Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 14, 1891, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. 7 NOSEWATER, Entron. J'UBLISHED WERY MORNID TERMS OF RIPTION 1'ntly Bee Grithout Sunday) One Yenr. T iy and Sunduy, One Year....... 1N monthe Threo Months. .. One Yenr EUD be " s, &2 317 Chamber o 14 and 15, Commoreo, ribune Bullding CORRESPONDEN(C A1l commun'cations relating tc news and editoriul matter should be addressed to the S.ditorial Department RUSINISS LETTERS Allbusiness lotters and romittances shonld 1 addressed to The Bee Publishing Conipany, Cronhine Drafts, ehecks postoflice orders 1016 mude payablo 1o the order of th pany, hie Beg Pablishing Company, Proprieters THE BEF BUILDING. WORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION tageof Nebenak % County of Dougias, (5% P. Fell. business manager of Tne Brer ishing company. does solemnly swear t the actual elreulition of THE DALY Bk the ween ending November 7, as 18, i ' Jednonday, Jursday, N day. Noy. o diy, Nov. Average..... n to before mo and subseribed in iy co this ith Guy of Novemier. A, D181, E. P. ROGO! N Notary Publie. 1 he growth of the averace daily circulation of Tik Bex: for six years Is shown in whe fol- Jowlaz table: Swe vre SFAL nuary bruary ot i optembor 233 13,0411, Grier is a suggestive name for the leader of Chicago anarchists, triotisin has a grand chance il and Chili Tue anarchists of Chicago have a wholesome fear of the police, but for- tunately for the penca of the city, the feeling is not reciprocated by the min- ions of the law. THE national farmers congress for 1662 will be held in Lincoln after tho next presidential election. It is fair to ect that it will be made up chie fly of working agriculturists, as the talking kind will be out of breath at that period. PURE pe 10 display itself in both B THE business of train robbing, which wwus discourngod a few years ago by the violent deaths of its most successful op- erators and the incarceration of others in penitentiaries, is recovering itself. Tt has broken out in all parts of the coun- ty like an epidemic. Tie Nebraska farmer is fattening his best and largest turkey for Thanks: giving day, use he realizes that 1801 is a yoar which has brought him more cause for thunkfulness than any which has rolled across the praivies of this sluto within a decade. GOVERNOR THAYER has his thanks- iving proclamation incubated and ady to spring upon the waiting pub- ie, but courtesy to one Benjamin Har- rison in Washington who usually sets the gait for a thanksgiving movement loads our governor to delay his plati- tudinous utterance. OLD GERONIMO, the fierce Apache chief, who for so muny years was the torror of Avizona settlemonts, is now the acting justice of tho peace at Fort Marion Barracks, Aviz, and the army olicor in command pronounces him a modol of dignity. Most of the young n:on of his band are soldiers, A MEETING of all tho state represanta- tivos of the World’s fair, male and fomalo, is called for Dacomber 9, which leads to the suggestion that mileage and hotel expenses ave eating big holes into the World ir appropriations of the goveral states without accomplishing much for the states or the fair. I 18 hoped that City Clerk Groves has awuakened fully to his duty in the matter of assessing railvroad property within the eity, and having so awakoned that he will porform that duty with an o singlo to tho intorests of the publio without discrimination either for ov azainst the railway corporations. BETWEEN August 13, 1800, and the first day of the present month the gov- e:nment bought 60,626,565 worth of silver bullion, for which silver certifi- cates were issued. This is akout as much of an incroase of the eirculating moadium as consorvative business men cin reasonably usk for in fifteen anonths, EVERY Ameorican hopes that the I zilians may settle tholr little internecine difficulty without subverting the repub- ic, and the fecling is strong in this country that tho Kuropean nations are slyly contributing to the disarder, hoping for a restoration of the monarchy or at loast for the abrogation of the recont rociprocal treaty entored into between Leazil and the United S THE Real Estate Owners association h1s nccomplished a great deal of good in Omaha It is oxorcising a ver proper censorship upon the expand- ftures of the city and county govern- onts, as well s encouraging new en- Aceprises. Our paople should rally more aneratly and move cosdially to its sup- fim. It takos a little money to do the business undertaken by this associntion, ! — ¢ Toe mobilization of the American navy in Valparaiso karbor mervely to show the saucy little revolutionary re- public that we have a navy as announced from Washington will strike the avor- 870 land lubber and taxpayer as a very expensive exhibition. Uunless there is #0mno better reuson for sending all our ships down there the government will burdly be justiied in the