Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 24, 1890, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE o B. WSEVATIR, Miter PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERWS OF 8U ISCRIPTTON. Dilly and Sunday, On BIMOnS. e Three non i bi Buidny liee. (i Yiir yeekly .« Une Year. I v The Bee Bulld 1 oy Corner N ana 2th Strects y 00 0w Y ork, Ko ash i mgtom. Commerce ribune Bullding CORRES PONDENCE. Al eomm unleating mlatin to news and edioria matior sionld be aldresed 10 tie Editorial Depirtement BUSTNESS LETTERS. All businesslet ters anl renlttanes siould g et he Bewe Publishing Company, Dral ceks and postafice orde tobe rade piyableto the order of the toro iny . flleysct Publishing Conpany, Propriclors, The Beo B'ldYy, Famamand feventeenth Sts MENT 0F OIRCULATION ) na. {59 Robert Hunter, derl of The Beo Publish- L0z compn v, 108s solennly swear thal the acunl e ik DALY BEE {0r the week enling L wasas follows: Sunda v, Se Bond s uese ay, W Thursdiy. S Frida v, € Buturday, BWORN ST AVCTR. ¢ e iiiie ez s (RN fvorn to Wlorene anl subscr: Presence thisiitn diy offenton ber, 1800, 8 IFEA L | N P FELL, Notaty Pullic, Btate of Nebmska, Tai County of Douglas, (%% Wing daly sworn, de. sertaryof The Bes netul o Ber for thie e B, | il =ays thath 2ublishing Company. ailly cireul month of 10555 cop) for March. 0. 2 ento bofore me. and subsc o, this 108l aayor S i tar'y Publie, IN the game of corporation wtthront, tho outwardly hoestand innoent gene enlly swings theshortestknife, RATLRO AD activity in Nortlern Ne- braska furnishessubsian tisl evidence of the stady development of that section, prohibition colonel willlere- THE wi alter luve statistics severly alone and ewrn his saliry by dealing out abuse und slinder, AT list 2 ol Chicago hud not come within the jurisdictio of tle lowl moral censor. We congratu- Late the males. —— ACCORDING to mugwunp prophets, Mr, Biyan is cock sure of a mjorlty in the first district. In flve weeks M, Bryanwill haveabundantproo tht he wisted his sveetiess on adesert air, —_— It 13 significant fict that the doemo- crticpapens devote considerble space to*“thocycone recod, evidmtly an- ticipating the effect of the November gules o tho party WIEN the echoes of theseveral eman- clpation day speeches roich the south through the mediumof the newspapers of the north, the solid soth will be as blind 15 & Wt and deaf asa stne. The euwrs of the solid suth can only bo rechel through congress, nt imperial love fast e cropping out just at the mor ament these preserversof Europan peace are adively experimenting with new gums. Allof which goes to show that the emperos plice greater reliance on their artillery than on the peaceful force ©f monurehinl embraces IN' (ONSIDERING the probable effect olthe antilottery lw on Louisianaks great industry Washinglon statesmen igorethecdoserelationsof the express companiesto tho business. The business TUncle San rejects will be greedily grabbul bythe express compnies and handsome profits reulized, | MR, MCKEIGHAN conlinues “assuring the credulous that his election to cou- gress will rovolutionize the <ondition of the peopleof thedistrict. The poor will Tecono rich and the rich poor. Mean vhile Mr. MeKeighan vouchsifes no ex- vlanalion of that pelition filed in the probale court of Webster county. — Trreannial reportof the patent offico fsan hstructivereflx of the achieve ments of American iwventors. The total nurmber of applications received during the liscal yearwas forty-six thou sand one hundred and forty, an inceaso of four thousand over the previous year, Receijts laven surplus over expenses ofa quarter of amillion dollars, agninst asurplus of onohundred and thiry-six thousind the year previous, The fig ures furnish notable proof of the stimi- Iating effect of a republicn government on theinventive genluses of the coun- try. — THE census burdau’s recount of St Paulund Minnepolis afords grest con tolatin tobotheities. St. Paul’sorigl ml count was rediced nine thousand wo hundred and foty md Minnepolis 8 wory glad of it Minneapolls has fewerpeople by twentyseven thousand und sixty-two than she boasted of during dog days,and Sk Faul gloats over the loss. Bothcitios are ina huppy fesamo of mind just mow, and itall comesabout froman honest count of their people, St. Paul fulls below Omaha over six thousand, while Mimneapolis leads our city abouttwenty-five thousand. E— THE only crumb of comfort that the demoerats cam oxtract from the Wyom- Ing election is that the majority for del- ogatoin 188 wis reduced o few hun- dred, At thateledion the democrals clected fourteen outof thirty-six men- bers of thoterritoriil legislatire. With amajority of tWo inthe sonate the party managed (o diclate le gislation and pre- vent changes inwppintive ofices. Their partisan scheming explains the almuost totalroutof the party in the first state electin. Outof a total of forly-nine members of the stite legilature the demacrats clected flve—one sondtor and four representatives, "The voters were evidently determined tomake tholegis lature unanimously republican and prac- ically suceeded. PUSH ORGANIZ ATION. But little more than a month remaing forcampaign work and there should be nofurther delayin perfecting the or- ganization of the republiean party throughout Nebraska, County commn teos espeelally should at once put all their energy into this work and pursue it steadily and vigorously from nov on. | A thovoughly aggressive campaign -is | wlat iswanted, and the soner itiakes that form the bitter, Iet competent anl trutworthy workers e put into the field, awrange frequent public meetings, anl kep the fires of republicanism buming brightly on every hill top