Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 30, 1889, Page 4

DAILY BEE, THE = B, RO! PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF BUNSCRIPTION. Datly (Morning Edition) including Sunda ok O Vet ) inrfl < Months i or Three Months (he Omuhn Sunday address, One Year . Woekly Hee, One ¥ ont OFFICES, Omana Ofice, Beo Bullding. N. W. Corner Ee\:fimet n\;;"-;m &nr}r‘nm‘.‘ mm’e'u“m Chicago Ofce, 887 Rookery Building. "ork Oifiee, Roome 14 and §5 Tribune Washington Office, No. 513 Fourteenth Street. Council Bluffs Offce, No. 12 Pear] Stroot. ! Lineoln Office, 1029 P Sticot, CORRESPONDENCE. ANl communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Editor of the e, BUSINESS LETTERS. All Lnsiness lettors and remittances shonld e addressed to The llee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and postoilice orders to e made payable to the order of the company, The Beg Publishing ( fiun’magy, Propritors. New Builing Brx Buflding Farnam and Seventeenth Streets. THE DAILY BEE £worn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, Taé County of Douglas, (5% George B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Hee Publishing Company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of Tk DAILY BEe for the week ending August 24, 159, was as follows: Bunday. August 18. . Monday, August. 19, Tuesdny, August 20. Wednesday, Augus Thurs August 22 Friday, 2 Baturdiy, August Average. .. i 1. TZ8CHU UK. Sworn to before me and sunscribed to in my presence this 24th day of August, A. D, 1850, [Seal.) NI FEIL, Notary Publis. Btate of Nebraskn, ! County of Dotiglas. (e George B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- osex and says that he s secretary of The' Beo Publishing company, that the actual average daily cirenlation of "Tie DAILY Bre for the month of August, 1884, 18,188 coples; for Sep- tember, 188, 18151 coples: for October I8N, K084 coples: for November, 1883, 18,068 copies: yecember, 64, 1822 coplos: fot January, presence this dd duy of August, 1880, (SEAL.] N. P. Frir, Notary Public. — WITHIN a week Omaha will round out her pork packing record to over half a million. THE colored, progressive, political and social club has been found. But what's in a name? THERE is not a town in all South Da- koga that does not feol like exploding like a sky-rocket every time the pro- posed capital loeation is mentioned. ON the st of September New Hamp- shire wiil celebrate the payment of the last dotlar of its public debt. New Hampshire stands alone among New England states in this enviable po- sition. KANsAs Crry claims to have more theaters than Omaha, Minneapolis and St. Paul combined, but as none ot them pay, Kansas City has nothing to brag about after all, GOVERNOR COOPER, of Colorado, has appointed a commission to investigate the notorious treasury steal of that state. Now who will appoint a commit- tee to keep its eye on the commission? THE probabilities are that more bat- tles will be fought by experts over the construction of the great war ship Texas than will ever be fought by that iron-clad should it ever be put into commission. THE senate committee on reclamation and irrigation of the arid lands is now in California. Thisis the dry season in that state, but so long as the vintage of 1888 holds out, the conmittee is in no danger of suffering. THE council has about concluded to make the Tenth street viaduct one hun- dred feet wide. While ii will meet with considerable opposition this is doubtless the best plan to adopt, as it will give ample roadway for all pur- poses. THE bids for the new city ball build- ing will bo opened on Suturday. The character and financial standing of the bidders should be taken into account by the council in letting the contract, in order to prevent a recurrence of the Brennan episode. ATTENTION is again directed to the overburdened docket of the United States supreme court. It is estimated “that unless congress grants relief by the oreation of an intermediate court it will be fully five years before the last case on the docket will be reached. THe passenger department of the Fremont & Elkhorn road has correctly estimated the importance of advertising Merchants’ week by sending out twenty thousand folders containming the pro- gramme and full information of that event along the line of the railroad. It might well be asked what are the other roads doing in the matter? —_— THE Cincinnati Enquirer 18 hysterical over the discovery that Wanamaker & Brown, of Philadelphia, have been wwarded, by virtue of the lowest bid, the contract for uniforming Cincinnati mail carriers. There is material snough in this small contract to supply lemocratic papers with ammunition for several months. S——— CHICAGO has now six thousand miles of electric wire under ground and the 308t of maintaining it is only ten per cent of the cost of the maintenance of the overhead system. Chicago has lemonstrated that underground wires are not only feasible but economical and she credit for bringing this about is due to the authorities of that city. e AMERICAN interests have been af- fected very little one way or the other by the close of the Haytien revolation, It