Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 9, 1889, Page 4

THE g&xm BEE. B, ATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MOKNING. TERMS OF !E Edition) or! w?:n"lim Ofes, No. 613 Fourteentn Street, CORREAVON Dllxl e ATl com! %fi -I-:f nwlnlpf sho o 3. Editor BUBINESS :m::(s. * remittances shon ST e T ot b fn. chaoks and postofice orders to 'made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprigtors, Bee Buildiog Farnam and Seventeenth THE DAILY BEE, Sworn Statement of Circulation. _ itate of Nebrask: g County of o foa. George B, Trschuck, secretary of The Res Fublishing Company, docs uclemhly swonr s the actual circufati of ThE DA Brer for the woek ending August 3, 185, was as follows; Sunday, July 25, Monday, Jylr 2. AT ay, Jnly T Eaturday, Avgust 5. — Average.. Bworn to before me and subseribed to in my ‘presence this 8d day of August, A. D. 1889, (Seal.] {05 L, Notary Publiiz, State of Nebrask, County of Dougins, {os George B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- Posen and says that li s searstary of The lioe ublishing company, that the &cbual average dnily circmlation of Tk DAILY BER for the month of August 188, 1R 18 coplos; for Sep- tember, 148, 1K 1B coples; for October I 18,08 coples: for November, 1584, 18,088 copiesi mber, 1888, 18,223 coples; for January, 1880, 18,374, coples: for February, 1589, 15,00 copies: Tor March, 1889, 18,854 coples: for April, 1869, 18,5 coplest for May, 18, 16,089 coplest for ‘June. 180, 18,88, coples: for 'July, 1889, 18,788 copies. (R0, B, TZRONUCK, Bworn to befors me and subscribed in my presence thls 3d day, ot August 1850, [sraL.] N. P. Frir, Notary Publle. THE contractors will now have a pull at the new city hall plans. —— THE draft horse and the fat stock ex- hibitions should be harnessed together. ——— THE seplpers are 1eaping a golden harvest from the sale of harvest excur- sion tickets by the railroads. —— WHEN John 8herman gets home he can take his revenge by twisting the British lion’s tail for the indignity offered him by English custom house officers 1n going through his thirteen trunks, ———— HELENA ought to be the capital of Montana if for no other reason than for the spontaneous generosity of its peo- ple, who came 1o the assistance of Spo- kane before the embers of the disas. trous firein that city had died out. PE——————— OMAUA has made a gratifying ex- hibit in the pork packing returns for the first week of August. As compared with the record last yearthere is a gain of thirty thousand up to date, and within a week or two Omaha will round out the number of hogs packed this sea- #on at a good half million, SEEege—— SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CENSUS PORTER has already received one hun- dred thousand applications to fill the places of the forty thousand census . enumerators to go into the fleld in June. But this should not deter the rest of the people of this country from tiling their applications, There is always room at . the top, s E— Taw long protracted strike in the coal regions of Illinois will spon be termi~ nated by the efforts of the arbitration committee of business men to whom the dispute was referred. Their decision glves the miners a slight viotory over the mine owners. and as both sides are _tired of the struggle, the miners will be tempted to acgept the compromise. Er— CAPTAIN SEAVEY professes to hold in profound contempt everything that is published about the police or the conduct of police officers, He appears to delight in insul$ing reporters and treating them with discourtesy, This - only shows a lack of qualities that a man in Captain Beavey's position should possess. Politeness is a cheap com. modity and when nn officer doesn't know how to treat citizens politely, he only demonstrates that he is unfit for the place he hold e— THE mishap in Newport harbor to the bran mow oruiser Boston, which +knocked a hole ten feet long in its bot- tom, is smd to have been due to the -maval n{uhfion forbidding ships of ‘war to take on & pilot in United States ports. As it is guite evidens that tho commandors of our navy are unfamilisr with the sunken rocks and currents in our harbors, it would be & big saving of dollars and cents to the country, if mothing else, to repeal this regulation before our naval oficers send a million _ dollar craft to the bottom of the sea, E—— THE call issued by Chairman Walker for » meeting of the Inter-state Com- merce |Railway association next week is sigmficant of trouble ahead. ‘We pointed out some days ago that the railroad situation had a critical aspect, 8nd the deyelopment of a sarious phase has not come sooner than was expected. The unquestionablo fact is that there is & great deal of discontent with the ex- isting conditions, and those roads which feoel that they are not getting a fair show under the prevailing arrangements are dotermined to find a way to place themselves in & more favorable po- sition. It hastaken a great effort to ourb the tendency of the managers of such roads to proceed to radical meas- ures, sud every day weakens the force of such effort. Por this situation of af- fairs the Chicago & Alton s very largely, if not wholly, responsible. That company appears disposed to aggravate the diMiculties and increase the