Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 2, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. K. ROSEWATER, Editor. —r—— PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. e TRRMB OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dany Ignrmn‘ Rdition) including Sunday r‘ 10 Y ear. orSix Montha. orThr 66 Mon 0 Omaha Sunday Heo, mailed to any address, One Year .. ¢ Jgekly Hoa One Year g ana Offics, Fsuflding v . Cittngo O, i Rookery Buildin i o 00! 3 .firf ork otfiaa. Rooms 14 and 15 Tribune 'Waahisigton Ofos, No, 513 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCR. All communications relating to news and edi- i’l"l.:l matter should be addressed to the Editor of the Hee. BUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remit be addressed to The Bee Publi: aha Drafts, checks and postoftice ord made payable to the order of the company. e Bee Publisking Company, Proprietors. Bre Building Farnam and Seventeenth Sts. CEE—————ees—— Corner cen should Company, ors THE DA BEE. Fworn Statement of Oirculation. State of Nebraska, ! County of Douglas, (% Georgo B, Tzschuckfecoretary of Tho Bes Publishing Company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of Tk DATLY Bex for the week ending July 2ith, 189, was as foilows: Monday, Jul . Tuesday, July &5 Wednesday, Jnly GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed o in my presonce this #7tn day ot July, A. D. 1880, [Senl.] NTE, FEIL Notary Publis. Btate of Nebraska, Count; George 1. ing duly sworn, de- oses and says that ho 18 secretary of The' Bee ublishing company, that the actual average dally clrenlation of Tie DAILY Bk for the month of July, 84 was 1+ (83 coles; for Augusty 18,183 coples: for September, 1 K151 l0s: ‘for October 188, 18084 coples: for No- ber, 1848, 18,986 coplos: for December, 1588, \298 coplesi for January, 1880, 1857, coples: for February, 1880, 18,996 copres: for March, 159, 18,804 coples; for April, 189, 18,659 coples; for May, Ik, 18,00 coples: for June, 1k, 18858, coples GRrO. B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presenos this ik day of July, 184, [SEAL. P, xxi, Notary Publl Fro all accovnts New Jersey is go- ing pretty *‘wet” these days. Ir 18 pretty hard to say just what South Omaha wants, quarantine or no quarantine, OmAMA welcomes all the foreign capi- tal which can be induced to invest in her industries. Now that Martin Burke has been ex- tradited it remains to be seen how im- portant a witness he will be in clearing up the Cronin mystery. OMAHA has at last surpassed her pork packing record for last year, and will now have a clear gain to her credit for the remainder of the present packing season, ‘WHEN paving and sewer contractors fall out the taxpayers are able to learn just how combines are worked to ladle the plums out of the pot and to divy the profits arising from the spoils. I7 18 to be hoped that Commissioner ‘Turner and Jailor Miller are enjoying their junket through the east at the county’s expeuse. The rest of the board is preparing a warm reception for them when they get home. —_— WHAT alively war dance will take place among the democrats of Montana if the republicans take advantage of their bitter famity quarrel and capture two seats in the United States senate and gain control of the state govern- ment. ALTHOUGH two months or more have elapsed since the Conemaugh disaster there is still something over a million and a half dollars to the credit of the Johnstown sufferers in the hands of Governor Beaver, of Penusylvania. Tt may be well to inquire at this date for whose benefit the fund was raised. THE efforts made to secure a pardon for Cincinnati’s notorious bank presi- dent, B. L. Harper, now serving his term in the penitentiary, are not likely to succeed. Executive clemency has been invoked, but President Harrison will, in all probability, follow the rec- ommendation of the attorney general, who is understood to be averse to allow- ing the bank wrecker to escape his just deserts. — THE author of the Williams constitu- tion, which was présented for the con- sideration of the North Dakota consti- tutional convention, and which aston- 1shed everybody with its completeness, is said to be no other than William M. Evarts, of New York. The draft is a model, such as only a great constitu- tional lawyer like Evarts is capable of compiling. While it isnot to be ex- pected that the convention will adopt the draft as a whole, there is little question but that many of its provisions will find their way into thenew constitu- tion, e ———— . THR press of Nevada can no longer econceal the necessity of doing some. thing to prevent that state from going to pieces. The population is steadily growing less year by year aud becom- ing too small and too poor to support a state government. It is urged that Novada’s salvation lies in the consoli- dation of that state with Utah, where the danger of Mormon domination would be neutralized by the addition of Nevada’s population, This proposition, however, is not at all relished by Utah, and the Sult Lake organs declare that it is far botter to remain a territory for- ever than to be aunexed to a rotten borough, e T general outlook is very bright for an active business season this fall, The only drawback Omaha jobbers ex- perience is the outrageous discrimina- tion