Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 30, 1893, Page 4

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Tzachuck, Seeretary of e BRE publish- PNy does ol wwenr that 1 tual tion of TiE DALY BEK for the week ending JIRCULATION. FONGE TV TZSeUCK, e and anbscribed n nd SUspAy e s followin | on salo in THE Texas method of dealing train robbers is somewhat drastic, but it will have a most discouraging effect upon the gentry. INDIA has much to be responsible for this year. Not content with slumping the silver market sho announces an enormous surplus of wheat. THE Chicago people are unduly elated over the d ry that the Columbian guards are even more conceited than the lieutenants in the United States navy. THE north and south railroad conven- tion struck a most formidable snag in of the money market and ion of railroad magnates 1o pass the delegat, GOVERNOR BOIES steadfastly declines to accept a second renomination. The Towa governor evidently prefers a first- term chance fora United States sen- atorship to a third-term possibility of defeat. THE most striking proof that all the world is akin is furnished in the fact that the suspension of free coinago in India is liablo to bring about the sus- nsion of silver smelting in the works of this cit THERE was but little consolation for anarchy in Samuel Fielden’s first words after his reunion with his family: *I propose hereafter to live for my Yamily and keep my mouth shut.” There is a volume of wisdom in the remark. THE complaint of the Omaha mechan- fcs against the contractors at Fort Lrook seems to be based upon good ¥eason and the federal autho s should Btonco interfore with a system which iseriminates against the workmen of his city. IN VIEW of the disturbed conaition of the silver market the news that Mexico {5 seriously contemplating the abandon- ment of her silver policy will have a most depressing effect upon the silver men. Tho nows from Mexico, however, s probably prematur IT 18 certainly not the fault of the cit- fzens of Omaha and Douglas county that the county roads leading into this city are not already paved. The people have voted the bonds but the same em- barrassing complications which are in- terfering with city improvements are re- sponsibloe for the delay. THE effete New Yorkers who became ntangled in the catalogue of names ;rcnnht by Veraugua and Eulalia are now fearful of stumbling over the pumerous appendages to the title of the High and Mighty Gopal Rao Syaji Rao Maharajah Gaikwar of Baroda, who has already sailed from London, THE Colorado people take a hopeful view of the situation notwithstanding the serious blow her silver industry has pustained. The immense iron and coal Belds yet undeveloped are extensive enough to make Colorado one of the greatest states in the union, even if her sjlver mines ave closed Gown for an in- efinito poriod. AT LEAST one of the asylum boodlers Bt Lincoln will serve a term in the peni- tentiary. Gorham Betts, who was con- vieted somo weeks ago, has been denied & new trial. The case against him was elear, but no harder to establish than ngainst the other men under indictment, T'he state of Nebraska expeets the Lan- caster county court officials to do their duty by the whole gang. THE railrosd managers still insist that they are not reducing their train sorvice in Nebraska in order to play even with the legislature for passing the maximuwm rate bill. General Super- intendent Hughes of the Sioux City & Pacifie, however, candidly admits that the new rate law is responsible for the reduced train service. He ulso says * that the reduced train service will re- #ult in a reduction of venues, In view of the fact that the Elkhorn sys- tem will continue to run all its trains, Mr. Hughes comes probably nearer tell- dng the truth than the other railway \&entlemen who are protesting so much. THE OMAHA MISLEADING STATISTIOS, The most deceptive and misleading statistical exhibit that is given to the public periodically is the compila- tion of Nebraska farm mortgage rec- ords as reported to the commissioner of labor. The Iatest of these re- ports, which has just been made pub- lic, is in no respect less misleading than those that have preceded it. The commissioner places the aggregate amount of farm mort rded in the twelve months ending May 31, 1893, at $25,216,787. For the same period the moftgages released aggregato $19,435, 038, On the face of these returns the farm indebtedness of the state has been gos re ased during the year by 5,750,840, | As a matter of fact, the gage debt of Nebraska has been duced by fully $10,000,000 during the past year and, possibly, by a considerably larger amount. The figures furnished t0 the lubor commissionor by the county cierks under the law of 1801 simply show the aggregato amounts of mort- filed and released. The bulk of mortgages filed last year are not mortgages, but renewals of old mortgage It is safe to say thet of " tho $25,000,000 of mortgages filed, not more than $8,000,000 were for new debt. On the other hand the bulk of the mortgages released represent debts paid off. Only comparatively few of the releases were made for the pur pose of renowal or extension. Another thing that is entirely omitted from the reports of the county clerks to the labor commissioner are the par- tial payments of mortgage notes, These nayments are indorsed on each note, but not reported until the last payment is made and the mortgage is cancelled. The amount of debt wiped out by the farmers of Nebraska from year to yoar without reporting to the county clerks cannot be definitely ascq ned, but it must run into the millions. 