Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 31, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JA 'fln& OMAHA DAILY BEE ROSEWATER, Editor. RY MORNING. PURLISHED TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Dee (without Sunday) Ono Year ity and Sunday. On A% Montha Moniia e On Tnday Bee, One Weekiy oo, Ome Yoar OF Omahn. The Bes Bollal ot Omatia, cormer N and T ¢ fo 17 Chamber of Commerco. e S e Suitding nty-fourth streets. DUSINESS LETTERS. {noaa lotters and remittancea should be Yo The Tee Publishing company Omaha. Ju and postoMeo ordors to be made order of tho comp MPANY. wble 1o ¢ ' BEE PUBLISH TH SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Triw Der Pub- awear that the v BEE for the weok s follows Jantiary nuary T T A me and subscribed in my pres- ny of January, 1504, IN. P FRLL Sworn to bofor ence this 27th (8EA IN e postofices are coming. But, oh, 80 slowly! For apiece of brilliant trust finan- cloring apply to tho men in control of the Chicago gas combine. . HEREAFTER it is safe to presume that the Brazilian insurgents will recognize the American flag wherever they see it. e S RoAsT turkey and cranberry sauce one day and turkey feathers the nextday is the natural result of spasmodic char- ity distribution SoME credit should be given the street railway companies for furnishing free transportation to the men who have been given work on the county roads. Corporations may have no souls, but some of the men who conduct them are as human as the rest JusT to remind the democrats that there are a few things worth waiting for, the president has given them ahothe tasto of federal appointments. Patience, gentlemen, Grover had to wait four years to get back into the white hovse and he kas not yet been there quite a year. THE township organization law for the government of counties has not proven an unmixed blessing in Nebraska. To saddlo a small legislature upon the tax- payers of a county in which three com missioners could do the work as ef ciently and as honestly is of doubtful ex- pediency. THE unfortunate governor of Colorado has a perfect right to assert that he has a session of the legislature on his hands. His senate is sadly in need of disciplining, and if the reports are true the governor proposes to lecture the recalcitrant body and give it a few timoly pointers on its duty. Tue Cordage trust is to be ‘‘reorgan- ized” and $9,000,000 worth of water is to | bo injected into the already over- burdened capitalization. The refusal of the trusts to crumble in the face of the threatened passage of the free trade bill is one of the most unaccountable things in current political histor RECENT developments in the Plain- view bank case indicate that the re- ceivor was a little hasty in ascribing criminal practices to so prominent an in- stitution as the Norfolk National bank. The incident simply emphasises the fact that the supremo court cannot be too careful in its selection of receivers for broken banks. Good judgment is as much of a necessity as good accounting. A SINGLE tax amendment to the Wil- son bill, in addition to the income tax feature, is all that is wanting to perfect the symmetry of that hybrid measure. A mixture of free trade and propection, with a flavor of the English income tax, seasoned to taste with the Henry | Georgo idea, is exactly what the demo- | cratic platform of 1 promised the people. Infloct them with this and they will be forever cured of democratic proclivities. ADMIRAL BENHAM is the commander of which all Americans may foel proud. Pationt in waiting and prompt in acting, his presence in Rio Janeiro in command of our fleot is in iv- solf an assurance that American intor. ests thero will bo fully appreciated. H energetic action in giving an America: merchant vessel an escort of armed men- of-war will serve to teach both the Bra- 4 lian insurgents and the Brazilian gov- ernment to respoct the rights of vessels under the protection of the stars and stripes, peof naval presidentinl appoint- ments for Nebraska show a decided leaning toward the editorial profession as the objective point for foderal pa ronage distribution. Two more pos offices may now be run in connection with the loeal print shop. The recently appointed postmaster at Council Blulls has also had the advantage of his nows- paper as political backing. Taking all in all theve is stit hope for the news- paper wan, Congressman Bryan and his protege, Editor Calhoun, are ea- titled to what little consolation these in- dications afford them, SENATOR VEST'S peace of mind is sadly disturbed every time a potition is road in the senate protesting against the passage of the Wilson tariff bill. Not that the senator objects to the contents of tho petitions, but that he is sorely distressed because their reading violates the rules that have been adopted to govern the preceedings of that body. The federal constitution guarantees the right of potition 12 ¢ongress to every in- dividual citizen, but under the rules of the seunte that right resolves itsell merely into the privilege of having the papers presented and pigeon-holed in the appropriate committee. Why