Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 7, 1892, Page 4

THE DATLY ROSEWATER, BEE ¥ Emron, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIN . OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY, TERMS OF §UBSCRIPTION I ne Year... 880 Dy Eix M o, Threr 2] Eundny g Buturd 15 Weckiy 106 CITICES Omaha, The Rea Bulldr Botth Omaha, corner N and 20th Strosts Councll Blufs, 12 Pearl Streot Chicag o Office New York, I Waushingtc T ber of Commerce. s a1, H4and 15 Tribune Bullding 13 Fourteenth Strect CORRESPONDENCE Al communications relating to news and editorial 1 r should be addressed tc the Editorial Depart BUSINESS LETTE A1l usiness letters and romittances should 1eaddressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Onaha. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the com- pany. ‘e Bee Prtlishing Company, Proprictor RWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION. Etute of Nebrask v of Douglns. § yachuck, secretary Publisni pany. does sole that the actual efrculation ot ThE for the week ending April 3, 1104 was as fol- Jows Sunduy, Aprik2 Mondav. April 2 Tuesday, April OF of The Beo Wednesday, April # Thursday, Apeil 28 Fridny. £pri vy, April ) Average GEORGE I, TZSCHUCK. Sworn 1o hefore me and subseribed inmy presenco thisi0th day of April, 4. D 187 SEAL LR IR ke Cire ton for March, 3 s e A paTiER who would turn his old child out of the house into the storm for losing a -cent picce descrves to bo drummed out of the community. S A SUFFERING public hopes the noxt man that fights o duel with either Bor- rowe or Milbank will do him more dam- age than to put a bullet hole through his conttails. TuE democrats hed in their oppositios move i being made are ring alrveady to rocity. A in the house for the appointment of a commission to treat with Mexico for closer trade relations, The wifl on anthracite coal, but the anthracite conl trust is the most conscienceless and exacting of all the combines in existonce. ‘The anti-trust law should be rigidly enforced aguinst the conl barons. s no Tie people’s party convention will bo in session only n few days, but it will at- tract a tremendous erowd of visitors, 1t is highly important that ample arrange- ments foe their entertainment shall be made by our citizens. DURING this entire month of May Omaha is entertaining the gentlemen who preach. Next weck for three days, when the State Medical society meets, wo shall extend our hospitality to tho gentlemen who practic Biair firms are willing to compete for the contract for cleaning the paved streots of the city, which is tolerably tonvincing proof that thero is money in It, notwithstanding the fact that Con- tractor Squires threw up the job as un- profitable. S¥ will go into the Chicago convention with the support of the Kentucky delegation and a brilliant record in congress. Nevertholess, Sena- tor Carlislo stands no show of nomina- tion and if nominated it would bo a bar- bocue and political pienic combined to defout him, THE mayor should not fill the position of city electrician until after the or- dinance is passed defining the powers and duties of that official. Without passing an ordinance vegulating the in- spoction of wires and empowering the officer in charge of this work to enforco the rogulations, tho office of city eloc- trician would be ornamental not useful, but Dizs MOINES has just secured a starch factory that will consume twenty car londs of grain a day and give perma- nent employment to a large number of working people. Omaha is as favorably situated in the great corn belt as Des Moines and she had ndvantages ovor Des Moines as a distributing conter, Hore is an opportunity for enterprising capitulists to invest their money profit- ably. THE escape of the two eyo-witnesses to the killing of Champion and Ray by the cattlomen of Wyoming now in cus- tody at Fort D. A, Russell has an ugly look. The peoplo are likely to suspoct that they wore permitted, if not as- sisted, to leave the country in the intor- est of the accused cattlemon, Govern Barber and the local authoritios should spare no effort or expense to recapture theso witnesses if thoy would rid them- solves of the mistrust their somowhat equivoeal eseape has naturally aroused, —_— THERE {3 o renewal of the talk about Chiof Justice Fuller us a possible candidate for the presidenc; and as before it is undoubtedly without his authority or approval. Tho latest state- ment is that Puller is the alternative of Cleveland, and with Cleveland's con- sent. Whon a man accepts a place on the supreme bench it is presumed that ho puts away, as far as possiblo, all partisan feeling nud aswell all pohtical ambition. 