1In fact, the bulk of the debt- paying by farmers is donc gradually until the mortgage is lifted and the oftivial returns of mortgages filed and cancelled are thercfore worthless for the purpose of ascertaining the inci or decrease of the mortgage farm debt. farm mo new A0 VPPING PRODUCTION, At a meeting of owners of silver mines and smelters held at Doavor yit it was resolved to put a stop silver preduction in Colorado and the mines and smelters will be closed at once, Be- fore this action was taken the greatest silver producing mine in Colorado or in the country had been closed, and the dispatches announce the suspension of work in the mines of other silver pro- ducing states. The action taken by the Colorado mine owners will undoubt- edly be gencrally adopted and is piobable that within two ceks, unless there should b> a great and unexpected change in tho silver situation, the prcduction of the white metal in this country will have al- together ceased. There does not appear to e any good reason for anticipating such a change as would warrant a gen- eral resumption of production. The British government is not likely to consider the policy adopted with regard to silver in India, and unless it does we cannot see how the conditions produced by that action can be expected to change. It is to be presumed that what is now happening was anticipated by the Indian council when it decided to stop the free coinage of silver for private account, s that it will not be influenced by the course of the silver market. The stoppage of production is ob- viously dictated by sound business prin- ciples. Tt is the only course that can check the decline of silver, and it may be expected to have this effect at once, or as soon as itis known that there will be a general closing of the mines. It is to be noted that there was a slight recovery from the heavy fall in the price of silver in the London market yeste y, indicating that possibly the market has about touched bot- tom, and if so the action of the mine owners will certainly have the offect to stiffen the pric 1e conse- quences to all western interests of a stoppage of silver production must bho serious, and it is to bo hoped that resort to this heroic remedy may not havo to be prolonged. to wee SOUTHERN DESIGN The southern representatives will dominate the next congress, and the as- surance already comos from that section that an attempt will be made to remove from the federal statute books laws vhat have never been acceptable to the polit- ical element which controls the south. Congressman McMillan of Tennesseo, who is one of the recognized southern leaders on the floor of the house, was recently asked what would be done with tho federal election laws, and he is re- ported to have responded with consider- able heat that while it was impos sible to predict all the legislation that the next congress will enact, ono thing can be set down as having been already accomplished by the success of the democratic party, and that is, the whole of the legislation passed during the reconstruction period will be wipe from the statute books, All of the ob- noxious laws, said Mr, MeMillan, with regard to the appointment and servie of federal supervisors of elections will be repealed and the states allowed to take care of their own elections, It is npot to be doubted that this will be done. The democracy being in control of the govern- ment the southern element of the party will demand that overy obstacle to the perpetuation of its power in that section shall be removed, and the de- mand will be complied with, The north- orn demoeracy is very much interested in securing the perpetuation of the solid south and will, of course, aid the repre- sentatives of the south to make such a thing possible, There will not he a single democratio voice raised in con- gress in opposition to repealing the stat- utes which afford the republicans of the south some little chance to exercise the right of suffrage and no democratic vote in either branch will be recorded against such repeal. With that accc plished it will be easy to make the di franchisement of southern republicans complete. This is the puspose, and | | nothing short