and | inevery valley. In thatlies victory. The republican party must do some- thing more than winthe battle of this yewr. It must e successful by such an overwhelming majority as will eflectu- ally silence the voleeand pamiyzo the eflorts of the demagoguesand sel fscek- evswhoare attempting to destroy it This can be done if the republican mmagers will faithfully per form their duty. Apathy and lack of vigilineo arve more tobe feared ny the oldtime cnemy and hisnew allies. Tlhere is no danger to the re- publican cause escept from the carcle nes or indiffercnce of itsown leaders, orthos chirged with guarding its in- towsts, They should begin at once and camestly the work entrusted to them. It is only necessary that the republi- can frmors Nebraska shall be than of brought to see clearly the true nature of the political situation to insure their continued fealty tothe pariy. They have no more reason mow than in the pust to hope for anything in their ine terest from the democracy, and when they shall understand, as they arve rapidly learning, that the independent party, so called, is being made toserve asu tall to the democratic kite, they will tos man vefuse to countenance the iniquitous arrangement. That such is the character of the situation is | The democrats ave - hopo ccess upon republican defection created by the independent movement, and they are giving thategrogious blundor alltheencoiragement possible. Lve republican farmer who grives his support tothatmovement and aids inits promo- tion mukes himself a tool of the demo- cntic party. Events show that the nunber willing to be thus used is so far arge, but in order that it muy not e thorough republican organi tion and aggressive work ave necessary, We repeat, there remains but little more than a month for the active labors ofthe campaign, Let the time be fully fmproved. ——— LANGSTO. THE SEAT. The prolonged contestel elecgion case of Langston against Venable, from the Fourth congress district of Vi inia, which hasexcited more interest inthe liouse of representatives and been tle camse of more d 5 owing to demo- crtic obstructive tacties, than anyothor cotestin the present congress, was de- ciled yesterday by giving Langston the seat. The report of the eommittee favor- able to Langston, who is one of the most wilely known colored men in the coun- tiy, was prosented some time ago, but when the date for action on it arrived there werenot enough republican rep- resentatives in Washington to make a quorum, and the democrats from day to duy absented themselves fromthe houss, The eflect was to tie up absolutely all business inthe house, as it was deter- mined that thiselection case should be soitled before anything else in the way of legislation was taken up. Several futile efforts were made by the demo- cnts to bring forward other matters, but the rule was adhered to, and for the first time since the organization of the present house the republican majority found themselves helpless, They could donothing from day to day but adjourn. Yesterday Mr. Mudd of Maryland made his appearance and madea quorum, It isquestiomable whether the repub- licansof the house are to be congratu- lated upon thisaction. Some of them were not favorable to it, partly for the reason that the case made out by the contestant was not impregnable, and neasurably because his claims upon the republican party are by no means strong. John M. Langston has for a number of years been prominent as a leader among his race, and isa man of education and ability, - Fle was graduated at Oberlin college, Ohio, and has been in the pub- lic service and also held o professorship in the Fisk university for colorel stu- dents, - Langston has always mani- fsted a strong desive to figure in politics, and while for the most part acting with the republican party he has aice at least, ifnot oftener, onposed that pwty,andit is charged that when he mn for congress in the Fourth Virginia distriet it was as an independent, the ef- fect heing to defeat the regular republi- an andidate. His course for some years,since his residence in Virginia, s been such. 1s tocreate with many re- publicans a distrustof him, and while it is probable he will uniformly vote with the Tujority in the house, it would not e surprising if he failed todo so. At ay rate he cannot be regarded as sn aquisition to the majority likely to be of materialad vantage, and he may prove t0 be more troublesome than useful, Perhapsthere is a certain fithess in the fact that the man who enalled the najority in the house tobring this some- vhat notible case to a conclusion is named Mudd. —_— THE LESSON OF THE DISASTER. Thoe Wabash disaster forcibly illus- trates the necessity of congress taking speedy action on the billcompelling rail- roads to adopt safety appliances for the effective handling of trains. No intelli- gent person ean read the heartrending details of the wreck withouta fecling of indignation againsta corporationwhich, through false cconomy, clings to hand brakes for pontrolling trains, The circumstances sureounding the wreck clearly show the practical useless- ness of the old brake. It is a relic of snail-pace days, and is as far behind the timesas the bhob-tail locgmuotive of the thirties. Had the doomed train been equipped with the modern automatic brakes, controlled by the engineer, the power to check its speed und stop it within a short distance could have been applled the moment the danger was dis- coverel. But the train dependedon the hand brakees, which could not be applied intime to prevent it from plinging into the abyss of flame and death, Therailroad linesof the country are strewn with records of death and de- struction from