Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 23, 1892, Page 4

DATLY 1 ROSEW ATI‘ R, VERY THE BEE. —_— PU"T I\IH‘ * OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dally Peo (without Sunday) One Year Daily and "llnlllly.“nn EixM onthe Threc Months, Sunday Hee, One Year. Baturdsy One Your Weekly Bee. Ono Year. D E MORNING. OFFICES Omaha, The Ree Bullding. FouthOnaha, corner N an Counell Hiufa, 12 Paarl Strec Chicato Office, Commerce. Kew Yotk Kooma1?, 14 and 15 Tribune Buliding Washington, 513 Fourteenth Street. I Stroets, iinz to news and | communications rel Ty addressed tc the matter should be aor D epartment. BUSINESS LETTE A1l Unslness letters and remittances shonld teaddressed to The Bee Publish'ng Company. Omahn. Drafts, checks and postoflice orders 10 Ve mado payable to the order of. the com- pany. 'lhr Bee Pnlmsnmg Enmuanv Proprietor OF CIRCULATION, Ftate of Nebraska wunty of Douglas, (% ¥ 2 socrotary of The BER Compuny. does solennly swear alofreulation of Tie DATLY Bex for tho week ending March 19, 1502, was as follows: Eunda EWORN STATEMENT Tueadny, March i5. Weduesday, March 16, Thursdny, March 17 Eriday. March 18 Baturdy. March 19) Average. GFO. B TZ Eworn {0 Lefore me and & hll‘r“"l‘fl ln my tnnnrn 1his 10th day of Mx EEAL NEBRASKA republicans should not un- derestimate the forces with which they must contend this fall ALTHOUGH it is more than four months since the park bonds were voted, the new parks are still invisible to the naked oyo. Tur sale of the school bonds at a handsome premium is another evidence of the excellent credit Omaha enjoys in fiscal cente A STAT rain Deale association can doa vast amountof good in Ne braska. It isto be hoped the move ment now vnder way for its organization may be successful. THE republicans of Towa have again committod themselves to the heresy of prohibition und they will be responsible for the consequences if disaster overtakes them at the next state election. — THE winter is almost ended and yet tho milling-in-transit rate, the bridge arbitrary, the switching charges and Texgs differential continue to be irritat- ing subjects to our business men. THE Iowa house has passed a bill to compel insurance companies to pay the full fuce of the policies issued in adj ing total losses, but the chances are the bill will be'sidetracked before it reaches the governor. Wonk is progressing rapidly as weather will permit upon thoe extensive improvements at South Omaha. The year 1882 promisesto be one long to bo remembered by this promising stock ana packing house center. PLATTSMOUTH is figuring upon a canal from the Platte river to furnish water power for factories. The enter- prise is said to be feasible and it would add 10,000 to her population within five years after its completion. THE Real Estate Owners’ association s meeting with gratifying encourage- ment in its efforts to stimulate interest in a movement to secure manufactories. Every owner of real estate in this city should join this organization, THE general conference committee is still waiting to hear from a few . citizens who ought to entertain delegates. The churches outside the Methodist com- munion will perform a most gracious and proper act of courtesy by rallying as churches to the support of the confer- ence committee, SINCE his defeat for the speakership of the house Roger Q. Mills has not felt at home in his old seat in congress. He will be delighted to move into the other end of the capitol where, as Thomas B. Reed says, *'all good statesmen hope to go before they die,” E—— THE Great Northern railway is one of tho coming great railway corpor- ations. It is backed by large means, is aggressive and new. Omaha will do well to enter upon negotiations with its Bioux City people, looking to an exsen sion of the road to this city. THe output of the Black Hills mines for 1802 promises to exceed that of any previous year in the history of the dis- trict. To people who know the Black Hilis to be by far the richest wineral region of its extent in the union this announcement is not surprising, THE Board of Fire and Police Commis- sioners is a deliberative body. It has been nine months since one of the detec- tives resignea end no successor has been selected. The chances are, however, that the city is just nine months’ pay ahead and can struggle along for a while longer without filling this vacancy, T GOYERNOR RUSSELL of Massachu- setts has disclaimed any present ambi- tion to be a candidate for president of the United States, and declared his loy- alty to Mr. Cleveland. Nevertheless the democracy of Massachusetts will doubt- less present his name to the Chicago convention in the event that the nomi- pation of Cleveland is seen to be hope- less, and he would probably get a vote from New England that would at least be very complimentary. Governor Rus- sell is too young for a presidential cun- didate, but in case a candidate for the presidency is taken from the west