Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 27, 1891, Page 4

THE DATLY BEE E. ROSEWATER Enrror l"l'llIAI‘Hl‘l)r EVERY MORNING. TFRME OF SURSCRIPTION, Dafly Ree (without Sunday) One Year.... Daily and Sunday, One Yoar Bix months Three months Bunday Bee, One Year Saturday Beo, One Your Weekly Bee, One Year OF FICES Omnha, The Tes Bullding. Eouth Omaba, Corner N and Counell Blufrs, 12 Pearl Street, Chiongo Ofiee, 317 Chamber of Commeree. New York, Roons 13,14 and 16, Tribune Buliding Washington, 513 Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE Al communications relating to news and editoria] matter should be addressed tc the Editorial Departn BUSTNES: Allbusiness let be nddressed to The Bee Pubiist Omaha. Drafts, checks pos 1o be made payuble to the order of the com pany. The Bee Publishing Company. Proorifors THE BEE BUILDING. P Sl LA LR e CIRCULATION th Streeta ounty of 1 2 yrgn 11, T rotary of The Beo Publishin dovs solemnly swonr that the cir of Tuk DALY BER for the weok ending June 2, 1501, was as fol- Jowa Bundny 106y Tune 14 20.240 Tine 15 wesdiy, June 16 Wodnesday, Ju Thursday. i Friday, fune 6 Baturday, Jun 8,530 vereeeress 26,002 1. TZS0HUCK, bed In my AVOLagE. s iv s vivices GEOR( Eworn to befora me avd siibs ence this 20th day of June, 1% prestico this 20th day of June, f0L Notary Public. Ftato of Nobraska, Véa being duly sworn, de- otary of THE BEE actual average B for the forJuly coples: poses und s ublishing company. that t dally efrculation of THE DALY month of June, 189, svas <051 6opl 1600, 20,607 ; st for Septem . sples; 1800, 20,762 ¢ November, obruary. 18 25,412 coples: for M 24,065 coples: f April, 1891, 2,928 copies May. 1801, 5. 3 Tascn worn to before sseribed in my presence this 2d day of June, A, . 1501 N P. Frim, Notary Publ LEATER FROM MI. ROSEWATER. It is with pleasuro Tune BEE an- nounces the first European letter from Mr. Rosewnte While it was written before Mr. Rosewater had landed at Southampton, it full of interest. He contrasts the vo of today in the good ship Normannin of the Hamburg- Amorican packet line with the voyago of 37 yeurs nzo in the sailing vessel in which, when u boy, ho took passage for America. This letter will appear in THE SUNDAY BER. Unless something unoxpected happens Mr. Rosowator’s next letter will treat of his first im- pressions of London and the English poople. REMOVAL from Tecland to Alaska can- not be called loaping from the frying pan into tho firo, though as a dilomma the horns are little if any moro at- tractive. IN SPITE of the low temperature and humidity of the atmosphere at Lincoln, Steward Liveringhouse feels very much as if he were in close proximity toa very hot furnac LOCAL allinnces are devoting consid- erable time these days to fomenting in- ternal dissensions, They will find it far more profitable to study the warchouse law and get ready to take advantage of its beneficent provisions. GOVERNOR THAYER isright in urging the board of public lands and buildin to go through the accounts of the Hast- ings usylum from the date when it was oponed. The people desire a thorough i tion of the institution. TowA needs a warehouse law similar to that in force in Nebraska. The re- publican state convention at Cedar Rapids will do well to pledge the party to the enactment of such a measure. Tt will help local produce centors and prove beneficial to produce THE North Dakota allinnce platform demands a silver dollar worth 100 cents, favors a mortgage tax, an income tax, prohibition and woman’s suffrage. The North Dakota alliance has loaded itself to the guards. No party can carry all those planks in o single platform, CANDIDATES for Judge Hamer's seat on the Twelfth district bench are put- ting up lightning rods from the top of nearly every courthouse in the district. Kearnoy presonts the war-worn names of two gentlemen who not many moons since were shining lights in the democ- racy. KANSAS fouds are almost as deadly as those of the Kentucky mountain: The denth of Sam Wood appears to bo a so- quel to the Stevens county seat war and the attempt to impeach Judge Botkin. In both theso somewhat sensational pro- coedings the dead alliance polit was a consplouots figure, INASMUCH s the warehouse act does not becomeo a law until August 1, under the decision of the attorney general, the state board of transportation can first turn its attention to o schedule of maxi- mum freight rates. The warehouse law will tuke care of itsolf for a weck or two while the board attends to its lar busine reg NORTHWESTERN T0WaA has folt the power of the eloments and many homes are in mourning for the loss of loved ones, Thousands of dollurs worth of stock has porished and hundreds of peo- plo are temporarily homeless. The catastrophe is awful, but thus far no wall of destitution has come up from the distressod people. Should they be in need the surrounding rogions will oh fully respond with substantial assist- ance. Tue Kearney Hub wants the ropubli- can leaguo of Nebraska to wake up and got to wor The league ought to arouse itself no doubt, but its sluggisi ciroulation does not quickon much over the coming campaign. The election of justice of the supreme court and two rogents 1s not & very inspiriting political elixir. Nevertheless The ek soconds the motion to have tho league put in a fow wooks of campaigning between now and November, THE OMAHA DATLY BEE WIDOWS' PENSION CLAIMS, The announcement that for the next six weeks the work of the pension office will be chiefly devoted to the settlement of the pension clanims of soldiers’ widows will be gratifying inteliigence