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

’ THE OMAHA ifi DAILY B " " » G sSDAY, JULY 25, 1894, THEOMAHA DATLY BEE. SWATER, B RC PUBLISHED B TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dafly Dee (without Sunday) One Y Dally Hee and Sunday, One Yoar. ix Months sevnbnrsniby hree Monthe Bunday Ifee, One Baturday {ice, On Weekly Bee, On VERY MORNING. OFFICES, Omaha, The Mee Paliding . Houth Omaha, Corner N and Twenty fourth Sts Counell BT, 12 Tearl Street Chieagn Onice, 317 Chamber of Commaroe. New York, Rtooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bldg. Washington, 1407 1 Street, N. W, CORRESPONDENCE, ANl communication % to news and edi- torial matter should wod: To theBditor. BUSINESS LETT All buisiness loetters and remittan addressed o Fea Publishin Omaha. Drafix cka and postoltice crders 1o be. roade payable to the order of the company. AL i PUBLISHING COMPANY. TEMENT OF CIRCULATION. B, Taschuck, secretary of The fee Pub- Aishing company, being duly sworn, kays that the actual no of full and comp cupl and Sunday 1 s, 1894, was as of The Daily printed during the m Tollows Morning, Evening nth of Ju 003 o 21,850 2. 1872 ) 21,841 0., Total . Less deductions for unsold and coples ot Daily avernge net efrculati EORGE B, worn (0 hefore and knbscribed in my pres- s 30 day of July, 1501, P! FEIL As a letter writer Prosident Cleveland is an unqualified succe We are quite sure that President Cleve- land didn’t know it was loaded. There is no place at the head of the ticket for a man who bilks the state central com- mittee. “Party perfily” and ‘‘democratic duplicity" make a very timely pair of alliterative phrases. It it keeps on hot, keep cool. If it don't rain, keep dry and you won't need any doc- tor's preseription. insinuations the to covert recalcltrant democratic senators can give as When it come well as they can take. In spite of all the depression Omaha will make a very respectable showing of new buildings by the end of the year. What have the people of South Carolina been doing during the long, weary months that the state dispensaries were compelled to remain closed? Scnator Gorman insists that he is not in debt to Mr. Cleveland. Neither is Mr. Bryan In debt to Mr. Cleveland. But it isn't Bryan's fault. The man who was fined $25 for laughing at a Chicago woman who had donned a suit of bloomers in order to go bicycle riding must admit that the laugh is on him. We are anxiously and patiently waiting for Secretary Morton to jump into the breach and heal all the wounds by effecting a compromlise on free trade, pure and simple. —_— Omaha wouldn't be a metropolitan city if she did not give her inhabitants a taste of the warm weather upon which the residents of her competitors are regularly regaled. Only four weeks till the republican state convention. Don't lose sight of the fact that Douglas county s in honor bound to select 49 delegates men who represent. the best ele- ments of the party. Have you noticed The Bee's unexcelled re- ports of the congressional proceedings on the tariff disagreement? No other accounts published in these parts will for a moment compare with them. Sponges are a raw material, whether in the natural state or politically, and yet they are taxed 10 per cent ad valorem under the Wil- son bill. As a matter of principle sponges ought to be free. They never pay anything At they can help it. Bven the recoipts of the dead lettor office have dropped off since the democrath re- galned control of the federal government. The outlook has been so gloomy that the lettors refuse to die for fear they will be stranded before they make their escape from ‘Washington. Now that the German government has concluded tkat Herr Dowe's bullet proof coat would be an expensive and useless luxury for the army, the sphere of that great inventor's activity has suddenly been narrowed dowa to the dime museum stage and the clrcus ring. 1t is really too bad that the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners finds itself com- polled to adjourn over two weeks because it has no important business”to attend to. The reorganization of the police force is yet far trom completion. The board might pos- sibly find something to do if it put forth the necessary exertion. The active contingent of the commercial club should co-operate with the Manufactur- ers and Consumers assoclation to secure the establishment of cereal mills, canning fac. tories, starch factorles, and other industrial coneerns that will utilize the raw products of our soll. This is the shortest and surest road to growth and prosperity. Councllman Bruner objects strenuously to the rulo enacted by the Board of Health requiring its employes to devote themselyes exclusively to publio business during work- ing hours and to'eschew politics excopt dur- ing thelr leisure hours. Councilman Bru- ner Is said to be angling for a republican nomination as state senator. There is no reason the polico, usually termed why health should not be under the same strict rul sanitary Inspectors, of discipline as the ordinary police. The service would probably be Improved it the Qifferent forces were all made one, passing the same cxamination and recelving the ap- polntment from the same source. The chief of police gould then deta!l the requisits number of men to do sanitary duty ender the direction of the health commissioner and when not employed for that purpose they could be restored to their regular positions on . tho police force. Subjecting the health n- spectors to rigid rules of conduct is the first #tep and a stop In the right direction. ANOTHER EMDARRASSING SITUATION. While the tariff struggle goes on the treasury continues to lose gold. Thus by its course the party In control of con- gress Jeopardizes the credit of the govern- ment and at the same time maintains busi- ness depression, with most damaging effects ‘. to all intercsts. The treasury gold reserve | has declined to about $60,000,000, with the | certainty of falling still lower unless ||m1 | | | | | banks ehall again go to the reilef of the government. There is no indication that they will do this, On the contrary there is reason (o apprehend that the banks will permit the depletion of the treasury gold to go on, because