Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 18, 1891, Page 4

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Prouriefors THE BEE BUILDING PO ik st oo o R S BWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btato of Ne Co Georu: Publisi that the for the lows Sunday. onday adivy an Thursday Friday, J Baturdiny, ne ra ary of The Bee oleninly swoar W DALY BEE 1, was i fol- GRORGE I 80N UOK Gworn to hetoro 1o and subscribed in my prosenco this i day of June, 1501 L N T Btato of Nebr Lt i Dany. that the act Gtion of THE DALY BIE for the Aligtiat 1868) 50,130 capled for October. \ i s for G: tor 84 duly sworn. de- TV of THk B 1 averaze month of 180, for 180 cop! Jiunua 26,412 ¢ April, coples Sworn presence t ed in my 01 N. P Fermn, stary Publie Hasti way spe a Di: the attemptstoexplain of irregularitics by This will not do. 5 asylum ¢ charges Wl denial. THUS far in brilliant but has maintained himself dignity and has said nothing to v or to be rogrettea. the Ohio campnign the itly errati with hecoming rot NATOR PLUMB 0f will ad- dress the republican editors of Kansas upon public topies in a fow days. If the sonator will write out his speech and stick to tho text he will have less to ex- plain in the next state campaign than in the last. THE state board of transportation is ag silent ng the tomb upon the question of establishing a schedule of maximum freight rates in Nebras| The rail- roads have not given that body authority to oxpress an opinion or prepare the schedule, T T aro being expelled from Russ in largo numbers to Constantinople They could hardly se- loct a domicile loss to the liking of the czar, and in no othor country will their chances of striking back at their oppres- s0rs come 0 s0on or he so offoctive, s wh nar ) Tie enormous deficic t the Hast- fngs asylum was a suspicious c stance, but the definito dotails of per- sonal peculations amount to something more than a suspicious circumstance, Turn the light on. Lot tho people know just whero the smoke comes from. e rum- KILRAIN and Slavin, two desperato citizens, fell upon each othor with ter- rific vigor and Kilrain got the worst of it. The genoral public thinks he de- sorved the punishment. [f the fact were reversed tho public would feol exactly the same way about Slavin. When two bulldogs fight nobody except their own- ors will part them or care which one is mangled most, AccorpiNG to well authonticated re- ports some of our metropolitan polico officors havo more 1 than sense. A strangor in the city is entitled to court- #ous treavment, even from the blue coated minions of the law. An officer ahould be vory sure of his ground before throwing a stranger into jail upon the chargo of being a suspicious charactor, The case of the Hinwatha business man who was arrested without cause a few days ago onght to cost an indiscroet of- ficor his official head. VERDI the Sicilian patronvmic of a Washington doctor of medicino who broke his head butting against a local nowspaper man’s interview, which the doctor pronounced false, The reporter branded the irritated Italian and the poor follow could not himself. King Humbert w with Verdi’s iments Orleans incident that he him. Dr. Verdi’s busin damaged by this intorviow. oration will dostroy it entirely accopts it, he admits that the int was correct. If ho v the king of Italy, The deop soa aro yawning f as a liar vindi 15 50 plonsed the knighted was badly If he fow son on New has 1508, ho offends devil and the Verdi, Ir Tne groat New York Life inwn'-‘ ance company is actually in finaneial trouble s is charged, THe BEE is of the opinion that the rivals who are so g fully heralding the rumors and demand ing investigations should be the first to offer such temporary reliof giti- mate and proper to tide the company be yond tho danger of disaster. Tho fail- ure of the New York Life, if it wore pos sible or probable, would inflict injur upoa the husiness of this country genorally and that of life insur- ance particularly from which neither would bo ablo to recover for years. There is probably malice than foundation in the charges of irregulari- ties and wneial mismanagement, The Insurance companies should boe as loyal to each other as banks, and should follow the banking custom of tendering assist- ance to solvent in time of temporary distress. It is to their it est to protect the business integrity of each other. as is more competitors L BTT | THE OHIO REPUBLICANS. The Ohio republican convention dig what it was oxpocted to do in nominat ssman William McKinley Indeed, nomination ogical necessity of the political The republicans rongly committed to the ing ex-Con for wis A governor. his of support of the t y any ot} the ablost o, »f the oxisting al his state the proper one to lead his party in a itest, the 10 of which will be the tariff, the day when McKinley was de- foatoed congress, due to a fla- grantly gorrymander it he plain that the duty policy ans wis to make Ohio are nse st oy as 1 there- s the author and or state in union, ar MeKi