1t is true that there have been one or two members of that tribunal who did not do this, but the rule has been that the men who at talned to the highest judicial position in the nation ceased to be politicians in any sense. There is no reason to be- liove that this is not the case with Chief Justice Fuller, who did not show any warked partiality for politics before he went on the bench and whose ex- perience at Washington can hardly have induced him to regard politics with groater favor. We believe no political party has ever tuken a presi- doutial candidate frow the supreme bench, and there are obvious reasons it would be a great mistako for Ay party to do so. TO ENCOURAGE The bill granting to certain foreign built ships doubtedly become a law. opposition to it in the house. AMERICAN SHIPPING. American registey will un- There was no It received the unanimous endorgement of the senate v on commerce, and the secre- committe tary of the navy regards it as second in importance only to the naval appropr tion bill. Tt is a departure which holds out the promise of a gradual restoration of Amer shipping under the most favorable conditions. The bill directs the secretary of the treasury to grant registers, ns vessels of the United States, to such foreign built steamships engaged in freight and pas- nger business and sailing in an estab- lished line from a port of the United States as are of a tonnage of not than 8.000 tons and capable of aspeed of not less than twenty knots per hour, less of which not less than 90 per centof the shares of the capital of the foreign tion owning them was owned y 1, 1800, and has continued to be owned until tho passage of the act, by citizens of the United States, provided that such American owners shall, subse- quent to the date of the law, have built or have contracted to build, in American shipyards, steamships of an aggrogate tonnage of not less in amount than that of the steamships so admitted to registry. At present only two steamships, the City of Paris and the City of New York of the Inman line, would be entitled to registry, but the Inman company, which is controlled by Ameriean eapital, pro- poses to build other steamships equal or superior tothese in American shipyards, and it desires to have ull these ships have an American registry and sail under the American flag. As explained by the author of the measure, its object is to permit an experiment which the Inman line is willing to undertake, and which 1f successful will have a decisive effect upon the ability of our ship- builders to face foreign competition. The Inman company belicves it is pos ble for American ingenuity and Ame can skill to outstrip any competition in the world, and itis willing to risk its capital upon the experiment. Any practical step toward the merchant marine of the country is to bo welcomed, and this moasure at least containg the promise of such a re- sult. It isa humilinting fact that the United States has less than 15 per cont of the carrying trade of the world, and the amount paid annually to foreign ships for transetlantic freight and passage is from $150,000,000 to $200,000,- 000, rearly the whole of which goes to the enrichment of foreign ship owners and ship builde It is certainly timo that an effort was made to change this and to recover the place in the world’s carrying trade which the United States Lost as one of the consequences of the civil war. The proposéd law isa com- mendable step in this direction. THE COMPTROLLER'S RESPONSIBILITY. The duty of the city comptroller as de- fined by law is “‘to examine in detail all claims, bills and accounts against the city and if found correctto audit the same, subject to the approval of the mayor and eity council; and upon ap- proving any such claim, bill or account, and the same being approved by the appro- priate committee of the council, the comp- troller shall include such claim, bill or account in the next appropriation,” ete. It will be observed that the direct responsibility for the inscrtion of the Squires claim in the appropriation ordinance is by law placed upon Comp- troller Olsen. His explanation that Councilman Jacobson, chairman of the committee on finance, approved the bill is not satisfactory, especially as that councilman asserts that he never author- ized or requested the comptroller to in- sert the item in the appropriation ordi- nance. & The very fact that the Squires claim has been before the council for eighteen months and has ropeatedly been vetoed and held to be exorbitant should have made the comptroller follow its course sfully. Mr. Olsen was o member of the council wh wrestled with this claim for a year. llo knew exactly what controversy had occurred over it last yoar and cannot plead ignorance. [n fact, until Mr, Olsen shows the con- trary to be true, the council, the mayor and the public have a right to hold him responsible for the error, whether it be one of omission or of commission. restoring THE N CHINESE EXCLUSION LAW. There being a question us to the date of expiration of former legislation ex- cluding Chinese from the United States, the president has promptly approved tho new act to prohibit the coming of Chineso persons into thiscountry. This law is not so severe as the bill which passed the house, but it is sufficiently drastic, it is to be presumed, to satisfy all but the most radical and unreason- ablo exclusionists. The former legisla- tion is continued for ten ycars with sevoral important additions. One of theso requires all Chinese laborers in the Uni States, who are entitled to win here, to take out certificates of residence within one year after the pas- sago of the act. Theso they can procure by application to the collector of inter- nal revenue of their respective districts, and any Chineso laborer