to the thousands of women whose hope for future means of subsistence rests largely upon securing a pension from the go ernment. It ought to be the rule of the pension office, if it is not, that these claims should receive the first attention, 80 that there would be the least delay possible in passing upon them. They make the strongest of appeals to the beneficance of the government, and overy consideration urges that they should be pushed to settlement as rap- idly as is compatible with a propor in- vestigation, Commissioner Raum is to be heartily commended for the interest he is manifesting in this class of claims, and none will so warmly appreciate his action in behalf of the soldiers’ widows a8 the veterans themselves, even though it should somewhat delay the settlement of their cls The number of widows’ claims await- ment is not stated, but it is probably large, and when one reflects upon the great store of comfort and happiness which the allow- ance of these claims will ecarry to thousands of worthy women it is im- possible not to feel a stronger devotion to the government and to reject the iden that its wide-reaching and beneficence imposes any veal burden upon the people, The annual pension charge is large, but every dollar of it goes to an honored and most meritorious clasgs of our citizens, to distributed again through the channels of business, and it is what the nation justly owes to the men who presorved it and to their widows and orphans, Itis due to the present administration to say that none of its predecessors since the pension sys- tem established showed solicitude for those entitled to the bounty of the government, A republican gress redeemed the pledge of the parf to the old soldiers, and a repablican ad- ministration is faithfully earrying out what the reprosentatives of the people provided for ms, ing sett generous be was greator con- IMPORTANT FINANCIAL QUESTION The country will probably learn within the next fow days what is to boe the policy of the udministration rezard- ing two very important financial ques- ns. One of these relates to the exten- sion of 44 per cent bonds at a reduced rate of interest; the other to continuing the coinage of silver after July 1, and it is presumed a decision as to both of these questions was reached at the cab- inet meeting yestorday. With rogard to silver, tho secrotary of the treasury holds that it is discrevion- ary with him as to how much will be coined in future, but this construction of the silver law of the last congress is not gonerally aceepted. It is urgod against it that the act of 1800 not only made no provision for continued coinage of silver, but expressly required that the coinage of $2,000,000 a month under previous enactments should be stopped July 1, 1891, except upon distinetly specified conditions. The act authorizes the sec- retary of the treasury to coin into stand- ard dollars only so much of the bullion purchased as may be required to ro- deom notes outstanding, and unques tionably it was understood to be the in- tent of the act to put an end to the coin- ing of stundard dollars and to substitute for them in the circulation treasury notes issuod against the bullion purchased, and redesmable in gold or silver coin If the view of the secretary is correct and is made the policy of the govern- ment, we shall simply go on coining sil- ver dollars to be piled away in the treas- ury vaults, which certainly seems to be a wholly useloss proceeding, eoven if no harm should come of it. The sagges- tion that the sccratary of the treasury or the president is disposed to favor the extreme silver element in this matter is pure assumption. There is no reason to believe that the views of Prosidont Harrison reg: silver have undergone any change, while as to Secretary Foster, he made his position ontirvely clear in his address to the Ohio ropublican convention. He is a friend of silver and belioves that the polic, that ought to be pursued in this country should be such as to retain for the basis of our financial operations both metals, There ean be no doubt that the adminis- tration is entirely friendly to silver, but there is not the least danger that it can be induced to favor free aund unlimited coinage. As to the plan of bond extension, it will doubtless be adopted and the rate of interest fixed at 2 per cent. The condi- tion of tho treasury and the interests of the money market seem to render this highly expedient if not an imperative necessity. rding MISREPRE HE POSITION. The New York Zimes, veforring to the attitude of the press of the northwest and of the southwest about immigration, doos not fairly state the public senti- ment of those soctions. It is not sur- prised to find the northwestern and southwestern press diametrically op- posed to the piess of the more thickly settled parts of the country, because the groat need of a new country is labor, and the Times says: *'So long as the in- flow of immigration means a cossion to tho ranks of bodied and willing laborers, matter how alion or ignor- ant or unskilled theso may be, the people of & now country will wel- ome it, and will receive with equa- namity whatever of helpless pauperism and of crime and of anarchism it may bring in its teain.” This will not apply to any portion of the northwest or of the southwest, whose arding the groat ac- uble- no people are as solicitous re character of immigration as those of New York or Massachusetts. The sire in those sections is as strong as in any other for the exclusion from the country of paupers and criminals, and as to anarchism it is a which is