Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 20, 1890, Page 4

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Maren, W04 coples; in my 1500, LoOK out for a new crop of dime nov- of the results of the aborig- al revival, It is barely possible th was introduced in city aff: combine, but the short-lived. In is gratif indom expl t economy s hy the scquaintance was ng to have Secretary v in that Uncle Sam stiil has a comfortable supply of money in his inside poek Tiir murmurs of re in every vd ropresented by combine councii- men foretells the coming storm. Tho bosses must go. Lanonr agitation will continue to be a profitablo profession. Mr, Powderly has beon re-elected at a sulavy of something more than ten dollars a day. SuovLp Sitting Bull accidentally or otherwise run up against federal rifleg in motion, it issafe to predict he will not have suflicient breath left to unfold his tale of woe GOVERNOR THAYER has fired a proc- lamation right into the midst of the In- n camp. If poor Lo insists on keep- ing up the disturbance now it is because he is an incorrigible tough. WHiLE the corporationsare vigorously warring among themselves, the inter- state commerce commission is actively preparing to place a few managers bo- yond the roar of the strife and turmoil. CHY and F ena ure in position to exchange congratulations. Both captured two senators. The opinion of the rest of Wyoming and Montana is somewhat equatorial in temperature and suggestiveness, THE great public who read the onl; @orrect election returns in Tue BEE are having the same oxperience in the mat- ter of the Indian uprising. ThE Ber never allows its readers to get left in matters of news, GENERAL PALMER has encountered an unexpected obstacle in Illinois, Three alliance farmers hold the balance of power in the legislature, and to each of them the strange idea has occurred that the senatorial toga would look ex- coedingly well on himself, — Gov OR GORDON surprised his enemies and friends by getting elected senator from Georgia on the first ballot. By the aid of railroad * influence he has won after a very bitter fight and Jay Gould secures another reliable represen- tative on the floor of the American house of lords. FrANCIS E. WARREN has been clected as the colleague of J. M. Carey in the United States senate from Wyoming, This gives our western neighbor pe haps the strongest representation of any of the new states, Congressman-clect Claxk being also a very able and promis- ing man. Governor Warren is a man of more than ordinary ability and is thor- oughly familiar with the interests of his state, Tlo has for years been identified with the home interests of Wyoming, as Carey has with its interests at Washing- ton. Together they will make a strong team, SINCE the demise of the star router no gang has aflicted the government and the country with gweator per- sistency and greed than the pension sharks quartered in Washington. Created and fostered by the bounty of the government toward the veterun the rapacity and abnormal cheek of pen- sion attorneys has become a national scandal. Every precaution taken by congress to prevent imposition on soldiers entitled to pensions made the sharks all the more ravenous and des- perate, and to their unconscionzble greed is due the unceasing agitation for wmore pension legislation. They are the real simon pure patriots for revenue only, and their zeal for the old soldiors is gauged by the size of the feo. The pension of- fice owes it to itself and the country to curb the pension grabbers and rigidly limit the privileges thoy have shame- lessly abused. THE ARMY ON THE GROUND, Tho dispatches printed exclusively in . which anmounced the impend- ing of troopsuround the great ing guthe Indian reservations of Dakota, have been fully verified by the results, they were promptly denied at head- quarters, within twenty-four hours the orders issued bore out in every respect the predfetions of our Washington cor- respondent. At the present writing Da- kota is encircled by a cordon of regu- lars making their way to the disaffected regions, with General Brooke in com- mand of the troops, The movement is in many respects identical with that of nearly two years ago, when murmurs of discontent among the southern Cheyennes in Indian terri- tory called for a demonstration of for orders of General Sheridan, the faw companies of troops in nity of the Indian agency were not sufficient to strike awe to the hearts of afew hundred threatening bucks, a massing in force of all the garrisons of the department promptly showed the restless Indians the futility of a hostile demonstration. I'ractically the sume condition of affairs now exists through- out the entive northwest, where the Sioux, the northern Cheyennes, the Crows, the Shoshonesand the Bannocks, under the stimulus of veligious fe are threatening their agents and defy- ing the authoritics on the agencies, While there is no good reason to be- lieve that with the approach of winter, and its heavy snows, the thirty odd thousand Indians of the plains are likely to go on araid, yet the evidences of insubordination are such as to make it highly proper that the war department should evince the power of the urm, and prevent by a show of force the first semblance of anoutbreak. Itis due to this fecling on the part of the authorities that the present movement of troops has been or and that all the army of the Unit Although or, 1 States, now in