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The Omlyx DAILX BEE Bditor. ) EVERY MORNI TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. o (Without Sunday), One Year. and Sunday, One Year Daily Dally i Council Chicago New ¥ r of Comi mere 5, Tribun ag. B, » news and_edi be made payable THE STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, George 1, huck, secretary of The I 1ishin being duly sworn, says that the actu ar 1 [ of the Daily 1 Sunday durls anuary, 1895, Hwat the month of was 10,203 11 Total T Less unsold and return Total sale Daily aver *Sunday. n 1 1 subscribed in my pres- W 18 ry Public —_— Contributions to the Associated Char- fties are not in volume what they ought to be at this tim Ward Mc ceeded in after he w: ems to creating a social s dend. ve stir sue- even Chieago is bound to keep near the top even if it has to go down to the bottom of the thermometer to do so. No public official who fails to be cited to appear before the grand jury ought to feel insulted at the omission. The man who has no pet plan to re deem the finances of the nation is in brisk demand the dime managers, by muscum There is grat ation in the fact that the grand jury will render unnecessar: the noisy demonstrations of embryonic Parkhursts. The demand made in congress o “do something for silver” ought to make way for the demand to “do something for the people The legislature has to ke a recess of o week to prevent the strain imposed upon its members by the public busi- /mess from ruining their complexions. Missouri is apparently trying to get a monopoly of fighting congressmen. All Missouri needs is to get hold of Mr. Breckinridge of Kentucky, by adoption If necessar The railroad lobby at Washington is now centering all its efforts on the pool- ing Dill. It feels that its future useful- ness depends on having at least this to show for its season's activity. Is it the time to extend the opera- tlons of the State university when whole count are living off of charity and the whole state has difficulty in meeting its ordinary expenses? Chicago people are talking about that mnew postoffice building as if it were to be completed in three months. Chicagzo has not had any very recent expericnce with federal building operations. Every up-to-date college and university should see to it that it is forthwith equipped with a school for the education and training of receivers. This is the brightest field for the new generation. It seems that it requires something more than Secretary Carlisle’s assur- ance to make members of the United States senate share his confidence in the coming of that much to be desired surplus, No, It is scarcely to be expected that President Cleveland will send another special message to this congress. The recaption met by the lust one is not par- ticularly encouraging to a repetition of the efort. one must admire one quality displayed by the Laneaster county dele- gation and that is the ability of its members to get together on every propo- sition that divectly affects their own constituents, In fon of that public en- dorsement of Secretary of Agriculture Morton on the floor of the house Mon- day Congressman Hainer ought to have his quota of seeds for free distribution immediately doubled, There are only a few regularly con- stituted receivers for the Whisky trust, but any man with the requisite physical qualifications can make himself a re- of trust whisky without the in- tion of the cour — Opposition to the extra half mill state levy asked for by the State university 1s not opposition to education, The uni- versity can educate all who are entitled 1o its benefits with its present revenues if economically administered. It is safe to say that every business house in Omaha has the past year cur- tailed its expenses in every possible way. It was not a matter of choice, but of necessity. The reasons that ar- or such reductions apply with e to the municipal corpora- versity numbered among ing the year 1804 only ancaster county. In hotal enrollment of was 356, Could f the students longed in the AN UNNECESSARY The house yesterday by a close vote advanced the bill for an extra half mill tax for the benefit of the State unly sity to the general file with a recom- mendation that it p In view of the straitened circumstances of the peo- ple who pay the taxes that go into the state treasury this Is an extravagance in which Nebraska cagmot at the pres- [ ent time afford to indulge. As The Bee pointed out when it re- viewed the report of the regents asking for this appropriation, there is neither necessity nor excuse for adding to the already liberal appropriations for uni- pury It is claimed