nt Major law, is of From unfair boer and tho him their candidate for governor, and if there has evor beon any bpposition to him his en- thusiastic n ation demonstrated that there Noone familiar with publ to bo told that Wil- liam is ono of the ablest among them, and that he has the cour- of his convictions. His ginning in 1876 and continu to the closo of tho last congress, with the o fon of a part of his fourth torm, has islator ymin 8 none now. men needs McKinley nge career in congress ing dow xce given him high and held in ik as a log- and he two con- publicans champion Heis a hard ntest for e his fault 1g campaign in Ohio is not debater, the last place amon ensily as an exponent and of the policy of protection. fighter in n campaign, st ¢ con- the of 1 aggressive in the ously shown in his it ono gress, and it will not the most v history of that stato, in which, during the last quarter of ‘ntury, there have been many notable political battles. The platform was made to it the candi- date, but republicans will approve most of its and Thore is complete unanimity orous o n cywhere arations demands, vepubl d protecting the nd - of of opinion iinst the influx of the vicious and criminal classos of foreign nations, and for the exclusion of labo 1t here under contract. The hos- tility of the republ party to trusts and like ibinations of capital is pressed in a law passed by the last con- ess. The reservation of the public lands for homesteads for American citi- zens, and the restoration to the public domain of all unearned grants to rail- roads, are policies which find fuvor with republicans everywhere. So with re- spect to some other features of the plat- form, they will have the approval of re- publicans, in all sections. Buu these will be merely side 108, or not issues at all, in the Ohio campaign. The McKinley tar- i law and tho course of the democratic admimstration will be the real issues, and as to the latter at least the republicans should have a very decided advantago, There appears to be no doubt that the Ohio ropublicans aro entirely har- monious, and the enthusiasm of the con- vontion indicated a strong feeling of con- tidence, The specch of [Poraker, nominating Major MeKinley, Wi, char to silence all picion regarding the feeling of Foraker the other leaders 1in the state, and it will have a good influence for he is still a power with a larg ment of the republicans of Ohio. The campaign will not be fully on for some weels, but when it is open all along the line it will be watched with greater in- terest than any other of the year. The republicans have not failed in 30 years to carvy the state in the year preceding the presidential elaction, and if the new party movement does not prove a greater sou of weakness to them than is now expected they probably will not fail this year. ns in favor of encours terests of There * no regarding labor. is S con ex-Governor of cter sUS: toward THE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE. The promise of a_ bountiful harvest continues good. That carrvies with assurance of general prosperity. When the soil yields plenteously and the farmer is well repaid for his labor all industries and all business thrive. Our agricul- tural resources the foundation of national prosperity, and whenever these are abundant there will be material pro- All the indications ave ti 1801 will be a yoar oxceptional produc- tiveness in the United States, and that American farmers will date from this year vrolonged of greater prosperity than thoy over known. Roports from portions of tho northwest of an encoaraging tenor, The sections which last year were rendered sterile by drouth have ample T and *no apprehension is felt of a failure of crops in them; indeed, such acalamity rogarded now almost impossi- In the middle west the conditions hardly less favorable, all things con- There is complaint from por- tions that too much rain fallen for the good of the corn,-but this is by no means goneral and does not justify fear that the erop will seriously suffer. Of courso it is by no means sect ainst injury, but the outlook is ex vorable, and there is veason to expe of Nebraska and in excess of hat this faith among those who have the best opp ortunity for knowing the conditions and judiciously in the commorcinl improvement in the interior. Country merchants have been buying more liberally and tl talk of depression and hard times among them Meanwhile the r wts from Lurope continue to state that the pects thel most discournging. The i3 no longer a doubt that the Eu- ropean wheat will be far b tho this that tha 'mand breadstufls other parts tho world, and clally from the Unitod will bo unusually heavy., Exporters are making large engagements fall being nego. are gross. f of possibly a ora ha all are ne sture, us sidered. has sodingly fa- t that the corn crops Town will average, be ¢ an oxists timating their value is shown o0 is loss vop pros- are erop 50 low average for of States, do- livery, and et tiated for months in advance