Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 12, 1890, Page 4

A AARY UmMAnA VUALLY DR WCH 12, 1890 DAILY BEE. HOSEWATER.. Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. o TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily and Bunday, One Year Fix months Three Monthis Sunday e, Orie Vear, Weekly Hee, One Year with Premiuni. “OFFICES, Omaha, Dee Bullding. - Chicago OMes, 567 Ko oker, Now Sork. Haome 16 and 15 Tribuns Building. Washington, No. 513 Fourtsenth Street Counell Blutfs, Ko. 12 Pearl Street, Bouth Omaha, Corner N an | 25th Straots. CORRESPON DENCE, Allcommunteations relating to news and edl- torial matter should be addressed to tne Editor- 1al Departiment. BUSINESS LETTERS. All businesslotters and remittances snould Vi agdressed to The Hee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and Postoffice orders 10 be mido payable to the order of the Company. The Bee Publishing Company, Pmnmmmv Thew Building Farnam and Seventeenth Streo THE £10 00 » ) Bullding. There s no excase for a failureto got Tir DEr on the trains. 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[ e Georgn B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, do- 0Bes and says that ho 18 socretary of THE 1 ER Pupiishing Company, that the actual average daily circulation of THE DAILY BEE for tno moith of March 18%9, 18851 coples: for April, 1880, 18,668 coples: for May, 1850, 18,609 copios: for Junie, 1889, 18,858 coples: for July, 198, 18,738 copies; for Anigust, 189, 18631 copies: for Sep- tember, 18, 14710 copfes; for October, 1889, 18,907 coples: for November, 1880, 10,310 copies; for December, 185, 20,048 coples: for January, 1800, 19,60 coples: for February, 1890, 19,71 copis. L GEonae B. TZSCRUCK. Sworn to pefore me and lllhlcl’")”(l mn my Dresence thla 1at day of March, A, D. 150, {Seal, N. P. Feir, Notary Publi Average.....: ...... Tie a too much. PARADOXICAL as it may seem, the striking linemen are laying wires for an advance of salary. stant city attorney protests Tue duly fakir is warming over some very ancient gambling facts and work- ing them off on its readers as fresh news. Great enterprise, that. VEN glue has its ups and downs. The failure of the leading glue com- puny of the United States was evidently u case where one partner tried to stick the other. 2 Tuw proposed investigation of Castle Garden is like locking the stable after the animals were stolen. As the immi- grant denot of New York. Castle Gar- den will be abandoned noxt month. Nor ®ontent with the low freight ratesexisting in lowa, the state railroad oners seriously contemplate an- other cut of fifteen per cent. This will be a bittee dose for the railroads to swallow. Titic world’s fair bill has been drafted on the lines originally agreed upon. Chicago wisely refrains from hitting the surplus a body blow at the first round. She reserves her strength for PusLic improvement cannot be checked by disgruntled property hold- ers, whether such improvement be the building of the Tenth street viaduct or the extension of South Thirteenth street to South Omaha. ‘e death of Hector C. Havemeyer, the millionaire sugar refiner, leaves to charitable institutions a quarter of a wmillion. It is to be hoped that his be- quests will help sweeten thelives of the helpless and unfortunate. Tk Chinese merchant who sets foot upon American soil for the first time is put oa 4 par with the Chinese laborer, Both are to be excluded. This ruling of the treasury department ought to be satisfactory to the Pacific const. T smelling committee of the senate, headed by Senator Dolph, is snifing in dark corners with the hope of lo- cating the leak in the executive ses- sion. No wonder the newspaper men of Washington are laughing in their slooves, Tur department ul agricalture esti- mates that nearly one-half the corn crop of the country 15 still in the hands of the growers. With the railroads charg- ing all that the traffic will bear the ex- {sting agricultural depression is ousily explained, THE question of resubmission is gain- such stre of- fice-soekers are qualifying their senti- ments preparatory to hedging. Those who considered prohibition ‘‘the sot- tled policy of the state,” are singing in subdued tones, Tri fivst signs of spring have come oven before the early bird is n half a chance. Paving contractors’ peti- tions are buzzing about the ears of property owners thicker than flies on a eummor Let citizens bo wary and await the result of active competition. EXPrESSIONS like those voiced in the rosolutions passed by the farmers of Clay county condemning the pusillani- mous action of Auditor Benton, Secre- tary Cowdry and Commissioner Steen suay shame the state board of transpor- tation into u reduction of the exor! hmm freight rates in the state. T farmers of the ught stricken region of Dakota must huve seed for their fields, geain for their stock and food for themselves, Within a fow days commistees from South Dakota will visit the principal cities of the west for the purpose of soliciting aid. The ap- peal should be promptly and generously met by the people of neighboring st blossed with abundunce, tes GOVERNMENT LOANS ON LAND. ‘ Serious importance has been given to the proposal that the government shall loan money on land security by the fact of u resolution having been roferred to the finance committee of the senate in- structing it to inquire whether loans may not be made by the government on mortgages on real estate independent of improvoments. There has recently been developed a