like causes. According tothe government report, two thousand employes were killed and twenty thou- sand injured during the past year, Ttis safe tosay thata majorily of the num- ber were vietims of the hand brake and the man killing coupler. The losses poid the companies both for passongors and emploges injurel or killed, the do- struction of rolling stock and the sums poid for merchandise destroyed, due to the lack of modern appliannces, amount toan enormous sum annually. If ap- plied to reconstructing rolling stock, competent authority estimates that it wouldin five yorrs pay the eost of equin- ping all cars with automatic brakes and sifoty couplers, It must be said to their credit that every progressive railvoad realizes the greatvalue of the sutomatio brake and compuratively few trains are run on leading 1lines without a portionof the tuain being thus equipped. Little prog- ress, however, is being made with safety couplers. In justico to the thousands of men whoso lives are inconstant peril, congress should promptly pass a law, suggested by President Harrison, come pelling all corporations, rich and poor, toabandon the mankitling brakes and couplers and equip their trains with the lutest improved safoty applionces, THE BEXPOSITION Omaha has opened, undet very prom- ising ausypices, its third ex position,which is to continue for threo weeks, Itisa creditable, attractive and very interest- ing display, showing chicfly the resources of the mercantile houses of the city, and therein demonstrating, as was said by the mayor in his address opening the exposition, that it is not necessary for our citizens to go to Chicago or else- where to procure the richest, most fashionable or most costly fabrics manufactured, In its in- dustrial features the exhibit but slimly sets forth the wesources of Omaha. Very few of thenumerous manufacturing: entérprises of the city are represented. But it is to be remembered that the task of organizing the exposition was entered upon at a late date for suchan undertaking, and that the purpose to give our citizens an entertainment of this ciargeterduring the swason forits en- joyment could not waitfor anything not at once able. To have gotten to- gether o highlyattractive trade display, infwhich muany of the best mer- cantile houses of Omahaare represented, is under the circumstances a most cred- itable achievement, and the gentlemen to whose energy and enterprise this re— sult is duc are entitled to hearty com- mendation, The houses represented also merit cordial praise for their Liber- ality and public spirit. The exposition deserves a generous public support. No one will fail to find there much that will interest and please, while to many it must give o more fayorable impression of the businesso character and re- sources of Omaha, The financial sue- cess of this enterprise is to be especially desired for the influence it will have in stimulating future efforts in this direc- tion. Aninterstate exhibition ought to be an annual affair in Omaha, steadily expanding in scope and usefuluess from yearto year until it attained proportions tivaling the best exhibitionsof this kind in thecountry, This is practicable, and it rosts with the business men and people of Omaha to say whether it shall be ac- complished, Pourrics in the Bighth Towa congress district are knee deep in the stubble and corn flelds; in the cities and towns of the district the old whoal horses of the several tucked in their boots and stallc about in mad despair, doubt and doubting. The Eighth district is notably anti-gonopoly , anti-tariff, though withal it is safely re- publican. Four years ago Major Ander- son, an anti-monopoly anti-tariff repub- lican, beat Colonel Hepburn, and two years ago James P. Flick, an anti-mo- nopaly republican, beat Major Anderson. Anderson and Flick are contesting the district againthis year, and the fight waxes hotand bitter. Anderson’s hopa for ess liesin the strength of Flick’s MeKinley tariff ideas If Flick is beaten, it will be bacauseof tavif¥, for his anti-monopoly record is quite as pro- nounced as Major Anderson’s. Roed, MeKinley and Burrows are booked for speeches in the district, and the demo- cratsare negotiating for tallk-talent in opposition tothem. The contest prom- ises to grow in interes CONGRESSMAN FARQUHAR, who has charge of the ship subsidy bills inthe house as chairman of the committes on merchant marine and fisheries, appars to bo confident that the maasure will pass at the present session, They have alresdy passed the senate and have beenin the house for soms time, where theyhave been delayod for prudential considerations, not the least important of which was the rather vigorous ex- pression. of opposition to such Legislation which came from the west. Thatcon- sideration may still have weight, for wa are not aware that western sentiment in this particular haschanged, and we ven- fureto thinlk that a majority of repre- sentatives of the west incongres wili tell Mr. Farquhar and other advocates of ship subs idies that hardly any greater mistake could be made from the point of view of the interests of the republi- can party than to pass the proposed legislation at this time, F1vE-cent fares on the bridge line will come when the authorities of Couneil Blufls and Onahaexercise the powers of reduction andregulation reposed in them —but not till then, Appeals to the pub- lie spiritof the managers is as fruitless as baying at the moon, E—— DRECTOR LEECH of the government mint adds histestimony tothe unrivalled position of Omaha as u site forn branch mint. Possessing the largest gold and silver reduction works in the country if notin the world, Omaha commands the