Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1890, Page 6

THE THE OMAHA BEE, COUNCIL BLUFFS OFFIUE, NO. 12 RL STREET. Telivered by cavrier In any part of the City, H.W. 110N R MANAGER LUSINEES OFFICE 11701, NO. MINOR MENTION, N. Y. P. Co. Council Bluffs Lumber Co., coal. Thatcher coal, 114 Main street. Carbon Coal Co, wholesale. retail, 10 Pearl A single yag was the result of the police roundup at midnight. The case of the Ottaguechee savings bank vs k. Huntington is engaging the attention of the district court, An_enjoyable high five party was enter~ tained last evening by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roth at their home on Scott street. Messrs, L. W, Tulleys, . O. Gleason, E. E. Hart, D. W. McDermid and H. H. Van Brunt have been electad as the new execu- tive committee of the Chautauqua assembly. There is evidently need of more intelli @ence on the school board, Two communi- cations sent to Tne Bxe from that august written on both sides of the paper. ces are hard at work raising suffi. cient money to defray the expenses of the gospel temperance meetings which are to be heid in this city the latter part of the month by Francis Murphy. The residents and property owners on avenue A are decidedly out of humor about the abrupt termination of the grade, as it now exiets. They desire to have the avenue graded down to Fourteenth street at least. Marriage licenses have been issued to K. P, Huntley of this city and Laura I. Hatch of West Union . Bangman and Lizzie Malone of this city, and George E. Ellsworth of Taylor Stauon and Jessie Grant of Armour postoffice, A never failing indication of an approach ing election has made its appoarance. Lars Peter Olsen was yesterday made a full fledged citizen of the United Staves. For the next three weeks Judge Aylesworth’s attention will be monopolized in manufactur- ing voters, During the past month 8,715 persons vis- ited the public library and the number of books taken were 2, classified as follows : Philosophy 9, theology 46, science 218, flo i 597, poetry 460, history 85, travels Duripg the month thirtcen volumes were donated to the library, The new Fifth Avenue Methodist Episco- pal church will be formerly dedicated next Sunday. The congregation has issued acall to George Bennett, secretary of the Young Men's Christian association, as pastor and he has accepted, I'hy irch will start out with bricht prospects and promises o good work for that part of the city, Constable Wesley filed an information against R. E. Rouans Tuesday evening for disposing of a mortgaged team. Rouans was arrested at Villisca, Montgowery county, He mortgaged the team to Williamn Wray, who resides near Munawa, and re- cently disposed of the animals and with the proceeds left the city. He was returned to the city last evening. Miss Kate Crary is to give a_course of six illustrated lectures in the Congregational church for the benefit of ths Young Men's Christian association, The first lecture will be on tomorrow ing. I[n preparing these lectures she visited each of the famous places described. She shows 150 views each evening, enlarged by a powerful calcium light apparatus twenty feet square. Her lectures ara highly commended. Tn police court yesterday morning, ““Irish Ann,” a notorious denizen of the burnt dis trict, was given a thirty day jail sentence for drunkenness and genvral cussedness. Annie Shrimp, an ex-servant girl of ques- tionable morals, was given a similar sen- tence, with an alternative of four hours to leave town. She chose the latter and hied over to Omaha. Mrs. Smith, wife of u Clarenda lelegraph operator, was tined $3.10 for intoxication. Yosterday afternoon Judge Aylesworth heard the injunction case of Josiah Danforth V8 the city, The suit is brought to restrain the city from erecting a bridge over Indian creek av Eighth street. The plaintiff claims that his property on the south side of the street will be damaged if the proposed new bridage is erected. The new bridec 1s a fifty foot span, which is much longer than the old one. Mr. Danforth objected before the coun- cil, and it was ordered that the bridge be set oyer six fect to the north, bul the property owners on the other side kicked and the order was rescinded. The extra length of bridge must be put in semewhere, and the council finally gave up trying to settle the matter and thisis why Judge Aylesworth has it under advisement. B Has taken fiye premiums—Angelina flour. Try a sack. I C. B. steamdye works, 1013 Broadway = S. B, Wadsworth & Co., 207 Pearl straet, loan money for Lombard oy, Co. i e e The handsomest and cleanest market, best meats and lowest prices at J. M. Scanlau’s. e 1he Loeaders of fine watches and jewelry in the city, and the place to buy the best goods ut the lowest prices is the establishment without rivals, the most reliable firm of S, B. JacquemiN & Co. Personal Parag hs. G. A. Clarke of Davenport is the guest of J. D, Johnson, S, B. Wadsworth left last evening for his oid home in Ilinois, George C. Wise returned yesterday morn- ing from a trip to Sauk Center, Dak. Mr, and Mrs. Bailoy of Detroit, Mich,, are guelll of Dr. J. B. Atkins and family,corner Sixth street and Sixth avenue, Frank 5. Pusoy and wife left yesterday morning over the Union Pacific for Denver, wfter a briof stop in this city. They were en route home from Chicago. Judge Davia F. Miller of Keokuk, who has been visiting here for some time, leaves to- day for Omaha, where ho will visit a fow aays before returning home. R. S. Ryan leftyesterday morning for Den- wver, after a short visit in the Bluffs, He is just recovering from an illness of soveral mouths, He was first