shouldu't Senator Vest object? | that they THE ANTI-POVERTY CAMPAIGN, In all essential partioulars the anti- poverty campaign does not differ mater- fally from & military campaign or a political campaign. There must be a commander, a competent staff and a dis- ciplined army. After the military chieftain has his forces well in hand, supplied with the necessary commissary and quartermaster stores and ammuni- tion, the first step s to ascer- tain the strength and position of the enemy whom he s expected to combat. The same thing fs true re- garding a political campaign. No prudent commander would squander his resources by promiseuous distribution of rations, clothing and munitions. No prudent political campaign committe would uso up all its available resources at the very outset of the campaign, nor would it scatter broadcast all its cam- paign literature, regardless as to whore it would prove effective or worse than useless, The anti-poverty onmpaign has only just begun in this city. Mostof the heavy work is yetto come. What is needed now is more perfect organization and more systematic distribution. There should really be a level-headed commander to supervise and direct the staff of workers from the various char- itable organizations. So far we have only had wild talk and emotional ap- peals about the extentof destitution. What we should have had long ago and what wo must have before an effective anti-poverty campaign can be fought, is a reconnaisance of the position and forces of the enemy. In other words we should know the location and numbers of tho dependent peoplo. We must sep- arate the sheep from the goats, so to speak, by ascertaining who are really entitled to aid and those who are able to aid themselves. We must compare the lists of the county superiutendent of the poor with those of volunteer charity organizations. What would be thought of a commissary who would give ten rations to one soldier and halfa rvation to another? And what would be thought of a quartermaster who would distribute ten blankets and adozen pairs of shoes to one soldier while a score of other soldiers were shoeless and exposed to the cold? That is precisely the ir- rogular and wasteful method which we have pursued under the spontaneous, many-headed and headless relief system. Order is heaven's first law and order is essential in an anti-poverty campaign. THE SITUATION AT RIO. It looks as if the Brazilian insurrec- tion is about at an end, and by reason of the action of the commander of the American naval force at Rio rather than anything accomplished by Peixoto. The dispatches at hand at this writing do not present a clear or definite state- ment of the situation, but they leave no doubt that the insuvgent forces have received a severe and perhaps decisive blow, and that it has been admin- istered by Admiral Benham. It was intimated some time ago that our naval commander at Rio had re- ceived very positive instructions as to the protection of American interests there. Our merchant vessels were in constant danger from tho firing of the insurgent forts and no attention was paid to demands that they be rclieved from this danger. The last appeal made by the American admiral was contemptu- ously refused even consideration, and thereupon ho determined to act. The epplication of the captain of an Amer- ican merchant vessel for protection caused Admiral Benham to send several warships to escort the morchant vessel to its destination. This was accom- plished without other incident than the creation of more than ordinary inter- est and excitement, the insurgents making no demonstration of hos- tility to the action of the American admiral. It was thought there would probably be no further occasion for a proceeding of this kind. - But it would seem from the later dis- patches that another oceasion did arise for action on the part of the American naval commander, and that the conse- quences to the insurgents were ssrious, This was inevitable in the event of any- thing like a general conflict between the naval force at Rio and the insurgents, and assuming that the latter must have understood this it is not casy to believe would provoke a conflict, on the theory of despora- tion. They may have reasoned that they could not permit the unobstructed entrance of American merchant vessels to Rio, with the privi- lege of conveying to the Brazilian gov- ernment arms and munitions of war, and upon this determined to test how far our naval commander would go in protecting these vessels. If such was the case the insurgents have undoubt- edly learned by this time a greater re- speet for the naval power of the United States than they perhaps belore enter- tained. Admiral Benbam is said to be an officer who can bo depended upon to arry out his instractions to the letter. sther possinility that Ad- al da Gama, conscious of the il of the insurgent cause, which undoubtedly has been steadily losing strength for some time, may have pro- voked a nflict with the American uaval commander for the purpose of sur- rendering to him and thereby securing the personal safety of himself and his adhevents, many of whom could oxpeot