garrison in the department of the Platte, has been ed under arms. General Brooke i now on the ground with a force ample to suppress the be- ginnings of un insurrection. sous of Forts sbrara and Robinson in this department, and of Fort Mex the department of Dakota, which sur- round the Si tion, are ready to move, and most of them are nos the scene of the disturbances, We do not 1t ve that there will be trouble, bec the best possible method for preventing trouble has been s0 promptly taken. It is a matter for congratulation that the war department has acted so quickly under the advice of experienced men like General Miles, meral Merritt and General Brooke, and that they have not waited for an actual foray before sending troops to an- ticipate and capture, after long and painful delays, the Indians who have been the cause of the disturbances, A GIGANTIO RAILWAY TRUST. Tt is now plainly evident that the out- come of the retent commotion in Wall street is to be the formation of a gigan- tic railvond trust. Juy Gould, the Van- derbilts, and other heavy capital ave apparently behind this movement which contemplates the control of all the trans- continental lines and all other impor- tant western roads under one manage- ment, The Union Pacifie, the Atchison, Topeka and Sunta Fe and the Richmond Terminal have largely changed hands during the recent excitement and gone in the divection of the men who already control the other important links in the chain which binds the interstate com- merce of the country from ocean to ocean. There can be but one object of such an imperial trust as this—the crushing of all competition. There can be but one legitimate result—the raising of rates to utmost limit that “the traflic bear.” The increased ecarnings must be paid by the people, whom these railway lines serveas arteries of com- merce. But what will be the ultimate results of this aggressive move on the part of the railway magnates? It cannot fail to add fuel toa fire that is alveady slowly burning away the sup- ports of corporate monopoly in this country. There isa deep-seated aver- sion among Americans to pasernal schemes of government and to any at- tempt to obscure the line between the legitimate business of the public and the natural and proper business of indi- viduals. This sentiment, once the safe- guard of capital and enterprise, has rapidly become in recent years the bulwavk of monopoly. Pre- suming upon this national instinct of business independence and aversion to anything bovdering upon socialism, capital has by syndicates, combinations and trusts deprived the people of the heartfelt influence of competition. Thus a myriadof private entorprisos have been merged into a fow monopolies of astounding proportions, and thus the time has come when a few men have woney and nerve suflicient to gather into their hands all the important lines of railway that belt the continent. It is distinctly a move divected against the business interests of the country and es- pecially of the west. The sentiment of the times is strongly opposed to every specios of combine or trust. The tendency of public thought is in the direction of legislation of the most aggressive character to arrest a threatening and expanding evil. The inevitable outecme of this latest move- ment will be to strengthen the demand that already cries aloud for government ownership, or control, of all the rail- ways, The sound Americanism that has hitherto opposed this demand must i before the necessities that ogant aggressions of monopol y have forced into view, —— THE NATIONAL FINANCES. The statement made by the secretary of the treasury at a cabinet meeting, that the position of the treasury is per- fectly secure and satisfactory, cannotbut have a reassuring effect upon the coun- try, This does not follow by reason of any general impression that the national finances were in an unsatisfactory shape, or that the treasury was likely to en- counter any ditficulty In meeting its ob- ligations, though these things have been suggested, but because the large depend- ence which the money market has learned to rest upon the publie treasury THE OMAHA DAII / BEE, { "THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1890 gives to such an avowal at this time pe- culiar force as an aid to the restoration of confidence. The secrotary does not promise any special assistance to the money market, and it is not clear that he is in a position to render any were he called upon to do so, but the knowledge that he is abundantly able to take care of all demands upon the financial do- partment of the government from i regular resources, when the possibility that such might not be the case had been Linted, and doubtless to a limited extent feared, will cortainly bring asenso ofs relief that will be beneficial, The fact that the secretary proposes to keep on the safe side of the financial question, by spending only such money as is necos- sary, will cause no distrust of his hith- erto avowed intention to go asfaras the law and prudentiai considerations will permit him in protecting the finan- cial interests of the country. He could not doin asimilar case, what has just been done by the Bank of England to up- hold the great banking house of the Baring Brothers, but so long as the has money on hand beyond the immediate demiunds upon it, it may be rolied upon to use all authority under the law to avert a monetary cri: As appears from the statement