Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 15, 1893, Page 4

o | i. i | % edbie country. - [ [ s — THE DAILY BEE. ROSEWATRR, PURBLISHED VERY MORNING, ( % WHAT OF THE TRUSTSY The announcement is made that the plate glass manufacturers have at last sucooedod in ostablishing & complete monopoly over the market for their pro- oy == ===l duets. It isstatod that they have or- O N I SO | Ranized a trust with a onpital of 88,000,- ALY Dt miayont Sanday One Yenr.. §,8 %5 | 000, All the manutaoturors ave not in- £ix Monthy 509 | eluded in tho organization, but it is of 200 | course axpected to draw them all in, It 100 | is statod that there ave now in opera Omaha, The Fouth Oniihia Counell 1 Uhie 28th Stroots ot r of Commoree, and 15, Tribune news and To the emittances shoald lishing Co mpany, and_postoffice ordors o to the order of the con- il e Pub) 1108 Jonving the city for the sammer can he BEk sent thelr nddross by leaving an COMPANY, PUBLISHING Satnrday, Juy ®1 ) + The Bee In Chiongo. Tnw DAILY and SUNDAY BEE §s on sate in Chieago ai the following places: almer housce. Grand Pactfic hotel. Auditorian: hotel. @reat Northern hotel jore hotel, and hotel, Tis I3 Sizer, 180 State streot cs of Tiw Bex can be seon at the Ne- ration build- position grounds. - - Averago Clreulat| n for June, 1803 “PHE gold reserve is steadily increas- ing in the treasury at Washington. "This is a good sign. ATOR PETTIGREW and Representa) tive Pickler have expressed themselves in favor of free coinage of silver, and now the leading republican papers of South Dakota tell them very plainly that they do not represent their party in that state on the silver guestion. A MAJORITY of ten on the first vote on the army bill is not so great that it will afford the emperor much cause to feel elated. The bill will probably pass, but the moral effect must be to make the im- perial government more cautious in at- tempting to enforce its policy upon the Reichstag. A REPORT of the condition of the national banks at the close of business on July 12 will soon be in the hands of tho comptroller of the currency. The na- tional banks are the backbone of our financial Institutions; upon their sound ness depends the industrial stability of A report indicating pru- dent management will be anxiously awaited. OUR dispatches convey the startling intelligence that there is serious dis: affection among Irish democrats over the failure to recognize the services of Judge Gannon of Nebraska by the Cleveland administration. While this outburst of purtisan indignation oceurred in Illinois 1t is only what might have been ex pected. This is another striking in- ‘Btance of political ingratitude. ik United States grand, jury at Tacoma has indicted the president of the Canadian Pacific railroad for secret rate cutting on first-cluss tickets from Tacoma to Boston. This action may be technically right, but if the courts of this country are to bé universally in-- voked to stop secret rate cutting they will have little time for other and more important business. At any rate this would be the case in Nebraska. THE striking coal miners in Kansas refuse to abandon their protracted strike and are making new efforts to sccure aid in those localities where the mines have not been entirely shut down. The miners in Missouri are also discuss- ing the advisability of a sympathetic strike. While anxious to have the laborer have due recognition of all his rights, it may be well to remark that dull trade and depressed business is alike discouraging to labor aud capital. JUDGE JAMES J. JENKINS of the United States civeuit court, indicted in connection with the failed Plankinton bank at Milwaukoe, has offered to resign his position on the bench in caso the president thinks such action advisable. Judge Jenkinsisevidently of the opinion that & public trust and the distrust of the public are incompatible elements. Yhere are a fow officers right heve in Me stato of Nebraska who would show a better appreciation of their relations to tho people if they would como around to the views held by Judge Jenkins. BELGIUM has voted such a revision of its constitution as will authorize the acquisition of colonies, The Congo Free State is the land upon which Balguim has for some time been casting longing giances. The Congo state has from its foundation been under the presidency of the king of tho Bolgians and Belgian capital has been employed in its develop- ment. A few forelgn complications may bo stirred up by this move, but Belgium ought to have little trouble in following the oxamples sot by its neighbors in carrying out their-colonial policies, THE news that Congressman Bryan will be retired from the house ways and means committee is not at ail startling, ‘The trend of political events the past six months has foreshadowed the proposed humiliution of Bryan. In view of that _ gentleman's past afiliations with popu- 18t leaders in this state and the sena- torial hope that springs eternal in his wanly breast it was not to have been expected that he would abandon his pro- fo:80d sentiments on the money question in order that he might be kept on the