Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 27, 1895, Page 4

THE OyymrDuq WATER, EDITOR EVERY PUBLISITED MORNING OF SUBSCRIFTION ut Sundag), One Yaar.. ally Tiee (Wil Pty Bes One Year Daily 1ee and sunday Bix Monthe Three Monthis ce, One Yoar One Yen OFFICES, Tee Tullding 5 Singer Dk, Corner N and 2th S| 12 rl Street Ch r of Commerce, ms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bldg. 107 I street, N. W CORRE VENCE, All_eommunic torinl matter should be BUSIN Omah Chicago O1f New York. Washington, Al bustne Omana. - Dra . i bl |'||Ll¥l PUBLISHING COMPPANY D CIRCULATION. ary of The 1 STATEMENT OF Goorge . Tas it . I Mshing comi VLeing duly eworn the actual numbir of full and oy i the Iy Morning. livening and Sunday priv furing the month of May follows : 10. 1 2. 15 16. DI.II]V ave il GRORGE B. TZSCHUCK NE S BT Y e King Corn and the weather man av pulling well together nowadays. R —— The State Rellef commission is a long time closing up its accounts and formulating its report. Sworr It must be remembered that Ken- tucky Is only one st in a union of four commonwenlths. There is a great deal of horseplay in the criminal division of the district court. And this is hot weather, too. If the demand for free silver coinage were really a demand for silver on the market the price of silver would have shown signs of improvement long ago. The populace of Bennington becomes quite enthusiastic at times. It can hang a fellow townsman in effigy with as great facility as it can build a motor tramway on paper. The views of T. DeWitt Talmage on the A. P. A. will meet a responsive chord in the hearts of many citizens of Omali. Talmage is wise in bis day and generation. 1t aid is needed for drouth suffer anywhere this year the Nebraska fprmer will be in a position to send out a Nebraska relief teain full of contri- butions for the unfortunate: sditor It is not a criminal, but a victim of judicial tyranny. Time will set him rvight, and in that laudable process the conrt may confi- dently be expected to supreme assl The bike meet at Kearney July 4 promizes to be an unqualificd success. The boys ought to agree on a plan to have a cycle day at the state fair and let every wheelman in the state get nto line. It will soon be necessary for Dr. Ab- bott to give Steward Rewick to under- stand that he and not Rewick Is super intendent of the Asylum for the In sane at Lincoln. And the sooner it is done the better for the state and for the patients in the asylum, None of the presidential possibilities “are candidates if they are asked the wointed question. We never do have eandidates for presidential nomina- tions. All that any one will confe to fs a willingness to accept convention hauors if they come his way. One of the noticeable features of the Kentucky democratic state couvention ~was the failure of ex-Congressman Breckinridge to make his presence con- spicuous. Is it possible that Breckin- ridge is learning to realize that he has had enough notoriety for a little while? Sioux City feels outraged Dbecause an alderman, in a fit of abstraction, went to work for a street lighting con- tractor. It is hinted that the man is corrupt. He had voted for the award of the contract to his present em- ployer. This does look a trifle crooked, to say the least, but we all have our troubles. The death of Philip cause universal regret. the foremost composers Bunday school and his wonderful voic thousands of people the past thirty years. He lived an exemplary and useful life and left the impress of his genius upon the pages of sacred music. It is a signiticant fact that immedi- ately upon the heels of the appoint ment of a new city attorney in South Omaha a notice should be given to the gamblers to go before the captain and settle. The keeper of each gambling louse is expected to pay $30 a month futo the city treasur; but what amount he is required to pay as hush money Is not stated. The old arrange. ment which The Bee broke up was a most satisfactory one to hoth contract ing parties, and it is, of course, to be renewed, if possible, One of the apolo; appraisers who awarded ‘Dorgan outfit §33,408.50 for nants of penitentiary rattletr that nothing was taken into ae cept such property as was needed by the state for the carve of the prisoner One of the things needed, for example, is a set of theat rleml wigs. If the appraisers took into consideration only the property abso lutely needed by the state, pray what was there In the penitenti to which Dorgan laid claim which they refused to lnclude in the award® Phillips will He was one of of American gospel music and charmed many honest Mosher. the rem ists for the the common | [ and SHALL WE BE REPRESEN1ED? There ought to be no doubt that the United States will be represented in the proposed international monetary conference, yet the question been raised whether the president Is re quired, pursuant to the action of con gross, to appoint delegates. An amend ment to the sundry civil gervice bill | was adopted by congress, providing for | the appointment of nine delegates to 1y Interuational conference led with a view to seenving internationally a fixity of relative value between gold and