it might be wise to put him in second place. The fact that he has carried Massachusetts twice in succession cer- tainly entitles him to consideration. THE DO-NOTHING CONGRESS The present congress has already made an exceptional record fordoing nothing. Tt has now been in session more than three months, omitting the holiday re cess, and no important mensure of iegis- lution has yet been enacted. If thore has been any other congress in the his tory of the country that wasted so much time in useless talk we do not recall it, and it is noteworthy that even demo- cratic journals are taking the majority in the house of representatives to task for the unpardonable way in which they have frittered away the time. It is a notable iilustration of the indecision of the democracy and its want of a flxed purpose and u vleariy defined policy. The party in control of the house started out with the idea of muking conomy in the public expenditu tho first and chief object to be attained. The preceding congress was o he rebuked by cutting down appropriations to the xtentof 100,000,000, Herein was to be found the golden opportunity to make political capital for the democratic party in the presidential campuign. But the cheesc-paring chairman of the commi tee on approprintions has run upon obstacles 1o his schemes of economy at every step, placed thers by his own partisans, Bxceptan agreement to cut down pension appropriations to the ex- tent of some $12,000,000, and to provide for the construction of onlya singlo cruiser for the navy during the next fiscal year, there is no saving yetin sight. The democratic chairmen of the various committges which report appro- priation bills are not disposed to follow the policy of Mr. Hotman, and it looks as if the party will make little cap out of its scheme of economy. The divi- sion in the democratic ranks as to the course to be pursued regarding tie tarifl and silver has, of course, had the effect to retard the progress of busin There has been a continual warefave be- tween the factions, und it is not yot ended. Stump speeches have been made on the tarill, with the bill to ro- peal the puties on wool as the oxcuso, and now the silver discussion is on to consume more time inidle debaté. As an illustration of how business is neg- lected, it may be noted that there are Friday night sessions of the house to consider private pension bills and bills to remove politienl disabilities from in- dividuals. It is said that so far this sion there has not been a quorum pr enton Friday night, and uuucqucnll\ not a single private peasion bill has heen favorably acted upon in committeo of the whole at this session of congress, although many of these measuves ave meritorious. It may be said that the public inter- ests are not suffering by reason of the inaction of congress, but this is hardly satisfactory. It cannot be determined whether or not harm is done by the un- certainty regarding legisiation. Tho obvious lesson in the situation, and the people should not ba permitted to lose sight of it, is that the democratic party has no settled policy. On the eve of a national campaign its councils are divided and its leaders are pulling in different directions, all wanting power, but unable to hermonize on any plan by which to secure it. The intelligent masses of the American people will bardly be persuaded to entrust the ud- tion of the government to a al organization that is in this con- dition. ALLIANCE AND DEMOCRATIC FUSION It is reported from Washington that a scheme is on foot to secure an alliance and democratic fusion in Minnesota and other northwestern states. A like move- ment has been reported from Kansas, and one of the Jacksonian club repre- sentatives who went from this city to Chicago last week to secure headquar- ters for Nebraska democrats who will visit the national convention, stated in an interview, which has gone all over the country, that such a coalition would be made in Nebraska. There is undoubtedly something in this. According to the Washington re- port the Hill machine is workihg hara to effect such o fusion. In the south Mr. Hill admonished the democrats to ad- here to their party organization, and it is pretty well undevstood that they will generally do so. Nobody expects the third party to cut any figuro in that sec- tion in the presidential campaign and election. Whoever is nominated at Chi- cago can safely count upon getting the entive electoral vote of the south. The alliance men of that section are demo- crats first and will vote to maintain the democratic organization. But they are not 8o solicitous about this in the repub- lican states of the north, They nre ready to make any trade or combination that promises republican defeat, how- ever compromising to democratic prin- ciples. 