who fails to comply with the provision is to bo de- ported to China unless he can show by the testimony of one credible white wit- ness that he was not a rosident of the United States at the vime of the passaga of the act, or from unavoidable cause was unable to procure a certificate. Iorging a certificate or falsely person- ating an owner of a certificate is punish- able by severe penalties, Thelaw takes away the right of uny Chineso person to be admitted to bail under writ of habeas corpus when such person is seeking to land in the United States. Certificutes of residence are to be issued without charge to the applicant, It i8 to no purpose now to discuss this legislation, but it is still in order to con- sider what may bo its possible effect up- on our commercial and other relations with China. While this question was being discussed in the house the Chinese ministor at Washington plainly intimated that while his government had tolerated what it rogarded usa violation of treaty obligations in the part of the United States in the policy LHE OMAHA DAILY “BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1892-TWELVE PAGES. adopted towards the Chinese, largement of that polic any en- which would incrense its severity might be resented. The new law has done this, and it re- mains to be seen whether the Chinese goverment will continue tolerant or adopt a course of retaliation which might be disastrous to Amorican in- Americans It is not to Europeans who are de of this coun- terests in China nnd compel to get out of that empire. be doubted that inxious to secure the tr try with China will spar induce the Chineso government to adopt a policy of retal and if it should take be carric no effort to ation, such u course it would undoubtedly 1 to the oxtreme limit. matter that may be unfavorably affected by this legislation. I'a his last annuat President Harrison said he regarded it as dosira- ble that the Chinese exhibit at the Col- umbian exposition be facilitated in every proper way. Can it reasonably be ex- pected that the government of that country or its merchants will be dis posed to make an exhibit after we have declared by law that the people of China are not entitled to the same coneidera- tion which we accord to people of every other nation? What interest can they have in helping to make attractive the enterprise of a country whose legislation ie hostile to them and visits upon their countrymen exceptional indignity and hardship? The Chinese are proverbially forbearing. They are not a rash or im- pulsive people. But thoy are not de- void of a sense of self-respect, and it is quite possible they may make this man- ifest in response to the new exclusion law. There is another messago IN POINTING out the unbusinesslike mannor in which promiscuous appro- priations are voted under prevailing methods, THE BEE cited the recent ap- propriation of $7,000 out of the general fund as part payment for the lot pur- chased by the library board adjacent to the Reed site. We find, however, that the amount actually paid was $6,000 and that the warrant was drawn on the library fund to pay an equal amount ad- vanced by members of the board toward the purchase of the lot. The excess over ,000 represented expenditures for books and incidental expenses. From a o strictly standpoint the borrowing of $6,000 by the board was unauthorized. That bod, had no authority to incur any liability for the city in ess of the funds actual in the treasury at its disposal. It is even doubtful whether a strict construction of the law would warrant the board or the council in expendingany part of the procoeds from taxes levied for tho main- tenance of the public library for the purchase of lots. In justice to the board and council we cheerfuily correct the statement made in our last issue con- cerning the appropriation for the library board. —_— OUR esteemed temporary contempor- ary, the Daily Christian Advocate, finds it very diflicult to get out on time. The Iake Factory job office is so limited in facilities ns greatly to cmbarrass the good Dr. Stowe, whose weight of trou- bles with printers, pressmen and pro- prictors is sorely trying his temper and patience. He appealed yesterday to the conference to relieve the pressure. That hody was obdurate, however, and suggested that if he huad contracted with a metropolitan establishment in- stead of a provineial concern there would be no difticulty. To the doctor’s remark that it was almost impossible to got paper for afull edition, some brother who had seen several car loads of news print in the basement of TiE BEE office retorted tartly that’ Omaha had facili- ties sufficient to publish 100,000 copies of the Advocate daily if necessary. The doctor was instructed to keep right on at his newspaper knitting. MR. CarcHINGs of Mississippi is a democrat. of course, but his estimate of Bill Holman was quite exact when he remarked that the gentleman from In- diana opposed cvery measure which is a step toward the advancement of the country. Tammany I ‘aithful, St. Paul Globe, Paul Dana, the son of the erratic editor of the Now York Sun, has been prosented by ‘fammany with a vark commissionershin worth £,000 n year. As Iditor Dana is neither o republican