Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 10, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. i P. ROSEWATER, Bd'tor i HED EVERY JIRANING. TERMSE OF SUBSC il ©anday, One Yen Yiar Your OFFTCES, Wil ing Corper N 1nd th Sreets 114 Tr Bullding, urteenth Strect CORRESPONDENCE, a relating 10 news and 1d be addressed to the rty BUSINESS LETTERS All 1 lettors and rom't tanees should be ndd The Beo I Company Oriha eleeks and postofiice orders 1o be made piyable tothe order of the Com- yany The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Bee Purnam and Seventeenth Sts EWORN STATENENT OF CIRCULATION of The Reo wear that 1 DALY BEe for e TZSCNUCR Eworn to bifore me and subscribed i my prosence thisoih day of Augist, A, 1).. 180, N. P Few, Notary Public, ] 88 hick, leing duly swarn, de- that hee i secroetary of The Beo pany. that the actual averago vof Tk Daey Beg for_the 1l coy Qetoler, 18 .+ for Noven 10310 cople T, 1580, 20,018 copiess for January o for Febraary 180, 10,0 reh, 1800, 0815 conies for April, esi for May. 1 150 oy 401 copies, for Ju GrORGE B, 75l OK » Tefore me and subscribad in my cnce th's 2 day of August. A, D. 180, [*EAL. N. I”. Fiin, Notary Pablie. THE weelkly hank statement shows the reserve hus decreased $7.674,000, The banks now hold $1,286,00 in excess of legal vequirements. WiERE was Chauncey when the Cen- tral workmen went out? A BRIEF after-dinmer address from Depewon the harmonious relations be- tween corporations and labovis in order. WHAT las bocome of the various boule ts which bloomed last spring? Tl ommission has the floor. Russian man-of-war is named *“I'he Twelve A postles.” It will doubtless preach the gospel of peace and good will toward the czar, and fight for itif necessary. TrE original package bill has recoived the approval of the president. The lib- eral assortment of fees with incidental Dblackmail lopped off by the supreme court are thus restored 10 constables and Justices in the prohibition states. —— THE country has been congratulating Ttself that it was through with all the centennial celebrations, but there is still another. The first discovery of anthra- cite conl was made in September 1791, aud a fund is now being raised for c brating the contennial a year from n Beptember, A FEW hundreds of the thousands ex- pended by the street commissionerevery month could be profitably spent in rendering Douglas strect west of Six- teenth safe for travel. Prompt atten- tion to thisstrect will save the city a large bill of damages and protect prop- erty on the morth side from serious injury, BASEBALL, once essentially the national game, is losing caste, and it is predicted that within two yoars interest will belostin it. This may” be true, but the umpire that Omaha citizens tried to mob {he other day for his unjust de- cisions, will never be forgotten, He would create interest s from now. Democraticc managers are already ne- gotiating for him to manage this fall’s eampalgn. — THE city authorities cannot too soon make a thorough test of the milk that is being sold in the city. Tubereulosis and other specics of disease are said to abound. The death rate for July sur- prised the health officer, and the diselise lurking in the milk consumed was doubt- less in a large degree responsible for many cases of sickness and d®ath, In- vestigations, if mado, must be thorough, aud tests must be made in more places than one or two, as has been the custom herctofor YLABOR DAY,” the first Monday in Soptember, will be gencrally observed in all ecities in Nebraska. The labor vrganizations of Omaha are muking preparations for an interesting observ- ance. To the men who work, all day are labor duys, but this s a day of apd recreation, The committee on anusements is preparing an extensive rqgramme and trades uwions and Knights of Labor from adjoining cities will doubtless join the Omaha forces for agrand celebration, THE prompt passage by the senate of avesolution urging the removal of the remains of General Grant from Now “ork to Washington, will he approved by every patriotic citizen. Not only has New York utterly hiled to fulfill its sol- enn pledges, but it has added insult to injury and shamefully neglected tohonor the memory of the great leaderof the union armics. To almost any other city in the north it would be a laborof love to properly mark the resting place of the distinguished dead with a monument befitting his service to the country. New York, however, shows no disposi- tion to carry out its obligations. On the contrary the mercenary spivitof the peo- ple goes o far us to erowd barter and trade to tho very doors of Riverside, It isto be Noped theaction of the senate will resultin the removal of the remains 10 the mutionul cemetory at Arlington in proximity to the graves of the gallant Teroes of the union whom the groat cap- tain loved so well and by whow he was idolized. THE PURLIC nnual report of the boar ors of the Omuha pub! sentsan inste and condition of that important library pre- s reviewof the growth | ey now containg thousand and ments of human knowledge and t demands of @ during the cireulation lepartment with its eight hundred books and lundred and thirty-thr per cent of demand is for isproportionate der