Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 6, 1889, Page 4

THE _DAILY _BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Kditor, _—— FPUBLISHED KVERY MORNING. st ity TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, D stly Morning Rdition) including Sunday. 4 One Yenr.. woen 110 00 n Forsix Moy JForThr es Mont The enteenth ai Strests, Cnieago Offics, 567 Rookery Building, lnfl«' York Oftice, Reoms 14 and 15 Tribune flaing. 'Waanitigton Ofce, No. 513 Fourtecntt Street. CORRESPONDENCE, All communications relating to news and edi- “Oorl‘:x mater should be addressed to the Editor o Hoe BUSINESS LETTERS. All business lettors and_remittances should addressed to The Bee Publishing Company. Omalin _Drafts, checks and postoftice orders to bemnde payable to the order of the company. The Bee Pablishing Company, PrOpicore —_— e — Ber Building F and Beventeenth Sts. THE DAILY BEE Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, [T County of Douglas, {°% George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bes Fublisning Compuny, docs svlemuly swenr it the actual cireuiation of THE DAILY DEp for the Week ending August 3, 1840, was a3 tollows: Bunday. July £....... P Monday, Jul Tuesdny, Ju] Wednesday, July 3 Thursday, August 1 Friday, August 2. Baturdicy, August 3. 2., . & ..18,618 GEORGE B, TZECHUCK., 8worn to before me and sunscribed to in my presence fl:lnlddninf August, A. D, 1889, [Seal.) . P. FRIL, Notary Publis, State of Nebraska, 1 County of Dougtus. { o Georgo B, ‘Tzechuck, being duly sworn, ds- ses and says that he 18 secretary of The' Nee bublishing company. Wit i actdal average dally cirenlation of "THE DAILY Bke for the month of August, 185, J&IKI coples: for Sep- fomber, 185, ‘18151 copins: for Oclober 1Mt 18084 coples: for Novemnber, K83, 18,98 copies: for December, 1888, 18,223 coples; Tor_January, 1880, 18374, coples: for February, 158, 189 for' March, I8, 18854 coples; for April, ) 18,550 coples: for May, 184, 16,09 coples: for June. 18, 1888, copies: for July, 189, 18,738 coples. Gro. B, T7Z8CHUCK. Bworn to before me and subseribed in my presence this 3d day of Angust, 18, {8RAL.] N. P. FEir, Notary Pubiic. e e Y ey PorrTics is uow spelled with a capital P in Iowa. Average...... FALL candidates will soon be ripe eunough to pick. Cmmtm‘-m;as:q/s'n;\; will have plenty 1o do when he reaches Omaha. But will he do anything? IN SEARCHING for a better quality of street lighting, the council should not keep on groping in the dark. THE opening of Kighteenth street and putting it down to grade between Far- nam and Dodge should not be longer de- layed, SOCIETY sensations are running ram- pant in Omaha these days. This is a ‘wicked world, with a fow counties yet to be heard from, . E—— THE cities of South Dakota are not so far away from ths metropolis of Ne- “braska as not to be anxious to become well acquainted with it. — THERE has been nothing small about Nebraska's harvest of small grain, and now all that is necessary to fill her cornucopia to overflowing is scasonable corn weather. ‘THE fact is dawning upon the chief magisttate of Mississippi that the people of that state by their ovations consider John L. Sullivan a bigger man than Governor Low - OMAHA should take the contract to furnish this section of the country with starch and should brook no competitor. She has all the raw material necessary 40 do it in the hollow of her right hand. THE rich cereal cropsof both the Elk- horn and the Republican valleys are now being harvested, and soon will be taken to market. Omaha should be the magnet to draw them through her gates. ANOTHER g gated to prepare material for the next census, Prof. Henry C. Adams, of Michigan University, has accepted the appointment of special agent on rail- road and transportation statistics. Mr, Adams’ long familiarity with this kind of work eminently fits him for it, and his selection by Superintendent of Census Porter is to be commended, IT sEEMs somewhat strange that cable and the motor railway companies have made all their principal extensions to the north and northwest. They seem to have ignored entirely the fact that the ciry is tending to the southwest, and that there is an immense traffic to and from the lower portion of the city, which the slow-going horse car can mever accommodate, There is great profit awaiting the first motor line that may run cars between Hanscom park and Fifteenth street. — A CERTAIN senator was onoe improv- ing his mind by a short sojourn in ©Omaha; one evening he was unex- pectedly run in by the police, charged with being a suspicious character; per- haps this was a pardonable mistake under the circumstances. A few days Bgo a young lawyer was sitting on his own doorstep, when suddenly his medi- tations were interrupted by the arrival of the patrol wagon and the impudent command of a policeman to ‘“come along.” He was taken to the jail and afterwards charged with being a va- grant. This disgraceful impertinence is another proof that the most reckless ereature in the west is a policeman, —— WiTn three physicians on the pay xoll of the county it is not to be won- dered at that business at the county drug store is brisk. For the month of July four hundred and fifty-seven pre- scriptions were