that the attendance at the university has trebled within three years and that it is now nearly 1,500, and that if this additional levy is not granted the attendance must be arbitrarily lmited to 800, This, it is urged, would be an frreparable injury to the young people thus debarred from educational privileges. As a matter of fact the failure of this Bbill would not by any means compel the university to limit attendance to 800, and even if it did ft would not deprive a single person entitled to a university ation at the hands of the st hit to an education. Of the 1.4 nts enrolled in 1804 only 828 we in the Academic and Industrial or the university proper. Big were in the College of Law for technieal and professional training, and from which the receipts from fees and tuition do not cover one- annual expenditures, One hundred and thirty-four were in the School of Art and Music, a private institution pre- sided over by a professor who receives a subsidy from the university and who uses the free courses in the uni ty merely as extra inducements to secure pupils for himself and his soci- Three hundred and forty were in the preparatory that s, the; were not entitled to university instruc tion at all, but ought to have been tending High school, most of them at Lincoln. It true that the regents pretend that they are going to abolish the preparatory school after another year, but their proposition is in veality not to abolish it, but to transform it into a wol of agriculture and me- chanic arts, to take students with no other preparation than that afforded in the district grammar school and finish their education at the whole state. ixamine the enrollment of the State universi and w! do we find? of the 1,420 students 571 reside caster county, or Lincoln. Of mainder 117 claim to be still residents of some state other than Nebraska. Must the state of Nebraska pay for the High school education of the people of Lincoln and for the university education of people who do not reside in Nebraska at all? Look at the university roster and you will find that a large part of it is comprised of names of teachers who have nothing to do with the university instruction proper. There are 12 in the faculty of law for students for the legal profession. Thes re 12 in the faculty of music who are rendering services in a private conservatory of music. There are 9 in the faculty of English, 8 in the faculty of Latin, 10 in the faculty of mathematies, most of whom devote their time exclusively to preparing studen who are not yet ready to pursue uni- versity work. Then, too, complaint is made of the crowded condition of the buildings. Crowded by whom? By law students who are getting a professional educa- tion at the state's expense, By students of music who are paying a private con- servatory for part of their musical edu- cation and getting the rest of it free at the universit By students in the pre- paratory department who hope to get into the university some day. Would the present university -buildings be crowded if they were confined te the use of those students only who are justly entitled to a higher education. at the expense of the whole body of tax- payers? No patriotic resident of Nebraska would for a moment think of opposing a measure upon which the continued advance of the university really de- pended. But when a large part of the population are unable to buy bread, much less to pay thelr taxes, the legis- lature should think twice before piling upon the people a new and uncalled-for burden, Let the State university lop off its parasites and fungi. It will then be a university in fact as well as in name, and at the same time be amply sup- ported by its existing resources. COMPARATIVE COST OF POLIC The Munlicipality and County pub- lishes In its February number a care- fully prepared table of statistics in- tended to show the comparative cost of maintaining the police departments in fifteen American cities with less than 200,000 population each during the year 1894. Some very interesting facts are disclosed. The size of the police force varies from 205 men in Newark, N. J to eighty-three in Los Angeles and Syra- cuse and seventy-eight in Duluth, Ex- cluding, however, four cities which have over 200 policemen, the force in the other cities generally approximates 100, In the matter of salaries there is some approach to uniformity., Three ecities pay the chief less than $2,000. In the others the chief's salary ranges from M0 to $3,000, with the exception of Minneapolis, which pays her chief $3,000. The captains’ salaries average sowething over $1,200, the sergeants’ about $1,000 and the patrolmen's less than §900. Jersey