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

SRR THE OMAHA . DAILY BEE3 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30‘ 1889, THE " B. ROSEWATER, Rditor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. o TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daiiy and Sunday, One Year.. ... . BIx Months .. o vseseiiene Three Months, . iees Hes, One Year .. vix ool 1y Hee, One Year with Premfum. OFFICES, Omann, fles Bullding. Chicago Ofice, 7 Rookery Buliding New York, Hooms M4 and 15 Tribune Build- ny Washington. No. 613 Fourteenth Strect. Council Bluits, No. 12 Pearl Street. Lincoin, 1020 P 8t oet, South Omaha, Corner N and 26th Streets. CORRESPON DENCE. All communieations relating to news and edl- torinl matter should be addressed to the Editor- 18] Department, 2 BUSINESS LETTRERS. All Lnsiness lettors and remittances shonld b addressed to ‘1 he Hes Pubi'shine Lompany, Omnha, Drafts, checks and po toflice oraers {0 be made payablo tc the order o ¢ the company, The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors 1y Bullding Farnam and Seventeenth Strects. The Fee on the Trains. 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D, 450, Seal.) 8 1L, : otary Public, George B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- ses and says that he s accretary of The te taily circulation of montl of Octobe Y 2 ‘copies Juuuar, 18,504 coples <for May. 1840, 18,6 copi coples: Tor July, 180, 17 copies; ror Au 1880, 1451 ‘coples; for September, 1 copies, GronGe 1. 1 Sworil to before me wnd subscribed in my cnce this 4th day of October, A D, 1889, 1] N. P! Frui 4 i fortifies its claims as o win- ter resort in autumn by covering the surroundidg wickedness with a six inch mantle of the beautiful, Tike confederates are *'g gether.” Lord Wolscley Jeff Davis at the unvei wonument in Richmona otting to- will assist ing of the Lee VERAL offensive democrats have Been discovered in the land offices in this state, and the interior department is whetting a cleaver for active work. e experience gained by the repub- licans of Towa in nailing campaign lies will enuble them to box the democratic corpse with neatness and dispatch next Tuesday. Secr RY NoBLE has decreed that the rerated pals of Tanner shall follow their leader into retirement. Their company will not be missed from the pension building. Two more Tascotls have vaunished from public gaze. It may soon dawn upon the suspicious Chicago police that as the Suell - murderer, Shppery William is in reality a myth, Mnr. SNYDER banks exclusively on race prejudice to boost him into the -county treasury. Mr. Heimrod appeals to. the voters on his ability as an ac- countant and successful business man. INDIAN COMMISSIONER MORGAN'S oversight in using government envel- opes for semi-private business 1s ‘‘a good-cnough Morgan” for Senators Manderson and Plumb, whose politi- cal toes bave been pinched by the com- missioner. T supreme court will not pass on the validity of the registration iaw in time to affect the county election. Therefore every voter who desires to exercise the right of citizenship must register during the two remaining days =--Thursday and Friday. Tue New York World has discovered that there are one hundred and twenty- five citizens in Gotham with an annual income of a quarter of a million dollars each, and hundreds of firms each doing an annual business of one miilion or fmore. Yet two weeks’ vigorous drum- ‘miug for the world’s fair fund netted pledges amounting to one million and o cquarter. If New York gets the fair it will be as a gift from congress, not fthrough the liberality of her citizens. ——— RAILROAD sensations are pouring in [quite us fust as collisions of late. The lasu one is the rumor that the Union Pacific is ubout to swallow up the Fre- mont, BElkhorn & Missour: Valley line in this stute, Just what the Union Pa- cific would do with the Fremont road enu not be conjectured, and the report is scavcely worth considering. It is fur more reasonable to look for the Union Pacific to take measures which will pre- vent an alliance between the Central Pacificand B. & M. with the new Colo- .rado line asa connecting link, This latter enterprise may yet develop into & thorn in the flesh of the Union Pacific. — ‘WE ARE periodically treated to sen- sationnl stories of clouded titles and threatened suits by adyenturers who lay claim to millions of Omaha realty. We have had the Shiclds from Wash- ington territory and the Helfenstein claimants from St. Louis. And now .come threats from Boston tuat the ac- tion of the courts in foreciosing the mortgages on the George Francis Train tract will be attacked on the ground of irregularity, The creditors of Mr. - Train would doubtless feel greatly re- lieved if they could reach the property once owned by him in this section, but the records of the courts are invulnera- ble. These periodical fakes would be amusing were it not that they frighteo credulous people that the title to Owaha property is vulnerable. THE MINORITY LEADER. The question as to who will be the leader of the democratic minority in the Iifty-first congress is of interest to both varties, Regarc for precedent would give the leadership to Mr. Car- | lisle, and his firm hold upon the confi- dence of the party would seem to assure him the position, but while he has somo oxcellent qualifications as a leader, ho is wanting in the aggiessive and com- bative qualities which are likely to be much in demand by the democrats in the next congress. Mr. Carlisle has never shown any conspicuous talent as nan obstructionist, and the indicatidh are that this sort of talent is to find the largest opportunity in the new house of reprosentatives. It will bo first called into play in combatting the republican purpose of changing the rules, it will be required to do service in the eclec- tion contests, and, in fact, it is pretty sure to be in requisition nearly all the time duving the continvance of the congress. 