Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 7, 1894, Page 3

THE DAILY BEE COUNCIL BLUFFS OFFIC NO. 12 PEARL STR \ Teliverec Ly carrier to any partot the city LW TILTON - Manager « | RusinessOMee..... .. .No.43 TELEPHC i Night Editor MINOK MENTIO) Boston Store white goods and linen sale. John N. Worth and Lillle M. Schwendman, both of this county, were married yesterday by Justice Fox. John Barkley of Lincoln and H. Blazier of this city were Justice Field yesterday. The Rebekah Relief assoclation will meet this afternoon for work at Mrs. John Dough- erty's, Avenue D and Tenth street Walter Wood, a runaway boy from Lin- coln, 18 at the city Jail awaiting word from his parents as to what shall be done with him. Jennie Williams filed_an information ye terday charging Clem Spry with creating a disturbance at her place on Sixth street, near Indian creck. The Ladies Atd society of St. John's lish Lutheran church meets Thursday aftei noon at the residence of Mrs. G. W. Snyde 217 South Seventh street. The Ladies society of the Congrogational church will meet with Mrs. L. W. Ross this afternoon at 3 o'clock to complete arrange. ments for an Baster festival. 8. L. Etnyre, the newly elected city en- gineer, will give a banquet next Monday evening to his brothers in the Ganyme Wheel club in honor of his victory. The Society of Christian Endeavor of the Pirst Presbyterian church held its regular monthly meeting last evening at the home of Mrs. F. W. Lyons, corner Fourth avenue and Ninth street, Fifty members of Twin Brother encamp- ment of Omaha visited the 0dd Fellows of this city last evening. An oyster supper was provided by the members of the local lodges, and a highly enjoyable evening was passed. The deleg Lilla M married V. by selected at the democratic primaries in priary will meet at the superior court room this evening for the purpose of placing in_nomination two can- didates for the school board. J. Hughes and one Henderson had a fight at the Mint saloon Monday night that re sulted in Hughes' arrest on the charge ot assanit and battery. He will have a hearing in police court this morning. A concert was given last evening at the First Baptist church by the orchestra of the Sunday school. 8 Thiorganization has been in existeace for several months, and uring that time has made rapid progress. The music it furnished last evening reflected great credit upon the members. A number of talented young people of this city and Omaha assisted in rendering a delightful program. The residence of Dwight Haggerty, 510 Harrison street, was entered by burglars Monday afternoon. Mrs. Haggerty was away from home at the time, having gone to the tesidence of a neighbor. When she re- turned everything in the house was topsy turvy. Among the missing articles were several insurance policies, two iron savings banks, a pocketbook and cash to the amount of about $10. Some boys of that ncighbor- hood are thought to have done the work. ¥ Busi 8. Please note the following prices on my new and elegant stock of cheap, medium and fine wall paper. Best grade brown backs, per roll, 3c. Best grade brown backs, gilts, 4c. Best grade white blanks, 4i4c and Ge. Best grade white blank micas, 61c. Hest grade white blank gilts, 7c, Sc and 10¢. Best grade gilt bronzes, 10¢, 12%c and 15c. Best grade embossed gilts, 1214c, 16c, 17¢ and 0c. <tra grade gold French designs - and beautiful colorings, 20c, 25¢ and 35c. Ingralns, 15¢, 20c and 25c. A full lifie of room mouldings at popular prices. 3 I make estimates on all kinds of paper hanging and give the work my personal at- tention. I will be pleased to have a share of your patronage. J. D. CROCKWELL, 411 Broadway. Coal H. A. Cox, 10 Main street. Best quality, lowest rates. Prompt delivery. Get prices before buy fog. Telephone 46 Carbon Coal company, 34 Pearl street, Grand hotel. Get our cash prices on best hard and soft coal before buying. ‘The laundries use Domestic soap. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS, C. G. Saunders left last evening for a busi- iess trip to Chicago. Miss Laura Austin of Omaha is the guest of Miss Annette Wallace on Bluff street. Mrs. Katherine Van Arnhem has -re- turned from a visit to Chicago. She leaves this month for Paris, L. A. Gray has received word of the death of his mother in Waukegan, IIl, last Sun- day, her 62d birthday. He was unable to go thero on account of the illness of his brother-in-law in South Omaha. Do not think that such a stock of goods as Riley & Sherraden's can be run off in a few weeks, no matter how great the rush is. Thero is enough yet to beautify thousands of homes and arti material to stock hun- dreds of stud And everything goes at ym half price. Tube paints, sable brushes, c, and all moldings at the same ratio, 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 ot town customers save money and get prompt attention. Masonic temple building. Ladies, if you desire absolute peace in the Kitchen ask your grocer for J. C. Hoffmayr & Co's Fancy Patent Flour. Trade mark— Biue itooster. Dr Reller,homeopath, 810 First avo. Tel. 35. Domestic soap breaks hard water. District Court Doings. “fThe jury in the case of the state against Harry Smith, charged with stealing five head of cattle from the farm of John Garner, east of the city, brought in a verdict yesterday finding him guilty. The value of the stolen property was fixed at $195, The of the state against O. B. Sparks was on trial all day. Sparks was charged with obtaining a screw plate and dies from the Empkie Hardware company by falsely representing that he was the member of a country firm with which the company had done business. Ho then tried to dispose of it to the firm of Schultz & Hill. The jury returned a verdict at 10:30 o'clock in the evening, finding Sparks guilty as charged in the indictment. The case to be put on trial this morning will be that of William Brown, charged with shooting Harvey Washington, a colored man, in a Lower Broadway establishment during the winter, The Robekahs have made arrangements with Miss Stella Stanton, the brilliane young elocutionist, to appear at OAd Fellows hall Thursday evening. Invitation is extended to tho public. 5 Cole's Alr-tight Wood Heaters cost $8.00 to $12.00; will heat a room on 4c a day; hold wood fire 48 hours; just the thing to replace furnace or steam heat this spring. Investl gate at Cole & Cole's, 41 Main street Have you seen the new gas beaters at the Gas company's office? Jarvis Wine Co., Council Bluffs. Marriage Liconses. The following marriage licenses wero fs- sued yesterday by the county clerk: Name and residence. John Barkley, Lincoln, Neb............ Lilla M. V. B. Blagler, Council Biuffs. John N. Wroth, Pottawattamie county L. M.Schw , Pottawattamie county J. W. Fauble, Pottawattamie coun Helle' Casey, 'Pottawattamie county. ¥. A Johnson, Oakland......... Annle Zirschling, Council Hiufts. Age. NEWS FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS Carefully Revised Statement of the Numbter of Votes Cast Yesterday, MANY BALLOTS BOUGHT ON ALL SIDES Australian System Fails to Provent Many of the Evils of the O1d Plan -8 ecial Police Charged with Neglect= ing Thelr Duty, A correct statement of the number of votes cast at the election on Monday has not yet been given to the public, although both of the local papers have made staggers at it. The following is as near a correct statement as can be given until after the officlal count is made, which will be probably on Thuraday: sujuuor ‘A | A0AVOLO H T 3000 LV uvunads ‘AL d HORUIOIY "Sup LV-XVI SOmIA ‘H A UOWIZVHL 'S 'V AUOLIDITOS XLID “ayang 'V ONVOR L S WHI0H *V P aAUASVIRL Uy 7T WIS[AIN T H “PINOD ‘I "0 moLaav oD ‘AL NPVH QA S cowa o 1 MOSSASSY “I0A0H O QAW 1S “++43000 " “uFISIONA “**u0NIAwIS °f 'd “uIADP00D 0 'K ++e++ Jujnuny pa *£100 '8 0 oot v “PUIY ‘WAL WANOISSINIOD Huva HPTEPIOUS VD *+* [OBUOH 48080 *uosuyop ‘00N, “upprouds o In spite of the above figures, there is a very fair show of Gorham's election to the office of treasurer, if what is said by reputa- ble people living in the First precinct of the Fifth ward, and who claim to have in- spected the election books before they were sealed up, is to be relied upon. They claim that instead of Gorham being given 232 votes, he had 237, according to the re- turns, but a mistake was made in tran- scribing the returns from the book to the cnvelope. As the matter now stands, Gor- ham stands almost as much of a chance of being defeated as elected, but the official count, it is claimed, will show that he is elected safely. The vote on the proposition to levy a 1 mill tax during the coming year for park improvement purposes was very light, as most of those who voted forgot about it, but it was carried, nevertheless, by a small ma- Jority. The following shows ward aldermen: the vote cast for Rishton First ward, First precinct.. First ward, Second precinct. Total ... Plurality scond ward, First precinct... 218 Second ward, Second precinct. 203 421 Total .. .- Piurality Lob- hart, precinct. .29 precinct.... 18 . o Bre- wicik. Pifth ward, First 218 Fifth ward, Second Total Plurality Srerse COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE POLICE. Since the election Is over complaints are heard on every hand on account of the man- ner in which it was conducted. Speclal pulicemon were stationed at every polling place, but either they were grossly in- competent or else they had recsived their instructions from headquarters as to how they were to enforce the law, and obeyed their instructions. In many of the pre- cincts no rope was stretched to keep the people away from the polling places and from those who were Intending to vote, and the buying and selllng of votes was carried on with hardly a pretense of concealment within the very shadow of the building in which the ballot box was located. The officers busled themselves on the out- skirts of the crowd or else stayed inside the building, while dlsreputable tollows were dragged up to the polls, given their drink of whisky or their $2, or both, and voted like 50 many eattle. It had been commonly supposed that the Australian ballot law Would effectually dispose of the custom of buying votes, but Monday's election showed conclusively 'that It will take something more than the Australian ballot system to prevent such cattle as some that exercised their frauchise Monday from selling their votes. good deal of it could have been prevented, however, by a little regard for an oath of office on’ the part of seme of the men who wore stars and carried canes. The most striking feature of the election was the contest between Judge McGee's sup. porters and his enemies. Mr. Saunders, the republican nominee for superior court judge, was placed in a rather peculiar situ- ation. The opponents of MeGee were by no means his friends, but they had to work for him, for he was the only other candidate, and their motto was, “Anything to beat Me Gee,” The motor company and its attorney TH could have had no hope of nfluencing Saun. ders, if elected, any more than they have been able to Influence McGee, but they were bent upon MeGee's political destruction be cause they thought it would make it appear that the people of Council Bluffs did not ap: prove of the honest, straightforward stylo in which he has administered justice. In this thoy missed their guess, for the devel opments of the last few days have shown that it was undoubtedly the respectable ele. ment of both parties, and particularly of the republican party, that elected McGee in order to convinee the motor company and ita attorney that they did not approve of the filth and corruption that was spewed out upon Judge McGee in a certain cigar stors in_this city a few nights ago. The election at Lake Manawa was Inter- esting. Tho head of the fisherman's ticket was swamped, but the balance of the ticket was carried. Recorder, N. H. Falrom; treasurer, D. R. Sheets; trustees, H. F. Bell and B. W. Prouty. The citizens ticket for mayor. director for a th W CANVASS THE VOTE TODAY. elected T. A. Wright elected school City Cou il Holds Its Regular Monthly Meeting ~Business Transacted. The city council, which should have met Monday evening in regular monthly session, got together last evening, the mayor and all the members being present excepting Gelse. After allowing the February bills, hearing the report of the milk and meat inspector and referring the report of the police and fire committee, a report was heard from the committee on lights, recommending that the light at the foot of Sixth street be allowed to remain and that an additional light be placed at the foot of Main street. This re- port was concurred in. City Attorney Hazelton reported that he had made no contract with any one for scavenger work, because the person whom he had been instructed to engage had sold out and he had no authority to make a con- tract with the other party. No action was taken. He also reported that the negotiations for the purchase of the triangular plece of ground back of thecity jail had been com- pleted, and na order for $200 was ordered drawn on the police fund with which to make the purchase. The question of canvassing the vote was Qiscussed at some little length, and it was decided that the mayor and the clerk should got together and maek the canvas. The fol- lowing section from the statutes seems to indicate that tomorrow is the proper day, but the mayor thought differently: “The re- turns of all municipal elections in cities and in corporated towns which are divided into election districts or wards shall be made to the clerk or recorder of the corpora- tion, and shall be opened by him on the third day after election. He shall call to his assistance the mayor of the corporation, or if there shall be no mayor, or the mayor shall have been a candidate at such elec- tion, then any justice of the peace of the county, and shall in his presence make out an abstract and ascertain the candidates elected in all respects as required by law for the canvas of the returns of county elections, and shall, in like manner, make out a_certificate as to each candidate so elected, and cause the same to be delivered to him or to be left at his place of abode.” The council will meet again on Wednes- day evening, March 14, to hear the result of the canvas, and that will be the last meet- ing of the council as It Is now constituted, the newly elected officials taking their places on Monday, the 19th. CHOKED BY AN ATTORNEY, Interesting isode In Which Blackmaller Melzer Was a Chief Party. An interesting and exciting ecpisode took place yesterday afternoon during the pre- liminary hearing of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Melzer, the alleged blackmailers. — Melzer himself was upon the stand, and Attorney Emmet Tinley was cross-examining him. Tinley handed him a letter which was taken from the defendant's pocket before he was incarcerated in the county jail, and asked him to identify it. It read in substance as follows: Dear Husband—I am at the Hoffman house in this city and have paid board bill for two for another week. Go and kiss Maudie, the baby, for mamma, and then take first train for this place.’ I think I have struck it rich and can get you a_good job. Yours, DELLA. Instead of telling the cross-examiner whether he had ever received the lettter, Melzer, after glancing at it, tore it into several pieces. Tinley did not propose to be cheated out of this valuable plece of evi- dence, however, and, rushing at Melzer, twined his fingers about the defendant's throat with such force that Melzer soon began to turn black in the face, and at last dropped the pieces of paper to the floor. In the meantime Mrs. Melzer got up and, exclaiming excitedly, “I shan't stay here any longer,” made a break for the door. No officer was present, but Justice Fox left his wool sack and, intercepting the would- be fugitive from justice, said to her, “Now, young woman, you sit down there or I'll"—. He never finished the sentence, for she saw that she was rather in the minority, and im- mediately subsided. The couple had the best of reasons for not wanting the letter preserved. They have claimed all along that they were separated on account of the woman's infidelity, and that was the reason given for the babe being kept at the Christian home in this city. The tell-tale letter shows that they were in com- munication before reaching this city, and also throws some light indirectly on the kind of a game they were playing. The prosecu- tion has brought forward a great deal of damaging testimony, and there is but little doubt that they will be bound over to the grand jury. If they are mot, a young man from Carroll who was buncoed out of a ring by the precious pair says he will take them back home and have them tried there. Justice Fox will decide the case this morn- ing at 10 o'clock. While you are paying for laundry why not got the ‘best? The Eaglo laundry solicits @ trial and invites comparison. Tel. 157, Domestic soap outlasts cheap soap. FONDA AND SNYD] Republicans Nominate Candldntes for Mem- bers of the School Board, The delegates to the late city republican convention met at the court hause last even- ing for the purpose of choosing candidates for school directors. They stuck strictly to this purpose, and did not run off after the nonpartisan scheme. No mention was made of any such a movement during the conven- tion, any more as if the delegates had never heard of it. Chairhan Willlam Arnd of the city central committee called the meeting to order and named J. M. Woolf of the Sixth ward as chairman. W. A. Highsmith was chosen clerk and E. B. Hart assistant. The vote for candidates was taken by precincts, and on the informal ballot the following re- sults was obtained: Dr. M. B. Snyder, 12; E. R. Fonda, 20; L. W. Ross, 13; C. Bosen, Dr. F. 8. Thomas, 1. A formal ballot was then taken which elected Fonda by a vote of 41, Snyder receiving 7 votes, Another vote was then taken, and Dr. Snyder was elected, recelving 25 votes to 23 for Ross. Whipped Two Officers. A little Scandinavian by the name of Nel- son created havoe among two special police- men at the polls in the Second precinct of the Fifth ward Monday. Some sort of a disturbance arose and the two officers, each of whom wore A nice new overcoat, went after him. A scuffie ensued and Nelson suc- ceeded in getting both the policemen off their feet and on their backs on the ground, He rolled them over and over in the mud until their nice overcoats were sorry looking spectacles, and kicked one of them a bad blow In the face. He finally completed his indignity by jerking the star off the breast of one of the officers, John Norman, and throwving it half way across the block. He was not arrested. Get prices from Shugart & Ouren, the lead- Ing seedsmen of Council Blufts, ‘Masonic temple, b % Jarvis Wine Co., Council Bluffs, sole agents Jarvis 1877 brandy. Washerwomen use Domestic soap. DId They Buy Votes? “I don't belleve that there were anything like 50 many votes bought on election day as people say there were,” remarked a well known city officlal yesterday; ‘not that there was no money at all spent. because share of the money thit, was given out to certain persons to defent certain candidates found its way, not into the hands of voters, but Into the pockets of the fellows that were chosen to handle It. THS character of some of the men that were fokiged in the bus ness is sufficient indieation of the use that was made of it, An estimate by a prominent democrat places the amount of Woney spent in pur- chasing votes at $10,000, and he says that of that sum $4,000 left @ certain democratic bank Monday morning . Where the rest came from he does not fell, it he knows. srge Rudio, who was arrested Monday on the charge of bribfbg voters, had bis ca continued by Justice Fleld yesterday until 10 o'clock this morning, bécause he had to go to Lincoln. The opinion seems to be general that thero will hardly be enough evidence at hand to convict him. KEPT A-HUSTLING Like Busy Hees. The immense crowds that have thronged the BOSTON STORE, COUNCIL BLUFFS, 1A., have kept their Immense force of clerks hustling every day as for dear lif, No let up to the bargains offered during the sale, Sale continues all this week. Watch tomorrow's papers for a new list of bargains, BOSTON STORE, theringham, Whitelaw & Co., Leaders Council Bluffs, Ta. . - CHATS IN THE CORRIDORS: Johnson of Philadelphia is He s en route to Farming- ton, N. M., where he will head an expedi- tion on horseback for a taree year: trip through Mexico, Central America and South America in the interest of the Geographical soclety of Washington and a newspaper syn- dicate. His journey, If completed, will cover 15,000 miles. He will be accompanied by Dr. Millspaugh, an expert botanist, and Captain C. H. Hamilton, a well known tray- eler. Colonel Johnson, who has undertaken this wonderful- trip, including an invasion of Patagonia and the wilds of Central Brazil, Is a stocky, well built man, with grey hair and mustache. His face, which bears @ slight resemblance to that of Stanley, Is an index of the determination which makes up the character of the owner. He will be protected on his journey by the stars and stripes and a brace of trusty six shooters. The explorer carrles passports and a letter from Secretary Gresham. He 1s also armed with a deadly kodak and will press the but- ton in the region around the headwaters of the Amazon, where -photography is un- known. “We shall commence the trip at Farming- ton next week and go from there to Nogales, N. M., where we will strike the Mex line. ' Thence to Zacatecas, City of Mexico, Guatemala, Yucatan and British Honduras, following the east side of Lake Nicauraga until we reach Mangua. After replenishing supplies we go to San Jose, Costa Rica, to Colombia and Ecuador, finding the head waters of the Amazon. This region is in- fested with a tribe of cannibals known as the Campos Indians, numbering 1,500 members, whose disposition and habits are the most terocious of any tribe in existence. “Their weapons are bows, ten feet in length, from which they shoot six-foot, poi- son-dipped arrows, with remarkable preci ion and dexterity. Instead of shooting di- rect at a victim they mreasure the distance with their eye and shoot ‘into the air with such clever calculation that the arrow in its descent strikes the head 'or breast of the victim and buries itselt‘in’the flesh. These savages also wear feathers sticking in_ their faces instead of their hdir. They ‘make holes in their cheeks with sharp instruments and then insert the feaghers. Thoy live on clay and animals mostly, and are particularly fond of human flesh. ~ We will be prepared to give them a warm re¢eption if they attack us. . “‘Passing the source of the Amazon we will take our course along the eastern side of the Andes to Bolivia, Argentine Republic and finally to Patagopla, a place where white faces have never been seen. Vene- zuela will be one of our dbjective points and we will also brave the dcadly fevers of the wilds of Brazil. There'is also an alleged deserted city in southwestern Mexico, pre- sumably of "Aztec origin, that we will en- deavor to find on the way. The present expedition will be a splendid test of the endurance of the American broncho. In case they fall we will use Mexican burros or, lastly, the larger speeies of the greaser mule. This trip means three years In the saddle. It means a glance into the jaws of death. The terrors of the Amazon fever confront us and we are all liable to pass between the teeth of Campos cannibals, But this exploration has been the ambition of my life and I propose to make it and obtain the object thereof by penetrating South American wilds that have never before been explored. “I served in the army with your towns- man, Major Erb, and was taken prisoner with him at the battle of Chickamauga. I have spent a number of years among the Indlans of the southwest and anticipate little trouble from the savages of South America, The wonders, resources and beauties of South America have never half been told and we shall bring back photographic evi- dence of our discoveries for the benefit of the world. “I think the future commercial prosperity of the United States depends on pan-Ameri- can feeders,” concluded the venerable ex- plorer. “Trade relations between the two continents should be fostered and not di- verted by European powers.’ Colonel B. J. at the Mercer. have just completed a tour of the state and business is brightening in every local- ity,” sald J. D. Franklin of New York at the Paxton, “The snow has insured a good crop and the farmers are correspondingly happy. The merchants have had their con- fidence in better times restored and are not 80 close in ordering gonds. With the excep- tion of some parts of South Dakota the cn- tire west scems to be recovering from the recent depression, more so than the east, which s a clear evidence of western pluck and enterprise. Colorado is reviving, but is liable to be discouraged if President Cleve- land vetoes the seigniorage bill, which will undoubtedly pass. I think that the Wilson bill is doomed to defeat."” “The Indlans: are Inveterate lovers of whisky,” sald W. H. Liddiard of Rushville at the Merchants. *Men, women and chil- dren on the Sioux reservation have a craze for liquor, the sale of which is strictly for- bidden. They even drink red ink, which has some alcohol in it, or cologne, when- ever they can get hold of it to appease their insatiable thirst for liquor. There are'many clever schemes to get around the law. Not long ago I found a shrawd Yankee selling eggs to Indians. Inyestigation developed the fact that some of the egg shells con- tained whisky. The original contents of the egg had been emptied through a small hole fn the end of the shell and whisky sub- stituted. The hole was cemented and thus liquor was surreptitiously supplied to the redskins. There is an old man in Greeley county who peddles bottled whisky around and also carries a hip pocket bottie for re- tail use. I thought I could arrest him once on the ‘bootleg’ charge, but I found that he carried a government license in the top of his hat. The provision of the law Is that a government liquor licgnse must be conspicu- ously posted. The old fellow always held his hat in his hand when he sold his wet &00ds, 50 that it was ‘fii & conspicuous place.’ There are countless othan tricks resorted to by schemers to slip around the law, but these two instances strvok me as being par- ticularly origina B e — Western Penslons. WASHINGTON, March 6.—(Special to The Bee.)—Pensions granted, issue of February were: " Nebraska: Increase—Faan , Bennett, Lancaster; Samuel W. penter, Farnan, Dawson. lowa: Original—Albert C. Martin, Musca- tine, Muscatine; Andrew Diehl, Marshall- town, Marshall; James Hunter Scott, Oakland, Pottawattamie. Increase—Samuel A. Walker, Ainsworth, Washington. Re- issue—Joseph M. Brattain, Griswold, Cass. Original widows, etc.— Matilda C. Bunce, Des Moines, Polk; Mary E. Hart, Moravia, Appanoose. South Dakota: Increase—Nathan C. Wood, Buftalo Gap, Custer, North Dakota: Supplemental—John Dwyer Burk, Langdon, Cavilier Colorado: Increase—Henry F. Lake, Gun- nison, Gunnison. Original widows, et Car- OMAHA DAILY BEE: WBDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 18M. FUNK OFF 0N A NEW TACK Will Substitute Finn's Plan for the Proposed CUommittee Bill, FIGHT AT DES MOINES BEGINS TODAY Prohibitionists Tnelined to Accept a Modifi- cation but Not a Condition that Will Tolerate the Regularly Licensed Saloons. DES MOINES, March 6.—(Speclal Tele- m to The Bee)—In the house today Mr. Funk introduced a bill which he thinks will fulfill the pledge of the party platform in respect to modification of the prohibitory law. It reads as follows “Any city or incorporated (o vide by ordinance such further methods for regulating and controlling the liquor traffic as shall best serve the cause of temperance and morality.” It is the same in substance as the troduced in the senate by Finn T Funk says he will move to substitute for the committee miulct bill that co as a speclal order tomorr These bills were introdu By Double- day, requiring district courts to work ten hours per day; by Nietert, requiring one telegraph company to accepf business from another at regular rates. The house passed a bill making Dubuque ounty the Nincteenth judic discritt with two judges. The house insurance committee indefinitely postponed the Ross bill impos- ing a per cent tax upon the premiums of life companies for the benefit of the common school fund; also the Barker bill requiring 10 per cent of the reserve fund to be paid as a tax for the support of the Soldiers Home. The Robinson bill requiring refunding to _holder of lapsed or surrendered policy the balance paid above the natural premium on the policy to date of surrender. In the sen- ate a ‘ge number of petitions were pre sented asking that the age of consent be aised tol 18 and protesting against taxing insurance companies. A few legalizing acts and bills of minor fmportance were intro- duced. may pro bill in Mr. this up aylor. Will Disrapt ¢ CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia., Telegram to The Bee.)—Much dissention seems to have arisen in the lowa Statc Oratorica ciation. During the last two or three years it appears that the smaller colleges, having a_numerical majority, have connived to run things as they choose and bar out the larger colleges from offices in the business meetings. Cornell college at Mount Vernon stands ready to withdraw from the association and with a few of the larger colleges organize an intercollegiato debating club, which has already taken the place of the oratorical contests in the larger eastern colleges. Association March 6.—(Spectal Against the Cash Value Asscssment. CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, March 6.—(Special Telegram to The Bee.)—Three more individ- ual suits have been filed in the distifct court appealing from the action of the city council and board of equalization of this city of as. sessments of property for taxation. Those filing the syits are the Cedar Rapids & Mar. ion Street Railway company, P. E. Hall and H. V. Ferguson. These suits come up at the next term of court and will probably end the fight which has been waged against the assessment of property on a full cash value basis. Young Girl Comumnits Sulcide. CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, March 6.—(Special Telegram to The Bee)—Laura Ellis, a 17- year-old girl living at Dysart committed suicide today by taking poison. No cause is known. Liberals at Logan. LOGAN, Ta., March 6.—(Special to The Bee)—A good deal of interest centered in the municipal election yesterday. Charles F. Luce ard the entire 1 be al ticket was elected. ISR S o WHEN AND WHERE. The first line of railroad in Norway was opened in 1855. Bgypt's first line was from Cairo to Alex- andria, 130 miles, opened in 1856. The first French railroad line was opened in 1828, In 1889 Peru had 1,630 miles of railroad, mostly very difficult of construction. The first South African road was from Cape Town to Wellington, opened in 1860. Syria has a single rail road, the one rail being laid on a wail of masonry. The first regular railway for carrying pas- sengers was opened September 27, 1825, from Darlington to Stockton, England. The engineers on the early roads would not run during rain, on the theory that the track was so slippery the engine would run off. The first Spanish railroad was opened from Barcelona to Mataro, eighteen miles. On the early rallroads a candle stuck in a station house window meant stop; its ab- sence was a signal to go on. . The first line of Russian railroad was opened from St. Petersburg to Charsko-Selo, in 1837, a distance of sixteen miles. Greece in 1889 had 360 miles of railroad and 240 more under contract and in course of construction. In 1813 Willlam Burton patented a loco- motive that was provided with legs and feet behind to push the machine along the track. The first railroad line in Australia was opened in 1854 from Melbourne to Hobson's Bay. Now there are 10,137 miles of track. The first Portuguese railroad was opened in 1854, from Lisbon to Carregado, twenty- two miles. The Union Pacific railroad was begun in 1862, and the first train through left Chicago for San Francisco on May 1. 1869. The first line of rallroad in the United States was from Boston to Quincy, four miles, opened in 1827, The first railroad west of the Alleghanies was built from Lexington to Frankfort, Ky., in 1831, The road was laid out with as many curves as possible, the engineers de- claring that this was an advantage. The cars were In two stories, the lower for women and children, the upper for men, four persons being seated in each compart- ment. The cars were at first drawn by mules, but after a time a locomotive was made by a_Lexington mechanic. The tender was a big box for wood and a hogshead was provided for water, which was drawn in buckets from convenient wells. In place of a cowcatcher there was two poles in front fitted with hickory brooms for sweeping the track. e Lo C r Sold. W. W. Lowe has sold to eastern parties the southwest corner of Sixtcenth and Har- ney streets, 176 feet on Harney and 132 feet on Sixteenth street. The price paid was $130,000. e TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS, A recelver was yesterday appointed for the Mason Building and Loan company of Tacoma, Wash. Burglars Tuesday night, at Jeffersonville, Ind., chloroformed three families and robbed their houses. The grand jury at St. Louls yesterday re- turned an indictment against Arthur Dues- trow, the wife and child murderer, for mur- der in the first degree. A recelver for the Woman's Land syndi- cate is asked for in a bill filed in the Chi- cago circult court yesterday by Ada D. Yates and other bondholders. Jesse Pomeroy, the famous boy murderer, who s serving a life sentence in the Charles- town, Mass., state prison has been caught in another attempt to escape. The bondsmen of ex-State Treasurer W. E. Woodruff of Arkensas yesterday decided to pay Into the state treasury the balance of the ex-treasurer's shortage, $47,000, Stephen Geer, a milkman, 60 years of age was called to his door at 2 a. m. yester- day at Jefersonville, Ind., and shot through the heart by an unknown assassin At Edgerton, Ind., James Erickson, 70 years of age, was Tuesday night dragged from his house in his night clothes by a mob there was, But I am satisfied that a good | Minor of Leander T. Walker, Pucblo, Pueblo. | of 100 masked men and glven a coat of tar 3 .GET’Goofi scription, DIGESTION Paine’s CeleryVCompound the Greatest of Remedies. : Influence of the Nérves on Various Diseases=« The Way Frank Bair of Chicago Regained His Health=--~Prof. Phelps’ Wonderful Pre« FRANK BAIR. Increased cares and duties, increa mental strains, lessened physical labors and increased mental work, have been gradually giving us bodies in which the nervous el ment predominates. Diseases are today as different from dis- eases of a century ago as is thelr treatment. While the average individual now does more mental work, we are not as well able to bear the strain as they were. Nine-tenths of us neither eat cise, bathe, or recreate ourselves in a proper way. It is all hurry and turmoil. Little rest_and much care. When the albumen and fibrine of the blood the nutricious principles of the blood—be- come deficient in their relative proportions to the other parts of the blood, the health suf- fers. If nervous power be depressed, then the food is imperfectly digested, assimilated, and converted into blood and tissue. There is the cause in a nutshell of half the diseases and all illness in the world. Here is the cure—the greatest medical dis- covery of modern times—the remedy first prescribed by the greatest physician of the age, Prof.“Edward Phelps, M. D., LL. D., of sleep, exer- Dartmouth college—the remedy that hat made more people well than any other evet Kknown—the truest food for the nerves—the best known strengthener of impoverished blood—the remedy that from one end of the country to the other, and in Europe as well, is indorsed by physiclang, prescribed and used by them, recommended by the plain people, unequivocally indorsed by men and women of wide reputation, blessed by thou sunds—Palne’s celery compound. Try it. Any drugglst has it or will gel it for you. Read the following unsolicited letter. from Mr. Frank Bair, whose portrait s given above, one of Clicago's best known and most highly esteemed young business men, the western agent of the great firm of Nash, Whiton & Co. It dealers of New York: “I have used Palne’s cclery compound for the past six months, and must say that it has helped me wonderfully. 1 had pain in my back and chest, and faint, tired feelings at’ the stomach, and when T would eat the taste would make me deathly sick, I bee came very weak and lost about twenty pounds. After having used a few bottles of Paine’s celery compound I am feeling better than I have in all my lite.” Try it. Empkie-Shugart & Co., JOBBERS IN SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE AND FIELD SEEDS. WE CARRY A FULL LINE. 109, 111, 113, 115 Main Street, Council Bluffs, Ia. and feathers. Erickson, it is alleged, at- tempted to assault a 13-year-old daughter of James Merfter, last Sunday night. Senator Chandler of New Hampshire is out in a letter announcing himself a candidate for re-election to the United States senate. The difficulties between the International Association of Machinists and the Armour Packing company, which began last August at Kansas City, were settled yesterday. After the meeting yesterday between the coal miners and operators at Pomeroy, O., one-fourth reduction was accepted. All mines in the Pomeroy bend will resume work. The Woman's Christian Temperance union of Kansas City will commemorate the nineticth birthday of General Neal Dow Thursday next by an all day mass meeting. In the Coughlin case at Chicago yesterday Prosecuting_Attorney Bottum continued his argument. When he closed he announced that he would probably finish his talk today. The humane officers of Muncie, Ind., yesterday announced that all boys and girls under 12 years of age must cease labor in the factories and mills as the statute directs. The coroner’s jury investigating the Leed: Mo., mine disaster last night returned a ver- dict finding the owners of the mine negli- gent in not providing proper apparatus for ventilating the mine, Bx-Governor John Evans of Colorado will be 80 years old on next Friday and the members of the Chamber of Commerce and other citizens of Denver are preparing to observe the occasion in an appropriate man- ner. The return law requiring township trustees to certain_state school money remain- ing unexpended at the close of a school year for redistribution was declared unconstitu- tio by the supreme court of Indianapolis v The hearing in the matter of testing the authority of the governor of Michigan to remove the secretaries of state and treasury and state land commissioners from office be- gan before the supreme court of that state yesterday. Mrs, Lease, the reform agitator and orator, recelved word from Dundalka, Ireland, y terday that by a will made by an aunt nine- teen years ago she s an heiress to a large fortune, which has been acumulating In in- terest ever since. In the suf against the Union Trust co York, affecting the Comstock Tunnel com- pany of Carson, Nev,, pending In the cir- cult court of the United States, Judge Ha ley dismissed the bill at plaintift’s cost. 0, C. ory, asslstant cashler of the Dexter, Savings bank, has confessed aker that he himself stole 200 from the vault of the bank last Thursday and that his story of being at- tacked and slugged by masked robbers was purely fiction. A sult_was filed in ‘the clrcult court at Kansas City yesterday by John Mulholland, nker, against Millionaire John 1. Blair Blairstown, N. J., to recover the share of Samuel C. Schaeffer In the land known as the Thomas West tract near Sheflield, valued at about $1,000,000. Temporary injunctions were yesterday sorved on the sheriff and clerk of the circuit court of Brown county, Kansas, restraining them from further actlon to collect the fines tmposed last May on 1 Yates, C. V Pyle and J. W. Pottinger for violating the prohibitory law. Four masked men and a woman disguised, and another man who I8 supposed to be the notorious Tom King, ralded the traders store at Cantonment, Kan., yesterday, made the proprietor and five clerks line up at th points of revolvers, robbed every one of them and then took the money In the safe, which 18 supposed to be quite a large sum as there \pany is no bank within fifty miles of the place, of Frank J. Simms and others | of New | 1n charge of the Sistara of Meroy. This renowned Institution s situated on the high bluffs back of and overlooking tho elty of Connell Bluffs. The spiclous grounds, itg bigh location and splendid view, make It a most pleasing retroat for tho afflicted. A staff ofem nent physicluns and u large corps of ex periencod nurses minlstor to the comforts of thepaticnts. Speclal care given to ludy par tients. TERMS MODERATE, For particulars apply to SISTER SUPER!IOR, Frank Streat - - - Counsil BluTs, low1 Or the Liguor Habit Fositively Cured by admintstering br. Haties PR T en 1 & oup of ooifio or & o TR A o o patient: 101 SLem o Barmiess, and will cffeot & permanent and specdy gure, whithor the patient 1a & moderats drifkes o an alooholio wreok. Tt has boen kiven in (housands ©f cases, and i every instanoe s borisot ouro has fols lowod. ItNeverFalit The ayatom ongemprognntod for the Tlquor apgotite to sxiet. 0 PosIbiliy GOLDEN SPECIFIO C0.. Prop' 46-page book of particuinra troc, ‘1o be Had bt Kuhn & Co., Drugzists, 15th and Douslus S Omahu, Neb. | Improved Quick and lfusyi"‘ Rising Steam, E1 c- tric & Hand Power LEVATORS Send for Circulars. 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