ways and means committee. Moreover, My, Bryan has for months enjoyed what- ever prestige the committeeship can be- stow. He has squeezed that lemon and p 18 pow in quest of persimmous, o¢ than are msumption, or tion more plate glass fact required for domestic than are likely to bo required in the noar future, at prosent prices. In order to check production and to provent a cut. ting in prices, a combination has been formed among tho glass manufacturers. To this end a genoral commissioner has been appointed whose business it will be to see that the arrangement shall be carried out in good faith by all con- cerned This movemont for the creation of an- othor trust, in view of the reported fact that the government authorities were arranging to enforce the law against such combinations, looks like either a deliberate defiance of the authorities or an understanding on the part of the promoters of the com- bination thai the threat of proceedings under the anti-trustlaw was meaning- less. It was reported a fow weoks ago that the government was getting ready to make an aggressive movement against the trusts, with a view to having a thorough tost made of tho law prohibit- ing this form of monopoly, but nothing has since developed to show that there was any substantial foundation for the report. So far as appears the national authorities have taken no steps what- evor looking to an enforcement of the law, and there is nothing to indicate any intention on their part to proceed against the mo- nopolistic combinations that now control nearly every important branch of business. Tho last administration was blame- worthy in this respect. It neglected, during two years in which the anti- trust law was in effect, to make any ade- quate effort to enforee the act. True, it did make one or two attempts to carry out the law, but the failure was so com- plete as to rather cast discredit on the act. The present administration has been in - power nearly five months, and although pledged to the enforcement of the anti-trust law, has done prac- tically nothing, so far as the public knows, to that end. Mr. Cleveland said in his inaugural address: “The t- ence of immense aggregations of kindred enterprises and combinations of business interests, formed for. the purpose of lim- iting production and fixing prices, is in- consistent with the fair field which ought to be open to every independerft activity. Legitimate strife in business should not be superseded by an en- forced concession to the demands of combinations that have the power to de- stroy, nor should the people to be served lose the benefit of cheapness which unusually results from wholesome competition. These aggregations and - combinations fro- quently constitute conspiracies against the interests of the people, and in all their phases they are unnatural and "opposed to our American sense of-fair- ness. To the extent that they can be reached and restrained by federal power, the general government should relieve our citizons from their interfer- ence and exactions.” The people fully approved this position of President Cleveland and they accepted his utter- ance as an implied promise that the power of the general government would be exerted, with as little delay as possible, - to relieve them from the interference and exactions of monopoly. Has there not been time enough to enable the administration to show that the utteranceof the presi- dent was sincero? The people are patient and long-suffering, but their forbearance is being sorely tried. ME COURT VACANCY. The president will probably not ap- point a successor to the late Justice Blatchford on the bench of the supreme court for several months, but the matter is receiving attontion from the eastern press, which, of course, is unanimous in the opinion that an eastern man ought to be appointed. The consensus of opinion seems to be that the appoint- ment will be made from New Yor! The circuit over which Justice Bla ford , presided is composed of d the states of New York, Connecticut and Vermont. In filling vacancies on the snpreme bench it has been the rule for some years past to seloct a man residing within the eireuit in which the vacancy exists, but this rule has not extended to the promotion of oue of the circuit judges to the vacancy. Thus, while one of the circuit judges is a dem- ocrat'and was appointed by Mr. Cleve- land during his first administration, the improssion is that the president will select for the vacancy a man not on the bench, but within the circuit over which the late justice presided. The names of soveral distinguished lawyers are mentioned in this con- nection. Prominent among them is that of James C Carter, one of the American counsel before the Bering sea court of arbitra- tion, who is & man of oxceptional legal ability. Another is I'vederick R. Coudert, who also represented the gov- ernment bofore the arbitration tribunal and is a lawyer of eminence. Judge Phelps of Vermont, ex-minister to Kng- land and the leaaing counsel for the United States before the Bering sea court, is numbered among those who may be considered by the president. There are still others, but these are the most prominent now mentioned. It is not to be doubted that any one of them would be an acquisition to the supreme tribunal, but it is considered doubtful whether any of them would accept the position. A seat on the supremo boneh is a distinguished honor. The ambi- tious lawyer can have no higher aspiva- tion. Success in that tribunal means an immortality of honor unsurpassed by anything which the republic ‘can offer, The names of the great jurists who have been on the supreme bench occupy a place in our history second to none. But it is not a profitable service, and for that reason wany eminent lawyers who T e = THE OMAHA undoubtedly would have shown bril- liantly upon the bench have declined 1o accopt a place in the tribunal where Jay and Marshall and Chase and Miller made immortal fame. Tt is thus prob- able that none of the great lawyors not now in judicial position, who are named in connection with the vacancy on the supreme bench, would accept an ap- pointment, simply for the reason that to do 80 would necessitate a great financial sacrifice. Roscoe Conkling and others have declined to go on the supreme bonch because they could not afford to do 8o, and the same reason might induce the great New York lawyors named to prefer to continue in practice. There seoms to be no doubt that an eastern man will be appointed to fill the vacancy on the supreme bench and that he will probably be selected from New York. As the court is now constituted there could be no reasonable fault found with this. The west has really no valid reason for asking the appointment, having in Fuller, Field, Brewer, Brown and Shiras all the representation in the su- prome court that it can fairly ask or expect. FIVE PER CENT BONDS, The city council has displayed a com- mendable spirit in promptly taking ac- tion looking toward the continuance of the work of public improvement in this city. The failure to sell the 44 per cont sewer bonds was a misfortune which the most prudent could not have foreseen. ‘When the bonds issued at 5 per cent in- terest last year sold for a good round premium it was figured that the city would in the long run be paying a little less than 4} per cent upon the face value. If the conditions of the money market remained the same it would have been wise financiering to pay a smaller rate of interest and sell the bonds at a price nearer par. But the supply of loan money remained stationary. Municipal bonds are a drug on the market at any price. Yot tho city treasurer has as- surances that 5 per cent bonds will ro- ceive consideration in several quarters, and is confident that he will be able to dispose of them. This being the case, the hue and cry raised that such action is a direct attack upon the city’s credit is altogether out of place. The city is now paying 6 per cent on some of its outstanding obliga- tions, 5 per cont on othors and what practically amounts to about 44 per cent on still others. Because it must now go back to 5 ver cent bonds no more signi- fies a loss of public credit than does the fact that a merchant must now pay a higher discount on his paper than for- merly indicates financial distress. Not being certain that waiting until next year will secure a sale of the bonds at the figure previously anticipated, it is cortainly a wise thing to accopt the most advantageous offer that can now be obtained. To stifls public improve- ments at this timo means stagnation. It is far better to pay the difference of something over $750 per year than to deprive the laborers of all employment, and to run the risk of suits against the city for much larger sums on account of the broken contracts. Kive per cent bonds sold will be better than 41 per cent bonds unsold. LYNCHING bees may aftor all turn out not to be such innocent amusement as they are generally conceived. The case of the negro recontly executed by a law- less mobat Bardwell, Ky., is to be in- vestigated by the National Citizens' Rights association and the wife of the maltreated vietim is to be assisted in prosecuting a claim for damages against the sheriffs who failed to protect him and the individuals who assisted in de- priving him of his life. It can hardly be disputed that the negro, whether in fact guilty or innocent, was illegally deprived of rights guaranteed him by both federal and state constifutions. ‘Whether the actions of the sheriffs and of the mob constitute a case in which the injured wife may seck dam- agos for tort . will raise what the lawyers call ‘“‘a nice legal point.” The participants in the lynching are all criminally liable, but time and time again it Kas been proven that prosecu- tion instituted against members of such a mob are either withdrawn as the in- dignation of the law-abiding citizens abates or lapses into farces which come to nothing. If the courts can be induced to sot a precedent for oivil liability, the inconvenience of a lawsuit and the almost certain expectation of a judgment for heavy damages would undoubtedly actas a stimulant for the sheriffs to do their duty in protecting prisoners in custody and a deterrent to the ill-con- sidered