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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-05-01
Mortgage Indebtedness.

WASHINGTON, April 22.-The nsu
bureau has made public 4 bulletin CIV
ing statistics of mortgages in Alabama
and Iewa. The debt in force in
Alabama January l, 1890. was 80, O27,-
9S3. Of which 1870 per cent was on
acres and $3.50 per cent on lots. A
large proportion OF the debt on acres
is due to investments in mining and
iron and steel manufactures. The
total existing real estate mortgage in
debtedness of Iowa is $199, O34, 956,
TAFT per cent of which. or $14S, S14,-
645, is on acres and %. % per cent, or
$50, 220. 81, on lots. In Clinton coun-
ty the debt is 81, TT, S4S; Des Moines
county, 50. So, 709; Dubuque county,
SIS, 81, S34; Linn county, 81. 617, 14O;
Marshall county, s., 6O7, 9O2; Polk
county, $11, 0S4, 761; Pottawattamie
county, 81, Gel, 626; Scott county, So
121, 002, Woodbury. county, S14, $685.
995. These are the principal counties
in the state and their existing indebt-
edness is 27.38 per cent of the total,
while their proportion OF the states
population is 81. 40. There is an aver
age Indebtedness of $lO4 to l OF the
population in the state. In Woodbury.
county it is $258. in Lyons county 1867,
and in Osceola county $20S. these ratios
being the highest in the state. from
which they descend to $50 for Dallas
county, which is the lowest. The av-
erage life of a mortgage in Iowa is
4. SO years. Partial payments in the
state represent lie per cent of the
face of the Indebtedness on acres and
lille per cent on lots, a total Of 1927
per cent. The computations necessary
to show the number of acres and lots
by the existing debt have
not yet been completed for these states.
The chief rate Of interest in Ala
bama is represented to have been 8
per cent. OF the total recorded debt
II. 40 per cent drew interest above 10
per cent and 1851 per cent at 10 per
cent or less. Above s per cent all in
terest is u%surious, and such rates are
or were actually paid on Is. 81 per cent
of the recorded debt.
Interest at s per cent is or was paid
on 4S. 60 per cent of the debt of Iowa
recorded during ten years, Z per cent
on 21.9 per cent, 10 per cent on Is. %
per cent, 6 per cent on 1888 per cent,
above 10 per cent on 0.02 of l per cent.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-05-01
The President at Pasadena.

PASADENA, Cal, April 27.-The
president delivered the following ad'
dress at the banquet rendered himself
and party by the citizens here:.
Gentlemen: I beg you to accept
my thanks for this banquet spread in
honor of this community of strangers
who have dropped in upon you to.
night. We came to you after dark.
l am not prepared to speak to you OF
Pasadena. When the sun shall have
lighted your landscape again and our
%expectant eyes shall rest upon its glor-
les. l shall be able to give you my i'm
pressions of your city. which l am al
ready prepared to believe is n of the
gems in the crown OF California. Per-
haps no other place in California has
by name been more familiar to me
than Pasadena, if you except your
great commercial city of San Francisco.
That ONE from the fact of your early
settlers, who were Indiana friends. l
am glad to see some of these friends
here tonight. 1t is pleasant to renew
these old acquaintance, to find that
they have been received with esteem
in this new community. l have found
a line of Hoosiers all along these rail-
roads we have been traversing. Every
where our train has stopped some
Hoosier has lifted his hat to me. and
often by the dozens. AS l said the
other day. Ohio men identify them
selves to me by reason of that state
being my birthplace, but it is not a
surprise to me to find an Ohio man
anywhere. Ohio men are especially
apt to be found in the vicinity of pub
lie office. l suppose whatever good
fortune has come to me in the way of
political preferment must be traced to
the fact that l am a Buckeye by
birth. And now l thank you
most cordially again for your atten-
ton and kindness. California
has been full of the most a~tfectionate
interest to US. l never looked into
the faces of more intelligent and hap
py people than these l have seen on
the Pacific coast. You occupy the
most important position in the sister,
hood of states. stretching for these
several hundred miles along the Pacific
shore. You have fortunate birth and
your history has been a succession of
fortunate surprises. You have brought
out here great achievements in con-
verting these plains which seemed to
be SO unpromising to the eye into such
gardens as car be een anywhere else
on the continent. And now. when l
remind you that it is my bedtime,
which was l o'clock last night and
that reveille sounded at 6 o'clock this
morning on our car, l am ure you
will permit me say good night" Tap
plause.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-05-01

port for the United States. Most Of
these, however, he says, are Canada
ans who work in New England fac
tories, and after the season is over re-
turn to Canada. Neither collector has
any definite plan to suggest to prevent
this Immigration in violation of law,
but Collector Benedict suggests that if
an immigrant inspector be placed at
Montreal he might trace immigrants
to the United States. and in other ways
help the United States authorities.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-05-01
General Won Moltke Dead.

BERLIN, April 25.-General Won
Moltke died here last night in his 91st
year. His Goth birthday. October &c
last, having been celebrated with
much pomp and great honors.
Count Moltke entered first into the
Danish service. being of Danish de-
scent but shortly a%fterward, in 1922,
passed into the Prussian army. In
about ten years he succeeded in
achieving promotion to the staff. In
1885 he made a voyage to the east,
where he was introduced to Sultan
Mahmoud of Turkey. At the request
of the sultan Won Moltke undertook
important military reforms in the
Turkish service, and also won con-
siderable credit in the Syrian cam
paign of 1889. Returning to Prussia
he was appointed chief of staff in 1856.
and aide-de-camp to Prince Frederick
William. He devised the campaign of
1866. against Austria, and having been
promoted to the rank of general he di-
rected operations, under King William,
in the decisive battle of Sadowa. He
is credited with having LAID out the
plan of operations for the Franco
Prussian war, and he was the chief
military director on the German side
in that great struggle. The invest
ment OF Paris vas his plan for ending
the war. He has since been the chief
military figure in Europe, keeping up
his activities even until his death
He attended the reichstag in
the afternoon, and died suddenly at
9:45 in the evening of heart disease.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-05-01
Pork Will Boom.

WASHINGTON, April 25.-Germany
having announced that the pork and
swine embargo against the United
States will be lifted as soon as our meat
inspection laws are put in operation,
DR.. Salmon, chief of the bureau of an
imal industry, which will have charge
of this inspection, said today that he
expected the machinery to be put in
motion very promptly, and probably in
two weeks. This will give pork a de-
cided boom in prices it is thought.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-05-01
Nv Colonel Ainsworth.

department by Colonel Ainswortn.
would be a great convenience, u !"
would be necessary to make 1t very
obligatory upon court officers toioi-
ward the names Of all who may De nat
,ralized in every place hereafter
together with other information ne.e
sary, as court officers are negiigens
have found. 1t could be made ooliga-
tory upon these officers to forward ne
statement in every instance q then
make it a necessary part OF the na-
turalization. Then the government
would have at its fingers ends, so 70
speak, the information to determine
upon q moments notice and oeyonu
doubt the question of citizenship IN an
cases. 1t is important for very many
reasons"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-05-01
The Immigration Problem.

WASHINGTON, April 25.-Collector
Benedict at Burlington, Vt, i~ncloses
in a letter to the secretary of the treas
ury a report from an immigration in
spector at Montreal, who states that
during a period of ten days thirty
three carloads of immigrants had ar
rived at Montreal, about one-third of
whom were destined for the United
States.
F. A. Woodbridge. collector at New
port, VT, reports that about 400 i'm
migrants per day pass through that
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-05-01
POLITICAL 2ROPHESY
IND CLGKD IN BIZ PRESTDEyT.ELECT
CLIRKSON.

that Will Figure In the
didate Must Not Only be Near the
People but He Must Not be Far from
the Parma system of National
Registration-Henry Watterson Dis
courses on Political PrognOstica.
tiOns-The Democratic Standard.
Rearer
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-05-01
Won MOLTKE rs DEAD.
CAREER OF THE GREAT PRUSSIAN
SUDDENLY CLOSED.

He Passes Away I'm His Ninety first
Year OF Hear Disease-Jack the
Ripper Believed TO Have Taken Up
Residence I'm New York-His First
Victim in that City-The Lottery
Companies Receive a Black Eye
Pork to observation-disclosures
bert's Angry Subjects.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-05-01