1t is entirely probuble, there- fore, that the reports of a proposed fusion of the alliunce and the democrats in half a dozen of the states of the north- west are well-founded. While conceding the political import- ance of such a movement, it is quite possiblo to oxaggerate its danger. A very large majority of the alliance mem- bers in the north have always acted with tho republican party, and there is reason to belicve that no eonsiderabls number of them can be induced to sup- port any plan distinetly in the interest of the election of a democratic presi- dent. They would gain nothing by putting the democracy in power, unless it should be a few additional seats in congress that would do them no gool. No man likely to be nominated at Chi- cago, among those now mentioned, has any sympathy with the objects and de sires of the allisnce. Take Hill and Gormau, for instance, who are credited with being the chief promoters of the fusion movement, what interest has either of them in the alliance or 1its aims? Were either of them elected to the presidency his administration would be dovoted to strengthening the demo- cratic party, and for the purposs of doing this prevailing policies in the in- terest of the class who constitute the alliance would be antagonizad. The same may be said of any mua whom the dewocrats will nomin: sideration have tl the alliance in o1z vosaiveld from the demoeratic mjority in the hause? The men who compose tho alliance in the north are too intelligent to follow THE OMAHA DAILY sclfish and designing lende They are earnest in their demand for reforms, but they will not be induced to believe that thess are to be secured by elevating the democracy, with its re- actionnry principles and policy, to power. e TO G. M. HITCHCOCK: You have taken it upon charge me with organizing a city Tam- many ving for mercanary and poiitical purposes, and you go so far as to areaign Andrew Rosewater the city engineer an accompiice in a conspiracy “tofry the fat out of contractors at every city elec- tion™ and to manipulate the publi; of Omaha for the purpose of enriching the contractors who are in the deal with me. In support of these charges which affect tho reputation of a professional man whose greatest erime in your eyes is that he is my brother, you assert that “Clity Engineer Tillson was removed for tho purpose of placing Andrew Rose- water in position to menipulate public the interest of the Tammany You further assert that in conjunction with myself, Mayor Bemis and City Attorney Connell are conspiv- ing to control the appointment of twenty inspectors who are to do our bidding. You furthermore charge that the ordinance now before the city coun- cil whick ovides for the appointment of inspectors of public works on recom- mendation of the city engineer by und with the approval of the mayor and council was gotten up by myself and tho city engineer to build up a corrunt and dungerous contractors ring. Now what are the facts? Androw Rosewater was appointed city engineer while absent from the state. He did not solicit the position, but on the contravy Wils Vi reluctant to accept it after it hiad been wendered. T did not solicit o even recommond his appointment, but Mayor Bemis made it at the urgent ro- quest of some of the largest property owners of Omaha who desired to have the city engincer’s office reorganized and certain costly blunders in our pub- lic works system rectified by aman who enjoys n aational reputation as an en- gineer, and had never been even nccused or suspected of corrupt practices. But he is my brother and therefore you feel at liberty to cast imputations upoa his integrity. I have never seen the proposod ordi nance that provides for a change in the appointment of inspectors, and Andrew Rosewater did not see a copy of it until yesterday, and I learn that it does not fully meet his approval. The only part ot the ordinance T have read was the portion quoted in your own paper with Major Furay’s protest against ‘‘making bricks without straw.’ . Itis well known that I opposed the creation of the Board of Public Works as now constituted while my brother favored it. My opinion as recards its utility and eficiency has undergone no change. I have not spoken to a single councilman about the ordinance and I have not seen Mayor Bemis since the reception to President McCall of the New York Life necarly a week ago. T have nover intimated to Bemis, Con- nell or anybody else thut such an ordin- ance shonld be introduced although its muin feutures have my approval, be- cause I believe the change will incrense thoe efficiency of inspoction of public works. All the conspiracy charges you make ave baseless calumnies and you fabri- ‘cated them with malice aforethought. There are natural born villains,devoid of every instinct of integrity and veracity, just as there are born drank- ards, thieves and murderers. This is the only valliation poussible for your vile and malignant slanders. Your dastardly accusations of venality are the emuna- tion of u seared soul and a reflox ef the baso impulses that were partof your being from the moment you ivere