nothing but death if they surrendered to the Brazilian goverament. There is no doubt that the insurgent leaders have realized the hopelessness of their cause for some time and have beeun Lolding on simply bocause surrender meant exile from their native land or doath. rom the time the nations of the world refused to recognize them as belligorents their cause began to decline and when they encountered the mani- fest hostility of the United States, made apparent when our flaot at Rio was largely increased, thoir cause became hopeless. The Brazilian minister at Washing- ton is reported as saying that he had no doubt the news of the surrender of Ad- miral da Gama is true. If it should prove to be that would be practically the end of the insurrection, for it does not appear that Admiral de Mollo has any following or that he possesses the quali- fications to command confidence as a leader. Even Gawa, who joived the in- oxcept -a public nuisance. surrection with a great flourish, has shown no marked ability as a revolu- tionary leader. FAILURE OF THE BOND INJUNOTION. The fallure of the injunction proceed- ings instituted on behalf of the Knights of Labor to restrain Secretary Carlisle from {ssuing the bonds for which he has advertised for proposals will cause sur- prise in no quarter. Had the court listened to the petitioners and de- cided to grant the order re- quested its action would have created enot only surprise but also con- sternation, It would have opened the way for factious political opposition to embarrass the most vital operations in the conduct of the government when- ever it might be possible for one party to differ from the officiais in authority as to the expediency of exercising a dis- cretionary power conforred by law. It would place it within the power of any intermeddling reformers to force the treasury to discredit its own obligations and practically to clog the wheels of government, The summary way in which Judge Cox dismissed the petition for injunction is evidence that the federal judiclary fis far from anxious to interfere with the functions of the other departments of the government. He brushes aside the contention that the Knights of Labor as a body are any more interested in the ex- ecutionof the revenue laws of the United States than every other body of citizens. No direct tax having been levied in recent years by the federal government, it is impossible to trace a contribution to the treasury to any particular taxpayer or to show a divect interest on the part of the petitioners in preventing an un- authorized increase in the public debt. This line of argument practically de- molishes all plans for bringing injunc- tion proceedings to prevent the proposed bond issue, because no other persons will be able to set up additional allega- tions that will enable them to secure a standing in court for that purpose. Even had the Knights asserted that thoy were property owners or consumers of dutiable commodities they could not prove that they would be personally af- fected by the burdens of the new bond sue and would have met with no greater encouragement. Judge Cox has very wisely refused to go into the merits of the controversy and his course plainly shows that he considers that question one entirely out- side of his province. The law of 1875, under which it is proposed to issue the bonds, leaves to the secretary of the treasury the decision as to when the emergency contomplated has arisen. The law must assume that the proceeds are to be applied in accordance with the intent of congress and cannot impute to the secretary any desire to divert® the funds from their lawful purposes. The Knights of Labor took no occasion to protest when the zold reserve was trenched upon to pay the current expenses of government and they arc at least morally estopped from questioning the expediency of resocting to bonds under the law providing means to replenish that reserve. The decision of Judge Cox leaves the way clear for the acceptance of the bids that ave to be opened tomorrow and cannot fail to re- act so as to strengthen the public credit, now that it is known that the courts will not lend themselves to legal proceedings intended solely to embarrass the treasury. WURK FUR T4k PARK COMMISSION. The suggestion made by Hon. Frank Ransom at the Exposition hall that the property ownecs on all graded residence streets be required to plant trees ad- jacent to their lots should commend itself o our city authorities. The plant- ing of shade trees should be carried on systematically in every oity and the trees should be under the supervision and care of the park commission: Tree planting in Omaha has been altogsther too promiscuous and irregular. In the early days property owners were authorized by ordinance to fence in fourteen feet of tho streot in front of thetr lots for the purpose of protecting trees that were to be planted and cared for within the enclosure. The result has been very unsatisfactory. The class of trees planted by most of the property owners were cottonwoods,soft maples and locusts. The cottonwoods soon beecamo The soft maples were little better than the cottonwoods and the locusts were for the most part de- stroyed by bores. Most of the trees planted in the fourteen foot enclosure were either too close to the lot line or too near the sidewalk. Whnen the or- der was issued on some of the streots to move back the fences to the lot line many trees became an obstruction and had to be cut down. Those that remain furnish an abundance of shade, but are unsightly and misplanted. The fourteen foot ordinance has been a source of imposture upon the city. Many lot owners have taken advantage of the privilege granted to. them and have annexed the street to their lots. By placing the trees in all our strevts in the care of the park commission we shall soon have the worthless trees re- moved and the remaining shade trees uniformly trimmed. If inaddition to this M. Ransom’s suggostion is carried out, we shall have a park system extending through every residence street. This work should be bogun us early in the spring as possible. That will enable us to give employment to quite a number of working men who might otherwise have to bo assisted by charity. The council has full authority to re- quire the planting of trees by property owners and the council also has the vight to designate the park commission as the body for supervising this work. The park commission has already in its omploy exporienced gardeners who know what class of shade trees will thrive in our soil and are best adapted to this climate. What we now need is intelligent direction and uniformity, coupled with systematic care of our shade trees. WHAT @ uice diserimination those Colorado legislators display who refuse to take any action upon a bill reducing thoir own salaries from $7 to 85 per day because that subjeot was not included in tho purposes of tho sossion enumerated in the governor's call, If the bill pro- vided for a ralse in thoir salaries and was backed by the same popular senti- ment that al vays's ine'a decrease in public expenditures, wo feel quite sure that no one wouldNdve raised this ob- jection, or if raisédl it would be passed over .as immaterjal. If one of Col- orado’'s senatora, -should be taken ill and die tomorrow we imagine this all-wise legiglature would refuse to elect his successor hecause that object was not stated inthe call. A good way to discover how far its powers extend in an extra session woyld be to paes the bill reducing the salaries of its mem- bers. Somo salary-grabbing legislator would be sure to oarry it into the courts, and a decision on the point of constitu- tional law would settle it for all time. For such a decision the Colorado legis- lature does not appear to be hankering. THE action of the State Banking board with reforence to the delinquent building and loan associations which have been disoboying the stato law is timely. The banking board has been entirely too careless in its supervision of the building and loan associations. Now that it proposes to give this branch of its work the same painstaking care that it has given the banking in- terests of the state there is no reason why the laws should not be enforced. But few people in the state seem to realize the importance of the building and loan interests. They will make Ne- braska a state of home-owners if prop- erly fostered. THERE is much to command in the simple and straightforward declaration of principles set forth by the newly or- ganized Bohemian club at Pittsbury, Pa. To ‘“stand firmly by the constitu- tion ot the United States, to defend the honor and independence of our adopted country, and that only honest and in- dustrious countrymen should be ac- cepted for citizens of the United States,” are sentiments that may well commend themselves even to the native Amer- icans. A great many patriotic societies have used a gréat many more words and said much less. OMAHA'S experience Wwith night schools this winter is not doing much to impress the people with any pro- nounced sense of their necessity. When the end of January finds but one school out of four able to sccure a regu- lar attendance of thirty pupils the de- mand for this extra instruction cannot be very strong. It would perhaps be undesivable to deny oven to the fow who wish to attend the privilege of a common school education, but for this purpose a much less expensive system of night schools will s’uflh'e THAT tumultuous 'demonstration cn the floor of the KFiench Chamber of Deputies is now ascribed to a feeling on the part of the $ocialist members that the government, has; failed to appre- ciate the distinction between the social- ists and the anarchists. The anarchists will probably also resent being classed with the socialists. Why not let them have it out betweeni themselves? It is not the quarrel of the French govern- ment. gy et mgera——s THE electric light appropriation, with $175 a year for 2,000-candle power arc lights that are known to be of less than 1,200-candle *power, will bob upserenely in the new council within a few days. The bill will, of course, be vetoed by Mayor Bemis and then we shall sco jus “how many fellows,” to use the sug- gestive expression of John L. Webster relative to the supremo court, Mr. Wiley has in the new council. THE State Board of Transportation should not wait for public sentiment to back it up in its proposed and long- promised effort to compel obedience to its own orders. The people of the state are not caring particularly whether the rates on dried grase aro reduced just now, but’ they do insist that the State Board of Transportation shall either command respect or go out of the busi- ness of managing railroads. THE long promised battle between the new dynamite cruiser recently purchased in New York by President Peixoto and the ships of the Brazilian insurgents, a buttle which is expected to revolutionize naval warfare, is extremely dilatory in its coming. Thero is room for the suspicion that the contestants care more for their personal safety than they do for the interests of naval science. neoring S PhiladelphiaRecord. The mills that are starting up in all parts of the couniry are not running on specula- uon; they are set a-going to fill orders—to supply demand. This is healthy business. e Langer Groater Than tbat of War, Washington Post ‘Were the United States threatened with an armed invasion from Canadu congress would take action upon the urgency inside of sixty minutes. Yet with an urgency weigh- ing upon the interests of the country of ten- fold greater peril, compared with which in- deed o war weuld prove o blessing, no action has yet been taken in the direction of relief, no agreement as to what action should be waken has been coma to, and the people are left for month after mponth groping in tinan- cial uncertalnty and industrinl distress, with no strong helping hand in sight. ————— Fuuny Things We See. Philadelpht® T imes. One of the funniest things that has hap- pened lately is the discovery av Wasnington that the World's fair medal, designed by Mr. Saint Gaudens, js “indocent,” and can- not have the sanction of this moral govern- ment. ‘The design actublly contains a nude figure, and several sénstors and even Secre- tary Car.islo ave shodled at the idea of such a thing. The desiftu Is to be sent back to the sculptor to have himrput clothes on the lad and gentlemen. Tho figure of Indus- try is to have o cutway cont and trousers, while Fame is to wear agmart gown of the latest Chicago mode, - PEOPLE AND THING The Victoria hotel compact seoms to have been lost in the subsequont shuftle. Many & man fights for his creed who never thinks of carrying an umbrella for his wife, ‘hicago carries 14,000 persons on its pay roll. Naturally the treasury carries a bloom- ing defieit. Things have come to such a painful pass in St, Louls that landiords levy on the dead to collect rent for the living. The date for the redemption of Kansas has beon put off again, owing to the un- avoldable absence of Cyclovic Mary. fi won't do any good to] pray for the South Sea isiander as long as you won't speak to the mun who lives in the next house. Associate Justice Brewer is convinced, after maturo reflection, that the aroma of banquet boards is not conducive to judicial dignity. Although Senator Walthall resigned from the senate and subsequently declined o banquet, it is safo to assert he has not en- tirely lost his grippe. According to_charges mado by a stock- holder of the Nicaragua Canal company, the ofMcers dug a ditch of suficient dimen- s10ns to drain the treasury. Various explanations are given of tho meaning of Boss Croker's visit to Washing- ton, but none of them reach the true in- wardness of the jaunt. The significance of it is that tho boss wants Pockham con- firmed, not because he loves Peckham to the verge of distraction, but because by shelv- g him on the bench an obstinate, perni- cious and offensive enemy of Tammany will be effectually suppressed. A society woman in New York, who con- tracted for a pink toa hair dye, and secured a halo of bristling brindle, has appealed to the courts for dsmage. She avers that im- pudent jehus follow her with the white horse hoodoes, and her mental anguish is such as requires financial solace, If the court is not wholly bereft of gallautry and sentiment it will award tho afilicted woman substantial damages. General Sickles' threat of bolting the Wilson bill is not to be taken seriousty. The general will be remembered as the party who uttered dire threats ana smote the murky air of the Chicago wigwam with his crutch by way of empl Iater poured out a few phials of wrath on Cloveland, but when o _congressional nomination was ten- dered him his spirit underwent a miracalous change and he became as meek as o purring kitten, Senator Caffrey of Louisiana is said to bo a connoisseur in neckties. Lvery day this session he has appeared in the ate. chamber wearing a_different necktie. They are not loud ones, cither, but all selected with excellent taste. His favorite coior is a light blue, but he wears them in alt manne; of shades and never by any mistake Goes h wear the same tie two days. He has a ver, handsome complexion and is proud of it, and he selects ties to harmonize with his’own color. Mr. Dennis Mulligan of Lexington, Ky., has beon keeping a_grocery and saloon in the same building in that eity since 1842, and his reminiscences are alw; teresting. “Many a time in the40's," said Mr, Mulligan, “Mr. Clay would como ' into_the store here and w ould have a long talk, and I would invite him to takea little of my old whisky, which ho seldom refused. T was agreat admirer of him and considered nim a great and honest man." The '40 camp, one of the attractions of the bas an orzan peculiarly its Ich Self Cocker.” It is kan matured The Gold Sam 1 da. Davis protege of Dr. Miller on the On Ho was a genial, was o Herald ' in the earl; lovable fellow, despite his tool tho form of noces on proof sheet ma gins for the solo benofit of printers. long as the gang coincided views on all subjocts, and boisterously ap- plauded his wit, all went well. But the moment a veteran printer disputod his spell- ing ability and apvcaled successfully to Webster, Davis curtly cut” the force, de- nounced them as ignoramuses, and shunned their socicty. Life in the wilder west grad- unlly rubbed of the notion that ho was an ammated eacyclopedia, and prosperity came to him. Mentally he is a self cocker with an abundance of ammunition, Ces e The Incoma Milistone. Philadelphia Ledger. The democratic caucus having tacked the income tax provisions on the Wilson tariff bill, the prospect of beating both has been improved. The democrats are cortainly in a bad way, and no matter which way they turn, cannot seitle on a policy which wlil satisfy all of their hoterogencous elements, Whilo they are in this situation the amiable republicans will, of course, give them plenty of rope. —_———— Disastrous Fouds. Globe-Democrat. Each of the big parties has boen hurt by tional quarrels in New York. The de- mocracy was_beaten for the presidency in 1848 from this cause, and the republicans wero overthrown in 1384 on the same ac- count, In 1888, too, the Cleveland-Hill feud was ono of tha factors which beat the former. This_suprome court nomination fight is one of the influences which will lay out the democrats in 1890, e Discordant Counsels. Globe-Dem crat, The democrats contiuue to tary Carlisle. The house judiciary commit- too has declared that the secretary has no right to sell bonds under the law of 1875 to 0ld to meet the current expenses of the government. Moanwhile tho secretary will o right ahead and dispose of this $50.- 000,000 bateh, und if congress does not provide who now legislation which ho asks he will sell more bonds in March or April under the same law. Necessity overrides logal tech- nicalities and the wire-drawn distinetions of pettifoggers. The people ave with Carhisie in this mattes. A o Mob Law. Chicago Liecord. The democratic membors of conzress are enamored of the work of making a free trade demonstration without method or laadership. ‘Cheirs is o riotous endeavor to doa spoctacular thing without regard to consequences. Little respect is shown by them for the Wilson bill or 1ts framers. The result is a specics of mob legislation. There is every reason to suppose that the senate will tr with tariff revision with some regard to the needs of commerce and of the public revenues. It is apparent thut the house is not 1n the humor to burden itsolf with sober legislation. It doos what 1t pleases and doosn’t care for rosults a course will have its fitting reward, s A Great ¥ ciple at Stake. Washington Star, The house of ropresentatives will do the country a real service if it takes up and es to an unquestionable decision the case of Judge Jeokins, who, by wjunction, intorfered with and provented a strike of Northern Pacific railroad employes and com- Delled cessation of the efforts of labor orgun- lzation officials who were inciting those employes to quit work, ‘The injunction was upon application of tho receivers e of Northern Pacific affairs, of much ack Secro- and was for awhile the subjec comment. Now the trades unions are agitat- achment of Judge Jenkins and iho matter will almost surely occupy some of the attention of the house as soon as the Wilson bill is out of the way. If Judge Jenkins id the right and the legal thing the ountry shouid have the case made con- spicuously plain; if he erred without malice he should be reprimanded; if ho deliberately inisused one of the law's greatest powers he should suffer prompt removal from the Judicial ofiice, A great principlo is ut stake. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, : J &z ezCr0) Re Baking Powder ABSOIUTELY PURE NEBRASKA AND The enterprising town of Osmond now has a cometary laid out with 400 lots. Teon baptisms were the fruits of a rovival in the Christian church at Clay Center. Ord has a building and loan assoclation which is much alive, though a Coffin is pres- wdent of the organization. Three fingers on the right hand of Charlie Milier of Steinauer, Pawnes county, disap- peared in a corn shellor on which he was working. A Notfoll company has rocolved the con- tract for furnishing 200,000 brick to be used in building tho industrial school at Pine Ridgo agency. Mrs. Philip Flood, residing near Minden, was probubly fatally injurea by a runaway accident. Sho was thrown from a wagon and struck on her head. A U-year-old