Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 22, 1889, Page 2

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY JULY 22, 1889, THE FIELD OF SPORT. Omaha Wius Three Straight at Bigux Oity. STANDING OF THE BALL CLUBS. Bteps Taken to Depose Sam Morton From the Secrctaryship of tho Western Association ~8porting Notes. Standing of the Clubs. Following is the standing of tho Wostern wssoviation clubs, up to and including yos- torday’s ganioa: Plaged. G 410 844 o R Omaha 7, Sloux Oity 8. Sroux Cirr, July 91.—Swux City dropped the third straight game w Omaha_to-day, not being ablo to hit the ball safe. Score: A R 0 ] 2 3 0 8! cuzSum——s RUMMARY. Rarned runs-Omaha 5. Two-base hits—Brosnan, Thirae-base hits—Straus. Stolen ~basos— Firat base on ball x City % Gma- oul e jon: i Lt W DR Bihbhan. 40, Uinpire—-MeDermott. St. Joseph 11, Denver 6. B, Josern, Mo., July 21.—St. Joseph won the game {n the tonth on thrée singles, two doubles, two basea on balls and Treadway's ®Ud throw to cut Cartwrright off at third, Bribdy was siok and Crowell umpired with fhir success. Score: DENV) Dalrmple, 3b. lelian, 2 %| cromvwSemceos 5l aomcrane | ol Sobiiisisni €| om o Bl cmznuacans al iohcnsaup ol mowcrcmcre BUNMARY. Joos, Denver 1. Trondway, ¥ 5= Metnres, Cartwright, Shell hsse ol Struck out-By Me(arty 1, by Durnbrougd 0 A L Cartwil 1 balls-Dol v 1 gumno—2 hours and wright b piton-Dimbroug tes. Umpire~Cror i well, Called on Account of Rain: S1. PAUL, Minn,, July 21.—The St. Paul- Minneapolis game was called at the end of the fourth inning on account of rain. Dissatisfied With Sam Morton. ST. Paur, Minn,, July 21.—|Special Tele- gram to T Bee,]—Five olubs, St. Paul, Muwaukee, St. Joseph, Denver and Des Moinas, have signed a call for a meeting of the Western association for the election of a new socretary, Samuel H. Morton, last .year's manager of the Chicago Maroons, and Dresent manager of the Minneapolis team, it secretary, but his selection ‘of umpires has been 80 displeasing to the five olubs men- tioned that they hauve decided to depose b Sfoux City's Club Rescued. Stoux Ciry, Ia., July 21.—|Special to Tnx Bie.]—The Sioux City membership in the Western base ball league will not be forfeited, nor will the club be sold to Lincoin or else~ . where. At a public meeting last night ample funds were raised and new players are being sigred. MoDermott, one of the league um- pires, will probably manage the club. oAbl OTHER BALL GAMES, The American Assoolation. LovisviiLe, July 2L—Result of to-day’s game: Kansas City....0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0—1 Louisyille.......0 01 000 3 0 0 CoLunyus, July 21 —Result of to-day's 20010001 1-5 0000001 00-1 CINCINNA'Y ~—Result of to-day’s gome: Clacinnat . 8t. Louis...,. J 1010010 *~10 00000000 1—1 BroosuyN, July 21.—Result of to-day's gome: Brooklyn. A —8 Athloiles 9 31.0:3 9-1-0°1 0 0-—-6 0320002 Amatenr Gamens. GurAND IsLAND, Neb., July 21.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bk |—The home team recoivod its first shut-out to-day at the hands of the Kearnoy club bya score of 5to 0. Corumnus, Neb,, July 21.—|Special Tels- gram to Uik Bep, |—Ulysses and Columbus played « gawe of baso ATiSbls ftortions ab the fair grounds, resulting in core of 18 to 6'in fuvor of the home club. CrNTRAL Gi7¥, Nob., July 21.—[Speclal Tol- ogram to T Bee.|—The Central City-La- fayette gumo of ball to-duy was won by the latter. Score, 2 to 5. - RATI REDUCTION DENIED. Tho Sweeping Out By ihe Missouri Qommissioners TKaxsas Crry, July Journal from Jefferson City, Mo,, suys: The ‘publisned report that the state board of ‘weilroad commissioners had made a ruliog re- duoing freight rates in Missouri 85 per cent on live stock and conl, and 10 per cent on ain i entirely without foundation, hairman Downing was Kreatly -errhod at the interview with Commis- sloner Hreathitt, in which it {s stated that the board had made such a ruling. Downing says the matter Il under advisement and decision will be reached next week, 0 such sweeping reduction, if any 1 be made, o First Olaim Contest klaboma, July 2L--Register Lalle and Recolver Barnes, of the land ofice here, have ronderea u decision in the first olaim ‘contest in Oklahoma. There wel three claimants for a quarter section adja- _oent to the Santa Fe road right of way oppo- “#ite. Oklahoma City. The first was Deputy Urited States Marshal White. He was on " the grouud the day Oklahoma was opened, {n his ofMcial capacity, and stak is' Cclslm at 12:0L° P J. Blan- Chard, an employe of the Santa Ko, Stepped: on the quarter @t moon, drove his stake. Vestal Cook was in the ickusaw nation at noon, but with the ald of four confederates who supplied him with M of horses, reached the quarter sec- ion at 1 o'clock and asserted his olam. Mossrs. Lille and Barnes bold that all three vivlated the law ; that none of them are enti- 1o the w«u - question and thay mfi “have - forf all rights 1o take aud hol uué in Indian torritory, —_—— A Fatal Oreamery Accident, Praxixvitie, Pa, July #L—Arnold Franeis and a boy named Kines were killed this morain, the bursting of a separator ::‘m"ll& wlon Bluitl;l:dr]. John ":: n, porty, woarm ¥ Traowred, | U BHE WASN'T HURT. A Young Man Fires at His Wifs, Then Killa Himselr. Sr. Loum, July 21.