filled, and as most of these were for whisky and sent to about sixty “sick™ inmates of the county jail, ‘the state of bhealth of Douglas county prisoners must be alarming. One is stropgly reminded of the three greasy tramps in the play of the “Rag Baby,” where overtaken with the colic, they make merry with the whisky and brandy of the innocent drug man. In this case, however, Douglas county is made the wvictim and the doctors and druggist and their “patients” are veritable pigs in clover at the people’s cxpense. THE WATERWAYS CONVENTION. The convention to discuss the navi- gation interests of the great lakes, in their relations to the commercial inter- ests of the westand northwest, will at Superior, Wisconsin, to-day. subjoct to be considered is cortainly of very great importance. As the pro- of the convention say, the question of appropriations by the gen- eral government for deepening and otherwise improving the great water- ways of the country is one upon which hinges largely the prosperity of our national commerce, To the north- west especially the subject of transportation by the great lakes 1s one of the greatest concern in its relation to the ability of that section to retain for itself the markets of Iurope for grain and flour, and it is in the highest sense expedient that the commercial bodies of the west and northwest, rep- resented in convention, should indicate to congress what are the needs of those sections in the matter of improving the waterways which are the natural out- lets for their products, There has been too little interest hitherto manifestod in this matter, and the time 1s certainly at hand for these sections to exert the activity which the importance of this waterways question démands, How great this is may be understood from the estimated value of the lake commerce of seven lake cities, includ- ing also Lake Superior, for the year 1888. As indicated by custom house and canal reports, this commerce amounted to over five hundred million dollars, and when to this is added the commerce which does not show in American cus- toms office reports, and that which in- cludes Canadian ports, there is given grand total of over one thousand million dollars, avalue very nearly equal to that of the total exports and imports of the United States last year. Ob- viously the channels of this vast com- merce are entitled to every possibie care and attention, to the end that their facilities and advantages shall bo muintained, and enlarged and im- proved as the growing demands upon them shall reauire. But,indispensable as these waterways manifestly are to the commerce of the west and north- west, and to its profitable development, they are hardly less important as a safe- guard against the exactions of railroads upon the products of these sections. According to esti- mates, the annual saving from the transportation of products by the water routes between the east and west, on the basis of railroad rates a year ago, exceeds thirty million dol- lars sanually,a sum the benefits of which are shared by both the producers and consumers. Such an exhibit is cer- tainly a strong argumont in favor of a generous policy with regard to these water channels of commerce. The danger that confronts the water- ways convention is 1n committing itself to unnecessary or impracticable pro- jects. It will undoubtedly have urged upon its attention, as other similar conventions have had, schemes the benefits of which would be purely local. It should have nothing o do with such. Members of congress from lo- calities mainly interested only in selfish designs upon the public treasury should be allowed the sole privilege of foster- ing local projects. The business of the convention which meets to-day should be to consider and recommend only a broad policy in relation to the water- ways which would have results for the general welfare. THE BEHRING SEA ISSUE. ‘Washington advices indicate that the government is getting ready (o set on foot negotiations for a settiement of the Behring sea question, and it issug- gested that Russia may be asked to take part. Sofar as the seal fisheries are concerned, and but for these there would of course be no controversy, Russia has practicaliy no interest what- ever in the issue, but she has territory bounding a vortion of the sea, which gives her a legitimate claim to a voice in any negotiations for establish- ing jurisdiction that this government would doubtless not be disposed to ig- nore. Moreover, there is reason to suppose that Russia would be a valuable friend of the United States in such ne- gotiations, since the claim of this coun- try is quite in line with that of tho Russian government, as set forth by imperial ukase more than sixty years ago. It istrue that at that time our government refused to accept Russia's assumption of exclusive jurisdiction over Behring sed, but since the pur- chase of Alaska both the executive and legislative branches of the government have adopted with slight modification, if any, the position of Russia, and it is this attitude that is the source of con- tention. So far as the present administration is concerned it is simply adhering to a policy which was announced more than twenty years ago, was insisted upon by every