productof alarge mineral avea. tama, Idahe, Wyoming, Colorado and en Mexico contsibute their precious metals, Other reduction works are purely Tocul. That of Omaha is national, It has no competitor, and the demand on its resources ara'so great that annual enlargements ave necessary to keep pace with thepatronage, Holding the key to avast mineral fepritory and located in the heart of tlo great inland empire, Omaha’s position commends itself to far- seelng government officials, Mr, Lecch’s commendation will materially strengthen the prospects for the passage of the Con- nell bill, Tn selecting members of the executive committees of the worlds far, Presi- dent Palmer was peculiarly fortunate in choosing active, vorking representatives of Nebraska. Mr, Euelid Martin, presi- deut of the Omaha board of tradeand oneof the state commissioners, is well equipped to perform his share of the du- ties of the executive board. Thoroughly familiar with the varied natural re- sources of tho state, its expanding man- ufacturing industries and its unri- valed commercial growth, Mr. Martin is peculiarly fittedto secure a complete exhibition of Nebraska products such as will show the fertility of the soil and the progressive industrial enterprise of the people. On the board of lady managers, Nebrasia is favored with two representatives—Mres, John S. Briggs of Omuha and Mys, 8. C. Langworthy of Seward. Both ladies are well qualified for the important duties imposed on them. Their experience in connection with local and state fairsat home will prove invaluable in the larger sphere to which they have been called. Itisa matter lor congratulation that the state’s delegation to the Columbian exposition are both competent and representative, insuring Nebraska a favorable position in the galaxy of state exhibits, TowA Crry, the capital of Johnson county, Town, the home of ex-Governor Kirkwood, as well as the seat of thestate university, put itself on record as an ob- jector tothe census bureau's count of its population. It posed as an eight thou- sand town, but it finds itsell with several hundredless than six thousand. It is not so very long ago that Governor Kirkwood predicted aloss of population, weilth and mechanical industries to his town if the prohibitory laws of the state were not repealed, At that time enthu- sinstic prohibition workers, talkors and writersbewailed the “mental decadence” of the grand old war governer. It transpires, howevor, that later day facts parties wear their pants, and figures prove him to have been the better judge of the future. THE newspapers, of Cedar Rapids, Towa, assert with positiveness that two hundred saloons are open to the public in that city. Cedar Rapids has a popu- lation of about eighteen thousand. Pro- hibitionists do not; deny the statement, but think it a shame that some of their co-workers do not talk less and do more work toward enforeing the law, There is abetter and broader field for prohibition work inTowa today than in Nebraska. And there is greater danger that the “‘home” will sufferi from intemperance in Towa, under prohibition laws, than in Nebraska under our license law. —— Tie San Francisco Cull may, and it may not, have afellow feeling for Sen- ator Stanford, but it is very doubtful if the honorable gentleman will accept as a comypliment its assertion that “after the world has forgotten that Leland Stanford was a United States senator, it will remember that he founded the richest and most comprehensive educa- tional institutionin the United States.” It is clearly in evidence that a million- aire lawmaker entertainsa proper esti- mate of his own senatorial ability, and that he would not pave the world soon forget his career, THE signs of the time point toa repub- lican victory in Towa this fall. Hon, James B. Weaver of Des Moines is down in Missouri making democratic-green- back speeches to alliance audiences, Weaver never deserts an enemy of the republican party while there isa hope of defeating it. Evidently he sees nothing but defeat in store for Towa’s democracy and hisadvent into Missouri is merely a stand from under, E— THE demand for skilled and unskilled labor in the city at the present tim such that no able-bodied man anxious to work nced be idle. —_— 0MAIA s four courts are again in full blust, with sufficient work booked to banish ennui from the benches. —_—— The Rule Reversed, Chicago Herall, Mrs. Potter, from far off Australia, has sent to Worth, in Paris, for a number of new tollets for the stage. Worth makes the man, wte Pope, but nowadays Worth makes the actress, A Long Time Between Licutenancies. Kansas City Journal. “Ihere is 1o necessity,” says the Globe- Democrat, *for the revival of the grade of licitenant general; - The army enough to justifyit,” No nece same of themen who bave been patiently ten years fon promotion, ting iu- pitutits st bl ooty Notat All Amprobable. New Yark Indepeudent, Speaker Reed pradicts that ““in five years the democratic party will claim to be the iginal discoverer and patentee of the princi- ple that members of thie house, if present and declining to vote, may be counted to make o quorum.” 1t would not be very surpising if this jocular predictiph should prove true, - Facts Ins€aad of Fiction. Fremont Tritane. There will be somedling beside fiatism and froo trade, with theisoncurrent evils talked from the stump in Nébraska reom now until the close of the campdign. The disturbing aud discontented elements have had things pretty much their own way so far. The peo- plo are pining for some truth—and they will gLt The Alliance's Bad B lunder. Karney Jowrnal-Enterprise. The lndependent party in Nebraska may have principles which are good, but its selec- tion of candidates is not at all in keeping with reform measures, Allof them are men of only ordinary ability, practically uuknown aud, inone instance at least, with an unsav- ary record, which he will be called upon from this time until election to explain, This isa wery bad blunder for those who arve seeking topurify politics, and the good, old repubil- Mom: | can farmer; ave begluning tosee itin this Mgat. - THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1890 NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST. Nebraska. The Holdwg Progress has changed hands, Erlo Johnson being succeeded by H, T, Wil son. A chattel mortgago for #11,000 has cansed Wat Kinsman of Beaver City to fall in busi. nes: W. B, Beck has been nominated for state sonator by the alliance of - the Seventh dis. trict. The Bloomington Fcho and Argus have consolidated under the management of H., M. Crane. The farmers in the vicinity of Genoa have completed the organization of a vigilance committee, Six criminal and ten divorce cases are on the docket of the district court now in session at Tekamah, The saloon of Charles Scheff at Gretna was entered by burglars. who secured §12 in cash and a good robe and whip. The democratic convention for Sarpy county will be held at Grotna, Saturday, October 11, at Zunnesmans hall. J. H. Moan of South Sioux City has been nominated for representative by the demo- crats of the Sixteenth district. The second annual fair of Elmwood will begin October 1 and continue four d: Everything indicates a success i Jerry Fenton, €. 1. Gentry Y and Geddis will run for the legisiature on the democratic ticket from Richardson cournty. The Kearney county republican convention Henry nominated John C, McKenny for representa tive and A. H. Burnett for county attorney. The Free Methodist camp moeting that has been hellat Gretna for the past two weeks has elosed with several new members added as the result of the work. Freeman Sheen, arrested at Pawnee City V. 4. ed. as Arthur Redman, the murderer of Duncan at Huron, 8. D, has been rel It was a case of mistaken identity, Elder C. P, Hackney and wifo of Ashland vecently celebrated the fifty-fourth anniver- sary of their wedding. The elder observed the day by preaching two able sermons, Alex Payer, a Winnebago Indian, joined the Dakota county old settlers’ association as o pioneer at the last annual meeting, By right of residence he cluims 1 be one of the veter- ans, Out of tho dozen wagon loads of beets brought to the Grand Island sugar factory, none analyzed less than 16 per cent saccha- rine matter, and yet tho crop in many places is far from ripe. A youth at kviend named Alvin Shaffer found a pocketbook containing money and drafts amounting to_£1,100. The book was deposited at the banle and the boy received the princely reward of §2. A barn belonging to George McClintock, four miles west of Cedar Rapids, was burned. The place was rented by . A. ' Schooleraft, wholost one horse, somo machinery and other goods. One horse was saved by Mrs. School- craft by great personal risk, but she burned her hands, lowa. The contract has been let for the building of a United Brethren church at Botna. Lack of business compelled the telephone exchange at Newton tosuspend operations. Three states will be represented at the dedication of the new Turner hallin Dubugue in November, Miss Ada Inkerman of Eldora experimented with a gasoline stove and is patiently await- ingthe growth of a new crop of bangs and eyelashe: A farmer named Ohlof Oasis had eleven horses killed by lightning. They stood in a bunch near a wire fence and not one escaped. "The animals were valued at §2,000, G. N. Rossand John Evans met violent deaths at Lancaster. The former accidentally shot himself and the latter was hit over the head with aneckyoke by an unknown man. The cighth annual reunion of the Nine- teenth Jowa infantry regiment will be held at Mount Pleasant October 1 and 2. Most of the old commissioned officers of the regiment will bo there and two of its chaplain: During a drunken brawl at Fort Madison twvo toughs named Scanlan and Duffy were badly cat with dirk knives, the latter so sariously that recovery is doubtful. A “hobo” named Knowton isin jail charged with belng Duffy’s assailant. - Articles of incorporation for the Emmets- burg & Des Moines railroad company have been filed for record. The company is com- ‘ms‘cd of some of the leading cavitalists of immetsburg, and they propose to build and operatea road between that city and the capital, Inarccent teachers' examination in Ma- haska county a girl graduate startled the ox- aminers and struck history a savage blow below the belt by asserfing that “Ethan Allen was ove of the leading generals in the late war and that Vailey Forze was one of the priuciple battles in the same war. A funny incident was connected with the juil delivery at Eldora the other day. Gleason aud Christy tunneled a hole through the wall and got sufely away. “Pudding” Ellington, the only other prisoner in the jail, attempted to do likewise, but got stuck in the hole and was captured. The hole would only sccom- modatea 100-pound man, while “Pud” tips the beam at 300 pournds. Bevond the Rockies. Seattle's fresh water lakes areto be stocked with black bass. The assessed valuation of the city of Mis- soula, Mont., property this year is a little over 35,500,000, While a fire was in progress in Salem, Ore,, thieves entered a room in the opera house building and stole a large quantity of jewelry, valued at several hundred dollavs, Laborers and mechanics are in_great de- mand in Anaconda, Mont. The additions to the smelters and the building in the city re- quires so many men that it is impossible to secure a sufticient number. Robbers tunneled under the First National bank building at The Dalles, Ore, the other night and blew the safe open. It isunder- stood that the amount securcd by the robbers is in the neignborhood of £10 000, Mrs, Penschower of Clovordale, Cal.,, has raised a sunflower this a*m‘ that breaks all records. "The stalk is six inches in diameter atthe ground, it stands twelve feet high, and the flower measures nine fect arouna the outer edge. The trunk of arose bush which is in full bloom at Ventu al, is three feet in cir- cumferenco at the ground. The first branch, which is thrown out at a height of about four feet from the ground, is twenty-one inches in circumference. The enumerators employed by the Boise, Idaho, board of trade to take a revised census. of that city have already listed about thirty- five hundred names, and 1t is estimated that when the full count is handed in the figures will show a popylation of mot iess than 4,000, ‘I'ne state Indian school near Carson, Nev., will open in November, with accommodations for 150 pupils, who wiil be boarded, clothed and educated at the cxpense of the govern- ment, It is expected the Piutes, Shoshones and Washoes will furnish the full number of children, Boise county, has a remarkable sheep, the prop { Jumes Johuston of Round Valley wis @ year old on v, W Ithas but two legs, both on the vt of the body, and constantly , much after'the manuer ofu linder walks e Kingaroo. Martha G, Berdan whose father, a white man, was married in California in 156, ac cording to the Indiun customs,tod squaw, the two living tozother alyays s man and wife— has obtained a victory in a_suit for land at Butte, Mout. The oestate of Berdan, the father, had been loft to his sister's children, but the jury credited the story of Martha G. heras the legitimato heir The opposition mate. There is much money involved in_ the suit, John Clinton,aged about nineteen years,ap- jeaved before” Justico Lambert of Walla Walla, Wash., and made complaint agaiust two brothers named v, whercapon a ant wis issued for their armst. He was fearfully bruised aboutthe face and body. His statement was that the Kennedy brothers be- came incensed _at him while “working ata thresher, near Walla Walla, because of his rofusal to join them In i gae of cards. Afier some words had passed between them they suddenly attacked and overpowered him. A long rope was procured und his hands and foet bound, rendering him perfectly power- less. The brothers then ted up an unruly horse and securely tied one end of the rope the animal’s tail. The other end was fus to Clinton’s body, A s0om us all was secured shorse was started on & wild run_across the flat, _Clinton was dragged aquarter of u mile. When found he was anconseious, rope had slipped from the tail of the horse, and this alone saved bis life, | commissioner FROM THE STATE CAPITAL Shorman of Jones Marder Fame Found Guilty of Horse Stealing. AN ELECTION PROCLAMATION ISSUED, ATemporary Injunction Granted Pre- gthe Destruction of Line coln's Original Landmarks ~Uity News Notes Lixcouy, Neb., Sept. 23.—|Special to Tur Brr.] ~All of yestorday and today was con- sumed by the district court in teying Suspect Sherman of Jones murder fame for stealing o horse from Mr. S, P. Ritchie. The horse was stolen just before the Jones murder, and when Sherman was arrosted for supposed connec: tion with that infamous deed Ritehie's horse wis found in his possession, After gotting his skirls clear from tho chargs of accessory tothe murder Sherman was released by the Omaha police, who had forgottan that he was wintedhere, Hewas finally captured, how- ever, but throughout his imprisonment has maintained abravado alr. Yesterday, daring the damaging testimony against him, he passed the time in joking and cutting up, and when pit on the stand he climed that he had borrowed thehorss from M. Ritchie's son “‘Digze," who had taken him across Salt creck and tied him thewe for Sterman, Kuowing that his father would not like theidea of his loaningthe horse. This flimsy defense was knocked in the head by the emplhatic denial of Ligo Ritchie of ever doing any such thing. The case went to the jury at nom and they returned later with o verdictof “guilty,” COLLIDED WITILTHE TRAIN. Mr. E. I, Booth had a narrow escape from death at 4 p.m., at the crossing of South street and the Union Pacific tracks. Ho was on his way up town when his ho becane frightened and started o run_away. A pas- senger train wns going ove the time, but the animals, blinded with fright, dashed headlong into the train and struck with terrific force agiinst the side of one of the coaches, The skulls of both horses were crushed and they were otherwise mutil ated. The wagon was also a total wreck The train stopped and the passengers caue rushing outto fiu the mutilated remains of the At first he could not be but fin: was discovered under one of orses. The bloody animal was lifted up and the motionless form of th ug man was then discovered that tunned and not dead, and d consciousness it was found d miracilously escaped withonly a few bruises, OBJECTS T0 THE PITRASEOLOG Y. (Girandima Duling objects to the phraseology of the accounts published in the newspapers as to what charges Duling made in regard to her in his cross bill foradivorce. The words she don't lik these he is charged with being a woman of vicious and vulgar habits.” "The petition reads as follows: “She has been leading an immoral and dissolute life and has kept the companimshipof im- moral und dissolute persons. Plaintiff sup- posed that when he married her shewas a virtuous woman." ELECTION PROCLANATION, This morning Governor Thayer issued an election proclamation calling for an election on Tuesday, November 4, A. D. 1800, at the usual places of voting in thestate for the pur- pose of electing the following officer: One member of congress from the First congressional district, one member of con- gress from the Second congressional district, ane member of cougress from the Third con: gressional district, governor, licutenant gov- ernor, secretary of e, stato tveasurer, auditor of publicaccounts, attorey general, commissioner of public lands and buildings, superintendent of public instruction, state senators foreach senatorial district and re resentatives for each representative district, as provided by law. Also, the clectors of the state will vote upon the foilowing amendments to the constitu- tion @ To amend sections 2,4 and 5 of article 6 of the constitution relating to the number of su- preme judges. Also, to amend section 13 of article 6 of the constitution relating to the salary of the su- preme and district court judges. Also, to liccuse and regulate the manu- facture, saleand keeping for sale of intoxi- cating liquors as a beverage, Also, to prohibit the manufacture, sale and keeping for sale intoxicatingliquors as a bev- erage. young man RENOVING THELAND MARKS, Joseph R. Webster has filled a petition in the district courtasking that the board of public works, the city engineer and other chum engagedat. work on the stivets of Lincoln be enjoined from removing the cor- ner stones put in_when the streets were formeriy surveyed. Mr. Webster declares that during the past three years while grad- ing and paving the streets both the officials and the workmen huve recklessly destroyod these monuments, and unless restrained thoy will soobliterate them that there will be no oficial evidences of the original plat of the city and this willlead to harassing and mul- tifarious litigation. A temporary injunction was granted, CONGRESSIONAL DELEG ATES. The Lancaster county delegation to the congressional convention at Plattsmouth left, at 2:40 p. m,, accompanied by a lavge number of local and state politicians, i ocnsisted of G. H. Gere, W, H. Woodw M. Hall, L. C. Burr, H. M. Rice, H. C. E. Alexander. Ben Oldemeyer, Cobb, Bdward Sissler, Tom M. Pickel, J. B. Lamborn, I. E. Fass 3. Noveross, Alva Smith, J. D. Laver, W. C. Austin, H. 8. Vail, James Stevenson, James Mahoney, E P. Holmes, H. C. McArthur, S. M. Melick, J. M. Cotton, W, B. Bennett, 0. V. Eaton, W. J. Marshall, R. B, Graham, J. H. McCldy, D. C. Van D . W. Hoxie, J. L. MeConnell, AL . J. Dennis, M. B, Cheney, Jesse D, Moore. SUPREME COURT. Court met pursuant to adjournment on Tuesday, September 2, 180, The following gentlemen were adinitted to practice: M. L. of Tancaster count 50, of Cass county; Jacob Douglas county; George A. Day, esq., of Douglas count ] efendant to file xtended thirty days. Sawyer issed forwant of prosecut Parks, vs s Snelling, Cahan vs Daniels vs Burchum vs Frifiith, Earl vs Ree May, McMahou vs O'Dennell, i swart Lumber company vs Mis- railway compuny, United States National bank vs Bonacurn, Holyoke vs Mo Murtry, Durrell vs Johnson, Lamaster vs Lincoln, Laueingvs Lincoln, Spence vs Dam- row. Sale nfirmed. il h vs Pheby. of special mastor Court adjourned o'clock a.m, COUNCILMANIC DOINGS, At the maecting of the v council last even- ing ordinances were passed authorizing the treasurer Lo issuebonds in the sam of 000 for intersection paving bonds and £0,000 sewer bonds, The council also de- clded to change the specifications in regard to paving brick to read “havdest selectod brick” iustead of ‘witrified brick.” A resolution was also passed authori: city attorne; draw vp and subit to the roviding for thewvoting Tor vinducts, the amount voted in to be ouly two-fifths of the cost of the structure, APTER THE GAMILERS After the raid on the gambling dens a fow nights ago the various kuights of the green cloth were notified to leave the aity. Today four were found lingering here and were arj rested. M. A. Shorman 1millun|u' of $. Sam Dickson, William J. Gleason and Krank Wiltiams were released on ball put up by Bud Lindsay and Jim Hood, AT TIE STATE HOUSE Thursday is the day set. by the s of transportation visiting Ma make an investigation petition of Henry J. Gartner the Chicago, Rook Island & 1> for tho estublishment yard fadlities at that point. Mon- day, Gth, is the date fixed upon for hear- ing the case of LeviGastineauvs the B, & tomorrow at ate board - ific railway f 4 depot M, at Lisbon, Perkins county, for the re establishment of station facilit Articlos of incorporation of the Nebrask fnvostment company of Omaha havo boen filed. The capital stock is £100,000, and Jo. soph S Woodruft, Joseph B, Woodruft and lm‘wmxl C. Wentworth are the incorporators, ODDS AND ENDS About midnight flames were discovered bursting from the rear end of Red Ribbon hall on T street near Thirteenth. The flames were extinquished after doing about & worth of damage, Thetrail of hay from a neighboring barn and burnt wisps of the same in the basement, where the fire started, leads to the belief that some incendiary is reo sponsible for the blaze, The Lincoln normal university s declared to be an assured fact, that 18 as far as the location of the place is concorned. It is als learned that plans for an $55,000 building are being prepated. The Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atone. ment, commenced at sundown fonight and lasts until tomorrow might. The Hebrews of the city are observing the event with froper religious ceremonies at Kelley's hall this evening. —_—— HORDES OF WHARF RATS. Disgusting Squalor in Which York Rag-Plckers Live. New Youk, Sept. 2.