which the railroads this side of the Missouri are practicing against Omaha, The only exception is the Northwestern voad, which has given Omaha jobbers fair play in northwestern Nebraska and the Black Hills, The low estimate of the overcharge to which Omaha jobbers are subjocted by the Uniou Pacific, B. & M. and the Missouri Pacific railroads, is over two thousand dollars a day, or over seven hundred thousand dollars a year, And this estimate is not com- puted on the basis of the heavyshipping HOW IT WORKS, Regarding the working of the high license law in Philadelphia, the Public Ledger of that city says that very fow laws have received such substantial en- dorsement from statistical returns. In Philadelphia all the public records bearing upon abuses of the liguor traffic agree in showing that the effects of the law in reducieg the numbers of saloons, limiting licenses to men of good character and bolding them to striot accountability, have reduced drunken- ness and the migsery and crime resulting therefrom. The statistics show the very important fact that ths commitments to the county prison from June, 1888, to May, 1889, in- clusive, were nearly ten thousand less than during the corresponding period of the previous year. The Sunday laws were so well observed that the commitments for offenses on those days were reduced from a fraction over two thousand in 1880-87 to less than thirteen hundred in 1887-88 and three hundred and eighty-one in 1888-89. The com- mitments of women were similarly re- duced from two hundred and eighty-one to one hundred and thirty-eight and then to forty-one. Other causes, remarks the ILedger, may have been at work, but there can hardly be any question that the main cause of this remarkable improve- ment was the roform in the methods of conducting the liquor business brought about by a good administration of the Brooks law. The argument presented by these fig- ures showing the admirable results from a judicious and properly onforced license system cannot fail to impress itself upon all practical minds. We will nov venture to say that the good effects of high license have every- where been so marked as in Philadelphia, but it can be dom- onstrated than nowhera has it failed to produce similar effects. The Pennsylvania law is somewbat more rigid than most other high license laws, and it has been administered with strict fidelity to its letter and spirit, but wherever the license system has been established and properly enforced like results to those experienced iv Phila- delphia have followed. The facts con- clusively show that drunkenness de- creases under the operation of high license, and with it necessarily the crimes traceable to the excessive use of intoxicants. There isa vigorous argu- ment in the Philadelphia statistics. THE PROJECTED TEXAS HARBOR, The promoters of a deep water harbor on the coast of Texas, to ba built by the national government, are not idle. They are utilizing every ovportunity to make public sentiment in favor ot their schemo, and they have a volume of plausible arguments in support of it. These people have demonstrated to their own satisfaction that the millions which they ask the government to ex- pend on a harbor at Galveston or some- wheve else on the Texas coast weuld be repaid many times in the ad- vantages which such an outlet would give the producers of the southwest, besides being the means of opening a new and important South American trade. It is argued that the South American vesscls, which now go to New York and the Atlantic seaboard ports, necessitating the pas- sago of Cape Hatteras, & most danger- ous point, would gladly escapes by coming into Texas. A convention representing a dozen states and territories is to be held in October, probably at Topeka, to discuss the deep-water harbor project and pre- pare for a vigorousattack upon congress in its behalf. Meantime the com- mission of army engineors appointed by the government under authority of congress to investigate the feasibility of building such a harbor in Texas will doubtless complete the dity devolved on it, and have ready its opinion by the time congress assembles. If this report be favorable as to the feasibility of the project, the chances of securing an ap- propriation for it will be more than even, It is very likely to have the nearly unanimous support of the south- ern representatives in congress, and with the addition to these of the members from the states which have united with Texas for promoting the project, the prospect for its success may be regarded as exceed- ingly fair if the engincers shall find it feasible, and there is little reason to ex- pect a different verdict. The outlook is for an extraordinary demand upon the next congress for river and harbor appropriations, and this Texas project may figure conspicuously among them. It contemplates an ex- penditure, first and last, of at least ten million dotlars, but no one familiar with the history of works of this kind will doubt that the ultimate cost would reach two or three times that amount, and then there would have to be annual ap- propriations for keeping it in condition. It would undoubtedly be a good thing for Texas, but it is not clear that the beuelits would extend greatly beyond that state. NOT 4 CANDIDATE. Rx-Secretary Whitney