administration since, and was re- affirmed by the last congress in an act woproved by President Cleveland on the last day of his term. That act was prompted by the weak course of the state department under the last ad- ministration in dealing with this question, due, it was claimed in defense, to the difficulty Secre- tary Bayard found in reconciling the present claims of the govern- ment with its refusal to recog- nize the assumption of the Russian gov- ernment to & similar right. This act is sufficiently plain in its terms. It de- clares that “‘no person shall kill any ot- ter, mink, marten, sable or fur seal or other fur-bearing animal within the limit of Alaskan territory or in the waters thereof.” It would perhaps have been well if the act had specitied what this government regards as Alaskan waters, but for all the purposes of the president's proclamation and the in- structions to the commanders of our cruisers in Behring sea, the long-main- tained claim of jurisdiction by this government Was a suffi- cient guide. The Canadian seul bunters fully understood the extent and scope of this claim,and in trespassing in the forbidden waters they knew it was o delibera te defiance of this gov- ernment, which would not be tolerated. All the bluster and show of indigna- THE OMAHA DAILY ) BEE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1889, tion regarding the action of the repre- sentatives of the government in Alas- kan waters, in faithfully following their instructions, is therefore to no purpose, and no better is the criticism of the ad- ministration for doing what an act of congress plainly required it to do. There has been no mnew principle avowasd and no new policy de- clared. The position of the gov- ernment in this matter is to- day just what it has been for more than twenty years. Whether it can be maintuined can only be determined by diplomatic negotiations, which, un- doubtedly, the government will be pre- pared to enter intonat any time. But until so determined there can be no doubt that the administration will faithfully carry out the past policy of the nation and the clearly-expressed will of congress. . ANOTHER DISASTER. Tt is to be hoped the reports at hand regarding the oxtent of the loss by fire at Spokane Falls, Washington, wiil prove to be exaggerated,but in any event it 18 certain that the calamity is a very serious one. Coming on tho heels of the destruction of Seattle, and while that brave and enterprising com- munity is still living and doing busi- ness in tents, though pushing forward the work of vebuilding with all possible vigor, the people of the new state are suffering more than their share of the disasters which will make the present vear long memorable. The first reports of the fire at Seattle stated the loss at a very much greater amount than it really was, and there 1s reason to hope that the same may be the fact as to the report of the Spokane Ialls conflagra- tion, feom which the estimated loss mounts as high as thirty million dol- lars. But if it shall prove to be but a third of that amount, it is a serious blow to the young city. The misfortune of Spokane Falls, a common one with new cities, was a lack of adequate protection Against fire. It has the Holly water works system, and when this was put to the supreme test it was found want- ing. Its volunteer tire department, also, wus not equal to the emergency. a8 such departments rarely have been when am extraordinary demand was made upon them. No city of the size and property interests of Spokane Falls should be without a paid and thoroughly disciplined fire department. Besides the financial loss, the calamity is made more serious by the reported loss of life. The devastated city was one of the most prosperous and promising in Wash- ington, and while this visitation will materially retard its progress, the city will in time recover and go ior- ward 14 the accomplishment of its destiny. The great natural resources and advantages which have attracted to it capital and population the flames were powerless to affect, and other capital will take the place of that destroyed, while the labor that will be required in the work of rebuilding will much of it remain as a permanent addition to the working power of the community, Greatly as such calamities are to be regretted, particularly when they iuvolve loss of life, they are not wholly without their compensations. What a year of disaster this has been. If there is any parallel to it in the extent of loss of life and proper- ty from flood, fire, earthquake and other visitations, certainly the history of this country records no such calamitous disasters in an equal period as have occarred within the past three months. The people of Spokane Falls will need the generous aid of their fol- low citi: and those of the west should respond to their appeal for assistance with & most liberal hand. Omaha should uot be behind in giving a substantial evidence of her sympathy. THE Kansas live stock sanitary com- mission has just made a report to the governor of the state affecting the sani- tary condition of the Kansas City stock yards. The commission found that the yards are kept in good sanitary order, and that all cattle believed to be dan- gerous or