Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 3, 1893, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. [ v PUBLISHED EV TERMS OF SUBSC Paily Bee without Sunday) Ono Year.. 8 Onily and Sunday, One YOar............. 8ix Months .. Weeriseve Three Months. .. gundny leo, O § oov nturday Beo, One Year eokly Hoe, One Year OFFICES, Building.' N and 26th Stroota. rl Stroet, hamber of Commerce. W 18, 14 and 15, Tribune in 73 Washington, 513 Fourteenth CORRE: All communications rel editorial matter should be nddressed: Editor. Ry * LETTERS. mittances should Omala, Tho Re Al to _news and To the Omahn. Drafts, chock 1o be mado payablo to pany Parties lonving tho clty for the summer can Bave the BBex sent their address by leaving an order at this office. THE BEE P s tho order of the com- BLISHING COMPAN EWOLN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. tary of Tre BEE pub- s solomnly swear that tho Of THE DALY BER for thy woek motnal cironlatls 77, 1803, was as follows ending May 27, | Tuesdny. May Wednesday, Ma Ahursday. May Friday. Moy %0 Baturday, May 27 Sworn 10 beforomo and subscribed In my pres- once this 27th day of May, 1803 N. P. FEIL Notary Public — The Iiee In Chlengo. The DALy and Suspay DBEr is on sale in Chiengo at the following places: Palmer house. rand Pacific hotel. Audltorium hotel. Great Northorn hotol. r, 180 State stroot. 3 os of THE Bk can bo seon at the Ne- braska building and the Administration build- ing, Exposition grounds, = Average © We hatl culation for April, 189 HENRY CLEWS, the veteran observer and experienced financier, testifies his belief that the worst stage of our finan- cial stringency has passed, and that henceforth will be a season of recupora- tion. THE manifest destiny visionaries have swallowed their disappointment because President Cleveland declined to gobble up Hawaii and are now talking glibly of an American protectorate over Nicar- agua. FOR the five days prior to Thursday Omaha's bank clearings show an in- crease of 19 per cent over six days of the same weck in 1892, This is gratifying in light of the situation of the business world. WHEN Judge Thomas of Deadwood delivered his famous opinion that a bob- tail flush doesn't beat three aces in a game of poker, he seems to have over- looked the potent accompaniment of a 88-caliber gun. " THE heresy hunters have succeeded in expelling Dr. Briggs from the Presby- terian church. The fact should occa- sion no serious alarm in the minds of timid people. The world will move right along as usual. THE miners’ strike in Kansas is still spreading. It ought to spread until every man who is engaged in the work receives a just compensation for his daily toil. While strikes are generally to be deplored, the one now being car- ried on by the Kansas miners seems to be justified. THE remnants of the prohibition party in Towa have emerged from ob- sourity long enough to nominate a state ticket. It seems to be a great year for dead issues. Perhaps we shall soon bear from the whigs of Ohio, the loco- focos of New York, and the abolitionists of Massachusetts. THE note of warning sounded by Judge Belford of Colorado in a Memorial address will find a refrain in veteran sentiment everywhere. “The soldiers of the union did not save the republic & quarter of a century ago,” he said, “in order that it might become the prey of corruptionists and the toy of politicians.” THE news that the railroads of Kansas have gone into the rain-making indus- try in serious earnest will create no sur- prise in the west. The railroads have managed political parties and controlled oourts of justice so many years in that state that their latest interference with the prevogatives of Providence will be taken as a matter of course. THE Wind River mountains country promises to become one of the most prosperous sections of Wyoming., To its rich farming lands, extensive herds of cattlo and horses, flocks of sheep and spouting oil wells is now added an eight- foot vein of excellont coal just discov- ered at Lander. A smelter is about to be erected near by and the region is " traversed with rich veins of mineral. When the Northwestern railroad reaches Fremont county it wili open up amine of abundant wealth. THE order of the secretary'of the troasury closing the Carson mint to coinage, as was only to have been ex- pected, has excited the vigorous protest of silver congressmen and newspapors. But what is the use of keeping the mint open when there is a superabundance of silver dollars and subsidiary silver cur- rency, and when, moreover, nearly the whole product of American silver mines is transmitted into silver currency by 3he United States treasury from month to month under the Sherman act. WHAT if General Schofield