Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 14, 1893, Page 4

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Parties Isaving tho clty for tho summor can have the Rir sont their nddress by leaving an ordor at this office, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. e —— SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. i tor Editor. ok, Secretary of Tirk BER publishe olemnly swoar that the actnal DAILY TkE: for the week ending uly 8, 1803, wis a4 (01lows: 0 onda iy, riday, July aturday, July lw | SWORN 1o EEAL £ my pr —— Gvonar i Tsenue + and e thin Sth day of July, 1803, N. P. FEiL. Notary Public. Tig DALy nnd Sv Chicazo at the followl! < 1s on sale in places: Palmer houso. Grand ¥ notel. Auditorium hotel, Great Northern hotel Gore hotul. Toland hote b Wolls I, Sizer, 180 Stath straot, Files of Tt 1 be seon at the Ne- Draska buildi Administration build- Ing, Exposition erounds. i = — Average tion for June, 1893, 24,216 _———— SECRETARY HOKE SMITH has smoked $ho pipe of peace. We trust that his ored wards will permit him to participate in o war dance beforo the entertainment ceas Hayden of the broken Capital National bank is not strictly inline with the men who elaim to own thoe town of Lincoln. They may soon be expected to tell him *‘where he is at.” TIowa prohibitionists are tryin got after saloon keepers by a new path. They now make complaintsalleging that thoe saloon is a nuisance. Arve wo to in- fer that the prohibitive law has been recognized as ineffective FORTUNE often compensates for re- verses. A pardon, a wife and a saloon, pll in one month, ought to go far in rec- oneiling Anarchist Neebo to the years of suffering which his conduct at the time of the Haymarket riots entailed upon him. THE offer of a purse at Cloveland for any trotter that will beat a mile in 2:08 on the track thero with the old-stylo sulky suggests that doubt is entertained whether any of the flyers which have imade better records with the pneumatic “pulky on the kite-shaped track can Jower the record of Maud S. AND now the prospects indicate a year's continuous session of the congress Bbout to convene. After imposing such hn afiliction upon the people there ought to be no feurs regarding -an overwhelm- Ing republican victory at tho congres- pional eloctions which follow the ad- journment of that body in 1894, SAN FRANCISCO people are congratu- Jating themselves on the fact that the Pacitic Postal Telegraph company has Rlmost completed its line of copper wires from Washington to that city by the Bouthern route. Soon the new company will be in a position to transmit trans- pontinental business and tho people will no longer be at the merey of an indiffer- Eut corporation, WnaA® to do with the stock of silver bullion now lying in the treasury scems o bo tho question over which many brains are being racked. The New York Evaiing Post suggests in one of Jts most sarcastic moods that it be transformed into silver souvenir spoons pnd distributed as a loan among the people. Such a course would turn us Bll to free coinage. KEvery one would then have silver to sell. THE new democratic administration is {naugurating its plan of economy by having the white house redecorated. The work upon the bed room is alone to cost the government about #5,000, No pro objects to the president being sup- plied with all the luxuries of & mansion befitting the residence of the head of this great nation. But for one who banks 80 high upon his reputation for economy, economy should begin at home. A KANs=AS rain fakir is in sore dis- tress. During his operations at Good- land recently a cloudburst happened that way and destroyed the crop of a man who had contributed to pay the fakir to produce rain. The disconsolate farmer has sued the alleged rain maker for damages, and of course, expects to yecover. Just what a court and jury will do with the case is open to con- Jeeture, A verdiet for the plaintiff would impute to him the powers of the Almighty. Thore may be some Qifil- eulty in proving that he is in possession of such power. INDICTMENTS have been found against the officials of the failed Plankinton bank at Milwaukee charging them with fllogal banking and obtaining money under false pretensos. While the greater number of the recent bank fail- ures are due to circumstances over which the bank officiuls have have had n) control, yet a popular belief has visen in relation to certain particular insticutions” that the honesty of their transactions is not above suspicion. A fow criminal prosecutions where the banking laws have been flagrantly vio- lated csunot but have a salutory effect in impressing upon bank cflicials & due geneo of their great responsibility to the yublia. A PROLONGED FIGNT PROMISED. Washington dispatehes say that the idea thut the extra session of congroess might be made a short session, dealing promptly with the silver question and leaving other matters to be considered at tho regular session, is dying out, and that those members who are best quali- fied to judge as to what is likely to bo done are of the opinion that when con- gress meots in August there will be no intermission until the work of