1t may be found that Mr. Carlisle is capable of meeting the de- mands of his parly in this respect, but he hias not yet indicated that he is in favor of an obstructive policy, and it is understood that he 1s not regarded by those who are in favor of that policy as a safe man to be entrusted with leader- ship. On the tariff question his party colleagues will doubtless bo ehtirely willing to follow him, since he is un- questionably as to this subject the ablest among them, but all of them will not bo disposed to trust him toconduct the pur- linmentary and filibusteving contests that are certain to avise. The Dbest equipped man on the democratic side of the house for this task is Mr. Randall, but his health is 80 precarious that it is hardly probable e would accept so trying and laborious a duty. He isa master of parlinmentary tactics and o very monarch of obstroe- tionists, but the work and vigilance de- manded in such T service requires health and vigor, and Mr, Randall has neither, The most he is likely to be able to do is to suggest and counsel, leaving to some one elso tho act- ive work of keeping the demo- crats in line. This much it is not doubted My, Randall will be most willing to do, sinee he hns largely re- instated himself in the confidence of the party, or at least a considerable ele- ment of it, by announcing his hos to proposed changes in the rules which would reduce the nower of the mnority to obstruet slation. Under the counsgel and guidance of Raudall, Mills, one of the DBreckinridgos, or Oates might be entrusted with the hard work of the obstruction conte: but who- ever undertakes this task will need more or less instruction from the Penn- sylvania congressman. It scems probable, therefore, that the londership of the democratic minority in the uext congress will be a divided honor between a Kentue trader and a Pean legi SILVER CIRCULATION. A statoment just prepaved by the United States treasurer shows that the total amount of silver dotlars coined under the presont law has been a frac- tion over three hundred and forty-two million dolars, of which amount less than sixty millions are in circulation. Of the balance over two hundred and soventy ven million doll is rep sented by silver certificates in cireula- tion, leaving in the treasury nov repre- sented by certificates only about five and a half million dollars, It thus appears that the country is using practically the eutire amount of silves coined during the past ten years, in tho form of paper representing vhe coin, and this without the slightest disturbance to vhe mone- tary system. These certificates are available in every brauch of our domes- tic business and trade. and, although they represent only silver, are no- where questioned in this coun- try., These facts regarding the silver circulation are certainly a complete answer to the arguments of those who before the coin- ago law was passed, and since, have persisted in asserting that the addition it provided for to the supply of silver money was certain to have disastrous 3 nce of the last ten years with silver is the ground upon which the friends of that part of our money eirculation base their opinion thatan increaso of the coinage, or of cortificatos representing silver bul- lion in the treasury, would not only have no future ill-effects, but is necessary to meet the growing demands of the country and to take the place of the retiring bank circulation, and it cannot be questioned that they have a etrong position. The facts regarding the silver situa- tion in this country ave believed to have in part influenced the sdvance in the price of silver in Edrope, together with the belief that some new policy muy find favor with con- gress in response to the demands of the silver men. There can be no doubt that the discussion of the silver question in this eountry is being re- guvded in Europe with the very great- est interest, and if it should appear that the apparent tendency here toward a more liboral policy regarding silver has influenced the uadvunce abroad, it would be a valuable fact in support of the view that an initiatory step on our part is all that is necessary to re-estab- lish the bi-metallic standard through- out the world. ARE PASTERS ILLEGAL? A fow days ugo an opinion given by Attorney General Leese in the cam- paign of 1888 was revamped and given out to the public to the effect that the use of pasters on election tickets was in violation of the statutes, The impression created by this publi- cation has been that the attorney gen- eral had just rendered an opinion based upon the amended election laws passed by the last legislatuve. The ouly law on the statute that defines the fraudu- lent printing of tickets is the act passed five years ago, which provides that the name of @ candidate printed on any ticket under the regular party heading of an opposite political party shall not be counted. There is mo reference whatever to printed slips pasted upon tickets. The wauifest object of the law is Lo prevent deception of the voter and the only ra- tional objection to pasted slips would be that the voter might not detect them. A pusted slip printed on tinted paper would hardly be pronounced illegal by any court. In other words no voter could possibly be deceived by a co'ored vaster upon u ticket printed on white paper. Attorney-General Leese declared ver- bally within the past three days that pasters printed on tinted paper would not be construed as coming within the meaning of the law that prohibits the fraudulent printing of names upon a ticket. The bugbear about printed slips