Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 29, 1892, Page 4

DAILY BEE THE . ROSEWATER, Eprron. MORNI PUBLISHED EVERY TERMS OF SUBS Dally Bee (without Sunds Daily and Sunday, One Y £ix M onths. . Tiiree Months: Ree, One r. v Bee, One Year. Bee, Ono Year. Baturd Weekly 8338833 OFFICES, Omaha, The Bee Building. Eouth Omy ner N and 20th Streets. Poarl Streot. 7 Chamber of Commerce. Tribune Building Washington, 513 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. All_commupications relnting to news and jtorial matter should be addressed tc the ditorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERR All business letters and_ remittances should 1o addressed to The Bee Publishing Company. Omaha. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders o be made payable to the order of the com- i Bee Poblishing Company, Proprietns THE l{l‘ ] I}FILI)I?U:.. = = = FWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Ltate of Nebrskn les, glas. | k, socrotary of The BEeE Tublishing company, does solemnly swear 1hut the nctual ciroulation of Tik DAILY Bre forthe week ending January 2, 1802, was s Tuesday, Jun. 1, Wodnesduy. Jan U hursday, Friday, Jin Buturdhy, Jan. % Average . 24,218 X HUCK. Sworn 10 bofore me and subscribed in my nuary. A. D. 1802 presence this Zd day of J BEAL L P, FEIL. Notary Publie. RUDINT is patting himself on the back because of his phenomenal aiscretion and escape. ONCE more it is in order to ask what is being done to anforce the liquor law ngainst the two-mile limit saloonkeep- ers? TAUBENECK maintains the neutral at- titude which enabled him to distinguish himsell in the Illinois legislature by voting neither way on the *‘Reformers’” liquor resolution EX-SPEAKER REED sized up Objactor Holman admirably the other day when he snid, “Yes, I know he is styled the ‘watch-dog of the treasury,’ but I notice he never bites anything near home.” THER¥ are three democrats now in ‘Washington who will know before any vthers whom the democrats will nomi- nate for president. This triumvirate is composed of Hill, Brice and Gorman. T'hey will name the man for the conven- tion, ¥ IGNATIUS DONNELLY has helped to draw upa combination platform upon which he can either stand, sit or lie down as the exigencies of the nominat- ing convention may make necessary. Ignatius can spread himself in some at- titude upon any style of platform." 5 — IF THE railway corporations of Amer- ica would deal with the people candidly and honorably they would: find a great deal of the hostility shown toward them allayed. They havebrought upon them- Bolves the antagonisms which they cluim huve cut so desperately into their earn ings. Tie national secretary of the people’s party is entirely consistent in his de- mand that the government or state should go into the liquor business and furnish drinks at cost. His party in Nebraska insists upon the government absorbing the coal business so us to sell coal to consumers at cost. In this way the government could heat its citizens both within and without. THE alliance makes a great mistake #n antagonizing the Nicaragua canal enterprise. No commercial undertaking ‘since the completion of the Pacific rail- ways is of such vast importance to the carrying trade of this country. A ship canal across the isthmus or through Nicaragun is inevitable, because the commerce of the world demands it, and it should he under American control. OLEOMARGARINE legislation belongs to the committee on agriculture not- withstanding the oily and slippery qualities by which the substance is ‘characterized. The judiciary committee of the house deserved to be beaten in the controversy over it. When the farmers and lawyers lock horns with the farmers clearly in the right, as they * were in this instance, the lawyers may rexpect to be and ought to be worsted, —_— NOTWITHSTANDING the weakness in ‘mumbers of the alljance members of con- gress, they are split into two very an- tagonistio. factions, One of these, lod by Livingston of Georgia, is deter- .mined to make the aliiance an annex of democracy. The other, headed by Wut- son of Georgin and Simpson of Kunsns, Tasists upon independent action. At a recent caucus the two factions almost came to blows, and a Kilkenny cat fight would have been no more noisy or amus- ing to outsiders. There ure too many leaders and too many theories to har- monize. The prospect is that the alli- ance members will bo so divided among themselves as to destroy any influence they might otherwise be able to exert. — . NEW YORK continues to disparage the World’s fuir in the opinion of foreign countries by higgling over an appro- priation. The democratic element in control of the state know that they can- not refuse some avpropriation, but they are disposed to make it sosmall thai the state could not be adequately repre- sented. Thisis not becuuse there isa lack of monoy. Now York has usus- plus in the treasury of over $4,000,000, #0 that half a willion