Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 8, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DALY BEE l —_—— — . B. ROBEWATER, Editor. — = PUBLISH e o TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally Boe (without Bunday), One Year. Daily Bee and Sunday, One Year. Bix Months PR Three Months. ... One Year One Year One Year OFFICES: Omaha, The Bee Bullding Bouth Omaha, Corner N and Twenty-fourth Sts. Councll Bluffs, 12 Pearl Street. Chicago Office. 31 New York, Rooms 1 Washington, 1407 F CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news nng odi- torial matter should be addressed: To the Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS, Al business letters remitiag ddreased to Tho Fee Publishing company, Omahn. Drafta, checks and postofce orders to Uis to the order of the company. BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. s whould be the actual number of full and complete coples of The Daily Morning, ening and Sunday Bee printed during the maonth of October, 180, was as foll B T B - B {255 21231 18 . 18 1 2. 21 © 20861 © 20586 21,032 . 2600 20,718 e 2,812 2,131 T Less deductions for unsold and returned coples . e Total mold. Dally average net c « Sworn to betore me. ence this 34 day (Seal.) The man who told you so is now in his glory. The next council will be organized by the republicans, Shall we commenc Bpeaker ‘Reed already? call him It wouldn't take so very much more to smash the solid south to smithereens. It is still Senator Hill and Is likely to remain so until the senatorial term explres. We suppose there are few now who will contend that this is not a repub- lican year. Dave Mercer's re-clection was a fore- gone conclusion from from the outset of Chicago must now look to her laurels. New York and her suburbs have voted Even the new ezar in Russia and the war In China are forgotten under the stress of the election excitement. he 5,000 plurality which the Majors boomers claimed in Douglas county has dwindled down to a fraction over 400. Landslide is uot one-half expressive enough for the average republican gain where national issues have pre- dominated. The newly elected democratic senator from Georgin will afford a slender gleam of consolation to the adherents of democracy. Was it boodle, ballot box jugglery or both that turned the vote of South Omaha upside down? It looks very much a8 if it had been both. rman i3 probably himself that he remained in retirement, and doubtless contemplates prolonging that retirement indefinitely, congratulating The polls in New York City close at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. This may ac- count to some extent for the early and rellable election returns that are usually obtained in that place. Perhaps President Cleveland will be more favorably disposed now toward the proposition that he write a letter giving the public his honest and eandid opinion of Senator Hill. The democratic war horses who man- aged to secure thelr return to the FPifty- fourth congress will feel very lonely when they look around for old land- marks in the next house, The people of Ne v have sub- mitted to robbery at the hands of cor- porations, but they will not be permitted to rob them of a governor who has beon elected by a plurality of the legal voters. Mr. Hill has decided not to resume the dual role of United States senator and governor of New York. He finds that it will not be necessary, and even If neeessary the state of his health will not permit. Considering the high pressure from confederated corporations and the enor- mous amount of boodle that has been disbursed in Omaha and South Omaha Douglas county has treated Judge Hol- comb very liber It the election of the next president of the United States should by some chance not now visible to the naked eye be thrown into the house of repre- seutatives there will be no : nger about nsuring the selection of the republican eandidat It Is reported that Congressman Cum- mings Is defeated by fourteen votes in his New York district and it will require the official canvass to determine the re- sult. Nothing could show better the necessity of having a fair and aceurate count In every iustance. Let no one be counted In or ou The work of the campaign committees 18 not yet over. It is of the utmost im- portance that the representatives of each party candidate be present when the returns are canvassed by the county bogrds and that every precaution be taken to prevent false co nting and fraudulent practices of every kind. Every candidate Is entitled to bave every vote cast for him appear on the official count and it fs the duty of the various local committees to insist that every detall of the law be complied with in order that this right may be pre- served, | to the office of governor and entitled to l|‘1->‘I1I|-nl~x have been imported into this A DASTARDLY PLOT. There 1s no longer any doubt that Silas A. Holcomb has secured a plural- ity of the votes cast for the office of governor at the clection held Tuesday Whether that plurality is 1,500 or 5,000 Is Immaterial. If Judge Holcomb had only received one vote more than was cast for Majors he would be duly elected