of it will southern democracy. As a matter of fact, the federal elec- tion laws have not given the southern domocrats any trouble. They have been able to keep that section solid in despite of those laws, which for years have been practically a dead letter. Their exist- satisty the ence, however, doubtless operates as | something of & restraint upon the dom- inant party in that section. It cannot g0 8o far in the matter of disfranchising republicans as it might otherwise do from fear of an appeal to the law. It constitutes a check that irri- tates them, and now that they have been given an opportunity to get rid of it they intend to do so. just as well that the country be given a convineing example of the true spirit of the southern democracy. It ought to have Jearned by this timo what that spirit is—that it is essentially bourbon, ionary and intolerant—but the southern democrats have not for nearly a third of a century had the opportunity that has now ¢ome to them to fully d close their real charactor and purposes. Whei the people of the eountry shall have become better acquainted with these and comprehend more fally what is in- volved in thy maintenance of a solid south by the practical disfran ement of hundreds of thousands of citizens, the chanees of the democratic party retain- ing its hold upon the federal govern- ment will be greatly lessened. So far as the federal election laws are concerned they have become practically inspora- tive and their disappearance from the statute books would not bo an especially deplorable matter. Butthe motive that prompts the southern demand for their repeal is not in the interest of an hon- ester ballot and a freer exercise of the suffrage. TAX LAWS. at the revenue laws of Nebraska are defeotive goes without saying, but the construction placed upon some of their provisions by the courts makes it almost imperative to have our tax laws revised, even i the expense of an extra session of the logislature has to be incurred. A striking case in point is furnished by the on of the supreme court in the Bank of Comm It is a matter of common notovioty that the returns made by banks to the and county board seldom, if ever, meect the requirements of tho law. The managers of banks usnally frame their statements of resources and li bilities so ingeniously that the capital in their hands sul to taxation ox- hibits a tervible tendency to shrink out of sigh The disposition among boards of equalization has been to overlook the diserepancies between the statoments made under oath by bank officers to the state and natinal oil supervision of banking institutions and the returns made undor oath by the same officers to the assessor exeept in cases that are too glaving to be passed by with impuni This was evidently the case with the returns of the Bank of Commerce last year. The county commissioner: ting as a board of equalization, consid- ered the sment too low, and deemed it their duty to oqualize it as compared with other banks, The d tho as- sessment to what they deemed a fair valuation of the as reported by the bank. From this action the bank took an appeal to the courts, and the supreme court has just rendered a decision ae- claring the action of the commissioners illegal, on the ground that no formal complaint had been entered by any tax- payer against the assessment of the bank. In other words, it is declared to the meaning of the revenue of Nebraska that a county or city board of equalization has no authority to raise an assessment unless a formal complaint is filed with it by some tax- payer. This p ally makes the sessor the autocrat, no matter how par- tial or inequitable his returns may be. Very few people are disposed to go before the board formally and complain about their neighbors, no matter how outrageously par the assessment may be as eompared with their own property, and it is if anything more difficult to find znybody willing to make a formal complaint against a powerful franch corporation or a bank, no matter how rank the favoritism shown by the as- sessor may be. The oniy effective remedy is a radical change in the revenue laws. We must make boards of equalization something more than mere shams, These boards must be made responsiblo for discrimin- ation and they should bo given power to raise or lower assessments on their own motion whenever it appears that asses- sors have been tampered with or returns have been doctored to evade taxation. de 2 CAS0, 233083 ed THE MONETARY ( RENCE It appears to be the opinion in admin- istration circles at Washington that it will be tono purpose to reconveno the international monetary conference, now that the government of India has abandoned the free coinago of silver. This view s held very generally by financial ~men of prominence. The reason for it is the bolief that the action at this juncture of the Indian council, of course with the sanction of the imperial