of Sec- retary \Windom to the cabinet, the treasury now has over thirty-two million dollars to meet any emergency that may ise, and as vecei pts ave unusually large the surplusis certain to increase in the absence of some extraordinary demand. Thero seems o be no immediate danger of this, or at any rate tho treasury officials do not appear to be at all appre- hensive. As to the general financial situation it scems to be steadily regain- ing the normal stage. Thero is still re- ported an unsettled feeling abroad, but is. unless something wholly unexpected should arise the worst has evidently Dbeen passed, and while our own mar is yet in a somewhat sensitive condition it is hardly possible that anything which might occur would again subject itto 50 severea strain as that through which it has just passed. The fact ap- pears to be that we were in a financial condition exceptionally favorable for meeting the shock that came rather suddenly and fiercely from London, and while o number of wrecks attest itsse- verity, the situation is doubtless mere se- cure for the elimination of these w vessels. Atany rate itis a great deal to be authoritatively assured that so far as the financial departmentof the gov- ernment concerned its position is entively sound and safe. THEY ARE ALL BUSINESS MEN. The official organ of the combine has at last come to the rescue of the tax-eat- ers and boodlers. In this delightful task it treats the citizens and taxpayers of Omaha as chumps and idiots, Wo are assured that the present city council has been a business body and has been controlled by business men, who have managed the city's affaivs in a business-like way. I by tnis it is meant that the leaders of the com- bine have managed the city’s affairs with a business-like tact that has put money into their own pockets, we will cheerfully concede the statement to be true. It hasbeen business with them from the word go. Mr. Wheeler,the great chairman of the finance com- mittee, is all business. Asan insurance agent” he has made his position count for a great deal in his business, He has been very thrifty in getting insurance from everybody who had any business with his council commit- tees. He has pl d insurance pol- icicson the street railroad company’s power houses and motor buildings, and demonstrated to the city hall contractor that it was to his interest to transfer his insurance policies to the companies he ropresents, Chaffee has also run things from a business standpoint. He is not inthe council for his health. A prominent lumber dealer declared less than three days ago that he proposed to spend three thousand dol- lars to re-clect Chaffee, How does this man expect to get his money back? And why is the superintendent of the waterworks company so deeply inter- ested in Chaflee, who certainly is not a lucrative patron of the company as a water consumer? Councilman Davis is also a business man who does things in a busi- ness way. He has been do- ing a rushing busines for the electric-lighting contractors, the gas company, the street railway com- pany and the waterworks company. He is business in a minute, like his partner, McLeary, chairman of the fire and water committee, who took the water- works company’s hooklkeeper in as part- ner within a month after his election to the council, and is running his foundry chiefly upon castings for the water company. And O'Connor is also a very prudent business man, you know. And if he doesn’t keep all he gets it Is his own fault. With such business men in charge of our city's affaivs; things are run in a business way, of course, THE COMMISSION MOVES. The interstate commerce commission has at last made a practical move, agree- ably to its lawful authority, for the pun- ishment of western railroads that may be shown to be guilty of manipulating rates, Documentary evidence has been presented to the grand jury of the United States cireuit court at” Chicago against a number of the western roads, relating chiefly to the manipulation of grain rates. It would seem that the work of propaving this evidence has been cave- fully done, and there is reason to expect that the roads against which charges aro made will be indicted, and some of them suffer the penalties prescribed by law, It is certainly time that the commis- sion should take action of this kind, alike in defense of the law, in vindica- tion of its own authority and in the pub- lic interest. The fact that the law has been persistently violated, not alone in the matter upon which the commission has obtained evidence, but in other di- rections, has been a matter of common understanding, and the failure of the commission either to corréet or punish these unlawful practices has had the ef- | fect to very greatly weaken public con- fidence in thaYlemly, The fault is not in the law. In whAgever other respect the interstate commerce act may be want- ing, it is sufMigiepmly elear and explicit in the mnhnri!y?fims the commission to proceed again® Fhose who violate it, and it vigorously and firmly enforced the penalties are ample to prevent violations, The railvoads hafe persisted in their dis- regard of the lawbecause they have been led to believe they could do so with im- punity. Tvappears that the evidence on which the commission is now proceeding against the roads was obtained previous to the order of some months ago reducing the rates on grain from the Missouri river and interior points of Kansas and Ne- braska