fill the position of chief executive for the next two years. This is a country governed by majorities and the edict of majorities must be respected and upheld by all law-abiding citizens. The Bee serves due notice on the conspirators who have laid plans to deprive the people of this state | of their legal cholce of governor to stand from under. The law-abiding citizens of Nebraska, regardless of part, will not permit this villainous plot to be consummated, come what and cost what may The outrages to which they have been subjected within' the past sixty days at the hands of railroads managers and co-conspirators must cease. It is an open secret that more than 10,000 non- state from Wyoming, Color: Kansas and other adjucent s used political mercenaries subjugate our people thi of the ballot box. These men have been colonized in various parts of the state for the sole purpose of helping to defent Judge Holeomb. That fact is patent in the returns from Lincoln, McCoc Beatrice and other tov where a largely increased vote has been polled over the vote of two years ago, which was a presidential election year. It is also noticed in the heavy vote polled in that portion of the state from which 50,000 people have migrated during the past two years by reason of the drouth. This importation of an army of non- residents was only a part of the in- tamous plan of eampaign by which the conspirators hoped to folst Majors into the governor's chair. Thousands, yes perhaps hundreds of thousands, of dol- lars » been spent in debauching and corrupting the voters and sending others out of the state, while their places were taken by political Hessians. Coupled with this wholesale bribery ecarried on shamelessly by men who hold high position in railroad headquarters were the coercive measures employed to over- awe wage wor nd frighten the class of people who are dependent on bankers and money brokers. In the face of all this enginery of coercion, intimidation and bribery, and in the face of the colossal frauds per- petrated on the ballot box, Judge Hol- comb is fairly elected g 1r of Ne- braska. Any attempt to count him out now is nothing more nor less than an- archy, and anarchy must be frowned down and put down at all hazards. lo, Towa, ates to be to help the r as FRAUD AT SOUTH OMAHA. While there were doubtless many ille- gal votes registered and cast in this city for the purpose of foisting the railroad candidate for governor upon the people of Nebraska, the most shameless frauds upon the ballot box were perpetrated at South Omaha. There is no doubt in the minds of well informed people that the election boards of South Omaha were packed for the purpose of perpe- trating these frands. When the elec- tion boards were first announced a fair apportionment appeared to have been made among representatives of the con tending parties. The appointing power, however, had a surj in reserve on behalf of Majors. All the men known to be opposed to Majors were ofnitted from the election which was made as nearly 8 it could be. The returns South Omaha show that the on about the conspiracy to rape the ballot box was well grounded. Tt was conceded that the Holcomb vote in South Omaha stood nearly two to one and that at least 760 to 800 plurality would be polled for him. The outcome shows a plurality of less than one-half, with a total vote of more than 600 behind the registered vote. There certainly must be something otten in the South Omala Denmark. SOME COMPENSATION, It is not an easy matter to discover anything compensatory in the long de. pression through which the country has Dbeen passing, yet it is not impossible to do so. The experience, as everybody is aware, has been a very serious one. Certainly never before in the same period of time has the country suffered greater disaster to its material inter- ests or a large body of the people en- dured severer havdship. But the faet must be recognized that to some extent a really healthy rendjustment is taking place, which, if permitted to go will in time again put the business of the country on a sound basis. One of the beneficial results of the long strain has been the pretty thorough weeding out of the rotten timber in our business and financial structure and the scaling down of fietitious values that has been accomplished. This always unpleas process, which bears most severely upon many who really ought not to suffer, is essentinl to the establishment of a substantial basis for onr prosperity. The country had been moving along at a tremendous pace for several years and events have shown that the move- ment was not an entirely healthy one. There 1 been 1 il of over- capitalization and ilation, so that the business fabric had become a good deal permeated with unhealthy conditions, It was inevitable that these would sooner or later show themselves and even without the democratic attack | upon the long established economic pol iey of the eountry we should undonbt edly in time, though perhaps not so soon nor so suddenly, have been foreed to a readjustment. Having drifted from a sound and conservative basis, restora tion to a sound condition could only come through the courageous and