Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 3, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY AUGUST 3, 1889 THE DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Editor, PUBIIYSH-I;DT;VER' MORNI ——— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally mnrnmg Rdition) including Sunday, Ll Hon ! r e Monthi . Omaha Sunday Hise, miafled to any address. Ono Year... . Iuny nu. on- Year. . . Omana Office, Beo Builiing, N. 06, 57 Rookery Buf » l:'g" rk Office, nmm."u and 1! Tribune 11d1n, ashifigton Ofoe, No. 513 Fonrteentn Street. CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edi. torial matter should be addressed to the Editor of the Bee. BUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and_remittances should b6 addrossed to Tho flo Publisning Compuny, Omaha Drafts, checks and postoftice orders i bomade payabI6 o the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors. Brg Building Farnam and Seventeenth Sts. _— 6w wo> 382 283 9 3 THE DAILY BEE. Eworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, . ; Couaey of Douglas, |5 go B, Tezschuck, sccretary of The Nee PUDIRRINE Company, dloes sIemhly swene thag the actual circulation of THE DAILY BxE for the week ending July 7ith, 1859, was as follows: Bunday. July 21 18865 Rt Friday. Baturiiy, .r'uly # {18,558 Average....... 18,612 GEORGE 1. TZ8CRUCK. Sworn to before moe and subscribed to in my presenco this #ich day of July, A. D. 185, [Seal.] N P, FEIL Notary Publis. State of Nobraska, fon. qelounty of Dohiglas. b, Tzschuck, heing duly sworn, de- muun ana says that he 18 secretary of The Hee Diishing Company, (hat (he actual vera dally circnlation of Tig DAILY BEP for ti month of July, IR, was 18, coples: for Augusty J8,188 coples: for September, 1 k151 copln! mrmf’umn 1408 coplos: for No- yember, 1868, 1498 copies; for_Decem ber, 1585, 18,223 coples; nu hnunry. 1880, 18,574, coples; for February, 1880, 18,006 copies: for March, 189, 1804 coplos: for Aprl, 180, 16,50 coples: for 1860, 16,000 copled' for June, 180, 18569, ooplsa! Tworn 310, B, TZSCHYCK. to betors me and subseribed in my Ppresence this ith day of July, [8EAL] P, iwi lw.m Notary Pablie. DO not condemn the railroads too se- verely for their foolishness. Probably they didn’t know the G. A. R. was loaded. Wirtn the assurance of a bountiful harvest this fall, business can not fail to improve under the buoyant in- fluence. THE Republican’s resentment at Clark ‘Woodman because he avows himself to be a monopolist reminds us of Satan rebuking sin. Now that they have almost talked each other to death, the delegates to the coastitutional convention of Mon- tana are about to tinish their work and g0 home. Wirn such a magnificent showing of grass and corn, Nebraska should lead the world in butter production, instead - of hugging a rung near the bottom of the ladder. IN the coming set-to between Gov- ernor Lowry, of Mississippi, and John L. Sullivan, champion of the world, public sympathy will all be on the side of tho under dog. OMANA and Council Bluffs will appre- ciate the promised five-cent fare on the early morning and evening bridge motor trains—if it be put into effect before the snow flies. THE consolidation of the elevator companies has been effected. We shall presently see whether the mammoth consolidated will devise ways and means to make Omaha a grain market. TAMPERING with the mails is not an uncommon offense, but when a letter written by President Harrison .to the lord mayor of Dublin is surreptitiously opened it is well to institute an official inquiry into the matter. Tuk Alton is said to be dickering with the Union Pacific for the purchase of its Kansas City branch to Denver. Here is a chance for the Union Pacific to unload some of its side track invest- ments and to devote all of its attention to the parent road in Nebraska. Tue southern office-seeker has the reputation of a born lobbyist and the administration is worrying more over the distribution of a penny postoffice in the land of Dixie due to race and polit- ical bitterness than in the selection of a. minister to an important post abroad. THE confidence game that has been brought so prominently before the pub- lic under the guise of 1ndustrial trusts is about played out. The trump cards were played when the sugar and lead trusts were floated on the market. Now that the faith of investors in this form of securities has been shaken and their pockets drained, fancy industrial stocks can find but fow takers. — THE perennial announcement of a grand negro exodus numbering tens of thoueands from North Carolina into the southwest is again revived. But it is safe to wager that Sambo and Dinah are too closely bound to the soil of their birth by olose ties to be willing to emi- grate into Arkansaw, even if she was a land overflowing with milk and honey like unto the promised land of Canaan. e Tue Bohemiun people in Omaha huve reason to be proud of their progress. A dozen years ago thoy were few and poor. To-day they number over five hundred families, own twenty thousand dollars’ worth of church and school property, and have many men in their ranks who are independently wealthy, It is probable that in no other city in America are industry and enterprise 80 surely and swiftly rewarded with success, eee———— THE salt trust has received a very black eye én its endeavor to float its stock on a credulous people, £ven the most venturesome plunger was stag- gered when the speculation involving eleven millions was sprung upon him, Happily, while yet