—A Kirksville, Mo., special says: About two years ago James Sylva and Miss Buckal, a daughter of a well known oitizon of Kirksville, wore married and removed to Keokuk, Ia. About six months ago Mrs. Syiva returned to the pa- rental roof, stating that her husband would not support her. Sylva arrived here this morning_and went to his wife's father's house. Ho asked his wife: “Allie, will you return to me!" The young woman replied in the negative, whereupon Sylva fired upon her and she fell. Sylva then turned the weapon upon himeelf and sent a ball into his brain. " He will die. Mrs. Sylva was not urt. O — Holt Oounty's Development. ArkixsoN, Neb., July 21.—[Special to Te Bee,]—Holt county is to the very front. Everything mds fair for Holt county to stand in line among the foremost counties of tho state. We have had an abundanco of rain this season and crops are looking fine all through this locality, along the lmoe of the Fremont, Etkhorn & Missouri Valley rail- rond. The rye is about taken care of and is yielding better than ever before. Oats are looking very good, although the straw isa trifle shorter than usual. Wheat is in splen- did condition, while corn 18 simply 1mmenso for a country as new as this, Farmors havo been cropping lands here for about six years and all carly settlors aro aware of the fact that every new country has some parti drawback for the first five or six years. people of Holt county feel now that hard times are over. Many oarlier sottlers be- came discournged during the three years of hard times and either sold their lands for @ small sum, or left them uncared for and went to some other pluce where they thought opportunities for making money were great- or. Now many of theso people have seen their mistake and are coming back home again, Some who sold their farms have re- turned and rent, perhaps, the farin adjoining their old place, or somewhera in the imme- diate neighborhood,fwhile others who had money enough to buy another farm dia so, Now is the time to invest money in farm land in this locality, as the land will doubla in value within & short time. Enclose 2 conts for reply and Arthur C. Croasman will cheerfully give answer to auestions to par- ties interested. g Ourtis Pashing to the Front. Curmis, 'Neb., July 2L.—(Speclal to The Brz.|—Curtis ia still pushing to the front, in fact, all of Frontier county is In superb shape. Small grain is a wonder aud all in the shock. Corn 18 very promising. Several new buildings will soon be erected in the city of Curtis. A new Congregational church will be commenced mext woek. The board of trade at their last méeting clected Dr. S. R. Ruzee as vice president from Frontie county to act with the Nebraska State De velopment association, About twenty-five thousand advertising circulars will be 18sued by the board to show the eastern immigrant the splendid advantages offered in this won- derful section of our wonderful state. The finest grist mill west of the Missouri river has just been comploted at an expense of $21,000; it is run by water power furnished by Curtis lake. The suply is 1nexhaustablo, covering, as it does, nearly a fuli quarter sec- tion, and being over twenty feet deep. PARNELL RONURED. ‘The Freedom of the City of Glasgow Conferred on Him, Epixsufo, July 21.—The freedom of the city was conferred upon Parncll yesterdayt The presentation took place in the corn exchange, which was pucked to the doors, while hundreds were unable to gain admit- tance. The Earl of Aberdeen was in the chair, Parnell was glven an enthusiastic reception, the immense audience rising and cheering for several minutes, Deputations {rom.ail the liberul societies in Scotland pre- sonted addresses. Gladstone, in a letter to the Farl of Aber- doen, wrote: “Tho time has not yet arrived for detailing the memorablo oxperienco of Parnell during the last two years. 1 beheve that exverience to be unparalleled 1n the tory of any Sritish statesman 1n parliament: for the past two ceuturies, 1 consider the Parnellites 10 be in the best sense conserva- tives. They have been a restorative force of great value to the peace of Ircland and the nonor of England, while the tyranny of tho government, has deepened the aversion of Ireland." SRy THE KANAWHA FLOOD. Farmers Will Have to Depend on Charity Till th> Next Crop. WiseLiNG, W. Va., July 2L.—A special from the flood district to-night states it is fearad tho death list will bo much increasod when the points now cut off from the outside world are heard from. A late dispatch says the village of Morristowh, Wirt county, was swept entirely away. Groat suffering exists, and the county commission- ers will issuo an appeal for aid. The cloud- burst occurred on the Limestohe mountains, where the five creoks that were flooded have & common source, 'Lhe damage o cfops is inestimable nnd tiie farmers will bo depend- ent upon charity until next season. —— THE VERDICT A SURPRISE, Crogan and Richardson Acquitted of the Oharge of Murdering Barns, Cir10a60, July 20.—~The sensational trial of the attendants, Crogan and Richardson, of the county imsape asylum, charged with 1aurdering au inmate named Burns by mis- treaumont, oaume to a close last night, the jury roturning the surprising verdict of “Not guilty.” TN SR, Blue Laws Enforced in Cincinnati, CINCINNATI, uly 21.—~Nover since the beginning of the attempt to enforoe the Sunday law were the saloons 80 generally and tightly closed as tlioy have been to-day. ‘Tnere bave been fifteen arrests made, Drug stores wore not permitted to sell anything but medicines and soda water. Not a cigar or plug_of tobacco could be had except olandestinely. Cigar_ stores that are news stands wero allowed to koep open to sell papers, The barber shops were shut up tightly, 1t is understood the closing of the oigar stores is @ retaliutory move by \he snloonkeepers, as tho law and order league is moving agulust saloons only. PORERSS Decorating Communist Graves, Panis, July 31, —1he Marxists marched n aprocession to the cemetery of Pere La Chaise to-day and lald wreaths uGpon the graves of the dead commyzisie. Herr Lieb- necht and others deiivered orations at the tombs of Bosrno and Heine. A band of pos- sibliets, headed by Mrs. Besant, also visited tue cemetory and decorated the communist graves with wreaths, also placing upon them B which had been plucked from the graves of the auarchists executed at Chicago. L A Dry Day For Kansas Olty, ISANsA8 Orry, July 21.—The Bunday law had its designed effect for the first time to- day sbice its attempiea enforcement, and Kansas City 18 as dry as prohibition Kansas to.day, The chief of police placed in the hi of forty-five oficers blank warrants for the arrest of saloon keepers who violated the Downiug law. The oficers were in citi- zens' olothes aud kept strict watoh. Only threo of them found a chance to arrost any- body. DU T A Big Wh Yield. 87, Pavw, July 21.—The assistant general manager of the Manitoba railroad has just completed a thorough personal examination of the wheat crop along the liues of the Manitol g-wu and predicts that the country tri utary o his lines will furnish Io:“lll'nlpmlntlt oast 2,000,000 bushels of w e Registered Letters Missing. MiLwavkes, July 81, s are investi- gsting whe disappearsnce from the postofiice of twenty-eight registered lotters. Owing 10 the reticence of the detectives and the postmuster, 1o dotails cen ve loarned beyoad Lle fuct that the letters are wissing, TIMBER CULTURE ENTRIES. Those Porfected Bofore Sparks' Ruling Pass to Patent. KEEPING UP WITH THE TIMES A Democratic Officenolder Files In- dorsements to frove He s a Enthusiastio Republican—Land Office Changes Kxpected. 513 FOURTRRNTE STHRERT, WasniNatoN, D, C., July 21, Secretary Noble's ruling on the timber culture entries perfected before June 27, 1887, is of the hignest importance to several hundred of Nebraska farmers who have had their patents for timber olaims held up for several years under Commissionor Sparks' arbitrary and retroactive ruling of that date. Secretary Noble orders that all en(rios made under the timber culture act, as oconstrued before the time of Sparks' order, shall pass at once to patent, and that all estries made after the announcement of that ruling shall bo governed by the principles therein enunciatod. Secretary Noble's order is the ond of two years’ persistent work by Senator Paddock. At the opening of the last congress hé introduced a bill and passed 1t in the senate covering the point involved. Upon its fuilure in the house he added an amendment to the house land bill when it came over to the senate, which failed with the bill itself. A week ago, as wired in the dispatohes, he prepared a brief on the subject which he present ed in person to Seornnr¥ Noble, urging immediate action on behalf of a large number of his constituents in northern brasks. The order of the secrotary is the consequence. The point in question illus- trates ex-Commissioner Sparks' bungling method of attompting 10 do & right thing. The timber eculture law requires that the land “'shall be cultivated to trees” for a cer- tain time. Under the ruling of previous land commissioners the time was counted as runniug from the preparation of the soil for trees. Thousands® of patents were issued on this basis. Mr, Sparks ordered that the oconstruction 10 be placed on the law should count the time from the actual date of final planung and tree growth and he held up all entries made under the previous construction which had not yet been patented. Secretary Noble 10w susiains Sparks’ ruling as far as all en. tries made subseauent to his order are con- cerned, but very justly passes to patent all entries perfected under the consteuction of the doparument previous to Mr. Sparks' ruling. Wasmixorox Buneav, TaeOsana Bre, } A 00D REPUBLICAN NOW. Assistant Secretary Batcholler recently +*callod down" & man named Baxter, in_the treasury department, who filed a iot of in- dorsemonts to show how good a republican he was, forgetting that four years ago his democracy was indorsed to the highest de- gree and ihat the papers are still on file, Mr. Batcheller tells the story as follows: *“It becamo necessary for the best interests of the office to out down the salaries in that division. 