Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 21, 1890, Page 4

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RAILWAY ASSOCIATION PROBLEMS The mecting last week in New York of tho members of the Interstate Com- merce Railway association was chiefly interesting for what was said in the re- port of its chairman, Mr, Walker, show- g the general failure of the associa- tion to carry out the purpose of its or- ganization. The information new to those who have given any at- tention to the association and what has taken place since it was organized in palpable disregard of the “gentlemen’s agreement,” bat it was not generally known that the state of affairs was quite 8o bad as reported. Mr. Walker ated that in the twelve cases of arbi- ion submitted to the board of arbi- ors under the rules of the agsocia- tion the decision of the board was in arded, This isa 11y discouraging and humiliating record, in view of the professions, pro- testations and pledges made when the ussociation wasorgamzed, After such an experionce it was quite natural that Mr., Walker ehould appeal fora closer and more powerful organ- ization. His idean or suggestion was that the power over all compe rates should be definitely comm y 1nstance disre, to a central bureau or rate-making bonrd, which should bo open at all times for the consideration of claims and propositions, which should be im- partinl in its composition, and which should reach conclusions to be ac- cepted, for at least a fixed period in evory cise, as final by all lines. It is urged, he said, that such a bodrd, once cstablished and responsible for all tariffs, could act upor a broad view of n. 17, Enturday, Jun. 15, AVErage....cco0t civene . GRORGE 1. TZSCHUCK. Eworn to before me and subscribed to in my prexenco ths 16t duy of January, A. D. 1500, 1Eenl.| N. P FEIL, Notary Pubiic Btate of Nebra kn, ) fos County of Dougins, ‘Tzschuck, being duly sworn, da. it he is secrotary of The Hee that the aciual averags Ber for the & Company, amly circulation of ‘T DAIL month of January, 18 Fabrunry, (5, 1800 goplen: for Ma coplent1or April, 1849, 18,59 coplos: for M 18,000 coples: for Juile, 18, 1845 copies 180, §8,7838 coples: for August, 168, 14 for September, 180, 18710 cople ber 164, 14997 coples; for November, 10 coples: for December. 1859, 20,04k GroRGr B, T78CHVCK. to before me nnd subscribed in my Dresence this 4th day of January, A 1830, (Eonl.] N. P. Feiv, Nofary Public, IN the contest for the world’s fair it is Chiengo against the field, and Chi- eago is deidedly long winded, Ir sporLs furn the local democratic wigwam has no reasonable excuse for existence. I 15 time for the Snmosets to hold an executive session and determine the question, “What are we here for?” SouTH DAKOTA proposes to do away with justices of the peace. This will relieve the blind goddess from frequent assaults, I¥ the railroads do not voluntarily grant relief w the vroducers of Ne- braska, some means will be found to bring them to terms. LBvEN the poor recompense of a clerk- ship was deuied the warriors who kept the fires of democracy ablaze in this section in the cold days of December. No wonder the faithful groan and lan- guish in spirit. —_————e LEvEN the plumbing of the new county hospital does not come up to the terms of the contract. The whole job shows thut the only pipes laid in *‘a first-class workmanlike manner” were those which tapped the county treasury. Tae movement of Wyoming stock into Nobraska can hurdly fail to be- come profitable to all congerned. The abundance and low price of corn in the stute affords a profitable field for win- tor feeding, beneficial alike to the stockman and farmer. Tig Nebraska Stockmen’s association and tho owners and managers of the Omaha stockyards should promptly and #gorously read theri tact to the Chi- Jugo roads and raise such a storm of in- dignation ns will prevent outrageous diserimination against the stock inter- ests of the state. Tis great and glorious reform ad- ministration of city affairs, having sig- nalized itself by providing an orna- mental clerk for the mayor, should give each member of the city council a pri- vate secretary. The overworked coun- cllmen are as much entitlod to sinecure olerks as the mayor, chief of police und street commissipner. Genuine reform #hould not discriminate, E——— How can the Burlington company Justify itself in maintaining & twenty- five cent stock rate at Omahs, while ac- copting a twelve and a half cent rate at + Kansas City? The Burlington is essen- tially a Nebrusks rond, Its prosperity is ton large extent dependant on the prosperity of the state, yet it discrim- hnates against the stock interests of the state and virtually robs shippers of twenty-five Collars a car at the behest of a corporation which has not invested one dollar on Nebraska soil. epmes———— Tir Omaha roads are sumply playing into the hands of their enemies by maintaining the stock rate at double the amount demanded at Kansas City, They ure cutting off their nose to spite their face: Apart from the outrageous injustice of the act, they virtually con- spire to destroy the local stock market, and turn the trafic southward. The advantage in prices which attracted shipments from Colorado and the south- west, are thus paralyzed by the Jruilronds that are vitally oou- gerned in the growth und pros- ‘pority of the Omaha warket. The Alton bas no interest west of the Missouri rivor, whereas the Burliagton, Union Pacific aud Northwestern are vi- tally intevested in maintaining the trafie in their territory. A saving of Awenty to twenty-five dollars a car will undoubtedly turn southeast a large share of the business, which, all things