to the Mississippi viver and Chi- cago. Itis not to be doubted that later evidence of the manipulation of grain rates could be obtained if desired, but the public will be very well satisfied if the commission shall be successful in making a case with what evidence it is in possession of. What is wanted issuch an enforcement of the lasw and its penal- ties us will convince the corporations, or more properly their reckless managors, that persistent disregard of the national will and authority is a dangerous and un- profitable procecding., The interstate commerce cominission is inneed of vindi- cation. It has fallen under the suspicion of being indiffevent, if not with being more concerned for the protection of tho corporations than the public, and it has consequently lost in popular confidence. It ma ill beuble to show that in this an injustice has been done it, and in doing this also contribute in a very important degree toward removing some of the dif- ficulties n the way ofa solution of the railroad problem. HOW THEY REDUCE TAXES, The most bare faced statement that we have eyer seen in print is the asser- tion of the official organ of the council combine that s have been reduced by the very business-like methods of Wheeler, Davis and Chaffee. It takes a great deal of brass to make such an as- sertion in the face of the facts that are within the reach of every tax er, ‘Where, when and how has the com- bine reduced city taxes? The present council was organized by corrupt bar- gains with city contractors and a shameless bargain to allow a forty-five thousand dollar claim to the gascom- pany which was indispute in the courts, and which should have been left to the ad- judication of the court. It was common report in the city, and members of the combine were charged right in their faces that several thousand dollars had been d to hold them together in the organization of the council. No sooner had this council been organized than they began creating a new set of offices for dead-beats and ward heelers who were pensioned upon the city and have been living upon the taxpayers ever since. These parasites are quartered in nearly every department and the result is an enormous increase on the city pay- roll, In the first six months of 1889 the amount drawn by parties on the city pay roll, whose'appointment is not expressly provided for by the charter, aggregated $30,171.01. For the first six months of the present year the amount paid employes not expressly provided for by the cha ter aggregated $40,256.56. Here is an increase of over ten thousand dollars in the first six months of this year on the extra salary lists alone. There has not been as much done in the matter of pub- lic works this year as last year and the extra payroll does not include employes of the park commission, or of the police and five departments, Reducing taxes, indeed! But this is only a trifling exhibit of the raid upon the taxpayers to which the comuine has given its active sanc- tion, : It is a matter of record that they re- pealed the ordinance that required the street railways to pay for paving be- tween their outside rails and refunded $16,000 to the street car company after it had been paid into the treasury under a convenient protest, This tax was loaded upon the property owners when the franchises which the people have voted to this company with- out price are worth millions. A few months later they voted the right of way over the new Tenth street vinduct for which the company would have been glad to pay at least ten thousand dollars into the city treasury. ‘What conclusion can we reach except that the combine had to be lubricated before they went on record for such job- bery? Reducing taxes, indeed! IF 1T were practicable to investigate the conspiracies that have existed, and still exist, under the prohibition law of Towa by which justices of the peace and their mercenaries have mercilessly plundered the people, the result would undoubtedly be alarming. For years these officers of the law—justices, constables and in- formers—have been banded together to carry on the most unscrupulous espion- age, and not only have thousands of in- nocent persons stffered, but the whole peovle have been cgmpelled to contribute to the ill-gottdmdgains of these froe- booters. It is reported from Des Moines that the fee transeripts in liquor cases during the past ygar in that county alone have amounte over one hundred thousand dollafsfand there are other portions of the te where in all proba- bility the people have been nearly as badly plundered. Governor Larrabee in his final message called the attention of the legislatuve tg ¢jhis grave abuse and recommended remedial legislation, but nothing was \lung‘yy the last legislature. The people, héwever, have provided their own remedy, and after the present year the gang of marauders will find their oceupation gone. Among the de- moralizing effects of prohibition in Town none has worked much greater injury than this abuse, which even a gove friendly to prohibition felt compelled to condemn, Wirn honest, reputable cpublicans can maintain th candidates, th cendancy in the eity council. To nomi- nate notorious boodlers and jobbers is to court defea as- AMONG the the ptions out acts of combine, the increase of tax exer stands foremost. Despite the explicit directious of the constitution that prop- Ageous erty must bo used ‘exclusively for agricultural and horticultural