actions of a reckless mob, UNDOUE the exaggerated re- potts respocting the president's health, which have so greatly annoyed both Mr. and Mrs, Cleveland, would not have avisen had the attendant physician frankly unbosomed himsell to the re- porters as to the character of the ill- ness. It is a grave mistake among moembers of the medical profession to attempt 10 suppress tho exacy facts re- garding the health of a public man, either upon the plea that their codo of othics requires it, or for any other reason. The people have a right to know the exact condition of such patients, Fortunately, as the public was gratified to learn, there was no need for any ap- prehension in Mr. Cleveland’s case, but the mysterious mannor of his physician allowed room for the vumor that he was suffering from a dangerous illness. And if he had been, under the ethics of the medical fraternity, the facts could not havo been stated by the physician until he had been specially authorized to do so. ~THE work of assessing the taxable property of Douglas county this year cost nearly $10,000, Last year the cost was about 89,000, Each year this item grows apace. Just why this should be the case has not yot been explained. The reason for it cannot be found in the returns made, The commissioners have the power to adjust this mattor on a fair basis, and if so disposed they can put an effectual stop to the leak. I7 18 not likely that the resolutions adopted by the free silver convention at Creede, Colo., the other day will ever take their place is history beside the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798, Nor is the fact that the motion to DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, secodo, 1n case of the repeal of the Sher- man law, was seriodly (ntroduced in the convention ealeulabodicto excite any alarm. The groatdst significance that attaches is to diregt attention to the facility and dispatolt with which a set of men can make thomselves ridiculous when they allow thiTr dwn selfich pref- erences to control {hem instead of the dictates of equity and reason. E——epe— TAE saline lands soon to be sold under a vecent act of the “Jeifislature will not be put up at avction,. as a Lincoln con- temporary would haye jus beiieve. The men holding the lease alone have the option to buy the lands. Their value will bo fixed by’ appraisement of the Lancaster county commissioners as the law directs. The interests of the state in this important matter are in the keeping of thess county offi- cials. If the lease holders can influence these men the price fixed for the land will be low—very low. If the officials are disposed to do their duty they will call in disinterested appraisers unknown to the lease holders and hit upon a fair and reasonable valuation of the land. Their findings will be watched with in- terest by all seekers after straight goods. OF ALL the promising industries of Nebraska none is of greater importance than the beet sugar industry. While yet in its infancy, the possibilities of its development can be seen in the opera- tion of the Norfolk and Grand Island fuctories and the increased acreage of sugar beots cultivated from year to year. While the press of this state has constantly shown the benefits of exten- sive beet culture, there are many locali- ties in the state where experiments have not been made because of a lack of general knowledge of the handsome re- sults attending the culture of the sugar beet in the vieinity of the factories. The dissemination of reliablp information of the results of this season’s plant might perhaps claim the attontion of the state labor commissioner, OMAHA still offers tangible evidence of the restriction on trade, resulting from close money and active work in the havvest field. Bradstreel’s tabulation of clearing house totals for the week ending Thursday shows the decrease in Omaha's total, compaved with the cor- responding week in July, 1892, to ba 17 per cont. Minneapolis shows a falling off of 25.3; Milwaukee, 25.3; Denver, .1; St. Paul, 16.4; Kansas City, 12.07, and the entire country, including New York City,12.5 per cent. Thus it will be seen that Omaha's) business is fully as good as that of her chieflrivals. = OF COURSE the fire’ service at the World's fair ground$ 'is.now to be in- creased and supplied with a better equipment. That is.only to be expected after the authorities have boen aroused by the fatalities that attended the con- flagration of a few 'days ago. The unanimity with which ‘the commission- ers adopted the report’ recommending this measure may be taken as evidence that they are not as gomfortable in mind as they would have been had they taken all needful precautions,in the first place, The lesson nearest home is the only one that teaches. THE Literary congress has drawn to- gether at Chicago some of the most in- teresting characters of the literary world. Among the cluster of bright lights, American authors will not be compelled to yield the foremost places. Another Bourbon Blunde! Fremont Tribune. The Blair Courier (democratic) says State Auditor Moore has rtain well defined democratic traits” Not s bit; Eugene Moore never drinks a droj B —— An Antidote for Hard Times. Keokuk tiate City. Thero cannot be what used to be called ‘“‘hard times” again in states like Towa, 11li- nois and Missourl. Take the single item of butter, Towa's income from butter alone lust year was $32,022,580. It is larger this year and the income goes on without reference to hard times. In 1837 the whole northwest didn't have such an income as that from all sources together.- e Merriment in Politios, Cincinnatt Lommeretal, Tt is well for Congressman Burrows that his “'sockless" confreve, Congrossman Simp- son, is not a *‘fire cater,” else tho man from Michigan mjght be held personally account- able for iusinuating that the hansas man is o lunatic. There has been nothis unnier in politics this year than Jerry's “scheme’ to support a republican congressman for ker of a democratic house, spea Bubstantial Sympathy, Cincinnati Commercial, Chicago's sympathy is quickly touched. Bo- fore the embers of tho fatal fire wero biack- ened o relief fund. was started, ana the money is pouring in. It is well that the heroism of the men who lost their lives should be appreciated, and that thoso of their flesh and blood who live aftor them will not_suffer. Chicago cannot oo highly appreciste the work of its unselfish firemen, AL s ‘The Extra yession, Globe-Democrat. Ir the extra scssion lasts six or elght woeks, a8 many congressmen think it will, the tanff question may come up for consid’ eration. The house is likely to vote to rope:1 tho silver law by the end of August, whilo the chances are that tho senato will svend a longer time upon it. If the session b> lengthoned out by the senate's delay the houso may, in_order to. il in the time, do a little work toward framing a taviff bill, D v Phitadelp eord. If herolsm joined isfortune ever de- served a memorial, suoh #,Wribute is surely due to the memory of the hrave flremen who perishod by the buruing,qf 4he cold storage warehouse on the exp 4 grounds at Chi- cago, Thoy did theig, duty in the face of earful danger; they digd 48 heroes of old died when conquering iadrons swept over them in fierce und ir tible urray. The mogument to the gallnt Chicago firomen should be reared wherd they met their fate, & perpetusl meworial of their high courage aud generous self-sacrifice, ——or— A Civil Serviod P Philadelphia Nosth) #merican, ‘We must deny that eithr party is for such reform of the eivil service as would make the tenure of oftice depend upon faithful and efticient performance of duty. In brief, that is nov the rule of any lurly undor the sun, and perhaps never will be. The placemen protocted by vbe law hold over, but only be- cause of the law. Eventhe law can be evaded, and has been evaded often by all parties. The reform that will reform must e on different lines—the lines so often in- dicated in these columus. Make the service @ business training school with four grades, every man o serve one year in each grade if he can make the running. When he cannot #0 up on merit let him go out and let some- body else in. When a man has served a year in the fourth grade let him be graduated with a diploma and steo out. He may be eligible to higher places, and if 8o he can be asked to go ub higher, JULY 15, 1808, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, ‘The treaty of commercs betwnon France And Russin 18 romarkable not alone by reason of the fack that it ocourred almost simultancously with what is practically & declaration by the czar of a tarift war with Germany, but also beoause, it constitutes, Ifwo are to beliove tho assurances of the Muscovite government, tho first definite treaty binding France to Russia, And not- withstanding the efforts of Alexander I11, who has even gone to the length of issuing an official elrcular warning all editors and correspondents of newspapers against at- taching any political importance to the treaty—an altogethor unvrecedentod course ~it is evident from the tone of the Parisian and German pross that the convention is far more significant than the Russian autocrat would iiave us, believe. Tho tarift reductions conceded by Itussia to France are of the most extensive and generous character, and are not confined merely to French wines, as has beon stated but ex- tend to fmore than ninoty staplo articles of French industry and commerce. While commercial treaties in themseclves are usually of n pacific charactor and import, that which has just boen concluded between Russia and France partakes, by roagon of the eircumstances undor which it has been contracted, far more of the nature of an offensive and defensive alliance against a common onemy, whose identity is clearly in- dicated by the tariff war now fnaugurated at St Petorsburg against Gormany. In theso times there is no surer method ot allying the political interests of two nations than by a commercial understanding, a fact which the Berlin government understood and put into practice when 1t created first of all its Zollverein, and at a later period the com- mercial convention which unites Germany, Austria and Italy to cach other. The czar's action, therefore, must be regarded in the light of a response to the victory obtained at the polls at the recent general election by Emperor William, and as a notification that he, too, is making the final preparations for the inevitable conflict between the Slav and the Teuron races, » The doubts which for so long hung about tho passage of the' home rule bill by the Commons have been swept aside by Mr. Gladstone's detormination that tho majority shall rule. By his resolute and courageous conduct he has reunited his wavering forces and so greatly strengthened his lines. His opponents still predict the defeat of his great measure of justico to Ireland, but they do it without giving satisfactory reasons for their belief in their own triumph. The home rule bill is now moving forward with- out serious let or hindrance and its ultimate success scoms assured. The public lifo of Gladstone is ono of the most remarkable in the long list of the distinguished political leaders of England, and, if he should crown it with this just measure of polivical frecdom for Ireland, it will be aifcult to name an- other British statesman who achieved so much under conditions so unfavorable. Eng. land for hundreds of years has had only a single plan for the government of the Irish people; it was the old plun of the conquerof keeping his foot upon the neck of tho con- quered. Time has compelled it to bo modi- fied, but in its best state it could justly bear noother label than that of coercion. The fight that Mr. Gladstone has waged in sup- port of home rule has been prolonged and sharply contested at every step of the way. The difficulties he hus overcome, the encmies he has dofeated have been legions, but with a dotermination, persistency which are extraordinary, he has gone right on with his great purposo until, after many years, after an almost unparalleled strugglo, its realization, so far as it can bo realized by the action of the House of Commons, seoms near at hand. Should the home rule bill be- come luw, no statesman could desire a more glorious ending to his career than a moral and intellectual triumph so ‘gréat as that ‘would be. * The czar of Russia shows undoubted sa- gacity in adopting the best physical means to hold together his vast empire. Ho has pushed the transcaspian military railway southeastward until it has almost reached the frontiers of British India and Chiua, the two powers most likely to dispute with him the acquisition ot further dominion in cen- tral Asia. Having thus nssured the safety of the Russian position in tho southoust, he has undertaken a more stupendous work in beginning the construction of an unbroken line of railway to connect Buropean Russia with a port on the Pacific ocean. This pro- joct does not present such serious ongineor- ing difculties s were surmounted in the construction of the first American railway across the Rocky mountains. The steppes of Siberin for a great part of the distance afford a level way,on whicha roadbed may be cheaply built. The most costly impedi- ment is found in the numsrous rivers to be crossed, many of them large, swift and par- ticularly subject to obstruction from 'ice. The whole length of the Asiatic or main Sinerian line is 4,800 miles. The estimated cost is $200,000,000. The worlk, which is now progressing from both ends toward the center, is to be completed in about ten Years. There will then be a stretch of rail- way, all located upon Russian territor about 6,000 miles in length, holding European Russia and Asiatic Russia firmly togother with a continuous band of stecl. Until the proposed raily/ay running north and south to conncct the two Americas shall have been built there will be nothiug on carth to rival this great stretoh of eustorn and west- orn railway across the Russian empire. Our trunscontinental railways, great though they be, suffer in the comparison. * e DIf President Carnot were to take advant- age of the rioting and disorder which France is likely to undergo during the next fow months and proclaim martil law in the cities of Paris, Lyons, Muarseilles and a few others, and then, with the country practi- cally in his possegsion us a dictator, wero to submit a proposition to elect himsolf presi- dent for life, he could almost certainly win and the republic would become a thing of the past. The middle classes would be glad of peace at any price, and it would excuse him in their eyes If he gave them & strong and stable government. This has always boen the case in France, and there is little reason for supposing that any great change in the nature of the people has been wrought in the past twenty years thut would provent the consummation at this time of a scheme like that which placed the last Napoleon on a French throne. The present disturbances have some political significance, how much will not appear until the fall elections in France have come off. Ualess the republic can suppress them, they offer the oppor- tunity for a dictator such as Boulanger hoped to be. 1t is hardly likely matters will come to such a pass, but that the mercurial character of the French people and the prevailing disturbances render