sentiment among the farmers of the country in favor of a pol- icy of this kind, and though not yet by any means gene with this element the sentiment is very likely to grow rapidiy and exert agreat force unless the senate finance commit- tee shall find insuperable constitutional as well as economic obstacies to such a policy. There can be no doubtas to the existence of the latter, but these alone are not likely to be sufficient to silence the demand of the millions who would eagerly accept the opportunity to avail themselves of this kind of government assistance. Itis possible to give the scheme nn aspect so fair and plausible that every man owning a piece of land who ig financially embarrassed will be persunded to endorse 1t unless fully con- vinced, and this will be no easy task. that the is an insurmountable consti- tutional objection to it. The argument that it proposes something wholly foreign to the functions of the govern- ment will not dismiss the matter from the favor of a large majority of thoso who want money, and so far as the economic considerations are concerned every individual will reason from his own selfish standpoint and with refer- ence only to immediate results. The author of the resolution that has brought this question to the attention of a committee of congress 18 the multi-miliionaire from California, Mr. Stanford. That gentle- man, whose great wealth is largely due to a systematic spoliation of the govern- ment and the people, professes to have suddenly conceiyed a profound interest in the welfare of the masses, and par- ticularly in the agricultural element. He claims to believe that if the farmer could borrow mouey from the govern- ment without interest his farm would soon appreciate in value to the amount of the loan, and that from the energi ing force that would be im- parted generally to the business of farming by this government loan policy would come a general re- vivalof prosperity. Thoie would be an almost endless supply of money to stim- ulate the capacity of men and widen their field of effort. Mr. Stanford is not troubled regarding any danger from an excess of currency. He has full faith in the power of money, and he wants to see a bountiful supply of it flow out of the treasury in the form of loans on real estate to the extent of one-half or one-quarter its value. The Califoruia senator, the cerity of whose professions and motives in this matter may faicly be doubted, has shrewdly suggested how plausible this scheme may ve made to appear to the millions who are in great need of relief from their embarras ments. ' Considered practically, what would such a policy involye? The census of 1880 gave the number of farms in the country as four million. The increase in the preceding decade had been about fifty per cent,and assuming an equal ratio of increase for the last decade the coming census will show the number of farms to be not less than six million. The assessed valuation of the prop- erty of the country in 1888 was about twenty-four thousand million dollars, and probably 15 not far from thirty thousand million at present. Property in farms represents at least half this sum, and very likely more, so that if the government were to loan money on this property to the amount of but one-fourth of its valuation it would need to issue nearly or quite four thousand million dollars of cur- vency. But if the government embarked 1n the business of loan- ing money on real estate it could not confine its favor to farm property, and its practice would have to be uniform with all borrowers. Thus in time, or as scon as the currency could be provided, the loan department of the national treas- ury would hold mortgs greater part of the real estate of the country as security for the six or eight thonsand million ars in paper cur- which it had printed—a sum nearly threo times larger than the public debt at its highest point. 1t would seem that no intelligent man could reflect for a moment upon the probable practical results of such a policy without sceing its utter ab- surdity and impracticability. No wilder selieme was ever broached by the craziest deeamer of plans for améliorat- ing the condition of the masses, and it 15 impossible to believe that so practical a man of affaics as Senator Stanford has identified his name with it from honest motives and asincere desire for the welfare of the people. SILVER DISCU? Silver is receiving such earnest con- sideration in both branches of congress as to warrant the expectation that there will be legislation on the subject at the present session, and possibly at a not remote date. But there appears to be just enough difference between the two houses to make it probable that a final resort will have to be mude to coufer- committees. ln the senate the bill reported from the finunce committee of that body is sald to have suflicient sup- port to pass it by a consid- evuble majority, Senator Jones, who has charge of the measure, claiming that nine-tenths of the senators will vote for it. This bill was framed as a substi- tute for the Windom measure and dif- STON. ence fers from it in some radical respects. It provides for the purchnse of four and oune-half million dollars worth of silver bullion a month, for which payment shal! be made in treasury notes, and so muck of the bullion is to be coined from time to time us may be necessary to re- deem the note; The secretary of the tronsury is given nodiscretionary powe under this bill, The house, on the otk hand, seems most favorably disposed toward