proposed big blull | 1t MUCH NEEDED REFORM. It js said that a resolution is already drawn, to bo introduced in the house of representatives immedintely aftor the organization, ordering an invostigatidh of the comptroller of the currency. The provocation for this is the failure of the Koyston and several other national under circumstances which appenr to show a lack of due vig- ilance and care on the part of the comp- troller, In the case of the Keystone bank the investigation developed that there had long been a condition of affairs which it would seem could not possibly have cseaped detoction by examiner who properly attended to his business, and it was also made to appear that the comptroller of tho eurrency was less careful than he should have been when of the informa- tion said been given him by the uniner. It will ba re- membered that the bank was pletely plundered, and that besides the heavy losses of individual depositors the state of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia lost very large sum The operations by which this wholesale robbery complished ex- tended over a considerable period. The recent disnstrous failure of the Maverick bank of Boston, while not presenting similar details to that of the Keystone banlk, none the less averick banks, an possessed to have e com- indicates an equal lack of vigilance on the part of those whose duty itis to protect the public against such oceurrencos, These failures have strongly empha- sized the fact that very little relinnce can be placed upon bank examinations as now conducted, and that a radical re- form in this particular is urgentiy needed. This must ba provided for by law and not left to the dis- cretion of the comptrollor. It is stated that Secrotary Foster has ad- vised that official to chango his ways of doing business, so far as the matter of bunk examinations is concerned, sug- gesting among other things that exam- iners be transforred from one district to another, so that bankers would not know by whom their institutions were to be examined, and also that exam- iners should be required to insti- tute an entirely new investigation every time they looked into the ac counts of a bank, but no heed has been given to any of these judicious sugges- tions. It is perfoctly clear that there is little sceurity for depositors in the pres- ent system, and it must be reformed if it is desired to maintain public conflidence in the banks. There is another matter which also calls for congrossional atten- tion, and that is the responsibility of bank dircctors for the proper management of the institutions with which they are connected. Under the law as it stands, and as it has beon inter- preted by the supreme court bunk dirvectors are practically without any responsibiiivy to see that the iaw is prop- erly complied with and that the business is carried on with reference to tho’ security of depositors. It is doubtless true that in the gieat majority of cases personnl interest is a sufficient incentive to bank divectors to maintain a vigilant wateh of even the details of the business, but the failures of banks show that zll do not do this, that some regard their duties as mevely porfunctory, and 1t certuinly could not b otherwise than beneficial, alike to the binks and to the public, to pre- seribe by law the duties and responsibil- ities of bank directors. Such failures as those of the Key and Maverick banks inevitably cr distrust and furnish an excuvse for war- fare upon the national bank system. Therefore every friend of the system will desire and welcome iegislation de- signed to insure greater security and protection to the p ublic. EUROPEAN INFLUENCE AT WORK. It was clearly seen when tho United States adopted the policy for closer commercial relations with the other American republics that perhaps the most troublesomo obstacle to be encountered and overcome would be Europcan influence in thoss countrics. For years British, German and French interests, more purticularly the first two, bad been stead- ily growing in South America. They had penetrated to every quarter where thero was promise of gain. In Brazil nenely every financial 1nstivution vepresents an investment of British or Gorman eapital, principally the former. The largest mercantile houses have been established and are controlled by men from those countries. Al- most the entire transportation busi- ness of Brazil is in the haads of Buropeans, to whom, also, is duo the stone rato Jgroater portion of the debt of the coun- try. The same is true, with little modi- fication, regavding Avgentine. It was shown only a few months ago, when the collapse of the groat London banking house of the Bar- ings was imminent, how largely English capital had boen invested in Argentine socurities, and this wus not the whole of the investmsut of such capital in that republic. British manufacturers und merchants hive intorests there that veprasent u large amount of eapital, In Chill the English gnd German invest- ments are hoavy, and they eaable tho vepresentatives of those countries to exort n et 1nfluonce theve, In view of thesa conditions the infor- mation said to have bean roceiveld by the Bureau of American Ropublics at Washington regarding the trend of Kuropean polfey in South Amevica, is not at all incredible, The United States have mide commorcial progross in Brazil sinco the reciprocity arranga- ment went into effect bLetween the two countries, and the 1n- dications have bsen favorable for a steady growth of teado. It is ontirely reasonable to supposs that this has excited the jealousy of the Eugiish manufaoturers and merchants, and that they are most willing to aid any move- mont for a new er of things likely to rosult in reloasing Brazil, or any con- siderable part of it, from the obligations it has enteved into with the United States. The ovorthrow of the present government of Brazil would carry with it the failure of whatever treaties or arcangemonts it has made, and Furopean interests might woll afford to liberally aid a movement that would bring about such a result so | other South THE wr a8 rociprocity with this country is convernad, being well assuvod that their waelfare would not be in ous danger of injury from any government that shonld succeed. There is little roason to doubt that foreign influence has been in Chili to iucense the against Amori and it doubtless being employed in every country of South Amorica where this govermont is secking closer commercial relations Tt is not probable that any Furopean government now purposes interferenco in the political affairs of Brazil or any American country, Those governments have a very clear under- standing of the position of the United States with regard to such interforence, and it to bo presumed they will respeet that position. Still unforseen circumstances m to involve them in the existing difficulties and thus draw this country into complications of a more or less serious nuture. Hence the gituation 1n Brazil and our contro- versy with Chili contain poscibilities of far-reaching international disturbance which render them peculiarly inter ing to the American people. exerted AN Tu THIE LIBRARY BUILDING. A few months ago a prominent cle man, who was nbout to deliver a lucture on uccess and How It Achieved,” requested the editor of THE BEE to stato from personal oxperience to what he most attributed his success as a pub- lisher. Tho reply was vory brief and somewhat laconic. I ascribe my suc- *said ho, “'to the stupidity cess chiefly, and malice of my would-be competitors.” This is literally true. THE BEE never would have become the great journal that it is today but for tho policy pur- sued by its rivals. It has been their habit to oppose, right or wrong, every measure that Tie Bek advocates and to maliciously assail its editor upon every occasion and misrepresent his motives, oven when he was engaged in the most landable worlk in theintercstof the city. This is again strikingly illustrated by the presentowner of the World-Herald, who has become a monomaniac in his crozy endeavor to gain notoriety at any cost and build up his paper by mean and malicious misrepresentation of the ims and objects of THE BEE on every oceasion. This is the spirit that actuates him in the controversy over the library build- ing. The position taken by Tk BrE is purposely and maliciously distorted as a selfish and venal schome to improve tho value of TiE BEg building. This i as contemptible as anything that has ever emanated from the small: souled individual whom an inscrutable OMAHA DAILY Providence has permitted to temporar- ily experiment in Omaha journalism. What are the facts? THe BEE op- posed and still opposes the acceptance of the Harney street lot for a public li- bravy and museum building on purely business grounds. The conditions at- tacbed to the donation are such as no conservative business man would accept. In the first place the title to the property will revert to the heirs of the late Byron Reed whenever the build- ing is used for any other purpose than a library and a museum. Suppose the population of Omaha should rouch a half-million and the city should decide to erect a larger and more ma nificent structure on some other site. hen the entire property woula revert to the heirs of the Reed cstate. Agnin, the will requires the con- struction of a first-class, four-story, fire- proof building covering the wholo lot. Such a building is not desirable, and would cost at least 50,000. Even a fire-proof, two-story building, with base- - ment that would require fully thirty feet to reach a safe foundatio n,will cost from $130,000 to $200,000, unless we build a mere brick and iron-bsam bava-like stracture that would not refloct eradit- ably upon the cit; AS a business proposition not a doliar should be expended on the building un- til the heirs of tho Rood estate recoda from every objectionable condition. But even 1if they do so, there are other seri- ons barriers in the way. The $100,000 of bonds voted must bo expended entirely on the Reed lot. "t'he bond proposition ratified by the people is so worded that not u penny can be expendad on any other ground. This practically makes useless the proposed purchase of the lot adjoining. All that this lot could be utilized for is as a garden plat and to admit light into the building. But the most serious objection to the whole scheme is that one-fourth of the $100,000 voted will be required for pile- driving and foundation walls before we reach the level of Havrney street, and the balance of the amount voted will not buila such a building as a city of Omaha’s pretensions should nave. The question nlso presents itself whether it is business-like to erect a fireproof public building on a lot that has no alley, and is, to use plain talk, nothing but a filled hole surrounded by fire traps. The market value of this lot is less than $25000, and it will cost as much us it is worth to build a safe foundation upon it. Theve is also the further objoction that no matter if we spend #300,000 on it the building will not be sightly on that location. It is traea large majority voted for the | bouds, but they would have voted against thewm if they had been familiny with the ground. As to the malicious reference to Bighteenth and Douglas, Tne Beg is willing to tako ali the odium that may attach to the suggestion. The city ought to own that corner to prevent the erection of an unsightly block or a fire trap in the rear of the city hall. A soven or eight-story building erectod back of the city hall, even if it was five- proof, would he equally uudesirable, bo- cnuse it would shut out the light from the rear of the ecity bull. A library building, on the con- trary, would be a protection from fire, provent the obstruction of light above the third story of the city hall, and what is of greater advantuge still the buildieg could be heated from the city hall boilers and the city would save from $3,000 to $5,000 a year for fuel and engi- But the corner of Eighteenth and Douglas is in the square in which TuE BEE building is located and that building has been an eye sore to the W.- H. monomanine ever since its erection. THE coming urt exhibit at Exposition neers. BEE: 'SATURDAY, hall promiseste bo the avont of the sea- Tho Libby Prison War museum hus shipped two.well filled casos of curios and war relics from Chic General Algor’s famous picture, “The Last Hours of Mozart," is being made ready for ship- ment. Phil D. Armour, the packing house king, has generously offered to loan the Western Art association uny pictures desired from his fine collection. Most of our local patrons of art have anorously consonted to help on the good work. There aro threo or four fine col- lections owned by our people which should be loaned and it is still hoped that the generosity of enstern friends will not be permitted to put our own citizens to the blush. Hvery man and woman in Omaha should be unselfish enough to contribute whatever he or she can to the success of the exhibit. I7 18 to be hoped that in the contest before the United States court the rel tions of the city of Omaha to the Water Works company. and the rights of our city to adopt reasonable reguiations re- garding the distribution of hydrants and the water supply for private and public use will be clearly defined. Up to date the contract between the city and the has been construed to confer no rights upon the city as regards the relocation of hydrants and tion with the mains excepting such as the company was willing to grant. The sooner we know what rights the city has in the premises the better for all con- cerned. 8o, go. waier company connec- LINCOLN is in earnest about creating a grain market and Governor Thayer has given the ambitious Capital City a chiof grain inspector in GeneralJ. C. McBride. This raises a question of relative rank in the mind of the other inspector, Mr. S. S. Blanchard, whose bailiwick has hitherto bean the entire state but who under the new deal will be confined to Omaha and Douglas county. Ie insists that he is the chief and MeBride a deputy and the chances are that the courts will bo called upon to determine which is the legitimate king of the corn and cereal business, T Omaha Athletic club has opened elegant new quarters on Harney streot. This means more than the faco of the formal announcement. It is a long step toward metropolitanism and the club is an institution Omaha has needed for many yours. The member- ship is large, the club house complete in every detail and the organization is made up of the best brain, blood and brawn of Omiha. THE Builders’ and Traders’ Exchange 184n hearty sympathy with the plans and purposes of the Manufacturers’ and Consumers’ associntion and both voice an almost universal Omaha public senti- ment in their efforts to help on the good work of patronizing home industry. OMATIIA'S national convention deloga- tion will go to Washington next we bucked by a guaranteed subscription of $50,000, and cocked and primed with the western euthusiasm described in frontier parlance by the two words, “Get there,” Great Was Her Salvation. Western Wavpe, Omaha has been redeemed from the scourge of a rotten democratic ring for a city council. pieidogil il A Bad Pair t) G imble On. rand Tdand Inl-penie t. Edgorton for govornor a year heuce is the way in which the independents aro talking now, and Vandervoort for lioutonant gov- ernor. At Bl e Truths Tersely Told. Grand Tsland Independent: Tme Oyama Bee has the finest news paper property west of Chicago. Holdrege Citizon: As an eicction news- gatherer the World-Horald did not seom to bo in 1t by about hall a milo, S S—— Temporary Estrangement. Chicaqo Inter-Ocean., Ponnsylvania and Ohio are safoly back in the republican column, and Towa and Now York will como in 1802 National questions wore not the issue in either lowa or Now York. In the latter stato the thelowost projudices were appealed to, and, unfortu- nately, found favor with the masses. STATE PRESS OPINION, Hastings Nebraskan: McKeighan, Kem and Bryan can read their title clear to one term and out. and Island Independent: The men who ade themselves with the belicf that such fellows as Vandervoort, Burrows and Ed- gorton are dviug of sympathy for the dear fermers are certainly entitled to a great deal of commiseration, Plattsmouth Herald: A great number of old soldiers who wandered off into the inde- pendent party last ycar on o “furlough,” re- turned to the old regiment this year. = Tho boys will receive an old time welcome and they will be expected and depeaded upon to work with their old time zeal. Fairmont Signal: Nebraska has passed through the slough of despondency and is now fawrly ou the road to prosperity again. When the people havo shaken off their imaginary ills, they seo clearly the real ones ave not vory formiduble afterall. A short, vigorous effort will easily put them to rout. Lincoln Journal: The credit of Nebrasku and Kansas has gone up with a bound in eastern financial circles. ‘The good crop bo- gan the work, and the eloction completed 1t. We vili now have more money for the devel- opment of our vast resources, and thore will be no more talk about foreclosure or uttempts at repudiation. The cloud has passed away and the suu of prospority is shivin. Norfolk News: I'ho men who Joined tho indepondents for the suko of an oflice and a little fleoting popularivy will soon be home less wanderors without i party roof to covor their hoads, while the men who have stead fastly maintained thewr principles must expe- rience a feoling of satisfaction with their honest and consisteut course. T'ho peoplo can be gouerally trusted to recognizo truo worth in time and will relegate the political trim mers to the rear, whilo the men who have been faithful will bo called up higher. Beatrice Expresa: The iudependents flat- tered thomselves that the break 1n their lines extended only through the eastern countios of this state, and that whea the returus camo in from the central and western countios Post's lead would be lost aud Edgerton would come in an easy winner, But thelr bopes were disappointed. The fact appears that disintegration has begun fu the central aud western counties, and it will be complote before the ocourrente of another gonoral eloction. A year houce with a president to choose, Nebraska can be safely counted upou for a republican majority of wnywhere from 25,000 to 50,000, Howells Journal (dem.): made a grave mistako by not tickot in the field state, In refusing to fill the vacancy caused by the resigunatian of Judge Broady, the stato contral commitios woakened eve 1 unty ticket in the state. T'ae action of the commf{tiee plac the party in a very bad condition for 1802 Tho idea of a party that electod its vovornor in 1590 not baving & state ticket in tho told in 1501 was simply ridiculous. The wen who were trusted with the managemeut of the party this season should be invited to step down und out by tho mewmbers of the text state convention The democrats ing a fujl 1891. NOVEMBER 14, LANDS oTnER TILAN OURS. Tho Russian minister of foreign affairs ex- Pressos surprise at the outside criticism of his goveramont's treatment of the Jews, and endeavors to extonuate it He would have to wo back to the middle ages in Kurops for fitting historical precedents to justify or ox- cuse the czar's cruel and base persecutions of his Hebrew subjects, In those dark epochs kings aud priuces, encouraged by pop- ular bigotry and suporatition, frequontly found it vory convenicat to replonish their empty coffers by despoiling the Jews. But even in the middlo agos tho voicos of hu- 1iane and enlightened men wore offectively ratsed to atay tho hand of porsecution, His- tory relates how the celebrated St. Bornard of Clafrvaux once hastened to Germany to supprss a crusado against tha Jows which a fanatical monk was proaching to the people of the Rhino, The eloauent and pious abbot succeeded in quieting tho irritated peoplo and fn making them fecl that Christians ought not to persecute Jews, but to pray for their conversion. A Bornard of Clairvaux might preach in vain to the czar of Russia and his minister of foreign affaivs, The fact is that Russin, its government and its politi cal and social institutions belong to thoe dark agos rather than to the civilization of this epoch, The efforts of ten geuerations of progress have hardly made an impression upon this huge block of Siberiaa granite, Its povernment is an Asiatic despotism transplanted into Europe. Its persecution of the Jews 1s part only of a system whicn brutality suppresses all who are suspected of the most vague aspirations foward a moro ratioual government Ewin Pasho has again attracted tho atten- tion of the world to himself by an expedition to the king of Ruanda. This portion of Africa is what Pawmir is to Asia, tke meeting point of throe great empircs, It isa rogion of indofinite extent, lying just south of the equator, and centrally traversed by the thir- tieth meridian cast from Greenwlch. It in cludes the southern shoro of the great Albert Edward Lake, the northorn part of which was surveyed by Mr. Stanley, and it extends southiward to Urunaa, which is at the north- ern oxtromity of Lake Tanganyika, Within its boundurios are the great Ozo Lake and tho upper waters of the Lura and Lowwa rivers, important tributarios of the Congo. The great highway of commerco from the Zambesi through Lakes Nynssa and Tan- ganyika northward to tho N'le will more nat- vrally and more conveniently pass through Lakes Atbert and Albert Edward than through Lake Victoria, and will thus melude the Rusizi river and pass through tho heart of Ruanda. Moreover, in Ruanda the Congo State, British East Africa and German Bast Africa meet. Tho lines that divido thom are drawn or aro to be drawn through this unexplored territory. How they will bo drawn depends greatly upon the influences that shall first become dominant at the court of Kuanda. It is thus evident that Ewin's work in that quarter is highly important, and yet is of such a character that Germany cannot as- sumo responsibility for it, nor Englana offer serious objection to it. He will doubtless bo allowed to goon as a freo lanco until the great powers have leisure to take up the work of African partition again. Then, if Emin shall have mado treatios in Ruanda and elsewliers of advantago to Germany that power will readily discovor that it was all along responsible for him, and will wsist upon reaping for itself the harvest he bhas planted, B Compared with th abiding opposition bo- 1ween Germany and France, the growing ill feeling between France and Italy is in itself of less importance; but it nas been of the highest importance in its consequences. While France and Germany mignt both do without ullies, Ttaly could mot; andso she has joined Germany and the Austro-Flun- sgarian monarehy in a strict allianco. With France, then, as a jealous and suspectod power on one side, and Russia as o jealous and suspected powor on the other side, it fol- lows as a natural consequence that thoso two powers should look to one another as vossible helpersin time of neod; and so with Russia as & factor, we are necossarily brought to look at tho condition of southenst- crn Burope. The sphero of Turkish op- pression in Kurope lies fn certain parts of Gireoce, Bulgaria and Servia, and tho dificulty of gotting 1d of the Turk 15 lacgely due to the crooked pol- fey of tho great powers of Iu- vope. Thoy aro averse to doing any- thing for frecdom, and thoy are also ra- stralued by selfish interests among them- solves. Austria and Russia aro tho ereat cnemies of southeastern froedom. Russin chauge for the beiter; but, us the house of Austria is the natural aud abiding enomy of the nations of southeastern Iuropo, When men tatk of Austria going to Salonica they forget that this would moan tho shat- tering forover of all the hopes of Greece, Servin and Bulgavia, The outlook, then, in the southenstern laads is dark. These coun- tries have not ouly their own causes of dis- sension smong themselyes, but thoy buve cnemios on every side. It is ovor their fur ther enslavomont that the real coufliot in Europe may bogin: and it is ouly by making them freo and united that they can form n barrier againat Russian aggrossion and Aus triau ambition, Should prosent fears be realizod and Rus- sia becomo tho startiog point of anothor in- vasion of western Europo by cholera, the civilized world will have a terriblo account to settle with the czar. [For it is at his door that the responsibility for the present famine lies, and 1t is he, thorefore, who must be hold answerable for tho pestilenco which s ro- sulting therofrom. Unlike other great fam- ines known to history, the preseat oo in Rus- sia is due, not to natural causes beyond the reach of human control, but to a purely ad- ministrativo origin. If tnere bas been an enttre failuro of the crops, not in one, but in uwenty provinces of tho cmpire, it is atwibutable entirely to the fact that little scod was sown, and that few ficids wero tilled. ‘Tho largar part of the vast agricultural area of Kuro- poan fRussia was loft uncultivated, T'he rea. son for this was that the peasanty had had thoir implements and cattlo scized by the governmont for non-payment of taxoes, while the imperial policy of persecution and expul- siou of the Jews had doprived the mojiks of their_customary means of boerowlug tho monoy neoded for tho purchaso of seed on tho security of the crops to be grown Lhoere from. And, inasmuch as the scarcity of grain as woll as of money will have the emtect of still further restriciing tho aroa uow undor cultivation, it is probable that the famine aud the consequent pestilence will ba moro appalling in Russia noxt year than they now are, - ska ks W ith Us, Lineotu Call Omaha is uearer the centor of Unitad States than any other great oity except Liv- ocolu. It has boen a represeatative wostern city for many years; it is ituated as 1o accommodate a ereater number of delegates than any other city and it dese 0 havo the natiopal republican convention. No Ne braskan who ean contributo bis mite result should fail to do so, - This is iubbing ic In, York Tim Horald complains Neby the t0 The Lincola about the train rovbery in Omaba, aod yet it 1s right in line with the te of Mr. Edgerton whom the Horald supported for Judg hings / this [GRAIN INSPECTION MUDDLE. Affairs of the Board Complicatad by Recent Developments. TWO OFFICERS FOR ONE POSITION, General MeBride's Appointment Again Ralses the Questions of Chief Blanchard’s Title— Lancoln News Notes, Lixcory, Nob,, Nov. 13.--(Speciat to Tik Brr. |~ Whon Chief Grain Inspoctor Blanch- ard, aceording to agreement with the Stato Board of Transportation, commencod suit against Auditor Benton in the suprome court for money due him for services, it was sup- posed that all aiffculties wore ended, but when the membvers of the board read in the mornfug pupers that Goneral J. C. McBride had been appointed to the position of chief rain luspector, they looked as puzzled as over, Deputy Tuspoctor Arderson of Omaha had Dbeen sent for to inspoct forty car of grain that areived vestorday, and heun- peared ready for work this morning., Af reading the morning papers ho did not know oxactly what to do—whether ho stould ro port ta the board or to Mr. McBride. At the suggestion of the board Anderson went down 10 tho public warehouse to mspect the grain as Mr. MeBrido had not yet filed bis bo; The appointment of MeBride by the gov- ornor was a completo surpriso to tho board, as tho members belioved the insvector und deputies already appointed were sufiicient to attond to tho work. Some of the members declare that tho gov- ecnor takes a different view of the matter than thoy o themselves; that it has boen and still is their intoution to put the inspec- tion of grain on self-sustaining basis; that Iast month $540 was recoived in foes, which moro than pald all expenses, and by Sending one of the Omaha doputies to Lincoln it was belioved rhat expenses would be saved theroby and A handsomo surplus left to turu into tho stato treasury. ~One member of tho boara inquired fously : Who fs the chief of chief inspectors, Mo- Brido or Blanchavd ¢ Another said: “I have full confidenco in MeBride and beliove ho will make an excol- lent inspector. Wo will thorefore take tho n ter as it is and do the best we can for the state." None ot the members of tho board wished to bo quoted by neme. Thoy all expressed a desire to smooth matters over ns best thoy could, but all declured that thoy did_not sce the necessity for another inspector to in- crease tho pay roll The matter of warehouses and inspection has been assigned to Senator J. N. Kooatz, one of the secretaries of the State Board of Transportation, and ho will kereafter devote his ontire attention to it At tho meeting of the hoard this afternoon, Rovort Dorgan was appointed to tho position of enief weighmaster for Lancastor count Jacob Hall was chosen deputy weighmaster for Lancaster county, Mr. Harris, of tho Lincoln public ware- house, informs Secrotary of Stato Allen that the receipts at the warchouse represented hy him here will average daily hereafter from fifiy-five to sixty-five cars. CHARGED WITH HAYES' DEATIL County Attornoy Suell has filed u complaint sguinst P. L. Burrett, who killed tho book agent, A. 8. flayes, charging nim with mur- dor iu' the second degreo, "The general opinion avpears to bo that the crime is mothing moure than man- slaughter and many persons express the = beliof that Barrott caunot bo convicted at ali of any felonious charge ns he was provoked to the assault by the inso- lenco and stinging blows of tho nzent, and trom all appearances, did not inteud to kill his assailant. A telegram was received this atternoon from A. J. Hayes of Oswego, Mion., a sou of the murdercd man, which diroeted tho undor- takers to give the body a decent burial and send tho bill for the safte to te son. Tho body will be buried at 10:50 a. m. to- morrow. loads CHAPPEE WILL DIE. Whea Prank Chaffee, assistant fire chiet, jumved from the secoud story of the Hy barn Tuesduy evening to escapo the flam it was not thon thought that his fnjur wore serious. Ho was somowhat stanned and his avm was broken. As muscular and vigorous o specimen of manhood as be 1s, it wits bolioved that ke would readily recover from the injury reccived and would bo ready for duly again in three 3 four weeks. Bul this proved a grave mis- take, as 0no possitility was overlooked. This was gangrenc. ‘Today the physicians discov- ered that this droad * decay liad set in and a cousultation of the best modical skill of the city was culled. It was doviacd that the young mun was boyond ail human aid and the amputation of the arm could not provent tho dissolution that way near, 1t is believed that ho caunot survive longer thau morning. Mrs, Rogeen, the mother of the dying young man, has been by his beaside since Wedniosday, but she never dreamed until today that hor boy wus in danger. Whoen the sad news wis broken to ler sho was al wost prostrated. Colone) Rogen arrived toaay from Omaha, and is g affected over the near scpara. tion from the manly step-son whom ho lea » for his splendid traits, I ay mght was insignificant aud it appours incrcdivio to Chi eberry and the other members of tho de- partment that such a small blazo should ro- sult i the death of one of the best members of the forco. any, fire of Tu | NARROWLY BSCAPED BIGANY. Charles G. Beals, an aged lover of se- | greatest strength, and C strength, them and the U. S. Government. ing Powder is undoubtedly the purest and most reliable Baking Powder offered to the public, “HENRY A. MOTT, PH. D."” Late Chemist for U. S. Government. curod a license to marry & voung lady glving the name of Miss Mary Guanden, who ‘is 93 years old, When Judge Stewart was abouy 10 pronounce the words that would make the twain one flesh he discovered that thy woulds bo bride's corroct namg wras Mrs, Willlam Bookhoaso, that her hisana was liviog sto had never beon divorced from him. wedding was fadefinitely postponed THE COPPMAN B o The dectsion of Judgo Tibbott's 1n regard to the five story Coffman block on Fifteenth and O streets’ does not plense any of the twenty-six creditors but the three favored ones. ~ The libns amount to 0,000, and tho commencement of the suits intorfered with the “completion of the intorior of the structura Tue two men furnishing the matorial are given the first llens. C, W, Hare who holds & 23,000 claim stands next. The other twonty-threo croditors will appoeal the enso. 01DS AND ENDA, J.J. Knitules, who was arrosted on thet chareo of selling a horse that did uot belon to him, nas saddled the blame on J. J Mitehell, who, ke claims, gave him ten driuks of whiskey to nerve him to do as he did. Today he caused Mitcholl's ar tho chargo of giving liguor away. The an Adjustabls Whinletree of Liocoln has filea articl with a capival stock of & - ISSING JE Bultimore Amerlean: “Strange, but truoe.! nse 1 the victim of untoward “ovents, “that lod mannemont too often produces stralghioned cireumstances.” Toxas Siftinzs: to the strone, the butter pr “Tho ‘battle 13 not always safll the Judgo na ho awarded mlum At county fair, Pittsburs Dispateh: Politiolans never re 1z that thore is such & thing ln = fo as deo t s, Wiashington Star hoekupation,” said the Mine Is & very usuful pawnbroker Detroit I Moonlight, glad sight, A man, anald; A walk, u talk, S0 shy, 5o staid Press. The door, ah! s questic 1only know She answered York Tribune: As an example of misn the verdiet of an Ok, Neb., coroner's jury probubly stands alone. 1t was tpanellid to take action on the case of o negro who had been hanzed by amob, and aftora careful roviow of the faeis which wero admitted, it brought in a vordict that the man had D ghtened to death by unkunown persons.” moro— Guess? New Plonoer-Pross AL 56,000 mosquitoes (uitocs " bill s oublesome as that of a ¢ has feured out ha pound. Vet a ntly almiost as tor Chie Times: W zoin ave the nott Off the dimes now o uskod Mrs. Pyus of h ol you know a man anybod ndor why they aro n Wo Trust’ Leave it on the dollars? husband, the deicos will "trust almo: 1 AL comes b 1 hiave Lo be cureful iy you horr! comin Conaition? Besht In tho we HE MAN. Jowrnal, humble man D unib s the envy of Some sneaking, thiovish follow. HAPPY 13 Atlanta How happy is t 10 hias o ch 0d ) Stranger—ow do you romem- o s of all these workmen? 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