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

THE 1. HOSEWATER, Editor. DAILY BEE. PURLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. " One Ve .88 it 10 00 5 00 2 50 200 150 100 wont Sundiy Av. Onm Year Datly fee wi Dy and Sune Six Mont Throe M Sundag oo Baturday 1 Weekly e % OFFICES. N il Tawenty-8ixth streets. enrl street rof Gommerco. | 15, Tribune building. Onial Covne ¢ 1o news and edi- wd: To the Editor WOSINESS LETTERS cinfitances should be ompany Omaha. lers to be made any for Uie summer ean have 1 leaving an order torial matt ATl Brsi e e addrenwed to Drafia. ol payable 1o 11 v Partios leavine the o THE BER sent to t THE DEF PUBLISHING COMPANY The in Chieago. Tar DALy and SUNDAY e (s on sale In Chicago at the following plac Palmer . Grand Pacific hotel Auditoriun hotel Great Northern hotel Gore ho . Leland hotel Files of Tui Bek wenglen bulding and th ing, Exposition grout.s n ho seen at the Ne. Administration build- of Tik REE Pub- solemnly_awear that the WE DAILY BEE for the week 3, wis as follows 26,940 250 | 24,428 24,028 17 119 s Wedn Thursday. October Friday, Oct Saturdiy, Oct § . Growor 1. Tzsen i s baeribed t ity of October, 1 P, PriL, Notary Pul Average Clrcalation for Aue,. 1893, 24,076 L TION by exhaustion exhausts before it legislates. THE America’s cup has finally decided not to take a trip abroad this season. 1Emost dignified legislative body in the world" is a trifle disfigured, but still in the ring. SENATOR ALLEN can really claim the credit of having talked the repeal bill to death in the senate. it comes to imitating the night [ the senate, that is where the membors of the house draw the line. Now that the train robbers have transferred their operations to Russia people in this country will travel with more assurance. THE efforts of the impeached officials and their mouthpiece in this city to, im- pugn the honesty of Auditor Moore havo fallen flat. IF 1HE franchised corporations can make sure of twelve councilmen they will not care how many claims are struck by the mayor's veto. “UNCONDITIONAL repeal or nothing,” shrieks an castern eontemporary., From present indications we stand an excel- lent chance «f getting nothing. IT1S to be hoped the republican county convention will not recklessly force can- didates upon the party whose conduct cannot be defended and who are sure to be beaten. THE lunatic who amused himself by firing his revolver at random into the crowded Chicago Board of Trade has been taken to the insane asylum, of which be had previously been an inmate. It would not be out of place to institute an inquiry as to how he ever got out in the defense of the credit of the state of Nebraska was timely and to the point. Nebraska is neither poverty stricken nor bankrupt. It is true, however, that the people of the state have for years suffered from the almost extortionate tribute levied upon them by the railroads. THE resort to a test of physical en- durance has not been the blooming suc- coss which its most ardent advocates ventured to prediet for it. The silver senators by means of their never-ending speeches during the past few weeks put themselves into a training which could not but tell against a force not gifted with leather lungs, Anove all things Omaha and Douglas county want good government. Omaha must have a man in the mayor's chair who is in pesition to hold 1n check fran- chised corporations and contractors on public works. The county must have a competent and honest board of com- missioners and executive officers who will do their duty without fear' or favor, THE peculations of Barrett Scott, the defaulting treasurer of Holt county, are likely to uncover a seandal which may implicate others besides nimself, It is hopeless to oxpeet republican vietdries when republican oflicials prove recreant to the trust imposed iz them. When unfit men are nominated for office the mewspapers representing their party should decline to give them support, AT A banquet recently tendored him upon his retiving from” the governor generalship of India, the marquis of Lansdowne stated that the cessation of free coivugo of silver on private ac- count in India was having a benoficial effact on the finanges of that country, and was proving successful even beyond expectations. From this it would ap- pear that there isno prospect, at least for the present, of India going back to the free coinage of silver. MARTIN of Kansas insists that if President Cleveland had written his Northen letter during the recent cam- paign the elegtion would not have re- sulted in the success of the democratic party. Of course not. And if Senator Martin had burdened the legislature of Kansas with a free silver speech, such as he delivered on the floor of the senate Thursday morning, before it was called upon to vote for a successor to Senator Plumb, be may be assured that the rep- resentative of Kansas in the senate today would not have been known by the pame of Martin, IN THE