Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Bditor. = = PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. § OF SUBSCRIPTION day, One Yenr ™ ily and S ix Months Three M the, undny N WY fee: e S ear with OFFICES Omana, Bea Duilding, Chicago Office, w York, Hooms 14 ng ‘L\'ll!h!nmun. No, 513 Fourteenth Street. Council Blufls, No, 12 Pearl Street. Lincoln, 120 P Stieet, 4 Bouth Omaha, Corner N and 2th Streets. CORRESPON DENCE. Al communications relating to news and edi- torial mattor should be addressed to the Kditor- 18l Department. BUSINESS LETTERS, A1l Ymsiness letters and remittances should e addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha, Drafts, checks and postofice orders to De made payable to the order of the company, Thic Bee Pablishing Company, Proprietors Bek Lullding Farnam and Seventeenth Strects, Inhe Bee on the Trains, There 15 no excuse fora faflure to got Tne Ber on the trai All newsdealers have been noti- gied to carry a full supuly, Iravelers wio want TRE L AN can't gat 1€ on trains where other DAL bipers are carried are roquested to no- Aify Tir: ks Tionsa bt particular to give tn il cases full information as to date, rallway and number of train, Give us your name, not for publication or v neces: use, but as a guaranty of good fait THE DAILY BEE. e Year . . rem um.... ey Duflding ad 15 Tribune Build- [ Sworn Statement of Circulation. Etate of Nebraska, 7 County of Douglas, George 15, Tzschuck, secretary of The Ros Fublishing Coripany, does solemnly swoar that thio actual circulation of Ttk DAILY BEE forthe week ending Docomber 14, 180, was as follow Bunday, Dec, 8, Mondiiy, Dec Tuesday: Vodnios s Mhursdny, Dec Friday, De Baturday, Dec. 14, 20,128 CHUCK. to inmy i4th day ot December, A. D. 185, N. P, FEIL, Notary Public. Average, Bworu to | Ppresenco tly (Seal.! Btate of Nebraskn, ) ity of Douglas, | George 1. Tzschuck, buing duly sworn, de- ones and eays that e I8 secrotary of The Beo ishing Company, that the actual averago daily circilation of T DAILY BEE for tho month of December, ). \ January, 158, 15,674 copies; for February, K008 ples: for March, 1850, 8K for April, 1859, 18,6850 coplesifor May, 15,000 coples: ~for June, 18 Juily, 18 861 cople. for October 1859, 18,00, N 1880, 10.310 coplen 13, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed iu m! Dresence guis 3)th day of November, A . D., 148) |8eal.| N.P. Férn, Tiere has been a surfeit of talk on vilrond question. A change to uction is desiravle. —— e tration of all important Union Pacific offices in Omaha is in the fnterest of economy and convenience., — T Tord loveth a cheerful givor.” Let the people of Omaha contribute promptly and liberally toward relieving the distress in Dakota for 15,223 copies; 155, Tie mayor-elect has safely emerged from the canyons of the Rocki Greater generalship will be requi 1o escape the political smooth-bores at home. SEct rY WiINDoM's silver policy does not meet the approval _of the press of London and New York. No better reason could be advauced to commend it to congressional favo: — Tite Dakota delegates are distin- guishing themselves as the greatest combination of office kickers ever sent to Washington. Missouvi, Illinois and Ohio must look to their laurels in the gole-stivring line. Tue determination of certuin Omaha saloons to enforce temperance by refus- ing drink to the colored aristocracy de- serves the commendution of the p: hibition convention. A resolution of thanks is 1u order. SEVERAL representatives from China ore in New York negotiating for elec- 1 light plants to be established in theiv country. If they succeed in their mission the celestiul empire will not suffer much longer from over-popula- tion. Tue “Canada colony” will probably have to look out for new quarters, President Harrison has transmitted to congress the new treaty with England, Itis lilkely to be ratilied and iucludes embezziement as an extraditable of- fonse. ACCORDING to the statistics of the plumbing inspector for the past five months it is safe to estimate that plumbing business for the year will ag- gregute three hundred thousand dollars. There is no leaky joint in the length of .that bill, e———— To ofiset Germany’s noiseless and smolkeless powder the Austrian govern- ‘ment has obtained possession of an ex- -plosive more powerful than dynamite. Afinventions in this line continue, war will hecome so dungerous that no power will dare to engage in that relic of barbarism, — Tue prohibitionists must give Omaka credit for not neglecting the cold water cause. With one of the lurgest and most complote systems of waterworks in the- west, the advocates of clarified water cannot justly charge the city with indifferenc Tue Pioncer Press insinuates that “Omaha has had so many ‘crowning tri- umphs’ already that she is top heavy,” Our esteomed contemporary'’s vision is blurred by dizzy heights. Omahba is toppling over St. Paul’s commercial castles in the west and giving the peo- ple the benefit of a metropolitan market, m—— THE business of’ the pension office is increasing so rapidly that it is impossi- ble for the commissioner with the pres- ent force to properly consider the avalunche of claims. At the close of " lust week nearly half a million claims were pending. At the rate of fourteeun thousand a month, the record for No- vember, it would require thirty months 1o dispose of the business on hand., At present the claims received and filed daily ogual the number settled, As a matter of justice to the veterans of the war, congress should make provision for increasing the pension office force so that claims can be reachedand dispose d of withiu a roasonable time, TO RECOGNIZE THE REPUBLIC, A resolution has been introduced into the United States senate providing for the recoguition