is of concern chiefly to those mer- ¢hants engaged in the West India trade. While some of them have prof- ited by the war in shipping contraband 00ds to the contending parties, others have been seriously inconvenienced by having their business relations inter- rupted. On the whole, however, the termination of the conflict and a resto- ration of law and order will relieve the administration of some anxiety and per- mit trade w0 resume its former chan- nels. OPINIONS OF A KANSAS JUDGE. Judge E. B. Widaman, probate judge of Comanche county, Kansas, is another witness who says prohibition in that state does not orohibit. He received from the secretary of the non-partisan lengue of Nebraska a circular pro- pounding a number of questions regard- ing the operation of prohibition in closing saloons, diminishing drunken- ness, and decreasing pauperism and crime, to which the judge has sent roplies that will not serve to strengthen ‘the faith of the league. To the question as to how successful prohibition has been in closing the sa- loons, the judge answers that it has closed the saloons by creating double the number of divos, joints and *“boot- leg” dispensatories, and making perjur- ors cut of otherwise truthful men. As to diminishing drunkenuess and the consumption of intoxicants for beverage purposes, the judge says that under peohibition the number of drunkards has increased, while 11 has decreased the wuse of light drinks and made more geéneral the con- sumption of a low grade of Kansas ‘‘forty-rod)’ whisky. As to whether the loss of the revenue from saloon licenses has not been more than made good by decreasing the burdens of pauperism and crime, and by the di- recting of the money formerly spent in the saloons now into legitimate chan- nels of trade, Judge Widaman says that under the present law the money formerly spent at home has gone to Missouri. The city and county has been deprived of the reveaue from the saloons and the rate of taxation has boen correspondingly incrensed. This is especially noticeable in the cities. The judge decidedly believes in high license. One of the questions submit- ted to him is: ‘“Would you advise the re-establishmaent of saloons, breweries and distilleries 1n Kansas under a high license law as a means calculated to benefit the social and business interests of the state?” To this the judge an- swers: ‘“Yes; a respectable saloon, where children and habitual drunkards can buy nothing, would suit the ma- jority of our people, and be less degrading than a joint in some old shed or barn supported by drunk- ards and a creature of the prohibition law.” The testimony in line with that of Judge Widaman, showing that prohi- bition in Kansas has not only failed to accomplish what it w1s intended to ef- fect, but has been productive of much greater eyils than those for which it is held to be the remedy, is overwhelm- ing,.and ought to be conclusive with people who are accessible to the influ- ence of unquestionable facts. It can not be shown that Kansas has been in any respect benefitted by prohibition, but the people have paid dearly for the experiment in increased taxation. There is no better illustration of what prohibition will not do than is fur- nished by Kansas MISTAKES IN TREE CULTURE. The farmers of western Nebraska, es- pecially in the new counties, should profit by the experience of the farmers of southwestern Kansasin the cultiva- tion of forest trees. The dry and sandy plains of the extreme western part of this state would be easily converted into rich loam by a proper regard for tree culture, besides- being benefitted by bountiful rains in seasons. There are two mistakes which the secretary of the Kansas state board of agriculture would have the farmers of Kansas guard against in tree culture and which would equally apply to Nebraska. The first is, that new settlers invariably plant orchards in preference to forest trees. Experience has demonstrated that this method is wrong. Young nursery stock is unable to withstand the drought and high winds of the plains. The result is that such tree culture is unsuccessful and discourages the homesteaders from further attempts. The proper course to be pursued is to plant forest trees first, and after they are grown to be large enough to shelter an orchard from the wind, the fruit trees should be culti- vated, Planted in sufficient numbers they form an excellent wind break and afford the necessary conditions for the successful growing of fruit trees. The second mistake to which the socretary of the Kansas boards calls particular attention 1s the fact that cottonwoods, soft maples and box elders do not thrive well on the up- lands, where there is butlittle moisture. It 18 therefore recommended that the honey-locust, the black walnut, the osage orange and elm be cultivated in preference to any ather varieties where, the soil is dry and sandy. The farmers of the state should consequently profit by these observations in making their preparations for planting trees this fall or next spring. Arboriculture is one of the problems which the people of the western part of Nebraska are obliged to meet if they would obtain the best