hugely The peoplo of the nc of the want mitted into the country who isnot capa ble of self-support, but they insist that for men and womosn who have the abil ity and the will to work, and who come hore intending to establish become good citizens, th de- bugbear wtod and ad- hwost no southwest one homes and > is still room SATUKRPAY, JUNE and opportunity. Such pooplo aro | both encouragwmnnt and enthusinsm if needed to help in the development of our resources, and every such one has & positive value as a contributor to the productive power and and to the wealth of the nation. It 1s altogether possible that undesirable persons will into the country, however thorough the in- spection or rigid the restrictions, but shall we shut the gates against the thousands of worthy and desirable peoplo who come to us with the best intentions in order to keep out the very fow who are not of this class? The law passed by the last congress, if thoroughly executed, will reduce the number of undesirable persons coming into the country to very small proportions, and the people of the northwest and the southwest are as anxious as those of any other section that this law shall be rigidly enforced. got MARY S AVENUE GRADE, It is rumored that many of the prop- erty owners affected by the St. Mary’s grade will resist the awards made by the board of appraisers. This will delay that important enterprise. It is to be hoped the gentlemen property is damaged will not be blind to the immense benefits which a proper grade of St. Mary’s avenue will be to the city at large and property within the improvement district in particular. At present the lower end of St. Mary’s avenue is worthless so far as business is concorned. The failure of the people to appreciate the importance of a good grade sevoral years ago s recogni to have been a so ous misfortune. It is always expensive to correct mistakes of this character. It costs less to dothe right thing in grad- ing, paving and otherwise improving a city at the beginning than in after years when necessity compels tho error to be corrected. It will never cost less than now to bring the St. Mary’s avenue dis- trict into proper relations with sur- rounding districts, It should be done now. This depression filled and the Douglas street hog back reduced, will make the central section very presentable and vastly improve the vaiue of every lot and building within its boundaries. Should Mr. Kountze open up his heirt and enable the city to establish a central market on the land between Seventeenth and Twentieth streets, adjacent to St. Mary’s avenue the value of all this prop- erty for business will be vastly improved. Unless the estimates of damages are ex- tremely low there is scarcely a property owner in the district comprehended who cannot well afford to ive every cent and assist in bringing about this very important improvement. THE BEE hopes nothing will be allowed either to prevent or delay the work. It is worth all it can reasonably cost. OMAHA’S postoffice servico has never been in better hands than today. Post- master Clarkson is a wide-awake citizen, o pushing, intelligent ofticer, fully ap- previating the extent and importance of his duties. Inspector Browne is an old postal employe. Ho knows the business by long, faithful and efficient service. He seconds the efforts of the postmaster and the department to improve the service of the Omaha post- office. It is to these gentlemen this city owes the addition of six new clerks in the office and 16 new letter car- riers for the free delivery force. Post- master General Wanamaker learned to his gratification when here that both these gentlemen are reliable servants of the government, and when they recom- mended an increase of the force he read- ily nssented knowing that Browne was thoroughly acquainted with the city’s needs, and Clarkson competent to dircot the details incident to the improvement of its postal sorvice. avenue whose now PROIIBITIONIS everywhere are liable to a fanaticism which carries thelr zeal and enthusiasm heyond reasonable limits. This is illustrated by the con- duct of the *‘enforcement committee’ in South Dakotn. Although scores of saloons are running wide open in the state and the committee would have its hands comfortably full looking after open violutions of the law, it profers to make itself and the law obnoxious by sending its spies into the privacy of the homes of citizens todetect them in sorv- ing liquor at meals or in their families. The effect of such despicable methods is not to break down the evils of the traffic, but to make the law oppressive and un- poputar. If this course is pursued with any degree of vigor there is no doubt about the abandonment of prohibition in South Dakota. THE city council having cringingly complied with the demand of tho water- works company, that corporate monop- oly has graciously consented to lay its mains on North Twentieth street so that the paving may proceed. Sooner or later the people will olect a city govern- ment which will have backbone enough to assort the rights of taxpayers s against franchised corporations. The test of power must sooner or later he made, and the sooner the better, UNLESS the storms continue and undo the good work which the earlier rains accomplished the season will be remark- ablo for the yield of small grain, F quent rains and cool weather are hold- ing back the corn but unless these continue there is plenty of time for corn to grow and mature before frost. We still believe this is to be the farmers’ yoar of jubilee, As THE investigations of the board of county