had de- alined the president's invitation to at- tend the Princess Eulalia dinner? Ho says he did not. That he did not wish to attend and the why for is nobody's business. Toa disiaterested spectator it would scem as though all this talk about the general having violated official etiquette; that the president's invitation was equal to a royal command, isthe merest twaddle unworthy even the gossip of the society circles of the capital of a republie. T0 MAINTAIN THE GOLD RESERVE. The treasury gold reserve has fallen to a lower point than at any time before since the resumption of specie pay- ments. This situation has again raised the question as to the authority of the socretary of the treasury to issue bonds for the purpose of maintaining tho re- serve, and it is stated that the attorney general has ssubmitted an opinion that the secretary has such authority, and that under certain circumstances, such, presumably, as now exist, the law is mandatory in requiring him to issue bonds in order to .keep the gold reserve unimpaired. It has been understood that the president and the secretary of the troasury have never doubted that there was ample auth6rity for issuing bonds to obtain gold, and that they were de- terred from doing so simply because they dosired to avold the possible bad political effect of increasing the public debt, hoping that some other way would De found to keep the gold reserve good. The stock of gold in. the country is large, and it has been supposed that the banks would readily respond to any call for assistance that might be made by the treasury. some extent, exchanging gold for greenbacks, and they may continue to do so, though at present they are not manifesting any disposition to go to the aid of the treasury in this way. Tt is suggested that instead of issuing bonds the secretary of the treasury may reissue greenbacks or make an extra issue of legal tender notes. The sccre- tary undoubtedly has the authority to reissue greenbacks, but it is very ques- tionable whether he is empowered to make an extra issue. We do not think he has any such authority, but granting that he has, would anything be gained by putting out more greenbacks if the gold reserve for their redemption ntinued to decline? The green- s ave evidences of debt and although they draw no interest they might cost the people as much as bonds if not kept at par by maintaining a gold reserve sufficient for their redemption, and this would have to be increased in proportion to the extra issue of green- backs. It is not apparent, thercfore, how the treasury could obtain the relief it requires by adopting this course. Adding to the volume of legal tender paper currency without increasing the supply of gold for the redemption of the paper is obviously not & judicious plan for maintaining the government credit. If the banks can be induced to exchange gold for legal tender notes without augmenting the volume of the latter the treasury will have no diffi- culty in bridging aver until the time when gold begins to return, which it is expected to do in the autumn, but if the banks will not do this the only other alternative that can be safely adopted is to issue bonds, which could undoubtedly be readily sold on terms that would make the interest not to exceed 3 per cent. There is every reason to believe that Buropean buyers would take such bonds to any amount, if it were thought desirable to market them abroad. £ The indications are that the drain upon the treasury gold reserve will con- tinue for several months, and as the outflow of gold since the beginning of the year has amounted to about $60,000,- 000 it is not unreasonable to figure that moro than half of that amount may go abroad before the return tide scts in, as to which, it may be remarked, there is some uncertainty.” It is by no means impossible for the balance of trade to continue against this country through- out the year, and it is very likely to do 8o if Europe has good crops. In that event the treasury would doubtless be compelled to issue bonds in order to ob- tain the needed supply of gold. THE MERIT SYSTEM, Referring to the reports from Wash- ington that there is much clashing among rival democratic leaders in various states over the demands_of ap- plicants for office, the Philadelphia Ledger makes the matter a text for urg- ing the introduction of the merit system into every office where it will work prac- tically as a partial remedy for the trou- bles incident to the existing plan re- garding appointments in the public service. That journal, which is under- stood to reflect very accurately the views of the president, remarks that the pressure for office in this country is a relic of the spoils system, which esteemed official place