com- plications regardless of consequences. As its policy and conduct are no longer subject to the jurisdiction of the rail- way association, it is only & gues- tion of time when other roads will with- draw and take their chances in a rate war, SENATOR SHERMAN'S ANNOY ANCE The eable account of the annoyance to which Senator wad Mrs. Sherman were subjected by the inspection of their baggage in London is both amus- ing and suggestive. It is easy to under- stand thut the distinguished senator would regard the procesding as some- thing of an indignity, after having ap- prised the officials of his identity and assured them that the baggage con- tained nothing dutiable. Moreover, this baggage had passed without mo- lestation through several ecountries in which eustoms officials are proverbially vigilant and ous- toms rules notably rigid. But his indignant reflections must have been tempered with the thought thatin his own eountry he and everybody else who enters it, be he prince or peasant, sena~ tor or seullion, must be subjected to a likeannoyance if the customs officials do their duty. One can easily fancy the senator posing in & dignified attitude and with frowning mien viewing the rogress of the search by alien hands hrough the linen and hosiery, the lace and ribbons, and all the variety of arti- eles that go to the making of a lady's wardrobe, and it will be strange if the cartoonists do not find in this incident of the senator’s foreign tour material for astriking pieture. Its amusing side is certainly obvious enough. The suggestive feature of the ineci- dent is not so much in the fact that it occurred in the home of free trade as in the circumstance that the system of closo and careful inspection is at least measurably due to an unfortunate habit of American caitizens traveling in Fu- rope. According to Mr. Chauncey Depew, who in this matter must be supposed to have spoken seriously, Americans who visit the contineut often make a point of purchasing large quantities of old silver and try tosmuggle it. The discovery of this American penchant resulted in an order, now for several years in force, requiring that all baggage from the continent shall be searched, special at- tention being given, it is naturally pre- sumed, to the baggage of Americans, England levies a duty of one shilling and six pence pee ounce on silver plats manufactured outside of the United Kingdom, thus affording a rather liberal measure of proteetion to her manufac~ turers of silver plate, and it is because of theattempts of his fellow-countrymen to evade this protective feature of England’s fiscal policy that Senator Sherman’s luggage was thoroughly overhauled. The vevelation that American travelers in Europe have been guilty of smuggling is not in itself a pleasant ome, but in any event the Ohio senator could not eonsistently object to n system ‘abroad of which he fully approves at home, There is this to be said, however, in disapproval of a part of the proceeding, namely, that there was no excuse for destroying property. The customs officials should at least have had the courtesy, after verifying the statement of Senator Sher- man that his baggage contained nothing dutiable, to restore aeverything as nearly as possible to the condition in which they found it. Manifestly these English customs officials need to be 1n- structed in what is just and respectful to the traveler whose possessions fall under their inspection, and in this re- spect, doubtless, the average American official in like service would afford them a good example. Senator Sherman’s reported disgust &t this incident of his travels has doubtless by this time worn away under the soft- ening influence of the distin- guished consideration he is re- eeiving on all hands, and his numerous triends and edmirers will learn with pleasure that he is showing an un- wonted geniality of maaner. The truth is that the senator is a far more genial man thaa he is generally eredited with being. A month hence he will return and reappear in the political arena to do aggressive and valuable work for the republicap cause in Ohio. CEE———— WYOMING'S CONVENTION, A convention to frame a state consti- tution for Wyoming will meet at Chey- enve on the first Monday in September. At the election of last year for delegate in congress the vote in Wyoming was in round figures eighteen thousand, which, by the ordinary rule of computa- tion, gave the territory a population at that time of ninety thousand. The num. ber at present is doubtless not less than one hundred thousand, The territory contains an area of about ninety- eight thousand square miles, about equal to that of New York, Ohio, New Jersoy and Deleware com- bined. The resources are great and very diversified, The grazing fields are said to be unsurpassed op the conti- nent. There is an abuadant supply of timber. The coal area of the territory covers more than ninetoen mllion acres. It is belioved that the oil fields are not equalled elsewhere in the coun~ try. The iron deposit is deseribed in a report of the senate committee on terris tories 88 truly wonderful. Thore are sods deposits covering hundreds of acres, and sald to be the most extensive discovered om the con- tinent. Gold, silver and copper mines are found in the