ex- tensive application of wmethods that would reach the root of the trouble. It was & case in which ordinary specifics would not effect a cure, and hence it was that the efforts to solve the prob- lem by makeshift methods proved un availing. That the necessary readjustment would have been accomplished with on, oy equal certainty and less severity in the absence of the democratic purpose to destroy the protective policy admits of | March 4, NOVEMBER 8, 1804. no reasonable doubt. The influence of that purpose unquestionably was to greatly aggravate and intensify distrust and to hurry the country into a panie, the worst consequences of which might otherwise have been averted. There is now reason to hope for a steady ad- vance along safe lines to a full and healthy business recovery. THE SENATE, Chairman Babcock of the republican congressional committee is reported to claim that the United States will be in control of the republican party after 1805, The senate at present consists of forty-four democrats, thirty seven republicans and three populists, there being three vacancies—one each from Montana, Washington and Wyo- ming. It will be seen that in order to secure control of a full senate of eighty eight members the republicans must make a n of eight seats, it being con- ceded that they will retain all the seats they now have, and assuming that the Nevada senators will act with the publicans in organizing the senate and upon all distinctively party questions. The three vacancies from Montana, Washington and Wyoming will be filled by republicans. As now appears a republican will be elected in New Jersey to suceeed McPherson and another in Kansas to succeed Martin. It is quite likely that Senator Camden of West Virginia will be succeeded by a repub- lican. This probable gain of six seats would bring the republican strength up to forty-three, two short of a majority. There seems to Dbe some likelihood of Tennessee send- ing a republican to the senate. but even if this most unexpected event should happen the republicans would still need one vote to control. This one might be obtained, so far as the matter of organization of the senate Is con- cerned, among the three populists, the most likely one of them to act with the republicans being Senator Peffer. The probability is, how that the republicans will be at two short of a majority of the senate after March 4, 1895-still counting Jones and Stewart of Nevada with the republicans—and that the balance of power will be held by the populist senators, who will thus be in a position to demand concessions, both in the or- ganization of the senate and as to legis. lation upon which the parties are divided. So far as the democrats are concerned they are certain to the minority party after the present session, but they may still be in a position to make deals with the populists and carry measures with the help of the latter. It is plain that the situation in the sen- ate will be such as may produce numer- ous complications and give to Senators Allen, Kyle and Peffer an influence very largely out of proportion to their numerical strength. It will afford those nators & much better opportunity than they have yet had to impress their views upon legislation and it is to be pr sumed that they will take the largest possible advantage of it. They will necessarily command from both the re- publicans and democrats, especially the former, greater consideration than has been hitherto accorded them. It will be seen that we are to have for a time a peculinr and anomalous situation. After March 4 next the coun- try will have for two years a demo. atic president, a republican house of representatives, and a senate in which the party holding the balance of power has but three members. Under such circumstances only the most necessary be X1 HOUS The house of representatives of the fty-fourth congress will be republi- «an by a safe majority. The full mem- Dbership of the house is 356, so that a majority is 179. The number of republi- cans in the next house will not be f: from 225, enabling that party not only to organize the house without having to ask any favor or make any conc sion to the representatives of any other party, but to conduct business without serious hindrance from the op- tion. In other words, the popular 1ch of the Fifty-fourth congress will distinetly a republican body. Of Thomas B. Reed will be the and it is unnecessary to s that this will assure its being a bus ness body, in which there will be per mitted no such practices to reproach upon the leg ive department of the government a8 were common in the present house before it adopted rules on the lines laid down by the last republican house. Not only was business greatly retarded in the present democratic house at a time when the interests of the country demanded action on the part of the national legislature, but the methods employed got to be a reproach to the country, of whi even most of the democratic leaders themselves were ashamed. This was due to the fact that the rules of the hounse, as at first adopted, could not control the heuse, and not until enough democrats had abandoned their prejudices to allow