of thoship- ments to mado the p shall begin to move frecly. It o opinion of authorities that this country will send more grain to Euro- pean markets this yoa ) in any pr d space is be when ne is g th vious year during the past de if this shall be the casc o- and from | | knows moro wbout puvements thun poli those of | destroy | acti chief | | question in the dops | all he should ood prices will | | 2,000 candle power a THE Tho welfare of in the immediate excellent promiso of is realized, keeping. The only throatens their which may action t Vfidenc Amor- fu- pres n dan- inter- result politie at will financial ind by apital ton policy of self-defense i the of such in this be assured fean farme ture, if the ent conditions their own gor that ests s the from now mischiefl unwise driving cronte disastrous market stringency The menace the furmors repu- money n has already direction, and unless diate, as it is not doubted most of them will, all such gue expedionts as the sub-treasury schome, they will cor- tainly have reason beforo this yoar closes to deeply regret their mistake, THE GRAIN EXCHANGE While regretting that the grain men of Omaha have not deemed it expedient to form a grain and produce exchange X to the board of trade, THE BEE is glad to welcome the new organ- ization to the field. We are convinced from the character of the incorporators they display that themselves with i to the Omaha a grain market make this the greatost grain centre west of Chicago. It should and doubtless will carry with it the produce business alvendy impor- tant but eapable of great dovelopment, Thero is today as much hope for build- from this beginning a ind produce market in this city as there was a few years ago of creating a stock market when a few enterprising gentlemen made the beginning at South Omahu, in made light of the undertaking that Omaha was too Chi Kansas City to hope ever to be n »i those great citie: The years h dicated the foresight of the South Omaha stockyards company and the years will prove that the gentlemen composing the Omaha grain and pro- begun here an enterprise which will in the future be of inestimable value to the city. Every- nust have beginning and it vs unwise to despise the day small things. dema as an an and the earnestness n to devote inte in eventually nee purpose creating which shall ing up small grain thoso days loging wnd WL of vo vin- Some croakers near duce exc have nge is of \tion includes nmong its officers and stock ral of the leading grain men of interior cities. These gentlemen seo thut Omahn pies the strategic position and the The new organi holders sov oceu- sire to be interested in the movement. The exchange will thereforo reach out to the sactions and draw strength from the resources of the men who arve in the field and direct the business. The org not make a market. here for sale bofore producing local nization of a corporation doos Tho grain must be p 5 come to . Warehouses, flouring mills, cereal mills, starch factories, malt houses, and similar institutions ave necessary to give strength to the business of buying and selling the raw m Tho exchange will therefore find that it has a heavy task before it. A few thousand dollars will answer for a beginning, but tho creation of a market here involves the investment of millions, and the first efforts of the organization should be directed toward interesting milling men, malsters and warchouse men in Omaha and Nebraska. Tho pooplo of Omaha expect great things of tho gentlemen who by forming the independent Omaha grain and produce exchange delibe assumo the responsibility of embr thoe first great opportunity which has presented itself for making Omaha a rival of Minneapolis,Duluth and Chic as agrain and produce cente aro entitled to the co-operation of all other organizations and of all good citi zens, rehas a THE smallness of the average demo- eratic mugwump editor is nover so pain- fully apparont as when he attacks the postmaster general. After woaring out the patience of decent people with measly slurs upon his religious work and charactor they attempted in vain to harm his business veputation. The lat- est effort appears in the headlines of a local which the attempt is made to creato the impres- sion that Chief Postoffice Inspoctor Rathbone will draw two salaries for the month of July, one in his present office and the other as fourth assistant postmaster general. The chief inspector is given the 30 dnys leave. His new oflico in existenco until July 1 His, leave oxpires. July 81 He may take the oath any time after July 1, but if he uses his leave he cannot draw pay in the new position until after July 3l The law is very explicit upon the subject, so much so that a clerk or official drawing a small salary, assigned to special duty which if performed by another would entitlo him to a larger remuneration, cannot be benefited. It is out of -the rtmental service for any person to draw two salarios, and the regulation is enforced to the lett when its enforcoment is