nor a democrat, this may be cousidered a concession to the mug- wump olemeat by the Tammany braves. Oppositio mucrat, The Denver Republican says that the op- position of the Colorado senators to Harrison is due to the fact that he *‘rofused to maxe cortain objectionable appointments whioh woro strongly urged by them.” A sumilar oxplanation applies, by the way, to all of the anti-Harrison sentiment In the republican party. The " New York Colonel Watterson says it would be foily Tribun for the democrats to nominate Cleveland. It would, colonel, it would, and tho same ro- wark applies to any horse, dark or hight, that way como before the democratic national con- vention, Why not, then, abandon the idea of holding & convention and move to make the republican nominations unanimous The Jure Food Bill, New England Homeslead, The Padduck pure food bill wims at noth- ing in the world except the requirement that, 80 far as the national government may have Jurisdiction over the distridution of food and drug products, they must be branded ana sold for exaotly what ihey are. No one is opposing it who Joes not desire to cheat the consuming publio by selling an inferior artiole of some kind branded as a better article, and getting the price for the poorer article churgea and paid for the bet- ter article. An unholy alliance of those who oppose the bill on this ground s wagiug most unscrupulous warfars against it, -~ Two Views of Now York's New York Sun (D. B. H.). “The state legislature of 1502—the firat dem- ocratic oue in both brauches in many years— has adjourned after a regular session of busi- nesslike brevity and great practical utility, aud aftor a special session wherein that long- deferred act of justios and enfranchisement, @ fair apportionment, was secured for the voters. . Springfield (Mas».) Republican (@, C.), The democratic mauagersin New York state lose no ohanco to challeage every hon- est aud seif-respecting voter in the state to vote ugelust them. Tammany has an- wouuced, by the aid of Governor Flower, who shows himself the tiger's wost obedient sorvant, that it lutends o count the vote 1 New York City to suit itself noxt faily THia s what the Farqu har eloction nsp: mn, which the gov- eruor signed the othergiay, means, and this 15 & warning to to outside of Now York City to pile vm as large & vote against Tammany as possible. - The overturn in the Troy public schools.is gnothor object lesson which will make rapublican votes. Old and competent toachergthde boen turned out by tho wholesale to dmake room for adnoronts and relatives of adfigrents of Boss Murphy So far as they pBesibly can the leaders in power in the demoutatip party in New York are making demddeatic rule synomymous with bad government ahd political demorali- zation. This is a 198 gho whole party must carry, Itis likely5¥9%ibe a fcrushing one in New York and mag mimrn than the party as a*whole can stagger findor. b7 il ttothe 3 sun Hon. William Jennings Bryan, sonts the First Nebraska distriot Fifty-second congress, in # speech delivered beforo a meeting of domocrats and farmers alllance mon at Grafton, W. Va., the other day, brought forward that ancieat and iu- effectual schomo of taxation, the income tax. For some roason an income tax scems to havo a great attraction for & groat many democratic congressmen. Mr. Brvan's schemo is for “‘a graded incomo tax boaring heaviest on tho rich.” Most of the incomo tax men soom to long to punish the rich. But what have the rich done! What has Hon. William Jennings Bryan got against the rich, moyway! In a country of equality why should not taxation beequal? Is wealth to be discouraged as if it wero arson or housebreaking? We persumo that Hon. William Jenniogs Bryan has no objection to wonith if it bo his own, or any consclentious scruples ugainsta large 1ocome. Why will he not give the wealthy a chancet Why shouldn’t & rich man have the same rights a8 a poor man as lorg as ho bohaves himselt? NDS THAN OURS. Does Brys tien? who repre- in the OTHEK 1. English and Scoteh liberals accopt home rule to a considerable extent ns a party shib- boleth without any especial onthusiasm for it. 1t is something to which Mr. Gladstone is committed, and they follow him. A care- fully considered measure, not too radical or o0 wide-reaching in 1ts scopo, which re- ceived the united support of the Irish leaders, would be accepted by them, but it is doubtful if a bill which the Irisnmen should quarrel over would get enough of their votes to pass it. 1t is by no means & wild proptiecy, therefore, which the union- ists make, that Irish home rule will bo ziven tho o by in the noxt Parliament evon if Mr. Gladstone does have a majority. It does nov require much foresight to predict that Mr. Gladstone will not risk defeat on such a mensure, and will not be likely to press it to passage. if introduced, uvless he is sure of his majority. Home rule is by no means tho only liberal 1ssue. Thero are other questions of almost equal importance, some of which, like the *‘one man one voie" reform, interest all tho kingdom, while others mere intimately concern England, There is ample opportu- nity for several busy and highly useful ses- sions of Parliament under Mr. Gladstone as prime