has taken time by the forelock to announce that he ie uot a candidate for the presidency. According to Myr. Whitney there are men in the democratic party hetter en- titied to the honor of being its candi- date than he, and he declares that in 1892 he wiil be on hand to help such a man win, The sincerity of the ex-secretary of the navy will not be doubted, but he is overmodest. There is no man in the democratic party of equal availability who has a better ¢claim to be made a presidential candidate than Mr. Whi- ney, and there is perhaps but one other for whom equal availability can be claimed, There is absolutely no one who could be sure of obtaining such financial backing, Himself a man of wealth, Mr, Whitney’s family connec- tion as the brother-in-law of Colonel Oliver H. Payne, one of the principal stockholders in the Standard Oil eom- pany, gives him resources which uno other democrat possible of being named for the presidency possesses, Colonel Payne is an exceedingly liberal man when political honors for any member of his family are staked, and as be has [ some twenty-five or thirty millions at his command there would be no lack of the sinews of war if Mr. Whitney should be a candidate for the presidency. But Mr. Whitney has availability for other reasons. He is popular with the democracy of New York, being liked by both the Cleveland and Hill factions. He would very likely do a8 much or more to harmonize the party in that state than any other democrat in the nation. Then he is a man of refined tastes and character, whose home while he was in ‘Washington was the center of the best social life of the national capital. His rocord as secroetary of the navy ison the whole creditable, better, certainly, than was made by any other member of Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet. He isa man of intelligence who has shown none of the characteristics of the demagogue. Mr, Whitney would make an exceed- ingly respectable presidential candidate for the democracy, and his selec- tion would be as creditable to the party as honorable to him- self. Mr. Whitney has not neces- sarily dostroyed his chances by the an- nouncement that he is not and will not be a candidate. Itisa long time be- fore the next national democratic con- vention will meet, and meanwhile eir- cumstances may happen that will lead the party to consider Mr. Whitney. In that event it cannot bo doubted that Mr. Whitney would cheerfully permit himself to be considered. But at pres- ent he does well not to allow his name to be identified with a weekly newspa- per at Washington THE board of trade of Atchison has called upon all boards of tradesin the Missouri river towns and cities to meat in convention at that city on August14. The object, as set forth in the call, is to induce all the commercial bodies in the Missouri Valley to join hands and endeavor by concerted effort to break up the systematic discrimination in freight rates by which the railroads are ing to build up certain favored points to the detriment of competitors. Kansas City has entered heartily into the project, and St Louis is likewise in favor of it. It called upon Omaha will extend her co-operation, as the question is as vital to this city as any other point against which discrimination exists. One of the main problems to come before the proposed convention at Atchison 1s to make the Missouri river the basing line for freight rates east and west. Several railroads are in accord with this object, and if the business men from St. Louis to Sioux City are in- duced to combine their forces, there is little doubt but that the pressure brought against the railroads would be too great for them to resist. AFTER the question of the jurisdic- tion of the United States in Behring sea 18 settled there should be international co-operation for the regulation of seal- huoting. This will be necessary in or- der to prevent the extermination of the fur seal, as well as to put an end to what otherwise would almost certaiuly be a source of continual international wrang- ling. Even with all the precautions taken to prevent reckless slaughter of the seal many thousands of them are annually killed and lost, the predatory hunters shooting many more than they can carry off. If the seal fisherius of the North Pacific should be opened to the world, with no restraints upon huuters, it is not doubted that within a few years the seal would be exterminated, and thus a very important industry de- stroyed. England, which has a consid- erable material interest in perpetuating the seal fisheries, would undoubtedly enter willingly into an agreement for the regulation of seal-hunting. It will be necessary for the interior department to deal summarily with speculators and land grabbers who are eager to profit by the government’s irri- gation plans in Idaho and other terri- tories. No sooner had the surveys be- gun in l1daho for storage reservoirs and a system of irrigation for waste lands, when the engineers were followed by surveyors in the employ of speculators, who filed on lands and water rights along the streams. Should this con- tinue the plans of the government would be wholly overturned and important storage lakes and streams woula be held by a monopoly. Only by the prompt action of the secretary of the interior can this great