the first regular session shall have heen accom- plished. We have never had any doubt that this would probably be the case, and the attitude of the freo silver men, the doter- mined spirit they are manifesting, and the preparations thoy are avowedly making, promise a prolonged fight that is almost certain to carry the extra ses- sion up to the date of the regular ses- sion, There must be no misunderstanding regarding the spirit and disposition of the advocates of the froe and unlimited coinago of silver. They mean to battle for thoir cause to the bitter end, empld ing every aevice known to parliamen- tary warfare in order to defeat, if possi- ble, the opposition to their policy. They are not proposing or asking any sort of compromise. The address issued by the Denver meoting does not con- tain a single suggestion or intimation of o desire on the part of the free silver men to necopt any Their unequivocal demand is that the law relating to coinage which was in foreo bofore the legislation of 1873 shall be restored, which means that the two money metals shall stand on a perfect cquality in the mintsof the country. This they profess to believe *‘will imme- diately place every coined American dollar upon a par value, bothas coin and builion,” and although all the argument of experience is hostile to such an assumption, to say nothing of the attitude of the leading nations of tho world toward silver, there can be no doubt that the free silver men will firmly adhere to their position. They are desperately in carnest and neither reason nor persuasion will move them from the stand they have taken. There is reason to believe that the op- ponents of a repeal of the siiver pur- chuse clause of the Sherman act will have a better organization when con- &ress meets than will those who favor repeal. There will probably be some uncertainty about the force of the latter in the house, but doubtless the former will know their strength to a man and will be able to hold it together for every exigency. The first that will arise will be the contest over the question of changing the rules so as to put a check upon filibustering free silver men have alrcady announced that any proposition of this kind they will fight relentlessly. It is not easy to say how long they may be able to carry onacontest of this kind, but it would seem possible to continue it almost in- definitely. But if the free silver men should be beaten in the house more easily than is now expected, they® have a yet stronger bulwark of their cause in the senate. While those who have carefully cunvassed the situation believe that ultimately & bill to uncondi- tionally repeal the silver purchase clause of the Sherman act will pass the house they doubt whether such a measure can be passed in the sen- ate. Atany rate it seems entirely evi- dent that the country must be prepared for a prolonged fight over the silver question, however desirable it may be for the public interests that that issue shall be promptly disposed of. FETE DAY IN FRANCE. The 14th day of July in France stands for the establishment of popular govern- ment upon the decaying ruins of a mon- archic despotism. The successful storm- ing of the Bastile was not the consum- mation of the political revolution; it was only the mark of its beginning. The monarchic form of government persisted for some time, and since then has reap- pearcd upon the soil of France upon more than one occasion. But neve again in the 104 years that have elapsed since that fateful July morning in the summer of 1789 have the rights of the people then asserted been dragged to the depths from which they were rescued. Historically the day has no great significance. The destruction of an ancient fortress by itself has little import. The date is connected neither with the first repub- lic nor with the last, although it is ac- cepted as having relations with both. When the French rejoice today they do 80 in acknowledgment of the boon of popular liberty—a boon with which they will never consent to part. ! Fete day in France is a festival for high and low. Itis celebrated with that enthusiasm and earnestness for which the French ave noted. In Paris itis a cosmopolitan holiday, and while the tricolor predominates in the decorations, the flags of all friendly nations ave con- spicuous in the multitude of banners. This year in particular the friends of the existing government have much cause for rejoicing. Thoy have gone through a year that was beset with many dangers and pitfalls now happily avoided. . First the anarchist troubles, then the Panama scandals, the ministerial eri and finally the so-called student riof have given them ample cause for offer- ing thanks that they have so well with- stood the adverse happenings of the period. Over the recent riots they are not yet in perfect ense and outbreaks are anticipated in Paris during the festivities today. Domonstrations by the rostloss clements are common features of tho day. So It is nothing denoting unusual conditions that the government has ordered the police to e in readiness for any disturbance. Tho urgency of these orders is probably en- hanced by the fuet that a-congress