minister without touching the ques- tion of Irish home rule at all. Mr. Gladstone is pleaged to home rule, believes in it and looks upon its accomplishment as tho fitting oad to his long career. - But if Irishmen and leaders put obstacles in his way, and by their quarreiing and mancuvering for personal advantage aisgust his English followers and mako thom question|its expediency, he is not to be blumed if he abandons it, tompo- rarily at least. The application of universal suffrage to Belgium will bo watched with intouse intor- 0st on the coutinent. of Europe, for two reasons: First, because the Belgian oper- atives und miners avo moro largely leavered with socialism than is the proletariat in any other Kuropean country; and secondly, be- causo tho government would be unabio in the last resort to omploy forcible means of re- pression, owing to the extremo meagerness and weakness of the rogular army. Itisa recognition of the peculiar conditions under which the experiment will be made that bas osused the conservative ministers to insist upon coupling with the concossion of man- hood suffrage tho adoption of the Swiss in- stitution known as the referendum. Un- willing to expose the sovereign to odlum by attempting to check radical legislation through the arbitrary interposition of & veto, they have resolved to give him the right of referring suspected or obnoxious laws to the judgment of the people. That is to say, the whole body of electors will be invited to decido by ballots inscribed “Ye: r “No"” whether a particular meas- uro suall be vetood. This right, like all the other functions of royalty in Belgium, will of course bo exercised on the advice of the re- sponsible ministers. It is by tne referendun that the Bolgium consorvatives nope to safe- guard the state against the assaults of social- ism. Butthereis no doubt that the minis- ters will forthwith press through the chamw- ber tho adoption of the Swiss method of re- ferring laws Lo the vote of tho whole people. i Tue famine stricken region of Russia is situated in the heart of the Itussian empire, includes twenty provinces, and covers an area more than ten times the size of Penn- sylvania. It has in the past been ono of the most fertiie and productive agricultural re- glons in Russia, Of thoe 30,000,000 peoplo in- habiting this district nearly half have been made destitute by the failure of the crops. As Is usual in_such widespread calamities, tho famine id not result from tho faiture of one harvest only. Thero have been for sev- oral years gradually increasing evidencos of a diminishing yield, The scason of 1586 pro. duced the last full barvest. The famino re- gion yielded in that yoar about £4),000,000 bushels of grain. I'rom that year the vield grew smallor, until in 1501 tho product was ooly half tho yield of 1886, Six years ago tho region aifected by oo famine produced 5457 per cent of the total agricultural products of tho fifty governments of Russia, whilo last year 1t produced only 80.17 per cont. The primary cause of the famine was a severe drought. ‘The fall of snow duning the winter of 1800-01 was unusually light,'and afforded but little moisture to the soil, and left the rivers with out their aunual spripg overflow. Thon for five months not a drep of rain foll, while a burning sun scorchpd and withered what little vegotation survived. Oune calamity followod another. Miliions of Siberian rats iuvaded the stricken regton and clouds of 1n- sects hovered over it, devouring every green thing. The primitive methods of agriculture contributed, also, to,aggravate the natural causes, Tho frail-woeden plows, still largely in use in “Russia, and which pene- trate ouly @ fow inches below the surface, offerod no protection to tho planted seed. The Egyptian army of today is nine yours old, and its fighting strougth is 12,000—the iargest portion being engaged in guarding the southern frontier. Tnat ivis effective has been proven ou several occasions; but it has also been admitted that whou the Egyp tian soldier bus won in fight it has been be- cause his Britisn officors would not let bim lose. All competent authoritios aro agreed in saying that the Kgyptian army is a pyra- mid resting oo 1ts apex, that apex being i British oficers. They have created it, they alone can keep it; and if their authority or persouality should bo removed, or even woakened, the arwy would become practi- cally worthless withiu six mounths. Thero is 1 only one quarter from which E, prosent threatonod, and against which the British-backea army alone stands guard; and that is the Soudan. Three fifths of the innabitants of the Soudan have boen destroyed sinoe 1832 by disease, famine and war, and the tribos are torn by internal dissensions, Tho reconquest of that country now would bo comparatively casy: and it would ultimately be of graat value and nssist ance to all the other Europsan interests in Africa. There is still a sum of #1,500,000 in the Egyptian treasury, awaiting the consent of the F'rench governmont to ba speat in: in- oreasing the Egyotian army. The French at prerent obstruct this movement and overything else, for obstruction’s sake. It they should withdraw their factioas opposi tion a step could be taken toward