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Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglns G » B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- gore and says that he is secrotary of The Bee Publishing Company, that actual average duily cireulation of Bee for the month of M 1840, coples: for June, 1850, 1883 copies July, 1880, § roplos; for Augnst, 188 1880, 18710 cop for Noven b 1880, 8 opic ptember, ber, 1580, 18,007 copl ¥ i arch, 1500, 20,815 cople 564 cop GEORGE B, TZ8CHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presencathis id day of May A, ., 1800, 1] . P, Frit, Notiry Public. LE COPY POSTA RATE: aper. . 8.1 cent Fore cents per 1cent “ ents epaper..... “ Zcents % 3cents Wge paper. 2 cents o4 3 cents 4-puge paper “ Beents 4 cents settlement of the carpent in Chicago is a distinetive victory for union labor and arbitration. Now that Oklahoma has secured a complete roster of offieials the funcrals of claim jumy will procced under proper legal restrictions. I¥ the president persists in sending Hoosicrs out of the state to fill federal offices, the republican majority in the state will dwindle down to nothing before 1592, TnHE appointment of an Indiana man as governor of Oklahoma serves to re- mind the public that the Ohio federal brigade has become a moldy back num- ber. SEE————— DENVER authorities have declared war on gambling houses and gamblers,but the mining exchange continues to run wide open, There is a great deal in a name after all, Toe masterly inactivity of the state Board of transportation creates a suspic- jon that the members are ripe for an- other railrond junket with a commis- gary attachment. JunGe Hix attacked the ver: of newspaper reporters, So did Grover Cleveland. Their physical condition at he present time is u matter of profound anxicty to friends. Ir seems the height of ingratitude for the democracy of Ohio to attack the Standard Oil inits own balliwick. With- out the timely assistance of its lubrica- tor, some of the Buckeye bourhons would never have emerged from political ob- scurit ity THE chairman of the house Pacific railroads committee refuses to report the funding bill unless the Union and Central Pacific are treated alike as to the interest rate. General Attorney Thurston doss not circulate among *‘the boys” merely for his health, NEBRASKA'S experionce with contin- gent congressmen does not warrant a repetition of the experiment. If other states entitled to increased vepresenta- tion should adopt the suggestion, the contingent army would become a nui- fum-u to congress and heap ridicule on he s STATISTICS Of railroad building for thé prosent year energetically refute the assortions of managers that restrictive Bogislation is depressing the business. ®he construction of eleven hundred miles of voud in four months shows that capi- talists consider railroad property a de- sirable investmen| IN a recent con Brewer declared that *‘the effect of the oviginul package decizion would be to vuctically annul all state prohibitory egislation on the subject of liquor.” The deeision was not nocessary to accom- ersation Justice plish this. Prohibition laws have been practically dead letters in every stato whero theyshave been enacted. I 1s very unfortunato that the board of education not carry out the sug- gostion of Tite BEE at the time the au- ditor refused to register the bonds voted last fall for the construction of new school houses and the purohase of sites, It will be borne in mind that this paper recommended that the decision of the auditor be taken wus final and that the board resubmit the propo- sition without delay. Had that been done the school buildings could now be under way and most of them would have been completed in time for the next school year. But the board, on the advico of its attor- noy, Mrv. Lee Estelle, decided to fight it out in the supreme court, The result was several months’ delay and an ad- verse decision that compels the resub- mission of the proposition in midsum- mer, and will in any event delay the gomp'etion of the much-needed school buildings until next year. This is deplorable on many nocounts, Our school facilities have not been equal to the demand for the past two years and the need of com- modious school housca I8 becoming greater every season. MADE A NATIONAL QUESTION. The bill introduced in the house of representatives proposing an amend- ment to the interstate commerce act providing” that nothing in the act shall be construed to authorize the sale or trafMie in intoxieating liquors in any state contrary to the laws thereof, makes a national question of the issue under the “original package” decision of the federal supreme court. There is no contention as to the effect of this de- cision in practically annulling all state prohibitory legislation. Opinions wre divided as to the effect upon the liquor ticense or tax laws of the states, but the weight of judgment is that these also are inoperative as against an im- porter of liquors from another state who #o'ls them in the original packages. It ia to be borne in mind that in the case passed upon by the supreme court the importer whose liquor was seized by the Town authorities was a non-resident, a citizen ‘of Illinois, and the language of the decision is that “the state had no power to interfere by seizure, or any other action, in prohibition of importa- tion and sale by the foreign or non-resi- dent importer.” Does this protect equally the resident of a state in import- ing and solling in the original packages, or is the citizen amenable to the laws of the state for practices which a non-res dent may commit with impunity? The langunge of the decision above quoted certainly permits the inference that the deeision applies only to the non-resi- dent importer. But whether or not the decision aficets the operation of the license or tax laws, there isno question as to what it does for prohibitos logis- lation. It renders that absolutely inop- perative. Congress, however, has the power to remove the restrictions upon the state in denling with imported articles of ade within the limits which have not been mingled with the common mass of property therein; in other words, it may by act permit the states to apply such restrictions as “chooso to the traflic in impovted liquors. This is the purpose of the bill introduced in the house. It is not exactly a perinis- sive measure, but practically it would amount to the samo thing. What chance there is of seeuring such legislation becomes, therefore, an_ interesting ques- tion. There is doubtless very small probability that any action will be taken in the matter by the present con- gress, and it may be regarded as certain that there will be none at the” present session. The disposition generally among men of both parties will be to ignore the sub- ject. There is undoubtedly only a very small minority of the members of ‘either house who are in sympathy with pro- hibitory legislation, and those who are not friendly to it are not likely to invite possible political perils by making any concession to the policy. So far as can be scen there is nothing hopeful in the immediate prospect for the prohibition- ists, and when they shall have made the contest for their policy national, as they must now do, the odds against them will be greater than ever. OUR SILVER POVICY ABROAD. Senator Jones of Nevada a few day ago received a cablogram from the pre ident of the Bimetallic league of Eng- land expressing on behalf of the league hearty approval of the proposed polic of the country regarding silver. The dispateh stated that the bimetalli party in the United Kingdom, which now includes over one hundred mem- bers of the house of commons, fully recognize not only that the support af- fogded silver Dby the legislation of the United States during the past twelve years has helped to protect the industrial world from an acute monetavy crisis, but also that the debates in congress have served more than all else to educate the Knglish people to the recognition of the import- issues involved. The president of gue states that the English bi- metallists believe t tho incr d coinage of silver contemplated by con- gress will restore wholly or consider- ably coinage rates, and will thus make an international settloment of this com- plex question comparatively easy. From the expected advauce in the pr of silver to result from its increased em- ployment in our currency he anticipates great benefits to the commercial and in- dustrial interests of both the United Stutes and Great Britain, Apart from whatever encouragement there may be in these expressions for the friends of silver in this country, they are significant as evidence of the growth of bimetallic sentiment in Eng- land. The fact that this senti- ment is now represented in the house of commons by over one hundred members of that body is important when it is considered that a few years ago no public man in England having any concern for his political future would have ventured to advocate bimetallism, Until a compar- atively recent date English opinion #d- vor: sooverwhelming that it required extraovdinary courage to defend its freo employment as monoy, but since the royal commission appointed to consider tho causes of depres- sion in Great Britain expressed the opinion that one of these was the practical demonetization of sil- there has been a large and vigorou »with of sentiment favorable to silver. The evidence is that this is steadily in- crensing, and there can be no doubt that the enlarged use of silverin the currency of the United States, if it should have the heneficial prosperity of the country oxpected, would have the effect of so increasing and strongthening the silver party in Eng- land that in a fow years the English gov- ernment would be forced by public sen- timent to scek an international sottle- ment of the question. Such a movement on the part of England would undoubt- edly induce like nction on the part of Gormany, and other European countries would promptly fall into line, This is one of the results which the president of the English Bimetallic league confi- dently expects from the carrying out of our proposed silver policy. It may be a little discouraging to those foreign bimetallists to observe the divis- ion that exists among the silver men in congress, but this is not of a nature to be necessarily fatal to silver legislation, There is no issue arding the ex- ults to the | pediency of employing more silver in our currency. All are agreed that this shall be done. The cause of division is simply the question of how the silver notes shall be redeemed, whether in silver or in lawful money, and this need not be an insurmountable difficulty. — THE next thing in order is the school board election. That will interest the T. E. (tax caters)-club very deeply. There are a fow school house janitor- ships to be distributed among the mem- bers