Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 25, 1891, Page 4

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TZ8CHUCK, Bwom totefore me. and subseribed presence, this 26th day of Febru z SN TN >tary Publie. — OMAHA'S charter an its ought now 1o be urged upon the legislature. THE winter being about over the gen- erous coal barons have agreed to reduce prices, THE house amounces that it is ready for adjournment. The people are about ready for it, too. AFIER o few days of anguish the leg- fslature discovored that the wheels of legisltioncould revolve without Tay- lor. T'HE man who succeeds Groff in the land bureau will be at a disadvantage. He will have tobe measired agamnst a lofty background. Tuelively scramble for the guber- natorial nomination in New York fur. nishes ground for the hope that publican wiil be elected this year. re- SHOULD President Harvison appoint a colored man toone of the circut judge- ships, the cup of South Carolina’s woo would be filled to the bubbling brim, TaE growing im portance of Omaha as u packing center is illustrated by the ac- tion of the Omaha packing company which has increased its capital stock from $250,000 to 800,000, AN American dollar good in any country from the United States to Pava: goniais the probable outcome of the international monetary conference now in progress in Wasbington. GOVERNOR NICHOLS assures Secre- tary Blaine that the New Orleans affair 1s belng “investigated.” ‘This is prob- ably about the last that will be heard of that deplorable, but effective affair. GLEVELAND has profited by his rey experienco in letter writing in which he ent estranged the southern wing of his party. Ho has returned to tho old tariff reform epistle and mailed itto an Indiana free trade club. —_— ANY sum within remon should be cheerfully paid for improvements as im- portant tothe appearance and conven- fence of Omaha as those which will chip off the Douglasstreot hog-back and flll tho St. Mary’s avenuo ravine. INDIANA men have the world of poli- ties by the ears already, and now comes Senator Leland Stanford with an offer of the presidency of Leland Stanford, jr., university to an Indiana man. The place pays 810,000 a yearand aresidence, — ONMAHA should be fully represented at the trans-Mississippi congressin Denver, May 19. Omaha should always be vep- resented when questions involving the interests of thotrans-Mississippi country are discussed by delegates called in con- vention for Lhe purpose. A GERRYMANDER of congressional distriets for partisan purposes is techs nieally legal, however inexcusable and unfair it may be, A gerrymander of logislativo districtsis wrong in prin- ciple, wrong inlaw and entirely inde- fonsible. It is a fraud upon voters and tax payers, s of the Nutmog state will maken political issue of the usual fast day. Democrats refuss to recognize vernor Bulkeley's right to proclaim it and, democratic oflicials failing to furnish the elergy copies of it, the usual pulpit announcements have not been made. This isa bad mixture of politics and religion. Crnizee THE new committes for the examina- tion of teachors elected at the moeting of the board of education at its ad- journed session could not well be im proved upon so far as the character and qualifications of its members are con corned. TilE BEE suggests that there is something more or less anomalous bout the practice of appointing toachs ors already in the schools to examine into the qualifications of applicants who possibly may scelc the positions held by the examiners, It is porhaps propor that one of the clty teachers be on this exaniping committee, but cttalnly a majority should be entirely and uagues tlonably disinterested. The report of the statistician of the agricultural department on the digtribu- tion and consumption of corn s full of intorest anl suggestivencss for the states lying ia tho corn bolt. An ab- stract of the report was telegraphed ove a fow weeks ago, but its impo is such as to render a study of the f text of the document very profitabls at this time, @ corn crop of 1850 was the largest evor raisod. Tt was so large as to pre clude tho possibility of profit to produc- ers living at a considerable distance from the market. The high freight rates undoubtedly added another de- pressing festuro to the situation, but there was no reason to doubt that over- production was the principal evil. The ruilronds were crowded, the markets wore glutted, and great quantities were nover moved from the geound on which the harvesters leoft them. Theso facts were abundantly proven at thetimoandare fully establised by there port of the government statistician. And yot the farmers of the corn-belt deliber- atoly planned a great extension of acre- age for the same staple in the spring of 1500, If the season had proved as favor- able as the previous one, the yield would have been correspondingly incrensed and the market would doubtless have been so much the worse, But provi dence Intervened, and the crop of 1890 pioved to be the smallest, in proportion to population, for 10 years. The official statisticlan evidently rogards this asa piece of good fortune for the producers of the west, for he siys “the disaster proved a blessing in disguise”” This conclusion he doubtless justifies to tho satisfaction