Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 12, 1893, Page 4

R e — W THE DAILY BEE. e e E. ROSEWATER, Editor —_— PUBLISIED EVERY MORNING. = o e TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. A® afly Mee (without Sunday) One Year.. § 8 aily and Sunday, Ono YOAF........ 0 00 1% Sonths. sty 500 hree Months, ... .. 250 nday Bee, One Yoar . 2 00 ‘luw{:\ Hee, Ong Year 1 50 ‘eckly Blee, One Year. 100 OFFICFS, Omuha, The Ree Building. Suth Omaha, corner N and 26¢h Stroets. ¢il Biufrs, 12 Pearl Stroot, 17 Chamber of Oommerce. New oms 18, 14 and 15, Tribune Building. Washington, 513 Fonrteonth Stroet. CORRESPON DENC : All communications relating to news and ttor should be addressea: To the Editor NUSTNESS LETTERS. e 11 htieiness lotters and remittances shon baAn!Idrl-s'«-ll 10 The Bee Publishing Company, Omahn Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 bo made payable to the order of the com- pany. Parties leavin, have Tne it an order at this THE BE! 11 to thelr addross by leaving ISTIING COMPANY. = SWONIN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. xn, | AR, secrotary of T DR Pab- wolemnly swear that the DAty 1w for the week Sunday. Monday, July A Thursday, 4 Friday. Atgu Baturday, August 10 betore m e thin GU diy of Auguat. 1803, N. P, FriL, Notary Publie. Tar DAy and S Chlengo at the following p) Palimer honse, Leland hof Flies of Tk Bk can bo soan at the Ne- braska building and tho Adminiseeation bulld ing, Exposition grounds. GOVERNOR MCK 13 ® walkaway now. Ir Now looks as if ull the talk about turning down Mr. Bland is about to end fn dissipated smoko. LEY ought to have OHI0 demcerats have been provided with Larry Neal and the straight plat- form. The squeal will come after they are defeatoed ymmissioners are show- ing commendable activity in having the county roads repaired in time for the autumn hauling. THE World's fair congresses are proy- ing to be ons of the most valuable features of the Columbian exposition. ‘Without th ngresses, “where would the fair be at?"” For an illustration of devoted democ- racy apply to Benton MeMillin of Ten- nesseo. He even refrains from grum- Dbling at being dropped from one of the most important committees in the house. THE shoriff with an Algerian village on his hands is in an enviable position. If that village should grow as rapidly as did Omaha the fortune of the Cook county sheriff would be amply assured. PoruLIST leaders announce that they intend to hold by the old ratio of 16 to 1 or die in the last ditch. The populists do not intend to be outdono by any when it comes to advocating the most extremo end of the quostion. NEBRASKA has been one of the prin- cipal seats of settlement for Bohemian immigrants to the United States, and the Bohemian delegation from Ne- braska to the World’s fair will play a prominent part in the ceremonies about to be held there. Ir s that cholera will not down in Europe. That it has so long been kept from gaining a foothold in this country speaks well of our quarantine rogulations. Our precautions must not be relaxed so long as the pest prevails in western Europe. THE hardship which befalis the wage- earning class to which President Clove- land calls attention in his message is visible to any ono who observes the trend of events. Hard times are doubly hard for the laborer and those depend- ent upon him for support. ONE of the ardent devotees of the democratic administration ventures to speak of **republicans of the baser sort.” We did not know that democrats ad- mitted republicans to such comparison. In the usual democratio vocabulary they ave all of the same *‘base” sort. THE recent rains have done a good sorvice in assisting to clean up the streots of the city, but we have no right to expect nature to sweep the streets. The citizens should be impressed with the necessity of keeping the thorough- fares in & clean and healthy condition and they should complain every time the proper authorities fail to do their duties in that respect. THE unemployed laborers in New York City have taken steps toward a demon- stration largely because they have been urged on by some of the rensational press of that city. An ussemblage of this kind is attended with many risks, while it is difficult to sece where the gains will be. Yet the reul laborer can be relied upon to conduet himself prop- erly on such occasions and the danger can be winimized if the firebrands and socialists are but relegated to the rear. A BROOKLYN chemist connected with the health department of that city was delegated to investigate soveral cases of {ce eream poisoning, but was unable to find the poisonous ingredients, What he did find, however, was quite a reve- lation to ice cream fiends. An inspe tion of tho places where the article is manufactured disclosed in many in- stances a most filthy condition of the apparatus, The ice cream was made in * dark cellars where it was impossible to tell whether the materials were kept clean or not. This disclosure ought to give a hint to health officials in other cities, snd ico cream factories should be put down on the list for regular and {rejuent inspection. the ity for the snmmer ¢an | THE SILVER DEBATE An agresment was reached yestorday morning batween the advocatos of free | silver coinage