commissioners proceed the in- equalities, luations and genoral car snoss of the assessors and the unscemly rottenness of the whole revenue system, as applied to this omissions, unc county, ure more and more striking. MR, LIVERINGHOUSE'S style of finan- cloring is decidedly original but not honest. His admissions to the board of public lands and building sufficient to show thut he has no busi sont the any fidu ity. es8% L0 repro- state in lary capac- ment, but not 1onts mado by that will would be THERF thusiasm in the the board of publie upon streot is encourng on- works work improvements There soon hegin and 1 d of future tense were the rhoetorie of the pard of public works, t work” better than jor way.” the present inst more froquent chairman of th Wo all like * “soon will be THE week's packing report for the westorn packipg establishments show an aggregate ” dacrease of 725,000 hogs as compared vfin* the pack of last year. Chicago fallseff 150,000, Kansas City 177,000, Sioux City 116,000, Omaha 12,000. In other words Omaha is steadily gniningon Kunsas City in spite of the decreaso in the numbor of hogs packed this THE Towa republican state convention meets at Coadar Rapids next Wednesday. This date must not be qverlooked by the Omaha business organizations which will exert themselves to the next national republican convention. secure THE more the affairs of the Hastings asylum are examined into, the eclearer does it appear that the management has been grossly inefficient and extravagant if not positively corrupt. SOME of the asphalt paving of “‘class " is making a poor showing as to dura- bility. On at least one street carriage tracks can be seen in the pavement for blocks, mation of tho with the beneficial THE proposed amalg: grain and produce exchange board of trade promises to be to both organizations. UNLESS the new asphalt company furnishes a hottor quality of paving material than the old one, it will not be particularly welcome. ADVERTISING Omaha in eastern news- papers at card or column rates is about as profitloss as pouring water in o rat- hole. SIXT lettor s on and after July 1 is arother indication of the apidity of Omaha’s growth. mor arriel Ir WE secure the republican national convention it will be by pushing our claims early and vigorously OMAFA is proud of her high school, proud of its forty graduates and proud of her public school system. THAT St. Mary’s avenue grade should not wait another year. Cleveland Leader (rep.) It is a soldiers’ ticket, a sound money ticket, and an American ticket, and will sweep things in November, gl e Repenting the Krror. lobe-Democrat (rep.) No less than twenty-fivo sub-alliances in Kansas havo repudiated the action of the Jincinnati convention and similar reports come from Towa and Nebraska. The farmers are beginning o 362 that tho proposod new varty is only a dovice to promote democratic interests and purposes. e itepes ST SRR Unconscious Humor. New Yark Advertiser. The weather is warm and nows is_scarco, ana ex-Congressman John A. McShane of Nobraska—orstwhile warm friend of Grover Cleveland—has nominated Chiof Justico Melville Westou uller, for president, mustache and all. We shall have a groat deal of this style of unconscious humor as the season advances. SR Utah's Admission. St. Louts tiobe-Democrat (rep.) The Mormon party in Utah is disbanded and the opposing organization, thorefore, will 0 to piocos, as it has no further necessity for being. Steps will then bo taken for the formation of parties which will divide on na- tional issues. With the abolition of polyg- amy, which is probably now complote, the sola reason for keeping Utah in the torritorial stago will bo romoved. When the country becomes convinced that the “twin relic” has actually gone to join the oue destroyed in the civil war, Utal's admission to statehood will bo at hand. New York “Isn't in 16" New York Advertiser, A desperate strugglo is going on botwoen Chicago and Omaha for the republican na- tional coavention. Oshkosh some timo ago saw the futility of remaining in the coutost, and is now no loager in it. Kulamazoo did not enter at ail. Tho fight has already got to that pownt where Omaha boldly proclaims herself the peer of Chicago, sociaily, politic- ally and commerciatly. As for hotols and boarding houses for tho uccommodation of larie assemblies, Omaha prints a list to show that she has them. 'There are also some fonudations laid for others, and somo vacant lots are being cleared off. New York will watch the progress of this contest—possibly with a view to securing the boue of conten- tion herself. The Foe of Republican Liberty. Harper's Weekly (Ind). Theve are droll people who apparently fancy that they commend themselves to ad- miration by saying that they huve never voted any ticket but the republican or the demo- cratic. 