and France in favor of an inte tional agreement for the maftenance of a bimetailic monetary standard. The ovents that have fallowed the publication of the re- vori of the British currency commission and the expressions which it has callea forth have made move apparent than ever before the widespread popular recognition of the importanco of international co-operation in the waintenance of a double standard. At th me time current developments make it evident that the forces which will bring about an international agreement must over- come many obstacles and work gradually to its consummation. Nothing is plainer than that G ny, however much in favor of a double dard, will await the action of England, and_that the adoption of an effec- tive international agreement depen the British government. Itis to the situation, then, that cyes are turned, there we tind the bunet: movement gain- ing in force and recognized as a volitical power that will sooner or later assert itself. But we tind also that the British government is content to pursue a waiting policy and to be forced into an interaational bimetallic agreement rather than take the initiative Within the present month there have boen a number of significant developments; public meetings, conferences with representaiives of the government, and debate in parlia- ment; but all have pointed to the same con- clusion, that the attitude of the British goy- ernment is conservative: that its representi- tives are willing to lokd back, to cncourage other nations in the use of silver, and tostick 10 the single gold standard until the force of eircumstances and an overwhelming declara- tion of the will of the people compel co-oper. tion in an in ational bunctallic movement, There is little indication of doubt t this will be the outcome, but there is 1o hint of a purpose on the part of the British gove ment to take ep that will husten thi consummation, “Fwo conclusions are clearly pointed out for the guidance of the United ates. First, that for the present nothing is to be expected from international co-opera- tion. Second, that we can commit no greater v than to interpose new obstacles to the accomplishment of this desirable solution, or to decrease our own influence in bringing it about. One other fuct of decided import- ance to us is wade clear, and that is that England recognizes that by’ suspending her silver coinage we could force an international agreement for the maintenance of a doublo monetary standard, The suspension of our compulsory and uscless coinage is our true policy: but this being out of the question, members of the new congress and represen: tatives of the now administration must per- ceive that the tendency of financial develop- ments throughout the” world is to increase our obligation to treat currency i > caution, and to prof 000,000 of silver circulation and maintain its goid value until an iuternational agrecment is reached. It must be apparent to all stu- dents of the financial situation at home and abroad that only by rvative and cau- tious measures can we cast our i favor of an international monetary u; ment, whilo by concession to the dem: of the silver men we can-only invite financial disturbance and disaster and interpose ob- stacles to a solution so manifestly to our in- terest. in the Big Owl 5,000 nd Abroad. e THE NEW SYNAGOGUE, cises Last Night in the Ancient Hebrew fors At the hour set for the dedication of the new Hebraw synagogue on Capitol avenue, between Pwelith and Thirteenth, last even- the building was crowded. The exer- 4 night were opencd by a_ procession of the offieers of the congrozation, Wwho en- tered the church from an ante-room, Fol- lowing this was a prayer by Rabbi Bonson, of the Hurney street synagogue, The reader and chorister then rendered a chant in_Hebrew in pleasing stylo, Mr. 1. Marks, who has had charge of the construction of the building, then presented the key to Mr. Goldberg, the president of tho congregation, who responded 1n a few ppr opriate remarks, Rabbi Benson next delivered a short ad- dvess. Mo recited the progress of the Hebrew raco sinee the earliest times and the and tribulations of this particular con- zation, Ho advised thom to continue in they bad bogun, and to keep to- Dedicatovy [ ing, cises gether, Mayor Broateh was then mtrodu mayor said ho was somewhat sur| asiied to deliver an address before the gregation, as he was of a differ religic sect, but he complimented thoem on the progress they had made and advised them to aequ hove all to get homes and becon an citizens. The with a vrayer by Rabbi 1 The a s in the east. ho banner of David, a red velve with emblems and lotters of gold. Near th top is the Kother Torah, or *Crown of th In the conter are two triangl 1 a six pointed star, and below thisa tion 10 Hebrew, as follows: “This is vrescuted by Isther, tho daughter of Abra- haw, as an overlasting m: , 5040, The banner is surmounted by two tablets bearing the ten commandments, The tabl are of r s, and behind them is the Nu- irtomid, or ** sting Light.” This light is never allowed to bo extinguished. The congrogation consists of about ninety meabers, ull of woom are foreiwn born. They have a benefit soclety in the congroga: tion, which aliows sick members the sum of $3 per weck, and contributes $100 on the death of any momber. After the services were complo entire congregation adjourned to Ui politan hall, where & banquet was and dancing indul Against the back drapery the Metro- served ——— 'rh. ginuine Av stura Bitters of Dr. ert & Sons are the wost THE FOURTH AT LINCOLN. King Tartarax Will Be Thero In All His Glory. TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. The Lavish Sam Appropriated to En- toreain His Royal Highness—A Parochial School—Wood- men Entertain, LiNcoL to celebrato the arrival of King Tartarax, who is billed to reach tha city July 4. That o will bo hera no one doubts who is acquainted with tho prepara- tion that has beon made for his; reception, July 4 Lincoln will put on the finest. holiday