government, was intended as a noti to the naticns that Great Britain intends stand uncom- promisingly by the gold standard and that instead of doing anything to enlargo the use of silver she proposes as far as possible to curtail and restrict its s There are some who entertain a different view, holding that this action is designed to force the hand of the United States regarding silver with the ultimate object of establishing an inte national ratio, It is not apparent, ho ever, that there is any valid rouson for the latter opinion. Undoubtedly the stoppage of froe silver coinage in India put anend to the international monetary conference, which it was expected would reassemble in November next, and it is to be presumed that the president will not fill the vacancies in the United States delegation and in due time will ¥ive notice to the nations of the abandonment of the conference. Manifestly an intornational monetary conferenco regarding silyer, with the British government unfriendly to the larger use of that metal in the world's 1t is perhaps | | DAILY B currenoy, could Acedmplish absoslutely nothing and nobolly dan now doubt that this is the attituda of the British government. Indeed, it yas clently apparent sfore the action relating to India“*that Great Britain did not propose to-make or to permit any sort of compremise inimical to the gnld standard, This was plainly im- plied in the remarks of Mr. Gladstone in the House of Cortfmbns some time ago when the governtfeht was questioned rogarding the senfithig of delegates to the second meoting of the Brussels con- forence, It was stated that if the con- ference reassembled the British govern- ment would as a matter of courtesy send ropresentatives, but they would go in- structed to oppose any plan or proposal looking to a radical change of policy regarding silver. That should have Dbeen enough to put an oend to the conference. But Gregt Britain does not stand alone in this mat- ter. The leading Kurovean nations are in full aceord with her, Germany, Rus- sia and Austria particularly, and while IPranco is more friendly toward silver than perhaps any other country of Burope, she could not be induced to take any risks by favoring a policy not ap- proved or desired by the other nations. There appears to be, therofore, abso- lutely no prospact of an international ratio for silver being established, and such beirg the case, the suggestion that the United Statesshall act independently and assume the entire task of endeavor- ing to uphold silver will not hs approved by those who understand what the in- evitable result of such an undertaking would bo. It would establish the single silver standard hero at once, The plain fact is that the United States has been put on the defensive and is not in a posi- tion to dictate torms to other nations Were the balance of trade as largely in our favor as it is against us and were the hundreds of millions of our securi- ties held abroad in the hands of our own people we could afford to declare finan- cial independence and might eompol Europe to accede to our wi but as the situation stands we cannot, Per- haps the continued depreciation of sil- ver may ultimately lead the govern- ments of Kurope to o change of attitude regarding that motal and to seriously consider the sediency of establishing an internatioual ratio that will permit of the more extended use of silvor, but such a possibility is remote, and in the meantime the United States must alopt the policy that will insure the main- tenance of its eredit. Such a policy must of ne ty conform to that of the leading financial and commorcial na- tions of the world. 108, Tne Parncllites have sent another appeal for aid to their friends in the United States, but the appeal will not, it is safe to say, meet with a generous rosponse. There is n growing feoling in this country that the extremists in thoe Irish party aro'exerting more in- fluence againgt home rule than for it. Conservative [rish-Americans huve come to see that Gladstone's policy is the surest, even if it fails to concede every- thing demanded by the radical hom> rule party of IrelaXd, The Anti-Sherman Boston If the converts continue to come in at tho present rate the friends of the Sherman bill will be as scarce us hens’ teeth when con- gress comes together in September., Ao Charge 1t Up to Julias. Indiananolis Jowrnal, If, in the course of two years, th products of the excluded from , it may be attributod s policy of stopping the inspoction by the government. olution. Cineinna’i Commercial, If the silver mines of the United States should_decide, as they propose, 1o suspend operations it would serve to solve the silver problem. There is moro of the metal than. under present circumstances, the country or the world knows what to do with, Let us va1t for a solution of the problem. et il d Ralnmaking Up to Date, Warhington Star, The rainmaking experiments