wrong to Idaho be ' pre- vented and a vigorous policyis demand- ed to check the land grabbers. ‘WE DO not want to have the city hall construction delayed one day longer than it will take to complete that building, It seems, however, to be a reckless waste of money to pull up the entire basement by the roots. If any part of the foundation walls can be utilized they should be al- lowed to stand. The proper thing todo at this juncture would be to invite bids for the building according to the plans and details furnished by the architect and allow each bidder to use the mater- ials now in the basement in the recon- struction, and also to utilize any part of walls which may be designated as sound and ample to sustain the weight ot the superstructure. IF 17 be true that a tanning establish- ment is soon to be located in Omaha for the purpose of converting the hides of the packing houses into leather, the long sought for industrial impetus for ‘this city has been found. Boot and shoe factories, harness and leather works and kindred industries will of necessity follow, and give Omaha that prominence as a manufacturing center which she has so long needed. E— Mr. Bayard May Remain at Home, St, Louis Globe-Democrat, Mr, Bayard authorizes the announcement that he will not re-enter politics in Delaware *‘unless he becomes convinced that his lead- ership will save the democratic party of the state.” He has only to stick to that resolu- tion, and be can remain guietly @t home for all the rest of his life, R An Over-Rapid Age. Chicago Times. ‘When you see the announcement that fruit of all kinds has arrived in the market two or three weeks earlier than usual you can make up your mind that it has arrived two or three weeks earlier than it is good for the people —— who eat it. Wa have got to that point in this country at prebofit when we do not give any- thing a chanceito ripen, except, perhaps, ogRs. ——— A Broken-Necked Trust, L Ghicago News. Mr, Wellington R. Burt's elegant inter- national salt tryst seems to have fallen at the first hurdle and broken its nock. 1t isa groat pity that some of the other trusts can- not be trivped upyas easily, Y MRS MRATE A fayal Chestnut, Kearney Enterprise, The king of the Sanawich Islands s com- ing to the United States agmin, but he will not receive much royal attention at the pub- lic expense. The fun of seelng Kalakaua drunk has lost its keen edge by repeated ex- hubitions. P —— Oar Lost Ohinese Trade. Loutsville Courier-Journal, Chinn is & market worth striving for; it was folly to lose a teade so profitable and so capable of expansion. If we are wise we will make every effort to regain the lost commerce as rapidly as possible by re-establishing friendly relations with that people. O Speak no Evil of the Dead. Detrott Tribune. Senator Eustis of Lowwsiana says that no party will ever write democracy’s epitaph. Tor the sake of posterity let us hopo that tho epitaph will be omitted. It is better thatour children’s children should never know what & gigantio old fraud democracy was. But it will probably leak out in spite of all precau- tions. ———— Lost to All Sense of Shame. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, The action of the Ohio prohibitionists in nominating a state ticket for the purpose of assisting the democrats and the liquor inter- ests only goes to prove that the recont de- feats of their party have neither taught them sense nor made them decently ashamed of their scandalous position in the eyes of all good and honest people. ————— THE AFTERNOON TEA. On the beach at Atlanuic City: Little Elsie (to her mamma)—Ma, can’t T take oft my olothes and run around in my underclothes like all the other ladies are doing? Out on the step, ‘Where moonbeams crept, Pleading was ho for just one kiss. She told him no, Quite mildly, though, And in her heartof hearts thought this: “I don’t see why, ‘When no one’s nigh, And I can blush the sweotest red, Ho isn’t brave. It's mean to cave Because I slightly shook my head." Hard he thought fate, And did not take The kiss, but softly preased her hand— She banged the door, And nevérmore Smiled she on that youth who lacked sand. At the royal garden party two weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone met the queen after an interval of three years. Her majesty had taken no noticq of them during that period, but received them on this occasion in the most “affable #nd cordial manner.” Little Lily—“Mamma, can I have your bathing suit a little while? I want to put it on my dolly to play Narraganset Pier.” Wife—I didn’t think you would find so much fault with the price of my new decol- lete dress. It costonly ahundred. Youdidn't complain about giving $10 for those long gloves of mine. Hubby—But you must re- member, my dear, you then got something for the money. Lady Caller—“I'm very sorry to hear that your husband has failed, Mrs. Takeitoasy. It must be—. Mrs, Takeiteasy (sobbing)— “Yes, it is dreadful, but,” brightening visi- bly, “my new bonnet came bome just the day betore the crash.” Dashleigh—*Could anything be thinner than the gauze that Mrs. Trotter uses to veil the charms of Cleopatra?” Dumleigh— “‘Yes, one.” Dashleigh—*What is that?’ Dumjeigh—*The limbs under the aforesaid gauze.” Young man (somewhat confused)—I—I want your daughter to marry, sir. Old gen- tleman—All right, sir. She is going to marry one of my clerks next week. Is there any- thiog else that I can do for you? It 15 a groat deal easier to write a vivia love letter of sixteen pages than it is hear it read two years afterwards in court, *Who is the author of fiction whose skill you most admire, Mrs, Marriodayear!” Mvs, Marriedayear (promptly)—My husband.!” s L STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Bertrand wants a flouring mill. Chadron is to have a city library, There are 170 lodges of Odd Fellows in the the state. A Masonio lodge was organized at Shickley last weelk. There are thirteen republican papers in Gage county. Burglars at North Bend made a small haul in jewelry and money Wednesday. Carl Madson has been arrested at Scotia for trying to cut his wife's throat. The Brayton Independent is the latest ad- dition to Greeley county journalism, The republicans of Adamscounty will hold their convention at Hastings on the 20th, Phelps county has 142,001 acres of land un- der cultivation and 140,039 as yet unim- proved. Rey. G. W. Brownjohn has resigned the n'uwr-m of the Congregational church at sner. E Culbertson and Trenton will contest for the county seatof Hitchcock county on Sep- tember 8. The seventeenth annual fair of Webstor county will be held/at Red Cloud October 1, 2,8 and 4. ol Nuckolls county: cided in favor of court house at Nglso) Burglars rausaoked the store of Rittle & Tasdeman at St., fidwards, securing about £300 in cash and goods. A new town b een platted six miles north of Platte Center, on the Union Paciflc, and has been christened Burrows.” The Weckbach ' fdmily, of Plattsmouth, who have been on' 'd three mouths tour in Germany, have returned home and were given a hearty recbption by their friends. Hon. L. C, Chaiplin, one of the pioneers of Jefferson county: several times mayor of Fairbury and a member of the state legisla- ture in 1877, died at Colfax Springs, Ia., on the 30th ult. ars A seven-year-old daughter of a widow named Longee, living at Mitonell, Scott's Bluff county, was bitten by a rattlesnake the other day and died in great agouy twenty- four hours later, K. A Moore, s veteran of the late war, was laid av rest by his Grand Army com- rades at Adams, Thursday. He was seventy- two years old and served in the Seveuty-sev- enth’ Pennsylvanis. The Central Nebraska Circuit Fair assool- ation has issued its programme for this year's meetings. They will be held at Hast- ings, September 17 to 20; Minden, September 24 to 27, and Red Cloud October 1 to 4. Purses amounting to $4,000 are offored. Will Ogden, of Fairfield, performed a re- markable trick last week. He laid a cocked ,\m on the ground, stood off about fifteen eet from it, threw & common glass ball into the air, turned & handspring, Kwknd up and discharged the gun, breaking the ball before it reached the ground. ‘The town of Haigler, i Duudy county, with 300 inbbitants, is makiog her resources ters on Thursday de- vonds for building & and wants known by means of a_ oircular to the stato press. She has an abundance of the former, but to develop thom she needs a flouring mill, an elovator and twenty busi- noss men to fill the many branches of busi- noss required by a good live town. Towa Items. Poor wages are causing servant girls to leave Dubuque. Two boys from Grinnoll have started out to make a tour of northern Iowa on bicycles. Owimng to low water the mills along the Cedar river at Waterloo and neighboring points will bogin using steam power. The one-year-old child of Calvin Baum living near Garrison, drank oarbolic aci from a bottle and died in twenty minutes. A farmer named Myrtle, living near Lo- in, is in & critical condition, the result of barng stune by bees which he was trying to ve. A funeral service was Interrupted the other day at Paulina for the purpose of tak- ing up a collection to defray the expense of the burial, »The Grand Army post of Waterloo has called on Commander Smith to recall his circular advising non-attendance upon the national encamoment. Henry Schmidke escaped from jail at El- dora by the aid of friends, who picked the lock. He was redently committed on the charge of grand larceny, A fellow convict, J. H. Jones, refused to leave jail but insisted that the jail be relocked. The state auditor’'s forthcoming biennial report will show that June 80 last, the close of the biennial period, there was due from the several counties on account of money ad- vancea for the support of the new inmates of the state institutions §25,200.18, Two men giving their names as T. J, Smith, of St. Louis, and Dr. J. A, Kean, of Chicago, have been arrested near Washing- ton. They claimed to have a sure cure for rheumatism and were to receive $40 for a cure. They prosented conditional notes for the parties to sign in duplicate. Between these notes wore promissory notes of $40. When arrested they had a number of notes against the farmers in the vicinity. A farmer named Crosby, of Buena Vista county, shipped 300 steers ' to Chicago and held them there two days, but could not et what he considered a fair price, 8o be shipped them back home and commenced buying more oattle. When he had 700 he shipped them to New York and chartered a steamer for $3,200 and took them to England. Ho realized a handsome profit on the venture and is buying more stock for the same pur- pose. The Two Dakotas, Wolsey has incorporated. Thero are eight lawyers at Armour. There are 1,050 postoflices in Dakota. Yankton’s brick yards turn out 23,000 brick a day. The Black Hills' small fruit crop is far l‘)enar in quality and quantity than ever be- lore. A local gas company has been organized at Watertown and will soon be ready to supply gas for heating purposes. Dr. J. C. Evans and E. J. Chalfant, charged with performmg un abortion on Lottie Williams, waive examination at Aberdeen and were bound over to the grand jury in bonds of #5000 each. They could not get bondsmen and returned to jail. The seventh annual session of the Brown county teachers’ institute will be held at Columbia, September 9 to 13. Durine the progress of a trial at Mandan the district attorney became involved in a quarrel with the "attorney for the defense and was knocked down in open court. Sioux [alls' convicts complaia that the chams on the balls there are shorter than thase at Huron and an effort will be made to have them lengthened. Commissioner Hagerty says that the two Dalbotas could accommodate the entire popu- lation of the United States and give each of them an acre and a haif apiece for breathing space. Roxy Qual, indicted for the murder of Tsauc C. Foster, in September, 1857, pleaded Ruilty to manslaughter in the first degree at Minot and was sentenced by Judge Rose to four years in the penitentiar, Boxanvegee SHE MARRIED THE PROPRET. But Had to Do Away With Her Hus- band KFirst. ALEDO, IIL, August 1.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee.]—Mrs. Isaac Artz was arrested here by Sheriff Warwick last night, charged with poisoning her former husband. The woman's history is a remarkable one, and is causing a sensation here as it is being brought to light. She was married more than twenty years ago to David Ramsey, a farmer of this county. After some time, during which two children were born, they were divorced, Mr. Ramsey subsequently moving to New York. Mrs. Ramsey soon married a man by the name of Coleman, liv- ing with him a number of years. Mr. Cole- man died suddenly about three years ago. and many neighbors suspected his wife had voisoned him. She remained in this county till last May, when Isaac Artz, well known in this vicinity as ‘‘the prophet,” became infatuaved with her. Mrs, Coleman was very willing to marry Artz, but he told her the Lord would not allow him to marry her while her divorced hus- band lived. = About this time Mrs. Coleman opened up a correspondence with her first busband, Mr. Ramsey, who resided in Elmira, N. Y., which resulted in her going back to Elmira, Apout the 1st of May sho and Mr. Ramsey were remarried. The second day after the wedding Mr. Ramsey was taken violently ill and aied, declaring . she had poisoned him, Mrs. Ramsey, assoon as the funeral was over, came back to Aledo and in twenty days after Ramsey’s doath married Artz, who now had no objections. Mr. Ramsey’s body was exhumed and arsenic was found in his stomach, As soon as this was known the coroner at Elmira telegraphed tho fact here and Mrs. Artz was arrested. A requisition will be asked for, The authorities expect to have Coleman’s body exhumed and examined a8 8000 a8 possible. e~ WHITNEY NOT A CANDIDATE. The Ex-Sscretary Says He Doesn't ‘Wanrt to Be President. New Yonk, August 1.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee |-—Ex-Secretary Whitney has written as follows to the Times: An item is going the rounds of the press to the effect that & now weekly newspaper is about to be established at Washington in my interest as a candidate for the presidency. Be kind enough to publish that it is abso- lutely without foundation. I am not and shall not bo a candidate for the presidency. Iam not and shall not be acandidate for nomination for that office or to any other. There are men in the democratic party much better entitled to the honor than I am, and 1 expect to help the best man to win, The item is absurd on its faco, and I object to be- ing thought capable of such nonsense, L - Mauderson's Back Pay. ‘WasmiseToN, August 1.—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—It is learned to-day that Senator Manderson has not yet received the back pay awarded him under his rerated pension. The certificate was issued and for- warded in the regular course to the pension agent at Des Moines, and within a day or two has _come back to Washington, where it awaits Senator Manderson's receipt before the check will be issued. ———— Not So Bad as Reported. CiNciNNaTy, August 1.—The rumor that many people were killed in the railroad acoi- dent near Oxford last night was unfounded. Charles Lee, fireman of the wild engine which collided with the passenger train, was the only person killed, and the engineer was fatally scalded. Several other train men received serious injuries, but no passengers were hurt. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. When Baby was sick, wo gave her Castoria. ‘When sho was & Child, she cried for Castoris, ‘When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, Wh20 she had Childron, sbe gave them Castoria A FIGHT OVER SCHOOL FUNDS Distriots Thirty-seven and Hieven, South Sioux Olty, Interested. LICENSE FUND IN CONTROVERSY, Distriot Eleven, of Covington Pre-’ oinot, Dakota County, Will Com« menoce Suit in Mandamus to Re« cover From Distriot 87, P Starer, LINcoLN, August 1. School districts 37 and 11, of Covington precinet, Duakota county, are inared hot squabble over £5,000 of the liconse school fund. It appears that district 11 foels that district 18 is robbing it out of the sum of money stated, which is justly its dus, and John A, Williams and W. B. Ammerman, moderator of the distr called on the at- torney general to-day for an opinion, propar- atory to taking the watter into the courts, the full text of which is given as follows, for it explains the situation and is a construction of law of interest to all: Lixcony, August 1, 1880.--John A. Will- iams, South Sioux Ci Dear Sir: As 1 understand your thore are two school distri Sioux City, viz.: School district No, 87 and & part of school district No. 11. It seems that unaer the ordinances of South Sioux City, liconse has been granted to retail in- toxicating liquors in part of the village limits in which district No. 11 is located, and the question arises to which school distriot does the license mouney belong. Under the pro- Visions of section 5, articlo 8, of the constitu- tion, it is provided that license money arising under the rules, by-laws or ordinances of cities and villages shall belong to, and be paid ovor to the same, respectively.’ All such cense monoy shall bo appropriated exclu- sively to the use and support of 8chools in the respective subdivisions where the same may accrue. The question then is where does the license money belong! The constitution certainly intended to have the money g0 to the school district or sub-division where the liquors were retailed, otherwise the language would have read that it should belong to the city school or schools in the city or village, but it seems to have been in the minas of the framers of the con- stitution that there would be cases whero the county or city authorities would be called on to issue a license to go beyond the county seat, or that such a case might arise as the one herein presented, and instead of allow- ing the county or city authorities to keep the money they placed it in that part of the county or city where there was a school dis- tricy, or sub-division that contained the busi- ness for which the license was granted, and the money thus re- ceivad Dbelongs to the city and should be vaid over to that part of it where the money accrued—that is school district No. 11, ‘This rule has ever been the custom where county authorities issued tho license in un- incorporated villages. They would issue the license at the county seat, but the mouey was appropriated to the school district where the business was carried on, and I am of the opinion that the money belongs in that school district where the business is carried on, and that the mouoy should be paid over to the proper officer of school district No. 11 by the proper officer of South Sioux City. Yours very truly, WiLLIAM LEise, Attorney Genoral. Action in mandamus will be commenced in the supreme court at once to obtain the money in controversy by school district 0. il LAINCOLN BUREAU OF Tim Owama Han, 1029 Self-Explanatory Letters. Harnisnurg, Neb,, July 80, 1839, —William Leese, Lincoln,—Dear Sir:~—Will you please answer the following question and oblige: At the special election held in this county on the 15th day of January, 1839, the following oficers were elected, viz.: three commis- sioners, one sheriff, one county clerk, one county judee, one county attorney, ono cor- onerana one treasurer. The question is now, does the county attorney hold ovesx un- til the election in 1590, or do we have to re- elect all the officers again at this fall el tion? Please answer as soon as convenient and oblige the voters of this county. Yours y, Jony C. BLACK. X 1839.—John C. Black, Harrisburg.—Dear Sir:—If you will look at the statute under which you were organized you will see scction 14, article 2, of chapter 17. It provides that all county officers elected at the first election shall hold their office until the next weeneral election held for the election of the same officers in other counties. The county officers are elected in the odd years, except the county attorney, who is elected in tho even year under the'law creating the office of county attorney. The same rule provides when tho first election of county officers in new covnties croated under sec- tion ten and eloven, of article um!l of chapter eighteen, and they hold until the next goneral election for such office or oficers. Very truly, WILLIAM LRESE, Attorney General, Supreme Court Matters. The supreme court has ordered the case of Shellenberger vs, Ransom to be reargued. This case came to the supreme court from Otoe county, and has aun important history. It dates back to the memorable murder of little Maggie Sheilenberger by Leo and Miranda, the futher and stepmother of the murdered and mutilated girl. During the intense ex- citement attending the most notable tragedy common ' + 830,000, | son, John O. Burgess, John Martin, that ever occurred in Otoo county, or that matter in the state, Loe and wifa employed Ransom and Wilson w defend them, and gave them a deed to a half interost in a cortain parcel of land to which they, with othora, wore heirs. It will bo romem- berod that Lee Shellenborgor died a terrible douth at the hands of an infuriate Nchrnslu\('u{ about the time hanon escaped from the connty jai sequently Miranda, his wife, was acquitted by & jury In the district court of Lancastor county, " Ransqm and Watson_then com- menced A suit in partition in Otoe county for the equitable title of the land in ques- tion, to which they were entitled under the conditions of the doed, and it has beon con- testoa step by step and now rests in the su- preme court as indicated. The following cases wore filed for trial to-day: German Insurance company, of Freeport, 1L, vs Helduk & Skbowski; on error from Cuming county. Walter H. Crabb va Prank Morrissoy; ap- ponl from Lancastor vounty. The governor to-day made the following notarial appointments: Daniel L. Billinger, Stauley, Buffalo county: George L. Loomis, Fromont, Dodge county; Cadet Taylor, Omaha, Douglas county; . F. Cristman, York, York county. The work of removing the state library into its new and permanent-quarters is on. It will hardly be completed this weok, how- over, for there are over thirty thousand books to move und put in position. Mr, Lobingier bosses the work. State Kuterprisos. Articlos of incorporation were filed in the office of the socretary of state to-day as fol- lows: The Omaha Stove Manufacturing com- pany, authorizing o capital stock of $100,000, Business commencement dato July 10, 1889, and termination July 19, 1088, Incorvorat. ors: Arthur 8. Potter, John F. Flack, Charles C. George, R. A, McEachron, Wal- ter O. Hulott and M. A. Upton. The Saline County Nurseries, of Westorn, with an authorized capital stock of $15,000. Incornorators: D, J. Maynard, E. A, Allen, F. D. Maynard, T. H. Pottor and W. H. Cowgill. The J. P. Qualey Soap company, of Omaha, commenting Husiness Juno 20, 1880, and continuing June 20, 1914, Incorporators! P. J. Qualey, W I. Rockio and J. B. Huse. 0 Bank of Mason City, of Custer coun withn authorized capital stock of §50.000. Incorporators: C. J. Stevens and P. H. Marley. I'he Blue Hill bank, of Blue Hill, Webster county, with an authorized capital stock of ncorporators: Robort A. Simp- Philip Lverhart, August Martin, Charles D. Robin- son and John Kattwitz. City News and Notes. Prof. W. J, Wise, of Pawnee City, is in Lincoln, aud will remain with friends a few days, Governor Thayer went to Shubert, Rich- ardson county, to-day, to wddress a body of picnicing farmers. He will not return home until Sunday morniug. S. S. Sesley, of Santa Barbara, Cal, father of Secretary Seeley, of the state con- tral committee, is'in vhe city. City Marshal Carder took Freddie Medouneck to the reform school at Kearney to-day. She expressed the request on leav- ing that she might never meet Jim Cunning- ham, the negro, again on this earth, A peculiar disease exists in a herd of oattle grazing near Stockwoll’s brick yards, ad- Jjoining Lincoln, which bafles the skill of veterivarians. The cattle attacked are afllicted about the eyes, and biindness fol- lows. It is said the disease is an epidemic. Thirty head of the cattie have gone blind from the disease. No name is known for it. Forty-four patients were taken to the hos- pital for the incurable insane at Hastinga from the Lincoln asylum to-day—twenty-two males and twenty-two females. e WEDDED TER MANY YEARS. Judge Andrews Marries the Sweot- heart of His Youth, New Yok, August 1.—|Special Telopram to Tur Bee,|—Judge George P. Andrews, of the supreme court of this city, was married in London to-day to Mrs. Catherine Van- nauken, a lady well known in social circles in this city. A short notice of the event was rather a surprise to the many friends of botn parties. The ceremony was performed in Belgravia chapel in the presence of a few of Mrs. Vannauken's relatives and fricnds. Judge Andrews had known Mrs. Vannauken since he was @ young man and when she was Catharine Garrison, for she 18 a daughter of Comodore C. K. Garrison. Rumor has it that she was even engaged to the judge when he was a law student. For some reason the engagement was broken; family interference i said to have had something to do with it. At all events Miss Garrison married Barrett Vannauban and the young lawyor continued 0 remain a hachelor. Mr. Vannuuken died sevoral years ago and the children which blessed their union are all grown up. One daugh*,r, Mrs. James Happerly, lives in Madras it was osten- sibly to meet her that Mr annauken went to BEurope. Judge And» . has been very pon! and is a mamver of the Union Leaguo club. Another Montana Journalist, WasiiNGToN, August L—A.<W. Lyman, who for several years has had charge of the Washington bureau of the New York Sun, and who has purchased the controlling iuter- est in the Helena Independent, the demo- cratic paper of Montana, took possession to-day. Three merry maids hang out the clothe: Miranda, Maud, and Madaline; They hear the village clock ring nine. Quoth Maud: ‘“ Why are we done so soon?, The washing used to last till noon?" ‘Two rosy mouths in chorus ope, 4Oh! now we use the Ivory Soar.” A WORD OF WARNING. There are many white soaps, each represented to be * just as good as the 'Ivory.'.x" they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genuine, Ask for “Ivory” Soap and insist upon getling ... Copyright, 184, by Procler & Gamble.