the Windom plan, with the exception in purticular of the feature giving the secretary of the treasury authority, with the approval of the president, to suspend the purchase of silver under rtain conditions. This the silver men {n both houses unanimously object te, and it is evident that no bill witl be passed allowing any discrotion to the secretary of the treasury. The evident purpose is to declare a policy which 1 be tixed and stable, subject only to changes by congress. That this is the wiser plan there can be no doubt. The free coinage advocates in the house appear determined not to wholly surrender their idea, and will probably provide that there shall be free coinage whenever four hundred and twelve and one-half grains of silver are worth one dollar on the market, with a monthly purchase of at least four mill- 10n dollars under all conditions. It is possible the senate could be induced to agree to this, while there is no reason why it should not be quite as uccept- able to the treasury as the senate ll, It is true the president is on record in opposition to fres coinage, but, the pro- vision that this can only take place whenever the amount of silver con- tained in a dollar is worth a dollar on the market may lead him to change nis views. Atany rate, the president is not likely to be obstinate as to any measure that passes congross by a good round majority, and on this question party lines are not closely drawn. e very great importance of this t demauds and justifies careful deliberation, but there should be no un- necessary delay in reaching legislation. There is every reason to believe that the good effects of a law providing for an increase in the circulation based on silver would become at once appar- ent in financial and business improve- ment, and there 1s urgent need of re- lief from the widely prevailing depres- sion. The passage of a silver bill cer- tainly is not the only legislation that is needed in order to stimulate business and revive prosperity, but it would un- doubtedly have a very considerable in- fluence in that direction, and the refore should not be unnecessarily delayed. THE SCOW LINE. Less than a dozen members of the hoard of trade, alter orief deliberation and prayerful consideration, commend to the support of the people the project to establish a line of steamers and barges between Pittsburg and Omaha. The endorsement does not shake the conviction of the people of this city that the successful navigation of the Mis- souri is impossible. Columns ot facts and figures may he oduced to show the value of navigation to the com- merce of the country, but the stubborn fact remains that the shifting charac- ter of the Missouri river renders navi- gation of it, even during the season of high water, uot only difficult but posi- tively dangerous. The prospectus of *The Merchants’ Riv Freight Line Navigation com- pany,” which proposes to run boats be- tween Pittsburg and Omaha, shows that great profits can be made for investors. and great benefits conferred on the pro- ducers of the country. The headquar- ters of the company are in New York, a fact which tends to confirm the suspicion that the scheme is a speculative one. The cost and profits are figured down to a penny, and a charming pidture is presented to induce men overburdened with means to subscribe to the five mil- lions of capital |'e(|gircd. it is exceed- ingly doubtful if “the originators of the movement stopped to enquire or investigate the difficuities to be over- come in navigating the Missouri, or counted the cost 1nvolved in bucking countless snags or dodging sand bars. IExperienced boatmen who have made a study of the Big Muddy could have fur- nished the literary bureau of the Mer- chants’ line some iuformation that would fo ree a radical revision of their schedule of cost and receipts. Even if the river could be safely and cheaply navigated, the proposed line would not afford material relief. Pitts- burg could send us its coal reduced rates, but Pitts- burg does not furnish a market for the surplus products of the Missour: valley. Chicago and the sea- board cities must be depended upon to take the surplus, and the diversion of a portion of the traffic by river to Pitts- burg would not increase the profits of the producers. The difference between rail and river rates would be ubsorbed by heavy insurance, elevator charges at Plttsburg and the local freight rate from Pittsburg to Baltimore or New York. This 15 an ago of progr Rapid transit is demunded in all things. The greatest amount of speed consistent with safety is the governing spirit of the* times. The slow sunail pace of river navigation was satisfactory thirty years ago, when uo other means of transportation could be had. Then the profits justified the risks assumed. The country has outgrown it, and the efforts of the speculative vutriots of New York cannot convince those familiar with the facts, that the Missouri river can be transformed into a cheap and safe avenue of comme PITISBURG at A FEW weeks ago we were treated to a railvond discourse on economic top- ics, in which the corporation literary bureaus attempted to prove that the market price of products depended y on the maintenance of high freight tariffs, Their love for tte dear people was so great that rather than pull the props from under the market they took the kernels and handed the cob and husk back to the farmer. An- other distinguished economist leaps mto the arena to do battle with the railvoads. David Harpster, president ot the Ohio wool-growers’ associa- tion, gives what appears to the wool men the true reason why the farmers are suffering so much from the low price of farm products. Mr. Harpster declares that prices are lower now than for thirty years, nnd the only avenue of relief is for the farmer to “‘appeal to the presi- dent to put an end to the mouster frauds now being perpetrated in im- ported wools.” An increase of the duty on wool wonld also contribute materi- ally to the prosperity of the wool men. Economist Harpster fails to show how protection for the wool interest will en- hancs the price of corn or wheat, or how an advaneedn the price of woolen goods will place money in the pookets of wostern ors, The appeal 18 as ridiculous as @4 apguments of the cor porations aguinst rate roduetion, and fully as selfish. 