inequitablo. nondescript shoet, in o usual is not or even THE successor to J. B, Furay ber of the hourd of public works ought to be a citizen and a tuxpay repr and business experience hus with the duties of his position. not be a political bout. We have ward politiciabs in all branch of the public service. It is time to give member Egbert, who is not a partisan, but who is a competent and honest officer, an associate who thinks more of the city’s intevests than his own, and caves ubout the politics of public affairs than the welfare of the taxpuyers who pay him a salary. We want a business board, not a politi- cal machine, If Mr. Furay is to be v tirved for political or uny other reasons, let us have a in his as mem- or, o gentle- whose in live Above rousta- man nbove h man been less man place who ties, Tk oloctric light company bids on slignts with a two- yonr contract at $150 light. This is 830 por light more than Lincoln pays for It is still too high per annum por per annum the same ThE county commissionors will please note the fact that the principal offico of the leotric light company s in the Fourth ward, whereas Thomson-Houston ¢ OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDA the personabproparty of the corporation is returned §in the assessmont book of the nssessor of gho First has impeached his own values in thy newspapers. gentlemen, that a quusi-public tion is troate® corpora other wards, That assessor judgment of Look to it, corpora- precisely as privato in- »d business firms are troated in if corpor: fish in the Fifth they cannot be fowl in the [Mirst ward tions ar Tue principal trouble with the Omaha board of tradets that it slecps too late in the morning. Wide-awnke business men cannot hold 1he whole procession to give it time to put on a uniform and march from the vear to the front. The board has itself to blame for being side- tracked by the in exchange, THE BEE gavo it fuir warning weeks ago of what has just come to pass. IN another column will be found a letter from Miss Sarah Wool Moore of the art department in the State uni- versity addressed to Hon., George W. to the educa- Lininger, which is commonded perusal of the Omaha board of tion. gostions made should re- ceive ration and have their bear ing upon the sclection of an instructor in drawing. Miss Moore is good author- ity upon the subject. INASMUCH 18 the city phys doubt us to the v and scope of the services for which® he is paid $2,000 per year, the vequest of the board of fir and police commissioners t they bo defined by ordinance is entirely in or- dor. The which has lately been devoting itself very assiduously and very creditably to its business, should not allow the question to go longer unsettied, Mavor ¢ veto of the ordi nan office of sanitary commissioner with a salary of $2,000 a year, was sustuined. The reasons given by the mayor for disapproving it were cogent and cl He is not in favor of creating sinecure for a ward politi- cian. In this particular he reflects the sentiment of taxpayers correctly. Titk board of county commissioners must comply with the law, There is no authority of law for -extensive public work executed without a contract or for grading roads with funds provided for constructing bridges. The county com- missioners hive no authority of law for creating deficieycies, The su ronside an s in charac 1N ating the . a THE council has authorized the pavement of the Thirtieth and Spauld- ing et ‘lutersection with bri Brick will not #oat, tkough it m: The trip to Des Moines has borne fruit with a promptness and dispateh, which is, to a certain degree, encour THE republican party has been right on every great public question for the last 30 years ‘and all mankind, in- cluding the democratic party, have de- clarved it to havd been right.—William McKinley, jr., the next governor of Ohio. A CoMMITTEE has been appointed to confer with the board of health relative to rules for the government of that body. Let them speedily come to an agreement. Thero has already been an unreasonable delay in this matter. The Situation Sized Up. Philadelphia Times, Accepting the political anunouncements of the past week or so at their face value, we tind ourselves confronted by the following facts Mr. Harrison is the choico of tho repub- lican leaders. Mr. Russell Harrison declares that the president does not want a second term, and that the attacks on Mr. Blame were mado by his wicked partner, Arkell. “The president will take a renominatio Mr. Biaine will be thenext republican presidential candidate, Mr. Blaine's health considered by his party. Mr. Blaiue has lost his mind. Mr. Harrison is tho real author of Mr. Blaine's foreign policy. Mr. Blaine is tho world, Mr. Cleveland will be the next, presidential nomineo of the democrats. The democratic leaders ara leaving Mr. Cleveland and booming Scuator Gorman, Tho third party is sure to bring republican defeat. Democratic disaster is sure to result from the formation of o third party Evidently, whetber or not thor dimension in aces, there i - Character « New York Teleg Judge McAdam of the superior court yes terday rendered a decision of unique quality aud of great importance. It is ealeulated to protect honest newspapers in their criticism of bad men and to doter social outlaws and equally desperate and despicablo court room shysters from bringing libel suits in revenge or on speculation. 