Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 25, 1894, Page 4

F(‘).\l,\ll.\ D AILY B ROSEWATER, Editor. ISHED EVERY TERMS OF Tawenty-f Bouth Omahi nd Council | v New Yor Washington v of O nd 1 PONDENCE TN b 1 edt ndd 1: To the Kditor LETTERS nd h ¢ Tribun Tk CORRE ANl commun torial matier whould USING i be mpasy cki and g lors 0 PUBLISHING COMPANY. Al busin i be made 5 LATION The 1 BTATEMENT OF CIRC George 1 tary of Tisling company actual pumboer Datly Morning. during the month lows Trachuck, » heing ¢ £ full and Tvenig an of Ma for unsold AR return reductions Daily ave * Sunday Bworn to bofore n in my i ence this 34 day of April N. I Notary Public our courts so long as stamp are permitted to | to gratity onal Who can men of the § use the Judicial animosity? respect ott power e an Mercer's effort to secure the this Congre establishment of branch postoffices in city has been successful, and he desery be commended for his activity in behalf of our citizen s to breach of prom suits are spi all over the country with alarming rapidity. The prospect of a $15,000 verdict for d ages n almost irresistible allurement. This immigrant rate war must be re- celved with joy by the Southern Pacifie, if that road is to have the benefit of Increas- ing its trafiic without standing one fota of the loss to be sustained during the conflict. It Great Scott could only get a life posi- tion on the criminal bench of Bohemia, or even Russia, what a glorious time he would have in chopping off editerial heads, send- ing editors to prison and imposing heavy fnes on reporters for alleged contempt. It might not be inappropriate for the park board to request the police to raport upin the location of all the trees that were planted in Omaha on Arbor day. None of these precious products of the governor's proclamation ought to be permitted to escape * detection, Declaring the South Carolina dispensary law unconstitutional does not dispense with the necessity of taking out a federal per- mit to sell liquor in that state. There is sald to be a veritable boom In the federal permit business In South Carolina in the last few days. It is now intimated that there was alum- fnum in the defective armor plates foisted upon the government by the Carnegie com- pany. That may very well be. What every- body Is convinced of, however, is that there was considerable money in it for somebody besides the government. Congressmen may tolerate the overhead trolley at home, but they won't permit it In Washington. If Washington secures an underground electric system of street rail- ways it will owe it to the fact that local politicians have only a limited influence over the governing power of that city. It is to be hoped that the position of lord high executioner will soon be vacant in some of the South Sea islands! That would afford the proper opening for the honorable Judge of this district, who would like to be in a country where he can drop a few heads in the basket ‘whenever he has a fit of emotional insanit The Chicago city council has resolved al- most unanimously to bar Kelly's army out of Chicago. We are not informed how the Chi- cago council propose to bicekade all the streets and avenues leading into that city or under what law any class of men who ¢ able can be fenced out of any city because they aro not desirable visitors. peace- American A special dispatch from our war corre- spondent directly from the fleld of battle announces that Governor Jackson has come to the conclusion that the war Is practically over and has returned to his home in Des Moines. The governor would have brated a more triumphal entry of lowa's great capital if he had remained at home from the very beginnin; The bench of this district Qisgraced by the conduct of one of its i bers, under the pretext that he is Ing to uphold the dignity of the courts proceedings begun in Burt county appe have heen dropped prematurely. The yet prove to be the only means by the bar of this district dignity of the bench. Why doesn't the prineiple at tie bottom of the South Carolina dispensary law decl- | sion, if there is any principle at the bottom of it, apply with cqual force to the Nor weglan system being so earnestly advocated | In Massachusotts? If the state can't ciso a itselt, can it delegate the exercise of a monopoly to a private corpora- tion? It certainly cannot under the present state constitution of Nebraska. Lincoin and Council Bluffs papers are say- ing uncomplimentary things of Omaha for the part citizens are alleged to taken in ushering Kelly's army through the corporate limits and the the transfer. Omaha met army two carloads of provisions. been m- has ag ndeavor- The r to may which the can restore oxer- monopoly our ns have over river *o the with It Kelly's de sire to go directly to the trausfer, und was as was the case at Cheyenue, the railroad com- pany hauled his men through the city. No | community, It is true, will be anxlous to recelve and feed a large body of destituts m has been or and Omaha is pravabi esption tc the tole. f tlerc envd sollislnos” i Omaha's froa Kelly and hiv land thero was a no ex- wits “enlighi- wat of | tnga ot Bumanily i