merely as loot for victorious partisans. ‘“‘Under this de- basing concoption of the purposes of the civil service,” says the Ledger, ‘‘the faithful record of a competent subordin- ate was as dust in the balance when compared with the claims of a true-blue party worker. The fitness of the in- cumbent was of no consideration, and the capability of the applicant ranked second to the political weight of his sponsors,” That journal further says that ‘‘while the respective state leaders are in Washington wrangling over the claims of preference of office seekers, Mr. Cleveland will doubtless continue, in his philosophic way,to give impartial consid- eration to their statements, to weigh well their arguments, and to act as his judgment and high sense of responsi- bility dictato.” Assuming that in this the Ledger re- flocts the views of the president the in- forence is obvious, as to the intentions of the administration regarding eivil service. Mr. Cleveland has endeavored to make plain his conviction that it is desirablo to get rid of the spoils system as soon as it can possibly be done. He has indicated in words not to be mis- understood that it is a source of great personal annoyance to the execu- tive, that it is responsible for a great waste of time which shouid be devoted to the practical business of the government, and that it is the cause of more trouble and worry to an admin- istration than anything or all things else. The radical action of the presi- dent regarding office-seekers has had the effect to relieve the executiye and the heads of departments of much of the pressure that was before experienced, but it is not probable that the admin- istration will stop at this. It is to be rogavded, rather, as an intimation of further progress in the application of voform in the civil service which will make the task of future admin- istrations in the matter of appoint- They have done this to | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1893, monts less difficult and porplexing than it has been. Unquestionably a large majority of the intelligent people of the country will approve any advance that may be made In this direction, however radical. A few politicians wiil continue to champion the spoils system, but they will be powerless to prevent progress toward the ultimnate establish- ment of a thorough system of civil serv- fco reform that will apply to all branches of the pubiic service. The present administration has an oppor- tunity to make a great advance toward the attainment of this and the indica- tions are that it intends to improve it. CROP PROSPECTS ABROAD. The latest advices regarding the con- dition of the foreign crops report a con- siderable improvement within the last week or two. There has been an ab- normal season in England, the weather having been unusually dry, and this with a short acreage in wheat warrants the expectations that the crop will be below the average, though the yield on good lands may, if the conditions from now on are favorable, show an increase. In Scotland and Ireland the season has been more favorable, but tho wheat pro- duction of these countries is not im- portant. An estimate made for France by the ministry of agriculture while the drouth prevailed placed the probable wheat yield of that country at 83,000,000 bushels less than last year, but the good effects of subsequent rains will necessitate a modification of this estimate and the crop is expocted to be but little under the average. The har- vest in India is late, but the indications point to an average yield, and in Russia warm rains and sunshine have so im- proved the outlook that crop prospects are now considered fairly favorable. The crops in Italy and Germany will suffor less seriously from the drouth than had been recently anticipated, while in Austria and Hungary the wheat crop promises an average yield. Of course conditions way arise to change the more favorable aspect of the situation now presented, but the chunces seems to be that Kurope will this year produce larger crops of wheat and rye than those of last year, so that a reduced demand upon this country is to be oxpected. As there seems to be no doubt that the wheat crop in this country will be below that of last year, owing both to unfavorable weather conditions and a reduced area, it would appear to be tolorably safe to assume that the world's yieid will be about that of 1892. According to the last report of the Department of Agri- culture the genecral average of the wheat crop in the United States on May 1 was 75.3, which was the lowest ineight years with the exception of 1838, The re- port states that decrease in the wheat area is noted here and there in eastern and southern states, but is most notice- able