re- sults out of the soil. Itis consequently highly important that they should un- derstand the tree culture best adapted to their needs and learn by the exper- ience of others to avoid costly misiakes. E— CORNBRING BONDS. The charge that a syndicate of Wall street speculators bought a large amount of government bonds with a view to foreing the secretary of the treasury to pay their price is not in- credible, 1tis very well understood that the small offerings of bonds ever since the present administration came in has been due to the influence of speculators who have induced bondhold- ers to believe that the government would be compelled to pay more for bonds than it had been pay- ing, in order to provide against u strin- gent fall money market. The covspir- acy against the government and the public has, however, failed. The sec- retary of the treasury has kept on in the even tenor of his way, taking all bounds offered at the treasyry figures, but holding out no new inducements to invite bouds. It would géem that this has convinced the holders of bonds that it is useless to attemptto coerce the government, for recently the offerings of bonds have materially increased in amount, large purchases hav- ing been made by the treasury within the past week. If this shall continue there will be no difficulty in averting a monetary stringency, but if money cannot be put out fast enough in this way the seorotary of the treasury has the power to anticipate the interest on bonds outstanding. He may also make deposits with. the banks, but this would be a last resort, which the pres- ent administration would adopt only under the pressure of an oxtreme exi- gency, not at present apprehended. The government caunot be expected to supply money enough for any demand advancing speculation in stocks or products may occasion, but it is the doclared purpose of the administration to use all the power it possesses to pre- vent a stringeney in monoy that would intorfere with legitimate business. As- sistant Secretary Batcheller said a fow days ago that ‘‘the treasury department is not going to permit a financial panic under this administration.” There is really, however, no good reason to apprehend a severe monetary stringency. The situation in the east- ern cities has become somewhat em- barrassing, and possibly may grow more s0, but the danger of a severe and prolonged stringency is very remote. There will probably be a not much larger amount of money required to move the crops this year than was re- quired last year, and the money cirou- lation of the country is now consider- ably larger. THE SUBSIDY BOOM. The advocates of a subsidy policy as a means of restoring the merchant ma- rine of the country will doubtless get a good deal of encouragement from the reference mado to this subject in a re- cent speech of President Harrison at Bath, Maine. The president said: “‘In every way that I properly can, whether as a citizen or as a public officer, I shall endeavor to promote the re- building of our American mer- chant marine, and the restoration of that great carrying trade which we once possossed on every sea.” While this simply indicates that the president feels the same lively interest in this question that is shared by every intelligent American citizen, the sub- sidy advocates will not fail to find in it a stimulus to increased effort in educat- ing public sentiment to their views. In this work they are now industriously engaged, and there is reason to believe they are not laboring entirely - without effect. If there has not been a very ex- tensive growth of public sentiment fa- vorable to rebuilding the merchant marine by the help of subsidies from the public treasury, plans have been arranged with the design of im- pressing the public mind with the necessity of better means of communi- cation in order to extend our foreign trade, particularly with the countries south of us, and bhaving done this it will be sought to be shown that the value of the trade thus to be secured will justifya generous subsidy policy in order to get it. The congress of Amer- ican nations will be urged to declare that the essential prerequisite to enlarging our commerce with other American countries is better means of com- munication, and if this expres- sion can be obtained it will be made to do all the service possible in benalf of a policy of subsidies. That the congress will make such a declara- tion is highly probable. The president, however, will hardly commit his administration to a policy of steamship subsidies, knowing, as he does, the widespread popular sentiment against it, nor 18 it at all likely that the advocates of such a policy can find sufficient support in congress to carry it. Very few, if any, western representa- tives can be drawn to its support, and those from the south would’ be very n early unanimous in opposition to it. There does not appear to be any good reason, therefore, for apprehending the success of the movement to build u} a special interest by the help of the na- tional treasury. That something should be done to give the country a merchant marine equal to the: requirements of its commerce is not questionable, but that something is not to be. found in sub- sidies, but rather in removing the re- strictions of existing laws SLOBBERING OVER LAWS. Tue BEE has commeuced a warfare upon Secrotary of State Laws to prevent, if possi- ble. his election to congress from the Second district, The Iribune believes Mr. Laws to be an honest and scrupulous man and is con- vinced that those who know him will only be promnted to redouble their energies and activity to secure his promotion.