and those who favor the | unconditional ropeal of the silver pure chase clause of tho Sherman net, tho | formor accepting the proposition sub. | mitted the day beforo by the lattor, the | terms of which were made known in the | dispatches published. Under this agree- ment the debate will continne fourtoen days, esach speaker to he limited during the last threo days to fivo minutes, Aec- cordingly a bill was introduced in the house hy Mr. Wilsonof West Virginia | 15 0N to repeal the siiver purchase clanse of the Sherman law, to which Mr. Blanad offered an amendmont providing for the free coinage of siiver. Theve- | upon the debate commenced, Mr. Rayner | of Maryland opening it with & speech in | support of the measure of ropeal. Vot- | ing will begin August 25, the first vote to be taken on the question of fras coine age at such ratio as thoe silver men may agree on, or, if they fail to agree, on the | diffevent ratios proposed. In the event | of free coinage at any ratio being de- | feated, then a vote will bo taken on an | amendment to rovive the Bland-Allison law, which required the secrotary of the | treasury to purchase monthly at its | market value silver bullion and coin | therefrom not exceeding #1,000,000 nor less than $2,000,000 each month. Should that fail of adoption the vote 1o be taken | upon the bill for unconditional repeal. This arrangement will enable the house of representatives to dispose of the silvor question by the ond of the | present wonth, but unfortunately that will not be the conclusion of the con- test. Thesenato will have t0 act on tho house bill and it is questionable whether such an agreement as that between the free silver and the anti-free silver men in the house can be effected in the sen- ate, s> far as putting a limitation upon debate isconcerned. Democratic senutors have expressed themselve asunfavorable to any rule that would curtail debate, and although this would not necessarily preclude them from accepting such an arrangement as that in the house, it justifies a doubt whether they can be generally induced to do so. The right of unvestricted debate is one which nearly all senators ave strongly indis- | posed to relinquish, but it is possible that prevailing conditions and the force of public opinion may lead them to fol- | low the good example of the house. In that caso the country could reasonably hope for a settlement of the silver ques- tion by tho middle of September, if not sooner. At any rate the agreement reached by the factions in the house cannot fail to have & good effect upon the country, since it is assurance of a general deter- mination to reach a solution of the vex- ing question as soon as it can be legiti- mately done. Ot course, it may be said that a subject which has already been 50 thoroughly discussed in all its phases cannot need a further discussion extend- ing through two weeks, and also that it is not probable such further discussion will change anybody's mind already made up on the question, but the ar- rangement made is an eminently fair one, it is better than had been expected, and it will be very generally satisfac- tory. TIVE LEGISLATION. The last congress failed to act upon a number of measures of general impor- tance, most of which will undoubtedly come before the present congress, although it isnot to be expected that any of them will be reached before the regular session. The indications are that it is the intention of the majority of the members to make the extra ses- sion as short as possible, and those who desire this will endeavor to confine its deliberations to the financial question. The president, in dealing exclusively with this question in his message, im- plies a wish that the time of the extra session will be wholly devoted to consid- eration of thesilver problem, and un- doubtedly a majority in both branches @f congress will be found to concur with him, There is nothing, however, to prevent the introduction of other ques- tions, and if the minority should see any advantage in doing 8o they will prob- ably bring forward other matters. The chances are, however, that silver alone will engage the attention of congress at the extra session. When the Fifty-second congress ended there were over 600 bills on the house calendars which passed the senate, and upon the calendars of the senate there | were about 200 bills that bhad received affirmative action of the house. The Torrey bankruptey, pure food, anti-op- tion, the Nicaragua canal, many bills for the erection ot public buildings, and a number of others of a non-partisan char- acter were among those left unacted upon. In addition to these partially perfected measuros a number of others of an important character are likely to be presented. Indeed, it is quite proba- ble that every bill left on the calendars at the close of the last congress will re- appear as soon as the house gets itsell into working order. Bills for the ad- mission to the union of the remaining territories will be brought forward and pushed, with a strong likelihood of being passed, as the democrats may not so0on again have the opportunity to make new states. It is the opinion of some that congress will complete its work by the beginning of next July, but it will not be surprising if there