belog equal would seek & murket in Omasha. By bowing to the will of the Alton and holding up rutes at Omahas, the Nebraska roads simply act the cats- paw for their rival and put woney in its colters. ull the territory affected, could put an end to disoriminations among locali- ties and dissensions among carriers, and could 50 control the movemont of traflic as to benefit each road individu- aily, while protecting all public inter- he suggestion appears plausible, but is there any good reason to believe that railroad managers would be any more submissive to a central bureau or rate- making board, if at any time its rulings should come into conflict with what thoy believed to be their interests, than thoy have been to the decrees of the ar- bitration board of the Intorstate Com- merce Railway association. It is to bo presumed that that board was -consti- tuted with the idea of boing impartial, and doubtless is as nearly so as any cen- tral bureau that could be created und the vlan suggested by Mr. Walker, yet not a single decision of that board has been respected. The railroads that dis- regarded those decisions were not con- cerned as to their justice, and in com- plying with the formal require- ments of the association agreo- ment they had no idea of surrendering their right of self- government and no intention of accept- g a ruling hostile to them. The as- sociation being powerless to enforce its decrees, all its deliburations and decis- ions hauve simply been a farce, and there is nothing to warrant the conclu- sion that the creation of a central bu- reau or rate-making board could have uny better rasult. Itis claimed for the association of railway presidents that it nas main- tained harmony among the companies and staved off disastrous rate wars. But it may be doubred whether all the credit for these conditions is due to that organization, It is quite probable that the interstate commerce law has not been wholly without influence in pro- motiug these conditions. At any rate, the conclusion seems to be unavoidable that the Interstate Commarco Railway assoclation cannot, as at present organ- ized, accomplish what was hoped for from it, and it must radically change its character or give place to some dif- ferent form of organization. What this shall bs, in order to be atonee effective and legal, isa problem that is greatly perplexing those who earnestly desire to improve the railroad situation and provide against future disseusion and its consequences, THE WINDOM SILVER BILL. The bill prepared by the secretary of the treasury, providing for the issue of treasury notes on deposits of silver bullion, which. will be introduced in both houses of congress this week, in the main embodies the suggestions made by the secretary in his annual re- port. In those respectsin which the measure is not exactly in line with those suggestions it is an improvement, showing the influence of the public dis- cussion of the secretary’s plan. For example, one of the strongest objections made to the plan as originally presented was the possibility of the United States mints and assay offices being flooded with foreign silver, and while the secre- tary answered this objection by showing that foreigners could find no advantage in sending their silver to this country he has entirely disoosed of it in his bill by providing that the bullion upon which treasury notes shou'd issue shall be the product of mines in the United States or of ores smelted or refined in the United States, and that *‘no deposit cousisting in whole or in part of silver bullion or foreign silver coins imported into this country, or bavs resulting from melted or refined foreign silver coins, shall be received under the provisions of this act.” This would effectually re- move all danger of tbe influx of foreign silver Another objection to the plan in its original form was that it proposed tode- volve too greatan authority upon the secretary of the treasury in giving him discrotionary power to suspend, tem- vorarily, the receipt of silver bullion for payment in notes when necessary to protect the government against com- binations formed for the purpose of giv- ing an arbitrary and fictitious price to silver. The bill provides that such temporary suspension may be made by the sceretary, as a means of protecting the government against combinutions, with the approval of the president. The necessity of conferring such au- thority is obyious, and as provided for in the bill it would be entively sale. With these objections removed, the conservative character of the proposed plan is strongthened, while its purpose of eswablishing avd maintaining “through the overations of trade & con- venien® and economical use of all the money-metal in the country,” and pro- was not | viding a desirabls and acceptable pap currency, is in nowise 1mpaired, As to the prospects of the measure not much can be said with any degree of certainty. At a conference of the advocates of free coinage in both houses of congress a fow days ago they docided tonadhere to their pasition, and itis quite probable they will do this so long asthey see the slightest hope of ulti- mate success. The strength of the op- position to any addition to the employ- ment of silver in the currency has yet to be developed, but it is very likely sufficient in alliance with the free coin- age advocates to defeat the treasury vlan, Itis to be expected, however, that this plan will receive careful con- sideration and discussion, and itisat least possible that this may result in drawing to 1t a support sufficient to socure its adoption. The outlook for it in the senate 1s regarded as much more favorable than in the house A MILD MEASURE PROPOSED. Congressmun Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of the house committee on the election of president, vice president and representatives, isauthority for the statement that there will be no radical legislation regarding federal elections vroposed in congress. The committeo has now under consideration the bills that have been introduced on this sub- joct, but it is said that the only plan in contemplation is to make the Austral- ian system of voting general 1n its ap- plication to all congressional elections. Mr. Lodge is quoted nssaying that he did not think a measure that would bo narrow in its application, and aim merely ab the south, could be carried through the house or would receive the sanction of public opinion. Mr. Lodge’s change of sentiment on this subject 1s significan In the last congress ho was one of the most radical in demanding extreme legislation for the rogulation of federal eloctions, and he talked in the same way in the last campaign in Massachusetts. The modification in his views 15 strik- ing testimony to public opinion—the opinion quite generally of his own part Tho moderation with which the sident referred to this subject in his message was approved by almost tho entire republican pross, and Mr. Lodge and a few ovhers, finding them- selves out of favor with the general sentiment of republicans, have wisely put tnemselves 1 accord with that sen- timent. Moderate and judicious legis- lation, if auy, will be the result, and whether the Australian system or some other that would prove equally effective in securing fair and honest elections shall be adopted, the republican party can justify itsaction beforo the country. OF the many remarkable endorse- ments of pronibition in Kausas that of F. P. Baker, editor of the Topeka Com- monwealth, is as novel as it is originnl, blunt and honest, He says: “The east- ern people talkk about prohibition not prohibiting. It doesn't. If T want a drink in Topoks I can get it. But tho suloon is gone. I have a grandson grow- ingup who has never scen a saloon. Isn’t that a good thing?’ Thisisan explanation that explains. The saloon is gone—rather the sign is changed, and instead of ‘‘wines, liguors and ci- gars,” 1t reads: “Drugs and medicines; prescriptions carefully filled.” The na- ture of the business is practically the same. 1f Baker’s grandson has not ex- plored the underground joint or made the acquaintance of the bootlegger, he must have been born blind if the drug store escaved his notice, But prohibi- tion does ot prohibit, according to Mr. Baker. It simply substitutes free whisky for license, restrictive regula- tion and revenue to support public schools. e 1ERE'S one thing about it,” says the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, **prohibi- tion hasn’t killed Council Bluffs, but then Council Bluffs never had prohibi- tion.” And that is justwhy the feeling in lowa is so strong in favor of repeal- ing the law. In some localities the law has been enforced at great cost, while in others no attempt has been made to enforce it. The towns in which it has been enforced in part complain of the positive and irreparable damage prohi- bition has inflicted without commen- surate benefits. THE attempt to impugn the motives of Governor Thayer and the state board of transportation in requesting o reduc- tion of grain rates to Chicago comes with poor grace from newspapers pre- tending to represent the interests of the state. The assertion that the move was inspired hy political motives is ridicu- lous. The nction of the oficials was in respouse o complaints from farmors in all sections of the state, who are unable to realize living prices from their crops owing to excessive freight rates. TEET—— Tig logislature of Kentucky has found & way to overcome the republi- can majority in the town of Hopkins- ville, where the colored vote was greater numerically than the white vote. A bill just pussed divides the town into five wards, and by this gerrymander four of the wards will give the whites a preponderance of votes with eight mem- bers in the town council, while the col- ored people will only be able to elect iwo members, There are many ways of skinning the cat. E——— Tue redoubtable Colonel Sabin, lately of Beatrice, threatens to peach on his corporation {friends and expose the inner workings of the railroad political machine in Nebraska, The colonel will be remembered asone of the trusted po- litical agents of the Burlington in 1888, and hisforthcoming revelations will give the people of Nebraska a rich and racy chapter on how the railroads did not vetire from politics. — THE fact that the south has sub- scribed thus far a greater sum to the monument of Henry W, Grady than to that of Jefferson Davis affords gratify- ing proof of the drift of the tendency of public sentiment in the south. —— ONE of the first things the Iowa legis- lature ought to do is to pass an anti- trust bill, the provisions of which are broad enough to reach the school book combine. School books in Towa cost too much, and thal state’s expenses for school books hfve boen recklessly in- creased by the constant and needless changes that are made. ! IT is provably fortunate that Spain’s infant king had ‘recovered from his re- cent critical {llness. The death of this fragile boy was hable to involve the country in internal disturbances and complications with foreign countries. REPORTS from the western moun- tains indicote that the people who last year compiainéd of a scarcity, are now troubled with a surplus of snow, B Will Oonscience Stop Thom? Philadelphia Inquirer. In the Brice investigation which of the millionaire senators can cast the first stonet Chicago's Thrce Claims to Calt. Chicago Tribune. Besides her Browning and Dante clubs Chicago has now the groatest brace of ball captains in Ame - The Threo Kinda. Philadelphia Pres Some man are born great, some have great- ness thrust upon them, and others go out to Ohio and buy a senatorship. . o A Distinction and a Difference. New York Tribune. Not the courage of his convictions, but the obstinacy of his prejudices, is what Gov- ernor Hill has on the subject of ballot re- form. - RS- e The Senator from Wall Street. New York World, Nobody recognizes that Mr. Brice lives in Ohio. Ho is a citizen of New Yorlk, and ho will represent Wall street and not the farm- ers of Ohio in congress. N DS That Will Suit Gotham. Hutchinson (Kan.) Netws. New York may not got the world’s fair, but Barnum will build an amphitheatr e uvon a plotof grouna near Central park. That will be botter than the fair, for it will not cost Gotham a cent, Rl Linking the Names of Their Leaaers. Indianapolis Journal. When the Mississippi Legislatare gives the name of Jeff Davis to a county and that of Cleveland to the connty sent, in its estima- tion it unites the name of tho groutest dead democrat with that of the greatest living one. -~ 1t Was Appreciated South Omaha Sunday Times, Tnr Omaua Bre goi out one of the finest Sunday editious ono week ago today, that has ever made its appearance in Omaha. It teemed with spacial articies from the pen of well informed ‘writors and was a great succers throughout, L It Is a Large World. Pitiladetphia Press, ‘We do not get. an adequate sense of the real magnitude of this world until we realize thatit is still big enough to hold Hen Butler and Grover Cleveland at the same time. How long this will remain 80 is & matter of some uncertainty. JEECH S S — One Way Out of the Dificnlty. Indianapolis Journal, Mr, Cleveland’s late minister to Liberia expresses the belief that the negroes in the south who are murdered and whipped huve only themselves to blame., To a certaio ex- tont this is true, . If, like Mr. Taylor, they would sell their. birthrignts and turn demo- crats they would doubtless cscape with their lives. B ey The Exact Situtiion at D's Moines. Siouz City Journal, The particular business of statesmanship at Des Moines just now is to place chips, and to be bumptious in suggesting their removal, and out of the procesding in some way evol- ving u row that shall result in breaking some one's backbone. 1t is a sort of a pugi- listic engagement, in which, as among gen- tlemen of that science, bIN is conspicious aud lip counts for much, and in which there is much of honor of the tyve which is vindi- cated 1n tripping the other fellows and bog- ging the stakes. e STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jortings, A bauk is wanted at Rogers, Alma sports are arranging for a billiard and pool tournament, Five convicts in the Lincoln penitentiary were pardoned last year. The gold oxcitement at Norden still con- tinues and u shaft is being sunk as rapidly as possible. . ‘The standpipe of the Norfolk waterworks has been completed in spite of the cold weathex A mad dog bit two children and a number of animals at Oclavia last week and was tinally killed. Hon. J. B, Farnsworth has been appointed counvy judge of Keya Paha couoty, vice Judge Garber, regigned. T, R. Evans, a prominent real estalu deater of Norden, is wmissing and his credit- ors are becoming anxious. ‘The lecture courso which was to have been given by the Beatrice Young Men’s Christian association has been abandoned. ‘The Grand Army of the Republic post at Nebraska City is making an effort to secure the next annual state encswpment for that city. A proposition will be submitted to the voters of Loup City April 5, to vote $15,000 bonds to md in the construction of a ten- mile water power canal. Between 15,000 and 20,000 bushels of corn is dumped on ground near oue of the Ulysses elevators and is being loadea into cars for shipment as fast as possivle, ‘The mysterious disappearance of stamps trom the Filley postoffics hus boeu accounted for by the finding of & mouse's nest, in arub- ver boot, lined with the missing stamps. A petition is being circulated at Norfolk requesting the ikhorn road to place a regu- 1ar passonger train on the Creighton branch to take the place of the mixed train now in the service. " ‘The house of Andrew Anderson, seven miles northwest of Oakland, was destroyed by fire Saturday morning, the family bavely escaping with their lives. Mrs, Auderson, who ran t0 & neighbor's Tor help, had both feet frozen. Luod The social event of the season at St. Paul was the reception téndered Mr. and Mrs. E. L Anarews last Wgbk on their return from their wedding trip.” The bar of the city pre- seuted the bappy tbuple with a nandsome silver service, & S 471 thwa Irems. Storm Luke will' soon vote on putting in water works, 4 “* A lndy of Litilé! Bioux bas a canary bird nineteen years ol A farmers’ institute will be held at Toledo February 12 and 13, ‘What Cheer is being perance question by revived ou the tem- ‘rancis Murphy. LeMars wants & normal school and will petition the legislature to ostablish one A flow of water was struck [n tho artesian ‘well at Wilvoa last week of 150 gallous per wminute. ‘The State Sunday School association will hold its anvusl meeting wtpCouncil Blufls June 10, 11 sod 12. While plmlnf in her father's 810 Nor- way livtle Hattie Lowis kuocked an axe from the counter, striking ber fool sad cutlivg off ove of er toes. All the county officers choseu at the re- veut election in -~ Alamakee county bear the frout name of Joln, There ure three repub- licans and three democrats, Governor