Both houses of the Wisconsin legis.
lature have passed a bill appropriating
s64, 900 for a worlds fair exhibit.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-05-01

orGy WOrGu 90, OUV. IL Is lurGuer dl-
legged that Mrs. Paulsen through fear
was forced to sign the paper deciding
the land away.
DIR. B. B. Davis of McCook was
awakened about 4 in the morning by
| the piteous cries of an infant and as
| he has no children he was at first at a
| loss to account for the cries. The
little one was found on the doorstep.
The child was apparently about four
weeks old and neatly dressed. No
trace has yet been found of the inhu-
man parents who have thus deserted
their offspring.
"A gentleman from Hastings says
that the receiver of the broken City
National bank of that place has
Modified the treasury officials that all
available funds of the bank had been
exhausted and there still exists a de-
felt of at least SO, 900. He advised
bringing back H. Bostwick, well
known in Nebraska as Boss" who is
charged with wrecking the bank.
"A report current at the Union Pa
cific shops in Omaha that hours at the
shops would be cut to eight a day on
May l is contradicted. The men hail
the contradiction gladly. as a sign that
the retrenchment methods of Charles
Francis Adams are no more and that
hereafter there is not to be a sudden
and severe reduction to make a show
OF earnings and later a forced increase
to dispose of accumulated work.
Evening journal., 1891-04-01
STONE FOR ooNvlcTs TO BREAK.

Resolution Asking For Sealed Pro-
posals-The Assessment on Horses.
At yesterday afternoons session Of the
Levy Court, County Constable w. a. H
Clark's bond. with Charles w. Jefferson
and Arthur Colburn as sureties. was an
proved The assessment on property Of
the Wilmington City Railway Company
was reduced from $3, 500 10 81, 500 A
new engine house and boiler room, be
longing to the same company was assessed
at So 600.
The committee appointed to inquire
into the stock assessment Of Wilmington
hundred reported that the assessment for
said hundred is 500 500, an amount to
cover but 1880 horses and mules. "a
careful examination Of olher records
show that 2 475 horses and mules are
liable to assessment which would nearly
double the present assessment. Your
committee recon mends that this matter
BE- made Of record to the end, that the
assessors OF said hundred be specially
instructed when they shall next receive
instructions from his court
The committee appointed to examine
the error lists Of +. A. Sturgeon, ex
collector Of Christiana hundred, reported
having found errors amounting 70
$40 477 on the FIRST list, and $235 so on
the second
James 4 Colmary was elected constable
for Mill Greek hundred George Ely.
road commissioners for Christiana hun
dred. described the dangerous condition
OF the b q o. railroad bridge over Rid
ley creek, in Christiana hundred. Ex-
Collector James n. Smsllays error lists
were found to amount to S32, 329 and
SIS 254 respectively.
Aresolution offered by Mr.. Hickman to
assess the lot 15x100 feet in the Ninth
ward to Charles l. Stengle at $f5. was
passed amid a roar of laughter. A long
discussion followed and the facts were
brought out that the lot was under
water, that the tax on the propert '
would be 8 cents, and that as it would
cost the county 10 cents to have it as :
sesed the county would therefore lose 6
GEMS on the lot every year.
Nothing but routine business was
transacted at this mornings session.
Mr.. Hickman offered a resolution in
structing the clerk to advertise for sealed
proposals for furnishing stone to be used
In the county Jail yard at New Castle in
accordance with the provisions OF ths
Ball Convict Labor bill, recently passed
by the General Assembly. The resolu-
tion was discussed amid much merriment
Tor several minutes. At the suggestion
Of Mr. Grubb, Mr.. Hickman withdrew
the resolution until after q copy Of the
bill is received.
Evening journal., 1891-04-01

JUeTIcE SAGE OF the United States
District Court at Cincinnati has made a
decision taking some Of the terror out OF
''the boycott. In suit brought by the
proprietor Of the Coviugton (KY.) Com
monwtalth, to restrain a Cincinnati
Typographical Union from boycotting his
paper, the justice decided that such a
boycott is criminal conspiracy. The
owner Of the Common wealth refused to
conduct his paper according to union
regulations or to pay union rates. The
union then had handbills and circulars
posted and distributed, calling upon the
patrons of the newspaper to withdraw
their patronage. The defendants did
not shirk responsibility or deny the
statements. but denied threats or
neuaee They insisted that the PLATA
tiffs remedy lay in civil action, but the
justice held that the gist of the oflense
did not lie in the acts Of the defendants
but in the Illegal combination to do them
They could not escape by pleading that
they had made no threats and had no ma
licious intent.
Evening journal., 1891-04-01

THE verdict Of the jury in the case Of
Mrs. Schmidt Of Chester, Is not unex-
pecied. There was not sufficient evil
dence such as Is allowed to percolate to
minds Of the average ignorsmus Of a
jurYman to convict the woman Of the
murder of her sister but the evidsnce- Is
SO strong and abundant that Mrs
Schmidt will always be under suspicion
till the foul crime is imputed to SONS
one slse Mrs Schmidt had strong, In
fact the strongest provocation to murder
because she likely caught her sister in
the act Of criminal intercourse with Mr..
Schmidt in their own bed room. She
was doubly betrayed by her husband and
her sister Il is no. astonishing that she
was beside herself with an insane rage
which prompted her to kill her sister,
but It is strange that she did not inhicE
some punishment on her silly, insgnia-
cant. crlnglng, unmanly and criminal
little husband.
Evening journal., 1891-04-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST

SHE-"Isn't it horrible about Mrs
TinsleY2" He = Yes; what coulc
have induced her to elope With her but
ler2" She-"That's the saddest part Of
it, She called at her husbands Office anc
was told that he had gone to the matinee
with his typewriter. That caused it all
And now 1t turns out that his typewriter
was man. - Chicago News.
WHEN you decide to take Hoods Sar-
saparilla do not be induced to buy some
substitute preparation, which clerks may
claim Is ''as good as Hoods" The pc,
lliar merit of Hoods Sarsaparilla can
not be equalled Therefore insist upon
Hood Sarsaparilla.
PENELoPE-"There, uncle, that makes
two hundred and seventeen presents
Aren't they lovelyp Her Uncle-'My
dear think | now understand why we
are told that in heaven there is TO be NO
giving in marriage. Puck,
DIR. DE HARDT's Pennyroyal Pills are
the only genuine pennyroyal pills made.
At druggists and by mail, 81 Office, 20a
N. 9th St., Phila. Ladies beware OF
limitations.
Senator Palmer once worked for %
cents day on an Illinois farm. and
afterward learned the trade of cooper.
De paid his own way through college
Evening journal., 1891-04-01
STREETS AND SEWERS.
The BIN for Taking in Kentmer. /,
Rockford Park Approved.

The BIZ for Taking in Kentmers aRd
Rockford Park Approved.
The last meeting of the Street and
Sewer Directors at which James Murrav
was TO attend was held las. evening. ma
city treasurer reported the balance N
bank 70 current expenses, sl2. .19S AZ
interesting sewer, S94. 500 90 totsi
$37, O22 05 The city auditors collsctions
amounted to $50 80, and the secretarv' !
to 500. The weekly pay roll OF $Sis 39
and the engineers pay roll Of 1928 3s
were ordered paid.
b. F. Townsend asked the board to sp
prove the bill taking Kentmere and Rock
ford park In the city as part Of the
Seventh ward as It was desired that
kentmere be built up and the houses
liked to some grade, and in order 20 have
the correct grade the land must be taken
into the city. The bill was approved.
The contract for grading Washington
street Of the Brandywine was awarded e
the Creston Land aud Improvement Com
pany at 20 cents per cubic yard.
The Fame Hose Fire Company pre-
sented bill for 800 for damages done
10 horse by a defective gutter plate.
while the company was responding to !
IRE alarm some time ago. No action was
taken.
The board then adjourned to meet at
ocllck this afternoon TO consider speci-
hcatious for furnishing the city with
cement, as we'll as to consider the bill OF
John JAcoby for the building Of that por-
ton Of the intercepting sewer. which had
been laid over from last year for want OF
Evening journal., 1891-04-01

HFWE is the gist Of the news from the
WesV to-day :"The Farmers are Suffering
jr lsensas Hundreds Of Farms Are
Abandoned, . "Aliens Own Large Tracts
and e oan Companies Are Forced to Take
Much of the Territory After Advancing
upon II Far More Than It's Value.
What do our Republican friends, the
asa,esmen, fnanciers and political
economists offer for this state Of aifairs7
h.0ie tariff taxation.
Evening journal., 1891-04-01
The Anfi-pinkerton niII.

ALBANY, April 1.-The senate judiciary
committee gave hearing on the bill oi
Mr.. Sulzer, known as the ti-Pinkerton
bill Mr.. Henry Hicks, representing the
Knights Of Labor appeared for the bill
He said that it was q measure TO prevent
the shedding Of blood Of innocent peopl,
by jailbirds. The bill was designed fur
thermore to prevent the use Of Winchester
rifles upon the people who dared to assert
their independence It was measure fur
ther designed to make the civil authorities
looked up to as the guardian power. An
gustus II. Schoonmaker and Thomas b
Mcclure also spoke in favor OF the bill
Evening journal., 1891-04-01

uoNeREss having adjourned and there
being no pressing business in Washing
ton to demand and rivet her attention,
Baby McKee's mother has stolen away for
few days visit to her husband in the
electric light business in Boston. Com
parisons are frequently odious. but they
are often more instructive than volume
otdidscsic sermons. The beautiful young
wife in the White House three years ago
was model Of womanly modesty and
loyal Difference in sinking her personality.
which is BY no means insignificant. 70
larger claims Of her husband This other
young wife scarcely seams to remember
that she has husband or that her hus
bands children do not belong to their
suddenly elevated grandparents.
Evening journal., 1891-04-01
nIias rmmn nrnrn No.

