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Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25

The damages by the late terrific biz
Yard in the eastare computed as amount
ing TO $40, 900, 900 in the two cities Of
OF Philadelphia and New York alone.
A large portion OF this fell upon the
telegraph and telephone companies,
whose network of wires and forests Of
poles we're twisted and torn into frag-
ments and leveled to the ground, form
ing an additional obstruction to trade
and travel.
AS a result, the eastern public is now
demanding more vigorously than ever
that the wires shall be placed under
ground. In congress resolutions we're
at once adopted calling for estimates for
placing the fire department wires under
the streets of Washington, and demand
ing Of the district commits toner's that the
telegraph and telephone companies who
had not already done SO should
follow suit. The natural incon-
v%eniences of the storm were added
to greatly everywhere in the east by the
wreck and ruin of the wires and poles
in the cities. In Philadelphia and New
York streets we're rendered impossible
for two days by the tangle of the wires
and the great masses of poles which had
to be cleared and cut away by piecemeal
before street cars could run or pedes-
TRANS could pass. The same was true
in Washington and, doubtless, in a less
degree, in every other town or city
which felt the force Of the tempest.
TIn ti,na h,a ~, ,rLa, xln -,,oa&....
OF putting the wires under ground in
every city of metropolitan ~pretensions
must com to the front. Entirely apart
from such exceptional instances as the
late blizzard, the daily danger resulting
from overhead wiresis a constant menace
to the lives and property of citizens.
Every fire which takes place proves the
unwisdom Of allowing a wire barrier to
obstruct the operations of the fire de-
partment, and in many instances delay
the escape of inmates of burning build
ings. The delay and inconvenience to
the public as a result of broken wires,
affected by every hail and sleet storm,
is by nc mean inconsiderable. In adj
dition, the forests of poles and tracery
u NUN " oVi OCuod llu OIOu Il
fares destroy the architectural effect
and materially detract from the appear
ance of the city.
During the last five years the expert
ments of electrical engineers have dem
onstrated the feasibility of under
ground electric communication. In
New York and in Washington
the electric sub = ways have been
extensively laid and the results have
proved in every way satisfactory. Dur
ing the late blizzard the only wires which
We're working in these cities were the
ones which were protected from the in
clemency Of the weather. If the re-
cent down east blizzard shall hasten the
burial of telegraph, telephone and
electric light wires in all our large
cities it will prove to be a blessing in
disguise.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25

Poor Idaho is in a bad way Of being
cut into two pieces and losing her ident-
lily altogether. Senator Stewart, of Ne
vada, has induced the committee on ter
eitories to amend the bill for the admis-
sion Of Washington territory as a state
by allowing the people in the panhandle
of Idaho the right to elect delegates to
the Washington constitutional conven-
ton. If then the northern part of Idaho
becomes a part OF the state of Washing
ton, the people of southern Idaho would
despair of making the territory a state
x0r many years to come. Under such
circumstances it would be easy. to get
congress to annex it to Nevada. In that
case Idaho wonld be wiped out of exist
ence, and Nevada would have new blood
injected into her veins. That is why
the senator from Nevada takes so much
interest in the attempt to slice Idaho.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
What Russia is Doing.

London Telegraph: Europe is face to
face with two distinct Russian move
ments, which are significant, is not
serious. All over Poland the advance
of troops toward the frontier continues;
the Russian commissariat accumulates
stores at Warsaw as if in preparation
for a great campaign; and many officers
OF leave have beer recalled to their
regiments. The other side to Russian
activity is presented at Constantinople,
where M. de Nelidoff has delivered to
the porte n second and more pressing
note, urging turkey to intimate to
Prince Ferdinand that his presence in
Bulgaria is illegal. 1t is impossible to
avoid connecting the two proceedings
the diplomatic urgency, and the meas
ured march of armed men on the western
frontier of the empire. Certainly it is
not surprising that ''great anxiety"
should be felt among business men in
central Europe, and hat the Russian
rouble should steadily decline in value,
The fear is hat the czar, supported by
Germany and France, will obtain from
the porte a condemnation of Prince
Ferdinand sufficient to encourage a
domestic revolt, and that if anarchy
supervenes Europe will tolerate, if 10
sanction, a Russian occupation of the
Drincipality.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25