sub- utially the republican rules to be adopted w it possible to go forward steadily with the work of legislation. The great fact, how y In connec- tlon with this result upon which the country is to be congratulated is the notiee it conveys to the party in power that the people do not want any further meddling with the tariff. Mr. Cleve- land, Mr. Wilson and the other demo- crats who have declared that what s already done Is but the beginning of t it is propesed to do and that the Kk of tearing down the defenses to Ame n industries erected by protec- tion shall go on are warned by this overwhelming verdict of the people against them to desist and abandon their reckless and destructive warfare. There is no other reasonable construc tion to be put upon it. Everywhere in the congressional districts the lead- Ing question, the issue that took pre- cedence of all others in the popular attention, was the democratic tariff policy, and not only what had been ac. complished in pursuance of that policy, but what -was proposed. When Mr. Cleveland, in his letter to Mr, Catel. Ings, said he took his place among thos who refused to accept the new tarift bill as the close of the war on protec tion, he made hundreds of thousands of votes for the republican party., When also be course speak Mr. Wilson, addressing the British froe traders in London, assured them that his party had only begun tearing down the protection defenses, the utterance changed a million voters from the demo- cratic to the republican ranks. These democratic lenders went to the people proclaiming their determination to con- tinue the assault on the protective sys- tem. They have heard the response and it Is In no uncertain terms. Whether.they will heed it or not mat ters little. Tt is to be expected that they | Wil endeayar to extend their policy during the bddt time in which they will have control of the louse, as in the ease of the passage of the supplemental bills for free raw materials now on the calendar of the senate, but they will not be able to accomplish anything. Their tenure of complete control in congress will continue only about three months and the republican minority in the senate can and will prevent any further tariff tinkering by this congress. The called a halt in the war upon protec- tion and for at least four years the in- dustrial and business interests of country are secure against any dis- turbance from this source. The demo cratic party may continue to declaim against protection, but it is now and is likely to be for some time powerless to do anything. The knowledge of this ought to have an invigorating and in- spiriting effect upon all the interests of the count THE TIN INDUSTRY It will take time to determine whether the tin plate industry in th United the | g and' the burying, rdict of the people on Tuesday | Smn” States can survive the operation of the | new tariff. Under the former law which gave the industry ample protec- tion, it grew with phenomenal vigor and there can be no question that in a few years would have become one of our most fmportant industries, ulti- mately supplying the home demand for tin plate. For the pas ar the indus- try has been almost at a standstill, but recently there has been more activity in it and reports of new plants pro- Jjected. Of course in this, as in all the other industries, wages have been re- duced, and it is the hope of those en- gaged in it that with the improved ma- chinery and methods which come with | the development of the industry in this country th will be able to maintain and perhaps ine it. The present duty affords very slight protection, but the superior enterprise and methods in manufacture off the American over the Welsh manufackurers may enable them to carry on the business without loss. The passage of the new tariff law cer- tainly gavejan upetus to the Welsh tin industry, and the feeling over there appears to be that the American indus- try cannot thrive under present condi- tions. A prominent Welsh manufac- turer now ip this country on an investi- zating tour_said In a recent interview that he expected a great boom in his business next-pring as a result of the lowering of the duty on tin plate, and he expressed e¢onfidence that the new tariff would ‘render it impossible for Americans «to_ manufacturé tin plate without further reducing wages. IHe id that if the protection given to this industry under the former law had been allowed to stand in another five years America would have been making all the plates it could use and the work- ve been receiving all years the same high rate of ges. IHe thought that under the changed conditions the making of tin plate will be restored in large measure to Wales. There is a very wide difference be- tween the wages paid in this industry in the United States and Wales. The -priced men in the manufacture paid here from §$6 to $8 per day, while in Wales the same labor is paid from $2 to $2.50 a day. for the skilled workers are nearly three times as high in this country as in Wales. The unskilled labor in the United States ranges from $3 to $8 per week, against $1.50 to $5 in Wales. Thus the Welsh manufacturers have a very