aturs imposes e responsibility the library bos cintelligent rigid scruting works of fiction, and this grad of books to higher enjoyment, 1vent of Miss Elizaboth Pop- pleton on the board, this policy has been murked succe: poorer fiction, as it lias worn out, has heendropped from the diserimination and of this cluss instruction number of ye eatalogue and W improvement has thus been made in the chavactor of the works in this de- A continuane ing out polic Tect on the patrons 1y and rapid ibrary will noces ment of the room set apart in brary purposes, fos should sc the new city he and the author modification of the plans as will give ample reom for The publie has be made familiar that the Young Men's Christian associ an official state- causes of this emt ment, and itis hoped it will receive the attention of all who arc interested in the success and wel It appears from thisstatement that the strait in which the associ itself is not due to' mismanagement, where inTue B ment of the are of this association. ion now finds lack of persistent zeal in secking that public support which such associations everywhere receive. The testimony that the funds of the been judicious not been sufficl association subscription the sum thousand dollars hand the prosent asgociation have 1y managed, but they have t to meet the de desires to raise lebtedness can be a community like Omaha, and there ought not tobe the slightest difficulty experienced in securing the amount. rhaps needless to say that the asso- deserves to purpose is good, and the record of sults accom plished 1s praise worthy, would be discreditable to Omah: Young Men's Christian compelled toabandon the work in which it is engaged because unable to nall amount of fifteen thousand dollars, 1d yot that must happen if the monoy weks for is not supplied. however, th ave fully under i it is to be hoped sponse will be prompt and gencrous, IMPROVED AGRICULTU While it is undoubtedly true that the first necd of the American farme lief from exce ssociation were its appeal, when ion and extor- tionate transportation charges, the im- portance of imj culture, in order to small areas at the least out- , 18 not to be lost sight of. remembered that Sceretary s to the farmers s urged the necessity of greater d Rusk in his short time ago, difficulties agticulture, remedying while these matter attention in the United learn something regarding other countries. In the August Forum Pri kin writes on t1 ture, with a view, ing people this subject. population of ei vilized commun sibilities of agri« s he statos for themselves on 18 that if the supnly all that they might want, and support of this view population wheat and the ylold per acr d, 50 that the 1y foar fold. @ yiold por acre was nin was seventoe have each nearly doub! ro the avery bushels, while in 188§ it s, for the wholo country, thirty-three bushels to the ac good crop, years ago the owners of the same land were content with twenty-two bushels In the best soils the crop is good only when it yields from forty-three to forty-eight to the acre. as (lifty-live bushels to the acre, Kropotkin, for example, which are satisfied -soven bushels, while the experi- mental farms of central France produce from year to year , over luarg forty-one bushels to the acre, and n num- ber of Payins in northern France regu- 1y yleld, year after yeae, from fifty- five to sixty-cight bushels to the aer Upon limited areas under special car even & much as eighty bushels has heen sionally obtain Such are the re- rkable results in France of improved methods of eulture, Similar examples of the effect of thorough culture are to be found outside rance, One such example may be sean in the distriet of Saffelore, in a part of East Flanders which nature has en- dowed with an unproductive but easily~ cultivated sandy soil. Its territory of thirty-seven thousand acres has to sub- sist thirty thousand inhabitants, all liv- i vieulture, and yot these peas- s not only grow their own food, but export agricultural produce and pay rents to the amount of from fifteen to twenty-five dollars an acre, A popula- tion which is denser than that of England proper inclusive of its cities, is thus, observes Kropotkin, no curvse at all. Tt iseasily fel, and could be fed much better were it not for the ever-in- creasing rents upon an unproductive soil y tmproved by rational manuving. en more worthy of notice aro the re- s obtained by ireigation, which, on the meadows of the Vosges, the Van cluse, ete., has trebled the yield of hay. By means of {rvigationa money return of from one hundved and twenty to two shundred and eighty dollars is obtained from a sl which formerly would not yield more than from sixfeen to ety-cight dol- lars worth of poor hay, Numerous ex- mples ave given of the great advan *s obtained from irrigation. With regard to mavket gardening, Kropotkin says that soil making, hot water pipes in the soil and culture under glass at a certain period of the life of the plant will be essential foatures of the gardening of the future. In con- clusion he says we uneed not fear over- population: our meuns of obtaining from the soil whatever we want under any climate and upon any soll have been improved of late at such a rate that