Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1891, Page 4

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Fehrua vy, Febrinry § T'ebruary 5. 3 5 Friday, February 6 i 0 jio 2.0 . 20,088 T7SCTTUCK subscribed In my bria ey A, 1. 180 W. K. iKynr: Notary Pubife. Etato of N« County of Dot George B, Tzecluck, being dv Do ana savs thit he'ls secrot. Publishing com panys that. th verage danly clreulation of Tni DALY BEE for tho month of 1800, 10,761 coples; for Marcl, 1800, 3,815 copics; for April, 1800, 20,554 coples: for My, 1860, 3,150 cc for dun 1800, 2001 copfes; fo 180, 20,66 for August, 100, &, los; for Septenibe 100, 20,470 coples her. 1800, 20762 cop- fos; for Nov ) coples; for De- mber, 1 3471 coplos: for Junuary, 1801, 46 copics, GRONGE 18, TZSCHUCK, Eworn 1o Difore me. and subser in iy presence, this Slstday of Januar S0l BT, ry Public. —— THERE are plumbing de wurd, swomn wweral joirts loose in the tment of the Seventh THE contest for spoils in Lincoln has subsided, but that in Omaha promises to ontlive the year, THE registe. new doputy | muscular gu of deeds does alf as much as rdian, not noeda he needs a T collapse of the distillery conspir- acy save providence from being charged with an earthly “*visitation.” DISTANCE lends peculiar charms to Bouth Omuha annexation, espacially when the tax collector camps on its THE people of the Big Third will re- tolearn, on his own authorit, t Congressman Dorsey isa pr joker, Tugreform in city affairs trumpeted thirty daysago stands a slim chance of securing a speaking acquaintance with the counc! —— Mi. GOULD is moving westward by easy stages, carrying an unusually large supply of good intentions to scatter in his railroud province IT 18 pe did not reach David Bennatt Hill, important fact is that Mr, Hill ¢ road The hoso the 15 and No- ska are entitled to credit for giving a piquancy to the eold formalities of ses- sion lifo. The official form of adjourn- ment in Kansasis: “*Boys, it’s timo to milk.” In Nebraska: *“Boys, let’s plow this furrow and then graze. THE disgracefal scramble for a few petty offices throws an are light on the calibre of the men controlling city affairs. The people who pay the bills are not concerned about the political complexion of subordinates so long as they are competent to perform their duties. But they have aright to expect decent regatd for the public interes Tk trouble_ds,” says Mayor Cush- ing, “that somoe ¥these one-horse states- men think that the eyes of the world are upon them. If they could only see them- selves us others see them they wouldn't swell to the importance of their office quite so much.” Life size and artistie, the picture will be readily recognizod by the public, coming from a high demo- cratic authority, ————— THE official report on the number and value of farm animals on January 1 does not show any materinl chango from the report of the preceding year. T'he losses on the Pacific slope and Rocky moun- tains during last winter were unusually sovere, butthe gains in other sections were sufficiont to balance the loss. The nggregate of beef cattlo is sheep, 43,431,136; and hogs, 50,625,106, A decrenso of 2 por cent is noted in the latter, the searcity of corn causing o rush to market. I — HON, JERRY SIMPSON dazzlo the country, not only with his physical extremities, but also with his unique originality a financier. Gold and silver areto his mind us so much dross. Had he his way the mines would be closed, the procious metals loft in the bowels of the earth, and the printing press proclaimed the moneymaker of the world. It is painfulto observe that the sockloss metoor of Wichita throws a dark shadow over Nebraska's 2 per cont genius hibernating in Hitchcock county, continues to E— THE ordinance liconsing eal dealers 1s a dead lotter and should be repealed. It was not deawn for an honest purpose, nor s ils enforcement practicable. Even if the council has a right to license the business, the power should mnot be exercised. With equal justice all classes of business mny be licensed, The plea of short weights is absurd, The ity has its inspector of weights and measuros, and if scales are tampered with for the purpose of de- frauding purchasers, the dealer can be promptly punished. The imposition of o license {snota guaranteo of honesty. [ [ | \ | BUYING PIGS IN A POKE, There Is no use in mincing matiors about the close corporation which now controls the relief business of Nebraska. The logisiature has voted $100,000 out of the state tr sunplies, plic propriation made known estimate fixes 00). These without sury the purchase of What quantity of these sup- bought before the ap- has not heen to the public. A liberal the amount at $25,- purchases made competition Lincoln jobbers who w smart onough 10 take advantage of the soft snap within their reach and in all prob- ability had enough state moneyon de- positin one of their own banks to cover any contingency of delay in the appro- prit the question whether the relief committee proposes to control these purchases in the inter- est of a favored set of dealers instead of throwing the doors open to competition Tue Bre insists that the money con- tributed by taxpayers shall be expended only for such sup- are actually neoded yoods should be purchased from dealers who sell the cheapest de- liverable in loculitics nearest to the points of