has been raised mainly in the interest of unpopular candidates, The sciatehing of tickets with pen or pencil, especially in cities, is attended with a good deal of delay and annoyance, With fifteen to twenty names on' each ticket, it be- comes almost a necessity to use privted slips. Intelligent voters will discrimin- ate in local elections in spite of the ap- ponls of party hacks for the steaight, unscratched ticket, and thero is no rea- son why they should be deprived of the right to avail themselves of a conven- ient means of fixing their tickets as they may conscientiously deem to be in the interest of good government. TAE so-called independent press of New York is sorely perploxed regard- ing the duty of the element it repre- sents in the coming election. A por- tion of it, trying to be consistent in op- position to the republican party, while at the same time wishing to do as littie as possible that might help Hill to the detriment of Cleveland, counsels the in- dependents to vote for candidates on both tickets, while another portion ‘has taken the least possible part in the contest. The more candid of theso newspapers admit that as a whole the republican ticket is superior to the democratic, but they cannot do this without harping on the charge that it was mado up by Platt, and conse- quently its success would be unfortun- ate in so faras it would be a Platt victory. Ou the other hand, the fact that the democratic ticket 1s distinctively il throughout, is even more distaste- ful to them, for a vietory which the governor could claim as an endorsement of himself would be likely to somewhat stimulate his presidential voom, a thing that would go harder with these “independent” devotees of Mr. Cleveland than would republican success. Itis consequently u matter of great uncertainty as to how the inde- pendents will dispose of their votes at the coming election, but the probability is that they will be distributed to both parties, with the licans getting tho larger number of them. The present verplexity of these New York independents is small, how- ever, compared with what they will experience three yenrs from now in the event that Mv. Cleveland shall refuse, as 1t is now reported he will, to again be a presidentinl candidate, and the contest ghould be between Harrison and Hill. TiE Ashby letter-which -appeared carly in the Towa campaign, bostile to the republican candidate for governor and professing to represent the Farmers’ alliance, may have had effect upon a few farmers, but all such will be likely to dismiss it from further regard after reading the letter of Mr. Furrow, president of the state alliance, in which he declaves his full confidence in Mr. Hutchison and urges the 1mportance of republican success. In the opinion of Mr. Furrow the interest of the farmers of fowa isin securing a home market for their products, and the arguments he presents in support of this view are worthy of serious consideration. As to Mr. Hutchison, he finds his position on the transportation question satisfactory, and has full faith that if elected gov- ernor he will be faithful to the pledges he has mode to the people. Theintelli- gent farmers of Towa will have no diffi- culty in deciding whose counsel they shall accept as between Mr. Furrow and THE Milwaukee wreck was the result of criminal car It is surpris ing that.the officials of the train, know- ing the condition and threats of the en- gineer, permitted him to take his place in the eab, imperil the lives of the pas- sengers and rush on to his own destruc- tion. We bhave had a surfeit of this rail- road recilossness within the past three months. laves have been lost and scores waimed by the willful disobedi- ence of orders, Engineer Pullen isbe- yond the jurisdiction of earthly courts, but the conductor 18 equally responsi- ble for the disaster and should be vigor- ously prosecuted. THERE is a marked falling off in the number of immigrants arriving in the country, compared with the record of 1888. The arrivals for September ag- gregated thirty-cight thousand five hundred and forty-four, or fourteen hundred less than for September last ». The record for the preceding cight months shows un equally marked rease, while the character of the arcivals has been considerably improved by the strict enforcement of the immi- gration laws, / TuE collapse of the leading bank of Central Kansas, following "the bank- ruptey of several loan and trust com- panies, is the natural outcome of prohi- bition. The adoption and enforcement of the law disrupted business' and pro- duced such strife and conflict4that prop- erty values flattened out, and the mar- ket stagnated, The result is that individuals and corporations cannot un- load their investments at fifty cents on the dollar and are forced to the wall, — IN her wild efforts to surpass Omaba’s hospitality to the Pan-American excur- sionists, Kansas City narrowly escaped treating the members to a-funeral, ie members of the reception. commit- tec were called down before they un- loaded their hip-pockets and began the slaughter, —— It is hardly probable that the Poncas will smoke the pipe .bf peace with Red Cloud apd join the Sioux in Dakota, unless the government oflers sqQme in- ducement, It is to the interest of all | Seotember our exports of breadstufls, pro- . concerned to concentrate the Indians in large cam both as & measure of economy acation, If the Poncas are induces joln their old enemies, their resorvasion will, with congres- sional action, add atleast fifty thousand acres to the publie domain in Nebraska. Tue nm&\mw crop this year will hardly reach one-fourth of the amount required for home consumption. It is estimated that one hundred and sixty million bus must be 1mported to make up ) ofieit, which is