could easily bo spared for the fair. The explanation is In the fact that the Tammany democracy would like to see the fair a failure, and while they know their wish in this regard cannot be gratified they ure determined to do as little as possible to give it success. Their course in this matter has a bad effoct abroad. WForeign countries are move influenced by New York than by any other portion of the country, and when they see that state manifesting indifference regarding the ‘World's fair it is most natural that the; #hould draw an unfavorable conclusion THAE TERMS ACCEPTED. The message of the president to con« gress, transmitting the latest corre- spondence bétween the government of the United States and the government of Chili, is a full acoeptance of the ac- tion of the latter. The president ex- presses the opinion that there is now a good prospect for an adjustment of the differences between the two countries, upon terms satisfactory to the United States, by the usual methods, and with- out special powers from congress, The gratitication of the president with the result is shared Ly the country. The final correspondence is exceed- ingly interesting, and it will form a chapter of great importance in the diplo- matic history of the country. It appears from the note of the Chilian minister at Washington that the suggestion of arbi- tration originated with Secretary Blaine. The secretary of state, according to the minister, agreod that any differences that might arise after the trial should be submitted to arbitration, and this un- derstanding was the basis of several of the conferences between Minister Montt and Secretary Blaine. The Chilian government approved the agreement, and this was communicated to our gov- ernment noarly a month ago. It also appears that the Chilian minister at Whashington had assured the secretary of state, with reference to the Matti note, that the government of Chili had no intention to act in the matter ina way offensive to the United States. It is also stated by the minister that on various occasions he had been told by representatives of the State department that if Minister Egan was not porsona grata to the government of Chili it was only necessary for that government to say so and our ister would be suc- ceeded by anoth It is not claimed, however, that he received any official assurance of this kind. Secretary Blaine, in his reply, ad- mits a verbal exchange of views regard- ing arbitration, but nothing in the na- ture of an agreement. It is implied that the offer of arbitration came from the Chilinn minister, and Secretary Blaine states that he was unable to in- the minister to put the offer into Under these circumstances the secretary says it is impossible that he ever sought to bind the government of tho United States to arbitration. Re- garding the Matta note, Seoretary Blaine uses very pointeld language, and in reference to u recall of gan he very plainly implies that the Chilian min ter never had anv good reason to as- sume that this government wculd recall its minister on the suggestion of the Chilian governmeut. The note of the Chilian minister of foreign affairs, complying with the de- munds of the government of the United States, .is exceedingly cordial in its expressions of friendship for this coun- try. He says the attack on the suilors of the Baltimore wus not through hostile feeling toward the uniform of the navy of the United Siates, and he declares that the people of Chili, far from entertaining a feeling of hostlity, havealively desire to maintain the good and cordial relations which up to the present time have existed between the twocountries. Thesincerity of these ex- pressions may not he doubted, so far as the author of them is coucerned, but it is very questionable whether they are generally subscribed to by the people of Chili. TO RESTORE WILDCAT CURRENCY. A bill is in the hands of the banking and currency committes of the house of representutives, the object of which is to enable state banks to issue notes for circulation. The bill provides for the repoal of the present tax upon state bank note circulation, and same rate of taxation upon notes of banks issued under state authority as is paid upon” national bank notes. The author of the bill is a democratic repre- sentative from Ohio, and his idea is that the proposed legislation would in- sure a large increase of good money. It must be very good indeed, he is quoted as saying; to huve any goneral circula- tion, and unless itis made as good and kept equal to national bank notes it will never enter into general circulation or ot much outside of the states in which itisissued, “In this latter case,” fur- ther observes the author of the bill, it would provide the kind of money (local) which the west and the south ask for, and which the unlimitea coinage of silver would never secure for them. It will be a kind of money which banks can issue only upon express state au- thority, and in nins out of ten cases such security will bs required and such restrictions will be placed about it as to make it promptly redeemable at all times in United States legal tender woney. Every state will recognize the necessity for this in order to insure even the existence of state banks alongside the national banks,” This appeavs plausible, and if tho con- ditions which the author of the biil in question promises could by guaranteed a vital objection to state bank notes would be removed, but they canuot be, Some of the states would undoubtedly provide for having the nowes of their banks amply secured and maintained on a sound basis, but others would not, and the result would be more or less cur vency in circulation of the ‘‘wildcat” kind socommon before the creation of thg nutional banking system. Tho dan- geor is in the one case out of ten where a state would not require propev security and place adequate restrictions upon the banks. People who remember what the paper currency was before the war, when every stite had its banks of issue and’ the country was flooded with a paper currency almost every dollar of which was at a discount outside of the state where it was issued, will not be found among the advocates of a return to that sort of circulation. Then every man doing buvsiness had to keep a bank note detoctor at hand from which to learn the character and supposed value of the currency he received, and even with this means of information the lossos from depreciation and from bank fmlures were enormous. The laborers of the country were also beavy losers, for unserupulous employers, having no respect for the proverb “the laborer is | worthy of his hire,” would pay out in wagos the poorest money they could se- :uve, the wage-earner losing the dis- fixes the- one day to another what the currency in his pocket was worth, with the excep tion of the issues of a fow state banks the issues of which were amply secured. One tendency of this was to discourage saving, and people then wero far less thrifty than they now are. The west certainly doos not want a currency of this character, and it is questionable whether the business interests of the south desire it. There issmall probability, however, of the proposed bill getting through congress, There may bo enough state rights democrats in the house to pass it, but if so it would fail in the senate. — ENTITLED TO NO APOLOGY, The deed to the livrary lot and the libersl concessions accompanying it have placed Omaha under renowed obligations to the heirs of Byron Reed. Opposition 1s at once disarmed. The sel- fish and contemptible fight made by the edi- tor of Tne Bee can be of no further avail to retard this beneficont undertaking. The last prop is knocked from under the top-heavy barricade which a mean spirit sought to orect to keop Omaha from entering upon the libeary lot. Several of the conditions which the late Byron Roed saw fit to insort in his bequest to Omahia have, in the light of the present situation, scomed unnecessary to his heirs, and they have modified them materially and in % public spirited generosity, bsing evi dently desirous that the gift might bo given its fullest value and brondest scope. The building need not be four stories high, nor even fully firoproof, nor need it cover tho entire lot, and permission is given to place itin part upon the adjoining lot pur- chased by the board —these are some of the changes voluntarily mado by the Reed heirs for Omaba's benefit. They put an end to all cavii and they ought to elicit an apology from those who have so meanly fought the library board in the disinterested work which it has undertaken for the public good.—World, Herald. There has been no fight upon the library voard. The position taken by THE BEE has been ig the publicinter- t. It has all along insisted that the cannot afford to expend from $100,~ 000 to $200,000 for a Library builaing on a lot that was donated under conditions which the city could not fulfill. There has been vo frivolous-disposition to re- tard the beneficent undertaking, but there has been a firm and determined stand against the reckless disregard of business methods and a palpable viola- tion of the charter in the proposed pur- chase of tne lot adjoining the Reed ground before there was enough money in tho treasury to pay for it. For such a course no apology is called for. On the contrary every unbiasad citizen wiil give THE BEEK credit for its earnest ef- fort to have all the strings taken off the Reed bequest before it is accepted. The heirs of tho Reed estate may have contemplated some or all of the liberal concessions they haye made, but they should have been insisted upon by the library board before it ever under- took to purchase additional ground or asked the council to accept the bequest and ratify their action. If the hoard will now prevail upon the Reed heirs to recede from their rights to reclaim the bequest in case the city should in the distant future—say 100 years hence—decide to relocate the library building all opposition will be disarmed, even though it may be a ques- tion whether the city can legally expend a dollar of the proceeds from the library bonds excepting upon the lot desiguated in the bond proposition. It 18 already clearly indicated that the democratic national convention is going to be one of the liveliest and most interesting political gatherings ever held in this country. The row between the Cleveland and anti-Cleveland fac- tions in Chicago over the convention is a mild intimation of what may be looked for when that body meets and the sup- porters of the several candidates, par- ticularly the followers of the ex-presi- dent and of Senator Hill, lock horns. It now appoars to bo very generally con- ceded that Hill will have the entire del- egation from New York., The fact that the convention to choose delegates has been called for February, and that it will meet in Albany, is regarded as meaning that Hill is to be given the solid support of his state. Thero are some indications, also, that he is gain- ing in favor outside of New York. At the same time Mr. Cleveland is not being ignored. The expressions of the southern newspapers show that he is still strong in that section, and it is not to be doubted that w mujority of demo- crats in other portions of the country want him as the candidate of the party, Many of these would have him nomi- nated even if the entire New York dele- gation shall ba opposed to him, but the practical politicians of the party will not be governed by any sontiment. If these are convinced that Cleveland can- not carry New York he will not get the nomination, and if Hill secures the del- egation it will not be difficult to estab- lish such a conviction. Meanwhile there appears to be a growing feeling that if not Cleveland then a westera man should be nominated, THERE is much merit in the demand for a paper fractional currency which can be conveniently used in the mails, The postal note is a high-priced conven- ience which the sender must go to the vpostoftice to obtain, The regis- tered letter and the money order are also costly and troublesome. There is no security offered us an induce- ment to the sender of a postal note. As a consequence postage stumps are used to a very large degree for mail- ing monoy to advertisers und the ¢onse- quence is that firms doing-an extensive business acoumulate thousands of doliars’ worth of stamps which they are forced to sell at a discount ranging from 2f to 10 percent. As this discount is calculated upon in the profit and loss account, of course patrons pay it and the discount is a loss to the people. The fractionul currency was convenlent and reasonably safe; it would be woll Lo have it re- stored. —— . GENY N of the various branches of the various governments hereabouts, the people are in dead earnest in their demand for a reduction of the number of Laxcaters, —— THe county clerk appears anxious to comply with the law which requires him to keep an account with the county ‘ount. A mun could wever know lrom‘ weasurer, The county commissioners will, no doubf,grecommodate him with the necessaryijelerical help, stationery and blank bobkaifor the purpose. The county commissibnors aré in all proba- bility a8 anxifilié to provide the proper checks upon the treasuror as the county of Bducation is a very dig- ganization, all will admit. Nev- it catifibt afford to rest upon its dignity and #6fise to comply with the council resolupion asking for n detailed statement of tag estimated expense of running the sohools for the next year. The council may not have the technical right to scrutinize the nets of the board, but as the representative branch of the city government it undoubtedly has the ‘moral right to demand a showing from the board. It will do that organization no credit whatever to attempt a controver- sy over this matter, and the secretary and members of the board will be very unwise if they offer any opposition to the proposed scrutin, OMAHA paid 832,676 for janitor service in 1800; Minpeapolis paid $32,813, and Milwaukee $24,488 for ‘such sorvice during the same period. Omaha had a daily attendance of 9,715 pupils; Minne- apolis, 16,534, and Milwaukee, 20,000, These figures show either that Omaha pays too much or the other cities too little. Ir T secretary of the Board of Public Works is obliged to labor from ten to fifteen hours u day the question naturally arises what does he lenve for the chairman and other members of the board to do to earn their salaries? THE cost per capita of school attend- ance for janitor service in Milwaukeo last year was $1.22. The cost per capita in Omahu exceeded $3.20. WiTH 900 new cases on the district court docket, the seven judges will probably find enough work to keep them comfortably bus; RETRENCHMENT is necessary. Dull times demand that public expenditures shall be reduced to a rocik-bottom basis. NEXT week the grand jury convenes and taxpayers should see to 1t that no boodler escapes. —_— HOME patronage means everything to Omaha and the state. Patriotic Logl Neib' Vork Tribune. Peace purchaseil at the prico of national dishonor would ¢pen the way for many a de- plorable war. ~ * : Lauge g i Keep Off the Rostrum. Minneapolis Journal, Pat Eran has played a conspicuous part in the Chilian affaic aud has come oft with fly- ing colors. Now ifho will only agres not to lecture all will bo forgiven Tending That Way. Washington Star. When it is considered how both the demo- cratic and republican conventions nave slighted New York the old city might be par doned af she turaed mugwump. —————— The Perfection of Nerve, Chicago Herald. The dem :cratic principles have trlumphed. Chili absolutely withdraws the Matta note. She proposes acbitration of the Baltimore in- cident. The Herald congratulates the demo- cratio party on the splendid, vindication of its traditions. e The Vitai Question, Globe-Democrat. Hill 15 reasonavly certain of commanding the entire delegation from New York to the national convention, but will the convention, when it'sees the hostility in that state which Hill's arrogance and enmity to Cleveland in- spires, dare to give Hill the nominationt Aye, there’s the rub. e Moderation vs, Bulldozing, Globe-Democrat, In less than & guarter the time that has passed since Chili murdered our sailors, and ou smaller provocation thau this Englard sent a fleet to Portugal a year or two ago and gave that country twenty-four hours in which to apologize or right. The apology came promptly. If we had acted with the same vigor and intelligence aftor the Valpa- raiso massacre that outrage would have been atoned for long ago. ) Great Minds Move Slowly, Kansas City Star. A Nebraska man was convicted of burglary and sentenced to the penitentiary. He ap- pealed to the supreme court, and pending action there went to prison and served his time out. Six months after his discharge he roceived an official document from the supreme court informing him that he had been granted a new trial, Such delay of jus- tice makes courts ridicalous and justice a farce; but nevertheloss the lawyers, voicing Sir Edward Coke, continue to assert thatlaw is the perfection of reason, Bt Dolng the Kight Thing, Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Tue OnAua Bee states that it bas assuy- ances from a prominent memberof the Board of Trade of that city that the capital is now ready for the construction of a larga and thoroughly equipped beat.sugar factory. All that is required is an. assuranco from the farmers of Douglas county that they will eu- gago in sugar beet raisiog suffolent to fur- nish the material for the manufacturers. A meeting is to be ndld Jannary 8), for which invitations have besn sent to some hundreds of the leading farmexs of Douglas aud Sarpy counties, for tue,purpose of organizing a beet-sugar assocition. This 15 the proper thing to do. Thedusiness men of Omaha are doing just the right thing at precisely tho proper time. ) e CHICAGO AND TUE DEMS. Washington Pkt By going to Chicago the democratic party'may oe ablo to securo a di- vorce from the silver issue. Philadelphia Record: Proud Chicago will keep botel for the democratic party this summer—will be lpn,it, as it were, Chicago Times: Perbaps it was that *in- tensely dry air” St._Paul folks boast so much about that frighte the democratic conven- tiou sway. 1al Washington Start When anybody acous Chicago of beiug devoted to the brass band method she can poiut to the manner in whion she captured the democratic convention. Clncinnati Colmercisl: A water fumine in Chicago should not disciurage the pros cts of the democratic couvention. The iquid resources of Milwaukee and Peoria aro within convenient reach. St. Paul Pioneer-Press: The Boston Her- ald remyrks that by golog L Chicago the democratic delegates will avoid the weves- sity for gowg to bed with their boots on. Here 1s the place for a sclentific distinction of 5010 magnitus To retire wi'h their boots on is not necessary, but contitgent. If the delegates monkey with Chicago whisky the contingency will be present 10 produce the uocessity, and after thal wauner they wiil go to bed. - Found Sixty Miles at Sea, New Yok, Jan, 25.—~The two crews of the streot cloaning department were found sixty milos at sea last night. They are uow safely aunchored i the barbor JARY 29, 1892 BOURBONS IN A PRETTY ROW Ohicago Domocrats Fighting Among Them- selves Over the Coming Convention, NO PROSPECT OF PEACE IN SIGHT The New School Farniture Tru It Means-. t and What tos About the World's Falr—Gossip of the rden City. Cmeaco Bureav or Tue Bre, | Omicaeo, Tue., Jan, 28, ' § Notwithstanding that the silk stocking Cleveland democrats have tried to make peace with the short hairs and local Tam- many men by appointing a fow ropresentu- tives of the latter on the committee to make arrangements for the national convention, all is not peace yet. In fact, it looks much like war. Men who tried to capture the organization by getting up the exclusive conferonce at the Palmer house were all appointees of Cleve lana when he was president, or men to whoso advice Cleveland listoned whon be was mak- ing appointments. When it becamo gener- ally known that Dave Hill haa things his own way in New York and would probably como to Chicago with a solid delegation from New York, the short hairs began to be bold. They were willing to repudiate Cleveland, but yet they were not willing to take up Dave Hill. “Either of them I5 impossible,” said a prominent town of Lake democrat. “Cleve- land can’t get tho nomination without the support of his own state surely, and then it will not bo wise to nominate Hill bo- cause the Cleveland men will knife him, We must nominate Gorman or a western man. One thing is certain—there will bo no Cleveland men in the conveution from tuis part of the state.” World's Fair Mattors. Mexico has sent apvlication for . 20,000 square feet of space in the buildings at Jack son park. M. Fernaudez Loal, minister of the public works for the republic, sonds the application. He wants 5,000 squaro feet in these buildings— mines, agriculture, manufactures and forestry. This application is in adaition to the space that will be given Mexico for of- 1 headquarters. here is & prospect of a fine memorial statue of Columbus being erectod on the lake frontsomewhere between Jackson street and Park row. It will cost approximately 0,000 and revert to the city of Chicago at the close of the fair. This is part of the general plan for the adornment of tne lake front during the period of the exposition, Emperor Willijn's band has been given vermission to come to the World’s fair. This information was given outat headguartors by C. B. Scamidt, who will bo general manager of the German ethnographic ex- hibit, for which n concession has alrcady beon granteu on the Midway plaisance. That Sehool Furniture Trust, Referring to the Graud Rapids aispatch about the school furniture trust, a local paper says: “luasmuch asschool boards almost in- variahly advertise for bids and purchase school furniture from the lowest responsible tidder, the advantage of a combination which will prevent competition 1s at once apparent Where there is only one source of supply the prive demanded must be paid or the purchase cannot be made, The existence of a school hook trust has long been acknowledzed and school bourds find thewselves absolutely in the power of the publishers, In purchasing school furniture, however, some latitude has been allowed and many scandals have been caused by the open charges that members of school boards have had their private awellings and sometimes their business oftices elegantiy furnished free of cost by the firms whose bids for supplying school furni- ture wore accepted. “For many” years' an offort has beon afoot t~ form a trust which would effectually shut off competition. One by one mostof the smaller factories were purchased, and for two years past the trust has practically been masisr of the situation. But the Grand Rap: ids Furniture company was a thorn in the flesh of the trust, so to speak. Several weeks ago & mesting of prominent furniture dealers was held at the Auditorium in this city, all of whom belonged to tho trust. Every offort was made to insure secrecy. At that moeting F. A. Holbrook of a Grand Rapids company suggested that tho trust purchase the (irand Kapids company’s plant aud the suggestion was adopted. The result was_announced in the Grand Rapids dis- patch.” 0dds and Ends, An interesting scene took place in Calvary ocemetery. W. C. Long, driver of one of the carringes at a funeral that had taken piace, was, it is ciaimed, knooked from his seat by Special Ofiicer Bartholomew Murphy who is said to bave used & heavy cane. The driver lost conctrol of his team and the horses dashed out of the cemetery at a high sp 'ed, coliding with the gate posts at the west end, demolishing tbe cirriage and throwing the occupants into the driveway. The trouble originated betweea Murphy ana Long becausv Long got on the wrong side of the driveway. The go at the West Twelfth street turner hall between Bob Harper and Wiley Evans for the colored championship of the state re- sulted in a victory for Harper in the fifth round, H. J. Benay, sou of & wealtLy iron manu- facturer, with Gretehen A. Doerk, daughter of a prominent lumberman who died ncro so0mo years 820, eloped and were married 1n Milwaukee. Miss Doerk is considered one of the handsomest girls in Chieago. ", A, ELECTRICAL TRANSPORTATION. pnmission of Kailron gating the Sabject a Prrrsnuns, Pa., Jao, 28 nine railrond exports has been investigating here the sabject of electrical transportation as applied to railroads. Thecommission rep- resonted the Northern Pacific, Wisconsin Central anu otber roads, The result of their labors, which bhave oeen concluded, and the intentions of the railroals they ropresent were partially rovealed by Chief Eugineer McHenry of the Northern Pacifie. He said: *1 beligve that tho motive power will be ap- piied directly to the axles of each car, thus making each car its own motor. Experi ments are to be procesded with at once, ad much of the cost will be borne by the rail- ronds, 1 don't see why electvicity should not displace locomotives, espocially over steep grados, The auestion which will be most dificult of disposal will be the trans- mission of tho current and the obtaining of adequute power In the wire," Experts Investi- Prese Wheat Sh St Lovis, Mo, Jan. 35.—At the South western Kailway and Steamsbip association meeting a great deal of the work performed was of @ reutine charactsr involving o changes in rates, One subject. acted upon definitely was in respact to the rates on Washington and Orecon wheat to Toxas points, regarding whicn some dificulty has | existod relauve to the proper basis for the | ‘Tho special committea on the subject however, that an understanding had been reached 'with the Union Pacific railway_ relatng 1o such through rates whoreby the through rates as named in tariff No. 54 were recognized a3 the normal basis, it being further uuderstocd that no chauge should be made therein would e without the same. reported, conourrence of the assoolation, committee's roport was adonted. Regarding return passes for man in obargo of 1ive stock, & resolution wns adopted look ing to the discontinnanes of the bractioe, pro- vided the co-oneration of the othor associas tions interested could be secured, The special GERMAN ST SRDUE. Fears Entertained for the Safoty of the plarin, New Yonk, Jan, 23, ~The ship Polarin loft Stottin on January 5 for Now York with a big cargo of general mer chandise and twontv-eight stoorage passen gers. Sinco leaving Stottin nothing hus boen heard of her. The Polarla is not a aroyhound by any mosans, butin the ox- tremes of weathor sho usually makes the ran from Stottin to this port in about twenty davs. Her nonappoarance and tho lackof tidings ars ocaustog anxioty. Her agents attributo her dolay to tho boisterons woather which Incoming ships are reporting. It was suggested yostorday that the Polaria might possibly bo tne steamor which several ships have reported seeing afive in midocoan. This, however, is considered improbable. The only thing to coonect the steamer with the Polarin 18 that the overduo ship was prob- ably 1n that part of the ocean whera the un- known burning ship was sighted, Theagont of the Polaria_laughs at the suggostion that she was the burning vessel. Tho burning according to ail roports, was an ofl- was bound from this port. commandod by Captain and skitlful soaman, rman steam lavia is urance Fraud, in n Bad Place Tenrre Havre, Ind., Jan. "The prosocu- tion Is groatly pleasod with the prospect of convicting Robert Musgrave for conspiracy to obtain money by false representations. Some strong testimony was presented to the jury today, Georgoe Mackie, of the Chicago oftice of the United States Mutual Accident association, testified to Musgrave taking out a polioy for §,000 on Auwust 17, 1301, Charles Howard of Joseph L. Dietz & Co., Chicago, told how Musgrave, whom he had met at the oftice of a common friend, asked to be pers mitted to receive his mail at the firm's oMes, receiving letters there addressed in his own name and that of *T. D, Burnham’ whom he represented as a friend. Witness received and roceipted for the box containing the skeleron as afterward developed, and which was burned in the log cabin near here. F'red Markle, Musgrave's brother-in-law, testitied that Musgrave and Charley Trout, who is under indictment jointly with Mus- grave, admitted to him, after the fire, that this scheme was to get insurance money. Musgrave had §35,000 insuranse 1n all, MISSIONARLES MURDERED, Flve Amerlcans and Seven Native Converls Butchered in Africa. New Youg, Jan. 28.—Correspondonce from St. Paul do Lona da, Africa, under date of December 16, says: Luto advices which have come to this ecity from Boma, in the Congo Free State, bring news to the effect that tho American mission, which i3 established on the Congo river in the neighborhood of Palla Balla station, has been made the scene of a torrible tragedy in which ive American mis- sionarios—threo men aud two women—and seven native converts and servants lost their lives at the hands of murderers. It is also mentioned that all the mission buildings, schpols, residences and granaries were burned to the ground and -the cultivated fiolds laid waste. No evidence has yet been discovered which would conclusively show who the perpetratcrs of these cruel murders are, but suspicion points with somethiog like certainty to a number of balf civilized Portu- Ruese natives, members of the Loango tribe, who were originally taken intothe Congo Frae State by the explorer Henry Stauley. g e CRUSADE AGAINST THE GHINESE. Montana Men Using All Kinis of Means to Keep Celeatials Out, Herexs, Mont., Jan. 28.