of all the scelalistic municipal councils is now in session at St. Denis. If outbreaks oceur the government feels able to cope with them and they will no doubt be easily condoned #s symptoms of the boisterousness of the national joy. Frenchmen in this country are gen- orally ocbservant of their national fete day. In New York City the French o lony is holding a special celebration under the direction of the French am- rt of compromise. THE OMAHA bassador and the French consul genaral. Their exercisos includo sports of every deseription and the ascension of a bal- loon, *'La Republique Francaise.” Atthe World's fair the reprosentatives of the French government and the-exhibitors from that country are joining i the day's festivities. All over the United States the whole people share in the spirit of the Freneh holiday and wish for a long continuance of republican government in France. ANTI-TRUST LAW AND ROADS. The question as to whether congress intended the anti-trust law to apply to railroad combinations is important. We believe there has been one judicial de- cision in & case involving this question in which it was held that the law is not applicable to freight and passenger as- sociations, although these are clearly in the nature of combinations contemplated by the statute. On the other hand thero is ominent legal opinion that the law doos apply to every form of railroad combination, and that it was in- tended by congress to do so. Sena- tor Sherman, who introduced the orig- inal bill, said in a recent interview in reply to a statoment that the railroads claim that their associations or combina- tions were exempted from the operation of the act: ‘“T'hat is a mistake. There were no exemptions, as the act itself will show. Railroad combinations, or any other combinations, that fix unrea- sonable rates, or prevent natural com- petition, would be in restraint of trade. The public has the right of tho benefit flowing from free competition, whother in froight and passenger rates or in price of any product that is a necessity of 1lif Senator Cul- lom, who was chairman of the inter- state commerce committee, holds & similar view. He says it was not the in- tention of congress to exempt the rail- roads from the operation of the law and very properly observed that “there is no reason why railroads should be per- mitted to form combinations to fix prices and destroy competition when all other branches of business are denied the right.” Senator Teller declared that there is no doubt that the law applies to railroads—that it was so intended by congress and the wording of it em- braces any combination whatever that destroys competition. Ex- Senator Edmunds, who was chair- man of the senate judiciary committeo when the law was passed, expresses the inequivocal opinion that the law is ap- plicable to railroad combinations of the character of freight and passenger asso- THE RAlL~ The judgment of men of such distin- guished ability, all of whom voted in the national senato for the anti-trust law and must fairly be presumed to know what application and scope congress in- tonded the act to have, will be regarded on all hands as entitled to the very high- est respect and consideration. The ob- vious suggestion of these expres- jons of cminent legal opinion is that the law should be given a thorough judicial test as soon as possible. If the views of Senator Sher- man and the others quoted are correct every railroad association to fix freight and passenger rates exists in violation of the law and by the terms of the swatute it is the duty of the United States aistrict attorneys to institute pro- ceedings against such associations. The present time is peculiarly auspicious for doing this. There isa universal popu- lar feeling that the railroadsare dealing most unfairly with the public in the matter of passonger rates -to the Worlds fair® and this they are enabled to do through com- bination. The whole people would there- fore heartily approve of action on the part of the federal authorities to test the legality of such combination in the form of freight and passenger associa- tions. It is true that if such proceed- ings were instituted now the public might not be matevially benofited so far as the World’s fairis concerned, because a final decision could hardly be reached before the close of the falr, but this con- sideration should not be allowed to inter- fere with a proper effort to have the question determined whether or not railroad combinations to fix rates are. in violation of the anti-trust law. According to the definition of them given by the distin- guished persons quoted there would seem 80 be no doubt that they do exist in violation of the law. Manifestly the question is of greut and far-reaching importance and ought to be settled with as little deluy as possible. PREVENT. AD OF RELIEF, The dreadful holocaust on the World’s fair grounds at Chicago is only another illustration of the happy-go-lucky methods pursued by the officials in American municipalities. The struc- ture was known to have heen built for use, both for storage and dwelling pur- poses. 1t was atfirst intended to be erocted of material that is fireproof, or nearly so, but alterations of the plans were permitted without the addition of supplementary means of exit for persons in case of fire. Now aftor the calamity has occurred, after the vietims of the disaster number a score, after the in- jured and wounded have been found al- most t00 numerous to vount, the parties upon whoin at least some of the respon- sibility rests, have become unceasing in their efforts to gather together a sum of money to rolieve the families of the dead. The people are not slow to assist in relieving distress whatever the cause may have been. The World's fair directory have decided to donate the cntire gate receipts of the exposition cn Sunday next tothe families of the brave men who were killed while fight- ing Monday’s fi All these efforts are no doubt prompted by generous motives. They ought to succoed in raising a fund sufticient to keep the bereaved families from immediate want, but to repulr the injury inflicted by the loss of dife will always be an impossibility, 0 & There is not a city in the country in which examples of culpablo nogligence in the department of building inspection similar to that just evinced in Chicago have not been given time and time again. Those lessons, howevor, have to be taught over and over in spite of their fearful costliness. When plans are submitted for new buildings, the usual DAILY BEE; FRIDAY, rulois to approve them with a mere perfunctory examfndtion. Minor altora- tlons may bo suggested but tho case soldom occurs whéka radical changos aro required or g whole project is rejectod. Again.buildings when onco constructed are pormitted to bo used for purposes entively different from those for which thdy were originally designed and altogéther unadapted to them. These aré'the points at which our building inspecfors ought to inter- fore. Much of the 1ss of life oceasioned by fire and falling buildings in our large citios could be avoided if the laws and ordinances were rigidly enforced. Pre- vention is the remedy demanded, not rolief aftor the disaster has happened. THE Mexican government has been compelled to make s general reduction in the salaries of public employes owing to the decreased reyenue [rom imports. It has been known for some time that the Mexican treasury was threatenod with a deficit and doubless this action in cutting down salaries is the last resort for preventing a shortage that might prove a serious matter to Mexico's credit. The decroase in the customs revenues is naturally to be regarded as indicati ng a decline in the general pros- perity, although it may not be wholly due to this. Still it is well known that the falling price of silver has had a more or less damaging effect upon the material welfare of Moxico, and that country, being on a silyer basis, is very likely to suffer more severely before a readjustment of the relations of silver to the money of the world is accomplished. Of course the reduction of salaries of those in the public service will not tend to improve the general situation and will probably produce some dissatisfac- tion, considerations which show that it had becoma imperative. The future of the distinctively silver countries is not bright. The Austrian commissioner-general at Chicago wants foreign exhibitors at the World’s fair to be allowed to sell articles forming a part of their display and to give immediate delivery He says that such privileges had been granted at previous international expositions and that the expectation of selling the ex- hibit was one of the chief inducements that led the forcigners to come over with their goods. Inasmuch as the rules of the fair distinetly forbid the re- moval of articles until the close of the, exposition, none of| the exhibitors had any reasonable grounds to anticipate a suspension of those regulations. While all participants in the fair, American as well as foreign, ought to be treated with absolute impartiality and freedom from discrimination, it would be a manifest injustice to the public to allow the fair to be gradually déspoiled of its attrac- tions, Tho last patron who pays his money at the gate-has a right to expect to see as complete a display as any who have gone before him. THE acceptance of "the resignation of Mr. Robert P. Portep as superintendent of the cleventh census, to take effect July 31, will remove from the head of that bureau ons of the most eflicient men who have ever been employed on the census. Mr. Porter was among the first to place his resignation in the hands of the new administration, and it seems a pity that the president, after having retained him five months in his position, has not deemed it wise toallow the work of the census to be finished by the same man who began it. What re- mains to be done upon that great under- taking consists chiefly in compiling and arranging the materials. Mr. Porter has the satisfaction of having performed all the work of direction and of carrying the elaborate plan outlined by congress into successful operation. Rev. WILLARD . Scort, D.D., of Chicago, who was formerly the popular pasior of one of the most inntelligent congregations in this city, has refused a re-election as president of the Crete Chautauqua assembly. The success of the annuul meetings at Crete have from their incoption been larcely due to his conscientious work in their behalf. It is to be hoped that severing his official connection with this organization will not cause Dr. Scott to relax his intorest in the welfare of the Chautaugua move- ment in Nebraska. THE Cramps will launch the cruiser Minneapolis on August 12. Then all the wavship building st this yard will be in the water. The New York is receiving her guns and will go into commission early in the autumn, The Minneapolis is a sister ship of the Columbia, popu- larly known as the Pirate, which is also nearly finished. The vessels of this class will be the swiftest ever launched and are especially designed to catch and destroy the fast ocean liners while keep- ing out of the way of the great battle- ships. THE populist government of Kansas has bogun to reorganize tho militia with a view to insuring to themselves its as- sistance in case of another legislative deadlock. There may be some fanatics who approve the employment of force for political ends, but‘the rank and file of all partics, populist as well as others, prefor the peaceful Fule of the majority, as shown by the clogtoial returns, Dou't Attempyytoo Much, Piteshurg Dispateh, There are more quesyions before congress than it need bo in uny Jurry to answer. A little pevspicuous discrimination will dis- cover the essential and a ligtle energeti wisdom should accom }(‘h it in shory order. bt 4 il A Siunder.on Iowa, Pniladelphia Record. Statistics of train robbery show that Towa hoads the column of states in this nefarious industry, Such a staid old moral state, 8o thickly dotted with little red school houses, should” be ashamed Lo take part in any suéh procession. e Too Creditable to Bo Kansas City Journal. ‘The nomination of ex-President Harrison to the vacant place on the supreme bench would be i graceful and creditable thing for the administration—so graceful and crodit- wble that there is not the remotest probabil- ity of its being made. —— Tucreaso of K y Earnioge, New Yorks Times, Gratifylug reports of the earnings of rall- roads ure coming in from every section of the country. The statements for Muy and June show & steady increase in both gross and net earnings ovor the corresponding periods of lust year, and there is abundant ' sible. ( JULY 14, 1893, roason to belleve that the F"m'"" of In»‘ o creaso will b maintained for some months o come. Seventy raiiroad companios that have reported their oarnings for Juno show an aggrogate inroaso of &,18,500 over the oarnings of the same roads in June of lnst yoar. Make it Short. Indianapolis Journal, There 18 A gonoral domand for a short spocial session of congross, but no certaint that congress will respond to the deman Under the constitution the president can get a congress on his hands without m trouble, but getting 1t off is another matter, pii- S Lo Like a Pena i a Dram. New York Evening Sun. Don M. Dickinson's friends mention him as apossible successor of Mr. Justice Blatch- ford on the supreme court beuch. Tho Michigan man isa good politician, but to think of him in tho dead jurist's shoes is as absurd as to to_imagine the guant form of Secretary Carlisle arrayed in tho cast off garments which have wrapped around the rotundity of Postmaster General Bissell. Besides he does not bolong to the right district, bt The ey is Vinin, Philadetpria Record. "The democratic policy when congress shall have assombled is as plain as the noso on one’s face. The first thing to bo dono should Do to repeal the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman act of 1800, A majority of both houses, according to a recent van aro in favor of repeal, It will be time cnough to consider substitutes afterward. When, by stopping silver purchases, we shall have dissipated the financial fog in which tho country is enveloped wemay better see what course to take thereafter. e by St The Right Doctrine. New York Tribune. ‘“Tho ropublicans in congress will be in the attitude, to a certain extent, of spectators.” This remark of Senator Sherman in an in- terview yestorday is true in a sense, but its truth depends upon the force given to the clause “'to a certain extent.” The republi- can_mombers will fail in their duty if they sit with folded hands, as idle lookers-on, watching the majority tangling themselves up inextricably or putting themselves in a holo. Thero will be serlpus busitess boforg congress and tho minority is in duty bound to lond a helping hana to tho beat of its ability in the solution of tho grave and vex- ing problems that confront both congress and the country. amd i L KANSAN AL MINERS. They Will Continue Their Fight Agninst the Mine Owners—Promises of Ald. Leavexwontn, Kan,, July 18.—The Home mine, where the trouble with miners occurred yesterday morning, has shut down again and nota man entered the shaft to- day. The influence brought to bear by the strikers and their wives kept so many workers from resuming that the comvany realized that it would be useless to attempt t0 work with less than two score of-men and at the same time risk the chances of a riot. This morning women and men again sur- rounded the shaft, but no men appeared to g0 to work. No attempt has yet been made by the strikers to stop the men who have gone to work at the North Leavenworth shafts. NEVADA, Mo, July 18.