1t is so plain and unob- jectionable an application of those vrinciples of essential Justice which underlio all law tuat It is a marvel that this point in the method of procedure was not established long ago This decision establishes the right of tho defendant 1n a libol suit to make beforo trial a logal examination of the party bringing the suitto find out if, be has a_character suscep- tible of damage. Judge MeAdam maintains thut while blemidBgs in the character of the plaintiff in a libef-suit, not known to the defendant at the.time of the alleged libot, may be unavailing to relieve f tho charge of malice, where‘malico is not proved, thoy may bo adduced either in justification or mit- igation, so far as the question of dam roed. In bis opinion he says: in determining whether charuc Jured the jury'ds titled to ku aplianant 15 whers ho b much and what K(id of chara blo of injury, spthat the fix 1ts pecuniury vilue injury. ‘This is good cor law. "When OPSON WANTS i) Ju iU1S always compoetent 1o u sonable value, As Judge MeAdam elsewhe fon observes, juries are always ac cousidor evidence relating to the provious character of the party bringing a libel suit The innovation 1n ths decision in the suit of Vincent A. Wicher against the Tribune association cousists in allowing o logal dotermination on the question of char acter in advance of the prosscution of the einim for dam 5. As the effoct of this de do away with u largo amount of malicious and mercenary litiga tion at the public expense, as well as to en courage houest eriticism from public motivos of bad men, it must mect the wal precludes his being schoolmaster of the isa fourth in polit age is concs r has b W who t xtent of the 0 as well ¥ Fopalr rtuin the roa- in this opin ustomed to cision must be to app of good citizens, the 1 rds of g00d common sense as well as law lge MeAdam, “itis Xy JUNE 18, 1891. WANTS 10 BE INVESTIGATED, | Dr. Test Willing to Have the Hastings Asy- | lum Books Examined. ATTEMPTS TO JUSTIFY LIVERINGHOUSE. His Excuse for Mecting of Called ~En: of Pro) Duplioating Bil the Sta Bhard ach ° ofa ¥ tise Case, Lixcors, Neb,, Juno 17.-~18pecial to Tan B, |—Dr. Test, superinteadent of the Hast- ings asylum, was in tho city this afternoon and called on Attorney General Hastings and | Secretary of State Allon, Ho told those two gentlomen that he woula like to nave them xamine the books of the institution To o Bre revorter he admitted that Livor. inghouse had duplicatod bills, but the doctor excused it tho grounds that he did so simply to got money out of the state to use in the future for the institution, for fear the appropriations would not be sufticient Dr. Test comed to feel confident from his talk that Liveringhouse's actions wero all vight. Secretary of State Allen says that Land Commissione Humparey his been tele graphed for and a meeting of tho board of public lands and buiidings will be held to morrow afternoon, if hearrives, nud the Hast ings scandal considered. In this morning’s Bur part of the talk tributed to Goueral Hastings did not belon g to him, but is nevertheless trie. DISRESPECT T0 THE DEAD. Considerable of a sensation was oceasioned at the meeting of the council last evening by threo of the members, namely, Chapman, Burns and Wittman, refusing (o vote for the resolutions of resvect and condolence to the family of tho lato Hon.J. B. Avcnibnld, a member of the councit, Chapman was par- ticularly bitter against the resolutious Later Burns and Wittman gave in, but Chap. man refused to doso. It appears t man had been bring against Archibala Today the members of the Lancaster county bar passed resolutions of respect on the Iato Jubez B, Archibald. Among some of the compliments paid to the dead were the followiug: “If some portions of his life woro giver. to political cousideration and duties, ho did pot on t scount relax his vigilance in ‘his professional studios ov be- come indifforent to still higher success at the bar. On the contrary, o had the am- bition to acquire all the knowledgo and all the social intluence avhich might bo useful in his practice, and he bad the persevering firmness to overcome every intervening ob stacle. The tomper of his mind was acute and discriminating, inclining to logical ¢ ductions in Uisquisition, avd nover misled by the subtleties of his profession, but in all his cfforts was earnest, candid and laborious in the causes and interests intrusted to bim.” BILLY BARK'S VICTORY. Despite the applications of the counsei of Miss Hattie Nums for an extension of time to permit ber to comply with an order of the court herctofore 1ssiied raquiring her to ap- 1 Lincoln and submit to an examination sxaet state of eat £20,000 damage suit for breach of promise and criminal intimacy has been dismissed by Judge Tibbets because of her failure 5o to p- pear. Billy got so hilarious over his_victory that he went out and filled up on a bottle ot Pop. on at- licaltn, the g against William 1 REED ON TRIAL. Tho trial of Harry Reed, who stands charged with having robbed his employer ana roommate, a butcher, of §75, was cailed last evening bofore Judgo Tibbets. RRecse & Giilkeson appearea in his behalf and objected to procecding to trial at this torm of court, as by tho terms of the recoguizance he is held for tril at the noxt term of court and cannot, therefore, be held for trinl at this term. 