Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 19, 1894, Page 3

THE 1)1\“er BEE | COUNCIL BLUFFS OFFICE NO. 12 PEARL STRE Telivciedy cartier to any partof the city 0, W.TILTON - Manager EPHONES | BusinessOfco 0.43 TELEPHONES { N Fiitor § MINOR MENTION. Boston Store—Linens, towels, muslins, Rev. John Askin, D. D., spent Sunday visiting his former home in Kearney, Neb. Mrs. A. B. Thornell and daughter of Sid ney spent Sunday with Judge Thornell in this city M ettie Wyman visit Miss Antolncite W this week The Jarvis Wine company filed a chattel mortgage for $10,000 with the county recorder aturday night in favor of the Cattleman’s ank The Presbyterian church inat we tinued this week and the church will unite. There s some talk that Pacific rallway may use the depot at the corner of Eroad: streets for a local depot. The Dudley Buck male quartet will give a concert next Thursday evening, assisted by Mrs. J. G. Wadsworth, for benefit of the Congregational church. cdmund Jeffries has had a writ junction issued to restrain Sheriff from selling the cigar stock of T. D. King & Co., ®o that the sale will not come off this morning as announced, Jeffries claims a lien on the stock for rent due to the amount of $1,000. Next Wednesday will be celebrated as flag day in the public schools, and appro priate exercises will be held in all the mchools. The pupils In Miss Underwood's room at the Washinglon avenue building have made especial preparations for the oc- casion and will present an Interesting pro- gram, to which all are invited The $-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. G C. McGee died of pneumonia Friday very suddenly. It was not thought that the dis- ease was anything more serious than a cold, but when the members of the family went into the room after a short absence, the little one was found lying on the bed, dead The funeral took place yes afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence the cor- ner of Avenue B and Twenty-third street. Max Barnholt, a German, was sitting in Chris Hansen's saloon on Broadway Friday afternoon when he was suddenly stricken with apoplexy and fell to the floor uncqn- scious, He was picked up and carried to the Chicago restaurant, at the corner of Main street and Willow avenue, where he had been stopping. During the night he died His father lives in Atlantic, and notice of the funeral will not be given until he has been heard from. of Des Molnes will llace on Bluff street meetings that were held at the First k will be con Congregational the old and Missourt dumimny Ninth the of in- Hazen was One thousand fine crayon portraits to be glven away by C. O. D. Brown to every customer who trades with him to the amount of $10.00. We have contracted with the largest portrait and frame manu- facturing establishments in the United States to furnish us 1,000 crayon portraits, which we will give away free of charge to every customer that trades with us to the amount of $10.00. Secure tickets and order frames from our agents, who will call on you in a few days. Positively no tickets glven out at store. If agent does not call on you leave your address at the store and we will send him to take your order. Save 25 per cent of your grocery bill by paying cash at Biown's C. 0. D. Compare our prices with your high-priced credit grocer: 22 1bs. granulated sugar for $1.00; best XXX soda crackers, 4%c a Ib. by the box; best XXX oyster crackers, 4%e by the cked navy beans, 3%c Ib.; oat c; sweet California oranges, 10c dozen; Calffornia_dried grapes, aec Ib.; good broom for 15c; 4 packages soda, 4 packages condensed mincemeat, 2ie loaves fresh bread, 10c; corn meal, 10¢ a sack. €. 0. D. BROWN, The Cash Grocer. We are headquarters in Council Bluffs for the famous Monarch brand of canned goods, and_everything elso that is first class and good in the grocery line. W. S. Homer, 538 Broadway. Co: H. A. Cox, 10 Main strect. Best quality, lowest rate: Prompt delivery. Get pric ng. Telephone 4 1,000 hot bed sash, glazed and ready for use, made by the Council Bluffs Paint, Oil and Glass Co., at prices to suit the times. Out of town customers save money and get prompt attention. Masonic temple building. s before buy . Domestic soup is the best. SPIRTUALISTS MEET. Visltors from the Other World Fail to Secure Recognition. A mecting of a number of spiritualists was held yesterday afternoon In the room over 404 Broadway, which they have rented and fixed up for use as a permanent place of meeting. The selection of a meeting place fs par- ticularly appropriate from the fact that the room has for a long time had a reputation for being haunted. It was formerly oc pled by the “Turf Exchange” gambling house, and it used to be said that not a gambler in the city could be induced to stay In it alone over night. As long as the lights were burning it was_ all right, but as soon as the glim was doused the specter of a man who had been killed in the room while engaged in bucking the tiger came back to earth and filled the room with sighs and groans because of the big gap in his neck, The meeting yesterday afternoon was a conference meeting, and John Short was the first to respond to a call for short speeclies. His flow of language was not so fluent as it ordinarily is when he s lecturing the pass- ing multitudes on the sclence of government, but he was getting warmed up to his subject and gradually veering around to a point from which he could pour hot shot into the opponents of the natlonal labor party when one of the brothren arose and moved that he be requested to sit down. The motion was seconded and carrled In a trice and John had to retire. J. M. Holladay arose at this point