Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 2, 1890, Page 4

¥ « Edftorial D - by city officials, and while in good con- + be liberal 50 as to insure their fulfiliment " Amevican wife, he attempted to revolu- THE DAILY BEE. L w i | Bullding, Mibune Buiiding. | street. CORRESPONDENCE, All_communientions ting to news and editorinl mattor should be addressed to the | rtment. BUSINESS LETTERS, All husiness letters and_remittances should e addressed (0] ublixhing Compnny, | O Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 he mude payable to the order of the Com- pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors. The Bee B'1ding, Farnan and Seventeenth Sts. The following fs the rate of postage neces- wary to mall single copios of Tie BEKout of the | city. &-page paper.....U, 8. 1 cent Forelgn 2 cents 1 cent “773 conts * 3 cents 3 cents 4 conts SWORN Btate of Nebrask| } B8, Tzschuck, secrotary of The Bea County of Douglas, George B, Publishing ‘Company. does that the actual eirculation for the week ending April ! lomnly swear DALY BER State ot Nebraska, « ng duly sworn, de- osca and says that Lo fs secrotary of The fil‘t' Publishing Company, that the actual av ily ciroulation of Tk DALY BER 3 th A pril, 1880,18.550 600 coples; FOF June, 180,18,408 ¢ 1840, 18,738 coples; for August, 0, 18710 ¢ r September, 1880 or Noven 880, 18,907 cople es; for Decombe coplos, o e 3 GRORGE. B, T75CHUCK. Sworn to before me and _subseribed in my presence thix Sth diy of April, A, D., 180, [Seal.) N. P. Feir, Notary Public, THE health of the publiecannot be ma- terially improved by foisting sinccure chemists and clerks on the city treasury. OF course every man who does not agree with the hospital jobbers is, in their opinion, either a fraud or a jealous rival. GIGANTIC election frauds are coming to the surface in Chieago. It is evident that the Tammany branch was notstarted for pleasure, I 15 about time for the coroner to call a halt on promiscuous postmortems. The county already supports an ample staff of physiciuns, COMMISSIONER BERLIN promis re- form and reduction in this year’s county tax list. Meanwhile taxpayers will prayerfully watch the fulfillment of the pledge. Tre election of Marvin Hughitt to the Union Pacific directory foreshadows a | closeralliance of the Adamsand Vander- bilt railroads than a mere traffic agree- ment. DEMoc courts f: RATIC threats to appeal to the to shake the speaker’s pro- es. Mr. a quorum every time the dem- ratic mombers attempt the ostrich act. found respect for the house rul Re: AND'S reform boom struck a snag in Ohio. The bourbon legislature, true to purty prineiple, slaughtered the Australinn ballot bill. The state of Brice is “ferninst” political innovations, THE proposition to require the laying of permanent walks within the five limits will work needless hardships on hun- dreds of property owners who have recently laid plank walks within this district, These walks were ordered laid dition should not be disturbed. The council should give the board of public works discretionary power DoNoRs of property for park purposes should remember that the park commis- sion’s means ave limited. The improve- ment of the existing parks cannot be stopped in order to devoto all the funds tonew parks. Kvery park will recelve its share of the money at the command of the commission. The conditions ac- companying donations should therefore without neglecting existing parks, Tne Marquis de Mores, who has been arvested in Paris for ineiting socialism, is the erratic Frenchman who eut a wide swath in the northwest a few years ago. Haviog captured a fortune with an tionize the beof industry of the world by planting packories and herds in Dakota und Montana, which proved a huge fail- ure, surpasssng the best efforts of the Frewens in Wyoming. His careor as a socialistic agitator has been ns disas- trous us his cowboy ventures in America, | | —e THE vegistration lists for the special election to bo held on the Sth inst. will close next Saturday 1 registere voters who have changed residence since the last election are required to person- | ally notify the registravs. Owing to | the division of the second ward into three polling precinets new registration | Lists must be made, and voters desiring | to participate in the election must seo that their names are registered. The | election is an important one, und should bring out a large representative vote. In addition to the annexation proposition, | the question of issuing bonds to the amount of seventy-five thousand dollars, “to B6 devoted to the paving, repaving or macadamizing of intersec- tions of streots and spaces opposite alleys,” fifty thousand to be devoted to the maintenance of sowers and fifty | thousand for the erection of four or more | fire engine houses, will be determined | by the electors. These are pssaLy tmprovements and should receive the ac- tive support of progressive taxpayers and workingmen. The progress of the city in the past was largely due to lib- eral oxpenditures on public works, ne | fronted PrE. 'ON LEGISLATION. There have been some brave words polcen in congress by republicans who best interests of the old sol- at hoavt in opposition to extrava- gant pension legislation, but it appears to have preduced very little effect, Gen- eral Hawley, himself an old soldier with a conspleuous record for gallant and use- ful service, n short time ago told the senate that the disposition to enor- mously Increase the pension obll- gations of the government was in danger of being carried too far, with the effect of doing grave injustice to a large majority of the people by im- posing upon them n heavier burden of taxation and perhaps ultimately imperil- ing the just claims of the old soldiers by crenting a powerful public sentiment hostile to all pensions. e favored a liberal policy of pensions for dependent soldiers, but he deprecated, as did General Grant and many others whose regard for the welfare of the. veterans none of them ean doubt, loading the government with pension obligations for men who do not need © such benefaction, able- bodied and physically sound men who are entirely capable of self-support and men who have ample means at their command. To give such men an allow- ance from the public treasury was in the opinion of General Hawley a wrong to | the needy soldier as well as to every cit- izen who contributes to the support of the government, and many equally dis- tinguished opinions to a like effect might be quoted. This may have had some effect in the senate, but was entively without in- fluence with the house. The senate passed a dependent pension bill, which it was estimated would add from thirty-five to forty million dollars annually to the pension obligations of the government. But dependent old soldiers who did honorable service are entit] to the care of the government, and this addition to the treasury dis- bursements on pension account would have been aceepted as just by the great majority of the people. This measure, however, did not go far enough to satisfy the house, and on Wednesday that body pussed a substitute for it which proposes to still further enlarge the pension outlay, raising the total expendi- Ture cording to the estimate of Mr. Grosvenor, a republican representative from Ohio, not less than one hundred and fifty miHion dollurs a y nearly forty-thres per cent of the gross income of the government. *‘It was munificent Henerosity,” remarked the Ohio con- gressman, “such as the world had ne before witnessed and exceeding that of all civilized nations combined.” This mensure proposes to place on the pension voll the name of any officer or en- listed man of sixty years or over who served ninety days or more in the war and received an honorable discharge, the pension to continue dur- ing life at the rate of eight dollars per month. It also provides that all per- sons who served ninety days or more and were honorably discharged, and are now or may Lereafter be suffering from mental or physical disability, shall upon due proof be placed upon the list of in- valid pensioners at eight dollars per month, The widow of any soldier is to eive a pension when she shall arrive at sixty years or be without other sup- port than daily labor. Is this a just measure, considering what is due both to the. soldicrs who per- formed military serv and to the whole people? Is itnota fact that thonsands of the ninety-day men never did any sevvice before the encmy and did not leave their states? ~Yet under this bill they would have an equal claim with men who risked their lives in battle and experienced the havdships and privations of the march and the camp, while under the sixty year provision some of them would come into possession of a pension before veterans of the last three years of the war. Thus a ninety day man who was thirty-one years old when the war broke out and returned to civil life, which he practically may never have left, as soon as the three months expired, would if this bill were a law be entitled to receive at ance a pen- sion of eight dollavs a month, while tho man of twenty-five years who enlisted in 1862 Qr 1863 and served to the end of the war would have to wait seven or cight years longer before coming into his age pension. Wil the veterans regard this as just? Would it not bo grossly unjus True, there may be few survivors among the ninety day men who did not re-enlist, but few or many, they should not be given the same consideration as the veterans, even where they performed actual service before the enemy. It is no less unjust to the whole people to propose paying a pension to all soldiers who attain the age of sixty regurd- 8 of their condition in life, There are thousands who would have the right under this bill to claim eight dollars a month who are in inde- pendent circumstances, and it would be nothing short of & robbery of the peoplo to pay them any sum out of the public treasury. It has baen said that the tendency of our pension legislation is to deprecinte the popular idea of patriotism, and it canunot be doubted that such measures s that which pussed the house on Wednesday must have this effect. The new genoration, however well 1ght to bel at it was unselfish love of country which sent men from the comforts and weity of homo to the hardships of the camp and the perils of the battlefield, may learn to think dif- ferently after being constantly con- with new demands, many of which cannot be defended upor any principle of justice. There isa duty to speak plainly and honestly of this mat- ter which ¢ ns the true interest and wells of the old soldiers, in whose be- half THE B has always been out- “spoken, quite as tuch asthat of the gen- eral public of which they are a part. LOP OFF TH IRS, Our city physician calls attention to the conteast between Omaha and St. Paul as regards the health officer’s staff and the means at his disposal. We are told that St. Paul employs a health commissioner, an assistant comumissioner, three city physicians, several clerks and sixteen inspectors, whose salu es and | | expenses uggroguto forty thousand dol- | lars a year, while Omaha only employs one physician at twenty-four hundred dollars a year, with an additional allow- ance of three thousand dollars a year for expenses of the board of health, This is & marked contrast, to be sure. It shows that St. Paul has a good many more tax-eaters than Omaha, But St. Paul can afford to be more extravagant. St, Paul isaf older city, a wealthier city, and a larger city than Omaha. Her assessed valuation is one hundred mil- lions, and consequently her resources are very much greater than those of Omaha. But the point raised by THE BEE is that Omaha has already too many super- numeraries on the city pay-roll. We have trebled our police force within three years, and established half a dozen boards and commissions, with high- salaried clerks and retainers. If the inspection of milk requires the employment of a specialist, why cannot the board of health pay for the service out of the three thousand dollars which the council has placed at its disposal? The membews of the board are all city officials drawing fair salaries. There is no reason why they should get extrapay for discharging duties that devolve upon | them incidentally as city officials. THE FOLLY OF IT. It is stated that the more judicious among the supporters of prohibition in Towa since the decision of the federal supreme court deelaring unconstitu- tional state laws which provide for the seizure of liquor imported from other states while in the original package in the hands of importers, are confessing that it is folly to maintain a system which it is now plain cannot possibly be made effective without congressional legislation. The serious nature of the blow to prohibition administered by that decision is everywhe rerecognized. How- ever rigorously the state law may be executed within its limitations, however large and vigilant the constabulary provided for its enforcement, it can- not keep liquors out of the state nor pre- vent their use by any one who shall pur- chase them in another state. The power of seizure, so essential, as the authority of the supreme court held, to the com- plete operation of the prohibitory law, is denied to the state, and its officers are helpless to prevent the entrance into the state of any amount of liquors which its citizens may have won- signed to them from another state. The last hope of muking prohibition com- plete in Towa was in the act providing for the seizure of liquors coming into the state. This has been destroyed by the supreme court decision. It ought to be clear to all men who can take a calm and sensible view of the situation that it is the gravest possible folly to continue a policy which, having failed of its purpose under the most favorable condition to success, is now placed hopelessly beyond the possibility of enforcement, If there are any who balievo that con- gressional legislation muy be secured to accomplish what-the state law is powe less to do they will be in dismissing such faith. The authority of congress to give permission to the state to ¢ clude liquors from another state appeavs to be conceded in the supreme court de- cision and is perhaps not to be doubted, but the probability of congress ever granting such permi extremely remote. tercourse hatween mmercial in- states is a s will never be likely to impair, since to do so would most surely lead to consequences of a very scrious character. The only wise and practicable thing to do is to substitute for the inoperative and costly prohibitory law a policy of high license with local option,"and it ought to be pos- sible to accomplish this before the next regular meeting of the legislature. Gov- ernor Boies was elected upon this issue, receiving thousunds of republican votes. y of his pro- fessed convictions regarding the liquor question by calling an extra session of the legislature to exclusively consider the question. A week ago such a sug- gestion as this might proparly haye been deemed unworthy of consideration. It cannot reasonably be so regarded now, when there must bs both republican and democratic supporters of prohibition who the most vital principle that con appreciate tho futility of longer continu- ing that policy. Theve is suggestive mattar in this for the intelligent reflection of the friends of prohibition elsewhere who are disposed to substitute that policy for high license and local option, and such as will give it serious and candid consideration will have little difficulty in sceing the error of their pusition. CoLONEL RicmArp HINTON, who has been appointed supevintendent of arte- sian iveigation backed by a twenty thousand dollar appropriation, is & man of varied and voeiferous attainments, What he does not know about irrigation is hardly worth knowing. Asanengineer he has distinguished himself in various political campaigns, and his elovation is not only a tribute to his worth but an acknowledgment of his faithful work fc Scnator Plumb extending over th year. The colonel and profess- lor was assistant secretary to the ecommission which junketed |in the west last summer and knowledge signing | suceceded without the | or consent of his superiors in himself wr to the survey | significanc appointment in the fact th 1t chief of govern- ment surveyors hus not encouraged born | geniuses and itris necessary for the | good of the service to curb his assump- tion of authority. The public ean rest assured that the artesiun irvigation problem will receive a spirited tussle from Colonel Hinton us long as the money holds out of Kansas ure soul-rending. They prac- tically denounce the supreme court as a tool of the saloons, and cry out thut **jus- tic has received a futal blow, The sud- den change in th significant, THE v amparts of Quebec are shaken by a political scandal that in its incep- tion and execution throwsa dark shadow | the best efforts of the late Bill It has been the custom of ad- wed royalty over the bor- dor tosueerat and ridicule republican over The | THE lamentations of the prohibitionists | | tional dishondsty. The Quebeo robberies institutions Tma point to the rascalities of muniecipal zg)\"grmnmn as proof of na- and the Pacifletailroad thefts show that, poputation Wfikidered, the Canadinns are severnl laagues in advance of the | states in reflidd rasoalit; Becom{ng an Chicago Tribune. | e The closest guasd will now be kept upon | Mr. Kemmlerof- Auburn, N. Y., to keep the mob of eager Hfe fsurance agents away from him. Mr. Honx's Eleotion Bill. Iaston Jowrnal. The bill whichhas thus aroused the wrath and apprehension of the democratic senators is a moderate, even a conspicuously conserva- tive, measure, which in every ;particular keeps well within the powers and privilegos which the constitution guarantees to congress of vegulating the election of its members. piteap ihohing Has a Good Counterclaim. Detroit Free Press. Tho St. Louis father is thrifty soul. One of them is suing a young lady to recover the presents which his son gave her while they were engaged, the engagement having been broken off. The girl's father should retaliate with a suit for the cost of ofl, gas and fuel. - When a Woman Will She Will. Chicago Times, A new cat has been let out of the Bismarck- William bag, 1t is now positively announced that Bismarck's dismissal was due to the en- mity of the widow of Emperor Frederick and was brought about by her intriguo, 1t is quite possible. From the days of Eve woman's di- plomatic hand has been more powerful than an emperor's sword, and if it is true the pow- erful chancellor has only learned in his old age what mauy man has learned in his early life—that a womaw’s will is the voice of fate. pisi ) sk Striking at the Republic. hiladelphic American. That the murder of Clayton was purely po- litical is beyond question; yet we had the Times of New York trying to disparage the results of the investigation by anticipation. Has it come to this that political nssassination 15 recognized as one of the legitimate instru- ments of political warfare, and that ouly those who make u disturbance of it are to be visited with displeasure! In what way are the murderers of Mr. Clayton better than John Wilkes Booth or Charles J. Guiteau. gt Dok ONE MORE SATER. OxamA, Neb,, April 80.—To the Bditor of Tue Ber: Your editorial entitled “One More Tax-Eater" betrays such a misapprehension of facts that I beg leave to correct you. The board of health did not recommend the ap- pointment of a city chemist at $50 per month, but requested that that sum be provided monthly for analyses. It was not expected that such an amount would be necessary cach month, but there were months—the coming sumumer months _especially—in which that sum, perhaps even more, would be needed. You may be sure that the board of health is not going to spend one dollar of its meager al- low of 3,000 unnecessarily. As to ana- chemistry has come to be a most elaborate and exact science, bequiring elaborate outfits pecial applianees and special training. 1t is v to make andlyses in a sort of wi still more casy to find those who are to undertake such work, but an anal is accurate so cas to be a finality is within ~ the power only of those specially equipped and trained. Ordinary te are generally a mere waste of time and money. ~Apropos of this permit me to invi ar attention to what the city phy- sician eady doing in Omaha as compared with cities of the same rank. In St. Paul, for *cxample, there is a health commissioner ‘at a sulaxy of §2,50) per year with - an _assist ant at 81,500 per year,” two ‘and sometimes three physicians, ~a clerk and registrar of vital statistics and sixteen inspectors and s in various capacities, at sularies of annum, making the total expen the department between $10,000 and & ar, and the people of St. Paul after a e yeurs’ trial of this system unanimously agreo that it pays, the death rate having be reduced from ‘sixteen per thousaud to ten. Omaba expects this entive work —the work of twenty—to be done by one city physician and one inspector, and instead of £40,000, ¥3,000 is to be expended in doing it. The result is that inSt. Paul the work is done, the sanitar - dition of the v is something for every zen to be proud of and feel secure in, such that it attracts the best classes of citizeus from all over the eountry, while in Omaha all is done that can be done with the limited means ut our disposal, It has been a Source of mach gratification that this mevement for better sunitation has been so cordially endorsed by all the papers. Without such support, those who have tl undertaking in hand, can do nothing and things must be allowed to go on in the old way. With it, in time everything can be ac complished that is needtul and Omaha be placed in the front rank of cities not only us regards prosperity, but that which is the basis of all prosperity--health. CLARKE GAPEN, e e STATE JOTTINGS, Nebraska. A Jefferson county farmer killed seven wolves the other day. ive large brick buildings will be erected in Hooper this season, A county Sunday school conve held at St. Paul soon. Farmers near Arapal, are losing many hogs by cholera, A young son of Troy Hale of Battle Creek has heen tuken to the' Keurney reform school. A camp of Modern Woodmen has been or- ganyzed at Benedict, York county, with thivty members, W. W. Powers of St. Paul, aged eighty- five years, dropped dead while at wovk in his stable the other day. L. L. Allison of Wauneta, Chase county, has trapped over fifty boaver this winter, be: sides & number of otter, mink, coons and tion will be > complain that they aver City Times has ceased to exi and u democratic paper will take its pla making the second bourhon publication in Furnas county, It is said that a number of Superior people are using old wells for drains, ete., and the Journal enters a loud protest in the interests of the health of the city. * Horatio B. Suuhéeys aud Miss Belle Joy sre married at Osdeola Wednesday by Rey. J. C. Johnson, D.D.Y The groom 1s an only son of Judge Saunders and is a postal clevk on the Elkhorn véad, with headquarters at souri Val Tlie young couple are en- 1z wedding trip in'the east. 1owa (tems. The Lyons Congregationalists will build a $10 00 chureh, | have been found in £1ub has been formed by st studont. of theology in the 5 u five-year-ild Codar Rapids be olt Jeigked (n Miss Maty Mil- knee cap at Mpsgatine and sho is laid up | opairs, Presiding Elder ( trict will be coming fall. Mrs. Bolsen, wife of the old man who was | murderod near Beloit a few weeks ago, and her tw ons have heen indicted for murder 'fl’ of the Sheldon dis- a cundfdato for cougress the | ters married THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1800. strect and a passing dog licked it up and ox- | pived. Then Ben Barrett, the proprietor of | the restaurant, sat down to supper, used | sugar out of the bowl, and was only saved from death by the hard work of physicians. Despondency’, caused by driuk, was the cause of Kitson's self-destruction. The Two Dakotas. A building association has been at Fort Pierre. re corn 18 being planted in Charles Mix ity than ever before, | Northville, Spink county, will incorporate under the general laws, The Brule county school convention will be held at Kim ay 18 and 14, The bullion omput of the Black Hills mines for tho first half of April was §150,000. The New Jerusalom 18 the name of & new | town on the boundary line of South Dakota and Wyoming, Tho grand commandery, Knights Templar, of the two Dakotas will meet in Sioux Falls, June Thio question of dividing the two states is expectod to come up for discussion, but it is not probable that anything will bo done with the matter, for the reason that if the commandery should be divided according to state lines North Dakota would not be very strong in numbers. Delegations from Towa and Minnesota will attend the conclave. - POPE LEO'S TASK. organized The Pontiff Makes an Appeal to the German Bishops. [Copyright 18% by James Gordon Bennett.] Rowe, May 1.—[New York Herald Cable —Speciul to Tie Bee.] ~The pope has ro- decmed his promise to inaugurate world-wide social reform movements. Leo X(IL has be- wwun his tremendous tusk by writing @ pow- erfulappeal to the German bishops, urizing them to atonce begin & crusude in defense st the revolution- This important doc- ary spirit of socialism. ument is addressed to Arehibishop Kromenez of Cologne, and was made public by the vat- ican last night. Itewill be followed by sim- ilar pontifical rescripts to the other mations. The pope declares that he does not ignore the vast dangers and difficulties with which the social question has surrounded them; that he has deeply reflected on the causes and true remedies, He declares he has promised to do all in his power to solve the giant question of the time, * The pope asserts that the church’s part in the work of solving the sitnation will be more important than that of civil govern ments, because the divine force inherent in religion will turn men willingly to just and honest ways. The pope says: ‘“In order that the action of tho. churoh may be more effective, the times require that all of the means placed in its hands be put into operation, the reunited forces couspiving for one sole purpose, to les- seu the gravity of evil. Above all things, it is our duty to seek with patience aud assiduity to induce people to correct their habits and to habituate themselves to conform, in public and private life, to the doc- trine and exumple of Christ. It would be well if, in questions wi arve agitating the various classes, the precepts of justice and charity are not violated, and that the differ- *h by chunce arise might be settled by a paternal and authoritative intervention of the holy priests. They should cudeavor to | render the incommodities of the present life more tolerable to the poor, and the church liould not serve as a fomenter of cupidity or extravagance, but to acquire treasures more precious in heaven.”” R T iy BIG SCANDAL IN ADA. Prominent Politicians Charged with Boodlerism in Letting Coutracts. QuEnkc, May 1.—[Special Telegram to Ti Ber.]—The most gigantic political scandal in Canada since the celebrated Pacific railvoad seandal which in 1875 caused the downfall of Siv John A, Macdonald’s government, is an- nounced today in the shape of boodle charges against the dominion department of public works, presided over by Sir Hector Lange and aguinst Thomas Macgreevy, M. P., Sir Hector's bosom friend, who is alleged to have received y a quarter of a million of dol- lars from government contractors in the shape of commissions and for “procuring in- formation respecting rival tenders, aiding them to buy out lower bidders and obtaining for them higher prices than those provided for by the contract. The publication of the scandal is due to a family quarrel. The charges are made by Macgreevy's brother Robert, who was a silent partner “of Larkin, Connelly & Co., contractors, who con: structed the Quebec harbor ' works and Esquimaux dock in British Columbia. Robert Macgreevy claims he himself paid his brother $215,000 for using his position as mer ber of parlisment and his influence_with Sir Hector and iment to furnish them with the prices of other bidders and thus ob- tain them contracts, and to have the_ govern- ment pay them 35 cents per yard for dredging instead of 25 cents, as promised by their con: tracts. A most profound sensation hias been alrcady created here by the publication of the scandal, which cannot avoid being taken cognizance of by the federal parlinment and may contribute largely toward the overthrow of Sir John's administration. HE FOOLED THE INSPECTOR. A Postoflice Thief Makes His Escape ‘When the Officer Arrives. HeLENA, Ark., May 1.—(Special Telegram to Tk Bee.|—W. B. Lindsay, deputy post- master here, is 3,500 short in his accounts and is a fugit’ He had entire charge of the oftice. Postmaster Grant is in the hard- ware business and did not look after the de- tails of the office very closcly. Special In- spector McClure of St. Lo entered the office yestorday morning, and presenting his credentials asked for the postmaster, 1L will call him," said Lindsay. Donning his coat and hat, instead of to his chief’s store, he w hived a skiff, and the last s L pulling down stream with might and main, T'he shortage was discovered two hours later. The entire amount has been stolen in the last sixty days and covered up by a system of falsé entries in the money ordor department. | Postmaster Grant has made the deficit good. | e MID TEARS OF GRIEF. Two Girls Married at the Bedside of' Their Dying Mother. Rocxkrorn, T, May 1.—[Special Telegram to Trg Bre.]—A most novel and pathetic double wedding occurred here yesterday. By the bedside of their dying mother the two duughters of C. L. Williams were united in marriage to their chosen husbands, Rev. W. A, Campbell, in the briefest manner and sim- plest language, united_Charles R. Smith of Chicago and Mary L. Willinms, and Walter D. Williams of Kockford and Alice D. Wil- liams, It was a most affecting spectaclo und the accompniments wero tears of grief, pot blossoms and brightness and joy. Mrs. 'Wil- linms was expected to live but a fow days and had expi desiio o sec lir duugh- - Another of Our ( LCopyright 18% by J Loxnoy, May | Herald Cable | Special to Tie Bek.]—The wedding of Hon Robert Boyleson, earl of Cork, to Miss Hale | of San Francisco was solemnized yesterday at St. Mary's Roman Catholic church, Cado- gan street. The ceremony was a very quiet one owing to the bridegroom’s family being in mourning. It being what is known us a mixed marriage, there was no music, neither any mass colebrated. ‘I'here were no brides- maids, but the bridegroom was attended by his brother, Viscount Dungroon Dale. - - prdon Bennett,) THE ORATORICAL CONTEST. 8, W. Naylor of Washburn Oollegs Takes First Honors. DOUGLAS OF MONMOUTH SECOND, Ferguson of the Wesleyan University Was Sick and Did Not Appear —State Ifouse Jottings ~The “Lincoln." LixcoLy, Neb., May L.—[Specal to Tue Bre.)—~The great interstate oratorical con- test ocourrod this evening at Funke's opern house, and the colloge orator is the autocrat of the hour., For the past two days delegates have been arriving and the streets have pro- sented § Dhively appearance with the repre- seitatives of all the leading colleges from Ohfo to Utah, with their colloge colors, badges, souvenirs, ete., fluttering from the lapels of their Prince Alberts, The statos represented are Ohio, Indiana, Hlinois, lowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado, In the afternoon a session of the delogatos was called, and there being anticipations of a lively timio over the alleged plagiarism of Mr. Ferguson, that dignified body went into excoutive sesslon, Tho. followihg are the delegate Ohio—Robert Tucker, W. H. Clatk, J. C. White, Tndiana—W. A. Bastian. Illinois—L. C. Hess, C. I. Buck, E. B. Cushing. Wisconsin—W. B. Midland, Minnesota—H, P, Baily, Towa—M. H. Eyon, Arthur McKay, W.J. Bennett, Nebraska—lohn B. Fogarty, H. E. Greg- ory, I. A, Rockhold. . Hill, R. M. Ruggles, H. D. orado—H. W. Wilson, ‘The convention was_presided over by G. i\l, Culner, while G. W, Allen acted as secre- ary. The opera house was crowded to its utmost capacity, and the various contes listened to with intense interest. Each orator was enthusiastically applanded, both at his appearance and at na ¢1086 of his offort. All were young men who had won the highest oratorical honors iu_their own colleges and afterwards distinguished themselves by win- ning the medal in a contest between all the rrimcull(‘gu ovators in the state where they helong. The following gentlemen were chosen as Jjudges in the contest: Thought and composition—Judge Alfred Yaple, Cincinnati, O.: Mr, Noble S. Prentiss, i\{'«-\\"wl\l, Il\'aul.; Rev. D. H. Swowden, Little ock, Ak P. Hammond, Denver; LT, Crittenden, Kansas City! wk I, Rapter, East St. Louis, 11i, The Indiana delegat sed a howl about the competency of ex-Governor Crittenden of Missouri acting as a judge, as they claimed he had been a rebel officer and as_their orator would speak on the subject, of slavery Crit- tenden would have hisprejudices so aroused that he would be iucapable of rendering a just deci “The ex-governor sent word_to the that he had never been in_the con- service and, further, that he was a lieutenant-colonel in_the Seyenth Missouri cavalry, He also notified them that as an ob- jeetion had been to his serving as a judge he would withdraw from that position. . M. Marquette was chosen in his place. Mr. William H, Wise of Indiana was the first speaker, and his subject was “The Race Problem.” He made a great impression on the audience. Equality is a fundamental principle of democracy,” said be. *Freedom and equality can be attained only through the operation of natural forces. Race prejudice must be destroyed and the south recopstructed upon principles of equality, intelligence and industrial prosperity.” Mr. R. Tucker of Ohio followed with an oration on “Democracy, the Dominant Idea,” He had a fine stage presence and an excellent deliv SIf it be true,” said he, “that France is the ‘savior of nations,’ how much more truly can it be sald of our own country that she is the teacherof nations. Not by war, not by blood, but by the force of her high ex- ample, by her unequaled prosperity, by the ever-inereasing patriotism of her people shall America teach the nations of tne earth the idea of democracy.’” Mr. B. H. Timberlake of Minnesota p: glowing tribute to Abraham Lincoln First American.” “A quarte has passed since Linc closing words of th time nor space intes 0 us and that loving face. Muay no historian’s hand ever smooth the furrows from that noble brow.” Mr. Milford H. Lyon of Towa spoke on “In- dividualism in Society.” “The development of society,” said the speaker, “is_directly de- pendent upon the advancement of its indj ual members, It is on the recognition of the ualue of individualism that tho new civiliza- tion can base its claims to perpetuity. It is within the seclusion of its own individuality that the soul retires to learn those lessons from itself which association cannot give, Ouly by self-reliance, self-subjection and loy- alty to principles can the individual attain unto the full measure of his powers,” Harry N. Wilson of Colorado_discoursed upon the work of Martin Luther, “If a man’s greatuess is measured by the effect of hislife and teachings upon the history of the world,” said he, “what a lofty position must Luther occupy! Three centuries have rolled on since Luther lived and iabored among men —three centuries of advance in edueation, religion and yzovernment. How much of this advance we owe to that fearless man we shall never know until that day when all hidden things are brought to light.” Mr. George O. Ferguson, the Nebraska speaker, was too ill to appear. Mr. W. B. Millard of Wisconsin spoke on “Liberty, “V nclude,” said he, *‘that liberty is not found in_breaking over proper restraint. The libertine is not the embodi- went of libe T'he outlaw has not, the responsibilities of law. In the pers the law-abiding citizen we sce the embodi- ment of the highest type of liberty. That man is absolutely free.” He is the king of the the noblest work of Giod.” S. W. Naylor of Kansas spoke on “The Puritun and the Cavalier.” ““The Puritan and the cavalier colliding formed modern England,” said tho orator. “The cavalier sprang from chivalry. The puritan was born of freedom of thought and of action, The in- fluence which the puritan-cavalier principles have had in the world’s progress s of vital giguificance in the estimation of our nationul “Mr. A. C. Douglas of Tilinois, the last speaker, delivered a flowery oration on “Our English Language.” “Otr literuture scems boundless like a summer landscape ap- proach tho apparent lmit, whi ceps unrolling hev scroll of b libravies testify to an a vividness of description. ration not to be found literature bears the in of education and morals,” et neither we gunce of expressio) a tersenoss n ng where. English s of every udvaice The fudges awarded the ficst prize to Mr, S. W. Nuylor of Washington college, T peka, Kan., and the second A C to Mr. L Douglas of Monmouth college THE LINCOLN, Tho plans for tl w Lotel now being on the south srner of Ninth and s ar wen at the stol of Humphrey Br and are the work of Mendelssohn, Fisher & Lawde of O The plans show o beautiful and imposing structure us large s the Murray hotel of Omaha, _There will be a double frontage, 125 foet on Ninth street and 134 feet on 1 strect., The entrances are models of beauty and the On cast side of the building overy foor will o a quadrangulur varanda, These are to grand stalrcases are visible from th th Rallway surg by the Sioux county grand jury. Since the organization of the Iowa branch of the Amer n Educational association in | November, 1585, 181 homeless children have | found permanent and conrfortable homes in the state, The twenty-third Towa State annual meeting of the | tle Medical Society will he Michael H. Kitson, a retived railroad man, went into u Burlington restaurant and called | for & cup of coffee, While the waiter's back wiis turned ho put’ steychnine in the sugar | | bowl and dgliborately dosed his coffe the same. Ho then drauk the fatal effect | The coffee was throwu into the Kaxsas Ciry, Mo, M gram to Tk Bre.]—Tl of the national association of rallway surgeons | met today at the Gillis opera house here. President J B. Murdock of Pittsburg, alled | Routine business oceu ssion_and this aftermoon & of papers by Dr, N. H.i Dr. J. H Conn_of Cor ipson of Kansas City; Dr. T, J. Whitten 1L, and Dr. I E. Russell of 0. The e g session 4 up to_the paying of a tribute to the late honored Dr. J. W. Juckson Winslow's Soothin, relieves the Syrup for Chil child from pain | cai bo supported by massive pillars finel ul, Al the entrances are I g On_ the P street side’ the building is to be five stories high and six on the Ninth strect side. On the fivst floor {5 the siue quo non of all did rotunda, The Lincoln" NOTARIAL ABPOINTMENTS, The following notarlal appointments were made today by Governor Tha; Dwyer, Plattsmouth, Cass coul Darlin Al MeNi land, Gag wd county unty; Lichty county CAVITOL INTELLIGENCE Articies of incorporation of the Concord | state bank of Concord, Dixon covnty, have been fled in tho offles of tm‘\’mn rv‘;r stato. The incorporntors are James Paul, -V:n'::‘! W lll‘nrfln‘l’.’?‘hurlm W. Miller, Georgs 0. Acers and David O, Leamer. Tho paid- up capital is $10,000, I(lfl;t‘nwr and Mrs. Thayer returnod from Grand Island this afternoon. Benton was at his desk again today aftor a threo days' vacation, Hon, John Jenkins, commissioner of the bu- reau of labor and ustrial statistios, will send out 500 packages of sugar beet seed to- morrow. These packages will go into all parts of the state, Commissioner Steen organizes his help as follows : Deputy, Prad P. Cook; clork, Vic Cook; bookkveper, Al B. Ewan, The board of public lands and buildines held a session this afternoon and settied with Mr, John Lenham, the contractor, for work og the state house grounds. His bill of &,000 for extras was reduced to 81,000 and allowed, The board allowed Robertson & Wilson $300 on a steam heating contract, TITE SUPREME COURT. The proceedings in the supreme court toduy were as follows : On motion of C. 8. Lobengier, Emest (' Page of Douglus county was admitted to pra tice. The state ex rel. Wilson vs Stewart. Do fendant allowed one day to file bond and por foct appeal. Writ allowed unless this bo done, State ex rel. Hartwell vs Boordmon. Dis issed ; also the case of the state ox rel, Hart well vs Andres. 3 Reynolds vs Deitz, Submitted on motion to quash. B 'tho case ot Loeh vs Hefrrison was orderd from the foot of the docket. Wilson vs the state. Submitted by argu- mont.q Book vs City of Beatrice, submited. The court ordered the authorities of Was! ngton county to admit Strecklett to bail i the sum of &00. He was sentenced to (¢ years in the state penitentiary. Tne following cases were filed for t Robert Spence vs Nicholas Damvon; appeal from the district court of Adams county. The following decisions were handed down Carson vs State; error from Gage county versed and remanded. Opinion by Mr. Justice Norval, Eckhard vs_Eckhard; appeal from IKear. ney county. Decision modified and affirmed, Opinion by Justice Norval. Barney vs Pinkham; error from Koarn. Opinion by Mr. Justice Maxwell, bank of Crete v8 Smith; error from Saline county: reversed and remanded. Opiu- Justice Maxwoll. unan et al. vs Clavk; error from Doug- 1as county: reversed and remauded. Opinion by Justice Maxwell. Y North vs the county of Platte; oviginal; in- ; unction dissolved and aismissed. Opinion | y Justice Maxwell. Lathrop vs Cheney; county; reversed and rémanded. Justice Maxwell North vs the county of Platte original; in- junction dissolved and dismissed. Opinion by Justice Maxwell. CITY NEWS AND NOTES. Dick Johnson, formerly chief clerk at tho Capitol hotel, but late of the Paddock, Beat- rice, goes to Salt Lake to take charge of tho Garticld Beach hostelry. Al n, who for two years has been Titi: :k's Lincoln correspondent, resigned that position yesterday to accept a more lucrative one iu the oftice of the board of public lands and buildings. W. J. Byrnes, who has been a reporter of Tur Bet: for years, succeeds M Ewan at Lincoln, and will' fully maintain tho reputation Tur Brx hus gained for complete news reports from the state capital. i it ity Argued and error from Knox Opinion by Close of the Paris Salon. [Copyright 1890 by James Gordon Beanett.] Paris, May 1.—[New York Herald Cable— Special to Tk Bee.]—The fiue weather mado the finishing day at the salon an unusual suc cess S0 fur us crowds of people in handsomo toilets go. I'rom morning until nearly 7 o'clock at night the corridors were filled with a motley throng of the grande monde in pretty dresses, in pot hats and in different costumes, models in eccentric attire. In tho afternoon the dust and heat became intolera. ble, and the hot air was choking. At3:30 tho crowd was diminished and newcomers in- quired if no one was the As the picturcs on the walls became by this thinuing out, it was found that every h ont mind had fled to the sculpture room, which 5 ud pleasant, and from that hour it 'rowded, while the galleries above wero cubly deserted, They Played on the Track. Norwoon, Ont., May 1.—One little girl was killed and another fatally injured while play- ing on the rai near here Ay A third was saved just in time from a passing freight train and escaped uninjured. - Bond Offe; oN, May 1.—[Special Telegram ]-—Bonds offered: §74,500 ut 500 at $1,031 flat. 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