—kremont "Uribune, Our Fremont contemvorary has a right to slobber over Mr. Laws or any other railroad tie. It may be to tho in- terestof the Tribune’s candidate for gov- ernor to get a competitor out of the way who, with the B. & M. road behind his back, might become quite formidable in 1890. But the Second district and the state are more concerned just now as to who will take the place of Laird than who will wear the shoes of Thayer. Incidentally let us correct a prevail- ing delusion that THE BEE'S opposition to Mr. Laws is personal spite, when in fact it is inspired by an aversion to the packing of conventions by the gravel train and brass band crowd. We want the republicans of the Second district to exercise their rights as sov- ereign citizens, ungagged and un- hampered. There is abundant mate- rial in the district, and even if Laws was all his worshipers would have us be- lieve him to be, he does not loom up enough mentally or bodily to be taken out of the state house in the middle of his term as secretary of state and boosted into a seat in congross. COUNCILMAN LOWRY'S resolution di- recting the park commissioners not to cut down trees or level down hillsides in Hanscom park is very timely, Mr, Cleveland may be a very good landscape gardener, but he cannot improve much on nature. Hanscom park bas been made by nature. Its timber is nearly all hard wood of from fifty to one hun- dred years’ growth. [t would be an everlasting disgrace to permit those trees to be felled just to gratify the pet whims of a landscape gardener. All that is wanted in Hauscom park 1 an artificial lake, a few rustic bridges, a fountain and provisions for housing rare plants and for animals. We can realize why Mr, Cleveland "1 anxious to do something towards rm-trucung the park. He wants to the fifteen dollars an nere which the commission has agreed to pay for his wonderful pians. The commission better pay him twice fifteen dollars an adre for a plan that will leave the fraes and elevations of the park undistutbed. —_— ANOTHER important move in the right directidon has been taken by the management of the South Omaha stoek= yards in dfrfihging with the Chicago, Burlington &®Quincy for a special stock train to run from Creston to Omaha, arriving at the stockyards at an early hour of the morning. This will allow shippers to dispose of their stock within five hours of shipment from southwest Towa, and for that reason cannot fail to materially increase the receiptsof stock at Omaha. There is very little doubt that the Rock Isiand, the Northwestern, the Milwaukee and the Wabash will be induced to put on similar trains in order to facilitate the transportation of live stock to the Missouri river. Gradually the artificial barriers erected by the railroads are being removed. They have at last come to their right senses that discriminating against Omaha in order to benefit by the long haul to Chi- cago has been a false policy. By giving oqual facilities enst and west the rail- roads will greatly encourage stock rais- ing in affording the farmers of Towa a choice of markets. Let the good work go on. —_— A this season of the year, when a large amount of money is necessary to move the crops, causing a periolic strin- gency in the money market, the clear- ing house statoments of New York city are most carefully consulted. While the surplus reserves in the New York banks have fallen off considerably, and one day’s trading could sweep it away entirely, there is, nevertheless, a confi- dent feeling in the money market., New York is a money center as well as dis- tributor. The whole country at times like the present draws on it for funds. This scarcity, with the promise of high rates for loans, however, acts like a megnet in attracting money from the interior as well as from Europe at a moment’s notice. The telegraph and the cable are able to transfer orders for gold with a rapidity that in former years was impossible. A temporary stringency, orsigns of one, in the ordi- nary transactions of trade, need there- fore cause no'alarm so long as credit and confidence are unimpaired. To-DAY the various oil exchanges of the country celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the first petroleum well. in this country. On August 28, 1859, a well sunk by Colonel Drake gave forth a flow of oil, which was the beginning of a speculative excitement greater than the country had ever béfore known or has experi- enced, and the starting point of a branch of commerce that has since be- come of world-wide extent and of very great value..: The history of the dis- covery of petroleum in fhis country and the results therefrom are no less inter- esting than tHe history of the discovery