distribution. Wo realize that some of the mer who generously nweered toship a lot of dried grapes and cained fruit to relieve the hungry and thirsty settlers wore doing o smart thing in ving themselves of goods which were liable to poil on their hands. But we doubt whether the state should invest in luxuries for people who are in want of bread, meat and fuel. And we don’t believe it to be good policy tobuy a pig in a poke, in- stead of inviting bids and having stand- 'd goods detivered nccording tosample. The people of Nebraska are willing to tax themsolves for the relief of the poor, but they do not relish being taxed for the benefit of any set of merchants ov 1y locality through favoritism or dis- crimination. had been bill passed were from fon. comey plies as and the nts 1 vol A ER THE PENSION SHARKS. Public opinion will approve the efforts of the interior department to protect pensioners from the vapacity of the pen- sion sharks. Himself old soldier, scretary Noblo is properly desirous thatthe veterans who are entitled to the bounty of the government shall not be robbed of it by a pack of sordid and groedy attorneys, many of whom are wnable of almost any disreputable prac- tice to obtain business. His first dable movi ainst the pension was for a luction of the fee d in pension cases, and he has now takcen a further step that will have the effect to save many thousands of dollars to pensioners. This latest action of the depart- ment is the cutting off of a of information which the at- torneys have hitherto found very profit- able. The published pension lists huve boen giving the addresses of persons to whom pensions were awarded. Assoon as these lists appeared the attorneys would write to each pensioner, informing him that his pension had been granted and suggesting thas the fee for services ren- dered be remitted. The department has ordered that hereaftor the addresses of pensioners be omitted from the lists furnished the press, nothing tobe pub- lished but the name of the successful applicant and the statein which he As the commissioner of pensions givestimely information to all persons who havebeen granted a pension, this new arrangement will not cause suc: applicants to be held in suspense very long, while it will bo of very material benefit to them pecuni- arily. In the official communication to commissioner of pensions, afte to the illogitimate and unprofessional methods of the attorne itis said: “It is tho judgment of tho department that these methods should not be permitted among attorneys who are admitted to practice before it. To tolerate “them is almost the equivalent to approving them, and no room should be left for misconstruing the department’s attitude by even the romotest application.” It an com- source sides, cessful the roferring is suggested not only thut the addresses® of pensioners be omitted from the pub- lished lists, but that all por- sons engazed in the ico of the pension bureau bo prohibited from disclosing to anyone outside the address of such ponsioners on pain of dismissal from tho service, and that this rule bo applied also to divulging the names of claimants for pansions. The pension buroau has been the most troublesome branch of the government e to the present administe ation, but much neaded reforms have been in- stituted, baneficial both to the govern- ment and the pansioners, and tho latest adopted is net the least commandable of them, The old soldiers have every roa- son to feal that the administration is most anxious to protect their intevests and gacure them the full beneit of the nation’s bounty. sory! WHERE WE SHALL GAILY, Secretary Blaine has submitted tothe prosident tables showing the art which under the commoarclal arvange ment with Brazil will be entitled to free admission fnto the ports of that countr and also the articles upon which the existing duty will be reduced. The first of inclules all kinds of agricultaral products, coal, farm imple- ments, mining and mochanical machin- ory, railroad material and equipment. The average annual value of these articles imported into Beazil is $20,000,- 000, of which the United States supplies onlya littio over $3,000,000 worth, This country exports more wheat flour tothe Brazilian markets than all other coun- tries combined, but of corn and the man- ufactures thereof, rye, barloy, and other agricultural products, the suppliesare drawn alnost wholly from othe r coun- tries, Tntheitem of coal this country doesnot shipany to Brazil, while her mportations from othor codntries amount to _over $5,000,000a year. We (o alinost no business with that country in mining and mschanical machinery, although manufacturing the best in the world, whiie other countries sall them nearly 83,000,000 woth annual ly, Of articles upon which the Brazilian duty will be reduced, the diserepancy betwoen our trade and that of other these tables OMAHA DALY BUE: PRIDA countries s still more glaring. Theso include provisions, eanned ments, fruits and vegetables, manufactives of cotton and of fron and steel, and leather and its manufactures, oxcopt iron and stoel. The average annual value of these arti- clesimported into Brazil is over 838, 000,000, of which the United States sup- plies only about $2,000,000 worth. Tho greatest discrepancy between the trade of this and other countries appsars in the manufactures of cotton, of which we