con- ceived in the womb. You accuse me with organizing a Tammany ring of contractors and boodlers when vou know, as everybody knows, that the only Tammany that has ever raided the taxpayers of Omaha has hud you and your paper for its mainstay, while ail the influence I could exert was directed toward ridding the city of boodlerism and jobbery. You charge Andrew Rosewater with conspiring for political and mercennry ends when you know that he has no part with politics and cares nothing about politics, But Andrew Rosewatsr is my brother and he is city engineer. That fact nlone sets you almost cr: I con- foss I am partly to blame that he is an engineer. Had I been financially able and willing to meet the demands of your father Andrew Rosewater would have had the appointment of a West Point cadet which was sold to a non-resident of Ne- braska. But for that circumstance An- drew Rosewater would have gone into the regular army instead of atarting out as a rodman in the preliminary survey of the Union Pacific railroad across the Rocky mountains. 1 vealize fully that the despicable and dastardly course you are pursuing is in part involuntary. It comes to you by inheritance. Roured as u republican you are willing to harlot with any party that makes the highest bid for your support Devoid of all moral stamina and prinei- ple you are a wonther cock that teies to cateh every political breeze. Born an aristocrat that prides himself ay being the son of a senator, even though that senatorship was secured by downright bribery, you constantly seck to cater tolaboring men whom at heart you de- spise and whose society you scornfully avoid as if they were lepers. By sym- pathy and association, a worshipper of wealth, you are masquerading as the foe of monopoly and friend of the down- trodden. What despicabie hypocrisy! You are the inheritor of a fortune and what does it represent? Forced con- tributions from federal office-holders and contractors on public works; money filehed from the national treasury for fraudulent surveys; money paid by swiudlers and public thieves as the price for the privilege of pillaging and plun- dering the people; money gotten from the Union Pacific monopoly for the huise betrayal of the people of Nebraskt and the wanton sacrifice of the interests of Omaha; meney extorted from want distress by the caloused heart und gra ing band of usury. By the laws of di- vine retribution this accurvsed pelf is yourself to as works i for oflic WEDNESDAY being poured, jpto & rat-hole and will soon have pmssed out of your hands, And when you dre obliged to quit play- ing hypoerithdd impostor und have to work for an fpogiest living you will have some respectfor men who have toiled a lifetime to UMY up what you ave trying to tear down $in'a few months. . ROSEWATE t'0F CORRUPTION. Chicago is o the midst of an inquisi- tion, on the past of her grand jury, into the methods 6f ¥ystematic bribery of eity officials. Alveady saven aldermen have ben indicted. The officials have been high priced, but the corporations anx- ious for valuable franchises and privil cges appear to have been willing 1o pay well for their votos. The grand jury, aided by the investi- gations of the Chicago newspapers and the able effo.ts of tho state’s attor- ney, has brought to light a great deal of information which foreshadows terms in the penitentisry for several of the accused boodlers, The New York Herald charges that the legislature of New Jersey is being controlled by a syndicate of interested parties who have raised a corruption fund of $3,000,000, The Herald cites the fact that one senator refused over §25000 for kis vote upon the biil legalizing the Reading coal combine. Denver has been wrestling with a gung of alloged boodlers within a few months, The grand jury in San Fran- cisco started a hegira of corruptionists at its last session by prosecuting inves- tigations into the conduct of certain municipal and otherofficials, Philadel- phia’s costly experiences are still fresh in mind. New York, always corvupt, is again being exposed by the inquiries mude by a prominent clergyman, and so reports come from other sections of cor- ruption. Omaha has rocently been dis- graced by the conduct of her officials and her citizens will coutinue to believe that several of her publicofficers deserve the penitentinry. There is rottenness everywhere from New York to San Fran- cisco. The hopeful feature of the situation is the fact of exposure. The Philadelphia frauds which so startled the naiion about a year ago were discovered and some of the guilty were punished. Chi- cago is in earnest in pushing the present prosecutions. The penitentiurie Al boodlers and the prospect is encouraging forthe early punishment of a sufficient number here and there to afford o warning to others. The people are determined ‘that this era of corrup- tion shall end nml they ave giving more attention to muuicipal elections than heretofore witha view