societies, school, religions, cemetery and charit- able purposes,’” to entitle such property to exemption, the combine has placed property worth millions of dollars on the free list, thus increasing the bur- dens of taxpayers und overriding the plain letter of the law and the opinion of the city attorney THE new constitution of Mississippi ition among the natives toaccept existing conditions and make the best of them. The new organic law benevolently wipes out slavery and re- pudiates secession, two notable symp- toms of progress among the shotgun brigade. It forbids duelling and lot- teries, grants to women equal rights with men in acquiving and hold- ing property, establishes a commis- sion to supervise railrouds, expross, telegraph and telephone compan and adopts the Australinn eloction system for five re, The chief object of the constitus tional convention—to regulate the col- ored vote—was accomplished by levying a two dollar poll tax, and imposing an educatior test on and after 1892, This clause will affect both white and colored voters, but was the only practical plan to insure democratic supremacy and white ascendancy. The constitution, on the whole, marks a decided advance in the shotgun politics of the state, THE republicans of the Fifth ward are confronted with a splendid oppor- tunity to elect a representative man to the council. O'Connor is doomed, but those who seck his place on the demo- cratic ticket are not a whit better. The people of the ward ave decidedly weary of brainless political upstarts, and if the republicans bring ot a strong, brainy man they will secure the active support of hundreds of disgusted democrats, The gentlemanly Tex: to harvest acrop of express money by the lance of railroad managers in provid- ing armed guards for trains. Travelers by the southern routes ave thus given rensonable secuvity for their lives and belongings, with the added attraction of periodical fusilades en route, to break the monotony and give refreshing zest to fleeting scene raiders of train were foiled in their latest attempt As the combine has secured the aid and comfort of an organ, it is to be hoped they will favor the public with an planation of the reduction of half a mil- lion dollars in the total ass d valua- tion, compared with the previous year, in the face of the fact, certified by the building inspector, that four and a hall millions were invested in buildings in Omaha during 1889, The Business Men's union of Minne- apolis has raised & purse of one million dollars, to be puid out in aid of new jobbing and manufacturing enterprises located there during the next threo years, The examplo wmay be trans- planted with beneficial vesults by every live city in the w s of strange, startling war about water” is rding Missouri town, sen: sations. raging in a where the fluid is respected mainly for its usefulness as an adjunct to naviga- tion. N ——— JuUsT now the exactions of the cam- paign are such that Mr. Wheeler cannot stop to enquire where citizens favors from the city, place theirinsur- ance, —_— NEWS OF THE NORTHW EST. Nebraska, The Unadilla waterworks are nearly com- pleted. Pender has purchased a fire engine at a cost, of §715. The meat markets at Superior have agreed to close on Sunday. A grand wolf hunt will be a Thanksgiving attraction in Otoe county. The Ulysses Oddfellows will give a ball and banquet on Thanksgiving day. “The elcotric light plaut at 0’ Neill is almost ready for operation and the ity expects to have waterworks in the spring. The Custer county jail now contains but one inmate and he is a prisoner from Box Butte county held for safe keeping. Judge S. W. Burrows of Ord was stricken with paralysis last week. He may recover, but bis age, seventy-five years, is against him, The village of Fagle is infested with sneak thieves, one of whom was given a dose of bird shot by a citizen whose henroost he was 10bbing. There was o tie in the vote for county supervisor in Enterprise township, Vailey county, between the independent and demo- cratic nominees, They drew cuts and the democrat won, The wife of Charles Peterson, agricultural implement dealer at Ouakland, became violently insane a few days ago from religious excitement and will be taken to the insane asylum. Shois thirty-five years old und the mother of four small childven, who had to be removed from her presence for fear of her do- ing them violence, Towa. Muscatine wants a beet sugar factory. Glenwood's artesian well is now down 1,500 feet. Adair county has court house. An electric street rallway for Burlington is now assured. There were 2,500 barrels of apples packed at Glenwood this season. The Iowa sheriffs will meet in annual con- vention at Des Moines December 17 and 18, A girl baby weighing one pound and seven ounces was born in Page county the other day. The Dubuque county poor farm consists of 250 acres of land and the poor house contains fty-two inmates, ‘Wens Machacek, a brutal wife beater, was fined $100 for indulging in his favorite past- time, by Judge - Stoneman, at Cedar Rapids. nona & Southwestern road will be completed to Osage by January 1. It runs from there to Mason City, where it ex- pects to absorb the Mason City & Fort Dodge road and extend southwest to Omaba and Kansas v The fifth annual meeting of the Towa Draft Horse association will be held in Des Moines Junuary 18, 1591, the day preceding the annual meeting of the state board of agvicul- ture. C. I. Curtis of Nevada is secretary of the association, The Two Dakotas, Faulk county’s debt willnot 58 refunded. Hill City will vote on incorporation on the 2sth. A Grafton little boy fell upon a harrow and a tooth tore his scalp while another entered the cheek and shoved out she eyeball, Physi- clans were immediately called ‘and the child is slowly recovering. 