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Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22
The Suicide Mnnin.

chicago tribune.
The record of Sunday suicides in Chicago
was most extraordinary. Seven persons.
five men and two women, made the attempt
to end their lives. and five of them succeeded.
The youngest of the group of unfortunates
was a girl Of Is. Ill-health was the cause Of
one, insanity Cf one, domestic infelicity Of
two, melancholy of one, and liquor of two.
1t is noticeable that four cut Of tho seven used
poison as the agency of self-destruction, the
po!sons being carbclic acid, laudanum, paris
green and morphine. This peculiar prem
inence of poison as the means of committing
suicide is not confined to this instance. 1t
prevails all over the United States. In two
thirds Of the reported cases the pistol and
poison are the reported agencies in use. Last
year there were 1,729 cases of poisoning to
1,5O4 Of shooting. This year, to date, the
poisoning cases exceed the shooting, being
1918 to ISL. The extraordinary increase,
which has taken place only during the last
two years, apart from the pathetic side of it,
for poisoning is the NEST agonizing of all
forms of death, shows the ease with which
self-murderers are able to procure poisons,
and argues that some more stringent re-
strict!ons should be placed upon their sale by
druggists.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22
UHAT DOES II MEAN?

More than six months ago Chief Re
dell of the fire department pointed out
the defects of our water works system
and the Imperative necessity of en-
larged water mains in the business Dor
ton of the city. Chief Redell's views in
this respect are in accord with those of
the city engineer as well as those of
expert hydraulic engineers employed by
the owners of the water works. The
raising of insurance rates by the under
writer's in consequence of this lack of
fire pressure has imposed n heavy bur-
den upon property owners and mer-
chants. The demand for relief was
voiced through the Commercial club
months ago in resolutions requesting
the council to take steps to invoke the
power of the courts to compel the water
works company to proceed with the
necessary improvements or have its
charter revoked.
Mayor Bemis had during the preced-
ing year taken steps TO compel compli-
ance with contract obligations by the
water works company by vetoing the
appropriations for fire hydrant rental,
but the council had been manipulated
to override the veto. The same result
would doubtless have followed this year
had the manager of the water works
company deemed best to use his pull
with the dervish combine of the present
council. Under p~retense that he wanted
the courts to define their contract and
charter rights Mr.. Hunt allowed the
council to sustain the last veto, thus
leaving the $4,000 which were to have
been expended this sumner in water
works enlargement in the city treasury.
Meantime the company's attorneys
made application to the United States
court for an order to permit the diver
sion of the funds and their expenditure
for the proposed improvements. This
application was filed early last spring,
but no order has yet been issued by the
~chargeable to the illness of Judge
Dundy were it not for facts that point
in another direction for the real cause.
Judge Hiner, to whom the application
for the order directing the receivers OF
the water company to proceed with the
necessary Improvement had been re,
fcrred, declined to do so until the money
to pay for the work shall be deposited
in court. In other words, the court de
clines to take action until after the
council has passed the appropriation fol
back hydrant rental, and the warrant
signed by the mayor has been passed
over into he custody of the court. Now
why has the council taken no action
Who is responsible for the exposure OF
the lives and property of Il citizens tC
the danger of Il destructive conflagra
ton? Manifestly the council combine
Who controls that combine? Alonzo b
Hunt, the water works receiver. VIVA
object has Mr.. Hunt in blocking tho
enlargement of the water mains ut thi,
time, when hundreds of laborers ar,
anxious 10 find employment and wheI
our retail trade would he materially i'm
proved by the employment of thes,
men and circulation of their earnings
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22
PERSONALITIES.