of his statis- ticsl mind by the enhanced prices and the favorable conditions for the future. But,so far the imme- diate results are concerned, he mis taken. The short crop of 1890 wusa greater lamity to Kansas and Ne- than the low prices of 18%. High prices confer no benefit on the farmer if he has no corn to sell. On the , they entail a direct hurdship when he has to buy corn to feod his stoek, or ship it to market beforo it is in condition to command good prices. Theso facts should lead the producers to a thoughtful consideration of the situation, Whena manufacturer finds the market overstocked with a certain cluss of goods he does not continuc to produce that kind of wares for competition in a hopelessly overcrowded market. He studics the situation and tr to adjust his product 10 the conditionsof supply and demand. It is more difficult to do this in the case of agriculture than in the manufacture of boots and shoes, or cotton cioth. But the organized bodies of farmers should seek to avail themsclves of the light thrown upon their business by statistics, and to improve their prospects by ac- cepted commercial methods. If the legislature makes the provision for farmers’ institutes that it has been re- quested to do, they should be made use- ful in this direction. The statistician of the agricultural de- partment anticipates good prices for corn this year. The visible supply is small, and the home and foreign demand good. But the impressive feature of the figures he presents is that the western producer expects the market, to be ad- justed to his product, rather than to ad- just his product to tho mavket. No Other business has prospered long on this theory, and itis quite apparent that farming cannot. the county neo a8 brask: con- READY T0 NEGOTIATE As now appears, it willdepend upon President Harvison to determine whkether megotiations looking to a reci- procity arrangement with Canada shall bo opened before the meeting of the next congress. Advices from the Do- minion indicate that the government is about ready to semda commission to Washington with authority to presont a provosition for a new commercial treaty, but there is some doubt us to the nature of the reception it would rec It was stated a few days ago that Scere- tary Blaine had given it to by undor- stood that he will not recommend the appointment of commissioners on behalt of the United States until he has been fornished with some substantial proof that the Canudian and British delegates are not going to Washington with some impracticablo schemo, trumped up to carry out pledges to the electors of Can- ada during the late campaign, without any serious belief that the negotiations would come to anything. It was also stated that Secrotary Blaine had notified the Canadian premier through the Brit- ish minister that he will not enter into formal conference until the Canadian representatives have informally dis- cussed the question with him. Although thisinformation comes in a rather roundabout way, it is not improbabie that it roflects the feel- ing at Washinpton. It is evident that thero is 1no great solici- tude on thepart of the administration regarding reciprocity with Canada, and itis well understood that it will be tirely useless to seek it on the basis posed by the Canadian government in the late campaign. If that government has nothing more to propose than a. free exchange of natural products it may as woll abandon all thought of negotiations with the present administration, for no man in the countey is wore strongly commited against this policy, which pre- vailed from 1854 to 1866, than Mr. Blaine. He wasin {full accord with the action of congress in 1865 requesting the president to give the British govern- ment the requisite notice to terminate the lust reciprocity treaty, and he has often gone on record in public specches against any such one sided arrangement ag oxisted wnder that treaty, This must be well known to the government politi- clans of Canada, and hence their pro- posal to make the old treaty the basis of negotiation for a new one is suggestive of a want of sincerity in their professed desive for reciprocity, They were com pelled to offer the people some- thing that appeared to promise them better tradoe intorcourse with the United States, and they could safely propose to rovive the old treaty without compro- mising thelr_devotion to English inter- ests, while at Lhe same time manifesting u desire to subserve the agricultural in- torests of the Dominion, and if that en- ro- ve they have used since the last treaty ex- | pired, namely, that the Uniled States does not desire to renew reciprocity with Canada. The Dominion goversment will une doubtedly send a commission to Washe ington. It can hardly find o plausible excuso_ 1o make tothe Canadian people for omitting todo so, unless our govern- ment should decline to negotiate. But it is safe to prediet that if the authority of tho commission shall be limited to the vrogramme thus far announced, its efforis will come tonaught. Whatever concossions are necessary in order 10 se- cure reciprocity must chiefly come from Cannda. OWNED BY CORPORATIONS, The city council by its rocent disgrace- ful behavior has served notico upon all companies, corporations ana individuals seeking investments