It js concelvable that they may regard it as In their interest to do 0. One of two things must xoon happen it the exports of gold continue to draw upon | the There will to | bo another issue of bonds or gold will com- | An fssue of bonds would | | to trensury ros have ve. mand a premium furnish investment for probably not less than $50,000,000, or about two-thirds of the of the New York It s probable that Secretary Carlisle will decide to issuo bonds rather than allow gold to go to a premium, but it is not ap- parent why the banks, viewing the matter from a standpoint only, should take any action to prevent either possi- bility. The deadlock on the tariff that now seems assured threatens an indefinite prolongation of financial business un- certainty. It s col that the con- trolling financial of the country may judge it to be expedient to force hand of the party in power, either for de- cislve action on the tariff or the abandon- ment of that subject by letting the national treasury shift for itself. Meanwhile the matter of the gold reserve surplus reserve banks, practical and ivabie interests the is not the only one which is perplexing treasury officials. They are necessarily en- tirely at sea as to the revenue which the government s likely to collect during the current fiscal year. The estimates of Sec- retary Carlisle in his last annual report were, of course, made on the basis of exist- ing law, but these estimates are of no value on account of the interference with the natural operation of existing law by the proposed tariff legislation. There was a heavy decline in imports for the fiscal year ended June 30 and they are still being held back In expectation of reduced duties. The bonded warehouses are full of forcign merchandise, which if released would increase the money in the treasury many millions, but so long as there is un- certainty regarding tarlff legislation this merchandise, or the greater part of it, will remain in bond, depriving the gover- ment of the revenue to be-derived from it. It is certain to contribute to the treas- ury in time, but how much it is impossible now to estimate with any degree of ac- curacy. It was fortunate for the immediate needs of the treasury that so large an amount of whisky was recently taken out of bond in anticipation of an Increased tax, but this benefit will be only tem- porary, since it is simply an advance col- lection of funds| which would otherwise have been received later in the year. When the new law goes into effect, assuming that a bill will be agreed upon, the treasury must rely mainly for revenue upon in- creased importations, and whether these will be sufficient to meet its obligations no one pretends to predict. It is hardly possible that they would be under such a bill as passed the house. In the event of final agrecment on the semate bill, if the sugar duty does not yield immediate returns, because of the importation of this season's sugar crop under the existing law, the treasury is mot likely to realize much of a surplus. It s reported that the ques- tion has been discussed at the department of asking authority of congress to borrow money in anticipation of the receipts under the income tax, but nobody can say what they are likely to be, the divergence in estimates being very wide. The situation of the freasury ought to impress congress with the nceessity of prompt action looking to relief, for it ought not to be even possible that the treasury could be placed at the mercy of a com- bination of capitalists or speculators who might undertake to deplete gold in order to put that metal at a premium. The simplest way to give the needed rellet is to drop the tariff question, which it Is porfectly plain cannot now be settled to the satistaction of anybody, WILL ARBITRATION ARBITRATE? The consensus of opinton among men who have given the subject thought is that labor strikes and differences between workingmen and their employers can only be settled satis- factorily through arbitration. The question is what method of arbitration, voluntary or compulsory? Shall arbitration be made a Judicial function or shall it be by appointive arbitration boards? In either case will arbitration arbitrate unless both sides are convinced that they have had fair play and that the award made is impartial? In England legal arbitration of labor troubles is already an accomplished fact. When the great colliery strike of elghtcen months ago was ended public sentiment had been awak- ened and crystallized into a positive demand for some parliamentary action which should, In 5o far as possible, do away with a possi- bility of a recurrence of the struggle be- tween mine owners and mine workers which had caused universal discomfort and virtual paralysis of industry, 1In response to this demand and on lines suggested by a number of earnest students of sociology and indus- trial conditions a tribunal was constituted for arbitration of all questions affecting the re- lations of mine operators and miners which might arise in the future, This tribunal, a so-called conciliation board composed of delegates, masters and after a thorough discussion of grievances, wages and profits, reached an agreement by which a scale of wages was adopted satisfactory to both masters and men and a compact was made that will avert any mining trouble for the next two years, There Is no doubt that Such satisfactory adjustments can more readily be reached in Zngland than in this country. The Dritish Parliament deals with the labor problem and all questions affecting the welfare of workingmen with the sole view to amellorat- Ing their condition and preventing abus:s in factories, mills and mines In this country all legislation labor is spasmodic and for the fathered in congress by gogues and mountebanks who want to make political capital for them- selves with workingmen. Many of the labor men, amicable affecting most part political dema- bills introduced in congress and in leg- Islatures aro mere buncombe and never seriously designed for tho statutes Most of the arbitration bills recently in- troduced on the heels of the great railroad strike are of this character. They are ill- digested and would even if made into law prove inadequate as a remedy for