silver as money, by of a ratio between those metals, with free coinage at such ratio, when ever the president shall determine that this government ought to repre at any such conference. Three \tes were named by the senate three Ly the house, the other three to be appointed by the president. I'his action clearly left it with the pres. ident to determine wheth ment ought to be represented, and it Is suggested that he probably would not conference at was not repre thought that he ies i the pur means sented the govern appoint . delegates which Great Britain sented, It is might not appoint del of conference, as defined in the call, should not conform with the requirements expressed in the amend the sundry civil Dbill. It would of course be uscless to send delegates to a conference in which at Britain was not represented, but s to the other point it would doubt- less have no weight with the president. It is understood that Mr. Cleveland has little faith that any practical result can come from an international mon- otary conference, but if one is called it is entirely safe to say that he will appoint delegates to it. It would ob- viously be a e mistake, which the free sitver men would make capital of, for him not to do so. to a pose ment to service to TO INVESTIGATE TRUSTS. It 18 to be hoped that the report that Attorney General Harmon intends to institute an investigation of all trusts suspected of being illegal, with a view to procecding against them under the statutes now in force. is well founded. The fact that the present attorney gen- 1 has been for years, as his prede was, the atforney of corpora- tions, quite naturaily caused it to be commonly believed that he would not have an ageressive policy regarding the monopolistic combinations, but rather would be disposed to allow them to go on flourishing in violation and de- fiance of the laws enacted for their repression. It will be most gratifying to the anti-monopoly sentiment of the country if it shall be found that the new attorn general has been mis judged respecting his attitude toward trusts and combinations and that he is prepared to go to the full extent of his authority in efforts to proteet the people from their exactions. If Judge Harmon is thus disposed he ought to receive the hearty support of President Cleveland, than whom no public man has condemned the trusts with more directness or in stronger terms. In his inaugural address Mr. Clevetand said: “The existence of im- mense agzgregations of Kindred enter D and combinations of business in- terests, formed for the purpose of limiting production and fixing prices, is inconsistent with the fair tield which ought o be open 1o every independent activity, Legitimate strife in business should not be superseded by an en- forced concession to the demands of combinations that have the power to destroy, nor should the people to be served lose the benefit of cheapness which usually results from wholesome competition, These aggregations and combinations frequently constitute con- spiracies against the interests of the people and in all their phases they are unnatural and opposed to our American sense of fairness. To the extent that they can be reached and restrained by federal power the general government should relieve our citizens from their interference and exactions, This plain, stralghtforward declaration com- mitted the present administration to a policy of hostility to the trusts, but no adequate effort has been made to carry out that policy. The only attempt made to enforce the anti-trust law of 1800 was in a case against the Sugzar trust, in which the government was defeated. The predecessor of Attorney General Harmon gave his opinion that that law is s0 defective as to be practically worthless and congress incorporated in the tariff law a provision intended to meet the requirements which the earlier act was held to be defective in. But this part of the taviff law has not been enforced and the combination at which it was especially aimed continues in operation as before the law was enacted. Thus the present admin tion has wholly falled to accomplish anything thus far toward relieving the people from the interfercnce and exactions of the combinations so strongly and with such apparent sincerity condemned by Mr. Cleveland In his inaugural address, But there is still time for it to that what the president said on the day he en »d upon his official dut was not intended to be meaningiess and if Attorney General Harmon shail be in- strumental in doing this he will do more to win popular commendation for the administration than has yet been accomplished by any member of it. cossor show TELEPHONE COMPETITION. The Bell Teleplione company 18 to ve a strong competitor, if the organi- zation effected at Pittsburg on Tuesday carries out what it promises. The new company is a consolidation of all the companies now engaged in the manu- facture of independent telephones and is said te represent a capital approxi- wating $30,000,000, which very nearly equals the sitalization of the eld company. It is the purpose of the new waniz n to at once enter the field of telephone service and to push com- petition with the monopoly with vigor. It expects to encountel the outset a conflict with the company in the courts over the question of the valldity of the Berliner patents, which is yet to be de the suit re- cently declded in favor of the monopoly relating y to whether the mode of curing the patent was legal or So far competition with the Bell company has not extended beyond Illi- mined, » THE nols, but an independont company with a large capital is being organized in New York, and it is expected that within a short time it will be Inaugu rated In all the more populous states and be steadily extended throughout the country. e new company ought to he cer in of a very general public welcome and support. Everywhere there been a vigorous outery against the ex actions of the telephone monopoly and in nearly every state of the union leg: islation has been sought to relieve the public from these exactions and place telephone charges on a basis, The monopoly has been generally successful in thwarting these and continues to demand ites for its service, It is strongly trenched, it has the money to intluer legislation, it has seemed able to con trol courts. No monopoly was evel managed with greater skill and shrewd and it is fully prepared to vig y fight all competition, or, if pos sible, crush it out after the method of other monopolies, by buying it off. It is to be hoped the organization effected at Pittsburg is honestly intended to enter into competition for a share of the telephone field, but full faith in it will be felt only when it has given sub- stantial demonstration that it is hon estly designed to give the public cheaper telephone facilities. When- ever it shall have done this it will un- doubtedly find no difficulty in obtain- ing a generous patronage. has reasonable efforts excessive ness, NOW STAND FiOM UNDER! The boodle element in the city council had better stand from under. The have trifled with the taxpayers and eiti- zens quite long enough. Their attempt to keep a self-confessed embezzler in the ecity treasury is the most high- handed outrage that has ever been per- petrated in this or any other state. The council has no right to accept a conditional resignation from a de- faulting treasurer, much less will its conspi to hold up competent ap- pointees who are able to give the requisite bond be countenanced by this community. It was the manifest duty of the council to have taken prompt and decisive action on the treasury defi- cit on the 18th day of June, when Mr. Bolln admitted that his accounts were short. The law is no respecter of pe sons or positions. The law expressly requires the cotneil to depose the treas- urer the moment it comes to its knowl- cdge that he has used the public funds for private speculation. In this In- stance the public funds have not only been diverted to private loans and or- dinary speculations, but they have been lost in grain gambling. The fact that members of the council have been fa- vored with loans of city money should spur councilnen on to clear their skirts of complicity with the defalcation in- stead of playing into the hands of par- ties who hope for still further profit or want to retain positions in the treas- urer's oftice when by rights they should oceupy cells in the jail. When Mayor Bemis appointed Mr. A. L. Reed, one of the most responsible and competent men In this city, to the position of treasurer he shou.d lave Dbeen confirmed on the spot. Instead of promptly taking action on this excel- lent appointment the boodle conspira- tors had it referred to a committee, so that they might bave time to hold Mr. Reed up and exact promises from him that no honest and self-respecting man could make. The result was that Mr. Reed refused to go through the ordeal and asked that his name be withdrawn. The appointment of Mr, Swobe which followed the withdrawal of Mr, Reed's name was again referred to the ju- diciary committee. That simply means that Mr. Swobe also is to be held up and that Bolln is to be kept in the office of treasurer for an indefinite period. The president of the council, who is the candidate of the howling dervishes for the place now held by Mr, 3olln, had the audacity to ask Mr. Reed to pledge himself under no conditions to accept a nomination for treasurer this fall. The same demand will doubt- less be made on Mr. Swobe and the rotten combine in the council will sand- bag him if he does not sell himself soul and body in advance. We believe the time has come for the strict enforcement of the law. A few months ago a poor clerk stole an over- t from his employer, who was in debt to him for wagés three or four times as much as the value of the garment. The culprit pleaded that he was sim- ply trying to collect what was due him, but nevertheless he was convicted of grand larceny and sentenced by that pink of impartial justice, Cunningham R. Scott, to a term of five years in the penitentiar While this may have been justice untempered with mercy, defaulters and embezzlers of public funds and their abettors should have no immunity from the consequences of their erimes. The criminal code of Nebraska makes it the duty of the pr uting attorney to file information against every person who is directly or indircetly respons ble for the embezzlement of public funds. The failure of the county attor- ney to take such steps up to this time has been due simply to the dilatory course pursued by the council. The official report of the comptroller leaves Lim no further excuse for failing to take notice of fact Section 172 of the city charter makes it the duty of the mayor to file charges with the clerk of the district court against every city official and every councilman whom he believes or knows to be guilty of malfeasance or mis- feasance in office, and, furthermore, against every officer who has shown himself incompetent or grossly negli- gent in the discharge of his duties. The duty of the mayor under present conditions is plain. The treasurer and his deputy have by their own admis- sions Dbrought themselves within the scope of this provision. The city comp- troller by his own report has also shown himself to be culpable of the grossest negligence, to use a very mild phrase, And the same is true with regard to those members of the city council who sliberately obstructing the effort an honest man in charge of municipal treasury. This Is the para mount duty the mayor owes to the citi- zens of Omaha, who look to him as the chief executive to see to it that de- ol . OMANA DAILY BEE faulters and embezzlers shall not re main custodians‘of the public funds and that conspirafors’ who seek to perpetu ate thievery amd jobbery In the city liall shall be ‘déprived of power to do larm, We note with pleasure that the name of Toblas Castor is appended to the list of signers of the constitution of the newly formed:Democratié Honest Mone, League of Nebraska. This remov every vestige of ‘doubt as to the pesi tion of the democratic national mitteeman for this state and is a straight contradietion of the classifica- tion of Seeret Hinrichsen, which placed the representative of Nebraska dem along with the ram pant shout for free silver. Tobe still for sound money and the feded and he may be relied upon stick to that proposition long as there is the slightest prospect for the distribution of a single government job to a Nebraska democrat, com aey most offices, to 80 It scems that the administration dem- ats do not care to show their strength in convention unless the know a victory will count. The Hlinois demoeratic convention wa rmonious for free silver because the honest money men refused to participate, and they refusell to participate because the call provided for nothing but an empty ful- mination on the money question. In Kentucky the convention was sum- moned to make nominations. Oflices as well as principles were at stake, and the sound money democrats were there- fore drawn out in force. It makes a wonderful difference when the attrac- tion is something substantinl. Dr. Talmage tells us that preachers and politics will not mix. He opines that men of the eloth can accomplish nothing by brass hand crusades against vice and erime. The result has been, Ne says, that eradicating municipal vices in one locality only makes them break out in another and scatter. His remdy is to Christianize the people so that they will r nd wipe out all forms of vice and I say: Now It is preity definitely settled that the Oregon Short Line will not be divoreed from the Union Pacific sy tem. This is in accord with the best interests of the government, the city of Omaha and the receivers of the Union Pacific. It is to be hoped that the controversy will now be shelved and that the recei may devote thelr energies to reducing freight and passen- ger rates. That much disputed Peralta land claim has at st been finally declared invalid and fraudulent and the claim- ant arrested for the part he h in prosecuting’it. “If it is a fraud, and the court is doubtless correct in assert- ing that it is, it is one of the most gi- gantie swindling schemes that is on record. Refosal No 1oss. Washington Star. Ex-Secretary Whitney's great advantage is that when he refuses a nomination it does not appear to damage his chances for the office in the slightest. Diwstrous Friendships. Globa-Democrat, The defaulting ex-treasurer of South Da- kota confesses that he lost $150,000 of the state’s money and $100,000 of his own by lending to friends who failed to repay. ~ Such is usually the case with defaulting state treasurers. They have too many friends who do the kind of borrowing from them that leads inevitably to the penitentiary. -~ A Pyoam d of Clams, Indianapolls Journal. An act of congress passed March 8, 1891, provided that all claims against the United States government arising from Indian depredations, existing at that time, should ba presented to the court of claims within three years after the passage of the act under penalty of being forever barred. These claims are now all filed. They number 10,841 and amount to $43,515,867. As the duty of defending them devolves upon the attorney general, it will add materially to his labors. Improved Lund Transfers, Globe-Democrat. Ilinois has taken the lead among the states in adopting the Torrens system of Jand transfers, under which real estate can be made a quick asset, with as easy change of ownership as a certificate of stock. Any person may present his abstract and other evidence of title to the recorder and obtain a certificate of ownership, a duplicate thereof being placed on record; and at each subse- quent sale the existing certificate will be surrendered and another one issued to the new owner. It {s optional with the counties to adopt the system, and also with indi- viduals to bring their land within its opera- tion. B —— Talking to the Silver Stand. Philadelphia Ledger. Senator Dubols says that Senator Cameron is the favorite of the free coinage men for the republican presidential nomination, and that his silver record is “plain, straight and unimpeachable.” He adds that Mr. Cameron is organizing Pennsylvania, and that there is not the least doubd in the world that the great Keystone state will send a delegation for him, and that Quay will be foremost in support of Cameron. See what it is to go away from home and look for news! No Cameron boom has as_yet materialized in this state, and, as for Mr. Quay, he will doubtless bide his time until he iearns how the cat is likely to jump, Pennsylvania i rock-ribbed for honest money, and, who- ever its delegations to the republican and democratic conventions will support, it is safe to say that they must be men as to whose attitude on the money question there can be no misgivin| The Partition of Africa. New York Sun, More and more of “Afric’s desert sands" and of “Afric's Burning shore” are turning out to be well whtered pasture lands as the adventurers who explore them take the place of the rhymsters°whb formerly put them in verse. From Lake Ngami the trekkers have sent back word that the lands beyond the Kalahari are magnificent, healthy and fer- tile, and abundastly supplied with water, and are more attractive than those of the Transvaal or Orapge, Free State. Often, indeed, was,Shakespeare right, and even when he touched upon Africa. How could he foreshadow the explorations and the discoveries of slch gold mines that have been made there within the past few years? With prophetic wit he must have been en- dowed when he put into the mouth of the boastful Pistol these, word; A foutra for the,word! * ¢ ® T speak of Africd and golden joy: Yet the immorfal Willlam never heard of Mashonaland or Rhodesla, and not in all his plays is there a Character like Premier Cecll Rhodes of Kimberley, the “diamond king' of Africa. Highest of all in Leavening Power.-—Latest U. S. Gov't Report Roval | rapialy IMPROVING TIM Globe-Democrat: The growth of almost 5,000,000 made in the loans of the New York City banks last week tells the story of busi- ness {mprovement toans fn those insti- tutlons are far above the high water mark of the past In this item vorthe remains abundant and that two Philadslph’a Press nnou the Carnegle new fron furnaces near Plttsburg with a ca- pacity of 1,000 tons per day has caused a good deal of com in fron and steel circles There is a tralition in the trade that Carnegle hes never erected a furnace except st an op portune time Tribune: The 000 men in the advanced materially within last days. Careful Inquiry throughout t ndicites an advance averaging nearly The Tribune has compiled a list which embraces more than firms which have within the last fow weeks ad vanced the wages of thelr empliyes. A nota ble featu of industrial improve ment is that the wages of these 250,000 men have with hardly an exception been advanced voluntarily by employers. The season has been remarkably free from rikes, E ployers have shown a spirit of willingne share the results of the era of general pr perity which seems to have set in without waliting for any clamorous mands from the workmen and without delaying the division of profits until labor grew impatient. Chicago Times-Herald: From every quarter of the country, cast, west, north and south, come the tidings of a revived business and increased commerclal prosperity. Nor is it in one line only, but in ail. The products of the farm and of the mine, of the plantation and of the mill have all gone hand in hand toward higher prices, and all the pulses of trade are beating with accelerated force. Money, the barometer of business, is being withdrawn from its hiding places and seeking investment in safe enter- prises and adventures, and confidence is daily being restored. The advance of wages in the manufacturing industrics is baco: 0 com mon as no longer to create surprise at the announcement. The cotton mills of the south are not only paying better wages than oefor but are enlarging their force and capacity at the same time, and new mills are being built in Arkansas and Louisiana. In Alabama and Tennessee the coal nd iron trades are on a better footing than in past years, and In one county alone of Alabama the coal output for this year will exceed the whole product of the state for 1894 Here in Chicago the Illinols Steel company has advanced wages 10 per cent, which affects some 7,000 employes, while its busi- ness has so increased that the contracts now made cover all the product it can manu- facture in the next three months. The Pitts- burg district shows the same condition of affairs, of increased wages and enlarged output, while at Port Chester, N. Y., the bolt and nut works are running to their full capacity. What has occurred in the cotton and fron industries may also be noted in the pottery manufacture. At Wheeling and at Trenton wages have been advanced from 10 to 40 per cent and the capacity of the works has been greatly enlarged. Such indications as these are unmistakable, After two years and a half of depression the load is lifted and good times have come again. ND NEBRASKA comen bulld ostabl Chicago than 25 been ninety country 12 per wages of United States not le have this great ANEBRASK The railroad assessment county amounts to $274,684. The village of Bustis with an indebtedness of $210. Nebraska City has a choice lot of hoodlums who make a specialty of destroying park property. Meliam Kollff was drowned in Wheeler's pond, near Spring Ranch, while bathing on Sunday. Blacksmiths in Republican valley towns are kept busy night and day manufacturing weed cutters, The Buffalo County Agricultural society is preparing to make a_ huge collective exhibit at the Omaha state fair. Nearly every telephone fn Fremont was “rung off”" by a bolt of lightning that raised a row In the central office. A B. & M. train was stalled for several hours by a rank growth of weeds on the track between Holdrege and Eustis, The brass bands of Sutton, Fairfield and Edgar have organized a county band with thirty-nine pieces J. A. Shannon, an aged resident of Tilden, laid down on the railroad track with suicidal inter. He was discovered in time, The Franklin roller mills have been ruined by high water in the Republican river. The current washed out the foundation and the mill toppled over into the stream. Dr. L. J. Abbott, now the superintendent of the Lincoln insane asylum, has resigned as a member of the Dodge county Board of Insanity Commissioners. He has been a m ber of the board for twenty-two consccutive years. He has also been county physician for twenty years. Red Cloud is in the midst of a hot fight over the saloon question. At first license was refused, but the saloon men have been tempting the city council with offers of more money and at a meeting to be held July 3 it is likely that licenses will be granted at the rate of $760 per annum. for Webster worrying along Harvard, big ikt il JOWA PRESS COMMENT, Towa City Republican: The returns from the different county conventions seem to in- dicate that the candidate for governor will not be nominated on the first ballot. Stoux City Tribune: General Drake has given it out cold that if he is governor when Allison is chosen to the presidency, Colonel Henderson need not apply.. The general prob- ably has his eye on a sutler, Davenport Democrat: General Drake is leading Harlan, McFarland, Parrott, Harsh and the tall-enders for the republican nomina- tion. It isn't definitely known whether Gen- eral Drake lives in Towa or Illinois, but it is demonstrated that he knows how to run a railroad and also a campaign. Sioux City Journal: The tarift is not as dead an issue as some people are pleased to fancy. Nevertheless, if the coinage agitation should go to extremes we should likely see more conservatism on both sides of the tariff for several years. And it might not be & very bad thing, either, under all the circum stances. Sioux City Journal: Ex-Governor Boles has written another elaborate letter, evidently for publication, on silver. This letter is another turn of the kaleldoscope, but gives a quite different jmpression from his recent sensational deliverance in the form of a let- ter to Will Wells, In the latter, which was eviiently understood as indicating his sympathy with and as throwing his influence on the side of the silver extremists—in shoit, free coinage at 16 to 1. Bul the governor in his latest deliverance, although not without the serpentine phraseology which character- \zes his sentiments, seems to qualify that im- pression, at least to the extent of laying a foundation for getting out of it If future exi- gencies should require. Des Moines Leader: It has been tele- graphed out of Des Moines that In his letter to George H. Lewis, ex-Governor Bcles “takes stronger ground than ever for free colnage by this country independent of every other nation.”” No such Inference can be drawn from the letter. Its writer does not declare for free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 under the conditions suggested. On the contrary, he de- clares for something fundamentally different, the absorption of the American silver product by the treasury and the issuance therefor of silver certificates whose value shall be guar- anteed by the government. The governor's suggestion may mot be a good one, and be practically a repetition of the Sherman act in many respects, but there is no free coinage of sllver at 16 to 1 about it. It shows that the governor is committed to the doctrine that dollars must be maintained at a parity, or else the expression about “‘guaranteeing’’ 1s abso- lutely meaningless. Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE money | NEW SYSTEM OF CROP STATISTIC Payne, Columbus Delano d Willlam 8, Groesbeck, all once most favorably mentioned for tha prosidency A Conneeticut milkman, who Is accused of causing 600 cases of typhold fever by drawing too liberally on & microbean well, Is out for | With an afdavit resenting the aspersion that does | he I8 in cahoots with the doctors. The denial is as weak as hiv fluid. Willlam Laxton, who hasn't a relative In the world, took a place in the Winchester Repeating Arms company’s works as fulmis nate mixer, He i to get $30 a woek and work four hours a day. He Is likely to be blown to atoms at any minute. He will get §1 a day more than Jeremiah Spillane, who was Killed at the last explosion. Forty men asked for the place Mrs. Elizabeth B. Some of | Philadelphia Tuesday, wa Lincoln and Grant for b for the wounded in the late war. She was the first woman to go to Gottysburg after the great fight, recolving permission from | President Lincoln and going in a special car, She founded the Northern Home for Friend- less Children In Philadelphla i i anging Tolitienl Situation, New Yor 1 Secretary Lamont is a aclous as usual in declining to indicate in advance the lines lof the next presidentinl contest. "It Ia eightcen months before election—almost an b, he says, “and great changes may Vace in that time.” Great changes taken place in even the last six months, gold reserve has been restored. Gold lave stopped. The free silver fever Assignmant of State Agents ¢ tor Two Di WASHINGTON, Jun of stato a crop st has been ¢ two districts. The mplote Suve Tho assy: em of ga mpleted plan pr cles, as nent conts in ring tics save cally the tem of | ¢ supplanted b away the stat states are grouped into distric agon s which only will supervise. it 8 rts will ne a reporter in overy township ms will bo used conjointly, The e dis- heek on the other, lod Into twenty \d seven agents Fourtecn Hunter, who died at highly emed by r services in caring | compris groups single states have been will The persounel of the sta rotained as district be dropped from the | the new as agents and othier rolls. follow Now K Prot. A. L. Per Massachuset K and Ponneyly Noely New Jersey, Dela and Mary n Pratt, Deliware; and W i, Prof. J. M. M Bryde, Virs and Sou'h Carolina W. A Withor Carolina; Georgia and Florida, ox ior W, J. Northen, Georgia; Alabama, M and Louistana, J. A Lane, Alibama; Minnesota and Wiseonaia, L. M. Fay, Wiscons!n; Tennessee and Kentucky, | & Cooper D.* Schmlidt, Tennessee; California, | {2KS Oregon, Wa and1daho, Edwin F. | i Smi'h, Calif-rifa; Kane's and Missouri, Honry 0. Garvey, Kansas; Col Atizona, Nevada an expor orado, Utah, Wyoming, | has flared up and subsided. Commerce and New Mexico Carstarp! lorado Ohifo, L. I'. Stephens; industry have revived, wages have increasod, Michigan, M.E. Marsh; | prices have advanced and the entire aspect liana, Washiogion G. | of affairs have changed. These things must L L k V. Dilatush; Towa, 8. fand will affect the political situation. And R. Davis; Texas, Allen Blacker; Nebraska, | hetween now and next summer there ls to ex-Gove W. Furnas bo a session of congress which may alter the The agents two districts embracing | situation still more. Too great precipitancy Arkangas, Indian Ter:iory and Oklahoma and | is as dangerous to a party as to a presiden- the other, North and South Dakota and Mon tana, have not been ment eliminates all & tial boom selected. The arrange- a1 makes an averag daries below $720 a year of $1,000. There were formerly forty-five to twenty makes agents and the reduction several thousand dollara, rps 18 anla waro Virginia The € MIDSUMMER MIRTH. Washington Star: “De man," sald Uncle Eben, “dat fin's his lebbel in'life, high or low, er success, It am only de misfit dat 're'ly fafls."” VIN IN CHINA, Boston Courfer: “What are you painting there on your lawn mower?” “A ‘motto. “What i it?' “It's a good thing. Push 1t along.” aggrogate saving of PLAGUE APE Trousands of Celoatials Likely to Succumb During the Summer. WASHINGTON, June 26.—The United States consul at Foo Chow, China, reports the appearance of the Hong Kong plague at that place. He says it Is already ostablished as an epidemic, but that so far it is confined to the city proper. He adds: “There Is no question or doubt about the epidemlc in the city being ldentical with that such mortality in Hong Kong and ese ports, The symptoms attend- ing its appearance and progre:s unmistakably stamp it as the plague and In the infected Ustricts within the city the rats are dying in great numbers, just as it has been the in variable rule wherever the plague has shown itself in the past. “In a city like Fee Chow it Is impossible to institute any sort of sanitary measures to prevent the spread of contagious di-ease IFortunate Is the man ludicrous to Milwaukee Journal whose errors are sufliciently pass current as jokes Somerville Adam had an unde- n in some respects, but never knew the bifss that comes to a Doy with his first pair of pants, Barker got into a rum- nan the other night,” sald ikney. ‘“He offered to bet the policeman didn’t dare arrest him.' What did the copper do? ok him up. Harper's Baz which last year Withinjies cause other CI Indianapolis Journal: can desert,” sald the geogruph are “is gradudlly being reduced to naugh . 1 notice,” said the Cheerful "Tdlot. “That is the third piece of pie you have had at this one meal “The great Ameri- wraphical boarder, Clubfellow—1 have resolved on or | = J It 1s my ‘only recourse, ven to mitigate the ering: o Vic wracious, sir. Clubfellow— even to mitigate the sufferings of the vic- Mt AL R S by tims. So unless the present epidemic dies Bring me the cucumbe out of its own accord there s every prospect that misery and death will come to thousands of the 1,500,000 pecple living in the city proper and its immediate suburbs.” a word, brave man dies. nati Tribune: “I have a great mo- tion to apply a trunk strap to you'' sald the ir ither. “To what end?" asked the. boy. The father looked at him long and susplelously, but the youth looked 8o inno- cent that the old man concluded to let it go at that. Cinc Ono Sot of World's Fair tiplomas Ready. WASHINGTON, June 6.—The diplomas for the commissions at the Chicago World's fair have been prepared at last and the distribu- tion will begin in a fow from the State department. There are fifty-seven of the di plomas, designed like the exhibitors' diploma, but containing, in place of the name, the language of the act of congress, providing for thefr award to the commissioner ke s S RSONAL AND O THERWISE, Mr. Richard Le Gallienne, the decadent Yellow Book poet, as been engaged to lec- ture in America next fail. The library of the late Senator James F. Wilson of Towa will be presented to the his- torical department of that state. Sixteen to one is spreading in unlooked-for quarters. Most of the summer resorts re- port sixteen women to one man Silver Dick Bland threatens to 1 cast and camp on the gr Mr. Bland represents a issue. apoleon 1L was the last man in Burope to gather all the flects of the world at the ) opening of a canal. The fete was at Suez, and it was followed by Sedan. Senator Benjamin Richardson M. D., of England thinks that the normal period of human life {s about 110 years, and that seven out of ten average people could live that long It they lived in the right way Dr. Buchanan, the New York murderer, who has thus far dodged the electric chair, is in a falr way to shuffle off soon. His wealth is exhausted and the zeal of his law- yers has tumbled to zero in consequence. Steve Brodie has triumphed over Anthony Comstock, and it has been decided that the plctures in his saloon on the Bowery are pho- Excepting of himself, tographs of well known and recognized works And spends his life unceasingly of art. “I'm no panderer to vice,” says Amasaing slores of pait. Steve, “I'm a connysure. See?" There are yet living In Ohio several octo- genarian statesmen who achieved in public life a national reputation. They have retired from politics and are living in easy retire- ment. Among these may be mentioned Allen G. Thurman, John A. Bingham, Henry B. Chicago Tribune: Kiljordan—Kajones, you are a gentleman, 1 told you a story yester- day which I now remember having told you @ few weeks ago, and you took it the second e without wincin ok \(‘n‘,‘-ll I beg to assure you that I did not remember that you had ever told me the story before. KiljordancThen 1 take back my first re- mark. Washington Star: “A statesman' said the earnest patriot should “be sure you're right, and then g “Maybe so0,” replied Sena thoughtfully. “But that's O 1s 12 hat s 5 ¢ 80 it ahead ana square it afterward¥ motto," Iways be, ahead. Sorghum, ot my plat- DISASTER Kansas City Journal, In order to be mo mired, Her limbs in bloomers she attired, g Then bravely her new wheel bestrode invade the | Anq *round the town she waily rode. of Wall street. [ Alast Most painful to relat ughty and fearful | Her former beaux all shook ‘her stralght, | She found, with many a sigh and pang, Her new suit was a bloomerang, CENT PER CENT. merville Journal I sing “the man of business,” whose Sole alm is to get rich fair means o foul, and he 1< not too stringent which. Misfortune sore may come to those To whom money's lent, But what is that to him, so long As he gets 12 per cent. By His neighbors say that he is “sharp;’® He calls it “being keen, And_challenges you In his eyes To find a speck of green. He never thinks of any one He nlways keeps within the law— lhe written law, that is; The moral law he daily bre Remarking: “Biz ‘s bz But retribution sure will come, And, the first thing he knows, He'll got_into old Satan’s clutch, And Satan will foreclose. FROM NOW TILL JULY 1st We shall have a variety of Bargains to offer BECAUSE we want to reduce all lines of gools as much as possible BEFORE WE TAKE INVENTORY. We find, as every other trustworthy house finds, tha! it pays to cut off the profit and let the cost price sell them QUICK. Just at present we call special attention to our hat departments—TWO OF THEM. We have a mammoth assortment of hats, the largest ever in Omaha, embracing both men and boys' MEN’S STRAW HATS, 8 or 10 different styles, for 50c, 75¢, $1 and up. CHILDREN’S STRAW HATS, in endless variety, at 23¢, 50c, 75¢ and $1. See our Douglas street window for an idea of our great assortment of children's hats, Your monzy’s worth or we'll trade back. 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