greater than last yedfis, This will materially strengthen the market and maintain prices. MAGINNIS and Corrigan ave wasting their means and energy in n fruitless campaign. A radical change in the charactor und calibre of the county board is necessary and that can be se- cured only by the election of Berlin and Smith, Non-Partisan Judiciary. New York World. Their should be no politics in the clioice of Jjudges of our courts, civil or criminal. s Too Oereain, Minneapolis Tribune, Kansas republicans complain that with their 82,000 majority they are getting mighty fow of the offices. The troublo with Kansas is that it is too monotonously reliable. Its majoriyt should be reduced to about eight thousand, and then 1t would pay. e Manderson’s Honor. Pittshurg Leader. Manderson’s creditable war record is in his favor, but he will have no little dificulty in convincing the world that, 1n permitting o big pension to be tacked on to his salary as o souator of the United States, while hun- dreds of worthy veterans ave- loft to strug- cle hard for @ bare existence, he did not compromise his own honor and the dignity of the legislative body to which he bolongs. S The Iron Trade and General Businoss The recent advance in the price of pig iron hias been made theoccasion of or the excuso for putting a higher market rate upon most if not all, of the manufacturos of iron and steel, suys the Cincinnati Commercial Ga- zette. But it was tho large demand for the finished products which at first started tho tendency to an enhanced value of pig iron. The demand for steel rails, which during the first half of the current year was disappoint- ingly small and had much to do wita de- pressing the market for pig iron, has re. cently become quite active, there being large, purchases by old and strong corporations for renewals of track, besides an increased de- mand for the cafstructron of new roads. The investigatious which have been made show that about: 8,300 miles of new railroad were built durii¢ the nne months of the current year, apdithat there is work in pro- gress that will; sivell the total for tne full year to 5,000 mijgs in the Umited Statos, which is not guite 2,000ihiles less than the total con- structed in1858; 8p that instead of a reduction of moro than gnehalf in the requirements of steel rails as compared with last year, which was the estimate along in the spring, it is likely to be less-than one-third, and it is not probable that the demanas for renewals of old track will; considerably lessen the dis- crepaney, In the meantime there has been a iaterial enlafgement in the useof iron and steel in almo§t every dircction; the low prices which haye prevailed have' promoted consumption {08 Wrious reasons, The enlurged teife of the railroads has made it necessury fot them o ncrease their es of transportation, and new locomo- tives, cars, &e.”have been built and are now 10 process 0f construction in larger numbers. Ship building has_received an impetus to which it Los long been a stranger and no smull part of the increased demand for iron and stecl comes from that source. Iron pipe works are pushed with orders far in advance of production. For architectural purposes the demand for iron has increased ns prices have declined. 'Yhe practical usefof cicetrioi- ty for motive power and for illumination hus opened a new fleld for the employment of large quantities of ivon and steel and much more has been used in that way this year than ever before. A ‘The consequence of this general enlarge- ment in the consumption of iron is to_stimu- late production, and the statistics show that the output of pig iron by the furnaces is now larger than ever before, and yet it appears 1o be short of the consumbtive requirements, and the natural result is an advance in prices. The advauce has, however, becn mainly on the lower grade of iron, and the contention that prices of all finisned goods should advance because of the enhanced value of certain grades of pig iron is not strictly logical. 1t is manifestly for the better interests of the iron trade that values should be kept on a plane that will not dis- courage consumption; but that is a matter that will regulate itseif, for the higher prices o the more will' production be in- creased, Th re numerous furnaces in the country which could not be profitably operated av the low prices current for piz iron lust June, that will be put icto blast when prices reach a remunerative point; the only trouble is that this matter may bo overdone, and themarket, glutted, to the det- rimenc of the trade. The condition of the iron trade in Great Britain 15 at present so flourishing that it is helpful to the prosperity which prevails there, Prices there have advanced so much that our tariff serves to practically prohibit the importation of any considerable quantity of pig iron, and most of the finished pro- ducts, so that we have our home markets to ourseives, and the development of our iron resources goes rupidly on, giving employ- ment to 4 vast amount of home capital, and, what is of still more importance, utilizing the labor of our own citizens Ithas become axiomatic that when the iron trade flourishes all other branches of business are prosperous. Perhaps it is the geveral prosyerity which stimulates the con- sumption and production of iron, for the de- maud must preceed an_enlargement in the volume of trade, and the manifestation of prosperity in the iron trade is more conspic- uous only because of its maguitude and greater prominence. 13ut, be that as It may, there has undoubtedly been a vast improve: ment in the general business situation dur- the past twelve or fifteen months, but more especially since the'ussurance that ti wus to De a year of exceptionally good crops of nearly all agricultaralprosuctions, Prices of com- modities are no lopzer dectining as a rule, and althoucn thcdare g iy low, bu uess has becomb adjusted to a low plane of value, which inires to the greatest good of the great mass of the people. 1ut the mar- Ikets can not stand still: there must ba fluctu- ations und gep@fally a positive tendency cither to un afipp€ciation or a decline in values, e 3 Iu Great Britaio and in_most countries on the continent thers has been un advance in prices of most-tmmnufactured commoditics during the current year, and with that has como better i of labor. To such risen there that im porters in this Pountry have found it neces- Rary 1o dcoline Okders ak provious pricos; and insome cases £0ods Which have been imported 10 sell in competytimr with nome productions 3 now practically barred out. Between mmereial nations there isa bond of sympa- thy, and wheu there 18 a tendency to general advance of prices in Europe it is more than le same course will obtain ot be rapid nor reach a bigh point, for the faciiities of production are 8o great that any increased demand can bo quickly wupplied, but it may requiro the ucement of larger proiits to bring these fucilities wto full operation, and iucrease them if necessary. The larger the volume of business and the greater the activity in teade the more promptly will the tendency Lo higher prices be made manifest. The indic tions are that our foreign as well as our dos mestic trade is steadily increasing, In regard | “to the latter, it is_ouly necessary to point to the fact that railroad e clearings during the nine months of this yoar are much larger than for the corresponding time last year. “The prelimiuary report of the bureau of tatistics shows that during the month of roings and baok | visions, ootton and o1l amounted in value to $45,081,031, which is $10,355,000 more than in September last yoar; there is a decrease in breadstuffs, but a large increase in provisions and cotton and a small increaso in oils, The exports of these articles for nine months roachod §364,8%9,000 this year, which is 00,000,000 more than last year. The imdica- tions are that the full report will show a considorable favorable balance of trade as regards the merchandise movement, for the imports at Now York were much smaller than in either July or August. The monetary situation in Europe has be- come more satisfactory; there contiuues to be considerable outeo of gold to South America, but it 18 in o large part supplied by the Bank of France, and thus relieves the strain upon the Bank of England, which bank is now recuperating its reserve, and the onen market rate for money in _London has declined. The New York banks have brought their reserve up to and over the legal requirement during the past week, but the money market there 1s still quite string- ont, with comparatively bigh ratos provail. wg. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, — The Action of tho Commissioners Starts a Lively Row. The office of tho board of public works presented a veritable tempest in & tea pot esterday afternoon. Messrs. Balcombe and Furay, of the board, and Messrs. Bailoy and Chaffee, of the council, were busily en- gaged in discusslng the action of the county commissioners, at their last mecting, in re- scinding a resolution which was passed Sep- tember 21, This resolution provided that a portion of the 5,000 which had been sot aside last April for the paving of intersec- tions on Vinton street ana Twenty fourth street south of Vinton, should be divested from that use and used in paving intorsec- tious on Twenticth street south of Vinton and on Thirticth street from Awes aven north to the city limits. J. B. Riley was present and explaioed to the board that this would oaly require about §2,600. Y Last Saturday Mi, H. G. Clark appeared before the county commissioners and re- quested thewm to approprinte monoy to pay for the grading of State street in Florence. Commissioner O'Keeffe said they had no money to use for thatpurpose, and Mr. Clark asked that the money which had been set asido for the paving of ‘l'hirticth streoct be diverted to the grading of State streot, of- fering to hold himselt personally responsible to the board in case the city should hold them to their resolution. A resolution was introduced by Mr. Tur- ner, and passed, rescinding the resolution of September 21, and providing that the *‘bal- ance” bo used m grading State street. It will be seen that the two parts of the resolution_conflict. The understanding on the part of the commissioners was that there would be a considerable balance in the ap- propriation, after the intorsecctions on Twentieth and Twenty-fourth streets had boen paid for, and it was statod that the pav ing on Thirtieth streat_could not bo laid this year. It was thought better, all things con sidered, to recall this money and put it where it will be used at once. The boara of public works and some of the council were very wrathy over this no- tion on the part of the commissioners, say- ing {t virtually leaves Twentieth street in- tersections out in_the cold cntirely, Thero were vague threats about holding the com- missioners to their former resolution, cte, A talk with the commissioners revealed the fact that 1t was not their intention to re- call their action as far as Twentieth street V! erned, and it 1s probable that action will be taken at their next meeting to straighten the o at, ‘The following reserves and estimates were allowed : Regan Bros. & Co., paving. K 5 J. B. Smith : 2,907.50 Tk 3 J. B. Smith & Co., paving J. B, Smith & Co., pav J. B. Smith & Co., paving, C anning & Co., stroet swi Sritehott, grading. paving....... © 1,816,857 The assignment of th contract of Can- field, Ryan & Co, to John A. O'Keeffe was approved, bond having