furnish annually less than #1,000,000 worth, while other countries, chiefly England, find a market there for thess gools tothe value of over $26,000,000, Another noteworthy discrepancy is in leather and its mannfactures, of-which there isto the account of the United States the beggarly sum of a fow thous- and dollars against several millions to that of other countries, Where the United States ma pected to make the most import under the reciprocity arrangement is in increasing the trade in agricultural products and the manufactures of eotton, In these alone we ought to able to enlarge our trade with Brazil within the next few years to the amount of from £10,000,000 to $15,000,000 annually. It is impossible tosay how long we can look for any considerable demand for farm products, the promotion of agriculture may enablo the the not very remote future to supply the home ¢ mand for breadstuflfs and other products of agriculture, but in certain’ cl manufacturcs, and particularly in that of cotton, a steady enlargement of trade is reasonably pected if our man- ufacturers will make goods desirable for that market at prices that will compete with the English goods. Of course it must beunderstood that this commercial arrangement will secure the beneficial results sought only when all the condi- tions essential to a successful compoti- tion with other countries for the trade are provided, and this will roquire time. It 45 not to be supposed, therefore, that our merchants and manufacturers are to at once acquirve control of the Brazilian market. A commercial conflict more or less pro- longed will have to b fouzht, and the result will depend upon the energy and entorprise of our paople and their abil- ity to supply the demand upon as favor- able conditions in all respects as Buro- peans can make. Granting thoy can do this, the fizures of Brazilinn trade are cerlainly tempting enough to induce a vigorous and detormined effort 1o so- cure 1t, v be ex- ntgain be because in count rsses of THi HOULD BE PASSED. The joint resolution asking congr to foreclose the mortgage on the Pacific ilroads is timely andshould be adopted. Wenever can and never will hav, sonable rates on the overland railroads until the water is wrung out of them, and the only way to wring the wator out effectively is by compelling the sale of the roads to the best bidder. So long the Union and Central Pacific roads, which are stocked and bonded for about $125000 a mile are operated witha view of poying in- terest on the bonds and dividends on the stocks they must keep up oxorbitant exactions and cut-throat rates. When the roads are brought down to a bed- rock basis and operated to earn an in- come on what they are actually worth which means what they could be dupli- cated for—they will be content with half the present tolls, Itis rightand proper that ths Ne- braska legislaturs shall speak out on this subject in language that cannot be misunderstood s0 that her representatives in congress may know just what is expected of them when tho question of extending the mortg comes up in the national legisjgture. All the talle sbout such resolutions being premature, bocause the morigag is not yet due, isn mere quibble. They should and would have been passed years ago and atevery successive session of the legislature, had the railroadlobby kept its hand rea- WE RN railroads having traflic a rangemeats with the eastorn trunk lin will be affected by a docision just made by the interstate commereo commission which says that merchandise shipped from abroad into this country shall not be haualed by the railroads from the port of entry to the place of final deliv- eryat a lower rate than the vegular charge upon internal tratfic between such points, In other words, that thero shall not be discrimination against the domestic shipper in favor of the foreign shipparas is now the Hitherto therailroad and steamship companies have combined tomake a through rate from Livernool or other Europsan port to any point in the United State less than the sum of the ocean and in- land rates, thoreby giving an advantage to the foreign shipper. This arrange- ment the interstate commerce commis- sion declares to be in violation of the lawand must be abandoned. The rul- ing is manifestly just. No sound reason =an be given why a foreign- shipper of merchandise should have any ad in rates railrouds ove shippers. Horealter European shippes must look to the steamship companies for any advantages in transportation rates, and it remains to be seen what effect, ifany, the new regulation will have upon the businessto which it re- lates. It fairness, however, cannot bo quostioned Now that the legislature is practically in possossion of the official census of the state by counties there should be no dificulty in agreeing upon a fair and equituble apportionment of congres- sional, legislative and judicial repre- sentation. A casa, on our — Ir TiE whisky trust proposes to blow up its competitors with dynamite, the country will presently demand that the whisky teust bo broken up by tho state authorities, even if the Pinkertons have to be called into requisition. E— JUDer MASON is on hand agein with a strong argument against the maximum rate bill. The question is, who paid for all those duplicate copies of his elabor- ato argument? Tie war department has decided to experiment with Indian soldiers, This is the rosult of a suggestion of General Miles that the Tu@tians would make good soldiors, and with their new responsi- bilities progress faster toward ofvili tion. The ldet'Ts to organizoa few com paniesand attagh them to some of the regiments eerving inthe west, and if the Xperiment proves o success to accept soveral thousand recruits from the more intelligent and advanced tribes. Tho Indian troops would be treated in all respocts as the other soldiers, 4nil would be commanded by officers specially selected for their knowledge of Indisans and their habits, In view of the good record made by the Indian police during the late Sioux dis- turbance, both in courago and loyalty, there is reason to believe that the opin- ion of General Miles regarding Indian soldiers would ho justified by results, A} any rate tho proposed oxporiment is worth trying. and it will not take long todetermine whether it will prove a sucee I¥ THE logislature seriously contem- plates blowing in 000 in reviving the bug department, by all means include tho phagoeyte, Of all the bugs that buzz around the stats tressury and whistlo for tho old flagand an appro- priation the phagocyte is the most im- portant. He is not visible to the nalked eye, yet exist in millions where he does the most good, The human family is his particular delight. Even legis- lators and lobbyists are more or less within his provinee of usefulness, To science the world is indebted for the agreeable nows that the average man, properly stocked with phagocytes, may snap his fingers at bacteri gocyte fattens on this and like germs that swell the procession to the grave- awrd. But his digestive capacity is lim- ited, and every true patriot, anxious for the welfare of the race, should aid in tho -development of the human bug. Lot us educate the phagocyte at any cost of blood and treasure, Now that the governor has got rid of the contest and the Samosets have given him an executive chair, it will be in order for him to issue an executive invi- tation to all Lieads of institutions and employes to vacate the lobby and ro- sume their dutics. If the le ants any information or ex planation, it will send for them. state gislature THE sinecurcs around the state house are numerous onough to warrant an in- vostigation, The number of persons drawing pay without work would form an interesting chapter on legislative economy. Got There Just the Same. New York Continent, Nebraska is Given a Slice.—Hoading 1n Tue Ovasa Ber, And part of the “slice” ought to be spent in the erection of school hauses wherein No- braska editors way learn that the rules of grammar do mot permit the use of the direct object “slice™ after the passive verb “is given.” Moncy Rates Low. The New York Sun thinks the tendency of the money market is now as decidedly to- ward low rates as it was towards stringency during 1800, It deems it probabie that moncy will rule at 8 or 4 por cent for some time to come, or even less than that, and ifit con- tinues on that basis for any considerablo time there will have tobe a reatjustment of the value of income-bearing securities, which have for a long while been selling on thd basis of a 5 or 6 per cent money marlket wdy Belt Moves Bastward, San Franeisco Chroniele, It seoms to us that a nocessity oxists for a relocaticn of the rex’on known as the “wild and woolly west.” Ttis popularly supposed by many eastern people to ropresent. that sec- tion lying on thissido ot the Rocky moun- tains and a tract on the eastern siope of the great chain. Bulwhen we read of banks rided in open daylight in Chicago and bloody conflicts between o small army of tramps and trainmen in central Ohio, we are foreed to conclude that the one ought to be further cast. & - Nevada Up for Bids, Virctnta Chronicle, It is roported that Tom Fiteh has a miuo for which he has been offered 2,000,000 and that withina foew months he will makea clean-up and veturn to Nevada. That means, of course, that he will be a candidate to suc- cced W. M. Stewart in the United States senate. Well, if Tom will chuck half a mil- lion or 50 into the pool he can get away with the fight, and if the senatorship is to b3 con- tinued in the mar forsale, we would as s00n see him get away with it as any mew- ber of his party in tho state, Az Dk Seasonable Fable, San Franciscw E pLaer Two politicians wore exchanging ideas garding the rewards for public service. “I'he reward whicn I most desire,” said the first politician, “4is the gratitude of my follow-citizens.” ““T'hat would be very gratifying, nodoubt,” soid the sccond politician, *‘but, alas! in order to cbtain it one has to rotire from poli- e For ona instant they gazed upon one an- other with inoxpressible tonderness; then the first politician murmured; “God's will bedone! bince we cannot hope for reward lot us be content with the ofices and perqui- re- Andraising their right bands from the public treasury to haaven they swore to bs content. The spot is still pointed out to the traveler. - — Who is Sweating Now? The Union Pacfic, Jay Gould says, is being operatod with 4,000 less men than were on tho pay rolls a year ao, writes the finan- cial 1nan of the New York Epoch, It is also smd that when Mr: Gould made Mr. S, H H Clark general manager of the Union Pacific, the latter found the road erowded with equip- ment belonging to other roads, on which, of course, the company was paying mileago His fiest act was_to send theso cars back to their owners as fast as practioable and collect backe ghe cars belonging to the Union Pacific A¥hich were stationed all over the country,, fRbe saving from mileage paymeuts alone, it is asserted, will form a big itom in the futare results of the Uniou Pacific. One of the oldest directors of the company, & man thoroughly acquainted with ts cordition, history and possibilities, said to mo recently: *“Phe mvestor who buys any of thestocks or bonds comnectod with our system will make agreat deal of money in 1501. We have gone throughseveral ‘sweats,’ but hereafter the other fellow will do the ‘sweating. " A T Something in It, n Fraueisco Chrondele, Why do not some of the energetic ferrets at 'Washugton attempt to show that there was & wheat poolt 1f they look into the mat- ter they will probably find that the same men who bought siiver also speculated ia wheat The ubsolute certainty that tho price of wheat, coru and every other cereal would rise in sympatby with sitver was understood by every advocato of the whito metal, and they would hawe boen fools if they had failed to back their beliof with coin. 1t is absurd in the extreme to accuse men of corrupt acts who openly declaro thelr trtention of effect- ing & oortain object, and who were prompted tomake the effort by tho whole country, which demands free coinage for the avowed purpose of raising the price of silver and with it that of other products. Phiilts" i Gould vs Wanamaker. Washington Sunday Gazette, The public has been favored with briof re- ports of what has been done, or rather of the way in which time has been squandered fn the ccmmittees on postoftice and post- roads this session, the bono of contention be- ing Mr. Wanamaker's limited postal tolo- graph bill. Messrs. Bingham and Ketcham tave led tho obstraction to its consideration, It now appears that W. W, Dudley, who hns beon managing the campaign against the bill, has been provided by the Western Union company with an_extra fund of 0,000 to work up an opposition to it. Strange as it may scem, Mr. Dudloy has had thoaid of Mr, Clarison. Another ro-enforcement to the lobby is Mr. Moore of Moore & Schley, who directly represents Mr. Gould, and has a separate fund besides tho §50,000 placed in Mr. Dudley's hand: LITIES, nco Oscar Wilde cut his hair and pa- tronizes an overy-day tailor he has become a decent lool and eyidently cultured ap pearing wentloman Judgo Peffor says that of the hundreds of congratulatory letters which he has received since his election as senator not oue has come from the moneyed classes, Senator Cockroll of Missourl has stenographer his eighteen-year-oid son Bwing, who, 'in addition to this service, attends the public high school in Washington, Bismarck has found one friend that he can trust without hesitation, 1t is a little wren which comes at call and perches upon th hana that has swayed tho destinies of na- tions. In the will of “Judge Koyser, who died at Marysville, Cal., is a clause giving Mrs. Ida Leo'of Yuba City $10,000 for her kndness and attention during o long and dangerous illness, Dr. Meclutoshof Harrisburg says ho re- cently visited a Pennsylvania town where no one could understand his Boglish. He also saw workingmen's notices posted in four dif- ferent languages, Governor Northen of Georgin refused to meet Jay Gould at tho Atlanta banquet b cause be objected to him personally and di; approved of bis policy of ~ wonopoly and his business methods, Idaho's new senator, McConnell, is said to owe a great measure of his popularity at home to the fact that he taught the Boise City constitutional convention the mysteries and fascinations of stud poke: Goldwin Smith says that Macaulay, whom he frequently met at Oxford, didn’t look at all like a man of genius, except for his eye, and that heused to think “a cobbler’s apron would have become him very well.”” o 2 an girl by birth, of New York is one of the few women diamond setters in America, and Mrs, Cecilia Klhingenb sas good a judge of dia- monds and precious stones as there is in that city. Andrew Carnegie, who caunot now tell just how many millions e is worth, was a telegraph uessenzer boy at Pittsburg in the fiftics, and tried harder then to master the intrica: cios of the telegraph than ho does now to in- crease bis great fortune. Colonel L. C. Weir, suporintendent of the western division of the Adams express com- pany, was in early lifo a telegraph operator, and used to work at the other end of the wire that Tom Edison pounded. Weir was one of the few men who could “take” Edison. Henry Haynie, writing from Paris, say that nearly every good singeron the lyric stage thero was born in the United State: Mlle. Adiay, leading prima donnaof the Paris grand opera, and an_American, was re- cently aecorated with the violet ribbon, CarlSchurz and Senator-elect Calvin 8. Brice of Ohio are frequently mistaken f one anotherin New York, where they nearly all of their time, Both have th colored whiskers, the same cut_and _trim of hirsute adornment, the same pose of the head, chins ligh 1w air, and’ might bo taken for brothers if they were sitting_ together, The special abhorrence of Mr. Schurzis a bour. bon _democrat, which Mr. Brice is. The special abtorrénce of Colonel Brice is a mug- wump, which Mr. Schurz is