is a continu- ous session for a year or longer. It may bo bardly worth while to con- jecture as to what will be done with the seversl important general questions, other than the currency and the tariff, upon which congress will bs asked to take setion, It would seem that pre- vailing conditions should make more impressive the arguments in favor of a uniform system of bankruptey, and therefore it ought to be safo to assume that some such legislation as has been vroposed will be adopted. As to the proposition to identify the government financially with the Nicaragua canal project it isnotavall likelyto prevail, nor isthere much probability thatan anti- option or pure food bill can carry. As to public buildings the policy will per- haps be more liberal than that of the last ¢ ngress, though of course much | will depend upon the ccndition of the public purse. There is & great deal that congroess wight do for the geueral good, | | for its international use. | and after the THE OMAITA_DATLY BERy, SATURDAY, AUG ————— B ———————————— e e e e but to expect much boyond currency and tarilf logislation might result in disap- | pointment, and as 4o these questions thero is no assurance that they will be wisoly dealt with, ——— THE BRUSSELS CONFEN 1t i« reported from Washington that | there is little oxpectation either at the State or Treasury departments that tho international monetary conference will reassemble during the present year, It is said that whatover might ba hoped from such a mecting the feeling scems | to bo that the future of silver is in too | unsettled a condition to justify the at- tempt to fix a new ratio or adopt a plan Thé impres- sion is that if the conference ev - assembles it is not likely to be until after the effect of the new policy of the Tudian government has beconie apparent ed States has stopped purchasing silver bullion. It is remarked that international conferences have proved so abortive during the past fifteen years that they are coming to be looked upon by the silver men as mere subtorfuges to postpone action by this country: and this feeling will make it difficult, says a recent Washington dis- pateh, to use the possiblo reassembling of the conference at Brussels us an argu- ment against immediate action by con- gress. What the congress could do if it shonld reassemble this autumn it would be difficult for any one to say. Even enthusiastic silver men conld hardly hope for international bimetal- lism at either of the old ratios in view of the action of the Indian government and the great fall in the price of silver. There 1s good reason to believe that Mr. Cleveland has no great faith that any sort of international agreement re- garding silver can be effected and when he postponed the date for the reassem- bling of the Brussels conference to next November he very likely thought that by that time all demand for it both here and abroad would have died. He makes a reference to the subject in his message in these terms: *If, as many of its friends claim, silver ought to oceupy a larger place in our currency and the currency of the world through general international co-operation and agree- ment, it ie obvious that the United States will not be in a position to gain a hear- ing in favor of such an arrangement so long as we are willing to continue our attempt to accomplish the result single- handed.” Not until this conntry has changed its policy regarding silver, either by abandoning the government purchases of that metal or by changing the coinage ratio to correspond more closely tothe relative commercial values of the two metals, can we reasonably hope to get an international agreement providing for the larger use of silver in the world's currency. Whenever wo shall have given up the attompt, suffi- ciently shown to be utterly futile, to single-handed maintain silverat a parcity with gold, we may not only expect to gain a hearing for any proposition look- ing to the larger employment of silver in international exchanges, but that European countries will themselves in- vite such an arrangement. It is mani-, fostly useless to place any reliance upon international conferences so long as this country continues to treat silver as it is now doing. THE petition loiged with the State Board of Transportation asking for the enforcement of the provisions of the transfer switch law has elicited from the railroads therein interested a reply that is peculiar in more than one re- spoct. The essential facts of the origi- nal allegations are not denied, but what is denied is that the shippers at points along the lino suffer in any way from the lack of switching facilities. They try to show that the construction of the switch demanded, while resulting in no benefit to the complainants, would im- pose upon them a burden which the present depressed condition of business and the stringency of the money markot render too onerous under existing reumstances, They also mantain that they are not yet acquainted with the full import of the new law, as if poverty or ignorance were ever allowed to be pleaded by a conrt as excusing willful disobedience of the law. This entive proceeding seems to be entively unnccessary in view of the plain commands of the statute. Every railroad is required to put in