of the republicof Brazil by the government of the United States. Tt congratulates the people of Brazil “on their just and peaceful assumption of the powers, duties and responsibi ties of self-government, based upon the free consent of the governed,” and recognizes the United States of Braml “agalawful and rightful government of right entitled to exorcise and enjoy international comity and all the benefits of the laws of na- tions a8 a sovercign power.” The presi- dent is required to notify the states of Brazil of this declaration, and by proc- lamation to “‘require the people and government of the United States and of the soveral states, and all in authority therein, to recognize the flag of the United States of Brazil as the flag of a free, soveroign and indepond- ent state.” There appears no sound reason this action should not be taken. true that the republic of Br: been established but little more than a month, that no othor nation has yet recognized the new government, and that doubt regavding its permaner still exists, at least in quarters where such doubt is natural, But so far as ap- pears che whole people of Brazil® are sfied with the new order of things, the imperial family, accopting the situation when it left the country, has nea shown no disposition to attempt a restoration of the old condition, there is peace and order in the® republic, the provisional governmoent is per- forming all its functions and is pledged to the observanze of every interna- tional obligation inherited from the monarchy, business is going on without interruption, and in all respects the United 0s of Brazil presents a per- fectly clear claim to be regarded and recornized as a sovoreign and inde- pondent sty Not the smallest fac- tioval opposition to the new gov- ernment is manifested to give reant for a doubt as to the wence of the republic or justify tation in recognizing it. How far tins country is called upon, in the obscrvance of international com- ity, to regard the opinions and await the action of other nations respecting Brazil, may be a guestion. Certairly if there had been any conflict over the change of government, and it was still opposed by any considerable portion of the people, or it the mew government proposed any pol- i in violation of the international obligations entered into by the mon- archy, the United States could not with a proper regard for the rights and in- terests of other nations end its rec- ognition. But the opposite of all this is the ca The revolution was abso- lutely peaceful, tho result is accepted by the people of the entire country, or at any rate if any oppose it they do not show their hostility, and the govern- ment has declared its purpose to faith- fully respect every international obli- gution of the monarchy. Under these circumstancy it would seem that this government might, with every propriety, and without wrong to any other nation, recognize the sister re- public. 1t is both the duty and the interest of the United States to in every legitimate way encournge the new republie, and by its countcpgpce, friendship and in- fluence to stréngthen it in the confi- dence of its own people and in the re- spect of the world. Recognition would go far toward bringing about these de- sirable results, and it would undoubt- edly have the very general and hearty approval of the American people, while it would bring into closer relations of friendship with us a people whose coun- try is nearly uas great as ourown in area und no less rich in resources. INFLLU OF FOREIGN CAPITAL. It is estimated that the investmonts of British capital in the United States during the present ¢ umount to at least one hundved millions of dollars. Some German capital has also found in- vestment in this country, though the amount is comparatively small. The greater part of this monoy has been paid in ecash or in obligations which have been turned into cash abroad, so that it consti- tutes an important addition to the wealth of the country. The amount of English capital invested here this year is groater than in any previous year, and it is intoresting to note in evidence of the vast surplus wealth of England that the ageregate actual in- vestments of British capital in new en- terprises, in 1889, amount to not less than soven hundred and fifty million dollars. This vast sum, remarks a writer in the New York Sun, represents, for the most part, not reinvestments, nor the total an- nual gains of the RBritish people, but only the excess of those gainsre- maining above the expenditures upon necessities and upon pleasures. It is the product, too, not of gambling nor of stock-jobbing, butof skill and honest hard work. It is dug out of the ground in the shape ‘of coal, iron, tin, copper and other minerals; it is spun out of our raw cotton, Italian and French silk, and the wool of various countries. A large proportion of it is earned in the carrying trade. The interesting Americans is whether this great influx of British capital is likely to be maintained, Shall we continue to get one-seveunth or more of the annual investments made from the surplus wealth of that country in for- eign enterprises? Evidently the op- portunities for the profitable home in- vestmont of British capital are about exhausted. Only upon this assumption can 1ts large outflow into loreign invest- ments be satisfactorily explained. If this be so there is every reason why the United States shall continue to be & field for the investwent of Britwsh capital on as greata scale as heretolore, and possibly greater. OI course much will depend upon whether the incomes expected from iuvestments already made 1l be' realized, but in any even ish eapital is very certain to continue to seek employment heve in very large amounts. The channels of iuvestment