1f they tell the truth, they exult in having been often led by very contemptible leaders, Independont voting is the result of the common sense and self respect which re- strain the excoss of party spirit—a force which is zealously fostered by Mr. Quay and Governor Hill and Tammany nall, but which Washington oxhoried to restratn, Ho was, porhaps, as seusivle and patriotic and wise as they. It s party sirit, not sympathy with a gonoral party tendsncy, which has created the party maching—a power without princi ple of auy kind except plunder, and which has developed pateonage into s vait system of partisan briber¢’by public monoy. This is il very elementgry, for full grown Awmeri- cans, But the party spirit which sueers at independence, and governs by the corruption of money and terre, 1 tyo real foe of ropub lican liberty. The bulwark of that libeity is political indepondpua —r— WEARY OF Bill Nye. Ob, I'm weary of doing the proper thing; U'm tived of doing as I am told; I want to hear tho bublfrobg, And smoll the fresh wet mold. Oh, it's take mo fingor bowi awa And make me waneo more a boy, With a sun-burned wedge down the spine of me_buck, While I whoop with the hoi volloi. Oh, mo swailytail hurts me under the arms, And mo patent loathors are hot aud tight For Loo Loo McCallister's lost his coarms Aud I'm homesick and woary touight. I sich for the song of the katydid When mo heart was alive with joy, When I bathed me feot iu the long, wet grass | Aud belonged to the hoi polloi I want to get shet of me manioure sett, Aud dig In the dirt ana the dew, I want to eat onions, and thon fo All the whole world, mo darlin’, but you, D'l put me foot on the eseretoiry, And let no scallops me I want to forget the days, you t IYLE. 27 Since wo shook the hoi poll 1891-TWELVE N OURS. The Britlsh government stands pledged, in bringing forward tho fres education bill, to the most important advance in public in- struction that has been made in twonty yoars, It was only as late as 1370 that tho government bogan to oxercise systematic control over publio Instruction In England. Tho olomontary education act of that yoar Rave to the nation unsectarian schools, at- tondanco at which was compulsory on all children botween five aud thirteon years of age, and in which it was obligatory that suf- ficient accommodation be provided for all en titled to attend. But the schools were not free. A small foo was imposed upon each scholar, which the school board might romit in special cases, but which was, of course, generally oxacted, often to the distress of parents whose children were many and whose income was small, This s was amended in 1573, 1876 and in 1850, in minor details; but not until now has it been proposed to offoct such a radical chango as the abolition of fees. Tho presont moasure provides that thero shall bo paid out of tho national treasury o “fee grant” in aid of elomentary education at tho rave of 10 shil lings—or #2.50—a yoar for sach child between fivo and fourteen years of age in averawe attendance at any public day school. In tho generality of schools all fees from scholars are to bo abolished. Ina fow spocial cases however, it will still bo lawful to exact such fees, not exceeding 12 cents a week for each child; and for children under five and over fourteen years old fees not excoeding 4 and 6 cents oach per weok, respectively, may be charged. The practical result will be such o systom of free education in England and Wales as Scotland sinco 1850 already enjoys. The expense to the government will bo con- siderablo--810,000,000 & year, Mr. Goschen has estimated it. There were 1n 1580 no less than 19,310 schools in England and Wales, with accommodations for 5,440,441 scholars, and an average attendanco of 3,082,625, At £2.50 por capita, according to those returns, the *feo grant” would neod to bo more than $0,200,000 8 y Two or three interesting things concerning the relations between England, Italy and tho triple alliance have come to the surface. It appears first that Italy has not yet rencwed tho treaty with Germany and Austria, be- cause sho is waiting to see what part England proposes to play vefore committing herself. The triple alliance has bean an oxpensive bar- gain for Italy, forcing her to impoverish hor treasury to keep up the armament required by 1ts torms, and ¢iving hervery little 1 return, not even proper protection to hor long and exposed const line. Just now this is a pecu- liarly sensitive point with Italy, bocause of her anxiety lest France should attempt to control the Mediterrancan by menacing hor coast upon that_side, and therefore this de- sire for some definito assurance of support from Englaud. Al this shows that the re- ports that Eogland had joined the allianco were at least premature, although not neces- sarily misleading, for Rudini's reported refusal to sign a remewal of the treaty until England's purposes were known may only mean that Italy insists upon definite pledges instoad of wen- eral promises. That some kind of an under: standing with England exists has been ad- mitted in the commons, but it is probably uot clearly enough defined so that it could ve called a compact or agreement to defend the Italian const agaiust Franco, as Prince Napo- leon said it was. The other interesting fact 15 that the striking articlo iu the Contem- porary Review on the condition of Italy was nov writton as hias been generally supposed, by Signor Crispi, but by Jessie Whito Mario, the Eoglish widow of tho patriot Alberto Mario. This authorship robs the article of political significance, and leaves 1t sunply tho expression of a very compotent ohserver of the events and conditions with wuich she is surrounded. Thero is said to be a good deal of uncasi- ness among Christians in the Levant at the signs of increasing fanaticism among the urks. A few weoks ago four Christian boy's, employed by a foreign merchant at Smyraia to collect bulbs, disappeared myste- riously. A little later the romains of their dead bodies were found, and it was plain that an attempt had been made to burn them Such evidence as was obtained in relation to the affair pointed to the commission of a re- ligious outrage, but no one was arrosted. Again, during the feust of Ramadan, Suid Bey, amajor in the Turkish army, and a mau of elightened idoas, was accused by a Mollah of smoking during the fast, and was arrested. The court martial applied to the supreme roligious court for ad- vice, avd recoived a gencral judgmont to tho effect that failure to observe the Ramadan fast was a mortal sin, Noithor tho religious court nor the court-martial ventured to con- demn Said Bey to death, but the unfortunate mau was found dead in his cell, and it was given out thav he had committed suicide. When a post-mortem was demanded, the authorities said that tho body had been buricd and could not be exhumed. It is also noted that denunciations of Christianity are becoming more froquent inthe mosques, and that Turkish paronts havo been forbidden to send their children to Christian schools. A high Turkish ofticial is said to havo di red recently that 9) per cent of his countrymen were now fana i Tho decision of the czar as arbitrator of tho dispute between France and Holiand in Guiana is a great shock to the Fronch, It was thought in Paris that o great diplomay advantage had been gained when tae czar was accopted as umpire by Holland, and verdict, which thom of vich and covetad territory, has disappointed them bit- erly, and has filled their minds with doubts tas to the sincerity of that Russian friendship of which they felt so secure. Thay were en- couraged a little by his tardy consont to pay an informal visit to the French oxhibi- tion in Moscow, but are beginning now to fear that in doing this bi ject was not so much to ploaso Franco us to excito tho apprebension of Gormany and gain @ point in the economic negotiations going on between St. Petorsburg and Berlin Avall events it is plain that the Gallic cn thusiasm for the Muscovite has oxporlonced @ sudden chill, the symptoms of which may be discerned iu the sudden discovery by tho Paris newspbapers that the treatment of the Jews in Russin has been ful The ‘Pemps, which is not a Semitic Journal, found out the other day that the Jewish persecu- tious constituted a violent blow to the best fruit of the E'rench revolntion, his deprives disgrac Francis Joseph has reversed tho policy of his Austrian winister as unbesitatingly as ho began it twelvo years hus accomp: lished its purpose, Tk | ascendanoy of the house of complete in all its dom ago |1 persor Hapsburg was ne It can now to the support of the German core kingdom. The G 1 to the last election, moro turn f the eral party had, up 15 members out of a chamber of 353 seats. [t was cut down at the lst eleetion to 110, losing in elsewhere to a radical reaction, and in Vienna to a conservative exprossed in the success of With the ad five, ulways cast sc however, for a 1 Taffe's new p B s find their ership of Austria i omporor in the h 3,000,000 in_Austria, ¢ Bohemia and ronaissan the anti-Semite candidates f the Galician vote of id, the sixty muterials oxist support of Count Tho Czech extremists of Jay is over, and the lead placed by the 0,000,000 Gor- 1 of the ton ority in 1s of the it one-Lhir vided between alitics, PAGES. GRAVE CHARGE AGAINST HIM. Firoman on Trial for Firing His Own Dwelling, WRANGLING OVER PROSPECTIVE SPOILS. Curious Complication in a Damage Suit—Divorce Suit Brings Up a Peculiar Question on the Marriage Laws, Lixcory, Neb. Junoe [--Special to Tue | Brr.j—~Jacob A. Morrow, ex-captain of en #ino house No. 8, has beon on trial yesterday and today on tho grave charge of arson. Tho | prosecution alloges that Morrow sot firo to his house for the supposed purpose of gotting the insurance and avoiding the payment of cortain mortgages. Tho testimony agaiust Morrow has boen very strong. Kire Chiof Newborry testified that when ho arrived on the scone he found that Morrow was not using the proper methods that a man of his experience should use in putting out fires; that instead of cutting a holo i tho ceiling to et at the seat of tho fire Morrow had caused @ hole to bo cut in the wall, which added o draught to tho blaze; that Morrow handled tho fire in an incompetent manner; that ho tried to avoid the chief, mado contradictory statements concerning tho fire in the second story and had disobeyed orders in not having & man to watch tho telephone whilo the other firemea slept. The chief also Identifiod some preces of partially burned weather boarding which had been cut from Morrow's house and which smelled of kerosene. Fireman Pawcett testified that the nozzle of one of the hose lines was stopped up and would throw only a small spray. On exami- nation cinder was taken out of tne nozzle by Morrow. Other firomen testified to tho samo fact. FOUGHT OVER THE SPOILS. A fow months ago Gottlieb Winninger was | allowed $0,442 damages in the district court for aamages received in a runaway caused by the alleged blowing off of steam by a Mis souri Pacific engine. [t has developed tnat since that timo thece has boon a fiorce fight going on for the spoils, and the result is some startling revelations. In the first place Bil- lingsley & Woodward filed a lion upon balf the .m‘h:m\'m. for attorney foes. Willis . Sawyer, Winninger's employer, n to manifest considerable interest in Winninger, and shortly afterwards laid claim 10 half of the judgment. Wiuninger's attor- neys, nowever, declined to have both halves taken from their client. Fiually, it is al- Snwyer duced Winninger to sign 0 his interest in the judgment for £3,000, Sawyer giving therefore a note for that amount and which is reputed to bo al- most worthless, Sawyer thon went to the railroad company and offerod to compromise the maiter for #,500. He made some aston- ishing statements which opened the oyes of the railway officials. Thoy learned from Sawyer that Winninger was drunk at tho