City spends $408,- 848 annually upon her police force, Providence $310,500,. Newark $200,008, Minneapolis $§228,070, Kansas City $158, 058, Denver, $150,000, Omaha §04,638. here is a1 column showing the per capita pol' ¢ expenses, in which most of the figure re close to $1, and a column showing tI' number of inhabitants to each police Meer, in which the figures range from L0 to 1,613, The statistics for Omaha presented in this table are very misleading. They attribute to the city 150,000 inhabitants and compute the per capita police ex- pense and the population to each police officer upon this obviously false basis. The result is that Omaha is aceredited with the ridiculously low per capita police expenditure of 63 cents, whereas but few of the other cities mentioned spend less than §1. Omaba is also classes the expense of Lan- the re- TA ‘n\prmvntofl as having 1,613 people to THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, each police officer, or more than twice that of most of the other cities. If, on the other hand, we take the ratio of police officers to the area protected Omaha makes a much better showing, having ninety-three officers for twenty- four and one-half square miles of terri- tory, while Minneapolis has 218 to fifty- three and one-third square miles and Denver 124 to fifty-three square miles, It is only in trying to get into a class to which she does not properly belong that the Omaha police department suf- fers by comparison with the depart- ments of other cities DISCUSSING UNIFORM BANKRU If the husiness interests of the country are expecting legislation by this con- gress creating a uniform ystem of bankruptey they are very likely to be disappointed, The bill which passed the house is now under consideration by the senate, having been freely amended by the judiciary committee, The dis- tinguishing feature of this measure is that it provides for voluntary bank ruptey, wherens all preceding 1o on this subject has provided for inv untary bankruptey, as does the bill, which with some modifications w offered as a substitute to the hous bill. The chief question at issue, there- fore, is whether the proposed legislation shall provide for “voluntary™ or “invol- untary” bankruptey. The senators and representatives from the south ve generally favor the former, and proba- bly it would command the support of a majority in the senate, as it did in the house, if brought to a vote, but it secms unlikely that the advocates of involun- tary bankruptey will let it reach a vote. At any rate if a bill should now the senate it would have to go back to the house, where it would undoubtedly be subjected to numerous changes. It is plain, therefore, that in the short time that remains of this congress there is hardly a possibility of enacting a uni- form bankruptey law. If the supporters of the Torrey ill in previous cong had been a little more energetic in pushing that measure there would now be on the statute books g law which would meet the re- rements of an equitable tem of uniform bankruptey. That bill had the general proval of the leading com- mere odies of the country, and as modified in congressional committees was undoubtedly a fair and just meas ure. But the apathy of i pporters allowed it to fail, and now, when there is a pressing demand for this leg tion, in the interest alike of honest debtors and of ereditors, the prospect is that it will be a year or two more be- fore it ean be had. The discussion of this subject in the senate has not shown that there is a very strong interest taken in it there, except by a few. It does not appear that generally the fm- e of the matter is appreciated ators. A few ds xo Senator Platt expressed regret that in the con- tion of a Dbill which, if it shall he thought the country will mani- L good deal of interest in, there should be no attention paid to it in' the senate. This indifference may be due to the fact that it is distinetly a practi- cal rather than a political matter. The demand for an eauitable rupt law will continue until such legislation is secured. If the present congress does not provide such a law the next one will be urged to do so, and perhaps something would be gained in the character of the legislation if it were left to a republican congress, which would be likely to deal with the sub- ject on broader principles than the pres- ent congress, largely influenced, as it has been, by considerations of the rights of the states in the matter. TOY, 8808 bank- PRESERVE THE GREEI The Boston Advertiser concludes strong editorial against the retivement and cancellation of Unifed States legal tender notes as fol- lows: The greenbacks must