stricken with pneu- monia, next with typhoid fever, and finally with tonsilitis, from which he is_just rally- ing. His {l‘lp" has remained with him zhmugh it all, and he took 1t westward with sk ———— Save 80 per cent on tombstones and monu- men Design sheet and price list free, L. Kelley, 208 Broadway, Couucil Bluffs, . Desirable dwellings for rent at reduced E‘luel by E. H, Sheafe & Co., rontal agents, roadway and Main st., up stairs, el L Drs. Woodbury have removed their denta oftice to 101 Pearl street, up stairs, —————— The Manhattan sporting headq'rs 418 B-way, R —— Go to Dempsey Hros. for fine confection- ery, Boston chips, butter cups, ete., 105 Main, o Dr. H. 8. West, dental surgery, No. 12 Pearl street, over Tur Bex oftice, ——— " New Life in Chautaugua, Chautauqua lots are moving rapidly these days, Thomas Oficer and William Moore went to the grounds yesterday and selected fine lots for cottges, - Mr. F. Wies also se- lected two choice lots, F. O. Gleason, V. J-nnlnfi and others were out looking over the grounds with a view of locat- ing. Many coltages will be ericted this spring and new life from this cime forward will be infused nto this graud enterprise. ‘Those wishing lots should now comie forward aod make selections. T v . 8, M, Wiilllomsou sells the Standard and Domestie sewing machines. 100 Main st. A good girl can secure a good situation Lo do i"“"l housework by calling on Mrs. P, M. ¥ryor, 616 Biuft st. Th lar wall - and decoratl 'he ular wi r and decorative unblhmnm of P, 8. b opened with Mr, Miller as manager. eutire stock has Ji Jensen, and largely increased th tion of ull the latest styles and desigus vy the best manufacturers. © The old establish- it is v for business again, & fact the public will uote with 1nterest, (OUNCIL BLUFES EDUCATORS. Bach Wants to Tell What Caused the Recent Rupture. THE GUARDS' LATEST SUCUCESS. The Tariff Keformers Hold Their Sccond Annual Meeting—1hs Chautauqua Takes a New Lease of Active Life, School Commissioners Talk. To the Editor of Tue Bee: I notice an article in your paper headed “A Rupture in the School Board,” and appearing to be an interview with Mr. Schoentzen, which is a misrepresentation of the real facts, Mr, Schoentgen atated that his only object in becoming a member of the school board was to remove the funds of the school district from the First National bank and place them in the bank which he consented to champion. His abusive language towards other banks became disgusting to other members of the board, who had no choice in the matter, They voted for a trousurer who would de- posit the school funds in a bank where they can be produced when wanted, and consid- ered it much safer than investing them in any other manner. After his failure o secure his treasurer, then the rupture com- menced 1n the school board. Mr. Schoentgen should not be averse to Catholic institutions. He received what education he possesses from a Catholic free school. He was born of Catholic parents land posed in this city as a Catholic. His aanguage now is not in keeping with any denomination, Mr. Schoentgen said that he knew nothing of Miss Morris or her gualifications. Ha voted to elect her when he first came on the board, and in the same breath he said, wheu the question came up as to fiiling the vacancy, that Miss could not take it (she being the ola- est substituto) as she was filling ono of the mont responsible positions i the city, and could not leave until the return of our well known and reliable teacher, Mrs. Ware, Mr, Schoentgen calls those young ladies, born and educated in Council Bluffs, 1rish Catho- lies, instead of American citizens, which un- doubtedly they are, educated at the expensc of their parents. Can 1t be possible that the American flag which waves so proudly over our land frowns upon those who fostered her while in her infancy! Or have they who are bound to abide by the laws in every other respect proven themselves a people un- worthy to share her rights and privileges? [ can see no remson for @& portisan feeling with regard to our schools, as religion and politics are mot taught. As to the course I have taken while a member of the board, as it has al- ways been in the best interests of education, which 1 have always prized, 1 can say I have used #s much influence towards aiding those who differed from me in nationality and re- ligion as in any other, a fact waich the best teachers in our corps can verify. 1 have been a citizen of Council Bluffs since about the the time Mr. Schoentgen realized he was on earth consequently I am not a stranger. Mr. Schoentgen imagined be could inflate nimself to a school board. However, before he reached the summit of his expectations the board sat down uvon his importance avd his sublime ideas vaunisned. ‘Lhen be rushed into print to tell how he was abused by a clique. GEORGE BLAXSIM. A Brx reporter sought Mr. Stewart, an- other member of the school board, and asked him what he had to say in regard to the matter. “So far as my opinion concerning Mr. Lawson is concerned, it is a matter in which the public has no concern. My name has been dragged into the public discussion without my knowledge or consent, and I do not care to be further connected with it, so tar as the public print is concerned. So far as Mr. Lawson’s statoment touches upon my action a8 a member ot the board, thereis such a gross perversion of facts which are familiar to the other members, and to the superintendent, that a refutation on my part is not needful. As to Mr. Rain, I have no fight to make upon him, and regard him as an honest, competent member of the school board. 