'The farmers aré not so blind as Mr. Harpstee imagines, and 1t not probable that they will respond to a scheme to take money out of their pockets and place it in the purses of the Ohio wool growe STATISTICS of accidents on . American railroads during the month of January ehow a total of seventy-six collisions and eighty-nine derailments. Of this number forty collisions and twenty- nine derailments are classed as ‘‘unex- plained;” sixteen collisions and eleven derailments to negligence in operating; the remainder are ascribed to defects of road, unforsecen obstructions and poor equipment. The number of lives lost was sixty-six and the numberinjured two hundred and twenty-threo. Of the former fifty-two were railroad em- ployes, and of the list of wounded the same class furnished one hundred and twenty-three. Janu- ary is one of the worst months of the year for railroad operatives. Ice and snow, severe storms and rapid changes of temperature place the bdbm- ployes in constant peril. It is very con- venient to charge accidents to the neg- ligence of the operat'ves, but the per cent proven is decidedly small. While great improvements have been made in the equipment of passenger trains, there has been no substantiul progress 1n disposing of the man-killing freight e couplers. The railroads are slow to adopt devices to protect the lives of men and switchmen, not from lack of life-saving appliances, but mainly because the leading car building com- pauies stubbornly refuse to useimproved couplers unless the patentees sell their rights for atrifle. The proposed change in the interstate commerce law giving the commission power to compel rail- roads to adopt improved equipment affords a purtial remedy, and congress should speedily adopt the amendment, COLONEL WiLLiAM Copy of Ne- braska, as everybody knows, is exciting the admiration of Rome’s four hundred with his magnificent display of western civilization, A cable dispateh, in com- menting upon a grand reception which Colonel Cody and some of his Indian friends attended in gala costume, flashes the intelligence that in reply to questions addressed to the gallant col- onel by the ladies of the court, he was 80 dazzled as to answer in broken Eng- lish. Now if thére is anything which Colonel Cody prides himself on next to msrifleand his hucking bronchoitis his Iinglish. The imputation is therefore as false as it is libelous. If in conse- quence Colonel Cody resents the insult and gets his fingers entangled in the hair of the luckless scribe who sent the dispateh, there may be a scalp-lifting in Europe which will make the effete monarchs of the old world tremble on their thrones. AND:now comes a delegntion.of citi- zens from the Black Hills seeking im- proved railroad facilities between the metropolis and Rapid City. The gen- tiemen from the great mineral fields of the northwest ave welcome. Omaha wants the ores, the coal, the stone and other material of that region in ex: change for her meat, corn, grocevies, dry goods and clothing. The delegates from Rapid City can count upon the aid of our people in their appeal to the rail- roads to better the transportation of commodities to and from the Black Hills. WHAT has become of the council committee on anuexation? The mem- bers should goto work or resign in favor of live, active men. The ques- tion of the union of the two cities should be brought to a focus without farther delay. If the council of South Omaha declines to submit the question to a vote of the people, it should be made a matter of record,so that the enemies of union and progress may, be kunown. The city council should inzist on a report, and if not forthcoming a ne w committee should be appointed. NORTHERN vailroad buildersare work- ing congress for right of way through a portion of Yellowstone National park. Should they secuve the privilege it will strengthen their grip on the great wonderland and anchor the grow tide of sight-seers on northern lines. The inaction of the allied central lines with regard to the park is inexplicables Perhaps they will wake up when it is 100 late to secure a foothold in a region that is destined to attract travelers from ull quarters of the glove. THE instructions of the general land oflice pronibiting the purchase of In- dian claims on the Bioux resorvation by whites, will deprive the followers of Sitting Bull of what promised to be a very profitable business, As traders the Sioux can drive as good a bargain as the shrewdest Yinke Talked (o Dratn St. Louls Glabe-Democrat, ‘The indications ure that the educational bitl will be defeated in the senate. There was a time when it bad a good prospect of success; but aince then Senator Blair has talked in its favor fot wisely, but too covi- ously. kel A Pointin kit Etiquette, New York Sui, 1t ia no longer good: form to speak of the austere and pretentagus person who presides over o big apartment house as janitor. He bears the title of superintendent, and bears it with unusual dignity and grace. Nothing ever disturbs his tremendous air of import- ance. - Ll A Convenient Introduction. Boston Hevald, By order of the United States goverumen t, the island in New York harbor whereon the statute of Liberty is ereeted is to be made an immigrant landing station. All nowco ers from the old worla will thus have an op~ portunity to make the early acquaintance of the goddess whom they have come over to sce. - Dishonor and the Diamond. St. Louis Republic, Several of the baseball teaws are still 1n- complete and the coutract breaking woes ght on. Bigger premiums are offered for | players' dishonor this year thun ever before. The season will prove demoralizing in mors ways than one. The most encouraging feat. ure for the protession is that with all the in- ducements held out the number of jumpers I8 not larger. s The Stronghold of the Spojls System. Fhiladelphia Pr The senate has ended a ridiculous session with & rigiculous collapse, and the utter fail- ure of the inquiry into the way in which the secrots of exeoutive sessions leak briogs perceptibly nearer the day in which the secrecy of these sessions will be abolished. They are the last stronghold of the spoils tem, and wheu they are gone corrupt and corrupting bargains over the confirmation ot appointments will be less easy than now. — Bualldozing Has Begun, Stowz City Jonanal. It seems that the Union Pacifie, noting the popular movement in Nebrasia for the con- trol of railroads, has by ths language of one of its oMcials announced that *'it will not put down another mile of track in the state.” It would abpear accordingly that the bull- dozing has begun in Nebraska. We have heard this kind of thing in Towa. Railroad officials became absolutely monotonous in threatening that they would neither build nor make improvements in Towa if the peo- ple of tho state asserted their rights over the common carriers. The railroad officials will make the same threats in Nevraska, and thiey will seizo on every reduction of wages and employes, every reduction of service, and every refusal to make improvements as au opportumity for reierating that theso things are all done as a result of the action of the state. But it is ail bosh, and if the people of Nebraska can be so cheaply bull~ dozed thoy will deserve the thralldom that will follow the tame submission, S e STATE AND TERRITOIKY. Nebraska Jottings. Ainsworth expects to secure a seventy- five barrel roller mill soon. Wheeler county has a resident who stands 6 foet 7 inches in the stockings. Fair grounds have been purchased by the Brown county agricultural society. Hebron’s city council has resolved to tako into the city limits the outlying additions. Jonn Burgerson,a Holdrege broom maker, committed suicide by cutting his throat while temporarily insane. A crazy woman escaped from the Mastings asylum the other night, but was found in the railroad yards and returned. J. D, Calhoun’s new paper, the Lincoln Herald, has* made its appeavance in bright form, It will appear weekly, “with the im- vlication that if fortune favors it shall be made a daily.” A Sunday school normal institute will be held in the Ashlaud Congregational church March 18, 19 and 20. 1t will be conducted by Rev. J. D. Stewart of Aurora, silas Copper, a Dawes county farmer who' had been making hay during the month of February, was forced to suspend his work in the hay field by the recent cold snap. There are 175 pupils in the Indian school at Genoa, 108 boys and 72 girls. Tho health record of this school 18 far above that of any other Indian school in the country, the death rate being only 5 per cent in the' past six years, A span of bay mares, ono having a white -star in the foreheaa, hitched to a top buggy, were fourd by the roadside near Tobias Sat- urday. They are supposed to be stolen and anybody desiring information in regard to them should address L. E. Haysbarger, Tobias, The proprictors of a gambling house at Norfolk refused to cash £00 worth of hips” which a young man had won and the matter has been carried into court in a way which will probably bring out the names of & nimber of people who have been Heeced in the den, Olifowa is cursed with a gang of hood- lums. Their latest act was to break all the windows in the Baptist church and destroy other valuable vroperty. ‘The Ohiowan says there is strong talk of punishment on the whipping post plan. A special feom Humboidt says: Fred Borrier thought he saw a chance to make a little money casily. He was donated a couple of steers with cancera on their jaws, He killed and dressed them und was all ready to ship the at to Minneapolis when Mr. C. A. Babcock, our county attorney, dropped onto Fred withi great weight. The result was the destruction of tho meat. 1tis estimuted that more than a barrel of slime, horse-slobbor and other fiith is turned into the town cisteru near this ofice during overy twenty-four hours, to prime the pump, suys the Bertrand Herald, Most of the water for that purpose is dipped out of the trough, where horscs and cows drink and dogs g0 1n_to bathe. Why can’t this town have a halt decent pump? Wyoming. The Conyerse county term of court lasted a weok and cost $2,000. A Green River man has a_contract to fur- nish 6,000 tons of ice to the Union Pacific. The preliminary_steps havo been taken toward organizing Natrona county and April 3 set as the date for holding tho clections. “Lwo brothers, Avthur and Watson Brown- leo, wero arrested at Nowcastlo charged with burglary, and have becn taken to Dougias for trial. Mrs, Sarah Black, widow of George A. Black, who was hanged at Laramio week before last, died last week ot pneumonia. She was in her fifty-third year. She married Black several years ago and was twice his age. Charles ‘Trumbull, senteaced for ten years for murdering a man at Lusk Frauk De Castro, eighteen months for altering brands on stock, and William Darrow, five years tealing, were sent to Joliet last . Benjamin Staunton, the talented pas- tor of an independent church at Douglas, is before the people again. His suit for di vorce from his absent wifoe was denied, and he hus appealed to the court to collect $300 back pay due from the trustees of his church, The citizens of Johnson and Sheridan connties have incorporated the Massacre Hill Monument association and will erect a monument on the site of the Ihil Kearney massacre which occurred Dacember 21, 1866, and wherein Colonel Fetterman and eighty- seven soldiers and citizens were butchered by the Indians, Mike Smith, an Australian running a miners' boarding house at Kock Springs, attempted to murder his wife on Suuday, He was about plunging a kuife into the woman's throat when ono of tha boardars struck his uplifted arm with a pick handle. Smith's arm was brokea by the blow and he was subdued by the boarders and taken to Jail, - HIGH SCHOOL HOODLUMS, ‘hey Haze a Student in a Most Brutal Manner. Eav Craine, Wis,, Mar “pocial Tel- egram to Tue 13ER.—Will Dudley, oighteen years old, son of Rev. Dr. J. F. Dudle the First Congrogational church, was most outrageously hazed by ten young ruflans yesterday ot the Washington high achool Dudiey, 1t appears, had been tardy Friday afternoon and in consequence his class was aeprived of a half-holiday. Yesterday after- noon, after school, Joo Alexarder, aged niueteen, the son of a member of the board of oducation; George McGregor, uged eighteen, son of the principal of the high school, with eight others fell upon Dudley, dragged him dowo stairs, bumped his bead against the wall, cuffed and pounded him and tore his trousers, and wouud up by cutting off close to the head a lurge patch of his pompadour with a pair of horse clippers. The hazers are to be arrested. Principal McGrogor may have to go as & result of the trouble. - Wire Nail Works Shut Down. FiNoLaY, O., March 1L—[Specl Tele- n to Tup Bee. |—The wire nal men of the United States, with & few exceptions, shut down yesterday until March 24 and probably louger. 'The object of this move, it is asserted, is to force certain mauufactur ers of wire who have beeu obstinate to come into the trust, A NAID Wi WOULD MARRY. Any Good, Temperate Nebraskan Can Procure a Jewel. STATE ORATORICAL CONTEST. Friday Evening the Timo and Bo. hanan's Hall the Place—A Double Funoral—Capital City in Brief. Address Miss Elizabeth Wright, NCOLN, Neb. March 11 Special to Tur Bee.]-—-Occasionally very fanny correspondence finds its way to the various departmerts of state. Of this claes iho fol- lowing self-explaining lotter isa fair ox- amplo: Bostox, Mass., March 6 —Seccretary of State of Nebraska —-Dear Sir: Miss Eliza- beth Wright, No. 20 Mount Pleasant street, Somerville, Mass, age twenty-five years, English descent, born in New England, 18 willing to marry a good; respectablo man, farmer or otherwise, who cau support a wife in comfort or affluence. Please recommend her as being a young lady of excellent Christian character, She would make a good house wife aad 1s well educated. I cordially recommend her. Do your best to go her a good and temperate husband, ‘aithfully yours L. JONES. STATE ORATORICAL CONTEST. ‘The state oratorical contest takes place at Bohanan’s hall Friday evening, tire I14th J. B. Fogarty of tho state uuiversity, . Ilorguson of the Wosleyan university, A. Turner of Doane college and D. A. Turner of Gates college will be the contest- ing orators. Good music will add diversity to the programme, and the preparations are ail but complete. NORTON'S AND MILLER'S FUNERALS, romains of Conductor Norton and Brakeman Miller, the victims of yosterday's wreck near Harvard, arrived in this city this morning when they were taken directly to the undertaking rooms and prepared for in- terment, Norton's face and body were burned in a horrible manner, presenting a spectacle that a person does not care to look at but once, and Miller's condition was but little better, atthough not burnod. The fun- al services were held at Roberts' under tak- ng rooms, and the remains of the unfor- tunate men wero laid in the grave at Wyuka at 8 o'clock. Norton carried £5,000 insur- ance and Miller £3,000. The forwmer’s people live in Canadn, and the latter’s in Indiana. Neither were married. CAPITOL INTELLIGENCE. Commissioner Steen returned from ‘Wahoo today much improved in nealth, but still far from well, ‘I'he Wyandotte coal case before the state board of transportation 1s set for trial on Friday next. Bauk statements for the quarter ending February 25 aro coming in by the hundred. Clerk Howe is kept busy flliug them. ‘T'he secrctarics of the state board of transportation ure actively preparing for the coming of the interstaw commission. Show- ing will be made that Nobraska has reason to comblain agamst the unjust freight dis- criminntion sho slleges. Mrs. Governor ‘Thayer, who has been quite sick, is greatly improved in health. ‘I'he governor, who 18 in Lexington today, returns home tomorrow and will be at his desk during tbe afternoon. He addressed a Grand Army conclave at that place tonight. THE DISTRICT COURT. Eighteen divorce cases were knocked from the docket today, but there are still some forty-five pending. Decree of foreclosure was entered in favor of Thomas R. Burling and against Daniel E. Chapman today. Burling is taercfore $2,404 ahead. Emma Maxwell sustained her charges of adultecy and secured a decres of divorce from her busband George this afternoon. ‘I'his is the sequel of the Denver scundal re ported by Tne BEE u few weeks ago. The Foxworthy-Basterday case was dis- missed 1o this court this morning, quo war- rants proceedings having besn begun in the supreme court yesterday. This celebrated election contest case now bids fair to end in the near future, THE SUPREME COURT. The following were the proceedings in the supreme court today : State ex rel Tennison vs Coleman, leave given plaintiff to take record. State ex rel Scovilie vs Wilson, leave given vlaintiff to file brief in ten days ana defendant in twenty days thereafter; cause submitted O'Donnell V. 0. & N. & B. H. R. R. Co, submitted by plaintiff on briefs; Schuyler National Bunk vs Bollong, submitted, on motion to aismiss, defeauant given twenty days to file briefs, plaintiff fifteen days to reply; state ex rel Scoville vs Wilson, leave given Mea'lister to withdraw record. The following causes were argued and submitted: Schuyler National Baok vs Bol- long; Dickinson vs Mechlin: state ex rel vs Walker, on motiop to dismiss. The following cases wero filed for trial: Hurry Earl vs A, B, Reid & Co: error from the district courc of Lancaster county. State of Nebraska ex rel H. M. Miller vs E. 8, Cashman. T'wo warrauts. Charles Thompson vs Ernest Wiggenkorn et al; error from the district court of Saundaers county. Ambrose 5. Campbell error from the cout William J. Yetes vs Martin E. Kinney; error from the district court of Fillmore county. Bishop et al v& Stevens et al; error from the district court of Douxlas county. CITY NEWS AND NOTES. W. R._Hall of Leadville, Col., was the guest of Deputy Auditor Bowerman today. Mr. Hall is county judge of the county in which he resides. Colonel Alvord of the state treasurer’s do- partment and ex-Auditor Babeock went to Central City today. 1t 18 uuderstood that their visit has to do with Merrick county's aefaleating treasurer's case, The sheriff or Juckson county, Mo., ar- rested a young man named Stitts at Waverly today, while on a visit 10 his brothers. Ho is wanted in Kansas City for burglary. ‘The case of Arthur Smith, who was ac- cusea of incorrigibility, was heard before County Judge Stewart this worning. The lad was discharged, the judge not thinking him bad enough for the reform school. W. Minde forged a check for §0 on Jack Lauhson and after gotting it_cashed by an unsuspecting viotim, procevded to get druak. He is now in jail and way servea term in the state penitentiary for his erime. Colonel’ Robert Meleynolds, manager of Funk's opera house, is Baid to be mutvi- monially wclined. - KOMAN vs John Yager; distriet court of Adams Cony ITRIUMPR. The Nebraska Colon ception to Pri (Copuright 15 KoxE, March 11 Cable—Special to* 1 Atends a Re- » Napoleon. 0 by James Gordon Bennett,| INew York Her Tng Bee |—Count I mola gave a grand reception at his palace in honor of his' cousin, Prince Jeromo Nupo- leon, which was attended by the upper ten thousand of Rome. The diplomatic bod, the quirinal and the vatican were larg ropresented. The event of the evening was the entrance of Buffalo Bill and five Indian chiefs in gala costumes. ‘They were natur- ully much dazzled by the beauty of the bril liunt toilats of the laaies, who asked many questions, which they answered in broken Loglish. Colonel Cody speaks with enthusiasm of the courtesy ho has met with in Rome, Buffalo Bill leaves Rome today for Flor- enca. On Saturday two Italiun cowboys be- longing to Prince luspoli came to ride two of Cody's brouchos. After struggling balf #n hour with the horses—the time given by Cody was ten minutes—one of the horses was ridden. The sccond horse it wis impos- siblo for the Italians o mount, and he had o Rive it up after trying half an hour, ‘This cannot be called much of a victory over the Awmerican cowboy, 1 wordainis, A Blow at Ohinese Morchants, WasHiNGTON, March 11.—Acting upon the advice of the attorney gencral Se Windom hasdecided that Chinese merchants cownng to this country for the first time provided with certificates cannot be per- mitted to land, notwithstandiog the fact that they are ot laborers, OVERHEARD IN HOTELS, “Hello! Mr, N, Estorday, hings down at Tecumseh 1" “Oh, everything is swimming along in the * usual channel,” “Business good " [} ever better: lu fact, judging from tho lifo in rea! cstato matters und the general bustle 1 commercial circles, [ am inclined to believe wo are on tho eve of at least an in tantilo boom,’ “Town'e growingl” Cos, very rapidly.” “How about politics—any ™ how are stir in that Not yot. ‘How does Connell and suit you folks! “First class, his appointments Hear of no unfavoravio comment from uny source. 1ut, by the way, we are going to take our chances n tho prospective redistricting of the stato, and in rospect to congressmau-at-large every- body feols extremely friendly toward Mr. Howe. In caso anew district s created in his territory he wil! undoubtedly be the Hrst member to represent it.' “On the attorney general focling?” cumseh will present the name of D. I\ Osgood for attornay genoral at tho approach- 1R atato convention “Who is Osgood! *‘Well, he’s not a volitician in the accepted interpretation of the term, but he is an able and active young attorney, an enterprising, approciative man in all affaies; in fact, just such au individusl as will cateh the people.'” “you are looking for an early convention, are_ you not!” it is genorally undorstood of this early day that the republican conveation wiil be held this year fully a month or sx weels ahead of the usual time. Another thing the people are in sympathy with down our way is the move for retrenchment and ;smrm in connection with legislative af- airs.” *‘Who are your probablo candidates for Johnson county " “'1t is 1impossible to tell even who they are liable to be, but they will be pledged to the supvort of the above move whoever they may be. Another thiug, they will bo elected, 100, every one ef them. I 'can perceive no cause for alarm on the part of the ropublican party throughout the state by reason of the agitation of these reform measures, It is but a reiteration of the party's sentiments and views on this subject.” “There is still another thing we don't like and shall oppose, und that is the proposed constitutional nmendment for the increasing of the salaries of the district judges. It \\l“ certainly be defeated. 'These judges now get 500 a year, and while there are but few on the bench but who could muke more at their practico, that is no reason for an increase of ample compensation for the work per- formed. When a man accepts a position of this character, he cousiders the honor and trust reposed 10 hum paramount to its emol- uments.” what's the at Mr. Chapman of Nebraska City said that business in his county is looking up consid- erably just now and everybody is preparing for a busy spring.” “What ‘are the wheat prospects—how does the coming crop look " “Wheat never looked finer and_ with no backset will pan out_handsomely. Our stronghold down in Otoe, however, you probably know, is corn. Why, last year tho general averaco was over forty-five bushels to the acre, and there was plonty of iand that yielded as high as seventy-thrpe bush- ols to the acre.” ““There ought to be plenty of democrats down there! You know corn makes—well, democrats.” “Yes, but they are not overly plentiful, ana arc on the decline.” “What do_the farmors have to say about the high freight rates on grain?” “Oir, they are red hoaded, of course, but [ don’t remembor when anybody was just ex- actly sutisfied with railroud freight rates.” R ey An Adjustable Fancy. Chicaqo ¢erald, Oft I recall how I a youth of young and ten- der years WVas smitten withthe “sweet sixteens''—we all recall such “dears'’— Aund love came o'or my spirit with its first cffulsive tloods, I never dreamed that I'd admire tender buds. aught but At twenty-eight my fancy turned-—I mar- veled that it should— From simplo girls and school day dreams to riper womanhood. And in mv heart a new ideal came in place of those, At twenuy-eight T much preferred the sum mer’s full blown rose, But now at forty-five I find I love old the best, I really can’t’ imagine how I ever loved tho rest. No morc of buds and blooms for me, for now my heart perceives An ancient, melancholy joy autumn leaves. s A PECULIAK COMPLICATION. maids in pressing Wisconsin Irish and Germans War- ring Over the Bennett Law. MiLwAUKER, Wis, March 1l.—[Special Telegram to Tne Bee.|—The Benaett school law, referring to the teaching of alien languages in the public schools, ete., which has been subject to so fhuch talik for some tme past and out of which so much political capual 18 expected to be made by democrats anxious to catch the German vote, has de- veloped a uew sensation. Archbishop Heiss, Bishop Flasch and Bishop Kalzer, Wiscon sin’s three Catholic prelates, bave pre| and signed a lengthy s Catholics of the state denouncing the Ben- nett law, earnestly protestini against its en- forcement and boldly demanding its repeal. ‘The voters of Wisconsin are cailed upon to oppose the law 1n every manner possivble at the polls, There 18’ considerabio division of opinion as to the effect of this manifesto. The three prelates named are Germans. For years the Irish Catholics of Wisconsin have been trying to get a hishop of their own race or an Awerican and feel slightiy disgrantled over their failuro to do o, It is asserted by one prominent Milwaukeo Irishman that this manifesto will have an effect which will ut. terly astonish the prelates, for, he says, ho firmly believes the Irish Catholics as i rulo will array thomselves in favor of the Ben- nety law. — - A weak back, with a weary aching lame. ness over the hips, 18 a sign of diseasad kid- neys. Use tha best Kidney curative known, which is Burdock Blood Bitters, - - Notes feom Paris, L Copan tght 1890 by James Gordon Bennett.] Pamis, March 1L—|New York Herald Cable—Special to Tne Bee. |—The Heruid correspondent saw Gounod today and is au thorized to state that there is no truth i the roport that be is about o compose another opern to bo produced in Americs in 1802, The illustrious composer of “Faust” said there is absolutely. not one word of truth in this fantastic piece of news. According to the Gaulois, Mr. Jules Cur- tics has received and_accepted n handsomo offer from the New York Review to write his memioirs. OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. 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