'The court overruled tho ob- jeo nda compulsory process was issued to bring into court & number of witnesses 1 his bebalf, among them being members of the Reed family, Thecase was being heard today. ONDS AND EXDS. The rogents of tho state university have decided Lo establish two new in the university, one for instruction 1n the Roman languages and the other for iustruction in the Germanic tongues. Tn the ease of Lydia V. Kay against Abol H. Kay for divorce, Judgo ITall has handed down a decreo finding that_dofendant bad failed to support the plaintiff and her family, although of sufticient ability so to do. The marriage relation botween them was there- foro wholly set aside aud the parties releasca from the same, s TALKING TAXE-. Fifth Warders Before the Commissioners Again, The delegation from the Fifth ward was beforo the county commissioners yesterday afternoon, and through their chairman, Frod Schnake, protested against the property of tho Fifth being assessed in the other wards of the city. The protests ounty were listonea to, and Chair- man O'Keeffe promised to take the matter under consideration before adjourn ment as a of oqualization Schnake roviewed the revenuo lnws then commented upon tho mannev of cting assessors. According to his ideas, assessors should bo elected for a term of not less than three ye: should receive fixed salaries, city or county officers. The city and county should share the expense. After this he opened out on his subject and said: *“The watorworks com- pany removed its plant out of the city limits in ord to avoid the payment of municipal taxes. 1t is 0 with other corporatioms, and when 1t comes to evadinz taxation, the corporations escave and the men most in need of protec tion have to pay the burden of the tax." To prove this ho cited the case of tho elee- tric light company and added that it does ot pay its proportion of te tax, nor does the waterworks company, the gas company nor the street railwa Wants His Mother. Charles Genseheer is a twelyo-year-old boy who is trying to find his mother. He been liviug at St. Joseph with his father,who left his mother six years ago. Tho mothier is supposed 1o beacook at some hotel in Omaha, aud the boy who claims o have been abused by his father left homo to_come to her. Hor address is unknown and the boy is at police nheadquarte bias et Marsh Probably in Brazil. PriavkLeniy, June 17 It is thonght that Marsh, the fugitive president of the KKeystone vank, is in Brazil, for which country o is believed to have smied May 20th, the day following his _disappearance from this city Tuis believod the 2220 lis wife furnished him and a small sum loaned him by a friendly director of the Koystone ban' was about all the money Marsh took with him - National Union Senate. MILWAUKEE, June 17.-Tho tonth annual session of the senate, the supreme body of the Natioual Union of the United States, convened hore yesterday and will ro. wain in session until Friday. Too day was taken up in preliminary work of the reading of annual reports. The r how the presont membership to be 2,425 and 403 couneils, Wis., ports s AL A Abright Swept by Fire, New Youk, June 17.—The well-known summe rt, Scabright, N, J., was visitea by o disastrous fire last night, which reduced to ashes the la portion of the town. As far as can be estimated, about four hundrod bulldings burned. Several hunared families were rondercd homeless and the total loss will reach half a million, Tho xas Pecders. R Tk Bee, | 1 young I s of D ) Crry, S, june Special to after wain of | as cattlo are bo 1nto this region to graze. The ¢ at Douglas, Wyo.,, and un fourche, the Elkhorn terw that 50,000 head will be brought - Out of Sight. Hub, P Simply Kear Nebraska stands ‘‘way in the crop bul- letins. | 118th anniv | it was cons AN ANCIENT NEWSPAPER. Tho Balt Amorican celadratod fts the 15th with & forming o panorama nora's growth and the corrosponding rity of the Amorican. Like all groat fournals, the American has had its share of trials situdes, but it has woathered the storms of more than a century, aud s now anchored fn a haven of security T'ho records of Amoriean reflect the nation's history. Tho prosert postal system germinated in the f its first editor, In its pages the D m of Tndependonce was officially priated. Tt song of