Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 3, 1892, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Epiton BLISHED 1Y MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dafly e (without Sunday) Ono Y en Dnilv and Sunday, One Yeur. e £ixM onths .. s Months, Hee, One Vear, doy Bee, Ome Y tec0 OFFICES Omaha, The Bee Building. SouthOmahn, corner N and 26th Streets Counel Pourl Street. Chic f Commerco. New York,R 5/ Tribune Building Waushington, CORRESPONDENC All_communications relating to mews and edftorial matter should be addressed tc the Editorial Depurtmen BUSINESS LETTERS ATl business letters and romittanc teaddressed to The Bee Publishing Cc Omuha. Drafis, checks and postoffice orde to be made payable to the order of the coni- pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Pruuflcmg CIRCULATION, ss. EWORN STATEM Ftate of Nebraska Connty of Douglas. | Geo. B. Trachuck, secretary of The Bm Jublighine company, docs soleninly swear hit the actual oirenintion of THE DATLY | for the week ending Pevruary 27, 1802, was ns follows: Eunday. I Mondsy, I Tueadiy, I\ Wednesda Chursdn Eriday Eaturday. . 28087 Average....... o L 2 GEO. 1. TZ8CTIUCK. Sworn to Lefore and subscribed in my rresence ihis2ith day of February. A. D. 1802 BEAL N. P, FRIL, Notary Public. Average Circulation for ary 24 Brmira, N. Y., is the home of David Bennett Hill, and Elmira goes republi- can by a handsome majority. A prophet is seldom appreciated where he is best known, COUNCILMAN CHAFFEER'S figures for constructing the approaches to the Six- teenth strect viaduct aro too high, as he will discover if he really tukes time to investigate before the next council meeting. ; mayor recommends an cmergency hospital, the public demands one. The city owns a suitable lot upon which to ereci it. There ought to be mo delay by the council in providing funds and awarding a contract for a building. BLAINE isa match in diplo- matic opistolary skirmishes with any statesman on the globe. When he un- dertook to talk against two women, however, he engaged in an enterprise requiring something more than ability and diplomac, all the rumors and rumblings are deceitful in the extreme, the Union Pacific will experience another tremen-— dous upheaval at the annual meeting in March. The indications point to the re- tirement of Gould and the succession of Vauderbilt in the control of the corpor- ation, THE proposition of Mayor Bemis to huve the paved streets in the business centre flushed from the fire hydrants, and the dirt washed down into the river through the sewers, wili commend itself to any thoughtful person. The objec- tions of the water company and the plea that the firemen have something else to do are not worth con: ng. TuE lumbermen are naturally enough opposed o the construction of a steel and iron viaduct on Sixtecnth street, as they are also opposed to permanent side- walks, The lumbermen have had a pretty fair show in Omaha ever since the town was incorporated, and they ought by this time to be satisfied to give the iron, stone and brick men a chance. THE railways have spent a good deal of money fighting the 2-cents-a-mile rate in the Ohio legislatures heretofors, but the samo old bill comes up smiling at each turn of the legislative wheel. The Globe-Democrat suggosts that possibly the bill’s mission in life is not so much to get into the Ohio statute books as to make tobbying profitable in tho legis- lature. THE coolness and presence of mind in the midst of danger exhibited by Miss Kelley, the superintendent of the Indi- ana reformatory at Indianapolis, where- by she succeeded in extricating all the iamates of the institution and prevented their escape at the same time, although the building was totally destroyed, is rare enough to be especially mentioned. ——— THE Manufacturers and Consumers associntion is doing commendable work for the encouragement of home industries, At its Inst meeting formal protests were forwarded to Washington because Nebraska iron manufacturers are shut out of compe tition for the work on the federal build- ing. They also called the county com- missioners to timo for advertising for proposals for foreign starch and oatmeal, and thus preventing Nebraska manufacturers from offering to furnish those articles. His father’s lotter relieves the young man’s mother from the force of some of the criticisms passed upon her in her capacity us mother-in-law, but young Jim Binine cannot be exculputed by the magnetic secrotary of state, Ho may have been very wayward and indiscreet in contracting his marringe, but he was old enough to know how to be at least respectable, humane and manly. As he fell short in all these qualities the American public must be excused for despising him in spite of their high re- gard for his father. THE ground upon which the council declined to take action upon the bonds of the mombers of the new Kire and Police Commission are well based. The council has already approved the honds of members of the commission whose terms have not yet expired. The mayor and council have no