Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 27, 1890, Page 4

A—— 'l‘HF ])ATLY BEF‘[ E. ROSEWATER. Editor. PUBLISHED K Y MORNI TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. — Dafly and Sunday, One Year. Kix months . Tl ver s Eunday Beo, One Your, Weekly Bee, One Year OFFICE ha, The Bee Ruild ing On A7 Chamber of Commerce. 18 14, 1 and 15T Bullding CoR AN communi editorinl mat Editorial Dey ating to news and to the Atlons re r should be address Fimon LETTERS. d_romfte d 1o Th Publishi Drafis, cheeks and postoffice e payablo to the order of the i hé\}}cc Publishing Company, Proprietors. The Ree 1A rrnam and Seventoenth Sta. Al bust te addres MENT OF CIN LATION ki, 1 of Douilas, (™ B. Tzschuck, se r.\"lry of The Tublishing Company, does thut the n Intl of Tue DALY 1800, was a8 fol- 22011 and subscribed in s Uhis ¥ of Juno, A. D., 1800, ANK A, Ssrrn, Notary Publie. ahraska, Th) ity of Dovglas rgo B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, do- /s that he I8 secrctary of The the 0808 and Bee Publishing any, that actual ave duily elren )t Tk DALY BEE for the month Wi 15,88 copies; for July, for Augzust, 180, 13,651 1650, 0 copies; for 3 \her, 1850, ., 20048 coplesi for ' Fobrunry, 815 copies: 180 nuary 1800, 19 10,76 sless for Mare! ! 08 80,504 coples: tor Muy 1800, 5 too valuable to 1ously to specula- is entitled to compensa- Punric be voted a tors. The city Mg, QuUAY said nothing, but the ac- tion of the Pennsylvania republican convention leaves no room to doubt his silent power in the politics of the state. McKIBBIN touched the Union for sixty thousand dol- svidence of gratitude by shicld in the key- Mg, he g 1 the company’s Pl THEsweat bath tendered the loquacious Call by the scnate proved an effective safety valve for wina a permancnt place amon tonics of the upper housc. AN all round reduction of one and a half per cent on the McKinley bill is not much for the senate to boast of. Tt is merely a sop to deceive and check the demand for tariff reduction It deserves the summer Tiw famous firm of We, Us & Co. did not endorse the hond of Birkhauser, but that omission will not affect the distrib- ution of job lots in the inner sanctum of the postoffice. Call early and avoid the rush. 2 death is reported in Bathmore of holder who served the govern- ment continuously for seventy-one years. His heircan garner a fortune in these parts by selling plans and specifications of his remarkable grip, with the usual guarantee, Accorpi to the Towa republican platform, theve is to bo *no compromise with the saloon. Of course not. It takes two parties to make a compromise. The saloon asks for no compromise so long as it can run wide open in every large city in the state. BETWEEN booming the political inter- ests of Broatch and grooming the private interests of the combine, Pete Birkhauser cannot be expeeted to worry himself with the interosts of the tax- payers. His political creators must be compensated at any cost. Tue thivd partyites have had prohi- bition for years in Maine, but they can- not suppress the ruling on for office. Give them the earth with a tight board fence and it is dimes to coppers that they would climb over and attempt to regulute the motion of the surrounding plancts. THE democ of New Jersey arve con- dueting a genuine educational campaign, Public meetings are being held through- out the state, at which the rank and file are initiated into the mysteries of the new secret ballot system. The move- ment is necessary to prevent the be- nighted of Jersey shoving the wrong ticket. Now comes Philadelphin with a loud protest against the count in Chicago. The belief that the latter will take sec- ond rank in population and displace the Quaker City causes a painful awakening and a covert charge that the great Lake City hasstuffed the consus returns, The staid and sober Quakerites ave unable to absorb the full significance of those blooming farms annexed to Chicago. T precious gang of republican stal- warts now in the municipal saddle dis- played remarkable foalty to party when they conspired to oust a republican for the benefit of a political demi-monde who is notoriously incompetent. What else could have been expeeted from men whose sole iden of publie duty is to fasten incompetents and sinecures on the taxpayers, JUDGE WAKELF -~ of the law prohibiting the teansfer of aflirms the validity to evade the The decision accounts to other states garnishee law of Nebras| is an important one. It strikes down the fee shurks of Iowa who have flour- ished by preying upon the employes of interstate railvoads. It protects the residents of Nebraska from the mercen- aries of other statos. — OMANA takes second rank among the pork packing cities of the country. S tistics of the product since March 1, com- pared with the same period last yed show un increase of forty-four thousand hogs packed, placing this city next Chi- cago in the growth of this industry. The figures ave o gratifying ovidence of the steadily widening influence and suc- cess of the Omuha market, ® THE REPUBLICANS OF 10WA. The republicans of Iowa have held xluh state convention and enunc mml | during ll is an off ndidate campaign. Thi hence the to the plat- m;wn:ln\u in Towa polit become seeondar, | form, The interest in the campaign will al- most entirely center in the congressional s and the platform had to be trimmed on vital issues now