territory. Mar- ble, grunite and sandstone of excellent qualities for building purposes are abundant. In a word, so far as natural resources mre concorned, Wyoming is most richly supplied, and with the means of development provided her growth an material prosperity and in population could not fail to be rapid. For the purpose of agricultural devel- opment Wyoming will require an ex- teosive system of lirrigation, but this will not be so diffioult to provide as in some other arld sections. It is esti- mated that from tem to twelve million acres of the arid lands of the territory may be reelaimed with the water found in the streams in the terri- tory. The soil is fertile, and wherever irrigated becomes exceptionally pro- ductive. There is no doubt that agri- cuiture can be successfully prosecuted with an adequate system of irrigation, but the wealth of the territory will be derived from its great mineral re- sources, The people of Wyoming are soxious for stalehood, and they will urge their claim to con- sideration upon the next congross . ] N: E O an with wigor. They are at a disadyantage in the matter of popula- tion. The ratio of representation un- der the next census is expacted to be two hundred thousand, and it is hardly to0 be expected that under the most fa- vorable eonditions Wyoming will have the population required for a repre- sontative in congress during the life. time of the fifty-first congress. Pro- visions may, however, he made by that congress, and very likely will be, for the admission of the territory when it has the required population, which it may have within the next three or four yoars. In pointof size Wyoming will be the eighth state in the union, and in respect of resources she will rank high in the list, Her energetic people will spare no effort to attain the boon of statehood. —— AS TO THZ UNION DEPOT. If the proposition to construct a union depot at a cost of over four hundred thousand, conditioned upon the eity building & two hundred thousand dollar viaduet over the tracks on Tenth street, had been made tem years ago, or even five years ago, it would have carried by acclamation. To-day there is a very general aversion to donating any bonus to the railroad companies for giving this ¢ity metropolitan depot accommo- dations. The prevailing sentiment is that Omaha is large enough to command proper railway transfer and depot facili- ties without subsidizing the railroads. On sober reflection, however, we be- lieve the people who are most interested in Omaha'’s future growth will reach the conclusion that one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is, after all, a tri- fling bonus, if we can do away forever with the annoying and damaging em- bargo that has held back Omaha for twenty years, and make the going in and out of this city safe and convenient, “The proposition as submitted is still crude and cannot carry unless it is coupled with guarantys that will assure beyoud s doubt the joint occupancy of the depot by the Iowa. roads, The basis of this guaranty is outlined in the letter of the president of the Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad. There must be definite stipulations be- tween the city and the Union Pacific that the bonde asked for will be with- held until the Iowa roads have accepted the conditions for joint occupancy of the depot. An indemnity bond signed by the depot company and responsible backers must be placed in the hauds of the mayor before he signs a quit claim to the depot grounds. Em—— NEBRASKA CITY'S COMPLAINT The Nebraska City News charges the Omaha dailies with treachery and con- spiracy in their anxiety to injure Ne- braska City and its, hog packing inter- est. According to our amiable con- temporary down the river, the Omaha papers have an agreement to suppress from the Associated press reports any reference to Nebraska City’s packing house records. The truth of the matter is that the Associated press does not send to Omaha or any other town the weekly re- ports of pork packing that are made up for the Cincinnati Price Current. These reports are wired from Cincin- nati exclusively to THE BEE for this section, and like the bulk of the so- called special dispatches that appear in other Omaha dailies, are stolen bodily from the telegraphic columns of THe BEE. Under the circumstances it is absurd to talk about a conspiracy or compact to injure Nebhraska City. if anybody is to blame for omitting the Nebraska City figures from his telegrams to THE BEE iv is the reporter in Cincipnati, ‘We pay for all these dispatches and certainly would have no design in sup- pressing news we pay for. The proof of this is that THE BEE has published the Nebraska City packing record for 1ast week. Previoosto that Nebraska City’s quotation had been included under the geperal heading of ‘‘all others,” which meunsall packing points that are not enumerated specifically. Without consulting any of the parties to the slleged conspiracy we feel quite sure that the Omaha dailies will quote the figures for Nebraska City whenever they are wired to THE BEE. The scis- sors conspirator does not discriminate, S ‘THE success of the Sioux commission in its negotiations for the opening of eleven millions of virgin soil can not fail to be of inestimable benefit to