in the west. It is reported from a number of counties in Ohio and Michigan, and from many in Indiana, Tllinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, North Dakota and South Dakcta. In Iowa a number of counties roport a decreased area and in Nebraska the reduction appears to be quite large. It would seem evident, therefore, that this country would not have a very great surplus to spare in case Europe should need it and it is possible that we may not produce this year more than sufficient for the home trade. The interest to producers of crop esti- mates is chiefly with respect to the prob- able prices. It is manifestly unsafe to indulge in any positive predictions, but there does not appear to be any very good reason for anticipating a much higher range of prices for breadstuffs within the next year, thoughitis hardly possible that they can go lower. There is nothing more difficult to foretell with any degree of certainty than the future prices of wheat. Tur statement of so reliable an in- formant as the Vienna correspondent of the New York Times respecting vhe con- dition of growing wheat in Russia may set at rest the conflicting accounts that have heretofore been given. He re- ports that the winter wheat is in great part destroyed in Southwestern Russia, owing to the exceptionally severe weather which prevailed up to the end of April, and that the crop in that region will be from 30 to 40 per cent be- low the average, even if the weather hereafter shall be favorable, On the other hand the crop of spring wheat may be satisfactory, In short the condition of the wheat crop in Russia is similar to the situation in the United States. Both countries will suffer a serious diminu- tion in the yield of winter wheat, while the return of spring wheat may undergo no diminution. The latest cable advices emphasize the reports alveady given of the unpromising erop outlook in other parts of Burope. In England the acre- ago is short and badly damaged by drouth, The prospect in Germany, Hungary and Italy is not more encour- aging. There will bs an estimated defieit of $0,000,000 bushels in France as compared with the crop of 1892, In Austria the crop promises an average yield. Holland and Belgium will have no more, and India's yield will at best be the same. The signs on the whole tend to the belief that prices will be above the present and that there will be a good demand for corn and other cereals. THE investigation of the business methods in the executive departments of the government, suthorized by the last congress, will be entered upon next week, the commission of three senators and three representatives having se- lected the experts who will conduct the examination. The object in view s to simplify the bnsiness inthe departments and to provide for having it conducted, as far‘as possible, upon such practical lines as are observed in the conduct of the business of private individuals. Everybody who has ever had anything to do with any of the departments at Washington knows that there is a vast amount of eircumlocution and what is designated ‘‘red tape,” and it is be- lioved, doubtless correctly, that a great deal of this is unnecessary and can be dispensed with to the advantage of the public service. Not only would business be expedited under simpler methods of doing it, but the work of the depart- menta could be done with a less number of employes, thereby effecting & material economy. It may ndt avery easy matter to introduce the reforms that are beliovad to be desirablg, but it is well to find out what can be , and it is none to soon to institute thenvpstigation. THE wholesale merchants of Towa have adopted a new method of transacting business, which, if suédeséful, is likely to revolutionize the jobbing industry of the country. They pfapose to conduct the wholesaling busfriess upon what they call the ‘“equality plan." Price lists will be revised so that quotations in every instance will be for goods de- livered at destination instead of at the shipping point. In other words, the wholesalers propose to pay the freight. The experiment will be watched with a great deal of interest by business men all over the country. The system, if properly worked out, would doubtless work to the advantage of the country meorchant, for the large jobbing houses working together, would be able to se- cure concessions in the way of rates which the individual business men would find beyond their reach. THE work of pushing the Burlington's extension northwest from Sheridan has already been commenced. The incident is suggestive of the steady progressive development of the New West. Financial Dendwood. Cineinnati Commerclal, The few failures that have ocourred so far sorve merely as pruning