and of- fered to read a plece of his own composition on “The Ascent of Man." It would take about twenty-five minutes to read it, and so he had thought it best to ask the permis- sion of the audience before wading into it A couple of the gentlemen present thought they had come together to hear - short speeches and not long essays. A motion to allow_ Mr. Holladay to read his essay re- celved no affirmative votes and only two or three negative, so that it was decided lost by the chairman. During the afternoon one gentleman who was several points shy on syutax went into a trance and saw several spirits, who de- clared they were related to certain persons in the audience, but the audience failed to identify them and they had to return to the shadow land until, as the medium said, “the audience was more in rapport with him,"” Riley & Sherraden's Art Goods. Not a figure has been changed on a siugle article in Riley & Sherraden's art store, and the selling price is just one-half the price. Tube paints and water colo sable brushes, 5¢, and all frames and moulds ings half price. This is a genuine out sale, as hundreds of customers in last few days have discovered. the There's music In the air—it's coming Dudley Buck quartet—Congregational church, February 22, Washington's birthday. Mrs. Wadsworth will sink. Fire and tornado Insurance, Lougee & Towle, 235 Pearl street Get prices from Shugart & Ouren, the lead- ing seedsmen of Councll Blufts, Masonic temple. Fresh bread, 3 loaves for 10c, at Brown 0. D, Ask your grocer for Domestlc s0ap. NEWS FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS Doctors Hold a Vaccination Bee that Proves a Complote Sucoess, WORTHY POOR PROVES RATHER ELASTIC Among the Hundreds Who to the Surgeon's enerous Invitation Were Many Who Could Well Afford to Pay for Treatment. Responded “Hev you ben vaccinated yit?" was question bandied from one to another. the answer was, “Yes,” The physicians in charge of the Council Bluffs Medical ¢ announced through the papers Saturday morning that they would be at the college rooms from 2 o'clock until § p. m. for the purpose of vaccinating the by poor free of charge. When they made the announcement they had no idea of the clasticity of the term “worthy poor” or they would certainly have used some other in inviting patronage. During the three hours at least 900 per- sons climbed the stairs at the college, and it took the united work of half a dozen doctors and a dozen pupils of the college to Jab the » points into the arms of the patients to keep the line in motion. sters scemed to be get- ting vaccinated in much the same spirit they will manifest in future years in going to the theater or spitting at a crack. It was a pleasant pastime, and they were sorry when it was over. Whole families came In charge parents, and in many cases they outward symptoms of poverty. were enough well dresed, well fed looking people in the crowd to make the doctors wonder, before they had completed their job, it they had not rather put their foot in it when they made thefr announcement so gen- eral. One woman was there whose husband gets a salary of $100 per month and his trav. eling expenses, besides cwning hils own home. There was another who wore better cloth as one of the doctors said, than his wife has worn in twenty years. There were dozens of school children as plump as partridges and as gay as peacocks. And they had all come with all their relations to be vacci- nated. The doctors used up nearly $100 worth of points, and when 5 o'clock rolled around they lost no time in putting a stop to the proceedings. It is very much to be doubted if they ever again Invite the “‘worthy poor” to come around and get treated free, and the only hope that they now have is that the rich people who imposed upon them will be 80 “hard hit” by the virus that it will take a doctor's visit or two to bring them around all right again. BENNISON the And Wo of their bore the but there BROS. Stupendons 1; sale of fine merchandise in the Read_the prices carefully. Come to this sale Monday, it is genuine. 300 pieces standard dress prints de yard. 100 pieces light slinting prints 100 pieces American indigo blue yard. 10 bales of Greatest whole west. Lawrence LL fine 36-inch unbleached muslin 3%c yard, Fruit of the Loom and Lonsdale muslin 7%c yard. 123%4c snow white cotton batts 8 1-dc roll. SPEND YOUR MONEY WITH US. Enormous silk sale. 8,000 yards of printed china silk in black, brown, ‘green and navy grounds with neat designs, small patterns worth at wholesale 40c, we bought them cheap and offer the entire lot Monday at ard. 150 dozen all linen huck towels with fancy borders, size 17x34, Monday 9c e 100 dozen satin damask towels, fringe, size 18x36, Monday 15c each. 72-inch bleached satin table damask, worth $1.50, Monday 88 yard. P 70-inch, our regular $1.00 bleached satin table damask, Monday Toe yard. 5-8 bleached napkins 75c a d $1.00. -4 bleached dinner dozen. Como for theso linens will not be disappointed. GREAT HOSIERY SALE. 1,000 pairs misses, children’s and boys' bicycle black hose, regular 25c quality, sizes 6 to 9%, Monday all you want 15¢ pair. Ladies’ fast black hose, regular 1sc quality, Monday Ge pair. BENNISON BROS., Council Bluffs, knotted zen, worth napkins Monday 98¢ Monday; you POPULISTS BACKING IT. T cket” u Scheme to Deat the Republican Party. Everything indicates that the citizens con- vention, for which a call has been issued, to be held at the court house this evening, 1s under the especial auspices of the people’s party. Most of those who have taken any active part in enginecring the scheme be- long to the populist party, and it is reported that they are simply using the dissatisfaction that 1s being fomented in certain quarters by representatives of the nickel fare clubs to help defeat the republican party and put the city in the partial, if not the entire con- trol, of the populists. The dissatisfaction with the platform of the republican party and the candidates nominated at last Thursday’s convention does not seem to be at all general. The re- publicans were wise enough to select only candidates who had not been identified with the city government in the past and who would therefore be free from all uncertainty as to thelr ability to stand full-footed upon the platform. The candidates are all clean men, against whom nothing can be said, and while there are certain members of the cent fare clubs who are frothing at the mouth because the platform was not radical enough to suit their ideas, it is not thought that this phobia will be at all spreading. The democrats, on the other hand, have the aisadvantage of having a man at the head their ticket who has not only served a term in the city council during the last two troub- lous years, but he has even been suspected of being secretly a sympathizer of the motor company. The planks contained in the demo- cratic platform with reference to the motor company's difficulties are made the subject of considerable laughter, even by a good many of the democrats themselv Last year the democrats promised that none of thelr candidates would accept motor passes or other favors if elected, and upon that representation they succceded in getting con- trol of the city council. Within ten days after election there was mot a democratic alderman in the city but rode on a pass, and one of them explained his doing so by say- ing that it was the convention, and not himself, who agreed not to take passes. No one thinks that this plank in the platform is any more binding on the candidates this than last, and how the democratic ve the nerve to Insert it esgion is a question that not yet been satisfactorily answered. There are not many who think that the ticket to be nomiated this evening will cut_ much of a figure in the coming election, but there Is some intercst manifested ne theless in seeing just what the populists propose to do. Following is the “slate’ which It s claimed they expect to nominate: For mayor, A. L. Hendricks; for alderman- at-large, Elihu Myers; for treasurer, C. L. illette; for judge of the superior court, Ambrose Burke; for city solicitor, James M Cabe; for assessor, W. L. Patton} for weigh- master, P, D. Mottaz; for marshal, Jobn Churehill, Favorable inducements will be offered to a few rellable and energetic agents who will solicit for the Mutual Life Insurance com- pany. Call on or address Pusey & Thomas, Council Bluffs, district agents for southwest- ern lowa, “Citizens two years in suc has Grand hotel. Get our cash prices on best hard and soft coal before buying. Have you seen the new gas beaters at the Gas company’s office? Ask your grocer for Domestlc soap, Burglars Caught. For some time past the police have been working with a view to capturing the burg- lars who went through Peterson's shoe store on lower Main street about two weeks ago, At the time of the burglary it was reportod that elght pairs of shoes and about an equal uuber of pa.is of rubbers were stolen. The | per month, THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE detective work done on the case has impli« cated three young men who live in Council Bluffs, two brothers named Jones and James Sullivan. Sullivan had one of the pairs of rubbers on when he was arrested last night, and a good deal of other stolen property was found in the possession of the fellows an identified by Peterson. The Jones boys w arrested about a year and a half ago on the charge of burglarizing Toller's grocery store, but in some way managed to get free. Grand ball given by the P. 0. 8. A. and P. 0. D. A.,on Washinglon's birthday, Thursday evening, February 22, 1884, a Chambers' Dancing academy, in Beno's hail ckets admitting gentieman and lady, $1.00, including suppe A cordial invitatfon ex- tended to all. Ladles, if you desire kitchen ask your grocer & Co's Fancy Patent Flour. solute peace in the for J. C. Hoffmayr Trade mark— Looster Fresh bread, 3 loaves for 10¢, at Brown's C. 0. D Domestic soap Is the best. Manawa Candidates. The Manawa populists held a Saturday night and placed the candidates in nomination: For mayor, Peter Rief; for recorder, N. H. Folsom; for treasurer, D. R ; for aldermen, Theo- dore Bacheler, Bell, M. C. Holsclaw and E. W. meeting following A choice concert is promised at the Con- gregational church on February Wash- ington’s birthday. It will be glven by the Dudley Buck quartet, assisted by Mrs. Wads- worth. Admission, 25 cents. A big consignment of tho fnest paper Just received at Millar's, 13 strect, from 4 cts. a rofl upwurs. patterns. Mizpah tgmple, Pythian Sisters, will give a soclal Wednesda well Feerl New Dr Reller,homeopath Everybody knows Davis sells drugs. e s LABOR NOT A Persian cook can earn $3.22 a month. A weaver In Germany receives 60 cents a day. A teamster in Peru makes $12 per week A railroad conductor in Turkey gets $27 a month Horseshoers in Cincinnati an agreement from bosses to men only. Most of the membars of the Amalgamated Brass Workers union are out of employ- ment. The wages of female range from $14.28 to males, $23.80 to $95.20. Clerks in whelesale and retail stores in Dusseldort receive from $9 to $14 a month; women clerks from $7 to $10. AlL the coal miners at Louisville, Lafayette and Erie have returned to work and ap- parently the strike is over. The food of German miners consists of bread and vegetables. It is very seldom that they can afford a bit of meat. German editors receive an average of $6.71 salary per week; proofreaders, $5.22; com- positors, $3.96; the devil gets $1.42. An Italian miner receives 8 shillings a week; a cotton mill hand, 10; a dyer, 12; stonecutter, 13; a mason, 14 tailor, 1 An Italian laborer has soup in the morn- ing, soup, bread and potatoes at dinner, bread, wine and macaroni for supper. Station laborers on the German railroads are required to be on duty from 5:30 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. seven days in a week. All the trouble with the men at the Amer- fcan Nettie, Ouray, Colo., has been adjusted and work is going forward again. On many railroads of Germany the station agents are permitted to keep bees, which thus form a small source of income. The tenth annual convention of master painters and _decorators is in_session in Baltimore. ~ There are gbout 200 visiting delegates. General Master Sovercign says the Knights will probably appeal from the de- cision of Judge Coxe in the bond injunction case. The tip have hire secured union servants in $71.40 per Prussia year; of to a conductor on the cars in Germany is from 5 cents to 20 cents, for which he secures the passenger a good seat and sees that he is not crowded, The food of working people in Holland is mainly potatoes, vegetables, beans and peas. Wit the exception of horse flesh, fresh meat is a rarity. The wages of all the Rio Grande engineers, firemen and trainmen have been restored (o the figures in vogue before the October cut of 10 per cent. s The coal mines about Beliaire, on the Ohio river, closed by a strike. Over 2,000 people are out of employment. Cause, a cut in wages from 70 to 60 cents per ton. In the German empire children under 12 vears of age must not be employed in labor; under 14 not more than six hours a day; under 16 not more than ten hours In the middle ages the value of a count as a fighting man was £2 per month; of baron, £1.1; of a knight, 13 shillings man-at-arms, 3 shillings; of an archer, 6 pence. i In 1880 English printers received 32 shil- lings per week, painters the same, plumbers, 33; tailors, 25; shoemakers, 31; carpentei 33; masons, 35; smiths, tinsntiths, 28; bakers, 27; colllers, 24. A German female farm hand, employed in hoeing the fields, receives 12 cents to 17 cents a day, with schnapps at 9 o'clock, potatoes and coffee at noon and black bread and beer at 4. A cut of 10 per cent in wages went into effect in the Conestoga cotton nrills, Nos. 2 and 3, owned by Farnum & Co. The mills employ over 2,500 men and are only running four days a week. Almost all kinds of labor are paid twice as well in Parls as in the departments of France; bakers in Paris make 67 penco a day, in the departments- 35 penc penters 83 pence and 38 pence res At Crested Butte, Colo,, the Fuel and Iron company Just miners their wages for October, 1893, leay- ing three months pay still due The men are rejoiced to obtain a few 70-cent dollars. Rifles and ammunition are being shipped into the Kanawha coal regions, in West Virginia, to protect mining property, where the miners have decided to do noth- ing to protect the property of the ope A German artisan’s breakfast conslsts coffee and bread; his dinner, soup made of water, slices of bread, slices of onion and little butter, meat once or twice a week supper, soup, cheese, potatoes and bread,with sausages and beer. During the summer season Krupp supplies his workmen with cold coffee and vinegar at intervals through the day and such of the men employed in connection with the pud- dling works receive one-eighth of a quart of brandy. The Spuare 31; Tecent mass meeting at den, New York, was by the lists, yet all the agreed In urging immediate le tion in regard to the unemployed, and the result of the meeting was to arouse the public to the gravity of the situation in re- gard to the unemployed. In London there is a quaint old organiza- tion known as the Fellowship of Free Porters, It was organized sowe time in the thirteenth century and for nearly 500 years its members had the monopoly of the discharging of grain from boats coming up the Thames. A century ago the organiza- tion had 2,600 members, with a surplus which in 1852 grew to £81,000. General Master Workman James R. Sov- erelgn of the Knights of Labor declared recently that the “black flag of anarchy was floating over the United States treasury at Washington, and that when the November elections should come the working people of this country would rise in thelr might and by means of the ballot change the condition of affairs.” The earliest known sc fixed for the whole Roman empire by the Emperor Diocletian in A. D, 303, A shep- herd was to be pald 20 cents a day; a day laborer and a mule driver received the same as the shepherd; a baker got 40 cents, and the same was pald to the masons and car- penters and smiths; stonecutters 50 cents and painters 60 cents. A brickmaker Bot 24 cents for 100 bricks; a sheep shearer got $1.60 per 100 pounds. A common school master received 60 cents a month for each pupll; one who taught k or geometry, $2 was §12, Madison disturb. speakers islative ac- le of wages Is that PROMIBITION. KT AN ISSUE Towa's Legislature Undle to Decide ona Plan for Ffnal Action, ORGANIZED AS A DEBATING CLUB Sitence While Delo- Sides Carry on Solons Sit In gates from ool Joint Diseussiof - Bills that Are Waiting. DES MOINES, Feb. 18.—(Special to The Bee)—But little important legislation was enacted during the past week, espectally in the senate. The whole time of that body has been consumcd in hearing arguments in cc mittee by friends and opponents of local option, and in extended debates on the pro- priety of submitting to voters an amend- ment striking out the word male from the state constitution, thus conferring upon women the elective franch'se. The argument on this proposition began Tuesday, the in- troductory speech being made by Senator Jamison of Clark. The stream of foremste oratory was largely directed toward the galleries. The amendment was supported by Senators Lewis, Cheshire, Rowen and Finn, while the opposition was led by Senators Palmer, Harper, Brower and Ellis. The speech of Senator Elfs of Clinton turned the tide strongly against the measur The joint committee of the two houses on suppression of intemperance gave an audience to forty or more delegates from the lar cities in a serles of adjourned meetings, which continued throughout the weoek. Thomas Hedge, Jr., spoke for Burlington, N. M. Pusey for Council Blufts, Calyin Manning for Ottumwa and Julius Lischer for Davenport. Sloux City was represented by L. S. Fawcett, Decorah ex-Senator Bailey, Chickasaw county by J. H. Powers and Dubuque by Colonel D. E. Lyon, The speakers were unanimous and emphatic in their demands that this overwhelmingly re- publican leglslature should carry out in good faith the pledges of the republican platform and enact some measure that would give localities where the jointkeeper and bootlegger now reigned supreme some method of regulating and controlling the traffic. The prohibition element was represented at all of these meetings and the sessions partook largely of the nature of joint dis- cussions. L. S. Coffin, who declined the prohibition nomination for governor, said he was willing to grant any relief thoy might suggest short of legalizing the traffic. To this he could never give his consent, and if the republican party should give its sanction to the return of the legalized saloon he would lead a host of proliibitionists out of the party. John Mahin of Muscatine favored state enforcement and thought this would meet the requirements of the party platform. The delegates favoring modification appointed a special committee and they have drafted a local option biil embracing the leading features of the Gatch or Brower bill. This will be introduced by Senator Ellis and an effort made to rush it through the senate, with the aid of democratic votes, and get an early consideration in the house by the same means. To checkmate this move the prohi- bition element in the house has been secretly caucusing all the week and have, it is said, finally secured the ironciad pledge of at least fifty-two members 'in favor of the mulet plan or state enforcement, and against any measure that would give the saloon a legal standing in this state. ‘A mulct tax or state enforcement bill will he speedily reported from the house committee, and what prom- ises to be a memorable debate will open in the near future. SLEEPS. The revenue bill equalizing taxation and in- creasing the assessment against insurance and railroad companies and providing for a collateral inheritance tax, which was so carefully drafted by the revenue commission appointed by the last legislature, is appar- ently sleeping the sleep of death in the pigeon hole of the senate committee on ways and means. The heuseicommittec of which cox-Speaker Mitchell is chairman is honestly endeavoring to give thls important measure due consideration, but many of its sup- porters are becoming lukewarm in the pres- ence of the determined and aggressive in- surance and railroad lobby now swarming through the legislative halls and will prob- ably allow the bill to die on the calendar for “lack of time.” The Spaulding bill for the taxation of mortgages will almost cer- tainly share the same fate. No progress was made during the past week by the ways and means committee, beyond giving a hearing to interested par- ties, in the consideration of any of the reves nue bills. The State university and agricultural col- lege are both on the anxious seat in respect to the special assessment they have asked for as a permanent support fund. Chairman Mitchell s strongly opposed to an increase of the levy beyond the usual 2 mills, and unless this is done the greatest economy must be observed by the committee on appropriations or the state will be again involved in debt, a condition of affairs that the republicans, hope to avold. 1t may now be taken for granted that no increase in official salaries will receive the sanction of this genmeral assembly. Mr. Root's bill Increasing the salary of the govs ernor from $3,000 to $5,000 has already met its death at the hands of the commitiee on retrenchment and reform, and all similar propositions will meet the same fate. The railroads are having everything thelr own way to all appearances, and from pr ent indications not a line of restrictive rail- way legislation will find its way to the statute books. AGAINST THE INSURANCE COMBINE. The principal fight now going on In re- spect to anti-monopoly legislation is the de- termined contest the house committee on insurance is having with the strong insur- ance lobby over the Wyckoff valued- policy bill and other measures of a similar char- acter. The valued policy bill has succeeded in getting on to the house calendar and will be reached in a few days in regular order. Its success in the lower is already assured, but the more conservative senate is expected to pigeonhole the measure for an- other session. Should the action of this body be favorable to the bill, the lobby has strong hopes of being able to persuade Governor Jackson that the measure is un- just and uncalled for and Induce him to withhold his signature. The Blanchard bill, prohibiting the use of policies containing the stipulation known as the 80 per cent clause, and the bills pro- viding for a standard form of policy to be approved by the auditor of state are still in the house committee. The bills requiring the assessment insur- ance companies to print on the margin of applications In red fuk, and also upon the policles in the samé manner, that “it is agreed and understcod ‘that this policy pro- vides for assessment upon the members,” and for using one-fourth of the fines re- colved for violation of insurance laws for a special precaution fund, which were in- troduced by Mr. St. John, have been recom- mended for indefinite postponement The Rinch bill, reguiring all losses to be adjusted within thirty days, has passed the house safely, but has mot yet been consid- ered In the senates CIGARETTES AND MINORS. One bill. of general importance managed to slip through both ‘houses during the past week. This is the bill introduced by Nicoll prohibiting the salg of ‘tigars, cigareltes and tobacco 1n all its forms £o minors under 16 without written consent of the parents The house committee on compensation of public officers has acted favorably on the senate bill fixing a Salary for sheriff in all the counties of the state and providing that all the fees of this office shall be turned into the genoral fund. The highest salary allowed s $3,000 and the lowest $1,800, with $1,000 for the deputy in all ca While this measure may raise the compensation of this official in some thinly settled counties, in the more populous sections it will effect a saving of from $10,000 to $15,000 to the tax- payers. The Sawyer bill providing a bounty on beet sugar of 1 cent per pound has beep side- tracked for the time being and may fail of final passage The board of control for all the charitable institutions will not materialize this session The Harper bill, abolishing the special boards of trustees of these various institutions and providing for & beard to consist of seven per MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1891 been by sons to assume these dutics, has ported for indefinite postponement senate committee on ways and means. The friends of county supervision of roads and highways are stubbornly Insisting upon having this feature incorporated into the committee bill now nearly completed for the Improvement of the public roads. The town. ship plan, however, is almost certain to pres vail in the end, as this Is being strongly urged by the farmers The lower house is being flooded with petls tlons from sportsmen who do not approve the Funk bill prohibiting hunting on enclosed or cultivated lands without the consent of the owner, and the measure will probably be des feated. re. the PREACHERS DISA REE. Dr. Briggs’ Te Towa Chureh CEDAR RAPIDS, Ta,, Feb. 18.—(Special to The Bee.)—Ior some time the congregation of the P erian church at Brooklyn ha not been in entl harmony Rev. Dr. F Benson, the months ago be-« came a follower of Dr. The settle- ment of that controversy in the general assembly of the church, and the suspension of Prof. Briggs from the ministry, did not change the condition of affairs at Brooklyn Dr. Benson continued his the same line, declaring that theory would eventually win, but that th people must be educated up to it. This was not acceptable to a portion of the congregation. The breach grew wider, and it became evi- dent that a ecrisis in the.matter was near at hand. In Dr. George B. istry some time ago to portunity to go on a prominent in Presbyterian circle: having been secretary of the presbytery for a num- ber of years. He helleves fn the standards of his church, and the new doctrine preached by his pastor was more than he could stand correspondence between the two minis cterized by extreme bitterness followed. Rev, Mr. Smith hinted that Dr. Benson had drifted away from the funda mental principles of the church and he should sever his connection and join some other church which more nearly met his views Dr. Benson replied that if Rev. Mr. Smith was out of harmony with his pastor he could perhaps find a place more congenial in some other church. The result was Mr. Smith has secured letters for himself and family and now worships at the church of Rev. Mr Patterson. Both ministers have thelr sup- porters, and the end of the trouble is not yet at hand. s TOWA MIN pastor, som Briggs. the Brig Benson's congregation was Rev. Smith, who retired from the min- give hix sons an op- farm, He s quite RS ON A STRIKE. Conl Miners at Wha Idle Because of th CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia., Feb. 18.—(Sp The Bee.)—One hundred miners in the son coal mine at What Cheer have walk out and work has been suspended, pending the settlement of troubls between the coin- pany and the check weighman for the miners. The miners have had trouble for some time because they claim the company's weighman docks too much from ¢ car of coal that comes from the mine. The present trouble originated from the docking of 200 pounds. The car was supposed (6 hava h sulphur and black jack in it. The min check welghman would not consent to th, docking, and when the manager of the con pany refused to allow the company’s weigh- man to weigh the coal a sccond time the men quit work. Tama County's Poor IHouse. CEDAR RAPIDS, Feb. 18.—(Spe The Bee.)—The poor house of Tama county burned a fow weeks ago, causing a loss of $40,000, and the question of rebuilding on the present farm or changing the location has led to a redhot fight, which the Board of Supervisors has decided to leave to the people of the county to settle, and will at its next meeting call a special election. The presont farm cousists of 147 acres, which could be sold for not more than $35 per a while land near Toledo or Tama would cost from $60 to $75 per acre. The fight is be- tween the morth and south parts of the county. e COST OF A TELEPHONE PLANT. In Wires and Instruments Is the Bell Com- pany’s Strongest Hold on Business. Despite the fact that the first of the pat- ents of the telephone monopoly runs out soon, and that other companies are springing up to cowpete for business, the old corpora- tion’s hold is not nsecure for many reasons. Not the least of these is that there is almost as much telephone wire in use as telegraph wire, as the telephone wires run divectly into houses and offices. Notwithstanding the numerous telephone companies 1 ex istence, the entire network of telephone wires is practically united under control of the American Bell Telephone company, four- fifths of which 1s owned by the Western Union Telegraph compar The telephone and telegraph companies in most cases jointly own the poles and rights of way, and in every instance where the telephone companies have failed to sceure rights of way they have used the franchises of 1o Western Union company, or the latter company has used its_tremendous influence to secure such rights for the telephone peo- ple. ®"Fhe telephone piant of today is covered by mauy vatents, the expiration of any one of which n no way embarrasses the monopoly. For years the important inventions helnful or changeful to the telephone or telegraph have been quietly purchase d by telephone and telegraph companies and stowed away where they can dono harm to the monopoly, but can be used if occasion requircs. 1t may be assumed, in consequence that the are fow patents considered valuable by the mo- nopoly which it hasnot purchased or duph- cated in some way. The telephone piunt of today costs a great acal. It costs §200 a mile to string onc over- head wire. ‘There are about 200,000 miles of telophone wire owned by the telegrapl-tele- phone monopoly, which cost to string alone $40,000,000. Tho telephione has a monopoly in some ties and towns in this country, serv. ing 175,000 subscribers and affording personul communication to 40,000,000 people. There were 550,000,000 conversations carried on in this country during 1803 by telephone, and tho profits on this service are said Lo be £1,000,000. » in order to successfully compete with this mouopoly tho new companics must practi- cally duplicate the enormous wirage, polage, the 200,000 instruments, the riahts of way, ete. For several years the telephone mo- nopoly has been getting ready for possiolo competition, when auy of its patents should expire. Kor this purpose the monopoly is said to have somne $12,000,000 laid away with which to fight for supremicy. The sclentific advance of the telephone is interesting. In 1886 the ground wire system was in use, and still prevails to an extent of 50 per ceut. Unless you subscribe to the long distance secvice you are using the ground wire service. It may be distin- guisned by the burring and electrical noises that confuse the car. Such noise is missing in tho loug distance service on metallic wives, The ground wire system has iron RHEUMATIC Sciatic, sharp and shooting pains, strains and weak= nesses relieved in one min- ute by the CUTICURA ANTI- PAIN PLASTER, Itinstantly relieves weak, painful kid- neys, back ache, uteri pains and weakness coughs, colds and chest pains. It vicalizes the ners vous forces, and hencs cures nervous pains_and muscular weakness when all others fail, Price, mail. ; five, §1.00. At all druggists or by Dorrex DvG anp Ces. Coxe.. Boston, Improved Quick and Easy . Rising Steam, Elec- | tric & Hand Power f 1 == Send for Circulars. Kimball Bras. , Council Bluffs, lowa ngs Canse Troublo In an | liscourses along | | wires. copper s drawn bad o The yms Tho long distance service b wires, The former is lattor is “good," in electrical terms difference is due to m: otism The at nwaro aro magnotized with each e n pulse’ of telephonic transmission These elcetrical impulses bolng instantane ous, follow each othor inmediately I'he first impulso is retarded, because beforo it has time to act on the iron tho magnetic | effect is discharged. Hence, impulses fol lowing closely, and tho wire discharg closely its magnotic effects, there is a co ant buzzing and nofse in the ground wi system, rendering It useloss for long dis tance seryice and causing compiaints against | the telephone service by subscribers Copper wire is not magnetized. Henco its atoms aro not charged and dischargod and are not rotarded. Theoretically one can con verse any distance on n_copper wire, 11 200 coppor wires are thrust in a conduit in a two-inch tube one-eighth of an inch apart | they are so close together that there isan | 1ndiiction from one wire to anothier, retard- ing the telophonic eftect, This brings up the gr transatlantic telephone, he vecome who courd suce in such a pro- ject. No company could afford to give such | wire crossing the Atlantic a separate condnit or tube, To place more than one wire in.u | tube would result in induction from one wire to 10/ at no great distance from the | shore and absorb or dostroy the telephonic { effects. Nor has any one invented a tubo in which a single wire could be carried across the sea. The present tubes are inductors | and water {s a conductor and is affected by induction, and henee the telephouic eWect soon dissinates in wator. Induction on land is overcome by an electrical balunce, created by transposing the wires at intervals. It is believed that if a e copper wire could be laid under the sea without a tube, transatlantic telephonic communication