knowledge officially that any vacancy hus been created and they bave no knowledge of the persons appointed to fill such vacancies if they do exist. Under the circumstances the council had no uther option in the prem- ises, if they wanted to uct legally, than to decline to take any action on the bonds. ABOUT A “DARK HORSE The Washington correspondent of a western paper reports among republican londers, opposed to the nomination of President Harrison, in the interest of some one whose name is kept a profound secret who it i€ pro- posed to groom as a ‘‘dark horse’ until | the meeting of the republican national | convention. Tho stor, son who has been sclected is that the per- for this coun does not bimself know what is intended, | no doubt enter- sdo to the project but there seems to be tained that he wili a when he finds it out. this “‘unknown’ is that he b record in both military and that he has achieved national distine- tion, und that when his name is an- nounced it will be received by the rank and file of the republican party as that of a vote gotter. Itis also stated that “*his quaint personality would make him a picturesque figure in the national cam- paign and would stimulate enthusiasm.” It is probable the story is n mere inven- tion of the correspondent or of some pol- itician who wanted to bhave a little amusement at his expense. But it is not to be doubted that the op- position to President Harrison is active, and that it will exhaust every expedient to defeat his renomination. There are i fow politicians in the republican party who are antagonizing the p:esident on purely personal grounds. They eannot deny that he has given tho country a clean, honest and eminently practical administration, They cannot choose but confess that in our international re- lations the administration has been wise and patriotic, and that in the conduct of the affairs of the government at home it has been straightforward and upright. But Presideny Harrison has gone nlong in the discharge of his public duties without consulting these politicinns, and without regard for their opinions or plans, and in this respect he has given them grave offense. He has had no use for them, although they were anxious to make themselves useful in their own pe- culiar way, and now they suy that the president, because he ventured to rely upon his own judgment and that of his official advisers, has given too much of a personal character to his administra- tion. According to the view of these gentlemen he has not been sufficiently considerate of the interests of the party and too much so of himself. Had he shown more regard for the Quays and Clarksons of the party they would not now be antagonizing him, though he could hardly have failed to lose tho con- fidence of republicans whose friendship is much more valuable. It is impossible to suy what expedients theso politicians whom tho president has offended by his **personal” adminis- tration may not attempt, but it is pretty safe to predict that there will beno chance for any “dark horse,” whatever his record and however quaint his por sonality, in the republican national con- vention, Tho party is too well provided with men of sterling ability who enjoy its confidence to make it necessary to go outside of the long list of republican leaders and statesmen to find a candi- date. If a majority of the delegates to the Minneapolis convention shall con- clude that the renomination of Presi dent Harrison would not bo for the best interests of the republican party, they will have no difficuity in selecting an availeble candidate from among those who are already prominent in the respect and attention of the party. THk FARMER AND OTHER DEBTORS. It is a false impression, although largely entertained, that the farmers con- stitute the particular debtor class in this country. This idea has been created by the reckless assertions of men who took no trouble to ascertain facts where facts were accessible. It has been por- sistently dwelt upon until a majority of favmers and many other people have come to believe that nearly the whole burden of individval indebtedn is sadaled on the backs of those who are ongaged in agriculture, This assump- tion, which indisputable facts show to be unwarranted, is largely responsible for the widespread discontent among the farmers of the country. Itis not denied that the indebtadness repre- sonted by farm mortgages is very lurge, but it is not materially, if at all, greater than the indebtedness in other property than that of farms, vor is it, on the whole, more oppressive. The fact is that a large portion of the business of the country is done on credit and in proportion to its relative importance and extent the farming interest does no more than its share of borrowing. Statistics recently obtained from the bureau at Washington conclusively prove this. The figures showing the loans on real estate and other securities by the banks of the principal cities make an enormous total. Thus in a single day forty-soven banks in New York City lonned in this way #207,000,000 