1t narrowea Gown to two men, one arepublican and the other Mr. Baxter. I don’t know really what his politics are, or whether he haa any. His republican and democratic indorsements operated to neu- tralize euch other. So we reduced his sal- ary. Incases within the civilservicerules I shall not take politics into consideration, My only aim will bo the best possiblo organ- ization of the offico, but there is one class of people at this office who I am going to throw out. During the last administration a lot of people were appointed to positions as labor- ers ana mossengers and the like, and after- ward, after passing part of the examina- tfons, appointed to clerkships without ever having passcd a competitive oxamination, ‘Thise [ fntend to get rid of. They have no business in the department and cannot stay; but wherever a- clerk was regulacly ap- pointed after a competitive exsmination under the civil service rules, he is protty safe. As for Mr. Baxter’s case, it was con- sidered on its own merits, aside from his politics, and really I doubt if anyone could find out what bis politics are, It is @ very peculiar case." LAND OFFICE CHANGES LIKELY, Senator Paddock Is expected 1o arrive 1 Washington again Tuesday or Wednesday, and it is believed that his return will be fol- lowed by a number of additional changes amoag the land ofticers wy the Nebraska dis- tricts. Thero are several cases ready to be acted upon, and as soon as the two senators from Nebraska say the word the changos will be made. Assistant Secretary Chand- ler, of the interior department, under whose charge these land oMces come, does not be- lisve 1n making any fuss over matters of this kind, but Is quite willing to appoint re- publicans instead of democrats whenever he thinks the good of the state demands it, and the appointive powers in the stato reach an agreement. SHONT-LIVED DLISS. J. W. Hilligoss, of Indlana, who was made chief of division in the pension office undor Geueral Black, was recently permitted to take a civil service examination, and, upon successfully pagaing that,was assigned to the division of special sgents and given a place in the tleld with headquarters at Zanesville, Ho left for Zauesville a day or two ago. “Yestorday General Bussey, In l6oking over the List of those who were to walk the piank, saw Mr. Hilligoss' namx? and mgrked him for diemissal. Hilligoss {s one of the fortu- nate pensioners who have rocently had their pensions re-rated and it is said that his back pay, which comes with thore-rating, amounts tosomething like §2,000 or §3,000, GOLD MINING NEAR WASHINGTON. Very littlo has been heard recently of the gold mining operations which have been going on in close proximity to Wushington. Cour correspondent learned to-day that Senator Sawyer keops a force of more than forty men employed in his mine almost con- stantly, ana that ho is digeglug out enough of the precious metal to pay him & very hand- some profit on his investment. Michigan, Iliinois and Missouri capitalists have bought upall the land in tho vicinity of Senator Sawyer's purchase, and within~ a very short time operations are likely to bogin on & largo scale. These men, however, are conducting their business on the stock company plau, and they will cortainly not be as successful as the Wisconsin senator. The first mine in this vicinity was worked more than two hwndred yoars ago by & party of Englishmen, and s ac- count of their work is given In an old English Publication almont out of print. now, - Som twenty years or &5 ago & stock company was formed, haft sunk,end all the oapitalwas n a mino adjoiniug the Sawyer ors Of the compauy depende upon getting their gold from the stockheld- ors rather than the rock, but for & number of years several old darkies who live in the ity of the great falls of the Potomac been making good livings by crudely pauning out the gold from the washings of the little orecks that empty into the Potomac, ‘The geologis nd scientific men who were very skeptical at first now admit that the gold-bearing rocks on the Powmac give {)rmnhen( being exceedingly valuable finds. It s belioved that the outoropping in the viein- ity of Washington is but the terminus of a vein which rurs through the entire Apa- lachian chain of mountains, terminating in Georgia, CHEAP STAMPS. Itisa fact of some note in the postoMoe department that the contractors for postal cards this year out their figures to prices far below the mates of the departmeont. Third Assistant Postmaster General Hazen, in speaking of this subject to your correspond- ont yesterday, said "these contractors must Ret far better prices from the paper mills than the government can or they oould not rd t0 put in such bids as thoy have this time. “I'wns & groat deal surprised, when the bids were opened, at the lowness of the figures, and the goverament will save & reat many thousand dollars frow this fact, 'ie lowest bidder runs about $14,000 below any of his competitors, and they were all lo thi ted, The comtract is out by the govern- t, n‘a\mh to nearly §700,000 for the four years which 1% has to run.” A He Miges Crry, Mont., July 91.—[Special egram 1o Tus Buz.