been filed and up- proved, with John I, Coad andJ. D. O'Dona- lioo as sureties The paving bond of J, E. £5,000, with Fred W. CGir han as sureties, for paving Twentieth strect from Vinton to the north line of Van Camp's addition, was approved. - TELEPHONES IN FRANCE. The Government Assumes Control of All the Systems. On Sunday last the government took forcible possession of the telephone tem throughout France, says a Pari correspondent of the New York Tribune. The Societe Generals des Telephones protested against the seiz- ure of its property, but as the delegates appointed to take over the lines ma- terinl and offices on behalf of the government are accompanied by com- missaries of police, who were ordered to proceed militari manu in case of re- sistence, the officials of the company were obliged to yield. ,The action of the government in the matter origin- ated in the theory that the telephone system is too vast u monopoly to be al- lowed to r n in the hands of a private company of limited liability, apd that like the postal and telegraph system throughout Europe, it should be run by the nutional government for the benefit of the community at large. The charter which the “‘Societe n- uls des Telephones obtained from the Minister of Industry and Cou merce, in 1873, contains u clause where- the government is authorized acquire, at any time that it deems fit, the rights, privileges and property of the company, in return for the payment of an indemnity, the amount of which is to be fixed either by mutual agr ment, or, in case of dispute, by experts. In June last the chamber of deputies, in compliance with the request on the part of the prime minister, M. Tivard, voted a sum of $2,000,000 for the purpose of en- abling the government to acquire the telephone system, and a few days later the premier addressed a letter to the president of the company, wherein he notifled him that the charter would be withdrawn on September 1. At the same time M. Tivard requested the So- ciete Generale des Telephonesto declare the amount at which it estimated the value of its lines and wmaterial, stating that, in case of any dif- ference of opinion of the subject between the company and the govern- ment experts would at one be appointed to arbitrate the points at is sue. To this communication the man- agement of the Societe Generale des Telephones replied, refusing to give any information as to the value of its muiterial, and contesting the right of the government to annul its charter. Noth- ing further was done in the mutter until August 13th, when M. Josselin, an e trical expert, was appointed by the pe fect of the Scine to obtain an inventory of the matorial of the company and to estimate its value. The manigement, however, vefused either to furmsh M. in with an inventory, or to give him any facilities for compiling one. On Augusy2lst the prime minister ad- dressed a further letter to the pres deat of the compal peating the r quest contained in his former communi- cation, and on receipt of a negative, und even discourteous, reply, dis patched a final appeal to the man- agement on August Z4th, which was allowed to remain without acknowledg- ment whatsoever, Under the circum- stanc therefore, the government felt that it had done all that lay in its pow- er 1o come 1o a friendly understanding, and accordingly issued orders to the de- partment of posts and telegraph to | the property of the telephone com- vy throughout France on the morn- | of September1,at the same time sondiog 1nstructions to the various pactments to provide for armed for in case of auy resistance on the part of | the company’s officials. | To whut exteut the community at | ll\r‘fn will be benefited by tho change will be realized when T add that l{t{ Coulon, the energetic head of the pa tal and telegraph departmonts, has al- ready made arrangements for reavcing the amount of the annunl subscription from $125 to #75, while the cost of five minutes’ talk over the telephone wires hore at Paris is to be reduced m 10 cents, its present price, to 5 cents. - - AFTER BISMARCK, WHO? Will it be Conat Merbert or Wil it bo the Emporor. A Berlin correspondent of the Akro- polis,of Athens, recontly sent his news- paper an elahorate explanation of the rolations existing between the four groat chiof figures in German politics— Emperor William 1., Prince Bismarck. Count Herbort Bismarck, and Count Waldersee. His lotter attracted wide- spread attention on the continent, and has been liberally quoted by the man newspapers, It d, among other things *‘It is worthy of consideration that tho sccond official in respect of in- fluence in the German empire, Count Herbert Bismarck, is tho son of the im- perial chancellor. Count Herbert Bis marck, represents his father in all affairs of foreign policy. He nccompa- nied the emperor on his journeys to St. Petorsburg, Vienna and fioms, A fow months ago he went to London on an important political mission. He guided the negotiations in the Samoan conference. Many news- papers which tried hard to securo the special favor of the chancellor have long been wont, consequently, to com- pare Bismarck the father and’ Bismarck the son with the elderand younger Pitt. All this, however, has had little influ- ence upon Emperor Willinmn. Dospito his great respect for the father he was unable to feel a corresponding confi- dence in the son. “The conclusion to be drawn from this state of affairs is that the parole *Bis- marck is becoming old’ must be changed 80 as to read: .“The dynasty of Bis- marck become dmpossible.’ Em- peror William respects and honors Prince Bismarck as_ the first promoter of German unity, and_the tried advisor of his grandfather. The retirement of the chancellor is an impossibility; equally impossible is it that Count Her- bert should become the successor of his father. On the contrary, present ap- pearances indicate that Emperor Wil- linm will become his own chancellor. Indeed, unless all signs fail, we are ap- pronching an epoch which, unlike tho Bismarckian era, will be characterized by the general promotion of the policies of the soveroigus themselves, with the young German emperor at their head.’ & e g ACROSS THE ANDES. The Transandean Thousana Feet Above the Se The year 1892 will probably be signal- ized in South Ameri by a most 1nter- esting event in civil engincering and in international overland commer writes a Montevideo corresponden This will be nothing less than the com- pletion of the transundean railway, forming another railroad line from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and the fi across the continent of South America It is nineteen years since this wor was begun, and it is now confidently ex- pectedly that it will bo finished by the beginning of 1892, The road is to run from Buenos Ayres to Valpa- aiso, a distance of 871 mile There now 640 milesof it fimshed at the Buenos Ayres end and eighty.two at the Valparaiso end. Of the remaining 149 miles about one-third is practically complete, the rails being laid. The passnge at the Andes 18+ plished at the Cumbre Pass, which is 13,015 feet abovesen level. Th 1- road, however, does not reach the sum- mit of the pass, but pierces the moun- tains by means of a tunnel, more than three miles long, at an elevation of 10,450 feet above the sea. This makes it one of the highest if not the highest railroad in the world. There 1s noth- ing in Ilurope to compare with it. The St. Gothard railroad is 8,788 feet high and that on the Rigi only attains an feet. Thé grades ave, of course, very steep. For a consider- able distance the rise is more than four hundred and twenty-two feet to the mil3, or one foot in every twelve and a balf. On this portion of the line 4 rack- rail js employed, similar to those on the Hartz and other mountain roads. ailroad Over Ten ccom- “BLOODY'" BALFOUR. The Man Who is So Detested By Irish Nationallsts, Botween 1 and 2 p. m., says a North Berw to the Loundon World, you witl gen come upon a golfing party, differing from others in the fact that'in its midsc walks a man who, under ail this fiere salways bare headed, He wi a davk-gray knick- erbocker suit and light gaiters; and in his height. in his slimness, by reason of the pince-nez he wears and the carth-swallowing strides which he kes, he reminds you at once of Henr. Irving. When his ends call A thur’” he responds quickly, and he give himself up tothe game as though le had no other interest in life; and yet this is he upon whose utterances and upon whose deeds, more than of any other British statesman, the attention of the world is riveted. This is he who is ‘‘boo-ed” for—he who is so specially relegated to hades. This is the Rt. Hon. Arthur James Bal- four, who was born in_ these parts, who sits for a division of Munchester, who is chief secretary for Ireland, and who, as you see him. 15 whacking away at the golf-balls as though they were the heads of some of those who, under Mr, Parnell’s aus- pices,vepresent home rule in the British parliament. Had I any doubt of Mr. hnlfuuru identity my ideas would be confirmed by the presénce of two gen- tlemen in_cheap tourist suits who are always to be found within easy reach when he is playing on the links: the ave loitering along the sady hillocks which fringe the golting-ground, or one of them will descend on to the yellow sands and scrawl thereon fantastic fig- ures with a stick. In their heather of home-spun reach-me-downs and tight- fitting traveling caps they might be simply trippeps, with no further design than the inspéction of “‘the Biarritz of the North,” by which high-sounding title North Berwick calls itself, but **by * boots ye shall know them,” and dable bluchers, vulgarly spoaking, *blow the gafl” prociaim that Scotland yard bas sent to Scotland the aids-de-camp of Anderson and the myrmidons of Monro, - Two Mre. Keeners. Mrs. Neliie Keener, of & and Mrs, Kate Keener, of Kunsas Cily, both claim to be the only surviving widow of George Keenor, deceascd. Both swear that they were legally mar- ried to him, never divoreed, nor (o have d another living husband. Both wim to be enfitled to the possession of #5,000, which is awaiting (in St. Juseph) the decision of the Kausas City Court of Appeals. Ihe Arca ol the New States The four new states bring in an aves about equal to that of ull New England New Yo Fonnsylvanis Delaware, Mar, Virwinin, West Virgioia, Obio, Kentueky and Indiana combined. It is an avea three times as grout as the British isles. THE CAPITAL CITY GRIST, An Inmate of the Insane Asylum Commits Sulclde. HE WAS FROM DOUGLAS COUNTY. A Bolt in the Republican Ranks in Lancaster—The Suprome Court Clerkship Filled Tempor- arlly—City Notes. Lixcony Bunreav or Tue OMana Bse, 1020 P* Streer, Pritz Bode, an {nsane pationt from Douglas county, committed suicide ot the insana asylum this morning by hanging himselt, Dr. Knupp, Coroner Shoemakor and Com- missioner Stoen looked into tho sad affale carefully, and stato that no blame attachos auywhore. Ho ingenjously used his suspen- ders to accomplish tho fatal work. Bode, prior to this, muao two or threo unsuccessful attempts upon his 1ife. Licsvelt Bolts the Tioket, H. J. Lisvolt has rosigned his position on !hu republican county central committee and is now working for I°. H. Cooper, the demo- cratic nominee for sheriff, Mr. Liesvelt is an ox-member of the state logislature and is said to bo_ull-poweriul with the Hollanders in tho south part of the county, \Whon his resignation was sont in his associates ro. fused to accept it, but ho arose in his dignity