decided advantage in the very im- portant matter of wages and one which they are very likely to retain. It is claimed that they also enjoy an ad- ntage in the matter of transportation. It does not cost so much per box to place Welsh tin plates in New York, Boston and Baltimore as it does to transport them to our markets from the points of manufacture. Still, notwith- standing these disadvantages to Ameri- can manufacturers, there is reason to hope that the industry will be main- tained here and may even make pre gress. pase 81 It will be interesting to hear from the British press on the lesson of the American elections. Most of the foreign newspapers were so pleased with the disposition to favor the foreigner dis- played by the democratic administra- tion that they thought its popularity at home could not possibly be less than its popularity abroad. It will be a rude awakening from a pleasant dream. The managers of the Majors cam- paign started dut by claiming that their candidate is elected by 15,000, 0w they have egwp’down from their high perch and claim his election by 2,000, The fact is L issdefeated by more than 2,000 and they know it. They are only laying the foundation for counting Hol- comb out. Tet'them bewar The Police Onto Thelr Job. Chicago Herald, The young émperor enters upon his career with the ecla of u plot (o end his reign at its commenciment. The Russian polic have already(*disdovered” the plotters and will send them.toSiberia without delay. pibiv it A Sprinkle of Spice. Indianapolls Journal, Of all sad things in the lot of man The one most full of woe Is paying the price That's due on e He used three months ago, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report oYal VEZZTHZI That-is, wages | | | men of th | house now stands, will be, fn fact, a part of mterfin| ! the world | keeps for her protection that the department | m PROPLE AND THINGS, Andrew J. Carnegle fs returning to this country. He will find a good many blow holes in his welcome. The tallest man in the German army, Cap- | taln von Plaskow, stands six feet six inches in his stockings. Oscar Wilde has declined an offer to lec- ture in this country. Mr. Wilde is uncon- | selously growing in public esteem. It Is now settled that ex-President Harrison is out for the presidential nomination in ‘96 He set up a box of cigars in New York A saloon keeper of Yonkers, N. Y., having been arrested at the instance of the clergy t city who have combined to en- force the Sunday law, the judge before whom he was taken discharged him because it could | not be proven that lager beer is an Intoxi- | cating drink. John Jacob for mechanics, engine on the week, and, it miles between Astor, who has a strong taste took charge of a passenger | Tllinois Central rafiroad last | is_said, drove it the hundred | Fort Dodge and Sioux City, Ia, at a rate that often dazed the regular engineer. It was a star—sort of asterisk— performance. Richard Brisco of Allen, Kan., ran a lubri- cating jolnt in connection with a stock of coffins, and came to grief. ‘The authorities. not averse to stiff drinks, could not tolerate a close alllance between Kansas em- balming fluid and coffins. They contended that a man should not monopolize the kill- The new hotel which John Jacob As- tor proposes to build in New York, on the southwest corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty- fourth street, where Mrs. Willlam Astor's the Waldorf, twenty stories In height, 250 feet by 100 in dimensions, and together with the Waldorf constituting the largest hotel Miss Imogen Louise Guiney, postmistress of Auburndale, Mass., was boy- cotted to such an extent by townspeople, who objected to a couple of big dogs she the poetical was compelled to reduce her salary $100. Now literary people all over New England, having heard of the incident, are sending her orders for stamps, not having the least fear of big dogs—at long range. Labouchere says he is enabled to state on most excellent authority that for some time Lafter Mr. Gladstone's resignation he w bent upon taking holy orders, and It was with a view to that step that %ie announced his intention of retiring from the House of Commons at the dissolution. 1t Mr. Glad stone’s health remains good, and if his eye- sight is not further impaired, it Is quite likely that he will be a candidate for ordina- tion. England has a woman recruiting sergeant. She is Miss Gould of London and she differs from the usual recruiting sergeant in that she does not He in walt for young volunteers at public houses and attract them by the bril- liancy of her attire. ~She has worked among the poor for many years, and has late turned her attention to young thieves. Hav- ing once got hold of them she never foels safe about them until they have accepted the queen’s shilling. Florence Blythe Hinckley has virtually come into possession of the large estate which contestants in the Callfornia courts so reso- lutely tried to wrest from her. Generally speaking, it Is worth from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. It consists of a San Francisco block, 80,000 acres of land in San Diego county, 44,000 acres of land In Mexico, ad- joining California, and an interest In 1,800, 000 acres of land in Mexico. Just what the Blythe estate interest in these 1,800,000 acres is will have to be decided by the Mexican courts. There is also $125,000 in cash on hand belonging to the estate. The Mugnet as an Implement of War. ‘Washington Star. Recent news from Willet's Point, N. Y., tends to show that M. Jules Verne, the great romancer, was not so far ahead of his time in his scientific speculations as the reading public might think. The idoa of a monster magnet to be used in time of war either to attract invading ships to treach- erous shores or to pull the arms out of the grasp of an adyancing column of infantry is surely most Verne-like. It is almost be- yond the reach of modern military thought, but here it is, with every confirmation in fact, as not only the notion but the actual production of an officer of the American my, Colonel King of the engineer The ldea is not lightly to be dismissed. The experiments that have so far heen made with the gigantic magnets built by Colonel King serve to show that there is in this form of electrical phenomenon a power hitherto unsuspected, Colonel King has demonstrated that with materials large enough there is practically no limit to the attractiveness of a magnet. In one experi- nt he showed that a large horgeshoe mag- net that he made out of two cannons and some fron rods, together with several miles of telegraph wire, could exercise an at- tractive force of at least 22,600 pounds. This force, it Is thought, may be sufficlent to affect the comp: of a ship passing a fort so supplied with & magnet, and render her unmanageable. . ——— The Angry Son of Heaven. Philadelphia Record. It has been asserted that the emperor of China has expressed a desire to know why 4, despicable little nation like the Japanese cinnot be speedily exterminated by a pow- erful people like the Chinese. If the Son of Heaven and Brother of the Moon should emrge from his harem and look about him he might see many things that would in- terest him exceedingly. He would discover that the world has moved in these last 2,000 years or more, and that the middle king- dom is no longer the center of the universe. If the ruler of China could be moved to self-criticism the regeneration of the Orient would have been begun. Inter Ocean. The arrest of Mr. Morton's coachman was dered by Secretary Car e some weeks ago with the idea that the arrest would be in the nature of political thunder to the democrats. It was not. It was in the na- ture of the traditional old musket that kicked the shooter over the fence and kicked him after he was over, the shoote walking off In safety, This is what h lvl‘nml in the case of Mr. Carlisle, and after he had been kicked by ' demoerats and republicans he surrendered unconditionally and ordered the release of Howard, the conchman, ————— One Chance of Having Fun. ‘Washington Star. If China were not so extremely busy with other things she could have a good deal of fun over the way in which the people of this country pronounce her proper names, (A h Plot Thickens. Inter Ocean. The Lexow committee, investigating the witless tools of Tammany in New York, continues to pile Osa on Pelion in the mat- ter of criminal developments. e About Some Girl Galveston News. Some girls come home f able schools with their changed that they don't know sweethearts fashion- mpletely their old A Medical Vindieation, Washington FPost an who pronounced the czar's case incurable ought to be able to do con- siderable business’ on the strength of his vindication, e HAPPY ON THE WAY. Atlanta Constitutior No matter how the weather goes We're happy on the way; The apple’s red as any rose, The fields are stacked with hay The physi: See the rabbit runnin'; Fox has lost his cunnin’; Lots o' game fer gunnin’ Happy on the way! No matter how the weather goes, We're happy on the way; In winter-time It always snows, But violets com May. See the partridge flyin'— Fat enough fer fryin'; Jest can't think o' sighin'— Happy on the way! Baking Powder ABSQLUTELY PURE WATER FOR DROUTH TIMES Some Information Given Out by Agricultural Experimental Stations, EXPERIMENTS IN AMATEUR IRRIGATION How Water Can Be Stored from Speings and Streams, to Help the Crops Over the Ury Season, with Lit- tle Expense. WASHINGTON Nov. 7.—Investigations are In progress at several of the agricultural ex- periment stations to demonstrate the amounts of water required by different crops for per- fect development, as well as the best time and method of application, Lo:ses aggregating millions of dollars oc- cur yearly in the so-called humid regions of the eastern and southern states as a conse- quence of the long dry spells which prevail In many localities of those regions, A deficiency of rainfall during the compara- tively short period at a critical stage of the growth of the crop may result In serlous reduction in yieid and quantity of crop, or in total failure. The most reliable rosult, sa tin, is irrigation n some form. The sy tems may be employed in modified forms safeguard against this and on a smaller scale with marked advan- | tage on at least the more valuable farm lands