hooks to remove tho deadwood which here and thereis developed. As a rosult of this shaking up the general business of the country will be all the more healthy. i il Now Give Joff a Res Philadelphia Telegraph. It is to be hopod that this at least will be the last of the Jeff Davis business the pres- ent generation will witness. Let us have no supplement in any now schomo for per- potuating the memory of a man who descrves no monument and no tribute of popular esteem, —_————— Varlations 1n Napoleonism, Chicago News. There is no difference between the flnan- clal methods of E. Ashley Mears of North Dokota and Zimri Dwiggins of Indiana— while Mr. Dwiggins inveiglod his friends and neighbors into his schemes Mr. Mears unloades his 12 per cent investments upon eastern investors. —_ e Rampant Soctal Idlocy. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Accounts from unprejudiced sources unite in the declaration that New York's best society made a tremendous ass of itsolf indi- vidually and collectively at the ball in honor of the infanta la week. The varied dis- plays of rampant idiocy could furnish ma- terial for comic operas for the next quarter of a centur ¥ A Shameful Practico Stopped. Louisville Commereial. It was the Grand Army of the Republic which, by its indignant protests, stopped the shameful practice of relicving men of the charge of desertion in order to qualify them to apply for pension. Congressmen anxious for votes were, by a systemeof log rolling, doing a wholesalo hushmsg in removing charges of desertion, whon the Grand Army of the Republic began its fight against the policy and soon put a stop £a it. L e Tariffs for Definite Porlods. Review of Réview's. The worst thing about our tariff laws is the fact that they are not enacted fora definite period. Kvery item in every schedule ought to have a time-limit fixed, at the end of which it would expire unless re- newed by express act. When the gove ment places a certain specified import dut upon a given article, it virtually enters into contract relations with three classes of people. These are: 1, The foreign manufac- turer; 2, the importing merchants; 8, tho American manufacturer: —_— Tmaginary Cruelty. San F. ancisco Chronicle., The Massachusetts Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals has indulged in needless rhetoric over the atrocity of the proposed cowboy race from Chadron, Neb., to the World's fair. We cannot ses where the cruelty comes in. The western cowboy is noted as the best rider in the world, bar only his Mexican brother in the cattle busi- ness and the Cossack. He always prides himself on thespeed and stamina of his horses, and when this race comes off we will not see any of the exhaustion and death of the contesting steeds, such as marked the recent military race in Europe. ‘In fact, the horses of these cowboys will enjoy the long distance gallop fully as much as their riders. —_—— Hyphenated Ealtorial Plracy. Deadwcod (S. D.) Ploneer. The Omaha World-Herald of recent date resented an example of literary pira % astonishing for a paper that occu; prominent a position. An_editorial appear- ing in the Pioncer regarding a recent dect sion _on 8 poker question by Judge Char M. Thowmas was lifted bodily and with a f prefatory remarks not_remarkable for thel brilliancy. transplanted imto the first column of the editorial page of the World-Horald. To be sure the production was sadly mangled in the operation, so much so that the rippling _Addisonian - Johnsonian - Swin- burnian style of the original was marred be- yond recognition, but the clumsy uttemnts to Plagiarize were evident beyond a doubt. The young men of the Pioneer have uo objaction %o furnishing brains for the World-Herald, nor, for that matter, to the North American Roview, if the demand is made in the proper spirit, but they either it credit for it in the article or else a fow cold, hard plunks at the regular column rates paid by the leading periodicals for high-class literature. Weare always ready to exchange thought-germs for rhino in equable ratio, but we do not like to bo buncoed. ———— Let All the Gullty Suffer, Plattsmouth News. The supreme court has not yet handed down an opinion in the impeachment cases, The longer tho matter is delayed, the less iopo thera is for Lo apcused coming out with a clear record. WHhile the testimony did not show so bad a coadition as was appre- hended, yet enough was ‘shown to indicate vory cloarly that the management of the state's affairs by the committee of public lands and buildings had- béen very unbusi- neas like. Such carelessness in private business would mean bauwkmiptey, and such carelessness in state officinls, although it be not criminal, should not be allowed to go unpunished, and