not and shall not be discredited and destroyed. Ever since the first of Januar 1879, they have been good as gold everywhere throughout this broad land and far beyond the boundaries of the union. They have been and they are better than any other kind of currency that our people have, have had, or ex- pect to have, All that is necessary to stop the run upon the gold in the treas- ury is to stop the gap between national receipts and expenditures and at the same time stop the blatant talk about {mpending national bankruptey; and stop the worse than silly scheme for doing away with the greenbacks.” It is as unexpected as it is gratifying to find a newspaper of large influence in the metropolis of New England thus de- manding the preservation of that por- tion of the currency for which a very large majority of the people of this country feel a patriotic regard, be- sides their high estimate of its monetary character. As was said by Senator Teller a few days ago in the senate, after January, 1879, while we were paying our debt, when we were still recovering from the effects of the w: we maintained the integrity of the government in the re- demption of the greenbacks without any difficult The people of the United States were then satisfied, as they are satisfied now, with the greenback as money. It has been the most popular money which was ever made by any government in the world, performing all the money functions that gold or silver could perform since 1879, and it Is still doing so. “The purpose for which the attack is made upon the greenbacks,” said the Colorado sena- tor, “is that they may be retired and that other paper money may take their place—corporation money—and ithe proposition s simply that you shall destroy $346,000,000, costing you noth- ing, $346,000,000 which is as good as gold in any part of the world, because it will command gold.” The desire is to put this portion of our currency out of the way, issuing bonds for that purpose, which would impose an annual interest charge upon the people of per- haps $12,000,000, in order to m room for the Issue of wore bank currency—in short, to enable the banking interest of the country to control the currency of the people absolutely. The adyo- es of the destruction of the green- backs say that such a policy is neces- sary for the protection of the treasury H BACKS. a proposed against a drain of gold, but there was no such diffimity when the revenues of the treasury $gme ample and before the bankers begun-to hoard gold and to give importers other money with which to pay custom Auties. If the reventes of the goverpment were now equal to the expendifiives and a percentage of the customs,dubies had to be pald in gold the emMuripassment of the treas- ury would be #t an end and the at- tack on the ‘grebriback wounld stop. It is entirély sa to say, from all indications, that the scheme of the Dankgrs for doing away with the favorite paper currency of the peo- ple will fail. . It seems clear that the predominant ;sentiment in congress is not favorable to the destruction of the grecnback, and any party which shonld assume the responsibility of destroying that currency would cur the risk of being severely rebuked by the people at the first .opportunity. eastern The German goternment announces that it for tel minating the imperial rule over its terri v fon in Alsace-Lorraine. ne is denied any self- rnment, its chief officials heing o pointed from Berlin and administerin its affairs in the name of the empire. The neavest analogy which we have to it is found in the territories of the United States, With us, however, it has always been the practice to confer statehood upon the people of every territory just as soon as they give evi- dence of being prepared for admission to the union. It was probably the in- tention of the German government to deal similarly with Al Lorraine, but here it is nearly twenty-five years since it has been under German dominion and the people have not yet become reconciled sufficiently to wareant the establishment of measure of self-gov- ernment. No wonder the emperor and his ministers at times become impa- tient of the sit ince. sees no good prospect The hypnotize for the repres fonal Board of Trade was 1 into voting an endorsement 1d pooling bill, which is ¢ satisfactory to the the countr, board gone vlaces interes In its hyonotic s went further than a mere dorsement of a bill that the entire commerce of the country at the merey of the $11,000,000,000 octopus. It actually declared that the bill as the house is perfection within itself and should not be marred ny amendment. This goes to show t an influence the annual pas! seeret