attive over donned in her history. The dec- orations alone will bo worth seeing. The day will cost tho city over §20,000. Irish National Leaguo. The_regular fortnightly menting of the Irish Natonal leaguo was held to day at Fitzgorald hall, Interesting addresses wero mado and tho following musical programme rendered: orrow Thy Young Vocal duot—Has Days Shaded ... Mesdames Haltor and Kilroy LINCOLN BUREAU oF Tag Owans Hus, 102 P Streer, June 80, Lincoln is ready Vocal snlo»—"T\vn'l(wllmln Ferry” Miss Etiiel Howo .Miss May Flanagan ““Mary of Pip: Adeluide Roehrig s0lo (by requost)- perary” WA A Parochial School. One week from Sunday the parishoners of St. Theresi's church will meet at the pro- cathedral at o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of accoptling the plans of the new school building and to subseribe to- wards its_erection. Waork will soon, com- mence théreafter and will be pushed until the Catholics of Lincoln can boast onoe of tho nnu acious stimulant Lo excite the appes tite, Ask your druggist. finest parochial school buildings In the United States. Woodm tortain. The Woodmen, of Lincoln, will entertain visiting neighbors and their familics on the Fourtn at the K. of P. hall, corner of Tenth aud O streets, which will bo headqurters for the A recaption committes of fitteon has been appointed to provide for the com- fort of those who como from a distance. City Newws and Notes. Rev. J. H. Hardw, of Cincinnati, 0., of the editors of the Christian Standard, cupied the pulpit of th church to-day. A him, Attornoy Goneral Leese and Auditor Bon- ton returned to-day from their fishing expe dition in Wisconsin, R. W. Billingsioy ana Recorder John D. Night were also of the number of revurning wanderers, CLEVELAND'S DAILY LIFE. Busy Oflice Hours Fot ing at Hon Lx-President Cleveland I public addresses since he camo to New York on March 7—one at the centen- nial banquet and one at the Fifth Ave- nue hotel dinner last night, suy New Yor Commercinl Advert Both add were rendered u sary by circumstances, and even the re- publican organs do not assert that he has been trying to push his way to an- other term by using his cloguence on the people But there h ono Pirst Christian large audienco greeted bwed By Even- made two ve been many stories about deep underhand political work, which, it 1s alleged, Mr. Cleveland is engaged in. It has been said that he intends to come forth the lender of the county democ build up a ma- chine in this city and nasure himself of the New York delegation to the next national convention. The ex-president’: ly life, how- ever, gives no indications of the polit- ical sche In fact, theve is probably not a man in this city of any political prominence who has less to do with pol- itics and _polit Mr, Cleveland has retired to ate life, not the politician’s **private life,” which means astate of expectant waiting for some- thing to turn up. No one Tonrd of any conference at the Vietoria hotel. Prominent men call there sometimes, but their visits ave purely social. Most of the visitors are ladies however, who come to carry off Mrs. Cleveland to dinner or tea Reporters are novor se bout the cor~ vidors of the hotel looking for gossip Mr. Cleveland’s time while at his artments is given up to chatting with nds or hml\lnu through books in his little library. Nor is there a political d'.lnl)h])]lt'l about his office in William street. Probably not half a dozen local mmn ians huve penetrated to the office oo itho first day he wont there, when D, tary "Whit- mmins and a fow other srsonal friends showed him the way up to Bangs, Stetson, Tracey MceVeagh's s and gave him a sort of house warming. 1t appears that Mr. bu: to allow his offi lounging place for Im\'\l\ 2081 pors. He has had his hands more than full of work sin une to town. After his brief Florida trip he told Mr. Stetson that he was going to settle down to hard work till summer, and he has done so. In the last month he has not once failed to reach his ofiice before 11 o'clock., He frequently appears at 9:30 or 10 o’clock. After greeting his associates ho goes quietly to his office, which is the most secluded of the firm’s suite, and noth- In*' more is hear1 of him till about 1 o'clock, when he takes luncheon, Then he resumes work, seldom quitting be- fore 4:80 o’clock. Business is said to have increased largely sinee ho joined the firm, and the extra work fall on him. John D. C is too hecome u Cleveland to The Cuban Firefly's Light. A most interesting experiment has re- cently been made in taking a photo- i by the light of the Cuban fire- fiy, snys the Scientific American, The species of this insect belonging to the United States is well known, but its light-producing powers are very feeble compared with those of its relutives,the lantern flies, or cucuyos, of Cuba, Brazil and Mexico, It is said that persons night in the vopical forest are accus- tomed to place these fire tles on their bouts to light the way, and that Cuban ladics mount the cucuyos as gems for thoir hair and clothing, A living specimen of these tropical in- Bects was recently present to the Bridgeport Scientific society, It fe about an inch and a half long, and bears upon euch side of its body oval spots res sembling eyes. In the dark these spots emit a greenish light, resembling that of tiny clectrie lumps in full glow, If the cucuyo is pl‘n d on a watch dinl its light will ennble one to teil the time of night, and it also clearly illum. inatesa sinall printed page Its radiance scems to be in 4 measure under the control of the will,for when & ot i rapidly turned on and off the set. whether from rivalry or some motive, is sure to do his best. After various trials of the insect’s hower the experiment of photngmrh- ing by its light wassuccessively carried out. A copy ot the family portrait wa mads, the insect being held within an inch of the original, and in such a way that the rays “ell 'perpendicularly on the nogative. The time of eXposure to buglight was about thirty seconds, travoling- by