and twenty-one banks in Chicago $87,000,000, The loans of banks in the cities, running up fnto thousands of millions of dollars, are largely made to the manufacturers and merchants, so that these classes are never far behind the agricultural eluss in the aggregate of their indebtedness. The older the communities the greater are the debts in towns and cities as compured with the indebtedness on farm property. The Chicago debt is #16,000,000 more than the entire farm indebtedness of Kansus and $41,000,000 more thav the farm indehtedness of Iowa. It is noteworthy that the mort- gages on town und city lots in Kansas and Towa amount to more than one-third of the mortgages on farm property, while in Illinois the latter are consider- ably less in amount than the former, It no means the owners of agricul- tural iands who alone are borrowers and debtors. Prom 75 to 90 per cent of the mort- gage indebtedness of the farmers of the west und northwest represents purchase money, expenditures for improvements and outlay for stock and the facilities of agriculture, It is not guestionable that in many eases there hus been extrava- gance and in still more a lack of guali- fications for the busingss and of tnrift. There ave thousands of men engaged in farming, as in every other business, who are incompatent or careless, and such men do not succeed. But statistios show that there ave fower fuilures umozg farm- ers thanin manufacturing and mercantile as a notable civil life, o movement | The description of | pursuits, Thus in the manufacturing states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut the failures in 1891 numbered 2,240, with liabilities amount- ing to § failures in the three agricultural states of Ulinois, Towa and Kansas. was 991, with liabilities amounting to $13,000,000. aets of this kind earry their own ment to intelligent and unprejudiced people. Thore has been a considerable reduc- tion in the farm mortgage indebtedness of the west and northwest within the past yonr and it is still going on. The splendid crops of last yoar, ¢ exceed in value those of the previous year by more than $300,000,000, have brought prosperity to the farmers of the country and will enable them to pay off their more pressing obligations. An- other bountiful harvest will go far to putting them out of debt, but in any event the outlook for the agricultural interest of the United States is most favorable. The burden of the American farmer has been heavy, but it will grow lighter from year to year. An increns- ing home market, which in a few years will consume ubout all he can produc insures this. In the meantime it is proper that he should learn that indebt edness is not peculiar to the class to which he belongs. AT HIS OLD STAND, About eighteen years ago Governor Furnus appointed Patrick O. Hawes as special agent of the state of Nebraska to collect amounts due the state from the United States government. By the terms made between Governor Furnas and Judge Hawes the state was to pay 25 per cent commission on the amounts allowed, collected and paid into the state treasury. This was a vory ex- travagant commission, but at the time Hawes wasappointed there were soveral claims pending against the government that had to be urged before the depart- ments and advoeated befors congros- sional committees. Nobody had any iden that Judge Hawes was to bo con- sidered a porpotual agent, with a claim for one-fourth of all the appropriations which congress may see fit to make dur- ing his lifetime tothe state of Nebraska. The last appropriation for the relief of Patri O. Hawes was made by the legislature of 1837. Congress had dur- ing its precoding ses: authorized the repayment to the stato of the sum of $18,081, which Nebraska had expanded in the suppression of Indian hostilities, and Mr. Hawes was voted $4,520.30 out of the state treasury for carrying a draft, payable to the state treasurer, from Washington to Lincoln, Under the direot tax bill passed by the Fifty-first congress and the acts reimbursing frontier states for the sup- pression of Indian hostilities, Nebraska is entitled to about $37,000 from the United States. And now Mr. Hawes bobs up in Washington again as the state agent to expedite tho payment of the allowance made by congrass. When the next legislatuce moets Hawes will be on hand with another claim for about $9,000 commission and as he is a very shrewd lobbyist he will resovt to the old tactics of joining hands with all the claimants, jobbers and oil-roomers and besiege ths legisliture for sixty deys or until hie bill is allowed. Now it seems to us that this claimant and agency juggl bas gone far enough. 