Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 20, 1892, Page 4

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EWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Fatoof Nebraslen County of Douglas. | C B, Tzachuck, secrotary of The BEE Publishing compuny, docs solomnly swear thut the actui eireulation of Tie DALY BRe for the week ending January 10, 150, was as follows unday, Monday in 45 i ot By 24784 24,186 GRO. i 280U CK, Sworn to lefore e and subscribed ‘in my presence this 10ih day of Junuury. A, D. 802 BEAL NP IR, Notary Public The growth of the averaco dnily circulat on of Thi Brp for six yeurs is shown in the fol- lowin Wodnesday Thursday. Friday, Jin Buturday, Jan. 16 Averigze T[0T 4119, '.'.'y’ 40 | S04 24003 i January February . Maroh..... April..o May ... June July Augusi Feptembir Cetober November Lecember 18,073 187 18153 15,401 181154 18,710 18044 15,6 1R 10310 RS 414151 13,030 148 120 1415 13,348 16, 1223 A SIGNAL office temperature of below zero should satisfy the most avar icious coal dealer. Corn is king in Amorica. [n 1891 the farmers of this country produced 30,228 worth of this food product. and Omaba is waiting for luck to make this city « grain and produc StLicon plaster isa patented material and the process of making it is secrot. The threo most effective ingredicnts, howover, are addition, division and silon Tur Real Estate Owners association may not alwa eed in its efforts to correct irregularities and prevent pub- lic extravaganes, but it deserves credit SENATOR W ASHBUR anti-option bill is enthusiastically endorsed by the miller; The senator is himsell a miller. Without refercpce to the in- trinsic merit of the bill, why is it that the millers are so favorable to it? No ArG 1 should be necessary make it clonr that Nebraska tomp should be made up into Nebraska bind- ing twine for binding Nebraska grain. This is so reciprocal an arrangement as to commend itself without argument. PRACTICAL politics wins in Maryland as well as Now York, hence Arthur P. Gorman is re-elected United States sen- ator from Maryland, and he and his friend David Bennett Hill will now have six years of unintecrrupted oppor- tunity to set up pins on the presidency. TowA will probably be the next state to adopt the Australian ballot law. Within a few yearsovery northern state will have enlisted under the banver of election reform. There rewains a solid black belt in the south, however, with its organized raids upon the ballot box. OMAHA will be sure of a car wheel foundry if the Paxton & Vierling iron works shall detormine to include the manufacture of car wheels in their plant in this city. They have the capital, the skill and the confidence in the future necessary to mako the enterprise suc- cessful, MEKCHANDISE is to bo added to the swok of tho military post canteons which have heretofore confined thoir enterprise chiefly to wet groceries. The worchandise will set off the canteen bar to advantage and porhaps dull the edge of public criticism upon the cantecn system. Tue Chilian cloud assumes a morve threatening aspect, it must be con- fossed, us the days pass, but wo are still loth to think sufticient cuse can be offered for actual hostilities. It is all right for o grown man tospank a spunky baby, but he is not justified in beating its brains out or blacking its eye var GENERAL TEST would have the Union Pacific railway pay its debts to the na- tional government by constructing ivxi- gating ditches to vecluim tho arid lands in the states and territories which its lines penetrate. The suggestion would be meritorious enough if the Union Pa- oific were disposed to meot its govern- ment obligations. At least it would be better for the people at large to receive payments in irrigating ditches than not at all. CRIEF GALLIGAN of the fire depart ment recommends that commo- dious hoadquarters for the department be secured to save the city the mous rental now being puid for the use of the Harney street building. Why should not the office of tho fire chief and fire alarm telegraph ion bo located in the eity hull building? There will be ample room for all these oMces There is need of the fire chief at police headquarters or in any particular engine house. Tho city will no doubt sooner or later have to acquire grounds for a central police station and possibly the station van be partly used for one of the hose companies. But the future the city hall ought to ac date ull city ofciuls. more enor- no for near IO ASSUMING A MO, If there shall B SERIOUS ASPECT be confirmation of the roport regurding the movements of Chilian war vessels, and it spoms to be aceopted