rebateoxerts upon mercl who under ordina s would spurn o bribé,and res \ insult the imputation that they would stoop s0 low as to commend a rank imposture or a downright-job, no matter who its promoters might be. the even al en- ery time i questionable appropria- tion is under consideration in a legisla- tive body thes member with a mathe- matic mind géts Up and computes how much additional taxation would have to Dbe borne by the ovdinary citizen if the proposition is’efcted into law. The gument is that spreading the money sked for over the whole number of ta rs it is for each individual only an rificant sum. « Such pleas are al- ways delusive. It is the grand sum of all the little additions to the tax rate tion almost unbearable. an be applied to nd every steal that is ever brought forward. The idea that an appropriation can be made out of the public treasury “without any one feeling it” is a piece of sophistry and nothing more. The request of the Board of Educa- tion that the street railway company grant half fare tickets to children who are actual attendants upon the public schools, for use during prescribed hours on school days, Is a reasonable one, It is a question whether it would not in- crease rather than diminish the revenue of the company, because so many more children would ride than do now. Street | railway companies in other cities make concessions of similar nature, so that Omaha would not be setting a new precedent. Will the members of the legislature wake up to the eritical condition of Ne- braska's finances? The state treasury is on the verge of bankruptey and un- paid state warrants are outstanding drawing 7 per cent interest, and yet the legislature Is talking about new and unprecedented appropriations for the State university. Must the legisla- ture go to the 'y brink before it will realize the height of the precipice? Misfortunes Multiply, Courler-Journal, Heaven help us! They now say that a big batch of new Napoleonic manuscripts has been found in Florence, — The Cleveland Idea. New York Tribunc. The country has become so ridiculo and obesely prosperous under administration that Pr now proposes that it shall borrow $100,000,000 or 8o just for the satisfaction of showing that ifs credit is good. In other words, the Cleveland idea is that the way to re- lieve the country is to increase its burdens. ———— The Lolarado Plan, St. Paul 1 What 1 wants Is treasury i order to force it into lquida- tion on @ silver basis. The greenback is the gateway to free silver, to a revolution of monet standards which will work ruin to all ‘the industrial and commercial interests of the country, but will make the silver barons of Colbrallo the lords of the darkened earth. —— Hoarding Gold tu Omaha, Cicago Herald. It is alleged that old {s being hoardec at Omaha. Nebrasica, Which poo luecs ua Sk ver and which would"be as bad a sufferer as any other state from a depreciated and lous silver cursency, is still misrepre- vess who support silver tion in its’ most vicious forms. = It is the first state, ‘also; the business of which is to b moralized by gold hoarding. But it may be stated; probably with truth, that gold will be hoarded first ‘and most greedil n all the so-called silver states, They will make the most Wry faces themselves at taking thelr own financial medicine, to bankrupt the FEBRUARY 6, 1895. MR, REILLY AND HI1S BILL. Denver News: The people of the trans- misscurl country won a decided and_sub- stantial victory by the defeat of the Reilly Pacific railway bill in the house. Denver Republican: The Reflly bill to re- fund the debts of the Pacific railroads met the fate it deserved when it was knocked out by such an overwhelming majority in the house on Saturday. Chicago Tribune: The recommittal of the Reilly Pacific railrond funding bill by the decisive vote of 177 to 108 disposes of that measure as far as the present congress is concerned. The vote may be taken as an indication also that the next house will not look with favor on a plan of settlement which seems to do so little for the government, but so much for the stockholders and bond- holders, Congress never should adopt a plan which may enable the roads to avoid their labilities or which will discharge the debts of the “incorporated pirates” who have made €0 many millions, especially out of t Central Pacific apolis Tribune this bill grows out of the feeling that projectors and promoters of the first * Huntingtons, Crockers, 8 hered their nests in t nstruction, and inst to repay the govern ment for | salted down™ fortunes. The funding bill would in effect relieve the estates of these men from labil- ity which a good many peaple think ought