..f .H .
Senator German is strictly temperate, en-
cept when he compliments the administra-
ton.
Quay and reform are working in cahoots
in Pennsylvania, Quay gets the delegates and
reform holds the sack.
1t is difficult to outclass Chicago in any
sphere of action. How quickly Dunning fol-
lows Denver in the horror line.
There are said to be 5000 miles of .unex-
plored forest in Africa. If the American sup
ply runs short, presidential possibilities can
fall back on the Dark Continent and continue
the wood-sawing act indefinitely.
Owing to the stupidity of the cashier, 4i4
hard silver dollars were left in the vault of
a Tacoma bank when the concern collapsed.
AS 1919, 900 went where the vine clingeth,
the oversight must be irritating to the man
ayers.
John Morley is extremely nervous before
going on the platform to speak in public.
When he has once fairly started, however,
his nervousness to a large extent disappears,
but he has admitted that the strain which
he undergoes is very severe.
A portrait of the late Walter @. Gresham,
by Frank NJ. Pebble, has been on exhibition
at the Art Institute in Chicago. The likeness
is said to be excellent. The work is to be
added to the portraits of the secretaries of
state in the department at Washington.
The waste of good fruit in San Francisco
this year, owing to the glut in the market,
has been large, but the climax was reached
one day last week when 500 crates of the
finest cantaloupes from the Sacramento val
ley were dumped into the bay because they
could not be sold for 10 cents a crate of
thirty large melons.
The coming man in Turkey is Turchan
Pasha, the new foreign minister, who has
had a remarkable career and is in high favor
with the sultan and the grand vizier. He was
nIlp1tal in Franco and his Hifn iS Ona nf
Turkeys rare new women" At her hus-
bands official receptions she stands by his
side unveiled, dressed in the latest European
styles and wearing eyeglasses.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

A DISASTROUS POLICY.

The injury inflicted upon the foreign
III of the United States by the
abandonment of reciprocity is not the
least serious feature of the democratic
economic policy. 1t is asserted, and the
figures appear to sustain the assertion,
that by the destruction of the reciprocity
treaties alone this country has been de
prived of a foreign trade amounting to
not far from 500, 0OO. 900. 1t is pointed
out from the statistics that the exports
to Belgium in 1892 amounted to $4,000
900, while last year they fell off to
S25. 100000; the exports to Germany in
1892 were S105,0OO.0 O0, and for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1898. they
were only S92,0O0.o0O: in 1892 the eX-
ports to France were $4,000 900. while
last year they fell off to S45,O00,OOO.
in 1892 were $4,000 900, and for the
last fiscal year they fell to S~13,0OO,O00.
Admitting that the abandonment of
reciprocity may not be responsible for
all of this loss, it is still unquestionably
true that n large proportion of this great
httlillV III W NNloi'' 10 NV w INV
action of the democratic congress in
abandoning Il policy under which our
trade with foreign countries had been
very materially enlarged and which
promised increasing and permanent
benefits.
There is another most important fact
in connection with this matter. Not
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trade. but there have been developed
conditions distinctly inimical to Ameri-
can interests. We do not stand as well
commercially with any of the countries
with which we had reciprocity arrange
ments as we did formerly. The United
States has experienced Il loss of COM
mercial prestige as well as of actual
business. This is apparent in South
and Central America, where European
merchants and manufacturers, whose
supremacy was threatened by our
reciprocity policy, are now aggres-
sively asserting themselves to our
disadvantage. Just now British enter
prise is especially active in Brazil, and,
so far as the United States is concerned,
that country has practically Il clear
field. This country buys of the prod
ucts of Brazil seven or eight times as
much as Great Britain, yet the exports
of the latter to Brazil are more han
double those of the United States.
There is the same condition of affairs
as to most of the countries south of us,
and u commercial relations with them
are growing weaker. whereas under
reciprocity our trade was steadily gain
ing, Notwithstanding the vigorously di-
rivals to counterfeit the effects of that
policy.
The abandonment of reciprocity was
distinctly in the interest of European
merchants and manufacturers. so far as
the countries of this hemisphere are
concerned, while. as clearly shown by
the statistics, it was damaging to our
export trade with several European
countries. Commercial reciprocity was
a statesmanlike policy. the wisdom OF
which was fully justified by results,
and it will be among the first duties of
the republican party, when it is again
in control of the government, to restore
the policy, though it may be more diff,
cult than at first to have it accepted by
other countries.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22
ENGLAND BEGINS TO Worry.
that the Nicaragua Canal VIII
Intcrfcrc Win Her Intcrrsts.