—The anti-Chinese sentiment is growing intense. An organ- ized move to starve the Chinese out has been inaugurated. The Koights of Labor of the state have rasolved to support no city for the state capital whose citizens support Chinese tradesmen. The city council of Helona has passed a preamble and resolution g forth the ovils of Chinese immigra. tion aud urgzing the Moataua delegation in s3 10 SUpport a new restricting act. Goveruor Toole has beon in correspondence with the Treasury department in Washing- ton, urging that additional means be em ployed to guard the northern boundary. He says there is an organizod gang with head- gnarters along the Canudian Pacific en- gagod in smuggling; Chinamen across the line, The constant and visible swelling of the Chinese population within the last year has caused great fear that trouble will ensue, A LITTLE NO. ND THEN. New Orleans Picayune: *The picture that was turned toward the wall” suffered revorses through the verdict of u hanging committee. Albany Argus: The man without a coun- try lives in pitlable estato, but he isn't In it for friendiiness with tho mixn who is learning 10 pluy the cornet. Detroit 'ree Press: Sho—T wonder why leap yenr has an extre day in it? Ho-Oh, I suppose to give tho girls that mueh more chance. Now York Herald at the top.” suid the confid: “Yos" roplied his wequnintan “but stiould your top keep on swelling pro- portionately’ there wow't be ufter you get there." HARD LUCK. Puck, t, 1(ton— the rest. 80 she Just pres: Tihe footman d Dotroit Free Pre Snodzrass—1f nerlal navigation is ever & success, balloon lines will be the most fushionuble meuns of trans- portation. Snively—How do you know? Snodgrass—Becauso bulloons are swell af- tairs, W ou, seem rather broke ins igins.” . ho roply, “I um, sah, 1 leaned ugainst the marble ‘muntel and eter- nally smashed the flusk - wy hip pocket, suh.” Somerville Journal: The peonle who do the Diggest tiings aren’t alwiys Lho ones who get t teredit in this world. They uwre ofton ershadowed by the people who do ordinary things and muke u fonrfui fuss about it. w York Herald: ry—Belle Is un all \d girl; round face, round formi, round pirse— Juck—Yes: it runs In the family, Observe curotully and you'll notice thut her mother usuully 1s ‘round, 0o, o Is my ultimate c0 mosquito, us it 10 pounce upon the ugo 'l : Can | the quit singlnz uud prepare nose of 1ts sleeping vietin iton Leador: The burber Is u sort of bl fudividu ', o his his little Lrushes right ulong, lie luthers people and he | oecasionully smushes their mu,s It's remarked ns & s alsposition 10 assert arnlug the violin vare Philadelphis T stron proof of nat itself that fow girls i 10 use the chin-rest. Indianapolis Journal: “Cail that fellow barltone?” said the disgusted suditor. “te's only & bass {mitation, Dunville Breeze: No, Ethel, it is not steal- inz when you tuke & Cold wheaever you find oue unoceupiod. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S, Gov't Report. Roal Baking Powder ABSOLWTELY PURE UFFERED FOR ANOTHER'S ORIME. Doathof a Man Whom Michigan Pensioned Teeause of False Tmprisonment. Jacksox, Mich,, Jan, 98, -Edward Mur phy, theonly pensioner Michigan has ever had, has just died in this city. Murphy was sentenced to stata prison hero for & murder which was committed on shipboard while he was a sailor ana which was fastened upon him. For years he suffered patiently in soli- tary confinement until bis mind gave wi Ho'was then put to work on & contract, For s0mo years he workea at this until the por- petrator of the murder confessod. . He was released, and as part reparation has since been receiving &30 per month as a ponsioner on the state. He was struck by & Michigan Central train a few davs ago and received in- juries which caused bis death, te New Crry or Mexico, Jan, ~The government rranted a concession for a railroada from Ciu- dad Perfio to Monterey. Itich onyx discoveries have been made at Tehuacai. Typhus is terribly prevalent in the Bolm prison and thereare also many cases of infiu- enza. A large paper factory has just bosn started at San Ratuel. The newspaper Kl Universal states today nlxlnr\ the typhus is bocoming epidemie in this clty. e ceifiiidiisd alers Killod by Escaplng Gas, Orrawa, 1L, Jan, 28, —A fow days ago five peddlers came to Ottawa from Chicago. Yesterday two of, thom wero found in their room in the hotel dead from the offeots of gas escapiug from a defoctive gas fixturo, They aro Avdallah Malooft, aged 50, and his nephew, aged 18, Ove of the women in the party lost her mind when she saw the dead bodies, one of which was that of her son and the other of her brother. e —— COMPLETE AND ATIRACTIVE | [ | | i | THE SUNDAY BEE BIGGEST BUDGET Of special features and the fullestand most reliable news service over given by an Omaha daily. 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