infectious are unloaded and kept apart from other stock. Never- theless, evidences wore found of cattle which had contracted Texas fever, although the cases were mild, with little danger of spreading. A copy of the tinding of this commission, together with a recommendation that the quar- antine regulations of Nebraska against the Kavsas City stock vards be modified, has been sent to Governor Thayer. Nebraska is pavticularly in- terested in the condition of the Kansas City stock yards, and, while it may be true that the commission has given them a clean bill of health, the welfare of our cattle industry de- mands caution iv modifying the gover- nor’s quarantine measures. The spread of the fever among Texas cattle on the range is alarming, and the indications are that the mortality among them is likely to continue until frost. As Kan- sas City is the principal market for Texas cattle, the danger from infec- tious disease in that city is great unless proper precautions arve taken. It is, thereforo, best for Nebraska to be on the safe side and to run no risks. The cattle shipments to Omana and other points in the state come principally from the ranges of Wyoming, Colorado and Montana, which are free from fever. For that reason the quarantine excluding shipments from Kansas City should not be changed until all sus- picion of infectious disense in that quarter is removed., r—— RuHODE ISLAND has adopted high license and local option to take the place of the discarded prohibition sys- tem. Little Rhody has much to thank Nebraska for in teaching her the law and showing her a good example. —————— THE recent accidents to A merican ships of war by grounding on mud flats and ecolliding with scows and ferry boats has just been aggravated by run- ning the new war vessel Boston, hardly off its stocks, on the rocks in Newport harbor. The frequency of these mis- baps gives color to the suspicion that something is wrong with the navy de- partment. If the officers of some of these vesselsare not sufficiently fumiliar with the hydrography of the American harbors, it is time that they be sup- planted by men who know their busi- ness before a serions disaster happons to send one of our costly new ships to the bottom of the sea. THAT tripartite agreement proposed between the Bnsted States, England and Rusein rospocting the Behring sea dis- pute could casily be settled. Each country might exclude the other from encroaching dithe seal preserves and allow the Alublg for company, as here- tofore, to mg lize the business for its own profit. Tie lummery of royal compliments reaches an absurd height when Queen Victoria is appointed a colonel of the first dragoon guards of Berlin, by her grandson, the emperor of Germany, and he in turn is made an honorable admiral of the Britisn navy out of re- spect 1o his present visit to England. TiE United States, through its special commission, has made a formal tender of one dollar and & quarter per acro for the Cherokee strip. If the deal goes through this will make the mouths of real estate denlers wator as the biggest transfer of the season. CHAINING Martin Burke, the extra- dited suspect, to a railroad car seat and to an officer on oach side of him in bringing him from Winnipeg to Chica- go may be necessary in the eyes of the Chicago police, but at this distance it looks highly unwarranted aund bar- barous. A War Whiokh Hurts No One. Philudelphia Inquirer. A deadful battle is raging among the anarchists, and the advantages of their pol- icy of fighting only with their mouths are now fully appurent, Gl n and Dark Design. San Francisco Alta. A British syndicate is now reported to be buying all the gas in this country. ‘There is 10 doubt but it intends to get control of it and then blow the gas out on us. g The Railroads and the G. A. It. Kearney Enterprise, The Milwaukeo affair will have & slim at- tendance, but there will be veterans enough there to vass a resolution condemning the wrotched meauness of the railroads and up- holding the hands of Corporal Lanna:. e e Croninville's Climate. Chicago News, A man fell into a Chicago basement the other day and instead of breaking his bones, as he probably wopld have done in any other city, he was onlydrowned. Chicago's mag- nificent climato is Without a parallel. —_—— Everything Goes in Engiand. Chieligo 1erald, 1t sounds strange to Americansto hear that Robert Browning is at work on a volume of humorous poetry. But even Bob may be considered humorous among people who laugh at Punch. s The Workingman's Danger. Baltimore American, Self-respecting workingmen should not allow themselves to be used as the shuttle- cocks of scheming politicians. Their intorest 1u the proper mauagement of state and muni- cipal affairs 15 second to none, aud their in- fuence, if intelligéntly cxerted, is great; they should, therefore, beware of mistakesat the outset of the campaign, and especially should they avoid the transparent designs of those who have no other use for them excent to furthcr their own personal ends. The time 18 approaching wheu all gooa citizens must do their utmost to maintain their own rights and secure an honest and economical adwinistration of public affairs, and we are confident that the true workingmen will not be