LONDON. Aug. 21.-The st. James Gazette
this afternoon publishes a scare article ask
ing how Great Britain stands with the United
States government in the matter Of the
Nicaraguan canal and says that it will be
well If Rt. Hon. George n. CurZon, under
secretary of state for foreign affairs. Is asked
to give some explanation on the subject in
the House of Commons. Continuing, the st.
James Gazette remarks: "As far as can be
seen, we are heading straight for a crisis and
there will be either a diplomatic deadlock
between the two countries or the English will
surrender important treaty rights. The dead
lock can be avoided by discreet handling of
the facts by the foreign office and a sur
render need never occur. Should a situation
be brought about in which the United States
finds 1t can ignore the state OF Central
America, then good bye to any hope of re-
tanning, much less extending, our CONNER
cial hold on the republics of the Spanish
main, a market in which We already suffer
from uncommonly sharp competition from the
Americans and Germans
The st. James Gazette then proceeds to
rehearse the history Of the Nicaragua canal,
claiming that the acceptance Of the Ameri-
can Canal company to guarantee further
capital for it would be an infraction of the
Bulwer-Clayton treaty. The St. James Ga
zette then quotes President Cleveland's refer
enCe 10 the canal IN mis- message OF 1871, ana
says:
These carefully weighed words were de-
signed to create a minimum Of distrust In
the foreign office. and when read in rela-
tiOn to the consistent, moral support given
by the United States to the COmpany's en-
terprise and the i~nsistent demand of the
American people that their government
guarantee the whole capital, come what
may. it is plain that the ultimate object is
not so much the cutting Of the canal as
tho firm and final establishment of the
United States authority in Central America.
With the canal completed wholly by the
United States the independence of the re-
publics would be merely nominal. 1t is true
that English financial assistance was sought
by the American syndicate lest the Ameri-
can government falter in giving the guar
antics; but these negotiations have collapsed
because it is not proposed to allow the Eng
lish capitalists their due share Of control,
which is sufficient indication of the exclu-
sive power the Americans mean to exer-
else on the isthmus.
THE cardinal point of the Whole matter is
does the government mean to enforce the
Bulwer-Clayton treaty? If so. Will she join
the United States in making a guaranty
of the capital? If not, what steps have been
taken to secure the neutrality of the canai
and the equality of rights and opportunities
of British subjects? 1t is conceivable that
even this may so shape itself in the
future that the United States will be prac-
teal master of Central America; but before
we consent, any abrOgatiOn Of the Bulwer-
Clayton treaty must be made by ourselves
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

The real cause Is manifestly political.
The object of dcferring action by the
council on the appropriations is to have
the work held back until the fall cam
paign opens. and when funds and men
can be used for packing primaries and
conventions.
What other object could there be?
Everybody conversant with the situa-
ton knows the council would act on the
drop of the hat, or a wink from Mr..
Hunts left eye If this was an ordinary
improvement our people might look on
with patience. but when the lives and
property of our citizens are jeopardized
to promote political schemes and under
handed jobs we deem it Il duty to
enter Il vigorous remonstrance.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22
AMERICAN GIRL TAKEN TO EUROPE.
Daughter of the Late Secretary Man
nimg MetIA a EOreigncr.

ALBANY, n. Y, Aug. 21.-At noon today
in the Cathedral of All Saints occurred the
wedding of Miss Mary Elizabeth Manning,
youngest daughter of the late secretary of the
treasury, Daniel Manning. and Jules Cor
nelius Won der Oudermeulen. son of the
private secretary of Queen Wilhelmina of
Holland. The wedding was quiet because
of the absence of any of Mr.. Won der Ouder-
meulen's family, the principal guests besides
Miss Manning's immedite relatives being Mrs.
Wallace Andrews of New York; the brides
uncle, Mr.. John B. Manning, and Miss Man
ming of Buffalo; Mr.. and Mrs. Fort, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Van Antwerp and Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Mix. all of Albany. The bride was
attended by Miss Delehanty and the groom
by Mr.. Frederick c. Manning. A wedding
breakfast was served after the ceremony at
the residence of Mr.. John Delehanty. Later
in the day the bridal couple left for New
York, and on Saturday will sail for Holland.
When they reach The Hague a second wed
ding ceremony will be performed by the
burgomaster of the city. The bride will
then be introduced at court.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

Now that Bill Dorgan has drawn the
warrant for the $4,000 which was
awarded to him by Broatch, Gale and
Gatfin under the bogus appraisement
of penitentiary bric-a-brac, the residu-
airy legatee of Charley Mosher will sleep
more comfortably at night. Dor
gan has had n hand in n good
many crooked deals. but we make bod
TO assert that he never before engi-
neered such n barefaced piece OF high
way robbery with the sanction and con
niyance of state officers and state EN-
ployes. We also make bold To assert
that when the state ome Ia make its
own inventory of the chattels ana junk
for which it has paid over $4,000, he
sides the $1,000 drawn by the apprais.
ers, the fact that the state has been
buncoed will be established beyond a
reasonable doubt
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

Silver is now worth only Il trifle more
than 66 cents an ounce and yet there
that price. These working mines seem
able to supply all the present demand.
So soon as the demand is greater than
their output the price must go up n few
points and corresponding'y open more
mines. If the price should rise tC even
10 cents per ounce every mine that has
ever been worked would be again in
active operation. The talk of $1.29 sill
yer i'm the near future is without an
economic foundation.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

The men whom the people have placed in
city and county offices were put there to do
the peoples business, and the sooner they
find it out the better. Apparently a very
small proportion of their time is consumed
in attending to their official duties, and this
Notwithstanding the fact that we are sup
posed to be living in an era Of civil service
reform. Who cares whether a city or a county
machine is represented in tine Offices or con-
trolls the primaries? What is wanted is the
transaction of the city's business in a bust
ness-like manner. -Chicago Times-Herald.
This indictment applies with greater
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

The pluck and sportsmanl!ke persistence
which has sent one boat after another across
the Atlantic to win back the Americas cup
are too generally recognized by American
yachtsmen and the American people to re-
quire any phrase of compliment. At the time
of every successive contest it has seemed not
unlikely that II the quest was unsuccess-
full thac might be the last attempt of the
series, and yet they keep coming, each filter
than her predecessor. Now the third Val
kyrie, ittest of them all, takes her turn.
Fair play she is sure to have. Good wishes
go just as far as patriotism allows. May she
sail her best, and cur boat a little better than
her hnSti
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22
Neighboriy information.

UlNennOTt D"lnOcrnt,
There will be a democratic convention in
Nebraska this week. 1t will not be the
genuine state convention. but one sailing
under false ColOrs. Last year the democrats
after meeting in convention divided. The
free silverites set up for themselves, ana the
democrats who stand on the Chicago plat
form made an organization CT Their own,
1t is the unopposed silyerites who hold their
love feast this week. The simon-pure lem
ocrats Of Nebraska will meet at Lincoln or
the 5th Of September. There is bcth a dis.
tinction and a difference. With this explana.
ton no one need be confused.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

South Carolina is following in the
wake of New York in revising its
state constitution. The constitutions
which were framed three decades ago
basis for state government. The great
problems of our national existence have
been fairly well worked out, and it is
time that out political genius should be
turned toward the reform of our state
and municipal governments.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 21.-Attorney Grant
R%osenweig returned today from Kaskaski, ILL.,,
where he has taken three dispositions in sup
port of the claim Of Antoine ellis that he
is the only begotten son of the late William
ellis and sole heir of the 81, 900, 900 estate
left by him. ellis lived in his early days
in KaskaskI and came to Kansas City when
it was a trading post. he became wealthy
here and died in 1870, leaving his estate to
Mary Troost. Since then the property has
fallen into many hands. Antoine ellis is a
half-breed Indian. who lives in the Indian
Territory. The suit will be tried at the fall
term of court.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

MInnNapOIls JOurnuT,
The friends of President Diaz are anxious
to nominate him for a fifth term. Diaz has
never been particular about a nomination.
In Mexico the candidates have no use for
nominating conventions. Diaz usually nom
mates and elects himself, and does mis- own
caucusing. He did let Gonzales have one
term, but that was an extraordinary out
burst of liberalitY.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

If the bloody Cuban war keeps on
much longer there will be no S%paniards
nor patriots left to point Il moral to the
tale, provided always that the war news
fakirs can be induced to join in the
mutual slaughter.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

1t was as good rs foreOrdained that
Brice and his $ barrel would dominate
the Ohio democratic convention. 1t is
also fo%rcordained that the successor of
William Mckinley, jr, as governor of
Ohio will be II republican.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

Denver papers are moralizing on the
criminality of putting cheap, mex
pcrienced men in charge of boilers to
the risk of hundreds of human lives, but
the lesson of the Denver holocaust, like
so many similar lessons, is too likely to
be soon forgotten.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

1t is some consolation for those who
have stayed ut home that the ocean
steamers are too crowded to accommo-
date all the Americans who are anxious
to return to their native shores, and
they are eXiled to Europe for Il few
weeks longer.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

Ex-senator ingalls, is laying his wires
to regain his old seat in the upper house
of Kansas. 1t is time Kansas found out
that lo~ng-whiskered and sockless repre-
sentatives in Washington only make
themselves the laughing stock of con-
gress and that men of national reputa-
ton do their state and country infinitely
mona pranl
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

force to Omaha han 1t does to Chicago.
In Omaha most tof the men who are
drawing high salaries for transacting
the public business devote most of their
time to plotting and scheming and to
business which does not concern them.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 21.-George Mont
gomery, a millionaire member of the Saliva
ton army, is organizing an expedition to in
wade Japan and Christianize the inhabitants.
His plan has received the approval Of General
Booth, who will send a few recruits from Lon
don, and the party will sail in about a month.
The party will be under the command Of a
native Japanese lieutenant, who became con-
verted and joined the army in this city.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

The Nebraska democracy, which con
venes in solemn conClave in this city
today, viii nave no difficulty in agree
ing upon the silver plank of the plat
form.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

The street car company is putting up
iron poles along Sixteenth street and
discarding the u%nsightly masts. The
street car company is slow, dreadfully
slow, but it finally gets there.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

1t is not every state that can boast a
democratic state convention and a train
robbery both the same week. But Ne
braSka was thus ever in it.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

A strange fatality seems to have
struck Pittsburg. A few more cyclones
and excursions and the Smoky City will
be wiped out.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22
MILWAUKEE, Eyening Wisconsin.

Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.
The burning OF the Holmes CASTLE in
Chicago. adds to the uncertainties Of the
peculiar case against a peculiar man. Holmes
is one Of the slickest rascals that ever drew
breath.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

Nebraska has not entirely emerged
from her wild west days when it can
have an old-time hold-up of an express
train.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

the chances are good hat they will not
get very far.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22
Morton's GREAT want.
Tho s~licL.rs, nf Crooks.

New York Tribune.
As a letter writer Secretary Morton seems
to lack terminal facilities.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22

American hcircsses had better put up
their lightning rods. The young duke
of Marlborough is going to visit Amer
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22
a STAY Err.
Rnh RurlpIln-

A solemn calmness steals around,
A dread o'ercomes the soul,
When in my pockets depths | sound
And only find a hole.
But still this consultations left
To cheer the dropping soul
That tho of all things else bereft,
/ cannot lose the hole.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22
sTATEirNT OF CIRCULATION.

STATEMENT OF
George II. Tzscluck, secretary Of The Bee rub
fishing company. being duly sworn, says that
the actual number OF full and complete copies OF
the Daily Morning, Evening and sunday Zee
printed during tn month Of July, 1893, was as