Ne- braska. There will be added to the area of the state an irregular strip just north of the Niobrara and Keya Paha _rivers comprising five hundred thous- and ackes of good farming and stook raising land within the counties of Holt, Knox and Keya Paha. The open- ing to settlement, however, of the great reserve in Dakota is of prime im- portance, Within & very few years the vast tract will be peopled with a farming population and dotted with thriving towns which will be largely dependent upon the cities of Nebra ska for markets in the interchange of com- modities. The people of . Niobrara have therefore good reasons to feel jubilant over tho prospects before them, @The situation of that city at the Jjuncture of the Niobrara with the Mis- souri rivers, together with its railroad connection through Dakota, makes it at once the gateway into the new lands, The long looked for exteusion of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad from Verdigris into that city, a distance of less than twenty-five miles, under the circumstances can not be de- layed much longer. This would place Omaha in a direct line with Southern Dakotaand the Sioux reservation, aad give the merchants of this city the key to the trade of the northwest, S DEMOCRATIC papers are trying to make capital out of the action of the commaander of the revenue cutter Rush in putting a **prize crew” of but one man on the Canadian vessel Black Dia- mond, They hiut that he followed **in- structions from Washington with no other object than to allow the captured vessel to escape and so keep the case out of the courts.” Nothing, however, could be farther from the truth. The placing of a single man on board the Black Diamond with instructions to order that schooner w report at Sitka, was in stffdPacoordance with interna< tional law And the custom among natlons. The vessel was not seized nor confiscated_by the revenue cutter but was ordergd to roport to the nearest Ameriean port, where an examination could be hg:i? The placing of a man aboard thé Black Diamond was equiva- lent to a sutmnions to court and 1880 con- strued in paval ecircles. The acvion, however, the commander of the Black Di , in breaking his parole by sailing h} Viotoria, amounts to a contempt of court. Secretary Blaine would bo justified in requesting British authorities to turn this vessel over for the purpose of investigating the charges against it, and Great Britain would hardly refuse to comply with such & formal demand. E——— THE biggest wrestling match of the senson takes place this fall when Omaha will hold her muniecipal eleotion. K L _ __ ___J} Ohicago's Latest Annex. Chicago News. Mr. Martin Burke is the latest triumph of Chicago's annexation movement. ——lee Like the Cats of Kilkenny. Detroit Tribune, When the New York Sun is wading into Cleveland, and the St. Louis Republic is knocking out Hill at the same time, the ansyer to the bourbon ory, “Get together!" seems to be coming right down through the roof. —_————— Beyond the Reach of Salt or Sugar. Phitadelphia Ledger. Salt won't save either the salt trust itself or the sugar trust, or any of tho tribe, unless such, and such only, as are founded on fair, honorable, equitable principles of trade. No trust founded on the ‘‘crushing out” policy or “freczing out” policy can live in this country, S They Can Appreciate Him. Chicago Tribune. There is no insincerty or hollowness in the welcome the people of England are bestow- ing upon the emperor of Germany. He is one of the few grandchildren of the queen capable of earning his own living without any help from the English treasury. 2 S e What Alabama Needs. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, A democratic paper in Alabama says that “it looks now as if the next twelve monthi would withess the dawn of a new era in the politics of that state. An era which will cut down the democratic vote and drive the bourbons out of power is what Alabama needs just now, and it needs this sort of an era “bad,” A st The Spirit of the West. Kansgs City Times. ‘Washington has been almost as unfortu- nate as Pennsylvania, Seattle, Helensburg and Spokane Falls have been destroyed by fire. But the citizens of all the unfortunate towns haye displayed the san:é spirit which marked the people of Chicago after the great fire, and they wiil 'rise as Chicago did. e —— What Ara, the Perquisites? Kopaos City Journal, Emperor William has conferred upon his *‘most illustrious grandmother” the com- mand of the Firat'Dragoon guards of Berlin, In view of thestraitened circumstances of the Enclish royal fumily, the first inquiry of the illustrious grandmother is apt to be: What perquisites are attached to the posi tion} AT e L ‘Whither Are We Drifting? Donn Piact, All the woes that have afflicted humanity for a thousand years of abuse in urope are being being rapidly concentrated here. Time was, within the memory of living men, when we had two millionaires to wonder at, and deaths from starvation and suicides from despair were unknown, OQur telegraph sys- tem belongs to one man, The amount of money paid over to private interests and taken yearly from the masses under the name of atariff 18 large enough yearly to liquidate the national debt. e THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD., The Canton (0.) watch firm employs 8,000 hands. ; England’s biggest ship has 14,000 horse- power. Chinese control San Francisco broom man- ufacture. They say twenty-five men will soonown all rallronds, Bakers averaged $3.20 in 1871 and aver- aged 12,95 in 1880, Enghsh metal works do not admit for- eigners to thew shops. Retailers complam of shoe manufac- turers running retail stores. Greenville (Tex.) grocers were indicted for forming & coal oil trust. Boston has a 1,423 pound leather belt, 154 feet long and 43 inches wide. New York claims the best diamond cutters, They make 60 per week. The stream sent by & Hartford fire engine beats the world, going 848 feet. Hungary has cut railroad fares to 12 and 16 cents for fifteen and twenty miles, Tne Italian cruiser Sardegena has the largoest steam engine. It is four-triple ex- pansion and has 25,000 horse-power. They say Buenos Ayres, South America, is a good place to settle. The stréets are of granite. The police are Indians, Board costs #8 per day; coal $20 per ton, It claims the finest driving park. There is & colliery at Ballycastle, on the porthern coast of Ireland, where coal has been worked for gome years. It is of fairly good quality, but /the men who work it are paid miserable “wi The mining opera- tions conalst of @figging into the sxde of & mountain which. appoears to consist almost wholly of coal. .o Out in Nevadaiblectricity runs the very deep mines and lias" increased production 25 per cent. The et iwho work 3,100 feet deep ive about two yeats. Notwithstanding the fact that they wérk only two hours per day, they get more pay than the eight-hour men. “rhey work fiftesh ‘minutes and rest forty- five, 4 19 In Natal, M“\",V rica, there is a demand for & fow good Workmen, but the labor mar- ket there is nearlyifilled up, notwithstanding the glowing accounte that come from South Africa. The wuges in Natal are #3 per day. In Johannesburg the wages are $4.50 to $6.25 per day, but the cost of living is from $5.75 & week to $3.12 per day. The International Labor congress at Berne has been postponed until next spring. Spain allows children from nine to thir- teen to work five hours daily, From thirteen 10 eighteen eight hours, Eoglish ironworkers are agitatiog ‘‘no Sunday work” and “five days per week with Monday off.” Great Britain's 1,500 co-operative unions have 993,488 members, In 1895, $17,072,035 profit was made On sales of $183,675,325. One hundred and twenty™Yive thousand, one hundred dollars were devoted to education and §3,500 to cuarity. A uew gun factory is to be started in Flor ouce, Mass, t0 omploy about 400 men. Mayor Hart, of that , has approp riated 81,000 for sports on Labor Day. Nearly all the suburban towns in England and Treland are ming absorbed into the larger towns. Oue reason advanced for this 18 that working people of all kinds obtain highor wages in the large oities and are mi- grating to them in numbers. it Asdich Y STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Crawford has unanimously voted bonds for $10,000 waterworks. The Falrmont district fair will be nold Au. gust 37, and 80, George W. Sankey, an old resident of Val- parmso, died suddenly on the 6th inst. Charles Ji. Barber, of Kmerson, has been engaged as prinoipal of the Oakland school for the coming year. The Presbyterian ladies of Hastings are trying to secure Rev. T, DeWitt Talmage for & lecture in September. Chase county has sont Juage Burke oast with several thousand circulars to advertise that section of Nebraska. William Mumper, a Keith county farmer, and nis wife were poisoned by eating cannod beef, but both will recover, Boy burglars made soveral raids on stores at Oakland, but were captured, made restitu- tion and allowed to go free, A 1abor paper, the Workman, has made its appearance at irand Island and will advo: oate Henry George's doctrines, Cigarette-smoking boys csused the de- struction by fire of two barns and their con- tents at Humboldt the other day. The Presbyteriaus of Tekamah ave in luck, A E; Wells having made thom a donation of #1,000 towards building a church, The dry goods house of W. L. Frew at Sutton has been closed by the sheriff on an attachment in favor of Armstrong & Co., of York. Abraham Thomvpkins, a Methodist minis. ter located in Logan county, has been de- clared insane and is in the custody of the sheriff at Gandy. James M. Smith, familiarly known as “Denver” Smith, one of the first settiers of Hastings, died of paralysis on the 6th, aged seventy-five years. While looking for matches in the dark Mrs, A, Daniolson, living near Oakland, fell down cellar and broke her thigh. Her injuries may prove fatal, A camper who had pitched his tent under a cottonwood tree at Oakland was knocked insensible by a bolt of lightning which shat- tered the tree into kindling wood. A hail storm in Deuel county Wednesday lasted fully an hour and did considerable damage, although its path was very narrow. Many windows were broken av Chappel, and Lal fell to the depth of four inches. Sheriff Penn, of Custer county, raided a gambling den at Broken Bow, forced the proprietor to return his winnings to the own- ers and then placed im under arrest. The judge fined the gambler $100 and ordered all his apparatus confiscated. #Did you know,” said a well known gen- tloman to a Nebraska City News roporter, “‘that where now stands the building and tin store of H. Aird & Co. that Attorney Gen- eral Leese, of this state, used to kanfii ocigar stand! Well, he did, and dispensed law with his cigars,” Iowa Items. The government building at Keokuk is complete and only lacks the furniture. The Twenty-fourth Towa infantry will hold 1ts reunion at Marion, September 18 and 19, ‘While stacking bay near Reasner, Wallace Martin was instantly killed by tbe falling of a derrick. - The plans for the new $20,000 Christian church at Des Moines have been comploted and accepted. George M. Maxwell, of Cambridge, an ex- member of the state senate and house of representatives, died last week of paralysis, Oskaloosa Knights of Pythias are making great preparations for the meeting of the grand lodge aud encampment August 13 and 14, The work of changing the Kidd distillery at Des Moines into a malt house has been commenced. It will have a capacity of 1,400 Dbushels of malt per day, Five of the most prominent horses at Cleve- land last week were from Iowa—Axtel, Al- lerton, Pennant, Lillian and Roy Wilkes, al- though the latter 18 now owned in Chicago, Mrs. Sarah White, a Muscatine girl, was recently married in New York to J. H, McKennel, 8 wealthy Rio Jaueiro planter, and the happy couple have sailed for their southern home by way of England. J. S. Smith, of Manchester, shipped from Clarence recently a car load of blind horses, destined for Oregon and Washington for use in elevators in that region. 'his makes the fourth car load of horses of this kind shipped there, and completes his order. Mr., Smith says it is quite & difficult job to find blind horses that are otherwise sound, their blind- ness usually being the result of some sick- ness, over heating or other injury. ‘The annual reunion of the members of the famous Twenty-firth Iowa infantry regiment will be held at Washington Septem 25 and 26, At the time of the mustering in of this regiment George A. Stone, of Mount Pleasant, was its colonel. He subsequently became General Stone. The regiment held a memorial reunion at Mount Pleasant four years ago, when 180 of its survivors were present. The Two Dakotas. Vermillion needs fifty new houses. Tyndall business men have organized to advertise the town, Natural gas has been struck at a depthof fifty foet near Mellette. ‘The machinery for the steam grist mill at Dell Rapids has arrived and beeo put in place. A planing mill company has been organized at Sioux Falls, and work on the plant will be commenced at once. Charles H. Clarkson tried to stopa bull fight near Grank Forks, and was so badly gored by one of the animals that he died. According to Judge Moody more grain is raiged in the Black Hills off forty acres of irrigated land than on 160 acres that is left o the mercy of the average rainfall. About 450,000 bushels of wheat were ship- from Eureka last year. On acoount of he largely increased acreage, it is estimated that a greater quantity will” be shipped this year, A young Icelander named Hanson met ‘with a terrible death near Milton. He was mowing in a meadow when the team ran away, throwing him in front of the knives. Before he could recover his feet the horses hed rup over him, and the kuives wmfilew\y soverad the head from the body. o was unmarried, and was formerly employed at the Farmers' hotel in Milton. e e ANOTHER B1G FORGER. A New York Streot Car President in a Felon's Uell. New Yonk, August 8.—|Special Telogram to Tue Bee.]—Eben Allen, president of the Forty-second and Grand Street Ferry rail- road company, who was arrested Wednesd. afternoon, 8 in & common felon's cell wi the ugly churge mulmutln? him of having Torged the signature of a former president and treasurer of the comvany to certifioates for stock, and with having hypothecated these and converted the procecds to his own use. His fraudulent transactions certainly amount to over $140,000 at the market valuo of the stock, and they may reach $225,000, Th story of Allen’s operations is another of those oft-recurring illustrations of the almost reckiess large fina Allen was tal this morning and after some delay was held in $100,000 bonds, in default of which he was locked' up. Allen samits of issuing 700 shares of stock and getting the benefit of it, but denied the forging of the signatures of John Green and Charles Curtis, former presidents of the road, = When the charge of over-issue of stock was read to Allen, he replied he was gullty of the charge, but denied he had committed forgery. Allen states that his partoer 1o the iron com- pany, Ferdinand Koefele, was in no way con- nected with the guilty transactions. ———————— ‘Wabash Make Good Bhowing. New Youk, August 8.—Tae first month of the new Wabash company ended July 8L, aud the results were extremely gratifying. The earuings of ihe consolidated systom b heavier than the lf{rmhs of both syBlems east and west of the Mis- sissippl” during June, and were $134,504 heavier than those of both systems & yoar RO, THE CAPITAL CITY GRIST, A Meoting of the State Board of ‘Transportation. INSTITUTION REPORTS, The Lena Mareh Onse—Minneapolla Building Assoclation~Five New Notaries Publio. LINCOLN HURNAU OF TRR Ovana Hon, 1029 P St } T, LaNCOLN, August 8. The state board of transportation met to- day as per adjournment, to complete the work of the last regular meeting. It will be remembered that it was practically decided then that ‘“‘switching charges” should bo abolished, and & motion was mado to that effect. The opinion, however, prevailed that the rouds had abolished them of their own accord, and that injustice might not be done the board of secrctarios was instructed to visit Omaha and investigate the matter, It scows that the scoretarios found that the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha raillroad company taxed shippers 31,50 per car for a short transfer of stook to the yards, and after a very pleasant discus- sion the board decided by a wunani- mous vote, the necessary motion hav- ing been made, that such charges should be lopped off, and the order was made for servioe upon the road. The board then took up the petition of the Burlington asking for a rehearing on the “oroasing” question, decided in the report of Secretary Gilkison, on the complaint of Lan. caster county egainst the Burlington, pray- ing for a crossing on A streot. On motion of o member of the board it was decided that the question should be decided at a special meeting. eemed to be the feeling thut a day for consideration wos necessary., At. torney General Leese took a decided stand against any further poatbonement. Other members, Among the number Auditor Ben- ton and Commissioner Steon, thought a spirit of fairness demanded that iutelligenco should mark every vote, and to give justice to one and all, with prejudice for none, that the attorneys should be heard and the question decided then whether or not a rehearing should be granted, The attorney-general took the position that further postponement was simply time lost; that the matter, in any event, would go to the supreme court, and that it ought to go there at the carliest possible day for what- ever relief there might be for the peo- ple. Benton and Laws could see no chance for delay, as the motion did not contemplate o rehearing, and Saturday, August 17, was fixed upon as the day to hear what the Bur- lington attorneys had to say. STATE State Institution Reports. The regular weekly meeting of the board of public lands and buildiugs was held yes- terday in the oftice of the socretary of state, The reports of Superintendent sallalieu, of the state industrial school, and Commandant Hammond, of the soldiers’ and satlors’ home, were received nud approved. Malla. liew's report shows 255 inmates of the indus- trial school. and Hammond's shows 41 at the home for the month eading July 81. Permission was granted J. A, Gillispie to buy 300 .0 500 pounds of hair to make mat- tresses for the deaf and dumb institute. Permission was graoted Dr. J. T, Arm. strong to buy a piano for the institute for the feeble minded, Permission was granted Webster Eaton and associntiates 1o use the water from the state salt well in the salt basin for the purpose of manufacturing salt, to hold good for onme yeur, ana against ail other parties. 1f they comply with the conditions of the law these gentlemen ~will bo given & permanent loase of the well and the land. Permission was granted Prof. Mallalieu to build a suvitablo vegetablo house. It is needed. He proposes o pay for it out of the proceeds from the sale of vegetables. It will cost $2,500. It 18 said thut tho industrial farm will turn off from $4,000 to$5,000 worth of vegetables this year. Mr. Mallalieu says the building shall not cost the state a cent, The Lena Marsh Case. The respondent in the mandamus ¢ase en- titled the State of Nebraska ex rel Lena Marsh ve William Coburn, sheriff of Dovglas county, docketed for trial before the supremo court at the Septewber term, filed bis an. sters to the relator's petition to-day. It is doubtless still in mind that Lena Marsh and William Ellersick were jointly arraigned for the murder of an unnamed female child in the city of Omaha by administering to it a dose of carbolic acid, and that at their pre- liminary hearing before s magistrate of com- petent jurisdiction Ellersick was discharged, while Lena was held to a bigher court to an+ swer to the charge and committed to the county jail. 1t appears that av the prolis nary hearmng the ‘‘indigent plea” was e tered by Lena, and_the court upon its own motion, and from a knowledge of the facts as shown upon heariag, then and there ap. pointed Winfield S, Strawn to appear for and defend her against the charge proferred, The court, moreover, made the record that no other attorney or attorneys should be per- mitted to visit the prisoner, or counsel with her, other than the one appointed. It further appears that this was contrary to - e n m him &Qfl wl oy were arraigned together, ana who evidently desire tl.o continue :dm cm |’:x the hm;t-. osts of the acow or_cous ‘These gentlomen wore “n!ed audionee with the prisomer by the sheriff, umaer the order cited, and it scoms that they are beat onm testing its valiaity. Minneapolis Building Association. Under the law granting tho right to for. elgn corporations to becoms domestic corpo- rations, the Building and Loan Assooiation of Minneapolis, Minn., filod artictes of incor- poration in the office of the secrotary of state yestarday. Amended iclos of fncorporation of the Chicago, St. Paul & Kensas Rairoad oom- pany were also filed yostarday. Thaey note that the name of the company has beon changed to the Kansns, Nebraska & Omaha Railroad company. The number of the di. rootors-of the company was changed to thir. teen mombers, In other respects the old articles of the vompany stand as first written, New Notartes Pablio. The governor to day made the following notarinl appointments: W. W. Maddox, Armada, Buffulo county; J. A. Nelcbren bach, Rising City, Butier county. @G. W. Scott, Scotia, Greeley county; 1. K, Wanszer, Stanford, Harlan county; Ewma Neighardt, Seward, Seward county. Supreme Court Records, The following cases were filed for hearing to-dayt Oyrus N. Baird ot al vs Ami B. Todd et al appeal from Oass county. William Jawison vs peal from Cass coun! B — MADCAP MAUD, A Maine Girl Who Gives Her Parents Lots of Trouble. Baxaow, Me.,, August 8.—[Speclal Telo- gram Lo Tus Bre:|—The escapades of Maud Abbott, who attempted suicide a few weeks ago because her parents insisted upon her marrying a man of their selection, have been varied. Asif Maud had not succeeded in demonstrating yesterday that ahe was so much in love with her Bangor fascinator, Sprague, that sha could not live witho ut him, she started in agsin in the early hours this morning to further demonstrate this fact. The Buck rt train left that point for Bangor at § o'clock, and bafore it s tarted the men on board were surprised to see a girl fairly flying down the streot, bare- headed and with her hair sailing straight out on the breeze. Her dress was covered with mud, and sho appeared to bo wildly ex- cited. It was Maud Abbott, and she had run two miles from her home in Verona, having escaped from her people, by whom she was carried homo yestorday. 8he ran directly for the train, and after ro- marking to the firoman that she intended to ride to Bangor with them, she jumped upon the cow-catcher of the accongnodation. She meant to ride thus to Baugor, The locomo- tive had already commenced moving when the trainmen saw Mr. Abbott himself com- ing uD in hot pursuit crying “Stop that train and give me my daughter.” Tho old man had run the whole distance and was breath- less and ouly about helf dressed. The girl discovered her father about this time. Quickly jumping from the engine she started for the head of the wharf, but her father caught her in time to save her from a second attempt at suicide. As the train had left she permitted herself to be conducted back to a team which was in waiting to carry her tiome again. When asked to get in sho said laughingly to the driver: ‘‘No, If you get out 1 will drive the horse myself,' The ormion of many in Bucksport is that the mirl i really insane. Sprague, upon hearing of the effair in ‘Bucksport, hired a fast horse and started for that place. st Al GENERAL DUPONT DEAD. Diokson; ap- The Woll-Known Powder Manufac- turer Passes Away. WimiNGroN, Del., August S.—General Henry Dupont, since 1850 head of the ox- tensive gun powder manufacturing firm of E. L. Dupont, De Newmourse & Co., died carly this morning. He was prostrated by an attack of heart trouble about two months ago, from which he rallied temporarily, but' grew worse a few days h He WAS the second son Elenthere Irene Dupont, the founder of the works, snd was born August 8, 1812, He was & staunch republican, serving on tho electoral ticket in 1876, 1830, 1884 and 1888. He served in the Seminole war and was made jor general of the state militia early in the civil war, His wealth, including & large private estate, is cstimated at $15,000,- —_—— The Queen Reciprooates. LoNDON, August 8.—The queen reviewcd the German seamen from the vessels form- ing the emperor's escort, in the grounds of Osborne house to-day. Fifteen hundred men were in lijna, They were commanded by the emperor, who was dressed in the uniform of sn admiral, ——— Two Men Drowned. BSax Dixzao, Osal,, August 8.—~By the ocap- sizing of a boat in the bay yesterday after- noon Kugene Doarn sud s friend were drowned. o In a Stare of Slege. VieNNA, August 8.—Political correspond- ence states that the porte has deplded to pro- claim a state of slege on Crete. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. Under a spreading chestnut treo The village blacksmith stands, And in a brimming basin he Would wash his brawny hands; But something else than water clean His sooty palm demands, Week in, week out, from morn till night, He might have rubbed, 1 trow, Had 1 not given him a cake Of Ivory SoAp, when, lo! Full soon those honest hands of his ‘Were spotless as the snow. A WORD OF And when the soap escaped his grasp, With wonder he did note That on the water's surface dark The cleansing bar did float, As swims upon a turbid lake A pearl white fairy boat, *Thanks, thanks," said he, my worthy friend, For this which thou hast brought § No village blacksmith should forget The facts this Ivory Soap has taught; For hands like mine it is the best That can be found or bought.” WARNING. There are many white soaps, each represented to be " just as good as the ‘Ivory” " they ARE NOT, gul like mo'umerfelu, lack the peculiar .“d. remarkable qualities of the genuine, Ask for “Ivary"" Soap and insist upon getting it 148 Ly Procter & Gamble.