we cannot even foresee what is the limit for the productivity of a fow yards of land, and ho closes his very instruct- ive articlo with the practical suggestion that instead of building an flel tow o1 at the Chicago exhibition a number of intelligent men might cover with glass houses a hundred acres or more, devot- ing part to flowers and tropical ve, tion, and a part to the plainest vege- tables and fruits, such as will be con- sumed by the ton during the exhibition, This would cost less than one-tenth of what a fower would, and would vepay the expense, besides which it would, in the opinion of Kropotkin, make a com- plete revolution in the ideas of mankind as to what the soil is and how it must be treated. GINGERBREAD ON THE CITY HALL. The most monumental picce of ginger- bread architecture is beyond a doubt our new city hall building. The designer of this remarkable steucture appears to have been determined to give object les- sons in zoology to the present as well as future enerations. Just above the grand arch oyer the main entrance he has planted two monsters that ave not to be found among the beasts that fly, walk or swim. The talons of this'mons- trosity carved in brindle-colored sand- stone have already been imbeded firmly and the vremainder of these giasticutuse will presently put in an appearance above the talons. What the particular significance of these horrid things iswe fail to di- vine, but they are certainly out of place, and will always be an eyesore to people of good taste. This is not all, how- ever; the upper storics and gables are to be adorned with an as- sortment of cat’s and dog's heads, and winged monsters, that will be bewilder- ingas well as striking. If we were building a great muscum they might possibly be the proper caper. but on a building, and especially a city , such.ornamentation is in bad tast evenif it did not involve a wasto of money. THE . B ENCAMPMENT. Tne annual encampment ofsthe Grand Army of the Repub! will be held in Boston this weelk, beginni next Tues- day. It promisesto be among the most memorable of the meetings of this great organization, both in the number of old soldiers who will attend, the distinguish- ed guests whom they will entertain, and the importance of the matters to be con- sidered. It is expected that not less than two hundred thousand people will visit Boston during the encampment, and ‘very likely the num- ber will la exceed this, These annual encampments of the Grand Army possess an interest not limited to the old soldiers and those con- nected with them by ties of relationship, In the patriotism and ‘sucrifices they commemorate they appesl to every citizen, and they perform an in- valuable service in the lesson they convey to those who lave grown to manhood since the war of rebellion at the enormous eost of preserving the union, It is not the least important art of tho mission of the Grand Avmy of the Republic that it hasawakened the Interest of the people, particularly of the generation growing to manhood and womanhood, enlarged their channels of information regarding the great con flict for the preservation of the union, and stimulated loyal sentinent, Major George Merill, in an admira- ble urticle on the nl Army in the August number of the New Eng- land Maguzine, remavks that statistios but meagerly measure the influ- enee which has ¢ m the nearly ht thousand post rooms in the ¢ ization during the quarter of a century ef its existence. Not alone, perhaps not chielly, in the cities and larger towns, but in the quiet country villages with less than a scove of veterans, the little posts have been centers of patriotic de- votion, tender charities and loyal inspir- ation, The Grand Army of the Republic, writes Major Morrill, is a unique organ- ization. No “new blood™ 1 come into it and there are no growing ranks from which recruits can be drawn, *With the consummation of peace through vie- tory its rolls wero closed forever. Lt lines aro steadfy and swiftly growing thinner, and the ceaseless tramyp of its umns is witheverlessening tread; the gaps in the picket line grow wider; day by day details are made from the reserve summoned into the shadowy regions {o return 1o touch elbows no more; until by and by, only a soli sentinel shall stand guard, waiting till the bugle call from beyond shall muster out the last comrade of the Grand Army of the Re- publie,” Nebraska will be well represented at the encampment, and undoubtedly her representatives will not farl to secure for her the attention which she deserves as one of the leading soldier states of the union. It is tobe hoped that all things ill be propitions for the gathering of ns, and that the encampment n all respects the most success- ful, satisfactoryand profitable the Grand Army has ever held. TiEmagnitude of Omaha's stock) interest is {llustrated by a glance at week’s business, The receipts of hogs during the past seven days reached the enormous total of sixty-eight thousand, the greatest number in the history of the yards. The rveceipts for the previous weele were sixty-three thousand five hun- dred, while the next greatest week was that ending June 8, 1588, with a total of forty-scven thousand eight hun- dred and thirty-cight. These