appears that after leaving his home,
Mr.. Hall went to the western limit OF
st. Paul TO look tie location OF the
block he was to bAEdhnd before return
ing to Minneapolis Ssat down to rest.
While seated here a st. Paul police
man, in search of Harry Jones, an es-
capped lunatic, cane up and arrested
him. In spite Of his protestations, Mr..
Hall was taken to the probate court at
st. Paul, identified as Jones by three
men and sent to the Rochester insane
asylum. Here Ne remained until
March 4, 1888, when expert examiners
pronounced him we'll and he was dis
charged. That suth an error of mis-
taken identity vas possible under
the circumstances and at this
age of civilization, allows
some ground for belief that perhaps q
similar mystery surrounds the disap-
p%earance of Mr.. Rea. If the man had
been foully dealt with there certainly
would have been some evidence to the
crime, or If business or marital troubles
caused him to disappear, those facts
would be known. But where q man is
literally swallowed up, with not a clue
to trace him, the parallel case of Mr..
Hall perhaps may afford the scent for
following the search.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
MAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAY, MARCH 2a 1sss-sIXTEEN PAGES

il alone, should float from the seat Of
sovereignty" In the term Americans,
Mr.. Hewitt embraces all citizens.
Impetuous and t~houghtless persons
have roundly denounced the mayor Of
New York for his action in this matter,
but there can be no question that he
will have the approval OF all intelligent
men who will give his position and his
reasons for it fair and candid con-
sideration. Such will see that 1T is not
q mere sentiment which demands that
the national flag shall have distinct SUI
premacy, a separate and superior re-
gard in no circumstance to be shared
by any other, but o principle as vital to
the foreign-born citizen who looks to it
for protection as to the citizen of Ameri-
can birth. It is the common duty and
the common interest of all TO see that
this supremacy is in nowise impaired and
only those who cannot comprehend that
the flag is in fact, and not simply In
fancy, the symbol of national sovereignty,
will fail to acquiesce in this view. Every
true citizen Of the republic, Of what
eve nationality, will most surely attest
his undivided allegiance by the respect
with which he. regards the flag Of
the republic, and the jealousy with
which he is prepared to guard it against
every association that might detract
from it as the emblem of national au-
thor1ty and power. The assertion Of
American feeling in this matter which
Mayor Hewitt has so plainly and forci-
bly, made will offend no foreign-born
citizen who will give it intelligent and
fair-minded consideration.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
Carrying Whisky into Iowa..
Chfnnno Herald.

CHtCUVO hcIUtu.
The decision Of the supreme court OF
the United States in the case OF Bow
man versus the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad company is a disappointment to
the Iowa prohlbtionists. They had
passed a law that a railroad should not
bring liquor into their state. The tri-
bunal of last resort declares both the
statute and the favorable decision of
the federal circuit court at Chicago to
be of no force. The railroad can carry
whisky into Iowa. The state must con-
tent itself with Furnishing the inhabi-
tants who drink the dreaded fluid. No
less than three of the justices, however,
dissent from this opinion.
The supreme court does not often
seem TO be dealing with matters where
the truth can be seen of all men. The
telephone decision was carried by q
vote OF 4 to 3, 8 not voting. The Iowa
liquor decision is made on q vote Of 8 to
8. The court does not come together
much better than the committee on
ways and means. The law, at least on
the supreme bench, is held to be the
summit Of human wisdom and reason.
But will people long believe it with
roll-calls Of 4 to 8, with 2 lodging?
AS for Iowa, the state has been going
at break-neck speed in the direction of
sumptuary regulations. Several recent
decisions from the court at the capital
have strengthened the hands of the
radical cold-water forces. 1t will not
hurt them now to come up against the
nation, even in a little matter of whisky
freights. If the Towans do not want the
whisky, they need not use it,
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25

THE United States may have sent
some OF our hog products to France that
would not bear too close an investiga-
ton. But that is no excuse for France
to send us in the last fiscal year 81
SOC, 900 worth Of brandy and still wines
made of German potatoes, spirits and a
little cognac oil. The truth of the mat
ter is, that the authorizations of our *
ports to France is but a fraction COM
pared with the harmful mixtures sent
to us under the labels marked cham
payne, claret and cognac.
If France is fastitidious about a little
harmless cotton seed oil mixed with
lard, congress should retaliate by clos
ing u ports to French wines on the
ground well proven, that they are adul-
terated and unwholesome. Such legis-
lation would bring France to her senses.
The true reason, however, why Ameri-
can products are excluded, is not
wholly OIL sanitary grounds, but poll
teal. The French hog-raiser wants
protection against u pauper hogs, and
the French Legislators are obliged to
pass prohibitory measures.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
What the Press Says.

'" sNfF '''
A Judge in Omaha declined to grant
an Injunction restraining engineers
from quitting work. What he said upon
the subject recalls the advice of the old
Judge to the young judge-always to
give his decisions without giving his
reasons. No doubt it would be both un.
just and impracticable for the courts to
attempt to keep men at work who wished
to quit work, but not for the reasons
given in this case. ''Such action would
be in~equitable," he said, ''for the reason
that another remedy exists-suits for
breach OF contract whenever h terms
of a contract are not carried out" AS
we have often pointed out, this remedy
in labor troubles is entirely illusory. II
the Union Pacific undertook to sue each
of It's striking engineers severally
for the damage sustained by their
quitting work, or for his quota of the
damage, the damages it could recover,
or at least the damages il could collect,
would not pay the cost OF the litigation:
This is the weakness of all schemes OF
arbitration between a party that a
and a party that cannot be forced to
abide the decision of the arbitrators.
Telling a railroad company TO sue its en-
gineers for damages and calling that
process a !''remedy"i 10 mores uitable to a
western humorist than tor a western
judge. .
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
Forty Years on the Rail.

"Forty Years on the Rail-" has been
issued by r. r. uonnelly & Sons, pub
fishers, Chicago. The author is Charles
B. George, a veteran conductor now a
resident of Elgin, Ills. The book is an
interesting description of the life and
experience of a railroad man and is re-
plete with incidents humorous and seri-
Gus.
Beginning with his boyhood home
the author gives to the public the in
cidents of an experience of forty years
as n conductor and dedicates the volume
to the conductors and other friends in
the railroad services. The work is of
especial interest to railroad men and
may be read by people in all vocations
with profit and pleasure to themselves.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25

THE international council of women,
to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of
the first woman's rights convention,
will assemble in Washington to-day
and continue In session until April l.
A comprehensive programme has been
arranged, which will supply ample ma
terial for the attention and discussion
of the members OF the council. A very
large attendance is assured, and there
will be present a number of the friends
of the cause from foreign lands, even as
far away as India. The Womdn's Til
bune. published at Beatrice, Neb., Of
which Mrs. Clara b. Colby is the edi-
tress, win be printed in Washington
during the session of the coun-
Gil, and will give daily
a full stenographio report
OF the. proceedings. Those desiring
complete information of the work of the
council can get the Tribune for the ses-
sion at thirty cents per copy by order
Ing ten or more copies. Toregular sub
scribers, members of the National
Woman's Suffrage association, and
persons contributing not less than one
dollar to the expenses Of the council,
the Washington issue of the paper will
be sent free. All the arrangements as
Indicated in the programme are most
methodical, and the deliberations OF the
council viii doubtless be highly inter
esting.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25

THE convention of the Union Labor
party which met recently at Cincinnati
adopted a platform and resolved to OPP
pose ''making the public schools work.
shops by the introduction of technical
and manual training" Why a labor
party should begin a crusade against
this branch of the public schools is un-
explained. Labor has not yet been
brought into unequal competition with
a high school mechanic. And from the
nature OF the high school manual train
ing, it will be many a long day before
its graduates can compete with any COM
petent mechanic.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25

IT is hard to believe that the spirit of
cruelty that was won to cropout during
slavery days should now find vent down
south in brutality towards convicts.
Prisoners are leased by the various
states to railroad and mine
companies principally, by whom the
unfortunates are treated with a brutal
ity that surpasses even the horrors Of
the Siberian mines. Such a condition
OF affairs is not confined to any one state
or locality, but is prevalent through
put the whole tier of southern states. 1t
is true that Arkansas and Alabama have
set to work investigating the charges
of brutality, but public sympathy is SO
little affected by the disclosures that a
reform in the treatment of convicts is
doubtful.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25

THERE is a good deal of truth in Con-
gresham Tillman's words when he de-
clared that whenever n labor bill was
brought into the house it stampeded the
members as a hawk stampedes the pig
cons in a dove-cote. Congressman are
as bold as lions championing the aust
OF the workmen on the eve Of election,
or when they come home to prop up po-
litical fences. But the moment the
word labor is sounded in congress, they
u pell-mell over each other to get
under cover.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
A Mean Man.

Detroit Free Press: The meanest
man on record jumped aboard a Wood
ward avenue car the other afternoon.
Every seat was occupied; and what did
the man do but look out the window and
whisper something about a dog fight.
OF course no man could keep his seat
under such a provocation. When Brown
had looked in vain for the dog fight he
also looked in vain for his seat. 1t was
completely hidden by that mean man,
who was SO deeply interested in his
paper as to be wholly oblivious of every
thing else. But Brown had his revenge.
A lady soon entered, and before any n
could offer her a seat, he punched up
the mean man and said:
"Will you please give this lady aseat,
sir?"
Then they hung ON the straps and
glowered at each other until their brows
ached-
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25

1t is recommended that no proxies be ad
mitted to the convention, except such as are
held by persons residing in the counties from
the proxies are given.
GEORGE ID. MEIKLEJoHN.
WALT M. SEELY, Chairman.
Secretary.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25

KING MILAN of Servia and President
Cleveland have both had their lives in
sured. If they could have taken out
policies insuring them against political
defeat the premiums would have cost
more than the amount OF insurance.
hazardous risks.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25

league have looked TO o casual observer like
a useless waste of time and treasure. =
1t seems, however, that the old county and
precinct organizations had mostly fallen into
the hands of grangers and the politicians had
lost their grip. SO the club organization was
resorted to that the railroad politicians might
regain their former standing.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
Republican state Convention.

The republican electors of the state of
Nebraska are requested to send delegates
from the several counties, to meet in con-
v%ention, at the city of Omaha, Tuesday May
10, 1888, at 8 o'clock p. M, for the purpose of
electing four delegates to the national repub-
lican convention, which meets in Chicago
June 10, 1888.
THE APP~oRTIoNMENT.
The several counties are entitled to repre-
sentation as follows, being based upon the
vote cast for Hon. Samuel Maxwell, supreme
judge, in 1887, giving one delegate-at-large to
each county, and one for each $50 votes and
major fraction thereof.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
THE DAILY BEE.
Sworn Statement OF Circulate

Notary Public,
State of Nebraska, l..
County of Douglass, oo.
Geo. d. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de-
poses and says that he is secretary Of The Bee
Publishing company, that the actual average
daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month
Of March. 1887. 1900 copies; for April,
H,227 copies; for June, 1887, l4,1F copies;
for july, 1887, 1,Ge3 copies; for August,
1887, H,l6l copies; for September. 1887, 1899
1857, 1b,228 copies; for December, 1887, 15,04i
copies; for January. 1888. 1920 copies; for
GEO. b. TZSCHUCK.
Sworn and subscribed to in my presence this
Sd day Of February, A. ID. 1888. N. p. FELL,
Notary Public.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-12-06

While we are paying compliments
and c0nferi0g hohors on the workers
who contributed largely TO the success
OF the Republican party in the late
national campaign, we are glad to SEQ
that the services Of the leader of the
anti-saloon Republicans is properly
recognized. Without the anti-saloon
movement in New York that state
could not have been carried for Har.
rison and Norton. We copy the fol-
lowing from the Minneapolis Tribune
as expressing our own sense of obliga.
tion to that movement:
The New York Mail and Express has
pref0i lned an act of justice in calling
attention to the great service which the
Hon. Albert Griffin, of Kansas, rem
dered to the cause of temperance in
the late campaign. As the organizer
aud chairman of the national anti-sa-
loon Republican committee, Mr.. Griffin
has done much toward guiding the ad-
vanced temperance sentiment within
the Republican party to the paths of
reason and true progress. He has been
an .unsel6sh and energetic worker,
whose sole aim has been the promotion
of the noble cause in which he 80 ar
IDENTIFY believes. All good Republicans
will agree with our colleague that his
''claims to recognition are as great as
his devotion to the great cause has
been phenomenal, and that he deserves
the gratitude, not only Of I'll Repubu
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-12-06
THE FIRST SKETCH OF LINCOLN s
EMANCIPATION PROCLAN1A-
TION.

The Nicolay and Hay Life OF Lincoln III the
December Century gives an account OF the first
sketch of the Emancipation Proclamation, the
original draft being here printed for the first
time. cabinet meeting was held Oh July q
1867; concerning this meeting we quote as
follows:
Further conference was had on organizing
negro reginicutn but Lincoln decided that the
could be safely entered upon. Writes Chase:
'rne impression leil upon my mind by the whole
discussion Was. that while tile President thought
Ut negroes like other soldiers would be pro-
willing that commanders should, at their dis
Slaves coming Within tlieir lines: Bit on the
kilidlei policy III emancipation the PRESIDENT
had reached d decision which appears TO have
been in advance of the views Of his entire
Cabinet Probably greatly to their surprise. he
read To them 4 draft of 4 proclamation warming
the Of tine Ss
Of compensation t" loyal States which would
adopt gradual aboishment, adding summary
lux free the slaves Of ali States which might be
i'll rebellion on January l. 1853
.o, thu c.,',not nrocood;nos ,,h;ch to,,o>ved
the reading of this molnentous document we
have unfortunately only very brief memoranda.
Every member Of the council was. we may IN
Of the proposal. The sudden consideration of
this critical question reveals to US with vivness
the difference in mental reach, readiness, and
tutional advisers Only two of the number gave
the measure their unreserved concurrence, even
after discussion. 1t IS strange that one of these
sentative of the conservative faction of the
slaveholding State Of Missouri, and that the
member who opposed the measure as whole.
and proposed to achieve the result indirectly
through the scattered and divided action of 10
cal commanders in military departments, was
Chase representing perhaps more nearly than
any other the abolition faction Of the free State
of Ohio. All were astOnished, except the two
to whom it had been mentioned week be-
fore. None of the others had even considered
such step. But from the mind and will Of
President Lincoln the determination and an
nOuncement to his Cabinet came almost as COM
plete in form and certain in intention on that
memorable Tuesday Of July a. when. two
months later. it was given to the public. or as
officially proclaimed OH the succeeding New
Years Day, an irrevocable executive act"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-12-06
BEECHER At LIVERPOOL.

Rev. DR.. Buckley, who was present at MI.
Beecher's famous Liverpool address, contrib
utes an account of the proceedings to the De-
cember Century. From 1t we quote the follow
ing: "After he had read for fifteen or twenty
minutes a loud roar was heard, Shut up that pa
per- which was Immediately responded to from
the other side of the building. He can't get
along without book! He don't know enough
to speak!' He is = coward! From another
place came the question in a shrill, plercing
voice, Where did you steal your sermon7'
I'm less than two minutes the whole audience
appeared to be In motion. Men were pushing
and si69wng Yelling ana shriekng S one 1aat nan
howl and then sink out of sight. The police be:
gan to move about with an expression Of good
humcr upon their faces pushing q men With both
minutes it vas impossible for Mr.. Beecher to
BE- heard. He made several attempts to finish
wit. and occasional outbursts of cloquence for
which he was famous. The dissurbers had
lion. and that they must break him down or he
would carry the bulk Of the audience with
him. They resorted to every means tmagin-
"Mr.a aBeecher's voice, when he was excited
and spoke very loud, had roaring sound they
that when he ended paragraph in = clarion
like . score OF infuriated bulls and continue
sometimes five minutes at stretch for when
some would be out OF breath. others would take
:gsin; Meanwhile M; Beecher would talk to
was large number. and occasionally to the re-
porters. He would say to them. Gentlemen,
nf :ycS and "dt Re SsayG ypg It t. II !, E
audience, and you shall take down my words,
thirty millions Of people would read them He