SR PASSING JESTS, for a Washington Post: There 15 a growing suspicion that the Illinois people are trying to Dreserve -their senatorial contest for a world's fair attraction. Brooklyn Life what makes the wakes up ! Brown—Well, from what I know of babies, it cries from vexation to find that it has kopt still for a reasouable length of time, Little Jolnny—Say, father, baby cry every time it Life: She—T am sorry you must be going. He It doesn’t matter. * When one meots you helis already gone, News: Whena Parisian com- y drowning the jury invariably came to his death while ten- Atchison Globe: Tvery man has a s fecling 1 his heart thai somebody is not treating him rig Mrs, Clinker —Dr. Hytown fayorito in society. Murs, Gallwant—Yos, He tice has grown beyond his personal super- vision, and he st devise some way of speedily getting ria of more than half his patients. secms o groat s his prac- (o to the ant, thou sluggard, sce How much she labors uselessly ; And then your thaniks to heaven tell That you know how 10 rest so well, Washington Post: *There is one thing L like better than all the res 1 the young man who works in his father was spealsing of athletic sports at the dinner table No,” said his father, “I don’t think th is. Idon’tsee how there can be anythin vou like better than all the rest you can pos- sibly get.” “Did you soe Maria brushing the cobw from that: bottle of porti” “Yes, T spider.” Atchison Globe: No man’s occupation is gone us long as there is some one younger than himself to whom he cau give advice. Life: Tommy (gazing after dude) Igettobe o man, papa, will I dress that ! Pap (severely) get tobe a man. When like No, Tommy; not if you Munsey's Weekly: Hobby—What's matter with the Iudians, mammal Manma-—They haven’t enough to cat, my dear, so they want to fight. Bobby—Why don't they send some mis- sionaries out th e ENVIES JOHNNY. Washington Post. Johnny—he's my little brother— Often lingers after school, For it scems somehow or other That there's always some small rute Which he has a way : And he says it is a sin, When he teils in accents shaking How be got kent in. the But the school-maam Modest, winesome little miss, Aud you'd give a fortune lightly In exchange for one small kiss Aud when Johnny comes a-pinicg, I have felt it would have been Right w0 shake him for his whiniog When he gets kept iu sho's a sprightly But in youth you must expect it; Whei it 5068 @ treasure Tare, Like as not it will reject it For some trifle light as air. Wouldu't I-I've thought it sadly— 1 the chance I could but win, Do his penance for him gladly When he gets kept inf SWITCHNAN'S HORRIBLE, FATE Honry Oampbell Orushed to Death in the Burlington Yards at Linooln, NOTHER FOLL OWER OF MINEHART INS ANE A Couple Divorced After Nearly Forty rs of Married Life-Work of endiaries - Odds and Ends, Lixcory, Neb, Feb, 12.—[Special to Tur Tn: Bee.]—Heory E. Campbell, a young man of twenty-two, living at 1120 Ltoso strect and employed as a switchman, was killed at 2:2 this afternoon in the Burlington yards near Sstroot. No one witnessed tho accident fe was viding on an empty coal car which was moving slowly through the yards, and aftor sotting the brakes o jumped down to pullout apin. The pin was bent, and ho was compolled to walk soveral stops back- In doing 80 his font caught in the frog ortripped on a rail, and threw him down, The car ran directly up his leg, and when stopped was resting on his cunest. He was crushed to death, and after the body was ro leased from under tho car it was removed to the yard oftice. Coroner Holyoke was o amining into tho matter docided that an iu- quest was unnecessary. The remains woro removed to Roberts & Co.'s undertaking rooms. Campoell had beou in the Burling- ton’s employ sinco Decomber 10 last. ANOTIER MINEIART FOLLOWER INSANE, Murs, M. J. Wedge, wife of a former gro- cervman in Kast Lincoln, was brought up before the insanity board yesterday noon, The woman is apparently about thir- ty-five years of age, and nas becoms insane on thesubject of religion. She has been a most devoted follower of Rev. Minchart, the minister who created a sensation a year or two ago by reason of his peculiar views, radi- cally fnsisted upon and pablicly preached. Her people have endeavored of late to keep her in rostraint, but at times she slipped away and came down town, and in_saloons and puolic places sho preactied on holiness in a rambling sort of way, and on one occasion rode to Ashiand on the cars, She scornfully uscd to pay fare, saying that Christ had told her to get onto the train, he was sent to the asylum rom prosent indications the Minehart craze has run its course. The congrogation has dwindled down to about twenty mem- bers, and one of the wealthiest of these is aboutto go to Chicago tolive. From his original belief the pastor has branched out wto new lines of thought which smack strongly of the sensational, and which have been tho cause of tho gradual droppiug off, and lately caused troublo in the family of well known East Lincolnite, = Another cause assigued for the decreaso is the beliof that Minehart isa sharp, shrowd man, but insincere, and a lover of the tional in preaching. A few weeks since he preached on the sexual relations, a favorito theme of his. AN AGED COUPLE DIVORCED. Away back in Fall River, Mass., on Octo- ber 1,163, Richard Worswick led to_ the altar @ fair young woman who has been known to tho world over since as Sarah Worswick. They journeyed down the hill of lifo together for thirty-eight years, but in August, 1834, Sarah kickod over the traces and left the' place. This was the story in vrief as unfolded before Judge Field this morning by Richard, who got his decree, as Sarah is a non-resident and was not. prosent, CHANGED 1113 NAME, Robert Clarence Friotag, a good looking young man from Hickman, was up beforo Judge Field this morning. Robert didn't like the name he was bearin, with his mail aud there were other little things that made a change desirable. F'r mont was what he wanted to be called an the court gave the necessary permission TUE PICKPOCKET CASE, The caso against W. H. Robo for larceny from the person was finished > court this afternoon at 3:30, and the jury, after an hour and a balf spentin deliberation, found him guilty s chargel. The defenso fmmediately filed a motion for a new trial. Detective Malone hus uncarthed another good witness, who claims that he saw Robb cut the chain and take the watch from Burcham's pocket while they were drinking at the bar, lod, and aftor ox INCENDIARIES, A barn in the alley, bounded by Eleventh and Twelfth and U and V streets, was set on fire 1ast evening by some unknown parties, cither_accidentally or purposely, but it burned slowly and was easily extinguished, A broken lantern stolen from a sewer dit was found in the mangor. The barn belonged 1o Bohanan Bros. Some one cut the ropes light at R and Soventeenth streets last and afterwards set firo to Sell bay barn at Bighteenth and Q streets, which was partially destroyod a fow weeks sinc 1t was fortunately discovered in time and ex- tinguisied, Tho gas y has offered a reward of 0 for the arrest and conviction of anyon ir ropes, and the Farme and Merchauts’ insurance company will pay 00 reward for the incendiary. ODDS AND E: Mrs, Sawter, an _adventuress who oper- ated in this city some years ago, 1s 1n trouble at Butte, Mont., according to the dispatches, by reason of b sancial trausac: tions, Sh and in Denver > of Moffett ption at the Young Men tian association last_evening in hona and Mrs. C. W. Parks was a ve social affair, Tho programme good ably render: cordial welcomo was extended the secrotary and his wife and they made many friends. Johnson, Little and Miller, the three men b burglarizing 'the Liucolu tan- ave a hearing before Judge Hous holding the arc ht & Cowdrey's there Chris- of Mr, y success ful was & _very h ton Monday. Nellie Newsum, charged with stabbing John Taylov with intent to kill, was dis- charged, as the prosocuting witness and t ho majority of the witnesses had skipped I'he case against J. B, McGuire, with disposing of mortgaged property stricken from the docket. The county atte 1 a nolle prosequi 1n the case 1 Chestortield, charged with sel g 0 190 market with a mortgage on it. This ended the criminal docket, for the term and the jury was discharged until Mond R. J. ( , attoraey for I Chall, was allowed 820 for capacity. J. D. Johnst attorney Henry Mohr, the would-be wife murderor, convicted yesterday, has filed a wotion for 4 new trial A5 Explosic Cias from a leak u today caused a ter- at West Lafayette, Laraverre, Ind., Feb in the natural gas ma rific explosion in a hous The whole side of the building was blown out and Mrs. Luther A. Jenners, an old lady living in_tho house adjoining, and Ler son d. They cannot recover, T'wo more pérsons were seriously injured. The Jonse Liquest, The coroner impanneled a jury yostorday afternoon and held an inquest overthe re- mains of Jacob Jensen, the Union Pacific cngincer Who mot a horrible daath las Weduesday forenoon in the Omaha yards, he had trouble | The verdict recites that Jenson came to h's death by accident. The funoral will by hoid at tho residence of the deceasod, 0609 Marcy stroet, to day at 1p. m. cmama— Will Hold an Tnquoest, At the roquest of the relatives the coroner will hold an inquest over the romains of Charlss Frus, tho B. & M. switchman who lost a log in the B. & M. yards about ouo woek ago and diod yesterday at St. Joseph's lospital. The inquest will Tuesduy at 3 p. m be held next / RESS OF LE ATION, s of the Various Bills Now Before Congress. Wasiixaros, Fob, 19.—[Spocial Telegram to Tk Bee.)--So much has been smd about the work of congross and tho chances of an extra session that it may be well to stato just what tho status of nocded Thero are thirteen regular appropriation bills which must be passed and signed by the president before noon of March 4, Tho con- ditjon of these bills is as follows The military academy, fortifications, army and ponsion bilis have' passed both houses and are in conference; the District of Colum- bia bill has passed the houso and is almost ready to be reported 1o the senate; the naval bill Tias passed the house and is now befo tho senate; the sundry civil bill, which passed the Nouse last Monday, was yesterday referred to the committee on appropriations ; tho Indian ture and postofice bills have been to the house, but are un- acted upon, while the deficiency bill has not been reporfed to the house. Speaker Reed suid yesterday that ho would have all the ap. propriation bills exeept the deficioncy through the house by Saturday s —— SCANDALIZED BY A LETTER, PRO Conditi It Culminates in the Expulsion of a minent O reh Member, BosTox, Fob, 12,—[Special Telegram to Tirn Ber. | —The culmination of a seandal that has agitated West Roxbury for weeks and has been given much publicity in local news. papers, was reachod last night, when the South Evangelical church of West Roxbury formally suspended from fellowship W, IL French, a well-known lecturar, who has hoen amember a number of years. Tho chargo which has resulted in French's dismissal was substantially that French wrote a letter in November last, stating that a Miss Helen F. Smith of the sume church was his wif and had sustmned that relation for six months when she was fc od to leave him through the animosity of her parents, Miss Smith de. nied French’s claim in toto. The church com- mittee finds that such a statement as Prench made, if true, impl nduct on his both illegal and scandalous, and if not true, it was adopted and scemed to be iuteuded to ruin the lady's tion and good name. Both parties move in the highest society, g TAKES THE BLACK ¥ Miss Drexel Becomes Sist of the Blessed Sac Prrrsnune, Pa., Feb, 12.—[Special Tele- gram to Tur Bee]—Catherine Drexel, tho Philadelphia heiress who two years ago en- tered a convent here, took her final vows and adopted the black veil today. The coromo- nies were private and no one outside the church, not even the members of Miss Drex- cl's family, were present. Archbishop Ryan conducted the services, assisted by Bishop Phelan of Pittsburg, Rév. Father Stephen of the Catholic Indian bureau at Washington, D.C.,und Rev. Father Conway of Mercy convent. Miss Drexel, or Sister Catherine, as she will now be known, brings with her §,000,000 and will found the order of the Blossea Sacrament, the object of the order, being to educate the Indian and negro. SRR P ) The Joint Rate Case. Siour City Jowrnal, The decision of the supreme court of Towa in what is known as_tho jomt rate case is of ereat importance. The decision afivms in the broadest senso tho statute enacted by the legislaturo at its last scssion rcquiring tho corporations to make joint rates or the state railroad commission to establish maxi- mum rates for hauls over two or moro lines! the bauls being within the state. The history of this matter is a striking il- Lustration of the arbitrary and exasperating comluct of the railroad corporations which has compelled the people toact in self-defense. The railvoad law which was enacted vy tho Towa logistaturo in the of 1887, the same being almost a literal copy of the older Tllinois law, did not ally pro- vide that the railroad commissionors might establish maximum joint rates. The raroad companies were at perfect liberty to make such rates themselves. They had made joint rates theretofore, but thoy refused to do so further the moment tho legislature passed the railroaa ucts, At that time the corporations b strenuous litigation to annul tho r law. While the litigation was in progress they instituted a systematic plan to makethe law “‘odious” to the people. They proposed 1050 harrass and badger the people as to cre- ate o public setiment in favor of repealing all the railroad laws that the railroad own- ers did not like. 1t was in pursurance of this schemo that they refused to grant joint rates. ‘The refusal in many cases caused great in- convenience and 10ss to business men and in many cases it caused losses to the railroid compauies themselves, Cases were taken before the railrond com- missioners, but they decided that they had 10 power to compel the companies to grant joint rates, although the companies might do 50if they chose. Then some of the com- panies claimed that they had noright to grant joint rates under the law, but later they did make joint es where it suited own convenicnece, but still refused Catherine ament. session The last legislature promotly took up the matter and passed a carefully drawn joint rato act. ‘The representatives of all the lead- ing Iowa railroad mea were called before the legislative commit'e2, and at their sugges- tion changes were made in the bill. Somo of them said that, the bill was a fair onc. Yot the law was immediately anta: onized by the railrosds. They carried the war inta tho courts and fought it with all the arts known to railroad cuuning. Tho case has beon dragging through the courts for over a year. The supreme court now aftirms the entire validity of the statute. It is fit o remark that the companies, whila they have done thoir patrons a good deal of damage, have inju themselves more. Theh course has been inexcusable. ‘They have gratuitously azgrivated tho (eple. Th have shown a factious and vindietive spiri “There was absolutely nothing to gain thus it this case, but everything to lose. The com- panies could not afford to do as thoy have done_even if they could thereby have se cured thousands of dollars of revenue, There are some mighty smart railroad mon, but a good many of them, as thoold Kew tuckian says, “haint gotno sense." A Misfit all Around, New Y vk Herald, Tho looser grew his habits ‘The harder ho was prossed, “T'he smoother grew his puiting off “The rougher he was dressed; Though u tall man, he was always short, Likewiso completely broke, And he wasn't even well p erved, “I'hough evermore “in soak ! Highest of all in Leavening Power.—TU. S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889, Rl Baking - Powder - . ABSOLUTELY PURE legislation 18ee e