and insisted upon it. This vorifios the statemont of Tur Brw made several woeks ago that the Carr faction of the ropublican party would bott the tickot at tho ninth hour, It Ia_predicted that tho Cooper and McClay will bo ex- rm and A Banking Problom. J. C. MeNaughton, bank fuspector of the Second congressional district, 1 his peram- bulations has run uvon snag. Recontly he examined a bank that showed a0 authorized capital stock of §38,000, and a paid up capital of $12,500. In the gencral examination thore was no showing of re. discounts, All statements were silent as to this. At Owmalia, lowever, in casting about in an official capacity, he found $14,000 of vaper that had been rediscountod for tho bavk in question. These rediscounts woro effected under the conditions of n_cortain bond, entered into by tho ofticers and direc 1ors of tho bauk, a8 individuals, puarantee. ing to protect the paper at maturicy his, the bank claims, changes the liability from it to the individuals, ‘notwithstanding the deal was made for the benefit of the bank, Mr. McNuughton says lie can’t see why tis is not a liability of the bank, and he ex presses the opinion that it ought to thus show. State House Jottings. The Winside State bank filed articles of incorporation to-dav. Capital stock, $20,000, rporators: N. M. Gue, C. B, Fronch und H. Gue. The devartments of stato will close to- morrow at noon in honor of Guy A, Brown, deceascd, whose funeral ser will be held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Baok Iuspector MeNaughton was at bank ing headquarters to-day. He is_preparing u report of his worlk in the Second district and will subumit it iu a few days. Walter A. Leose, of Seward, a brother of Attorney General Lo was temporarily avpointed clerk of the supreme court in placo of Guy A, Brown (deccased) this afternoon, He is ordered by tho court to take the onth of office forthwith and to file his bond con- ditioned accord “This appoint. ment holds until the further order of the court, Suprern Court wcecdings. To-day’s court proccedings were as fole lows: Pullman Palace Car Compiny vs Lowe, submission vacatéd; Republ n Valley Rail= road Company vs Long, disw d; Steveans vs Sibbetts, continued. The foilowing causes were submitted: Mollie vs Peter Northern Pacific Railrond ¢ Jaunecek, on briefs; Si argued and naha & mpany Vs te ex rel, Primmer vs Brodball; State ex rol, Tenmson vs Cole- man; Dodge County vs Kemitz; North vs Platte Company, in part. Court adjourned to Wedngsduy, October 50, 1889, at 8:80 o'clock a. m. City News and Notes. Auolph Heidecker, of Cortland, aud Miss Pauline Bolinger, of Roca, were united m marriage to-day by Judge Stewart. James Whitmore was taken to Exoter at midnight last night, where he will answer to the chargo of raising a note from 815 to $150. ‘The McAllister will case was ou again to- day. The plantiffs ran out of wituesses and the case was contiuued until to-morrow. It ‘wag disclosed that J. B, Archibald, who now appears as one of the attorneys for the pro- ponents, had gone to New York and while there made the proposition to the contestants e would break the will for a fec of one- If the proceeds. D. Giffora und Jack Woods were ar- ested to-day and will answer to the chargo of larceny, ‘Ihey were caught stealing hay from E. D. Mills, Frank Crosby also tried the slick fingered act and tangoishes in jail. A party of “Q." officials, headed by Gen eral Manager Stoue, passed throngh the city to-day en route to the coal fields of Wyo min Detective Pound pulled up a plant of jewelry this morning that awaits identifica- tion. Tt is said to be valuable. The police force is after Frank Do Vine, who escaped from custody this morning, He 18 wanted on the charge of burgly . Chairman Hawilton, of the republican county central committoe, catled @ weeting of the candidates for tho various county oflices at Judge Stewart's office this morning, The object of the meeting was to secure, if possible, a decision of the supreme court upon the constitutionality of the rogistration law. RSO T PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, A Statisucian Places the Number at Twelve H rod Million. There are statistieians in several coun- tries, the best known of whom is tho learned German, Herr Schem, who have endeavored to present, from time to time, statistics of the population of the tire world, I[nasmuch as many popu- lous countries have no census, and often nothing like a census, these world stat- isticiuns can ouly put together, as to th countries, the best altainable guesses, Nevertheless they probably make o tolerably near estimate of the populs tion of the entire world, which thoy put at 1,200,000,000. The number of men is supposed to be somewlat smaller than the number of women. The number of deaths in the entire world, each placed at about § 0.000, which would nake nearly 100,000 & day, 4,000 an hour and 67 i minute. S On the other , there are, it is es- timated, 86,750,000 persons born every year; which would make more than 100,000 per day and 80 per minute, The average duration of life in the world, as a whole, is thirty-eight. One- quarter of the people upon the’ enrth die before reaching the seventeenth yeur. About six of each 1,000 persons born reach the age of seventy-live years, Married people live to a greater age than the unmarried; temperate people and workingmen live longer than ex- cessive eaters snd the indolent; and the people of civilized nations outlive the savage races, Dl Awkward Torpedo Boats. Foreign maneuvers nave developed the fact that torpedo boats are ex- tremely uncomfortable at sea, 8o much 80 that the crews lose all energy and rough weather makes them all but help- less. Durving experiments at Copen- hagen recently atorpedo boat upset and sank,