backward, nor ailow themselves to be led by the nose. The _— GREAT MEN. The earl of K'ife's father died of drink. The old Fife went on too many toots. ‘f'he works of “Uncle Remus” are sold on railway trains i India in cheap paper covers. The Prince of Wiles 18 reported to have woa £15,000 in cards during the Newmarket races. John Hart, who drives a baker’s wagon in Westchester, Pa., is a great-grandson of the John Hart who signed the declaration of Iudependence. Marshal McMahon, ex-pres:dent of France, now m his eighty-first year, is as fresh as a boy and has vever had from a natural cause a day’s illness in his life. Herman Oelrichs, the rich New York club mau and politic astonished the people of Long Branch recently by swimming thres miles out to sea and back. The Lloyd Osbourne, who appears as a col- laborateur with Mr. Robert Stevenson in the latter's last story, “The Wrong Box,” is Mr. Stevenson’s stepson. He is just twenty-one. Montgomery Sears, the richest man in Boston, has brought suit against the city for $4.50 damages done to his property by fireworks during the Fourth of July celebra- tion. Mr. Ruskin was once asked if it would not be wel for the Welsh language to die out and be repluced by the English, ‘“‘God for- bid!" he replied. ‘‘The Welsh language 18 the language of music. There is no genius about the language, The Scotch have got all the poetry, and the Irish all the wit, and how the devil we got Shakespeare I do not know."” The Rev. B. Ft. De Costa, rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, in New York, is the tendér-hearted christian who sends thoso words of sympathy and cheer to tie sufferers at .;uhnslown: It is time peo- ple stopped foolftig with nature and built citios where they will not be drowued out and menaced by idangerous dams. People who live 1 the traek of the flood ought to be required to make up for losses if they are going to have loyses, and not resort to the old trick of telegraphing to the mayor of New York for funds te relieve their distress.” Joe Jefferson’/is' & spiritualist in a very small way, and lLds scen many manifesta- tions in bis couniry house at Hobokus, which he has justrented to a New Yorker, His plantation in Lguisiana was the old ren- dezvous of Lafitte and his pwate band. It bas the reputation a& well as being haunted and none of the colored servants will ven- ture out after nightfall, Whittier, it is said, falls asleep in his chair when visitors begin to praise his poetry. Earthly honors grow less vaiuable to him as the years wane. STATE JOTTINGS, Nebraska. The Saline county fair will be held at Wil- ber September 2, § and 4. Wellfleet has & \mbllu watering tank and & roller flouring mill in vrospect. The old soldiers of Chase county will hold 4 reunion at Champion September 14, Two of the triplets born to Mr. aud Mrs. Herbert Powers, of Schuyler, died recently. Mr. and Mrs, G. L. Mundorf, of Herman, Washington county, wiil golden wedding August 18, The Cedar Rapids Republican thinks the carpenters of that place shouid form a union and strike for more wages. Chadron will vote Soptember 2 on & propo- sition to 188ua $20,000 bhonds for funding the city's debt and buildine a city hail. Saunders county farmers near Ashland have threshed their small grain, oats going thirty bushels and whoat fiftoe ‘pu«huls W the acro. The busine soribed suflic siznal flags, court house, J. A. Steel, for seven yenrs Union Pacifio station agent at Rising has resigned and has been succoeded by J. R, Minnick, of Stromsburg. W. 1. McGinnis, celebrate their s men of Hebron have sub- funds to purchase weather which will be placed on the the postmaster at Minden, tias it his resignation to Wash- ington and signed a petition favoring W. 1. Hart for the offico. The old settlers of Richardson county will hold their fourth annual picnic August 13 and 14 in a grove on the ) a river be- tween Dawson and Humboldt John N. iReynolds, who formorly resided at Fullerton, but who has spent the past eightoen months in the Kunsas penitentiary, }\inu“nm published a book eutitled “A Kansas Sheriff Cobble, of Keya Paha county, has sworn in one hundred deputios, and the town £ v and surrounding vicinity is 'd cach night by from twenty-five to 1ifty of thewm, The business men of Verdon beame so dis- gusted with the way broperty owners al. lowed weeds to grow in tho central part of town that thov made up a purse and hired mea 1o cut down the offensive growth, Towa 1tems. Clintoncitizens are raising 31,000 to their park. meteen marriage licenses worv issned in Sioux City duriug the month of July. Polic county soldiers and sailors wili hold areunion at Avon Junction August 21 to %, ‘'he Davenport saloous huve pad into the treasury” during the. pastsix moutis The first division, Sons of Vetorans, will hola thew encatpment at Avamosa Septen- ber 25 to 27, The Youug Men's Christian will potition 1. L. Moody to ve the state convention at Ottumwa October 910 18, The thro ~old son of Dave Herwig, of Muscatine. died on Tharsday from the effects of injuries received in a fisht with a five- year-oid boy on the Saturday previous, An unknown disease is ragiog_among the cattle of Monroo conutry, especially amor the milch cows. The eyes become sore and n many cases