1 would prefer that you would leave me out of the public discussion altogether, but if my name has to be dragged in I want 10 be correctly reported.” Mr. Schoentgen was asked if he had an thing further to state, and replied: *I would not care to_answer, bad they left out the names of Mr. Keller and Mr. Groneweg in connection with the position taken by me in regard to the trcasurership. The quasi attacks made on both these gentlemen jus- tify me in making 8 few explanations to the public. The idea that this firm wants to handle the money is preposterous, The bunks as well as the busihess men of the city generally are well posted as to our financial standing, and I will leave it to them to determine whether we are in ueed of uuy assistance from the banks, school voard, or any other outsiders, The use of this money is really a detriment to a busi- ness house, as the fact that such a fund is on hand, tends to make thew about looking after outside collections, and is in the end anything but a benefit. When Mr, Gronewek was treasurer we did use this money in our business, and wo had a right to, as the treasurer gave a bond for his control of the money. 'I'hat was oight years ago, when the amount was loss than oue-third 0f what it is at the pres- ent time. The teacners were paid and all orders were cashed at Mr. Groneweg's office, When his term of oftice expired, he stated that he would not have it again, as it was more 1njurious than beneficial. As to thein- sinuations against Mr. Keller, to the effect that the boara feared that hewould be un- duly influenced by us, they are an insult to his character and stauding as a business man, The reasons given for my ob- jection to allowing the aeposits to be longer placed into the kirst Na- tional bank were garbled and distorted. 1 objected to that bank, because it had paid no taxes for eight years, and the suit pend- ing againet it is & matter of recora und pub- lic knowledge. The question of teachers was not the issus. As far as thatis concerned, r. Lowson has mi ted facts. 1 have looked over tho list, and tind that in place of thirty-four Germans, as stated by him, there are but six of that nationality, and and with the exception of one substitute and the professor of languages in the hign school, all were enrolled as teachers before 1 became a member of the board. We have nearly three times this nuwber of Irish teachers on the pay roll. The statement that il of the teachers in the high school are German is false. With the exception of Dr, Weymann, all are Americans und of American parent- ga. Prof. Stuvens is a nephew of ex- overnor Palmer of 1llinois. When 1t was decided w teach German, and to teach the continental system of pronunciation in Latin, s is taught iu all the larger citis of the country, it was necessary to secure a capable teacher, and for this sreason I se- cured Dr, Weymann. These are the expla- nations I desire to make, and I make them to correct the misrepresentations of Mr, Lawson." i The water runs when Bixby plumbs, R — The Koss Investment and Trist company. -— Towa lump coal, spot cash, §.50 per ton, Council Bluffs Fuel Co, og Travelers, Motel Jameson 18 first-class, 4 ~ ——— Full line of imported and domestic cigars. Kelley & Younkerman e We want you to list your rental property with us and we will secure you good, re liable tenants. Rents collected and special attention given o care of property. E. H. S‘hgn(e&Co“ Broadway and Mu{n st, up stairs. ot — The Tariff Reform League -The second annual meeting of the Council Bluffs Tariff Reform league was held last evening in Marcus' hall, and there was a very large attendance. The followihg ofi- cers were elected: Fresident, Hon. W, H. M. Pusey; first vice president, Hon. Lucius Wells; second vice president, Charles Stephenson; secretary, Thomas Bowman; treasurer, Hon. Williap Groneweg. Speeches were made by Hon. E. E, Ayles- worth, Charles Stephenson, D, A. Farrell OMAHA DAILY BEE: THL and J. M. Holliday. Forty.thres new mem bers were secured. The league was organ- ized as a factor in natiopal politics, but will take no part in local elections s & body. Much interest was mamfested in the pro gramme of tho evening. Vice President Wells presided. —————— J. G. Tipton, real estate, 527 Broadway. ———— A Fulllineof homeopathic medicines at Ellis'. Handsc New Goods. I'he Council Bluffs Carpet company antiel- pate & very heavy trade this season, and have prepared for it. Heavy consignments of new goods were received yesterduy, among them some very handsome novelties, notably a new Chinese muslin for curtains handsomely ornamented and equal to silk in texture and finish. Also new turcomens, derbys, chenilles and valours in heavy goods and Brussels, tambours, Swiss and Notting hams in laces, The new styles of carpets are very handsome. wibilsenmsih Second Night of the Bazaar. The second night of the Guards’ bazaar was even more successful than the first. The attendance was much larger than on the preceding evening and the net receipts amounted to $125, making a total of $200 for the two nignts. It is expected that fully #3500 will be cleared in the four nights of the bazaar. The minstrels made their appear- ance again last evening and in many respects their performance was an improvement over that of the preceding evening. Master Tommy Keating made a great hit in a song and dance specialty and received well de- served applause. The regular programme was shortened somew hat, to the intense de- light of the dancers. ‘I'his evening a concert will be given dur- ing the opening hours, The following is the programme: Orchestra, . Golden Love. Mr. E {Wpllz. E minor. ...Selected . Wellings ..Chopin .Heller Delives Slumber Song Psyzacatl, from v Miss Daisy Higgins. M amio Oliver, String Quartetto—Largo. ... Handel " w7 _Sereuat Moszkowski Miss Vikginia Robinson ..Miss Hella Robinson ola.... ranv Williams olincello . .John S. Brown Pirate song, from La Prigione D. Edins burgo.. 