securing the national intogrity of gy pt, and soon no woro expenditure would be needed for anti slavery work on the Red sea. A Berlin correspondent gives what ho ae- clares to be the inside history of the recont muddleand crisis over the education bili. He says: “In Prussia the action of the crown is much more direct than in Kngland. Tho ministers bringing a bill into a parliament obtain the preliminary sanction of the sover- oign, and this was done in tue case of the education bill. Tho emperor gave a prelimi- nary sanction because he agroed with the fundamental principle, but had no intention of committing himself to the detuils, which, he wished tain a considerable Chambers, Count von dlitz, whose sympathies were with the extreme party, disregarded the emporor's wishes and sought to push tho bill through in its most unaccept- able form. Count Caprivi, probably from a sentiment of lovalty toward his colleague, but without any instructions from the em peror, committed himself up to the hilt and gavo it to be understood that the government would 1nsist upon having the bill passed. This declaration induced the emperor to ox- amine tho whole matter very carefully, ana as s00n as ho learned that tho msasure was opposed from so many quarters ho told his ministors frankly that he could not give it his assout.” This version absolves the em- peror of nearly ali responsibility, and doubt- less will have the seal of court approval. modified as to ob- majority i the to be so JABS OF THE JOKERS, Rochester D gets a combing st: Many a flerce mustacho down Galveston News: Man is first in high spirits and then in the guttor. > Thmes: The more trinls there « or's Ti£o the fewer s tHbulations. Chiea naiawy id the argely of lcohol in. it ) man," e y more of \is new Jack—How is than a Kate—I don’ Jack—Yeu it A nian puts on clothe, ot Whieh is the easte sroe with you o that to be dressed to kil buts them She doosu’t know a bit of 1o; Just a silly girl 1s sk But fn all our dispu is far too much for m an't make a ple or bi Cannot por t Cannot make a thins that's usetul, But she muakes a fool of me! New York Tribune: An Irishman who had Intoly urrived in this conntry found « round itof tin stamped with the name of a big brewery. A policeman, whom he consulted about 1t tola b oke that it was u five pioce. So t into . saloon 1 for a b K it and shov of tin "he b ed it baek and sa And Pat repliel ughtit wor five: Why, ma aith anid have a glass yourself McWatty—There autiful about Au 4 the beauty increases in andsomeness of the fig pro- nd—What sort_of n ar Snooner wWore tonight? Wifo—1 vin, Husband—T! procisoly whit Twemiow sald when be trod on it. How on carth did he know its nanio? Ol City Derrick: found In'an Indinna field. This is the first sup= piy of materinl for World's fuir sandwiches. he understudy doosn't ause she mira Guzette: sssarily lovo the prima donna be Wiys ready 1o take hior part. ne is Philadelphia Times: Betweon politics and tho national game this promises to Le u grout year for parties and balis. ST e NEXT 10 NOBODY. Boston_Courfer. Whin Ol in love wid Nora. sakin' Tho bashful way of find(n’ out Ef in her heurt there did awaken A love that smothercd all me doubt, ed her ef she loved this or that one— ' Ji Moike or Joe, 25—the thin or fatone— And ivery toime sho answered “No!" It made me jist a little howider. An’ hopo revolvin' he the same, Ol tuic hor ittle hand and towld | i rshwit iloizin' sho suld, profsin’ ade art's A shtart unto the doore O “Whist, Con, Do in such a Jiffy, wobody wouldn't d An’ 50 O'vo hit upon this plan— OFIL tuke the man that's nearest to it'— Her oyes abrim wid witehory “An’ that, a8 Noruh's hourt sces thro' it, Is jist yersilt, ye shpalpane, yo 5 cror says she, u heck'nin’ 1o me, man 2 KANS. Favorable Report trom the I3 rlculture, Torkxa, Kan., May 6.—In his monthly crop report, Secretary Mohler of the Stule Board of Agriculture says that the conditions are encouraging, notwithstanding the fact that the woather has beon unfavorable tothe prosecution of farm work, The soll, says the roport, is in oxcellent condition for rapid weather comes. has greatly ops. wheat has im- Tho The growth, when warm delaved cold, rainy weathor planting and will causo lato oo condition ‘of winte proved from 85 to 88 per cent, sown to spring wheat was ine cent, with o total acreage of 19 The condition of the crop is 92 per cout. acreage sown Lo 0ats i3 Lhe same as last year with coaditions good. en planting has been ouly about 45 per cent of the crop ~ Las put in. acreuge delayed so that beeu —_—— Mob Chus erors, Muppreroy, Ky, May 6.