transfer switches wherever its line crosses or approaches n to another, and the duty is absolute without demand on the part either of the shipper or the rail- way commissioners. The penalties do not attach until sixty aays after the law goes into effect, and a railway may be excused from these if it can show that the enforced construction of any particu- lar transfer switch is unjust and un- reasonable. Until October 1 the rail- ways may disoboy the law with im- punity; after that its provisions will hold against them unless duly excused, any ignorance, poverty or inconvenience to the contrary notwithstanding. I1 APPEARS that dull trade and ap- prehension regarding the future are not the only reasons why so many New England mills have closed, though they may be the most influential. Some manufacturers, it is said, have taken ad- vantage of the present opportunity to make long needed repairs, 8o that while the mill workers are idle other classes of labor are given employment. It is stated that the employes generally are not worrying at being “laid off,” a rest being very welcome to a great wany of them ut this season, and the gencral fecling is that when there is a resumption of operations, which it is thought will not be delayed beyond a fow weeks, thero will be greater activity than be- fore. It is to be hoped this will be real - ized, but theve is a strong probability that it may not bo and that a general resumption of manufacturing will not take place without a readjustment of wages to a lower plane. The industrial record, it is encouraging to know, does not read all one way. While many maanufacturing establishments are clos- ing there are some starting up, which shows that everybody having capital to put into indusicies is not sericusly alarmed about the future. There are | manufacturers, it is also to be noted, | who confidently believe that if the silver | question is wisaly getfled there will be a rapid and gnm:‘},l rosumption of busi- ness activity and prosperity. 1t is cer- tainly well to take the most cheorful view possible of the outlook, keeping in mind that the cauptry was never richer in resources m.\x ?L is now. LATEST developments point to the probability that congress will have other financial problems to fase besides the restoration’of the currency. Asis usual in a time’8f business depression the volume of “foleign trade decreases. A government " deriving its revenue chiefly from 1mport duties is thus forend to suffer a decrease in its current re- ceipts from lmports. The excess of the expeaditures over the receipts of the federal govornment for July amounted to nearly $9,000,000 and the next month or two cannot but increase the deficit. To provide for this contingency until the import trade revives will bea most for important action. matter congressional ‘WORD comes from New York to the effect that Dr. Parkhurst has com- menced another crusade against immo- rality and vice. He is beginning with evidoneo against sixty-three disorderly houses and fifteon gambling resorts and will not get so far as the liquor traffic for some time to come. May we com- mend these facts to the careful consider- ation of the Voice, which so assiduously avoids the filth at its own door in order to find & little dirt in its neighbor’s yard. A SERIOUS debate is going on at Chi- cago over tho question of whether it would not be financially advisable to adjourn the session of the board of lady managers over to October. Most people have been asking where tho ex- position has profited at all from the work of the lad, publicans. Hea o Inter Ceean. Republicans in congress can lay aside everything partisan and_stand squarely up to everything that is likely to bring reliof to the veople. Duty is the first thing to con- sider in such un Smergency. e GRARE Unequal Distribution of Labor. Chicago Tribune. ‘While thousands upon thousands of idle men are in New York, Boston and other eastern cities, word from the rural districts is that help is hard to get in saving the fail crops and doing farm work generally. e ol Contemplating Suicide. Kansas City Star., If David Bennett Hill is determined to malke a fight against the president in the ate there is nothing to prevent him from ng out that program, There is no law. in this country against political suicide, but all the same it carries with it its own unique venalty. Business Before Polltles. Phitadelphia Led There is a whole 1ot of business and very little politics, so-called, in the president’s message. Upon congress lies the full respon- sibility of correcting “existing evils. The diagnosis is clear and the remedy is plain. Repeal tho silver putchase clause of the Sherman act, — g Standing Up or Missourl. St. Louts Republic, No legislation under the sun can create a parity between the equipment of one who has led the silver forces of the house since 1 and one who has “made a special study of finance during the 'summer months.” "Phis will be apparent when Bland’s homely logic destroys the force of Bourke Cockran’s spell-binding eloquence. “The ratio of merit will be about 16,000 to 1 - - Billy B. Felt the Pulse. Detroit Frec Press. Before Representutive Bryan of Nebraska lett home he says that he culled his people together and asked them whether any foar of losing