the sicht is destroyed. The eloventh anuual meeting of the United Brothren church will be held in the grovo between Mechanicsville and _ Lisbon, begin- uing August 22 and closing Septewmber 3, ‘Thomas Robinson, a farmer living near Traer, while roturning from work in the field, \vas struck by lightning ana killed in- stantly. Ihe horsa he was riding was also killed. ‘The romantic marriage fn Chicago of Wil “I'repunier, son of a leading dry goods mer- chanvof Des Momes, and Hattie Conrad, daughter of Judge Conrad of the district Dbench, has an unhappy sequel. The mar- riage 'was_bitreriy opposed by Trepanier, senior, while his wife has been anxious to forget' and forgive and receive tho young couple at home. The outcome has been a breaking up of the Trepanier home, the father and wother formally scparating. i TON OASE. im- pe ass THE BA The Mouths of the Ogdensburg Con- tingent Are Securely Sealed. O6neNsnunrG, N. Y., August 5.—[Special to —The excitement in society cir- cles over the Barton-Bridges scandul has somewhat subsided. Mrs. Smith, the aunt of Miss Bridges, is at her home in this city completely prostrated by the shock, and was unable to muke any statement to Tne BEr correspondent who called upon her last even- ing. Miss Bridges has refused to talk about the matter, notwithstanding the fact that your correspondent showeid her the importance of both sides uf the matter being given to the public. Young Hamel is_in Utica, and pronounces the alleved interview with bim in the New H;k World as bogus. I could notget him to alk, ‘There secms to be a general disposition among all interested partics in Ogdensburg to shield the parties, and to have the matter hushed up if possible. This, I find, is owing to the sympathy which everybody feels towards Mrs. Smith. Hawel, though re- ported in wil the newspavers us being a pretty little dude, has scuse enough to keep his mouth shut, —_— TEXAS TRAIN ROBBERS. They Operated Very Skillfully But Didn't Get Much. Forr Wonrn, Tex., August 5. —At 2 o'clock yesterday morring six masked men stopped the Fort Worth & Denver mail and express, south bound between the Cheyenne water tank and Tascosa. Three men got on the locomotive and compellod the engineer to pull away from the passenger coaches,which had been detached by the rovbers and left under guard of the other three, After going half a mile they compelled the engineer to leave the locomotive and bring a pick to force open the door of the express car. Express Messenger March, s g what was up, barricaded his doors and reted all ex- press packages but three, after which be let the robbers in under threat of being shot. Thev took \be three pucksges ana then com- pelled the mal agent to open the door to his He had hidden all his stered mat- r but one letter under his sacks. The rob- bers got the one package and then opencd the mail pouches and scattered the contents on the floor. After doing this work they ordered the engineer to pull out. When they were gone the authorities in several neighboring coun- ties were notified and are in pursuit. It is said that the total amount stolen is less than $2,000, Therobbers fired twenty or twenty- five shots into the mail and express cars, The passengers were greatly alarmed but none of them were molested in any way. —— LIVELY COLORE.) BALL. Knives and Razors End a Kentucky Dance. Crxo AT1, August 5.—[Special Telegram to Tne Bge.|—At Walton, Ky., yesterday morning, s dance was given by the colored people of the neighborhood, to which a large number came from other places, The crowd was of a pretty tough character A quarrel arose between two wowen over a wan whom they both claimed. A fight beo- tween these dusky umaizons led to o general battle, in which pistols, knives and razo were used. Nearly fifty shots were fired and adozen participants in the row were wounded, some of them fataily. It is be- lieved that five of them will die. Two of the prominent participants in the affair are being pursucd, and if caught will probably be beaten to doath or lynched by the infu- riated negroes. Pistols, —— Three Nebraska Appointments. WASHINGTON, August 5, —Among the ap- pontments made by the president to-day were tho following: William MecCann, of Nebraska, register of the land office at Chad- ron, Nob.. I Frank Powers, of Nebraska, Yoceiver of public moneys at Chadron, No Tobert Asuley, of Nebraska, indian agent at the Omaha aud Winnebago agoncy in Ne- braska. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Y When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was & Child, ahe cried for Castoria, Whien shie becamo Miss, sho clung to Castoria, Whon she had Children, she gave thom Castoria REESE'S ~ OFFICIAL ~ SHOES. A Rumor That Dilworth Would Like to Wear Thom. A PAPER RAILROAD ABANDONED. The Singular Adventurs of Minnio Moran. Capitol Kecords—Doings at the Court House—1he City in Brief 1029 P Streer, LANCOLN, August 5. One of the best informed politicians of the state, who is stopping at the Capital hotel, said to-day: Hamer's candidacy for the supreme bench is nothing more or less than a boom for Ham Connor, of Kearney, for governor in 1800, It is well known that Dilworth and Post are open aspirants for higher judicial honors, and it is equally well