—Jim Forg, a prominent farmer, was murdered w tho road by two negroos with whom he bad & dimi- culty. A posso is scouring the country for the nogroes, and if they are caught they will bo lynched. After dinner, tamy i “you have dis- "~ comfort and suf- ing, take Dr, Pierce's Pleasant Pellots, or Anti- Bilious Granules, They're made to assist Nature in i Nch, ber own way— -é»——% quietly, but thor- N oughly! What tho old - fushioned pill did forcibly, these do mildly aud gontly, They do miorc, tao. Their effects aro lasting ; they regulate the as well as cleanso and renovate it. Ono littlo Pellet's a gentle laxative ; three to four at as a cathartic. Thoy're the smallest, cheapest, the easicst to take. . Uncqualed as & Liver Fill. Bick Headache, Bilious Head- ache, Constipation, Indigestion, Bilious At- tacks, and all derangements of the stomach and bowels, are promptly relieved and per- wmanently cured. Put up in scaled vials—a perfact vest- pocket renody, always fresh and reliable, They're the' cheapest jull you can buy, be- cause they'ro guardateed to give satistaction, or Jour money is returned. You only pay for the good you get. Can you sk more | A potrified ham has been DYNAMITE IN THE FLAMES It Causes an Explosion at Trenton, Ont., and Does Much Damage. BIG NEW YORK SLAUGHTER HOUSE BURNED Five Hundred Cattle Tarned Loose in the Streets and Many ¥ Escape betng Wharts 1§ ople W to Death rstroyed, Narrowly mp! Trextoy, Ont., May 6, A fire broke out in King Maydee 3 clovator and doi Tho Hames spread rapi Among the stores in the burned block wero thoseof I, M. Mowat, hardware, and the Great Northwestern tele graph oftice. In the midst of the fire a terrl ble explosion, supposed to have boen caused by dynamite, occurred in Mowat's hardware shied. Tho shock was so great that most of the plato glass windows in the town and all tho windows near the fire wore broken. Tho loss is estimated at between $30,000 and £10,- 0. Nearly all of the burned property was in sured. A number of persoas were injured by flying deoris. Big Slaughter House Burned, New Youk, May Early this morning a firo started in the immenso sinughter house of Swartz, Child & Sulzburger, wholesale butchers, Forty-fifth street and Fast river, The building contained large quantities of 1wflammable matter and was sooun a mass of flames. From there the flataes spread to the pier at tho foot of iorty-fifth street and thenco along the wharf to Forty-seventh street. Vossels an- chored near the docks were hurriedly towed out 1nto the stroam. 500 head of cattie turned loose and w streots, During the firo 0 adjoining sheds wero 1t tearing through tho In the panie there were many nar- Fow escapes from boiug tramplod to death by the iufuriated animals. Tho loss to tho building, contents aud wharl is estimatod at £250,000. - FRED THE 1 Girls Moot Doat kuown Man's Han Loxnox, May 6.—On April 12 a roport was circulated 1n South London that two young girls had beon poisoned at & houso in Stam- ford street, Waterloo road, Lambeth. The volice were communicated with, and a polico constal went to the house where he found a girl, Alico Marsh, aged 21 years, lying in tho passago in ber night dross. She was ap. Two Lon, At an Un- parently m a dying_ state, suffering from tho the effects of poison. In another house tho police discovered wirl, fully dressed, mma also uppeared to have veen poisoned girls w fen to St. Thomas’ hospita the Marsh girl dicd on the way ia a cab, "Che other girl gied in wreat agony a short time after being aduitted to the hospital At the coronet’s inauest held the next day the polico constable, who had fourd the girls, tostified that Bmma Scbrivell had told_him on the way to tho hospital tuat she and Alice Marsh had met 4 man known to thom as “Iored” and that he had given them some globules which they had swaliowed. An analysis was mado of tho girls' stomachs and at the coroner’s inquest tod evidence was submitted showing that strjchnine in largo quantities had been administered, but by whom or for what motive is a mystery, The police are using their utmost endeavor to find the man “I'red.” As yet thoy huve found no traco of him. - b\l,’lllll.l! BY TOM OCRILTREE. part of another Schrivoll The Texas States! Refuses to Spit in Borrowe's knce. Loxpox, May 6.—Tho goneral public is be- coming thoroughly disgusted with the actions of Borrowe, Fox, Milbuuk and others who have gained notoriety by the courso thoy have followed since the revolatious of tho Drayton-Borrowe scandal were mada public. usiderablo oxcitement prevailed today among the friends of the duelists and it is predicted that fresh encounters will shortly take vlaco. Borroswe, 1n company with a friend, called at tho lodgings of Coionol *“Tom" Ochiltree aud asked o see that gentleman. The ser- vant who answored tho bell said that Colouel Ochiltrec was at home but he dechned to sco Borrowe. The latter then sont a messago to the colouel stating that ho had heard that he (Colonel Ochiitree) had threatencd to spit in his faco and be had como to his lodgings to have him carry out that threat. The ser- vant declined to carry the messago and Bor- rowe left. 1t is reported that Borrowe is eager for an- other encounter with kox, who will smf for the United States in a fortmght. h Defeated in Dahomey. Loxvoy, May 6.—A dispatch from Sierra Leone says a messenger reports that King Samadou, as a piece of strategy, allowed the French to capture three native towns and afterwards recaptured them, the French suf- fering hoavily. The messenger suys eighty- one Krench prisoners aud the heads of four French officers aro 1n Samadou’s camp. Berlin Political ¢ (Copyrighted 1872 by James May 6. —Special to Tus Ber.]