at Washington and to cause u good deal of apprehension, there will be no further doubt that nds to provoke a war with the If this {s the purpose of the southern re that wnd not Chili 10 United States. public theres is wisdom in country ning the hostilities wait the formality of a of If hev ships find ours unprapared and succeed in capturing or destroyi a number of them she will ned a decided advantage no vessols 1o in a Chiti, und should culty in getting a land force into that countey without war ships to t them there, It would obviously, there fore, be the wise course for Cnili, if she means to fight, to begin hostilities when she advantage, and it is by no means improbable that the men in control of that government fully understand this. They have had enough experience in fighting to know the advantage of the fivst blow, if it be well delivered. The Chilian complication subject of consideration at the cabinet meeting yestorday. The special suge of the rogarding culty does not, it st o declaration of war, as it prop- orly should not. That isa matter al- ways to be left entirely to the determi- nation of cor But the tone of the message fizm and uncom- irit “that will think it to be be; wtion war. have fos we have naval war with have difi spare we g condue seems to have a clear was the mes- the rouest or S prosident id is s rress, d to be showing n is s promising, not displense those who the duty of the United States to tise CLili if she doos not immodiately sutisly the demands of this government This appears probable from the state ment that Secretary Blaine objected to the position taken by the president, and that more time be given the Chilian government to consider the do- mands made upon it before presonting our ultimatum. Of course, if there is conflrmation of the movements and sup- posed designs of the Chitian war vessels no one will be dy than Mr. Blaine to hold Chili to a strict account- ability. Unquestionably the general fecling in Washington is that a crisis is at hand, and the indications are that the govern- meont is very well prepaved to meet it whenever it comes. There is a disposi- tion in naval cireles to b that this country would have an victory in war with Chili, but it not wise to count too largely upon vhis The Chilian navy is not much, if at all, in- ferior to ours, and her people know how to fight and are not lacking in courago. Of course there can be no doubt aste the outcome, but a war with Chili would not be a mere holiday exercise. urged mo is w. TOO MANY MONEY LENDERS. Omaha cannot hope to make any material progress within the next few years unless our men of come to the front and invest their surplus i factories, mills, elevators, whole jobbing houses and enterprisos that will give steady employment to wazeworkers and put money in cireulation among our retail merchants, The trouble with Om:aha that the men who have grown rich out of Omaha real estate and franchises granted for supplying the city with gas and water and ting street railways have be- come money lenders instead of producers of wealth, Our home capitalists prefor to loun out money at 8 and 10 per cent with compound interest to investing in industrial and mer There are a dozen men in Omaha who could build a railroad into South Dalkota without borrowing a dollar, but they will notembark in building this much-needed artery of commerce unless they have as- surance that the people on the line of the rond will vote them bonus enough to pay for the whole rond. Most these men have made all they have Omaha, but they are waiting for fore capitalists to improve our railrond ¢ nections and build our mills, factories olevators and warehouses Wo lave an apundance money lenders and a famine in public-spirited men. This explaing why cold water is thrown by our men of means upon almost 'y project thut is caleulated o promote the growth of the civy. Like Artemus Ward, who was willing to sucrifice his wife’s velations in the war, they are willing to 1ot outsiders assumo the that requive capital, while they keep on lending mouey at 8 and 10 per cent compound interest and clipping coupons from city and county bonds, In the language of Bill Paxton, who is one of the very few capitalists who are always rendy to invest money in Omahu entorprises, “Omaha needs a few more funerals before she will be in position to outstrip St. Paul, Minneapo- lis, Denver and Kansas City.” AGRICULTURAL According to the estimates of the sta- tistician of the real departme at Washington the total acrenge, yi and value whoat and oats fi 1891 is ns follows: Ac is oper intile concorns, of ev visks of enterprises SOME [ of corn, Yiald Vv G1LIDK0 0 B K4, GLTS 000 AIRAT 3,180,000 Ao, 1315 0016807 BHASLNGL Corn Whont Oats Total... W10, BT This is vertiinly ing. The throe coreals is a tritio greator thun the total nren of Nebraska, New England, New York and Pennsylvania combine 1 The corn area aione excoeods the tot number of of lani within ths states of Nebraska and Virginia, Tho fields of wheat, if th were eonsoli dated, would cover an s large Town with steip of land off Missouvi or Minnesota of 5,000,000 acres additionl The oats crop, if it all ineluded within the state of Indiana, la cupy every acre and ths state would b still 8,000,000 acres too tent of the agricultural intorest to these threo a magnificent show aer devoted to these nge acres Aren were W oc- The ex in this stap smll country devoted may bo comprehonded in a least from th pheaska's mousure it 30 tremndsus i the ar the vielding 167 value #41,580, t hov ¢ t. Ouly K Missour noisund Iowa are ahead of her, with Lowa ures. nnk amoag grain producing states Is very n front She is fifth in the & corn with 4,762,840 100 bushels, 652 ut \n THE AHA leading the entire union He grown upon 9.55),718 acres reached the marvelous total of 850,878,000 bushels, worth 810,263,183 tho twolfth whoat-gre ing state, coming under the wire only o few thousand rhead of Tennes rank., T of is Minnesotn, vorth Dakota, Indiana, California, Ohio, South Dakota, Hlinois, Missouri, Towa, Michigan and Nebraska, Nobraska's wheat area is 1,2)5,350 which 18,080,000 bushels ¢ $13, WS,583 ho record ia the production of oats shows Nebraska the fifth in rank, with 1,368,077 ac Tae yield was 48,590,000 the value is placed at Illinois leads the in d to this coreal, id - 111,005,000 Nebraska is bushels the thirteenth ir 10 order precedonco Kansns, sain wora grown, worth bushols, and 11,177,607 the area having bushols. union of 3,068,030 ¢ land sow ros If the statistician’s figures are correct Nobraska has havvested fedm 7,337,167 acres of land devotad to corn, wheat and oats, in the yeur 1801, crops agaregating in value 847,9 an averago of move than 3¢ a sum greator than $07.50 per capita of the population of the state. If we should add to these encour aging figures the valus of all the other wericultural, geazing and manufactured products of the state, should simply astounded at the vesults. Noman in Nebraska of average intelligence and ordinary patriotism can sit quietly at his desk and theso ealeulatic without feeling witiin himself a swelling pride in the achievements of this you state, not yet one-half of \ble avea is under the piow. IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURES. Judicious economy in publie expendi- tures all men wle. Justico to the people whose industry provides the money to carry on the government d=mands that it shali be used wisely and prudently. Thers are no circumstances that can justify waste and extravagance in times of peace. But while lavish and unnecessa cxpenditures are to avoided, it is quite as important not to 20 to the other extreme and practice an cconomy that will retard progress, chec onterprise, deprive the nation of the moeans to incrense its wealth and power, and prevent the improvement of the public service. A great and growing nation like the United States, whose people are euger to onlarge and oxtend theiv enterpriss at home and abroad, ulate oxpendituves on a scale that would answer very well for a coun- try which had attained its development and reached the limit of its resources. Within its prover fuactions the govern- ment must keep pace with the growing needs of the nation, providing adequate means of defense and protection, increns- ing postal facilities, improving water- ways, promoting the interests of agricul- ture, encouraging enterprises that prom- ise to ndvance the general welfave, and in every legitimate way aiding the material development of the country. In the performance of these duties care should be tuken to keep expenditures within reasonable bounds, but a narrow 25 por wo ba make known whose ECONOM Y groe is desi be cannot ve and niggardly economy may be more smful than extravagance. The present house of represontatives seems disposed to practice such an econ- omy, and it will cortainly do so if the chairman of the approprintions commit- tee, Mr. Holman, can have his way. T'he id; of that gentleman are well <hown in his remarks regarding the y, in & recent interview. Asked whether he thought the navy a legiti mate object for appropriation, he replied that when the ships under construction are completed wo will have a navy twice s lurge a3 we have ever had in time of peace: that when some half a century ago we had a dispute with Great Britain wo did not increase the navy; and that *“the experience of the civil war showed that satisfactory defenses could be thrown up at short notice. Such talk as this from o man having prominence and authofity in congress is humili- ating to the nation. What would such defonses as wero sufficient thirty years ago amount to now against the guns of modern war ships? As to the navy, it is w question whether it would be able to hold its own azainst the naval force of Chili, and were we no better pre- pured than during the civil wur would be completoly at the merey of that small powe No fact is better demonstrated than the necessity of the United States having u strong navy and adequate coust defenses, and liberal ap propriations for these purposes will be true economy. The resolutions pussed by the house of representatives u few diys ugo reflect upon the postal subsidy and sugar bounty legislation of the preceding con- gross. It willnot be denied, however, that this legislation has produced good results, which it is fair to assume will be very greatly enlavgod if the subsidy and bounty ave continued. In the case the shipbuilding interest has been henefited, and we shall soon have al ditional steamships cavrying tho Amori- A marchunt of ns nav we can flag into foveign ports. ial to the and marine is ess u commaree, lation of the last congr providos a wiLy obtain needod transportation facilities for products ownel and managed by American citizons, In the other caso the production of sugar has been groatly stimulated, aad theve re 1502 to believe that if ziven reasonable few ve produce almost enough sugar for hone consumption, an 1 in tim» muy be independent of foroign pro- ducers, while at the same time ehoap- ening this nesossity to our own 1o the matter of linproving tho ways of the courtry theve is a demand for a mors liboral policy on th part of the g h is justified in the intevest of enlurged and facilitias fo extension our fo the le to our is encouragement wo shall in a v oms ontirely poople. water growing wernment, whi cheaper transportation intern il commoree, I'he ceonomy solely f¢ party playing politienl capital, and bfdaludal into tho be ief thay it hius any higher motive demovrat is the people wi | no CTOR BLANCIARD wly that kith o Wes ar STATEGRAIN [N P lonies i he has most ey uployed any of his Kinin tho inspection department giad th and will the other e uble to make this co wait pationtiy t n DAILY one | B WEDNESDAY ! foisted tiredw= wives, sons, daughters, | cousins and sunts on the public pay roll Incidentally BiE Brg repaats what it hius hovetofdi stated, that this practice is demoralfing. Mon ars appointed or octed to olfise either a rewnrd of political actt¥ity or on account of their and Their be chosen the f their rola- individual ‘gapacity fitness subordinates: should samo basis (il not bacause With very v nepotism hh& flways been o complaint that diseriminat mude aguifktrdeserving poople and on tionship, ve exceptions of is in source just n pre ference e THERE is something very pertinent in Jthe inquiry of Commissioner Smith re- garding the enormous number of dis- missals in police court. Outof 7,281 ar- rests mado last year by the police 4,721 person were dismissed and only 0 were held for trial. In other words, out of ten persons arrested six dis- charged, either for want of prosecution or want of evidence which means simply that a very large percontage of the per- sons arrested had committed no offense. The arrest of persons whoappear poorly dressed or happen temporarily to be out of work is entirely unwarranted. The trouble is that promotion in tho police torce seoms to depend more upon the number of sts an officer makes than upon the discretion and judgment ho dis- plays in arresting real offenders the law at the right time and in the right place. were nguinst I'RIENDS of our publie schools will bo glad to know that the amendment to the rules of the Board of Iducation adopted lagt summer, which provided that ap- plicants who failed to pass examinations could try ngain and should be required tostand a test only upon the branches in which they fuiled at the preceding examination, has been stricken out. It has probably served its purpose and aided somebody’s friend ov friends to pass mustor and is therefore of no fur- ther use. THE warehouse law does not contem- plate offices in the state capitol and mo- quet carpets and cushioned chairs in Omaha for inspectors and weighmasters. Wellington boots, short step ladders and inspecting apparatus are what inspectors most need and the weighers should be dovoting their time to weiching grain and keeping theiv scales in order. One office rendezvous with ink, pens, stationery and records is ahout the tent of the cial headquarters quirements daries, but it difficylt to cut them down. This is the experience of business men who absolutely control their own afTairs, and it is but natuaral that any effort to cut down expenses in public offices is met with persistént opposition, not only from the offi¢asholding class, but from all who expeet to get n soft snap at the public erib, as ex- re- I is vory easy to raise is ve Tik Kellom school vromises to be a mosaic of experiments and questionable deals in matérials: The Smend heating and ventilating'system, the elggtric in- dicator, silicon will plaster and some- body’s tin roof seem to have made a combine on this building MANAGER YOsT is probably right in saying that it would be a hardship to force the electric companies to place their wires underground at this time of the yenr, but they should be made to come to it within the next twelve months, THE need of economical, and ment of our city the hour progre is honest, ve manage- Datroit Free Pre A South Dakota congressman has intro- duced a bill to admit_all war veterans to the Worla’s fair free of charge. It is thus that the political aemagogue disgusts the seusivlo majority of battle-scarred heroes. He Tickted the Nation, Detroit Free Press, In the natural order of events Prince orge will become king of England, He sa liboral minded young man and tickiod all England when he once told his older brother to *go into the corner and sing God save your grandmother,” ——— Divided Attention, New Yok Tribune, Senator Hill is in Washington, but his heart. his affections, his 1terests are all in Albany. With one eyo on the logislature ho has made, and the othor ou the bresidential nomination, how much attention will he be ableto devota to the duties of his presont ofice ¢ - Cautioning the Loters. Chicago Inter-Ocean, The New York Sun advices the Tammany leglslaturo to go slow in its wholesale robbery of the people who elected a number of ropub- licans to that body. The Sun might as well advise a gang of safebroakers to not take the money afterit has stood by and applauded their efforts at blowing open tho vault, - in the Mang York Ledger Ihere arein congress men who seom to tako a sort of malicious delizht in defeating not only all private bills, but atl othors which do not directly bear upon the government service, They take pride sw ealling themsolves and in beln called *tha watch dogs of the treasury. ! | Within reasonablé’ limits this sort of care and pradence dosvory well, but when, as is ofton the case, it Atands botwoon the indi vidual and the michey honestly due to him from the goverument, 1t savors of the dog in-the-manger spfeit, and canses great wrons and hardship to-ddserving and innocent per sons. Popnsyivania, Too? Philelgiphis Record Some of Groveg@levelana’s Ponnsylvania backers are evidently getting ready to desort him. They ure attractea by the merctricious glamor of Goverfigp Hill's late performunces | and the open oppasition to Cleveland on the part of those shifty politicians who care | mare for spoils than for principles. But My | Cleveland has the mass of the democr hind bim. If the New York machine shall | wake it inadvisablo to nominato u New York candidate, thoro will be 1o trouble in finding elsewnero who stundard of | lines of advance murk Wi oy b will not lower the inciplo nor [ voland | | a candidate | 10 d out by (ho ( administration - Aot veb., dan of Only er Faky 1o hat thor favor of thosé who are not entitlod to | JANUARY 20, 1892 not kuow what tho same contained sire to say through the columns of Tur Bre that [ have not writton any letter upon polit ical subjects to either of tho senators sinco [ have beon in oftice, so that it would be im possible for any lottor of mine to be inter cented or published by any onoe, eithor here or in Washington I eannot conceive of any necessity which would require me to write any letter which would furnish ammunition or pieasure to the enemy, should the same become public. I'he lotterhead and stationery in my of fice are, perhaps, availavle to all who wish to use them-—domoerats and mngwumps,as well as republicans. Very respectfully vours, Bran D, SLAUGNRTER. - CENT CONGRESS, but _de THE FIVE anti- T'hat is Minneapolis Journal: The Holman subsidy resolution is pure buncombe. all thore is of it Detroit Tribune doesn’t suit the house, Thev would of the people's money districts, New York Sun: Tho passage of the Hol man resolution is bad nows for the shrewd financiers in Chicago who are trying to milk the Umted States of 5,000,000 more for the vrofit of that ingenious town. St. Louis Republic: The Holman resolu tions moan suceess to the democratic party it they mean anytning at all. Ana they mean what they say. If tlioy wore a mere pretence the country would certainly r sent it. Holman's peanut policy peanut democrats of tho like tospend a littlo in thow respective Indianavolis Journal: Probably the cheapest government in tho world, “though not the beat, can be found in Central Afvic Mr. Holman might get some points in choese. paring economy from the native statesmen of that country, St. Louis Globe-Demoerat: *Watch-dog" Holman will be kept busy, and uscfully busy during tho greater part of the session if he guards the treasury successfully against the democratic wolves from the south who are preparing to attack it Cincinnati Commercial: By the timo ap- propr ns aro made up the house will have forzotten this clap-trap stufl. 1f a policy of cconomy is to be ricidly sdhered to, what will becomo of tho avalanche of sonthorn war claims that is tumbling 1n Now Orleauns Picayune in the hanating of public monay is a most praiseworthy policy. Tho practico of wise economy is the highest duty of the people represeatatives, but a great country lik this cannot be maintained on u 2-penny basis, Milwaukee News: Whilo the country generally dosires that congross be as eco- nomical us possible in public expenditures it lias no interest in Holman's attampt to muke volitical capital for the Bourbon party by greatly inconveniencing and retarding gen eral growth and prospority of commorce and thie public service by clap-trap legisiation. Philadelphia Lodgor: Some of the demo. crats in congress aro trying to show that tho country is suffering from the burdens of tax- ation. ~Kven though this should be true as an economic proposition, 1t is of no use in practical politics, for the burden is not felt. Cheese-paring economios, founded on that belief, mag bo wise, but will not be popular. S MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE. lem.): Iconomy Philadeiphia Inquirer: One hunared mil- lion dollars for coast def nsos! Whow! Iive thousand miles of unprotected sea and luke coast and only §100.000,000 for defensive works! Whew ! Philadeiphia Record: Porsistent, Senator Dolph nas trotted out his $100,000,000 coast fortitications bill promptly and’ in fine style. But ho seems to forget that the billion con- gress has pussed in its chips. Buffalo lixpress: Senator Dolph cf Oregon bas wtroduced a bill appropriating $100,000, 000 for coast defenses. That will bo a good one for the economy congress to kill. ~We could better afford any war wo are likely to bave. MERRY ECHOE Somerville Journal: You suspicion on the girl w chi lutes. There is some somewhe man, look with sho doesn't like ng wrong about Mt Free Pross: | Uncle Jerr In the “Let silence reizn,” re- Rusk tou party of noisy Agricultural department one t's cot to. Mr.Secretary.” responded n ht young man, “all the nofse vou made out west in the arid rezions won't do it.” The seeretary smiled approval of his senti- nent. Det ar ks 1£ it weren't for the proofread thinzs would get before the pul stance, when the editor writes “The Worm Tu nd tho inzen positor sets it up “The Warm New Orletns Ples tinue making a noisc told to stilly it s evident they will not tuke sound adviee, NEXT Washington Star, ame to the barber shop At least two hours azo. 1t was, he said in oarnest tones, A nextasy of woe, Detroit Free Pross: “Did you anythiog, sir?” nsked an nuctio who had been standing | but had not opened his mouth uid tho fellow with o yawi, 1 went home, so 1 will bid want tol corof i the erowd for over “it's you ille Journal: Bjones—Is doin - well in husiness? Bienks- Well. thut dopends on the way you took st ite ALLT know Is t 10T had as much money as Bjohnson owes I should be w rich man Bjohnson Elmira G izottos You oin't prove anviline atout a physician’s smokin: habits by tho number of cigarette cases ho has on had, Washington Star: “I have neen Vet i radlroad,” satd the trivmp, one thing 1 nover did beut.” e known to hut there is wdolphin Times Bolder the ¢ its political uxes. To the unfortunate Yonl; house: ol s Gazett juestion DO you want your sidewalk s ro tho pveled Boston T 0 i WOmAn puts on wn apron she knows Whitt 1t s to huve thit tired feehing. Columbus probably call the sea treacherous hociuse 1t 5 tho bunlks. Cannot be Excelled PURER oOr stronger baking powder than the Royal it is im- possible to make. It is absolutely pure and health- ful, and composed of