of gold, and the benefits to the country from the one have been quite as great as from the other. The anniversary of this notable event is well worthy of being appropriately celebrated by the men who deal in oil. OKLAHOMA does not present that prosperity and enterprise which its enthusiastic well-wishers had antici- pated. Altogether there are less than twenty-five thousand people in the ter- ritory, and most of these are concen- trated in and about the three towns, Guthrie, Kingfisher and Oklahoma City. While there are forty thousand quarter sections, less than twenty-four thousand are worth taking up, and acompuratively small number are under cultivation. But little planting has been done, and set— tlers ave likely to have a hard time of it this winter. Taking itall in all, Ok- lahoma is not a promising success, proving the old saw that Rome was not built in a day. THE city council has decided to sub- mit a proposition to the voters of Omaha for the issuance of two hundred and ten thousand dollars of bunds for the erection of a city jail, police head- rs, and largely increasing the es of the fire department. The necessity for a portion of the improve- ments exists, but it is doubtful whether this city can afford to load up with all these proposed public buildings at this time, especially in view of the pending depot and viaduct bond propositions. JusT now Honest Jim Creighton is booming Denver. He is talking up stone paving and predicts that it will double the value of Denver down-town real estate, which already ranges from one thousand to twenty-five hundred dollars a front foot. We will bet five dollars against ten yaras of cedar block pavement that Honest Jim is not put- ting up his own money on his predic- tions for Denver. — Hearts of Oak. Chicago Herald, Men that haye faced without fear the grim cuanuon at Donelson and Vicksburg will not blench before the frowning front of a Mil- waukee brewery, ; ————— Why the Colone! Didn't Go. Chicago Tribune, “Dd like to visit'the blue grass palace in Towa,” observed Colonel Hankthunder, of Kentucky, regretfully, as he closed the atlas he bad been pouring over, ‘‘but Creston is altogether too far inland for a man of my regular habits, and drug store-er-substitutes don't agree with me, by gad, sir!” il Carrying the War Into Oarthage. New York Commercial Advertiser. While English capitalists are bent upon buying up American breweries and running them on the European plan, & syndicate of Brooklyn capitalists is sid to be about to open & mighty hotel in London and run it on the New York plan. A fair exchange 18 no robbery, though whether London will think 80 or not is another matter. o e B The Elixir War. Cinoinnaté Enquirer. One vigorous outcome of the Brown-So- quard elixir agitation is a personal contro- versy between Dr. Lewls A. Sayre wnd Dr. Willism A. Hammond. The former said some uaughty things about the latter in @ newspaper interview, aud now Dr. Ham- monds responds in a ciroular letter, ealling Dr. Sayre all the bad rnames that he can con- veniently lay his pen to. Let us hope no duel may result. Why should dootors kill each other when pationts aro plenty. A Set of Goslin Plattsmouth Journal, The spectacle of a great city paver like the ‘World-Herala being completoly humbugged and confidenced by the most transparent ““fake" over perpetrated, and by a country bumpkin of a correspondent, has not been equalled in the history of newspapers in tho west, There is no use in that paper getting indignant and abusing Cass county’s sheriff. It will not blind the eyes of the public from the transparent fact that its gullibility was played upon very handsomely by its Platts- mouth correspondent. If the night editor of that publication had had the wit of a donkey he would have seen through the ‘‘fake” at once, and have made some genuine fun out of it for his Sunday readers, and no ill-feel- ing would have been engendored by anybody. The thing has] been made more ludicrous still, if possible, by the World-Herald pub- lishing a long aispatch from Weoping Water n which the correspondent takes occasion to paint the Plattsmouth fakir as a liar, and the mayor and big mouthed Wooley as paragons of virtue and excellence. That caps the climax of absurdity, and setsthe World- Herald management down as a set of gos- lings, ———— THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD. In a year the people of London drink 200,- 000,000 quarts of beer, and consume 500,000 oxen, 2,000,000 sbeep, 200,000 calves and 800,000 swine. The international union congress at Berne has been postponed till next sprina. The ship carpenters at East Boston have ‘won their strike for the nine-hour system. A movement for higher woges is going on in neurly all the industries of Central Eu- rope. The New York Steamfitters’ union hasa vigorous system of dealing with candidates for membership. They are examined by a special committee as to their knowledge, the- oretical and practical, of the trade. The New York Confectioners’ union has agrowing membership and a cash fund of $4,000. Spain allows children from nine to thir- toen years old to work five hours daily; from thirteen to eighteen, eight hours. There has boen a reduction of wages in several of the carpet factories of New York, and there is much dissatisfaction in conse- quence. The American Encaustio Tile company, of Zanesville, O., 18 preparing to burn Lima oil in its kilns. The fluid will cost anout 50 cents a barrel. The new shoe factory at Dalton, Mass., has been comploted and work has started. About one thousand pairs of shoes will be wrned out daily. According to the news from Maine, all the saw mills on the Penobscot are now in full operation under the new adjustment of wages, Lord Randolph Churchill has become one of the foremost championsof the eight-hour movement 1n England. Kalamazoo, Mich.,expeots to realize $1,000,- 000 for celery this year. The business is chiefly in the hands of Hollanders. Upper Sandusky (O.) citizens have sub- scribed 33,000 toward a threshing machine Tactory, which is now an assured enterprise. nThe Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- ers is now one of the most powerful organ- izations in the country. It has 65,000 mem- bers in 1ts 528 branches. The operatives of the Bombay cotton mills, India, bave commeuced a movement toward securing to themselves Sunday as a com- plete day of rest. The Progressive Musical Unions of New York, Brooklyn, Newark, Chicago,§Cincin- nati and other cities are preparing to estab- lish a national organization. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad company has reduced the daily working hours of half the force at the Mount Clare shops from ten to eight, with a corresponding reduction of pay. . The Atlantio mills, at Olneyville, R. L, are probably the largest mills in vhe country confined strictly to the manufacture of worsted dress goods. They employ 2,000 operatives. There are reports from several places of local efforts to introduce the co-operativo system of labor. A body of carpenters in Lowell is ready to take co-operative con- tracts in that line of trade. M. Tayn, a Russian engineer, has con- structed an apparatus for the purpose of utilizing the power of running streams, It consists of an endless cable carrying a series of cones which opon and shut like an um- brella, the current causing them to open au- tomatically. Edward Norton and John G. Hodgson, of Maywood, IlL., have invented a method for the manufacture of rolled bars or rails di- rect from the molten metal. It will matori- ally lessen the labor and cost. M. De Chardonnet, a French scientist and inventor of note, has succeeded in producing artificial sitk which is said to be superior in quality and lustre to the producton of the silk worm, 1t is believed that in time its manu- facture will become one of the important in- dustries of the world. American wood-working machinery at the Paris exiwbition is conceded by its European competitors to be fully equal to anything dis- playe, Machinery 1 the United States does the work of 500,000,000 men. And still there is a better demand for the labor of men, snd vastly better wages thau & century 8go, when there was comparatively little machin- ery in use, Tne Parkinson sorghum sugar works at Fort Scott, Kan., cleared $30,000 1ast year. . F. Wooten, of the Pennsylvania rail- road, has constructed an effective device for measuring and registering the speed of pas- senger locomotives, It is not patented. A Michigan inventor has coustructed an iron cage, to be placed over a railroad switoh stand, that can not be entercd or escaped from excopt the switch is set for the main line. Engineer John Heath has been iu the ser- vice of the Northwestern railroad nearly thirty years, during which time he made 93,668 miles a8 fireman and 905,117 miles as engineer, without an accident, It is a nota- ble record. The Columbus Iron company, of Lancas- ter, Pa., recently increased the wages of puddlers from §3.50 to $3.85, and other wages in proportion, in accordance with & promise made four months ago, that when trade grew better an advance would be made to the old standard. A New Hampshire faciory turas out 40,000 bushels of shoe pegs annually. The manufacture of soldering acid, an ar: ticle of common use in every tinshop, was at one time a closely guarded secret. i STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. £ A bee hive robber is operating at Utica. A musical association has been formed at York with fifty members. The residence of John Bolding, at Shelton, was destroyed by fire Wednesday, the result ot a defective flue. Tho corner stone of the new Baptist church at Kearnoy was laid Wodnesday with ap propriate exercises, There will be two balloon ascensions dur- ing the Dawson county far at Lexington September 20 and 27, Work on the Hastings gas well is progress- ing satisfactorily, the drill now being down over one hund-od feot. An old settlors’ pionic and harvest home festival will bo held on the normal school grounds at Peru September b, While out huntiig the other day, teen-year-old son of J. H. Hmnh.::{Mldlaon, shot himself through the right hand. Eight thousand dollars worth of shares of the Tecumseh Milling company were ro- cently sold at a premium of 25 conts on the dollar. The threshing machine of Brook Bfos, o f Gothenburg, caught fire Wednesday from some unknown cause whilo 1t was in opera- tion and was entirely consumed. A Fremont saloonkeeper who has been selling liquors to minors 18 about to be pros- ecuted by the father of one of the youths, and all the other boys are trembling in their boots. Charles Cooper, a mail carrier, while riding near Orloans, was accidently shot by arevolver which he was carrying in his hip pocitat, the ball striking a suspender buckle and glancing into his right arm, causing a painful wound. Frank Baton, a Geneva young man, be- came tangled up in a rope by which he was trying to hold a fractious pony, and was dragged a long distance by the frightened }mrnf, receiving injurics Which may prove atal a thir- lowa ltems, The new Catholic church at Dyarsville is completed, Only 1 per cent of the population of the state cannot read and write, An msane man in the Des Moives county :]!ilum imagines that he is the czar of Rus- The saloonkeopors at Decorah are being prosecuted and the prombitionists hopo to close them up, 3 The plans for the new Dubuque opera house have finally arrived and the structure will now be pushed to completion. Edward Hammers, sr., an old resident of Broda, and a veteran of the Mexican war, dicd last week. He leaves a wife aud six grown children, He was ouc of the old sct- tlers Carroll county, having emigrated from Wisconsin in 1500, He was sixty-uine vears old. ® John S, Delano, of Hancock county, who rnn_unlly served a term in the penitentiary at Joliet for having eight wives at one and the same time, has appeared before the county court at Carthage and petitioned for a di- vorce from wife No. 8. His intention, it is supposed, is to try another matrimonial ven- ture, Wyoming. A new oil and mining company has been organized at Casper. L C. Winn, editor of the Clipper, has been aspointed postmaster at Launder, The Newecastlo oil company of Crook county, with a capital stock of $500,000, has filed articles of incorporation with the terri- torial secretary, A law and order league has been formed in Carbon county, whose mission it is to se- cure funds and witnesses and prosecute all criminals, both great und small. The celebrated Michigan mine, situated in Muskrat canon, about twenty miles from Wendover on the Cheyenno & Northern, been sold to the Pennsylvania salt manufac turing company, of Natrona, Pa. The Rawlins Journal says that George B. Henderson, manager of the 71 cattle outfit, was fired upon by a would-be assassin near the three crossings of the Sweetwater, the Dullet striking one of his horses in the hip. It is not known who fired the shot. The Wyoming Territorial Sunday School association hns employed Harry Burn- ham, of Wheaton, L, as school organizer, Mr. ' Burnham las just begun his work and will labor to establish Sunday schools, hold conventions and thoroughly organize the territory by counties, and will co-operate with all denominations. Says the Sundance Gazette: That always lively place, ’ the scene of un- usnally stifring times Suturday last. At one time a number of ights were going on in the street, and D'eputy Swisher was worn out trying to stop them.” No sooner would he quell oue of the meiees thar he would see another fight going on a little ways off. e sinally quit in disgust, and told the boys to fight all they wanted, but he would kilt the first one who tried to use & gun, The trouble was caused by a fistic rivairy be- tween graders and miners, large numbars of whom were in town that day. From all ac- counts an officer in & town like Tubville couldn’t be paid all he earns, as a good many frequenters there want to deal out misery to hum in big chunks, ey Died of Hydrophobia. Davip Ciry, Neb., August 29.—|Special to Tae Bee.]—While playing with a young pup some three woeks since, a little girl, eight years old, by the name of Mary Burdine, Wwhose parents live near the city, was bitten by the animal. As the dog disappeared the same day nothing was thought about it until Tuesday night, when the little girl was taken with several spasms and died yesterday, suffering terribly with hydrophobia. The father was bitten by the dog at the same time and he 18 no' ly scared. Pears’ Soap secures a beautiful com- plexion. s el ks Ireland Wins at Tennis, Newrort, R. L, August 20.—Tho profes- sional tennis match between the chambion of Ireland, George Kerr, and Tom Pettitt, American professional, came off this morn: ing before a large mumber of spectators, and was wou by Kerr, BLAZE AT WEEPING WATER. A Businoss Block Destroyed, Oansing Thirty Thousand Dollars Loss. Weerixo Water, Nob, August 20— [Special Telogram to Tur Brw.|—At § o'clock this morning fire broke out in the tin shop in the rear end of Sackett & Gates' 1argo hardware store. It was caused by the ‘gasoline heater exploding. Chase's furni- ture store on the right, and Alexander's drug and jowolry store on the left, vere soon in flames. The Odd Fellows' block, nextto Chase’s, a largo brick, was saved by the herotc efforts of the fire company. The buildings across the street caught sev- eral times, but were saved by an abundant supply of water. The total loss wili proba- bly reach $30,000. At this nour definite flgures w cannot be obtained, but as near as can bo gatherad the losses aro as follows: J, Chase, two building and furni- turo stock, $13,000; insurance £.000. Sackett & Gates, hardivaro stock, about $8,000% par- tially insured. P, S, Barnes, building,$,6005 insurance £1,500. Alexander, stock of goods, $10,000, carried out but badly damaged; in+ surance, §8,000, Olmstead’s stock of cloth= ingin Oda Iellows' brick, damaged: fully insured. The damage to the Odd Feliows® building and furniture is light and fully in- sured These were the only frame buildings in the block, and as 1t is tho best corner in the town will be bailt up, no douby, at once. This was the first fire since the waterworks were put in and the water and pressure proved ample. The general improssion is that it saved two whole blocks. No volunteer fire company ever did _harder and better work than did Weeping Water's this morning. QUITE A Thirty Prominent Oitizens of Gales- burg, IiL, in Trouble. Gairsnorg, I, August 20.—[Special Telegram to Tur Bee.]—A docided sensa- tion was created here to-day whon thirty prominent citizens were cited to appear before the United States circuit court 1n October as defendants in & suit instituted by Rev. C. A. Nybladh. Nybladh was & transiont pastor of the Firs! Lutheran church here last fall and was discharged because of reports alleging ille- gitimate parontage. Ho escaped a trial on the charge becansa the case was outlawed, He charges several of the defendants with false imprisonment, and others with defamation aof character and asks for 825,000 damages. Among the defend- ants are the Rev., S. P. A. Lindahl, president of the Augustana Lutheran synod, the largest Lutheran body in the country; Hon. G. V Princ a member of the state legislature; Hon. Nels Nelson, secretary of the Scandinavian Aid association; Rev. C. J. E. Haterins, pustor of the First Lutheran church, of Moline, and other prominent people. Nybladh claims he is still an_alen, and resort United States court because he fears he can not get justice here. SPANISH TREASURE FOUND. Augustine, Fia., in a Kever of Excitement. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., August-20.—[Speoial Telegram to Tue Bee.]—This city is in a fever of excitement over the discovery of a hidden Spanish treasure in the old house on the corner of Bride and Marine streets. Contractor Slambias had taken a job from Mance & Brothor to tear down the house and clear away the rubbish. This afternoon an old colored man dug up near the foundation of the chimney fifty-two Spanisn coins in o rusty pot. Mance took possession of the cowns. They are very old, the latest date boing 1806, and several of them antedating 1760, St. ago married ono of the nobility of Europe, and Mance will protect her interest if more coin is unearthed, which is confidently ex- pected. Cushinan’s Menthol inhaler cores catarrh, headache, neuralgia, asthma, hay fever. Trial fred at your druggist. Price 50 cents. ANOTHER SCHOONKR CAUGHT. The Rush Seizes the Lily and Takes Three Hundred Seal Skins. SANFRANCISCO, August 20.—A letter was received from an officer of the United States steamer Kush from Onalaska last mght, stats ing that August 6, the Rush captured the British sealing schooner Lily, of Vancouver, while taking scals in Behring sca. Thres hundred skins were seized and placed on board the Rush. A prizo crew of one man was put on board the Lily aad the vossel was sent to Sitka, In all fourteen sealers have been boarded by the Rush and warned out of Behring sea, besides six captured. England Will Not Interfore. OTTAWA, Ont., August 29.—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bre.]—Tne minister of marine and fisheries said to-day, with reference to the report that the Black Diamond aud sev- eral other sealers seized in Behring sea are largely owned by United States citizens, thay such is not the case. A prowinent ofticial of the marine and tisheries department said to- day that despite whatever might be said_to the contrary, there was an understanding be- tween the United States and British govern~ ments that until a definite settlement of the Behring sea question had been reached the United States should continue the protection of these seal fisheries without Iritish inter- ference. This fact, he said, accounts for the refusal of Tord Salisbury to allow the Hrit- ish Pacific squadron to proceed to Behring sea to protect Canadian sealers. OME grocers are so short sighted as to decline to keep the S “Ivory Soar,” claiming it does not pay as much profit as in- ferior qualities do, so if your regular grocer refuses to get it for you, there are undoubtedly others who recognize the fact that the in- creased volume of business done by reason of keeping the best articles more than compensates for the smaller profit, and will take pleasure in getting it for you. A WORD OF WARNING. There are many white soaps, each represented to be “just as good as the ‘Ivory’ ;" they ARE NOT, but like all counterfets, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genulne, Ask for ““Ivory" Soap and Insist upon getting it. Copyright 1886, by Procter & Gambie.