and the patronage of the gchools will wield quite a moral influence in the Broatch campaign. . THE election is not without valuable lessons, The Broatch Tammany gang, with the assistance of the mossbacks and tax-shirkers managed to muster six hun- dred and cighty-cight votes in Omaha. The number fairly represents their strength and influence JUDGING by the actions of the Tam- many gang, their chief aim is to *‘di courage the use of money in eloctions™— by the opposition, That six hundred dollar pot reached South Omaha in time to save the warrant shavers from defeat. THE failure of the council to order the necessary repairs on the Eleventh street viaduct is a piece of inexcusable neglect. The longer the work is delayed the greater will be the cost. THE money lenders who thrive on dis- counting South Omaha warrants joined hands with the lawbreakers in defeating annexation. Their vietory will prove a boomerang. kers Omaha imagine that they can plunge the town, Iy South THE wre sly in debt and finally unload on ng o delusion. hopele Omaha, they are THE taxpayers of South Omaha must promptly invoke the aid of the courts to enforce abedience to law and prevent im- pending disaster, Now we shull see whether the South Omaha wreckers will go down into their pockets to make up the deficit in the town’s revenue, Souri OMAHA prefe outlawr bankruptey to progress and prospe by a mujor’ THE sidewalk inspector evidently did not know that the major was loaded. e—————— OTHER LAD N OURS. The address of the German emperor at the opening of the reichstag is justly commended ked by notable dignity and tact. The speceh was largely devoted to two topics, but these are the burning questions in Burope at So faras labor is concerned the tions are wise and state manlike and indicate that the socialistic suc- cesses have not embittered him, as has been alleged, but, on the other hand, that he is this time. moviug steadily forward in the matter of workingmen’s rights, particularly as to Sun- ay rest, woman and child labor, and protec- tion of workingmen against dangor, uninflu- enced by the socialists on the one hand or the fraitless results of tho recent international lubor conference on the other. ALl his ut- terances on the labor problem, indeed, show that he is in actlve sympathy with the workingmen, and that if existing laws a ot sullicient to solve the problem he is in fayor of additional lozislation to meet all the reasonable and justifiable demands. As to the second great topie, the foreign relations of the empire, the emperor fellows closely on the lines of the old policy of his grandfather and Bismarck. Like, them he would culti- vate alliances for defense and would protec peace by inereasing and strengthening the army. Then foliows a hint of the customary army bill, ealling for an increased appropr ation and a strengthening of the army to co respond with the military increase of other powers, equally desirous of peace! Evidently there there is no fmmodiate hope of relicf from military taxation for Germany, but this was a foregone conelusion, and will always remain so until there is & general movement for disarmament and international arbitra- tion, As a whole the speech is an auspicious one and will be likely to give universal satis- faction. Py The example of Bismarck is apparent in the recommendations of the emperor respect- ingg labor reforms. The old chancellor began his campaign agains socialism by passiug a most repressive law, confiseating litoratur, the interest of the working classes, proli ing public mectings where dangerous ques- tions might be discussed, and ovdering the prosecution of suspectod agitators. This was the fist stage of his defense of the empir against the forces of disintegration within forces more formidable than the rescntments caused abroad by wars of conquest. Tho sccond stage was remedial legislation on social questions. Year after year he pro- duced measures for the establishment of stato iusurance for workingmen disabled by accidents, for the pensioning off of aged laborers, for the organization of trade guilds and similar projects, Assumiu that the state alone wus competent to deal effectively with the social problem, he invariably had some legislative nostrum to propose for thealleviation of the ills of Social- ist Lassalle’s “disinherited of socief the working classes. In precisely the same spirit the emperor’s specch purposely outlines a sevies of measures for the protection of work- ing men, including restrictions of the hours of women's and children’s labor, the rogulation of literature for minors, and the organization of industrial courts of arbitration. The so- clulist agitators iu the reiohstag ave few in number, agroup of despised political Ishmaels but they represent an enormous avea of social discontent in the great cities of the empire Bismarck always found it necessary to affect keen interest in the wolfare of the working classes and o propose artificial sehemes for aid'ng them, The cmperor, without his grand- father's mentor, continues the custom: **e The Balfour land purchase bill would be a dangerous measure even if it promised to at- tain its object. If it do not promise that re sult, 1t is a monstrous measure that has abso- on of being. The testimony is | overwhelming, and, indeed, unanimous, that it will not attain its objoct, Omne would sup- pose that that would be the ead of the matter and of the measure, Yet in this state of facts the bill has passed to its socond reading by quite the normal ministerial “majority, a ma- jority that leaves uo doubt of its enaetment when it comes up for its final passage. The force of party spirit cannot go much further, The same tractable majority that carried the orimos act against Irish protests will carry the land purchase bill against Irish protests. ‘That & country should be coerced in spite of itself is intelligible and, indeed, inevitable if it Is to be coerced at all. But that a country should be conciliated in spite of itself is a nov- elty in legislation. What is there in the history of the legislation of Sir Robert Waipole's time more discred- itable than thist That the subservient ) squires who backed up Walpole were bribed to do so, and ¢ the subservient squires who are backifedup Balfour are doing so gratuitously, out of blind partisanship and national prejudiee,. makes no differenco in the result of ¢ islation effected. In fact, though the di o may do credit to the comparative ho of the British legisla- tors of the ninet. century, it does credit 1o the comparati§d intelligence of tho legisla- tors.of the eighteonth. It is rather odd that the house of lnrd:'é:mnld be looked to as a safoguard of anytiing valuable, but there is o chance that i’ this case that body inay show more sonse thin the house of commons. In case the Jords Should throw out the bill, that would probawly be theendof it. The spectacle of a fory ministry bullying the peers and threatening to “mend or end” them for opposing tho will of the commons would doubtless promote the gayety of nations, but it s not likely to be afforded. “ ‘tho unfortunate inhubitants of the dark continent run a considerable risk at the pres- ent moment of being destroyed by an excess of kindness and philantrhopy on the part of the nations of Europe. Every one of the latter appears to consider itself to be invested with a speciul mission to achieve the civilization and conversion of the benighted African racos, whose welfare for some time past has formed tho subject of countless conferences and negotiations on the part of the respoctive governments, churches and trades of Burope. Even Turkey seems to have caught the prevailing African fove For months past the Ottoman news- papers have beon filled with condemning the Christian methods of civili ing Afvica, and denouneing them as perni- cious in the ext They declaro that the Christian philanthropy toward the African is interested and selfish, and that its princi- pal motive is the sale of powder and rum. The Mahometan religion, according to the Constantinople T is the only civilizing and correcting clement that can possibly save the African from the disastrous results of Christinn proselytism, and in consequence an association has heen formed in the Turkish capital for sending band. Mahometan mis- sionaries, accompanied by military into the interior of the dark continent. e Some approhensions have been excited in Europe by the fact that a flotilla of flat-bottomed boats have just been the Danube by the Russian war department to the Port of Reni, in the Muscov! vince of Dobrudsha, Each boat will a modate fifty fully oquipped infant besides the crew of twenty ou flotilla could therefore in one trip convey )88 the river an army of 16,000 men, and thus obtain possession of Bulgaria in a night coup de main, In view of this act, the speech delivered ten days ago by the prime minister of Servia to the Skuptehina at Belgrade a 1 nificance For he declured that the position of fore affairs was most serious: that sudden emer- gencies were anticipated, and that the king- dom must be ready for immediate action. On the strength of those statements the legisla- ture authorized him' to call out the entire militia of 150,000 mien, and to keep them under arms until further notice. escort, | V) A CHANCELLOR ON LAW. Hon. J. M. Woolworth Addresses Lincoln University Students. MR. BENTON FINDS A RAILROAD. The Ownership of the Nebraska & Western Revealed—A Druggist Se- cures a Divorce — Other News from Lincoln. coLy, Neb, May 9.—[Special to Tne ~The rooms of the Central law school were well filled last evening with interested students, the occasion being the lecture by Hon. J. M. Woolworth of Omahaon “What is Law as Lawyers usa tho Torm!” The ad- dross was in the line of general jurisprudence rather than of technical law. The speaker first drew some comparisons between the dif- ferent kinds of law. A physical law he de- fined to be “a description of the order of sequences.” It differs from a moral law in that the latter can be broken, but a physical law cannot. To distinguish cleal tween the rules of morality and the law of the lawyer is onc of the most. intricate problems in v,lku'ului ive jurisprudence. Morality means conformation to public opinion and “custom cather than to abstract right Civil laws, the laws of tb of two elements; 1, command. , i c. punishment. ' The command need not b ive, nor must laws noccessarily pro- ceed from publi uthority, his is seen in the law of domestic relations and the rules of ate corporation whose by-laws might be as binding as a statute, In summing up the speaker defined law as rule of conduct by which rights are en- forced by a duly constituted authority.” S OF TIHE RAILROAD. urned from Sioux gone to look up‘the 1 braska & Western railway, been reported to the stato lization. The Nebraska & Auditor whither he | known as the N which had not board of equ Western line, he discovered, was the name wh under Sionx ( been inc The comy h the Pacific short line from to Ogden was known_ and had rporated in the state of Nebraska, uy has constructed about thirty miles of track through Dakota county. The members of the comy izave as their reason for not reporting this line for assessment the fact that they were not awarc that a road was subject i o t until it was in operation, but expressed a willingness to com- ply with the law compelling them to report to the state bourd and to pay taxe: NEI SECURES 118 DIVORCE. R. S. Ni a prominent druggi ed a divor from his wife, court allows him the custod cight-year-old daughter, while the mother is 1o have the custody of lone, the four-year-old chil The petition for a divoree was to the citizens here owing to th social standing of the parties conce The two murried more than ten years ago, and it was supposed that the, were living bappily together. Mr. swore in court that his wife had from ti time unjustly accused him of violating his marriage vows and treated him c with the greatest cruelty. She fused to cook for him, and las drove him from his’ own house, forbidding him to return, DEATIC OF CIARLEY PITCHER. . Charley D. Pitcher, a promising and prom- inent young man_of the ci d toduy of P The reception of Stanley in London took | typhoid fever, after an illng the form of a popular 1. From the time | Weeks. He was only twenty. s old. that he landed at Doy path was crowded | He v son-in-law . ILennard, and with wildly cheering citizens. Al the illus- | trated papers are full of him and his advent- res, songs about Lim are sung in the music halls, and penny biographies are selling on | the streets as fast us they can bo turned off the presses. Tumiuerable invitations to din- | | ner ha n showerad upon him, and the dates' for a dozen yeceptions are alre nounced. A bizAnsrican dinner, with ¢ sul General Now fi'the. chair, fs fixed f aggre ing rage that he only is the man who can, the English think, check- | mate Germany in Africa. His courage, au- | dacity, and above all, his success, have taken | the fancy of the English. Sinee the issue of the recont decrees in Portugal, by which King Carlos restricted both the liberty of the press and the right of holding public mectings, the opponents of the government have adopted a cork as their po- litical emblem. This is by way of protest against the efforts of the monarch to place a stopper on the froedom and fervor of their speech aud writings. The vich wear the em- | blem in question made of gold and silver and | attached to their wateh chains or bracelets, while the piorer classes content themselves with half a dozew old wine corks strung around their necks. The Portugese the s, ar merriest and most light-hearted people in the world, and there is consequently something peculiarly appropriate’ in their choice of a wine cork for the outward t democratic sentiments, o of their | ' sult of the municipal eclections in aus the collapse of the B i part The outgoinz council had m thoroughly unpopular by a course of cov- ruption and extravagance, and had also en- couraged socialists and revolutionists, The republicans were, therofore, not indifferent to the fact that conservatives and Boulangists were seoking to gain contvol of the new coun- cil, and that the list of candidates, fixed at Jersey, contained @ very large proportion of out-and-out revolutionists, The vietdry for the government was complete; the returns showing the election of two Boulangists, thirteen monarechists and sixty-five repub- licans. [ e which now op- press the Egyptian Soud to bring about the overthrow of mahdism. Last year ,000 refugees from the Soudan pushed north into Egypt, deserting their homes because so- so disorganize thero that industry i paralyzed and many paaple are on the verg starvatiom Therabids, in fact, been greatsuf- fering from scarcity of food near Khartoum, and the tribes who, under Osman Digm 1 war for the mufh 1i near Suukin by been perishing of staevation, and have been driven to cannibalism. .Some extraneous in- fluence will yet hiffe an opportunity to bring order ot of this dhaos, The tyranny and m ANTINONOPOF, A convention offfgpublicans will bo held at Bohanan's hall in Linco'n, on May 20, 1800, at 7:80 p.m;, for the purpose of consultation and to deviso tha!bost method of wresting the coutrol of the xopublican party from the hands of the rmilroad carporations of this state. To provent, if possible, a repetition of the outrago perpet¥aid by tho railroud coro ratious at the Hastings convention last fall, in controlling the conveution through thé proxy system; and to transaet such other Business as may be found necessary to giv offect to this objectand benefit tho masses of the state, by providing a remedy for existing evils. o Al republican voters in sympathy with this moyement are invited to be present. Republican papers please copy this call, D. M. NETTLETON, Citanses R. KECKLEY, Winiau Kiesk, 3. R. SOUTHERLAND, 3. R. PALLARD, Committee, ed, Y CONVE? TION. Kennan's Testimony Prefe Chicago Tribiine, With all duo respect to Princess Enga- litcheft, the American peoplo persist in be lioving that George Kennan tells the trath in | was a mewber of the firm of Pitcher & has @ right to the carth, Stanley | ! came here from Chi had been cial enterp ears ago. ugularly successful in his finan- ses, and at_the time of hi win, dealers in real estate, in the furniture firm of Hardy wis one of the leading members of socicty in The remains will be shipped to . Y., tomorrow, for interment. ALL ABOUT THIEVES, and Thomas Clark, who stole & Pitehe rds of silk from tho store of A W months d Vi convicted of grand lavee in the d 3 urt and are held awaiting sentence William Daggen di: borrowe hat, 1 one of his fellow o a respectable ap- the judge, After bemg ac- quitted he forgot to return the articles instead walked off with them. Another w: rant was issued for hi joying ouly an hour of libe self again behind the bars, and costs. was v_he found him- He was fined $30 CAPITAL INTELLIGENCE, Governor Thayer has notified certain citi- ens of Madison county that the board of ualization wishes to receive the delegation unty May 18 and hear what they wish to say about the assessment question. L. H. Kent of Orleans, Ncb., writes to Auditor Benton asking if thé following insur- ance companics are authorized to do business Consolidated insurance com- pany of Chicago; Parkersburg insurance con pany of Parkersburg, W. Va.: Buckeye Mutual insurance company of Shelby, O. North Pacifls insurance. coppany. of Wtho ville, Va.: Mutual Guaranty insurance com- : Standard_fire insurau Wheeling, W. Va.; Germania ompany of New Orleans, La.; Michigan Millers' mutual fire insurance com: of Lansing, Mich. All of these com- panies have policies on a mill in_Orlcans. Auditor Bentou uotitied Mr. Kent that nono of these compunies are authorized to do busi- ness in this state, M, C. J. Dietrich, a_banker at wats at the state house this morning. Deputy Auditor Allen is preparing a thesis on U ed Insurance,” which he will vead at the national convention of Insurance commissioners to bo held at Cleveland in August. “T'he governor and a number of his staff left at noon today for to attend a grand reception g braska national guards i that portion of the state. CITY NEWS AND NOT Sheriff Culwell of Nemaha county brought in two delegates to the state lll'llil\‘ulhll‘_\' this morning. Oue of them, David k. Breakwell, i k rock for two years for stealing a he other, William Ford, will the same time for committing a nameless erime, In the account of the Barues divorce case published in Tir BEe it was wade to appear that the couple had been married only six months. They have been hushand and wife for two years and have a child about u year old. Mayor A. L. Clark and_Councilman C, C. Rittenhouse, G. A. Kent, J. B Heiler and A. in this state: Hastings, 1, Fuller, City Engincér Woodward, C, 1L Dietrich, president German National' bunlk, Clane Frahm and Peter Burger, S were in the ¢ today inspecti system of this place, In the afternoon th left for Omaba on u similar ervand. Colonel Bd Roggen, Captain Hill Charley Hall returned from Omaha last e ing. Burglars broke into the home of Rev, pastor of the G M 310 South Fifteenth street last evening and stole $19.50 and a b AL K. Ewan left this evening to visit his mother a fow day. “The long threatened rain storms came last night and this afternoon, The lutter shower and lmage was very heavy and was accompanied with a ¢ winutes, night the school alf 150 Sttt fall of hail lasting 1 At a meoting held last board decidgd to abandon the’ proposed day sessions at the high school. It was decided to build an eight room school h on Cherry street instead of a ten roowm build- ing as contemplited. ¢ Smith, alins C y ra V. Kerr, a woman of the town, was accused yesterday morning of robbing @ man from an adjoining town of 50 | Alfred k. Peterson, the woms most inti- | mate fricud, appeared on the scone and the police report that a settlement was without any arrests being made, married the woman e Omaha Reserves base ball defeated the second time yesterday Lincoln club, The game was hotl and at the end of the ninth inniug th stood tied, each having 11, I 1g run was made by the home team in the tenth inning. The thind game which was to have been played in the afternoon was postponed on account of the muddy condition of the grounds. | nine was by the miested Tubs = e Bond Offerings. Wasmisaroy, May 9.—[Special Telegram Tax Bre.|—Bouds offered to regard to Siberla and the exile system. $1.22; §26,900 at 108}, RED WILLOW COUNTY'S FIGHT. Ixp1ANOLA, Neb., May 8.—To the Editor of Tue Brr: Wil you kindly allow mo spaco in your columns to answer a communication in Twe Bre of May 7, relative to the county seat fight, that has been waged against this city for the lust threo weeks. The exact facts in the case are as follows and the com- missfoners’ record of the proceeding will bear me out in the statement: On April 25 last a petition was filed with the board of eounty commissionors, purporting to be signed by 1,528 names. The McCook folks insisted that it was the duty of the board to act upon the same immediatoly without any investiga- tion. This position was taken by the attor- ney for the _ petitioners and very earnestly opposed by the attorneys for remonstrators, Upon arguments the board decided to take time to investigate the legality of the petition. On Sat- urday, April 20, a remonstrance was filed containing ~nearly eleven hun- dred nawmes, Wednosday, April 80, was set for hearing tho case, and on that date the case came up for hearing and continued from day to day until Tuesday the 6th, when, after a carefil investigation by the'board of both petition and remonstrance, tho board found that out of the 1,528 names on_the petition 234 signed the rethonstrance, and that of the balance of the 1,248 names on tho petition only 491 were legal electors of Red Willow county, leaving 753 of the poti- tioners which the board found to be illegal petitioners, The first motion made by the board wus that the petitioners now bo re- quested to introduce proof to the board of the sufficioncy of tho remaining names on the petition and the petitioncrs’ attorneys were asked to produce such proof, which thay re- fused to do. Several motions were written out by the attorneys for the petitioners and handed to a member of the board aud ordered (not requested) tho member to read aud move its udoption, which was done. very ono of these motions wore framed with tho object in view of trapping the board and were voted down. To cap the climax A. J. Rittenhouse wrote out the last motion made and handed it to_the board and ordersd it read and moved, which was done. The sub- stance of the motion was that the board now proceed upon the petition before them without further evidence to call a special election for the retocation of the county seat of Red Wil- low county. This motion failed to carry, thus, of course, rejecting the petition. Nothing further being offered or being before the board, it adjourned sine die. Of the seventy ols your correspondent from McCoo ere desirous of being counted titioners, most of them had signed a remon- strance, consequently the board refused to consider such a thing as a re-petition, The petitioncrs positively and emphatically re- fused to introduce any evidence whatever of any person except the canvassers as’ to the genuineness of th names, and the mmissioners’ recor shows that the commissioners by motion asked them to do so, and that the petitioners re- fused to do so. There was 1o resolution *put and carried’’ requiring the 16,000 petitioners to be brought by subpaena before the board. The petition for the relocation of the county scat 1s headed by R. B. Archibald the master mechanic in the B & M. round house at Me- Cook, and in the contest before the county commissioners C. . Harmon, assistant su ntendent of the B, & M., was in mome! attendance, closely scrutinizing ev made and the fight was led on and cagerly aud bravely fought by “Our Tom” Colfer, the Lincoln land company’s mainstay at McCook. The Lincoln land company has about sold out in this city, hence they have no further use for us. Tac. e -3 THI SUNDAY BEE. move For the Conscience. Fund—Frank G. Carpen- ter, the famous Washington journalist, has been poring over musty volumes in the treasury department and in his copyrighted letter to THESUNDAY BEE tells us how 230,00 stolen dollars have been returned to the government. The letters that refer to tho great or small amounts that have becen stolen frow the government. Pathos and erime are exhibited in the correspondence of the bonscience stricken contributors to the fund. A Little el in Iolland—Here is a graphic picture of seencs in Sehicdam, Holland, the druukennest eity on carth. Men, women and children seldom draw a sober breath in this great gin producing center of the world. The Widows of Brave Men—A grateful gov- crnment has provided for the comfortablo maintenance of the widows of its heroos and martyrs. Perry S. Heath, Tig BEE'S Wash- ington correspondent, tells how this work has been done. The pensions drawn by Mrs. at, Mrs. Logan, Mrs, sherldan and other ble women. O'er the Tumb of Garfield.—A picture of the pleasunt resting pliee of the dead presidens in Lake View cometery, Olevelund, where a magnificeut monuwment has just beon com- pleted. Thoughts in Lighter Vein. nod from the world's harvest of wit and humor. Merrey quips and sharp thrusts from the jolly philosopliers. The World of Fair Women—This department s repleto ns usual with matters of interest for the sex whose name is wsynonyni for gen- tleness. The leading feature is a colleetion of ancient and ungallant saws that have ref- erence mainly to woman's Inability to keep any secret except that pertaining to her agoe. Much Like French Girls—Max O'Rell tells all that he has learned and much that he hy conjectured about Amer arc'the queens of the earth and the French women are the nearcst to them in intelli- zence, adaptability Why the F ceptible and The Girls of Isle—The Duchess The skotehes the lifeof the Irish peasant maiden. reen poverty she munuges to be merey, Some of the ancient duncos of the Irish poor folk. Copyrighted. shool for Comedians —A. sketeh of some of the bright men who have graduated trom the varioty stage. Other interesting musical und dramutio notes Made Love in a Prison Cell—The sad romance in the lite of Prime Minister Orispl. The sor- rows of a mesalifance and finul separation, Echoes From the Ante-Room—TuE SUNDAY BEE is a standard authority on matters per- ning to the sceret and fraternal socleties, The resime of each week's doings 1s care- fully preparcd and fs as completo us it is authentic. The leading feature of this week’s resume will be the first chapters ot thecarly history of the Nebraska Oddfel- lows, Politics is Losing Caste—Perry S. Heath recites the incidents of a trip to Georgia's capital and tells how race prejudices and war poli- tics are being forgotten in the rush of busi- ness in the new Augusta. Our Society Column—The busy doings of the socloty people for the week fully o fully recorded The Sporting Depariment—This department is in the hands of an expe 1 writer and contalus u complete review of the situation in the amusenent fields. New York Terald C serviceof Tuk BE western paper. A In the midst of abje a d care- foreign news is unequalled by any nplete resumo of th situation of affairs in Europe, fucluding all the news of stato and the social gossip of utinental capitals, wired espeo- e BEE, The Associated Press Dispatehes—News of the world gathered and preparcd by the most careful and eflicient corps of tri reporters, Speclal Telsgraphic Service—In addition to the ar press dispatches Tuw Beg has 1ul correspondent In every town in Towa and Dakota, thus assuring a complete report of theevents in the entiro west und northwest. The Ficld of Labor—Tae gre hles —Tho When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, When she was a Child, sho cried for Castorla, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When sho had Childron, shie gave them Castoria, belng manifested In the movements of the wage workers, Tre SUNDAY Bes will contaln complote reports from the variouslocal tradé organizations. Our Market Page--One great feature of Tum ReE is its fall apd complete market roport. Our correspondent In Chieago compiles and transmits the Ohleago produce and live stock markot reports ospeclully to Tiue Bee. Our New York correspondent telographs dully the stock market report especlally to Tux BER. A speclal reporter of large experionce provides dally most acourate reports of the Omaha live stock markets, and our commer elal roporter prepares daily the only Omaha wholesale market report worthy the name published. In addition to the above our commorelal editor propares especlally for Tugk SUNDAY BEE a resume of the condition of local trade, and his statements and p dictions have made for this paper a great roputation for rellablo market quotations, e - Its Two Notable Acts, Baltimore American, The Ohio legislature, which has just ad Journed, will bo remembered in history for having made Bricoa United States senator and defeated the ballot reform law. K ther act ontitled it to a large and lasting legacy of disgrace. — r of McKinley's Opponents. Pittsburyg Dispatch (Rep.) When wa reflect that the four leading re- publican papers of the west, the Chicago St. Louis Globo-Democrat, Omali Bei . Paul Pionear-Pross aro all jump- ing on the MeKinloy tariff bill we no lon wonder that Clarkson thinks the party need of newspaper support. et e Col. Watterson's Senatoris St. Louis Republs If Hon. Henry Watterson had not shocked the moral sense of Kentucky by losing good Kentucky money playing poker with a Mem- phis man, there is no telling what might bap- pen in connection with the Kentucky senae torial vacar But wo fear that as a result of his Memphis experience Colouel Watter- son’s political chips are irrevocably passed in. preet el rancis Murphy's lowa Work. WavenLy, Ia, May 6.—To the Editor of Tue Bee: When Francis Murphy came to this place January 5, last, to commence & se- ries of meetings, there wero a score of sa- 1-the-walls—in operation, and vinking menand some habitu 1 drunkards. ten days over one thousand persons had signed the pledge, mmong thit number n every drinking man in town, the demand for intoxicating liquors had dis appeared. A score of men who were “total wrecks” to all appearances were reformed, and today not more than three or four of all who signed the “Murphy pledge” in Janunry have touched liquor since. Familics who had received help from the town for years are now happy, “well dressed and prosperous.” The change that came over this place under Francis Murphy was truly wonderful. He did in ten days what prohi- bition had not and could not do in a lifo time. An agent of the express company said to mo last week that before Mr. Murphy came hero not a day passed but one or more jugs or cases of liquor came tohis office from at “Now," said ho, “not one package of liquor of any kind has' passed through my oftice in Prospects. sixty” days.” Such was_ the work done here - by Francis Murphy, Mr Murphy is now in Omaha. I hop he I have us good s there s he has in all tho other places he Waverly is a town of @ littlo loss than i, inhabitanis. The good done by Francis Murphy here cannot’ be estimated. Could he speik for a few nights in every town in this stato the original package decision of tho suprome court of the United Statos tuat hus so suddenly thrown cold water all over tho prohibitionists would have no effect on tem- perance Towa. “Law” will never chanzo men's The Murphy movemocut A.J. H Positively cured by these Little Pills, They also relleve Dis- tressytrore Dyspepsia, In- digeftion and Too Hearty Eating. A perfect rem edy for Dizziness, N PILLS. in the Mouth, Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetablo. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRISE, AMUSEMENTS, Boyd's QOpera House Boyp & HAYNES, Manager: Friday and Saturday, May 9th and 10th SATURDAY MATINEE. ew Historical Play by AR HAV OF Fronc i French K. . . MIt. WM. HARRIS, .n8. APOLEON BONAPARTI Mile. RITEA and Company are under the direction of MR. ARTHUR MILLER. ntly Produced. Gorgeously C s R e Sents go on sule Thursduy. Boyd’s Opera House BOYD & HAYNES, Managers. WEDNESDAY MATINGE. America's Favorite Actre: EPPIE ELLSLER Supported by M. Frank Woston and a Superior Dia: matic organigation, prosenting her TWO GREATEST PLAYS SUNDAY AND MONDAY-—Tho Domoatlo Comedy- Drama, by E titled THIE GOVERNE TUESDAY A T _]O‘,:l]ili"ll NE, Empress MLL ZINESS' Maf Jtogular pricos. 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