the best ingre- and of ctrength dients, h]"lll“v[ and character. “Dr., DAVIDSON, MILITIAMEN WANT T0 FIGHT. Rumor of War Has Stirred Up the Illinois National Guard. ALL HAVE TENDERED THEIR SERVICES, rally Believed That One Thousand M in the Event Hostilities, Army win ot 1o wn undred Requi Ciicaco Buneav oF Tk Be, | Cieaco, Lo, Jan, 10§ The talk about the possibility of war has od up tho of the Illiaois Na- tional Guard, and they have shown their roadiness for active service in case they should be called upon. Nearly all of the rogi- mental and company commanders have writ- ten to headquarters here, tendering tho services of their commands in the event of hostilities. Genoral Rueve thinks the govern- ment would hardly open war with Cnili or any other foreign power with than 100,000 men. That is about the number tno National Guard of tho and it would be much chieaper in the adjutant general's opinion, for the govern meut to uso men already drilled than ablish camps and attempt to drill an of untrained volunteers, John Crerar's 18 A bill bas been filed in the eireuit court at tucking the valiatty of the pricipal public and charituble bequests contained in the will of tho lato John Crerar, which will settle the case 50 far as the stato court is concerned Arguments in_ behalf of tho complainauts were begun todayv. Should the decision be aily rendeved declariug the challenwea bequésts void, then tho public will be de prived of tho public library which was to bo constructed on the south side at an expenso of nearly &,000,000. st mombers less entire country, to es- ATy 1est Attacked, Acts of Chicago's Common Council, By a vote of 41 to 18 thocity council passed the Calumet tlectric Railway ordinance at its meoting last evoning. 1t is one of the most_extensive franchises ever granted by the city council. When 1t was beforo tho council on a pravious occasion the ordinance was overwhelmmgly beaten, but when it struck the municipal toboggan at fast night's weeting the tracic was troo from difiiculties and the franchise went through with flving colors, The route vractically covers all the principal streots in the zouth end Alderzian Gossolenin’s — no-seat-no-fare ordinance was placed on file after a vigorous dobate. One objection urged against it was tuat a similar law had been declared un- constitutional by.the supreme court in a case arising in Roclford. Bicyclists ¥ Kk the Record, Wood and Ashinger, the forty-eight-nour Bnghish and Awmerican champions, are be- lioved to have broken the record in tho six- day bicyele tournament which began at Bat- tery D yesterduy. They coverod each I35 miles in eight hours, according to tho black board, but the track is said to bo a trifle short. Stage, the Scotchman, and Lambo, another glishman, made | niles. Shock, O'Fiannigau and Robb trailed badly be- bind. Struck Twice in the Same Pl At 1 o'clock this morning a Pittsburg, Ft. ayne & Chicago switeh engine crashed into a Forty-seventh street horse car, com- pletely demolishing it. There wore no pas sengers on board and the conductorand driver escaped 1njury. The accident oc curred identically at the same spot and on the same track iu which two people were | killed and nineteen injured in a similar col- lision last Thursday. The coroner’s jury in the case of May and Maggie Gilmore, who were killed inthe ac- cidont Thursday night, returned a verdict tast night m whizh it is’ recommended that JohnFlaunigan, the conductor of the wrecked car, and John Albrecht, the gate keeper at the crossing, voth be held to tho grand jury. The report of the jury also censures the rail road for not providiug sufMicient safoguards | against accidents at this crossing. Oddds and Knds, The big freight steamer City of Fremont | has jusi arrived after a perilous experience | on thelake during tho storm. Alderman Kunz bas come 1nto unpleasant notoriety through a mass which he secured from the Ilinois Central for his ‘“brother,” though iis fumily docs not possess such 'u membe Chicago 1s to have a factory for the manu- facture of Wheolock engines. ‘The plant will cost 81,000,000 and will be the largest of the iind 10 the world, 1 Richard Yates, son of Illnols’ war nor is credited with congressionat tions. Johu Roberts, who has been asleep in the county jail at Virginia, 11L., for the last eight days, “shows no sigas of wakening. Tue Hardy Subterranean Theater company has been incorporated with #500,000 capital Tno plans as completed so far include the avrangement of fiye underground caver: showing a coal mino, an ice cavern, a sccoe from Dante’s “lnferno.” a submarine viow ana a reproduction on a smalier scale of tho Mammoth cave. Dr. games M. Miller, s prominent young physician of Bloomington, who just eraduat ed from the Keeloy imstitute, has becomo violently insane. As the result of the revelations of Banker | Dreyer, the council has passed a resolution gover- | iy w | | should be kept ative. calling for the appofntment of & committes consisting of four members of the council and three citizons to investigate tho scope and charactor of the various oharity associations in the city Western People in Chieago, | The following wastern people wers 1n the city. At the Wellington--C, P, Gray and O. M Gray, Omaha, A .- i NOT «RLUFFING was Evidence That Jay 6 out s UL, Jan. 10, ~Those who ox- beliof that Jay Gould was “bluing’’ when he threatened to withdraw { from tho Wostorn Trafic association ar | now boginning to doubt the accuracy of their judgment. The action of the Missouri Pacific divoctors fn ealling upon the chair man of the advisory board Il a special meeting within thirty days to pass upon the chargos of rato-cutting made agalnst cortain roads, is nccopted as an indication that Gould is vory much in carncst. Unless he rolents tho association will most certainly go to ploces, becauso tho withdrawal of the Mis sourd Pacific would surely kill it, and it now looks as f this could only be prevented by the discharge of tho responsiblo ofcial of the Burlington, Atchison and Southern Pacific, | which will not be done. R. It. Caole of the Rock Is just returned from Now York, viewed today on the situation notico in the reports that the Missouri Pacific | divectors at their meeting vostorday aftor noon passed o resolution asking President Miller to call a special meeting. Mr. Millor is still in Now York aad I don’t know what ne will do about it. If the accusea roads are found guilty of rate cutting they cannot re fuse to dischargo the men who are responsi blo for it, without completoly fgnoring the agreement which domands tho dismissal of any ofticial from the president down, “ls there a presidont 1 the association who would be likely or liablo to be thrown over?' was asked SWhy not! Presidents titled to bo excused than mere fact that somo of stockholders should mako no differcuce. It rests with the voard of directors of the com. pany to seo that this agreement is carried out. 1donot carc 1o express an opinion as to whether tho association will survive this uupleasantness or not. Ouo thini is certain, | however. Unless the provision which pro vides punishment for violations of an agreo ment can b enforced, the agreomont i worthloss and might as well be abandoned.’ Commissioner Midgiey has issued a cor cular letter to the members of the \Western Ireight association, in which bo undertakes to show that the Wostern Traflic association has been of great sorvice to the railronds aid He claims that during tho past season of navigation the existonco of the association saved the rowts between Chicago and St. Panl avout $3,000,000, bo causo it prevented the usual reduction of rates between 1hoso points, — - COLD BLOODED DOUBLE CRIME. Wl Tntends to Carry hreat, Criesao, pressed tho a, who has was intor Ho said: M1 are 1o moro en any vody else. The them are heavy A Brate Murd She S Ui Mother-in-Law und ts s Wi, MiLwavkeg, Wis., Jan., 19, —John Thomp, sou, & colored man, early this moruing cut his mother-in-inw’s throat and shot and ser fously wounded his wifo. Tho deed was a cola blooded one und the murderor has not even a drunken frenzy as an excuse. It appears that Thompson came home early in the ovening and quarrelod with his wif She accused him of paying attention to other women. Mrs. Jackson, tho mother-in-law, erappled with Thompson, With the butt of bis revolver he knocked her down wnd then cut her throat from ear to ear. ‘Thompson then gave himself up to the police. thed and Sulelded, Loxnoy, Jan. 19.—The Star today prints dispatch from Berlin stating that Dr. Breder mann, director of the chemical laboratory of the University of Berlin, has killed his bo cotiied, Marzuerite Meyer, and suicided The whiole affaiv is shrouded in mystery - Billy Considine Found Not Gullty, Derrorr, Micn., Jan. 19.—Tho triat of Billy Cousidine, considercd the chiof couspirator the ceiebrated Perrme avduction 5 terminated 1ast evening with a verdi of not gwlty. This was a great surprise to tho public. Murdered His 13, cnsc THE STI CAL NUIS AN Philidelphi Press, Of all life's nuisanees whieh fe About our path through life, 1 know of none, though far, though nigh, With more annoyanee rife Than Le of namby-pamby wits, Ofidiots Who i his ways sits . 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