3 First Violin, Second Violin, Mr. Jules Lumbard. Trio for Piano, Violin_and 'Cello Bella Robinson, Virginia Rol J . Brown, Minstrel Boy.. ... Shelly Mrs. . H. Evans, Carol and Chorus, from the Smupglers of Senovion...... ... Hella Kobinson String Quartette. .Orpheus Quartette EEtee gt The Council Bluffs lnsuranco companys’ average annual_income since organization has beon $120,000.00. Disbursements since organization for losses and othor ex penditures now exceeds $1,000,000.00. Risks written since organization, $42,770,545.00 Every property owner should patronize this home institution, and in that way encourage and build up our city. J. B. Allen is the city agent of this company, and a more Lonor- able, relinble and _trustworthy man can not be found. The diractors of the company are Hon. W. I, Sapp, E. L. Shugart, F. M. Gault, John Renners, M. C. Bramerd and J. Q. Anderson. s A Gloomy Prophecy. The late Henry W. Grady, whose un- timely death both north and south be- wail, said shortly before bis demise vhat this country is engaged in a great po- litical and social struggle, the import- ance of which is vital to the future well-being of its people, says the Bank- er’s NMonthly. It is an instinctive fight for the in- tegrity of republican institutions. It is directed against the consolidation of gowgr, the concentration of capital, the omination of localized sovereignty ana consequent dwarfing of the individual citazen. Yes, this fight is going on, but cen- tralization and the domination of wealth will win. Already in all cities of importance vepublican simplicity is gone. Money and the money power is the all in all, There is no longer any place of worship except for the ric. man. Maybe he needs it all. Educa~ tion, intelligenca, refinement, a pure life, industry, a willinguess to please and ability to do so, are of no account. A lucky speculator, who, perhaps, can not write his name, is a boor, but has money, is sought after and is welcome at all sociality, in church and state, whilst there is already no recognition for all the merits combined thatin a democratic country should be . recog- nized and encouraged by refined inde- pendence. Mr. Grady was a young man at his death. Had he lived to the usual ripe age he would have seen his fears realized. Selected... R A Colored Giant, Louis Butler, aged about seventy years, and formerly a siave, was buried av Centropolis last Monday, says the Kansas City Star. Butler is well re- membered by many of tne old residents of Kunsas City. He wvasone of the most stalwart men ever seen here, being 6 1eet 8 inches in height and weigh- ing about two hundred and fifty pounds, stroight ns an arrow and finely develr oped. His arm was the size of an ordi- nary man’s leg. Thirty-five or forty yeurs ago he worked in the packing house of Samuel & Moss at Hannibal, Ile was owned by Moss, and once, at St. Louis, won that gentleman $1,000 on a wager., Moss bet $1,000 that Butler could cut open and eviscerate more hogs in less time than any man St. Louis. The money was covered and the match made, which was won easily by the Hannibal hercules who disposed of seven hogs in one minute. Dr. S, H. Anderson, who attended Butler inten- ded in his last sickness, said he had the largest frame he ever saw. e Hich Hats in Africa. In the country at the back of Luko- lela there are some powerful but peace- able tribes, at the head of which isa chief who has rather a unique super- stition, which 18 that he must not see the river Congo. He is now an old man, close on to seventy years, but neither himself nor his father befo him has ever seen “the river. He hi the impression that the day he sees the river will decide the date of his funeral, He will go down within a few miles of it, but never runs the slightest risk of catehing a glimpse. Among these peo- ple there isa custom thata big chief n a district, on having proved to the satisfoction of the assembled chiefs that he is the wealthiest and, physicially speaking, the strongest. is invested with the order of the Tall Hat This resembles very much the stove-pipe hat of civilized life, writes Herbert Ward in Scribner’, only with the brim at the top, and is made of plaited fibor, -~ Henry George as a Typewriter, If Honry George, the apostle of social reform, were peouniless tomorrow he would have little difficulty in gettin, employment as a typewriter. Severa years practice have enabled him to at- tain such a speed on the instrument as would put hundreds of professionals to the blush, says the New York Star. 1 had occasion to call on Mr. George at his house, on Nineteenth street, re- cently, and was surprised to learn that be did very little work with the pen, all bis literary work, business letters and even his private correspondence being typewritten, R (;;:r bfil‘\.l’gl:’al} urity uu:l ll.lllhl'u.tlell: 's extra dry chawpagne has no r is splendid with & dlnnpclrf S THE BUTCHERY AT YAKUTSK. P Political Exiles Massacred for Dar- ing to Offgr Petitions. KENNAN TELLS THE STORY, How the Administrative System Is Applied in Sibesia to the Men Who HavéBarnea the Czar's Anger. Killed by Oossncka. George Kennan, the distinguished journalist whose articles in the Century on “‘The Condition of Administrative Exiles to Siberia,” have attracted such widespread attention, and who is now delivering a course of lectures on his experiences in that country, has lately received a circumstantial