HANDS OF A RECEIVER, The Union Pacific railwav has been placed in the hands of its former direc- tors, who, under the order of the United States court, are to aet as receivors for the creditors and corporation. The fact that the appiication for the receiver- ship was mado by the represcntatives of the estate of the late Frederick I. Ames, its principal stockholder, and the selection of receivers from among the trusted officers of the railroad. indicates clearly that there is to be no change of management or polie; The Union I’a- | cific has for years past been handicapped | by an enormous debt. he heavy | shrinkage in carnings that has followed business depression has made it well | nigh impossible to operate the road ine spite of the most rigid,cconomy and far- reaching retrenchment. It has beon ox- pected for months that the road would sooner or later have to to the wall. The receivership is not,” however, nec- | essarily the forerunner of foreclosure It m: have been partly intended to forestall the impending strike employes, who were disposed to resist | the recent cut in wages, A strike almost an impossibility while the road is in the hands of receivers appointed by the United States court. The recoivership may also ward off preferved claimants who might seck to enforce their rights at a time when the earnings of tho road are absorbed by the necessary expenses for maintenance and operating the line. In our juc ment the ringing out process can only b deferred, but not averted. The ex- tension of the bonded debt by the gov- ernment would afford no material re- lief. Sooner or later the liguidation must be begun by which the road will be closed out to the highest bidder and roorganized on a basis of actual value. When that time comes the Union Pa- will resume her position as the greatest of transcontinental railroads and the people of this city will expori- ence the long hoped for rovival of ac- tivity in the shops and on the road. NOT A FORTUNATE NOMINATION, The nommation by the republican state convention of Judge Harrison for justice of the supreme court in a fortunate one for the party.— York Republican Why fortunate? His nomination was brought about by the men who have for twenty years been the worst enemies of the republican party én Nebraska Among tha elements who assisted in hi. nomination were the men who have al- ways oppused railroad regulation and who are now holding up the tirst rail- road legislation ever accomplished. An- other element which in his nomination was composed of the men | who iooted the state treasury and who | will be placed on trial in the criminal court next week. Still others were the friends of the impeached state officers, who, smarting under the lash of public opinion, are making a desperate effort to recover a hold upon the party. Harrison's nomination was not the result of a compromise between factions. It was a part of a deliberately laid plan. The emissaries of the railroad corpora- tions commenced the work in his inter- est bofore the republican state central | committee met in September. Tt was in his interest that straw men like Frick; Kinkaid, Cobbey and Powell were set up in different parts of the state. At the meeting of the state central committee Judge Harrison's name was the only one quietly discussed in connection with the nomination. If Judge Harrison is elected, to whom will he owe his election, if not to the | 20,000 votes which the railroad com- panies boast that they control in this state? If he is the friend of the people that his enthusiastic admirers describe him, how can ho conscientiously accept so important an office from the hands of men who struck down an upright and fearless judge who had dared to incur the displeasure of the railway managers? | L among | is cific assisted UNCOND!TIONAL REPEAL The failure of Senator Voorhees to force a vote upon the repeal bill sounds | the death knetl of unconditional repeal. Although in the minority the free silvor senators remain mastersof the situation, By the rules of the senate they have been able to completely block legislg- tion and to say that no measure, how- urgently demanded by the poople, ve enacted into law in the face of the determined opposition of even a cor poral's guard. The repeal bill, as ro- ported to the senate from the finance committee is, dead and nothing can re- vive it. Whether it shall bo passed in any modified form depends upon the attitude which the free silver advocates shall assume, DEFEATED. | can Many of the most sincers supporters of the me wont for unconditional r peal bave for days been predicting just the outeome that is now at hand. They have seen for some time tho utter help- legsness of tho repeal forces, and had from the first misgivings as to the e tiveness of any attempt w it it out. The test of endurance was one for which the minority was much better prepared than the majority, They had the ad- antage at every turn of relying on a call of the senate to resy their sp rs and to worry their opponents, upon whom devolved the duty of man- taining a quorum. S0 soon a8 it was definitely decided to insist upon a continuous session until a vote could be reached the f; i corvo- spondent of the Philadolphia Public Ledger wrote to his paper that the indi- cations were that the pending repeal bill would not be permitted to come to a vote. mator Frye, who was inclined to take a gloomy view of the situation, saw in the new move no change for the better. He is reported to have said: *I see no chance whatever of the bill going through.” Similar utterances were froely indulged in by other sona- tors committed to vepeal, and the exult- ing exclamations of the free silver men were all in one strain—their implieit confidence in their ability to hold out in the eoming contest of physical endur- ance. These reports go far to confirm the rumor that was spread from Washing- ton early in the week to the effect that the whole demonstration on the part of the administration leaders was insin- cere and undortaken for effect only, It was alleged that Senator Voorhees, con- vinced in his own wind of the futility of | slightest | prise, further efforts to sccure the passage of the unamended repeal bill, was unable to bring the president to his view of the situation. To demonstrate to Mr. Cleve land's own satisfaction that his pe: scheme was doomed to tailure, the sena- tor in charge of the measure is caid to have consented to goto the furthesy oxtreme and to transform the strug- gle into onn of brute foree alone. Although this rumor may have been groundless, so far as it referred to Senator Voorhees, it is undoubtedly true that a very large number upon whom the suecess of the move was to depend went into the fight without the expeatation of victory, and were only t0o glad to be told that thei efforts had proved unavailing, The of uneonditional repeal, then, ean inno way be termed a sur- The country has been prepared for it ever since it became plain that the majority of the senate would do nothing to enforee their rights. Jt is less disappointing £ the friends of sound money, i be doubly disap- pointing ent Cleveland, who must noy be convineed that he cannot control the policy of his own party. SHERIE BENNETT'S DEFENDERS Shertft Beonett has enlisted the services of an ex-conviet who had peen sentenced to the penitentiary from this county onthe charge of criminal libel and blackmail to ¢lear him of the charge of incompetency and want of official in- tegrity. Two pages and a half of a leeal sheet published by this ex-conviet aro devoted to alleged endorsements of Bennett's capabilities and conduet by prominent lawyers and court officials. Among Bennett's defenders is Judge Scott, who is quoted as follows: L consider the attacks upon Sheriff Ben- nett as unjustifiable from every point of view. Hehas always been prompt in ox- ccuting the ovders of the court. His chief deputy, Mr. Lewis, is a first-class man and ageutleman, and [ find that all of the e ployes of his office pre accommodating, court- cous and considerate. Sheriff Bennett has made a first-class officer and one that can be trusted. Now, when a man who occupies a posi- tion of district judge will stand up and seck 1o justify the conduet of Sheriff Bennett and his deputies he must have a very loose conception of the duties of the sherifl’s office. Judge Scott declares that Sheriff Bennett has made a first class officer and one that can be trusted. Isany man a teustworthy officer who will allow the freedom of the city to a penitentiary conviet and employ this conviet as a guard to escort other prison- s to jail? This is precisely what has been done by Sheriff Bennett and his brother, now employed s jailer. Wo charge and will prove in any court of competent jurisdiction that Jailor Bennett did, within the past six weeks, take Convict Mosher out in a carriage that was to convey a prisoner to tho county jail, and that Mosher was used as a guard. Jailor Bennett himself re- ported the next day that the prisoner in question recognized Mosher and gave him (Bennett) an unmerciful tongue- lashing. According to Jailor Bennott this man declared that he did not mind being talken to juil, but he considered it a great outrage that a robber who had taken the bread out of the mouths of widows and orphans should be used as a guard over him. We are credibly informed that H. H. Henderson, when a prisoner in the cus- tody of Sheriff Bennett charged with embezzlement, w taken by Jailer Ben- nett to the leading gawbling house of Omaha and there allowed to gainble nearly all night, and while he was gamb- ling was left unguarded for two hours by Jailor Bennett, who finally took him back to jail near daybreai. On the 6th day of May last Jailer Bennett liberated Charles Clifford, a prisoner sentenced by Judge Berka for violating the city ordinances. It was shown on inquiry as to the facts that the jailer accepted the fine which the police court had imposed and released the pris- oner without authority of the judge. It is not to be presumed that the jailor re- leased Clifford as an outburst of disin- terested sympathy. In any event it wa a flagrant infraction of law and usurpa- tion of authority vested solely in the police judge and mayor. Now will Judge Scott be good enough to tell this communit tesies toward prisoners o defensible? neverthe- that such cour- re justifiable or Does it stand to reason that " the sheriff and nis deputies would be so accommodating unless they were well paid for such favors? ras we dare coneerned it does not tter how many lawyers and judg vouch for Sherifl Bennett's compe! and fidelity. Tk Ber does not believe the vepublican party will be justified in renominating him, and we do not be- liove that the better element of the party can be induced to give him its sunport, We cannot have good govern- ment 50 long as the sheriff plays intothe hands of the criminal classes and shows special favors to any class of pr A TERRIGLE ARRAtGNMENT, Aceording to the rejuvenated demo- tie organ Mayor Bemis is a very naughty man, He is arvaignod on five counts as a sample of total depravity. First. Bemis had the temority to at- tack the integrity of the city officials and to declare that it was in the air that the architect had agreed to give and had given $2,000 to the encmy's cam- paign fund and that the committeo which was investigating alleged corrnp- tion in the contracts would whitewash. Second. He got into a child's play quarrel with the architeet and repeat- edly tore down his sign in the city hall until people besecched him to have a little dignity and allow the his rights, Third. He absented himself from his office nearly ailof the business day for weeks and months after he was clected and until he eould recover fr ashfulness,” Fourth, He quarreled unn with the city council and pr lie interest, coves, Pifth. Ho permitted the council dictate mast of Lis appointments This is simply awful. A who would be guilty of such h of- fenses againt the political code should b imprisoned in the county jail for twentv-four hours and fed on ovsters architect ted of **pub- while they laughed in their to man inous and champagmesawith the priviloge of visiting any paghof the city in care of the courteous and fecommodating jatler. SAFE CER, ¥ of Sheriff Bennett are »ry that the opposition to his renomination springs from a recent refnsal on his part to meet demands, tiade upon him for a money contribution. This story will do for the war and heele The best proof that- F'ie BEE has not been vt Ol The supporte circulating the of THe Br bums | satisfied with the conduetof the sheriffs office for some time past may be found in its back files. The following editorial appeared in THE EVENING Beg of May 9, under the heading: “An Unwarranted Act.” ‘The action of the county jailer in liberat ing, npon his own responsibility and without any warrant of authority, a prisoner sent up from the city for an offense against the or dinances or the statutes, is an unwarranted assumption rights which morits and should re the soverest condemnation. The stat Nebraska nowhore inv the county jatler with discretionary powers. He the custodian of clarged and convicted of ¢ meanors, and he no more has th of discharging a treas ive of st is, simpl persons or misde prerogative prisoner than the county r has the right to pay out the funds belongin to the county without a proper warrant. ‘The action of Jailer Beu- nettis certainly without precedent. The fact that ke advanced the money to pay the prisoner's fine cannot be urged as an ex tenuating circumstance. The action s simply indefonsible, The recent instance is not tho first have been many alleged cseapes of pri from the Douglas county jail which have scandalized the jail management. 1t is timo this matter be made the subject of offie 1tion to the end that the respon bility for these jail broaks b placed where it belongs and a speedy remedy applied. Is 11 not about time that the distric attorney appear before Judge Dundy and the question whether or not Mosher's residence can be changed? By order of the court he was incarcerated in the Douglas county jail with the un- derstanding that he would be permitted to testify in suits brousht by creditors of his wrecked bank in order that settle- ments might he more readily reached and something saved to the denositors. The action of Receiver Hayden, how- ever, is said to be such that Mosher's testimony will avail nothing on behalf of the bank creditors. Hayden has, in short, declined to pool ues with the lawyers of Lincoln who prevailed upon the court to permit Mosher to linger in the county jail for an indefinite period. This being the case, it would seem that the only thing left to be done 1s for Dis- trict Attorney Baker to move for Mosher's transfer Thers ners THE third consceutive victory of the Vigilant over the Valkyrie in the