federal patronage from which they would beneiit should deter him from making a determined fight in favor of free silver. According to the congressman his constit- uency urged him to do all he knew aud to die fighting in the last silver ditch. This is ordering a sad and sudden fate for one so young and promising. ————— Tourke on a Pinnacle, Brooklyn Standard Union, Bourke Cockran is occupying the dizzy heights of the president's confidence. Tt will be remerbered that he admires the presi- dent all the days of the year except election day. He proposes to outroar the silver screamers. But that is vanit; nd the fruit thereof will be, as of old time, vexation. The Rocky mountains have a short way with democratic orators who favor of cheap money w ation. It is to say 'V thing more is needed, ‘money power — e T GETUN 118 FE| are not in to repudi- A Will Go Into a Re- ver'’s Hands. Aug. 11.—Confidence in the Madison Square banic to dificulty which caused the closing of its doors diminishes as facts regarding the truly embarrassed condition of its finances are brought to light The latest statement is made by the state bank miner. It is that the bank cannot immediately raise the necessary capital to enable it to continue its business, and that a receiver will provably be appointed. The Madison Squary New YORK, ability of the straighten the majority of the depositors have small accounts, ranging from 10 $2,000. Some of them are poor, all work, and allare especially needy. State Bauk Examiuer Judson said that it would be nec- essary to raise immediately between $200,000 and §00,000 iu currency, in order to continue business. It scoms impossible to raise this sum. The deposits in the bank amounted o $900,000. rtifled Checks for Paylag Wages. 11.—In response to a ques- corporation, Comptroller the ' opinion that the use of certitied checks as currency is not contrary to law.| The scheme is to malke certified checks for$5 and $10 payable to bearer, tobe used in the payment of wages. The bankers and business men here believe it will bring a large measuro of re- lief at once. . Advices to the Assoctiifed press are to the offect that similar actiofl 'is being arranged by employers and bauks at Danbury and Hartford, Conn, —— i In Possesslon ot New YOrk, Aug. 11— possession of the Kquit and Electric company. « BurraLo, Aug. tion by a local Eckels has giv Nherlf 'he sheriff has taken le Manufacturing has a capital of $1,000,000. Want tons ¥44id in Silver, Corrax, Wash., Aug, 11,—The Grand Armmy post here has passed 4 resolution ask- ing congress to have all pensions paid in sil Grain Destroyed by Fire, Manrierra, Kan., Aug. 11.—[Special to Tue Bek.|—Mcleod Bros.! elevator, containing about 55,000 bushels of grain, was totally de- stroyed by fire. Loss, $20,000; partially in- sured. It is supposed to haye been the work of an incendiary. B Not S0 Bad s Reportod. WasuixToN, Aug. 1L.—The Department of Agriculture makes a correction in the spring wheat average condition for July as reported last night. It should have been 741, making a falling off this month of seven points instead of ten. UST 12, 1893, OTAKR LANDS THAN OURS. CABLING FROM SIAM, In the presence of an immense concourse | How News from the Noens of the Latest of people and the diplomatie ropresontatives of the foreign powers tho king of Gireoce for- mally opened the Corinth ship canal on Sun day afternoon last. This is the simple tenor of a cablo dispateh from Athens; yet the be- ginnings of the enterpriso which has jus | been completed belong to a remota past, and its history is one o the strong bands that connect the doad anclent world with the liv- ing present. The schemo was first suggested by Poriander ot Corinth, 600 years before tho Christian era. The bustiing mart of Corinth sorely felt the need of a water routo which should avoid the long detour around the Peloponnesus and counect her colonies on the Aegean with those in the Adriatic and lonian seas. Tho nearest approach to the accomplishment of this purpose was the construction of a polished roadway, over which the comparativoly small vessols of that early period could be readily hauled across the lsthmus. Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, each in his day, contemplated the expediency of carrying out tho design Nothing, however, was seriously atiempted until the Emperor Nero revived the project his engineers actually surveyed a route, but for ono reason or another the design was vermitted to languish, and only traces of their work can be found. The scheme again begau to be mooted in 1873, and an Athenian bauker obtained a concession to make the cutting. He failed to securo the necessary money for the work, and it was only in 1883 that & French company was at last organ- ized, and in April of that year tho first sod was turned. As is the case in almost overy euterprise, the first estimate of the cost was found far below the the actual amount re- quired ; and after expending 80,000,000 francs the original company failed. A Greek com- pany way formed, and at an outlay of nearly tavico the amount of the first estimated cost the project has at last been completed. *x A resurrection of the long famous city of Corinth will be one effect of the opening of the canal. It has had two periods of glory, separated from each other by a century of utter desolation, and followed by a long epoch of decadence and obscurity through medieval and modern times. o the earlier Corinth, which founded such powerful daughter states as Corcyra and Syracuse, we owe one of the most beautiful orders of Greek architecture, the signal improve- ment of the arts of painting and of orna- mental pottery, and tho fabrication of bronzes that have nover been surpassed. We know from the report of an eycwitness that, at the time of its complete destruc- tions by the Romansin 146 B. C., it was by tar the most populous city of Gireece propor; vied in wealth and lJuxury with Antioch and Alexandria;and contained an incredible number of the masterworks of Hellenic art. For a century the site lay waste, but, owing to its admirable geographical position, the colony founded there by Julius Cwsar had, as early as the time of St. Paul, again be- come one of the great centers of Greek civil- ization. Sacked by Alaric, it recovered pros- perity under the Byzantine cmpire, and, at a later period, was fiercoly contended for by the Turks and the Venetians, who were keenly alive to both its strategic and com- mercial usefulness. In later times it has sunk into a vetty and miserable village; but the hour of its third revival is at hand; and should Russia ever become the mistress of Constantinople, Corinth and its waterway will aequire no small measure of imp ortance in the Mediterranean world. . R There is plonty of reason to expect fresh disputes between France and England in the near future. Whoever hopes for really o0d feeling between the two nations must flnd the outlook most discouraging. Not only is the general and traditional jealousy between them still active, but all over the world their interests collide, often giving rise to questious which, if now latent, may any day become acute. Looking at only the chiof ones, we seo that in eastern Asia Bangkok will '»2nceforth be a rogular battle- ground of English and French diplomacy, while the efforts to tap and monopolize the trade of southern China will be incroasingly vigorous. In Oceania the joint protectorate of the New Hebrides works poorly and can- not last forever. In America the situation in Nowfoundland 18 slowly but surely be- coming worse: on ono side we have admitted hardship, on the other cloar treaty rights. In the interior of Africa no attempt has yet been made to divide the Hinterland of the gold coast and Dahomey, or the whole enor- mous region between Lake Chad and the Nile; the ambitions of the two claimants hopelessly conflict, and tho treaties that have been concluded are interpreted in widely different way: But it isin and about the Mediterranean that the rivalry is most intense. Great Britain looks askance at Tunis, patronizes the Italians and thei fleet, and suspects Fronch designs in Syri France stirs up the sultan to protes! the occupation of Igypt, to which tho French seem as little likely to get reconciled as the English do toabandon it. Allof theso questions are dificult; many of them must be settled fn some way before long; any one of them can eusily become dungerous. Al- though the chances are greatly in favor of a peaceful solution in cuch particular case, their number and the repeated irritation which thoy will provoke justify much anxiety. * e The home rule bill is by no means out of danger. Even in the House of Commons Mr, Gladstone has reason to fear that a grave crisis may be encountered upon 1ts third reading. Many of its supporters still strongly favor the exclusion of the Irish members from the Imperial Parliament, and it is quite possible that others will follow the memter from Hereford, Mr. Grenfell, and resign rather than vote for the bill in its present shape. Unfavorable action is also anticipated from the eight Parnellito members, The gravest danger, however, will be in the inevitable appeal to the country after the bill shall have been thrown out by the House of Lords. The utter weariness of the struggle and a desire w be rid of the whola subject on the part of the English eloctorate will be the supremo factor in the contest. It may be confidently asserted, therefore, that the vote will be decisive, but whether the electorate shall insist upon the final disposal of the Irish question by an overwhelming vote of censure upon the upper House, or whether it shall prefer to bury the question by a signal defeat of the Gludstone government, is & problem by no means easy of solution. i — Central Labor Union Mceting. Central Labor union, at its meeting held Thursday evening, discussed a great many thiogs of industrial interest and decided to hold the regular meeting next Tuesday in its new rooms on the fifth floor of the city hall, which the city council has placed at the disposal of the organization. This meeting will be an opea one at which expression on different topics will be heard, The union will next attend the session of the city council in order Lo push the matter of compelling barber shops Lo close on Sun- days. S Dedieatory Exerclses. The dedicatory exercises of the now public library building will begin this evening at & quarter of 6 o'clock. President L, 8. Reed of the Library association will open the cere- | mouies with @ brief address, which will be | followed by tho Masonic exercises custom- ary on such occasions. The Musical Union | bund will furnish the music. Possible War was Received. Tn view of the recent disturbances in Siam and the large amount of telegraphic matter that has come from that recently possible seat of war, it may be of interest to many o learn the route by which Tie Bee's special cable dispatches are transmitted from Bang- kok to Omaha, Mr. J. 1%, Barnhart, of the Western Union, gives the following facts: “Our eastern cablo follows the Mediterrancan and Red , and it is by this route that the Siamese dispatches come. A spocial from Bangkok would go from there to Salgon, Siam, by land line. then by cable to Singapore, India, thence by cavle via Penang to Madras. From Madras to Bombay the land line 1s followed. From Bombay the message takes along jump by cable under the Indian ocean 10 the port of Aden on the Red sea, thence via Alexandria, Egypt, to Maita in the Mediterrancan. From there to Gibraliar is a comparatively short jump, aftor which tho special follows the west const of Iurope, via Lisbot. and Vigo to Falmouth, Kngland Then, before reaching New York, it touches at Penzance and Canso.” From New York 1o Omaha tho news is transmitted over the Western fon wires. Inasmuch as tho rate between New York and Bangkok is only the trifling matter of #1.10 per word, it may be understood that the correspondent at the Siamese end of the line wasted no words in telegraphing his Information. In preparing matter for transmission when the service is 80 costiy the correspondent writes his message as briefly as possiblo to be succinct, and then he “Kills" all but the important ch sentence, thus making tho ta moere skeleton of the one The words sent, howover, anged that they readily indic tenor of the dispateh to one “who i f: with the situation. On reaching the nows- aper oftice this skeleton wmessage is turned over to an editor who knows all that has been given out concerning the situation, and who is further fortifiod by atlas and gazetteer. Under his manipulation tho fleshless words are again clothed and ar- ranged in seutences. Thus, on the night of July 28 these words were received in Tum Brg oftice: Bankok 28 1:45 p. m. evoning unknos Blockado Saturday i fmmediate attack Menam forts intendod golng down Hong Kong Singa- pore ships yesterday today turned back com muncintion now limited toforoign war ships tter repress outbreaks Captain horeau Annamites captured Khono May arrived Bangkok confined city prison SIAMESO ROVOENMENt MOssigo com r French outside bar belloved Bonnett. Bangkok 6:02p. m, resh proposals. Murders Dacolts alrendy frequent closed *eapital last steamor loft Bangkok today Pablic opinion among forelgn- rs condemns British minister sonding away Swift yestordiy bar stlll open Freneh ro- entry possible attack tomorrow none ten days account tides. Bennett. When this was ready for the printer tho apparently meaningless words had been arranged in sentences, and those littlo messages which cost $110 to deliver at New York were rendered as follows: (Copyrighted 1593 by James Gordon Bennett.] BANGKOK, July 45 p, m. w York Herald Cable—Special to Tue Be 10 blocknde heginson Saturduy evening. It i3 unknown if an in; redinte atiack is to bo made on the Menam forts, 1 intended going down to ses, but the Hong Kong-Singapore ships which loft yesterday were today turned back, and communication is now limited to forelgn war- ships. The latter ready to repress any outbreaks. Captain Thoreaux and the threo Annamites captured at K fay have ar- rived in Banglkok and are odin the city prison. The SIAmese government sont o mos- snge yesterdny to the commander of the French squadron outside the harbor. It is be- lieved it offered fresh 0suls BANGKOK, July 28. p. m.—[Now York Herald Cable—Specia "HE BEi.]—Murders by Dacolt already frequentin the closed capital, ] last steam: Bangkok today. Publl forolgners resident here condemns the action of tho British minjster onding away the Switt yesterday. Tho bar s sull opon and ¥ ch entry Is possiole. It no att s ‘oW there can be none for ten on iecount of tides unfavorable to cross- left the port of pinjon among tho dunys, ing the bar at the mouth of the Menam river. RESCUED FROM A FIERY DEATH. teen People Carried from a Bullding by Chicago Firemen fire broke out in the two-story building at 207 Clark street, occupied on the second floor by soveral Hebrew and Italian families. It had started i the tailoring establishment of Benjamin Green- baum, on the first floor, and spread to the adjoining building at 205, also a two-story brick structure, occupied on the first floor by Heary Simons, dealer in misfit clothing. The firemen had groat difficulty at first in controlling the flames. At the windows on the second floor of each building were men and women frantic with fear. They wero in thelr night clothing and called loudly for help. Firemen entered the windows and 100k Greenbaum and his wife down the lad- ders, Then they returned and carried out soven other people who had been asleep in the rooms fronting on Clark street. In the meantime tho firemen were busy rescuing those who crowded to the windows over No. 205 Iive men and two women, scantily clad, were taken down in safety. 1t was said that alt had been carried out, and all who had been sleeping in both buildings were rescued. Greenbaum, however, is f fullest his young son has perished, as he BROWNING, KING could not bo found. The pecuniary loss It but $8,000. ned the Business Portion. Mrrorn Cesren, O., Aug. 11.~The busk ness portion of this town burned this mora- ing and four dwellings. Total loss, $75,000, vRLAND, Aug. 11.—Five houses burnod here early this morning. A young son of Jacob Herald was burned to death. Surveyor of the Port of San Franolses Sonds n Oelostial SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11.—Surveyor of the Port Kilburn has ordered the first China- man deported under the provisions of tho Geary act. A short time ago Judge Ross of the southern district remanded to the cus- tody of the United States marshal a ¢ n Chinaman charged with being unlawfully in this country. Healso rendered a decision nullifying the imprisonmoent clause of the Geary act. When the decision was rendered Surveyor Kilburn made out a passago voucher for the Chinaman and ordered an inspector to place the Chinaman aboard the steamer Rio de Janeiro and deport him to the country from whence he came. - EARTHQUAKE, DISASTROUS Many Lives Belle to Nave Been Lost Along the Adriatic, Roe, Aug. 11.—Thero has been a severo earthquake along the Italian Adriatic coast. It is belioved that thero was large loss of life. The shock was most severe in the south, particularly in tho provineo of Koggia. Telegraph and train servico s interrupted, plotiisif e Clouds DIdn't Stop the Crowds, Cnicaco, Aug. 1l.—For the first timo in sovoral. wocks the sky was - overcast today with heavy clouds, portending rain, but it did not seem to mterfere with the attondance at the fair as the crowds began to come early and kept it up all the forenoon leiivintiel ORI Faaght with Robbers. Gurimie, Okl Aug. 11.-A posse of United States marshals last night had a fight with robbers at Lehigh, L T\, in which two rob- bers, one named W. T, Pearce, were killed, and two others wounded. LAUGHING MATTERS, Truth: It takes elther a good deal of push or u pull to get through the doors of 1ife.: Boston Transeript: Tho true balance of trade 18 the one that hus be led by the in- spector of welghts and me: St. Louis Post: The Amorican bank depositor should follow the example of Governor Boles and decline to run for anything, gton Star: “And yot," sald the feo W hie shoved up the ‘prico another noteh, “peoplo think there s no such thing as a cold snup in summer!” Jostah— at |hlli 1s the building w url 1. tmerey. T suppose the poor to 1Uby the awful priccs ot the lunch counters. ndy, 1 oro” the Washington Sta lucky to see the 1 shoulder? It depends altogether upon which side of me yeu huppen to be. s Do you think it is W moon Over your right Chicago Record: The City Cousin—Have You seen the Yl 2ONEST? Uncle Urihi—No, I spent most of my time on the Midway Kate Field's Washington: wish you would come 1ng; there 1s to be a union meeting, Joblots—Whatare you going 1o strike tor— shorter hours? Elder Berry—I o our church this even- Grip Sackett—low aro you, Joo—off outing? Plunlcott—Yes; a little visit. = Bright thought, that, to take your gun with you, if you are going to play on that banjo. ,£olng dowa into the t Do not get angry bo- onduCLor RpPears Lo you Brass Is a good con- Roston Transcrip cnuse the street car unneces ductor. Chicago Tribune: Proud Young Woman— No! I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man in the world. ud Youth (rc You can bet your sw have too good ted but not erushed)— ¢ life you wouldn't! T'd 1 assortmont to select from. PLUNKS FOR PLUNKS. Washington Star. Tlo warbled and wailed and he plunked his guitnr In a hapsody wildly delirious; He sang U1l the man in the moou from afar Scowled down ini & manner mystorious, f1e warbled and wailed till n microbe near by Was wakened. That youth will remombor The grip that h got, hoth tenucious and sly; And perhups he'll ot woll by Septombur, 1, lot’s moy Still as charming, T percelve, As you were In the old days When we both could still belleve In each other. Time Dotrays— Time betrays—cxcuse me—hush, Thero Is someone standing by. But I sy, why was that blush? You are mairied! S0 am 1. & Cco Lurgest Manutictarors 1n l Rotallors ol Vlothing in the World A Come Down. For one day, Saturday, we come down so that our cash remnant sale. about plain and figured white vests that go Saturday at half the original price; also all light weight summer coats and vesls, in all colors and sizes, at : half price for this one day. , Think of buying a $4 vest for $2, that we know cost us $2.75 you will comedown to attend It's to $3.25, or an $8 coat and vest for $4, or a $3 set for $1.50. We'll lose a little money on them, it is true, but we don’t care if we sell a big lot of them for we positively refuse to carry over any goods. We make a big cut in the children’s suits, too. A good one for $2 and a beauty for $3.50. Special in- ducements all over the store, to make room for other goods. Now is your chance. See the 15th street window for the big display. BROWNING, KING & CO., ! en every evonin Btore open Bt rasy il § wiem g0 W, Cor. 16t2 and Douglas St3. e 3l 1. £ et A At i o