'I'he delogation of Neb in congress is competent to attend to the business of the statein tho departments. And if theve really is any nction to be taken which our congressmen and sena- tors cannot consistently perform, Gov- crnor Boyd could Joubtless arrange with thoroughly responsible parties at Washington to attend to the routine work for a nominal sum. The claim of Hawes to a perpetual agency with 25 per cent commission contrary to public policy. If, for in- stance, congress should at some period during.his lifetime carry into effect the proposition advanced by | Jumes G. Blaine some years ago that the reve nue derived from the whisky tax shall be distributed to the states on a per capita basis, Nebraska would be entitlea to $1,250,000 a yoar and Mr. Hawes would he enutled to over £300,000 a year as his shave for carrying a voucher and draft from the nutional to the state capital. It seems to us high time that this so- called agency should cense und depart- ments should be oflicially notified that the state has no claim agent. It was clenrly understood and agreed to by Judge Huawes when his claim passed through the legislature of 1887 that he would retire from thestate cluim agency business, but evidently the pledgoe was made with o mentul reservation, THE SIXTEENTH STREET VIADUCT. The viaduct committee should have been sustained in its favorable report upon the ordinance declaring it nec- essary to reconstruct the Sixteenth strodt viaduct, There was no oc- casion either for postponement or reference of the question, The council knows nsmuch about the matter now as it will know in a week or a month, If any member of the hody is still in doubt upon the subject his dovbts are due to want of proper diligence in muking in- vestigation. The city engineer has re- ported the present wooden bridge un- snfe. The city attorney hus given it as his opinion that the city has the right to compel the railroads to rebuild the vinduet and that the cost of the ap- prouches not paid by the railways will not be chargeable to the city at large. The course pursued in the council arouses the suspiciun that the opjosi- tion is not sincere. The wembers of that body koown to be more or less under the 1nfluence of the railways voted solidly with the majority to postpone action. The special committoe ap- pointed by President Davis is mzde up of three men who favored delny and the fear is very general that they were ap- puinted to delay and defeat the project. Thelr uotion will, therefore, be watched very critically, If a singie councilman known to be friendly to the viaduct o dipance had been selected the edge might have been “taken off of public criticism. The railways must rebuild the Six- teenth street. viaduct, They may as well do 50 this year as somo other year. This has beon A very prosperous year for the companies and the ples of hard 2,000,000, while' the number of com- | | ing THURSDAY times cannot bo made truthfully by them, They have in the past secured priviloges n the way of street trackage td#1{ties and right-of-way that are worth, millions, They have bsen practi mydampt from city taxation. The taxes Which they should have paid into the city ssreasury, bhut which th have evaded{"Wwould pay for half a dozon vinducts. Had they beon compelled to pay for thaimse of alleys and streets bssings, | voted to thefn for nothing, the money so collected would have built noend of stone, iron und steel bridges, The ruil- | ways owo it tq the people of Omaha to imated to | make safe and ample crossings over or under their tracks wherever they are needed, and it is in bad taste for them to attempt by dilatory tactics and the manipulation of councilmen to evade their dut) Tak South Siders appear to have united in fuvor of the Clark tract for a park with the Murray donation. The price asked for this land seems high, but to all appearances nothing cheaper is availablo and therefore the park com- missioners will be justifiable in recom- mending the Clark property, always providing that any purchases are made this year. It s becoming manifest, however, that the city could save $100,000 if thoy would take the park grounds by right of eminent domain, JOHN J. INGALLS has tendered his sorvices for tho impending compaign to the Kansas republiean stats committee, Mr. Ingalls’ matchiess oratory will be in demand in Kansas, more especially as he couples his proffer with a point blank assurance that he will not be a candidate for United States senator or any other office. The only possible drawback Mr. Ingalls will experience in campaigning will be the speeches he made just before lenving the senate. Tine World fair directory has de- cided that work upon state buildings must be commenced not later than May 1. This fact will emphasize the im- portance in Nebraska of organizing the field for our state exhibit without delay. ‘Within another year the exhibit must be iu place, If Nebraska is to make a creditable showing her citizens must arouse themselves to the importance of taking early steps to push the work for- ward. THE banks that refuse to pay 2 per cent interest upon deposits of city funds for January ‘hecauso there was at that timo no formal contract, should be re- minded thatpshe conncil sitting as a board of equalization on tax assessments is linble to make them pay compound in- terest. — THERE is no disposition to oppress the railways in the demand for a viaduet on Sixteenth street. The people are simply asking that the railways be com- pelled to do their duty. Misery L 3 Chicago Tribune. Tho mayor of Indianapolis would sympa- thize with the'emporor of Garmaay it be had time, [ ny. e e The' Tiger's Claw . New York World. Boss rule at Albany exercised for parsonal advantage, as unchiecked power 15 vory apt to be, wi mean democratic defeat at the Louis Globe-Democrat, The lowa republican who tells his party to cling to probibition this year needs watch He is eitker an imbecilo or a democrat in di guise. co¥s WaSiaod Sy Provided § the Drop. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Thonew warships purchased by Chili are doubtless for use in ar{uing with tho United States about the size of the indomuity for the murdered sailors, P The Old 1 the N Globe-Democrat, The situation in Gormany serves to em- phasize the gratifying fact that it is only in the United States that labor is duly pro- tected and properly rewarded. ow. Chicayo News. more free passes ou the railroads are to be issued to members of the Massachusetts legislature. The thrifty descendants of the pilgrima will now bo 8901 counting railway ties in their journeys to and from legislative sessions, rrlllie o It Cannot 13 Done, Grand Island Ind:pendent . Wo agres with Tie Bee whea it says that the republican party has no chanco to carry Nebraska this year “with a ticket loaded down by men who have a record that must be defended and - men who are notoriously subservient to railvoad corporations,” il m Revived Napoleonism, San Francisco Chronicle, ‘The **Young Napoleon of Finance,” Henry S. Ivos, is back again at tbe old stand, and acnording to reports has cleanod up £300,000 by a recent deal. Mr. Ives’ exploits do not appoar to have injured his credit with New York business men, and thers is a strong probability that fortune way ¢mile on him sufticiently to enah’> him to take his placo among Gotham's H rod and Fifty, if he does and needs a cosl of arms his cesidence in Sing Sing might Lo commemorated by o faiv array of pales, ;i) Contrgated Civilizations, Néw-¥ork Advertiser, Allowing the stary of the negro roasting in Texarkana to be true —some think tha dotalls have been overw rought—the paople of Aus- tria are 10 no position to reprozch our eivili- zation. The news from abroad is that *a band of masked mpen, in the small village of Miuin, in the pi nce of Bukowlia, went to tise house of a ;milmme young widow namad Mario Leppors, forced their way into her bedroom, bound™her, poured pstroleum ovor her an4 set her oifire, and then stood calmly and watched herpurn wiuald horrivle shrieks and struggles, uatil nothing was left vut a biackened mass#*!Ihis woman was suspected of baving murdoid ber husband. — Win ligk the Prodigals, ‘ot Times, 1t is not good pelitics for any political party in Nebraska to: make a tight on Omaha While we do not believe ifa bumoring or babying any part of the state, no party can win in & close contest which Is controlled by grievances and spites. It is true thut Owaba did not give the republican ticket as large a vote in 1560 a3 we hud reason to expect, but unforiunately there are many nther parts of | the stato that did no better than the melrop olis. If the old Second congressional district had given Richards as good a vote as it gave Thayer in 1586 he would have been elected vy & plurality of 15,00, notwithstand, the defectlon in Omaba. It the old Third district bad cast its ! vepublican vote the rasuit woula have been nearly the same, notwithstanding the fulling off lu the Second gistrict and ln Omaba. The | | usual | MARCH republican party wants to win these prodi gals back. Many of them are already tired of the hog pons and husks of the democratic and independent parties, but we can never drivo them into the fold with prods and kicks. If aropubliean victory 1s what wo want wo must quit scolding and accusing and adopt methods that will win the prodi gals back to the pleasant security of tho paternal roof, Ty 1SODE. Chicago Times: Mr. Blamoe is just a littlo late In ploading tho cause of his precious son after the courts have decided tha case on 1ts merits Globo Demoerat : good showing for Mr. Blaino makes a himself i bis letter con cerninz bis son's unfortunate marriage; bul hio does not picture the son as a very desir- #ble nerson for Any young Woman to marry. Minteapolis Tribuno: The public is glad it is over, 160, but before dismissing it en- tirely it may as well be acknowledeed that Mr. Blaine bas knocked a large chip off Miss Marie Novias-Blawe’s halo of injured inno- cence, Chicago News: Doubtless the divoreed wifo of Mr. Blaine, jr., will not allow the eldor Blawme's lotter to o unanswered. Having both sides of the story the public may havo to judge on soma quéstions of ver acity between the parties, As the case now stands young Blaine uppears in no better light than bofore, Denver News: It will bo soon how com- plately Mes, Blaiue, sr.’s, relation to the aff has been misunderstood, and that the estrangement and separation were the nata- ral and logical outcome of a marriago that a8 conceived and executed under