Larrabee has pardoned Jerome West, serving an eighteen yoars' sentence in Anamosa for tha murder of Goorge Youle, in Jones county, in October, 1890, The par- don is to take effect April 13, just nine years from the day he enterad the penitentiary. The farmers of Lucas county want the legislature to increase the bounty on wolf scalps as the ‘varmints” are playing havoo with their sheop and othier stock. Thera are twenty-oue patients i the Inde- pendenco insane asylum from Bromer county, the cost for the support of each being §3.50 vor week. During 1559 the expense w the county was $5, ) Lawyer M. E. Billings of Waverly, in the Aramosa penitentiary for the supposed murdor of Kingsley, will start in a fow days for Des Moines to plead his case orally be- fore the supreme court. A Cedar llnui\h policeman was found lying 1n A 8NOW bank the other evening in a coma- tose state of intoxication. He was loaded into the patrol wagon and taken to the police station, where it was found his cars were frozen, Mrs. William Sonnenberg of :What Cheer last week eloped with ono of her boarders named F'red Mohmeke, taking her sixteen months-old child with her and leaving her Lhreo-year-old boy to the care of his father. The couple also took a large amount of go0ds, but were compelied to abandon thom in order to make better progress. They wore traced to the railroad aepot, where it 1s thought they took a train for the east. Son- nenberg is'a well-to-do Gorman, and had always taken the best of care of his fawmily. The Two The Deadwood paper joints exist in that city. There is tatk of dividing Custer county on the north and south line. Fully 4,000 Russian immigrants settled n the country west of Aberdeen last year. The new hotel being erected at Hot Springs will be the largest hostlery in the stato. The county commissionors of Fall River county huve decided to license saloons until July 1 at least. Chaplain Perrault of the North Dakota senate has been presented with agold-headed cane by tho members, The city of Woonsocket has been offered $1,000 a year for less than one-half the power of the new artesian well, The Minuesela Star figures up the Black Hills contingent to the legislature as fol- lows: Three lawyers, one doctor, one preacher, one miller, three miners, one newspaper man, three merchants, three farmers and thres speculators. Thei tionality extends from the United Jerusalem in the Holy Land. A car mule m the Homestake mineat Lead City strayed from his stable and stepped into a shaft 200 feet deep. It fell a distance of seventy-five feet and caughton some timbers in the shaft. When fished out the animal was found to be uninjured bar- ring a fow slight scratches, but a look of in- tense surpriso was manifest on its counte- nunce, Mr. Moe, living six miles southeast of Fort Sisseton, went down in his weil, which is about thirty-five feet deep, to clean it out, his brotber and two others remaining on top. After waiting a fow miautes, and hearing nothing from theone in the well, tho brother was lowered down to see what was the matter. When he had got aboul two - thirds of the way down e shouted to pull up, but whon he was within two feet of tho top he fell out of the bucket to the bottom of the well, Both bodies were recovered. One leaves a wife and one child and the other a wife and five childre kotas. deny that opium THE B Fast Time Made by the Bee Flyor and New Towns Reachad. *We will glve you a goou engine and & man to run it,” said Superintondent Barr of the Urion Pacific railway last week 1o talking about the future performance of Tiz B “'Flyer.” Aud it cau bo smd that the promise was literally fulfilled as to the run tnade Sun- day morning. ‘Take it all in all, it was the best rua since the train was put on. The uvion depot was left on time, engino No. 480, with Dick Rowloy at the valve, huul- ing the train. All stations were reached und passed _exuctly “on the dot,” Grand Island beiug reachea before the day had dawned. On this run, which was the sixteenth trip of Tug BEE'S special train, an attempt was made to reach territory not supplied on Sun- duy since the B. & M. carly fiyor was aban- doned. This_territory takes in Minden, Holdrege, McCook and intermediste towns. Burlington fast freight No. 108, which for speed and regularity has a rec- ord of which the “Q' system may be pretty proud, was caught ut Hastiugs and Tue Suspay Bee went fly- ing on westward, ‘The high character of the train as arunner was clearly shown and Holdrege got her Sunday papers at 1]:36 a. m. instead of 7 p. m. McCook was reached 0, about seven hours ahead of the time at which Omaba papers usually arrivo at that point. Conductor C. W. rPaine and Brakeman J, Rice welcomed Twe Brr man and bis packeges and accorded courteoas attention during the run. Tne Bee “'Flyer” has been a successful venture from tho start and new points aro constantly beiug put on its delivery. The Union Pacific people have made it a train of the bighest, ciass. *I believe you would put anything on rails ‘in the hoie,’ " said the Flyer condustor on Sunday, “I'm darved if Idon't think the lumited fast mail would have to get out of your way,” he continued as No. 2 on a side track was passed. From the fust run all passenger trains have had orders to clear five minutes und freight trains ten minutes, Arrangements are now being mad @ still improve the Flyer's train, a car speeially adapted to the kervice being under consider- ation, When this is accomphshed Tur Bre will not ooly have the finest building but the fiuest and ' fastest uewspaper train i the world. ————— A Fronch Survivor of Irafalgar, The French, vot to be outdone by us, have also managed to unearth a” sur- vivor of the battle of Trafalgar in the person -of one Emmanuel Louis Car- tigny, who was serving as a seaman on the Krench line of battle-ship Le Re- doutuble when Nelson gained his final great victory, says the London Figaro. On the morning of October 21, 1805 the Redoubtuble went into action with a crew of 800 men. At the end of the fight there were only 300 left to be made prisoners by our victorious fleet. Car- tigny was one of the 800, and was a prisoner of war at Devonport until the ace.~ Of Mte yoars he has lived at veres,and he is 8 familiar personal- ity to visitors on the Promeunade des Palmiers, where he still walks and gladly recounts his adventures to sym- pathetic listeners. His age is said to be ninety-nine and he is the acknowl- edged doyen of the Legion of Honor, —_— Typewriters at the Vatican, Autotype machines have just been served out for the first time to some of the copying clerks at the Vatican, but they are only to be used for the rough- est kind of proofwork which has to be done in a hurry, says the Glasgow Herald. The pope dislikes the innova- tion, for he is anxious—and rightly so —not to break up the admirable school of penmanship which flourishes at the Vatican. There is no such writ- ing 1n the world as that which is seen on the documents sent out by the Curia. All the copying clerks of the first rank are priests and wmonks, and many of them real artists in caligraphy. They are ullowed to exercise their fancy in the lrwlufl of illuminated capitals and ornamental rubries or margins, but there must not be a single erasure on a e _which has to be issued in the pe’s name. A misplaced comma causes & whole puge to be rewritten, s S A B Just Missed the Presidency. Goneral Green Clay Smith, of Mt. Sterling, is registered at the Fifth Av- enue, says \he Lovisville Courier-Jour- nal. Geueral Smith is the man who came within half a vote of being presi- dent of the United States. He and An- drew Johuson were candidates for Lin- coln’s vice president, and Johnson re- ceived half a vote more than General Smith, When President Lincoln was ussassinated Vice President Johnson ascended to the chair, and General Smith realized what he missed by thut one vote. THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE None of Its Funds Usod to Dofend Cronin Conspirators. INTERVIEW WITH FITZGERALD. The President Amused and Indige nant at the Story—Tin Reduc- tion Works for uincoln~1n- surance Statements. Laxcowx Brnesv or Tax Ouans Bee, | 1020 P Struzr, LascoLy, Neb., Jan. 2. ) The Hon. John Fitzgerald, presideat of the Irish National League of America, was secn this morog and asked conmcerniug the rumor that the funds of the Irish National league hind been used to defend the persons charged with the murder of Dr. Cronin in Chicago last May, ana thata shortage of some kind exists in the accounts. Also that he had asked for a secret auditing of Treas- urer O'Reilley’s books in order to conceal the matter. Mr. Fitzgerald was in the league oftice with the secretary, the Hon. Johu P. Sutton, who is. just out from aten days’tussel with la grippe. Mo laughed heartily when the cor- respondent’s mission was made known to him, and said : ““You can say that thers 1s not a word of truth in the rumor. It is absolutely without foundation and is so absolutely senseless as to cause merriment swhen montioned," *‘Had you not heard of the rumor before?'! **No, not in that form. Of course I know that thero is now and has been for somo years an eloment in America, promptea by English sympathy or English gold, and oftentimes by both, that has never neglected an opportunity to bring discrediton the leagne, and which endeavors by any means, fuir or foul, to cause its disruption, These people have charged everything. Thero is hardly a crime in the catalozue that has not been laid at our doors: everything has been done which their fertile imaginations could sug- gest to cause dissensions or quarrels among the members, Their motive is plain. The American league has stood at Parnell's back during all of his grand and glorious fight for home rule in Ireland, it has furnished him with the sinews of war, money, It has edu- cated and molded public sentiment, not only in America, but iu the entire civilized worl: until the beople have cried out to English ty- rants: ‘Hold, enough. Let Ireland be free!’ English spies have been sent everywhere, and they have always cacried Enghsh gold, and where they could buy a traitor they would pay him well, But thaoks to the faithfulness and fidelivy of the Irish cha ter, in more than nine hundred and ninet; nine cases out of a thousand their offers have been spurned with contempt. “‘Father O'Reilloy was here a short time ago and wo had a geveral talk on this sub- ject and of tho contumely that has been at~ tempted to bo heaped upon the league on account of matiers growing out of the Cronin murder and trial. We decided then to have an avditing of the accounts of the league from 1ts organization down to the present day. Letters have been written to about seventeen or eighteen _prominent oiti- zens of the United States and Canada asking them to act on this audiling committee. Replies have been received from eight or nine of these sigufying their willingness ana readiness 1 act in that capacity, It is in- tended that the committee shall bo composed of about a dozen and that it shall meet at Detroit during the last part of this n.onth or the first of mext. The committeo will be composed of men whose very names will iuspire conflaence, and it will' be endowe with plenary powers to investigate the ac- counts of tho leaguc from its organization down to the present time and publish to tho world their finding over their own signa- tures. We have done nothing to be ashamed of and we are willing that the world at large shall know of our most miuute transactions. Nothing will be held back and nothing con- cealed. The treasurer’'s books, the secre- tary’s books and al! records will' be open to the inspection of the committee, which will be given power to subpena witnesses, if it is found necessary. ‘Lhe committee's ses- sions will be held in public and reporters will be invited to attend.” “Haye not your accounts boen publicly audited heretofore?” 4 *'Yes, at evory session of the leagne an auditing committee has boen appointed. This committes has gone over the work of the league for the time that has elapsed since the last session. Their reports have been made to the league and adopted snd published to the world, Of course this satisfics the mem- bers of the league, and ordinarily that would be regarded as sofficient. Hut as the league has assumed @ semi-public character, and the world, you may suy, is interestad in its work, we have decided on the course out- lined above, and further than that, this auditing committec will be composed of a¢- countants who have no superiors in America and who are oither not members of the league at all, or have neyer taken any active part iu its deliberations,” “You, theu, aro satisfied, Mr. Fitzgorald, that uot $1 of the league funds was used to defray the expensos of the Cronin murderers 10 their lute tria *‘Absolutely positive of it, hence this step we have taken for a public auditing of the accounts, If it were otherwise, we most cer- tainly should not open our books for & public inspection and invite the world and the newspaper men and eyorybody to come and see for themselves. Not only am I positive of the fact, but I am equally sure that not a dollar wont from pockets of suny man prom- inently connected with the league for that purpose, ‘The mewbers of the Irish leaguo were not interested in any sense in the de- fonse of these prisoners. The league was organized to support the cause of Ireland, und for no other purpose, and in doing this at has all it can do, without ruahing to the defense of any or every man, be he Irishman, Y'renchman or German, who may be accused of a crime,” Fireman Schaefer's Death, Firoman Frank Schacfor meot with a sad death at Seward yestorday morning. Early in the morning Engineor Gillispie, Fireman Schaefer, a brakeman and Ccnduotor Mur- ray left the Hurlington yards in Lincoln with switch engine No. 17, a new one just finished 10 the Plattsmouth yards, and & ca- boose, bound for Allianse, where the engine was to bo used in the yards, Just before they came to the ocovered bridge over the Bluo river, tais side of Seward, the engine and tender left the track and rolled down the embankment. Schaefer wus caught un- derncath the enzine and both his neck and back were broken, Death resulted slmost ly. Ghillispie sustained some severe aud * painful iojuries, but not of a serious character. The accideunt was caused by a broken or defectivo rail. An_inquest was held at Seward yesterday, Schuefer wus about twenty~threo years old and boarded at 439 North Tenth street. His father's family resided at Central City, where the remaius were taken today for burial. They were joined at Seward by his cousin, George May- nara sud wife of this city, and Miss Minoie Landauer, a bandsome and intelligent young ludy student of this oity, w0 whom he ex- pected to be married about the middle of March, Miss Landauer is almost prostrated with grief over his death. Bidding for the Fa Lincolu is very lively tonight, The execu- tive committee of the state board of agricul- ture is at work in room 82 of the Windsor porfecting the details of the premium list for the mext state fair, while many other mem- bers of the board are lounging around the oftices of the Windsor and Capital. Openly aud above board the lobbyiug 18 going ou in the interest of the various towns and cities that are cancidates for the location of the fwir for the next five years. Omaha is hor with & good contingent. Hastings, Kearne; Grand Island, Columbus, aund eéven, it is sai Cozad has a delegation working for the prize. A mouster meeting is bewng ueld in the ais- trict court room in the interest of Lincoln. ‘The bourd will meet tomorrow at 4 o'clock. A Buir Against the Unilon Facific. A furwmer named Erick V., Erickson, living seven miles northeast of the city, brought suit in the districy court today for $2,900 — A against tho Omaha & Republicat rallroad, alloging that on October ho owned house and barn on scction township 11, range 6, contaming a varioty household goods and fancy utensils to value of §,000; that on that day the ¢ pany’s ongino threw out hot cinders ashes, sctting fire to the grass, which ¢ municated to the house and_bacn, and t were entiroly dosteoyed. Ho had' $1.000 surance, which was vaid, and ho asks company to pay him the balance. A Biz Thing for Lincoln. C. V. Gardnor of Deadwood is in tho city, with a pronosition, which ho is submitting to the real estato exchange, and through its membera to the capitalists of this eity. It is none other than the erection of reduction works for the Black Hills tin mines to cost $100,000. A committes will shortly be pointed by tho exchange to go to the Black Hills mines and look them over und report, Those mines are the richest in the worid and contain tn enough to supply tho world. It these smelting works can ba securol, which seems now probable, and the tin rolling wills which will follow, it will be not only a big thing for Lincoln, but for the state s welk The United Statss Conrt, Judge Dundy and the ofticors of the [Unitol ates