ELIZABETH, y. j., April Miss Emma
Mayo member of one Of the Oldest fam
lilies Of Elizabeth, niece Of General Win
field Scott, and great granddaughter of
John Dehart, a member of the Continental
congress, died at her home in Elizabeth
yesterday of pneumonia. She was nota-
BILE for her deeds Of charity. In many
things she was eccentric and she had her
coffin constructed some years ago Of plain
oak, with a large cross engraved on the
Evening journal., 1891-04-01
Prompted by oonscisncs.

J. Clayton Massey, the jeweler at No
404 King street, received on Monday
morning an is karat gold ring worth
Sli 60. which bad been dropped through
the letter box Of his door. The ring had
been worn, and as no name or address OF
any kird accompanied it, Mr.. Massey is
Of the opinion that the ring is one Of a
number that had been stolen from him
three years ago last February, aud re.
turned to satisfy the promptings Of
eonscience.
Evening journal., 1891-04-01

n is cheering news TO be informed that
Malone and Langston are united WI
mington journal.
Yes. It is always cheering news To
learn that the brethren are dwelling to-
gether In unity and love Chester Times.
Notwithstanding the somewhat incon-
venient reputation that one has for steal.
Ing Venable's seat in Congress and tie
other for re adjusting" the debt of vir-
eioia to cheat bond-aolaers Of their due.
There are not enough honest white men
to so around. hence the Republican party
picks up al the neutral shades Of skin
between white and black and al positiv e
Evening journal., 1891-04-01

A REPORT Of the meeting Of the
City Building and Loan Association In
another column shows what the EvBNIKG
JOURNAL published two years ago,
namely, that J. Eldridge Pierce was dis 5
honest, was betraying his trust. was a
rascal, and shows what the EVENING
JOURNAL published six months ago, that
he stole almost 500, 0o0 Thus, two years
after the bright young men" Of this
lively and plucky little paper proved the
facts, the tinanclers Of the robbed COM
panY awake to the Comprehension that
the thief has gone, gone with $50, 000
This incident furnishes the op-
pertunity to recommend the Lsgis !
lature to create the office Of State
Examiner Of Loan Associations. Several
Of them have failed, and they all conduct
their business Ia such secret manner
that 1t is next TO impossible for stock
holder 10 ascertain their standing till
they have failed They furnish some
conveniences and advantages not afforde d
BY other institutions, but being public
in their operations, their statements,
like those Of the banks, should mol only
be published, but be subject also TO the
inspection Of competent state officer
Evening journal., 1891-04-01

A WILD story from the bounding West
relates that IS. M. Garrett, an attorney
of Kansas City. Kan, was found in his
ofh p Monday a raving maniac. He was
wasy poor. he had no money to buy
foao, and was too proud to beg Hunger
drnse him mad II he was too honest
to steal, he could not have been much of
n IL uvvar
Evening journal., 1891-04-01
a Lnrx nrIher pnnlshcd.

CHICAGO, April III. J. Hopper, who
confessed TO having attempted to bribe a
juror in damage suit against the West
Chicago City Railway company, was sen
fenced to the county Jail for ninety days
for contempt of court and held in 5000
bail on the jury bribing charge Martin
c. Shannon was held in s., 600 bail on tbs
charge of alleged completely.
Evening journal., 1891-04-01

II our Republican friends who have
iheg pul. at the Treasury would take
as uNch interest in an appropriation by
Congress- to repair the Delaware Break
wa's and make safe harbor at Lewes
As iaey take to procure subsidies, they
Won do the shipping industrya great
bsf DO. What is the use or subsidies TO
ipouse yther ships to run II we will not
mnhc q safe harbor for those ships we
hs- Already
Evening journal., 1891-04-01

tints Of dishonesty from the thief of
state to the purchaser of ffty-cent
vote, 1t is impossible to sIcken the
Republican party as constituted. 1t
swallows Malone and Langston with a
single gulp, and then yearns, for more.