Francis Scott Key, 1 Spanilod Banner,” was first pi D in its management nore ary on mammoth trade od) of Bal prospe nst i vic | SLAVES IN A EREE COUNTRY, Soven Mundred Ttalinus 41 Almost Absolute Bondage in Conneoticut. ROZBED BY UNPRINC PLED CONTRACTORS Their Money Taken Trickery and T Mis ym Them by ives Made Wle by Insufiicient Food and Shelter. and listinet 085 in jour portant events in atato and v, American took an active part did p t duo te tho plen S persistent ad In war t cous and almost alono hot-bod of secossion i support enuse, and in raising money for union men in ¢ srato prisons A of the growth Awerican cau be found record of the Sunday issue. Ton years ago this issue had scarcoly a_dozon columus of Advertising. Oa Jaauary 1, 158, when the new pross was put in there were twenty-oue | columns. Within two years this has boon | increased to forty odd” columns. Last Do it oxceeded all provious records by ing moro than seventy colunins, with a | e of upwird of sixty whon thero has veen 1o speeial boom ! advertise ments T 1 from fifty to seventy | columns each Sunday | Under the management of Goneral Franeis Agnus, the Amor me a powerful f n journal vat tone, forcoful and aggressive in handling public Jiiestions, it has earned its present influential position and prosperity, and deserves t weratulations showe upou it on 115th anniversa s the union of tho | tho | to residents to u common 1o with the cury, Justnow it is out of sight tit Mr. Seasique (leaning over the bulwark) Welman, ard and g thing (w-a-h) to keep my kidne Welman—No use, Seasique; you want tho earth W, ton Post: “Don't an, tthat Miss plaxion shows sigus of 1w 10 has to make up, you you think, Passc er—art know, for | lost time. | i Boston Transci Brown ro! Just hear that eauary sing vt on the piano that bird begins to White one would almost bird to be human It's begins to play hatter. Mes nsy think the Dety Freo Press: At the the other evening Mr. Bobson, author, was asked if he employed an wmanu ensis. “Not now,” suid he, My wifo “ised tc my writing for me, but she went toa waw's rights meeting last winter and that | ended it said no woman of spirit would allow aliusband to dictate to er.” SOME 1ALF Atlanta v be a statesman With a great, hizh-sounding name, But he must have rocks. oc abandon If he would climb to fame, rRUTH onstitution, A man ma octes, The poet writes a deathless lay or a dollar a 3 But the b sball slugger When the ball goes over the fenco. A good man proad But wo call him dull and And few there bo that hear Or heod his warniug cry. But a faith-cure doctor comes Aud handies the bivle roueh And you hear a shout from throng: “God bless us! that's the stuff 1 iith, Gray & Co.’'s Monthly: Landlady ~Mrs, Lanzuid will wot come down to har meals any longer on account of her dyspep- sin. She has such a disagreeable feeling of fuliness after cating, poor de Professor Oldboarder -Pray atulations, Mrs. Livern may acquire the listening give her my and a similar fecl- Harvard Lampoon: Pugilist to design mea crest with an motto, Dosigner--Here's just what you dukes rampant and the motto, * el [ want appropri ou ate nt: two 3lood Will A NECESSARY BVIL, Dinvor Sun Oh, for & dungeon in Cuba, Or a rosvite on some loncly pass, A few minutes somewhere—anywhoerd Away from that “Keep OIf the Grass.” hington Post: *\What is that? roommate @ he noticed a riend was looking at. id Charloy, whose eyes ancholy promise ted manusc “That,” rosting on the m sister to him, “is a were bo a ipt.” A FISH STO Detroit Free Pre A bito! u bite! The hine 1 feel a sudden thrill A mighty swish Procliins a fish Las long as this: Alas! alas! Tt comes to pass (As oft it has with you, 1 wish). I puil him out tro 1 Come to Omaha. Hastings Bepubl The next uational republican cor should be held in the west. And Omaha is the most desirablo place for the same to be held. IN ACE 10N, tFre the dizzy Will Hawkins in Doty He met hor at the seusi whirl, A symphony of pink and white, a lovely sum mer girl The bursting passion in lns breast was it alarmed b S0 traly and complet charmed him, ¥ had the lovely visi and in his strong athleti He told his lovo arms eneased | Unut her eracking tighitly ho cmbr 'bones procjaimed how hor. ho fe i She did not faint nor did 1 the slig est touch of dizziness, tain o ture's bu Atures the o was And oft in such encouuters she has been an casy viet For sho traveled with a circus and charmed i boa-constrictor. | nave taken tho ¢ | Boss Lea its | ¢ - | small | rights Fanerer, Cosy., June 17.—In the valley back of tho Fairfield quarey thore is a colony tal oad h thoy wore confined in the mines of bt here to contractors who nl nard big aud an I8 the mon ho is king and will imprison them forever if ho chooses. Ho hires them in New York as thoy rrive, and knowing nothing of tho cust the . thoy Thoy are paid §1.35 por day by a systom of extortion s taken fr. s whoso lives aro alinost as wore b by o mon railrond itracts for the now re i charge of Foreman [ work on tho hoy 1o, who carries igly knifo. Het vevolver soon a8 i country coadily belicve him but at overy d it 1pt w m them vas formerly tho custom to take up sub- ac us from them on various pretoxts, If one A strange Thow who § expected to contribute § ofused Lo was discharged and without money were also dischar managed ian country protested i subserip- ronch gang 0 pretet or Micial with present tho a gold watch av ¢ thon a diawond ame man wit for some other ofticial, and so on. o day oue of the Mt to the men and said that he had lost bhis pocketbook con d that they contribe As & mark of theirestoen around and Tho hat was passed raised. Al had to vontribute endont ‘I lied it was reported to the poor fellows that tho ratroad requived ' Lo Fase A big sum to buy flowors, They T'he men stop in a low shed t three hundred fect long built liko hie ouly means of ventilation being window #t ono end. The air is stiil g and the thermometor at 100 degrees, When Seinto assumed control ho estab- lishied 5 store house on the grounds and the moen wero ordered to buy everything of hin Since then the subscrintions have not bee taken up. As soon as loarned talk English he was discha for Sci had no uso for any man who u od 1 His pricos were double the usual the articles he sold. For the uight us Lo shanty, which was compuisory, ho charged them §120 per month. When the wen are sick they are not allowed to have o doctor but must buy medicine which Seinto ps 1 stock and take it until they are uear- Iy al death’s door, whoen they are sont to the lospitals in New Ydrk, ccompanied by wn oficer tora reporter intory followed by twonty Seinto erabbed the interp began to shake bim. The officer in the party displayed his badge and said that man alone: ho is in a free coun- oo, st of try now. toat once called his 1s0n said today Juring the past six months a dozon Ital- < iaus have come here for troit oont and sa that if Scinto learned of it they would bo disS charged, One man, who owed me §2, sent that by a friend, as he dared not come 1o mo again. The interprotor said that there wero four others at the shanty who nooded treat- ment but dare not coun - BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE, men away. Dr. at Blast It Was New Youk, Juno 17.—-On a high cliff south of Bothlehem, N, Y., there assombled a larzo crowd of veople, numbering over five thoi- ud persons. They expeeted to witness tho greatest dynamito blast on It was supposed to rend in fracments tie big limo- stone quarry of Petor Callahau of Albany, by the use of 5,000 pounds of the explosive. Governor Hill, Mayor Manning of Alvany, and the members of the common council of that city, with well kuown persons were present., But the gigantic blast promisod did not take place, Tho 137 big dynamite cartridges which had been placed thirty feet deep in the limestone quarry, twoenty feet apar councetod by four isulated W switchboard. When the signa Miss Helen Catlanan, daughter of yhe’ owner of the quarry, pressed the button but no explosion followed. Experts said the wire bad been cut, probably a discharged emplove, but au investigation failed to estab- lish this ana it was thought that the wires wero defeetiv Mr. Callahan and an electrician went to the quarey and attached fuses to the car: tridges. By this means they wero again fgnited and three explosions Tollowed, cach of which was heard for miles, butiihe off was of course by no means as starui impressive as it would hive been had tho blasts all been fired at once. Tho work was done, ho wd the big ledgo was rent and sphint 11 was estimated that 60,000t placed, Tmmense bo 1 into the or, only to f into fragménts on the porier visited the seono after tho las Phoe explosions had mado immenso fissures in the rocks, while scattered all over pund were pieces of limestone which Iy howed out as h thoy had 1 through rushiig mi e yevort the explosion was uing. ‘Thoe carth was shaken for nany iles and many men said afterwards that tio detouations produced headach Au oxpert in blasting, whilo speakinge to i reporter, sald: L think itis a providential thing that all the dynamite was ot exploded at once, for if it had been all the windows for miles about would have been shattercd aud some people perhaps killed, 1 think wen who ithin a quarter of o wmile of those blasts wero Wmnting ful Comptrotics Colgan Dented Tt Sreranminto, Cal., 17,1t is denied lor ilure, but record. other or as of rock worn buck and | e vocks bel brole A plosion remnined June ptr san has said ho wo warrant for & world’s fair. I sidored the matte 10,000 opri arthermore, he At ail Comptroller € wwror when it comes befors b ot befor - Mitable Trip, v Wave, K. Rosowater of T cat good for tho adya Be a [ Tho trip of Hon, Bee will result in Mr., [tosewater will mike of the system the Wil in this ¢ horough old world, ly rrjury. as her The p ana pu 0 poor ns- ar. [ frau ty and perjut sessment Ap| of mon taxation s a premi nshone Highest of all in Leavening Power,— Lz = Baking - Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE