Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1893, Page 4

D AILY BEE. FEWATER, Bdftor, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIN! TERMS OF SURSCRIP @ (W ithont Sunday ome Yea TION iy T e Yenr. Ty Al Sy, x Months Three Montl Sanday T Satnwiay Weekly 1 Omaha. The New York A 13, 14 and 13, Tribuue building CORRESPONDENCE, el manter ee Rutldtn sty-fourtl, street s and od To e Bdito A sines on shonid bo pdressed to The Bed r X Tririn clieeks and postofce orders 0 be Payable 10 the order of the com Pitrties leaving the elty {mmer ean have o B went 10 thedr add aving an o at business ofee. N THE BEE PURLISHING COMPAN SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, { Geo, It Tzseh Ashing company al efreniation ending November Eunday Monday. Noven Tuosday, November 2 Wednepday. Novem b Thursday. Noven Friday et Eatuniay, November 25 £t Tir Rrr Pub & solemnly wwear that the £ TaE DATLY KK for the week 25, 1803, Wik a8 follows 1. T7SCHUCK ed 1 my iber. 1895 Public GE \d Subser of Nove Notal How do you like the democratic taviff bill? THOUGH last to get into the cabinet, the secretary of agriculture is fivst to get out his report. Tur long vetition does not always catch the postoffice. At least so says Hon. Frank Lawler of Chicago. Warn for the minority report.of the committee on ways and means before forming your final opinion of the demo- cratic tariff bill. MiGHT we suggest as a gentle reminder to the proper state officials that the maximum freight rate law injunction re- mains still undissolved. OyAHA retail merchants feel the guickening impulse of fall trade. The; have patiently awaited its coming and their reward is certain. THOsE southern legislatures which have begun to frame new laws regulat- ing the issue of state bank notes are a trifle premawre. The tax on state bank issues has not yet been repealed. ELECTIONS are sufliciently expensive to the taxpayers without giving regi trars double pay for the excess of work- ing hours over the eight-hour day in ad- dition to their regular salavies of 33 a day. POWDERLY is reported to have said that the Knights of Labor cannot got along without him. He would have come nearer the truth had he asserted that the order cannot get along with him. PrEMIERS willing to undertake the formation of a ministry must be rather scarce in Kurope just at this moment. Several countries of the continent are still waiting for the riotic prime minister to appear. DEMOCRATIC preference forad uties, so easily evaded and inviting undervaluation and falso bills of sale dominates the new tariff measure. Tariff administration is to take a step back- ward instead of forward. valorem THE president of the et the city clerk out in his assertion that the fifty-year gas franchise ordinance be- came a law, “the mayor not having re- turned the same at the next regular meeting” of the council after its passage. There are none so blind as those who will not see. Tue World's fair finances turnont much better than was anticipated a few months ago, althoughenot what some of its enthusiasts predicted before the gates were opened. On the whole, the financial outcome of this stupendous un- dertaking must be a matter of congratu- lation for nll who are immediately con- cerned. council bears From the figures given by theinternal revenue commissioner it is plain that the stamp duty on oleomargarine has not operated to discourage its consump- tion to any great extent. Those who expect a different result from an in- creased tax on spivits are not basing the premises of theiv arguments the facts as shown by experience. on ANY ONE veading the synopsis of See- retary Morton's report would mfer that the agricultural interests ave seaveely of suflicient importance to entitle the de- partment to a cubinet position, This, of course, is unteue, The veport might boast less of the retrenchment effected by thd new administration and more of the work performed under its direction. ANARCHISTS are now making their appearance in the South American re- publics. What their object canbe thero must be open to question. The South American states seem 1o be in an almost perpotual condition of anarchy, and ought by this time to have afforded any parchists within their jurisdiction all the anarchy they could possibly desire, THE agents of the New York Socioty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children have beon trying to convince a court that a young lady who claimed to bu 17 yeavs old and whose testimony was cor- roborated by her mother was not older than 14. It is to be sincerely hoped that no court or legislature will ever d & woman of her privilege of vaming her own age. SENATOR VOORHEES' weather bureau issues the prediction that within ninety days the greater part of the present in- dustrial depression will be over. Voor- heos is @ great prophet. Having unex- pectedly seen his prodiction of the ul- timate repeal of the Sherman silver purchase law borne out, he is now loth 0 leave the business, but he is carefully confining his suguries to matters that are well nnder way. | par! | tional, THE NEW TARIFF BILL. The democratio tariff bill, the details of which are made public, is not so radical A measure as was desired by the extremo freo trade eiement of the but it gets as near to the policy defined in the national platform of last year as it” was possible to go without absolutely contravening tho declara- tion of Mr. Cleveland, made in his Madison Square garden address on being notified of his nomination, that ours is not a destructive party, heed- less of any American interests.” 