of the humid regions. There s usu- ally little trouble in such regions in securing all the water needed for irrigation. By im- pounding the small streams and utilizing the springs which occur on almost every farm sufficent water might be stored at small expense to carry the crops safely over the one or two “dry spells” which are likely to occur during the growing season. The con- struction of extensive reservoirs and canals, of course, could not wisely be taken, but on many farms small streams might be col- lected in reservoirs from which the water might be distributed by means of open ditches over a large area of the farm, or a portion of the flow of larger streams might be diverted and distributed by the same means in time of need. It is suggested by the department that ex. periment slations make investigations on a small scale in this line. LIVES SAVED BY PROPHETS, Value of Storm Predictions Shown by Avtus Figures. WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—The Agricultural department has fssued a statement showing that during the storm of September 24-29, 1,089 vessels, valued at $17,100,000, and in the storm of October 21, 1,085 vessels valued at $19,13,000, remained In port on the Atlantic and gulf coasts, secured from dan- ger throughout the periods for which warn- ings were issued by the weather bureau This makes a total of 2,305 vessels, valued at $36,283,000, a large portion of which prob- ably would have gone out but for the warn- ings. It is fair to assume, it is stated, that had they done so nearly all of them would have encountered the storm and been mors or less damaged if not entirely lost. The records of those who went out In the face of warning show that In every Instance they suffered severo Injury or were dostroyed. Reports from the returning vessels give credit to the weather department, Chatlos- ton reports 400 lives probably saved by this means. Competition in Phosphate. WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Serious competi- tion for our southern phosphate producers is at Alglers, in a report to the State depart- at Algiers, in a report to the State depart- ment on the phosphate deposits of Algeria. Ho describes the marvelous extent and rich- ness of these easily worked deposits amount- ing in one bed to 40,000,000 tons and esti- mates the output this year from one field at 35,000 tons delivered on shipboard at §4.6 per ton. FLOUR MILLS BURNED. Largest Institution of the Kind In Kansas City Almost Totally Destroyed. KANSAS CITY, Nov. 7.—The Rex flour mills were almost totally destroyed by fire last night. The mills were er cted at a cost of 300,000, and were among the rgest flour exporters in the west, Thelr home market was extensive, and the product of the mills was well known in Europe. The mill proper, with all its costly machin- ery, was burned to the ground. The w: re- house, with 5,000 barrels of flour and about 4000 Bushels Of wheat, §s also h total loas. The loss Is estimated' at $165,000. The mili employed 100 men. The fire was discovered about 6:80, In the dust room. Before (he fire department could reach the spot. whith I8 lsolated, the main building was encl oped in flames and was hopelessly lost. It is ;Ilh; \]lr:‘ L l'l\l Alll"l') will cover only about one- half the loss. The principal owner i o, N. B. Kehlor of St. 'Loui X Rebels Victorious at Tanglers, NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—A speclal dispatch to the World from Tangiers says the govern- ors of the southern provinces of the empire, pressed by the rebels in their respective dis: tricts, have sought refuge in Morocco City, fleeing from the outraged Cabelas, their long n Agricultiral department bulle- | suffering, oppressed and despoiled subjects. The sultan has ordered them back fo thelr districts. To obey moans death at the hands of those who have lald stege to the sodthern capital and plundered the surrounding 6dtine try. (4 e DESPOILING CHINA, English Domand Reparation for Outrage on Her Subjects. NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—A dispatch to the World from its London_correspondent say I have the statement from an authority in Which I place the utmost confidence that Instructions have just been telegraphed by the British forelgn ofce to Admiral Froman- | te, in charge of the British fleet in Chine: Wwaters, to demand any fmportant concessions of territory to England o case of any oute rages to English residents in China. There Is a peculiar interest anent the United King dom since it s claimed here that by the terms of an agreement signed by the allied foreign governments the British admiral in Chinese waters will be placed In supreme command of all the foreign squadrons, fn- cluding that of the United States, to avenge |any violence to forelgners. Since France | would, of course, be glad of the exampla set | by England to demand concessions from China of territory on the south, contiguous to Tonguin, and Russia of territory on the | morth, giving her ports free from fce, the United States warships on the Asiatic station, it the above named contention is correct, | would be forced to ald England, Franee and Russia to coerce Chiza into concessions which would give the control of the Pacific to thess threo nations, HELEN WANTED TO VOTE. Refused by the Judges but Wil Appeal to the Courta, LAFAYETTE, Ind., The most ine teresting feature in the election in this city was the appearance of Mrs. Helen M. Gougar at a voting precinct demanding | the privilege of suffrage. She was permitted to enter the booth, ask for state, township and county ballota, and she was refused each cn the ground of her sex. She des manded the privilexe of making amdavit of her citizenship, which was denled on the same grounds. She was accompanied by friends, who were D of her de- | mands,” s for a case to be tate supreme court under in- structions of the State Suffrage assoolation, of which Mrs. Gougar has been re-elected president for the el th term. The re- cent decision of the supreme court of the Hght of women to practice law in Tndiani ha nsp dthis action. The qualification for suffrage In the state says a male may vote, but does not say a female shall not, If a recent declsfon Is good law, women ma; vote as well as practice law. Many tes votes have been tried, but in no other on the same lines of law that will be presented in this. Mrs. Gougar is better posted in constitutional law than any men at the bar and her management of the case will bo thorough and searching. MAKES AN ATCHISON WER. Says It Is Compolled to Pay the Switching Charges at the Steok Yards. CHICAGO, Nov. 7.-The recelvers of the Atchison road today filed an answer to the suit of W. T. Keenan, live stock shipper, who asked the federal court to abolish, as | far as the Atchison road s concerned, the switching charge of $2 per car on all ship- ments of stock receiyed at the Union stoek yards in this city. The answer Sets forth that Keenan knew all about the charge when he made the contract to ship cattie and that as the stock was to be delivered at the stock yards the rallroad could do nothing but use the tracks of the stock yards company to get it there, the charge therefore of the Aftchison road was some- thing that the road proper had no right 1o regulate. The stock yards company d mands a like amount for ench car dellvered at the yards and that compels the road (o ask that the shipper make the amount good to it. 'This is a case of great Importance to shippers of live stack throughout the west and the decision, which will probably by handed down In’ the course of ten Qaym is eagerly watched. g SR TWO KILLED OUTRIGHT. Reading Train Shoots n Street Car Fifty Feet Through the Alr, PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 7.—At 0 o'clock this morning an express train on the Read- ing road struck a street car at Nicetown, Pa. The car was struck with terriflc fores and was thrown fifty feet from the track. .Two passengers are reported killed outright and several others injured, Rabbed m County Treasurer. HARRISON, Ark., Nov. 7.—C. F. Aycock, county treasurer, was this morning discov ered lying on the floor of his office, with hig hands and feet tied, a pocket handerkers chief stuffed into his mouth, and another bound over his face. As he was returning home, about 9 o'clack last evening, from ad HIIl he was intercepted by two men, 0 compelied him to return to the eourt @ and open the safe, which they looted. little money’ was in the vault, as the asurer keeps his funds in the bank. M, Aycock was removed to his home, where hé lies prostrated. —— 1 House fury MORGANFIELD Ky, Nov. 7.— News has reached this city of the Ilynching | near Blackford, Crittenden county, by white aps, of Cobe Nella and his son, Ulysses, hey were charged with burning a hou: together with Berry Rich, who was lynched last week. —_———— ¥ rmen Blown Out to CAPE MAY, N. I, Nov. 7.—The report comes here that eight fishermen in boats off Anglese were blown to sea Monday | night. “Four' have returned and the others | have not been heard from. Lyn. 5 en S e T SS SE SS aeA SETT) YOUR_MONEY'S WORTH OR YOUR MONEY BACK. Ev cept November 6. Political. ery state and territory ex- Maine held an election Only twenty- one of them elected govern- ors; most of them elected minor state officers, Wool The expression “an all wool suit,” dossn't always mean the same thing. The R re are an immense vnrwb% ettt - L et of wools. A cyclopaedic authority says this: “At whal DTy oo et iyt M Ao point it may be said that an animal tiber ceases to be hair and becomes wool it i s impossible to determins. because in every characteristic the one class, by im- ———————_c— perceptible gradations, merges into the otner, so that fotd Andid - Sdebdet LU HLLLLL a continuous chain can be softest merino to the rigid formed from the finest and brisues ol the wild boar. The chances are that some of you fellows are wearing boars' bristles around here, instead of an ail wool e suit. and we guarantee them, We select only fabrics made of gooa staple B T et A Wwools--we have many grades; but they're all good, T$7.50 is the pfi‘c_éfldfar;e of our good business suits, e = Stk D Bl el and a real nies all wool (th for $7.50. is is woolly wooi) overcoat A M A Al Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, S, W, Cor. 15tha nd Douglas. L)