could be solved. Without a tube there could be no induction affected by wa which is conductor. Bul a single unprotected wire would soon be a plaything of the inhabitants and shifty urrents and sands of tho deep, and probably eaten by some new water bug, always created by something new to cat lexander recog thing of this principle, phonic communication between sea. He trailed a wire behind vessel, con nected with a dynamo on boara, which elec- trically charged the wire. ‘The wire, trail- ing in water, hudan cquivalent of una counection. The dynamo end of the wire positive for onc-half its les hj the oth end was negative. Conscguentiys the water was positive on the positive cndof the wire, within the circle of which the positive half of the wire was a radius. The nega- end of the wire created a circle of er of the same avea. A tele- wire on the v prroach of any ovject, v or iceberg coming within the water charged by the wire, Should any other vessel trail- ing a wire come incontact with the elec- trically charged water conversation could b carried on between the vessels by their telephones, x question of h indeed would veasd Pt i ralls Mukes ¥ . The Count Orf de Vorsed smiled, says the Detroit Tribune, : “Thank you,” he sald, the swimming eyes She in_her turn into the future. “Yes,” she roy you will make lover. Impulsively he drew her y “And why?" he whispered, Promptly she returned the gentle pressure gazing fondly into of his flance; was looking confidently ed, musing. I a better husband am sure than a nearer to im. of the hand. “‘Because,” she rejoined, facts I can gather regarding tory as a bosis of judgment, I am convinced that you have had more practice in the former capacity than in the latter, Before he could fintercept her she had hastily crosse the room and shouted for fruit cake and Pommery through the speak- ing tube John R. S! Springer, s aking all tho your past his- s epard, president, and Willlam etary, of the Windsor € Workers asscciation, are on trial at Pitts- burg, charged with malfeasance in office. Their friends say the charges are made for political reasons. Castoria is Dr, S other Narcotic substance. Castoria. “ Castorla Is an excellent medicine for chil dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its good effect upon their children." Di. G. €. Osaoop, Lowell, Mass, ¥ Castorla i3 the best remedy for children of which T am acquainted. Thope the day is ot far distant when mothers will consider the interest of their children, and uso C: stead of the variousquack nostrums which aro destroging their loved ones, by forciug opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending them to prematuro graves," Du. J. F. Kixenerog, Conway, Ark. storia i SHELF AND HEAVY During February Colds and c¢h are pre valent, and unless the system is strong enough to throw them off, serious illness, often ending in pneumonia and death result. lls | The Cause Of colds, chills and attead- ant dangers is found n the blood, poisoned by uric acid, which shou!d be expelled by the kidneys, The Effect Of this kidney-poisoned blood is far-reaching. Health and strength are impossible while it exists, The system is being continually weakened, leaving it open to the ravages of colds, chills, pneumonia and fevers, The Cure For such a diseased condi- tion is found in Warner's Safe Cure, which will restore the kidneys to heaith and enable them to properly perform their functions. Their is no doubt about this, The record of the past is Proof Positive, BIRNEY’S in the Hoad Iustautly by ono application Cures Head Noises & . DEAFNESS. Special Noticas: __ COUNCIL BLUFFS: DO YOU KNOW THAT DAY & H some chofce bargains in fruit _lapd_near this city? GARBAGE 1 Chimneys HAVH and garden FItUI southeast FARM FOR SAT city. Will well” 30 Price for the whol particulars, nddress I C. Ray . Council Blurr VIAVI, HOME TREATME Health book and consull attendant, Address or ca _Merriam . CouneilDlufls. DID CITAN rent, to a msible " party havin about 1,000 Gk cupita (o nvest In ik and butter dairy in_conjunction with poultry, a1 pastire - business, Aboul sty upland pasture, about il By nd 6 miles fro a ity linits, WV andwates nty and c 3 enulosure: 1, se and good . Inquire ¢ or #8 Broad FARM, TWO MILE rented on favorable 1 nendations, 1 the care keting of fru . Dodge & Co., roR fre ADIES, Lady 05, 3ud Ot FOR REN’ s and and vegetables. _Council Bluffs, TOW TO 1 , Sent in plain package for $1.00. L., Council Llufts, Ia. SIS, 1e Cf imucl Pitcher’s prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor It is a harmless substitute for Parcgoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Xts guarantee is thirty years’ use by Millions of Mothers, Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishiness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrheea and Wind Colie. teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. toria is the Children’s Panacca—the Mother’s Friend, / Castoria rclioves Case Castoria. * Castoria is so well adapted to children thas T recommend it assuperior toany preseription koowu to me," H. A, Arcugn, M, D,, 111 80, Oxford §t., Brovklyn, N, Y, *Our physicians in the children's depart- ment have spoken highly of their experi- ence in their outside practice with Castoria, and_although only have among our medical supplies what s known as regular products, yet we aro freo to confess Sees te merits of Castoria has wor & ta look with favor upon it." UNiTED T0spiTan e DISPENSARY, Boston, Mass, we ALLEN C. Saivn, Pres., Tho Centanr Company, 11 Murrey Streot, Now York City. Empkie-Shugart & Co., JOBBERS IN HARDWARE AND FIELD SEEDS. 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