1t does not give practical as a whole to the doctrine that the prin- ciple of protection is unconstitu- but it goes far in aban- doning the protective policy or in wonkening the support which that policy has for thirty-two years given to American industries that its effect must bo revolutionary and with respeet to some interests possibly destructive. The democratic theory that all raw materials should be free has been very fully carried out in the biil. The free list is greatly enlarged and as to som of the additions to it—coal, lumber and salt, for example—they will be very gonerally approved, but a number of other additions are of questionable ex- pediency and will undoubtedly meet with & vigorous opposition both in tho house and the senato. Taking the whole range of duties the reduction is said to be about 33 per cent, but in the case of some articles th cut . in the duty is much greater than this, while a number retained on the dutiable list will have no protection against foreign competion unless the cost of labor in such indnstries is reduced to the Iiuropean level. Indeed, it is inevita- ble, if this measure becomes law, that wages in all the industries affectad by the tariff will have to be readjusted to a lower scale, so that the country may pre- pare for a genoral movement, as soon as this bill shall have passed if not before, to reduce wages in the manufacturing industrios. The theory that giving the manufacturer free raw material will enable him to pay as much for labor as under existing conditions will speedily be shown, there is every reason to expect, to be erroneous. No such reduction in the tariff as this bill proposes can he made without unfavora- bly affecting the wages of labor and nothing can be more certain than that the effect of this legislation would be felt in the home of every operative in the land. Even the threat of it has been widely felt. There is another idea ‘of the tariff reformers which will doubtless indue course of time, if the new tariff bill becomes law, be shown to be a fallacy, namely, that free raw materials will allow our manufacturers to greatly in- crease their foreign trade. As under the present law manufacturers of articles for export receive a rebate of 99 per cent of the duty on such materials it is hardly probable that they will get any advantage in the foreign trade from the remission of the 1 per cent of dut It is obviously too insignificant to have any effcct. It was a necessary part of the democratic policy and of the purpose todiscredit in all possible ways the tariff legislation ¢f the republican party to substitute ad valorem for specific duties, and the chairman of the ways and means committee makes a defense of this action which will, perhaps, be regarded as at least plausible. It has always been a controverted quese tion asto which system is the better one, but the weight of opinion is un- doubtedly on the side of specific duties, on the seore of both simplicity and Security. Theve is no difficulty in as- sessing and collecting a specific duty and the treasury is always certain to get just what the law calls for, whereas an ad valorem duty is very apt to causo controversy botween the importer and the appraiser, as the numberless cases that have been taken to-the federal courts, growing out of ditferences of this kind, amply autest. Bosides, with sp cific duties there is no chance to defraud the government, while with ad valorem duties the opportunities are boundless if appraisers are not of the strictest in- tegrity. recognition 80 While this measure was framed with a view to revenue only and with the fact confronting its authors that the treas- ury is in great and growing need of rev- enue, it appears.that it is not expected to have for some time the desived re sult of supplying the treasury with more money, though it may prove to be a good thing for consumers, which means that every manufacturer and merchant in the country, knowing what is to come when the bill shall go into effect, will be disposed to get rid of their goods at any prices they can obtain. Perhaps the idea is that this would so impress consumers with the wisdom of the demo- cratic tariff policy that the political strength of that party would be vastly inereased. Of course no favor is shown the policy of reciprocity, which will be abandoned as far as possible and per- haps altogether before the democracy relinquish® control of the legislative and exceutive departments of the goy- ernment, The question of internal reve- nue taxes is to be determined hereafter, and it is believed that the democrats of the ways and means committes will agreo upon an income tax and an