—Tho hundreds of coal miners of Vernon county are now di cussing the great Kansas strike. Several leaders of the United Mine Workers of America are making cfforts to orgauize the miners into a union_to strike about August 1. They believo they will then win the Lory. Pirispure, Kan., July 18.--Con Kelliher, the delegate'sent to Arkansas by Secretary Lacey toseo the miners in that soction, ro- turned this morning, with a copy of resolu- tions passed by these miners, recommending suspension of work at the call of the Kans: miners, and pledging all union men to do so. P. H. O'Donnell, the delegate to Indian Territory, was heard from this morning. Ho reports that at Hartshorn, Colgate, Me- Alester and other camps visited by him, the men have signified their intention of stand- ing by the Kansas miners. oy FIUND A HUMAN ARM, Another Ghastly Discovery in the Rulns of the Cold Storage Warehous: Cuxcaco, July 18.—Tho day opened clear aud hot, but the scorching rays of the sun did not suffice to keep people away from tho World's fair grounds. The workmen on the ruins of the cold storage warehouse made another ghastly find this morning. It was that of & human arm, and from a ring on the tinger it was identified as that of Raiph Drummond, 8 part of whose remains was taken out yesterduy. The total list of fa- talities from the fire now numbers teen, with three or four still unaccounted for. It isnow believed the total will not exceed twenty or twenty-one, though there is con- siderable uncertainty as to the number of strangers in the building whon tho fire broke ovt. Bosides the gate receipts at the fair Sunday, to be donated to the relatives of the dead firomen, several city theaters will give benefits for them, so thata hand- some sum is suro to bo netred. Memorial services will b held at the grounds Sunday. e GENERAL ENOCHS GONE. The Well Known Ohio Congr Dend In Bed., Inoxtox, O., July 13.—General W. H. Enochs, congressman from this district, was found dead in bed this moraing, i hs_was a native of Ohio. He Middlebu Noble county, Murch Ho was brought up on n fars and securod his education in the commni schools. Ho enlisted as a private at the ou break of the war, and wus promoted to cor- tenant, captain, lleutenant sman Found poral, sergeant, lfo colonol, colonol and brevet brigadier general. After the close of the war ho uraduated froni the Cineinnatl law school, and hus since been engaged in the practice of his profession at Tronton. Ho was twico olected to congress as wrepubiican, e s Killed a Mexioan, Er Paso, Tex., July 13.—News has just reached here that one of the Gabaldons, who have beon noted members of the lsland Bosque gang, killed a Mexican_at San Ig- nacio, nearly opposite Camp Rice and not far from the island, last Sunday night. No particulars havo boen received, but it is be- ioved that the murderer is the same Gi baldon who shot one of the Alarion brothers on this side of the river somo time sinca, and agaiust whom are standing ono or two in- dictments for horse stealing in this country, el bl Lo K WIll Try to Exocutw thn Chootaws. Fowr Gmsox, I. T, July 13—t is reported that Governor Jones will attempt to oxecute the condemned Choctaws and that tho courts will try to stop him. The opinion is general that fedoral soldiors must interfere as o last resort. WasHINGTON, July 13, ial Indian agentat Muskogee, I. aphs that the execution of the nine Choctaws has been suspended till August i LT Malietoa and Mataafa Fighting Again, Syoney, N. S, W., July 13.—Latest advi from Samoa arc to the effect that active hostilities have broken out between the fol- lowers of King Malietoa and Chief Mataafa, The king's forces aro tho stronger, but the chiof's haye better arms. Both refuse to hold any district neutral. d e R Fell from a T, i Killed, Huunaup, Neb., July Special to Tux Bee)—The body of & young man, well dressed, was found beside the railroad track near hero this morning. It is believed he foll from the train bouné for Owaha and was kilied. Mexico's Iron Industry, SAN ANTONIO, Tox., July 12, Cracken, largely interested in Mexican miuos, has arrived here aud reports as al- most consummated the vroposed consolida- tion of ull the iron industries of Mexico, . H. Me- Pomeroy Feop d Stoves. Posenoy, 1a., July 18.- The eyclone suffer- ers are badly in need of stoves. A formal appea) was issued today for help in this di- rection, The committee usks for 100 stoves, old or new. i el Trouble on the Aunsm Frontier, Brousseis, July 18.-—~The Independence Belgo says trouble between French and the Siamese on the Anuam frontier is spreads iug and all wrade is stopped. PEOPLE AND THINGA The assossed valuation of real estate in Philadelphia fs $740,0058 447, A June bug oavorting on a pienic girl's back furnishes an object lesson on individual riots, The man who aprings & burning question theso torrid days doserves o Kentucky roast. Now that the pinic season is at its height; the industrioya chiggor is coming up to the serateh rheumatism h the effect sing his August mmlsnfa, the coun- try will cheerily condole with him. Colorado's loyalty to tho white metal may bo accounted for by tho claim that many of the residonts were born with silver spoons. Denver banks subscribod $1,000 to defray the expenses of a delogation to the bimatal- lic convention to bo held in Chicago August 1. Jdohn J. Columbus, a resident of Camden, J., claims to be a lineal doscondant of the groat admiral, but for various reasons has deemod 1t necessary to shield himself from public notice, A Pittshurg proachor charges the Chicago calamity to Providence. Every tindor box is therefore an invitation to Irovidence to rlny tho rolo of firobug. Vorily, our asy- ums do not get their due, ‘The proposed tower on the city hall of San Francisco is estimated to cost “about $400,- 000.” The design is lofty and pretty, and the cost is in keoping with ' the prolonged haul which thoe city building has made on the taxpayer: Justice Blatchford’s wealth was partly in- herited. His fathor onco lost §50,000, it is related, having set a valise containing that amount down in Fulton streot, New Yerk, 10 buy somo peanuts and gone off forgotting it. But he was so wealthy that the loss did not hurt him much. The widow of Captain James Sheppard Thornton, the exccutive ofticer of the Kear- sargo in its fight with the Alabama, is to build & costly memorial to him in Merri- mack, N. H, Captain_Thornton was a_de- scendant of Matthew Thornton, one of New Hampshire's threo signers of the Declara- tion of Independence. The stato recently erected a monument to the latter's memory. and Mrs. ‘Thornton’s memorial, it is p dicted, will vosing. William Dean Howells was in Buffalo the other day and a reverential reporter who ot a ghmpse of the great man as he strode into the hotel dining room. describes him thus: “The man was a little bolow the averago height, thick-set and orect. His head was large and well shaped, His faco was stern, rugged and leonine, Heavy brows shaded sharp blue eves. A gra bellious moustache covered n doeter: upper lip. A white straw hat with rim was set evenly upon silvered hair banged carefully upon an‘immobile forehead.” Mr. Howells ordered pork and beans, S auigee st e 'ROUND ABOUT THE FAIR. A New York house exhibits a cape made of sable tails; it is worth 817,500, In Colombia's building there is $50,000 worth of ancient, pottery, idols, incense burners and household utensils. “The Catholic congress will assenible at the Artinstitute, Chicago, September 4. Mgr. Satolli and Cardmal Gibbons are to bo pr nt. he bible brought over in the Mayflower by the Winthrops is to bo shown at_the fair. It is now the property of Mrs. James L. Gates of Milwaukee. The log cabin in which Sitting Bull was killed is on exhibition inMidway plaisance. It is occupied by Rain-in-the-face, the chief who is said to have killed General Custer. So true o history are the caravels that tho sailors dipped up the water needed to clean the decks with queor shaped canvas buckets made in tho fashion of those used in the time of Cotumbus. The big hotels at Chicago are not as crowded this month as they were during June, but the smaller hotels, where lower rates are charged, have moro guests than they had a month ago. In the Manufactures building a Now York firm has fitted up an_ivory and gold room. The furniture is all exponsive bedstead being valued at .500. 1t is chor: with ivory iinish, and is hand carved. It is now proposed that the geological specimens at the exposition be used to found a museum in Chicago, as collectively the exhibits are invaluable, but separately they are not worti shipping back to the counties from which they were gathered. The American housewife can learn how to make any number of difforent jellies and sweetmeats from vegetable products by o study of the Japan exhibit, The Japanese have the happy faculty of combining any number of frufts and vegetables into one particular dish or jelly in such manner as to make it not only deloctable, but highly nu- tritive as well. Of the sixty-nine engines which furnish power to the machinery at tho exposition Ponnsylvania furnished twenty-three and Ohio fourteen. Ther is one engine of 2,000- horse power and twelve of 1,000-horse power. The Corliss engine, which was the wonder of the Centennial,' was 1,400-horse power. The 2,000-horse power engine is really capa- ble 3.000-horse power. It weighs 650,000 pounds; its big wheel could make 120 revolu- tions a minuto; it is valuea at $50,000. In the Nebraska building there is a Ne- braskan idea of Justice wrought out resident of Dorchester of that s Tho statue is of tin, about seven feet in height, and represents Justice holding the tradi tional scales.and sword, but with hor eyes wide open. Tt sumply suggests that if Jus- tice is to be bribed she wants to see the size and color of the “dust” which is ted to turn the scales. Iv is not the only statue, howevyer, on the grounds in which the proper form is given, but in which the expression and 1dea are wanting. be more dlaborate and im-- [ I NENRASKA AND NERRASKANS, Tt