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

BEE E. ROSEWATER, Bditor. TBLISHED EVERY TERMS OF SU Y!<TI:II‘TIIN Datly nnd Sanday, One Yoar tuinday Weekly Hee, O MORNIN o ® 50 2% 2 m 12 OFFICES, Oralia. The Bee Bulldin o th Omaha, Corner N id Council BiafTs 12 Pearl 8t 1 Chiongo Office, 517 Cha of Commerae New Yo e 5 1L and 15 Tribn ne Bullding, Washington, 313 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. munieations rolating to news and atier should be addressed to the Departrent BUSINESS LETTERS sletters and rem'tt Afts ehecks and postoflice o payable to the order of the O ¢ Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Bee B'ldg, | h Streots, All editoringn Editorin hould ny, rnam and Seventeenth Sty EWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION Btuteof Nobraska, | ity of Dovlas, { Georee . Trehnck, sceretary of The Beo Publishing Comp Soleninty swe e aetual cirenintin of Tre DATY 1 the week ending July 26, 1900, was a8 foilows Bunduy. | Mondiiy. It Irviesd 19,5557 Wedne 10101 ¥riduy Eatiri Ok Govisivenit ,007 Gronar B. T78CHUCK Sworn th before me and subseribed in my prescnce s #th day of July, A D)., 150 FAL o P L, Notany’ Pubite »f Nel raska, | ity of Douglas, [ ®8 ol Tzsehuck, belng duly sworn, cs nnd s ys that ho y blishine Conpany. that Iy ¢ Lol T ber n de- DALY for Septomber, October, 1850, 14,047 oo for January, 154, 1 ADHLL 1800, M08 ¢ \ 90,080 copies: for Tune Groar I3, th Defore me and sils once th's 2ud day of July, A (<EAL.| N. P. R, Notary Publie, i, 1800, for Swort ribed in my THy thie enjoy Central American war has given Behring seq to a needed rest, muddle a chance ThHAT mgressional plat- form continues to excite varying degrees of derision and contempt in party cirele democratic I affuivs continue at the present p In southern states, it will be necessary to disarm the candidates to prevent riot and bloodshed. It Is in eternal fit- the new county cale.” wecord with the ness of thi to call hospital “a poor house ona 1 It was built that way, Ir1sa significant fact thatthe con- tracting competitorsof We, Us & Co., are receiving the undivided attention of the r¢ ized board of public works. JupGING by the through the highways and byw of South Omaha, sl two-leggred porkers have been stuck in a vital spot. squeals echoing sove THE charg nd counter-charges the South Omahu councilmen furnish the taxpayers with ample mate fal for a series of vigorous prosecutions, THE full force and extent of Mr. Cush- ing’s boom for governor cannot be de- termined until Garbage Gatherer Mor- vissey unfolds the plans and specfiica- tions. A MAJORITY of the republican papers of the state express the opinion that the state convention could have made a much wiser choice than Mr, Benton for state auditor, THIs is an off year in railroad build- Ing. During the last six mouths of the present year railroad construction in the northwestern states aggregates only three hundred and fifty-two miles, A COMBINATION between the Farmers’ . The lottery in ite seems to be as doep in politics ilrouds ever were in Nebraska, — PostyMASTER COCKRILL should mnot stand upon the orderof his going, but forward his official head to Washington by fast mail. No genuine democratic patriot should hold office under a repub- lican administration, WHEN the world fair project safely ran the gauntlet of Chicago aldermen, friends of the exhibition confidently be- lieved it had escoped its most dangerous enemy. They did not take into account the Iilinois legislature Tire disorderly and disgraceful condi- tion of municipal affairs in Florence and South Omaha suggests the necessity of placing the obstreperous suburban in- funts across the judicial knee and apply- ing a juicy poultice of oak tanned strap. — AN amendment to the int merce law has boen favorably reported, which will give reduced rates to theatri- cal companies. This gratifying informa- tion comes like the resurrection trumpet of Gabriel to the double mammoth Uncle Tom’s Cabin companies which have beon stranded during the past two yean rstate com- THE total coinage of the mints for the past fiscal year amounted tosixty and a quarter Of this vast twenty-two millions was in gold coin and neavly thirty-seven millions in sil- ver, which goes to show that the gov- rernment is not us great an encmy of the white metul as the bullionaires have claimed. millions, sum —_— MR JoNES of Arkansas, in discussing the tarifl bill, paralyzed the senate by quoting from the bible this passage: “Verily there is a generation whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw-teeth as kuives, to devour the poor from off the earth and the needy from among men.” This is a revelation. Mr, Jones is the first man who discovered that the tariff was planned three thousand years ago, and that Bill McKinley was en- dowed by nature witha st of sabre bayonet jaw-teeth to devour the Ar- kansaw democracy, who are notoriously half horse and half alligator, But Mr. Jones is evidently a profound bible stu- dent and devout believer in the proph- ecles of Duniel, | | THE HOUSE AND THE ARID LANDS. The house of representatives took im- portant action in non-concurring in the senate amendment to the sundry clvil appropriation Dbill repealing the arid land withdrawal law of 1888, The sub- ject received pretty thorough discussion in both branches of congress, and par- ticularly in the senate, The repeal of the withdrawal act of two years ago would restore the desert land law to operation, un new act were pussed, and as the oporation of that law Iy favorable towater panies and land speculators the poliey of restoring it was held 0 be very ques tionable, It issaid thatunder the desert land law thirty-three water companies control the larger part of the water sup- ply of Now Mexico, while in southern California company owns about a hundred salready 1ent of the to fifty n up, almost sas and by only an that n sus- 58 O was espe one Out of some onc la cnact million & withdrawal 1a ivrigable the of 1888, forty res had been tak million a entirely in large a ttler. Itis very probabl if the de t land law had not be and irrigable | n occasional s courses ion by com= the en filed upon and held ar would have b water and land companies, cattle pan 1l speculators, the that the water supplies, ros and the in the arid regions should be held by the government for the public benefit. It ed that all these lands should be kept in the interest of settlers and not allowed to become the property of land companies and speeu- s was largely the case before the withdrawal act On the | other hand, it was contended that the Irawnl act not only takes this land from disposition under the department, but, more than that, it has put a stop to the construction of every irvigation ditch west of the hundredth m Il the states and te ving lands that require irrigation. The con- struction of ditches has been stopped be- wise there is an uncertaiz snment will some day build a reservole above them. Mr, Payson state in the house that in one land district in New Mexico | one thousand and twenty-two entr v been suspended since the withdrawal | law went into efTect, thereby shutting | out four or five thousand from | | The opposition to the repeal of ithdrawal aet was on the ground like wis v lators, 1 was passed. witl one dian in ritories h whethoer or noi the go people settlement, Mr. Payson asserted that immense investments of capital are threatened, and ina way never contem- | plated when the act of 1838 was passed. | There appears to be no doubt that the withdrawal bill of 1888 was intended to | accomplish o good purpose, but it is not %0 certain that its operation has been in all respects beneficial and that it is desirable to continue it. So far as it has served to prevent the absorption of water courses and large avens of irri ble lands by companies and epeculators it las accomplished a meritorious object, | but it appearsalso to have had results not in the interest of the people or the government. Tt would perhaps be better | to continue this law than to restore the | desert land act, which would reopen the water courses and irrigable lands of the arid regions to water monopolies and land speculators, but what is evidently needed is a new act that shall provide against the evils and faults of past legis- tion, and this may reasonably be hoped for as the result of the disagreement of congress in this ma ter, ENGLAND'S PURROS There are some whoare able to find in the correspondence on the Behring sea controversy evidence of a purpose on the purtof England to provoke a war with the United States, Itis extremely diffi- cult to find any warrant for such a con- clugion in the language used by Lord sbury, and yet there are portions of it which may very easily be con- strued to indicate that the British gov- crnment i prepared to adhere to its contention even at the cost of war, It is in the spirit of what is suid, however, rather than in any definite expression, that this appear for on the whole the British premier has been scrupulously diplomatie, and on neither side has there been more than the vaguest hint of the possibility of a rupture of fricndly relations between the two countries growing out of this con- troversy, But when there is considered in association the position which the British government has taken in this matter, after having for nearly a cen- tory virtually conceded all that the United States now claims, the spirit which seems to underlie a part of its contention, and the ovidences of a greater solicitude than ever hefore to show its power in this guarter of the world, it is quite possible to reach the conclusion that it is the purpose of the British goveriment to adhere toits position even at the risk of forcing the United States to fight for the rights it claims, It is conceded by voiced by some of the leading journals of that country, that Lord Salisb English opinion, as was | come a wsted in the argument by Sec Blaine, but no matter strong our contention, the 1 ernment will combat it 5o lox ada demands that it shall do so. whole influence behind British comes fry Low nd gove 5 Can- The the course of th government in this matter n its Ameriean colony, and it is of so persistent and uncompromising a nature that it cannot be disregarded without the danger of vagtly increasing in Canada the already considerable hos- tile feeling toward the imperial govern ment. Anymaterial surrender or con- cossion on the part of the British ernment would undoubtedly bs immedi- ately followed by a vast of the party favoring Canadian dependence, and would hasten time of separation which most in- telligent observers believe must in- ovitubly come sooner or later, The ex- perience of the government with the New Foundland difficulty has been a lesson to the spiritof the people of England’s North American possessions which would be repeated with very much greater force if the Canadian demands regarding Behring sea were not upheld. While, therefore, it is entirvely safe to | assumeo that it is not the immediate pur: in- the poso of the British government 10 pro- | ary | increase | | t0 briug about certain ends with this Uhited voke to a war or force the fight for the rights it clain in Behring sea, it is doubtless equally safe to say that i% is the Inten- tion of that government to maintain the position it has taken at whatever haz ard, hoping and desiring, undoubted] that an amicable and satisfactory settl ment may be reached. The correspond- ence does not indicate that this s any nearer than at the beginning of the con troversy. Both governments may ulti- mately agreo to allow the question to be settled by arbitration, and this is per- haps the only way it ever can be sottled, except by the decision of the sword. POWDERLY'S PERIODICAL DANGER, The regular annual report has been set afloat that a move foot to de- Mr, Powaerly general master workmen of the Knights of Laborat the coming general assembly, This terrible threat will cause very little commotion in the r ranywhere. It has been periodically made and Mr, Pow- dorly hos always managed 1o get him- self re ted on the strength of it. He doces not want to retive while under five, The friends of labor ave not likely to he- alarmed by the We violate no confidence when that Mr. Powderly has be- con ble of a barnacle one of those gener who battles with quaker guns, Mo retreats when there is a big fight on hand and blusters and storms when he is sure that there is no chance for a fight. Lk country, States s on pose us lal lab: con test re- vort. we say come He fight always serious! is our great Fenian gene pursues a policyof masterly i but does not forget to draw his full r tions from the commissary department with regularity and dispatch. He has a soft job and hangs on to it with admir- ble city, The only dunger is that he may have to fall back entirely on the big monopolists and capit ts for the support of the dignity of his lucrative position. Froman army of over a million of men, the knights under Mr. Powderly’s non- combative leadership have dwindled down toa few straggling battalions, and it is safo to predict that it will soon be- eminiscence if the ringsters who have ruled and ruined the ordc i in holding themselves in the saddle much longer, suce THeE New York legislature was evi- dently short on statesmen when it passed the bill, which becomes a law September 1: “No child actually or apparently under sixtecn years of shall smoke ovin any wiy use a cigar or tobacco in any form whatsoever in any public street, place or resort.” A violation of this law is declared a misdemeanor, to be punished by a fine of not more than ten norless than two dollars. The N braska law males it a misdemeanor to sella child under sixteon years of age tobaceo or cigarettes, but it has never given a policeman or erank authority to rrest a boy and drag him before the neavest magistrate to be fined or im- prisoned for smoking. In most in- stances the fine would have to be paid by the minor’s pavents. Tue dummy trainbetween Omaha and Council Bluffs long since lost its useful- ness, and its abandonment nothing more than a lopping off of a needless ex pense, Few trains running ot the Union Pacific were as profitable to tho com- puny. It was a veritable gold mine until it was supplanted by the wugon bridge and electric moto is AN INCREASE of eighty-five thousand in the packing businessof the city in five months, over the same period last year, proclaims the steady advance of a great industry and the growth of Omaha’s stock market intere THE Omaha council combine carefully watches every movement in the boodle checker board in South Omaha. Some valuable lessons are to be drawn from the perience of the suburban brethren who posed as reformers—for revenue. TO VARY the tiresom monotony, the suits ins Folsoms I chances of e are grow postoftice tuted by the teful change. The work on the building ng smaller and painfully less, are a Trik thousands squandered in the con- struction the -county hospital will prove trifling compared with the steady drainon the taxpayers when the institu- tion is runningin full blast. Nebraska Necds the Real Sionwr City Journal, What Nebraska nceds is a genume state board of railroad comu — - Lot the Leaders Fight, San Franeciseo Eraminer, General Ezeta has challenged President Barrillas to personal combst. Tuis would be the happiest possible way of ending the dis pute. ‘The people of the two nations have no cause to fight, and if the leaders can settlo theie diffe er their pistols and coffee peace can settle once more upon the con- tinent, Article. -~ A Uscless Journey. Lawisuille Couréersournal. How very absurd it is to send D, § and his experts to Englund in the hope of convincing the Britishers that our cattle healthy and ought to be purchased § British consumers! What do w British trado there is so great a rush our “home mavket! Let chew all our own beef, and always bite oft as mueh as we \imon care for when us A full state alliance or people's ticket is now iu the field, aud thus a new force is pro- jeeted into Nebraska politics. It must be ad- witted that this independent, or alliance moveuent, presents a somewhat formidable front, and is a political force the streneth of which can not be accurately estimated. It must be actually registered before it can be measured. The hope of the independents is which shall re- doundto the benefitof the poople andthe u who aro back of the scheme, * * * Let the platform adopted by the Lincoln re- publican convention be conned, plank by plank, with that of the consolidated isms, called the people's, and it will scon that the republicans have, as usual, placed thom selves as far along the line of progress and public need as the utmost exigency of the times demund, and is superior to the other, Aud above all things there is a renewed de- termination to see what is promised is ful- filled. and every rational party impulse ar- gues that it will be doue, OTHER lf\l‘l’)s THAN OURS, N C The programme for the next session of tho | British parliament has been announced by the tory government, The tithes and land purchase bills which have been successfully blocked this yor by the obstruction ma- | noouyres of the combined opposition, are to be introduced soon after the assembling of parlisment in November, With the session opening then in placo of February and with short holiday scasons at Christmas, Easter and Whitsun woelk, the ministry hopes to be shle to wear out the energies of the obstruc- tionists ®efore midsummer of another year There is inflexibl Knglish determination em- bodied ia this policy, The were practically defeated after months of de- ate are to be taken up under conditions fay- orable for their final passage, T act, for which Mr, Goschen was mainly responsible, is not mentwoned by Mr. Smith in his forecast of the nest session. Probably to bo dropped altogether, as it has served to weaken the government and o cre- ate astrong hostile sentiment in the country, The other measures ave to be pressed 18 pro jects to which the conservative ministy uneq umitted; and Mr. Balfour's advice another year will not be likely to discarded in favor of Mr. en's dll-timed and fmpracticable propo As the Sali ment has lost prestiz and divided lute doter g riginal policy regaining the confidence glishmen cannot be in. government that does mot kuow its own mind and that fails to pers in @ course of action deliberately entercd upon, Tl ement that the ministry will make a fresh start in Novembe parliament in session until the leading meas ures which have been blocked by obstruction are enacted is a good proof of ecarnestne:s and persistency. If the bills were more pe ularthe government's prospects would brighter; for it is now makinga brave show of figh 1stic English resolu tion, Progressive roform measures which were worth two yearsyof logislative activity would enkindlo public enthusiasm; but there is nothing in the lud purchase scheme or the feable tithes compromise to justify the extra- rddinary ex s which are to be put forth to sceure their One 1s a costly plan of transferring land ownership in Ireland whieh t dislike, especially as there is no real evidenco that the seheme will recon- > the Irish people to English rale. The other is an artificial attempt to shift the bu den of supporting the church in Wales so as to prolong the operation of the established re- ligion, With a majority of the voters in both Wales and Seotland clamoring for disestab- lishment, and with an increasing agitation in the same divection in England, this measure is @ 50 s 1o the government andof strength to the opposition. If the ministry finally sucee in carrying these bills it will have nothing of a popular char- acter to offer to the country in justification of two years of domestic legislation. is ocally be suls ury gov its vacillation councils, this final display of re mination in will be helpful for of the country. ¥ duced to respeot througl ad to its ¢ » ann be ng with charac tio nssge. s ree of weakne s The anarchic condition of Armenia, which just now concentrates the attention of pean premiers, assumes an internatios portance, inasmuch as the persceution of the Chuistians by the Moslems may afford Russia areasonable excusd for interference, The attitude of complete indifference, or at least of impotence, thut characterizes the sults treatment of the case, is extremely agg ting, and now thatitis learned that tho Armenian bishop of Eriroum was killed in the riotsof June20, we may expect to sco the Armenian question occupy public atten- tion to an extent accorded even the open sore of the Balkans, ing o last accounts, business in Avienia is at a standstill, and traveling is unsafe by reason of the e less maurauding and plundering of the coun- tey by the Kurds and Turkish soldiers. 1f the lives and property of the Christians con- tinue to be jeoparded by the Moslems, un- hindered by the Turkish government, intor- fevence by other European powers, it would om, caunot long be delayed. And few have fuiled to obscrve of late the growing influ- cence with the porte of the radicalsof the Mohametan faith, whose zeal in benalf of their religion blinds them to the dire effects sure to follow rash measures, The story of the recent riots in the capital of Armenia indicates the intensity of the feclings of the hostile factions and the gravity of the situation. During the past year it secms that the persccution of the Avmenians has grown in ruthlesspess. The kurds have ravaged the country unhindered, showing no respect for property or family ties. The gov- ernment officials too huve developed toan unbearable point u system of police espionage and arrest on suspicions unsupported by tan- gible evidence, The Turkish tax collectors have been especially cruel in tde performance of their duties, Delinquent tax payers have been subjected to pitiless torture, and flog- ging has Leen a common practice to compel the unearthing of supposed hidden treasure. rs, Emperor William nas created an imperia ministry of fluance i lieu of the secretary- shipof the treasury, The new minister whom the emperor has specially ed for the purpose, and whor deseribes Sy man,” is Herr Miguel. who, until his present appointment, held the ofice of chief. burgo- master of Frankfort-on-the-Main, He has figured in the annals of Ge as oneof the prin of the soctalist party and as the friend and companion of Karl Marx Inan ble public address, delivered in the early part of the tifties, he declared that “‘we want a republic in Germany. It is the only form of government worthy of educated and noble-minded men.” Although he re- tamed suflicient sympathy for his former friends to constitute himself one of the most bitter opponents of the antisocialist law, thereby incurring the in- teuse animosity of P. has abaudoned all his republican aspirations and has developed into the leading authori in Germany on gil matters rolating to fina and political ccguomy. He enjoys at Berlin the same prestige n the business world as M Leon Soy at Pavis, aud, like M. Suy, pos- sesses the unbowmded confldence and consid- on of the bauking classes. ed, the latter regard bis appointment ment to themselyes ar part of the crown to their Dealing direct with tha emperor instead of with the chancellor, as was with the ou olng secrotary of the teeasury, Herr Miguel bids fairto overshadow Geuoval von Caprivi and may be expected 10 exorcise during the noxt pars a potempfuflicace in shaping the stinies of the German nation. as a compli- a tribute on the power. Great pressuve is being put by Russia upon the sultan with the object of inducing him to withdraw the firfmn regarding the Bulgarian bishoprics in Macodonia, which, although wvanted as far back as had remained unexecited until a fesw weeks ago, when the porte tinally yielded to the pressing demands of the Sofia government, and permitted one of the vacaut bishopries to be filled by a Bul- gavian prelate dispatched for the purpose by Premier Stambuloft tothe 2,000,000 Bulgarian christians who reside in Maccdonia. The czar, unmindful of the fact that in acting thus the sultan was but carrying into ¢ t the solemn promises which he made to the powers at the time of the treaty of Berlin, declaves that the concession of the demands of the Sofia cabinet in permitting o Bulgariau bishop to oMelu in Macedonia implies & distinet recogaition by the sultan of Prince Fordinand’s governwent, Ou the other hand, Great Britaiu and the measures which | licensing | Bismarck, yet he | | | { | | therefore in a state of wreat | of con | rights | tion | ation of all cla Let it | thing | the lunguishing | by many of the leadir | which will send a strong three powers constituting the triple alliance advise the porte to stick to its fieman, and to decline to withdraw the privilege which it has just grauted to Bulgaria in accordance with the terms thereof. Moreover, Promior Stambuloff theeatens that in the event of tho sultan yielding to Russia's demands Bulgaria would proclaim her independ and decline to continue any longer the payment of her annual tribute to Tarkey. The sultan is perplexity, ana an eastern withiu & measurablo distance, crisis s The situation in Chili is critical. That country is in many respeets the most pro- gressive in South America. It has the most homogencous populatlon; it is intensely pat triotic; for commercial and industrinl cnter- prise it is pre-eminent: and in dealing with the church establistment and other publi has shown itself to be inpired with liboral ideas and an enlightened poiic The opposition 1o a candidate whose nomir tion was apparently made in pay financial obligations and the subsoquent ac ss in defenco of are croditable questions it nent of fon its constitutional to the patrio the country of civie virtue if t ary in one Sou ism and the good will be . signal sequel of this worals of proof extraord ate to break up, at least can country, the vicious custom inter in the e tion of a succ Ihe singleterm idea prevails in the presi dential systems of Spanish-Amevica, but the merits of a 1 which has boen fre quently advocated M the United States by public men t 1 by the general cus Jomination of & successor, stitu obviate this notorious o executive ntion ssor tom of executive Brazil to in its new cc wisely sceks evil @An international congress of bibliophil printers, publishers and booksellers, will be held in Autwerp on next August 7,8 and 9 The date of the opening of the cong selected 50 as to agree in time with the anmversary of the birthday of Christopher Plantin, the famous printer and the founder of the Oficina Plantintana or the Plantin- Moretus museum of mod rp. Com du Livre is the diplomatic name which the The wor ) three sec and forence under moned. dor cougress has been sum of the congross will bo ions, flrst for the pure bibli sond for the practical men The first section will discuss mostly techni cal matt size and binding of books, i ientof the contents, ing of pastes, the illustrations, ophilas s numbe 1 the typ to settle all international agree ate the 1-time rank. The ss will consider books and the will be oceupied “How may the great 11 nations be enabled to sec ] copies of the vast number of books which are being published annually? ¥ The problem was gosted by German libravians, who are put to their wits' ends to & 1t of the “huge overproduction” of all sorts of lit erature in their own country. It is expocted that the third section will recommend that the government of every civilized country shall appoint a commission to co-operate with like commissions in all other civilized coun- tries in securing for its librarics all foreign works of value, and in furnising to foreign libraries copies of all meritorious domestic books. Phis section will also c ment, and to take measur art of bookbinding to its second section of the congr the transportation trade prope with the question: libraties of questions on a basi The section p acco i L o THE DAILY STRADDLER. [Communicated.] As a straddier and fence-rider T can beat any man or woman on the fuce of the globe. There never has and never will be an issuc that T cannot straddle. I pride myselt on being the champion of politic Party platforms ave tho tecte which I swing as readily as th trapeze. Don't you remember how I straddled and tectered two years ago, in one column for Cleveland and in another for Havrison! Was there ever anything like it! Nye and Mor- rissey were chawing each other up and pounding both candidates to pulp from the same editorisl table, Ireserved myself as umpire, and two days veforo the eloction 1 seesawed over Grover, the heavy-weight of democracy. Grover didn't get elected, but I regained my balance on the tecter-board the very next day after the election. I am for and against prohibition, and T dare any man to point where I have been fa ing one more than the other. I published one or two letters against prohibition, but I gave the prohibs move than an offset in my weekly, in which I gave the favmers the benefit of a prohibition sermon by Talmage, T am desply i sympathy with the farm 1 lab I want thom to have money at 2 per cent and [ want the railroads to ent down their rates, but I can assure my old railioad and banking f and iates that I have personally always detested the dirt-hogrimed mudsills and am only playing them for suck seription been 1 see-saw boards on acrobat on a end rs to increase the sub | list of the daily double-decle You know Tdetest Van Wyck as the devil does holy water and belped to lay him out when he wauted to be clected. But I thought he could be made useful and boom my paper with the But 1 dide’t shed a tear when Van s downed at Lincoln b and I won't say a wordin his fay for congress unless my democratic candidate can make votes byit. That is to say I am shouting for Bryan now, but I expect him to e downed by Connell on the home stretch and [ may have to swing over to Connell finally to be on the winuing side. I was very cautious about Bryan, any way. I didn't commit myself fully. 1 said he may be our next congressman. I didn't say he will be, 1 am aguinst wooden pavemeut, and I want property owners to resolve in favor of the best material for paving. But I am only against wood ment because prop- erty owners are ferninst it. In case they prefer wooden pavement then Iam for it, and I want Omala to understand my posi- tion. That positi ud the adm be understood by n pay n will comui Lam open to jects and have no fixed all men thal conviction on all on any The sce-saw is wy ideal of independ G. M. H ent journalism The Logic of Re Philad charged that I phia Tin It is theory means irec iine’s reciprocity wool and free iron oves for manufacturers of New Eng land. Of course it does, and it would be val ueless if it meant anything clse. what the lesser party won't ma He seos aders either can’t or iz., that we must have free raw Is even to save our home market to our home industries, that the utmost cheapness of product’ cousistent with well- paid labor must be attained to enable our in dustries to euter the markets of the world, and TGIVe Us Meiklejohn,™ Parmer, Neb,, August 1 To the Editor of Tus Ber: This is the sentiment expr merchants and farm ers of Loup township and Merrick county Metklejohn detega mvention. Two of ay: “Meildejohn is public services are tion to the the delogatos (farme ourchoice because his worthy the hon because he has faithfully served the people and bis record is not_only brilliant but above reproach. Give us Meik lejon and we have a winning candida Give us Meiklejohn, and ususl to the ‘Big Third’ & representation ‘of the people, by the people and for thy 1 Very trily EORGE K. Suipyay, Ju. sople. Ve FROM THE STATE CAPITAL A Case of Extreme Oruclty Reported from the Town of Bennett. A FAITHFUL WIFE DRIVEN FROM HOME. The Colored People of Lincoln Cele- brate Emancipation Day in an Enjoyable Manner-City News and Notes Lixcory, Neb, Angust | Bek.)— A case of heartlessne to Sheriff MeLain today b fngston, a lady living at Bennett,a little ha let about twe miles from Li sho being foreed to appeal for ofcial tion from the man whose naume Mus, Liv Pston s nly o fow yi ALy hap. pine: brief L ies to which and the climax of abuso was en the man that should tector actually kicked her out home and forbade her turn, he came back, she did ro; w later and begged her unnatural husband let her have her {nfant child that would s the t creat could b mother's milk touching 0 was refused with she was knocked down for her | and kicked in the breast that yearned to give her little one sustenance. Bruised and suffering with pain_she it the she tay and U him her pathetic story asked if re was no means by whick, she could cure her baby boy and give him the nour ment he craved, She was advised to secure o writ of hat S COTPUS 10 secure possession of the infunt and did As soon as the papers were drawn up tho sheriff sent his deputy, Mr, McFarland, with Mus stono to Beuuett o take possession of the child, Special to Tk s was reported on, prot bear o the o le m ays she has been marr vs, but during that tin she has known was durlng Words ca has L neymoon. eruel sho welio of Despite the 1and the throat | day w starve unle ire wo EMANCIPATION The colored people of Lincoln and orated Emancipation day in an ag ate mannerat Gartield park this aft Hundreds of colored people from towns were in at T and a picnic dinner, A number of visiting colored orators delivered rou speeches, eulogizing the memory of A braham Lincoln DAY, vicinity \pri- Jon ighbor ndance, d of i SOLDIERS' AND SAILO \E, The semi-aunual report of the visiting and examining board or the soldier and sailors’ at Grand Island was nded the v today. - The report shows ing to be in good eondition and th public lands and buildings i for having done all that is in province to Sixty acres of prairio have been broken the farm und the tillable land all cared for in a proper manner the milk and ¢ * inmates » raised on the farm, ital contai u invalids, Thero are twenty-e at the home and the board considers the erection of a school houss use an absolute necessity Seven cottages have been erected for such in. mates as can partially support themselves by manual lubor and fourteen families assigned to them. Forty-three others of the inmates have made applications for similar accommo- dations, but th iting of the requests ¢ pends on the action of the next legislature in regard to the matter. TOODLE IN THE CITY COUNCIL, Little by littlo the mysterious actions of the city council concerning the award of the pending paving contracts are being explained and the suspicion that boodle is at the bottom of the whole affair i becoming almest unde niably affienied The latest clue to the situation was by a warrant shaver alleged to be interested in ( Bucl It has been noticed that he and another slick worker have been hovering in the rear of certain councilmen at very meeting, but their deep concern in the ‘petty quibbles of the city fathers ld not hitherto be explai When the bids were opened A. Buc I's bid was the highest, bel 85 rd, & Co. of Om; por squave yard, In suward to Rildy the bids and on a trifling the fraid to grant the award m & Mason for 1,64, as an even ing newspaper boldly proclaimied that Tem- pleton & Mason were nobody else thun J. 2 Buckstaff masquerading under another name. The time for opening the new set of bids oceurs next Saturday, and_yesterday John Lanham, ontractor from Crete, went up to the city hall to specifications. Tnere ho met the broker mentioned * above, who frowned on Lanham's ambition to secure the paving contract, and told him that it was no use for him to try to get the job, as his bank had been carrying Buckstaff financially and to secure them he' must and would have the contr BOCK ISLAND DEPOT AT TAVELOCK, 1t isnow veported that the Rock Island railroad site at Havelock is finally settied, the sixteen blocks centering on Farwell strect being the location where the depol grounds are to be. The station will, of course, be not a great distance from the con- ter of that point AFTEIL NEDRASKA MONEY, Articles of incorporation of the Towa tional Building and association were filed this morning, s 2 that the company accepted the laws of v in relation to foreigm porations beconing domestic. The capital stock is $7,000,000. The home office is at Des Maines, Ta, RESENTED RAILROAD EXTORTION, Heatow & Keim of this city say not quite as big or wealthy as a railroad cor poration, but still they will not submit to being robbed Dby those extortionists firm claims that they m with the ag of the I'remont, Missouri Valley railroad at HuStings to ship several car loads of ro srod and ted granite to Line rate of §14 per car. The firm shipped several hundred dollars worth of stone on the agree- ment to the capital city, but wifen they came board of complimented the lowest, bein, stead of making t w 31 are Mrs, John Liv- | POLITICAL CHOW.CHOW, As the time draws near for the Third trict convention dia. that tho it I8 worth remarking Judges Hamer and Harrison aro *doing district and with Meiklejohn will enter tho rice. Mr. Dorsey has not yet swated whether or not he will be o candidate, Dr. of Piore the lower house of the I and who is an anti-monopoly democrat, is said to be a candidato for the senate this fall The doctor is one of the vory fow lawmakers in Nebraskn who refuses to ride on a railroad pass. Young Mr. Hitehcock “young Mr, Bryan,» All York turncd out to Harlan on his return from Hastings this noon, says the Yor Unfortunatoly the band could notbe secured, as is usually the case when it is wanted worst., The doublo-decked What Ts Tt MecIKelghan, but it is silent Kem. T when it pl Keiper b, Who has served in Islature two terms, refers to him as mee Hm fion. N. V, Times. is boom on the subject ot e double-decker is only at its best 3 doub A man muy smile and_smile ana ve a polie tician still, of Crete, candidate for a torney gencral on the republiean ticket, says that he w epten tember, 1f Bryan George Hasting take the stump early in § Van Wyck and Connell the First district thero wi at deal of fun and And Wolfenbarge jolns them on the prohibit issucs Nebraska people witl be driven crazy ump i excitement Mr, s 18 poem cc wiil v prohibition Blame at Mr. Grig cerning Colby the republican st s break or to convention appears determined, and refu the advico of fric The Omaha democrats canvass of they s are making a closo ubernatorial timber, and imagino distance The wunted them in Nebraska for success in the san mirage has h twenty years, Ex-Senator Van Wyck speaks in Johnson ty August 12 on the living issues of the Lut he has spoken nc dacy for ng about his cun The Pillmore County Republican sizes up w fn the following was nominatea for by the alliance and on How does this suit republican alli- men of ts district? Isn't this sufi cient proof that t ance is run by and s fully under the control of the democratic party? What kind of u bed-fellow have you, republicans! You have been given a dose of ned democracy, you watched with great anxiety, mained down, and a given you. A regular cratic preseript ighan democra good, old-fa casewas the dose rc then demo- Simon pure n was mude up and tagged “MeKeigan,” it was poured down you last Monday, and remains to be whether or not you throw it up or take a soothing pow 10 offer payment for the fref ruilws | manded £2 por- car instead of $14, as previously agreed upon ¢ Kein of course refused o pay this ¢ on and the railvoad ofiicials inted by refusing to allow the firm to have the granite unless they paid the freight demanded. The plucky members of the firm then offered the money at the rate of 14 per car and on its being ve- fused replevined “the granite and secured possession of it. GEATN DEALERS ASSOCIAT About seventy members of the K ehraska Grain | lers Elevat metat the Capital hotel ye The object of the me o hold a con fere s mutual in corrceting abuses of the inter d traftie regu lat The resuit of their discussions wis that they insi upon the raiiroad which demana that the tinually and furni hould something i rent co or make 80! othor recompense for ceived I next August 12,at the Paxt crry Nt eve at the reside by the s of ( Daughters of Re nsas and ¢ associati tornoon s ion he accommodation 1 tion will be held 1in O 1 hot moparty wis Fot Mr. James Hoaton arity lodieo No, 2, of the ekal, Mus, Heaton was assisted in receiving by her daughtor and Mvrs, Williams, Mrs. Randall and Mrs, Town- end. Canton Ford lodee, No. 2, attended in full uniform aud the event proved a brilliant oOlive Hill, a 1 at Lorin, Cal,, Writes to the city marshal here asking him to help her in_finding her father, who formerly resided on Plum street, bet Tenth and Eleventh, in fhis city, The girl writes thut she had to slipaway to Oakland to write this tor, s the poople she is fiving with will not ow her to send any word to her father. She writes a very pathetic epistle and is evidently y auxious to meet him. 5 the latest patron of the di Ste and her husoand are at outs over a contract she signed o sell certair and she thinks tho only way of settling difticulty is to got u legal sepavation 1 Harrls has been wrrested on the of cruclly beating his son with a barrel stave. Martin V. Radford, a kind hearted neighbor, is the complainant, and he A del riven last | Officors: A. U, Wymin, prosidont; J.J tells o sickeniug story about the way Harris abuses his offspring. The cruel father was tried this afternoon, der toquiet yourselves until the dose becomes fixed.” * The Fremont Tribune is of the opinion that m Major's hickory shirt will be the ban dana of the Nobraska campaign. It may not be a baudana, but it will operate like a red rag on a Mexican bull when it strikes tho vision of Clureh Howe. Mr. Bryan announced it as his kiss all the babies in the First district, 1t the census report is any where near accurate he will got his fill. desire to - The Independent Conventio Grand Istand Independent. The convention of the alliance latbr forces has not | 1 50 much of a success as it could have hoen, There was a strife | tween the alliance and labor was a fes nl strife for candidates looking hard to get the nomination for nearly every and there was not, enough political sagacity to seleet the strong- est and most available men, They could have put upan almost invin blo ticket if they had nominated Van Wycke for governor, Hiil for treasuver, Leese for at. torney general, and had pitted John I, Powers against Benton for auditor, To cap- ure the board of transportation ought to have been their main object, as this board is of greater importance than even the governor- ship. But the terrible seramblo for ofice and the false idea that their nomination is equal to an clection, prevented them from being prudent and from making available nominatious. The result will teach them that they have 4 good deal to learn yet befove ¢ will bea successful part Mr. Burrows, we believe, is to & great ex. tent, to be blamed for this result. He fought van Wyelk with all means, because he wanted svernor of his own ma m he could” control. After he had gained a vietory in having Pc nowinated and Van Wyek de: humiliating defeat, * * * Theresult of the whole convention, witn all its confusion and its want of busiiesstuct, that a tick unknown nominated not and union five orsix oftice great and men has been who ar apt to attract any ors, and perhaps will not even ! 1 support of all alliance and 1 men, is, of out have labor u ido vote - or Starts st 1. The Empe Benuis, Aug Tue Ber | )1 England. [Special Cablogram to iperor William started from Wilhelmshaven on his trip to England today, The imperial yacht Hohenzollern, with his majesty on board, sailed at noon for Ostend, whence the emperor will proceed to England. As the yacht left the harbor she was pre- ceded by the German squadron of evolution and followed by the corvette lrene. SICK KEADAGHE] Pomti CARTERS] ‘i Hha et s fro™n Dyspepsia, In ITTLE maion sy sa Mearty S e IVER [ Bo T > Thin e vk o Vegtatin SMALL PILL. 0SE. SMALL PRI T a OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subscribed and Guarantecd Capltal Paid In Capital AT Bays and sells stock commorcial paper trusts. ot transfor 10208 taxcs, Omaha I:)un &VTrustCo SAVINGS BANK. S E Corner 16th and Douglas Sts Paid In Capital # 50,000 Subsoribed wnd Giiarantosd Capigal! . 10,04 Liabliity of Stockliolders 0,000 6 Per Cent Intorest Pa FRANK S 000 and bonds; negotintos recelves und executes went and trastes of ot property, cols ashior Brown W. T. Wyman, tronsur Directors:—A, U. Wyman, J. I, Millard, J. J Brown, Guy . Barton, Fo W, Nasb, Thom Ju Klwball, deorgo U, Lake- Depo LANGE, vice Ident unions, thero ’ gt [}