it easily pos- sible cannot be doubted, .. e The recent Russian demand upon Bulgaria for the payment of an instalment of the in- demnity due for the expenses of the Russian occupation, will be met probably by a coun- ter demand on the part of the Bulgarian government. Before the war of liberation large sums of Bulgariun money were de- posited in Russia, either iu banks or in the foreign office at St. Petersburg. Large funds were also intrusted by individua Bulgarlans to the Russian miuister at | more help than is noeded. Bucharost and to the Russian consuls in Bulgarin and Roumamia. Part of this morey, it 18 stated, was expondod on build ing the now Russian logation at Hucharoat A certam amount of Bulgarian publie monoy, dorived from taxation and appro- printod to the war ministry, was aiso ro mitted to Russia during the Russia pa: tion and in the earlior yoars of Prince Alox ander's veign, Sinco the divlomatic rupture with Bulgaria, the interost on these deposits has not been paid. The Bulgarian govern- mont Is now furnishod with a complote list of the sums romitted by Bulgarians to Russia or intrusted to the various Russian consu- lates, and is comsequently i a position to muke a claim for their repayment, togethor with accumulations of intorest. fn caso of a refusal on the part of Russia, the Dulga government will rotaliate by rotaining tho instalment of tho indomnity now dewan Tho amount claimed by Bulgada is sald to Do considerably larger than the sum claimod by Russia. - NEBRASKA OROP NOTES. Alma Kecord: The alfalfa crop is very ®ood this year in Hurlan county, Hastings Nebraskan: Chris Hanson says that ha ting has fairly 'y ed and that ho is doing the heaviest business in the implement line which he has ever dono sinco locating in Hastings, attsmouth Journal: The condition of growing vorn crop in Cass county is so phenomonal us to exeite tho wondor and astonishment of overy one who visits the country. Ivery b remarks that he never saw anyihing to oqual it at this soasou of the yoar, Perkins County Woolly West: A good deal of nprl\ig wheat this year ald be of moro value fo the farmer it cut for hay. It is now too lato for it to make wheat and 1t should not be allowed to go to wasto, Hay i8 groing to be & very good privco this yoar and tho farmer who has plenty of it to sell will be in luck. Hastings Nehraskan: The hay crop in this soction has not been & heavy one this season, cspeefally the tamo articie, but thero Wwill bo suticient for home consumption and leave a small mirgin for export. There is cousiderablo of last yoar'a crop left over, most of which is 1n good condition and will serve to help out the nosw orop. Norfolk Nows: Augustus Sattler has on hibition at his real ostate ofiice a corn 1k which stands eight feet high, measuros id one-half fuches in circimoronce and woighs four pounds. The kavas pulled from a fiold on Mr. Sat- m four miles west of town, and the immense possibilities of upland show soil. Bayard Transcript: Mr. Hawloy is confi- dent that most of those going west at the present time looking for employment will bo disappointod, as the country has already Ho reports the stock suffering from the effocy of the drouth. Ran: attle in large hords ave being held thin forty miles of the are gradually They will be watchod until after the crops arve harvested and then allowed to range at will, —— THE SILVER-TONGUED ROAR, country very dry and Kansas_City Journal Colorado has almost succoeded in naking the governor of Kansas respectable, Chicago Inter Ocoan: The wild and reck tess frothings so freely indulged at Denver by the governor of Colorado and others bear about the same relation to the noble rago which made a teapot of Boston harbor and a shapeless ruin of the Bastile as a firecracker does to a pistol, sheet lighting to chain lightping. Chicazo Post: They are flne_citizen these silver maniacs of Colorado. since the conscionce of the nation manded the repeal of the Sherman law, and especially since the prosident hus summoned The governor of { congress in extraordinary session, the white metal farmers of the Rockies have been nowling for gore. New York World: Resolutions of excited mobs are of little account in a business transaction, and thoy will assuredly not find # market fov their product by armod revolu- tion. "The mannot in which rebellion is mat inthe United States, as its history shows, is not by surrender to thrents. Sensible sil* ver men should suppress the lumatics. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Colorado is not dependent on silver mining in the degiec which some of its citizens protend ; and even if this branch of Industry should be crippled tho state's progress and prosperity would not be seriously retarded. But nobody be- lioves that this activity will bo crushed out. There will always be a considerable demand for the white metal. Minneapolis Journal: Certainly the men whose circumstances aro 50 desperavo as are thoso of the Colorado silver advocates, as shown by the Denver address, that they ap- pear to be ready to sacrificeanything for the advancement of silver, even principle itself, are not in a condition to give wise counsel as to the financial affairs of the country. They are too vitally interested personally. Kansus City Times: The campaign of bluff of these silyer mine owners during the last few weeks has reached tho vory acme of insolence, and yet the American ' people, suffcring, as they are, from all manner of hardships as the result of tolerating class legislation in the interest of a fow people, have administered but mild rebuke, and have waited patiently for the convening of congress, they hono to be rglieved. Chicago Times: The cause of free silver, the matutenance of a bimetallic standard, will not be promotea by such wild declara: tions as Governor Waite of Colorado saw fit to indulge at a meeting held 1 Denver under ' churged myself with 1 tho auspices of tho state silver league Though men of moderation who had definite viows and could sustain them by argumenty appealing to roason, asked for moderation, tho titndeo wore with Governor Waite ia what may vroporly bo describod as a more harangue. Clicago Tribuno: Foolish Governor Waite told his Denyer audionco ‘it war is foroed upon us wo will sond to Halifax a far groater army ofBritish tories according to our pop- m than our fore nors sent there after volutior Ty wa lien he told thom n." So! That is the way cortain peoplo talked about & third of & cene b, when they wanted an excuse for tho first blow in a strigzlo which Uy hoved would result in- dismems n union, Louis Repy beving ¢ S While revroaches and wns to Denver on bo- are as valuel didactics fr n A position 1o suzgest that ks about ropudiation and socossion in the meantime the sottor wilt be the prospect of foreing a reasonable double- standard coinago, ‘hicago Record: 1 it woro a fact, as some vocatos would like to havo it appear, volume o that nate a oon- 1so for complamt But such s not’ the nage, or silver pur- A amounts to tho samo thing, L mako money more eusily Ifor tho present — stringoncy obtainable, is due to the lack of confidence, which has withdrawn millions fron - New Yors Commerelal, 4 Appraising the silver mined in the United States in 1802 at ts an ounce, the valuo of tho product was loss than one-oloventh of the corn crop (3600,000.000), and coal, cotton, ¢ fron all outranked sile bly. The silver miners e to dazo tho poople by the glitter of the white metal, [ P Tho Remedy Appronching. Chioago Inter Opean. If tho prosident can worry along with his fatnoss until congress meots he will be all vight, It wiil bo tho biggest anti-fat ocoas sion tho presidont has ovor onjoyed. 7158 LERS. adelphin Timos: Stattstics show that In eting the young man is thon niost Hkely ta 10se his selt-control when ho's Just holding his own. Galvoston News: The mosquito glves you | gomo music and then tukes up . collection for it. Oloveland I much,” sald the of the bulliog In Doal I antieipa “ourl as as hestarted ahoad New York sun: Ho-What the misehiof fs this His Wifo--You will have to eat your ontmeal a flower pot this morning; dear. 1, able to get to u china shop since our glel Texas Siftings: blow—I hato to ba grambilag all the ‘Lt thne nbout the hot woeathor., How to cure yours SStArt o suinmor mden ministor in an envelope ade Hghtof tho imposi- Buffalo Courier: Whilo it is truo that the poar man 1s compolled to hump himself 0 own ableyele, It 1sn't the privo wlono that does t. rocory . MF. Ihave Doston Transcript: At the Corner I chargo you with that w ' Mr. Todd=It isn't ne : Mr. Suddenly Good—I in the contribution box i ynic—DId you, indee Whatdy was the matter with 1t? QUAINT THINGS AT SEA. Karsas City Journal, The tossing, frothing, raging Togethor i Loy stood “Oh, ain't ith awo— and it sy od. A nlor{ he narrated of A sallor brave who died Insnving others from tho wavos— “How Jolly nice!™ she sighed. He polnted to the red sunsot So gorgeously outsprend, And asked her if it wasn't fino— +0h, yes—so cute!” sho suld, He then proposed they write their names With sticls upon this sin 8She clapped her hand “Oh, that will be jusf The Club, “Ohe flvo mo thmo, xho trombll A littlo timo to think it over. He'smiled and kissed hor droop And ylolded, ko a tender lover. he's but a child,” ho mused that night Vho shirinks from fate, afruld to tos She reully secmed quite In a fright.” Ho little knew how near he'd guessed it “How shall I broak with Juck. sho mouned, *h, ood graciousl And Harry his my rl “He'll kvep 11, 100; gz, sho gro ho's so audaclous. “Was overgirl in such n fix? I must get rid of Will and Stephen, And George and Archibnld, that's six, And poor dear cousin Tor mukes s¢ven,* As thus sho zrieved in accents wild, tle suid, while joy his feutures brightencd: “Yes, she 13 nothing but a child, And thut 15 why she scemed 50 frightened.” SUNMERCLEARING SA 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’ ouits $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, aff 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 Bays Straw Hats. All our straw hats at just HALF $1.00 hats are now 80c. Summer coats and vests at big was $6.00, now $2.60. PRICE. B0c hats are now 28e, reductions. A nice coat and vest BROWNING, KING & €0,