1t is alleged that at one of the election pro- cinets in the Black Hills the clerks were both under age, and that the judges were some of the time engaged in a game of cards at one side, the voters depositing their own ballots in the box. voted to build a new PREPARING FOR CONTESTS. Powors and Dech on One Point Fail to Sce Eye to Eye. DIFFERENCES REPORTED COMPROMISED. A Lincoln Lady Mourns the Mysteri- ous Disappearance of Her Dia monds — Vagaries of Mickey's Mind-New Republican Club. LiNcoLy, Neb,, Nov, 10.—[Special to Tne Ber.]—~Powers and Dech are said to still disagree over the matter of contesting all the state executive ofices, Powers will be sat- isfled if he can be seated, and is willing tolet the other gentlemen on the alliance ticket re- main in private iife. Powers' reasons for this as expressed to his friends are as fol- low: 1. That with the governor and legislature at their command, the alliince can manage the state. It the state board of trans- portation does not come up to the demands of the alliance, the party can pass o law taking the power out of the hands of the state board of transportation and bave regular railroad commissioners appointed by the governor, 2. The difference between the votes for Boyd and Powers may be very easily over- come, he thinks, by throwing out a fow precinets through the aMidavits alleging fraud. It will be much easier therefore, us Powers reasons, to overcomo the plurality of Boyd of 1,144 than to over- come the plurality of the republicans electe on the face of the returns for the other executive officers, those pluralities being from 2,500 to 4,000, 3. Powers believ s that the seizire of all the executive ofiices will redound to the dis- eredit of the alliance party and create a prejudice against that organization for abus- ing tho power 1 the legislature of passing on the The more conservative alliance men agree with Powers on these points ; but Dech, who is determined to be lientenant governor, will not hear to them, and other candidates on the allisnee ticket sido with bim. Dictator Burrows is said to be oue of the loaders who is in favor of grabbing eve thing in sight, and it is belicved that Powers will yield bis own judgment to the command of the dictator, Mauy of the’ alliance people express the fear that they cannot prove frand cnough to throw out any of the republican candidates elected in the face of the returns., On one point ouly do all the allisnce ers seem to agree and that is in condemui and sneering at Omaba. Later—It is reported that Burrows has succeeded in having his own way about the proposed contestand that Powers has given in to him. T'his afternoon the notices of con- test to the republican state officors cloct were printed. | WO STOLE THE DIAMONDS! That is the query which is agitating the family of Mrs. A. D. Marshall, who lives at 224 U street. There is consilerable of an air of mystery about the robbery, for such it appears to be. The motive for {his cannot bo divined, but nevertheless the few police ofi- cers who were made cognizant of the affair and have aided in the search are apparently bound not to divulge any of the particulars, Mr. Marshall and two of his friends were at the police station for some time this morning and were overheard enjoining the officers to say nothing to the newspaper men about the affair, Mrs. Marshall is, or rather was, the owner of a handsome dismond pin, several rings and other diamond studded orhaments, but yesterday afternoon when she went to he jewel case sie discovered the sparklers were all gone. She did not have the bureau wers locked. called to in- id one per- aud talen to the station, apied by the suspect wero s the prisoner was released nothing was found. The party tor at the Marshall resi- denco yesterday, it is said. FOR FALSE IMPRISONMENT John W. Hafer. through his attorneys, filed suitin the district court against John W. Bowman, claiming damages in the sum of $10,202 for false imprisonment., Hafor is the young man from Snenandoah, Ia., who SO0T WS A The ested rooms o ched, but was urrested about a month since on com- plaint of Dr. Bowman, who charged that Hafer falsely impersonated one J. L. Lam- bertson and secured 3225 from Bowman by mean: of a_chattel mortgage on property which hedid not own. Hafer was bound over by Judge Houston, but when the case eame up in t court Hafer's attorneys brought out suficient avidence to establish a strong _alibi and the jury promptly dis- charged him. The petition sets forth that Hafer was rested on October 11, 1800, and imprisoned in jail for the space of thirty days. That the Jail was very damp, and’ as @ consequence plaintiff became sick aand was confined to Lid bed for thespace of four days, and his health was irreparably injured. He also in- curred great expense” in defending himself, lost the employment for which he was re- ceiving $3 per day : bas suffered great, ental anguish aud bodily painand has been broug ht into public scandal and disgrace to his dam- age in the sum of §10,20: MICKEY’S MIND, Theodore Kaar swore out a warrant in the district clerk’s oftice this afternoon charging James B, Mickey, a farmer residing four miles south of the city, with beinginsane and s being at large is o danger to the com- y. Mickey is well-to-do, and this is the second time that he has been up before the insanity board. About four years ago he was kicked on the head by a borse and ren- dered insensible. He lay out in the cold about three hours before he was found, half frozen to death. Since then he has acted queerly attimes, and in tho early mpart of 1857 was on a jury in ths district court as a talesman, The casc was a long and compli- cated ono and the jury were out three days, It didn’t take Mickey that long to make up his verdict, however, aud he astonished tho court by walking in and telling the judge that e had agreed on the verdict, hut the other fellows hadn’t, Years ago he was an attend- ant at the asylum, and when he was sent there by the commissioncrs on May 27, 1857, the sheriff was able to get him there only b ding that ho woing to placo v in charge. Mickey remained in the sylum two years, when he was dischareed as harmless.” His recent attack appears to have started from list week, w e at- tended the sale of A. C. Reddish's Yaulkeo Hill farm, when he bought six head of hogs, He drove home 5o fast that he jolted all tho hogs out, and raised a great rumpus when he got home and found he had 1o porkers, ‘The hearing was sct for Saturday. THE STRIKE OFF, The dificulties existing between James H, O"Neill, the North Ninth street plumber, and his men have been settled and the boys have goue back to work. A member of the union stated that the strike was caused by Mr. O Neill ignorng certain rules of the union, Rule [X reads: “No journeymen will Le al- lowed to work in a shop where a jobber is employed in preference (o a journcyman, A shop employing a journeyman will be entitled to one jobbér, and for every four men 30 ew- ployed ‘one additional joboer,” Mr. O'Neull, whoeraployed three journey- men and two jobbers, complied with the de- mands of the union by dischargiug Charles Stetson, one of the jobbers, A MATTER OF FOLICE ¥ Judge Field and a jury were busy yester- day atternoon with the old case of Chambers B. Beach vs A, I Parsons. Tne suit was to recover $506 us fees for arrestof prisoners and court attendance while Parsons was police judge aud before he was removed from oftice for misaemeanors, At thattime police- men got but 865 a month, aud in addition u feo of $2 was given for each arrest mado when tho prisoner paid. J, C. McBride and J. H. McClay, bondsmen’ of Parsons, were party defendants. Beach figurod up from tho record of the police court that the above aunmed sum was due him, T defense was that the claim had been settied and a receipt dated October 1, 1857, was introduced lu evidence, Beach, however, claimed that the aate should be 18%. The bondsmen also de- nied any responsivility, inasmuch as under the origanic law of the city, notwithstanding the ordinduce relati to fees, wolicemen could receive nothing beyoud their salaries, and wero net eatitled to any fees. The case was given W the jury at the close of court, and a sealed verdiot returned. This verdict was found to be for defendant when opened in court this morning. YOUNO MEN'S REPURLICAN CLUB. A meeting of young republicans of the city was held last evening at the office of Regfs terer Clark in the government building for the purpose of organiziug a club to be known as tho young men's republican club, Tho following ofticers wero elected: President, W. H. Clark; sceretary, George A, Mc Arthur; treasurer, J. J. irby: chairman of executivo committee. C, 1. Alexander, Tho other members of the executive committeo will be selected from the varlous wards ot the next meoting, with twoto each ward C. W, Hoxie, I'rank Koufman, Chris Camp, R H. Gillispie and E. B. Stoplienson v appointed a committee to framea constitu tion and by-laws, Other routine business was transacted, and an adjournment taken to tomorrow night. The club promises to be an fportant factor in politics, BROVGHT TO TINE, W. C. Norton prosented today an applica tion to the supremo court for & peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the clerk of tha district court of Butler county to approve & suporsedeas bond in the case whercin My Norton was required to pay into court thy sum of §,54, within ten days or stand com- mitted for contempt, from which order ho prosecuted error tothe supreme court. Tha writ was grantod Arother writ was_granted by the supremo court in which R, B. Gralam, mayor of tho ity of Lincoln, was required to execute aud deliver to John' A, Buckstafl $20,000 worth of sewer bonds and §25,000 worth of paving bouds. SUPREME COURT, Cannon vs Wilbur, Error from Douglas county, Afirmed. Norval, 1, Tn order that a landlord may avail hiu self of an option contained in his lease, to terminate the same for a failure to o the rent, he must give the tenant notice of his tention to declare a forfeitu Ordinarily where a tenant s wrongfully by his landlord, the measure of the s diamages is the rental valueof the rty for the unexpired term, less the nt of rent reserved by his lease, vidence considered and held to sustain the rdict. Root, vs State bank of Net from Saline county. Dismissed, Mur. Justice Maxwell I An or overruling a motion to dis charge an attachment in not a final order and cannot be reviewed prior to the rendition ot final judgment, PProcecdings in orror held to be prema 1y brought and are dismissed City of Seward vs Klenck. I Seward county, Affirmed. Justice Maxwell 1. Where a bill of exceptions which con tained all the testimony was not presented to the attorne; so party for corre tion and amendime: ra considerable time after that tixed by law and was then signed by the judge againsy the protest of the attor neys of the defendant in ervor. Held: That while errors which occurred during the trial could not be reviewed, yet the evidence w be considered for the purpose of defor mining whether or not there was suflicient to sustain the verdict Kvidence e verdict. dlander vs Ryder. as county. Afirmed, e Norval. 