known that Dilworth is tho preferred candidate of the railroads for Reese’s official shoes. The candidacy of Post and Hamer is therefore an open book. It means anything to beat Reese. It 1s the old game of “throe pluck one,” or a repeti- tion of the play to defeat Maxwell two years ago. Hamer expects, by his candidacy, to LINCOLN BUREAU OF TR OMAMA 13RR, } would influence for Connor a year later. It is intended, also, that he shall be abie to feather his own nest for *‘appointment”’ upon the passugo of the constitutional amendment increasing the membership of the supreme beneh tofive. IMixing upon Hastings as the place for holding the state convention 18 in- tended to strongthen Dilworth by giving han the prestige of howme enthusiasm. It is aid that Post is willing to sacrifice bimself in the hopes of future aggrandizement, and will turn over to Dilworth all “‘turnable dele- gations” that may be for him for first choice. "The situation is becoming interesting, and it is altogether probable that the republican state convention will be the most exciting ever held in the state in an off yoar. A Base Betrayal. During the early part of last week a car- penter by the name of Kline, who then lived on Twelfth street, the third door from S, on the left hand side, went to the depot to meet his wife, who was expected from Wichita, Kan., where she had been on a visit. She was accompanied by a young girl by the nume of Minnje Moran, who was engaged to a fricnd of Mrs. Kline’s husband. Kline greetod his wife cordwlly when she alighted from the train, took both his wife's and Miss Moran's bagzage checks and told them he would sond their trunks direct to the house. He requested Miss Moran to remain at the depot until he returned, and his wife took a car for home, Beemingly, nothing was thought of the strange request by either of the ludies. A brakeman was standing by and when Kline left the ladies, and the wife had departed, he accosted the girl and told her that Klino intended to rob her of her trunk, and requested her to step into the depot'hotel and he woulda look after the property. This the girl did. After a time the brakeman returned to the hotel and told her tnat he had failed to find Kline or her trunk. He thon registered s ‘W. I, Friel and wife and Minnie was shown to room 1l Sho kanew nothing of the registration, but Friel effected an entrance into her room and by intimidation accom- plished his purpose. 'I'ne next morning Kline appeared upon the scene and he told her that he had secured a place for her to work. It dawned upon her then that she had been victimized, but for fear of losing cast she held her peace regarding her becrayal. Sho went to 1623 P street, where she eugaged as a domestic, whercupon Kline lef: his Twelfth street home, his wife and children, and engaged board at the sume place, and his attentions upon Minnie have beon 80 marked since that they are the sub- ject of remark by the noighbors, The Fricl escapade was known to the police at the time, but it is said that because of the slose friendship between Friel and a highofficial in police circles they were not molested. A Paper Raiiroad Vacated. Two or three weeks ago Tue Ber men- tioned the fact that the citizens on the con- templated line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway company, between Niobrara, Knox county, and Atkinson, Holt county, the grade of which had been made, had vetitioned the attorney general to com- mence suit to dissolve its articles of incor- poration or such proc-edings necessary to vacate and abandon the partly constructed road. The attorney general uccordingly entered into correspondence with the officials of the road, and the following letter clearly indicates with what success MiLwAUKEE, Wis., August 3, 1889, —Wilham Lesse, Attorney General, Lincoln—Dear Sir: This company has abandoned the idea of con- structing the line of road contemplated from Niobrarain_your state, and are willug to and hereby do abandon - the grade made by them in your state for the purpose of such construction. If it is necessary thut any- thing more formal should be executed by the company you can prepare such papers as you desire and forward the same to me and 1 will see that it is execated by the company, Respectfully Yours, JonN W. Casey. General Councellor, Records at the Oapitol. The governor to-day made the following notarial appointments: W. E. Mitchell, Val- lay, Ord county; M. A. Piing, Cordova, Sew- ard county; C. C. Smith, Excter, Fillmore county; Horace B. Boyles, Omaha, Douglas county, The Commercial State Bank, of Benodict, York county, flled articles of incorporation in the office of the secretary of state to-day Business commences August 15, Authorized oapital stock $10,000, Tncorporators: J. I\ MecConaughy, J. W. Barnes, K. P. Warner, {"{; IL’ Woods, Ellen MoConuughy and C. G. ‘00ds. The case of the Union Pacific Railway Company vs. ra D, Martin, on an eiror from tho_district court of Buffalo county, was t:m',knlnd for trial in the suprome court to- day. Doings at the Conrt House, Robert Gleun, the well-to-do Irish farm ew who resides near University Place and of whose malady 13EE gave an accurato do scription recently, was before the board of insane commissioners again