—(Special Telogram An inspoction has just beon made by the sanitary police of the dumps o both rivers, and the report has been filed with the board of hoalth. The police founl the old abuse of turning the filthy rece under the piles into living qu ters blossoming at every dump, Be tween the piles, under the plankfloors over which the ash carts are hauled to the scows, sottlements of Italian pickers wer formed—men and women who work in the day on the scows and sleep by night in theso un utterably foul and noisome burrows. They have been driven fromthe underground nolds time and time again, but as Soon us the vigi- lance of the police is relaxed they snealk in again and live contentedly where they have n0 rent to pay. The investigators found that the sanitary measures adopted to wash rags for the pro- tection of the community had been allowed tolapse. The crates in which the plunder of the ash barre submerged to be sonked i the river hung idle at the pier, while stor of unwashed rags wero packed away und the dumps, serviug usually as the only bed ding of the Italians. ——— FLOODS IN FR: New CE. Much Property Destroyed and Somo Lives Lost, Panis, Sept. 23.—[Special Cablegmam o Tur Bee.]—The floods in the departuent of the Gard have caused much damage to prop- On Sundy the river Rhone row nineteen feet and the town of Beacaire was flooded. At Vallerandue, on the Herault, nine miles northwest of Nimes, the overtlowed its banks and undermined a portion of the cemectery, A number of cof fins were washed out and together with their contents floated down th or, The Ardeche r s gr y swolten, At Aubenas a dyke collapsed and thesurrounding country was flooded. Houses were unde mined by the waters and yards throughout the distric tated, Three persons were killod, T r don river, in tho depirtment of the Gari, has also ¢ flowed 1ts banks. The country along the river, with its standing crops, is an immense swamp. The Moussae bridge has been destroyed and railroad and telegraphic sorvice have stopped. The Avignon anl Caderousse districts along the Rhonein tho department of Vancluse are submerged and tho workshops and factories have becu closed, R by A Close Ocean Race. Loxnox, Sept. 23.—(Special Cablegram to Tue Bek. ] —The Inman lino steamer City of New York, which sailed from New York Septemver 17 for Liverpool, wa: Browhead at 6 :3 0'clock this mornir ty-five minutes later the White lino steamer Teutonic, which also left New York September 17 for Liverpool, passed the same point. Tho City of Now York sailed from New York 2 minutes abead of the Teutonic, PO D e Berlin's Suicidal Epidemic Continues, Brairs, Sept. %3—The epidemic of sulcides continues in this city. A senmsation w created today by the discovery that Major Von Norman, commudant of the cadot school, had killed himsolf by takiug poison. ——— PERMINT DROPS. PE. Richmond Recorder. The fly is a chronio aspirant for the crown, . New Orleans Picayune : ing up in the cotton regions. " Boston Courier: Quite appropriute for lawyer's epitaph: *Hre, lics," otc. Richmond Chronicle: The man who walks acrooked street is on the warp-path. Baltimore American: Spreckles has had the sand to reduce tho price of sugar. Jester: “He proved himself an upstart. “You amaze me! How?' “Saton a tack." Binghamton Republican: Tramps naver have to inguire their way, With them all roads lead to roam. Puck: _September—Waiter ! bring me n dozen on the hiall shell, - Summer's over, and my bete NoR is gone!” Fliegendo Blatter: “I say, Charley, that man over there must b & millionaire.’ "< No, Tguess not. He looks too huppy.” Washington Post: The astronomer and the mariner have something iu common i their familiarity with tho high sees. Light: Friend—I shouldthink that in that arctic scene, where you areclad in furs, you would almost buke, Actor—It is apréty bot “roll.” New Orleans Picayune: Tho candidate who can_accept defeat_gracefully and part with his money cheerfully wins the resp .t of the opposition, Washington Post: A visit to acemte: caleulated to fmpress o man that it isa g ity he can't have hiscpitaph written on Pirthday instead of so much luter. illo Journal: The man withan ex- u have lots of fun fishing, but takes the fellow with the alder pole and a box of worms to get tho rout. Boston Courier: Tho wagon-spoke to th wheel and said it made nim tived to be con- nectod with such low folloss as he was, bit nie was surrdunded by a circle through which he could not break. New York Sun: asked the Bostn Business is pick- “Where is Penclope!’ mother. “Up in hor room. Been there allthe morning crying.” “Crying? What forf" “She read ln the papirs that Keats took snuff,’” Nortistown Herald: Charles Teo, o Christianized and college-bred Chinaman, says there are more dialects among tho Chinese in this country alone than there ars other languages spoken. Wehad not 1o ticed it. AL S, The Bozeman, Mont,, carenters’ union, at a recent meeting, decided upon nine hours is uday's work, o day, when they will Tabor eight hours, Tho s of w adopted was $4 and $150 per day, and i ¢ der hour for all time in - excess of the named, LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. paper; I d trusLs; wots as transfor agent trustes of corporationg, takes charge of property, ©ols tuxes, Omaha Loan & TrustCo SAVINGS BANK. 8§ E Corner 16th and Douglas Sts Pald In Ospital f aag " § 50,000 Bubsorib wnd Guaranteed Capit: Liabllity of Brockholders 6 Per Oont Interest Pald on FRANK J. LANGE, Cushior. OMoers: A. U, Wyman, president; J. J. Browa, vice-president, W. T. W ywan, trensurer. Director A U»‘Vylnln,'.l H. Millard, J.J rown, Guy C. Barton, & W, Nush. Thos L Klwball, George B, Lake. ] lea