accountof the massacre at Yakutsk, The letters which Me, Kennan has re- ceived are oxceedingly voluminous and go minutely into the details of the af- fair. They are impartial and unimpas- sioned in tone, “To better understand the situation,” d Mr. Kennan, “*it must be borne in mind that the pomnts to which it was proposed to send these particular —uamely. Verkhoyansk and Kolymsk—are distant from the capital, St. Petersburg, 6,308 and 7,518 miles respectively, in a part of Siberin so re- mote from civilization that it is seldom if evor visited by human bsings. It is an Arctic country, dreary and inhospitable beyona expre sion. Verkhoyansk is the first village to which the survivors of the Jeannette came after they left the Lenn delta pack. Sredni-Kolymsk lies still further to the northward. The two places lay close to the Avetic circle, where the sun disappears entively in the winter. Yakutsk is the last stop- ping place of the administrative exiles prior to their departure for those two places. In March there had accum- lated 10 Yakutsk Letween twenty and thirty political exiles, who were d tined for the Arctic settlements—Ver- hoyansk and Sredni-Kolymsk. One of the first things General Ostashkin did was to issue a series of orders directing that thenceforth political exiles should be sent in parties twice as large—four men in a party instead of two—at the same time cutting down their bageage from 360 to 180 pounds. He also ordered that the exiles, instead of starting from the houses in which they lived in Yakutsk, were to be im- prisoned the night before they started, and were to take their de- parture from the prison. Furthermore, that the two months’ subsistence money previously given . them in advance should be withheld, and that the money for thoirclothing and subsistence on tho roud should not be given to them until the evening before the morning on which they were to start,and thateven- g they were to be shut up in prison, consequently having no possible oppor- tunity of buying agything to fit them- selves out with for.the journey. These orders were. regarded as 80 im- practicable that one of the largest post contractors personally remonstrated with the goyernor, telling him he had not veindeer enough to carrysuch large parties—namely, four exiles and four Cossucks at a trip. - As soon also as the exiles were notified of these orders sev- eral of them went to the governor per- sonally and remonstrated, being told nothing more than that he must be al- lowed to know more about his own prov- ince than they did. At 10 o’clock on the following morn- ing they assembled in the house of Not- kin, to the pumber of thirty-three. At 10:30 the morning of March 22 (old style, April 3 our style) a police over- seer named Olesof made his appearance with a verbal order that all the exiles present were to come to the police station. The exiles said to him: *‘The chief of police last night directed us to assemble in this house to receive the final reply of the governor to our peti- tions. Now what are we to do? He told us that the governor wasangry yesterday becavse we went in 2 body to the government office and he directed us to stay here until he came with the governor’s answer.”” Then the exiles suggested to Olesof that he go to the chief and find out whether there was not a misunderstanding; whether the chief of the police did not intend them to remain in the house until he came. They did not want to go to the polics station on the word of a mere subordin- ate. Thereupon Olesof turned on his heel, saying: *‘Then I understand that you won't come?” As he went out they shouted after him that he Was to under- stand no such thing; that he was merely to understand that they wanted to know from the chief of police what they were expected to do. The next thing that they saw wasa company of Cossacks, numbering be- tween one hundred and one hundred and forty wen, under the command of an officer named Karamzim, coming down the road, About fifty yards from the house they broke into a run and battered down “the gates of the court- yard, notwithstanding the small door in the gate was open through which persons on foot usually pass. Fifteen or twenty of the Cossacks entered the house, while the others surrounded it. The officers who entered the house with the soldiers were Chief of Police Souchakef, Captain Vazhef, the local commander of the whole Cossack force in the town, and QOlesof, the police over- seer, Karamzim also entered, he being in command of the force of Cossacks, and told the exiles ithat he had orders {rom the governot“fo take them to the police station. The exiles tried to ex- rlu!n their side ‘of the case and said hat they had not Assembled there for any other purpose “than to receiye the governor’s reply, ‘bt notwithstanding they would go to the police station, asking Karamzim' to withdraw his troops. While they were thus talking the chief of police said to Karamzim, the Cossack commagder: ‘*What is the use of you talglog with them? Do what you were ordered to do.” Karam- zim then cried out to the Cossacks: “Beree yeckh!” (Take them.) The exiles werg agsembled in a room about twenty feet square, into one cor- nerof which they now crowded for pro- tection and from which position the Cossacks endeavored to oust them at the l)ointo( the bayonet, many of the soldiers also striking at the exiles with their clubbed Berdan rifles. Some of the women present were struck and pierced with thejbayonets quite severely and beygan to scréam, Catridges had been served out Lo the soldiers the night before, and exaperated at the indigna- th‘n expressed by the bolder of the exiles they fired point blank into the miscellaneous crowd of men and women, who were huddled like sheep into one corner. Five of the exiles glm‘l revol- vers, which they had brought, not with a view of offering any resistence to the authorities, but simply as & means of protection against the wild beasts they might encounter on their northern jougney, Nicolai Zotot, one of the poli- SDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1890, tical exiles, drew his rovolver, sprang upon the divan, and shouted: Astono- vees!"—"Stop! Stop!"” The firing then became general on both sides. After one or two volleys the soldiers withdrew from the house, and the whole Cossack force outside then poured in their fire through the doors and windows. One of the political exiles named Schur rushed out of the house into tne court yard crying “Wo surrender! Weo sur- render!” but was shot dead a short dis- tance from the steps. Another named Podbelski, who was not in the house but was in a shop a short distance away, heard the firing and ran to the houre to see what the matter was, He was shot dead before he got five steps from the court yard gate. He was not implicated in the affair in any way and was within two months of the terminution of his exile. Another of the politicals, Joseph istrovich, already wounded, rushed out into the court yurd, fell and was re- peatedly bayonetea as he lay on the ground. _ Asu resuit of this affray six persons, inéluding one woman, were killed out: right, This woman’s stomach was torn open by a hayonet. Nine others were very severely wounded, All the re- ng oxiles were more or less in- jured by the butt ends of the rifles and by bayonet stabs. About’ three months later a cour! martial was appointed to try the su vivors upon the charge of avmed resistance to the authorities.by General Ignatieff, brother of the weoll-known diplomatist of that name, who was at that time governor generval of eastern Siberia, "The decision of the court condemned to death three of the survivors, Zotof, Keo Kohan-Bernstein, and Albert Hussman, who were hanged on August 7 (0id style) at 7 o’clock in the morning, the confirmation of the sentence from the governor general having been re- ceived August 5, Kohan-Bernstein was severely wounded in the assault on the prisoners, and had lain in the hos- pital from March 27 to August 7, and had been unable to s He was taken to the scaffold on a cot- bed from the hospital, and was hung by having the noose put around his neck and then taking the cot from under liim, thus deliberately choking him to death. The following were condemned to penal servitude in the gold placer mines of Kura by the sentence of the court- marshal: For Life—Joseph Minor. Michael Gotz, Alex Gurevitch, Michael Orlof Mark Bagniski, Mathew Fundamihshi, Moses Uflland, Samuel Ratin, Joseph Estrovitch, Mrs. Kohon-Bernstein,Vera Gassokh, Anisia Bollitina, Pauline Perlie. 3 For Fifteen Years—Anastasia Shekh- ter, Rosa Frank, Sergius Kapger, Anna Zoaroastrova, Boris Ganim. For Ten Years—Constantine Feresh- koritch, Michnel Estrovitch, Leonidas Berman, Bugenie Gurevitch, Joseph Rezuik and one Mogat—first name un- known—sent to the remotest parts of the province of Yakutsk. The only man acquitted by the court- marshal was one named Nadief, who did not present a petition, was not present in the house, but was arrested after the disturbance on the street. “I consider that this information re- ceiyed from Russia,” said Mr. Kennan in conclusion, ‘'so minute and so cir- cumstantial in every detail, and know- ing the reliability of its source, to be a complete and conclusive answer to the recent strenuous details of the Russian government which were published in the New York Tribune about two weeks ago. William Tallet, the president of the Great Howard association of KEng- land, gave me.to understand that every effort will be made to bring the matter before the international prison con- gress, which was held at Rome last year, but which will meet this time St, Petersburg. If the Russian gove ment will permit it and is ready to meet the issue I will undertake to prove be- fore this prison congress every charge that I have arrayed againstitin my articles published in the Century or which have otherwise been brought for- ward by me. 1n substantiation of these charges I am prepared to bring my wit- nesses from Siberia and to defray the whole expense of such proceedings. But I much fear *hat my challenge will be 1gnored.” - “MUD AND PETTICOATS.” Interv ew With the skirt Association. ideal of Mrs. Stopes is being An Shapely The slowly realized, and the articte in the Pall Mall Gazette on sonsible shirts has set the dressmakers thinking, says the Pall Mall Gazette. Women are getting rather tired of wearing dressesthat the rational - dressers complain either gather the mud and the microbes of the pavement or else necessitate the wearer carrying several pounds of material by holding her dress up to avoid the Lon- don mud, But you can’t avoid it with a dvess of ordinavy length. Slowly but surely it begins to cike on the edge of the skirt, bespatters the boots, soils the stockings, and renders a woman an ob- ject of misery, & martyr to an inch too much of material. Forsome time the Patent Shupely Skirt association, ot 53 Cromwell road, has been trying to get women to buy a [sensible skirt. The feature ~ of it is this— that it is without a foundation, is made within three or four inches of the ground, and is a dress that will not go mud-gathering, without being ugly. In fact, it1s a very pretty dress, Mdme. Goldschmidt, the founder of the Patent Shapely Skirt association, explained the principles upon which she