circum- stances that left no reasonabie hope of any but disastrous results. Chicago Tribune: It 1s a sad piece of busi- ness and oue that 1s not pleasant to dwell upon, Whatever may be thought of M Biaine's statement the wost prejudiced par- tisan must commend themanly shielaing of his wife against the assault of the court, while his friends will recret the nocessity thav compelted him to do so. St. Paul Pionecr-F’ress: Tho Blaine story only too common a one {n its essentiai do- tails, but the fact that release is troublesome and oxp-nsive too often preserves the mar- ringe bona, nominally av least. If this in stanco shail have served, by its accidental publicity, tosuggost the devising of some wiser marriage regulations, its discomforts will not have peon in vain, Chicago Herald: It seems almost inered- ible that a man possessing the sagacity Mr. Blaine is creaited with should have given such a statemont to the public, 1ts only ef- fect must bo to strengthen the improssion that Marie Nevins-Blaine did not securo hor divorcoa day too soon. When she got rid of James G. Blaino. jr., as a husband and James G. Blaine, sr.. as a father-in-law she desorved the heartiest congraulations of her friends, St. Louis Republic: Mr. James G. Blaine will not be judged harshly by anyono who reads his defense of his wife auinst the record as it was made in the South Dakota courts on the evidence of Mrs, James G. Blaiue, )r. The position of the elder Blaine as a husband and father whose wife and son were thus simultaneously attackad was a trying one, and it §s easy to excuse his appeal to the public in their behalf. Nevertheless, it1s true in such cases, that “silence is pest and noblest to tho end.” "povseL Two Men Accu Being Republicans Shot Dead in Teunessoe, Mewmrms, Tean., March 2.—A double mur- der was committed at Fayette Corner, in Hardeman county, Tenn., yesterday, father and son falling victims to the builets of the assassin. A democratic primary was in pro- gross when Tom Rogers, & young man of the vicinity, went up to the poll and offered to vote. He tendered his ballot to one of the ofticers of tho election, but instead of de- positing it in the box that person said Rogers was a republican and had no right to voto there. With that he tore the ticket up,throw the picces on the ground and stamped on thew. That was the signal for the row. Sam Hunter, a bystauder, drew a pistol and shot young Rogers in the head, killing him instautly and then shot old man RRogers, who was standing near by. Tbe father was re- moved to his home, where he was dying at 1ast accounts. It is not known here whether or not the murderer has been arrested. ot in Her Room, , Cal., March 2.—A man sup- posed to be Henry Avok shot and killed Narwoa Leighton and then put a bullet through his own brain. The shooting oc- curred in the woman’s room. She was heard singing when suddenly she shricked for help. Three pistol shots were heard and the crowd on the street saw the woman with blood streaming from ler head, climb out of the window and fall a distance of twenty feet to the street, The woman camo to the bouse three weeks ago and it is supposed Avok was ber nusband, He left u iotter asking that his parents at Aghog Avokian, Turkey, Asia, be noufied. He gave his brotter’s address as A. A. Vrakian, Constantinople, e ANICKERS ON THE Los ANGELE SIDE, Colonel Booze is a prohibition leader in Kun- 08, Washington Star: Men that declare the world owes them a llving are usually too luzy to hustle around and collect it Boston Jester: Jenkins— cigar this mernin Jones—Did you sinoke it? kins—No; I gave it to Bagloy this after- ley gave mo a rville Journal: “What are you goin ve up durmg Lent, Miss Do Peys asked young Hizgins. boldly, ana Miss Do Peystor promptly answered: “1think Il give up the pleasure of seclng you BIE DID TUE NEST. Juddge, { Ethelinda sowed ono day DuLion on my vest: And 15 8ho was 50 near—and sweet— Her form [ gentiy pressed, She frowned, sho blushed; tho button dunce Unsewod about my vest, b suld: “Yow press the button, sir, Aud [ will do the rest. Binghawton Republican: the landlubber when ho ta voyige. “It’s all up" with kes his first sea Jugson says yon seldom fon unless” you find u g hisown communication {n Elmi 800 real o WhO 1 re, uewspuper. Binghampton Loadel INUPPIOPT L6 L0 Te W are about to purt We suppose it s not w banquet in which cipate ay gorgeous, Siftinga: “Exouse the liberty 1 take," us the conviet remarked whon ho escapod frou the state prison The editor kept to his dusk all day, And likewise most of tho night; He wrote by himsedf 50 much, at lust He boeanie an anchowrite, rville Jours Pa, 1 tho Inquiring child. ent, my dear’ responded the dejected pouitry furier. *is the scason when hens do not think thit it is necessury (0 liy ogus." what {8 Lent#' Columbus Post: A Missourl town reports such hard times that oven the brewery stoppod. Boston Jester: “John, It you use such lan- a8 that do you know where you will y go"! Really 1dov't care much, I have friends in both places.” Columbus Post: Muny a poor follow