Bloomington boy was kicked on the head by a colt and severely injured Ho is now sympathizing with a buby sister who was bitten by a dog. At Marquette, in_the northern part of Hamilton county, o few duys ago, & young man named Van Cleve, u the Influence of liquor, appronched ighbor namod Campbeli in o threatening manner. Campbell turned and struck him over the hoad with a gun that he had in his hands. At tho pre- liminary hearing Campbell mado no do fonso and was bound _over to district court. Ho is now fin jail. Van Clove is severely but not dangerously hurt, Otto Berghman, & young man living half way between Eaglo and Bennet, was acci- dentally shot urday afternoon while trading at the former pince, He was in tho habit of carrying ravoly n his overcoat pocket 1o have it ready in case of emorgency. As ho started to untie his team his overcoit struck the hitching post, causiug tho re- volver to fire off, the bullet entering Bergh- man’s sido just above the hip and circulating around to the small of the back. The physi- cians were unablo to locate the bullet by probing, but gave it as their opinion that the wound would not necessarily be fatal, unless complications or blood ~ poisoning ERRANK JTRICAL NOTES. Kalamazoo is to have a municipal electrio plant, The London, Brighton & South Coast rail- way of England has thirty of its trains lighted by clectricity and is now about to equip & number of additional trains. It is suid that about 15 per cent more work can be got_out of eleotrically lighted than of a gas lighted train, which makes a saving in first cost of about 225000, as eighty-five electrically lighted trains can do the work of 100 gas tighted trains. A Connecticut paper mentions the peculiar origin of a fire which occurred recontly in o dwelling house in Norwalk. An electric railway passes the place, and it appears that the return current, some of which escapes from the rails into the ground, followed an iron water pipa into the cellar of the house, then switched off to a gas pive at a point where the two came in coutact, and followed the latter to the meter, where it melted the lead connection and ignited the gas. Tne flames had caught the floor timbers when they were discovered, but the fire was ex- tinguished with buv trifling damage. D. H. Kent of St. Paul is the mventor of a telegraph typewriter, bearing lis name, which, if successful, will eventually displace the Morse system enticely. Thé operator plays upon the keys of the instrument, asin any ordinary typewriter, but the resulting manuseript” is - produced at the tele- graph office or station where it 1s to be delivered, which may be 1,000 miles away. The main advantages” to be' gained by this over the Morse system are three in num —more words a minute can be sent, there is no receiving operator at the other end of the line to make blunders, the one to whom the message is addressed is not left in the dark blindly written message, every word being produced as it was ticked off by the transmitting operator. “The introduction of electric powor m the improvement of drilling ana quarrying ma- chinery within the last fow years is evi- dently destined to work a revolution in the accomplishment of tunnel engineering pro- jects. Iixcavations thau formerly occupied years can now be made in a few months, and a striking reduction in the estimates of the time required for the carrying out of en- gincering plans is apparent. It is staved that the proposed Simplon tunnel is to be constructed at a cost and rate which will place its prede Motive is now easily r wiss mountainous districts, and the with which _electric power can be nsmitted renders the site of a generating station a secondary consideration. This new tunnel through the heart of the Alps is to be completed in five and one-half years. ———— e Planning Pacty Katn, Chicago Herald (dem.). It required the vigor of a solid democratic party to make him president, boti in 1884, when he barely escaped defeat, and again in 1892, on pledges that are still far from ful- fillment. Having twice received its highest honors, having been carried by only ure- mendous efforts of a united party into exalted station, is it now the design of Mr. Cleveland to go out of oftice and into history as_architet of the ruin of his party? A nobier ambition ought to be inspired by both patriotism and gratitude. Czar is Tmproving. St. PrrEnsnrna, Jan. 80.—The health of tho czar is generally improved, tnough his rest was disturbed by coughing. His tem- perature this morning is 100.4. The largest makors tine clothes on Barth THEY DO NOT COMPARE, The Mee and Ita Wounld Rivals Are Not i the Sume Ulnss. There is but little comparison botween a newspapor and a Fake Factory, but for the amusement of its readers Tie Ber has made a fow moro figures that do not compare. The figures showing the amount of matter printed by Tur Ber yesterday indicate the oxtout of the news, while tho figures on the World-Horald and Lincoln Journal tell the story of a smattering of news and a mixture of stalo matter, Hore aro the figures Monxixa Ber, long, wide colums Morning W.