in Omaha thattheir capital is not welcome or desired. THE Berfindsno fault with any membor of that body who wishesto modify the torms upon which any proposition for a franchiss or privilege shall be granted, when that modification is in the city’s intorest. Itdoes main- tain, however, that overtures from busi- nessmen promising large investments and the employment of labor shall be treated with candor and respect. The people of Omuha are growing very weary of this trifing with matters in which thoy may bo presumed to have some interest, “I'ho action of the council in its treat- ment of the Ballou electric light fran- chise1s merely another ovidence that certain members are owned, hody, soul and breeches by the corporations now controlling valuable ity franchises, The brazen manner in which city coun- cilmen manifest thoirallegiance to theso local corporations brings the blush of shame to thochecks of every honest citizen. CIAL RECORD, Opponents of the republican par straining their lungs in prociaiming that tho surplus has been squandored, although for years they had deprecated the oxistence of a surpius. The last democratic president catedly de- clared the surplus to be a constant men- ace to the country. A careful and can- did study of the financial record of the present administration, in comparison with that of its predecessor will compel them to greatly modify their denounce- ment, Itis well known that the Cleve- land administration, was as caveful as possible of the surplus. For political rensons it desired that this ‘“constant mernce” to the country should steadily increase in volume, and this it did,grow- ing from $92,000,000 when that adminis- tration came into power to the highest figure it has ever reached, $191,00,000, at the beginning of the last year of its term. Yet during all this time there was o legal and proper way to havo dis- posed of a large part of it in the redemp- tion of bonds and the reduction of the debt. When the demo- cratic . administration wok con- trol of ‘the treasury there was deposited in the national banks less than $10,000,- 000 of the public money, and in 1888 these deposits had reached $55,000,000. Never before nor since were the banks 50 favored with the use of the money of the people free of interest. What was the record of the administration regard- ing the public debt? During its first two years the debt was reduced §141,- 000,000, oily alittie moro thanone-third of which was by purchases from the sur- plus revenue. During its lasttwo years, under great pressure from the mon markot, there was applied to tho pur- chase of bonds $113,000,000 of the sur- plus revenue, and this was done under a sort of protest respecting the authority of the treasury to buy bonds, the pur- chase having heen at one time entirely suspended until congress by joint reso- lution declared that the secretary of the treasury was tegally authorized to use the surplus for this purpose. -There was not the slightest ground for a douht as to this, but 5o strong was the desire of the demoeratic administration to hold the surplus for political reasons that it was willing to imporil the financial and commercial interests of the country, then urgently demanding the release of a part of the money in the treasury, rather than dispose of the surplus in re- dueing the public debt, as provided for by cxplicit acts of congress. When Mr. Cleveland went out of oflice the surplus amounted to $130,000,000, of which $43,. 000,000, was deposited in national banks. What. is the record of the first two years of the present administration? It went into office pledged to continue the policy of the previous republican ad- minstrations in returning to the people as much us possible of the surplus by the purchase of bonds, vhus reducing the public debt and the annual burden of interest. It was pledged by the plat- form of the last national! convention to withdraw the public money from the na- tional bauks as rapidly as possible. It has been ubsolutely faithful Lo these pledges. Thore hus been no quibbling with regard to its duty and no halting in the course which the law authorizes. It has applied $144,000,000 of the surplus revenue to the purchase of honds, an amount only $18,000,000 less than was used for this purpose during the whole four years of the Cleve. land admmistvation. It has reduced the public debt $228,000,000, or more than two-thirds the amount of the re- duction dur tho entire preceding democratic administration. It has ef- fected w large annual saving of interest, and its vurchase of bonds was at a con- siderably less average premium than was paid by the preceding administra- tion, The obligation to withdraw the public money from the national banks has been carried out as far as practic ble, the process requiring to be con- ducted with care and caution, but the re was in the banks at the beginning of the present month only $24,000,000, against $48,000,000 at the same date two years ago. With regard to the money market the administration has pursued a con- servativeand judicious policy that has served to establish and maintain confi- dence. No republican need hesitate to chal- lengo attention to the financial record of the present administration and to invite compsrison with that of its predecessor, A GOOD y are | | f the policy fhygs far pursued shall be continued, as thew is every rewson to expoct it will be, 8o fac as it is practic- abie to do 80 under some what changed conditions, the .wountry mny foel confl- dent that its financial interests, so far as they depend tpon the operations of the national treasury, will be intolligently and judiciously Bubserved. —— THERE is aconflict between the civil and military authorities of South Dalkola over the two Indian murderers rocently indicted by the United States grand jury at Sioux Falls, The Indians are held as prisoners of war upon an implied, if not express, agreement that they should not be surrendered to the tender mercies of a South Dakota jury unless the white murderoens of a friendly and loyal [ndian named Pew Tails be also brought to justice. The position of the army officer in refusing to deliver them to theUnited States marshal is not unfair. South Dakota owes it to her dignity as a law abiding community to provo that the white man who wantonly kills a havm- less old Indian is guilty of just as deop dyed @ crime us the red man who treach- erously sboots down a soldier or a gov- ernment employe. What islaw for one should be law for the other. It is an excellent opportunity for our neighbor- ing state to prove that her law makes no distinction in raco or previous condi- tion. It 1as been asserted on the floor of tho house that the number of insane persons in Nebraska now kept. in county ails and infirmaries exceeds five hun- dred. This is a wild guess, evi- dently made for the purpose of in- fluencing action upon the bill proposing an appropriation of $75,000 for two wings atthe Hastings asylum. Inasmuch the official statistics show not to exceed eight hundred insine peoplein Nebraska it would appear that very nearly all are now provided for. An appropristion of $25,000 for one wing would be a reason- able expenditura porhaps, but thero is no reason of adding a capacity of 224 for the accommodation of not exceeding one hundred, A partof this 875,000 can bo ed, and it ought to be saved. as THE meeting of the government board of experts at Lincoln is a matter of deop interest to the west. They represent an investigation that promises important results to the people of the Dakotas, eastern Montana and other sections. They have alrendy found evidenco of an ample supply of underground water for the purposes of artesian irrigation, and their present objoet is to ascertain the limits of the supply. If their enterprise is completely successful it will be fol- lowed by wonderful developments in the Dakotas and elsewhere, IN THE controversy between the chair- mhn of the hoald of public works and the asphalt paying contractor, so far as it is personal, the public takes nospecial intel but the poersonal ill-will exist- ing should not beallowed to-plunge the city into unneesgsary litigation or to prevery the progress. of imp: gvements upon streats where property owners ave willing and anxious tomeet the expendi- tures and all the tedious details of preparation have been completed. Ir Hon. Thomas Carter of Montana should be appointed commissioner of the general land ofiice, Secretary Nablo will certainly wish to resign, Any man from Montana in that bureau would be a source of imitation to the secretary. This isno diseredit, however, to Mr. Carter, butis merely another way of ng that Mr. Carter’s constituents have not approved of Socretary Noble's policy in connection with land matters in Montana. MRS. POTTER PALMER, president of the ladies’ board of world’s fair man- agers is besieged ' night and day by women who want toserve oncommittees, This incident iHustrates the qualities that might be expected of the fair sex if they were eligibloto all offices. They would be very much like their fathers and brothers, Society's N It was Burke who said you could not in- dict a whole peoplo; and when thousands of the best citizens of a city like New Orleans rise in their inight, and because of murders past and impending and of a miscarriage of justice, sweep & dozen of & notorious ven- detia gang off the earth, the necessity which has made such an act imperative is more to boregretted than the act itself, says the Christian at Work. Society must protect it- self, and if the law refuse to interpose its shield against the deadly stilletto, then sool- ety must take the case in its own hands. The safety of the peoply is the supreme law. Such an organization as the Mafia, such vendettas as that of the Proven- zanos aud Mantrangus, such diabolical con- spiracids as these Italian desperadocs woro charged with, are dangers to society, foes to law and oraer and not to be tolerated in an American community, They cannot be too quickly or t0 thoroughly stamped out. Jurors as well as assassins will appropriato a necdful losson, that the one will seo the ne- cessity of metlug out exact justice, and that the latter will have brought home to them the truth as old as the race—Whoso shed- deth maw's blood by man shail his blood be shed.” i Elenents_to i3, Got d Of. Philactelphiae Inquirer, We nave commfinists and anarcuists by the thousands always realy to overrun gov- erament and instifijto a reign of terror and viot. Those are the elemects that are not welcomo to these’shores, and they are elo- ments that must bogot rid of or, at least, proliibited from indfeaslng in numbers by immigration. The-problom of tho near future is restriction, Ourlaws arenot yot severe enough. Noone would think of re- poling on houcBt Itakan or an honest German or an hoest and bard working for- eigner from anywhere, but this country can- not go on forever asan asylum for all the bandits sud assassins and murderers and anarchists and oateasts gonerally who find their own nations too hot for thom, Every adopted citizen must be taught thathis duty is 10 oboy the laws, Nothing more is asked of him. LA T Died in Chicago. Mrs. William Ross, who for thirty years residod in this city and receatly moved to Jhicago, died last Sunday, Mrs. Ross was the mother of Miss Lena 1toss, who resides i this oity. - Academy of Fine Arts. Defluite arrangements have atlast been mado and *“The Academy of Fino Arts” will opon April 1 in Tue Bee building, where the students will lavo elegant quarters on the first foor, Roasted to Death. Theodore Valencia, a sheep horder on an Arizona rauge, recently built a fire under a tree and lay downto sloep. In the course of the night the tree was burned through at the bnse and the trunk foll across the body of the herder, pinning it to the ground. in this position hé was slowly burned to death, Sawed a Man, An Indian whiloworking recontly in 8 saw- will at Posseum, B. (., stepped and fell againsta cireular saw, which, almost in a yoment, Fippad and cut the lower part of his body inn frightful manner, causing instan tanéous death. Another Indian, u strong, healthy follow, saw the aceident and fell un- conscious, He remained in this condition duringtho night and died at aaybreak the next morning Worse Than Faith Care. Report comes from Tyndall, 8. D., that there is & man in that county who allowed bis daughter to die aweekor two agoand refused to call in medical ald, although @ physician passed Lis door whilo the @irl was writhing in agony, Honssigned as thorea- son for such heartlessness that the girl was weak and sickly and unavle to do much worlk, so he preferred that sheshould die and boout of the way. Such depavity in a civilized community seoms almost incredivle. Casey's Sconis’ Hard The Chayenne scouts whom the ill-fated Licutenant Casey took from Fort Keogh to the Pine Ridge agency at the breaking out of the Indian trouble have returned to Fort Miles, Mont, aftera hard trip overland the whole distance in retur. They are under Licutenaut Getty, who was Casey's second umand, Their animals are badly worn, the men, _They accompanicd 700 Cheyennes that, have been ~ moved from Pine Ridgeto twhe Tongue River agency. The suftering of these Indians with their squaws and pappooses was intense, ourney. Insane Through Sympathy. Two women naned MeDermott, e twen- ty-seven and theother twenty-four years of age, were committed tothe asylum for the insanc in Stockton, Cal., under peculiarly distressing circumstances. Five years ugo the eldest girl became insane through illness. The ower visited the iusane patient, and on sccing her mancled became instantly crazy herself. Both recover after se eral . months’ treatment and have been with their parents 1o this city until_ yesterday. The youngest woman again mentally weak and wos treated A few days later the eldest suddenly lost her on. " The pecu tyof the cases liesin the fact that tho youngest first went insane throush hier sister crazy, and four years afterward the older girl’s' insanity suddenly returned through seeing her younger sister crazy doctors think there'is a great affinity bet the two girls, and that to keep then separate will help both. “The doctors believe both will be restorea to health by a few months’ treat ment, Washington Crop Outlook. Theheart of every farmer inthe great wheat belt of the Palouse rejoices at the indications of & hurvestin 1801 that may exceed the phe- nomenal one of 1840, which blocked the two transcontinental roads for three months sub- sequent to the harvest. The entire country has been covered with snow from a depth of six inches in tho vicinity of Walla Walla 1o about two feet din the region around Colfax. It bas meltea slowly beneath tue wiarm rays of the sun and the south-blown Chinook from the sea, and the moisture has soaked into the soil and permeated it instead of running off the surface, Plowing and secaing will be in progress in ten days at least, “Thero will be & largely increased acreage in wheat this year, and a conservative prog- cution of the product of Whitman county for the coming season, based on the averaye yield per acre last year of betweeu thirty and thirty-five bushels, is at least fifteen million bushels, exclusive of all other cereals. Flax culure'is becoming quite an industry in this section, and large areas will be sown %o it this scason. Al thatis needed is better trausportation facilites. Tardy Claimant for Millions. unty Attorney Darst of San Francisco has received the following novet communication : March 10, 1891, —Dear Sir: 1 wil Drop you afew Linesto find out somcthig or get some trace of the Lick Astatein your Town tell me what Was Done with It an ail Aboutit. Et has vin alongtime since the old mau dide and teil me What went with Property an money. 1t Mayby thatltis kopt 80 closo that you have not heard of 1t but you can find out all about it his hotell wen't by the Name of the Lick house. [ was small When he dide he Was my father uncle from all accounts an’ if you Please aucer this an tell me all you kuow about it. I haveritten to severl bit gotno ancer when it was first Publeshed that ho was ded 1 gou a Lawur rite there an he said that he Never Could get Eny ancer If you Pleas inquir aboutitan Writeto me, Durect your lettors to W, Lieek Honey Grove Co, of Farmin Toxas ruly W, Lick, Do all you Can Forme an I will pay you well for you trouble I ama poor Boy an_ef thir s eny thing for me 1 wouid be myly glad. Railway Constructi Chenorthwest is practically the only pox- tion of coast territory where any consider- able amount of building is being dono. Work hiae been resumed on the Seattio Belt line, & Northern Pacific property, and it is pronible that the worl will be regular and continuous until the lne is completed. At Renton, Wash,, the company has put four crossings over the track of the Columbia & Puget ound road, and track is now beiug laid be- nd that'line. The Howe truss bridge across Cedar river has been completed. A party of surveyors are running a line from the Seattie, Lake Shore & ISastern along the south end of Lake Whatcom, thence along the east shore of Bellingham bay along an old survey. The surveyors are said 0 be in the employ of the Canadian Paci Tho foree of graders at work on the Yakima. & Pacific Coast road will be largelyincressed as soon as the ground is dry evough, A change has been made in the survey of the roadbetween Chehalis and South Bend, Wash,, 80 as Yo shorten the distanc The'contractors on the extension of the northern branch of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Enstern have just compl mile of work on which there are 1ive tre The track- layers ave tow at Nooksaclk City, Wash., and the connection with the branch of the Canadian Pacific will bo mado by the last of this month, as but six miles of thie track is to be laid to bring the Canadian Pacific into Washington, Oregon and California_on an all rail line, Thotime eained over the old water route from Tacoma to Vaucouver will be almost & day. Yours ] LI TRES SEITLES IT, Grand Rapids Democrat, There's a fatality of dropsy In the poetry of today; 1t drops and in end middla Y fantastic most way. It arops down at one corner, drops up at one end, it And In most curious, Do tho verso and Quite irresistibly funny e g jour ney meter wend. Are Woo, these drops the poets But there oue that's uol so famy, Vs The Price That's Dropped Down Tow LINCOLY CITLZENS NONINATE, They Meet and Tickot Plice an Independent in the Field, EXHAUSTED ALL LEGAL EXPEDIENTS. Probability That the Sheedy Case May Be Brought to Trial Shortly ~Other News from the Capital City. Lixcor.y, Neb, March 24.—[Spocial to Tite Be,)--Some twenty-five of thecitizens who have expressed themselvos as dissatisfied with someof the municipal nominations met in the law oftice of Lewis & Lewls this morn- ing to placo a citizens' ticket in the fleld. One man suggested that they put the names of ll candidates for mayor in a hat, stake them up and pick ouv ono whom the citizons shall sup- port—the republican nominee’s name of course to be cut out. This dida't meet with much favor, and tie follow- ing licket was selectod: Mayor, A. H, W eir (ind): treasuver, E. B. Stephenson (rep.); clerk, D. ¢, Van Duyn (rep.) ; exciso board, John Doolittle (rep. ), H. J. Whitmor. (dem.); councll—First ward, N. C. Broelz, (rep): Second, Joseph Wittmann (dem.); Third, G. B. Chapman (rep.); Fourth, A, Humphrey (dem); Fifth, R. . R Millas (dom.); Sixth, W. W. Robb (ind.); Seventh, F. C. Smith, ( chool board, § D, Cox, Miss Blliott, C. Upton (women's candidates). READY NOW FOR TRIAL Tho attorneys for the defense in Sheedy case have apparently exhausted legal ox pedients to secure the discharge their clients withont woing to a trial, and it is probablo thatin a few woeks the trial may behad. A reporter ran across Detectivo Malone this morning, and in response to a question as to how t © felt as to its naking a case, the officer expressod himsely as sanguine thatthey had evidenee cuough to substantiate the charge they have brought T'he adrnission of tho confession of Mon day Metarland before the jury will, of course, the principal point fought over, and the opinion of good lawyers seoms to bo that it will be allowed fo be repeated. Several have characterized the confession of Mcka landas utterly improbable, whilo others con- tend that an ignorant fellow like McFariand could not make up such a story and toll it a half dozen times without putting his foot in it, were ituntrue. The state has devoted itSelf to backing up Mclarland’s confession, and have o sCore or more of witnesses to cor: roborate various points in his confession as 1o his whereabouts, ac , ele., and have an alinost perfect web woven. Thero will bo several surprises when thie case comes up for trial, particularly in the matter of attorneys for the prosecution, two of the best. lawyors in the state having been secured to ald ~ tho state, the tho LIZZIE LOVED PINERY, Lazie Pauley,a protty litthe servant i, who has of 1nt6 been employed s a domestic in the family of Danitl McCarthy, Eleventh and I streets, was a forced visitor at the