we hope to 80 the suprome court come out squarely da this matter with- out any attempt to shiold o¥ vindicate any- body. Dorgan was made' a “scape-goat, and while, after reading the téstumony, no one would accuse him of being honest, yet it is not sufticient that Dorgan’alone should suffer the obloquy which attuoties t the bad man- agoment, as his dishonest acts were alone made possible by the actious/of the board of public lands and buildings, - | OTAER LANDS THAN OURS, Tho report which is going tho rounds of the London clubs that Queen Victoria is seriously considering the advisability of ab- dicating the throne is excitiog the British gossips and attracting the attention of some of the British papers. Victoria has reached an age when freedom from the cares and perplexities of power, as the average person viows such things, ought naturally to be agreeable, for even in Kngland, where royal authority is but a fiction, and where the real source of power is the prime minister, tho head that wears a crown has its uneasi- nessos and its vexations. Moreover, she has borne the crown longer than any monarch of a great nation except four or flve in all his- tory. Only two in her own country, Honry 111, and George I11., have been on the throne longer than she, but the former was a minor when the crown devolved on him. and the latter was insano for many years, when England was ruled through a regency. But Victoria doos not belong to an ab- dicating raco. No British monarch since the conquest voluntarily gave up the throne. James I1.’s flight from England to France whon the peopls flocked to tho standard of William of Orange was called an abdication after a long and grave discussion of the matter by Parliament, but the element, of choice has as little to do with his relin- quishment of the crown as it had with the stepping down of Bonaparte or of Louis Phillipe. Morecover, James tried, but tried vainly, to recover the throne later. There have been no Diocletians or Charles V.s in any of Britain's royal lines. Itis true the two earlier Georges, of Victoria's own dynasty, threatened several times, in momentary fits of pique, to leave England and go back to Hanover for good, and the third George said he would do this rather than sign a Catholic emancipation bill if he were called on to approve such o measure, but each of these potentates stuck to his heritage to the last, “ o The volitical crisis in Norway is bringing about some extraordinary novelties in par- liamontary government. On May 5 tho Storthing adopted ty o vote of 64 t0 50 a resolution of confidence in the radical cabi- net of Steen, which had resigned because King Oscar would not carry out its recom- mendations, and then, after an exciting and acrimonious debate, voted, 63to61, that “'tho Storthing foels bound to notify the Stang ministry that 1t doos not enjoy in the Na- tional Assembly and in the country the re- spect and confidence which are essential to good government.” During the debate a member of the ministry said that such a resolution would be like placing a revolver in the hands of the cabinet with an order to commit suicide. ‘But tho resolution was passed and the cabinet docided to ignoro it. Thereupon, on May 8, the Storthing voted a pension to Steen, and the finance committce announced that it would cut.off the prime minister’s salary and cut down the King's civil list. Novertheless tho conservative cabinet provoses to stay in office until next yoar, when the term of tho Storthing will expiro, meanwhile getting along on short commons as bost it can, o The Austriasn workingmen are a long way behind thelr brethren in Germany, France and Belgium in their desire for po- litical power. They are described as gener- ally indifferent concerning the suffrage, and careless whether it be made universal or not. There is not much discontent with things as they are, and this annoys the active members of the social democratic party oxccodingly. The May day demon- stration has been for twoor three years a failure from the extreme socialistic point of view, and this has led to the beginning of a systematic agitation among the working- men in fayor of universal suffrage. ‘An ap- peal has been issued, meetings are to be held, newspupers published and a great gathering of the proletariat is planned for June in the Prater in Vienna. It is further proposed to circulate a petition for universal suffrage to be submitted to Parliament in the fall. When the now workingmen's party is organized 1t will afliate with all the radical elements in the kingdoms, and give the young Czechs, the German na- tionals and all other elements in opposition to the government as much aid as possible. . wu There aro no less than five bills before the French Chamber whose object is to check or prevent the immigration of foreigners into the country. According to the latest figures there are 450,000 Belgians, 250,000 Italians, 100,000 Germans and 40,000 British and Swiss sottlod or employed in France. Theso 900,- 000 aliens are likely, moreover, to increase rapidly not only by immigration, but by su- perior fecundity, the birth rate among for- eigners being far higher than among I'rench- men. The foreigners are exempt from the conscription, which causes employers to prefer thom as laborers, and they send away large sums of money, $35 000,000 from Paris alone in a sin- glo year. The committce which has the i bills in charge proposes, therofore, to compel every immigrant to take out a permit of resi- dence, which it seems to be understood, will be refused when the French laborers com- plain of competition and to pay 1 franc a a year to tho funds of the communo he in- habits, The grievance about the conscrip- tion is generally considered to be genuine, and to justify a tax; but it is pointed out that Italians or Belgians, or even Knglish men, become in the second generation Frenchmen. The Riquettis, Napoleons, Gambettas and MacMahons have never been suspected of being anything but French, 0 ‘e Many scientific bodies have been discuss- ing the prolonged spell of dry woather in Europe, and at the French Academy of Science lately M. Al d, professor at the Agronomic instivute, has been telling how to avoid the pasturo famine, with which France appeared to be threatoned. After dwelling upon the disastrous consequences that might attend a prolonged drouth, he referred to the old saying, to the effect that forests are meadows in the air. He has, it seems, boen making a number of interesting experiments, his object being to ascertain whether the leaves of trees could be safely used as food for farm stock. The result of his researches, he informed his colleagues of the academy, was to confirm his precon- ceived 1dea that the foliage of many trees, common ones, could be made to replace pas- turage of the best quality. For example, he remarked that the leaves of what is known in France as a faux acacia, a tree that flour- Ishes exceedingly well in dry, sandy soil, form & food similar to clover in its essential qualities. Other trees with which he exper- imented were found to provide almost equally nutritious provender in their foliage. It is no secret that horses and cattle will Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest 1), S, Gov’t Report, Ronl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PUP®= often prefer tho young shoots and loaves of shrubs and trees to dry and stunted herd ago, and M. Airard apparently has profited by this hint. — e BRIGGS WILL STILL TEACH. His Saspension by the General Assombly Doesn’t Cut Any Figure, New Yonrk, June 3.~Dr. Briges has re- turned from Washington. Ho says the de- cision of the general assombly will make no change whatever in his relations with Union sominary; that tho genoral assombly never contributed a dollar toward the support of the institution, He will go right on as if nothing had happened and will bo sustained in his action by the directors. Threatenad With ching. Drcarun, TIL,, June 2.—~A negro who has been hunted through the woods in the neighborhood of M. Zion stnee Tuesday for assaulting Mrs. Wast, was capturea near Sullivan this morning and brought here. An angry crowd gathered and throatened to lynch him, but ho has boen lodged in jail which is now guarded o Disastrous Floo in India. CALeuTTa, June 3--Reports from Mani- purjo say all rivers aro on the rampage and have swopt away bridges and submerged villages. Dozons of dead bodios aro floating in overy river. In ono small stream twonty bodies wore recovered in three days. Killed His Mistross imself, GrexvirLe, Ark., Juno 9.—Last night W. V. Morrow of Little Rock shot and killed his mistress, Efflo Baker, who desorted him for a negro, and thon suicided. The murdered woman was of & woalthy Mississippi family. feattedorio' St Chieap Rates Caught the Crowd. KAxsas Ciry, Mo,, June 2.—~Tho reauction in the round wip rate to Chicago has already resulted in a big incre in trafiic to the ‘World's fair, All trains are going crowded. Took a Trip In the Dolphin. Nrw York, June 2,—The Spanish princess, her suite and a number of invited guests took a trip around the harbor this morning in tho United States dispateh boat Dolphin. pratnens Lty Killod by His Mistress. Newank, N. J., June 2.—Lew Brown, a woll known sporting man, was shot aud killed this morning in & fit of jealousy by his mistress, Emma Woods. e A Sewing Machine € any Recelver, Nuwawk, N. J., June 2 —Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick has been appointed receiver for the Domestic Sewing Machine company. OF wIT. Intor-Ocean: “DId_you cultivate his~ voico what for?" “A rain-produ Phila Celluloid lomon stices purposes of circus made. an be repainted at the end of vach seuson, and are guarantood to bo over- lasting. adyise Howler to es." Oh, merey! ing machine." Record: gRecordor Smyth—Why did you blow oven \o safo? use 1t was lockod, of course,” replied with a pitying smile.; Detroit Tribune: something outre. “What's tho latest?” “She thanked wman for glving his soat on the stroot car. She Is bound to attract atten- tion at any cost.” Lizzlo is always doing Chicago Tribune: “I've got It In for vou, my friend,” soliloquized the mosquito, sinking it’a lttle dooper in the vietim's noso. Truth: Pharbe—What are you going to give Cholly for a birthday present? rdita—A razor. hinbe—A razor! tige of u moustiache. Perdita—No, but hio has corns. Pshaw' He hasn'ta ves- Indianapolis Journal: Romoo do Ham—Whut sort of a hit did your now farce-comody make in the provences? Barns Tormer—Hit hard pan with such a Jolt that it broke the compuany all to picces 7\)(:lmlles from homoe; that's the sort of hit it made, zoing to have this de over alreudys” s, the trouble 1s I hought It for a spring sult, when I thoughtspring was to como somo- timo before July.” Washington Star: “Which of us would you rather have?* asked one of the two men who were running across the fleld. “I don't caro,” replied the bull, “It's a toss- up botwoen you The sun grows warmer; how it makes The summer landlord smile To think the season's drawin; When he will make his pile And as the glddy, gushing girl _Her summer plan now makes, Forth from its winter envelope Hor batbing sult sho takos. i noar FAIR ICES, Simplo 8imon mot a pleman At the big World's fair, And to the pieman Simple Slmon Maintained a haughty air, Which led the Elvnlun To think that Simon Was & milllonalro. Sald Simple Bimon to the pleman, "It your lunch Is fair, For it I'll give you this'blg di'mon,’ Which you seo I wear." But the pieman looked on Simon With a scornful glare, And groans of Simon—oaths of ploman Rent Chicago air. Sald the pleman to Simplo Stmon : *Ts this your first World's fair, X io & paltry di'mon’ For lunch? 'Biff!” Eh? Biff! There!l" Blmon! ¢ # %8777 Pleman! ! ! ! Falr, DRORRASE IN THE PUBLIC DERT, Bintement of the Condition of the Unit States Trensury Jans 1. Wasnixoton, D. C,. June 9.-The pubi! debt statement od today shows th debt decrensed 780,130 durlng may. The total cash in the treasury is §754,132,984. O the decreaso $067,175 is in the amoun of the bonded indebtednoss, with §39,250 {n crease in cash in the treasury. The deb May 81 was $961,750,880. April 80 it wa $001,407,764. Certificates and treasury note offset by an equal amount of cash in th treasury outstanding at the end of wh month were 5 1,017, an incroase o $1,485, 004. Total cash in troasury, $754,199, 084; gold rosorve, #05,08,610; not cash bal ance, £20,510,614. During the month ther! was a decroaso of 8,704,744, inwold coin ant bars, the total at the closo being $196,518,61¢ Of silvor there was an in o of 87 173, OF surplus there was in the National bany dopositorios 811,049,143, against $11,376,007 ol the end of tho previous month. Tetter Raln Wizard Than Melhourne. Torexka, Kan, June 2—C. B. Jewoll, rainmaker who claims to havo discoverod Melbourne's socret and to have improved o it, began operations by sonding gnsos into § cloudloss sky ) y for six hours, whe clouds appeared and rain bogan falling 1as) night at 10:30, lasting till daylight Expeet to Get Thelr Money. MiwAvkee, Wis, June 2.--Assignol Plankinton assumed official charge of th Plankinton bank this morning, Dopositot fool sure of getting dollar for dollar. Somy small denositors are withdrawing fron other banks, but thero is no serious run yo! i Building Assoclations 1n Kansns, Toreka, Kan,, June 2.—The attorney gen| eral has decided that all building associa) tions doing business in tho state must com ply with tho state banking law and piac, themselves under the supervision of th state bank commissioner. The Duel Moai Death, Sr. PrTnsivRo, June 2.—Princoe Bargram and Prince Mustapha, members of loading families in Daghrestan, on the way to Mos. od and fought o deadly duel i Both were killed A TS Wost Polnt Cadets Appointed. Wastixatos, D. C., June 2.—The following| have been appointed cadets at Wost Polnts 1. W. Oldenburg, Antigo, Wis.; D. M. Hill, Bollwood, Neb.; . K. Klumb, alternate Humpton, Neb. T Arrest ot n Honvy Forger. A A, Ga,, June 2.—Telegrams from Chicago announce tho arrest of Henry Hill wanted hero for forgery. Ho is charged) with forging the name of Mrs. J. H. 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