to purifying the city governmen. American cities as now governed: are for the most part so many hotbeds of’ corruption. BOODLERISM ENCOURAGED. The verdictofithejury in the Morear- ty case 1s & bloW at reform. Tt is a vro- clamation to boadlers to solicit and ac- cept bribes as lun-v as only one person is present, It i a Tormal anpouncement to every boodler thit: whatever may be the circumstances, his testimony in his own defense shall have as much weight as that of the prosecuting witness. The jury has said in so many words that they believe Morearty told the truth and Mr . Squires is a perjurer. They have tn'mn Morearty’s denial asa complete vindication. Judge Lake, who was a trial judge in hundreds of criminal cases, says during his experience of twenty years he hardly over knew an instance where a man ac- cused of a grave crime would not deny his guilt on the witness stand. A mur- derer was recently convicted in this county on circumstantial evidence. No- body saw Neal commit the atrocious murder and he positively denied it under oath as a witness in his own defense but he was adjudged. guilty and sent to the gallows, How are we ever going to convict boodlers if we take their denials as against the oaths of credible witnesses ing or accopt- ing bribes? There are seldom il ever more than two parties to such a crime. ‘Why should any weight be attached to the testimony of men indicted for bood- ling? Iu Morcarty’s case, two different witnesses went before tne grand jury accusing him of soliciting hribes on two different occasions and all the circum- stances and his conduct as councilman have forcibly impressed the people of Omaha with his lack of integri Yot the jury said he was not guilty just be- cause ho denied his guilt. This is a3 much of.a farce as was the finding of the police court that Morearty’s effort to break into the county jail at the time of the lynching of the negro Smith was with a view to suving the negro from the mob. This wus what Morearty swore to before the police court. What weight would any rational juror attach to the denials of a person capable of such things? It this is tolbe the outcome of tho boodle trinls thé time may not be dis- tant when peopl® will take the law into their own hands! HEREAFTERAL Will be Senator Mills, The Texas lemslu are yesterduy electod Hon. Roger Q Mills to tho United States senate, to,fill out the unaxpired term of ex-Somator Reagan, Mr. Mills will go into thf fonate fully equipped so far as lugmln\.&yu experience ia con- cerned, and undoubtedly he will soon become a promlgent figure in the upper brauch of congeess. He is undeniably a man of nbllwy'?nd no democrat in the country has shmwl greater courage in defense of his convictions. The senato arena perhups does not afford so good an opportunity for attracting the public attention as does that of the house, but something better is expected of men in the former thaun in the latter, and thore is probuply more honor to be won by success in the senate. The election of Mr. Mills compensates him for his de- feat in the speakership race, and is a merited reward for the hard work he hus done for his party, —— of court is sometimes very For instance five county judges in a Missouri county where the county judges correspond to our county com- missioners refused or neglected to lev atax for the paymentof certain rail- roid bonds as directed by Judge MARCH Phillips of the United States circuit court. The United States circuit judge holding them to be in contempt ordered them to pay a fine of #500 each and sentonced them to imprisoument until they should make some arrangement for the payment of the bonds, The judges of another recaleitrant county involved in the same case are to be sentenced next Monday unless they wake up to the danger to which they are exposed and purge themselves of contempt. The only absolute monarch in Amer judgo within his jurisdiction. He dete mines what is contempt and he imposes the penalty from which, unless it bo ex- cessive and so unconstitutional, there is ordinarily noappeal even where appenls are permitted and in such cases ap- pellate courts are very loath to inter- fere. MoREARTY'S ovatory was never before so completely shut-off as when Judge Davis provented him from. making a speech to the jury which acquitted him of the chnrge of soliciting a bride of $2,200 from Contractor Squires. It was cruel fur Morearty has had no oppor tunity of \\m"m" an oratorical flight since January 7, 1802, OMAHA'S open Board of Trade will resume business at the old stand within a short time. Paralyzed One Thing. New York Advertiser. The young and energetic omperor of Gor- many has not yot paralyzed Russia; but he has knocked his cabinet into a cocked hat. —-— The Republic Chicago 1 From the republican point of view the political situntion may bo sumwed up briefly : The Minneapolis convention promises now to be merely a ratification meeting. Philadelphia Record. Senator