pending be- fore congress in accord with the views of Town congressmen. The endorsement of President Har- rison was the compliment paid by the convention for Towa's contingent in the various blue books. The tariff plank is somewhat ambigu- ous and was doubtless drawn to mystify rather than enlighten. The rank and file of the republicans of Iowa are farmers and they certainly donot want a revision of the tariff that will make duties higher and will make farm im- pleatents, tools, building materials and fabrics for home use dearer. On the question of silver and currency the platform endorses the conversion of American silyer bullion into silver cer- tificates, and incidentally favors unlim- ited coinage of both gold and silver in the near future. On the silver question there is as much delusion among Towa farmers as there is among farmers west and south generally. It has been ham- mered into them that some way their store of money will be largely increased if the bonanza kings of Colorado, Cali- fornia and Nevada are given the free use of Uncle Sam’s mints to exchange eighty cents worth of silver metal for one hun- dred conts in legal tenders or gold. They do not comprehend that the only effect of unlimited coinage would be to malke the bullionaires and mining stock jobbers richer by millions at the ex- penso of the whole country. The plank pledging the party to pro- mote the industrial and farming inter- ests of the state is awfully if not art- fully vague and indefinite. Whoever originated that plank would do well to play cuttlefish. He can shed more ink tosay nothing than any man on this side of the Missouri. The railrond regulation and anti-trust planks are the best features of the plat- form. They are specific and to the point. The southern outrage plank lacks defi- nite shape and should have heen cleaver and less inverted. On the question of pensions the con- vention goes as far as it can in favor of taking care of the old soldier by promis- ing him a service pension at an carly date. Last but not loast comes the plank on prohibition, which sounds very much like the stercotyped editorial that ap- peared vegularly every fow days inan Omaha daily some years ago. “And we desire it distinetly to be understood that we do not wish to be understood,” ete. It begins with declaving “against a com- promise with the saloon and pledges cternal hostility to its existence, sprend and power.” It winds up with appeal- ing to congress “to permit the states to regulate, confine or prohibit the pub- lic bar,” which means that con shall not interfere with the whevever it may be vegulated under li- cense. In some respects thi marked de- parture. Last year’s platform endorsed prohibition outright and declared it to be the settled of the state. But last year’s clection was decidedly adverse to that policy and left the party in a sad plight. Manifestly the prohibition plank has been adopted to harmonize all elements of the party. If it nccomplishes that re- sult the convention has done good work. ic, STRUCK THE KEY-NOTE. City Attorney Poppleton struck the key-note of the assessment problem when he called attention to the favoritism shown by assessors to corporations,whose valuable franchises are entirely ignored in computing the valuation of their prop- ert The constitution of this state provides that ta hall be levied by valuation, sp that every person and corporation shall pay a tax 1 proportion to the valuation of his, her or its proper and franchises. If this provision of the constitution relative to the franchises of corporations were en- forced, Omaha and Douglas county could add at least five millious to their assess. ment rolls. The corporations that have boen voted franchises by this city to supply it with gas, water, steam heat, electrie lights, telephones and street railway facilitios are bonded and stocked for moro than twenty millions, and they should pay es upon about one-fourth of the value which their creditors and ma have placed upon them. All of these corporations together are assessed at less than a quarter of a million, But those corporations may say that the millions of bonds they have issued representa mortgage debt and therefore they should not bo taxed upon bonds owned by eastern or foreign money syndicates. How is it with private individuals and other corporations that have given mort- gages for buildings and other improve- ments? Let any man borrow one hun- dred thousand dollavs of foreign capital and invest that loan in a business b or factory and just as soon the building is completed the im- provement, which may be made up chiefly of money horrowed on mortgage, will be returned by the assessor at one- fourth or one-fifth of the appraised value of the building and ground. Ifa poor man borrows five hundred dollars and builds a little home he is as- sessed upon his house and lot regardless of the mortgago. Is it fair or equitable to practically ex- empt from taxation corporations which have been voted franchises worth millions and force the burden of tax- ation upon tho poor people who have mortgaged their homes and enterprising citizens who have assumod heavy debts in the construction of business block hotels, factories and mills. The fre chised eorporations can certainly afford to bear their proper sharo of taxation. They nearly all have contracts with the city and can well afford to pay back a small part