to-day. It scoms that ho has grown worse sinoce his former ex- amination, when a guardian was appointed to look after him and his property, and aftor rehearing the case tho commissioners do- cided to send him to the asylum, He insists that his homo 1s the abode of witches and that ho wants to get away from it. Fred Darling filed a complaint in the county court against Marcoy & Wright, pro- prietors of the Exchange hotel, West Lan- , oharging them 'with sellin, mortgagod proporty WIthout the consent of the mortgagee. It is xaid by parties in a po- wition to know, that the complaint is & plece of spite work on Darling's part, and that it will not stick, City News and Notes. J. P, Walton has just finished a new map of Lincoln. J. H. Crocker died this morning at 2:30 o'clock from erysipelas. He was sixty-seven years of age and leaves his_ family well pro- vided for after a long life of usefulness. William Rhode, meat and live stock inspec- tor, haa a horse stolen Saturday night while Atténding the Indiun show at Garfiold park. ‘The horse was found to-day tied to a post at the corner of Sixteenth and P stroets by Officer Green. But the thief i ill a freo wan. Couductor Tom Ryan and wife have gone to Denver, called thithor by the death of Mrs. Ryun's father. They were accompanied by Mrs. Sid Wheeler, the wife of & well known Burlinzton engineer and one of Mrs. Ryan's sisters. The Omaba and Milwaukee league baso ball teams will play a postponed game in Lincoln on next Friday. It is said that if tho gamo is liberally patronized the St. Joseph, Denver and St. Paul clubs will cross !l)nlu here with the Omahas before the season o8 The German Catholics of Lincoln will give @ grand festival nt Garfield park on next Wednesday, August 7. The occasion will be a memorable one and the public is cordially invited to be present. 0. J. King, of Chicago; S. M. Hagen, of Blue Hill; W. C. Heary, of Fairmouth} J H. Patton, of Beatrice, and J. P. Price, of Hastings, were among tho prominent Ne- braskaus in Lincoln to-day. L g RIP VAN RINKLE'S OPPOSITE. A Man Who Hasn't Slept For Seven- tecn Years. New Yonk, August 5.—[Special Telegram to Tne Bre—A sensational paper this morning publishes the story of & man named John C. Colins, of Kansas City, who, it is said, has not slept for years, the nearest ap- proach being a semi-unconscious state in which he does not lose the sense of surround- ings, Colins claims to have been under tho doctor’s care on the Pacific coast, but got no relief. He worked for a year in San Fran- cisco as a tinsmith and traces his insomnia to acold caught while working in that city. Describing his trouble Colins says: “or seventeen years I can truthfully say that I have not had a single night of refresh- ing sleep. Duringa porioa of three wesks I have not closed my eyes, uund these at- tacks of insomnia have been succeeded by a semi-unconscious state during four or five nights. While in that condition I was always aware of my surrounding. The slightest noise in the house or outside would rouse me to intense consciousness and wakeful- ness, 8o I got no rest except thut given my body by reclining on a bed or sofa, though T would toss about in agony because sleep did not come to me. To me it seemed as if everybody avoided me, and at times I be- lieved that all who came in contact with me fairly hated the unfortunate wretch who could not steep. Of course this was hallu- ination and an_indication of incipient in- sanity. and I have often wondered that I did not gocrazy. My health, however, has con- tinued good all thiese years, though at times my memory is defective, especially rd- ing recent events. I read a groat deal and am fond of taking long walks in hopes of tiring my system out 80 as to _induce sleep. While at a sanitarium in Buffalo, where [ recently passed two months, I gained vhirty pounds in weight.” ‘Tho epinion Lere is that the man is getting ready to enter a dime museum. —————— Fifty-Three Days Without Food. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., August 5.—[Special to Tuk Ber.]—Robert Marvel’s wonderful fast still continues, He has now gono fifty-three days without nourishmentof any kind except water. He is eighty-four years old. Thero is littie doubt that he is growing weaker. Yesterday he submitted to a change of cloth- ing without any resistance for the first time since his strange aflliction bogan. His rela- tives think be will survive ten duys longer, L s N SPECIFIC is a great bless- nity,” says Mr. P. B. Gor Broad Street, Nashville, Tenn., *“for 1t cured me of rheumatism of a vory bad type, with which I had been troubled for three or four years, S. 8. S. cured me after I had exhausted CSWIFT'S “LIKE AS IT WERE A MOTH THAT FRETTETH A GARMENT* so will the free alkali, to which many powerful soaps owe their strength, destroy your clothing. Professor Silliman, of Yale College, says, ‘‘The Ivory Soap is of remarkable purity. ..., as a laundry goap it has no superior.” A WORD OF WARNING, There are many white soaps, each represented to be ‘' just as good as the ! Ivory's* they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar ac temarkable qualities of the ge uine, Ask for “lvory’ Soap and insist upon getting (. Covvright 1880, by Procter & Guwble.