-H., short, narrow colu Lincoln Jonrnal, short, narrow columns ENING EF, | SO1anINS. ..o ivening W.-1l., 8 olamng . The best is the cho 88 20 28 87 26 Import; slon Deolston, Washington Post, The decision of Justice Bradley in the case of Judge Long of Michigan. whose pen- slon was suspended by Commissioner Loch- ren, but who was recently restored to the rolls in compliance with the act of Decembver 21, 1803, scttles a question that wo trust may never again be brought into con- troversy The decision is to the offect that under the acts of June 18, 1874, and June 16, 1880, Judge Long was so clearly entitled to ' his pension that any further examination with o view of dotermining his status was unwarranted by law. Commissioner Tanner's ruling in tho caso in 1880 was beyond the reach of review or roversal. Judge Long has acquired a vested right which no subsequent commis- sioner could disturb. In the opinion of Justico Bradle, hava veen better for Commission to have vacated the originalc in the case, without necessitating judicial inter- vention, but the case is well enough ended as it is. Full reparation has been made to Juage Long for what was no doubt an un- witting act of injustice ou the part of Com- ssioner Lochren; the action of his prede- or is sustained; the statute is given clear and_conclusive interpretation, and the policy of the department placed upon a fixed and pormancnt basis with regard to sthiilar cases in the future. Democratic Leaders Arralgnod. New York Sur. Incompetency. cowardice, treachory and inconceivable folly at is the whole story of democratic leadership in this tariff busi- ness. And the principal responsibility for tho income tax disaster is about equally divided between Grover Cleveland and Wil- liam Lightweight Wilson. promirtn B ¥ COMICS. y it would Lochren SAU New Orleans Pleayune: RBig cities are full of Cranus Who aro" Just waiting for thelr turn. of 11fe the man r seews to feel zotte: Tnthe is neighbor ne: Yonkers G who outlive as if he had When T fst ad only one sh ve younow?" nta Constitution ditor, “T +And what h! RBoston Herald: The patent on mince ples has been declared null and void, but the night. mare attachment still holds good. Washington Star: Do you think," sald Willig Wishington, “that it actually hurts a man tq be hit with one of Cupid’s urrows?" vo," replied Belle Pepperton; “‘asa rule he y becomes senseless for i time.” Chicago Recor Slleyene fs and sensitive in her estheiic taste “Yes, Indect ho other day she went to a pink brenkfast and aftorward to a lilac lunch- con and a yellow tea. The poor girl's sick-a- bed still.” Philadelphin Ledger: A down oast crema- tory company Is in financiul difficulties. 1f a cremutory retort 1s pormissible, the Urn Which 1s the organ of that interost, should make a good roceiver. 50 delicate Indianapolls Journal: *Your great men seem to curry thelr honors most easily,” sald the observant foroigner. [ have noticed sev- eral of your sonators, and they scem just as common s any one That may be the case with senators,” suld the cltiz ."hul{yuunuxhun meot o newly elocted Justico of the peace.’ CALAMITOL Washington News. n can the plumber Of the times complain; o wonther's summer, And for once In vain e priys for bursted And congealed maing Always ho has been busy; now he's dumb; Behold the *s lost his plumb. PHILOSOPILY, Somerville Journal. Sltting by tho window, dre Weupped up in o study brown Witio the window pane was stonming With the warm rain pouring down, Musingly I sat one norning, On u changeful April duy, Books and friends together scorning, Pushing all the world awuy. For somo news T had expocted To receive had not arrived S0 1 sut there, quite dejecte “Tull u little child contrived, Somehow, to crecp shyly near mo ’And, auito thoughtlessly no doubt, Brighily said, as if to cheor mne: “doe, the sun Is coming out!” Sure enough! The clouds wero breaking, And the sun was shining through. Allat onco my heart stopped aching, All tho world seenied bright and now, And from then till now I'vo only Tlad to think to set things right When the world scomed d ek and lonelyt “Look around for scmeshing bright.” 1831ler of but when M a straight underwea ference. won't buy any more—oan’ length of time. choice of a fine selection of at 500 a tie. chance again. You may BROWNING, ou send or more Will pay the expross If the money for 20 worl| R N Foreign or Domestie. It makes but little difference to the purchasers, underwear, that sells never for less than $3.50 to $4.50 a piece, goes at Dr, Warner's well a suit . goes garment—.then it does make a dif- cause we' goods and sell them at such ruinous prices for any Also some awfully low prices on broken sizes of other underwear. As drawing card we have put in all our 506 four-in-hands and tecks at a quarter a tie. know when we say double value, it's so. the Lewis full fashioned $2 a garment; or when known health r that retails for $5 and $6 for only $1.50 a We won't do it long, be- 1l be sold out—then we t afford to sell such fine We will, also, give our $1.50 and $1 neckties You No such be too late if you wait. KING & CO., | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts.