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Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
THE COURTS.
United States Court.

The case of Sheppard VS. the Chicago &
Northwestern railway, in an action to re-
cover $1,000 damages for injuries sustained,
has been continued to the May term of the
court.
The case of David H. Lincoln VS. l.. Hol-
land, to annul payment of a note for $3.50. Is
on trial before Judge Dundy.
The federal grand jury rested the election
frauds investigation temporarily in order
to take up other business yesterday
This matter is a pending in
dictment for perjury against William
Dunlap, of Silver Creek, this state. 1t is
stated that at recent land trial in the
courts at Grand Island testimony was given
by Dunlap which is extensively questioned
as to its truthfulness. In the hearing before
the jury to-day Robert Blair and Alexander
II. Steen gave testimony the tenor of which
Is said to have been strongly sustaining the
charge of perjury. Dunlap has not as yet
been arrested, and in consequence the mat
teris kept very quiet by the government of.
tcas. About eighteen witnesses have been
summoned to appear and give testimony.
The jury IN the case of John Grant against
the Union Pacific has not as yet reached a
verdict
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
District.


The case of Marshal VS. Goble, an action
10 recover IS, 500 as commission on sale of real
estate, has gone to the jury.
The case of Christianson VS. The Nebraska
and Iowa Insurance company, an action to
recover $500 insurance, is before Judge Croft.
The Muller Music company bring suit
against johnson Biehl for the recovery of
Sc, 900 damages. The Muller company are an
Iowa corporation doing business in Council
Bluffs.
against j. w. Phillips for the payment of
Der %, 1887. In defanlt of payment plaintiff
prays that certain real estate collateral be
sold and tho proceeds devoted to the liquda-
tol of this claim.
A. j. Poppeton has filed petition against
David Smith and the cOunty,of Douglas et.al.
The subject matter of this suit is a dsputeas
TO right of way.
The Omaha and Grant Smelling company
bring an action against Daniel Cathroe late
foreman in their employment. On Septem-
ber II, 1887, man named Brady was injured
and subsequently recovered $500 damages.
The smelling works company claim now tnat
the accident to Brady was the result of
Cathroe's negligence. '&sAa
Judge Doanc is engaged in hearing the
case of Mary a. Dugdale against the city of
Omaha. Mrs. Dugdale claims $40, 600 for al
legged damages done to her property by rca-
son Of the grading of Dodge street between
Eighth and Ninth streets.
In Judge Wakeley's court Nels Seicroe VS.
Tiena l.. Benzon is on trial. SG0040 is
claimed for labor done and building material
supplied.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08

for the young men to spend their evenings
this winter
G. c. Basset', OF WoonsoclSet. il trying
mis- hand at atimproying the invention Of Darius
Green.
pMrs. Bishop principal of the Rapid City
schools, has resigned her position and will go
TO Florida for the winter season.
young farmer named Charles Brown,
living near Glendale, has mystcriously dis
appeared, and Frank Name who lived with
him, has been arrested on suspicion of being
the cause OF his disappearance.
A number Of young bachelors at Deadwood
are talking of sending out for a carload of
young ladies TO spend the winter in Dead.
wood. There seems TO be a scarcity of them
at present, and the consequence is that
sinch and high five are popular but expensive
games.
There is an organization in Yaukton col.
lege called the Order of st. John The most
that Is known concerning the order mt pres
ent is that the members have forosworn all
association with the gentle sex. The amount
of moral courage required to take this oath
will be Comprehcndcd when IL is known that
all the knights are at that tender age when
their affections and mustaches are Just com
ing TO be felt.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
INVESTIGATION does not always in

INVESTIGATION does not always in
vestigate. 1t was not to be expected
that members of the board of education
who are mixed up with the school fur
niture traders would tell half they know
about these peculiar transactions. 1t is
not expected, either, that the furniture
agents will give away the secrets of
their trade. 1t is we'll known to all
who are familiar with the school book
and the school furniture business that
the influence of school boards and en-
ployes is sought and procured through
percentages and "divies.o 1t is not to
be presumed that Mr.. Morrow, who
plumes himself upon being ''inluentialn
with certain members of our board of
education, and especially with the
building committee, has invented the
story he told to man whom, at the
time, he believed to be the agent of
school-desll concern. If Morrow did
weave this yarn out OF whole cloth, he
is very bad man to have about the
premises of school board; if he told
the truth, the premises need very
general overhauling.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08

the corner opposite and cast. It was the
most unblushing cfrrontery on the part
Of DR.. Mercer, after he had induced
capitalists to invest enormous sums in
Upper Earnam property to stand
up and advocate relocation. The
other champions OF violating contract
obligations and robbing unsuspecting
investors are on n par with Hascall and
Mercer. They either have spite to
crafty or Merccr-uary ends in Wow.
To keep up any further agitation of
this issue, in Wow of the obligations
which the city has assumed toward for
eign capitalists and its own citizens,
would be worse than repudiation.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08

THE legislature Of Colorado will, at
ats coming session, elect a successor to
United States Senator Bowen, and the
present indications are that Mr.. Ed
ward Wolcott, a prominent railroad at
torney, will be the choice. This gen
tleman has good local reputation as
lawyer, more than local reputation as
poker player, and has made one or two
clever efforts in the line of oratory.
But his strength lies in the fact that he
is devoted friend OF the railroad COR
Lado, and are using all their influence
in his behalf. He is opposed by large
majority OF the republican newspapers
OF the state, mainly on the ground OF
his devotion to the corporations, but
the Colorado Legislature is largely
composed of men who owe their
political standing to railroad influence
and AID and with tho brass-collar crowd
Wolc0tt could have no stronger recon-
mendation than the fact that he is the
creature of corporations. 1t will be
matter for general regret II Wolcott Is
successful. However ample and brill
liant his qualifications, the United
States senate already has too mary
members owned by the corporations,
and there is reason to believe that
Wolcott would prove to be one of the
most aggressive in their interest. The
policy OF the people should be to keep
railroad attorneys out of congress and
by statute prohibit member OF that
body, as the bill OF Senator Beck pro-
poses, from accepting any employment
from railroad company. Only in this
way can the people ever be assured that
their Interests will receive Just consid-
GRAFTON.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
ADJUSTMENTS

"RanCh TO-" presented at the Grand opera
house last night, is intended, as its title i'm
plies, t. illustrate phases of life in the west,
and for this purpose the author located his
scenes and incidents in Wyoming at date
seventeen years past. 1t is just possible that
at that period there were types of character
in the western territory somewhat similar to
a few of those presented in the drama, but as
usual with such productions, most OF its peo.
pie are exagGerations or caricatures. How
ever, Ranch l0r Is no worse in this
respect than all plays of its cast,
aad 1t possesses quito as much
interest as any of them Love is the all-per-
vading sentiment and moving force OF tho
dramatic love of cultivated Massachu-
setts girl for an unpublished frontiersman
VINO is prepossessing, courageous and manly,
and who has twin brother the perfect
counterpart of himself. OF course there is a
villain, and there is a Judge of the kind sup
posed to have formerly administered justice
in the far west, a doctor who dominates
pretty much everything, fighting lawyer,
a parsou, and woman who has no confidence
in mankind and no fear of anything. There
is an abundance of the sort of heroic sent-
ment which no one but writer of west
ern plays ever uttered or thought, the
rifle, pistol and Bowie knife come into fire.
quent rcquisition, and, in word, allsthe es-
sentials of thorough-golng melodrama are
provided. The most realistic feature of the
play is the burning of the corral and ranch,
and it was warmly appaudcd. Mr.. j.
Clinton Hall assumes the dual role of the
twin brothers, Al and Tom McClelland and
makes of them all that is perhaps possible.
Miss Fay Chester is the Massachusetts girl,
Annie Smalley, in love with AL McClelland,
and she also does as well with the part as
is necessary or as it merits. And this sort of
comment might as well be applied to all the
characters. They make no demand for
artistic or careful acting The audience was
small and not notably demonstrative.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08

THE report that the Chicago pork
packers have formed trust to embrace
the packing industries OF st. Louis, St.
Paul, Chicago, Omaha, Des Moines,
Kansas City and Sioux City is not at all
improbable. 1t is well known that the
pork packing establishments of Kansas
City, Omaha, Sioux City, st. Paul and
other cities are closely connected with
Chicago firms. In fact, the former were
originally branches of the parent houses
in Chicago. An understanding there
fore may have been reached to concen-
trate the business as much as possible
at several of the prominent packing
centers. This would, OF course, neces-
state the shutting down of houses in
centers not so we'll adapted and forcing
smaller concerns to the wall. But the
formation of trust in the sense to con-
troll absolutely the pork packing busi-
ness of the country is out of the Ques-
ton,
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
4 SIrGG nSrIHE nyILLR1T

There Is one fact in the annual report
of the secretary OF the treasury to which
very little prominence is given, but
which. nevertheless, is interesting and
instructive. 1t relates to the decline of
America n shipping in the worlds car
rying trade. The report shows that
while the imports and exports of this
country have considerably more than
doubled in the last thirty years. the
proportion thereof carried in American
vessels has decreased from over sew
enty-fve per cent before the war to less
than fourteen per cent at the present
time, while OF this small proportion only
fifty-three per cent was last year car
ried in American steam vessels. In
other words, over 80 per cent of our
trade with the world is done through
tho medium Of foreign vessels, chiefly
those of Great Britain.
Thus our merchants and manufactur-
ers pay annually into the pockets of
European snip owners nearly or quite
two hundred million dollars for freight
charges. while they are necessarily also
placed ut a disadvantage in competition
with the merchants and manufacturers
of Europe, both as to rates aud privil-
leges. Certainly among the disasters
of the war hardly one was more serious
than the destruction it brought to our
merchant marine, and while nearly
all else has been repaired our
shipping interest, so far as the
worlds trade is concerned, is in worse
condition now than when the war ended.
No statesman has appeared capable of
presentinga practicable and satisfactory
plan for restoring this important inter-
est, and year after year ii has gone on
of the world the American flag at the
declining, until now IN most parts
masthead of vessel is one of the rarest
of sights.
The next administration and congress
will have an opportunity to consider
this subject, and it is altogether proba-
BILE that within the next two years it
will become prominent in public atten-
tion and discussion. With the more i'm
mediately urgent questions of re-
vision of the tariff and the admission
of the territories disposed of, which will
be done at the first session of the next
congress ii not by the present congress,
there is no question in sight of greater
concern to the practical interests OF the
natlon-to the future of its commerce
and to its ability to successfully COM
pete for the worlds trade-than that Of
rebuilding its merchant marine and re-
gaining at least its former position in
the worlds carrying trade. If the next
administration shall be able to solve the
problem involved in this question, so
that American commerce shall be sup
piled with American facilities for its
transportation without building up an
interest to become charge upon the
public treasury, it will perform
a service to the country of such
inestimable value as to give it most
conspicuous and honorable place in the
nations history. AS yet an entirely
practicable aud satisfactory policy has
not been suggested, although the ques-
tion has been discussed in and out Of
congress for twenty years.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
Perseyering Civil SERVICE.

A. w. Griffin, chief clerk of the railway
mail service at this place, has been removed,
and f. T. Murphy, former messenger on
the Burlington between Council Bluffs and
Chicago, succeeds him. Superintendent
White made the change. Griffin has been in
the Office here for six years. Murphy as
sumcs charge to-day
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08

Ir behooves every member of the Ne
braska legislature to keep in mind two
broad propositions affecting revenue re-
form. The first is to pass laws by which
taxation may be equally and justly dis
tributed. The second is to cut down the
eNtravagant expenditures and appropri-
oIinnc
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
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Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08

GENERAL HARRISON is said to have
bagged a brace of partridges, three
canvass backs, one grouse, and score
of tufted cabinet hunters on his recent
shooting trip. 1t evidently takes
president-elect to bring down the game.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
BugEics Collide,

About O'Clock last night two buggies col
lided on Sixteenth street at the juncture of
that street and Capital avenue. One of tho
carriages contained lady AID a little child,
who were thrown out, but beyond a severe
shaking up they sustained no injuries Both
rigs were badly broken up
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08

AND now comes the Mexican postal
authorities and bring serious charges
against the American postoffice depart
ment, accusing it of negligence and
carelessness in handling Mexican mail.
This, too, after Don Dickinson made
his glowing report to congress of the
efficiency of the postotlice department
for the year.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08

&THE Cultivate bill to extend the pay
ment of the debt of the Union Pacific
railroad fifty years is not likely to pass
out of the door of the house in the light
Of recent disclosures.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08

THE total vote cast in Nevada at the
presidential election, November 6, was
12,609. Nevada evidently needs brac
ing tonic to stir up her sluggish INDUS
trieS
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
County.

The attachment in the case Of Maxwell VS.
knight was discharged on motion.
George Berlinghof has entered suit vs. r..
M. Genius in an action to recover judgment
to the extent of 5000.
Oscamp ~ ElameS were awarded verdict
in the sum of $29092 against q, Newman.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08

WINE suppers, it seems, are neces-
sary to make the life of certain mem
bers OF the board of education thing
OF beauty and a Joy forever.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08

New YORK proposes to establish free
warm baths during the winter. This is
an opportunity not to be lost by the
great unwashed Tammany crowd.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
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Glass Worth $4,000 Broken.

Yesterday morning at the Kennard Glass
and Paint company's store, on Sixteenth
street, number of cases OF plate glass top.
pied and the entire contents were broken
into fragments. One of the store men mar.
rowly escaped being crushed by case as it
fell over, The total loss will probably foot
up g., 900.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
One Marriage License.

The following marriage license was
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! Peter Rasummus, Omaha. ............... 25
| Annie Watson, Omaha. 25
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
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Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08

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Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
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ONCE Ann ron AI1 TruE.

No one knows better than the editor OF
The BEE that the question Of location Of the
city hall has never been voted upon directly.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the pro-
visions of said ordinance, notice is hereby
given that at the general election to be held
in the city of Omaha. Douglas county, state
of Nebraska, on Tuesday, the Sd day of No
vember, 1885, the proposition recited in said
ordinance in regard to the ratification of said
ordinance will be submitted to the electors of
said city.
All votes Eyes" shall be considered as in
favor of ratifying said ordinance, and all
votes "No'' shall be considered as against
ratifying said ordinance.
On the day before the election the
following editorial appeared in THE
BEE:
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08

The English are in peck of trouble over
the situation in Egypt. There is now no
longer any doubt that the Mahdi has done
something to the Nile which has essentially
lowered its stream, so that not only has there
been no inundation, but the great irrigating
bitches have remained dry. Sir Samuel
Baker is of opinion that the great tributary,
Atbara, which rises in Western Abyssnia,
has been turned. He says that ii could easily
be DONE and that the government at Khar-
toum knows enough to do it, and has In the
Soudanese abundance of strong arms that
would accomplish anything he ordered.
Other travellers III Eastern Africa support
Sir Samuel Bakers hypothesis, and one
asserts that the probable point where the de-
Election has been. made is near Kassala,
which city commands the roads to Suakim
and to Massowah. He imagines that 1t has
been turned into tho Red Sea near Masso-
wah, which has been given up by the Ital-
ians to the Abyssinians. This would be
great friendliness, and 1t would have ten
dency 10 bring about perfect understand
ing between the Mahdi and the Negus, who
would in future work together as true allies.
Truly the English have made mess of IL by
dethroning Islnail Khedive, for Egypt is
almost doomed, since it was the alluvium OF
the Atbara that was the fertilizing element
in the yearly inundations. Take the Atbara
away from the Nile, and food is taken away
from Egypt. This comes of the interference
of money kings in state matters.
~
In spite Of the fact, that If Germany seizes
Luxembourg, and then Holland, upon the
death of the old king now dying by inches at
Loo; and Russia at the same time attacks
Austria having made all necessary disposi-
tions for the onset; In spite of the undenia-
BILE fact that under such circumstances the
selfinterest Of France and England prompts
thom to combine together to put stop to
the ambition of Germany, it is clear that the
two countries are drifting into something
more than coldness-into positive aversion.
The great London daiies do not hesitate to
affirm that the republic is doomed, aud some
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
ECZEMA RADIOALi.Y CURED.

For the radical cure of an obstinate case of
Eczema OF long standing, give entire credit to
the CuTICUHA REMEDIES.
Il. B. RICHARDSON, New Haven. Conn.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
CHARGED WITH RURDBR.
Why Three Arrests Were Made 81 tho
Indian Nation.

Why Thee Arrests Were Made 81 tho
Indian Nation.
Special to the Gazette.
FORT SMITH, ARK, March 4.-D5pGty
United States Msrshals Naples and Rusk
arrived here this evening with Joseph
BeasIey, Jason Shelley and Lafayette TIL,
charged with the murder of Jsf Smith, in
the Cherokee Nation, on the I7th Of last
month. It seems that two OF three days
previous to the killing these parties snd
s fourth msu named Smith arrested JET
Smith without authority tor turning
horses into q mans field. They reported
the arrest to Deputy Marshal Comedy
who was in the neighbor5OUd, and be
ordered them to release Smith, which they
did. After the release eI-Deputy Msr-
shall Silss Andrews told the men to re
arrest Smith and be would see
that csse was msds againsl
him at Fort Smith. Accordingly about
daylight on the morning of the 18th they
creps up to Smiths house and Teel got
him out Ct doors by representing that he
had come to see him about cutting wood
Smith and TeeI had few words, when
John Smith rushed out Of his couCssIment
behind the house and shot at J II Smith
ard then genera shooting began, tRe
two Smiths being billed desd, falling near
each other. The wife Ct Jef Smith and
man who was stopping there over night
were eye-Witnesses TO the tragedy. The
three survivors seem 20 be in bad bCN.