nover gots to see the silver linfug untll he gots above the elouds. Unlon County Standa band does not il wiys denoto respect; it may be used to cover up dofects ln the hut, MARCH, Ella Wheeler Wilcor in Ladies' Home Journal, Like somo reformer. who with melu susterc, Negleotod dress nnd loud insiatent tonos, More rasuing than the wrongs which she be OIS, Walks throtgh the land and wearles all who lewr. Whie Bo eo The mourning t we know the need of such reform; s uniovely Murch, with wind an torm, To break the speil of winter, and set frog The prisoncd brooks wnd erocus beds op- pressed Sovire of face, gaunt-armed, and wildly- (ressed, | 8he is not £4ir nor beautiful to spe. But merry April and swoet swiiing May Cown uot till March Las first propared the Wiy A WORLD'S FAIR ULTIMATUM States and Nations Must Begin Their Build- ings By the First of May. | TIME TO BEGIN A GENERAL HUSTLE Work of Tmprove t At Washington Park Body of w Man Who Disk Chrlstmas Time Found in the River, cared at Cricaao Brnazav or Tne B Cricaco, Iur, March 2, Director General Davis and Chief of Con- struction Burnham have decided that states and natlons desiricg tosconstruct buildings on the World's fair grounds must begin work by May 1. This action is taken because if the buildings are completed by the boginning of the fair the work of construc tion must be commenced soon. Another reason for the step is that if tho space assigned to states and foreign nations is not goiug to bo utilized by them, the diroctors will ailot it for other purposes. So far Ili- nois is tho only state to begin the construce tion of its building. Improving Washington Park, The grand stand at the Washington Park race track is to be enlarged and improved Architects vostorday bogan work upon the plans, which will bo completed in two weeks. The main object of the changes is to provide largor passagoways and incrense the seating capacity by 2,000, Found in the River, The body of Dr. Robert (. Mitter, who mysteriously disapneared from his home, 12 west Thirteenth stfeot, a fow days bofore Christmas last year, was found this morning ingg be viver at the Twolfth street bridge. It Wwill te remombered Dr. Mitter started out to buy some Christmas presents and was aever thoreafter seon ulive by his friends, After West Point Berths, Twenty-five young men betwoon the ages of 15 and 22 years wore vesterday subjected to mental and physical oxamination at Fort Sheridan as to their fitness for appointment as cadots to the West Point Military neademy, The candidates wero from tho congressional districts of Illnois, Michigan and Indiana, Tho examination vapoers will be sent to West Point, and those who pass {tho highest grade will 'recoive the appoiat- monts. Similar examinations are boing held at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, = San Diego, Cal, and soveral eastorn military posts, About 100 vacancies at West Point are to ve filled. Odds and Ends, Four couples took part in the cake walk at battery D last night, in which prizes valued at 81,000 were distributed. The armory was crowded with colored people and many of Chicago's aristocratic white people wero present out of curi- ositv, “Sporting Billy” Hughes a six- foot negro, and his partner, Ida Caskey, car- ried off the tirst prize, a gold watch and up- right piano. The otber prizes distributed were a silver watch, seal plush cloak, silk bat and sewing machine. The jury in the Byrnes murder case, after being out ail night, this morning returned a vordict acquitting the defendaut. Licutenant Herman I, Fickvohm, Uni States navy, was married lastnight to S lie Tomlin, The wedding was a quiet one. DEMOCRACY’S STANDARD BEARDR. A Few Figures on the Strength of Hill and Cleveland, New York, March 2.—The Herald's Wash- inton correspondent has prepared a tablo showing the presidential preferences of the delogadons to the democratic vational con- vention. The figures are based upon inter- views with the congressional representatives of the states in Washington. The compilation is made on a basis of 800 delezates in the na- tional convention, of which the classification is as follows: Hill, 285; Cleveland, for some western necessary for choice, 600. Cleveland seems to bo the cboice of fifteen states, Theyv are California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Obio, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Hill is said to be the choico of ten states—Colorado, Fiorida, Idaho, Maryland, Mississippi, Now Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas. The remainder of the states, with the exception of Alabama, Lou- isinua and Oregon (which are divided for Hilland Cleveland) afs for a westero man, Mr. Ingalls is In It. TorekA, Kan,, March 2.—John J. [ngalls has again entered actively the political arena and from now on his voice will be heard in the state counsels of his party, Ho made his first really public appearance last night after seclusion for nearly a year. Ho made a speoch befors tho State Leaguo of Republican clubs in which he defended his late inactivity in political aftairs and apnounced his future program. He said that some of the republicans who passed upon the crodentials of republicuns seomed to desiro to pelieve that he was no longer a republican, He was a republican and he believed that that party jast now stond more in need of active recruits than of vietims (referring to the attempts in his own state to read him out of the party). It kad been stated, he said, that he had taken no part in the recent stato campargn, That was o fact, but ho was obliged to stato that the state central committoe had called noither for | his sorvices nor his money. In conclusion, | he said: “1 am not a candidate for the United States senate. My name shall not bo used in connection with any office in the comirg election.” Ho offerad his services to tho state contral committee, voluntoering to go as a private wherever ' the gonerals of the campaign should order him, A Blow at Cleveln Provioexce, R. L, March 2.—The demo crats of Rhode tsland met this niorming for the nomination of state officers aad the se lection of delogates to the national conven tion. Charles 5. Gorman was elected tom porary chairman. Fiis speach eulogized tho Cleveland administration and his remarks wore greoted with loud applause and & fow hisses, A resolution was presented and re forred to the platform committee instructing the delegates to the national convention to vote for Cloveland. It was roceived with groat enthusiasm. i .. Nominations for governor being called for | tho faction conceded to Claveland. prosented tho namo of David Baker, jr. Ex-Lieu- tenant Governor W. C. Wardwell was placed in counter nomination. A vote resulted in Wardwell beiug doclared the nominee. The temporary organization was made per- manent, The platform reported to the con- vention domands freo raw mwaterials, ap Proves the Springer wool bill and urges its oarly passage; favors placing iron, conl and timver on the free list. Upon the coinage guestion it reads every dollar of American money, whether of gold, silver or ought to be equal the world over. Repeal: ing the Sherman act was favosed bocauso of its failure to accomplish the results desired and for a like reason the freo coinago of sil- ver was opposed oxcept on international agroement, Tho platform closes with Mr, Hovoy's resolution of istructions, For leutenant governor Charles F. Gor- man of Providence was nominated, The Wardell men placed Charles Acton Ives of Newport in counter nomioation. Mr. Ives was repudiated by the Newport delegation and Mayor Powell of Pawtucket intimated that Nowport had been traded for Senator This was hotly denied, Tne vote Gorman, 160; Ives 80, and Baker 7. Chaneos, HILl's Home Goes Republican, Bryme, N. Y., March 2,—Dho eity eloction has resulted in an overwhelming defoat of the democratic tickot and tho election of Robinson, the republican candidate, by 1 majority New Youk, March 2.—Charter olactions wero held in many cities and towns of this state yesterday, Keturns show large repub. lican gains, RE he republican electors of the state of Ne- braska are requosted to send delegates from their several counties to meet in convention in the city of Kearney, Wednesday, April 27, 1592, at 11 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of electing four delegates-at-largo to the repub- lican national convention to be held in Miuno- apolis, June 7, 1892, THE APPORTIONME ‘The several counties are entitled to ropre sentation as follows, being based on the vote cast for Hon, Grorge H. Hastings for attornoy general in 1890, giving one delegate- at-large to each county and one for each 150 votes or the major fraction thereof Blaino, Boyd Phelps Boone. 2 Platte 8| Polk... .. 8 Red Willow 4| Richardson 4| Hamiiton . 210 Rarlan.. 7| Haye: 8 Hiteheod * 14| Tolt 4 Howari. Hooker. Buffalo. . Butler 6[8her 3/Ston uming... . ; 2|Stanton fnx. 86/ Thursto 0 Valloy Dodgo. Douglas Dundy Fillmore | Franklin... KFrontier. It 1s recommended that no pr mitted to the convention, and th wates present bo authorized to cast the full vote of the delegation. Whereas, 1t 1s desirable that there shall not bo u change of committees during the cou Ing campaign, and Wherens, Great care should ba exercised in tho selection of procinct commitiecmon who are workers, and who wiilinzly undortuke tho labor of a1 irduous campaign: therefore, Resolved, That the republicans of every county In this state be rul&ueswd 1o select' their county central commlitteo at tho first county convention held in their respoctive counties. Sald committeo to sorve until the county convention of 1853 be hold. G. D, Megcen, Chairman. Wair M. SkkLY, U. B. BALCOMDE, J. R, SUTHERLAND, Secretarics. - Archbishop Ireland's Promotion. MixNeaPoLIs, Minn., March -On Arch- bishiwi Ireland’s summons to the Vatican it was roported that he was to bo raised to a cardinalate, but it bas since transpired that he went to ltome at the pope's invitation to accept the position of cardial prefect. P % somely appointed ¢ and desirable. special prices. 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