in Kansas have resulted in the death of a captain of National guard and the serious wo men througn the bursting of unon _employed in_ the experiments Up to this timo the ralumaking experiments were av least given crodit for being harm- less. e T Democratic Tarlfl Reform, Chicdago Inter Ucean, The democratic statesmen have been hur- viedly driven from their demand for a tax on tea, coffoe ana sugar. It is the first squu knoclk-down for republicans, Tho New York Times outlines the source of rovenuo s mentions elther onc. It proposes t from spirits 503,000,000 ; tobacco, &3~ E and asks that this hen, in- addition, sted from imports, That is tariff reform, R SRS Withoat o Paralll, Globe-Demoerat. The inistory of the world will be searched in vain for a parallel to the prosent financial condition as an illustration of the effect of ion in precipitating mity. urred herotofore, but thoy 1o to clearly dofihed ove which provoked and promoted them outside of spirits, be that is entirely without cause. nated in somebody’s batief that there would be a panic, or t time for 4 panie The whole thing makes up a bad case of commercial and financial hypochondria, A Mugwamp Moun, Boslon Herall, We said the other da§ that the president held the key of the sitution. He still holds it, and, unfortunately, he keops it buttoned up in s pocket. Niy,0 far 4 his purpose iy known to the public, he Intends to_keep the pocket buttoned tll September, Bauks are closing their doors every day, firms of good standing are succwmmnbing to th . cond'tions, Mr. Cleveland ought ta see that there is ur- gent need of uetion, yok he appears disposed to remuin inert fo or twelve weeks longer. T the Law Odious, Wahoo Era, The railroads fought the freight rate bill with all their power when it was before the legislature. The cry was that it was an in- Jjustice to the rallroads. Now, that the law is about to take effect, the railroads propose to raise the rates, or her, standing in with the parties who buy tho produce, knock down the market price. Tho object 1s Lo ke the law distasteful to the producers of Nebraska. There will be a good many, who ought to know better, but who will not see through the corporation trick, and who will begin® to condemn the law without a moment’s thought or investigation, and may £0 80 far as to agitate an exura session of the logislature. 1'he people should not ex- Fect too much of the luw. At best it can ounly affect rates locally. Let it be under- 81004 at regulating transportation on railrouds, that government ownership is the only solu- tion of the problew. Mak over and beyond all of these attempis | FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1893, THE PASSING OF SILVER. Minnoeapolis Journal: Obviously, the finan- cial polioy under which the country is now ?n(ng business, or trying to do business, is orcing us gradually but surely to & worse condition than in India, which has just com- pelled the India council to suspend free silver coinage as the only means of deliver- ance, Cincinnati Commercial: The United States is now the only government in the market for silver, and unloss measures are taken to quickly provent, there wiil ba a silver eataclysm. The' immediate repeab of the Sherman act, and the lessening of the dif- ference betwoen the silver and gold dollar, by the increasing of the amount of silver in adollar, will be the anly means of doing it. St. Louls Globe Democrat: It 1s time for the United States to grasp the situation Let it be called a double standard « untry, as now, or a gold standard country—the name is of no importance—but this silver folly must be stopped. The crisis which India’s change of standard brings about ren- ders it certain that this folly will be stopped Just as s00n s congross meots, Kansas City Times: India has stopped the free coinage of silver, and silver bullion yesterday fell to 77 cents. This remarkable decline 1n the price of silvercan have but one lesson for the people of the United States, The present policy of operating the national treasury for the benefit of a fow millionaire silvor-mine owners must be changed or dis- aster must come to overy other industry in the count, Now York Herald: The only mint now open to the free logal tender coinage of sil- ver is that of Mexico. The experienco through which our own country has been passing of late has created an overwhelm- ing sentiment in fa of repealing the Sher- man law, but if any further reason for its speedy ropeal were needed an imporative one would be found in $his action of India. lhl'n Al the Sherman law — stop buying silver. Indianapolis Journal: No European coun- is coining an ounce of silver bullion into Al tender money. With the loss of the India market and “the limited demand for silver bullion for tho coinage of token money and for the arts, the outlook for the futuro of silveris very gloomy, as the announce- meat of the closing of the Indian mints, fols lowed by a fall in the price of bullion from 81 to uts, and a further fall to (3 yeser- day, clearly show. Chicago Herald: ( The stoppage of silvor coinuy 0 in India had some such an effeot on the price of silver as the stoppage of cotton spinning in and would have on the prico of cotton. It cuts off the main market for silver outside the United States, 1t knocked 4 0r 5 cents per ounce from the market valuo of silver. This on the mere announcement that the silver coinage had been stopped. Tt is still to vemain a lewal tender, but not as the silver cant in this country says, “on a parity with gold.” * Ropublican: Tho crisis has be- ) acute that some solution must bo found before lon it fact there is a ray of hone for th oducers of the Tt scems almost impossible that the pted by the Indian government of ng gold for silver as the standard ey of that vast country can be carried out successfully wi ruin upon many of the nations of Europe and also upon Tudia itself, and this fact wil it fn stimulating the growing demand throughout the civilized world for bimetal- lism as tho best solution of the coivage problem. Chicago Tribune: Silver must ve made a logal te at s commercial value, what- ever that may be. Qtherwise bimetallism bocomos an’ impossibility. The financial peril of the American people consi dunger that the government wmay maintain gold redemption of the si the paper issued against that sily would ¢ a sudden slump to the silver andard, worth about 50 conts on the dol- There is no middle course. The gap i th values of denod so far that temporf will avail no longer. ~ We must a radical reduction to absolute value, o Inter Ocean: The simple tiuth of the busiess is that Great Britain has tuken ono more step, very important one, toward ts Settled policy of ld to o gold standard, Iarl s00n, in_fact, as its com- y had given it flnancial supremacy, and it became the great ereditor nation of the globe, d sct about secur- ing the gold standard. Jt has brought the entire German-speaking world jnto line, gnd for twenty years hds bLeen frjing vo bring the United States down to it.” Unless somo great nation s like a rock against monometallism England will triumph and gold will be the universal standard of monc tary measurement, and silver will be re gated (o the category of base metals and a mere commodity. The American silver dollar has a bullion value of 5915 cents. The effect of hot weather on corporation cellars is un unsolved problem. In the lexicon of tho loy press thero is no such word as Proctor Knott declines the Hawaiian mis- slon, preferring Kentucky still life to diplo- matic ine in tho tropics. Chicago newspapers deelare the postc threatens to duplicato the Ford disaster. This is the Chicago way of forcing a liberal approrriation. Omiceseekers journeying to Washington for their health should post themselves on the Banting system bofore putting on gloves with Cleveland, Chicago preference for instead of Browning in the fact that over 6,000,000 slaughtered there last ye The Philadelphis Inquirer grunts, hogs shall ru: - this town,” which provokes solonical laughter, ‘The ery will never reach »ot of the municinal evil. anhattan company demands - franchise as the price of inci d rapid b w York City. For rea- sons inexplicable, the company negiected to ask forafi ) Luio Smith of Acton, Mass., who took a prominent partin the recent Bunker Hill celebration in Boston, is said to be the only man living whose father fought at Bunker Hill. Mr, Swith, over 80 years old., wae also one of the first to voluuteer in 1851, All the principal actors in thé Panama scandal are contined to their beds. Hertz is dying at Bornemonth in England, Ferdinand de Lesscps is mentaily and physieally a wreck, Charles de Lesseps is in the hospital of St, Louis, M. Marius is in the infirmary of the Melun prison and ex-Minister Baihut is in the hospital of tho prison of Ktampes. Carlyle W. Harris, tho late electrocu wife poisoner, dropped in at a seance 1n (i necticut and intimated that he had not met Miss Potts in the spivitland. He voluu- teered the information that each had power 1o keep the other at a distance. For which Jarlyle should be thankful. Miss Potts s knows more about Carlyle thun ating soul would relish. Replying to request of the state supe: intende of public instruction of New York for his views concerning o Plac of the Press in Public Edu Charle A. Dana says: “The nows exists to collect and publish th to comment ou the day. Its placein education is like tha the pulpiv, [t is incidental, not essential,” I'he conquest of the frozen north has begun once more. Dr. Nansen sailed on Sat- urday from Christiana on his driftint v e, which will oceupy several years, and utenant Peary set out from Philadelphis day, for Greenlanud, the scene of his pr wriumph, No news from these expedi- an be looked for under Lwo or three 1 democratic gola bug.” Ignatius Donnelly finds an explanat hogs w “No news and of tions years, Attorney General Olaey, who was at first supposed 1o be frozen up in a crust of Mussa- chusetts dignity six inches thick, turns out 1o be o very genial gentieman. He attends all the base ball ganes at Washington and whoops and yells for the home team us vig- orously as the humblest ocoupant of the “bleachers.” Secretary Lamont used to be o base ball crank, too, but heis kept very busy nowadays and caunot find time 10 go Lo the games. The rajah of Asbury Park, a great moral seasido resort in Jer grounds for divorce in that se cordiugly the camera fiond is to be excluded. Last year a shrowd onlooker secured a suap- shot 0f & well known society man just as he was toying with the chestnut locks of a dashing maiden. The society man as well as s wife bid liberal sums for the picture, and it was finally knocked down to the agitated husbaud. The decree of banish- ment will in future prevent domestic broils awid the gay and giddy of Asburge press pvents and ideas of the | NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, The Morso Bluffy Times has oo exist, . A movement is on feot to orgauize a build- Ing and loan association at Gothenburg. Distriot Clork Campboll of Nebraska Olty has had his 40-year-old daughter arrested and bound over to keep the Rov. T. M. Bell of Louisvilla, Ky., ccontod a call to become pastor United Brethren church at Boatrics. The Episcopalians of Norfolk are arrang- ing to build a new church on the site of the structure destroyed by a cyclone a year ugo. John Novak, a Saunders county farmer near Prague, has become so impregnated with whisky that ho sces dovils chasing him and ho has been declared insane. 5 C. 8. Bruch of Holdrege attompted to board a moving froight train ut David City and fell under the wheels, His loft arm was orushed between the wrist and clbow, but he will reco Tinner Frymive of Bloomfield, while putting a roof on a house siipped and slid down the incline from the gable in suc manner that when ho landed in tho eaves his pantaloons had parted company with his person. A borrowed pair of overalls saved him from disgrace. Says tho Beatrice Timos: A Beatrice gentleman was seen yesterday alternoon passing along Court street putting to each man he met the query: “Who is the secre- tary of statoof Net When last he had received no positive answor, ono tells us the official's name is Allen, While Miss Minnie Clino of Bradshaw was curling her hair with a hot iron she throw a lighted match on the floor and her dress caught fire. She started fora tub of water to extinguish the flames and was dis- covered by neighbors Just in timoe to save her life, though she is very badly burned. —_—— TERSE AND TOUCHING, ased peace has of the Brooklyn Lifo: Sapploigh (Y h has eloped with o girl w gawblor. | Iapploigh (110l oh? How did they happen to meot? Why, she saw hitn in the freshman Ohloago R 8010 odd by “HHow 15 that ays it will tako Lim threo months to get oven. 1o '93)—Frosh- father is a b's duughtor, ppleigh— rushes. “Jones must have made the races." Peoplo who vory bright. swingin b J brighter than othoer uppe Thoy must be. They ure always so quick o take & tumblo. oment or two nd volloys of rhyme with- into view that the pu lic may kow that this is the summer girl's souson. Detr Mr. Dy o Tailor sond him, lor—Oh, papa, Ing me i great Ve hien nway. Lwish by 15 polite to tho bills T w0 Tnter Oc suc o 20 out evenin “Whiant do you do 10 pas: “Oh, play with the hable quarrel with ard on asuburban pleasant home that 1 the { until the my wifo the rést of the Somerville Journal: Min ws show which way the mereury goes. Julep str ese heah pollyti- 5 jist ke do hands [} (0 Beopla 14 de machincry” behing does ail de work, bat do hands fs de ones ts de credit fer gibin' de Ume o day."” Now York Weekly: Yourg woman (in open streot car—1 don't sco why some men aro i to smoke eyery moment. they are on a DI wouan (oudly)“Oh, 1ot én smoke, ws! 1 s'pose their wives won't iet ke at home, ¢ille Journ he wan who sald that nee wis biiss ovidently never, was a schoolboy and had thoe teacher spoll & word, holding a rattan wll the while be- hind his back. A BAD SPELL. Boston Cour A dudo through a theate Tripped along with o satis And a nfident mien That reflected, 1 wie A concelt of his ravishing st Ve, And he teipped on a Turking chaps Shot forth i furlon or seiu, And tho gathcred debrls Of the s scemed 1o bis Like a rolic of long, lon ageau. VANISHED VISIONS, R. C. It in Quips. When T was young and my hair was thick And purse'was thin, ITused to smoke their fumes I would ch vislons us I never s Now Lam old. ieroot rolled { 1 conque One such Now Some of those dry And some cam And ono was—but I recolleet that those Thaat brought that Turned bittorost ashes ! Let ushos covor up old scars, Now L am old. to mo I'm fifty odd—my hair is thin M oI5 stout, and o comfort in The hest perfecto ono can huy— And visions T no Ic : Aud sinoke Is only smoke t) me, Now 1 ani old. sk hin how to | |70 ABANDON RUSK'S SYSTEM Seoretary Morton Declares the Meat Tnspeo- tion Servioe a Failure, RESULTS DO NOT WARRANT THE EXPENSE Question of An gress to Be Disou Cabinet Mesting--Date Wil e Fxod. WasHINGTON BUikat 518 Founrr oF Tur Bes, } Secretary Morton is waiting for an opinior from Attorney Genoral Olney in responso 10 an inquiry addressed to the latter oficial & day orso ago as to the legality of abandon- ing the meat inspection service. 