figures show the growing importance of the Omala yards to the stock producers of the west. The con- venience of the market, the certainty of top prices and the promptitude displayed inhandling and disposing of stock com- bine to make it the natural center of the trans-Missouri region. he pack dustry keeps pace with the growth of the market. Daring the past five months the number of hogs packed exceeded the record of the same period last year by » hundred and five thousand, The buginess has grown to such proportions that the product of one house this year will aggregate twenty million dollars, against six millions last yoar. If this @uit is maintain till the close of the year, the to duct of all pack will reach forty million dollars ainst twenty-two millions last year, This amount practically exhausts the capacity of the houses, and already contracts have been let for additional buildings, and withina yo is probable that the capacity of the present plants will be doubled. Such a record of indusirial growth and prosperity in six years chal- lenges comparison with any city in the land. THE rejection of General Adam Ba- deau’s claim fora place on the retired list of the army will meet with universal commendation, General Badeau's con- duct in counection with the Grant me- moirs was, to say the least, decidedly disreputable and unworthy of an officer of the army. WOMAN'S BANDBOX, Pramsyovrir, August 0.—Editor Woman’s Jundbox: Lamso awfully glad to hear that You purpose starting corner in your paper where we women can have a chance to ex- press ourserlves, [ was saying to Charley, my husband, the other day, that T didn’t see why Tne Bee didn't starta Woman's Reti- cule, and he said one paper had already start- ed one woman's ridicule and he thought that was enough, I amsoglad that you donot provose to devote it all to Mr. Ned Frye, but that you are ging to lot wawomen talk about things which concern us exclusively. Awoman shonld have the right to express her views when she has views, anda_corner of the paper shonld be called the Woman’s Corner. Now 1 have a neighbor, and her ume is Mrs, Swith, and she claims that a nk challis dress should not be trimmed with orange tulle. Now, Mr. Bditor, what do you think aboutit! I believe that challis should bo trinuned with nothing but cut jot or steel beads. Please give me your opinion of this, Mus [OF course Mrs, Judy must remem the editor of the Ba ndbox is not yet sufti- ciently posted on tulle and challis,as he wears pauts, but it seoms to him that cat jet and steel beads would make appropriate trimming foranything.—Eprror Wodax’s Baxpnox. | Let Her Chew It ‘074D, Neb., August' 7.—Editor Woman's alise: You do not have any sort of an idea how glad I was when I heard th you were going fo lhave a place in Tue Ber where we women cun get @ word fn edgewise. Iam tired of politics and all this monkey work exclusively for men, If ithadu't boen for we women folk o would the men have been anyway! 1 wt to know, Mr. Bditorof the Woman's Valise, why old muaids are pointed at by so- oty with a grafl scoft. I want to know if nold maid, as they call them, is not to be more respocted than a eiggling girl with banged hair ambled brains? And to settle a dispate, Mr. £1itor, please tell mo if itwould bo proper fora young woman to chew gum at church? Wishing the Woman's Valise good luck, I am, AUNT GaRAIL [It would scem to the editorof the Valise that the young womian in question should be given the privilege of chewing gum if she knew how to chew it K0, WoMAN's VALISE, P.S.—If the gum ishers shoshould be al- lowed to doas she pleases with it. It s not good form to chew borrowed gurn. | The Juke Has the Odds. Oxtaita, Neb., August 9.—Editor Woman's Handtrunk: Wiy on earth didn’t you start your department earlior? 1 told my husband yesterday that Lallowed if you didn't get a move on you and get up a moman’s exclusive | department protty soon that these letters about Ned Frye in other womai papers would doyouup. It will baso nice to have a placo in Tue Bee wlere we can gossip and tell ales aud jokes and talk dress ax fashion. Do you think, Mr. Editor, that Marg Anderson did as well in marrying the [taifan count as she might have done iu marpylog an Euglish juke! I thin that a juko is, more propar and would like your opinion, Mus. Posoi [Being a Juke himself, the editor of the Hundtrunk would uot like to decide this questiol. | Sl Y e Tammany and David B. Washin n Post. It is announced that CGovernor Hillls to lend a helping band to Tammany. The gov- emor will expect a dash of reciprocity from | Tawmany at the proper time. Rubbing it tn, Merewry. While ik Bee is gathering in its sooop s on the World-Herald, the reporters on the lutter sheet are employed in watching the counters of the dry goods stor tised in the Wor Herald, to of un advertisement -— Badean's Bad Box Kansas City Jowrnal General Adam Badeau % to be in hard Tho government seewns as indisposed the Grant esta provide bim with alivelihood for the remainder ¢ bis duys. LOBSTER SALAD, Elopements by balloon are all the rage in land now, This plan will never work in Omaha. The “old man" with his shot gun could get revenge just as casily as he ever could. The only time that a balloon