cost George Hill of O'Nelill $100 to steal A 420 watch, Thero I8 talk of changing the namo of the town of Elk Crook Buffalo county has paid out $$72.91 for gopher scains this season. Rev. F. M. Bacon fs the new pastor of the Broken Bow Eviscopal church, The Southeastern Nebraska Poultry asso ciation has been organizod av Beatrico with S. 8. Barton as prosident. Ben I, Glarior and Pleasant Richardson, two former Lincoln mon, are in jail at Den: vor because of crooked transactions. Abble Haven, & 15-year-old I'romont young lady, while on & visit to Danbury, la.. was killed in a rumaway accident. Her body was taken to Fremont for burial. It is said that Beatrico has a resident who is & bigamist, having a wife there and ono at Chicago. ‘The Chicago woman aud her five children aro reported to bo destitute. A team of mules belongine to Charles Snyder of Colon is missing, and a tramp is beifeved to havo holped himself to the ani- mals and indulgod in the luxury of a ride. C. C. Dalby, wanted at Os , Ia., for burglary commitied obruary 4, has been home near Repub- City and will be taken back to the seeno of hiis erime, William Hartley, who was foroman of con- struction of the big bridge at Nebraska City, and who later murdored his wifoat Mom: phis, Tonn., while intoxieatod ana was son- tonced to death, has had his sentonco com- muted to imprisonment for life. 'he grocery store of 8, C. Stubbs & Co. of Bradshaw was destroyed by firo with all its contents, causing a loss of $4,500. Tho ladics of tho town turnod out, formed a bucket brigade and helpod to save othor property from destruction Tho origin of the fire is & mystery. Tt will bo remombered, says the Norfolk News, that several months ago Levi Innos, a brakeman on the Scribner branch of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley road, was seriously injured while switching at Scribnor. His case was watchod with groat interost, as his back was badly crushed and supposed to b broken. Aftor lingering on tho brink of death for weeks, Mr. Innes bogan toimprove very slowly until he is now ablo to be taken around in an invalid chair, and is fast regaining his strength. This is one of the remarkablo cases that ocour now and then to puzzle the medical fratenity. —_— SMILING LINES, Washington Sta; It is when a woman gets exught In a shower with i new hat on that you niay realizo what a rain of terror is. Buffalo Courtor: honest man in town. “ndeed?” “Yes. Got m to benta o ‘e is cortainly the most 1 cuuso hia wito wanted im Detrolt Free Pross: ey call them selling s bocause a big majority of those who at the pool Hox are sold. cript: “Woll auld U an, surveying truck, I don've torso Belvedere."” all that ston hug- oss DX on Philadelphia Lodeer: A Mr. Howe s sald to raise moro. honvy than any other man in- Now York state, which brings to mind the familiar line, “Howe doth the little busy bee." Kate Flold's Washington: piteher twisting himself so mu Fathor—He s 1n the throw. on—What Is that I for, father? of base ball. Atlanta Constit raflroad, hasn't it “Yos; just built. How's the stock moing?" “Dor’t know; but yonder comes the recelyor ask him.” Town's got a mev Now Orleans Picayuno: Tho only suspicion or erookedness 1 hénven came about when an astronomer discovered that some of tho stars had been fixed. Atelison Globo: When n man reaches the age ut which he Is ready tosettlo down and stop glving his wife trouble, bis sons b reached the age to begin. s rich,” sho murmured, “T bollove, And while his style is very neat, His sense of grammar, I percelve, Is altogether ncomplete. “Alas, T don't see how he can A proper sort of husband bo; He cannot be a peaceful man Whose parts of spesch will e e I Dire Predictions Unrealized. Ohio State Journal, During the fiscal year ending Juno 50 om imports wmounted Lo $935,000,000, which i rly §200,000,000 more than for any year the enactment of the McKinley bill What has becomo of the Chineso wall that democrats said would be erected around the country when that measure became n law! Alack and alas, it has gone the way of all the other dire predictions indulged in by our friends, the cnomy. agroo. Indianavolis Journal, ol In Tove with her sweot v And say, In such n “hoy're talking noy he's now my own, "tend the phone; And now, I think it's safe 10 s, No matter what the thno of day,: 8ho's showling her lngulstic powor, And Lmuy sny, at uny hour, “she's tulklug now.” SUMMER CLEARINGSA Saturday morning we begin to clear up our lines of summer wear, In men’s suits we have made some very stiff reductions. 2000 Men's Sty $13.50. $20 suits for $15. Corresponding reductions in the several grades. Some suits are marked down to ONLY $5.00. These are our regular line of this season’s summer suits, all cloths, colors and makes. 300 Boy's Wash Suts $2.00 ‘Wash suits that sold all season at $3.50 go now for only $2.00, A good boy’s suit worth $2.50 now on sale at $1.50. All Summer Goods Must Be Closed Out Men's and Boys Straw Hats, All our straw hats at just HALF PRICE. $1.00 hats are now 80c. Summer coats and vests at big was $5.00, now $2.60. BROVINING, KING & 0, BOc hats are now 2Be. reductions. A nice coat and vest ¥