it has already enterod do persons why It is 7l has pe he: question for THE not exhaust the opportunities, and Eng- tish capitalists have a very thorough appreciation of the groat possibilities of this country. Porhaps the most serious danger which this foreign capital may encoun- ter is adverse legislation, which has al- ready been directed against it toa limited degree by national and state laws. There is unquestionably & strong sentiment against encouraging its in- vestment here, and it ie not impossible that this feeling may in time become so oxtended as to rosult in general legis- lation designed to exclude this capital. But nothing of this sort 1¢ immediately threatened, and those who desire the steady and vigorous promotion of na- tional development will be slow to ac- quiesce in a policy which would almost certainly have the effect to retard it. LR BEET PROFITS. The question of sugar beet culture is atteacting widespread attention. With- in the past few years experiments have demonstrated that the industey can be made as successful in this countey as in Fr The per cent of sugar ob- tained from samplesraized in this coun- try exceed the [rench product, prov- 1ng that the soil, especially in the west, is peculinely adapted for that purpose. Under the inspiration of Claus spreckels, the farmers of California will make the sugar beet one of the leading crops this year. After bullding his factory last year, Spreckels offeved two prizes, ag- gregating seyen hundrod und fifty dol- lars, for five and ten acre tracts of beets producing the lavgest amount of sugar per acre. The competition re- sulted in the production of beets which yielded as high us eighty-four hundred and seventeen pounds of sugar to the acre. These figures were never reached by either Germany or France. The farmers and capitalists Nebraska are thoroughly alive to the importance of sugar beet culture. The interest is manifested in the number of inquiries received and the discussions in the press, and the further fact that the low price obtained for corn this year oper- ates as an incentive to diversified and more profituble crops. An analysis of the sugar beets raised in Hall county showed sixteen per cent of sugar, dem- onstrating that the rich, sandy loam of Nebraska is as prolifie for root crops as for corn. The organization of a company to build and operate a sugar factory in Grand Island promises an early practical test of the value of this industry, 'Che state bounty of one cent avound for all the product showing ninty per cent of crystalized sugar 1s an inducement which will multiply fac- tories in the stute, if the first proves a sucH , of which there is no reasonable doubt. Experts estimate that a factory consuming thirty thousand tonsot beets annually will neta profit of twenty-five per cent on the investment. To farmers the industry isequaily profitable. From fifteen to twenty tons of beets can be raised to the acre, which, at four dol- lars a ton, delivered, will net a sum greater than is now realized from the leading crops. St 1ce. of THERE is no room for dispute on the question of increasing the bond of the city treasurer. The charter requires that the bond of the treasurer shall nov be less than two bundred thousand dol- lars. As custodian of school funds he is required to give & similar amount. Both bonds are insufficient. Accoraing to the report of the city comptroller for the past eleven months, the city tross- urer hus now a balance of two hundred and forty thousand dollars, and this sum does not iuclude the city ball fund, estimated at seventy-five thousand dol- lars, besides balances in the various paving and sewor funds. The receipts from saloon licenses next mounth will exceed two hundred thousand dol- lars. The two bonds are entirely dis- tinct. They apply to separate devart- ments of ¢! finances. It will be seen therefore that both the city and school board are inadequately protected. There is scarcely a period of the year that the city fands in the hands oi the treasurer do not exceed the amount of his bond. The charter empowers the council to increase the bond to double the amount of the funds on hand at any time, and that power should be exer- cised. THE indications are that notwith- standing the protests of some Ohio dem- ocrats against sending another million- aire of that party to represent the state in the United States senate, Mr. Payne’s successor will be one of that class. As the situation now appears, Colonel Calvin S. Brice, the “rainbow chaser,” is in the lead of vhe half dozen aspirants, witha very good chance of winning the prize. Mr. Brice is several times a millionaire, and the greater part of his fortune was made in railroad operations. He is now identi- fled with several railroads, and there- fore is presumably in hearty sympathy with the corporations. Mr, Brice did not malke a brilliant record as a politi- cal manager in the last presidential campaign, but he has shown ability in practical affairs, and would undouhtedly make a more useful member of the na- tional senate than Henry B. Payne, who has done muothing of which the world has any knowledge except to con- sistontly vote with his party. There are abler democrats in Ohio, however, than Mr, Brice, though perhaps none richer than he, and his money and cor- poration backing will doubtless carry him through. AN exhibition given in a Minnesota town illustrates in a striking manner the progress of the horsewhip ary among the fair sex. An angry, deg- lected wife, with a big policeman, pounced upon a dissolute husband, The policeman acted as referee, while the wife pasted her worthless lord with a cowhide until his head lost its orig- inal shape and color. After awarding the victory to the wife, the policeman served o warranton the victim, and the court sulivated his wounds with a fine of fifty dollars and sixty days in jail. Divorce will follow. The proceedings were as unique as they were vigorous, and demonstrate 1o what good uses po- lLicemeu can be put by forceful women, Marriage onn hardly bo eonsideced a farlure whieh davelops a wife with suffi- cient nerve 1p'invads the haunts of a dissolute Kusbhand and brand him as a traitor to his vows, o e . AND now comos the city eouncil of braska City with aresolution that all sensational hiews originating there shall be suppressed by the newspapers. This is a novel idea, 1f not ridiculous. Nows- pers do not make news, but when they want veaders it is considered the proper capér ‘to chronicle events, sonsationnl or other wise. law givers of our Lustling neighbor down the river will probably soon bo told that th had bottor apply the parging process within their legal bailiwick. tice Fuller's Oration. Brooklyn Fagle. Indeed, if Judee Fullor's address sorv es no other purpose, it is to ba commended for the roproof it administers to the growing ton: dency to belittle and distrust our public mea, Crowding the Limit, Buston Globe (dem.) Whon Bishop Gallagher in his funoral ou- loey of Jefforson Davis calls the great cham- pion of chattle slavery “‘an impassioned de- fender of the liborty of men” the strain is pretty hoavy; but everything goes at funer- als, i i The Colunization Scheme. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, The negro colonization schemos which some of the southern senatora are trying to bring about are impractidablo for one simple butentirely udequate reason. The negroes will not consent to be colonizod, and the country has neither the right nor tho incli- nation to coerce them. e The Liconomy of Cremation. Louiseille Courier-Journal, Cremation brings out the fact that there is atime thata man can travel cheaply. 1t is aftor hois dead. A postage stamp will take the cremated vemains of a humaa bsing to any part of the United States. A man about to die has only to mention to his friends tho address to which ho wishes to bo mailed, and he arrives at his destination in good time and in proper shape. Due Respect tor The Omaha Repuolican has decided to abandon its evening edition and issue only a morning paper. One of the reasons given is that in “looking over the tield of journalism 1 the United States, we find that none of the great leading dailies are published morning and evening, and feeling due respect for the experience of the century, we ehall follow the example of older journalists in this re- gard.” Now, that's quite an idea. If one of the ‘‘great leading dailies” could be found that was only published once a week, what a bright and shining example it would afford the Republican. Then, too, with all its “'re- spect for the experience of the century,” it 18 a wonder that the Republican hasn't thought of Susan B. Anthony for managing editor, xpericn Ly An Omaha Tourist. Deagwood Pioneer, It was most certainly & manifestation of weakness bordering on dotage to pick up a brainless youth (who has made so many failures and squandered 80 many of his daddy’s dollars in newspaper ventures) and send him to a mining camp to write it up. The reason for lus intense hatred of Dead- wood leaked out yesterday and is this: He was accompanied by ladies, and as was natural desired to impress bis compauions that he had traveled and was ‘“blooded,” so to speak. At the hotel they ordered din- ners that would cost a dollar and a half each in any city in the Unitea States, and yet they made a vigorous kick at the charge of §1 each, He declared with much feeling that T can get a meal cheaper than that in a tour or five story brick. You have no right to charge that much for a meal in a frame building.” ‘Then he sallied forth in quest of ashave. At the barber shop he refused to pay the regular price of 25 ceants, and “in lieu therof turew down 10 cents and waltzed off on his metaphorical ear. ‘This and this alone is the only reason under heaven why this precious bautling should cherish il feelings for Deadwood or Lead, Cowe again next summer when the weather is hot and you'll find it cool enough for comfort. g They Consider the Source. Black Hills Daily Times. The Ayres & Wardman letter was not writ- ten for publication, but no oue regrets that it reached Tne Bre office, inasmuch as iv af- forded that excellent paper—the only news- paper published in Omaha—opportunity for again manifesting a friendship for and un- derstanding of the Hills, our people, condi- tions and resources, extendiug back to the pioncer days of '3, ‘The people of Deadwood and Lead do, i deed, consider the source from which pro- ceeded “the vaporings of journalistic kids" who, we have every reason to know, are do- void of principle and honor; and also know that Tux Bee and not the nondescript World- Herald or ita correspondent so accustomed fo playing with himself that he fancies that he can play with every fellow man, voices the popular senturaent of the business men of Omaha. If the Nye-Hitchcock crowd can stand it the people of the Hills cortainly can, but the manu{acturers, merchants and job- bers of Omaba should promptly recoenize not only their duty to themselves, but their obligations to a large community whose friendship and trade are courted. el il N 'S COMMENT. Topeka has unearthed a boodle paving combine said to inyolve several members of the city council.. ‘Topeka is growing quite metropolitan. The shah of Persia has begun a sy stem of sanitury reform since his return from Burope and his subjects begin to fear that he 15 not just right in his mind, ‘The king of Spain is to have a new rock- ing horse for a Christmas present. His little majesty is' not the only Kuropean potentate for whom things are coming rocky just now, Secnator Stanford proposes to materially reduce the surplus by exvending twenty- eight millions of it on the Pacific coast. Modesty is not onse of the weaknesses of the California millingive, With a few mové scandals of the ‘‘West End" variety the idea will finally struggle through the braio of the honest English citi- zen that his so-called aristocracy should be taken down and fumigated, ‘The wost satisfactory feature about the encounter between the Montana bruisers 1s the fact that it resulted fatally. It is to be regrotted that the professional pug seldom gels 80 much iv earuest as to endanger his good health, Amos A. Stazg, Yale's great baseball pitcher, intends next vear to eater the min- istry, where he will devote his energies to fanning out Satau's aggregation and getting as many souls a8 possible safely' over the howe plate. Editor Stead bas resigned the editorship of the Pall Mall Gazette and will dtart @ re- view, Even the plucky portrayer of the “Modern Babylon" fouud the task of re- 88 forming the British arstocracy a hopolessly uphill business, Count d'En, Dom Pedro's son-in-law, is necused of having procipitated the Brazilian robellion by his overboaring conduct. Ho is now said to be actively ongaged in aeitating and intriguing for the restoration of the monarchy. Tho people of Braznl shodld sit down hard on this royal hunger on. Paris has a syndicate of impecunious “swells,” which cnablos thoso gentry to compete to some extent with the rich varioty of the species. They combine chic with economy by hiring horses, theater boxes, broadeioth suits, diamonds, ete,, on & joint stock plan. Each gold-plated youth is thus enabled 1 turn toshine as a real gold bug, A New Yorker has a schome for supplying New York city with milk through from the surrounding rural distriots. conduits carrying water to the eity will probably be used, thus saviog the expense of constructing new onos. —— STATE AND IRRITOKY. Nebraska Jottings, A brass band 18 to be organized at Naponees, Custer county editors will hold tion at Broken Bow January 10. Mayor Yoenm of Hastings has ordered all tho gamblini housos 1n the city closed. Jolin Davidson has been arrested at Givbon chiarged with committing s burglary at Kearn A move has beon made by Neligh citizens to secure the orection of ’ beat sugar fuc- tory at that pla Darwin Boyd, a former resident of Hast- ings, was killod i a raiiroad accident uvear Denver Tuesday. A revival is in progress at Benkelman, the meetings being conducted in the court house by Rev. J. A, Armstrong. The Valentine tire company dovotes sev- oral hours a week to practicing and keeping in trim to tight coming conflagrations. Ed D, Lunt has assumed control of the kinson Graphic and proposes to improve the paper, which hs is abundantly able to do. J. B, Field of Odell, I'red Lynde of Beat- rice and C. T. White have purchused a pat- ent corn husker and propose Lo manufacture the machine in Beatrice, A peculiar wedding was solemnized at Odell the other day, Rev. Mr. Abbott unit- ing in marriago a deaf and dumb brideto a talking and hearing groom whose parents were both deal and dumb. The parties were from Waterville, Kan, Andrew Nast of Dixon, Ta., who is visiting his father four miles west of Lyous, while handling a revolver of not know- ing it was louded, nccidently shot himself, the ball passing through nis lung. The doc~ tor does not think he will live. Miss Coleman, a teacher employed in the Ulysses high school, was taken with and when a ph; made an on he found that u girl baby had been born without the knowledge of the peo. vle who were in the room with the young woman, Miss Coloman has ouly been in Ulysses four months, coming there from Pennsylvania, A claim involving a one-sighth interest in the original town site of Hastines is now being pushed in that city which the property owners ve combined to contest, The claim is xnown as the Elizabeth Kwnan claim. {n 1876, when the town site company was dissolved, a proper division of the property was made to the various owners. [5d Hurlbut of Lincoln tooking up the records and dis- covers that while Mrs. Kinnau, one of the owners in the town sito company, was fully wdemnified, no formal ‘transfer was ever made of her one-eighth interest. Hurlbut bas purchased the supposed right and 18 now endeavoring to exact from property owners $25 per lot for a quit clain dved. lowa Ltems. There are 547 registered dentists in the state. Countorfeit money is being circulatea freely in several sections of the state. Cold Water” Jack McDonald of Des Moizes has been fined $50 for sclling liquor. Byron Pecr has been sentenced from Scranton to nine months in the penitentiary for bigamy. There are thirty-seven government licenses to sell liquor av Marshalltown, seven of which are for arug stores. Governor Larrabee has pardoned S. A. Broadwell, who was sentenced at Logan to four years in the penitentiary for ootaining money under false pretenses. The city of Davenport has sued an ox- street commissioner to recover §1,040 claimed to have been lost to the city through gross carelessness onthe part of that oficial, A Dubuque man named Wilson demanded money from his wifo to buy lianor, and during the argument_that ensued his stop- son, John Utter, stabbed him in the back. Uter is under arrest. N. Hengens, a farmer living near Prairie City, while driving to town the other day, was asked for a ride by three men. He con- sented and was chloroformed and robbed of $100, & gold watch and a promissory note, Last I'riday the little eightesn-monthseold baby of Mr, andfMrs. E. S. Arnold, of*Da- veuport, died of diphtheritic croup; Satur- day, their four-year-old son died of the same disease, and Sunday their other baby, a twin sister of the first