time the small and big investors discovered that there is a limit to speculative enterprises which even they could not stomach. The re- sult is that the project has fallen into disrepute and the price of salt still ve- wains unchanged, WHY THEY G0 TOGETHER. ‘We referred recently to the report of disaffection among republican repre- sentatives in congross from the south, several of whom, it was said, had com- bined for the purpose of electing an in- dependent republican speaker of the next house. The leader of the move- ment was stated to be Representative Brower, of North Carolina, and the in- citing cause given was dissatisfaction with the administration’s distribution of patronage in the south, The matter appears to have been very seriously re- garded in political circles at Washing- ton, and there has been a quite general interviewing of southern republican congressmen. The rosult is that notone of these rep- resentatives is found to have for a mo- ment contemplated anything like a re- volt against the party. The friends of Mr. Brower insist that he has been mis- represonted by the statements intimat- ing a purpose on his part to leave or betray his party. He has felt, they con fess, somewhat aggrieved at not receiv- ing recognition tfrom the administra- tion in the matter of appointments in his state, but he nevertheless proposes to stand by the party in congress. Representative Cheatham, of the same state, says he shall not allow any frivolous or per- sonal feeling to govern his actions in the discharge of his duty as a mem- berof congress, and having heen elocte d by the republican party upon republican principles he will cheerfully support the party in the organization of the house and inevery other particular for the good of the country. Others have expressed themselves to the same effect. There is no republican congress- man from the south who threatens a re- volt against the party. It appears, however, that most of these representatives are united as to one de- mand they will make wupon the party. That s, that no man shall receive the nomination for speaker who is not in favor ‘of an early repeal of the internal reve- nue laws. Of the sixteen southern re- publicans in the house three are from North Carolina, two from Virginia, three from Tennessee, two from Ken- tucky, and one each from West Virginia and Louisiana, which makes twelve, or three-fourths of the total number. The five members from Tennessee and Vir- ginia are as much interested, for local reasons, in the repeal of the internal taxes, as those from North Carolina, and may be expected to co-operate with the latter in an effort to force the re- publican caucus to declare for the abo- lition of those taxes. Whether the others will unite with them in dictating to the caucus is un- certain, but there is no doubt ot the earnestness of a majority of these south- ern republicans against internal taxes. In support of this position itis claimed that portions of the south are drained of money through the internal revenue laws, the farmers impoverished, and the system is felt to be an obnoxious and oppressive pall. On this question, therefore, the south- ern republicans in congress will proba- bly bo found standing firmly together. Can they accomplish their object? The chances are doubtless in their favor. Two at least among those prominently named as possi- ble republican candidates for the speakership are understood to bein favor of repealing the internal revenue laws, and they are the men who are ex- pected to have the strongest following. It would not seem to be a difficult mat- ter for the southern republicans to ob- tain from the supporters of these men a declaration in favor of abolishing the internal taxes, and thereby commiiting the caucus to a policy which would bind the majority in the house. Having an- nounced their desire, and possessing the power to dictate terms or deprive the republicans in the house of the ability to organize, these southern members are likely to be onjects of especial interest to all aspirants for the speaker- ship, and it would not be surprising if a majority of republicans in congress are found in full sympathy with their pro- gramme when congress assembles. It is not for ‘the purpose ol revolt, but of control that the southern republicans are tdRether, and they appear to be 1n a very favorable position to accomplish their object. A WONDERFUL LAND. The graphic story told by the Alaska correspondent of THE BEE of his ex- periences in watching for the mirage of the “'Silent City,” whose appearance other explorers have reported, will arouse fresh interest and curiosity re- garding a region which there is every reuson to believe is rich in wonders. The intrepid correspondent, who for two days groped about among the glaciers, experiencing sensations and omotions which he little more than suggests, and which perhaps no pen could adequately portray, promises to renew and extend his investiga~ tions, the result of which THE BEE will in due time chronicle, but in what he had already seen he found warrant for the opinion that the region vis- ited will become a mecca for scientists and for those who are attracted by the strange and curious features of na- ture. From what has been rovealed by Alaskan exploration it 'is easy to be- lieve that there is an exceedingly rich fleld there for scientific investigation, but whether with practieal results that would repay the cost and labor, to say nothing of the dangers to ba encoun- tered and the probable sacrifices to be made, can onl§ be a matter of conjecture. That such iavestigation would coantrib- ute valuable knowledge to son epart- ments of scientific research is, how- ever, not to be doubted, and the stu- dents of nature’s work will unquestion- ably find there much to profoundly interest them. As to practical results, there have already been sufficient to fully vindi- cate the wisdom of the purchase of Alaska by the United States. The seal fisheries alone, if not permitted 10 be destroyed by indiscriminate slaughter by hordes of hunters, will alone, in time, repay the sum received by Russia for the territory, and there are other sources of revenue to the government which will steadily expand, Develop- ment is likely to be slow, but it is no longer a quostion that the purchase of Alaska was a good investment, Emm— HAS NOT SUCCEEDED, Douglas county’s commissionors have dono agood many unwise acts and some that were absolutely bad, but the criticism on tho drug dispensary established about eighteen months ago aprears to be wholly unwar- ranted. The effort made by Tar Bes to show that the dispensary has been misman- aged or is an extravagance has not succeeded, ~—World-Herald. ‘Who expected that it would succeed? Has the exposure of any abuse or ex- travagance had any chance of success with the present board? THE BEER'S exposure of the cruelty and mismunage- ment at the county poor farm was very thorough. The facts cited in support of the charge were conclusive, but the board ignored the complaints and made a perfect farce of its investigation, which from the very outset had no chance of success. The crookedness in awarding the contract for vault fixtures was shown up, and proof was furnished that re- sponsible parties would have done the work for about half the price. But that exposure has not succeeded and had not a ghost of a chance of success. The scandalous procedure in the con- struction of the county hospital has been shown up time and again, but the complaints have met with no success. The enormous outlay for drugs and medicines may be legitimate, but in common with the public THe BEE labors under the im- pression that this prescription business has been a cover for supplying free liquor to officials and thirsty hange on. It is also doubtful whether the large drug bills paid by the county have been delivered to the right parties. ‘We do not expect, however, that any- thing THE BEE may say on this score will succeed. —————— THE TWO-MILE NUISANCE. The law prohibits the sale of liquor within two miles of the corporate limits of the city. This two-mile belt has for years been free-whisky terrvitory, where more crime is bred and committed than in the whole city, and yet the authori- ties pretend to be entirely helpless. Sheriff Coburn claims that he has no authority to meddle with them; and the chief of police claims that he has no right to interfere. There is no doubt whatever that both the sheriff and the chief have authority to repress this lawlessness. The sherifi’s authority to arrest lawbreak- ers extends over the whole county. The only question is whether he is obliged to act in the absence of specific complaints. If this version is correct, citizens in the suburbs who are annoyed by these unlawful resorts should enter complaint. The charter gives the mayor and police authority to exercise police functions within five miles of the city limits. That would imply that the police can close unlawful resorts and make arrests outside of the city limics without specific complaint. THE president of the Holly Manufac- turing company has been very profuse 1n his congrutulations over the superb plant which the American Waterworks company have just completed for Omaha. These congratulations are within themselves not outof place, but the impression which is sought to be made therefrom is that the Holly peo- ple have finally triumphed. To vindi- cate the truth of history THE BEE is compelled to recall the fact that the present waterworks plant differs as much from that which the Holly people wanted to foist upon Omaha eight years ago as a cable road differs from a horse railroad. If the Holly people had suc- ceeded in 1881, Omaha would have had a penny-whiatle line of four-inch mains 10 carry the supply, unless indeed the city could huve bought out the concern and replaced its cheap-John works with a plant that would meet its require- ments. Moreover, the hydrant rental of the city would have been about twenty-five per cent higher than it is now, and the boodle methods of Dr. Cushing would have eaten into the vitals of the city. The mere fact that the Holly works have supplied the Gas- kell pumps for Omaba does not neces- sarily mean that the Holly methods which our citizens resented so vigor- ously in the courts and through the bal- lot box, have been adopted and given popular endorsement. As 10 the possible effect upon the ex- port trade of the late decision of the inter-state commorce commission, that no railroad company will be permitted to charge lower rates of I[reight for merchandise destined for export than if the final destination should be some Atlantic seaboard, the Philadelphia Record thinks it will not be serious. The decision will not necessarily have the effect, it remarks, of increasing the rates of freight upon exports, even though the steamship companies should not regulate their charges in accord- ance with it. The trunk lines can af- ford to haul prodace for consumers on the eastern seaboard at as low rates as they haul it the same dis- tance for consumers in Europe. As there is a very close conunection between the railroads and the steamship compa- nies, says the Record, it is easy to make an equitable adjustment of freight rates without endangering export trade. It will be gratifving if this shall be done, 80 that the producers of the west will still get some profit on their products exported, but there is some reason to apprehend that the small margin will be wiped away by the necessity of in- creasing the inland rates. The pro- ducers of the west will very soon know whether this is to be the case or not. I'HE people of Massachusetts are hav- ing no end of trouble with their ballot reform law, which is to have its first practical test in the fall. Politicians, reformers and state officialsare scratch - ing their heads in an endeavor to inter- pret its provisions, and to loosen the cogs of its complicated machinery. The secretary of state, the auditor and the attorney general make upa board to decide the knotty points in the law. In conjunction with a committee of the Ballot Act Leaguers, formed last year, to impart intelligence about the meas- ure, and to carry out its rulings, these state officors have been trying to un- ravel the Chinese puszle. But the ro- sult has been fA¢ from satisfactory to the reformens; | The law has been found to countensace those very feat- ures of politis which the friends of reform éxpected it would kill. The party mmchine whioh makes all the bad nditilnations flourishes with its old-time vigor. Instead of the ballot reform smashing the machine, it looks very much a§' §f the now fangled law will be made aconvenient vehicle for the election ¢f the party machine’s can- didates. This 4 all very discournging, but once more illustrates the folly of trying to strike at the roots of an evil which can not be reached by a cumber= some and unintelligible ballot reform law. Tre importance of securing a large tanning plant in Omaha can not be overestimated. It will in a measure be to our city what the establishment of the beef and pork packing industries were five years ago. A tanning estab- lishment with sufficient financial back- ing to give it stability and with a capacity to handle a thous- and or more hides a day from our slaughtering houses paves the way for a long line of industries in which leather torms the basis. It will be an impetus to the growth and extension not alone of the manufacturing enter- prises but of the mercantile interests of this city. The good results can only be conjectured, but it is safe to say that every avenue of trade would be stimu- lated intoactivity. The prospects for se- curing such an industry are uncommonly promising. Capitalists have recognized the great natural advantages which Omaha possesses. The mammoth pro- portions of her beef packing establish- ments assure an upfailing supply of raw hides. With the new processes of con- verting hides into leather Omaha has therefore a great advantage over Bos- ton, Philadelphia, or other cities to which all the raw materials must be shipped. This insures a cheapening in the manufacturing process of leather, and would permit Omaha to step in at once as a powerful competitor in the leather trade, IF the Sioux commission be success- ful in winning over the Indians to sign- ing the bill, it will have to thank the Catholic missionaries for their labors in its behalf. There are a number of Catholic societies at the various agen- cies composed almost wholly of young Indians. It is np secret that the priests are desirous of-having the Indians ac- cept the treatyand their influence has been so far effébtive as to induce several hundred to swing into line. Among the older chiefs; however, who held out from the first, {hore is little change of sentiment and : the good counsel of the commissioners his fallen like seed on a barren soil. Nejther can the mission- avies hope to win:them over. Conserv- atism is too deeply rooted in their breasts to be swayed by the priests, on whom they 100k with suspicion, or'by the promises of -the government which have been too-often broken. —_— OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The European event of greatest interest during the past week was the result of the elections throughout France, which has left the self-exiled demagogue, Boulanger, al- most without a following. The very nearly complete collapse of Boulangism—for al- though the pretentious and windy general has issued another manifesto it is not likely to receive any serious attention—is very gen- erally welcomed as @ good thing for the French people and for Europe, for Boulan- ger was not only an impertinence, a bore and a nwmsance, but, because of the sensi- tive and eruptive nature of political and military affairs in continental Europe at this time, he was a perpetual menace. He was a convenience for the royalists, whether of the leeitimist, Orleanist or Bonapartist cliques, who give their countenance to abything likely to overthrow the existing form of gov- ernment 1 France; but he was a pretext and excuse for increasing the military forces of all the conti- nental countries who regard with jealous eyes tha political movements in France. Without other importance than his ambition and restless demagoguery, he was a constant cause of irritation and a factor of dangerand risk to the peace of Europe, These evil influences were all the more im- portant, so long as the precise extent of the hold he had on the populace was unknown, for people always stand in dread of what seems to be formidable, because or its very uncertainty, obscurity and mystery. Now, that Boulangism is demonstrated by the test of u public election to be nothing but an empty pretence and sham, it must ceuse to be a matter of much consequence to France. The unstable ministries in authority iu that country will doubtless continue to come and go at frequent intervals, for the future, as well as in the past—but the republic itself will ive through it all in some form, until the occasion and opportunity shall arrive when it must be established on a basis as firm as our own. Py In his address at the ministerial banquet, Lord Salisbury said, concerning the immedi- ate danger ot a European conflict, that he ro- garded the vast preparations that had been made as a great security for peace. So tre- mendous would be jthe 1ssues involved in a war among the great European powers that no one is willing to toke the responsibility of hastening a confligt ‘ymeh all seem to regard as inevitable. Prince Bismarck's recent ob- servation that he! “couild not tell whether the German parliament would have any time rext year to autend 0 legislution in the in- tercst of labor reveals what the great states- man pprehends conderning the near future. For the present the Paris exposition serves as a truce. The:repregentatives of sclence and art, industry #nd labor are pouring into the Jorench capital from all portions of the civilized world, Aud in witnessing the mighity achievemenls of peace the minds of many are turned.away temporarily from thoughts of war. -"As the exposition will continue till near ({8 close of the year there is little danger of ‘@ conflict sooner than the spring of 1590, In the meavtime England, France and Russia are increasing their armaments, and poverty-smitten but ambi- tious Italy is strugling to keep up with the warlike procession, » e The plucky stand taken by Switzerland against the attempted dictation of Germany has directod attention to the probublo atti- tude of the little republic in the event.of a renewal of hostilities between France and Germany. The invasion of France by a German army murching through Switzerland across the Jura mountains would be autended with considerable danger. Indeed, Germany would not be likely to enter Siwitserland at allexcept to repel a French invasion; whereas the military conditions are all favorable for a French occupation of Swiss territory, there being five lings of rallway leading through the Jura mountains into tho Swiss plain. Moreover, the German garrisons within striking distance of the Rhina are not being maintamed in any graat strength, and the rallway communication with the river is very defeotive. On apeace footing there are now within two hours march of the great frontier railrond 100,000 Fronch troops, which at a given hour might be poured into Switzorland as fast as trains could be made available; apd within twelve hours after the start had been made every bridge over the Rhine from Bale to Constance could be seizod. If the integrity of F'rance as a nation should be throatened it is not likely that sho would hesitato on grounds of conventional political morality o take a step which would glve her such an _enormous advan- tage in the struggle; and the ques- tion is: What opposition could Switz- erland prosent to heri KEvery Swiss sub- jeet is liable to military service from the age of twenty to forty-four, so that the military force of Switzerland is purely a militia force. Its total strength is 210,000 mon, and as the organization is entirely local, so far as the men are concerned, mobilization s ensy; but in every other respeot the Swiss army is un- able to take the fleld, as transport and horses are entirely wanting, and not a single bat- tery of artillery is horsed during peace. Neither have the Swiss any artificial do- fenses, nor monoy with which to construoct them; so that any attempt at armed resist- ance would be hopeless from the beginning. But, even if her territory should be tompor- arily violated, the great powers of Rurope would scarcoly sanction the absorption of Switzerland into another nation, Tn the British houso of commons the other day the attention of the government was asked to & report that in the gold flelds of West Australia gangs of native convicts are fastened to wheelbarrows with bullock chains making roads, and that ohains are rolled around the necks and naked bodies of others, inflicting groat suffering upon them in aclimate where the stones get too hot to handle. It may be that this story is exag- gerated, but evidence is plentiful that there is room for improvement in the treatment of savages under white control. Mr. Lumholtz, who traveled among the cannibals of Queensland awhilo ago, says the government black police have shot them down, innocent and guilty alike, for offenses that were almost trivial. 1t will soon be forgotten that it was the cruelty of white miners that hastened the extinction of the ‘Tasmanians, not & few of whom were vic- tims of foul crimes like the following: One day a miner told his comrades he was going to make a little fun for them, Stepping out where the natives could see him, he pointed an empty revolver at his own hoad and snapped it several times. Then he called & native to him, gave him a loaded revolver, and asked him to repeat the performance. The poor wretch complied, and ot course blew his own brains out, to the great enter- tamment of the crowd. Not half the story of the wrongs of the Tasmanians was known to the world until the larger part of them had perished. o The phantom of war in Furope is to be once more conjured away by the meeting of the emperors of Russia and Germany in Ber- lin in the latter part of August. In order to increase the assurance of peace it is possi- blo that the emperorof Austria-Hungary will also be there, though the lateat- reports from Europe are to the effect that the Aus- trian army in Galicia has received strong reinforcoments. This military movement in- dicates that the Emperor Francis Joseph cherishes little illusion in rogard to the Ber- lin conference, and that ho is in no way dis- posed to submit 1o the lofty airs of the czar. But it is fortunate that thero arc much stronger guarantees for the peaco of Europe than in the whims of the men who rule over its threo military monarchios or in the ex- change of imperial courtesies in Berlin. Though tho continent is an armed camp, and though the pretexts for war aro numerous enough or can be readily invented, the con- sequences of & conflict aro so tremendous that the most reckless monarch in Kurope must shrink from precipitating it. Japan has just been visited by a destruc- tive eartnquake. Such earthquakes in that country have averaged ten in a century for 1,600 years, and they appear to have been growing more frequent during the last cen- tury, but that appearance may be due to the greater facilities provided for the collection of news. In 1854, Yeddo, now Tokio, wasal- most destroyed by an earthquake, over 1,500 houses having been overturned. The loss of life was very great, but the estimate usualy given of 200,000 1s probably an exaggeration. The difficulty of getting auything like the vruth about such matters may be judged from the published descriptions of Kumanoto, the city that is said to have been destroyed, and which is reported to have ‘“from 50,000 to 300,000 inhabitants.” There is no doubt, how- ever, that it is (or was) alarge and im- portant inland city, and it could hardly have been destroyed by anything coming so sud- denly as an earthquake without great loss of life. Cultivated Japanese study earth quakes with great nssiduity and care, and with the aid of the most delicate instruments that science can supply, in the hope that they may discover some means of foretelling groat dis- turbances, but thus far without any satisfac- tory results. The common people have, how- aver, a curious tradition_about the exis tence of an earthquake fish. On the sea coast it is supposed to beasea monster, who causes earthquakes by striking on the bottom snd gives r1se to tidal waves by arching his back. Inland people think that the earthquake flsh lives in the bowels of the earth, stretchod aloug under Japan. When a gentle tremor comes ho is only bristing his spines, but a great shock is caused by the lashing of his tail. The earthquake fish is one of the nu- merous monsters with which Japan fanoy decorates the artistic ware which it Is the fashion to admire, however little it may be understood. . oty The disturbances In the Island of Crete are engaging the attention of tho Italian government, which has advised Turkey to resort to the mediation of a European power. Crote will be a factor in the eastern ques- tion until the porte shall agree to withdraw its hold upon it. Any attempt at putting down the revolution by force would be met by an anti-Moslem cry, and the surrender of the island to a christisn power would stir up political complications of a very serious char- acter. No doubt the suitan would gladly get rid of bis bargain; buthe is doubtloss afraia that he might then find himsolf in still deeper Shoe Fits. Kansas City Jowrnal, “Mayor Grant should see to it,” says the New York Herald, “‘that no cranks are ap- pointed on the \vurld'u fair committee.” One MoAllister and one Fish will take the sug- gostions personal Phey Have Their Hands Full, St. Louts Globe-Democrat. A Mississippi paper says that the demo- crats of that state *‘have no leisure for the discussion of the tariff or any other economio question.” It keeps them busy, we presume, to prevent the negroes from acting upon the foolish notion that the constitution gusran- tees equal political rights to all classes of citizens. Trusts Lead to Soclal San Francisco Bullgtin, The rapid growth of these trusts have stimulated greater sovialistic activity in this country than has ever been kuown before. Tt has farnished, in the opinion of socialists, additional confirmation of Bellamy's theory that the oapital organizad in trusts will finally control all the business of the coun- try, extonding %o every artiolo of domestic consumption. When the result is brought ubout these theorists assume that it will be the duty of the government to intervens and consolidate all these trusts, regulating prices and production so that thero shall beno such thing as extortion or oppression through oxcessively high prices on the part of out- side combinations. ST, Mid Sylvan Scenes. Chicago News, President Harrison Is said to be wnnvm‘ his first message to congress, while listen- ing to the songs of the birds and the screeches of the katy-dids in the mountain fastnesses of Maryland. If it should turn out to be a poetic dooument the fault will naturally rest on the president's present ro- mantic surrounding: B, Mr. Dana Has & Change. *hicngo Times, Mr. Dana, of the New' ¥ork Sun, while recognizing all the good qualities of the flan- nel shurt, doos not agree with the Chicago editor who belioves that its universal use would break up the laundries. The fannel shirt, ho says, has come to stay, but it should never be allowod. to stay too long at onetime. Wo judge from this that Mr. Dana 18 provided with a change, ke ks THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD, The dock laborers at Marsoilles, France, have struck for an advance in wages, Iussia has declined to participate in the intornational labor congress at Borne. At Dublin, Ireland, 5,000 stonemusons have made a demand for nine hours per day. The hoad roller in & Vttaburg iron mill makes $30 a day. His fawily ride behind o spanking team, In Norway they build all winter, using un- slacked lime and the work is superior tosum- mer construotion. Tobacco gives employment to 30,000 persons in New York. Germans, Boheminns and English predominate. Four thousand weavers at Jaogornsdorf, in Austria, have struck work. They want better pay and shorter hours, Prisoners in the penitentiary at Joliet, TiL, have sent 1,500 pounds of bread to the starving miners at Braidwood, I1L. The wages now prevailing among seamen of the coast are 850 per month on steam schooners, $45 for outside and $40 for inside ports. The San Francisco tailors havo won a strike against non-union men, and compelicd the boss to sign a bond of $250 to stick to the agreement. Forty-six firms have signed the iron scale, and sevoral of the western steel firms have signed the steel scalo of the Amalgamated association. Others are likely to follow suit. Hon. Henry Dorn, secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Factory Inspec- tors of North America, has issued a call for the third annual convention, which will con- vene in Trenton, N. J., on Wednesday, Au- gust 7. At Naples the government has begun to tear down over 17,000 houses in a thickly- settled part of the city, and will lay new streets and put up new houses at u cost of $20,000,000. At present 12,000 men are em- ployed, There aLe twenty cotton factories now in overation in Japan, with 82,600 spindles and employing about five: ** ~usand workingmen. Their wages are about ¥ per weel, which is ten times the awount craftsmen of fany kind received in Japan ten years ago. The employes on the Pekin Garette, in China, have had their wages advanced from 20 to 22 cents por day. The Gazette has been published continuously for 800 years, and people in Pekin have now arrived at the con- clusion that it has “‘come to stay.” The dressmakers in Merritt, a town in Missourl, have organized themselves into a society for the regulation of wages and pro- tection against the avarice of unscrupulous employers, They say the most unjust em- ployers are those among their own sex. In Russia there are sixty-seven immense spinning mills, employing an aggregate of 115,000,000 spin dles. The priciple centers of this industry are the provinces of Moscow and Viadimir. Russia has 488 cotton-weav- ing establishments, which give employment to 80,500 people. e WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES, Ruins of Citles Buiit by Prehistoric People Kound in Mexico. Crry or MEXico, August 2.—[Special Tel- egram to Tue Ber.]—Recently returned ex- plorers from the state of Chiapas confirm and add to the remarkable report concern- ing important archiwological discoveries, A fine, broad paved road, built by prehistoric habitants, has been traced from Tonala down into Guatemala, and thence in a curve up again into Mexico, terminating av Pa- lenque. All along this road are still to be seen the remains of ruined cities, and a careful es- timate of the population of these places 18 about 80,000,000 On that part of the road near Palenqgue the ruins are of great magnis tude. Houses four and often” five storie- high have been found in the depth of the forest. Many of theso houses are pyra- midal in form, and so covered are some of them with vegetablo mould that large trees are growing 1rom the roofs. In some of the houses employment has been made of stone beams of tremendous weight, and the archi- tecture indicates a bigh degree of scientific attainment, In some of the houscs visited large bronze lamps have been discov- ered, and the interior and exterior mural decorations of the most important houses consist of paneling filled with elabor- awely carved figures, almost life size, two types of men and women being ropresented, some plainly Egyptian and_ others genuiné Afrionns, In front of one of the houses the explorers found fourteen sculptures of gods with folded arms. The work of exploration was one of ex- treme dificulty, owing to the density of the forest and the unwillingness of the Indiaus to enter the ancient edifices, they averring that the buildings were inhabited by spirits. Another discovery was that aun enormous paved road extends from Palenque across Yucatan to the island of Cozumel, and is con- tinued on the island. The Palenque ex- plorers assert that they have discovered in the edifices before mentioned examples of a perfect arch. One explorer is a scientifically trained man, who has recently arrived from India, and by his account the region from Cniapas to Yucatan must have been the seat of a densely populous nation. e e i A Wealthy Lady Suicide Synacese, N, Y., August 2.—(Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee. |—Mss Lillian Dumont, & member of the wealtby Dumont family, com- mitted suicide ‘luesday night by hanging hersolf with her corsét laces in the toilet room of the hotel at Glenhaven, & summer resort on the Skuueateles lake. She had at- tended a ball at the glen that might and med in the best of spirits, No cause is assigned for the deed, but it is hinted she bad peen disappointed in love. Miss Du- mont was well known and a general favorite. - Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. When Daby was sick, we gave ber Castorta, When sho was a Child, e cried for Castoria, When she beoame Miss, she clung to Castorla, Whan alie had Childrea, she gave them Castolia FEMALE FENCES CAPTURED, Two Women Oaught Disposing of Btolen Harness. PART OF AN ORGANIZED GANG, Two More Women and Some Men Ime plioated—Genoral Van Wyok in Lincoln—State House Race ords-~Notoes. P Streer, LaycoLN, August 8 For soveral days past the police have beon shadowing the thief or thieves who have becn atoaling harness inthis city. Several suspects were under surveillance, but no proofs could bo found against thom. To-day wbout noon Officors Pound and Green observod two women in a double rig stop in front of Flan- agan's second hand storo on Tenth street, and later at Miller's store above, on the same stroot, whoro they were trying o dispose of some harness and collars, Officor Green roc- ognized the goods as having been stolen and followad the couple when they loft the place, and at the cornor of Eloventh and O streets he took them into custody, It is said that on their arrival at tho police station one of tho women gave the whole thing away and vol- unteered to find the men who had done the stealing. The wagen was sent to Cottago park to find the parties, but at 4 o'clock this afternoon they had not been captured. Li Graves and Oli Sims are the vames of the two women in custody. Two other women have been taken in, but their names are ot yot known, The Barber Demurrage Oase. The Barbor demurrage complaint was called for hearing before the state board of transportation to-day. The gist of the con- troversy lies in the statoment of the com- plainants that they were compelled to pay excessive demurrage charges in addition to frelght, under protest, while the respondent statos,’ in answer, that the complainants failed' to remove frefght consigned to them when notified, and left it on their hands for storage, 0 their damage. A compromise brows, and a continuance was taken until Wednesday, August 7, whon, if the matter is not adjustod to the satisfaction of all parties intercsted, the fight will be on to a finish. LIXCOLN HUREAU OF T/TR OMAGA Ban, 1029 Records at ths Capita), The records in the supreme court show that the cuse of M. B. Smith vs Frank Shafer etul, on uppeal from the district court of Harlan county, 18 on for trial at tho next term. ‘The banking department is well up with its work. It is learned that the report rec- ords of the various banking institutions of the state have all been made, and with a few exceptions the showing is beyond public axlpccu(!nn. During the past two vears thers has been slled in the office of the secretary of stato 787 articles of incorporation ana 2,224 nota~ rial commissions seut out: also thirty com- sissions to commissioners of deeds, The various records of the offico show an income in fees, for the time stated, of $8,857.10, General Van Wyck in Lincoln. General Van Wyck was in Liucoln be- tween trans this morning. He stopped en route home from the Grand Army reunion at Wymore, where he addressed his old com- rades of soldier days yesterday. It is learned that the general created great enthusiasm among the boys in blue by his vigorous de- fense of the course that Corvoral Tanner 1s pursuing. He took occasion to say that he expected to remain a citizen of Nebraska for years to come. While here the general was cordially received hy a number of Lincoln's citizens. City News and Notes, Secretary Laws, Commissioner Steen and Treasurer Hill returned to-day from a visit of inspection at the Hastings insane asylum. The gentlemen report the institution in “apple pie order” and in the main well ready for the reception of guests. P. S. Stevenson, of this city, has lost nine cows, five head of horses and thirty-seven head of hogs by hydrovhobia during the past year, the last of which, & cow, was shot yes- terday evening. He has been {:nrllcumrly unfortunate in this regard. The last cow killed was bitten over a year ago. "Tho executive committec of the State Poultry association closed an interesting ses- sion to-day. Owing to the absence of Steve Jones, J. McNabb presided. The date of the winte! ow was fixed for February 4 to 8, 1889, inclusive, and the new standard of pur!enllon will govern examinations in all olasses. J. R. Megahan, secretary of the as- sociation, was chosen to superintend the state Tair exhibit. H. C. McEvony, sherift of Holt county, took KEssie Ward, an eleven-year-old girl, to the reform school ut Kearney to- day and he tarried an hour or two at Lincoln en route. The girl was sent to the school for general cussed- ness. Warrants were issucd to-day by Judge Stewart for the arrest of Joseph and Lum Mageard and A. Allen, Charles H. Albricht charges them with wilfully and unlawfully destroying the personal property of another, valued at $50. The case will probably bo heard in the county court to-morrow. Mayor Hall, of Holdrege, was in the city yesterday on legal busine ] Hon. Charles E. Casey, of Pawnee City, was a visitor at Lincoln yesterday. H. A. Houghton, an old-time Lincoln tea eling man, was in the city today renowigg old acquaintance Harry now resides in Denver and represents one of the largest wholesale paper houses in the world, SORE FROM KNEE TO ANKLE, Skin entirely gone. 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