Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 23, 1890, Page 4

W 'HE DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, Bditor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally and Sun Bix months Three montis Runday Hee, On Weekly oo, On: Commerce. ribune Baliding. street. CORRESPONDENCE. Al communieations relating to news and editorinl nntter should be addressed to the tment ESS LETTERS, rs and_remittanc eo Publishing C 1 postoffie order of th o8 should panys The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors. The Beo Widing, Farnam and Seventeenth Sts, BWORN STATEMEND OF CIRCULATION tas rotary of The Beo anly swear reulation of Tie DATLY Bek May 17, 1%, wus as fol- 20,014 TZSCHUCK Sworn to before m ribed to in my » this 17th duy of May, A. D. 180, raska, N. I' FEIL, Notary Public. ty of Douglas, . s B Tzsehuck, being duly sworn, d says that he Is secrétary of e Publishing Company, that the actual Iy circuiation ‘of Tie DAILY the. month of May, 8 1880, 18,868 for Junu 3800, I coplos; fo for April, 1800, 20,564 copies. : : ]Unnlmh B. T78CHUCK. to before me and subse in my of May, A. T P COPY POSTAC 1 cent 1 e 2 piper 2U-page paper. ool il U T A o R o Tiii Florida thugs are itching for an official thrashing. The government should promptly accommodate them. RerorTs from the white house indi- e that a muscular veto awaits the r and harbor bill in its present shape. — Kansas hungers for just now is of judges fashioned after the North atte luminary who distinguished him- setting aside a decision of the United States supreme court 3 TH1s n off year for political trim- mers and straddlers. Candidates who are not outspoken and positive on the vital issues that agitate the people of this state may as well retive from the field. IF the raflroad organs and Iroad roustabouts “keep up their war on At- torney Gene Leese he will stand a good chance for being our next governor. The people love him for the encmies ho has made. THE et that the successor of Sam Randall never wears a pair of breeches morvo than two weeks will make him a decided acquisition to the minority side of the house, where the party is woefully b d at the knees. Now that the smoke of the tariff bat- tle has cleared away, it will be in ovder for some of the western wepresentatives to explain why the demands of western producers were made secondary to the commands of eastern manufacturers, trusts and combines. arded to the revenue cutters protecting the sealing interests in Alaskan waters refute re- ports in certain quarters that the gov ernment has backed down from its pre- vious position. The instructions are re specific than those of last year. BY the decision of the supreme court Mormon property valued at a million and a quarter reverts to the school fund of the territory. This will not only place the school fund on a solid basis but will add materially to the perquisites of federal ofticial life on the banks of the Kansas City Journal has boldly cked the town’s population bubble. The estimates of two hundred thousand and over are conceded to be inflated, and rather than permit the census enumera- tor to demolish local pretenses, the Jour- mal comes down to one hundred and sixty thousand. These figures are more in harmony with the actual population. It may interest demoo that the “‘theft of Montana,” of which which they loudly aceused vepublicans, turns out to be an instance of the rogue yelling “'stop thief” to divert attention. An exhaustive examination of the fa- mous Tunnel precinct, where oné hun- dred and seventy-five votes were cast for democratic candidates, has just been concluded by the state supreme court. In a unanimous decision the court holds that *‘the vote of the precinct was so ir- regular in all respects and so saturated with proven fraud that it should be en- tirely rejected.” The decision elects the republican county ticket and plac the final stamp of political infamy on the leaders of the Montana democracy. s to know WnoM the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. If the railroad man- agers persist in foisting their lackies, tools and hirelings upon the exasper- ated people of this state; if they persist in controlling politics, through the party machinery which is now admit- tedly in their control, they will arouse a general revolt that must both in disaster to them and identally to the detriment of the state, 'he people are in no mood to be trifled with. They will give the railroads fair and make reasonabloe conocessions ever the railroads withdraw from politics and give the people a chance to govern themselve: But the railroad bosses are on a powder magazine and they and their fool friends had better bewnve how they throw sparks. v end | THE SALVATION OF THE PARTY. The republican party of Nebraska is on the eve of a great crisis. The party is beset by enemies from within and from without. It Is menaced by disaster, Unless wise counsels prevail and the corporate influence that has undermined it and destroyed confidence in its integ- rity s ked and off it will surely be overthrown at the com- che shaken ing election, The conference of anti-monopoly re- publicans was the supreme effort of true republicans who desire to avert the dis- integration of the purty. The hour had come when