victim, also passed away, making vhree deaths in one family in as many days, During the progress of the Greek tragedy by the students of lowa college at Grinnoli, as Miss Bertha Booth was preparing to go on the stage to perform her part in a tab- leau, she received a telegerm announcing the death of her mother at Anamosa. The young lady was completely prostrated at the news, aud the sympathy of her fellow students red the production of the play. 0 young men named McDonald and a young man named Broochee living near Bay- ard are held 1w $1,000 bonds each forac- complishing a brutal criminal assaulton a young ¢irl employed us a domestic in the MeDonald family. ‘Lbe girl was on her way nowme from church with one of the McDon- alds when the assault occurred, and in her struggies with the three young brutes she was seriously injured. a conven- The Two Dakotas. A busiuess mon’s association has been or- ganized at Brooking A box of plug hats has been received from the east by the drought sufferers. A dmlv muil service nas been established between Rapid City and Hall City, A firm of Watertown millers has contrib- uted a carload of flour to the Miner county sufferers, An autopsy has revealed the fact that the death of a Lead City man named Wald was caused by his lungs growing around his ribs, ‘Tue farmers of Hughes and Sully counties were still engaged in muking bhay last week, which they bauled to Pierce for § to 86 a ton, At a ranch near Tilford fourteen men were poisoned by meat which was cooked in a brass kettle, but all of them recovered with tho timely aid of a physician. D. W. Kennedy, manager of the Traill county croamery company, has been ar- rested at F'argo on u charge of forgery pro- ferred by the stockholders of the company, ‘The people of Spearfish witnessed a mir- ago one morning last week which lasted over an hour, Although the objects in the picture were over twenty miles away they did not appear to the gazers Lo be wmore than a wile distant. Frank Gould Field, a relativeof Jay Gould and Cyrus W, Field, committed suicide at Custer City by taking an overdose of mor- phiue. Ho was only thirty-six years of age @and a man of more than ordinary ability, Drink is the alleged cause of the rash act. The White Lake Times has discovered the meanest man in the new state. His nawe is Mos. Last spring Mos' wife lost ber life tighting fire in tryiue Lo save ber husband’s property. Last week tho man from whom he bought the lot in which she was buried brought suit for payment of the lot and lost the suit, the justice deciding that no legal papers were made out wheo the lov was bought, aud that tho sale was not proven. Mos still owes for the coMa in which his wife was buried, aad last, but prooably the wmeanest thing of all, he has recently married anothier woman. While digging 8 well near Rosefield last waek at a depth of 100 feet & roaring noise was heard. ‘I'he diggers scrambled out as fast as they could, while the noise kept in- creasing, A lighted paper was tarown into the well, when ud explosion followed thut shook the ground for a considerable dis- tuuce and o sheet of flame shot up into the airtoa height of thirty feet, endangering the builaings pear by. The well had to be covered Lo suut off the Hame, Only Necessary to File Artiolos of Incorporation. ELECTRIC MOTORS FOR LINCOLN Pallman Sleeping Car Companics as Responsivle as Innkeepors foF Like Services—The Courts 10 Briof—City News. 1029 P Streer, Lascony, Neb., Dec. 18, Letters continto to pour into the oflice of tho auditor of public accounts querying ns to alaw legalizing loan and investment com panies in the transaction of business in this state, The opinion seoms to exist that loan and investment compauies, liko {usurance companies, are authorized to transact ness in Nebraska by the auditor of state, Such 18 not the ense. Thero is a law com- pelling suoh corpanies to {ncorporato b g articles in tho offec of tho sccrctary of state and providing for foreign corporations to become domestic corporations by passing resolntions nccepting tuo conditions pro- vided by statute enactment. These resoiu- tlons and articles of incorporation properly filed give such companies the same legal Tight to trunsact business in the stato as though they had been organized and incor- porated within its limits, Tossed by the Train. ate, an employe of Charles Dun- das, the bridge contractor, attempted to drive a four-mule team 083 tho Missouri Pacific crossing & North Sixteenti stre t night as a switch engine was approachivg. Thoro was a collision and Tate und a switchman were tossed in the air. Noither of the gou- tlemen were seriously injuzod but they were haipless and had to be borne to their howes, One of the mules, howevor, was iustantly killed. Lixcony Buneav or Tiue OMand Bee, } State Ho I:O Jkll"'\l{ The United States standard weights and measures have been received by Labor Commissioner Jenkius, and they are now at Jthe capitol. “'If us wseful as they are pretty," remarked a state official to-day, the state has mado n good investment, and the law providing for them will not prove to be a sham.” Counsel in the celebrated case of Scrog- gins v8 McClellan closed their arguments oefore Referce Warren this afternoon, but the deeision nas not yet been given' out. Law mills in both wings of the state houso have been in_operation during the past wo days. Mr. Warcen will make his decision known in the Scroggins-McClelland case to: morrow morning. The Districc Court, Gustay Olsen secured a Judiement against the city for $0. Ho sucd for §5,000 damages for injuries he received by a fall on a de- fective sidewalk, Henry Burcham vs Charles Grifith, a case pending for two years last past, has been submitted. Plaintiff sued for $500 damag He alleged thut several head of