1f Scerctary Morton finds that he has authority under the act of congress to discontinue the meat inspection set on foot by Secratary lRusk, his predecessor, ho will doso. 1f the law mikes it _incumbent upon the seerotary of agricul- turo to carry on the inspection the service and expense Will bo reducea to the lowest Ppossible poin to conform to the Secrotary Morton, as stated in_ dispatehes to Tur Bek bofore, believes that tho so-called meat {nspoction is too expensive for the re- sults which it gives, and if hoe has authority will discontinue it. Date of tho Extra Sesslon, Tt fa statod tonight on the very highest authority that at the cabinet moeeting to- morrow the old question of the date of the extra session of congr will be discussed and the advisability of calling a_session arlior than Septomver will ba carofully con- dored. The president will at once then issue his proclamatiom fixing tho date of the oxtra session 1o relieve the suspenso grow- ing out of the doubt as to the date when e gress will bo convenod. Although there is & Strong pressure for au extra session at once, the president and his cabiuet advises do not at this time see how anything can bo gained by calling a session oarlier than September, Nows for the Army. tho following aviny orders were issued today: Leave of absenco for four months from September 14, 1503, is granted_Second Lieu- tenunt George >, Bighteenth in- fantry. Leave of absence from August 1 to Sep- tember 1, 1 'y L the following named officer S nant Munroe Mekarland, ntry 5 Second Licutcnant Shuttleworth, leventh infanty 1 court’ mar 15 appointed to meet at Willett's Point, New York harbor at 11 o'clock a. m., on Monday, July & soon thereafter as practicable, for Al of such_prisoners as be brougi b ore it. Detail for the court: Captain m Black, corps of cngincers; Caj< Walter I Bisk, corps_ of en i Second Licu Sidney | 4 an, Fifth artillery; nd Licutonant Sdward F. MeGlachlin, jr., Fifth ar:illerys Licutenant Willis' kanlive, Twelfth Second Licutenant Walter M, Whit- man, First cavalry; additional, Second Licu- tenant John S. Scwell, corps of enginee additional, Second Licutenant Charles P! Ect corps of engineers: tional, Second Lieutenant James 1. Me sorps of engineers; additional, Sccond Lieutenant Juy J. Morrow, corps of enginecrs; addi- tional, Second Licntenant James B. Cavan- augh, corps of engineers; additional, Second Licutenant James 1. Jervey, corps of en- gineers; additional, Second Lisutenant Spor | cer Corby, corps of engineers, judge advo- te. Second Licutenant Colden L. H. Ruggles, Third artillery, will be relieved from further duty pertaining to the World’s Columbian exposition on July 1, 1893, and will then ro- turn to his station, Fort Monroe, Va. Firsy Licutenant Motzar . Richards, ”i S. Ampretived, is detailed as sup-rintenden of Av.Tx'o Mexico Military academy, Mexico, N. Y. Captain Algernon S. M. Morgan, oranance storckeeper, will report in person to Colonel Moelville A. Cochran, Sixth infantry, presi- dent of the ig board at Columbus Ba tain Notes and Porsonals, Colonsl_Eston of Huron, S. D. is hero os for appointment to stership of that city. AL, Kellerof De_Smet, formerly candi- date for marshal of South Dakota, has about hecided to become a cundidate for the receivership of tho Watertown land office. Major Liober has beon appointed an In- Qian trader at Forest City, S. D. There was a rumor that North and South Dakota would be separated from Nebraska s a1 o_district. Internal Revenuo Commissioner Miller says that no such sopa- ration would be made this year, as the ap- pointment of money for tho nexs fiscal year hus already boen made. Coramissioner Miller remavked th v be made lato separate disuricts a y Fand Commissioner Lumore has recom- mended to Secretary Hoke Smith that tho land offices of the country bo reduced in number from about 130 to 110. After this has been cousidered by Secretary Smith, the tter will go to the president. At first it was figured that about one-fourth of the oftices would bo wiped out, but the reduction in expense has been partially accomplished by a reduction in the salarios paid ¢ these ofilces, Twelve hundred dollar are reduc to €1,000 and those e $1,000 to # BROWNING, KiNG Lurgest Manufac arers and Roetallors ol Clothing In the World. 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