ever started from Omaha, it was sent out by Tue Ber is the 70's and stranded at Cut-Off Lake. 1t requires a scientist to understand why milk advances in price as ico goes up, But of course water is more expensive when frozen. veral “kicks” bave found their way to Tur Ben the past week, and are given room in the hope that the kicker may aecomplish some good. A gentlo kick with side whiskers and a mane and a tail, comes in to the effect that Douglas street, between Seventeenth and | Eighteenth, has been so cut up by the rains this summer that it is dangerous to attempt to drive overit. The kicker insists that the authorities look after and repair the strect, One infuriated citizen senta bath of them in the following terse style: 1 kick at the reckloss way in which the streot car com panies motors are rushed through the strects and over crossings without regurd to the comfort or lives of pedestrians. kick becauso Iean't pass down ‘Twelfth street from Jackson to Jones by the sidewalk, on account of the heavy erop of weeds which black the paths completely I kick when I see democratic county ofticials spending their time at republican | conventions and loafing in saloons and on street corners when they should be in their ces attending to the business for which the people are overassessed in foes. L kick when motor conductors allow loaters to stand on the front platform of the reav cur and smoke in the faces of passengers and crowd women to the rail on entering or leay- ing the car. A Louisville pie factory is about tobe es- tablished in Washington. The city of Oma would recommend Patrique O'Hawes for geueral manag The Frontier County Farmer, the official organ of the Parmers® alliance of that county, plices the mdependent ticket in its columns with the excoption of McKcighan for con gress. It cannot endorse Lim, and Harlan's nume is inserted instead Ex-Senator Van Wy i will speak Monday at Wilkins' Grove, in Nemaha county, This is on the dividing line between Johnson and Nemaha, and there will be o large gathering of farmers, Alarge audience assembled near Shelby last E'riday to listen to addresses by Judge McKeigan and General Van Wyck, T eeneral did not take Tk Bre's advice and explain if he knew of the wonderful concilia tion that had been effected between ex-Goy- ernor Butlerand Dictator Burrows. Burrows charged the ex-governor with all sorts of vil lainy, the most serious charge being the at- tempt to bribe with £500 of lawful currency of the B, & M. railroad mintage, 50 pure, an- gelic and virtuous a creature ns himself Butler’s publication of this attempted bribery made Burrows very indignant, and he felt outraged, so that the burning rage with him mavifested itself by an ashy paleness, at least so he and at the ex- pense of the ance he published letters and circulars which he caused to be read inall the alliances in the state. after the governor had in cold blood at- mpted to vavish the dictator with a bribe of 500, and the dictator had publicly branded the governor as a corvuptor of the innocent and virtuous they lic down in the same bed in sweet accord and harmony as pure spivits, and quietly tucled in by that servant of the B. & M, Hall of Pawnce, called in derision ‘‘master of the grange.” General, you should tell what you think of your spotless co-workers. What mollified Burrows from his towering rage? Did he accept the §500 or forceanother §200 out of the B. & M. contribution box? Why does Butler lic down with a man who nad scarified him uumercifully to the extent that he begged for peuace and pleaded for mercy on the ground that his generous oifer came from another urty and not the B. & M. Dotell us, gen- eral, whether you believe that Burrows told the truth about Butler, or Butler told a lie about Burrows By the way, what becomes of all the funds paid into the state alliance by the sub-alii- ances? Are we rightly informed that the fund is used to pay the campaign and travel- ing expenses of Powerst This looks very funny to a man up a tree. A coftin trust comes to the front in New Youk with a capital of £,000,000. The trusts do em satisfied to hold a man up during his life time, but they want to squeeze himon his way to the gray Remarkable and unusual meteoric displays have been witnessed this month in many parts of the country. Two comets have recently been discovered and superstitious people begin to believe that Grandpa Powers' boom is passing across the political horizon, A wild rumor was heralded across the countrya few days-ago, to the effect that o great scheme was on foot tocolonize the negroes and take them to Moxico to raise coffee. Later developments show that the scheme was all buncombe, and the columns of newspaper logic which weat up with it was something appalling. The theoretical phi'anthropists who are engaged in the task of colonizing the negroes about once a_year have their huuds full, while the negro is do- ing very well. The announcement is made that Omaha is to have a local menagene aud that the nucleus for a geological garden has already been obtained. We had thought that the council combine and some of the politics of this city were near enough an approach to @ 200 to render all other attractions in that line common place, It