1. A tenant in possession under a leasc hich does not provide that he may remove his fixtures and impr. ents, cannot after e bas surrenderad possession to his landlor i reenterand remove his fixtures, . A creditor by the levy of an upon a tenant’s fixtures acquives no great r rights therein or to remove the same thau the tenant had. 3. When a tenant is in actual possession of renl estate at the time it is sold by the li lord, the purchaser is chargeable with ag of the rights of the tenant. 4. Unless there is a stipulation in the le tothe contrary a tevaut can only removo such improvements erected by him, the ro moval of which will not v ally injure tho premises or put them in a worse condition than they were in when he took possession. Lamphere et al. vs Lowe, 3 Nebraska 131, Lynch vs State ex rel F Wi i 2t county. Affirmed. on by Chief Cobb. 1. Under the provisions of the statute section chapter 19 of C. S, a_judge of the district ambers at me and ? Judicial power and jurisdiction to h ming an application for a_ writof mandamus and such power and juvisdiction include the al- Towance of a peremtory writ of mandamus All 1l ons well pleaded in a petition and not denicd or an d unto in the answer will be deemed and taken as true. Descret, National bank of Salt Lake City vs Nuckolls, Appeal from Richardson county Reversed, and counter-claim and cross-peti tiondismissed. Opinion by Cobb, Money recovered and paid_on legal process upon a judgment of a courtof competent jur isdiction rendeved in a suit or proceeding iu which the court had jurisdiction of the sub t and the parties thereto, or voluntarily paid in satisfaction of the judgment or pro- ceeds, cannot be recovered back, in a sunse quent action, while such judgment remains in force unreversed and nnmodified, John R. Thompson and R. €. Glanville of Hall county, and Charles Riiey were ad- mitted to practice, The following cases were argued and sub- miited: County of Laneaster Trimple ; Grand Island Banking Co.vs First National Bank; Butts vs Hunter; Blaine vs Willson ; Howell vs Gilt Edge Mfg. Co.; Pomeroy vs White Lake Lumber Co.: State Ex. Rel. Morton vs Hall; Forbes vs MeHafie; Iorbes vs Bringe; Keine vs Shaefing. Phenix Insurance Company vs Swantkow- ska, Objection to jurisdiction sustained. Stehr vs Raben. Appellee to file brief in ten days. The following causes wero continuec Hanscom vs Burmood: Jordan vs Kraft; Goodrich vs Cushman; Phillips vs Bishop, Palmer vs Courtney, defendants ordered to file brief in six days. Hunter vs Bell pl: tiffs ordered to file brief in seven da Janss vs Wilson, plaintiff ordered to file brief by November Court adjourned to Tuesday morning, No- when the causes from the Tenth strict will be led. Cuuses from tho Gleventh district will be called Wednesday, vember 206, and causes from the Twelfth strict will be called K'riday, Novemper 28, STATE TIOUSE NOTES, The Masonic Aid association of Yankton, 8. D., has complied with the laws of this state in regard to secret societies and thereby authorized Jto do business in braska. il Governor Thayer issued notarial appoint- nts today to tho following gentlemen: A Hawood, Lincoln ; H. W. I*eanock, Omaha ; . Bahnsen, Mansa; H. H. Blodgett, Lin- coln, Jolin W. Getchel of Burnett complains that George Davis, the sheriff of Madison county, bas unlawfully seizedn stock of groceries and other merchandise belonging to him and asks for £1,000 dan . The case was appealod 10 the supreme court today ODDS AND ENDS. Ground was broken yesterday afternoon for tho power houso of the Lincoln electric railw ‘I'he plant is located at Kighth and K streets, and will have ample room for the lurge amount of machinery necessary to run the system. Tt is expected that the house will be completed within the next six weeks, and electricity will bo used as the motive power by April 15, next. OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subsoribed and Guaranteed Capital Paid in Capital. ....... . ceenies 90,000 Buys and sells stocks and bonds; negotiates commercial paper; recolves and exccutes trusts; ac s transfor agent and trustee of corporations, tukes charge of property, ool- lects taxes, Omaha I:olun&Trust Co SAVINGS BANK. S, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. I'a1d In Capital ... 8 5,000 Bubscribed and Guarantoed . 100,00) Liabllity of Svockholders, 200,000 6 Per Cent Interest Paid on Deposits, FRANK J, LANGE, Uushior. Offcers: A. U, Wyman, president. J.J, Brown, vice-president, W.'T. Wyman, treasuror. Directors:—A. U, Wywan, J. T, Millard, J. J. Brown, Guy 0. Barton, B. W. Nusl, Thouius Opinion by Mr. Justico asla, Error Opinion by or from Opinion by My mined and held to supp Appeal from Do Opinion by Mr. executior 250,000 L. Klzavall, Georgo B. Lake. P t s tho ~ Chief Justico s/ “~ | A / | -4 - e d ‘ Pa A