mashal’s oftice last evening. Lizie had been cmployed but ono weels at tho McCarthy maunsion, leaving there on Wednesday of Last week, Aftor her departure Mrs, McCarthy discovered that the baby's miouey ‘“bank’ had been broken open, and the contents, some 12 or §14 taken. ' Also that a valuablo aress belonging to the lady of the house was gone, Miss Pauley was suspected and o search made for her, Detective Malono find- ing her avthe house of George Burchhayw, Eighth aud V strects. She gave up tho dress and also $. ash, and was allowed to go. Tho girl's parents live at Sutton, and although she isnot much over sixteen, sho has been working ina number of Lincolu familic BINGER'S DAT BREAK, T'ho indications are that Fred Binger is in a protty bad boat because of the assault upon old Peter Benson tho other night. County Attorney Sne)land Detective Malone went down to Benson's place yesterday afternoon und secured his affidavit in the matter. Ben- son’s story is that Bingor and several others camein_there Saturdiy night, They had been drinking, and finaily Binger assaulted him, knocked him down and then jumped on him. Benson's faco is swollen beyond recog- nition, hisleft eye i Swollen and soro, while the left le n oin two places below the knee, and bis akle is out of place, Dr. Everett attended the man's in- juries, and the charge against Binger will probab ized to assault with lutent to kill. Binger still sticks tohis denial of tho assault. SENT TO TILE REFORM SCIOOL. Charles W. White, the _fiftecn-yearoid kid who is charged with'grand larceny and bur- glary, was sent to the reform school this moriing by Judge Sewari. The complaint was made by A. G. Hastings, who charged the boy with growing up n_mendicancy for want of parental care. The boy’s father, John W. White, conseted to the boy being sent, White is'n thoroughly bad boy. WONLENBERG WANTS A NEW DEAL Fred Wohlenberg kicks on_paying $2,000 damages to John Melchert, He asks for a new trial on the ground that the damages wero excessive, the verdict was contrary to law aud evidence, and that he has newly dis- covered evidence. Therewith is filed an afi- davitof Dr, . L. Holyoke to tho effect tiat on the day before the trial young Melchert caused affiant to mako o surgical examination to find out1f any ribs were broken. Aftiant did s0, but found the eleventh rib on the lefi side was not, vor never had been, fractured, nor had there been curvature of the spine, Melchert sworaon tho stand the direct oppo- site, M'HAFFIE'S SUIT, James C. McHafiio, by his attorney, filos suitagainst John Fitzgerald, adinistrator of the estave of John Sheedy, and Brad Riuger, constable, asking damages in the sum of £3,171.50 for conversion of property, He claims that defendants unlaw fully and wrougfully and by forco of arms cjected piaintiff from the ‘Hotel Mack, wherein he had property of the value named, and ro- fused to allow him to take tho samo with him. Partof the property, an itemized list of which is made @ partof the petition, ho had purchased from the Sheedy estate aud part from dealers aud manufacturers. ATOUGH CITIZEN. Squint 0'Connor 18 greeting bis many ac- quaintances from behind the bars again, Squint has given the police station the go-by for some time, but this was dus to the fact that he was out of town. Ho wandered back again, howover, and was enjoving himself in the bottoms last evening when Oficers Kin- ney and Bob Malone waiked in on him and jailed bimon the charge of destroying city property. The last time he was in ated was because he became so exasperated at the Jaw's persistenco in Jailing bim that he tore the blankots to shreds and hid the pleces under the bunk, The malicious act was not discovered until after the fellow hud becu dischorgzed, und the police have ever sit been lovingly and longingly awaiting bis re- turns, ONLY A MATTER OF RENT. Tolay Judwo Ficld and a ju ro en- aaged i heariug the caseof J.E. Barr v [ imball Brothers, to recover four months rent for a building at 1137 M street, amounting to 160, The plainuft contends that tho build Tuge was rented o defondants in 1857 for three years, but in 1850 they moved out and ro. Tused to pay the rent. The defense 1s that they were induced torent the building for a Lori of years on falso representation: of W, G, Pittman that it was a good building, When a house that was situated immediately castof the building was moved away the do- of pot Bare to fix it, without sucoess, thoy moved out. The buildiag has also be domned by the fira warden of the city, w 1o orderod Barr to ropair the wall, but b didu't do it, when tho majosty of tho’ city was voked, ONDE AND ENDS, Johu Ernst's note of 300, given to (. ¥ Netmann of Hickman, Is having alively of it 1 the courts, First Neiman's tors attempted to attach it, but found t Nelmann had assigned it to his wifo in ment of money borrowed of ker bofor marriage. They then garnisheed her she was ordered to hand it fnto court. N Dolan, Drury & Co., creditors of Nelma bring suit to recovor it August Mosor reports to the police that isoutngond overcoat, pair of pants shoes, which sono fellow stole_out of vorn at tho Washinston house, Ninth u treots, _Another mai na un 8 rts that his 10om at the Nebriska | Eighth and O strvots, was also entered vightand a §23 sult of clothes taken Dr, E. L. Holyoke, county coroucr, apy thy district’ court from thedisp made by the county commissionors of | clnim of §10.30 for viewing the body of Her F. Compbell. The emmissioners bhad fised to pay tho claim on advice of county atto ) Thomas MeG uigan, who emerged fron t county jail after a protracted stay thorc grew woary of the confinements of a life liherty, snd succeded last mght in breakir into tho ety Jall with tho assistanco of OMcer Camahan, — Thornas was enjoying biwsell beating his wifo again, and her scroams so fractured the ale that'tho o ook a hand in the scrap, Hon, . R Sizer and wifo left this after noon for Ottawa, Il callad thither by i tol cgram announcing that the illne. Me Sizer's uncle hai taken a dangorous tuer and that b was not expecied to live. M Sizer had_just returned Sunday from Ottawa, | Teaving his unote in improved health l Judge Cobb is yet too ill to care tors, terrestrial of gubernatorial, and has ot yet'examined any of the papers i Mhayer-Boyd case, consequently nothing wa dono in the matter today, as was anticipated A prominont poiitician says that tho ar ticle in_yesterday morning's Ber did uw in justiceto 8. J. Alexander, the republica nomineo for mayor of this city. Mr St John was quoted as @ republican, whilo in fact ho was o member of the democratic cor vention, The fact is,” says the gentiemas “the nomination gives wencral satis faction oxcept to a few chronic kickors, who aro uover satisfied unloss they dictate all the nomninees.”’ or m ESTS, Philadelphia Record: A purblind Soutt wark skivfiut picked up a backnumbor newspaper and read alarmingunewsof cholora somewhiere in tho Orient, *‘Just look that, mom 1 ho exclaimed ! “and you had goand fling out that bottle of clolera mix wre I'd kept for five years ' YorkSun: *1 don't belicve that n little learning is at all a dangorous thing.’ “You would, though, if you had ev learned just enough to play poler, but not enough to play it well.” st Transeript Manufacturer Hereafter we shall divide one-haif of our profits aunually among our operatives Labor Agitator—What's the matter with dividing the wholo of your profits amoug thio operatives { ston Nows: About tho worst thing is automatic demoeracy. Yonkers Statesman: A spiritualist asks “Did you ever o into a dark room where you could see nothiug and_feel that there something there!’ Yes, frequently, and tho something unfortunately chancea to be a rocking chair. Galv in Tex Chicago Tribune: Somehow we can’t help thinking of that remark of John M. Palwer that, ho aid not intend to €0 to hell by way of the seuate. Has he selccted his route yeit Brooklyn Lefe. Whom Cupid bits with feathered dart He quick repays with kisses, And, clever marksman though he is, Oule-half his shots are Misses New YorkSun: M. Upton—Henry, 1 want you to discharge your typewriter girl Sho was out last eveniig 1n bid company. Mr. Upton—Why, » ar, how—er you kenow ¢ Mrs, Upton—Oh, £ 0w you. do Imow all about it. I Love isa charmer of such winsome mien That to be worshipped needs but to be scen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, Wo first have doubts, then warfure, thon a case. Harvard Lampoon: Holden Chappelle, '01 (in love, but bashful) —Yes, Lam iu the the- awricals. But what character do you think I am best fitted to impersonate! Miss Brattio (who believes that procrastination is the thief of time)—All things comsidered, I should say o waiter. Cleveland Plain Dealer: An eminent sur- eon says that with four cuts and o fow stitches be can alter & man’s face o his own mother would not know him. Ay news- l paper can o that with ouly oue cut. “Ashes aro very appropriate for Lent. “How sof" “Why, they keep vou fromslippmg on the path of temptation.’” PERFECTLY AWFUL, The really, truly Iza may have had a shapely Limb, And when Clemenceau wooed jewel seomed to him; But, really, it is awtul woen some histrionic frights Display their scant proportions in closely fitting tights! her have o those Texas Siftings: Gilbooly—Are the peoplo who live next door to you rich! Gus do Smith-I should say so. You ought to seo the silverware they carry tothe pawnbroker, Fliogende Blwitor: Sigus of Spring.— Te Toll mo somo annual, regularly re curring signs of sprin Pupil-—Bock b colds, summer gariens, open street cars (8 rheumatism, Fliegende Blaetter: “Are you sure that the author Schmierl 1s really reconciled with his wife " “Yes, I am suro of it, forshe reads what he writes and he cats what she cooks.” Fliegende Blaotter: Professor—Gentlomen, tho airis a substance which we cannot soe, but it 15 by no meins sosimplo a substauce as 1t looks, SPRING POEM, New York Sun, Inthe spring the youne maia’s fancy Lightly turns to caramels, And the bill of her De Lancey AU tho bon-bon shop now swells : Henco Do Lance Poor young thing— Docsn't fancy Gen®le spring, New York Herald: Will-Don't you adl mire Maud Wiggsy's gait! Arthur-Oh, yes; but during the winter months I profer W pass the couversation lozonges on ho parlor sota. A coming strawberry i3 named from theintroducer, the “Lovitt." Lowell Courier: That pame just oxpresses our sentiments towards the whole strawberry family. Highest of all in Le Re vening Power.—1, S, Gov't Report, Aug. x7, 1889, LD Baking - Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE