Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 24, 1895, Page 4

DAny Be= == = EDITOR ¢ MORNING. IPTION duy), One Year ily Hos and § me Ve . Bix Montha oy . Threo Months.. Bunday e Eaturday D Weekly Omaha, he Bouth Hmalin Covacil 1! < ANl eommunications relating to 3 an torial ma . 1o th v | All business Omana. Drafts be made pavad! i b STATEMI Qeorge 1. Tzsc) Mshing company, | Tn, Ky the nctual nimiir Rite"cop the Daily M A . rinted during t , 18 w . 19,074 ht 19:0°8 | Fotirned rag: Sworn to before me and subscribed in my press this 1st day_of June, 15 : (Seal.) N. P. FEIL, Notary Public A little longer and all Nebra will be one vast Chautauqua assembly. The eats that don't mice are still rotained on the city pay roll as police detectives. The latest s a bicycling costume for women in mourning. The next will doubtless be a bridal gown adapted to the wheel. Look out for a sudden change in the fashion for men’s headgear. The prince of Wales has appeared in public under a white plug hat. With a new chancellor and a new Jibrary building the strides of the State university In the divection of progress should continue unabated and undimin- ished. At Chieago the police have instituted a crusade against pay roll stuf In Omaha the crusade will have to be in- stituted against taxeaters who are on the pay rolls but render no service for their pay. 1t is still the duty of the republican national convention to cnunciate, the principles for which the party stands. And no other assemblage of repub- lieans, however eminent and influential, can relieve 1t of that duty. The democratic congressional commit- tee is organiz a trust of democratic orators for operations in the northwest. When the trust idea gets a foothold in politics, private electioneering won't he able to hold a candle to syndicate methods. The convicts in the penitentiary are inventory eating food included in the upon which the apprasers’ made, but the contractor is still charg- ing the state 40 cents per day for each conviet for permitting the convicts to eat the state's supplic Owing to the failure of the supreme court to pass on the application for a mandamus brought agalnst Holcomb the question of the ment of the Nebr: Blind will have to remain a months longer in the dark. Govenor manage ska Institute for the few Emperor William wants to one of the United States war vess now at Kiel. This is a decided compli- ment, inasmuch as the emperor would not care to waste his time fnspecting a vessel unle he thought he would see something instructive as well as enter- taining. Spanish newspapers are excited be- cause they think the demand for a set- tlement of the Mora claim is only an ex cuse for this government to seize Havana and hold it until payment is made. That may be John Bull's way of collecting bad debts, but it has not yet been endorsed by Uncle Before the republican s quarreling as to which of them are en- titled to the principal committee chair- hips, they might do well to try to ascertaln what terms they will have to offer the populist or democratic mem- bers of the senate in order to secure their co-operation in reorganizing the body. Unless the republicans arrange tor populist assistance, it is possible that none of them may hdve committee chalrmanships. The experts employed by the bonds. men of Treasurer Bolln are said to have completed thelr task. Comptrol- ler Olsen claims to have chcked up for the school board. This may be satisfactory to the bondsmen, but the taxpayers have a right to expeet the mayor and council to take steps to have the books in the treasu oftice examined and checked up by iable and disinterested experts without fur- ther delay. There has been altogether too much sympathetie indifference dis- played about this business. Although both houses of the legisla- ture hold their sessions In the same building, the hall in which the house meets seems to be five miles further from Oma than the hall in which the senate meets. The sums drawn out of the state weasury for mileage by the Om: representatives are computed on the basis of 120 miles, while those drawn by the Omaha senators are com puted on the basis of 110 miles. Why this should be so is not quite apparent unless it is that the man elevated to the lower house of the leglslature sees THE OMAHWA o DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1895 THE CAMPAIGN IN 10WA, In the Impending Towa state ecam- gn republican success Is a foregone conclusion. Now, as of yore, nomina tlon by a republican state convention will be equal to an eleetion. In Towa, as In every state woest of {he Missls sippl, the railway contingent Is a po- tentlal force in conventions. It I8 n shrewd and are In posi- compact foree directed by unserupulous leaders, who tlon to make deals for patronage or | plunder to attain their ends Twenty years ago, when Towa could be counted on to roll up from 40,000 to 60,000 republican majority, and the current of anti-monopoly sentiment was | too powerful to be stemmed, the rail voad ma rs sought to rule by divi sion and diversion. Prohibition nished the wedg vote was split sidotracked. could 'pt by which the grang Wl the paramount issue So long as the voters distracted by prohibi y be tion the railroad contingent could pl the farmers, merchants and wage workers against cach other. When Larrabee beeame governor, in spite of party dissension, the railrond man ers changed their tactics. The mi- gration of thousands of republicans to the and territories west of the Missouri and the defection of the for eign by reason of the constant prohibition agitation had thinned e republican ranks and reduced its major- ities. By shifting the railroad contin states vote gent from one side to the other, the state was given over to Horace Boies and democracy for four years. It is notorious that the railway employes associution, organized ostensibly for mutual protection, was used as a polit feal machine to defeat the republican candidates for governor. The only reason for this cut-throat policy was the fact that the republic- ans were committed to uphold and en- force existing railway legislation and regulation. Two years ago the rail- rond politiclans nominated their man for governor on the republican ticket and thereupon the railway employes’ votes was once more thrown against the democrats. From the strict party standpoint this was very satisfactory. I'vom the standpoint of good citizen- ship and good government by the peo- ple and for the people, it was most de- plorable. The republ all things a party loyal to the self-government and devoted preservation of free institutions. nothing in common with human sl in the south, and can have nothing in common with monopoly domination in the north, While it s pledged to redly protect vested rights and in- terests, It cannot uphold the subyer- sion of the rights of individuals or com- munitles as against oppresive exactions and diseriminations by public carviers. In the interest of the republican party and good government it is to be hoped that the coming convention will not Dotray the trust reposed In it by the people whom it represents. The con- vention should not only nominate rep- resentative republicans, free from all corporate entanglements, but it should take no step backward in its platform declarations. It should pledge all party candidates, legislative as well as xecutive, against all attempts to re- peal or nullify the laws enacted for the proteetion of producers and shippers and the rate schedules established by the raflway commission and upheld by the courts as just and reasonable. REORGANIZING THE POLICE. It the police department of Omaha was as an party aims to be above ut of the to It had good at settling trouble within its own organization as patrolmen are at settling trouble on the streets, the long standing difflculty over the question as to who shall be chief would have been at an end months ago. It was thought last Tuesday that this problem had been solved In the consideration by the board of Mr. Martin White of Chl- cago, but it now appears that the end s still in the sacc rine futurity. Some attorney has unearthed a statute providing that it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, assoclation, company or corporation to bring or import into this state any person or persons for the purpose of discharging the duties dovolving upon police officers, and it it argued that this law covers the case in question, although it is a well known fact that the bill was almed at the Pinkerton detective agencies, which hire out thugs to corporations for the purpose of shooting lown workingmen. The question in all probability will be carried to the supreme court, and, while legal opinion is divided as to the application of this law, the people are liable to have to screw their patience up another notch ¢r two and hope that everything comes to them who wait. Mr. White is sald to be a good man, and the members of the board who favored his appointment are of the opinion that it will require an outside man who is free from the influences and prejudices of local factions to put the force in proper ord However, it is hoped that the legal question ralsed will be settled as speedily as possible, and that the department will get down to business.— Western Laborer. There is nothing to carry to the su- preme court or any other court. e anti-Pinkerton law h; no more to do with the appointment of the chief of police than it has with the appolint- ment of the chief of the fire depart- ment or the superintendent of the pub- lic schools. The law simply prohibits the importation of mercenaries by pr vate corporations or Individuals to ex- ercise police powers as deputy sheriffs or deputy marshals. It has no bearing atever upon men who come to the state to accept permanent employment In positions for which they have special rter expressly makes ex- ception to the general rule that police- men shall be chosen from among the clectors, The language of the charte is “whenever practicable.” The police commission has reached the conclusion that no member of the present police force is competent to fill the place of chief, and, furthermore, that the d moralized condition of tife force makes it Imperati that a man be appointed who has taken no part in the factional and sectarian contention that has created discord and destroyed disel pline in the force. Inasmuch as nobody in Omaba has had the requisite quall- fications for reorgapizing and superin- tending the police, it is not likely that such & man can be found in any other Nebraska towan. everything bigger than his associates in the upper house he action of the police commission is, therefore, not ouly legal, but also in fur- | I-cmrd with the demands of the hour. ‘(mr citizens have already recognized | the wisdom of the commission In bring- | ing Chief Redell from Chicago to give [ us metropolitan fire fighting methods, [ and they will soon realize that the com | mission” has acted with equal m | In its effort to secure a chief of police | who will Introduce metropolitan meth wisc ods of maintaining order and hunting | down crooks and eriminals of eve | class, { BRITISH SELFISHNESS, | The fact that Sir Julian Pauncefote, 'the British ambassador to the United States. went to England on the New American steamship St Louis has | caused something of a commotion over there, both in business and in parlia- mentar The attention of the House of Commons was called to the cir- | cumstance, or more particularly to the fact that Sir Julian signed the resolw tion adopted by his fellow passengoers commending the seagoing qualities of the St. Louis. A member of the house, who is probably financially interested in British stenmships, demanded that the government request the ambassador cither to substantiate the assertions he had endorsed or withdraw his name from the document containing them. In response the parliamentary secretary |for foreign affairs stated that Sir | Tulian - Pauncefote signed the resolu- tions in his private and not in his off circles. ‘1 1 eapacity and the secretary said they |aid not reflect upon the British com- | panies in the least. So strong is the il'm-lill*.' that it is said in the event of the {ambassador returning to the United | States on an American steamship an effort will be made to reduce his salary. This Is the most extraordinary exhibi- tion of British selfishness that has been seen for a very long time. We do not know what motive Sir Julinn Paunce- fote had in selecting the St. Louis on which to return to England, but it is entirely safe to say that he had no de- sire to promote the welfare of the American steamship line to the detri- ment of the shipping Interest of his own country. Sir Julian is most loyal to British inter which he represents with ability and good judgment, and it undoubtedly never occurred to him that in going to his native land in an Amer- fean vessel and in uniting with his fel- low passengers in expressing an honoest opinion of that vessels' merits, he wa making a damaging discrimination agalnst the vessels of his own country- men. But that is the view which some Englishmen take of it. The probability is that Sir Julian Pauncefote will come k to the United States in a British steamship, but it would be a proper re- buke of his narrow-minded countrymen if he weére to return on an American vessel, the same one on which he went to England preferred. ts, FRENCH HATRED OF GEFR) The deep-seated hatred of ¢ by the French people ha manifested in connection with the Kiel celebration, and in a way not at all creditable to that people. The report regarding the ineivility shown by the rench 1 offic rmany s been strongly at Kiel seems al- most ineredible, and it is to be hoped, of for the sake of the good name Frenelmen for politeness and conrtes that it is not true. The French naval reprosentatives at Kiel were treated with the utmost consideration by the rmans. When the first French vessel steamed through the canal the German bands along the route of the naval pro cession played the ) ise and the arseillai German crowd heartily cheered the French color The “most gencrous good will was manifested toward the rench visitors, and if, as reported, the latter repaid this treatment by con- duct which was in the nature of an in- sult, the elreumstance ought to make every sensible Frenchman . blush for his country. It required the constant vigilance of the police to prevent anti-Ger- man demonstrations in Paris, and tho tone of the French press has Dbeen distinetly hostile and of a ure to incite popular mani- festations of uunfriendly feeli The evidently sincere expressions of the German emperor in favor of mainte- ing peace were sneeringly commented upon by the French newspapers, and an effort made to discredit their sin. cerity. At the same time there has been made the broadest possible dis play of friendly feeling for Russia, as if intended to give offense to Germany. All this is very much in contrast to the way the Germans have conducted themselves toward the French, their behavior as hosts being altogether cred- itable to their manliness and good . Having accepted the invitation to participate in the Kiel celebration, even though simply as a concession to international courtesy, the French rep- resentatives were under the strongest obligation to conduct themselves with propriety and to meet the good treat- ment accorded them In a way to at least outwardly show that it was appre clated. "hat they failed to do this is certainly not creditable to them. It is noti to be expected, of course, Sens that Frenchmen can have a kindly feeling toward Germany. Remembrance of their overwlelming defeat in the war of 1870-71, and the loss of terr tory resulting therefrom is full of bit- terness to the Irench people, and it appears not to grow less bitter with the lapse of time, hut if Frenchmen wish to nurse their hatred of Germany they should tind occasion to manifest their feeling when they ean do so without discrediting their character and good sense. It is unquestionably a misfor- tune for France, and perhaps, for all Europe, that this animosity exists, since it is one potent reason for the mainten- ance of the burdensome military es- tablishments of the twa countrles. The Tabor college scttlement has camped upon the river bottoms, among the squatted haunts of wretched poverty. These young women must have fortitude' and patieuce or they could not endure the rough life which they are temporarily facing in the slums of Omaha. They are to the inhabitants of these dark spots what the missionary is to the heathen Chinee. The differ- ence Is that they realize the great truth that Christian charity begins at home, Whether or not this college scttlement movement will attaln a permanent foot- hold here of cotr&¢ remnins to be seen. — When the Unipn ;Pacific receivers do- clared a cut ofg72 per cent in freight rates between the tiver and Utah points the B. & M. and Rio Grande roads vehemently doolared they would not only promptly meet the eut, but would the war fntp Afrie But they cooled off and are content to simply meet the cat and let it go at that. Meantinde thie Union Pacific an- nounces that na matter what is done It stands dy to meet any rate that may be enforéed by its competitors. And while all this is going on the | shipper reaps the henefits, car soon do How the able and law- abiding citizens of South Omaha like the appointment of Bl Doud as city at- torney in the of the exposure | made by The Bee some months ago, in which he figured as the go-between for and co-parcener of Deaver, the fugitive gambling louse keeper? How is a ety attorney going to prosecute | keepers of lawless resorts and black- legs with whom he has been cheek-by- Jowl? Spec face Ex-Deputy Coulter, who was notori- ously a high fl \d s not known to have had any othier income than his salary, did not have a single memoran- dum slip against him in the city treas- ury cash drawer. Inasmuch as the drawer was kept by Mr. Coulter, the question is whether he forgot to make a slip when e accommodated himself or whether some of the slips slipped out. Versutile Openor. Record. The versatile Kaiser Wilhelm opens canals Chicag with the same grace and ease with which he makes _speeches, wrifes poetry, composes songs, drills soldiers, paints pictures, sails yachts and extinguishes village fires. —_— Tho Trath Hurts. Chicago News. Some English papers object because Sir Julian Pauncefote signed a memorial praising an American steamship—as though even a diplomat could not tell the truth once in awhile without being called to account for it. Handy Mask for Rogues. Buffalo Expross. The president of a Colorado land company is a defaulter and an absconder. He was a very plous man, but that does not change the fact that he has brought euffering on numer- ous wldows and orphans in the east. When shall we hear the last of this sort of plous man? Functlons of the League, Minneapolis Journal. The republican league has the high and honorable function of doing auxillary service in the party’s work; of showing what the party has done, and’ working throughout the whole land for the promotion of republican principles, meeting locally the organizations of the opponents of:thel republican party with strong and enthusiastic and aggressive organ- ization. Between now and convention time next year the league has to perfect its organ- Izatlon and get in.strong working condition for 1896. And the league is equal to the work! e Wages and Prosperity. New (Yorky Tribune, Tt i3’ the most striking fact about the re- covery in business thus far that it has been led and to a large’extont caused by recovery ot wages. Ordinarlly, according to common understanding, it ‘s’ Just the other way; rising wages come as a consequence of busi- ness expansion. But the prostration of 1863 and 1894 had so greatly reduced the amount paid for labor, which constitutes the pur- chasing power of the millions, that substan- al recovery In business and in the variou industries could not be expected until the peopla were enabled by larger earnings to expend more freely. So the first clear sign of recovery was the advance in wages at many establishments, notably at the coke works and at many cotton mills. Shortly many iron works followed, and this general improvement continues. Owing to difficulties caused by the new tariff, it is retarded in a measure in the tinplate works, potteries and glass works, and some minor manufactures, nd especially in most branches of the woolen manufacture. Many workers in these suffer bacause of the discriminating unwisdom of those who framed the tarift of “perfidy and dishonor.” But it is gratifying to know that in most departments of labor the progress toward restoration of wages paid in better times is reasonably rapid. rakin Ay RN rt Tricked by Lawyers, St. Paul Ploneer-Pross, The supreme court yesterday granted a stay of proceedings in the case of Hayward, who was sentenced to be hanged tomorrow, upon the application of his attorney, who only filed the papers in the case yesterday. Judge Canty, however, entered a vigorous dissent from 'the order granting the stay, on the ground that the attorneys, who had had plenty of time in which to file their appeal papers long before this, had taken pains not to do so until yesterday, when they dumped upon the court 400 pages of matter, without indicating on what pages to find the points they relied upon as the grounds of their ap- peal. It would require a good deal of time to examine this voluminous document. Of coursa it could not be done in the short time intervening before Friday, the date fixed for the exccution, and Judge Canty was em- phatic in the opinion that the attorneys had no right to trifle with the court in this way. But by means of the trick thus played on the court Hayward gets a respite of at least thirty days, and as many more as may be nes ry to hear and decide the appeal. It was cleverly calculated that by means of this little game_ the case could not be heard till October. This is the sort of thing that pro- vokes those outbursts of popular indignation that take the form of lynching bees in states where the interests of public order are not as carefully guarded as they are in Minne- sota, The Co Minursota Insurance Law. Chicago Tribune. ‘Minnesota has adopted a new insurance code, to go into effect October 1, which con- tains a number of speclal provisions of great importance, both to insurers and insured. No policy is to be rendered void by oral or written misrepresentations on the part of an applicant, unless the company can prove that the misrepresentation was made with intent to deceive, or unless the matter misrepre- sented increases the tisk. The coinsurance use and all limitation claus in policies are prohibited. The law renders null and void a stipulation n ia policy requiring a certificate by a magistrate or other person to the effect that the loss is an honest one. The insurance company has a right to r build, provided it 80 elects within fifteen days after a statement of loss has been filed with it, and the value’ of the building need not be stated In a proof of loss, as the amount named in_the policy is the llability of the company. The solicitor for insurance business is made the agent of the company issuing the policy, this provision making it possible for a solicitor employed by an agent to waive the conditions of the palicy, end he may do this by merely a verbal assent, while the Massachusetts. law requires a written assent in order to wajve the tarms of the policy. Taxation rgmains the same as be- fore, at 2 per cent on premiums received in cash and other obligations, with no deduction for losses. | ice VOICE OF THPE STATE PRESS, Lincoln News: It s doubtless a canard that says that the governor Is being urged to call an extra session of the legisiature to provide the late drouth sufferers with preservers, Beatrice Democrat: 1t would be amusing, it 1t were not disgusting, to see the appeal that the World-Herald is making calling for har- mony in a party that It has done more to disrupt than it possibly can to solidity | Stanton Picket: Only three men are to stand trial for the murder of Barrett Scott Only three, and everybody knows, who knows anything about the case, that If those three are guilty many others are equally so. But 1 hardly probable that even those three ted. The acts of the state have been a bung Blair Pilot ng mess all the way through The trial of the Barrett Scott | | it ’ will be conv murderers is on In full force at Butte in Boyd county. TFour of the defendants were released befere the trial began and the re- | | | maining two or | iree are likely to get clear because the crime was not committed in Boyd county. The stato ade a mess of this prosecution all the way through, and 10 one has any idea that a conviction Is possible. York Times: There are several different ys of appraising such rubblish as Dorgan 1 around the pen. It could be assossed at | what it cost, or what it would cost now, or what it would be worth to Dorgan to re- move, or at what It Is worth to the state to | keep and look at, but the easiest way was { the one followed by the appraisers. They just took $500 apleca and gave Dorgan the rest of the appropriation. St. Paul Republican: The business men of Omaha are bending ov energy to the end of making the state fair this year a succoess in every sense of the word. A hlgh standard of excellence has been attained for the fair during the years Lin had 1t, but from the amount of vim and enterprise now being displayed in the matter by the citizens of the metropolis it would not be very surpris- ing if It was even better than ever before, Scribner Rustler: When The Omaha Bee | printed the following with reference to the State university it did the right thing and hit the nail square on the head: Whoever the new hancellor of the university may be, the first thing he ought to do is to put a stop to High school instruction at the ex- pense of the university fund, whether under the name of “‘Preparatory atin echool” “School of Industrial and Mechanic Arts.” Platte County Argus: The appralsers have filed their award in the penitentiary case, whieh gives Bill Dorgan $33,408.90. This sounds like a big sum of money, but if by paying out $33,408.90 the state can rid itself of the band of penitentiary thieves who have been stealing from the state at the rate of about §80.000 per year, it will have been a good thing. The Mosher-Dorgan crowd should have been booted off the state's prop- erty long ago, and sued for trespassing. 1f properly prosecuted it would bave taken more than $33,408.90 to pay the damages that is due the state. Crete Vidette: Having advocated and prac- ticed the principle of fusing the democratic party with populists for the past two years, it is quite refreshing, but not strange, to now hear the Omaha World-Herald echo the refrain ot Chairman Miller, favoring a straight democratic nomination and eschew- ing all entangling alliance with the *“unfaith- ful popullsts.”” We ventured the prophecy last fall that young Mr. Bryan, in his great feat of riding two wild horses In opposite directions at one and the same time, would come out of the race with less prizes and the longest pair of lege of any acrobat in the state of Nebraska. He Is rapidly reach- or ing that critical position where he - must “either fish or cut bait. ety PERSONAL AND O CHERWISE, The Spaniards report that they are whipping the Cubans, as usual, which probably means that the rebellion is spreading and strength- ening. While possessors of the silver tongue cast envious glances at the pneumatic tire, they shyly point to it as an example of the bene- fits of inflation. Russell Sage is not worrying about the judgment of $40,000 rendered by a New York jury. It is the prospect of parting with the cash that makes him sad. Accounts of the dedication of the Baltle canal are meager and unsatisfactory. No mention was made of the greater opening— 12,000 cases of home brew. Justice Field’s recent trip from Washing- {ton to San Francisco was the forty-eighth transcontinental ride the venerable jurist has taki He stood the latest journey with com- paratively little fatigue. William Raw, a young man who jolned, a few days ago, the volunteer life-saving serv- at College Point, L. I, saved a young girl from drowning, ‘under unusually heroic conditions, on Monday. For a Raw volunteer, the young man did bravely. Hon. Richard Croker gives fon that there is too much restriction on in- dividual liberty in America. It was that conviction and a prospective conviction that accelerated Richard’s departure from the country. A Philadelphia paper speaks of “the hu- mane cruelties of warfare.”” This Is a com- panion piece for the Montana jury which dis- charged an assassin because *'we find John Doa was mercifully disposed toward the de- ceased. A member of the Chicago Board of Bdu- cation sustains 'the woman teachers in riding a bleycle to and from school. He says: “My observation fs that women who have wheels his opin- | at thelr heels are not troubled with them in their heads.” An Towa school ma'am with palpitating heart hied away to Colorado to wed an al- leged nobleman. Fortunately for her she discovered that he was not a nobleman at all, and shook him instanter. Now wasn't that horrid mean? Hon. Robert P. Porter the Cleveland World that the one great issue before the country. Mr. Por- ter has collected an eloquent assortment of statistics on the subject and Is uncommonly anxious to have them do the talking. The medical department of the Japanese army reports the following casualties in the late war: Killed on the field, 632; died from wounds, 17 died from disease, 2,489; total, 3,284, Wounded in battle, 2,891; reported sick, 44,137, including 2,404 cases of cholera, The dedication of the statue of Marshal MacMahon at Magenta brought out the fact that of the French military leaders who took part in the Italian campalgn of 1859 only four are alive, namely, Generals de I'Ad- mirault, Trochu, Bourbaki and Espirent de la Villesboisnet. Chicago refuses to be comforted with the naval display at Kiel. It was incamplete and lacked the picturesque solidity and soler nity which the Illinols man-of-war would have given the show. Circumstances beyond human control prevented the 1llinois from par- ticipating in the affair. Think of this, yo harmonizers, and weep. Moy Yoy, a_Boston Chinaman, has been ap- pointed o office by the Treasury department Talk about the erime of 731 What greater crime than this, with thousands of demo- cratic_voters famishing for a smell of fed- eral pie. Oh me, oh Moy. Newburgh, N. Y., patriotically resists the attempt of the postal authorities to lop off the last letter of its name. Surrounded as it is with a halo of revolutionary memories and historie assoclations, Newburgh would b> false to its traditions did it consent to the out- rage. The gibes of New York avall nothing. The town will cling to its Americanisms and its b's. ’ Captain William Penn Stedman, who 1s employed in the Agricultural department at Washington, asserts that he was the real captor of Jefferson Davis at Irwinsville, Ga., May 10, At the time Stedman was a proclalms in tariff s the 181 soldier in company B, Fourth (Michigan) cavalry. He it was, according to his own story, who halted Davis when, clad in a woman's hooded mackintosh, he attempted to steal away from the little encampment which the fugitives had made near Irwin; ville, Highest of all in Leavening Power.-— Latest U. S, Gov’t Report Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE lite | BETRAYAL OF TRUSTS. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Chicago Dispateh: City Treasurer Bolln | At Joukoping, Sweden, there Is a monster ot Omaha loft a note saying that he was | machine which makes 1,000,000 boxes of shert In his accounts and would shoot him- | matches per day. selt. Search was instituted and he was | A pon devil fish weighs from 8,000 | found, "a few hours later, in a roadhouse 6,000 BoTRAL, | i 4 ¢ The discovery was made just (n time; Bolln | 0 17,000 pounds, and LA AL L UL | months while thet fr largest dinner plate, A fishing schooner with a freezing plant on board to freeze the fish as fast as caught is now plying from Gloucester. was halt shot Chicago Mall: Al that defaulting treas- urers or bank cashiers need to do to be able to enjoy the major portion of thelr steali in comfort fs to keep out of sight for a few | ‘The cross made instead of a nature did nds and highly mora) | not originate In ignorance. It was always attorneys make terms for the compounding | appended to signatures in mediacval times as of thelr felonfes an attestation of good faith Chicago Times-Hera Willielm Pentzel, an aged see in the dofault d: South Dakota cap and wealthy of Dolln, city treasurer [ Frankforth bachelor, recently died in Port of Omaha, the first fruit of the compound- [ Sald while on an orlental tour. _Among ing of a felony with its fugitive thiet Taylor, | other bequests he left a legacy of 15,008 Boiln, whatever his prosent profession, un- | marks—naming it a “trinkgeld” or_douceur doubtedly expects in the end to receive to the < in_a popular Frankfort letter of thanks and a receipt in full for his | restaurant uso they had always been defalcation if he hands over what small chaige | #0 attentive to his wants ho may happen to have saved out of his| A curlous freak of nature In the shape of stealings, a lamb with six legs fs at the Columbia Duffalo Express: The moral of the de- | brewery, in The Dalles, Ore. The animal faloation of the clty treasurer of Omaha s | well formed in every respect, and appears the old one. Bolln was serving his second | porfectly healthy, From the right shoulder term as city treasurer and viously he had [ two aditional legs are growing, which reach NEQ W0 torN fis GOHRty LreAsin Ho [ nearly to the ground. Mr. Buchler purchased had a reputation for honesty and, of course, | it from a man out at Diake Oven was popular. But in the end it was proved It is no wonder that stones which fall that he had heen wasting public funda in | from the reglons of space are fired by the riotous living. Doubiless his accounts had [ fmpact when they strike our atimosphere, never been thoroughly examined during all [ Astronomers estimate that they fall with s those years. No man is honest enough to | velocity of at least 60,000 yards per socond, be subjected to temptation, and the Iaw | This extraordinary speed is best understood should make treasurers ineligible to succeed | by comparing it with a ball from a modern themselvos. cannon which never travels with a speed POLITICAL SNAP SHOTS, A i A practical Kentucky farmer {8 out in a Soaihiliaten Ais T Bk confident statement that the theory which Poom A i Sibley's presidential | makes all disente fmuginary oramenable SYmEiomy O Shaty norve to the faith cure 18 far from water tight, i A 2 4 D A bull bitten by a mad dog, when seized hlcago Inter Ocean: Ex-Secretary Whit- | ¢y i PN A aE S gave him ney would like to be president, but he has not | o “gying chase across a ten-acro fleld and yot discovered that there is any promise of a [ {rooq him for five hours before assistance democratic party in 1596, came, His contentlon {s that the bull was Globe-Demoerat: Governor McKinley does well to talk about the flag of his country and what it reprosents. A candidate for presi- dent cannot possibly make a mistake in stic ing to 01d Glory. Chicago Times-Herald: It may seem a little mad, and not the victim of a perverted im- agination, and that had he ten rods farther 10 go the result would not have been In the nature of a delus The London Daily News says that the sy o tem of combatting the locust plague in Cy- untimely for Uncle Sam to ask Spain to set- | prus by the government purchasing live lo- tlo that little bill of $1,600,000, but it Spain | custs by welght and destroying them has not has milllons to keep putting down rebellion | yeen altogether successful, Arthur Young, In Cuba she ought to have bothought her to | girector of survey of the Agricultural de- usv a trifle for paying off an honest old score. | partment, furnishes some curious figures re- Atlanta Constitution: It has been sald of J. | garding the locust campaign of last spring. Sterling Morton, the agricultural secretary, [ The period Is only about six weeks, during at he has a spiketail mind, but it scems | which time considerably more than 286,000, to be just as broad as the minds of any of [ 000 of these pests were so purchased at the ignorant or subsldized gang that is advo- | cost of 0. 1t is curious to mote that, cating low prices and hard times under the | owing apparently to the differing welght of specious cry of *“‘sound’” money. the insect at various stages of its develop- Buffalo Express: Ex-Governor Boles fs out [ ment, the number of locusts obtalned for with another letter defining his position as a |ons plastre (a piastre is about twopence hal froe silyer man. It the democracy is going | penny) varied from 185 to 747 to nominate a free silver candidato in 1895, - Boies of Towa Is determined it shall not for- CURRENT COMICS, get that ho Is willing to do anything re- quired to make himself available, ———— Smith's Monthly: Highee—My wife has 10WA PRESS COMMENT. had considerable” trouble with * her head —— lately. What do you think will relieve 1t? Doctor—A hat Dubuque Telegraph: There s sald to be Ha more politics to the square foot In East Des Moines than in similar area in lowa. Ac- cording to the reports, every other man is statesman—or he thinks he’is. Davenport Democrat: The salaries of more than 100 lowa postmasters have been in- creased, owing to the growing business of the office. Iowa is galning all around, more probably in the amount of business trans- acted than in actual population, though the Washington Star: “Give me the man who t his work,” quoted the citizen who all he reads. rejoined the skeptic, “I'm not so sure about 1t You Know the mosquito does that.” Chicago Record: Teacher—When “‘young Lochinvar came out of the west'” how did he manage to carry his lady love off with him? Johnny—Had a tandem bicycle. state census shows that It is pushing ahead | TIndianapolis Journal: He—Great heaven in that respect. woman! © Do you think I am made o Davenport Tribune: Nebraska crops are in | Mgney? o 5 e better condition than they have been for | oiimgen may, Y00 Were: I could get you years. This is the drift of all reports from that state. It is hoped the outlook will grow | Life: She—Do you still treasure my photos better and brighter till the harvest is com- Do 17 I've had it set pleted. Nebraska needs corn and wheat, hay and oats, and every other product that comes graph? The Colonel in my pocket flask Boston Post: Son—Father, 18 the posl. out of the ground. tion of senator higher than that of congress- Sioux City Tribune: Governor Boles has|man? Father—It comes higher, my boy. written another letter on the silver questlon, Did you ever hear of Boston Herald this time to a gentleman in Des Moines | Na gencrous offer to the town named George H. Lewls. In the Lewis lotter | of Littleto the governor makes it perfectly plain that he [ .No: What was it? “He offers to give the town $500,000 for a Is not in favor of the unlimited and Inde- | oM, 0f0rs, 10 &IVE MG fows, S0 €oF & pendent co'nage of silver at the ratlo of 16 to | fjar amount.” 1 of gold until sixteen portions of silver are equal to of gold. cash is not worth $500,000, - are the citizens of Littleton.” one The gov- grnor, vl oy, Ond | imselt in | waanington Sjar: “Wan't have anything?" accord eat bod o Nt Bt izens who are indifferent as to whether they ' *“What's your idea?" have legal tender paper money, silver coin or) ‘‘My par has gone fishing this week gold coin, so that it is all of ‘“equal ex “nnw] we ¢ both afford to be drunk af changeable value.” Those persons who mi flng) By read his letter to the Alton Democrat to a FICKLI GIRT cord with their desire for “free coinage” are Detroit Free Press. the only ones who will be disappointed In this [ She had smiled on him all winter, letter. The governor stands just where the [ And had given him a splinter Tribune said he did, in favor of a stable| Of hope on which he thought that he money, sound in all men's hands. He has s wisely and patriotically cleared up all doubt She bloomed out as a humi upon that point. And her manner after th TIWO CYCLES. s roal mean, Ralsing Voluntoers in Cuba. HAVANA, June 23.—Mariano Pino has raised an Independent company of sixty sharp- shooters in Carthagenia. He has also suc- ceeded in ralsing a company of thirty mem- bers in Lajas Villas, Colonel Velas has com bined his forces with the mayors of St. Louls Republic. ¥s, remembered long, bards, o quaint of phras a sweet and simple song s or Anni In bygone The homely Sang many In pretty Kat s praise. erano, | eafr"Ann'with cheeks of apple rod, Delgado and Terrer, and he Is now pursuing That Cupid's arrow-marka. reveal, to the country divided bands of insurgents | In sober gown with apron spread, from Cassalas. Nine of the Insurgents have already surrendered to the queen. Colonel Linero of the Camaguay regiment, who com- mitted sulcide because the major of his regi- mient deserted the army, will be accorded all of the honors possible under the circum- When singing to the modern Ann, stances. The queon regent, hearing of the | F(r kblckerbockers blue or gray, death of Colenel Linero, has ordered Marshal | 4 JoiBER 0f Stockipged cald revea de Campos to extend to the members of his She wears when In the light of day family the royal condolence. 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