Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 29, 1891, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE E ROSEWATER, Eprron, f’Ulll.l‘le'il‘ FEVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION Dally Bee iwithout Sundey) One Yenr. Daiiy anil Sund Yor 8800 10 00 5 00 250 00 150 100 Sunday Hoe. rdny I kiy oo One Yenr 1 2th Streets. ot Bouth Omaha. cor, Counell s, Chicago O Now York. ltos Washinzton 15 Tribune Bullding 313 Forrteenth Stroct. CORRESPONDENCE. All comniunications relating o news and editorial mitter should be addressed to the Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS, AlLbusiiess fotters and romittances should he nddresse | o The lee Pablishing Conpany, Ownha. Drafis, echecks and postoflieo orders o b made pryablo W the order of the com- :fif&anu Publishing Company, Proprieters THE BEE BUILDING, SWORN STATEMENT OF ttate of Nebruska, Vi County of Douzlns, | : George 1. Tzschuck, socrotary of The Bee Pullishing company, doos so'cmnly swenr that the notual circulation of ‘I ik DAILY BEE for the August s foilows Sundny. Aug Monday. A Tuesdiy, A dnesdi v hursdi y Fridny, Aug. f Baturduy, Aug. 2 ok ending 10, 17 I~ sorserers s 29,004 FORGE B, T/SCHUCK. me and subsceribed inomy duy of August, A. D.. N P ¥ Notury Publie ftateof Nelraeka, | County of Fougins, (8 Ceorge I, Trschiiel. heing duly sworn, de- osen i siys that he isseeretary of Tie BEe ‘ublish ng company. that tho actual averaie dally elrculation of THE DAILY BLE for the month of August, 80, W0 coples: for Septem! 1300, 20870 coples; for October, 10, 20,162 coples: for No- veniter, (€00, $2.180 coples: for S0, Decsmber, (80, 2471 coples: for Tanuary, 181 sop'es; for el runry, 1861 2, March, 180°, 24,065 o for April, 1801, 2 copfes: &40 coples: for June, 1601, 26,017 uly, 1891 Dies; Gre SCHUCK, Eworn to before me o eribed in e, presence this 3 day of August, A. D 1801 N P. I Averace.... Fworn 10 befo presence this r. iples, | NEBRAS rephblican stute and a good ticket, a sound platform and earn- est campaign will prove it next Novem- ber. TELEPHONE cables and wires will zo underground within a year. Sooner or later telograph and electric light wires will follow suit. SENATOR PLUMB is a good guesser, and it is therefore fairly safe to con- clude that ex-Governor Cheney of New Hampshire will be the next secretary of war.* CHICAGO’S receipts less operating ex- penses from her water works system last year reached tho handsome total of $1,786,000 and also produced a very strong argument for municipal owner- ship of water works. MARYLAND republicans have just held a harmonious state convention and nominated a strong state ticket. Re- publicans are holding no other kind of conventions and nominating no other sort of tickets this year. AT the end of the ‘‘closed” season it is covered 37,000 seals were caught by sixty-one sealing vessels in Behring sea, and the catch of half as many more has not been ascertained. The chances for the seal to become extinct are as bright us over. WE WILL not forget amidst the con- tention over the South Thirteenth street difficulty that Commissioner Dick Ber- lin secured $85,000 for river front im- provement at this point the present year and the money is now going into the river and the pockets of workingmen. THE Georgia house of representatives has refused to accept the Grady home for confederate veterans by the decisive vote of 94 t0 62. It is needless to ada there arve ninoty-four statesmen in Georgia who will bo out of a job for all time to come when their present terms )xpire. BERLIN and Ransom are at liberty to settle the personal features of the South Thirteenth street grade matter in their swn fashion. but the facts which are oack of the whole question cannot be srowded out of sight by individual misun- lerstandings between: these two gentle- 200, GRAND ISLAND is now ready for the seunion. When Grand Island gets rondy for unything she gets u good ready. It will therefore be entirely wfe for visitors to count upon the best wccommodations practicable at reason- uble rates and a grand good time. Everybody in Nebraska who goes any- vhere this year will be at the reunion. THE Douglas county fair which opens s0xt Monday should be largoly attended. We must patronize home industry and sncourage home enterprises. This ex- aibition should vival the state fair heve- aftor, and proper encouragement this yoar will help to organize it upon a better basis than ever before and even- sually bring it up to an exposition of which the state and city will be proud. Some people in Europe are wondering why the United States government does aot send a squadron of its hest cruisers over the ocean on & jamboree to the various nations of the old world. The principal reason ought to be, if it is not, Ihat tho American navy has too much business 1n connection with American commerce und the rights of American sitizens in foreign countries to take a vacation and European junkeot. B INEMIES of vernor Thayer are cir- eulating a rumor that he will sustain Test and Liveringhouse of the Hastings asylum in the fuce of the findings of the Board of Public Lands and Buildings. They also state with some degree of as- surance thut the governor has private reasons for permitting these gentlemen to hold their positions. The people of the state will be loth to give credence to pither of these insinuations, though it must be admitted that if they are re- tained in the public service in the face of the damaging testimony against them » reason for their retention must be 1ought outside of the publie good. NEBRASKA 1S REPUBLICAN, Nebraska isa republican state. The sudden storm of 1890 will not drive her | into either the democratic or independ- entcamp. When the next presidential campaign isended and the votes for pros- idential electors are counted Nebraska's vote will be found for the republican candidate, Persons who take a gloomy view of the outlook have not analyzed the figures in the last thiee elections nor considered carefully the conditions under which the last campaign was con- ducted. In the contest of the present year and that of 1802 shall have no prohibition or other outside question to detreact from the for which the several parties stand. The real senti- ments of the people as between the p ties will be registered by the votes in November, President Harrison received 108425 votes in 1888 and Grover Cleveland 80,- The prohibition vote was 9,420 and tho union labor candidate received 1,226 votes, Harvison’s plurality was 27,874 his majority 14,118, In the campnign of 1859 the total vote fell off very materially and C. H. Mor- rill eandidate for regent polled ¢ votes, K. W. Hess the democ candidate d 8,564 tho prohibitionist, 5,416 votes. The candidate for associnte justice of tho supreme court that year was RS, Norval who fell behind his ticket about 2,000 votes, It will be ob- sorved that the vepublican vote was 15,000 and the demoeratic vote 12.000 less than the vear preceding and that Regent Morrill’s plurality was 24,943, There wasno encouragement in this clection for the demoerats, In 1800 when the independent cyelone struck Nebraska the vote on lieutenant ‘nor was as follows: Majors, re- publican, 74,586; Bear, domocratic, 63,468: Dech, independent, 71,1273 Woodby, prohibitionist, 4,515, Although the democrats elected the governor and the independent candidate polled alar vote than the republican, the above figures are a fair statement of the rela- tive strength of the several parties in 1890. The republicans lost heavily by the independent disaffection, but the democrats also foll behind their vote of the preceding year, showing that the new movement draws its strength from both the old partics. The prohibition issue increased the demoeratic vote by several thousand and doubtless added to that of the independents at the expense of the republicans. All the isms and outside questions of the campaign militated to the disadvantage of the republicans. THE BEE undertakes to say that the vepublican party is stronger with the people today than a year ago. The for- cignors and others who deserted the republicans on account of prohibition votes; gov are coming back to their old allegiance. Those who went into the independ- ent ranks with the excitement of a year ago have lived to see to their satisfaction that the inde- pendent party is impotent and they are naturally returning to the old party. The conditions are immeasurably im- proved-from what they were a year ago. A good organization, a strong ticket and an honest platform will not only hold tho regular party strength, which is shown to be not less than 75,000 votes, but wili invite back the wanderers and win over some of the clearer headed democrats who perceive that they ave hopelessly in the minority. SHERMAN 0N SILVER. Senator Sherman has entered upon his campaign work in Ohio, and he will dovote himself maialy to a discussion of the free coinage of silver issue made by the democrats of that state. It isthe intention of the republicans, as cloarly indicated in the speech of Major Me- Kinley opening the campaign, to make this issue as prominent in the con- test as the tariff question, though the demccracy would be very glad to have it drobped out of contro- wvorsy. They have determined wisely in this, for the silver question is at least of equal importance with any other before the country, the opinion of Senator Carlisle and other democratic leaders, that the tariff is the great issue, to the contrary notwithstanding., The taviff is not at present oppressing any class of people, unless it be the importers whose business has fallen away since the new law went into effect. The evils that were prophesied to result from it haye been experienced. The farmers of the northern border are getting the benefits of relief from Cunadian competition, Except as to a few articles all the neces- saries are as cheap as-when the present tariff law went into effect, and some things cost less. The tin plate industry is gradually developing, despite domo- cratic ussertion to the contrary. Some modifications of the tariff are to be desired, but these will never be judiciously made by the demoeratic party. The material interests of the country are not imperiled by the tariff, with its provision for reciprocity that has ulready broadened the markets for our surplus produ Those interests would be imperiled by the free and un- limited coinage of silver. No man in the countr fied than Senator Sherman cuss the silver question, and his speech at Paulding, O., on Thurs- day, was a plain, straightfor- ward oxposition which ought to be carofully read by every man in the country interested In this question. Replying to the charge of the free coin- ago advoeates, made and repeated in the face of indisputable facts of record, that the act of 1873 was the result of a con- spiracy of the party in power to de- monetize silver, Senator Sherman stated that that aet was voted for by republi- cuns and democrats alike, after fuil con- sidoration for thre> years in congress. It was voted for by every representa- tive from the silver states. It substi- tuted the trade dollar for the old silver dollar which had not been coined for thirty years. Tho silver dollar was then worth more than the gold dollar, for the production of gold was then greater than the production of silver. The silver dollar had been effoctually demonetized by the act of 1 by o democratic congress, which sub- stituted for the silver dollar the frac- tional silver coins. Neither gold is better quali- to dis- |nor silver was in cireula- itluu in 1873, but ounly green- passed | backs and fractional notes. Free coin- age, said Sonator Sherman. menns that we shall purchase, not merely 4,500,000 ounces a month, but all the silver that is Wered, come from where it may. if presented in quantities of 100 ounces at atime. Weoare to give to the holder either coin or treasury notes, at his op- tion, at the rate of #1 for 871 grains, now worth in the T cents. “Who can estimate,” Mr. Sherman, he untold hoards of silver that will come into the treasury if this policy is adopted? It is a public bid of 20 cents an ounce more than the market price for all the silver afloat and ali that can be hereafter produced. It woald inun- date us with the vast hoards of silver in countries where silver alone is current money, and draw to us all the rapidly- increasing production of silver mines of the world.,” The aamaging consequences certain to result from such an inflation of silver ought to be apparent to every intelli- gent man. It would expel gold from the cireulation and h the silver standard alone by which all the labor and productions of the people would be measured. It would reduce the United States from its high financial position among the great commercial nations of the world to a place with China, India and the undeveloved states of South America. No patriotic Amorican citi- zen will support a policy which would have such a result. ever market said WHAT OF MASSACHUSE The people’s party isnot likely to make much hendw. tts. [t now has a state central committee and pro- poses to put a ticket in the field, but its full strength will very likely be shown in the convention that wili nominate the ticket. There will be a very small sup- port in the old Bay State for fiat cur- rency and the sub-treasury scheme. for although there ave many farmers there who arc not prosperous and for whom the immediate outlook is not as bright as could be desired, very few of them can be induced to renounce their faith in honest money and led to believe that their condition would be improved by a policy which would depreciate the currency of the country and impair the credit of the govern- ment. The people’s party is therefore not likely to be a factor of any impor tance this year in the polities of Massa~ chusetts. That state will elect this year a governor and other state officers and members of the legislature, so that the contest will pos- sess an interest and importance hardly less than those of New York, Ohio and Towa. Laust year Massachusetts elected a democratic governor, the third in a generation, by a plurality of a little over 9,000 votes in a total vote of nearly 286,000. Governor Russell has been a very satisfactory executive to his party and will undoubtedly be renominated. Heisa man of ability, with a clean political record, and is popular with the younger element of voters. He is to be regarded as a foru ble candidate, and the republicans realize that inorder to defeat him they must put forward their most available man. There are soveral men who ought to make a splendid fight, but so far it does not ap- pear that any one of these is disposed to o into the contest. In this resnect the Massuchusotts republicans are in about the same situation as those of New York. Available men for candidates are not wanting, but they do not show a will- ingness to make the race. The cffect of this is to increase the prestize of the democratic leader and strengthen tho confidence of the party. The republican state convention is but little more than two weoks away, a short period in which to crystallize the sentiment of the party on & candidate. Massachusetts is a republican state, but the party organization has been weakening for several years, and the vote of last year showed that there were fully 50,000 republican voters who did not go to the polls. The influence that kept them awny, and which was re- sponsible for the tidal wave that gave the demoeratic party widespread victory, will hardly be opevative this year, and it is reasonably to be expected that the full party vote will be cast, in which case the republicans will recover full control of the state government. It is going to be a stubborn fight, however, and there is no warrant for unquestion- ing confidence in republican success. LINCOLN is as onthusiastic for the re- publican national convention as Omaha herself and she tenders her service and support with u royal good will. The old time senseless jealousivs which have kopt tho largest two cities in the state apart are rapidly disappearing. The cordial co-operation of Omaha with the capital city in her ef- ort to secure the national en- campment of the Grand Army and the reciprocal intercst manifested by the latter city in Omaha's ambition for the national convention are wiping out this nonsensical antugonism which circum- stances have hitherto kept aliv And this is right. A generous commercial vivalry is excusable and proper, buv malice and jealousy should have no place in the relations of the two cities. Tue park commissioners ave entitled to credit for the intelligent attention they arve giving to park matters, but they must not forget that breathing places within the city are far more im- portant to the people at large than acres of beautiful grounds five ana six miles away. In other words, parks in the heart of Omaha ave a necessity; parks five miles away ave luxurios. SLUGGING matches approach brutal prize fights near enough to be included a8 prize fights, and it is to be hoped Judge Helsloy will interpret the law liberally enough to include saloon exhi- bitions by professional bruisers, — THE board of education will do well to keep in mind the probability that a large number of saloons will go out of business December 31 and the license fund next year will be correspondingly reduced. OMAHA people must not depend en- tirely upon the crops of the state for fmproved business conditions. Crops will help our jobbers and brace up many THE OMAHA DAILY BER A linos of trade; but tho oash receipts | therefrom will not employ idle men or | incrense the mumber of wage-oarners | outsido the railway shops and yards. We must take hotd of our own factories and by increasing thoir loeal trade onlarge thef capacity and ndd to their number of efiployes. In other we must hol ourselves by helping oach other, We Have roachied a point in our caveor as a ajty, when advortising, real estato transaftigns, conventions, and all manner of x:':un-‘lium'_\' movemonts, promise only gemporary reliof to the business interosts, If wo are to grow ana prosper hereufter, it will be by do- veloping our own resources and utilizing opportunities controlled hy ourselves. We must make ourselves commorcially independent so far as possible of the out- side world, and attend more strictly to our own business, building up our own industries, and by interchanging pro- ducts of our own manufacturo,stimulate every business interest of the city. words Forry saloons at #3500 per annum would give the county school fund $20,- 000 in cash, There are not less than forty saloons running just outside tho city limits without license and contrary o law. JOHN WANAMAKER, postmaster gen- eral, has not approved the Omaha buila- ing as yet. There is still hopo that some man with archite al taste may send the ugly thing back for roconsider- ation, TossipLY if the election were post- poned a few months the board of county commissioners would take stops to en- force the licenso law against the two- mile limit saloonkeepers PHIL ARMOUR i a keen business man, and as such cannot fail to recognize the importaace of crecting here a mammotk clevator if his attention is called to the VERY man and woman in Omaha 08 iv to himself and this city to make apractical application of the good busi- nessdoctrine: Patronize Omahaindustry. Nonopy will go iato ecswcies over thenew post office building if the pro- posed plan is adopted. OMAHA election booths ought to be good enough for Omaha elections. OMAHA proposes to be heard in the Wyoming mining convention. SOUTH TIIRTEENTIT street is sure to be an issue in politics this fall. Why Ingalls Jumped the Fence. Kan as City Times. No wonder Ingalls has jomed the resub- missionists in Kansas. When tho papers of the principal cities boom a cure for inebriety there is something radically wrong. Roger's Reward. New York Recorder. “ Mr. Roger Q. Mills has padlocked his mouth, so far as politics is concerned. The republicans owe him the assurance of their most distinguished consideration for ser- vices thus far rendered. g el e Exaggeration and Death, New York Morning Advertiser. Four young athlétes, experc swimmers, have been drowned this season. The averago athleto Is prone to entertain an exaggerated estimate of his powers as well as his prowess. He undertakes too much physically. e e A Few Cold Facts. Glabe-Democrat. If the Pennsylvania bosses and their co- horts who are now booming Blaine so loudly had, either in 1576 or 1830, shown half tho affection for him that thoy now display, he would baves been nominated, With these men on his side Blaine could have been elected, too, in either of theso years, S A Square Fight. Kansas City Journal. McKinley is making & square fight in He stands for the American tariff systom and for sound money. His psition is American to the core and should appeal with winuing effect to the peopie of Ohio. By reason of the American tariff systam Ohio is one of the great manufacturing states of the union, and her people have ever stood for sound currenc; P Leaderless. Frank Lestie's (Rev.). ‘The republicans of the state of New York sorely need a leader—oue to lead them out of trouble and not iuto divisions and dissen- sions. There are many indications “hat the democ- racy is far from united, and there 13 a steaaily growing under-current of feeling that a strong republican ticket, headed by such a man as James W. Wadsworth or Andrew D. White, would carry the state this fall. But it will not carry it if factional divis- 10ns, extending from New York to Buffalo, aro permitied to ripen, develop, and 1nvito disaster. ‘The best leadership is that which coments | the party’s forces, either by persuasive or despotic methods, into a coherent, aggres- sive, ulert, and active body. That sort of leadership, unfortunately, the republican party in New York aoes nov possess. It has not had 1t since the retirement of the late Senator Conkling. Worso than all, every man who attempts to lead finds his pathway blocked by rival- ries, animositics and feuds in his own ranks, The task of leadership under such ciroum- stances is not inviting. But a leader in New York seems indispen- sible to party success. IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, Mr. Ohio. Nixon Waterman, The sun wont down In a blood-red cloud, The wind bredthed a low, harsh sigh, And o strange, weird voil, like & sombre shroud, ) Huni down from the murky sky; The house dogs bayed at the angry moon ‘That shed a dim!’sad heht, And the crickets chirped a doleful tune To the ghosts abdvo that night. It was such a night as brave men hate, When the darkuess seems to bide But dimly shapes that congregate, Or through the shadows glide, No star to point the traveler hoine, No light on land or sea— A night when ghost and witch and gnome Hold flendish revelry. ‘Turough Dead Man's Guloh, by tho haunted m That stands like 8 spectre white, ‘With its broken arms so gaunt and still, A footman passed that night, He trudged along till from without “Tho shadows stood a man ; But the footman did not faint nor shout, Ho neither turned nor ran, Ho stood his ground, brave to defend His every act and deed, Till the shadow spoke and said, *My Can you give me & chew of t'weed ! The chow was given -each went hiy way— friend, "URDAY, There was neither death nor din, But I've often thought, alackaday | How sad it might have boeu. 29, 1891. AUGUST OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. When the British parliament meets again there will probably bo a fine oxhibition of political discipline and & striking differenco botwoen the liberat and conservative partios will bo exemplified. At that session minis- tors will bring forward an important plece of legislation known as tho Irish local govern- ment bill. [ts proposed outlinos have al- ready boen sketched in those colunins, and it is sufficient to repeat that it contemplates ox- tonding to Ireland the system of local selt- government by means of county councils that England now enjoys; or a correspond- ing system, differing in some respects to suit the differeat circumstances that exist on the westarn side of St. George's channel. It is not home rule, as the Irish leaders interprot that term, nor as Mr. Gladstone interprots it. But it at any rate, a very con- siderable step in that direction. It will be so revolutionary 1 its ef- fects, as Mr. Balfour himself admits, as practically to expel the entire landlord class from Ireland, and will probably make more important political and social changes in the island than any legislation in the last half century, This act may not satisfy the home rule party. It certainly will not meoct thodomands made by the Irish leaders in varliament, nor will it in some radical par- ticulars come upto tho Lome rulo scheme proposed and so gallantly urged by Mr, (Hadstone. But it will go far enough to dis- please a large proportion of the government's own party. Those purblind tories whose sole idea of dealing with Ireland 1s to get ail the rents that can be exacted from the tenants, and to suppress discontent by means of coer cion laws, will look with herror upon it. Already their voice is heard in protest and donunciation. Wherever two or threo of them are mot together the proposed Inw and its author are bitterly criticized. It is ro- versing the traditional couservative policy, they say; it is carrying out the programme of the liberals; it is surrendering to the enemy. And they growl out great baths of mutiny and revolt against their leadors, Among the roports currrent in Europe is one that the czar has boen influenced by the czarina in publicly testifying his friendliness for France. It sots forth, also, that tho Rus- sian ambassador at Paris has received an as- suranco that, in the event of the defeat of Germany by France and Russia, Schloswig- Holstein shall be returned to Denmarlk. There is cortainly no reason for disbelieving that tho political nfluenca of the czariais very great. Nothing is commoner in the his- tory of despotisms than to find that the nomi- nalQ despot is himselfl the instru- ment of favorite. The history of Russia in particular abounds in such instances. Even if the czar were not especially uxorious it would cost him nothing to promise his wife that, if ho could bring it about, his enemy should be de- spoiled of a possession, for which ho himself had no ‘use, for the benefit of his wife's countrymen in general aud of his wife's fam- ily in particular. Greator events havo f- faced from the popular mind the history of the war between Germaay and Denmark, now almost thirty yearsold. But tho seiz- ure of Scleswig-Holstein and its conversion into o Prussian province were resisted by the Danes until resistance was no louger rossible, and have boon as flercely resented by the Dane ever since as the seizuro and conversion to German provinces of Alsaco and Lorraine, cight years later, have been resented by I'ronch- men. Tho humiliation of King Christian, then newly come to the throne, was especially great. Inthelong interval that has sinco clapsed, he has hecome ““the most successful father-in-lnw in Europs.”” Nothing is more natural than that his daughter should desire the restoration to him of a possession that she cousiders to have beon wrongfully taken from him, nor thun that her husband should do his best, to gratify a desire of hers, of which the gratification will cost him nothing. a e A striking statement was recently vub- listed of what would be saved to Europe by a reduction of one-half in the military force and expenditure of the chief powers. For the past nine years alone, it would have amounted to $2,400,000,000, hile noarly 8,000,000 men 1w the prime of youth would have been restored to labor and production. Counting the value of their labor, not their wages morely, at the low rate of 81 each per day, this would have amounted to §900,000,- 020 ayear, or $3,100,000,000 for the nine years, making a total net 1oss 1o the people of these six countries in that period of $10,500,000,000. This is equal to the toal value, ot §1 per bushel of tho wheat crop of the United States for from twenty to twenty-five years. Meanwhile, it it is to be noted as a shght sign of tha effect produced by such facts as these that a mem- ber of the upper house of the Prussian par- liament has recently advocated in public the recession of Alsace and Lorraine to France on condition that that country would join Germany, Italy and Austria in league for the preservation of peace, making Russia practically powerless and permitting a gen- eral reduction of armaments amounting to disarming. That such a plea should even be discussed by a person in political life in Prussin would have been impossible five years ago. * Stepniak draws a terriblo picture of im- pending famme in Russia iv the August number of Free Russia. He declares that it will be the most terrible on record, moro terrible even than that of 1840, *“The crops have been destroyed,” he says, ‘‘or almost destroyed,in twenty-six provinces of Buropean Russia. In six provinées more thun one-half of the districts are afflicted with the same calamity. In thirteen provinces the harvest promises to be middling—sufiicient tor the needs of the population, leaving no surplus, Only in the northern Caucasus in the few northern provinces, and in threo districts of the southoast the harvest is ex- pected to be above the average.” Signs of acute famine, he adds, are already visible, ana he speaks of “thousands of peasants starving upon grass boiled in water,” of peo- plo dying of hunger in the streets, and of parents advertising their children for salo in ordor not to see them die bufore their eyes. Tnere remais, of course, the hope that he may have been misinformed that he may be exidggerating a little with the viow of stirring pubiic sympathy, - Salvation for Celestia's. San Francis'o Chronicle. Chinatown is the new world which the vation army yearns to conquer. Ixperience has shown thatthe Chinese have a very ma- terial view of religion and that the emotions of tho coolie are not easily touched. Tt is a problem whether the denizens of Chinatown may bo reached by a street band in which the one stringed fiadlo and the oymbals were prominent, and the solution of this will bo attempted by the Salvation leaders. e RIOTOUS RUSSIAN PEASANTS. Almost Starved to Death, They Attack the Officials. St. PeTersnuig, Aug. 25, —-Serious riots have occurred among tha people to provent the exportation of rice at Vitebsk, Dunaberg and other places. At the first named placo the peasants attucked tho railroud ofticials and tho Jowish grain buyers. They wrecked aund pillsged the houses of tho latter and the authoritios wero flaully cou pelled to cull on the military for help to sup- Dross the vioters, The soldiers fired a volley upon the peasants, killing'two and wounding & number of others. Others have disap- poared. or | DUN'SREVIEW FOR THE WEEK. Inoreased Harvests Add to the General Pros- perity of the Country. BUSINESS IN THE WEST IMPROVING. Good Crops the of All the Improvement — Stock Mar- kets and General Trade Notes. Bas New York, Aug. 38.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Reoview of Trade will say: The speculation in breadstuffs has broken down. The failuro to export at more than about 1,10 for wheat has administered the corrective which this trade greatly necded The threatened withdrawal of tho crop by the farmers’ alliance amounts to so little that receipts wero 11,400,000 bushols for the last week reported, against 4,000,000 for the cor- respondiug week last yoear, while receipts of other grain slightly decreaso. Money is moving rapidly to the interior, but the troas. ury has been strengtheuing itself, adding 22,500,000 to its gold for the week, and also taking in §400,000 mora treasury notes than it has put out. By vequiring deposits of gold at New York against shipmeuts of currency to the country banks. the treasury has somewhat increased its gold reserve, but tho main fact is that its receipts for the past week havo excroded its payments of all kinds by about $1,200,000. Tho official anuounce- ment that all the 414 per cent bouds not of- fered for extension September 1 will be paid on demand, promises a largo addition to the availatle currency after the fivstof next month, Crop prospects are in all r exceedingly bright and the reports of injury by frost do not appear to affect any consider- ablo proportion of the crop. There is every reason to suppose that the yield of whoat would be larger than the 544,000,000 bushols estimated by the agricultural dopartment, though a yield no greater would leave 200,000,000 bushels for export. Hog products are somewhat stronger in sympathy with corn, but oil is lower and also coffec. Cotton has udvanced #-lbe. It would ve a good thing for producers, in all probability, 1f a considerablo part of the forthcoming crop should be but off by unfavorable weather. The market for iron shows somewhat os and u better demand, though ds of Virginia iron are still offered at lower prices: a little improvement is seen in bar iron and plates are more active, though prices are vory low. Structural iron is in fair demand, but’ not stronger in prices. The demand for rails is stagnant, the combi- nation having succeeded in so far maintain- ing the price that buyors are disposed to wait as long as possible, ~ Tu the minor metals no chanee 1s seen in prices. Conl is weak bul there is a better feeling in the market. Sales of wool continue large and the man- ufacturer is fairly well omployed. A slight improvement is seen in leathor at Philadelphia, though buyers ure cautious, but lumber is quiet, tho building trade being stagnant, and orders for woolen goods are backward. Trade at Cleveland shows some gains over last year and at Cincinnati a fair improvemont in groceries, while at Chicago receipts of wheat are increased fourfold and wool twofold, compared with last year, and increase is seen in flour, cheese and in sales of dry gooas, clothing and shoes, but a decrease of one-quarter cent in cured meats, and one-third of a cont in lard and some docrease in butter, hides and oats. A heavy increase is seon in trade at St. Louis, country merchants buying lib- erally, and trade is improved at Kausas City and at Minneapolis and St. Paul, harvest prospects being of the brightost. At Nash- ville the grocery trade is better, but other business only fair, and very little improve- ment is seen at Memphis, while trade in cot- ton is slightly improved at New Orleans and at Galveston the prospects are favorable, As much depends upon the -balance of foreign trade, it is highly important that tho imports for July exceod the exports by oniy £3,300,000, instead of $23,000,000 as last year, and for August thus far tho increase in ex- ports at Now York is 146 per cant, whilo in imports _there is a decrease of 13" per cent Pricesof all commodities have declined 1.3 per cent for the past week The stock market at Now York has been comparatively free from spoculative excite- ment and fairly strong, with some foreign buying and not much realizing thus far by foreign Lolder: 3 Tho business failures occurring the Inst seven days number 226, us compnred with n total of 216 last week. ' For the correspond- ing weok of last year the figures wore 150, B S Drifting Helplessly at Sea. Atraxtic City, N. J., Aug. 23.—The old Dominion steamship company’s steamer, Old Dominion, is drifting in a helpless condition sixteen miles south of Absecon light. About 9:30 a. m. yesterday hor port shaft broke,dis- ablitg her engino and leaving herat the merey of wind and tide. Sho has gone drift- ing northeast since the accident at the rato of a milo an hour, but is in uo immediate aanger of stronding, There ave about forty people all told aboard the cripplod steamer, [aolading passengors and crow, Shortly after the accideut, tho fiest oficer of the Old Dominion and four seamen put to sea in a lifeboat, which was provisioned for a four days' cruise. but by 8 o'clock they rowed into tho inlot, The officers went to the telegraph office and wired the varticulurs of the acci- dent to the owners'of the steamer at New York. There are provisions enough aboard the Ol4 Dominion to last for twenty-four hours. It is expected that a_tug boat will be sent to her assistance from New York. In the meantime, Captain Bowen of the Abse- come life saving station and his men will keep a sharp lookout for any signals of dis- tress which wmight be sent up from the steamer. 1T a casualty should overtake her, there aro threo leisuré steamers at tho inlot which could be promptly sent out to hor us- sistanco. There 1s, therofore, no roal cause for ulavm as to tho safely of the passengors and crow. | Western Pensions. Wasmyaroy, D. C.. Aug. 28, —(Special Telogram to Tur Bee.]—The following list of pensious grauted is roported by Tk Bxe and Examiner Bureau of Claims : Nobraska: Original—Jacob Kuerr, Honry C. Hearing, Arenibald Mullenix, Robert B, Irwin, Charles Hopt, Edwin J. Huntington, John McDaniel, Willlam C. Haynes. Ad- ditioual ~Oliver P. Straight, Elijah Skarnes, David Potter, Thomas 0. Russc Everhard. Increaso—Alvin H lace R, Barton, Uriah D. Voorhees Jowa: Original—Havrison . Gray, Wil liam H, Harlow, nusl Klepper, Sylves ter Hammer, William Hoimes, William 7. Head, Voltairo W. Johuson, Jur Augustus Leecing, Patrick Keati Horriman, Joun H. Montzomory, Charles W Lamphoad, Jumes McKenzie. ~ Aduitional - Cyrus B. Quinter, Wesloy Dern, Charles W. Cramer, John R, Hess. Tucrease—Martin B Jones, Phillin G. Hass, William Hendrix, Daviel Conklin, Nathan 'L, Thorn, Lonjamin Pitcher. Reissuo—Louis P, Vance, - Produce Dealors Fai New Youk, Aug. 25.—Wator, Carr produce dealers, nssigned today. Th bilities are estimated at betwoon §7 & Co, lia- 000 and | paid on $100,000, with assets about the same. Grand Army Men Will Find Tomor- row's Bee Specially Intorosting. Tur Brr tomorrow will coutamn . groat variety of roading matter which will bo of intorest to old soldiors and especially the mombers of the Graund Army of the Republic. In addition to the rogular department of that great organization, which appears in this paper every Sunday, thore will bo a number of articles spocially prepared on the ocoa sion of the wreat Soldiors' reunion, which commences at Grand Island Mouday. Among the articles will bo the following: “Tho History of tho Grand Army of the Republic;” *“Tho Grand Army of tho Ropub- licin Nebraska," comprising skotchos of a number of the present departmontal aue post oftivers, the roster of a numper of the posts and the name, numver, location and princival oMcers of every post in the department; “Tho History of the Women's Roliof Corps;" *“Tho History of tho Sons of Veterans;" “The His- tory of tho Union Veterans' Unfon;’ “A Roview of the Grand Army RReunions of the State.” Also skotchos of tho stato organizations which exist among the soldiers of Nebraska in conucction with their ofifcers; the ob- jects, membership, rules, mombers, past aud present oflicers and history of the Loyal Lo- wlon; the listory of the Soidiers’ home in Grand Island, showing how Nebraska cares for her indigent heroes, together with tho roster of tho same from the establishment ot the home: the quota of each state in the War of the Rebellion; the organizations formed throughout the country for the relief of votorans and their familios; a sketeh of the soldicrs's home of South Das Kota, together with a list of the inmates; the departmental officers of the states of lowa, South Dakota and Kausas; a description of Camp Sherman and the programme for the eutertainment of vetorans the coming week. Newsdealers dociring extra copies of this great reunion paper should forward their orders toduy. soveral —— T PAY CASH, h Credit. The Local Freight Agents' association, | comprising tho agents of all the lines ontor- ing Omaha, have issue rous of the railways, reading as follows: OFFICE OF LOCAL FREiGnT AGENTS' Asso- TATION, OMAHA, Aug. 10.—1'0 Our Patrons: lis 18 'to notify all concernod that from tho bLove dute credit In no o will be given for freizht chirges. All expenso bills must be prosentation. Where oxpense bills B not pald on presentation delivery of ears Wikt bo stopped st onee; said stoppage by any one azent will be considered u stoppage by all agents. For the information of our patrons we would say that the compunies we repre- sent ln no wiy r 2nizo or pormit the deliv- ery of freight until froignt e puid, and under these cireun: t no business irm will b 1 for not assuming w ris| 110t recogiz This circular is signed by tho agentsm® every railroud entering Omaha and all hav. agreed to stand together in this matter. Inquiry among the § t agents reveals the fact that many fivms in the city havo made it a practico during the past six months to ask for creditou freight charges. This course is directly contrary to the rulos of all of the roads and an agent giving credit does 30 at his own risk, as ho is held directly re- spousible by his company for allcharges, Soveral of the agents have beon loft in tha lurchi in this matter by firms who have been given credit, aud as o matter of self protec- tion they have banded together to put a stop to the practico, a cireular to all pat- wo fenl 10 this associn- our cmployers Ll Grass Was Too Green, Arkaxsas Crrr, Koo, Aug. 28.—Tha boomers moved on the strip in large numbers vesterday and made several attempts to start large fires and dostroy pasturage, but the #rass was too green and the fires mado little beadway. Somo cattiemen are vocom- ing alarnied and are attompting to get their cattle out. ' nsks tho New York Sun, ¥ beciuse they aro weary of stunding. Philaaeiphia Press: “Aro you going in whegher to risk it or not." not? Haven't you a nice flannel hatl ng you completely from chin to y do you hesl the sultis flann at L you know." It might shrink white I in the water, and, thon 1 would get arrosted on coming out. Philadeiphia Recor whiskey is o hndy thing to huve around when ¥ou have the cramps. Mrs. Jages (Who knows a thing or two)—Yes, and cramps are a handy thine to huve around when you have whis! o7 In the Louse. A TIP FOR YOUNG MEN. New York Press. He was courting a malden with cheoks like i nd kind. L But he kept shillyshallying and didw't pro- cshe'd walt tll he made up hig hor his 10 Uncle Jim died (o v And left her two thousand per life. In Butte, Mont., sase, Colonel v next duy. nnum for they have the Davis will tobert Ingersoll, Francis Murphy and “The Twelve Temptations” this weok, Tt el lzht, wholesome attraetions s these that tuen the'eyes of the world on BULLO 5% & SUBGCE FOSOTL, W the "k sue shinaton hibition or 15 quite a ro idry wi ot i “What do you think ot sponker: hag ting things. you know. Judge; Hotel Clerk—TLunderation! What's tils tremenaous ringing? Farmor Squashby (i the electrie bell)— Gosh! Tdunno. 1 jes' lost my collur-button, Wz tryin' to di this [itefe white one out o' the wall with my Jack-kn “What sort of a newspaper plant have you?* asked the eastern man of the wild wostorn editor. 1 huve been using & Colt's 44" re- plied the editor modestly, “but considering the difficulties of the List campnizn, 1 have about coneluded to get a Winehester.™ A GENENAL PULL New York Herald. I'm pulled in most contraey ways by difforent wls 1 know SOme Urge me to InCrouse my pace, some wirn 10 g0 Slow s Somo, snint-1tke, drag me to the chureh, soms Arag e o the ruees Iyfeld at once to winnlng ways, then bow to Chiarming £races, But, (b therr way bo what 1L will, this tact to stato | heg Thore's not i mald among them all who 1o pulimy 103 tuils Eriond—You say you don't ‘erhaps you biek Inspira- Yankee Blade feel like writing. P UM itor--Yos, 1 think I do. T haven't recelved a chock for over s month, Detrolt Freo Pross: 1o had marrlod hor for her money, and their domestic Hfo was not the oSt NAERON oK. 1 wirs sold whe to hor one diy ho sald it I marrled you," tone of disappointu “f'ossibly, " $ho replio | vory quiotly, “poss sitly, L wouldn't undertnke to siy, but it you wore, dear. you haven't realized any cash on the sale yet, have you?" 1o pl Wp s hick for answor. and went out where ho could take u long broath. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Re%al Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE ‘ - Mr. Jagas—I tell you, ” -