in- crease of the tux on whisky. There was a report a few days ago that Me., Cley land had indicated opposition to an in- come tax, but later advices suggest that this must have been a mistake, At uny rate, tho dilemma in which the demo- crats are may force them to adopt this means of raising revenue for the urgent requirements of the treasury. he new taritf bill will not, there is strong reason to heliove, receive the united support of the democrats in eivher branch of congress. Some of them have already announced their opposition to certain features of it and their deter- mination to fight these features. The republicans, it is hardly nccessary to say, will unanimously oppose the bill as @ whole. That it cannot pass without rumerous changes and modifications may be accepted us practically assuved, and in any event it is cortain to be the subject of prolonged discussion, THE lawmakers and the law ex- pounders ugroe that the eight-hour law cannot by anplied 10 farm laborers and Judges and clerks of elections. 1f an ex- ! ception can be made in the one case it is logical to conclude that it can be made in the other. T 1K AGUCULTURAL DSPARTMENT. The publishod abstract of the annual raport of the secretary of agriculture presents some suggestions that merit the attention of congress. This depart- ment undoub edly needs remodoling and reorganization toa very considerable axtent inorder to give it greater uso- fulness. Tt is the opinion of a grbat many people that its creation wasa m take and that it will never accomplish anything to justify its existence, but there can bo no doubt that it will ba maintained as a pormament department of the government, and this being ad- mitted the policy regarding it should bo to give it the largest possible value to the interest which it vepresents. Furopean countries have found a department of this kind very useful and there wonld seem to be no vali reason why this country may not-make it so. It would be unjust to say that it has not thus far been of service to the agricultural intevest, though whether what it has done could not have been as well rendered by a burean, at less ex- pense, is a question, but it will have to be conceded that the department has been far from valueless, even 1f it has not quite fulfilled the promise of its advocates, The secretary suggests several reforms that would very likely be beneficial and they ought to have the serious attention of congress. It has been a matter of public knowl- edge for some time that Secretary Mor- ton does not regard the system of meat inspection with favor. He says it has not increased our foreign sales, and this appears to bo the fact from the com- parative statistics of meat exports for the last two years, but when the condi- tions are considered it is possible to con- clude that but for inspection our meat exports this year might have been much less in amount than they were. These conditions were the high price of meats here and the fact that the failure of the hay crop in Europe forced the general slanghter of young cattle. Next year ought to witness a great improvement in our exports of meat, and it is possible that inspection would not affect the mat- ter. Still it is to be borne in mind that it was the adoption of inspection which induced the German and French gov- ernments to remove the embargo upon American meats. Socretary Morton has made a consid- erable reduction in the expenses of the department and his estimates for next year ave largely below the appro- priations for the current year. This is to be commended if accomplished with- out impairing the efliciency of the de- partment. The secretary could not let pass the opportunity to air his free trado views, but he gives some sound advice to farmers of a practical charac ter which they will do well to ponder on. SLIDING SCALE BIDS. Judge Walton's decisionin the district court Saturday that a contractor offer- ing to furnish public supplies must abide by his bid or forfeit the money which he has deposited as an evidence of good faith, will go far toward abolishing one of the worst abuses that has arisen in connection with the award of public con- tracts. The device which the contractor has adopted and which in this instance has proven a boomerang to the party who undertook to use it is 8imple in itself, Proposals ave invited for supply- ing such quantities of certain enumer- ated articles as may be required during a specified period and the bids, though giving the prices for each article separ- ately, are supposed to be accepted as a whole. Thus, by setting low prices on materials of which little is to be de- manded and high prices on those that are in extended use, the party who is the lowest bidder on the face of the proposals in the end manages to clear a greater profit than would have been secured had any of the appavently higher bids been accepted. This *‘sliding scale” has been a favor- ite device among contractors for public work and has been the meuans of defrand- ing the public of thousands upon thou- sands of dollars. It was ono of the schemes most frequently resorted to in New York under