of the taxes which the city as levied for their benefit, We venture to say that there is not another city on the coutineat where such rank diserimination is practiced ngainst the owners of improved real estate and in favor of subsidized cor- | porations, mortgage holders and capi- talists who amass fortunes by loaning money. It has becomsé a very grave question whether a man in Omaha can afford to Invest his money in bulldings even if he is content with five per cent. interest on his investment. Lvery year the burden of taxation is growing heavier and more property is being taken out of the local tax list for the ben- efit of railronds and churches and benev- olent institutions that rent their prem- ises for revenue, If the board of county commissioners and city council really desire to make an impartial assessment of taxable property lot them raiso the appraisement of fran- chised corporations and overhaul the enormous list of exempted property which is not part of railroad right-of-way nor actually occupied by churches or schools, In that fleld thoy will find ample scope for increasing the revenue and at the same time keeping. down the levy which is almost prohibi- tory and next to the prohihition agi tion is chiefly responsible for the pression that prevails in our real estate market. THE JUNE RIS It will startle the residents of this sec- tion to learn from the front row of Bos- ton cult that “‘there is nowhere else on this continent, probably on noother con- tinent, any phenomena quite like those presented in the month of June at any point on the lower Missouri, between Omaha and Jefferson City A writer on the Boston Advertiser, with an abnormal bump of imagination, sos an intimate acquaintance with tears of the Big Muddy y reader that while the telegraphie deseriptions are thrilling, “they convey but a faint im- on compared with the reality known to eye witnes Although at the present moment the Missouri rolls by Omaha in a peaceful, noiseless sort of way, “to the Bostonian imagination it is absolutely furious.” Shutting out the view of the woful watery wastes, he indulges in this de- lightful chupk of descriptive rot by way of comparison: “We in New England are accustomed to what we consider sudden changes in climate, but our temperature is equable indeed judged by a Rocky mountain stan There in a few hours the mercury will rise or fall 60 de- grees. Heat comes even more suddenly than cold. One day the snow will lie in the gulches half way up the trunks of the tallest tr aud the next day it will be melting so fast, under a torrid s little is to be seen save one vast down sweeping sea of water, little to be heard suve the awful roar of the fouming torrents.” Then, with a mighty sweep of his pen- cil, the modern Athenian hurls in a few hours this rosistless flood over the thou- sands of intervening miles between Fort Benton and Omaha. As a demolisher of spuce he is a daisy. The trifling fact that it requires a month or more to cover the distance is not worth mention- ing. To his ripe imagination the dreamy torrent slides down with the speed of it, reserving its power to spread ter and death “*between Omaha ana Jefferson City.” " Then it that the writer is lost in ccstacies as he contem- plates the furies turned loose. Hear him: “As the maddened waters rush down be- tween the states of Iowa and Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas, they tear away the deep rich soil of cither bank and with it all tis on it. Houses, cattle, fencing ma- terial, the furniture of homes, and, alas! sometimes human beings, come down the valley, swept along by the irresistible flood.” All this is mighty interestin’ readin’, but it is not true. There have been June floods on the Missouri, and vast quantities of its embankment have been transferred from one side to the other by the constant change of the channel. But the extravagant and picturesque features of the Missouri at high water mark are intended more for the ro- mancer and painter than for the reliable historian. is AS TO VAGABONDS. Alocal paper quotes Mr. Birkhauser as follows: < “Iam feeling pretty good,” said Mr. Birk- hauser in answer to a question, “Itis not the ofice 50 much as the y gained. It will teach some one a lesson, and it also says in plain words that Mayor Cushing cannot be run by a little s sabond.” Accord: o Webster a vagabond who warde-s from place to place, no certain dwelling; a nt.” on whom Birkhauser stigma- little sensational vagabond” s lived in Omaha nearly twenty-seven rears; ho has never been known to stroll from Omaha for more than thirly days ot any one time. He has owned property and paid taxes in this city for twenty-six years and the money he has paid in taxes on his property in Omaha during his vesi- dence here would buy all the property Birkhauser owns in Omaha and leave several thousand dollars of margin besides, Thé title of vagabond as defined by Wobster would almost apply to Bivk- hauser who has been strolling from place to place ever since he came to this state, and only located in Omaha a few years ago because he was completely played out politic- ally and otherwise in Richardson county where he had strolled from town to town and had tramped through every political camp. Neither Cushing nor Birkhauser has any claim upon Omaha on the scove of residence or contribution to the city's growth, Both of them are now fo on the taxpayers and proport this city and the less they say about ngubonds the bet it will be for them, It was not the office Birkhauser was king, of course. Ho who has been an office-seck all his life only wanted a little vindication and vietc If he doesn’t want the office for which he is not competent and never will be, and if he is satisfied with his glorious victory, will he give us a proof of his sincerity by declining or resigning the office which he doesn’t want and cannot fill \ging owners of excopting the signing of his salary vouchor for two hundred dollars a month? IN RETIRING from the chairmanship of the board of public works, Major Balcombe completes an enviable record of fuithful devotion to the interests of — E the taxpayoys. While Tir Ber has criticised many of the acts of the board during thepast three years, yet on the whole theohairman and his colleagues have so cardfully guarded the vast in- terests int¥usted to them that no taint of scandal dfmd the record. To Major Balcombe is largely due the credit of having brought order out of chaos in the business of the office. When he took charge of theoffice the so-called records were a jumble of figures, without order or intelligént arrangement. It was im- possible to extract from the confused mass an accurate statement of the busi ness of the board. All this was promptly changed and the vast business of the board reduced to a systom. The records of the office are now as complete as those of any department of the city, Itis now possible to tell the character and quan- tity of public improvements, not only during the past three ‘years. but for overything done since the organization of the board, for which data could be found. The retiring chairman may be excused for expressing a pardonable pride in leaving such a splendid record. It is a credit to himsolf and source of gratifica- tion to the taxpayers. IF ONE is to judge by the dispatches sent brondeast over the country by the prohibitionists, Kansas is again blood- ing ut every pore. The agitators are sweating blood and threatening to ap- peal to the shotgun and the rops. We aro told in tropical lines that the people aro up in arms against the original package, that *“the supreme court sa- loon must go” at any cost of blood and treasure, and indignation meetings are being held everywhere to reassert the ‘settled policy” and provide ways and means for a relent- less war on everything that smacks of budge. All this fuss and fume is on the surface. It is cooked up by mercenaries for effect on congress. Instead of haing widesproad, it is con- fined to two isolated sections and is en- gineered by agitators and constables who have lost u profitable source of revenue by winking at the joints. The truth is that the original package decision did not inercase the consumption of liquor in the state. Ty simply improved the qual- ity and broke up the monopoly main- tained by the drug stoves and joint Ikeepers who *'stood in” with the ruling powers and divided the profits of the liquor busine THE senate committee on public lands has reported a bill, which, if it becomes a law, will land in the penitentiary some of the prairie and timber fi that afilict the west.. It provides for tho pros- ccution and punishment of any person who maliciously or carelessly sets fire to the grass, brush or undergrowth on pub- lic lands. Such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- viction fined not moro than three times the value of 'the property destroyed and imprisoned for not more than three years. The damage inflicted on publi and private 'lands by prospectors, hunters and @ evil disposed per- sons who carelessly or purposely start fires in dungerous places amounts to millions of dollurs annually. The forest fives in the novthwest lust summer de stroyed thousands of acres of public for ests and inflicted inealculable damage on the people. The evil has become so great, coupled with the indifference of local authorities, that the national gov- crnment should promptly institute meas- ures to suppress and punish the culprits, The passage of this or some similar law will enlist the co-opetation of the settlers in running down the firebugs. THE republic of Brazil road. The new constitution recently promulgated follows closely the pro- visions of the constitution of the United States, a fuct which vastly strengthens public confldence in the provisional gov- ernment at home and abroad. s on the right Stanley ana Sarah. Chicagn Tribune. If it be true that Sarah Bernhardt has fallen violently in love with Stanley the best thing he ean do will be to hurry back with all possible speed to Central Africa. it The Rope and the ¢ Chicago Times. Frank Brenish and three negroes were hanged at Memphis, Teun., and Brenish drow the color line, The four were todie togethor, but he objected, and they had a special haug- ing for his benefit about an hou drop fell with tho othor three, - -~ Common Sense and Comnage. 0 York Indspendent. Tt s to be hopad that the Aucrican people will live long onough to learn that money is r Line. ss of congress to supply the market with this commodity, or supply a mar- ket for the sale of the commodity, any more than it is to supply potatocs for the mg or with a market for the salo. R Talking Too Much. Philadelphia Ledy From the remarks of Mr. Powderly and Gompers one might suppose that the tion of Labor was a body of curs and assassing, and the Knights of Labor an or- anization of “scabs.” But they are only Al labor organizations, and this is sinply how thoy look to the disturbed imaginations of their respedtive leaders, who fear cach other’s power, e, Democratic Constitutional Theories. Indianapolis Jowrnal In former years it was tho theory of the democ o part was national aud freedom s , and it went to war to_establish that doctrine, Op- position to 4 national election law is based on the idea that fafr elections are sectional and fraudulent ones ' nati that any state m enact coystitutionally laws to prevent fair elections for presidents and members of con- gress, but that cahgress cannot enact consti- tutionally a law'to secure loucst elections. nstitutional that slavery PROHIBIT The Gr N onr HIGH LICEN at Debate at Beatrice July 5 and 7. Mr. 8. S. Green, secrotar Chautauqua assembly, seuds following for publication There will be a joint debato on the ques- tion of “Probibition vs. High License” atthe Beatrice Chautauqua assembly, beginning at 10 a. m,, July 5, and ending the afternoon of July 7. Samuel Dickie, chairman national comuittee, and Rev. debate prohibition Hon. Edward owater, editor of Tin Beg, and Hon, John L. Webster of Omaha will'a for high license. - Big Fire at Oldenburg, Brniis, June 96.—[Spocial Cablegram to Tug Ber.) ses have been de stroyed by fire at Oldenburg, of the Beatrice Tue Bes the f the i rohibition mall will STATE JOTTINGS. Nebraska. There is some talk in Blaino county of im- peaching the sheriff. The Loup County Fair assoctation was or- ganized at Taylor last week, The Hall county republican convention will be held at Grand Island July 19, The Pawneo county repulican convention has been called to meet July 10, John Raight of Bradshaw dropped dead the other day while scooping corn to a sheller, Jacob Blakely, a prominent politician of Elk Creek, died Wednesday from heart discase, The Spaulding Index is dofunct and the ex- editor is devoting his entire timo to tilling the soil. Sherift Costello of Hall county has wodded Miss O'Neill, sister of the ex-ciiy marshal of Grand Island. According to the assessors figures Tecum- seh capitalists are worth only §3,000 in money and notes. Steel cells have been ordered for the Fur- nas county jail, which will be located in the basement of the court house, The barn of W. H. Stephens near Juniata, together with two valuable horses and other contents, was destroyed by fire, An alliance convention for Loup county has Deen called to meet at Taylor July 5 to cleot delegates to the independent congressional couvention, A farmer named Maurloy, living fn north- west Nuckolls county, awoke the other night to find that someone had left a girl baby on a table outside his door, He turned the waif over to the county authorities. A Kansas farmer named Peter Dowers, with a fine and well-stocked farm at Good- land, that state, is alleged to have been sys- tematically defrauding the peoplo of Sutfon by appearing on the strects with a_“made” stiff leg and bogging for money. He made quite an extensive haul and when chavged with being a fraud he said he was afraid the crops would fail and he wanted to be on the safe side, Towa ltems. Fighteen young ladies entered their no- vitiate at thé mother house of the Sisters of Charity at Dubuque the other day. Hon. D. J. McDaid of Sac City has received the appointment of townsite trustee for the territory of Oklahoma, with headquarters at Guthrie, A bolt of lightning struck a hen house near Bruce the other day, broke thirteen eggs on which a hen was sctting, but never injured the bird. While at work on a barn at Montezuma a workman named Reynolds fell from the scaf- fold, breaking both arms and a ccuple of rivs, one of the broken ribs penetrating his left lung. He may recover, In sawing a hardwood log one of the Fort Madison chair company employes ran a_saw into large harness buckle imbedded in the wood and wly missed several other It is estimated that vth of the tree was required to so thoroughly cover the pieces. . S. Widle of Marshalltown has a curi- ' in the way of a4 stonc ax which was manufactured by the mound builders during the drift period many thousands of years ag used for cutting wood and ‘in its was considered a very clever instrument with which to fell large t The implement was found near Marshalltown. _Dr. Hall, living near Green Valley, has a of tallow that has been kept in a cave s the Wellman Advan P tindagol growth of brown h ppeared on the top of the piece, and now it i al inches long, as thick as the hair on a dog's back and almost exactly resembles human hair. The sides and bottom are clean and smooth as when placed there three yoars ago, He intends sending a sample of this curio to some of the professors of lowa Cit, for examination, in the hope that they can explain the frealk. The new tramp law goes into effect July 1. It provides that any person sixtecn years and over going about without having a calling or s to maintain himself shall be deemed He is to have five days of solitary confinement or ten days of hard labor. And it shall be unlawful fo y sheriff or keeper of any jail to permit any one convicted under the act to have or posséss any tobacceo, news- papers, cards or other articles of amusement or pastinie, or t mit such persons to be kept or fed otherwise than stated in the com- mitment heriff or jail keeper who vio- lates th ns |‘ subject 10 a fine not ex- c s than The Two Dakotas. A bunk has been opened at Garretson. A wild plum canning factory is talked of at Sherman. Lincoln county steel cages. The Cathol new chureh edif Anti-horse thief societies are being organ- ized in Hanson county. Thereis a wheat field in Grand Forks county covering an area of 5,500 acres. President Loucks of the South Dakota farmers’ alliance will deliver the Fourth of July oration at Yankton. An observatory has boen erccted on Gypsum mountain near Hot Springs and o wagon road constructed to the summit. The Black Hills Chautauqua assembly will couvene at Hot Springs August 14 and re- main in sessien twelve days. “The strawberry and raspberry crops of this season are said to be the largest and the ber- ries the finest ever produced in the Dakotas. Four Idaho Mormons, sentenced for adul- have been received at the Sioux Falls penitentiary, Their sentences range from one year to fifteen month BAmong the property of Jay Cooke scized at the time of his_ failuro in 1878 is u large tract of land in North Dakota, which will be sold without r in July. The deal to secure a linen Falls has closed and th looking up u site, Tl ployment to 500 persons, woren, 'ho ten- pid Cit jail has been fitted up with of Tyndall are building a mill at Sionx Lors are now L furnish em- young mostly car-old sou of R, T. we, | on is coming to the front as a . The grand lodge of the Kn Pythias and the grand lodge of the Independ- ent Order of Good Templars have decided to hold the sions in that city next Spocimens of stalactites found in a cave on the White river, about twenty miles west of tierman, have becn forwardcd to an cast jewelry firm to determine their value, It i thought they will prove valuable as settings for jewelr, his item may scem like a fish story to those who read it, says tho Menno R but nevertheless wo saw with our own nice, plump peach as largo as a hew's egg, growing on an_apple troe not ton miles from Menno, That _shows that Dalota can raise fruit, don't it, eh Outside parties have inade a proposition to put in a poutoon bridge at Chamberlain pro- Viding the charter now held by citizens is turned over and thoe city gives a bonus of ) for the first year the bridge is run proposition is ‘looked upon with fayor und will probably be accepted, Richard Johnson, sentenced from Dead wood, and Edward St. Clair, from Brown county, while at work in the stone quarry ut the Sioux Falls penitentiary concluded to take Fronch le The; chased by the guards and ace, in which several shots woro fired, weve captured and returned to the prison. Tho body of John Q. Steyhens, aged about fift , & prominent rancher living was found lying in the mid- dle of the rond about six miles west of town Ho was hauling a load of vegotables to on of the mining camps at the time. The ver- dict of the corouer’s jury was thut death wus caused by a stroke of lightuing. go W. Carpenter of Watortown com. mitted suicide in Chicago last weok by taking rdoseof morphine. He went to Chic on’ insearch of employment and failing to secure work bocs et aud took tho fatal dose. He was thirt sht years leaves a wife, who resides in Wat Tywo brothers named Singer aro under ar- rest at Mound City on a charge of assault with intent to kill, Some cattie belonging to the Singers trespassed on the land of & neigh bor named ( ,and when Grenz expostu lated one brother as 1 him with a spade while the other shot at him with a shotgun, - o, d the Discount it Loxnos, June 26.—[Special Cablegram to Tue Bex.]—The Bankof England has ad vanced the rate of di ut from 4 por cent to dper cent Advanc APPROXIMATING THE CENSUS. Estimated Population of the Four Leading Qitios of Nebraska. OMAHA TO THE FRONT IN GREAT SHAPE. Colored Masons and Oddfollows Hold an Enjoyable Pionic—Slominski's Case Taken Under Advise- ment—Capital News. Lixcovy, Neb,, June 26.—[Special to Tur Bee.]—Superintendent of Census Cooke says that ho is now prepared to give tho official approximate cstimates of tho leading cities of Nebraska through tho consent of Suporin- tendent Porter, and gives the following fig- ures : Omahn, Lincoln Heatrice Nebraska City SLOMINSKI REDIVIUS, Dr. Slominski will probably leave the news- papers alone hereafter, as a great many disa- grecable things in his past ocaveer wero brought out in the suit for alleged criminal libel against E. B. and Thomas H. Hyde, proprietors of the Evening News. The trial of the publishors of the paper consumed tho major portion of Judge Cochran’s time yes- terday, and this forenoon his honor listened to the arguments of the opposing attorneys. In the so-called libelous article in the News it was alleged that Slominski had been ex- posed time and_again in Tir Bre, That at one time he had attempted to slug an Omaha reporter and that he had caused to be dis- tributed in Lincoln pamphlets of an obscene character, The first statement was sustained Dy copies of Tre Bk of the dates of Noven- ber 13, 21 and 30, 1859, wherein Slominski was charged with bigamy, scduction and selling the Polish vote of Omaha. To sustain the sccond chargo of attempting to slug an Omaha reporter, the Lincoln correspondent of Tur Bee was called and he testitled that he was in the poli time that Slominski was arraigned for at- tempting to assault Reporter Conners, Tho third charge of causing to be distributed ob- seene literature was tostified to by Louie Blumenthal, a fourteen-year-old boy, who do- clared that Slominski was the man who hired him to distribute the pamphlets, After heaving the arguments of the at- torneys Judge Cochran said thut ho would tl- ke the case under advisement until Satur- day. 4,742 188 10,444 STATE HOUSE NEWS. Articles of incorporation of the Farmers S b /o boon fi Tho cap of stato. ,000 and” the incorporators k. F Brown, C. E. Waite, A.S. Raymond, E. Fiunery, G, M. Lambertson, C. E. Yates, E. W. Bignell, J. P. Hobard. Mrs, Thayer has so far rocovered that to- day sho was ablo to take a short carriage “This fact has had an_ invigorating in- flachico on tha governor, and ho js back o Lis desk working with rencwed energ COLORED MASONS AND ODDFE LOWS, [he colored Freemasons and Oddfellows of at Lincoln and Omaha held a_picni Cush- man’s park this afternoon, Before the picnic grounds the societies gave de, nearly two hundred persons being in There were sixty secrct socioty men from Omaha, about fifty from Lincoln and twelve carriages full of Daughters of Re- bekuh in iine. The exercises av_Cushman’s park consisted of spocches, danciag, singing and a picnic luneh. In the evening ‘o grand ball and festival was held at Bohannon's hall. JSED HIS LOTS FOR A SHOW GROUND, A circus called Sells Brothees & Barrett's colossal ageregation of the universe held forth on ™ hiomas Wood's lots Lincolu that tho ined and o, allogos In conrl. I plowed upand the sod v ims §200 damages from the propri The complaint has been filed in the county court. TRIED TO ROI THE MONEY DRAWER, Al Vance, a colored man, sneaked into Ar- son Brothers' store at ‘321 South Ninth st this morning while the proprictors were in the rear room of the establishment and attempted to carry off the money drawer. The proprictors rushed in just in time to thwart his purpose. In the chase and strug- gle that followed Vane from his back, but he did not. m: cape, He was turned over to O and locked up. DENIED TIE RIGIT TO KEEP 1S CHITLD, The interesting case of Charles Allbr Thomas Mansfield was ended in ~ the trict court today. Allbright is desirous of having the custody of uis infant daughter, but Mrs. Mansficld is equally anxious to keep the pretty little child. The father claimed that.tho Mansflelds woro 1ot propor custodians of the girl, as he alleged that t ve in the habit of using intoxicating liquors. Mrs, Mansfield indignantly den this and said that the wish of the mother of the child was that she (Mrs. Mansfield) should keep it after her death. The judge decided that Mrs. Mansfield should keep the infant, or Kinuey Vi CITY NEWS AND NOTES. The new plat of Havelock, the suburb whero the car shops are to be locatad, has been filod with the county clerk. The plat shows 3,500 business and residence lots in the addition. The main street, Touzalin avenue, extends south from the depot rles Stetson, an employe of the B, & M. od man, claims that e has been is wages for U nths by the mishieo proceedings brought ngiinst ae Johnson, Stotson also claims huson has iliegally secured judgment st him and has sworn out a e the arrest of Johuson on the omplaint above cha A young womnn of rather and “who proves to bean ady taken in a number of greeni daiming to bo Helen Anthony known as “Bob,"’ the w y items for the New World. ong her vie- tims is the | or of the Windsor hotel who has several bills against her, the largest being for wine and cigarettes. ' There was also on the list two_newspaper men, one of them marsied, and both on the Journal. ———— SOLD THE COURT'S DICISION. fresh nturess, vs, hottor Advance Information on the Sugar L Trust Case a Bonanza for Brokers, Niw York, June 26.—[Special Telegram to Pue Bek.|—It is now pretty well known that several stock brokers knew of the decision of the court of appeals on the su before it was publicly announced, 3 ing sugar stock on Saturday were able to rake in barrels of money. Tho man charged N having sold the information is John C. an, & broker, democratic asscmbly leader and local politician, who has a groat pull. Ho came down from Albany two duys before the decision with v \ She » informati as to how the decision we for sule, and after many futile attempts at lust found a purchaser in a big firm of brokers, who 00,000 in 'the ¢ decisions on st which has flouy: wd espocially in ige Barnard, d to h "his bus deared up € wess of solling red is on 15 times the days of the notoric Big rSe ASSess prie HAUTE, Ind., June 20, gram to Tk Bre.]—The race horses Axt and Jersey Wilkes have be £5,000 and 8,000 respectively, Tho farmens' allianco is not satisfied. They claim that Axtell cost $105,000, earncd $10,000 in the stud the pust seasou, und that X) i3 his fair cush value, Axtell's owners threatened n assessed at to move him from Torro Haute if the assess ment was made bigher. u 2L 2 Calne Will fle RRo-Elected. Loxnox, Juue 2. —|Special Cablegram to Tur Bek. | —The marquis of Hartington has written a lotter to the liboral uuionists of Barrow-in-Furness stating that he doos not recommend thom to take the initiative in op g tho re-cl f Calne, nber of the b commons, of 15 signed his seat recontly for the purpo testing the feeling of his clectorate in r to the licensing clause of the local tuxation bill. The unionists, the at o meoting decided to offer uo opposition to the re-elec tiou of Caine, ourt at Omaha at the IN THE REICHSTAG, Chancellor Von Caprivi and Others Parade Their View Berrwty, June 26,—(Spocial Cablogram I;, Pum Bee.|—In tho relchstag yostorda Chancellor von Caprivi, speaking on the army bill, said ho contemplated an extension of tho priviloge of reliof from servico at the oxpiration of two years as a pormancnt moasuro. Baron von Maltzahn, imperial mn»mr,v/ the troasury, asked tho houso to sot asido financial considoration. Ho said it had not beon shown that Gormany was unablo ta bear the financial burdenswhich the bill ens tailed. The amountof now taxes required would depond upon tho expenditures undos the insurance law. It was impossible, he said, to reduce tho duties on grain. Horr Bebel declared that the annexing of Alsaco-Lorraino had eaused tho prosent armaments. He attacked the dotails of the military organization and asserted that the numberof suicides in the army had increased, The minister of war rofuted Bebel's assor. tions. Ho maintmmed that even after the retrocession of Alsace-Lorraine Franca would increaso her army, which already ox- ceeded the German army, by 400,000 me Tho bill wes merely the result of Frone military law. to accede to A two years' servico, The reichstag today rejected all amend- ments to the army bill and approved the first paragraph of the bill which fixes tho peace effective forco at 486,083 men until April, 1804, MAD ROM. All the Moembers of the Municipal Council but One Resig June 26.—[Special Cablogrs Tie Bre.]—Thers was a heatod debate at tho moeting of the municipal council last night in rogard to the bill introduced i hamber of deputies by Primo Ministor spl to nssist in the organization of the financial affaies of tho municipality. At tho conclusion of the discussion all the mombers of tho council excopt Monotti Garibaldi re. signed as a protost against tho promicr's measure. Signor Garibaldi declared that he would rotain his seat. His friends cheered him heartily, but tho othors in the audienco hissod. Tho roporters who were in attend- avce at the meeting intorfered on behalf of Signor Garibaldi and_an altercation with his opponents in the audience ensued. It was found n the disturbance. Suing Newspapers for Libel. [Copyright 189 by James Gordon Bennett.] Pams, June 20.—[New York Herld Cable Special {0 i Beri] 1t will bo rememborod connection with “the mysterious Rve de Province crime that a report was set on foot by an evening newspaper of the arrest of an American citizen, Carleth Potter de Garmo, n of being Muaric Gagnol's mur- Ho instituted legal procoedings st the newspaper which had so grossly lled him, not only against the Paris, bu against the Gaulois, Justice, Egalite and Petit Cohoral, which published the story from the evening contemporary, with a cor- tradiction. From each of theso five papo M. de Garmo claims 25,000 franes damagos, The suit came up for & hearing in the ninth polica cou v. Tho magistrates fixed the security at 1,000 francs and ad- journed the case for thred weeks. < 2 = Agitation Among the Czecha. Prstit, June 26, Cablegram to Tur Ber. rancis Joseph gave a ning to the Austrian and tions. In the course of con- versation_after dinner his majosty, reforring to the agitation among the Czech’ population in Bohemin, said Bohomia was needlessly ex- cited by empty verbings It was impossible at prx‘ucuy/ ssary to call in the police to quoll. < o In reply to'a romark of Dr. Rieger, leador - of tho old Czechs, that the government mighy appease the publie by pormitting Czech to bo used as tho ofiicial language in Bohcmian home affairs, the emperor said the protection of the interests of tho service was the first consideration. Matters ought never to reach such a that government ofticials should not know the G man language, His Ilhljl‘\‘\ deplored the agitation among 3 hs and oxpressed the hope that aftairs i Bohemia would be speedily improved. overal connties to mo of Lincotn, Wednesday for the purpose of pla wdidates for the following state ats iovernor. Accounts, Auditor of Publi State Treasu Atton Co wey General, wissioner of Public Lands and Build- f Public Tnstruction. And the t such other business as may come befor convention, THE APPORTIONMENT. The several countics are entitled to ropre- sentation as follows, boing sod upon the Vot cast for Hon. George 11, 1Tastings, prosi- dentind eieotor i (%5 iy 0 larzo to each county, and ono’ for votes and the major fraction thervo! Superintenden Anlnms’ Arthur. 1/ Keyn Paia., Boune. Box Bui Brown d Wiliow tiehards s BIGIT Sewnrd Howard. Hoo Jof Johnson Itisr mitte o girtes prosent b vote of the dele WA smmended that no proxics be to the conyention. and thatthe dele- ithorizod to cast the full o @ DOUGLAS-~-STREET. On account of our lario and increasing Practico wo havo REMOVED to nore spacious and coi- venient ofli Drs Betts & Detts, 1409 Douglas 8t. Omgaha, Neb. OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Guaranteed Cupitul #60,00 Subseribed Pald In Capit Buys ana sells stocks nnd bonds; ne Liiiata; ot s trinys for agont und try corporations, takes cha of proper lects tuxes. Omahal.oan & TrustCo SAVINGS BANK. S.E. Corner 16thseand Douglas Pald in Capital 8500 Liability of stockholders b Por Uent |. rest Pald on Deposits. \\h J. LANGE, Cash OMeers:A,L L \\uuu )y dent, J.J. Bro viee-president, WV \\mm ir ur Director A. U. Wyman, J. H. Mill Brown, Guy O. Barton, . W. Nush J. Kbl Georgo B, Lake tion fn » t