inter- national yachting contest establishes in- disputably the superiority of the Amer- ican vessel over the English vessel. In all varieties of wind and water the Ameticun yacht has come out first, while the seamanship of the Amcrican crew has also outelassed their British com- petitors. It is a matter for patriotic pride that the ecup won forty years ago, and repeatedly defended by vigorous representatives of American shipbuild- ing, remains with us as an evidence of conceded superiority. VIEWED in the light of the extraordi- nary financial depression which has pre- vailed all summer the success of the World's fair is all the more compli- mentary to American patriotism. THERE is no danger that Hascall will be elected mayor, but there is likeli- hood that he will make a.deal with Bed- ford for municipal patronage. Vain Appeals. New York ~Sun Let there be peace in the democratic ranks! —— The Cause Justities It. Minneapolis Journal, Governor McKinley is reported as being “as fresh as a daisy.” after five weeks of incessant stumping, making three speeches a d McKiuley is doubtless as long Allen, but he is speaking A Sop for Tummany. Minneapolis Tribune, al of the election laws will make suiling for Tammany, but in the south will ‘be no appreciable difforence, There can be no more al disfranchise- ment i that section v n there was when the laws were ou the statute books, e A Con 0 Mistnke Washington News, We judge from certain utterances in logis- lativeund legal circles that certain individ- uals consider public opinion of no account, That is the same mistuke that Jacob Sharp and De Lesseps and Boss T'weed and a good many other people have made, —— The Test Proves 1 New York World, Horace Greeley once exclaimed energeti ally, when the red tape of parlismentary points prevented action in the constitutional convention of 180 nun who in- vented rules! Thoy :d to hinder the travsaction of business, 'Tis s0 in the senate, Democratio S Philad phia Inquirer, The free trade papers thut howled them- selves blue m the Jace last fall over the starvation wages thien being paid to Ameri- can labor now hail the resumption of fac- tories and mills at reduced wages as gns of prosperizy.” Lheir lozic would inevitably lead them intoasserung that the millenniun had come if no wages at all were paid, e, A A Brutal Test, Kansss City Journal, wtacle thut is thus presented to is 10 be deplored. 1t is not cal- culated Lo increase either popular respect for the seuate or & common belicf i th honesty of the mouws by which the delib erations of e body are some! trolled. o be governea by rules of cour- tesy would be in 1o way u ming o the chief governmentdl’ Assembly of the land, but brute force is a disgrace, It belongs 10 ward polit wherd™lt has become so firmly established as a polftical weapou that all parties find themscives bowing to 1ts de- Cisions The s the count 1845, OTHER FLANDS THAN OURS, Ttaly just now prosents an instructive ex ample to the world. The modern Italian kingdom, coming lately fnto the company of great powoers, has tollowed the usual conrse of the parvenu in an offort 1o surpass all its neighbors in fashionable extravagance. She has got the biggest army and navy and the biggest debt, in provortion to population, of all the countrios of the world. And thatis about all she has. Governmental extrava- gance and mismanagement, burdensome taxation and the withdrawal of so largea proportion of the real stfength of the nation into military preparation, have brought about inevitably y deplorable condition Ttaly is and discon nted. Butsho has this big army and navy, have cost and are costing so much, and atvrally wants to do something with them. War the only escape ruin. The older and greater powers, example has led lately gance, vor poor, disorganized seems trom whose into this extrava are now concerned to hold her in Germany is none too pacifically in clined, but Germany prefers to determine the question of war for hersclf, in her own and way, and not to be dependent on pus fircbrand to the south of her. Austria’s present military interesis are united with Germany's, and the two are much occupied just now in suppressing the ambitions of their bellicose ally. In this they are, of course, supported by the pacific influence of England. 1t is generally agry that the present menace to the peace of Tourope is not from Germany or from France and Russia, but from Italy wa Startling the ofiicial statistics tht have Just been published in Germany con- corning the number of suicides in various armies of the old world, and they constitute a strixing illustration of the unpopularity of obligatory military service. It scems that in Austria the average rate for the year is 181 per 100,000 men. The French come next, with minety-two suicides per annum for each 100,000 men. The German govern- ment wives its rate at sixty-cight, but these tigures are cenerally believed (o be below the actual number, as the impression prevails in military circles throughout Kurope that the suicides in the German army are moro fre- quent even than in that of Austria. Italy's quota isgiven ut forty-five, while thatof Russia docs not exceed twenty, o figure thut is obviously far below the trath. Belgium gives its rate at twenty-four, Spain at four- teen and England at twentg-three, most of the suicides in the British army occurring outn India. A remarkable fact is that, notwithstanding the majority of sui- cides are popularly believed to be at- tributable to tyranny ou the part of the of- ficers, yet 1t is precisely among the officers that the largest number of self-in- flicted victims is to be found. The favorite method of suicide is by shooting, either with avitle or a revolver. Next comes drowning, and after that hanging, while of late a large number of ofticers and men have taken their lives by throwing themselves in front of railway trams. It is has also been noted that, wherens the smallest number of su cides takes place in che winter, the largest number occurs in the broiling hot months of July und August. are . e Out of 581 deputies which French Chamber that has just been re- newed, there are 350 republicans of indubi- table and moderate political faith, The con- servative, or, rather, anti-republican opposi- tion, is reduced to about sixty votes, iuste of 150, which it had in the former Parl ment. The socialists will number about fifty. The rest, that is to say 120 deputies, will be classed later on, after having floated for some time among tho remnants of radicalism, which has ouly a nominal istence, and the socialists, who are not yet organized. A colition that would unite in a collective vote these cate- gories of opponents so divided is hardly to be expeeted ; but even if such a thing should happen it could never amount to anything more thana minority. The solid union of the moderate republican elements, vainly sought for so many years, is, therefore, an accomplished fact. The majority of the government is formed, ov, at least, it is ready to be formed. Tt was evidently an in- stinctive desire to reach this result that guided the votes of the mass of the elcctors, The question of having an 1ndustrial exhi- bition in Berlin in 1806 has come on into prominence, as the executive committee has addressed a threefold request to the mu- nicipal authoritics. The latter were asked first to wominate three of their number as members of the committee; sccondly, to state whether they would approve of Tpep- tow park, in the southeast of the cavisal, as a suitable spot for the exhibition; and,third- 1y, to grant pecuniary support to tho enter- prise. All these requests received a negative answer, The commitice nevertneless holds that there is no reason to despair of the sue- cess of the undertaking. Both the number of those who have promised to exhibit and of those who subscribed to the guaranty fund is so largo that there is no idea of abandoning the project. It is hoped, that the municipal authorities do not re; their present decision as irrevocable, confldence being placed in the cuief master, who is said to be schome. The success obtaine industry at the Chicago ¢ guaranty of the excellence hibits which would be shown in Berlin, the authorities were willing last year to grant a suin of 10,000,000 marks for the pro- vosed industrial exhibitign in the capital, it is thought extraording that they should refuse to assist an undortaking of & purely national character. make up the » more also, ard wh burgo- able to the by German position is quoted of the ex- As »k Just issued in London on the of the Indian government which Iudia has to pay to carly in discharzo of the od for money lent, for services and for cstablishinents kept up on Indian account. Theso charges have been pretty steadily on the i some years past. 1n the five years ending in 1550 they reached an average of £13,746,075, 1n 1500 thoy had risen to £14,956,100; in the next year to £15,177,100, and they stand now ata somewhat larger sum than this. The full extent of the pressure on the revenues of India 1s not shown by these figures, Tho sums due must be paid in Brivish currency, in gold, whereas the Indian revenue, from which they must be paiu, is raised in rupecs, in silver, 0 that,us the gold value of th rupee falls, the larger is the number of rupees required Lo pay the amount due, There is thus & twofold process tending to augment the burden of toe charges The charges have while at the sawe time the resources for meeting them A bluo b home charges shows the sum Great Britam obligations incur rendered, 50 for incroased, | said to be havejboen diminishitg. The blue book con sists, for the most part, of a scries of ro ports by a committee of the In inwhich tho several itoms harges are discussed and made for reducing them as far as possible, and for guarding against their further in crease under any hoading, by making p chases of stores, and by raising money for loans in India itself rather than in Great n. The practicability of this policy of course has yet to be proved. - AND THINGS, ipof happiness is in no dan ger of overflowing. Manifestly the ropealers’ jib stand the strain of the silver galo. x-Senator Joseph 1. Brown of Geo: iling fast. He is now ¢ n council, of the homno suggestions are PEOPLE could not years of age. The hitherto mysterious antagonism be tween thesilver senators and woman suf fragists is explained, ‘The former insist on having the last word Mr. James Smith, who was_crowned some yoars ago Watermelon King of Boone county Missourd, has this year raised a pumpkin cight et around the waist The depression noticeable in North Dakota for some time past will soon disappear. The death of u resident who weighed 520 pounds Promises to restore the equilibrium of the state Ihore is much force in Senator Irby's claim that ho is the sole farmer senator in the upper house. During a recent visit to his furm and vicinity he managed to harvest several large, juicy corn jags. Mrs, James Collins of Quiney, 111 husband sorcriely snor and hurried into the push on Chicago day Kre she roturned the bed wrapped itself around Collins and shat off his vreath, Chairman Hateh of the committee on agrl culture is confident that his anti-option bil, which bas interested so many congresses, will be passed by the present congress. He is considering some important changes in the text of the vill. Among the distinguished men honored by the faculty at the close of the centennial celobration of Williams colloge was Prof. James H. Cantield, chancellor of the Uni- vorsity ot Nebraska. ‘The dogree of LL.D. was conferred upon him Dr. Jesse Lee Morrill of New York slowly dying of blood poison. The pressed the palm ot a coroner who ished an autopsy and absorbed some of the deadly virus through an abraision on the forefinger. Moral: Don't shake coroners, Candidate John 1. Russell of Massachu- setts 2ldom does his campaigning alone. His wife accompanies him on speaking tours, attenas his public meetings, ives him val- uable hints as to weak points in the enemy's harness when thero is a joint debate, and hustles him into a warm overcoat and off to hishotel when the meeting is over. . Congressman Kverett of Massachusetts has an old bachclor's disvegard for the nicetics of his weaving pr He wears trousers of distinctly high-water characte istics, the tops of s congressional gaiters being in evidence as he wanders through the aisles of the house. His general attire is wenerally unstudied, not 1o say slouchy, aud give bum the appearance of a hard-up actor aftera disastrous season, George Gould is fur more popular in New York than his father cver was. He is a thorough American, and does ot conceal his contempt for the Anglomaniacs, He is domestic in his tastes, being devoted to his wife and two children. Ho has no political ambition, nor does he yearn for literary fame liko his fellow millionaire, William Waldorf Astor. He is, in short, a steady- going, respectable citizen, not puffed up by the possession of wealth and capable of being a good fellow when the occasion offers. left her e 1n a folding bed, is doctor 18t fin. INDUSTRIAL NOTE! Germany makes metal-surfaced paper. Ocean telephoning is said to be possible. Berlin has 16,000 telephones ; London, 6,000. A machine makes 6,000 buttonhole: Linen factories employ 100,000 in Ireland. In Malaga workmen are allowed fifteen minutes leisuro in e hour to smoke cigarettes. he Krupp zun worits claims to have man- utactured i machine which will roil iron so thin that it would take 1,500 sheets to make an nch. A French inventor is responsible for o contrivance which can be fitted under the keyboard of an ordinary pia ng is donc While tuncs are beiug ground out on the ivorics, Au electric light for the use of travelers who wish to read is a reeent addition to the cars on British r 5, ijoins each seat and a penny dropped in a slot makes 1t flash forth, 1t burns for half an hour, when it promptly goes out. “The Vulean fron works, built in St at a cost of $1,000,000 and cove of ground, arc being sold p When in operation the we men, but its machinery was not up to a mod- crn standard and a strike ended 1is career. The hot metal route at Braddock, Ia., is now a certainty. Ladles of molten ivon were run last weelc from the FEdzar Thomson blast furnace to the converting mill in Brad dock. The distance is six miles, which wiil bo made in fourteen wminutcs. ‘The metul when covered with coke dust will remain in a fluid condition for several hours, ‘Tne last half of the week shows an un- usual activity among the sheet iron indus- tries. The litest pladt to resume is that of Louis g s1x acres smeal as_junk ks employoed 2 500 the United States Tin Plate company ab Demmler. Nothing had been done in the rolling department sinco June. Fach day since Monday additional mills have been staried up until now seven of the eight aro running full. It will surpriso many readers to learn that of the £.000,000 of silvar used annually in thearis in the United States more than ne-fourth ($2.500.000) is ‘manufactured into solid spoous and forks. ana that the propor- tion in for ncountries is about tho same, Including these millions of dolla worth of the metal about 000,000 are used in the silvorsmith's art, #.500,000 aro used for plated and silvered warae and about §1,500,000 are applied in dentistry, ph otography, sur- gery, etc. Immense and rich deposits of nickel ears bonate with cobalt and copper have beon found in Floyd county, Georin, The de- velopment of bauxite noar Rome, the county seat of Floyd, has attained a world-widy roeputation. © Six'y to cighty carloads of hauxite containing 52 to 55 per cent of oxide of alum are shipped throughout the United States for various chemical purposes, The aluminium works at Rome,Ga., consume twenty-five tons of bauxite perday. An other larger forty-ton plant is to be put up at Blue Sprines, Tenn , fifty-six miles from the Rome plant. where nickel, copper, cobals and lead ores are found in immeuso quantities, In no other country of the world is the telonhone™ in 8o eeneral uso as in Sweden, and in no other is the sorvice o choap and at tho samoe tima so perfect. 1t s under government mtrol and tha rates are fixed by the government. A fow weeks ago a now line was opened botween Stockholm and Christiania by King Oscar. who took oc sion to express the the hope in his first mes sage to tho Norwegians that the line would tend todraw the two countries mto closer union and aid in overcoming the desire of the Norwegian radicals to break up the existing rolations. 1t is now proposed, by means of & submaring cable, to ¢ the Norwegian and Swedish capitals wish Copene hagen. - - COMIC SPARKS, ano o VoS n Intte, 1Lis dun to th d “Due 2 sther fellow's slessness Chicago Tribuno: Tt s sald that good whisk ean bo bought in torn Tonnessoo for 53 cents a gallon, but that's wll moonshine. Albany Bxpress: Experionce that th longer an engage 1Lis to bo broken off has proved jent the mora 1able Philadelphia Times red because, losing the sos, thoy haven'tany more Just now in thor teo Elmira Gazotte mosays {8 o lucky n who can diseriminate beiwoen o barbor shop and a hack stand, Phitadelphin Ledger: “Copper very quiet and sluzglsh.” Narket Report. o is moroly settling down for his aecustomed nap. Chicago Inter Ocoan: “What first lod tham 1o think of educating her for an opora. singor? She has no voice.” Friend- Tt was the great varlety of facos she could make when she tried 1o si Buffalo Conrier pockethook s o its oot b rund the The ¢ 1o have the zoin owming of the hotldays. Puiladeiphin Reeor Miss Costiqne in the my smoking, doy Miss Costigue “W ctte yoa Chumley drlvi k)Y ou don’t ob, 1L 1t you light that cigar- so help md to alight. Galveston News: . Without any politienl power whatever worman has made man tuke down his hat and bow low to her. THE YANKEE BLADE. New York Sun. Damascus blades once played the deuce Incarving up mankind; Our Yankee blade's more peaceful use Is cuttingz up the wind. Al honor to the blado of stoel, By Yanlesland ndored Thivt siippeth through the weizhted keel, The dandy centerboard! e VAN AL New York Sun. SN DReSRTEE P RNG or Vel e This day we Ao onr cntreo, And by reat Carsar's ghost W'l Tot them work No frappe game on us! ' out for stutf, And if Van Alen is turned down, By all the zods at oneo TZwenr, that I, ho re Will dabble in their gorel any years iave wo humps abroad And hoi pollois, And now wo neod A gentleman, Asis my goodl friend Vant What boots is that He piys the casi? Yo gods, has polities Gone or cash? And ain't this polit Well, Tshould smile! Would 1had sucl & sumt 1'd %0 Lo soue and capital, ul then, I'd ot the pogs, 0 luter Write o archical effatencss, As Ihad found it, und What 1 did 1o sot Tton its legs againt But Van witl not, For Van's a diplomat, And 1'm for him, You hear me shout From grand and gloom To fuir Hobokenhurst Rome BROWNING, K & C0. \ Largest Manufacturors an | tyeallary [ of Clothing in tuo World. Dog on’d interesting So interesting, in fact, that without any effort [t “Jon our part, business men, clergymen and jdudcs, all alike, are |loud in their praise of |the new fall styles as |represented in our [suits and overcoals. | Every lclothed in his right other man, I mind, is of the opin- fon that to be clothed by us is the only proper thing Jjust now. We make every stitch of clothing we sell, whether it be for man or boy, and as the lat- est fashions are closely studied, and some of them designed, by our own tailors, you can always rely on the “aw fay" part of it. are always correct and the fit immense. from $10 on up for suits or overcoais. The fabries and colors We ask For $20 or $25 you can buy a suit or an overcoat of us that will make your tailor weep. BROWNING, Etore open every evenlng tll 6.4} =2 buturdiy vl 1 KING & CO,, {S. W, Cor. 16t and D113 3ts.