o \ JUDICIAL DESPOT of fetior itrary course Cannir he trial, ¢ and tor of The Bes on char leged contompt of court proves him to ole of the most dangerous men who ever Invested with judictal powers in this or any other state. From the outsct of the prosecutions Instituted by himself, ostensibly to vindicate the dignity of the court, th ceedings have been a mockery of justice, Kloss pr a disgrace to the bench, and a in- vasion of the rights of citizens and priv fleges of thoe press fundamental prineiple, Imbedded in of It is a the very foundation Anglo-Saxon Juris- prudence and engrafted upon every con that has ever been framed for the of the y man charged with crime is presumed stitution government American people, that ever to be Innocent until he has been proved All cltizens have a con- ot by a jury of their peers or by a court free from ing gullty. American a stitutional guarantee an impartial trial all bias. Such a thing as a judge tak- the part of prosecutor, witness, Judge and Jury had never been contemplated until this man Scott had mounted the bench in this district. It Scott was also reserved for Cunningham R to be the first judge in this stat and most probably in this country, to use the position to which he had been elevated | on the criminal bench for settling personal adversaries The Edward grievances, punishing political the public vl trial and terrorizing press. of beyond a mock Rose- the fact dence in the water established doubt that he had no personal relation to the offensive comment the Jardine case, for he a scintilla of proof that he had written the on on which was arraigned. There was not article or inspired its publication. the contrary, cven the witnesses cited for the testified that it it well-established principle of held act committed prosecution he had no knowledge in It that of until appeared prin is a law no man can be responsib criminally for an without his direction, knowledge or consent. But Judge Scott had prepared his verdict before trial and had his sentence determined, pre- pared and written out before the testimony was taken. He had a long-standing griev- ance, dating back from a political contest, of ventilated to in which part his political record had di grudge been this his disadvantage. Upon decp-seated his His the bench in passing sentence decision and sentence were predicated. utterances from stamp him at once as a judicial despot and usurper. Giving vent to his violent temper, his bitter prejudices, intolerance and bigotry, he showed himself to be another Jefreys, by and Danton than to a better adapted to the roles played Robespierre, Marat place to whose safe-keeping the rights and liberties of American people are entrusted. AN ENCOURAGING PROMISE. Mr. Eckels, comptroller of the currency, who is one of ‘the most capable officials under the present administration, in an ad- dress a few days ago to a number of N York bankers who accorded him a tion, said some things that were encourag- ing and reassuring, if they can be accepted as reflecting the sentiment of the adminis- tration. He said that it could not but be a source of congratulation, despite the contin- ued but steadily lessening stagnation in business circles, that the conditions In our financial world have ‘magerially changed within the months just past. “No one, either at home or abroad,” sald Mr. Eckels, “now doubts that tho government’s honor will be Jealously guarded, its credit honestly main- tained, and its obligations met in coin cur- rent throughout the civilized world. The fear of our reaching a monetary standard of value inimical to every business inter- est of the country happily has passed away. It was reduced to a minimum when the pur- chasing clause of the Sherman silver act was erased from the statute books; it was com- pletely banished when the president inter- posed the exzcutive veto of the Bland seign- forage bill.” Coming from so responsible a source such an utterance certainly has a strong claim to confidence, but it would be more weighty if it were known to represent the views of the administration and not simply that of the comptroller of the cur- rency. That financial confidence is stronger now than it was some months ago is unquestion- able, but that all distrust has not disap- peared will have to be admitted. The rea- sons for this are to be found in the approe- hension that Mr. Cleveland may yet be in- duced to of legislation to infuse more silver into the currency, and in the danger that congress will repeal the 10 per cent tax on state bank issues and let loose a flood of that sort of currency upon the country, with demoralizing effect upon the cntire financial The president’s the selgniol bill con- tained unfortunate suggestion that has already been acted upon in the form of a bill providing for the coinage of the es- timated selgniorage and for the issue and sale of low interest bonds. It has stated by the author of the bill, a represent- trom L that the measure examined and approved by Secro- that the had that it passed by con- recep- favor some sort stem messago vetoing age an been ative uisiana, had bee tary Carlisle, expressed the bellef gress it would receive the approval of the president, So far as sllver this bill, which is in tho hands of the hou committee on provides for doing P isely the same thing that the measure and secretary is concerned colnage, cetoed provided for doing, so that the ob- o latter apply with equal foree 1t proposes silve Jections to t inflation by tary of ws ample authority to of to the new bill and this i3 not rendered more acceptable the bond provision, be alread: bonds for the which government awuse the secr the treasury {ssue purpose providing gold to redeem the the The president com- mitted to legislation of this sort, and what over may be thought of the probability of such leglslation being adopted, the fact t it influence, repeal of fayorabl confidenc interfere ernment’s with notes of is » or less unsettling The other dal that the the bank s un to the full storation of flnancial for the reason that it would with the maintenance of the gov dit or impalr the ability of the government to meot its obliga in coin current throughout the eivilized world, might be done by colning the scigniorage, but becauso it would result in injecting into the of the country a class of cur- rency that would be very likely to produce a Is possible has a mo ger, of state tax, is also tions as money | of Mr. THE ffoct. 1t Ia not oasy extont this would be th bank of forty-four about it 1s not difeult intry con moralizing to what bt tand the financial system of ith Iskues to under th upon not be wholesome the remark uraging, but to apprehond ves contained Inly reas wssura Bokels aro cort there financial legislation by the present congress there will prevail a feeling of distrust. If sngress would decide to forego all attempt complote in enc 50 I8 to leglslate regarding the currency financial confide o would at once return COMPARATIVE TAX RATES. L tion of Inequality of taxa- tion aside for the moment, the two points at Or from bsurd of the ridiculously tax valuations alarmingly rates. A which we cently of the census statistics of tax valu difterent with but that to disclosed the that of them made so poor a showing as the latter. it Is true, claims that the true value of its taxable realty Is six times as great as the same ratlo as pi in Omaha, but in Kansas City and Providence the true value is estimated at but one-third more than the assessed value, in St. Paul at one-half agaln as much, in Minneapolis at two-thirds again much, in Rochester at only one-twenticth again as much. The natural result of this is that the nominal tax rate in Omaha s raised abnorm- ally above what it ought to be. People s the west always Inquire afler our tax rate, while they often overlook our absurdedly low tax valuation. In acom- parison of tax rates Omaha suffers the same advantage that it does In a comparison of valuations, The last census bulletin purporting to ma an exhibit of the finances of American municipalities gives tax rates for the census year for the varlous cities named Minneapolis, $2.58 per $100 or $21.45 per capita; Jersey City, $2.90 per $100 or $13.54 per capita; Omaha, $5.61 per $100 or $7.0 per capita; Rochester, $1.93 per $100 or $12. per capita; St. Faul, $2.04 per $100 or $18.58 per capita; Kansas City, $2.08 per §100 or $16.68 per capita; Providence, $1.50 per $100 or §15.96 per capita; Denver, $2.70 per $100 or $16.85 per capita. In other words, Omah high tax rate Is nominal only. It over- reaches itself and brings a per capita return less than any of the cities which have tax rates as great. It injures the reputation of the city without bringing the city one cent of additional revenue. A city's tax rate then Is no necessary eri- terfon of the burden of taxation which its citizens are compelled to bear. It depends in the first place upon the tax valuation, rising s the valuation falls and falling as the val- uation rises. The resulting per capita rev enue depends upon the population of the place and the comparative wealth of the in- habitants. In the little town of Drookline, Mass., the suburban home of Boston's wealth- iest business men, a tax rate of 92 cents per $100 means $35.15 per capita. Similarly a rate of $3.68 per $100 in Falr Haven, Wash., means §67.09 per capita. On the other hand Kearney levies a tax rate of $8.18 and gets only $13.58 per capita; Galena, IIl., levies a tax rate of $5.33 and gets only $6.15 per capita, and then, too, we have the horrible example set right here in Omaha. The tax rate, furthermore, depends largely upon the sources of revenue which a city may have outside of the general property tax. Southern cities securing large revenues from business licenses do not need to levy high taxes. The tax rate in Philadelphia is held down by no small extent by the profits accruing from the municipal gas works and waterworks and other cities have other resources for revenue. Yet, notwithstanding the fact that the high tax rate in Omaha Is nominal only, it is none the less viewed as real by people un- familiar with the situation. It is a standing menace to Omaha's growth. It s un- necessary and uncalled for. A reasonable tax valuation will give us a reasonable tax rate. aving the qu which Omaha suffers most her taxation are low the comparison system and high made ro cities populations from fact tions in varying Omaha slightly ascribed not one Denver, the listed valuation, vails as ing investments in ke these one-third WARNING THE SOUTH. One thing which the debate on the tarift Dill is making prominent in public attention is the sectional character of that measure, It s the work almost entirely of southern men and from the assault it makes on the industries and the agricultural interests of the north to the income tax it reflects sectional spirit and purpose. 1In his speech in the senate a few days ago Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire dwelt upon the attack which the tarifft bill makes on the industries of New England, as Senator Hale of Maine had done in a preceding speech. The New Hampshire senator said that New England has invested millions of capital in the south upon the assurance that the old order of things had passed away and that a new south had risen on the ruins of the old. Most of the New England money that has been thus invested s forever lost and now those who profited by it propose to strike down the manufacturing establishments of that section by hostile legislation. This is the gratitude of the south for what New England has done for it. Senator Gallinger warned the south against this contest. He assured that section that the people are awake to this conflict and are watching with breathless Intercst every move of the political chess board. They propose in due time to take a hand in its scttlement, “What answer will the south expect from us when we return to power in 18962" asked the s ““She should not forget, in this her moment of triumph, that there may be reprisals when our day of victory comes. It our agricultural products are to be destroyed in the Interest of Canadz, why not her su and rico In the interest of Cuba and other tropical He that the south may sooner than she is calculating be a supplicant for the protection of her great staple. It will not be the policy of the r publican party when it returns to power to the of the Phat has not been its course In tho past, and be 'he policy of the republican party is national in its scope, guarding every interest enator. countries? declared diseriminate interests south. agalnst will not in the future that needs to be guarded and aiming to foster the pros- perity of all se But tho policy of the democratic party under southern domination is creating a sentiment which may cause the south to exhibited, it now doing, a t of sectionallsm nd prejudice. The contly or shall revolution the lL-adyl tors and representatives In congress t possible regret having is reckless Times ¥ shall fail to breed of They doing the b missionary work for the republican party,” said that paper, ‘and It they shall continue In their present policy they will certainly be confronted a republican president, a republican senat nd a republican house in 1896." The fea ture of the democratic policy which the Times particularly obj for which the southern lcaders In Philadelphia tarift 50 democratio sald that it mads reform odious against it will be 1 ed actlons of the southern be as it, Ause ar by revenu and congress tax | to | " ol wiil ve any Hlar purport and admon atly t such warnings ey the repre h 0 congredy Very ot i va peet A little while axo that se of th! rofus | fair and dest but | there not | 8o far as the o they are a doubt that this ohnoxions and unjust of the fe revenue poliey be retained tarift bill is There Is ye slight reason for that the m i fait A few enators from | ton woutd t the tarift bi lin, of them who 1< not ton publi sme fax supp e un Ve fodtures It seoms that they arc he is any one made his oppg s in concern longer foat unanimous, and there is no ure demoery It the passed 18 hope asure According to Washington advic made by the That would be a good ady n effort to christened 1s being Congressman Mercer have one of “Omaha. ment, the only question being whet inhabitants of forcign lands would tumble | to the fact that 1s the of a | city as well as of tho tribe of aborigines that go by that name. If we remember co rectly Omaha has for soveral years been one of the vessels of the United navy. It Is therefore doubt- ful whether the Navy department would con- sent to duplicate the new war ships 4 tige- the Omaha name a steamship named ates name. The county commissioners are now wrest- ling with the problem of material for pa Macadam appears al, but pavement to is to will surface with or somo equally durable stone. Brick pavement is out of question for country r and the choice will essarily have to be made between hlocks of sandstone or granite. ing the county roads. be the most des hoped that without broken granite able mater it limestone covering the be no be laid ads, nec- committee having in of the Unioi attorneys for of the to hear The congressional charge the reorganization Pacific are listening to the the road, to the representative stockholders, and also arguments In the interest of the government debt. But the shipper and patron, who are paying in their tolls and fares the interest on the enormously inflated capitalization of the road, have not been requested to at- tend. propose The cogncilmen who have returned from thelr junkét to the Pacific coast are unani- mously of the opinion that no city whic they visited has the same attractions for them as Omaha. Certainly If they removed to any other western city they would lose their character as councilmen. So long as their terms in the city council are unexpired Omaha will be good enough for them. not. —_— Worse Than an Anarchist. McCook Tribune. The debaucher of the popular franchise is a_more dangerous menace to the perpetuity of this government than the red-handed anarchist, B Ife's w Dangerous Character, Tilden Citizen. Scott, the brainless Omaha Jjudge, shown himself to be a,dangerous character on the bench, and shbuld not be allowed to serve out the remairider of his term Two Horns of the Dilemma, Wausa | Time B a judge in the person of C. R. tt who must imagine himself the lay dge and jury. Many of his acts are df ceful, and show. only too plainly that he ither'a knave or an Imbecile. Ao The Striking Plague. Philadelphia Record. Just as renewed operations among the iron workers had begun to create a_greater demand for coal, the United Mine Workers resolved to stop 500,000 miners from working. From any ordinary business point of view this action looks like madness. P el Seareless Material, Globe-Democrat. reason why gold is going to Europe these days Is because there is more demand for it there than there is here. When there Is a demand for it here it wili come back. No scare can be got up at present on account of the gold exportation. —— Mysterles Deeper Than Ever. Chicago Times. Anclent Thebes, in Greece, has been nearly destroyed by an earthquake, which leveled fts modern buil and ' classic ruins with ruthiess impartiality. Such being the case, it would seem that all chance of the mysteries of Thebes being ever solved is now lost forever. Ao e Don't Be Too Sudden. Denver New & Bishop ¢ aised the pay of the wir drawers 10 per cent. They ought to he careful how they do a reckless thins like that In these times, especially in Hiinois The other day a Chicago cash girl dropped dead on having her wages raised. Omaha hi The chief The Lamber wire mill at Joliet, 11l., has s t. New York_ Sun. We record with sorrolv, but without sur- prise, the fact that the Big Muddy is be- havir badly in Nebraska, cutting the 1l generally rur . William Jennings n's visit to the west and grand orator- Missouri has been swelling Hon, D. Wolsey Voorhees! tax pleasimply made the m unmanageable. It sectlies and boils, ps and roars, depositing vast quantities speless mul L ‘The Animal at the Trough. Minneapolis Journal ident Cleveland cannot be accused of ting the south in distributing his He has given his southern friends cabinet positions, two ambassador- on_envoys extraordinary, five min- ident, the directorship of the mf the chief clerkship of the treasury, reg tership of the treasury, commissioncrship of internal_revenue, of rallronds and fifty or sixty other fat positions, drawing from the sury over $500,000 in salaries And still the south calls for mor -~ After Washington—What Then ? cr Record The question just now conc tude that Washington is going to adopt toward this sign ‘of the nafion’s unwhole some condition. In any event, the finishing of 'the purposeless,pllgrimages 15 hound to have no practical vesnlt. Congress can do nothing, and the Gommonwealers' demand ire preposterous, 'Bat it will remain nor the 158 the duty of the/ District of Columbia anthorities to act with exceeding tact and Qiscretion in their treatment of the situa- tion. Apparently -the only thing that the Commonwealers can agcomplish will be to induce congress to ' give sober heed to the general’ mécds of the na tional health. But “in the unweleon presence of a pathuticaliy comical hord Commonwealers the authorities will meet 2 problem the possible solution of which 15 not yet discoveral K0 ns the atti- - The Sanday ¥ Grand Istdhlt Independent. The last Sunday Bee contained of interesting articles, 10 which we will call the attention of our readers. An articl written b newgh. Beaver, ex-governor £ Pennslyvinia, discusses the Importanc of good country roads, the difficulty in the way of this improvement, and hints for the best accomplishment this_groat work Anather article iy a r a sketch General Grant's private er, pub is; in 1586 by his ol frien Chil whic hows the “Justice, kindness and firmnes of that great who was as noble in hi private relations as he Wwas grar our tountry's savior. And a third o o of the Interestiy Ketohes sarpenter of life in foielen 3. time_he gives us a view of lation the Japan people, which 13 very instructiy and ‘enables us even to form a better Ju | ment r reading cf such vinee every impartial tlons made against papers by ertain clags of peoy absolutely u tenable, and nothing but the result of on ided Judgments number man that the objec Sunday b WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 5, 1894, PROPLE AND THINGS Al miners hope to strike a paying 1, Chicag Tanner Horn about to hecome and Country Magazin York ¢ tenderfee A col of woman to cmmnp in the lonors with Mr cellars are pl front bou oratorical ately, cyelon tate Leas ntiful ling to the well as of manship. A decayed one fes the benehi—park beneh, Kane, the distinguished Sing, refuses to pay ngs collected for him the kind he bargained for 1, a native of Ireland nship papers in the He has a Gaelic with consider; an courts brogue, and speaks fluency A C ble man astronomer caleulates that the year 1061 will be marked hy the appearance of no less than seven different comets. That's a good way off, but astronomer habitually ' far-seeing Bvery United States senator from states south of the Potomac, except Irby of South Carolina and Blanchard of Louisiana, served in the confederate and those were too young for military service the disturbance lasted Since his retirement Mr. Gladstone has re- ceived many hundreds of tributes from ad mirers all over the United King and gifts are still pouring in. He has recelyed several dozen walking canes and umbrellas, I ¢ arm chair, and many more tentious presents 2x-United States Senator James W, bury of Augusta, Me., who was the friend and assoclate of Webster, Clay and Calloun, and whose seat was next to that occupied by JefMerson Davis, has been visiting Washing ton for the last few days. Although 93 years of age he s active and well George M. Pullman—wealth $50,000,000— told a newspaper reporter, “I believe that 1 was far happler In the days when I hadn't a dollar than I am now.” George is not froubled with a consuming desire to get back to those happy days. Mest any of hi countrymen would cheerfully relieve him of his present distressing burden. Thie Chicago Journal celebrated its fiftieth iiversary on Monday with an edition of ix pages. The number was generally lustrated and was made especlally inter- esting by reproductions of the first issue, in 1844, the extra announcing the assassination of Abralam Lincoln and the first issue fol- lowing the great fire in 1871, General Mac Adaras, who re in this country is a well known Irish pa- triot, who rose to his present rank in the French army during the Iranco-Prussian war of 1870-71. General Mac lived several years in this country and is an international sort of Irish-American-Erench- man, is accompanied by his wife, who is un American. two while ntly arrived e NEBRASKA AND NEBRAS An Omaha man is about to open a cigar factory at Howells. An effort being made rosse team Ravenna. A convention of Lancs day schools will be held 1,2 and 3. Shelton business men pation tax so that the may be sprinkled. The Custer County Teachers’ will meet at Callaway April sive program has bee St. Augustine's ANS. to organize a ster _county Sun- at Hickman May oceu- town will pay an reets of the association An exten- ed. Episcopal church at De- Witt will be dedicated May 1 with appro- priate services. The structire cost $2,600. The Banner has been flung to the breez etna with W. R. Olmstead as the staff bearer. It promises a better paper than its predecessors. William Pasewalk of Norfolk, his wife and child all died within the past month. First the mother, then the father and finally the little one passed away. A Pender woman has secured a patent on a binder and shocking machine and has refused an offer of $10,000 for the right to manufacture the implement in the United States. Niobrara youths sold a band ioux a keg of artesian water, Indians fully expected to sccure disappointment of the red men thing pitiful to see. The Colfax county commissioners have purchased a farm four miles from Schuyler at §10 per acre. It will be used as the county poor farm as soon as the necessary buildings are erected. Nearly every child in Broken Bow has had both the mumps and the measles this season, The unfortunate family that has escaped the two diseases is considered out of style. The editor of the Republican leads the fash- ionable list with five children who have had the mumps and four who have broken out with the measles. Oliver Bentley, an old resident of Table Rock, was thrown from his wagon and his hcad was caught in a wheel. Before the team could be stopped the wheel had torn one car from his head and the other ear was j hanging by a shred of flesh. His head was erwise badly bruised and it is belieyed that he will not survive his injuri - ND COMPANY at a of Santee when the beer. The was some- KELLY Washington Star: The “Commonweal” dis- tinguished itself at Omaha by its sagacious superiority to some of its lawless sympa- thize Kansas City Journal: There scoms to be a general disposition throughout the country to speed the “Industrials” on their march to Washington. The people want Grover and the tarifl reformers to harvest the crop they have sown. Louisville Courfer-Journal: Kelly and his crowd, who declined to take the train which those Council Bluffs women stole for them, are probably the first men on record who failed 1o get on a woman's train when they had an opportunity. St. Louis Republic: The of the Rock Island railroad men in General Kelly to Washington are r They will meet with a cold reception in Washington, where work Is never in order. Indianapolis Journal: When the excellent gentlemen like the learned and eloguent Rey. Dr. Duryea come to consider their efforts to induce railroad officials to haul a lot of men to Washington to accomplish no pur- pose they must conclude that they have made a ridiculous spectacle of themselves. Detroit Froe Press: There is one character- istic of General Kelly which should cover a: many faults as does charity itself. He is a law-abiding citizen and insists that the men who are with him shall conform to his ideas on this important subject. When crankism takes that particular trend it is a good thing to cultivate, Chicago Herald superintendent says that the army now enroute anxlous to work. What was an error impulse on the part of “General” Kelly would be a much graver offense in others surrounded with less trouble and causes of excitement than thoso by which he is en viron Any attempt to excite party pas sions and to turn tho “Industrial” proces sions into political erusades would be crimi nal, if suceesstul, and might produce calami tous results. of A Roar from the Or ) Springfield (Mass) I Caldwell's Union Pacific vather Intemperately of the railway journal himself seems to be u man whose e entitled 1o respe ha the federal her " two or three 3 wer Appoint the warm indo:sen ller that iwell publican. declsion s criticised by Hut the Judge being som! juls whi ted benc War on Chicag AGO, April 24 y this afternoon part HIC Mal m on hi Att rney General lects pro trust iture unced a to begin quo warrant against the Chicago ceding has been exy if successful means of the trust pr and charter ted for a for 'l n indefinable | pronounced | Adaras, who | IS WOUNDED HON AN, The surprising and mes from Wash wh to is a il City Journal Information ¢ i Wilson politios Tribune really must fight to vindi hia wounded honor we to suggest that he may find Prof. Jackson willing to accommodate him St. Louls Republic: Her difference betweon K 0 Colonel Stoll says that in th try men value tor more than they life. Colonel Ays they dor ols and coffe Globe-1) A8 wo understand Colonel St enraged Kentucky a torney now in pursuit of Judge Wilson the latter that “You'n hos it uns, and we'uns wants to fight Kansns rop Lawyer Stoll fools body In order venture Poter charac Pl it who 13 siys to ulted we City of he life Kan Star Kentucky wiil says, “fs more its It Mr and Judge fight, there is but suieide. Buffalo Express: Attorney Stoll has chal lenged Judge Jere Wilson to fight a duel because Wilson sald that somebody had forged a letter which was put In_oviden by ‘the defense in the Breckinridge Judge Wilson should answer the challonge by turning it over to the authorities, with a roqu that its author be arrested and punished under the law which makes the sending of such a communication a crime Chicago Herald: *Colonel” Stoll of Ken tucky continues to emit howl after howl about his wounded honor. “Life itself,’ says he, “is nothing to a gentleman whose honor {s tarnished.” This moves an ir- reverent editor to suggest that since Judge Wilson refuses to fight there is really noth Ing left for Mr. Stoll to do but commit hara-kirt, and thus clear his “honor.” The suggestion will be received with proper en thusiasm everywhere. oty COMIC CLATTER. Attorney Stoll not down “Honor," to a gentleman than toll really feels that way, Wilson positively refuses to nothing left for Mr. Stoll 1t case. Indianapolis Journal: “What was at the bottom of that fight between Thompson and Jimpson 2" Jimpson was till Thompson was pulled Philadelphia Ledger: Among the o ments announced is that of a dealer in One would think that busir was ng up. sign- 1S, pick Indianapolls Journal year when the man, fo to dig the garden, b the front yard, wishes he This §s the time of retting how he had carpets and rake were a boy again tanists don't en- that the straw- red from blushing it. Philadelphia Times: 1 tirely accept the stater berry grew permanentl at the price asked for Washington Star: “Sometimes, Uncle Eben, *de man dat hollers de loudes’ foh de fool-killer am de one dat 'ud hafte do de mos’ dodgin’ if he showed up.” remarked Texas Sifti “By Jov lateh key at home,” sajid a Harlem ‘to his intended at th tween the acts. “Why, Charle married already, T've left my Ided youth of theater be- m to think you are was the ominous Teply. Philadelphia Record: Stern ryou were ternoon. Offic ployer—1 suppose viv Office Boy fence. Tmploy 1 the ball game yesterday oy Y Stern m you on the aqui No, was on de were sir; 1 It's the queercst thing,” v time 1 catch coid 1 Nothing strange Buffalo Bxpress: mused Huffkins catch it in the head. about that,” obs:rved Mrs. Huffkins., “Ev:r since I was a child I've feard that a cold always settles in the weaKest spot.” Harper's Young Peo good,” sajd Wilbur. W wouldn’t have two how to play on ‘em ats aren’t any s o goat I horns without learning MISCONCEPTION, Judg Aunt Jemima came to town In all her Sunday clothes, Upon a fence she saw an ad Of rubber garden-hose. “That’s just the thing for me, “A pair or two 'l get; Tor when I weed my pos My ankles get so wet. —_—— rromis New York Sun. and far-off flutter of a pair of she cried. bed ke the faint tired Wi Like the whispered son weary | 1 sings Come the tidinzgs of elections in the dim and distant west, anner that can sca Grover Cleveland's 1est. of sadness that a In reely sweeten A touch of tariff tonic in the cir- imambient air, There's a keen and constant query for our tform everywhere, Ana the query, that the democratic leades will not m With an answer that's an answ; answer in defeat. gets itg There's a tread of coming millions sounding in our waiting ears, With the votes that make our party trjumph over doubts and fears. Who is the leader in the crisis? clarion voice to say They will win the fight tomorrow, as they lost the fight today? Who has There's a shadow on the morning that has inged the light with gray. There's a promise of disaster through events today; But the omens are improving: growing feeling that Here lately, Grover Cleveland's finding out where he is at! 'BROWNING, sweeping there's a |WANT AMERICAY NAHATMAS Ocoidéutal Mysticists Demand Prot.ction to Home Industries, POSSIBLE SPLIT IN THEOSOPHICAL RANKS Soeretary Judgo Vindieated, but Some Diss % Not ( Down Very Ensily. Story 1 SAN FRANCISCO gates to the can April 24.—The dele- annual convention of the Ameri- Theosophical have practically concluded their business, and today are vis- iting polnts of interest about the city. This afternoon they are at the Midwinter exposi- tion Notwiths Seer soclety nding the vindication of General tary Judge who has been charged with monkeylng with the sacred rights and priv- tleges of the mabatmas, it is the opinion of many of delegates that trouble in the society is not by any means ended, and that the high priests of the order, who aro under the influence de of the Hindu the ate themselves the supreme bunal and possilby suspend the American scetion from full communion. In this event there Is likely to be a split in the order any of the most prominent members of soclety in this country have for some time shown signs of restlessness because all the mahatmas are domiciled fn far-oft Thibet. They are understood to contend that there is no reason why there should not be American mahatmas and, in fact, it is strongly suspected that they themselvos willing to be regarded as perfected men and organs of theosophical philosophy. It s therefore not unlikely that theosophists will bo called upon to deal with a division in their own ranks, and that an opposition to the philosophers’ of the mountains of India will be started on this side of the Atlantic. the the o a very larg sophists, will arr authority of a to tri the TS THAT CAUGHT NO MICE, Ridding Herself of cts to the Police K SAN FRANCISCO, April 24.—A sensation has been brewing in police circles here for several weeks, The Board of Police Com- missloners has had under quiet investiga- tion a large number of policemen suspected of corrupt methods. An intimation of w might be looked for was glven a week when Captain Willlam E. Hall, who a as Chief Crowley's confidential clork, and a patrolman were suddenly dismissed from the department. The climax came last night, when the police commissioners dismissed without trial three sergeants, two veteran detectives and nine patrolmen. It is stated that still others are to follow. It is charged that the disgrace in the department has long been operating under Captain Hall and other officers high in the department, in levying systematic blackmail on gamblers and others who have been allowed to violate the law. e i Chapter of Accldents at Carson CARSON, Ia., April 24.—(Special to The Bee)—Charles Caldwell, while working at an elovator corn erib, was struck by a wago tongue and was taken up for dead, but after three hours' work the doctor brought him to consciousness and he will probably recovery J. A. Doolittle on the same day was kic by a colt and had a leg broken. On the same day, also, Mrs. M. E. Mace was driving into town and her horse hecame frightened at the river bridge and backed with the buggy over a high bank into the river. Mrs. Mace escaped just as the team went over the ban! Eiwt ot B County Clerk’s Shortage. KANSAS CITY, April 24—The county court has taken action on the matter of the shortage charged to exist In the settlements of County Clerk M. S. Burr, and ordered sult to be brought against his bondsmen and nst him individually to recover the mount, §$16,942.31, which consists of fees not turned over to the county treasurer in settlements made In the years 1891, 1893 and 1893, San Useloss e Gold Excitement in New Mexico. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., April is great excitement over the placer gold flelds in Hell canon within fifteen miles of Albuquerque, and yesterday at least 100 loca- tions were made by gold hunters from this city. A short time ago N. J. Hyde got out $70 a day from a claim. Since then several thousand dollars in gold have been panned Thera Boys Who Played wi sting Powder, ASHLAND, Ky., April 24—Two small sons of Hiram Campbell, a section foreman fifteen miles up the line, secured a large quantity of blasting powder from a tool house and set It off with a match, both belng fatally burned . Gigantic Natural Gas Scheme. 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