to be enforced against them. They hi or have left to their heirs, immense estat If recovery can be made action ought fo be comme against them. But, although the debt has been in default for a good many ¥ nothing of the kind has been a tempted »w the time has arrived when something has to be done. New York World: The bill was bad all over and clear through. It was a cleverly contrived device to rob the government, It was instigated and urged by C. P. Hunting ton for the purpose of relieving himself and the estates of Stanford, Crocker and Hop- Kins of their oblization to disgorge $64,000,000, wrongfully taken from the government's bounty to the Central Pacific railrond, and to leave the government with nothing to leyy upon but “two streaks of rust and a right of way." If we had an attorney gen- cral_who was not tied hand and foot to monopoly interests we should now have s S to recover the Stanford-Crocker-Hopkins- Huntington milli Unfortunately we have an attorney general who is himself reported to be the author of the bill just d ed. the Pacific anfords, Minneapolis Jourr.al struct society how to dine and lunch and re- ceive company and how to behave on a thou- and different little occasions. Society must have somebody to be an authority on dress and wines and salads, and Mr. McAllister was all that to the inner circle of New York socic He was a symposiarch of the most accomplished kind. Brooklyn Eagle: No man cause or occasion of so much action and com- ment, of so much chronicle and caricature, cf 50 much talk and cartooning without having a good deal in him. He might have put it to higher and better uses, but the uses to which he did put it hurt nobody, materially helped many and essentially instructed and incited many more. Detroit Free Press: Somebody must in- could be the But it is difficult to find precedents for the most prominent char- acteristics of McAllister. He must be credited with a marked Individuality and a supreme faith in himself. He made and embellished the paths of the “400.” His word was authority from the simplest ques- tion of table manners to the most complex problem of court etiquette. Chicago Tribune: The 400" are now an acephalous, leaderless, heterogeneous coterie, bound to nothing, not even to each other. Already they are showing bad form at funer- als, putting in vulgar appearances in divorce courts and having low-down scrimmages with butlers. How soon will it be, now the men- tor has gone where there are no “400" and all aro on the same level, before his late sub- jects will be eating with knives, sitting on front stoops and committing all those of- fenses of gaucherie and gluttony that are so delightful to the natural un-McAllistered man and woman? Chicago Inter Ocean: Pity thaf he should have been content to rule in so paltry an_em- pire and to wear so tinseled a crown. There was that in Ward McAllister which, if wiscly used, would have led to honor. ~He was born’ and reared in an atmosphere of snob- bery and he became monarch of the snobs. Ho has left us, We bid him hail and fare- well in a charitable belief and an ardent hope that Isis and Osiris, Radamanthus and all the judiclary spirits will deal mercifully with him, remembering the adverse circumstances of his youth and mindful of the fetid at- mosphere of vulgar plutocracy, the frivolous coterle of associates and the age of vencer in which he lived and over which he ruled. AR T e P PEOPLE AND THINGS. The mercury is now engaged in mighty low down business. Perhaps that Turkish Diogenes is seeking an honest explanation of the Armenian Qifi- culty. South Dakota’s advice on national finance is pecullarly impressive in the light of Tay. lor'’s Napoleonic scoop. The lower house of the Missouri legislature vindicates its loyalty to home-brewn meer- schaum by prohibiting the sale of cigarettes. A conscience contribution of $2,000 was re- cently made at Lynn, Mass. The consclence- stricken man did not hail from South Dakota. Patriotism is gradually taking root in Kan- sas. A bill making Washington's birthday a legal holidey has been approved by the gov- ernot. Brandon Thomas, the English actor and playwright, is charged with making $50,000 a year. This almost equals the perquisites of a Philadelphia councilman. One serious objection to the prolonged arctic spell is that it gives the genial ice vender an excuse for high prices next sum- mer. The increased thickness of the cakes increases the labor and cost of cutting. The Elgin (1ll.) Soclety for the Prevention of Gossip, composed of forty women, has dis- banded, the members being unable to meet tho fine imposed for fracturing the rules. By a superhuman effort tho president resisted temptation and got in the last word. The gift of intuition—the ability to peer into the future and act according—Is a rare and valuable one, and breaks out in unex- pected quarters. An Indiana man who re- cently passed away kept a coffin in his bed- room for thirty years, in anticipation of just such an emergency. Evanston, the dry cult suburb of Chicago, has been cruelly taken in. Some shrewd ven- dor of slot machines planted several ‘‘where men most do congregate” in the town, with placards suggesting an interior tank of wet goods, which the festive nickel would unlock. The natives did the pumping and the owner gathered in all the small change in town, without relieving a single case of drouth, The death of Mrs. Tabor, just announced, removes one of the remarkable picreer vomen of Colorado, In the early days of Leadville, ere her husband had struck the lode that led to fortune, Mrs. Tabor toiled and struggled, and by her energy and bope- fulness cheered him to greater cffort. When wealth came in abundance her loyaliy apd devotion was no less conspicuous and admir- able than in the days of adversity, Not so with Tabor. Fortune turned his head and gave rein to his passions. When he sought divorce from her he did not dare assall hier faithfulness as wife and mother, but rather paraded his cruel desertion, his laisons and his determination to discard her. The Lis- tory of divorce courts might he searched in vain for a more pathetic chapter of spurned love and loyalty than the Tabor case in the archives of Arapahoe county. Mrs. Tabor consened to divorce only when all hope of reunion was lost, and then protested amid tears and sobs that though scparated against her will her love for him would ccntinue during lite. Since the divorce Mrs. Tabor lived quietly in Denver, devoting herself to the education of her children, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, S. Gov't Report Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE | injured | dren and a hired | by The prejudice against | gtajry jmmenss | WENT BACK FOR THE BOY. Father and Son Loss Thelr Lives in a Fieo In Thele Home at Pittaburg. PITTSBURG, Feb. 6.—Two pers thelr lives and another was probably fatally in a firs on Second avenue shortly after midnight, Their names were DAN MUELLER, aged 40 years HIS SON, aged 6 years John Patterson, fireman, may die. Mueller kept a avenue and lived in About midnight fire of Mueller's house burning flercely. hurt internally; emall store on the rear of the started in the Kkitchen and in a few minutes was Mueller, his wife and chil n ran to the front part of the house to save themselves. On the way Mrs. Mueller lost the little boy, and her hus band returned to find him. Mrs. Mueller and the children were saved jumping into blankets held by people the street, and the man ran down the After’ the fire was out Mueller and the boy were found lying on the floor of the bedroom. They were not badly burned, but were probably suffocate The dwellin next door, owned by John Finnegan, burned. During the prozress of the fire I man John Patterson fell from the buildi and was injured so badly that he will prol ably die. The loss by the fire wiil not exceed $5,000. — - OBJECTED T0 THE LAW, in Tonnessee Sends a oral Assembly. eb. 5.—When Second store. in Republiean Claimant Protest to tho NASHVILLE, Tenn. general assembly met today to open v for governor in November last Semator Butler, republican, read a protest from Hon. H. Clay Evans, the ‘republican claimant for the governorship. Mr. Evans protested that the election contest law declared by the legislature was unconstitutional and he in- sisted that the joint assembly open and publish the returns as the constitution re- quired without any Interference on the part of the joint witnessing assembly. The reading of the protest was followed by applause from the galleries. The returns of the counties were then opened and objec- tions were filel by Messrs, Evans and Turney to the reception of the votes of various count fhe convention took a recess until 2:30 o'cleek. > CONFESSION OF 4 WHITECAP, Sensational Testimony in the Evans Lynching Teial in Alabama. Ala,, Feb. 5.—Sensational testi- being adduced at the trial of the ppers charged with lynching John and Monroe Evans, father and son, in 1891 A. J. Cash, one of the accused, being a member of the Whitec implicated nine prominent citizens, trial. He named those who tied the rope about the Evans' necks as well as those who pulled them down by the legs until they choked to death. Ho named Dr. Kellar as the physician who pronounced them dead. The prominence of the accused and the se tional developments have worked up the community to a high pitch of excitement. The trial will last a week. — - OPPOSE PRIVILE . TRADING. Board of Trade Directors Talk of Resign- Ing—Scrlous Trouble Threatenod. CHICAGO, Feb. 5.—Serlous trouble in the Board of Trade management has resulted from the action of the members yesterday in refusing to abolish trading in “puts and calls.”” Director John Hill, Jr., resigned to- day owing to the rejoction of the measure and it was rumored that President Baker would also resign with other members of the directorate. Mr. Baker refused to confirm or deny the rumor, but it was stated that the opponents of privilege trading would at- tempt to prosecute under a state law those who persist in selling puts and calls. Such action would affect some of the heaviest firms on ’change —— His Salesman's Sulcide Surprised Him, NEW YORK, Feb. 5—W. S. Dean of the firm of W. S. Dean & Son, was astonished today when the news reached him that Henry L. Lebman, a salesman of the firm, had committed suicide in Chicago. “I can not account for it,” said Mr. Dean. “He has been in our employ for over four years, and 50 far as we know has been of Sober and steady habits. He left here last on December 21 to spend the holldays with his relatives in Canton, O. I never heard that he had any passicn for gambling., His wife died three years ago, leaving two chil- dren, who live with Lehman’s brother. T don’t know what could have induced him to take his life." ——— Merchant Tailors at Buffalo. BUFFALO, Feb. 5.—The National Merchant Tailors exchange met in annual convention in this city for four days this week, begin- ning tcday. Delegates are present from about fifty cities in the United States. The conven- tion will mingle festivities, banquets and ex- cursions with business from now until Fri- day. CULLMAN, mony is whitec; confessed now on e Arrested for the Murder of Arnold. BATTLE CREEK, Mich.,, Feb. 5.—John Leak, a negro, was arrested charged with murdering George Arnold on the night of December 16. Arnold’s body was found on the river bank frozen stiff with a bad wound on the side of the head. Leak was an em- ploye of Arnold’s father, Tost | | Baltimore | 1t right to the | to | ap league and | A HANDFUL OF MIRTH. Tnter Ocean: Hobbs—How la your furnace working this winter? Pitt—Like the mise chief on warm days, | | Galveston tim» and paid News again, Peter vot has been robbed Paul has never been Demorest's the Sphinx | papa? Papa for 3,000 years. Magazine: Robby-How did et the credit of being so wise, By kecping his mouth shut Philadelphia Reconl: A ways anxlous to hear multe, man who s als himsell talk—a deaf Somerville Journal mathematics *naturally upon improper fractions. The student of pure looks with scorn Kansas City Journal: The decision of & judige that stealing a cat 1s not larceny, was doubtless influenced by the probability that the cat would come back. York What 1 of n m y Miss Willing Herald: Miss Billing 1 would ‘you like to marry O, a bachelor or a widower, Argus: A Western aiera mascul identified by a curling ir tied o her hip pocket woman mas- ttire was easily 1 which she cars Toston Trane 1 that prc ogk—Yes; but bosses i the shicld int Suffrage Is the American peopl With too many Indianapolis Journal: deem’ Young or Arduppe—Ts consider,” Miss Arrc Miss Arn instance, 1 man, s-Oh, both are allowable deem’ you a very nice but I cannot consider you at ¢ For voung Buffalo Courler ever could understand they call ‘em officeholders, Danks—Humph! It 18 easy enough to see that you never tried to got an office away from one of ‘em. Life: * the girl, But why do you think they are engaged?” “Recause he has stopped taking her to the theater and goes to church insteac Dinks just Blamed why it T at PATHETIC CONF New York Herald, and war have 1 beheld, things; s when T held aw four Kings, THE OLD-TIM SION, Shipwr And FIRE, Atlanta Constitution, Talk about yer buildin's That's het up by st Give me the old oak fir Where the old folks used to drear. The rickety dog-iron, One-gided as could be; The ashes banked with That was roastin’ The dog on one side, dr Or barkin’ nigh the'de The kitten cuttin’ With the Kknittin’ An' me a little By mammy’ With both my IFrom ‘taters there fer me, sin’, > floor, cheeks a-burnin® the red flumes leapin’ bright These staam-het buildin's make me Jest weary fer the That was heq In my An' I'd give the finest heater In the buildin’s het by s Fer the old-time chimbley corner Where the old folks used to dream. 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BROWNING, KING & CO., Reliable Clothiers, S. W Cor, 15th and Douglas.

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