or pre- ventive of labor troubles. What is essential to make arbitration eftective s some scheme that will to both parties in a dispute equal representation on the board and no ad- vantage over each other. Arbitration by ap- tnsure must in thelr very nature prove a failure. The just complaint of the workingmen now s that our courts lean altogether too much to- ward the corporations and the moneyed class | This 's the natural tendency by the laws of political gravitation and soelal environment. Many of our judges owe their positions to corporate influence over the appointing power, while others have enjoyed favors at the hands of the Pulimans and their class that must create an Involuntary leaning in their direction. Few of our judges come in con- tact with the wage worker, either in a fac- tory or on the raiiroads, The trend of their sympathies 1s therefore adverse to one of the parties whose claims they are expected to arbitrate. What Is true of judges would be equally It not more applicable to arbitrators appointed by a political executive who s constantly surrounded by the representatives of wealth and corporate power, and more- over, may be Ind:bted for his election to con- tributions from the vaults of milllonaire monopolists. 1t follows, therefore, that no arbitration can be depended upon to do justice between workingmen end employers, unless they are chosen for the time being in equal numbers by both sides under rules established by law that will prevent tampering with the board and bind all partics to comply with its find- ings. Such arbitration or conciliation boards supplemented by supervision of the operatives of public carriers by federal officers would doubtless go far toward abolishing the strike and the sympathetic boycott, RESUMPTION OF SILVER COINAGE, Under ordinary the recent order of the secretary of the treasury for resuming the coinage of standard silver dollars would have attracted greater atten- tion than has been given it. The order has not, wholly escaped consideration, and some members of congress are said to have been somewhat puzzled over the ques- tion why the administration should at this time, after all the long direct the mints to resume the coinage of silver dol- lars. The only object in coining the bul- lion is to get the bemefit of the so-called selgniorage. Every dollar's worth of bul- lion now in the treasury is represented by an outstanding treasury note, so that coin- ing the bullion will not add a dollar to the receipts of the treasury or the money of the country, excepting what comes from the alleged selgniorage. As the treasury notes outstanding had behind them a dollar's worth of bullion at the time they were issued the colnage of the bullion now really weakens the treasury by lessening the secur- ity behind the notes. According to what appears to be good au- thority the purpose of the coinage of standard silver dollars at this time is essentlally political. It is intended to have an influ- ence in the congressional elections in the south and west. It is said that the order was issued in response to a Strong pressure from southern democrats, and this is by no means incredible. In many of the con- gressional districts of the south democrats are hostile to the administration on the ground that it is opposed to silver, and can- didates for re-election in such districts who are friendly toward the administration are finding this belief in the opposition of the administration to silver an obstacle not easy to overcome. They cannot disabuse the minds of thelr constituents by reference to the past record of Mr. Cleveland regarding silver, for that shows him to be uncom- promisingly hostile to the free coinage of the white metal. In this situation they felt that something had to be done to check the headway made by tnewr opponents on the free coinage of silver issue, and the idea of starting the mints colning silver dollars easily suggested itself as the best available plan for showing that the adminis- tration is not utterly opposed to silver. It this Is not the purpose of the order it 1s impossible to conceive of a satisfactory explanation. There Is certainly no demand for more silver dollars and there Is no diffi- culty in getting them from the treasury if any one wants them. The reserve avail- able for redemption purposes is about $367,- 000,000 and the volume of silver dollars In actual circulation has been steadily diminishing for a year past, having fallen oft fully $10,000,000 since last August. This demonstrates that the people are not call- ing for more silver dollars. A small ad- dition to the circulation would come from the certificates Issued against the selgnior- age on its deposit in the treasury, but this would not be important, nor is it necessary in view of the already large ac- cumulation of idle money. Senator Sher- man characterizes the coinage of silver bul- lion under existing circumstances as prac- tically a dishonest act on the part of the government, and this view of it will be pretty generally concurred in. Manifestly there is no demand and no financial or business necessity for doing it, and if in- tended for political effect it is likely to do the democratic party, outside, perhaps, of a fow congressional districts in the south, more harm than good. clrcumstances however, dela Senator Allen is now accused of having committed an almost unpardonable offense by giving to the public, through the news- papers, his supplemental report as member of the senate sugar investigating commit- tee bofore submitting it for the inspection of his colleagues on the committee or com- municating it to the senate. And we are further told that if it were not that the atlention of everybody in Washington is absorbed with more [mportant matters he would be called to account for his breach of etiquette and propriety. This is simply awful! Thoe tender-skinned senatorial sugar speculators would view with indifference the terrific castigation which Senafor Allen glves them in his report. They are in the wrong and they know it, but in a matter of such insignificance, to thelr minds, they can afford to ignore the indictment. When it comes to the mutilated etiquetto of the senate, however, their bosoms swell with indignation and they cannot persuade them- selves to let the offender go unrebuked. Tho dignity of the senate must be de- fended. A business man makes the suggestion to the New York Sun that the time is at hand when manufacturers of all kinds should be told that the passage of a tarift bill cannot be hoped for this year, and this being 6o they should go ahead and start up factorles and Industries under the ex- isting tariff. It Is not an unwise sugges- tion. The Indications strongly point to the failure of tariff legislation by this congress, or at any rate at this session, and it Is not to be doubted that manufacturers of all classes of goods would be entirely safe in resuming operations to the extent of what they may regard as likely to be the demand under prevailing conditions. It may be several years before consumption reaches the proportions of two years ago, so that in any event manufacturers will for some time proceed carefully, but it does seem that there is no longer any good reason for allowing uncertainty to entirely dom- polntive or even elective judges or boards | inate the Tiidus(rial situation. Moreover, A resumption’ oft industries under the ex- Isting tariff Wolft be a most potential ar- gument agafngC gny ohange, and in this respect would ‘iraduce an exceedingly bene- ficlal effect. !"BWéh nn object lesson could hardly fail o} ififluence with the most rad- feal and obspinate of tarift reformers and would greatly ‘tifen the backbone of those who are maki¥e' the fight for some measure of protection-to- American Industries. The danger has AHt ‘Sntirely passed, but it is 80 remote that ‘manufacturers can make no mistake in Idccgasing their operations to meat the probabile demand judiciously esti- mated on thg basls of good crops and the larger employment: of labor. republicans have Towa cently renominated two of. the men who are The of very re- now serving as representatives in the low house of congress—Congressman Lacey in the xth district and Congressman Hager in the Ninth. Mr. Lacey was elected the last time by nearly 1,200 plurality over his demo- cratic opponent and ought to be returned with handsome gains upon that. Mr. Hager's plurality two years ago was nearly 2,600, being about 500 short of a majority of all the votes cast for the four congressional idates. Both of these have earned the right to a renomination, as congressmen re-election. also to a with which the Notwlithstanding hilarity the president’s fariff letter was received in the house, the democrats in congress are beginning to understand that it to be If the democratic for re-election their position taken in a serious vein. have to stand representatives after having receded from having agreed to the senate bill, or enacted tarift legislation what- would be no laughing matter. and having ever, It no A Record | reaker. Globe-Democrat. The biggest boycott of all Is that which the people are going to start against the democracy. A Times Have Changed. Indianapolis Journal. It is interesting to note that several Cleveland papers stigmatize ten democratic senators as more shameless traitors than Benedict Arnold thing they never did say of Jefferson Davis. g e Future Wars n Holiday Parade. St. Louls Republic. of bullet-proof cgats and a_foreign war will be full interest. To the noncombat- In these glycerine gun of scientific ant it would seem impossible for anybody to be killed now in battle unless by fali- mg out of a third-story window c. by be- ing operated upon for appendicitis, et White Tlouse Duplicity. Now York Sun. Mr. Cleveland, more than any other per- son, I8 resp ible for the incorporation of the income tax feature. He is its principal promoter. What . does he mean by calling upon Mr. Wilson at this stage of the pro- ceedings to téstify to his hostility to the ncome tax? What does he understand by “deprecation?'” Tntervenes. ournal. The iron has entered into the soul of the people. The fruit of a cam- palgn of education extending over nearly two decades has been deliberately thrown away. The work will all have to be done over again. But with changed leaders. The democratic pazty will never again trust the false leaders who have lured it to its pres- ent discomfitufe and disgrace, A A Commendable Reform. New York Tribune. One amendment to the constitution which the committee on- preamble has resolved to report favorably will commend itself in- stantly to the common sense of the people, It provides tWat o limit shall be placed on the amount’of damages recoverable in an aetion for loss of hufan 1ifk. At pre ent the law prescribes that the sum obtain- able for such loss shall not exceed $5,000, and we have the absurdity of damages r covered in cases of accldent several time in some cases nearly ten times—as large as if the person hurt had been killed out- right. The question of the amount in all cases of the kind referred to can safely be left to courts and juries, e The Sonatorial Menngerie, t. Paul Globe. There are some contrasts iIn congress which mark the wide differences between the statesman and the politi On_ the one side Is Mills, voting for free wool, with a large constituency of wool growers, and Wilson with_his coal and fron ore constitu- ents voting for the exemption of both from tax, types of many such men: and on the | other,” Caffery and Blanchard threatening to defeat the bill unless protection is given sugar, and Me-Too Murphy sulking until collars and cuffs are protected, and Gorman shielding the Sugzar trust and Palmer weak- ly yielding to a all croaking— + * + the pr Where thritt may follow £ the knee fawning."” A Snap for th Chicago H: Congressman Reilly's report from the Pa- cific railroads committee upon the matter of the Southern and Central Pacific ronds indebtedness to the sovernment only ac centuates some well known facts. The in- the first_mortgaze bonds, which ed by the wreckers, has been paid along. The Inte on - the - bonds has never been pald at all “job" that Is now belng put up con- the purct first mort gage bonds overnment and conse quent fede )l of the roads. That is, having robbed the nation and the stock- holders, the Huntington crowd now hopes to sell its bonds at par to the United States and get out with the profits of three di tinet_steals—the land grant, the stock and ment The templates the bonds. Tt will be intéresting to see whether this delectable scheme goes through. Al bl sk Atchison, Santa Fe Railrond company are horrified to Stockholders of the Topekn & learn that §7,000,000 of their money has been wrongfully diverted during the last {wo or three years in the payment of rebates to shippers as the price for the business secured. * The disclosure reveals the fact that the officials of the company named have been & flagrant violation of the most Important provisions of the inter- state commerce law, viz.. those designed to protect the small shippers and the general public In competition with the big fi The federal authorities tried hard for thre, or four ye to get at the facts relating to vment of vebates by this very ompany. but the guilty parties took refusge behind their comstitutional right to refuse to give evidence ‘that might ineriminate themselves, and 'they* escaped punishment Now the officéts ‘bf the court have In their control and” custody the proof they were kept out of & long. and the public is wondering why they do not make use of it to smoke a %ot of big people out who have been setting at naught the laws of the land Will they use the weapons good luck has put in their hands, ‘or will they let the op- portunity slip? MAUD MULL H—UP TO DATE. Maud Muller, onia summe Calmly fanned the files away. The judge came m‘u)u down_ the road And checked his hofde near Maud's abode, “How {8 it, Mau(l,” He slowly spake, “That you'are net out with your rake? “Why don't you do as in the lay, And ‘rake the meadow sweet with hay? " and even the rake, “The m| t's fak: 8he sighe “We fin de siecle maids, T wot, Rake nothing but our Psyche knot." The judge with idol smashed in twain Proceeded up the road again - THE SUMMER WOMAN, Wordsworth, I saw her upon nes view, A spirit, yet a woman, too! Her household motions 'Mght and free, And steps of virsin liberty: A countenance In which did meet Bweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows. simple wiles, Pralse, blame. love. kisges, tears and smiles. | DEMOCRATIC DESPAIR. 8t Paul Ploneer Press (rep.): An adjourn- ment without action on the bill is now a greater probability than ever. Cleveland Plain Dealer (dem.): [t (the original Wilson bill) is a crazy quilt of free trade, protection and special privileges. No domocrat need measure his democracy by the Wilson bill or free raw materials Philadelphis Ledger (rep): At all events, it appears that there is little likelihood of agreement between the houses In the near future. The country would rejolce If congre s would agree to disagree and leave the Mc- Kinley act in force. Indianapolis Jeurnal (rep): I the dem- ocracy In Washington was simply punishing itself people could look on with delight, but it Is paralyzing industry, stopping factories and turning labor to {dleness, and that makes the spectacle serious. Courfer Journal (dem.): There is even higher authority than the president’s letter for repudiating the senate abomination. It i to be found In the national democratic platform, which, we very much fear, is a document too little known or read at Wash- ington. The same high authority, it might be added, is not much more Kindly di posed toward the house bill. St. Paul_Globe (dem.): President Clove- land can afford to let the senators r He has the support of the entire people of the United States outside of a few tariff-created monopolists, whose only interest In the In- du tries of the country is to bleed them as freely as they will bear. But the senators will find their rage futile. They must take back water or a back seat. Clicinnati Enquirer (dem.): argue the house should have sideration In the adoption of a Those who greater con: tariff meas- ure because the censtitution says revenue bills must originate in it should turn their attentfon to the premature appearance of the president In the contention. Under the con titution he has nothing to do till a bill has passed both the house and senate and is presented to him for his signature. Washington News (dem.): Unless the sen- ate gives way, there will be no tariff legisla- tion this session. There is no prospect that it will yield. It would be Idle for the house to pass the senate bill, for the president would veto it. Consequently, the tarift issue is the great issue before the country and will. g0 remain until settled. ~Under all the circumstances, this is fortunate for the dem- ocratic party as well as the country. Mr. Cleveland has proved himself not only a true friend to the people, but also a very able party leader. New York Tribune (rep.): The confession of the democratic members of the ift conference of their inability to agree upon the e:sential features of a compromise m ure is a characteristic exhibition of shoddy statesn, tion as an expedient rather than as a prin- ciple. It is an impeachment of the whole democratic manner and method of dealing with the question. The episode is merely another demonstration that the democracy is structurally unequal to the task of organiz- ing an economic policy which shall be na- tional in character and equitable in its ap- plication. the nship which regards protec- ————— NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKAN, The next farmers' institute of York county will be held at MeCool August 14, The Cedar county teachers’' institute will be open for business at Hartington August 20, Fire at Hampton barn of Johnson Bros. horses were consumed. The Methodists of Ellis have dedicated their new church edifice arter wiping out ;!lB debt caused by constructing the build- ng. N. H. Parks has sold the Greeley Herald to H. C. Waldrip of York. Parks will now devote his whole time to editing the Colum- bus Telegram. Henderson Hollingsworth of Wallace had his hand caught in the gearing of a wind- mill, and all his fingers were badly mutilated before the machine could be stopped. The Grand Island sugar factory has com- pleted the run of syrup, and during the week made 582,000 pounds of sugar. A great many hands will continue at work for a month cleaning the machinery and getting the factory In shape for the fall campaign. B. J. Frymire of Bloomfield washed his hands in gasoline to take off the gum that stuck to them after he had been soldering destroyed and the two, livery valuable some tinware. The gasoline caught fire from the furnace, and not only the gum came off, but the skin witn it. He was badly burned before the flames were e: tinguished. The son and daughter of Mr. R. Schulke, who lives about four miles south of Ash- land, while crossing a bridge between their home and town, were thrown from the bridge, and both fell about eighteen feet. The team became frightened and jerked the buggy over, but fortunately neither one of the occupants was fatally injured, Miss Schulke only spraining her ankle. Robert Shanahan of Nebraska City came near losing his house the other day in a peculiar manner. He had several hoxes of parlor matehes in the pantry and his wife heard a mouse nibbling, and golng in to see about it, was startled to see the matches blaze up as the mouse ran away. The paper on the shelving was ignited by the flames, and it was only after the wood- work was badly scorched that the flames were extinguished. Had not Mrs. Shanahan Dbeen there the house wouid have been burned and no one would have ever been able to account for the origin of the fire. PENSIVE P ow York Press: Count Baighr placing pin in Miss Vandergilt's Direl Zal ces all right! Next! Truth: Matilde—Do you have re Canada? ~ Underhill (quickly)—Yes but it sometimes SHOWS. um (re- hair)- love, Bright's said a_sign of see specks,” its to on help the man who marries a Boston woman, then,” said Dawson. 1y man for “Hea Hicks. ‘And this,” said iy Iy Cleveland Plain Deale the inland Reuben, as he eyed th on the beach, “is' the see of which heard so much.” Philadelphia Times: Language Is not al- ways precise. The fly doesn't necessarily love the fly paper for all it may be stuck on it. y that ise disease are conveyed to another by Kissing. She She (after a pause) re me very much. New York Pre microbes which from one per: —Indeed? He—Y Microbes don't s Judge: —Gander seems to be very Brigi happy In his newly married Jife. Griggs—He ought to be, All of his wed- ding presents were given him by people Iready married. Broadly aking, Journal: sy A into two ot ours may be di ple who have tro with the people who can't afford to \ts to have trouble with. Indianapolis Jour Don't you believe in the union of labor? Mr. Striker—Of I do. Why, my dear, If there 'w no union labor the greed of capital with its iron heel would Mrs, Striker (interrupting)—That's ~ all right; suppose you get up and build the fire and I'll cook breakfast. Puck: Hostile swords glanced innocuous from his shirt of mail. ~ “A charmed lif the enemy cried, and fled in terror. ~The knight smiled sadly. “Ah!" he muttered, “never again shall T kick upon my lady using so much starch." Washington Star: “What's all dis kickin' ‘bout arbitration? asked one man of an other on train Which was headed for the race track. “Well, ye see It's a kick for decisions, see? Dey U'ink dat If de goy'ment goes in an' umpires de game dey won't be 0 many strikes called.” Buffalo Exp! Did _you notice Mr. Chauncey Mitchell Depew's little joke just before he sailed on Wednesds It was perfectly lovel It was about the new royal baby, too. In telling of his plans In London and thereabouts Mr. Depew added “T think I'll run down and sec York's new baby. I am naturally interested in any- thing pertaining to a New Yorke And to think that several hundred miles of ocean now lie between Chauncey and the American supply of brickbats! POLITICAL TRRIGATION, Kansas City Journal, “Let us next turn our attention," Sald the Kansas eandidate, ‘o the all important question, Had we better {rrigate?’ “Betcher life!" t ame In cho As each voter winked his ey And the crowd all struck o bee line For the drug store nearest by, \ 9, | | | A for family jewels—costly PROPLE AND THINGS. Truly these are “trying” times in Wash- Ington. Gaze on the senate frylng the sur- plus fat in the white house. Senator_ Gormun’s appetite for federal ple has not been diminished by recent events, but the prospects of satisfying it are de cldedly remote, The revised version of the cuckoo song perpetrated by Senstor Gorman was doubtless suggested by weird visions of “chirps that pass (n the night.” The condition which now confronts repub lican shell-binders |s to satisfactorily con dense the mass of ammunition supplicd grat- ultons)y by the democrats. There {8 a loud plaintive call for Richard Watson Gilder in Washington. A few of his poems read by himself would prove more efficatious than oll on troubled waters. At least they would create a strong demand for adjournment The harmonious relations and mutual re- ard which distinguished Chicago's demo- cratic organs, the Herald and the Times, recall the historic love match of the Kil Kenny cats, or the affectionate serenade of Cleveland by the Maryland warbler. The countess of Aberdeen, wife of the governor general of Canada, wears at state functions a_coronet, the distinguishing fea tures of which are five emeralds, said to be the largest in the world. These precious stones were pre-ented to her excllency by the people of Ireland as an expression of love and gratitude for her interest in their welfare during Lord Aberdeen's lord lieu- tenancy. The yearly salary of Ida Lewis, the famous keeper’ of ‘the Lime Rock lighthouse, the south end of Newport harbor, is § and two tons of coal. She is past 50 now, her hair slightly streaked with gray and her face somewhat rugged and weatherbeaten, but she is still alert and strong. She began the cap her wonderful record of life:aving with re cue of four small boys, whose boat zed in the harbor before her. insylvania tramp believes it be ‘born lucky than handsome. 1 at a mansion in Germantown and hungry, had not tasted a square since the w nd with rafment rent and threadbare. His tale of woe touched a tender chord and he was taken in and fed An assortment of old clothes sent him on his way rejolcing. One of the boots included in the job lot had done duty as a depository diamond rings, heirlooms, representing cash. The generosity of the lady of the house doubtless paralyzed the tramp. At last accounts he had not made a return call. Commissioner Ragan of the Nebraska su- preme court did not climb the lndder of legal eminence by leaps and bounds more than a fair share of the hardships common to the young lawyer fell to his lot. Per: verance and an cye sngle to the main cf 1s bet- He hag- ter to appes gard brooches, “and at least’ $200 other were eventually crowned with succ Judge Ragan’s start up the legal ladder be gan with a trial in one of the interior courts, Two German farmers, possessed of a jag contracted In town, were returning home together in a wagon. A dispute arose, blows wera exchanged, and one was knocked out of the wagon with a club. The as-ailant was arrrested and Judge Ragan was retained to prosecute, His examlination of the com- plaining witness was unusually clever, and the artful manner in which he wove the web of evidence without inculpating his client | gave every assurance of conviction. Happy in the consciousness of victory, Judge Ragan turned his client over to the opposing coun- sel. “You and Henry were good friends?"” began the cross-examiner. *Yaas.” “Came to town together Yaa “Rode in Henry's wagon?” “Yaas.” “What did you do in town?" “Vell, ve take visky some- times.” “Then what? “Vell, ve go home | together and talk aboud somedings. he gets mad und hits me mith glub. oud de vagon.” “Did the blow render you unconscious?” “Vell, T lost mine scnses.” “Then what did you do?” “I go Aire Mr, Ragan." The court rapped for order and dismissed the case. RS FEARS FOR MISSING SHLP, Henry, I fall Somo Jexsels Supposed to Have Been Lost Wwith All Hands in the Pacific, SAN FRANCISCO, July 24.—The rate of insurance on the British ship Cambrian Chieftain ~ has gone up to 85 per cent, which s equivalent to giving her up as lost. From the news re- ceived here of the vessel wrecked while bound for Coquimbo, it was thought that Captain Thomas had remained by her and attempted to make port. This theory is being at last dissipated as the days go by and 1o news is brought of her. It Is now feared that the ship and the brave crew have gone to the bottom. The story as first re- ceived here was to the effect that the ship had almost foundered in a gale and that some of her crew had been picked off the rigging by the sailors of the British ship Dee. Among those who were saved were the captain’s wife and child. The gallant crew of the Dee went back for the rest. The last seen of the boat was that she had capsized and had been righted and was being carried toward the Cambrian Chieftain by the tide. The men on the lost ship were still clinging to the rigging looking in vain for help from the Dee. The rescuing boat had been rowed but a short distance from the Dee when the heavy seas and the violent winds capsized her. ~ Every man got a grip on the keel and the boat was righted, but she was half filled with water. The oars were gone, though, and the brave fellows wer of the clements and soon the were lost to view in the darkness of the night The next day both the boat and the Cambrian Chieftain had ‘disappeared from ew, The boats belonging to the partly wrecked vessel had been washed over- board or smashed and neither party of cast aways could help the other. Only a miracle could save any of the sailors and it is feared that miracle never occurred. There is no news of the British ship Colin trave and the general impression is that her name will have to be added to the long list of missing vessels. She was bound from Neweastle, N. S. W., for San Fran- cisco and was never sighted after she left port. The rate of reinsurance on her is 85 per cent. ome little apprehension is being ex- pressed for the British ship Shandon, which at the mercy is now 133 days out from Calcutta. While this is not a very long voyage, still it is longer than the average. When the Laomone was out 130 days the wildest kind of rumors were afloat about her and reinsur- ance was up to 40 per cent. The Laomone got In fifteen days later, by which time the rate on her had advanced to 50 per cent, -~ Collislo Trains on the Texns TEXARKANA, July 24.—The col lision of the morth and south bound Texas & Pacific cannon ball trains yesterday after- noon near Queen City was caused by a mis understanding, or lmprope train service in ordel One wrecked and The baggage, engine was completely the badiy disabled express, mail and smoking cars of both trains were shattered into splinters, The list of dead numbers eight, as follows: CHARLES HOLLAND, postal clerk. MIKE VOL/ postal clerk, 3, postal clerk other FRANK (€ R, express messenger. JAMES JONES, porter. UNKNOWN MAN George Mann, postal clerk, was badly in- Jured. The dead engineer was taken to Texar- kana and the bodies of the fireman and un known man were removed to Marshall. The wounded were also taken to Marshall, BURIED El N FEET DOWN. Three Men and # Boy Crushed Under Fall- g Walls, WINONA, Minn, July 24 in of the walls of a clstern Young Ladies Catholic seminary here (h bricklayers and a boy 9 years old were burled eighteen feet under earth and brick A force of men was at once started to digging, but all were dead when found, Following are th nes of the dead: JOSEPH SCHNEIDER, MIKE KULASA. HENRY GRIEBACH. JOHN NELSON, By the caving today at th ¢ WELLNAN EXPEDITION LOST Bolief that Another Has Boon Added to the Arotic's List of Viotims, ALL INDICATIONS POINT TO THIS VIEW f. Oyen Loft Alone with Mis Dog on Danes Island In & Dylng Condition Badly Provisioned - Found b Mr. Flel on. LONDON, July 24.-Carl Siewwers writes to the Standard that he is in receipt of ad- vices from Norway that leave little doubt that the Wellman expedition s lost. Expericenced skippers just returned from the Spitzbergen seas express the same opinion and Colonel Fielding, who accompanied Cap- tain Nare's expedition in 1876, shares this bellef. The Pall Mall Gazette s In receipt of similar advices from Tromso, all confirming the general bellef i the fate of the expedi- tion. Arctie pack-ice skippors report and its density prove irresistible to strong. They believe t has been cru that the flow of this summer would ny vessel, however at the Ragnvald-Jarl ed in the ice and express the belief that there is a remote chance that the members of the Wellman expedition have been savd by managing to get upon an lce floe, in which case they believe that the ex- plorers are in a most dangerous position, Should the forebodings of the Arctic skip- pers prove true, and if the Ragnvald-Jarl was crushed without warnmg 1t is probable that the members of (he expedition were unable to take any large quantity of supplies with them upon the fce floe, even supposing they succeeded in escaping thereto, When questioned as to the effectivene: of th aluminium boats in such an emerger an Arctic captain expressed the bellef that they would be of no use in such pack-ice. Mr. elden, the owner of the yacht Salde, has received news of Prof. Owen's distress from n Joahnnson of the sloop Anna, Mr. Fielden instantly ordcred the Saide to Danes island and she reached that spot the next day; but only to be welcomed by the professor's dog. Owen was found in his bed in an almost dying condition. He had given up all_hope of ever seeing the face of a human being again. Upon a table in the professor's quar- ters were found a letter containing bitter re- proaches against Wellman whom he acoused of having left him in the lurch. Wellman, according to Parof.Owen, promised that a man should stay with him and share his frightful solitude. But it appears at the last moment, Wellman decided that a man could not be spared, and so the professor had to be con- tent with the company of his faithful dog. The Saide also reported that Prof. Oyen was s0 badly provisioned when he was found that his early death appeared Inevitable. But in spite of his sufferings and the thought that death was hovering over him the professor refused to be taken off Danes island, insisting upon remaining there, faith- ful to his trust, even though death was the result of his continuing at his post of Arctic solitude. The Saide, however, left a quantity of provisions and also presented the professor with some medicine of which he stood in great need . And Prof. s Oyen was left with his brute friend, probably to die, on Danes island, another of the long list of victims why have given their lives in the cause of Arctic exploration. SAYS THERE'S NO DANGER YET. J. W. Scott Thinks it is Not Time to Feel Alarmed About Wellma CHICAGO, July 24.—The following reply to an inquiry has been received: “To the General Manager of the Assoclated Press: The fact that there was so much floating ite this year led Mr. Wellman to believe be- fore he left Norway that his vessel, the Rahnavald-Jarl, could get further north than any ship had ever reached before. This information was corroborated by a great many navigators whom he saw just before he left. Reports that come about tho loss of the xpedition arise from the fact t fishing and other vessels have not seen the Rahnavald-Jarl, which they would have done in ordinary seasons, Private cablegrams to the Herald from Tromsoe say that even if the vessel s lost there Is no reason for anxiety and that the crew was undoubtedly upon the ice somewhero making its way toward the pol When Mr. Wellman left Tromsoe it was with the understanding that the vessel should come back and bring reports of the expadi- tion up to the time that he could send mes- sengers back to it from some distance in the interior and undoubtedly tne vessel Is wait- ing at some point for such communications. He arranged that the vessel should return some time between July 15 and August 1, but possibly the vessel might be still late It was to return to Norway to coal up and to prepare for the return trip to bring Mr. Wellman back, which would require to leave about August Consequently there is no occasion for alarm until after that date. W. SCOTT, 50 Herald." ARCTIC RETURNS, Dr. Cook’s Steamer Miranda Collision with an I JOHNS, N. F., July Cook's Arctic expedition returned to this port to- day, the steamer Miranda having been dam- aged in a collision with an iceberg. The ne- cident occurred at 8:20 a. m., July 17, during a dense fog about fifty-seven miles north west of Belle Isle. The vessel was running a good rate of specd and the ice was not ghted until close at hand. The engines were promptly reversed, but the momentum carried the ship head on, striking squarely on the stem. Two bow plates were cracked and the forward rail was smashed. Tho hawse pipe on the starboard side was broken, rendering that anchor useless. There was no amage below the water line. The vessel put in at Cape Charles harbor, Labrador, where temporary repairs were effected, and the University of Pennsylvania Labrador ex- ploring party landed. The Miranda will be thoroughly overhauled here and will prob- ably proceed to Greenland in a few days. All'on board are well. e Caught by a Live Wire. LANCASTER, Pa., July 24.—Orville John- son, the 8- r-old son of Kirk Johnson, a prominent business man of this city, Is lylng at the point of death as the result of pick up this morning the end of a live elect wire charged with 2,200 vo'ts, When Damaged by ho caught hold of it he was drawn from his fect, and forth like a pendulum flashing from and swung back for fully five minutes, flames his hand all the while. Ilis screams at tracted a number of persons, who secured clubs and knocked the wire out of his hand. - - Justico Field Will SAN FRANCISCO, July 24.—A letter from Supreme Justice Stephen J. Field has been received by the judiclary of the Ninth United States court and the Judiclary and bar of the California supreme court In which Justice Field, In response to provious requests of his esrrospondents, states that he will declin rk cir- ircuit. the offer of a transfor to the New Y cuit and remain in the Pacific coast gton. g the - sengers on the C bla which arrived today from Colon Modesto Solonanz, consul general o uador to this city 1e d General ta was still ab the Bennington when he sailed and that bout y expected to stay t reached American aken fre NEW ORL) fance Me- v negro, years, was taken the parish jall at New Liberia at eriorday and hanged by a mob, Me- by into the house of a white man named Lascal on Sunday and attempted o assault a4 young woman. —— — Will Not Answer Harter. NEW YORK, July 2i.—President Have meyer of the Sugar trust sald to a reporter today that he did not intend to answer the open letter of Congressm Harter, res questing a stateme actual eapital of formation relating t of the earnings the trust and other to It S