something had to be done to the of publicans in the who had lost faith in the party by rea- son of its broken promises and sub- check stampede re- rmers’ alliance servieney to corporation power. Fully forty thousand of these repub- licans enrolled in the alliance are ready to cut loose from the party at a.drop of the hat. Nothing could have pre- vented their wholesale defection except- | ing an assurance from republicans who are in sympathy with their demands that 1ce will be given them by an early convention to the state from railroad rule by the nomination of tes of their own choice, and the redeem candic adoption of a platform that expresses in positive and unequivocal language the popular wish and will. It was to have been expected that the the front to rescue the party would be reviled and belittled by the organs and minions of corporate monopoly and ridiculed by the and double-enders men who dared to come to democratic papers who expect to thrive on the ruins of the vepublican part But all true republicans who do not wear the brass collar will applaud their action. are the sentiment of more than one hun- dred thousand republican voters. The demands they have made for an early convention are for the salvation of the The resolutions they enunciated republican party, and if the committeo disregards the interests and wishes of the party, at the behest of the railroad Dbosses, the conference has empowered its representatives to call upon all loyal ans to rally around its old flag :rs which republi and resume the sovereign pow have been usurped by proxy delegates and surrendered to corporation mercen- aries. PETTIFOGGING AND MISREPRESENTA- TION. General Manager Holdrege of the Burlington has gone out of his way to chargebefore the state board of trans- portation that THE BEE building was as- ed at thirteen thousand dollars whilo the Burlington headquarters building was assessed at forty thousand dollars, Why Mr. Holdrege should indulge in such misrepresentation we fail to com- prehend unless he desires to strike a blow at THE BEE because it has alw: been an advoeate of railway regulation and an opponent of the interfe railroads with the politics of thi se: he has purposely misquoted the facts. The assessment on THE BEE building for on thirty-eight thousand dol- instead of thirteen thousand. That ment was made while the building yet unfinished and unoceupied. The ssment this year will of course be considerably higher. It may be true that the Burlington headquarters building is assessed higher, relatively, than other buildings in this city But the Burlington rond owns more than a mil- lion dollars worth of property in Omahathat practically escapes local tax- ation entirely by being dumped into the railroad right-of-way and valued with all the equipments, buildings and tracks at ten thousand a mile. Quite apart from that the Burlington has obtained franchises to lay trac through streets and alleys without pay- ing a dollar into the city treasury, when their value can hardly be computed. Possibly that fact was taken into consid- eration by the couaty and city boards when they made the levy on the Bur- lington building. But why did Mr. Holdrege single out, Tug BEE building instead of the Paxton hotel, the First National bank or the New York Life build- ings? Why did he talk about property assessments in Omaha? The board of transportation is not the board of equalization. It has nothing whatever to do with property assessments. M Holdrege was cited and appeared to de- fend existing freight rates. It scems to us that the Burlington road must have entirely run out of figures that confuse and befog which arve usually abundant whenever revision and duction of fr rates ave proposed. Otherwise Mr. Holdr: would hardly have been compelled to resort to such pettifogging as he exhibited in com- paring assessmonts of newspaper office buildings with headquarters buildings of a great railroad corporation. THE TARIFF IN THE ATE. The passage by the house of the Me- Kinley taviff bill wus a foregul sion from the time of its introduction, It was made plain when the voting on amendments begun that the republicans of the house had determined ‘that it was necessary to sustain their committee on ways and means, and that the prediction of the chairman of the committee, that the bill would be adopted by the nearly unanimous vote of the repub- licans with very few changes from the form in which it w eported, was based upon a perfectly accurate knowledge of the situation. The arraignment of the measure by Mr, Butterworth, as not in accord with the true protective principle or with the precedents and pledges of the republi- can party, is seen to have had no effect 80 far as the action of the house republi- cans is concerned, though it is not to be doubted that a great many of them were to a greater or less extent in sympathy with the views of the Ohig con- o conclu- gressman, It s by no moans necessary to conclude from the nearly unanimous repudlican vote in support of the McKinley bill that all of them regard the measure as cn- tively wise and sound. It is very well known that nnumber of them, perhaps sufficient to defeated the Bill, do not so regs But these men yielded their conv discipline, even Mr. Butterworth stand- ing with his party