|—~A heavy land slide the Northern Pacific road at @ heavy cut six milos west af lmre, near Lignite,occurred to-day. Tratod #or the enst were dolayed nineteen hours., = The ocut goes through the bluffs of the Bad Lynds, ono of which woalk- ened through intaral springs and fell across the track, tvhich for half a mile is covered to & depth of fif] feet. No one was in- jored. The Mfi“ uld not be_removed, as the bank kept glyihg away. The top of the mass was leveloti off and a temporary track Imid, over whichi trains are running. 'he wires wero down for twelve hours. The train from St. PAtil Iaid over hero all night. Doz WL AId ene Miners. Citioao, July 9%~-The exeoutive board of the Knights of Labior held a session to-day. It was decided to® fssue & call to the assom- blies for aid for the striking miners of the Braidwood, T1L, and Brasil, Ind., distriots, i dode. A Natural Gas Trust. Prrrsune, July 81.—A speolal from Lima O, says there is a movement on foot to con solidate all of the natural gas companies in Ohio and Indiana, aud to put them into a trust. ———— Ex-Goy. Dewey, of Wisconsin, Dsad. Oassvinee, Wis, Juiy 91.~Ex-Governor Nelson Dewey died lust night, aged seventy- olght. ——— An Opium Joint Rafded. The police rafded n oplum joint at 412 South Twelfth stroot about 1 c'clock this morning. The place is & laundry and Chinese store kept by Sam Lee. The following almon-eyed celestials were found i the place, the first three being caught in the act of “hitting_the pipe:” Ah Dook, John Sang, Sam Whh, Ah Lim, Ah_Sang, Ah Ling, Charles Lowis, Ah Sam, Ah Quong and Ah Gong. After tho crowd had been safely lodged in jail tho nolico returned to the place and captured throe pipes and threo lamps, togother with some onium. The pro- prietor, Sam Loe, was allowed to _remain at his store to guard it until morning, when he will be caused to appear for trial, pradhailsikiidhed More of MoCormiok's Crooked Work. Tt has developed that McCormiok, the oon- fidonce man confined in the city jail. was ooncerned 1 & latge silkk robbery In Sloux City about two months ago. He inveigled two othor men into the robbery, and when he was captured saved himself by turing state's evidence, after whiph he was allowed to go. Ruskin “Go s For" Amerioa, In the last number of his ‘“‘Prate- rita,”” otherwise his autobiography, John Ruskin gives the following de- scription of Prof. Charles Fliot Nor- ton, of Harvard, the editor of Carlyle’s Lotters and critlo of Froude’s Carlyle books: “The meeting at St. Martin’s with Norton and his family was a happy one, Eminently sensible and amable, all of them; with the further eiasticity and acuteness of the American intelloct, and no taint of American ways. Charles himself, a man of the highest natural’ gifts in their kind; observant and critical rather than imaginative, but with an all-pervading sympathy and sensibility, absolutely free from envy, ambition and covetousness, a scholar from his cradle; not only now a man of the world, buta gentleman of the world whom the highest born and best bred of every nation, from the red Indian to the white Austrian, would recognize in a moment as of their caste.” Ruskin thinkg his friend has been spoiled by his American environment, for he adds: ‘!Since that day at Sallen- ches it has been amatter of raost curi- ous speculation to me what sort of soul Charles Norton'wbuld have become if he had had the plessing to be born an English tory, or, a Scotch Jacobite, or " Fronch . gentilhomme, or o Savoyard count, * % * ‘What a grand, happy, consistent creature he would have boen,while now he is as hope- lessly out of getir'and place, over in the states there, as & runaway star dropped into purgatory; and twenty times more aslave than the blackest nigger he ever sot his white scholars to fight the south for; because all the faculties a black has may be fully developed by & good master (see Miss Edgeworth’s story of the .{rame(ul negro), while onty about the thirtieth or fortieth part of Charles Norton’s effective contents and capacity are beneficially spent in tho dilution of the hot lara and fructifica- tion of the hot ashes of American character, which are overwhelming— borne now on volcanie air—the life of Scotland, England, France and Italy. coze e LD, EXILING A BELL. A Ourious Performance Iin Russia Some Three Hundred Years Ago. One of the most curious sights in To- bolsk was the Kamaoulie Koloko, or “bell with the ear torn off,” says the Youth’s Companion. It was kept in a kind of shed near the archbishop’s pal- ace, and its romantic history is often told in Tobolsk, In the sixteenth cen- tury Prince Dimitri, the rightful heir to the Russian throne, was deposed by a revolt led by Boris Godunoff, who was then proclaimed ozar. The seat of gov- ernwent was at Uglich and there Dimi- tri was sent to be under the immediate control of the unlawful ruler, The usurper, fearing that the ‘popu- lace might awake to the claims of the young prince, planned his assassination, and he was one day stabbed in a court yard. None of the bystanders showed a disposition to aid him. A vpriest, however, saw the crime from the cathedral belfry and immedi- ately began tolling the great bell, which was held sacred, and only rung on unusual occasions, such as lf‘n’e cor- onation or death of a czar. Furious at this tacit expression of veproach, the czar commanded that the vriest should be tortured and executed and the bell taken down and sod side the bodv of its ringzi. was literally fuliiiad and the bell was beator with clubs by the entire popu- ince, with the C; Boris at their head, But this was not all. In those days Siberian exiles were tortured before sotting out on their journey by having their nostrils torn, off by rea-hot pin- cers, The czar now decreed that the bell should be »xil8d to Tobolsk, but as it had no nostri]s He commanded, with a certatn grim “humor, thatone of its ers should be removed, to indicate grace, ¢ The people of Tobolsk are very tond of this trophy, An@%ne sees bells ov where in the toWH, as signs over tho inn doors, toys,” Work-boxes, cigarette- cases, and even &lgove- —_————— Worth More Thanlis Weight in Gold. The most valuable book in the world is said to be a Hébkew bible at the Vatl- can in Rome. 1In,512 Pope Julius, then in great financid) straits, refused to sell it to a syndicate, et rich Venetian Jews for its weighti,in. gold. The bible weighs more thaw 825 pounds, and is never carried by less than three men. The price refused by Pope Julius was therefore about $125,000, and that, too, when gold was worth at least thrice what it 18 now worth. ————— The Finest Jewels. ‘The finest private collection of pearls in France belongs to Mlle. Dosne, sister- in-law of Thiers. It is valued at 1,600,000 francs. Mme, Thiers, her sis- ter, shortly before her death gave to the state a pearl necklace worth 100,000 francs. This necklace is now in the Thiers museum in the Louvre. The Duchess d’Uzes, who, after Mlle. Dosne, has the finest jewels of all’ the Freunch women, possesses & diamond necklace valued at 1,200,000 francs. Mme. Henr, Say has a necklace of white aud blacl pearls worth 400,000 francs, RUSTY O 10WA MATTERS. Justioe Miller's Oareless Artiocle in Harper's Magazine. SOME RIDICULOUS BLUNDERS. Wrong on the Railroad Mileage, Off on the State Debt, Mistaken on the Leading Urop, Under- rates Manufactories, Ko, Surprisingly Behind the Times. Dis Moixes, Ta,, July 21.—[Special to Tius Bee. |—No article for a long time has called out so muoh criticism as Justico Miller's sketch of Iowa in the current number of Harper's Monthly. It is seldom that an article written wvith friendly ntont Is a0 much condomned as this. As a good citizen of Iowa, proud of her history and her insti tutions, Justice Miller woula not say a word intentionally to injure her, but his state- ments in what professes to be a reliable article, have vory muoh annoyed the peoplo of the state. Thus, for instance, in speak- ing of the good oredit of the state, ho says that it hasn't over $300,000 of bondod indebt- edness. That may have been true at some former visit, when tho justice was on the Iowa cireuit, but there isn’t now a dollar of bonded indebtedness against the state. The last dollar of the war bonds to whioh he rofers was paid off somo six yours ago, when Congressman Conger was stato treasurer. The distinguished author makes a very strange mistake also in ropresonting that " wheat is the principal cereal raised in Iowa. Next to wheat, he says, he would place In- dian corn. The judge has tho order of these crops roversed. He quotes from the census of 1880 to show that Iowa had raised in one year 81,000,000 bushels of wheat. If he had oonsultod more recent authority he could have learned that last year tho wheat crop was but little moro than 19,000,000 bushols, while the corn crop was over 821,000,000 bushels, or ten vimes as much as the groat: est yleld of wheat in any one year in Iowa. There isn't much doubt that oorn, and not ‘wheat, is king in Iowa. In speaking of Iowa as an agricultural state, Justico Miller makes the mistake that many do, of supposing that it has no manu- factures worthy of mention. It will proba. bly surprise him to know that ae long ago as 1854 the value of the manufactured products of this state amouated to more than the value of the entire corn crop for that yea The state oensus of 5 shows that there wero at that timo 2,865 separate manufactur- ing enterprises in this state, and that the total value of their products for the preced: g year was 870, The corn c yoar wasn't as e since, but last year, wiien it was th in tho history of theé state, its value, accord ing to the secretary of the state agricultural society, was but 374,000,000, 1t is fair to as- sume that the manufactures of the state have also increased correspondingly and are now fully cqual In value to the largest crop of corn the stato ever produced; more than this, the Industries reported are found in every county of the nincty-ninein lowa, save four. This shows that Iowa is quite a manu facturing state after all. The justice also takes a little whirl at the schools of the state, and, desiring to make an_honorable exception to his surprising statement that the denominational schools don’t amount to much in Towa, he says that the Congragationalists iave one pretty good school in Cornell university at Grinneil. But Cornell college is a Methodist school, and is located at Mount Vornon, and not at Griu nell. At the latter place, however, the Con gregationalists have an excellent school, known as lowa colleg The articie also refors to the business of raising_cattle as a declining industry -in Towa. On the contrary, it is steadily increas- ing, as fowa has so cometo tho front n this matter that it is now the second state in the union in_the number of its cattle, and the first in the vaiue of the stock. 1n giving the mileage of the state the arti cle places the amount at a little more thau six thonsand miles, with several states ahead of it. The writer evidently got hold of somo back number when he consufted the reports, The mileage 18 now sabout nine thousand miles, and it stands next to the top. He refers to the state agricultural college a8 _having been organized *‘some flve or six yenars ago.” As a matter of fact, the collego ‘was established nearly thirty years ago, and has been graduating students for alout twenty years. 3 ‘These blunders show how seriously the article is affected by the careless way in which it was written. It is more to be re- grettod because Justice Millor's high star ing will give the articie unusual influence and weight. Smatlpox Checked. Des MoiNes, Ia.. July 2L.—~[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bree.]—The people of Iowa can thank their state board of health for es caping a general contagion of smallpox. There have been about a dozen isolated cases this summer, all truceable to a German fam- ily that came to this country a fow weeks ago with a case of smallpox among other be- longings. But while many porsons were ex- posed tho state board of health moved so quickly and thoroughly, with the help of lo- cal boards, that they were able to quarantine and prevent the spread of the diseaso in spite of a great many exposures. There have been but two deaths and about twelve onses, and the sick are recovering and tho disease is effectuslly chi i Only n Tram WATERLOO, 1a., July 21—|Special Telegram to Tus Bee.]—Considerable comment fs being awakened at Lanorte City by the action of the authorities in ragard to John Lee, the Colorado tramp who was killed by the cars just outside that place. He and two companions were slecping near tho track and a train struck him, may of his legs very bLadiy. The red gbouc 3 “0'olock in the morning, and tnough one of his companions went to town at once for help, nobody camo ncar them until about 7 o’clock. Lee lived about an_hour, The remains were taken to La porte uni:, and after the inquest was buricd in a rough' pine box without being washed or his olothing changed, the trustees declining 10 @0 Lo the expense of a better burial, Tha Plea of the Millers. Des Moixes, Ta., July 81.—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.|—During the past week the millers of Towa, in their meeting in this clty, created a good deal of inteieston the subject of raising wheat. They agreed that the milling business was not what it used to be in Towa. They attributed it partly to the falling off in the wheat crop. ined to urge the farmers to give moro at- tention to wheat ralsing, and the presidenc of the Miller's assooiation, Col. Consigney, of Avoca, 18 to prepare an address on this subject for distribution over the state, *He Done Been Scen.” A little darky boy was vecently brought before the police court of Rich- mond, Va., charged with some trifling offense, He asked to huve his case post- poned for one day so that he might bring as o witness another darky boy who would exonerate him, The next morn- ing his friend was in court, but to the surprise of everybody, his testimony was ontirely agaiust the accused boy and resulted in his conviction, When the prisoner was asked to explain this fact, he remarked philosophically, “*Oh, he done been secn since I sawn him,” oo Rat Oatohers an Lawyers, The income of a professional rat catcher averages 1,600 per year, and there are only ten of them in the United States. The average income of lowyers is only 8700 per ycar, and the ranks are overcrowded, —— ring by Moonlight. Farmers in the Schuylkill valley, Pennsylvania, have been doing the! work by moonlight to escape the mid- day heat. HE CARRIED THE BASKET. How a Nice-Looking Tacoma Widow Utilized a Dude, A lady who lives in the suburbs was down in tho city one evening buying marketing, says the Tacoma Globe. She had a large baskot full and was going to the corner of Ninth street and St. Helen's avenue for the purpose of tak- ing the motor line for l\vr home. She has a petite and rather youthful figure, but s about Afty yoars of age and has been a widow for a_decade. A dapper young man, who was also a “‘masher.” saw her and approaching nskod her if he might not help her home with hor basket. Now this widow hates dapper young men, and especially mashers; thereforo she told the young man he might see her home and carry her basket. He thought he had made an immense hit, and he also thought in the dim light that the widow was n beautiful young lady, The widow transferred her basket to the dapper young man's arm, and relingmshing her idea of riding home in the horse-cars in order that she might have a large bushel basketful of fun she started with her escort for o walk of about fi'teen life-size, fuil-longth squaves, Tho base ket got frightfully heavy in about five blocks; in ten it was a huge white ele- phant, and by the time the two reachod the lndy’s rosidence it was one of tho pyramids of Igypt, and the dappor young man was badly blown and aito- gethee broken up. The widow rang the bell at her door and a grown young lady came asking: “Why, ma, what did you ring tho bell for? The door was not looked.” The dapper young mun almos . iainted, and when the widow said: “‘Won’t you come in,sir? My husband would be glad to so0 you,” ho was paralyzed. But ho recovered quickly and went away from there, und the widow has been having convulsive fite of Inughtor evor since. in which she is ably sejonded by her daughter and the remainder of her family, The mashor has been taking iron and quinine ever since to build up his strength. ARSI s The Snake ¥ought All Three. As Mr. Washburn, of Brooks county, Georgin, was_passing around the back part of his plantation, accompanied by two bulldogs, one asmall one, tho lattor was attacked by a monster rattlesnake. The larger one went bravely to tho res- cue. The sniko immediately relensed the small dog nnd sprang for the larger one, biting him in the neck. Mr. Washburn in the meantime got hold of a fence rail and started for the scene of the battle. On seeing Mr. Washburn, the snake left the dogs and sprang for him. The old gentleman backed a few steps and struck at the snakoe with the rail. The rail took effect on the head and stunned him. Then Mr. vand in a few minutes killed the reptile. The snake nan’s thigh and seven snake was an old set- 11 dog recovered, but the the next day. foet long tler. The s large one d - Was eady For While Mike mes, o boy fourteen vears of age, wus going thirough the 00ds near Clarksvi ¥ with his father, one dav , he said: “Fathor, if a snake was to bite me you 1st ought to see how quickly I would my leg with thié rgbber strap,” ) positively, and no soonor were the words out of hi [ ime I am snake-bitten.” fathor, turning around, saw his son drawing the bandage tightly around his leg just above the bite, The old man killed the snake and found it to be an adder of the most deadly kind. The ad- ministration of internal remedies nt once commenced: Fivst, one plug, then an old-time twist of home-made, went down like food; then one pint of corn whiskey. All this made him very sick, and he vomited frecly. He 1s yet unable to walk, but is rapidly recovering. e The Penality of Groed, A goodl fish story comes from Sara- togn Lake. ady, a veteran angler, was fishing there one morning last weel about 4 o’clock, using side lines with minnows as bait for bass. She felt a tug at one line and began pulling it i A fino bass was at the end of it, wgled in two lines. The voracious fellow had swallowed the bait of one line, hook and all, and before he knew he was caught had swum underthe boat and devoured hook and minnow of the other line as well, - A couple of hours later he expiated his i on the b hence he deheiously served with oream- hashed potatoes for his captor’s break- tast. e An Interesuing Old Manuscript At _the recent meeting of the Ama can Philosophical association in Baston J. H. Hall narvated some legends from a Syriae manuscript veceivod from Per- sin o fow wooks ago. The manusoript containg an account of Moses’ colloquy with tho Lord on Mount Siani: of the let- ter which fell from heaven upon the hands of Athenasias. patriarch of Gront Rome (which in documents of this sort means Constantinople or Byzantium), ahout the year 740 A. D.; of Ghrist find- ing the skuil of Avsenius, kingof Egypt, it valk and tell all his experi- o5 in h, and going down to Gohenna, It concludes with Christ raising Arsenius to life und praseribing a course of exght years’ good conduct to fit him for heaven, e A Blind Boy's Bdueation. Artiur Blmer Hateh, who recontly graduated from Bates college, in Maing, has been blind from childhood. His lessons weve learned by the aid of his mother and _ his fellow students. His mother read his Enghish studies to him until he had them firmly fixed in his memory, and his Latin and Greek he lenrned with the assistance of the other boys. Wheu his turn came to recite, instend of reading the text from the book himself, the teacher would read a passago and he would thon translato and give its grammatical construction. Geometry he mastered by menns of a cushion, upon which he outlined the propesitions with ping and twine. A Formiduble Saw Fish, Thursda, erman_ of . Augustine, . spreading their nots at the mouth of the little channel on the enst sido of the marsh island just across the or when a monster saw fish, which was coming down with the tide, became entangled in the meshes of the net. In the at- tempt to secure him he got underneath the fishing canoe, neurly capsizing it He was finally captured and brought to the corner of the old fort and safely landed, The fish measures fourteen feet in length and had a formidable- looking saw with a row of twenty-eight teeth on either side. - The Phonograph and Diplomacy The phonograph has been employed in diplomatic correspondence. 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