worked (writes a représentative) when I paid her a visit the other day. Her estab- lishment is a very large one, and she told me that at the present moment she had twenty dresses to complete a trous- sean, . “‘But here is the shapely skirt,” she said, and she brought out a smart, neatly made walking dress of blue serge. “This is made for walking in the coun- try, and stands four inches off the ground, A dress for walking in Lon- don would be made an inch longer. As o matter of facy they are usually made to the top edge of a low shoe. Home- spun and tweeds are considered a little smarter than blue serge, and the former materials aré usually ordered by coun- try wearers, The skirt is either kilted or plain. A listle outdoor jacket usu- ally accompanies the dresss and worn open in front it displays a waistcoat either of check, suede, or* white mate- rial. In fact, the costume can be varied by us many costumes as the wearer likes.” Do you have a heavy demand for the dress.”” **Well, we hope for more ap- reciation when it is better known. gavex'al descriptions of jackets can be worn with it. Here is one, you see, with a Norfolk jacket. 'We huve made a dress of this pattern for Fraulein Nodel, the German companion for the prince of Wales’s daughters. Lady Carew (the Carews of Devonshire) also wears the dress and we make it for Lady Harburton., She 18 a little diffcult to fit, however, as she doesn’t wear corsets, For some women we make cloth knick- erbockers the same shade as the dress, and then underskirts are dispensed with. The spats can be weru in London and aiters in the country. Ithink,” added gdmu. Goldschmidt, “that the writer of the article in the ‘Pall Mall’ rather ex- aggerated the advantages of short skirts, _PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY. H. BIRKINBINE ~Zsdrauis and sanita Buildin, stice of the Peace. gineer, Plans, > ision of Public Work. Browd Coucil Blufls, lowa. Office over American Express, No. 41 N. SCHURZ_Ilruml\vuy. Council Bluffs, lowa. STONE & SIMS-3upumsas t Law. Practice in the State and Mods Rooms 7 and 8 Shugart-Beno Block, Council Bluffs, lowa. HEADQUARTERS FOR CALIFORNIA ORANGES DUQUETTE & OO, Fruits and Commission, 347 Broadway, Council Bluffs, Ia C. A BEEBE & COMPANTY, Wholesale and Retail Dealers 1n FURNITURK, it is not nocessury for a woman to wear a skirt up to her knees in order to keep it cut of the mud. A dress ouly necds to be three or fourinchesoff the ground to keep perfectly clean.” “But don’t women object to even four inches off their skirts? It reduces their height.” *“Yes; they do complain of a dress when it makes them look short. There is no overlooking the fact that they do. I3ut at the same time they ap- preciate the advantages of alway: clean and smartly dressed, ins being untidy and mud-spatteved. “Wouldn’t it be possible to invent something that would shorten a dress temporarily?” “Well,” answered mad- ame, ‘‘we nave been putting tapes into the skirts of some dresses, so that a woman could draw up the back of a dress several inches from the ground. But this gave an ungraceful lop-sided appearance to the wearer, as the dress was longer in front than at the back, and a woman would have to take off her bodice when she got indoors tolet down the back again. ~ The tapes were of no use if a rain came on snddenly, be- cause she couldn’t get at them. There is nothing made in the nature of a dress-looper. There are clasps to catch up the back or side of a dress wera used, They were fastened st,and were very y, so didn’t prosper. There isno way, either, of carrying a dress with ease. To hold it up behind is hard. The best way, if it must be carried, is to bring it in a bunch to the side. Dresses are move ditficult to carry than they were, because’ when stevls were fashionable a woman had something to hold her skirt up by. Iven if you wanted to hold up one of our shapely skirts there is still advantago—that you are relieved of the weight of about two poundsof underskirt by the absence of a foundation.” 3 ‘Do you claim any other advantage for the skirt?” “Yes, golf and tennis can be plaved with ease on a wet ground. Its advant- ages for walking are apparent. Last, but not least, it will enable English women to get rid of the idea in the minds of foreigners that English women have big feet.” - A SEVERE REBUKE. How a Young Man Treated a Girl ‘Who Wasn't Ready. A severe but well merited rebuke was administered not long ago, says the New York Evening Sun’s Woman- About-Town, to a society girl by a yowng mun who has the courage of very creditable conviction upon a cortain common lack of the nicest courtesy among young women who are really very well bred, and who would not offend for the world 1if they stopped to think. He told the story himsell, as follows: *During one of my busiest weeks I in- vited a young woman to go with me to the theater on acertain first mght. When the evening came I reached her home shortly before 8 o’clock. I waited in the reception room for some time. Then the mamma apveared. We hatted for a quarter of an hour longar. Still no signs of the young woman. [ looked at my watch; it was just time for the curtain to rise at the theater. I particulariy wanted to see the opening of the play. “Then | rose and took one of my checks from my pocket. ‘Madame,’ T said to the mother, ‘hero is the check of Miss D.’s chair, and the- carriage is at the door. Will you be kind enough to ask her to come when it suits her best. For myself,I want to see the opening of the play.’ And | walked out.” *“And what did the young woman do?” asked three breathless listners ail at once. *‘She came in the course of half an hour. She had good sense enough to take the rebuke in the right way, She knew she deserved it,” *0, but I would never have forgiven vou!” sighed the chorus, Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums and allays all pain, 25 cents a bottle. —_— Fishing for Chickens. In Waterford, Conn., chicken thieves have hit upon & new method of deplet- ing poultry yards with much success. J. B. Palmer of Grapiteville is the heuviest loser and to him the discovery of the scheme is due. When he en- tered his ponltry yard last week he found one of hischickens apoarently suffocuting. Closer examination re- vealed to him abouta dozen yurds of fish line trailing from the chicken’s Leak. Then it dawned upon Mr. Palmer that some one had been fishing for chickens on his premises, The thieves’ method was to bait a fish line with a worm, drop it conveniently near the poultry and when the worm wug swallowed it was an easy matter to capture the chicken without difliculty. As the farmers allow their fowl Lo roam freely about their premises and into ad- jacent fields the thieves do not lack op- portunity to reap a harvest. Mr. Palm- er’s discovery. however, may cause the farmers 10 be more careful in the future. SPECIAL NOTICES, OOUNOIL BLUFFS. Dealers, send for Catalogue, 06 Plerce St,, Council Bl BARGAIN—Complete rollor mill_and saw- mill for sale, Capacity of roller mill, fort barrels dail; Will sell farm in conns mill i desired, Good reasons for inquiries in regard to sald proverty following nddross will receive prompt fon: C. D, Roel, Reols, In. {OR SALE My rasidence, 5 Wilow av- onue, ol south side of Bayliss park, Hoeated Dy steam, lignted by electricity and o il modarn fmyrovements. Lot 100 b Also will sell or exchange for improved Droperty, my farn c of Counell Blulrs, JTORE=For rent, No. WSblock ; splenaid focatio and shoes, 1 atten- Broadway, I dry g0ods, boots ) [UFFS progerty for » Toat bargains, The following, among the most beautitul hoines in tho city, will be sold at great bargains, ou monthly payments, or torms to suit: Tliree new $-room houses on Lincoln avenue two blocks from electric motor Lino. wo new 4-room houses four ble cloctric motor line on North Seventh strest. One naw Aroom house four blocks from elec= tric motor line on North Seventh strest, Tureo new 6 and 6-room houses ore block trom elec notor line corner Avenue A and Twelfth stre Hesides the above T have houses and lots in all parts of the clty. One new 5-room House on Mill st. C. B. J udd, 606 Broadway, Council Bluffs, YASH for second-hand furniture, stoves and Jcarpets, A. J. Mandel, 3% Broadway. JREAL RSTATE —lougnt and soli sn1 ex- changed. Special attention given to exame ination of titles. W. C. Jam: No 10 Pearl st. ]} 1OR 8A LE or Rent—Garden land with houses, by J. R. Rioe 102 Main st., Council Biuffs. NEW Tmproved resl ostate to trads for unlm A nncll Bluifs property 3. & REYNOLDS Fashionable Confectioners Qe very latest moveltles for hanquets an private part Choice frufts, bon- tons, choco ates, buttercups, and old fashioned molasses candy a specialty. Orl nd mail orders promptly filled, Council Bluirs, Ta. ere for D! 320 Boadway, No. 27 Main St, Over Jacque~ min’s Jewelry Store. ~ CHRIS BOSEN SASH & DOOR FACTORY AND PLANING MILL Bost equipped, most centrally located fa tory in the city, Al modern latest’ pattern machie ery. Operated by skilled mechanics, Special attention given to scroll and band sawing, plone ing and triming, General contracts and estls mates for houses and bulldings a specialty, Corner North Main and Mynster streets, Coune cil Blufls, Telephone 20, ia M{/] ; Electric Trussas, Belts, Chast Pro- tectors, Etc, Agents Wantea, DR, ¢. B, JUDD, e J. A Murphy Manufacturing Co 1st Avenue and 21st Street. SASH DOORS AND BLINDS. Dand aud Noroll Sawing, RoSuwing wnd Planing. Sswing of allKinds. Poren Brackets, Kindling wood 82.5 per load’ delivered, suwdust by the barrel Zic. first-clasa, ~ Telephone 225, “Your Patronage S9llolf9d S. E. MAXON, hrchite t and Superintend ot Room 281, Merriam Block, COUNCIL BLUFFS, - IOWA, T8, OFKICER W. H. M. PUSEY OFFICER & PUSEY, BANKERS. Corner MAin and Broaaway, COUNCIL BLUFKS, IOWA, Dealers in forelyn and domestic exchan, un.).m-uom made and interest pald on time Dosius. Clean All work to be J. D. KEDMUNDSON, B. L. 8Bupoant, Vice Pres, 8. Cuas. R. HAWNAN, Cashier, CITIZENS' STATE BANK, OF COUNCIL BLUFFS, Pald up Capital $160,000.00 Surplus . 35,000.00 Liability to Depositors....335,000.00 Dinkcrons—1. A. Miller, F. 0. (lezson, B, T. Shugart, E. E. Hart, J. D.’ Edundson, Crias. K. Hanoan, Transact’ general bankidg business Largest capital aud surplus of any bank g Northwestera 1owa, Tntorest on time deposite FOR SALE AND RINT. JANTED—A housckeeper to go oul on farm, Address . A, Pliling, 1 NIMPROVED lowa land to exchango for ock of groceries, buots ana shoes, or Address T, P horses and cattle. Randolph, a. T HAVES ral houses and los to trade for Council BIuffs or Omahs unimproved prop= aty. C. B, Judd, 608 Broadway, Council Bluffs. F(itn.wuor .00 you buy & nice, new clean stock of hardware, stove and tinshop in ono of the best lo-ations’ in western lowa. Ifyou want a hardware business would be pleassd torefor you to reliatle partics that now ull about our busiuess. Very satisfactor reasons for selling. 1% will pay you to investl- fi"n’m" Aadress B 6 Ir:' oftice, Councll utls, Spenicer, F M. ELLIS & €0., ARCHITECTS AND BUILDING SUPERINTENPENTS Rooms 430 and 433 Beo Building, Omans Neb, and Rooms 244 and 240 Merriam Block, Cunel Bluttsjow . .Correspondence Solicited. BELL & BERLINGHOF, ARCHITECTS AND BUPERINTENDENTS, ' Room % Opera House Block, Council Blufts, lowa,