the corrupt Tweed regime. Collusive bids would be made by favored partisans, when a new streot was to be constructed, for example, offering to do grading for a few cents a yard and rock blasting for a few dollars, Accepted as the lowest bidder on grad- ing it would transpire that the work consisted almost entirely of rock blast- ing and the contractor would reap a veritable harvest. The sliding scale has also been succossfully worked by the state house ring at Lincoln, In the case before Judge Walton, however, the commissioners of Douglas county had accepted the offer of one party for the particular sapplies upon which he made the lowest. bid and gave the remainder of the work to the lowest bidders upon each article respectively. The contractor who had attempted to profit by a sliding scale found himself in possession of a contract that threatened positive loss and wasted no time in try- ing to evade it. In compelling him to live up to his agreement the court deals a death blow at such weighted bids in the future. Public ofMcials, city, county and state, will not be doing their whole duty unless they take advantage of.the vesults of this decision and by dis- tinguishing proposals for furnishing different kinds of supplies save to the people money that has hitherto been fraudulently secured to contractors using the sliding scale device, A YEAR'S 1REASURY 1RANSACCIONS, The report of the United States treas- urer, showing the transactions of the na tional treasury during the last fiscal year, is particularly interesting at this time as being the official statement of the country’s financial condition just provious to the months of industrial de- pression from which the people have not yet emerged. The statement of government receipts and expenditures follows the customary classification. The net ordinary revenues were $335,819,328, and the net ordinary expenditures $383,447.554, leaving & surplus at the end of the year of 2,311,674 More important, however, is the com- parison of these figures with those of the THE OMAHA DAILY provions similar period. Tho increase in revenne dusing 1803 was $30,831,844 and the increase in expenditures - 456,623, Up ¥4 Macch, that is for eight months of the -year, the national treas- ury was in the'‘hitnds of the republican administration and the totals just given represent in the main the transactions under the lasp’ vepublican secrotary of the treasur What the teenturer's report proves beyond contralligtion is that the many assertions so rocently mae by the demo- cratic press, thatthe republican adminis tration was reponsible for the prosent deplorablo condition of the not supported by treasury, is the records in the case. The increase in expendituros over the increase in revenue was but $3,000,- 000, and no such comparatively in- significant sum would have been able to throw the United States treasury out of balance. The year's transactions left a surplus of over $2,000,000 to apply to the nécessities of tho succoed- ing year, and it will be difficult to charge upon the republicans the blame for the fact that that sum has been al- together too small to cover the deficit of the first few months of demoeratic financiering. If the demo- cratic secrotary could keep his expendi- tures as well within the revenues he would be perfectly satisfied, but with reduced governmental income the pros- pects for such an achievment are ce tainly not very bright. The actual available working balance in the treas- ury June 30, 1803, was $156,205,606, while by September 30 it was said to have already diminished to $149,250,268 on account of the deficiency of the revenues. More gold was withdrawn from the treasury for oxport during the fiscal year of 1893 than ever before and toward its close the gold reserve of $100,000,000, held to cover the outstanding greenbacks, was, for the first time in dts history, trenched upon to supply the current demands. it has continued to diminish quite steadily and at the present time is not much above its low water mark. No efforts of tho present administration have been able to restore it to its normal level. The difficulties of the treasury have almost all arisen since the adyent of the democratic secretary. While they may be due in some degree to con- ditions beyond his immediate control, they were certainly not left him as a legacy from his republican predecessor. Has He Not Sald Enough? Chicago Tribune. Senator Allen of Nebraska could remain stlent a long time without bringing his vol- ume of sound for the yoar 1563 below a normal and healthy ayerage. prin oV e in Demogratiec Harm: St. Lowis Republu With Secretary Carlisle pulling at tho wattles and Mr. Biaud tugging at the tail feathers, tho democratic Thanksgiving tur- key this year is liable to be unduly at- tenuated. Let loose, gentlemen, and give the craw a chance to fill. A The 'l‘nrllfn‘ Local lssue. Atlanta Constitution. The present tariff on coal is for the pur- pose of revenue and is avout what it should be. Why make any radical change, and why put Nova Scotia, coal on the froe list to benefit New Eugland and damage the interests of inverior points, et A Record Breaker. i New York Tribune. The storm onthe British coast has been phenomenal from every point of view. In duration, severity, loss of life und aestruc- tion of property it has been unparallelee in recent annals. The storm has had a wide swath, ranging from the Baltic to the Mediterrancan and encireling the British islands. The number of wrecks reported in London during a single day was 144—the highest record of the kind ever known. e Electricity as Canal Power, | Springfi-ld (Mass.) Republican, Fleetricity was successfully Saturday to propel a boat on the The trolley system was used and applied to an old caual barge fitted up for the purpose. A speed of cight miles an hour was attained, against the rate of two miles by the cus’ ton mule or horse power. Governor . who was present at the test, pr dicted that when the new powor had 'been gencrally appiied orf the canal its busi would bo increased four-fold. Electricians say tho cost of operating a boat by this méthod will be only about ono-half that of steam. ay. . Judiclul Contrast; Chicago Journal. The federal courts conauct trials with a Qignity and dispatch that is a standing re- proach to the condition of the courts of this state. Kspecially is this true in the matter of charging the jury. A state judge scarcely dares to open his lips at a trial lest he be re- versed by the supreme court. So littla con- fidence have the people in the judges they are to elect that they have forbidden their judges by law to say a word 1o the jury with- out first reducing it to writing. In tho fed- eral courts the judicial positions are filled by responsible appointment, and the difference between tho two systems is too glaring to escape the notice of the most prejudiced ob- server. —————— Foolish Advic Sprinafield (Mass.) feputlican, he continued low prices of wheat in tho face of & shortage of the world's crop have led prominent farmers of the northwest to try the *nold-your-whe: civeular once more. They will no% carry matters to the extent the southern cotton growers did by burning the barns of or killiug the farmers who dare to sell their wheat under such a price, but, unless they do, the plan will probably not be very effective. The troublo with the market apvears to be that tne farmers have seut forward their wheat much faster than usual, partly because of their financial needs and partiy because of tho unusually ood state of the country roads for the season. Thus the large visi- ble supply now piled up does not imply the existence of so much wheat in farmers' hands as iv ordinarily might, —————— Lyncu Law i lowa, Chicago Herald, Towa has fallen iuto the procession behind Indiana, Nebrasky. kouisians and other lynch law states. Jts citizens bave taken an untried criminal from out the very court of justice and hangéd him from the stairway of the building. ‘The ofticers of the law weve overpowered, the shepifl was hooted at and the mayor of tha pily was roughly handled in the melee. This lawless and criminal proceeding was largely the work of for- elgners, but it is attributed to punlic indig- nation at the lux administration of justice. That is to say, thepeople of Ottumwa de- termined to rebuke lnwlessuess by deliber- ate murder—tor 4ho lynching of Gustafson was murder and nothing else. He had not been tried, be had “uot even been given a Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, oYal L OO ABSOLUTELY PURE proliminary hearing before a justice of the peace. He was murdered by a crazy crowd that assumed him to be gutlty of an offense not punishable by death. The people of Towa may now sit down and think over the n ttor. They can no longer throw stones at'the negro lynchers of certain southern communities. They have moved into a giass house, ————— 11 Certatnly Looked Like o A Platts = outh Journa', After the indictment of the seven boodlers Frank Hubbard aisappeared, but shortly be- fore the time of tho trial tho attorney gen- eral rocoived a lotter from a near friend of Hubbard's, stating that if immunity was guaranteed to Hubbard he ~would —turn state's eviaence and would tell all he knew This offer w used, but later the sime proposition was made to_the county tor ney and was likewise refused. Timo rolled on and Hubbard was placed on trial and ac- quitted, his es. 1f Hubbard was innoc 1y should he ask immanity and be allowed to _turn state's evidence. 1f they woro guilty what prompted the jury to turn the men loose? Was it boodie? —————— War's Loud Alaruamw Boston Globe. The smallest state in the union is making the biggest and loudest guns. [t was our little neighbor, Rhode Island, that furnished EL Cid with her terrible projectiie. This 1,000-pound exterminator is discharged from a pneumitic gun thirty-seven feet long, travels a distance of five miles and seldom fails to land where 1t will do most “good.” Even if it explodes within 200 yards of the ship at which it is aim the shock folls every man on board as effectually as if he had been knocked down with a club. A few shocks of tho brain by such terrific dynamito projectiles ave liable to make the thousands who may receive them ultimate candidates for tho insane asylums. 1t is in- deed becoming as good as a demonstration that such awful instruments of destruction must eventually exterminate war itself. oMbl The Degradation of Loulsiana. Chioago Herald. Tousiana is acquiring the reputation of being a good state to stay away from. The proceedings of the cotton gin white caps and the lynching of relatives of suspected crimi- nals were not calculated to mvite immigra- tion, and it now abpears that an antiSemitic campaign is in progress. A number of Jewish merchants have been warned to leave the town of I'ranklin, and they will probably heed the warning, as these notifi- cations are portentous in Louisiana. What the next step will be cannot be predicted,. but if the state officers do not interfere wa may expect to hear of a general deportation of Baptists, or Methodists, or Roman Catho- lics, or members of any sect that may offond the ‘“‘regulators.”” When this kind of perse- cution is allowed to go unchecked there is no telling where it will stop. There is some hope that the white caps may eventually tale tofighting among themselves, which would be a happy solution of the problem. —e— 0DDS AND ENDS. die. It is estimated thatan average of more than 2,000 vessels and 12,000 lives are losv in the sea every year, the value of ships and cargoes being about $100,000,000. Pamphlets owe their name to Pamphela, a Greek lady, who left behind her a number of scrap books containing notes, receipts, anecdotes and memoranda. A check for $20,668,250,000 on the Bank of England, in payment for the Kimberly diamond mines, is said to be the largest ever drawn, Chicago s resigned 1o the destruction of Midway, the court of honor, the passing of John Boyd Thacher and the reap of millet, but its wsthetic soul revolts againsv the proposition of preserving buws in a do tion of twenty bottles of smooth, silky rum, The desecration must not be tolerated. Of the 9,585 men who enlisted in the United States army last year 25 per cent we laborers. Other callings were represented as follows: Scheol teachers, 62; students, 965 avuggists, 89; photographers, 13; musi- cians, 214; lawyers, 7: printevs, 0 book- keepers, 52; typewriters, 2; enginec cooks, 108; machinists, 106; furmers, about 200, and no occupation, S6. In dressing down an axle the shops of the Pennsylvan at Fort Wayne, Machinist ‘Tagumeyer turned off a steel sha/ing which, when straigh- tened, measured twenty-two feet, which 1s two feet longer than the steel shaving ex- hibited at the World's fair. it has been decided bv an English court that it is not libellous to calla lady a woman. This recalls the fact that in a western town, a couple of years ago, a young woman who worked as a clerk in a dry goods store threatened to sue a newgspaper for libel be- cause it referred to her as aleswoman, and not as a saleslady. She did not carry out her intention, however, as she was ad- vised that she had no case. This is the way the musical critic of the Webb City, Mo., Times aescribes a pianist: cot_tones blended with wild, s in cestatic measuves, dying away again until the room seemed filled withi the requiem notes of a dying silver senator. Then the bright, racy meuasure would chase each other through the pro- fundo, down the crescendo, skip vver the 3 to and off again into .the ficlds of bright melody and classic diction.” Last Tuesday, explains a Te: returned from the quarterly confe avery bad cold. Our potatoes dug and much other outside toward getting ready for winter. Hence it was impossible to ge: out a paper. We hope now that this is our last missed issue for the winter., If our readersonly knew just how hard times are here aud how diflicult iv is to live, and also how little we are able to colleet from those who owe us. they would understand why it is that we have to “rustle” on the outside to make both ends meet. Superintendent Kimbail's report of the lifesaving service is a«fine tribute to the courage and skill of the men who succor those who are shipwrecked on our coasts. During the year covered by the r persons were on board vessels meeting with § disasterand all of them except Lw throe were saved by this service, ty in peril was $3,008,075 and of this 570 was lost. The total costof the ce for the year was $1,231,893.45, e NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. last Saturaay at editor, we ence with had to be work done There are two good broom factories in Hastings. The new Methodist ehurch at Osceola will | be completed by January | Revival meetings at Fairfield, just closed, 4 10 thivty additions to the Christian waha Valley Poultry association will hold its first annual meeting at Auburn December 19, 20 and 21. tation Agent. Wenker of Blue Hill has vesigned his position with the B, & M. and will try his luck on & southern Texas fruit farm, Frank Morrissoy seems to be quite a notorious person in Nebraska. - A Kuox county man of that name is declared by the Creighton Courier to be a thoroughbred anarchist, Two men were arrested at Filley on sus- picion of robbing a store at Waverly, The; gave their names us James Adams George Hamercott. ‘The*deputy shei Johnson county identified them as the men Who had been selling stolen clovhing. They were taken to Tecumseh for safe keeping. While Churles Lunney, agod 17, was play ing with a revolver at school near Ruby, Seward county, heshot himself. The bulle vussed through the fleshy part of the thigh, ranging downward, passing out into the calf of the leg snd found a temporary lodging place near the b T'ne surgeons huve been urable to locate it. Baking Powder PEOPLE AND THINGS, ro THE ARMY. e Cotonel @ Teney Gots n Bronze Medal for Gallant Conduet in Ac Wasnixaroy, Nov. 27, —[Special Telegram to Tus Bre--The secrotary of war ha he | awarded a bronze medal of honor to Colonel Rearly | @ V. Henry note. worthy and conspicuous gallantry 1n leading the assaults of his brigado on the ] works at Cold Harbor, Va., and 8, 1864." that * time’ Colonel Henry co the Fortioth Massa chusetts His brizgade saffored | sevorely engagements, losing 1n Killed 160 oficers and men Colonel Henry had soveral hairbreadth cecapes, T'wo horses were shot from under him, one of which was killed whilo leaping | iuto the enemy’s works. Colonel Honry was | also mentioned in general orders for conspio- uous gallantry at the battle of Oluste during the « Florida campaign, Bre voaders are familiar with his brilliant reora as an | Indian fighter. Ho now commands the cay alfy post at Iort Meyer, naar Washington, and has made many friends here. The leave grauted Sceoud Licutenant Nathaniel F. McClure, Fourth cavalry, is ex- tended three months IYirst Licutenant Alexander N. Stark, as sistant surgeon, is relieved from duty at Fort Clark, and will repors to the comniands ing officer atv ort Sam Houston, Tox., for duty at that post The coming rostoration will probably be a royal poi Lu Lobengula and profitably pool issues There is much fact that the over, A’ steel Chicago lations. The impending policy 1s cer public patienc Just as tho ualoaded gun ceasod fts doadly work, thin ice comes to tho frout funeral promoter. With all our vaunted superfority effete and fotid_governments, we arc to work up a cabinet erisis. Minister Thurston uphiolds the provisional government. Gratitudo aemanded it The government made provision for him There is considerable Hesing in circles. of tho Chicago democracy. The Harris n contingent refuses to be comforted, The follow who gets left in tho race for a federal office has ample time to reflect “how wretchied is that poor man that hangs on princes’ favof Among the recent achievements of elec tricity is the destruction of the picturesque and racy vocabulary which marked tho re lations of mule aud motorman on the Erie canal Lilinokalani might Bowk areout of a joh to be thankful for in the foot ball season 8¢ Ninth cavalr for trust has been porfocted in notwithstanding the curfew rogu June 1 At nmanded volunteers. W those amd wounded discussion of our fiscal in to be a debilitating tarift on as a over unablo federal days, to take offect D nted Iirst Lisutenant Gon- zales S Bingham, Ninth cavairy, recruiting oficer. U'he following named officers will roport in person to the board of vifice pointed to meet at tho Army building, New York City, on Monday, Decomber 11, at 10 o'clock . m., for examination with view to selection for transfer to the ordnance department: Sec. oud Lieutenant Altred M. Hunter, Fourth artillery; Second Livutenant William L. Konly, jr., Fourth artillery; Second Lieu- teoant Coldon L. H. Ruggles, Third “artil- lery ; Second Licutenant Feank (. Maulden, “Ihird artillory ; Second Lieutenant Odus Co Hornoy, Seventh infantry Colonel Silloway, who sorved on General McClellan's staff in 1862, 1s said to be tho man who first callea the United States flag ©0Id Glory.” He now resides in Boston, 75 of age, and in poverty. Talk about dull times! Why, the old world and the new has rarely had a livelie or more exciting time than the present one, Proof of it is mirrored in the vast and varied record of daily events. John Yankum McKane, the Coney Island boss, having raised old harry in his domain, now seeks 1o pinch the World of New York for $100.000. Tho effote boss is developing o vein of humor. Ho claims his character has been libeled, Prayerful petitions do not receive much cousideration at the white house. A Chicago ox-congressman gathercd 6,000 ames on half a mile of paper in favor of his appointment as postmaster. That settlea it ~—for the other fellow. Jorey Rusk showed one of the many ad- mirabie traits of charactor for which he was noted when he atteaded the soldiors® reunion at Minneapolis in 1883, Instead of ing_with him as an escort his regular staff of bluo and giiv ornamental oficers, he commissioned a number of crippled veterans, some of thom his old comrades-n- | Lssue of Noveniber | arms, as members of his staff, had them | Nevraska: Original accompgny him on the trip, housed them at Phelps a frst-class hotel and paid all their ex- , Pawnee C pouses. Towa: Original town, Marshall. Original widows, ete, Martha Canan, Bellevue, Jackson; Alba Knowles, rather, Bagley, Guthrie, Mex war survivors — Incroase—1Thaddeus C. Sea- monds, Marshalltown, Marshall. Mexican war widows—Mary Woodhouse, Maxwell, Sto Colorodo Origmal Animas, La Plata. Original widows, ¢ Mary A. Giltinan, Denver, Arapahoe. Issuo of November 14: Nebraska: ( 1l lington, Washington Haddan, Wymore, ( Western I’ Wasnixaroy, Nov. 27.—(Special to Tum Bre.]—Pensions granted, issuc of November 11, were Nebr Moomayw lowa: Stinson, ka: Origimal Sheridan Oniginal, widows, Livingston, Appanoose; ouri Valley, Harvison. yoming: Original -William cnue, Laramio. Colorado: Original Springs, 151 Paso. Harvey M. Wllson, ete.— Rachel Mary 8. w. Lane, John Biliott, Colorado Kingsbury Increase ¥y, Pawnee. Silas Vauscoic Covey, Thomas J. Plumme Marshall- S : Buftalo Bills Oklnhoma Investments, Er ReNo, Okl Nov. 2.~ A large sale of business property in Kl Reno was mado last week by the firm of Springs & Catdwell to Colonel W. F. Cody, “Buffalo Bill,” who will at once erect a fine brick building Colonel Cody suid he would return soon with capitalists und make other investments “The sale consisted of a quarter of a block in the business center of the eity and a hotel will occupy a portion of the property pur- chased. J Patrick O'Brien, c. Anson Hewott, Ar- Additional—Itobert, Orizinal widows, Harriet Witkinson, Hardy, Nuckolls; Ann Eliza Smelser, lted Cloud, Webster; Catherine Lorg (mother), Lilley, Gago. Towa—Origir Newton G. no, Keosau- qua, Van Buren; Samuel Anderson, Siam, apparent | Taylor; John Rader, Spirit Lake, Dickinson. oris sure to | Reissue—Hillbournd Zeitler, Jelferson Green, uimunity. Oniginal . widows, etc.—Amelin ~ Mourer, Fredericksburg, Chickasaw; Jano Jenkins, Knoxviile, Marion South Dakota: Supplemental—Albion C. Spearin, Hot Springs, Fall River. Colorado: Increase—John C. Logun, Arapahoc. — DERAILED ON A Serious Wreek on the Tramps Supposed to Hav CumperiLAND, Md., Nov. 27, at 40'clock.a freight train, eastb Baltimore & Ohio roud was derailed by an axlo breaking on a bridge near Hyndman, Pa , cirhteen miles westof hore, The bridgo was completely torn down und fificen cars were precipttated into the crecic below, Several tramps were seen on the train just befor cident occarred, but have not been s nce and are sunposed 1o be under d cars, ‘The cars were all louded with coal. 50 . PITIY REMASKS. Chicago Tribune: And itcame to pass—the counterfeit bill. Dotroit Tribuno ibleness of his man of wait ir Despite the ling tho tail y ¢ Washirigton Star: “Hit sut’ny am stranze,” said Uncle Eben, “how much easlersome men fin's it to sottly de Hawaiinn question dan ter settlo er grocery bill! Yonkers Statesn The professional pho- tographer and the wmateur hold entirely dit- ferent views of the sume thing. Life: When a bur “Where's your mone wisest plai to give it Worley, BRIDGE. lar asks the conumdrum, 3 S0t 14 onorally. Lhe itimore & Ohlo— Be Killed, This morning \a, on the Washington Star: In order Sutseriber” miy not b needlessly dol Seitling the Hawaiian question, we b inform him that the “provisional” is not so called because it happens churge of the patronage poi. that “An to have BufTalo Courier: Jillson, whose ¢ undimmed, siys the only operi glasses he hns amy use for are those he is corpelled (0 go out ufler between th BEWAI D troit I She laughed in her With Intent to deecive, But the gown she was wi Had slooves of such size, That 1o her surpris They gave the dear dimsel away. Elaiien TILE UTILILY. Philadelphia Times. Figzelarence bought a new silk hat With lustre like the sun, Compelling most pedestrinns Its rillianey to shun, nree Attempts n Wroeking. Joskri, Mo., Nov. 27.—Three distinct attempts to wreek passenger trains wero mado last mght. Just as tha fast expross on the Burlington was starting, a coupling Din, which had been placed on the drawbar of the driving wheel of the engine, bont the machinery and rendered the engine uscles An hour’ later the same circumsiance o curred to a train leaving for Atchison. Later, a number of bolts wero loosened on a B. & M. engine ina manner which would have caused a disastrous wreck had the en- gine been under full speed. The railway 1ims to have no clew. S R Busloess Troub! Kaxsas Ciry, Nov. 27.—The wholesale furnishing zoods and notions store of fm- vich, Newhouse & Co. was closed toany on attachments by R. Hersikind of New York aud others to securc §,000 due them. The liabilitics are estimatod at $20,000; assets nominally more. The firm 1s ono of the oldest in'the city. ng that duy And afte churceh with Miss Elite Tho av £ Tts duzzling rad 0w his step Lo hers idences lurk, Unmindful that her parasol Whas getting i 1ts Work. But when he reached the d And “good-vy" closed The tile appeaied as if he'd been Conversing through bis hat. " BROWNING, KING ™"~ largest makc fine elothe The s and sellers ot 5 on Earth. Nobody— Our Thanksgiving offer is a fine all wool melton Overcoat for $10 and another for $15, in melton, ker- sey and Irish frieze. Both dandies. Well lined and well made. Cost you $6 more elsewhere. BROWNING, KING & CO., o ud the woney aud we'll pay | § W, Cor.15th and Douglas St 1he Express. P s s s e s scsaaaaa el o e aa e aaaaadasaaalond