was an unfortunate circumstance when the Crete Democrat suspended. The editors name was Oy id he quit for the want of funds, which proved that thers was noth- ing ana s The authoritiesof Paris, fearing a “depopu- lation of F'rance,” propose to offer & premium to those who get marvied. The plan is that the license and parson be furnished free, This system would prove a sweet boon in this country Potatoes are worth about 82 a bushel, and because of a short crop are expected to go up tod4 or§. The man who has been carrying | & potatoe in his pocket to guard off the rheu- nutism will be obliged to scll If the editor of the double decked What Is It, wants the democrats to nominate Kem, why doesn’t it say so und save the democrats in the Third district all this suspense and anxiety! The democratic convention mcets at Columbus the 1ith, and the heartache might as well end now as any time. Catherine Pyle in August St. Nicholas. Decp in the wood I made a Loy Where no one knew the way ; 1 carpeted the floor with moss, And there I loved to play. 1 hieard the bubbling of the brook; At times au acorn fell, And far away u robin sang Deep in a lonely dell < with aorn cups; ietly I played A rabbit hopped deross the moss, And did not seem afraid That night before I went to bed 1 at my window stood, Aud thought how dark my house must be Down in the loncsome wood. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1800.-TWELVE PAGES, FROM THE STATE CAPITAL. A Lincoln Drummer Ends a Dissolute Life with Carbolio Acid. | HIS WIFE IN A DESTITUTE CONDITION. AW, an Asks for Separation f an Insane Husband -How a Farmer Discovered a Thief ~City News Notes. Lixcory, Neb, August 0, —|Special to Trn Bee. |- Morrls Pepper, o traveling man, aged twepty-seven years, committed suicide here today by drinking cavbolic acid Pep has never been able ihead in the world on account of his gambling propen ities and his wife and four little children lave often been in absolute want. Seven weeks ago h with only & and did 1ot return v 1o hurried up town with a poct ¥, roturning at midnight penniless, ornir fore breakfast he left his home at Tenth and V, and about two hours later found on the praivio near Seventeenth and Y dying. | An alimost empty whisky bottle, a glass a a bottle of carbolic acid three-fourths con sumed told the story of his method of self destruction. He was taken to the police st tion, where he lingered in dying agonies for over three hours, His wife is left in desti tute circumstances with four children, the eldest ot whom is six years of age, Pepper was a Hebrew and the line of goods he handled was jowelr . Ho 3 ! n in L nine years, st thre ted in Lincoln z home last night he showed ression in spirits, T reply toa query of his wife he replied that his money was all gone, She accused him of re- sorting to his old vice of mbling, but he would notsay anything in reply. She begged bim, as she has hundreds of times before, to give up this ruinous vice with which he was 50 fascinated. This 1 to throw him into a deeper melancholy I'his morning he would | not wait breakTast, but said he had to go up town Md would rettien later and cat. This was the last time Mrs, Pepper saw him until noon, when she was called to see him breathe his last Shortly after the suicitle died his little six year-old son came running to the police sta tion to ask what was the matterwith *papa.’ The mother took him to the side of the corpse and, pointing at it, said “There, wy little duvljng, is your father, and Le is dead ! She then broke into an hysterical flood of | tears and had to be removed by her aged | mother. Mus. Pepper is left in a pitiable condition | She hasn’ta penny in the world and has fous little childven to Support. The youngest is an infant at the breastandis d ously sick. The little woman has 1o idea what to | do tosave herself and babes from starvation. | In addition to these she has a feeble mother | to support. Mrs. Pepper is only twenty-four years old, MARRIED T0 A MANIAC. For the first time probubly in the history of Lancaster county the district court hus been called upon to ‘declare a marringe null and void and the affuir has created consider- able of a stir. The person making this un- usual request in Mrs, Louise Weingreiffe, a strikingly handsome woman who speaks Fn- glish with a slight Gearmn accent. She looks ot over twenty-eight, but claims to be thirty-five years old, Mrs. Weingreiffe has been married to a maniae for seventeen years and the story she tells is substantially us fol- lows: “I was born in Hanover, Germany, thirty-five years ago and had the good fortuiie to receive an unusually good education for givl I entered the loy of a draggist at fifteen and two years later met August Wein- greiffe. - He was just from Awmeriea and the words America and fortune mean about the same thing to German peasant Still L was not particularly attracted by him and was in clined to avoid him on account of the strango in his eyes, My friends, howover, determined that' I should marry I wpresented to me that a . man of wealth und had a maguificent home in Nebraska for the woman who would become his bride, ITe was also suid to be a man of uuusual intelli gence, and before I scarcoly was