Hill's declaration that the demo- cratic party is stronger than any man has again found corroboration in tho refusal of the houso committee on elections to allow one man to pull it away from its sense of duty. SETTR S A Squealing Competitor, Detroit Free Press. New York’s funny papers must be allow- ing thoir hired wits a vacation. Thoy are working off scoras of heavy-whiskerod chest- nuts that were stale bofore these bapers started, sud have done years of hard service with minstrel shows and circuses. Referred to Dr. Miller. « Howells Jowrnal (dem.) They can write column ufter column of puffs concerning other candidates, but the fact romains just the same that Grover Cloveiand 1s the most popular domocrat in America today. His popularity in Nebraska 13 by no meaus on tho w ow Reslgn, Wo scnd expm ons of sympathy to our brave Japanese contemporaries, the Jiyu, the Toho and the Mimpo, which have been sup» prossed by order of his majesty the mikado for criticising some of the recent measures cf his government; and we send words of cer- sure to the mikado for his wrongful act in supprossing these independent papers. Republicans Getting Together. Hastings Nebraskan. The Republicans of Hastings and Adams county will go into the coming state and na- tional campaign better organized than tuey bave been for the past three years. The party went into the county campaign last fall in pretty bad shape, but it came out in excellent condition and with the ranks much fuller than when it went1in. Siuce then the party has been gaining strength. An Invinel mbination. York Times. On, yes, General Alger was a brave and good soldier, and was honorably discharged from the army., Therois no doudbt about that. So was Benny Harrisoo, and in addi- tior: to all that Benny is a statesman, an ora- tor, & great big an. He is far bigger than his erandfather. end that is saying a heap. When we are through with him there will be a chance for such good and groat men as Alger. Detroit Free Press. Chicago is pluming itself on the detection of certain boodle aldermen. It does seem from the reports that the cetectives have got the boodlers “dead to rights,” but the experienco of Dotroit is such as to suggest that exultation be reserved until the grand aud potit juries have boen heard from. We lave heard of some very promising cases that did not pan out at all, though there was no real doubt as to the guilt of the ac- New York Among tho most. uulnhlo uunavomonls of Emperor William since his accession to the throne 1s b in reconciling to the existing ordor of things the rulers deprived of their sovercigntics and of thoir dominions Ly Prussia at the close of the war of 1866, It was in vain that Prioce Bismarck ex- tendod to them the olivo branch while ho was at the head of affairs, Thoy refused to enter into any friondly communication with the court of Berlin. Since, however, tho young emperor took the negotiations in hand they have eotirely modified their original attitudo and at leagth proclaimed their ad- hesion to the Gierman empiro s now consti- tuted, —_— Dowlsm Dylog Out, Philadelphia Record, The movement in Maine in the direction of a resubmission of the prohibitory law to the popular vote, on tho grouud that the statute 1s dotrimental to the business, social and moral interests of the statoand an injury to the cause of temperance, should not re- quive & great deal of agitution to accomplish the desired end. The practical experience of tho people of Maine has been more instruct- ive than could have been any amount of 1yceum discussion by the most gified orators: and as it tallies with the experience of other commonwealths in which prohibition bas failed to probibit, there should be little difti- cnlty in shaping the laws so that they will be in barmony with conditions and not the- ories, - An Assossment Iieform, Grand Island Ind=pendent. “'he wext session of the legislature should provide & new method of assessing property for purposes of taxation, and a term in the pevitentiary for any assessor who wilfuily assesses proverty forless than its truo value, and a similar term for any man who inten- tionally gives in his property at a less figure than represents its true value. This under- assessment business is gettiug to be a burn- g disgrace to the state, and it leads to the grossest kinds of inequality and fraud, and does not diminish to the extent of a dime the amount of mouey necessary to bo raised by taxation. Property being assessed at from one-sixth to ounetwentieth of real value makes us appear to great disadvantage o people in tue east who sce figures showing that we pay taxes aggregating from b to 7 por cent oa the value of the property taxed, a figure higher thau the rate of interest in eastern states, and as high as eastern capic talists recoive for western loans. It is no wonder that they hesitate to lend money here at 6 per cent when they observe from the figures that the tax on investmeonts amounts to at least that figure. Matters have gono from bad to worse in that respect in this state, until a point has been veached where foreboaranco ceases to bo a virtue. Who- ever invented that shrinking shirking ays tom, is entitled to a monument of mud as a statesman without either honor or sense. — POINTED PLEASANTRIES, Somerville Jonrnal: A young man may be ¥ elorant so far as quaiificat'ons to A U, ROEMAN Ate onoNIbe Wl yot not ADIO 1o @urn more than twelve qollars and Alf @ weok in a stor Judge: Fditor~That new reporter must bo an Engiishman, Assistant— Editor-—1lo spells Fourth of July with & smadl £, Trath: “Here's n hafreraising thing—," Dbogan the Literary member. or churity's sako give 1t to me," bald- mbor. exoitedly. T hisshining dome; adly snld the . said the he oking up you and wo fnd th . ord for' the past y hat ) ensos. Tl will never |||\|v searcoly paid'e do. “You seem to forget, si” sald the other, as o drew limself up' to his full helght, “that during the past year [ have had more orders ed thun any other traveiing waa you THE PRESIDENTIAL B Chicago Tribune, How doth the presidential beo Lmprovi ol shining day By gathering delogates guloro nsuch u quist way How skilltully he lays his plans, How well iuiproves each minute! And yot whon the convention comes Of'times he isn't in i Washing their hush sitlu: “1 am zlad to discover that Harry Is taking an fnterest in art, even though ho tries to con- ceal 1t from m Tow did you find it out? " overheird him tell my brother that 1t 18 a good g 1o study” your hand boforo you dray n Stur They wore talking atout nds, and young Mrs. Flimmins New York FIgg: i riges—So (hat now, when he comoes home ) toll everybody where he 1ives. “Have a cizgawette, Cholly, ol’ fel'? " Nevah use them, deah buy: and ' weally pwise thit weakness, 0 you 1o know, thon, THE EARLY STRAWBERRY. Detroit Free Press, Rattle its bones A strawberry, body owns, Because the price is 5o blame high! Harper's Buzar: Mrs, havo been auite ili to be visited by your doe- tortwice a day Mrs. Polkudot—Ob, no. But he is u friend of surs just starting out. and I wanted to en- courige him all T could. imed the orator, “Ho has" sald the (i lgols left. when bo rios o “has chairman, assert them.” Binghamton Leader: The small boy ac- quires un early lesson in political trickory when he sees hin mother gerry mander a e, Indianapolis Journal time for & man's greatnes imagination begins to w YOUTHFUL PRISONER: It is a dangerous when his wife's thin, ABUSED. Charges of Cruelt, errod Against Penn- sylvania Reform School Oflicials, PmLaveLein, Pa., March 22 —When the State Board of Charities meets at Hunting- ton tomorrow a mass of startling information will be laid before it. by State Senator Osborn of this city bearing upon the cruelties and barbarities wflicted upon the inmates ot the Pennsylvavia industrial reform school. The | names of eighty-three boys will be prosonted | all of whom have been victims of loug con- finement in_solitary cells and in_most in- stauces have also been whipped with water souked leathor straps, chaiued to iron bars abovo their hoads, or'to tho floors, ard in some cases compellod to carry a ball and chain. Some of tho victims, it is claimed. wgro driven into insanity uhd attempted sui- cide, 'wo Ex-Conviets Retu d to Italy. INEW York, March 22.—Among the twenty- ono ‘ex-convicts” who, it was reported, reached America on the steamship Chander- nagor on Sunday morning, wero o murderer aud o man who had attempted murder. Tne other nineteen wero guilty of mere misde- moanors, such as tighting (without knives), stealing wood from public land aad being out after 11 o'clock at pight. The ninoteen were permitted to leave Ellis TIsland yester- day and find their way to Mulberry Bond. Tne two will be sent back to Italy. They are Frauncesco Maurillo, who killed his father-in-law and served nine yoars in prison for it, and Nicolo Esposito, who attacked his rival and served o year for it. — - New Jersey Legislators Come Hi Trextos, N. J., March 22.—The scandal connecting the names of state senators and assemblymen with alleged bribery in passing Wanglo—You must | ! | formerly *snako churmors,” the bill legalizing the Reading deal has grown to such an oxtont that the axecutive may bo forced to action. (Gossip that nas been uncontradicted says it cost the combina £60,000 to pass the bill through the house, and $200,000 through the senate. Immedic ately after the passage of the bill a well known lobbyist remarked: “If that bill had been killed some of these fellows could have bought a farm; vut as it is passed thoy can buy two." - FROM "ROUND ABOUT US, Minden republicans have formed thusiastic club with 110 members. Custer county republicans will hold their convention at Broken Bow April 16, It 18 said that York is to have ancther daily papor, fssued by Cooper & Rawalt, of tho Press, it will take 2,500 acros of sweet corn and 500 acres of peas to supply the Grand Island canning factory. Two_mastodon teoth have been unearthed noar Sartorin, Buffalo county. They each weighed thirty-two pounds, Mrs. O. E. Merrifield, tor many years & resident of Table Rock, died last week at the home of her daughter in Humboldt. Dixon county, with 10,000 population, four railroads and seven market towns, does not owe a dollar and has money in tho treasury. Considerable Union Pacific proporty was found on the premises of cortain Valparaiso citizous, who were forced to settlo with tho company or take tho consequonces, Robert Wirz of York has in his possession the first number of the first nowspaper printed iv Switzerland. It is about four 1nches wide, seven inches long and is a groat curiosity. 1o has beon offered quito & sum of money for the paper. There is silver in paying quantities in Stan. ton county, accord to the Stanton Regis- ter, wiich says: ‘A’ short time ago, on the farm of Gus Machmueller, about five miles this side of Norfolk, the hogs had rooted out something on the sids of the hill that much resomoled precious metal. After some do- tiberation it was sent to an expert for anal- vysis, and it was found to contain a high por nt of pure siiver, It was silver ore the swine had rooted out and investigation has 0wn that the metal 18 there in abundance. Several experts bave carricd on 1nvestiga- tions and their efforts have been most suc- cessful. Several syndicates are negotiating for the purchase with a view of mining for the procious metal. Indications are, the bluffs that were thought to be of little valu v\':nl prove the most valuable part of thi state, an on. X WILL 8AVE IND LIVES, New Yorl ntri ‘erers Bei New York, March Private dispatchos from St. Petersburg bring word that the pr ceads of the Now Yorl concert for tho bene- it of the Russian famino sufferors have boon received and aro being used for tho relief of distress in such mannor as Unitod Statos Minister Smith directs. This fund amountod 10 13,000 rubles, Tho original caleulation was that a little less than8 rublos would be suflicient to save one lifo and provide food until a new crop. Owing to the lapso of timo since this estimate was wado, tho amouut essary could now be reduced to 6 roubles orless. Tho proceeds of tho Now York con ution to llu- Russian Suf. ; cort would thus suftice for the saving of somo 2,000 lives. Religlous K astorn Stberin, ViENNA, March morulag paver ro- ports serious uprisings in Eastern Siberia resLlting from forced conversions of Bud- dhists by Russian orthodox mussionaries. Many Mongols have migrated to Chiun. Others have armed themsolies and_routed the missionaries and compelled the Russian = authorities to take refuge in the fortress at Tiomen. The revolt is spreading over to "Tobolsk and Tomsk. The great trade route from Lake Baikal to Urual is impassable, which fact necessitates tho transportation of the tea by sea by Vladivostock to Odossa. ot Snako Charmers Reform Into Robbers, New Yoxk, March 22.-S. B, Bowor und Patrick Bartell, nurses at the’ ‘Pm«hywmu hospital. the former recotnmenddd’ by the Young Men's Christiun Afsoolation, and both haye confossed 10 robbing dead and living pationts at tho hospital. Paticnts dia not die fast.enougl for them so they rifled the clothing of tho sleeping patients. Occasionally they broke into trunks. [n this way they had managed to divide several hundred dollars worth of booty. il by n Womn Creveraxn, O, March —At 10: o'clock last night William Murray aud Poter Gorman, young men, went to the saloon of Joseph Siugloton in West Cloveland and, being refused admittance, crowded the door oven, striking the saloonkeeper, wvhen Singlo- ton's wifo appoared and put a bullat through Murray’s hoart. Mrs. Sincleton was ar- rested. ———— Loulmiana’s Domocratic Struggle. New Oru , La., March 22.—The demo- cratic white primaries, to dotermine whetter the democratic state ticket headed by Mc- Enery or that headed by Foster shall be con- sidered the regular democratic ticket at the election April 19, are being hold. The vot- g is progressing quietly throughout the state, e Discovered an Art Treasure. BavrTivore, Md., March 22.—Mrs. Audrow Reud, jr.,discoves ean Baptiste Greuzo in a second nand dealer’s place here and secured it for Mr. Willam T. Walters, the art connoisseur and collector, pronouuces tho painting to bo described aud to bo worth thousands of dollars. BROWNING, KING S. W, The man Up a Tree--- lIdS evidently made himself heard as is ev- denced by the following ode from Coraer 15th and Douzlys 3ti Mr. R. DBrit- ton, of Underwood, Towa. But then have to climb a ry vices; don’t tree to you convince yourself that our spring novelties 1n suits and g * what you want the styles are new, overcoats are just Nobby, neat and nice; all the leading col- ors, equal to tailor made, and the prices within the reach of all. All si €S, Browning,King & Co Open Saturdays Uil 19 p. Ouberevenlngs il o:30 |S. W. Corner 15th and Douglas St