—According to the 1atest political gossip the speedy uppointment of Count Herbert Bismarck to an important oflicial post 1s probable. Baron Marscals 38ip. oriton Bennatt, | - and Ma--- )l)u wool, Saturday ouly, $3. of them they’ll most cards. knee pant suits $3, (NN excopt Saturdays. -(New Yorl Heraid Cablo | (G IBROWNING, KINGE &% 8o Wo Coruer 15t and Douzlas 6 Wear out my pants pretty fast, and lwhen we y a lmr of them and get la coat thrown in, we're ing to doit. t) fu, Saturday, boys lpant suits for $3, just this once. Dark blue plaids, all corded back, front ages 4 to 14. Got up to sell at $6. sold by noon. Those men’s suits at $7,50, $8.50, $10 and $12.50 are great drawing They're worth lots more money, Saturday and Saturday only, boys' $6 ¢ Browning, King &Co lose A0 p. . 0 our eraployes thelr evenings, we o withdrawal from the ministey of foroign affairs is also freely alscussed. 1t is aaid that tho membver of the Russian imporial ily to whom is proposed the botrothal of oss Margaret 18 nono other than the czarowiteh, Tho idea is not new. The match was talked of in the time of the Iate emperor, but was_provented by the stren ous opposition of Emperor Froderick, Uer. tainly that betrothal would excite public cpinion in Franco and may again causo its abandonment - RUSSELL HARRISON EXPLAINS e Telts a Reporter What e Knows Abont the Yeltowstone Park Stoek. New Yok, May 6.—The Mail and Exprese prints the following: Mr. Russell Harriso was today asked if ho had anything to say concorning tho alleged issuo of stock to him by the Yellowstone Park assoclation. Hi very promptly replied I bave novor asked for and was novel promised and have never rccived, eithor myself or through any friend, in any W shape or manner. any stock in the Yellow stone P’ark association and think 1 have ren dered no service to the association that would entitlo aio to any stock. Tho attempt of Mr. Gibson to make it appear that stock had been issued for me in his association is a malicious effort to injure my character and drag me {10 a matter with which 1 havo 1o conneo on “Mr. Gibson, acting for the Yellowstone association, has profurred charges against every secretary of the intorior since his asso- cintion arove Rufus Hateh out of the park. They have aiways made u determined offort to bave & monopoly on overything in the park and run things as thoy ploased, they have ro- sonted officiol proccodings by Secrotaries Noble and Villas to compol them to run their business in a manuor satistactory to the traveling public ana treat every one cour toously. ~ By their own witnesses i is shown that tho stock wm nevor issued ana Mr. Kerens, iu whose name the stock was written, never heard of tho transaction. Ivery fair winded mau will admit it is unjust to hold me re sponsiblo for what others are doing, wholly without my knowledge and consent. was no favoritism suown Park association. Tho loases they so for the erection of somo now hoteis for the accommodation of the traveling public were the most favorable to the governmont of any ever mado, Secretary Noble, iu_his usua mothodical mannor, gave to the Yollowstone association leases that contained no favors, but aro very advautageous to the traveling pubhe’” *“How do you account for tho use of Mr. Kerons' name "’ “They admit that no stock was issuad to any ona. A certificato was filied in his name for the amount. The suggestion was probably mado by Mr. Gibson who lives in St. Louis, and oither knows Mr. Kerens porsonally o Ly roputation. My wifo and Mrs. Kerens aro groat fricnds,” and 1 have froquentl visited at their touse in St. Louis whilo they woro at it Tuey could with equal propeie bave filled in u certificato for Secretary or anyc e, as long as (he cousent party was uot obtuined.” - Arranging for Decoration Day, 1L, May 6. —Department Con u will issuo an address tomor: ud Army posts in Hlinois, urg: take vart in Decoration day y They will be urged not to allow the grave of one soldier to remain undecoratca, and to enlist tho cle Woman's Rlief corps, Sons of Veterans and other similar or ions in tho wor Commauder Harlan will goto Dixon ta take part in the services there. Cm mander I row to all ¢ ing tnem to services on M Death, Mrs. May 6. H. Brad. met a horrible death at the railway station. Sho was bidding goodbye toa friond and attempted to et off the ear whilo it wos in motion. Ste fell undor the whoels in such a manner that her head was severod from the body as cloanly ns if tho decapita- tion had been made by an executioner’s ux, Colored Murderors Exceutod. Ark, May 6.-L. D. Slaughter ana Thomas Bailey, negro mur- Gerors, were exceuted in the county jail at noon. Sl lind his mistross, Jeunio Love; Bmloy murdered J. I'. Hackman, o peddler, ana th his body into a swamp. Both hud their necks broken. e Kiug Mumbert Undeeldod, Roye, May 6.—King Humbert has not yet accepted tho resignation of the ministry, and 15 undecided what course Lo pursue, “WORTH A GUINEA A BOX.” 8TOP THIEF. yspepsia is stealing the roses from many LT ek, and Caakiog many men's faces blanch. BEECH AM’S Wil caro Slok TIeadnens, aering (e @ charm on the Stomach, Liver and ¥tdneya. Prico 23 contan box. Covercd with o Testeless and Soluble Coating. New York Depot, 365 Canal 5t. 0. = have a chance to go- B.K.& Co of- $6 knee plain As there are but 75 likely be about all |8.W. 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