court camo down from Omaha today and the court was called at 2 o'clock tus aftornoon. ‘e jury was placed in the box ready to bogin any case which might bo ready. The most of the day was occupied in hearing unimportant preliminaries. In thy case of tho Union Pacitic v J. Colbero ot al the preliminary trinl was begun, ‘T'he followiug parties wore admitted to practice: Goorge A, Adams, Lincoin; R. 1. Auderson, Soward; Lester 8. Wilson, Omaha. Stats House Gossip. Governor Thayer and wife will hold threa OF mora piablic receptions during the ony social season. The first will very likely bo hold next Monday. It is intended to make theso the finest receptions ever held in tho city, and the exacutive ofiice will be thrown open to the publie, and representative hall will be used for dancing purpo Governor Thayer leaves tomorrow for Farragut, Ia., v deliver an address on thoe “Inner Life of General Grant,” during the first two yoars of the war. The goveraor Was on most intimate terms with the gons eral during that time, and expects to reluto many interesting incidents which have never been in print. Ho will raturn Wodnoesd. J. L. Robinson, treasurer of Deuel county, made sottlement with the auditor today und paid iu:n the Atate treasury the sum of 0. e board of transportution holds a session tomorrow to cousider tho Osceola elovator case, The treasurer of Banner county sottled with the auditor today and paid into tho treasury the sum of 173, . State Auditor Benton is dowa with tho grip. “The following parties wore commissioned notaries public today: Brose, Hast ings, Adams connty . Graham, Hast. ings, Adams count, 31d B, Nowmun, Kear ney, Butalo county; Lewis K. Adlor, Aws. worth, Brown ocounty; Goorge W. Hown, South Omahu, Doug: county; C. A. Fow lor, Omala dward R. Dufty, Omaha; An drew Bevins, Omaha; George K. Cain, Lox- ington, Duwson county; Edward W. Ubbiny, Lexington, Dawson county; C, H. Lindbury, Stromshurg, Polk county; C. A, South. Humphrey, Platte county; Willam S. ton, Western, Suline county; H. Gilk Wahoo, Saline county; J, MeGee, E Springs, Sheridan county; K. W. Bwell, Humboldt, Richardson “county; Kroest Fuller, Gresha w, York county. ‘The Renl Kstate hange. The new rooms of the exchange in lha\ Burr block were crawaed to overfiowing_at, todny’s moeeting. After the rogular routing worl was goue through with the following resolution was adoptod : Resolved, That i the opinion of the Lin- coln Real Estato exchange, 1t is very import- ant to the peneral interests and welfaro of this city that the work of public improve- ments be continued without interruption as s00n a5 the opening of spring will perimit, and that to this ond tbis exchange docs hereby arge his houor, Mayor Graham, and the memburs of the city council w0 immedi- ately call a election for the purpose of vot- ing '€]00,000 intersection paving bonds, it being understood that otherwise the streot paving aiready contracted for cannot pro- ceed further, Sratements. The folloming insurance compa nies nave flied their annual statoments with the insur- ance auditor: Concordia of Milwaukee, premiums 1850, $2,037.11, losses incurred $2,614.98; Traders' of Chicago, premwums §7,211.76, lossbs - curred 02; Franklin of Philadeiphia, premiums $1,424.01, losses iucurred $122.02; New Hampshire of Manchester, prominms. $20,100.56, losses inourred $0,388.44; North Briush aud Mercantile of London and Edia- burgh, premiums $39,855.56, lossos incurred $28,108,07; Insurance Company of the Stato of Pennsylvawia, promiums _$3,534,43, loss0s incurred $900; ' Nina of Hartford. Conn., promiums $23,070, 10sses incurred 20,050, Wostern Homo of Sioux City, premums $0,545.00, losses incurred £2,430.35: Conneoti- cut of Hartford, promwms ' §33,277,25, lossos incurred $13,544.09: Rociford of itockford, ill. promiums $),002.71, losses incurred $4,402.18. City News and Noves. Hon. Smith T. Caldwoell, the state oil in- spector, camo in from the wost Loduy. Charles Miller, an old soldier of sixty years, died at B o'clock this morning of poeumonia, resulting from la grippe. Ho was a wembor of the Fifteenth New York heavy artillory, and was well known ia this city. Iarragut post, Grand Army of the Republic, looks aftor his obsequies, which take place at £ p, m, Wednesday, Henry Gopp, twenty-soven, and Mary Eggart, twenty-five, both of this city, wero licensed to wed this morning. G, W, Fox' obtained a judgment in the county court this morning against W, W, Curder for £37.10 for services as clerk in & Carder’s hotel last winter, ‘The Thompson will case will come up be- foro Judge Stewarl Wednesday for hearing, W. J. Osborne, a barber, found $1,600 lost by Peter Johason last Friday and revurned it to the owaor today. ——— Defloitions of Biblo Terms. Hebrew Stan dard: A goruh was » cent, A cab was three pints. An omer was gix pints, A shekol of gold was 88, A firkin was seven pints, A [arthing was 7 cents. A talent of gold was 318,809, A talent of silver wifs 8538.50, Kzekiel's reed was aearly eleven feot, A cubit was pearly” twenty-two inches, A bin was one gallon and two pints. A mite was less thun a quarter of a gla ss. A shekel of silver was about 50 cents, A piece of silver, or a penny, was 18 cents, A Sabbath day’s journey was about an Boglish mile, An ephah, or bath, contains seven gallons and five pints. A day’s journey was about twenty- three and one-fifth miles. A band’s breadth is equal to threo and five-eighths inchel A finger's breadth is equal to one inch. Positively oured b so Litlo FUL. in the Mouth, Coated) "Tongue, Paln in the Side, TORPID 1IVER, The, fegulate the Bowels. Furely Vegetablo. SMALL PILL SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE, N b