time'and that the runaway had been caused, not by the locomotive, buv by the breaking of tho rotton old hay rack. Winninger’s at- torneys are also implicated, as_ Suwyer says that they made up the story about the blow- ing off of steam. Afidavits to that effect wero read in court. When Judgo Iield had heard the testimony adduced he intimated that he would like to hear what Mr. Winninger had to say about the case. His attorneys, however, pointed out tho delicate situation in which 'he was placed and declined to pormit him to testify as it would certainly lead to his arrest for perjury. At the conclusion Judgo Field said he Woald set aside the verdict given in favor of Winninger and grant a now trial. At the same timo he called the atteution of the county atiorney to the fact that perjury had been committed in the caso and asked” that stops be taken to bring the guily parties to Justice, IS 1T HUMOR OR MALICE} Owing to the possible malico of a certain proportion of the local press and the intended facotiw of the remaindor the improssion has ot abroad throughout the state that Mayor Wair has presented a bill to the city of Lin- coln for over $200 for makiug a speceh at tho reception to President Harrison o fow weeks ago. The fact is that the bill to be d s for the v tion of the president, and is in every way, so far as know, logitimate. The oxponses of the local committeo to Denver and return is £0, decorating, 319; labor, $0: hack hire, $63; other oxponscs, § 3125 total, WAS THE MARRIAGE VOID? The somewhat noted divorce case of nuel G. Owen vs Jeunio Owen is again in tho courts. The caso is now up on domurrer It will bo remembered that immediately after the lady secured her divorce frrom her first husband sho and Owens_ went to Coun- cil Biuffs to got married. They wero re- fused alicense, but managed to secure one in KKansas City. Insideof three months after getting marriod each sued for a divorce. Yosterday Mr. Owen withdrew the reply and cross-petition that he had herctofore filod and set forth a demurrer claiming that the marriago in IKansas City was unlawful under the laws of Nebraska and thereforo absolutely void, because contracted within six months after Mrs. Owen had obtained a divorce from her formor husband. The main poiut argued is that the marriage of No braska people in some other state would not hold zood 1n that state as long as it was uot in accordance with the laws of the state in which they are residents. REPRESENTED AT THE TURNBEZIRK The following members of tho Lincoln turnvorein left last evening tor Frowout to take part in the aunual turnbezick of Ne- braska: Aifred Eisner, Charles Klos, Honvy Barth, George Viola, Hermann Bruegmana, Oscar’ Junge, Ernst Jurgonsen, Louis Iritsche, Louis Hosse, Houry Veith, William Linder and Dick Hollwig. ‘The were accom- panied by cight membors of the young ladies class—the Misses Martha Huaschenburger, Clara Wolf, Martha Hasso, Anna Hasso, tti Zeh, Minnie Schwartz, Lona Brockolmeyer and Jana Anthony, and five members of the pupils’ class—Otio Wittmann, Robert Wolf, Idmund ilaschenburger, K'réd Posker und George Ivers. SMALLPOX HAS APPEARE The smatlpox has finally reached Lincoln, having been brought hore by Thomas Malloy, @ young man who was exposed to the diseass whilo working on a farm near Benuett. The family at tho next house wero nearly all down’ with the dread disease. Malloy wus taken sick and came to his home at Twenty cond and Euclid avenue to be nursed. Dr Britt was called ana declared that the man was sufforing with tho smallpox. Health Oficer Bartram was informed of the fact and ordered to have the street fenced up imme- diately, and to tuke all other possible precau tions against tho spread of the disease. How many persons were exposed beforo the physician discovered what was the mat ter with Malloy is not known, but every effort will be made to quarantine every per- son whom it is positively known has been expose PIEPARED FOR BURIAL, The bodies of Brakeman Moore and En ginecr Delaney, tho vietims of yestorday’s wreck near York, were brought to Lincoln last night and prepared for burial. Mo was forty-two vears of age and leayes o wife and throo children av 820 South Twentioth streot. Deluney has a wifo at Blair. The semumns of Delaney woretaken this aftoraoon to B3lair and those of Moore to bis old home in Newell, O. ODDS AND ENDS Sometime between August 10 and Soptem 7 has been expected all along. ber 20 tho annual encampment of tho state militia will bo held. A morning paper attompts to dony the fact that the supreme court will on noxt Monday or Tuesday hand down & decision in the Ed oal murder case, and in the same breath In« timates that the secrot was given to Tik Brn by o recont employe of the supremo court Frod Waldley, 8 horse thiof, sentoncea to a yoar In tho pon, asks the suprome court to raverse the decision of the lower court. v 0 rocent rains have caused Salt creok to overtlow its banks and _cause tho douizons of the bottoms considerablo trouble, Cards are out announci the coming mar-. riage of Sam D, Cox of the Call to Miss vaura Thompson of Evansville, Ind., Juno 80. The coromony will be performoed at Grace Presbyterian church, Evansviilo. Mr. and Mrs, Cox will bo at home in Lincoln aftor Soptombor 1, 3. W. Hutcbison, charged with the murdor of Colia Jeunio Green on April 25, was ar rafgned In the district court this afternoon Ho pleadod not guilty and the caso was for September 15, tho first day of tho noxt term of court, At 3 o'clock this aftornoon lightaing struck the Iirst Congregational church, complotely domolishing a chimnoy and doing some other dawage. Tho janitor, Mr. Page, was in the building at the time and was knocked down by the force of the shock. - FISH OR CUT BAXT, Rep De Liscowy, Jlican Central Committee May iand Reduced Railroad Rates. Nob., June 2. —|Spocial to ik Bre,|—~Sincothe call for & meoting of tho republican state central committeo has been mado public by its chalrman, Hon, Jobn €. Watson, somo spoculation by the politieal clans hore has boon fudulged in s to the real object and meaning of the cail An Interview with several of the knowlng oues develops the fact that when tho republi- can committes convoues in this city on the ovoning of July %, it will then become known for tho first time that a majority of its mom- bors favor the passago of & resolution de- manding that the $tate board of transporta- tion proceed at onco to roduce the schedule of rates charged by tho several raflroads in this state. Itis argued by thoso best postad, with force, too, that if the stato board of transportation will take this matter up as it shouid, and act promptly in earrying out tho views oxpressed by the republicans of this state, through their state central committoo, at least ten thousand atliance votes can b | brought back to the rauks of the republican party this fall Miis would insuro to an almost dead cer- tainty the olection of the entire republican ticket at the forthcoming eloction, as woll as mako it possible for the republicans of this state Lo win in 18! A call for & mass convention has for somo time been in contemplation by the more inde- pendent republicans of this state looking for theadoption of a plauk covering idonticaily tho same ground as it is now rumored tho publican ceatral committeo will act upon at their forthcoming meeting; and it is said upon good authority that if such action is takon no further move will bo mado by the more indopondent and anti-machine element. of tho ropublican party in Nevraska towards compelling the state board of transportation to a0 its plain duty in the promises. An anti-monopoly republican said hero to- day: “It is a fact patent to minded republicans that the party has nover fulfilled the piedges which it has made so many times to the people of this state to ro- co rates. The stato board of transporta- has as yot to make its first order re- ducing railroad ratos. Tho demand mado upon the state central committes from ro- publicans in every quarter of the state is therefore timely. ~ Tho party must redeom its broken pledges now or suffor an ignominious dofeat at the hands of the people at the _polls this fall.” DoN. 1l honost, fair- L 10WA AND HER BOLES. St. Louis Republic (dem) Towa is one of the Boies that there.” Globe-Democrat (rep.) : Towa is a safe ro- publican state when that party makes no blunders. St. Louls Republic (dotn.) : The Towa demo- cem to think that “Cloveland and could not bo improvod on as a ticker Portiaps they are right. Kansas City Times (dom): lown puts Ohio's drummiod up McKinley enthusiasm clear out of sight. The scene which accom- paniod the renomination of Governor Boios wais @ spontancous outburst which will earry him to victory next fall. Chicago Herald (dem.): The election of Mr. Boies in 1550 was a great achievement, but, after all, it was only half a victory, This year the democrats of Towa should earry their ontire state ticket aund a mujority ii voth houses of the legislature. St Louis Globe-Democrat: Governor Boies' renomination, which has just occurred, Hois probably a stronger man than any other whum}}y’ Towa democrats could seloct. Av all -eymits by his victory two vears ago ho for thé- tin gained a prestige and a potency such 88 wo othor democrat in the Hawkeye state since the war has been able to achiove. s S PASSING JESTS, The governor of always ‘“got Perhaps the weather clerk borrowed I Deuel's skimmer for the bottom of his What is rarer than a drouth in June! Tho dude's corral opens today. Denver Sun: An nerease i crimo has followed thoe advent of the Salvation army at Butte, Mont. 1t fs understood that the army at Butte has two cornets, hington Star: She for the summer! Ho—significantly—I don't have to. Aro Roing you Epoch: Mrs. Bunhorton—I do so admiro your husband, Mrs. Higgins., Ho is s0 amiable. Mrs. Higgins—You must have other Mr. Higgins, met somo New York Sun: *Barrows lacks decision, Ho never goes one way or the other.” *“What could you cxpect! He has a porous plaster on bis back and another on his chest New York Telegram or less incoberently) —'Scuse me, miss Won't you take my -lic-—soatt Fair' Stranger—No, thank you, You a great deal more to carry than I have, Lushington (mor have HER WEAK POINT, Cloak Review Sho had a taste for color that was fine, She knew the range of boauty in a ling! Aud in costumes that wero fetching sho was Way beyond all catching, and her bonnots Were referred to as divino! Sho knew the subtlo art of woman's frills, And studied all the coquetey that kills, But in spite of all sho carvied, she was Never, novor married, for she dian's Have tho cash to pay the bills Detroit Freo Press: Waiter (to proprictor of a far wost restaurant) — Long-loggod dudo in the feedory says he cawn't oat pie with o knife Proprietor Waitor (iuterrupting) wanted o saw or a hite Tell him to go DI, Said he Stranvor, in Toxas (ontoring a ing & woman with a smoking loos this , madam{ Woman (pointing to man' kicking) My husban’ an’ me wuz quacralin', an’ tor soparate, an' 1 wuz only givin' him a partin’ shot. houso an pistol) Highest of all in Leavening Power, —Latest U, S. Gov't Report. Baking JZezesuo) ABSOLUTELY PURE Powder . (9