aware of what T was doing [ was acquainted with the strange acting fellow. We cume immedi ately to America and the terrible truth flashed upon me en route that I was perma- nently tied to an insane man, Imagine my feelings if you can. Later I learned that he had been confived in an asylum at Hanover, Germany, on account of his violent insanity, and that his relatives, who had grown tived of caring for him, had shipped him to America. [ found that the American home of which hie boasted was all a dream or hoax und for Lo years I suffered all tho torturcs of poverty aind the horrors of being the wife of a maniae, In 1875 he finally had to bo con- in in an asylum. After waiting fif- s for his' recovery I have learned le, and as [ was really de- ing him, i have fually de- lod to ask that' the marriage be declared void, At2 o'clock this afternoon my attor- uey filed papers to that effect.’” INGENIOUS [ BYICE TO DETECT THIEVES , a farmer in Yank t, has been missing his corn for ne and slways noticed that the cor was taken during his absonce and that of u ibor. As the outlook for the present crop rather disconraging, Steinhansen has ed msiderable concern his dimin pileof corn. He finally devised the vlun of driving shingle nails into the cobs of several cars and placing them near the entrance to his corn crib, esterday morning ke discovered that severalbushels of corn bad azain been taken, It is reported that, on repairing to the erib of his suspected neighbor he found sever: s into which he had driven shingle nails lying in his neigh L number of cobs in the horse h the telltale nails sticking i the The farmer was at fivst puzzled, as he and’ his hbor had been away together > the corn was taken, Sud- denly o happened to suspect that' the wife had taken the corn. He went to tho house and charged hor with the theft, The woman pretended great indignation, and when her husbana came home told himof the affair, The neighbor then got angry and_attempted to whip Steinhausen, but recciveda terrible thrashing himself instead, The neighbor re- paired to the neavest justico of the peace to cause Steiuhavsen’s arrost on the charge o assault. As soon as Steinhausen learncd of this ho retaliated by rushing off to another ju tocause thearrest of his neighbor's wife on the charge of stealing, A NEW RAILEOAD, The Randolph & Northwestern Nebraska railroad company has sprun into existence and today the articles of incorporation of tio new organization weve filed with the secr tary of state, The neadquarters will be dyne, Neb, One million dollars ha ady Deen raised as capital stock, T 1commence at Itandolph, Neb., and extend wihwestern direction thr sh the ties of Cedar, Kuox and Holt, to Fort Randall, in South Dakota, The highest limit of indebtedness is fixed at $300,000. The in corporators are Kdwin W, Wintor, Kdwin k. Woudman, James H. Howe, Walter A. Scott, John B, Bar 1l Thomas W. Moran NEBRASKA'S P 18 AND TAX LEVY I'ni the auditor's report concerning th ment roll and levy of state taxes are { the following interesting facts | Geuerat fund | Sinking fund | School fund University fund Reform school funid Fecble minded asylum fund Total . $1,171,524 48 There are 84,082 res in the state under cultivation, and the present year are divided as follows: 499,004 Ky Potatocs Miscelluncous, 54,500 REFOKT OF BOARD OF THANSPORTATION, The third annual report of the Nebraska state board of transportation is wow out and ready for distribution, Among the statistios not heretofore publised are tho following Number of persons killed by rallroads in Nobraska during 1850 b ? Numberof porsons injired. ... ... 1,051 The total carnings of the roads were as fol lows Unfon Pacific rallway company... $1860,072 00 FUE & M. Vo rallway company 1 OUR. & R V. ratlway company CL8E P& O, rafly Mo, Paciiic railway 8.0, & Pac. rallwiy conip. St.foe & G 1L rallvay compiny I 0. & O, Tallwiy company C KD & N rajlway con B & Q. rallway e RITWay company L& P ratlway compiny Total r SWALLOWED BY THE CRACKER TRUST, Itis reporfod that the splendid cracker factory in Lincoln on Bighth and Q stroets is the lafest victim that goes to satisfy the maw of the trusts, T'he factory has been absorbed by the cracker trust, but it is hoped that that corporation will foreo it to idleness, WILL CONTEST THE WILL The heirs of Mrs, Jounie May are decidedly opposed to her extravagant donations to African missions and today their attormoey from New York city arrived to take the pre liminary action to fighting the will WCRART OUT OF JAT W. H, Rickart, who is believed to be the o of pretty Mary Morford's death b cide, has finally been relea from by ing over a lot of houses which ho ¢ worth £,000 toa money loaner f W0 bonds demanded, Ricka s conduct jail has not inereasod the respoct of the ficors for lam. e dare.not go back to Dewitt for fear of L ) ched. Tt is now believed that the suicide " was caused by o quarrel between Rickart and the gir DAYLIGHT ROUBERY Thieves broke into Mrs. Builey's roo at noon yesterday and old watch i chain that had been loft on dresse her room STATE HOUSE NCTES, Atton weral Leese has recovered from the shock” received in yestorday's railrond wreck, and was at his” desk agaiv s usual this morning. He will not do any writing however, for two or three days, on account o his bruised right arm.. Ben Cowdery, secre- tary of state, turned up smiling this morning ulso, having recovered in a remarkably short time. Ben explains this by saying that any person surviving such u wreek as that caused by the late republican state convention can stand anythin The Farmers’ bank of Cook has filed arti clos of incorporation. The capital stock is 22,000 and tho incorporators Charles M Chamberlain, J. W. Holden, A, W. Buffum, D. Livingston, Louis Schacht and James 1! Tober. CITY NEWS AND NOTES Jim Jeftries, whilo on a sy yesterday, climbed into the hay mow of the barn back of Meyer's Baloon to sober up, Last evening while attempt to descend from tho place he felt to the loor below and broko four vibs, Iis injuries aro not sevious. Jef- fries is an old man of fifty. Mrs. Jennie I, Ginther sues for_a divores from ber husband, Henvy M. Ginther, to whom she has been married eight years. Sho tells the same old talo of his” using bud language to er, this being the only excuse she offers for her step, W. N. Clinton, the railrond man who had Doth his lews eut off in a vailvond aceident a month ago, has nearly recovered and soon will be able to don a pair of avtificial limbs The report of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad company for the past ye: shows that 17,510 persons are cmployed cn he line: Nebraskaat a cost of 10,401, 812 T'his makes an average of £1.95 por day for wages. As thero are several high salaried official the average for the other cuployes woula be brought to a much lower tigure. COUNTRY BRLEZES, West Union Gazette, We ate two young roosters for dinner yes- terday, and our wife was madder than a wet lien beeause we persisted in crowing at mid night last night Brother, Get Your Hair Cut. Getna Reporter. The long-haived cditor of the Ripsnorter publistied at Papillion wants to represent. tho democracy of Sarpy at the next states assen- bly. He will have to geba double action mowing machine to cut the cowboy locis from his one-story eranium or the solons will thank he is old Setting Bull, Our Brilliant Sta Anctia Journal. paper may be a “miscarringe” or a “misconception,” we do not claim to be as igh up in obstewies as tho Graphic. Wo have & splendid corps of contributers and have not had to offer valuable chromos for eithier correspondents or subscribers, Roused by the Reporter. Wimore Reporter., The anarchist imbecile that is foreman on Mrs. Dodds' Eagle-Democrat-Arbor State paper took one of his periodical fits week be- fore last, after pervsing the Repoten, which they say lnsted much longer than usual. During the period of unconciousness they say he puffed like an engzine, pawed the floor and bellowed like a bull, barked like a dog, me tike a cat and hooted like an o Hymenoal silurity. Wost Uniun Gazette Ed. Whitmyer and Haltie Lovejoy married last Sunday, and the Gawtte is among the bost of fricuds to congratulate the happy pair. Monday night t and Creele seronader b male and female, gave them a grand salute, and it is said by those who were looking in ab the windows that when the first shot was fived thoy both jumped straight up in bed and kicked several ‘rounds out of the foot of the bedstead. After a gen- eral good time the intruders went home, Our Esteemed Contemporary. Grant Enterprise, Auburn hair, sorrel mustache, pennyroyal eyebrows, and bay comploxion. It walks with o gentle, rippling movement of the shouldors, sometimes spasmodically thrown backward to give prominence to a consumy ted chest. It walks upon two bones, some times in this particular caso erroneously called legs. It is not o hog, but more like leech or a vampire, It may suck eggs, but it not a birg dog. It chatt A good deal, but itis not & registered monkoy, lacking the prehensile addendum. Although inhuman it takes somo intorest in human affairs and recognizes a great many people before oo tions. Tell us what it is und you may haveit. — Practical Christianity, Chicago Neuws Mr. D. Pz Moody's plan for training ¢ tian workers at a sehool where cooking and e sewing shall be combined with bible study is an admirable ono and worthy of its origin ator. 1t is in a line with the genuiue enter prise and progressivencss which aro every where animating religious work, Chnistianily isalive and practical thing whose business it is tomake the world better worth living in, and whose proviues it is to meet and to fill the wants and necds of human sociely. ] OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subscribed and Guarantecd Oapital. ... 850,000 Paid 1o Capital.......cve e v 50,000 Buys and sells stocks and bonds; nogotiates commereial paper; roceives and execules Lrusts; aots as ransfor agent and trusteo of ll'mpumllm.. takes churge of property, cols 028 taxes, Omaha Loan & TrustCo SAVINGS BANK. S E Corner 16th and Douglas Sts Paid fn Capital # 50,000 Bubseribed und Guaranteod Capitai. | 10,00 Liability of Stockholders + 200,000 6 Per Cont Interest Pald on Deposits. FRANK J. LANGE, Cashicr. Omcers: A, U, Wyman, president; J.J. Brown, vice-president, W. T. Wyman, troasurer. Directors:—A. U. Wyman, J. H. Millard, J, J Brown, Guy O, Barton, B W. Nusb, Thom J. Klwball, George B, Luke, pé