cattle reli through a defective bridge near his farm and were Jilled, and that he had varchased them from the defendaat. The question in con. troversy was delivery from plaintill to de- fendant. Judge Field, in the case of the United States National bank of Omaha vs the Ger- man Catholic church of this city, gave the plaintiff judgment for $550, the sunie being the amount of a mechanie’s lien. Decree of foreclosure was also issued, $ ‘I'he Truax-Grimes troubles have been set- tlea. Truax dismissed hia case and filed u statement with the cierlof the courv that Grimes was guiltless of all charges he had made against him. His wife, however, has not yet been heard from. The Suprom art. Proceedings today in the supreme court were as follows Folsom vs McCague. and cause continued., Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley rail- road company vs Lennox. Dismissed. Satmo plantiff vs Harrison also dismissed Nebraska Telephono company vs York Gas company. Motion to retax costs sustained. Each party to pay his own costs in supremo court. The following decisions dowu: County of Dodge vs Komuitz. Error from the district court of Dodge county. Re- vised and remunded; opinion by Justice Cobb. The Pullman Car company vs Tove. Error from the district court of Douglas county. Aflirmed; ovinion by Justice Maxwoll, A sleeping car company so far as it renders service similar to an ino- keeper is subject to similar liabilities; and where an article of wearing apparel belong- ing to & passenger in one of such cars has been placed in the caro of the portor, and is stolen from the cur, the company will be tiable therefor. Mercer vs Miles, I court of Douglas coun by Justice Cobb. Allcodorph vs Ozden, Appeal from tho district court of Douglas county. Afirmed; opinion by Justice Cobb, 3. & M. railroad company vs Wallace, Error from the district court of Douglas county, Afirmed; opinion by Chief Justics Reese. Punix Insurance company vs Bobman, Error from the district court of Colfax county, Afirmed; opinion by Justice Max- well. Boldbridge vs Foust. Appeal from the district court of Douglas county. Afirmed; obinion by Justice Maxwell. State ex rel. Prinsmer vs Brodbolt. Man- damus. Writallowed; opinion by Justice Maxwell, Tucker vs Cannon, Submissiof reached were handed or from tho district Aflirmed; opinion Error from the dis- trict court of liouglas pounty, Affirmed; opinion by Chief Justice Reese, City of Beatrice vs Black, Appeal from the district court of Gage county. Decree modified; opinion by Justice Muxwell. Patterson vs Woodland. Error from the district court of Douglas coupty. Motion sustained; opinion by Justice Maxwell, Irish v8 Pheby. Appesl from the district court of Douglas county. Reversed, Lecres for plaintiff; opivion by Justice Cobb. Gallagher vs Smiley, Error from the dis- trict_court of Douglas county. Affirmed; opinion by Chief Justice Reese, City News and Notes, The second meeting for the purpose. of organizing a real estate oxchango was held av the court house this evening. The Grand Army of the Republic fair, under the mwanagement of Lew Ginger, is a pronounced success thus far. - Last night the attendance was large and enthuslustic, The literary programme was especiully fine, A meeting will bo held Friday evening at e I'rst Christian church iu the interests of the prohibitory amendment. General A, 13, Campbell and 8. B. Bradford of Kavsas and Archibald L. Williams of KKunsas City will be preseat to deliver address: A meeting will also be beld on Saturday even- ing, but the place Las not been decided upon, Prosident . R, Groer of the state board of agriculture, Kearney, informs Tug 13k representative that cum‘)chlnvu bids for the location of the atate fair for the next three years are coming o lively, Ho incidentally remarked also vhat some surprisivgly (iberal .bids would be opened up ‘for some of the in- terior towns of the state, The opinion pre- vails, however, thut Omaba or Lincoln will wrlu re the prize, t was currently talked on the streets today that Lincoln would bave an electric street car line in active operation within the next six monthis fho westher bermitting tho necessary work to be done. Itis further said that capitulists have this matter in hand and a compauy will be organized shortly to push the euterprise. —r—— state Karmers' Alliance Meeting. To all ofticers and wembers of subordinate alliances in Nebraska, greeting : ‘Tho sunual meeting of the Nebraska State mers’ aliauce will meet at Grand Island, commenciog Tuesduy, January 7, 1500, “T'ho basis of revresentation as provided in section 2, wrticle 1, or woustitution, 18 one deiegate for each subordinate allisnce ana LEGALIZED LOAN COMPANIES | one delogate for edch twonty mombers or major fraction thereof, Tho rapid growth of the alliance i the ate tho past yonr, and tho vital quostions at will come before this meeting, make i oue of groat importanco, and it 18 therafore expooted that evory alilance in Ndbraska will be represonted Alliances that aro in arrears for should send in quarterly roport before uary 1, to entitle them'to represent n thig mocting, Credeatinls should boprompily made out and forwardod to the stato socre- tary without delay so that. arrangoments oan bo made to provide hotol accommodations tor all who attend. Reduoed rates will bo secured on all r roads. Tn purchasing tickets take recoipt of your local agent showing that one full fare has been paid. These certificates whon signed by the state seerotary will entitle the holdor to return at one-third fare. Delegates vresent witl cast the full their alliance is ontitlea to; no proxies ve admitted. Pratornally, J. M. Troweso, State Sec'y. - - TAE ARIERNOON duo vote will TEA, Vothing suits & cross man moro than_ to find a bulton off his cout when his wife has not time Lo sew it o, 40, Augeline, I love you! And the maidon shoute What tiave you got to liv [ softly answered, “I A Washington lady recently purchased in Winchester a mahogany sideboard over ono hundred years old and shipped 1t to the wite of ox President Clovoland as u present, 1lirst Small Boy—We had a fire at our houso last night. Socona Smull Boy--That 80! I\ S, B.—~Yes. Paflred sister's beau. Ouvo of the new Parisan follies, frosh from the exposition, i silk socks dyed 1n the colers of the French Hug, sen Victoria doosa’t wear a great deal She has an odd cloak, however, which sho comfortably encases hersell when wraveling in the cold weather. Tt is made entirely of ermine, and the ermine is outside, ‘The cloak gives lior a very regal appearance. Tho wife of a bald-headod man is con- stantiy snadowed by the suggestion that sho 18 not un amiable woman. Mr, Olfibeau—An, wy dear Miss South- mayd, your face very mirror of truth! Misa Southmayd—Not when you are looking invo it, sir, Stoopid—I know that I shall be ealled upon for a toast when it comes to the champagne. O, avything 8 Here's looking av Stoomd—Why not that! Blase— are m full dress.” fled Old Maid (tishing for a compli- ment)—Tell me, darling, why vou prefer mo o any of these othor girls for'n'bride. Sensa- tive Old Bach—Ou wy wedding tour 1 don't wunt people to think I'm anewly married man. Miss Tiny (an agile coryphee) bottlo of champagno that” | c than that chandetior. Jack bet. Miss Tiny—~You've lost, lier can’t kick av all Wife—You don't love meas vou used to, Henry. Husbaud (reflectively) 1do, I love you more ** No, youdon't! No, yon don’t I “Yes, Ldotoo. Because yon used to cost me §150 & yoar, and now 1 blow in §1.500 on you every yoar. ‘Talik about o Why, You don't know what love is. = Loy NO FEAiL OF WAR. Stop! upont' I will bet a n kick higher ‘Il take tho That chande- No, I don’t thni Everything Peacefal in the Cent al American Repubh New Yoxk, Dec. 18.—{Special Telegram to Tue Ber.]—Don Rafael Montufar, a jus- tice of the supreme court of Guatemala, ar- rived from Central America on Monday and is now at the Hoffman house. A reporter called upon him yesterday and asked him what he knew about the extensive prepara- tions for war between Guatemala and Sal- vador reported in a Nicaragua letter to a morning 3 *Isailed from Livingston,” lie said, “eight duys after the dato of the letter without having heard a wora of any interrap- tion of the pacific relutions betwoen Guate- mala, Honduras and Salvador, the conteary, appoar to have been strengbh- ened sioce the ratification of the pact of union cclebrated by the Central Americun congress in San Salvador on the 1sth of September last. President Burillus, when 1 parted with him just before sailing, was at Caspar, in the northern departiment’ of tho republic, making his usual visit of inspec- tion. General Camilo Aivarez, m Lhis imaginative correspondent says was invad- ing Salvador in an oppgs iou, hus no desigos on the presidency of Salvador, and General Bariilas would not interferc in the interautional affairs of that republic.”” e OMAHA & SOUTH DAKO Articles of Incorporation of the ) Railroad Company Adopted, MircneLy, 8. D., Deo. 18.—[Special Telo- gram to Tue Beel—7The comwittee ap- vointed at last night’s railroad conference met this morning and drafted articles of in- corporation for the projected line from Omaha to Forest City. The articles provide that the name of the company shall be the Omaba & South Dakotu railway company, its capl stock §5,000,000; divided into 50,000 shures; the number of directors seven. The estimated length of the road is 80 miles, The directors chosen for the first year ave J. L. Peuniugton und George H, Hand, Yaokton: J. K. Smith, Mitchell; Henry Hoftman, Bluut; R. M. Springe Forrest City; 5, Waterbury, Waterbur, 5. D, and G. P, Hosmer, Lockport, N, | All tho directors signea the articies uud the. will be forwarded at once o th retary state. The Omuha representatives pros at the meeting expressed themsclves as heartily in favor of overything done. They Jeft at noon for Yankton, where they will bo tendered a banquet tonight, -~ From a Huwmorous Standpoint. {Copyright 1889 by James Gordon Bennett.\ Loxvox, Dec. 18.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to Trr Bee.|—Gordon Craig, the son of Ellen Terry, considers the part be plays in the “Dead Heart” entirely from a humerous standpoint. It has been noticed by mauy spectators of the play that the youug mun when he is supposed to bury his bead in his mother's lap in utter wos, ap- poars to be engaged in a fit of great mirth- fulness, Thisis really the case of the young acto r, who instead of lamenting and weep- ing, finds bis own ppearauce o the atago 80 amusing that ho takes the opportunty when he may hide his face and roar with laughter, & — How Bushiri Was Captured, 4 Zaxzisan, Dec. 18,~The dotails of the events just previous to the execution of Bus biri, the Arav leader of the insurgents in re- volt against the Germans, show that there had been an engagement between the* Gor- mans and Bushiri's forces, in - which thirty of tho latter were killed. Bushiri wus cap- tured by Wasega and surrendcred to Cap- tain Wissman,and received areward of 10,000 rupecs. e A Another Afvican Explorer Arrives. ZANz16AR, Dec, 15, —Captain Trevier, the French explorer, has arrived hero from Quillimane, at which place ho recently ar- rived from Loango on the west coastof Africa. Ho traveled by the way of the Shire river, and states that the Portugese Qisplayed ' oxtraordinary uggressivenoss along the river SICK HEADACHE RQ| thoso Littio Bitts, They alsoreliove smallost aud easiest to take. Ouly one pill dose. 40 ins vial. Purely Vegetable. 36 centa. OARTER MEDIOINE 00., Prop'rs, New ¥