at the final vote. It was another and very striking illustra- tdon of the faree of party demands, which are generally able to overcome e other consideration and lead men to di vegard their convictions and stultify their utterances. Each one must judge for himselfof the propricty and morality of such a course, butit is certainly one of the conditions of u political career in this country. The tariff is now transferred to the senate, and the question of how thatbody will deal with itisof paramount interest. How will such statesmen as Allison and Aldrich and Sherman, who, as members of the finance committee, will have to formulate a tariff measure for the consideration of the senate, treat the MeKinle, bill in view of the fact that it has encountered a more general and vigorous opposition thun al- most any other turiff bill in the history of the country. There is not much for the guidance of opinion as to what the senate will do, but there is enough to warrant the expectation that it will in many and material respects amend the McKinley bill, and may substitute for it an entively new measure. The very 't that senators have preserved a studied reticence of this subject is suggestive no their disapproval of the house bill, or at any rate that it does not as a whole commend itself to them. Senator Allison is on record as favoring a vevision of the tariff that will reduce duties generally, and unless he has expovienced a radical change of mind within the past two months he will vigorously oppose the proposal to advance duties upon all th ng the highest rate, as a vule, upon the articles of least cost, thus throwing the heavy end of the tax burden on the poor. It is hardly con- ceivable that any of these sena- tors will give their support to ameasure that provides for duties in some cases of one hundred and eighty and two hundred and twenty-five per cent, as th nley bill does on ce tain articl aring apparvel in gen- eral use. Senators may be induced to believe that it is well as an experiment to put a duty on tin plate, and that it will not be inexpedient to make silver-lead ore pay a duty, although that might invite a further retaliation by Mexico against our products, but it ought to be safe to assume that they will not see the wisdom ov the justice of increasing the cost of everything the people wear, of all articles of domestic utility and necessity, of the whole range of articles which everybody must have, from the lamp chimney up, thereby imposing an added tax upon the people of several hundred million dollars annually, for under the McKinley bill the advanced duties would be added to the present price of the articles and become u direct teibute to the manufacturers. Republi- can senators, particularly those repre- senting constituencies largely composed of farmers, will hardly approve a pol 80 distinctly retrogressive as this. The country will await with extraordinary interest an expression of the views of republican senators on this subject. rd it, REPUBLICANISM IN KANSAS. The convention which will meet today at Topeka, Kansas, to urge a resubmis- sion of the amendment to the constitu- tion prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, promises to be a notable gathering. It is expected that every portion of the state will be well represented by representative men, many of whom were among the most carnest advocates of prohibition when that policy went into effect. They are now opposed to its continuance be- cause experience has convineed them that it cannot be generally enfor There will be men in this convention who in their capacity as public officials have had the most ample opportunities to obtain a knowledge of the almost in- surmountable difficulties in. the way of enforcing a prohibitory law, and they will doubtless give most valuable testi- mony us to the failure of prohibition to prohibit. This convention is the cul- mination of a movement which has been making rapid progress for the past months, Tt is the ontgrowth of a stute of affairs that compelled thoughtful and practical men to reject a system that brought no real good to the state and seriously damaged its business and ma- terial welfare. Prohibition in Kansas, as in other states, is effective only in the rvural districts whore it has the sup- port of popular ntiment. . In the towns and ties where it has closed: saloons they have been replaced by joints and boot-leggers, and these have done a most profitable business with liquors of the vilest de- seription. Nobody in Kansas towns who desives liquor to drink finds any great difficulty in procuring it, while portation of liquors by individuals for their own use amounts anpuaily to a very large sum. In the capital of the state there has been, no time, ac to trustworthy authovity, since prohibi- tion went into effect that liquor has not sold, and the is true of every other ci due to any laxity on the part of the au thovities in the performance of the duty to enforce the law. hava baen in sympathy with the law and earncstly desired its enforcement. But they have found it impossible to do more than prevent the open traffic in liquors, and in accomplishing this there has been eoncouraged a surr traffic far more harmful to the morals and health of the communities, boen same As to the unfavorable effect of prohi- bition upon the material interests of the state, it is impossible to determine how great this has been, but no reasonablo person will doubt that it has retarded progress and diminished prosperity, just as it has done in Iowa, The rate of tax- ation generally in Kunsas is higher now than before prohibition, and besides the 10ss of revenue which a license sy otion to the demand of pavty | the im- | rding | 'his has not been | Most of these | ptitious | em wou'd prodoce, millions of dol- lars are Wnwually sent out of the state, | yrincipally to Mis- souri, to pay for liquors. It is entirely probable that there is as mnch liquor consumed yently, in Kansas as in No- braska, and the greater part of it of a much inferior ginde, The practical men of Kansas who kknow these things, who have experi- enced the imposgibility of o general en- forcement of prohibition, and who have become convinced that this policy is a most serious obstacle to the material progress and , prosperity of the state, keeping up the heavy bur- den of municipal taxation, ing a large sum of money to be annually sent out of the state, and encouraging a disregard of law, are the promoters of the resubmission movement, There are men of intelligence who believe in pr moting temperance by means of a judicious and practicable system of vegulating and restricting the liquor traffic, and they have enter®d upon the task of attaining this with the earnest- ness of a strong sense of duty. It may take some time to accomplish their +uhj. but that they will ultimately succeed is not to be doubted. THE CONVIOTION OF NBAL. The chain of circumstantinl evidence that has been skillfully forged together link by link by the proseculing attorney around the monster charged with the r of Allan Jones has resulted in a t of guilt by a jury of twelve men good and true, Upon this verdict, the prosecuting attorney, the jury and the court will recive hearty congratulations, They have vindicated the law and meted out justice in accordance with the evi- dence adduced. 3 the murder of Higgins by ', who suffered the death penalty rallows in this city nearly twenty years ago, no murder as atrocious and cold-blooded as that of Allan and Dor- othy Jones hus been perpetrated in ion of the state. It was crim fiend, who for profit slaughte n aged, defonseless couple, No pallintion for this crime has even been attempted by the defense, and no testimony has be introduced that could leave u ige of doubt as to | Neal's guilt. The prompt conviction and execution of such a man is-the surest safeguard of society against the wanton slaughter of innocent people by desperadoes, Self- 5 wion demands that such monsters ves in Omaha Helon Gougar is reported by the World-1ieruld to have made the fol- lowing declaration: *The statement I made with regard to that high license league was exaetly true. But you don’t need to take my word for it. This morning word. was sent to me by Mr. Con Gallagher, through Mr. Paul Van Der Voort, and delivered in the pres- ence of Mr. McCandlish, our chairman, that what I said was correct. clincher by which Postmaster ¢ stands convicted jas a liar and s hypocrite. There is no getting have been trying to stab the businc men who are endeavoring to avert d aster to the coimercial and materi interests of this state by representing them as mere catspaws of the distillery trust, and they have fived their poisoned arrows throvgh Mrs. Goug: The most disgraceful thing about this bush- whacking warfave is the cowardly way in which “business men are being way laid by government officials who are de- voting most of their time to plotting and intrigue. - WE ALWAYS adwmire enterprise in newspapers. But the line between en- terprise and imposture, bety fietion, should be clearly drawn. a paper tries to create o s aggerated tales of vice and crimg it in- flicts a positive injury upon the com- munity in which it is published. It with cities with men. The things that are said about are copied far and wide, tho good they do i \ noticed. The howl raised by a certain paper about the Chinese opium dens has searcely any foundation. Tt is asserted that there are one thousand Chinese in this ci The fact is that there are less than one hundred. Instead of forty opium joints there are probably four, and none as as we can learn are patronized by white people. The whole story is the figment of the of some opium eater, or a fuke concocted purely to attract, attention to a paper that is usually patronized b; want to read themselyes to sleep. as THE appointment of Mr. Euclid Mar- tin as one of Nebrask:’ to the world’s fairis a merited commissioners com- business men, s president of the Omaha b de Mr. Martin has thoroughly familiavized himself not only with the commercial and industrinl aska's metropolis, bul he has also cultivated a very extensive acquaintance with the business men of | the state and acquired a vast fund of in- formation about, our interior towns and cities. Mr. Martin terest in all that ¢oncerns the develop- ment of this state and will doubtless | take pride in promoting her interests at the world’s fair o the best of his ability. us tuken a decp in caus- | fromit. Gallngher and Vandervoort both | en fact and | When | wtion by ex- | attled brain | people who | pliment to one of our representative | RICHARD VAUX, a bourhén of bour- | bons, has beon glaoted to the vacancy od by the dexth of Samuel J. Ra dall. | the ultra-respactable f Qunker city “deinocrac) | oddity in dressiid appe brainy, aggrossive man, an | 1ow tariff, and one who has consistently | fought within party lines for honest and competent men. At the age of enty, however, it cannot be expected | that he will become an active factor in | the controve and turmoils of the house, the an tion of While ice, he is a advoeate of sies impulse that the prohinition wrec) ers of Kansas have decided to make up a fut purse “to fix 2 In view of the mutilated condition of prohibition in Kansas, the money could be used far more profitably at home. Nebraska fully competent to manage her internal ACTING on the *m loves company,” uska, is | parties. | that state as radical and effect affairs without the assistance of moeddle- some non-residents. Tue fakir of opium fiction would make a commodious running mate for the Hoosier shrieker. CEp————— The lowa Style, Chicago Inter-( Out In Towa they remark, inal package.” Ploase pass the -— Kditor Dana's Cheerful Philosophy. K ansas City Journal. Of the $10,000, which the New York Sun contvibuted to New York's world fair fund, it has recelved back $2,818.60. Mr., Dana makes this fact the subject of a jubilating ed- itorlal, 1t is particularly philosophical of the gentleman to grow happy over the roturn of #2,818,00 and to forget the uflavailing expendi- ture of §7,151.40. ——— The Great Prize-Winner, Ne o Orleans Delta, Thoe winner of the capital prize in today's drawing of the Louisiana state lottery com- pany was-the Louisiana state lottery com- pany. It disposed of 100,000 tickets at §20 cach, amounting to $2,000,000, and offered prizes amounting in all to §1,054,300, leaviug in tho hands of the company the differenco 8 ), which, in our judgment, is the capi- al prize. Nebr ———s ka Republicans. our City Journal, 'he ropublicans of Nobraska havea con- ble job before them if they succeed in party in the clection in that state sid finiting th this year. The farmers of Nebraska are tired of cor- porate dictation, Iftho old parties cannot divorce themselves from railroad control, the farmers will divorce themselves from the They demand railroad legislation in as the leg- islation that has been provided in this state; and they want oficers of the state as loyal to the interests of the peoplo in this rogard us Gov. Larrabee proved himself to be, and as a wajority of the Iowa board of railroad com- missioners are. w, then, the first thing for the repub- licans of Nebraska to do, if thoy aro really going to bring their party into line and n it the party of the people and secure to it the confidence of the people, is to call an earlp state couvention. The Lincoln conference hus made an ultimatum in this respect; it as Insisted that the republican state com- e shall call the couvention to meot as y 8, and in case of a failure on the committee to do this it has named a committec for the purpose of making a call fora “regular state convention under the regular apportionment.” This would appear t—a threat of @ bolt. A bolt might be able, but there muy be ques- tion whether the recommendation of the state committee would not have been stronger without ¢he threat But, this feature of the ease aside, it must be clear to the republicans of the state dis- posed to stay with the people that the only to hold the people with the part; ve them ground-work for confldence in the There are two influences at work within the organization, and the one is pro- © and the otheris obstructive—the one llied to the cause of the people agains porations, and the other is allic corporations against the cause of the people. The issue should be submitted to a conven- tion of the party without delay, so that it may be determined as to whose servant in Nebraska the republican party is, and so that political ailiances may be made aceordingly. There can havdly be a question that the publicap party of Nebraska is very largely composed of a membership free and disposod to help the interests of the people of that state. The truth has been clouded by assaults upon the integrity of the prrty, instigated by rivaley and by men and influences haying selish ends to subserve. The machinery of the party may be in wrong hands, but a con- vention of th before it is too late, would certainly demonstrate that the mem- bership of the party is right by an over- whelming majo e JOTTINGS. ska. Eighty-two recruits are needed to fill va- caneies at Fort Siduey. Nine students will graduate from the Chad- ron public school June house in Milford a demand for more, The new three-story hetel at Lexington will be chwistened the Cornland. “Thousands of acres of prairic will be broken in Box Butte county in the next sixty days. The Siduey ercamery will be put in oper- ation again after having been idle for some time. icholas county hail storm the first of the week, ¢ damage being done. A furmer living six miles north of Sidney brought a full grown otter to town the othe he had captured several miles n of water. u need of better school ties'and the people are talkiug seriously of voting §3,000 bonds for the purpose of erecting a new school building. @ executive committee of the Logan Val- v f on has decided to hold the annual fair at Wakefield the fivst week in Sep- tember, probably the 3d, 4th and 5th, The dead body of John Gerdea, a German favier near Auburn, was found’ Wednesday in a field where he had been at ise of death is not known. and Mrs. Peter Sluck of Maple Creelk, county, have a genuine prodig months-old daughter who can 'ca tune through with ease. Music is us natural 10 her as her breath, The Omabu Indians, strides toward_civiliz suys the Herald. Tuesday there were four coupl of them united in murriage according to the custom of the whites. Lemon F. Rutter and owning land near Hawley Flats in Blaine county, quarrclled over the dividing line and Johnson fired a_load of shot in the di- rection of his neighbor, for which he was hound over to the district court in the sum of $650. Willis Hudspeth has sold the Newport Ad- Mus. M. E. Bowser, who will p sonally edit tho paper. She is not the Detroit lady whose remarkable expericnces with her husband frequently appear in public print, but is a resident of Newp .1, Blliott of Wilber, while in a_delivious condition, eseaped from the house and ran to the creok, a distance of one mil ing into the water, he bogan praying tory, it is supposed, to drowning Drawn to the spot by the noise, his son, with some neighbors succecded in rescuing bim One day last week some Indians came into thisoMce to sell us a fow acticles of theiv manufacture, as wo are dealing in_ that liue just now, says the ¢ ublican. ‘The Indians woro selling what had in is occupled and terrific nsiderable are muking W. W. Johnson, they | order to buy something to cat and wanted to Mr. Vaux {8, a representative of | I travel with'some show in order to obtain the essarips of life, saying they we ute of such. “Wenotice of late that dians have been sacrificing their blankets, wonies and other things to purchase odibles. nele Sum had better be looking after these pooplo uud kecp them from starving 1o death Towa 1tc TPhe O'Brien county wolf hunt netted nine- teen scalps. Theve are 360 veterans at the Marshalltown soidiers’ home, Sioux Rupids has been oftered for w £XK houns. Over $100,000 will be expended in improvements in Eldora this season Small fruit in the vicinity of West ha u completely killed by frost Seven hundred o children will particl- pite in the Marshalltown musical festival Creston people ure trying to Palmage 1 open the blue grass palace. A ome hundred and tho Mexican war vi Tho coatract for a croamery building Point socure Dr. ten-year-old veteran of ited H the other day building the crematory bullding at Davenport has been lot for §3,000 and the work is to bo completed by August 1. Preston K. Seaman, tho first white child bora in Clinton and for many nent merchant of that place, died recently of consumption, Hoof rot has appeared among tho cattle of Elkhorn township, Webster county. The disease ig not of § contagipus gharacter, hut i3 "causey from Diood polsoning, resuiting from cating tho blight on timothy hay. The Sterling Standard says the people of that place aro wondering what a local preacher meant last Sunday when he took fop [nn morning text, Yo are the Children of the Dovil,> and in the ovening proached from tho text, “Children, Obey Your Pavents.” George Fato, a wealthy Gorman farmer liv- ing near Viele, attempted suicide by jumping into a well, but was prevented from drowning by the timely assistance of his two littlo chil- dron, who called neighbors to their aid and succoeded in rescuing their father eforo lifo was extinot. Fate's wifo desortod him a short time ago, since which time his mind has been unbalanced. Owing to delays fn the work upon tho sol diers' monument at Toledo, it will bo impos- siblo to complete it for Momorial day. The committeo has therefore decidod to postpone gdication to July 4, 1300, and requests that various communitios of the county, l ing aside local celebrations, jofn in one Tama county celebration and monument dedication, The Two Dakotas. Spearfish Masons contemplate building a temple this season. The Hutchinson convention will bo | The annual conference of the Mothodists will bo held at Mitehell October 6. A Sioux squaw secured a divoree from her husk at Pierre the other day on the ground of desertion, Washington Hughos of Spoarfish is held in Donds of 300 to appear for trial at Deadwood on the charge of killing a horse by beating it with a club, Tho new Methodist cotlege at Hot Springs will be opened, it is expected, on Septembe 11, with a full corps of instructors. The tru tees will meet, at Hot Springs on the 27th inst. for the purpose of electing a faculty. The Oli 1d says a party of Towa hunters are atrip through that pat of the state after wolf scalps, which they i tend to place on the Towa market, where the bounty is much larger than it is in Dakota. The Fargo five department, board of trade, mayor and city council ave sending out invita* tions to the grand tournaments of the North Dakota firemen, band, baseball and wheel- men, tobe held in that city June 17 to 20, inclusive. Two judges, Haney of North Dakota and Aiken of South Dakota, have decided that there is no law in either state to punish adul- tery, the old territorial statute being repealed by'a law of congross, intended for Utah polygamy, but applicable to all territories. Captain I, S. Demers, veceiver in the United States land off rgo, hus Been taken to the Jamestown insane asylum_for treatment. T'he strange action of My, Demers were fir noticed while attending the theater at Fargo the athor night and ho'wes taken home by his riends While excavating for alime kiln at Forest City the other day the skeleton of an Indian was uncarthed, There were several holes in the bones, us if made with bullets, and ap- pearances indicate that the brave had met b death viol 1y, probably from a Winchester in the hauds of u soldier, While at work in a quarry near the Sioux Falls penitentiar O'Donnell, serving a term for grand larceny, took advantage of the ubsence of the guard at_dinner to make his escape, siuce which time nothing has been heard of him. A reward of 535 is offered for his capture. O'Donnell’s sentence would have expired next January. connty tor of tapping *( ideas on ion daily bread as a second-class clerk in the department at W ashington. Young Emperor Withelm is said to look wretched about half the time. His faco vellow, his fare eyes biious, and he scems thoroughly affiicted with ill-health. Of Robert C. Winthrop, who is on his an- nual visit to Washington, it is remraked that 10 one perccives any change in him. He bids fair to rival Buncroft in the vigor of his ag: Wilfred Blunt, the English publicist b renounced politics, and intends to turn b attention to horse breeding. K Pasha has demanded from the Egyp- tian g ment seven years' back pay and a peusion, which shows that Emin’s” mind, though his head was injured by his recent fall, is still a thrifty one. Sir William Jenner, the physician of Queen oria, is about to retire from London and live ou his Hampshire estate, where he will engage in literary work. The author of *Shakespear as a Dr Artist,” R. G. Moulton, intends paying a visit 10 this country during the coming sea- sou, and will lecture on literary subjects. Mr. Richard Vaux, the successor of Sam Randall, is described as a spiendid specimen of physical manhood, bearing the weight of his Seventy-four years with the jaunty, springy step of forty. His long nair, once tawny, now plentifully mixed with gray, bangs in tangled mass over his broad shoul: ders. He wea d and mustache. cal exercise, in- er Wears an ov ator Wolcott of Colorado, who recently married iss Bass of Buffalo, bears the proud distinction of being the only man on the republican side of the senate who served as a private in the war, He joined a company of the One Hundred and Fiftieth regiment of Ohio volunteers in 1864, when only sixtecn years of age, and saw SOmo s - HROUGH THE PADDLING AIR. An Air Ship That will Be Exhibited at the World's Fair, The latest attempt to solve the prob- lem of aerinl navigation is that of Jean Baptiste Gerber a San Francisco genius s the Examiner. No ettempt has been made by Gerber to biuld his erial ship on a lnrge scale, and thus prove its practicability, security and cheapness, He hus, however, in his shop a small {vorking model, which works in what he declan most satisfuctory mann und proves that his idea entively fea ible. Propulsion by wings is the principle on which the machine is based. Otto Lilienthal of Berlin, and other experts on the subject, maintain that suceessful wrinl navigation will only be accom- plished by working on this lin The vessel is shaped like a lifeboat. The material in & small ir will be of wood. At one end is the rudder, and at the other a funnel-shaped device in- tonded for eatching and dvan tage of the wind. In t} of the vessel is an opening semething like tho enter bourd slot, in which revolves a greut paddle whee THE MOTIV This wheel furnishes pelling power. Abo decks 1s a great | cords of it being aflixed to the sides and dock of the vessel, It is made of very fine silks and cleverly divided into two parts, so that tho upper portion con- us gas and acts like a ballon, while the lower portion s utilized as n para- chute. Gas is readily supplied to the bulloon by a generaior in thoe vessel, The baloon parachute appendage is used chiefly in making the vessel descend to the earth from the upper air, the rapid- ity of the descent being controlled by the emission of the gus und by the greut paddle wings, Tl 5 is a & POWER. the 1 the e wchute v of th balloon, the oars ‘& promi- | bottom of the boat is hollow and concave. As hus been said theso paddle wings are the principlo which the new aorigl ship is made to do its work. There are vight of them, four on each they ave hollow- | shuped like a spoon, aud by a simple de vice may be turned a Any an nd may be propelled by the oot or tricity, T'wo men can readlly operate the two wi Wheun asked on vessel what a vessel to carry & ) | Liabiliey | Property, & sesons would probably cost, Glore ber said he could not toll yet, as he had hoeen too busily engaged on developing tho principles on which the machine is built to add in the cost of the !Imn-:mll and ono items that would go into the completed struetu b NEW YORK IN FIVE DAYS. “As for speed though,” hé sai I exe peet to make Now York in it in less than five days, and after successive trials and experiments I have no doubt but what the time can be greatly lessened; possis bly it may be done iu_three days,” o Jerber is now busily engaged in some minor improvements which will be soon finished, As soon thereaftor as possible it is his intention to build a vessel on o larger sealo and exhibit it at the world’s fair in Chicago. Thus far ho has made no attempt to conceal any of tho work- ings of his machine, doing everything as ha declaves “for the good of the world and for the honor of California.” Gerber is well known for hissmany and od inventions. Among themare the al vailrond, a diving apparatus, sul ne warboats for harbor defense sub- marine wrecking hoats, fire escapes and lifeboats, Some of the models of theso have been presented to the French ad- miralty and have received due atter tion. He is also the hero of that wel known picture that appeared in the art exhibition two years ago entitled *“Tho Lost Genius,” - VIO D OF JLIE BLY, Why She Lost IHer Place After Big Co-operative Advertising Feat. New Yor tter to Philadelphia In- quirer: Nellie Bly, whose trip around the world in a race against the imagina tive record of Phinens Fogg, made such a furord a short while ago, willnolonger shine as one of the sturs of the Now York World constellation, And thereby hangs a tale. Miss Bly—or rather Miss Ili Cochrane—was the recipient of several offers from managers to conduct her upon a leeturing tour, She wus at the time the best advertised young woman in this little world, of our She had been widely deseribed as beautiful,which gho fs far from being; as fascinating, < which she is not, and as wonderfully plucky, which she ' is with a capital P, « J, M. Hill, the manager of the Unfon Square and Standard theaters, mads her what appeared to be the best offer and it was accopted, and Miss Nellio started forth upon her tour presumably indorsed and bucked, so far as free advertising goes, by the most widely cireulated d. newspaper in America, tfivst t young woman was greeted with lur, audiences and her permanent success seemed assuved. But just here something happencd. The New York World had a libel suit on its hands into which Miss Nellie Bly had plunged that newspaper, As it will be remembered, this young woman re- porter made a very elever exposure of Bdward Phelps, the king of the Albany lobby. In the course of an interview, into” which she entrapped him by the woll-acted representation that she wus secking in the New York legislature favorable consideration of a scheme, ho wrote down the names of certain states- men who, ho claimed, were in his pay Among them was that of Danicl W Tallmage, one-time assemblyman from Kings county, and that gentleman, upon publication of the story in the World, brought suit in the Brooklyn supremo court for dumages, valuing the damage to his charac at the sum of $50,- 000. In order to make proper defense it was of course ne sury to place Nellie Bly upon tl witness stand, and when the was ready trial the World sent word to its young globe-trotter demanding et fmmediate presence in Br n and naturally expecting a quic res| Miss Bly made a respons® that. she wns under the management of Mr, Hill and was engaged in a lecture tour. and therefore could not obey the summonsi—_ In this dilemma Manager Hill was appealed to and sent here for the youny woman, requesting her to return to New York, and thereupon she most em- phatically declined to- do any thing of the kind. What led to her assuming this attitude I am not prepared to posit state. Bnemies have been unkind enough to suggest that she had become afllicted with the disease where- by the head weighs mueh moro than the rest of the body and which is popularly supposed to be incurable. Some of her friends, however, allegc that she was never properly treated by the World, and that she never received sufficient remuneration for the enormous advertising which she is said to havo given that journal. None of these de- fenders, however. have suggested that Mr. Pulitzer’s cashier did not puy hev every penny which it had been muiual agreed should be given her, and- they unanimously fail to make mention of tho fact that there is abroad an idea that the ‘World has given Miss Bly an"advertis ment such a8 no woman of her age, po- sition and ability ever before received. In any event the Tallmage libel suit was brought to trial in the absence of the chief witness for the defendant. A postponement was asked for on ac- count of the inability to subpaena her, she being without the jurisdiction of the court,but it was refused and thereupon the lawyers for the World withdr The case, however, proceeded, and aftor five minutes’ deliberation the jury, in the absence of any defense, found u verdict for the plaintiff and assessed the dumages at $20,000. Of course this result will be fought in the higher courts. Asa soquel to this Miss Bly, as is now well known, has had a fallin out with Manager Hill and the lecture tour has been abandoned and incou- sequence the young women in question is now having a very pleasant, but. [ fancy, rather idle time in this c dozen Her ibeth - AMUSEMENTS. Dime EdenVMusé;; THE BANNER WEEK ARV Tamous FElliot(s™ test trick and fancy riders of thy velous ts. 1 pEOUS The housefull of grea One Dime Admits to OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. 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