Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 18, 1882, Page 1

t . f Vs “gqlh‘" anr ELEVENTH YEAR. LINCOLN'S LATEST. g ' i ARRIRE } possibilities, The Last Being for the Female Poultry with Baffron Colored Pedalities, 1 Im- Who are Btirring Up the Sor- rowing Bisters to a Knowl- edged of Their Rights. Governor Nance, the Hxtra BSeesion, and Cmsha's Ooncern Therein. y Other Matters in the Capital of the State, Special Oorrespondence of Tix bre. LixcoLy, March 17.— Lincoln is the home—the head center, as a Fenian would call it—of the Woman ‘sufftage movement, The inhabitants .of this place seem b have a predilection ifor running after éxtreme ideas.” Ptohi- bition numbers a very respectable fol- lowing in this city. In fact it may be stated that the Lincolnite's creed is found to be composed of total absti- nence, universal suffrage and'a fat ap- propriation. Meeting Mr, E. M. Cor- rell, the editor of the Western Wo- men’s Journal, the organ of the strong minded ladies of the state, your c'r- respondent thought it worth while to put a few questions to him regarding the 4% STATUS OF HIs HOBBY. The facts ascertained were substan- tially as foliows: The cause of wo- man sufirage is now represented in the state by forty-seven county and local asmciptinna,_ which cover about two-thirds ‘ot the territory of “the state. New associations are being constantly formed, acoording to ‘his somewhat enthusiastic testimony, and the work of organization will go mer- rily on from now to elegtiou time.! ! ““When do you ‘expeet £o. begin & vigorous campaign throughout the state?” queried the interviewer. 22nd, Plattsmouth o nduet the defense. District Attorne Lambertson leaves Washington, Saturday in con- neotion with route oases which eome up in May. same business, Work on the east wing of the Capi- the new hall in the west wing when the extra session is called. Areus, CONGRESS. National Aseoc'ated Pross, PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE, Wasnixaron, March 17. -The joint resolution authorising the government to participate in the, Amsterdam ex- position of 1083 was reported. The bill passed giving $10,000 to cohtinue work on Davis Island dam, in the Ohio, ; A bill authorizing the issue of arti- [ ficial eyes to soldiers and others was introduced. The bill passed allowing Senator Butler $3,600 and Kellogg $9,50, ex- penses of coutesting a seat. .+ The postoffice appropriation bjll was callgd up in committee of the whole land’ an amendment’ authorizing the ]mrzmallfil‘ general to' pay morey or- ders up to five years from date was adopted. Witk the exception of the franking privilege amendment the amendments were adopted. Another division was taken and that amend mcntd;dnpted by 41 to 16 and the bill passed. 5 The resolution offered by Mr. Sher- man to print 30,000 copies of Blaine’s memorial address was referred. The bill for the protection of forti- fications was puuaevf. The tariff commission bill was taken up and Mr. Pendlefon; addressed the senate, urging thg -present Bystem should be amended at ence, as it was “firregularly, “unjastly* ‘and ¥ unfairly made and intricate and vexatijus in its operation. Mr. Morril also delivered a speech in favor of the bill, 10 which he criti- cised the democratic policy on tariff for the past two years, The tenate-wenp into exgeutive ses- sion and wdjourned‘at 5:40 p. m. un- t1l Monday, » . PROCEEDINGH IN [THE HQUSE. Mr. Page méved to diepense with the regular order ot private bills and continue discussion of sth i bill. | Defeated —ayes ! ayp 03 Not ‘the néceskary two-thirds in the affiemative, {The hcusoe then took up the private “‘About sixty days before electiop) {ealendar for the day. Bills providing was the reply. ‘*We then propose to go ahead and completo, our organiza- tion ‘in’ every school district 16 the state, ‘The month previous to clec- tion we shall put our speakers and workers in the field and press the watter to a successful issue,” “You are confident. then, of. suce cesa?”. 5 ANIIIT A ‘‘Entirely so. I can see no reason now to doabt thet the meagure] will} i B A e ) e %J you, think that you ican get speakers; enough to aonduct sucki ‘a campaign as you proposel” ““No doubt of it; we have .a large vumber already enrolled in'the canse. Every eounty contalns numbers of women speakers who will ! DEVOTE THEIR WHOLE TIME to the cause.” “Are you satisfied that the women of the state—that is, a majority of them, really desire the ballot!” “Beyond peradventure, Let me give you a few figures; A canvass made in this city to determine that very (}m‘sllun showed that 85 per cent, of the many appealed toi de: sired the right of suffrage, A trigl of the same questionat Riverton showed every wouwan in town to be favorable +o the caude.| At Hastings and other points the same results have been nad.” Do you propose t) eicourage any local alliances with other factions in the fall elections?” *“Very likely, although this is not a paiy movement, in.auy way.~ We do ndt want tha eause of hpiversal cuffrage to, bo. dependent upon either the republican or democratic party, but to be triumphant by the aid-qf both, It ig, however, very possible that we shall combine wich the tem perance or the sllipnce moviments id those quartets where tuch @ ‘nfove would bo in our interest,” (1M “Is the press of the state generally with youf” “Yes; NING-TENTHS _OF THE, PAPERS 1n thestate ‘adveeate “our cause, and nearly all publish special columns, edited by the leaders in the'different counties,” rter askeéd the man of ene © 81 estimate of the probas ble majority which the state wowid give the amendment. To this, how- wver, he got no response. 1t is need less to add that the above conversa- tion presents a very roseate view of the movement, There is apparently very livtle posdibility! of its eareyivg One thing that will ‘inilitate against it is the fact that this is to be sush an excossively warm swinmer, politically, This issue will be crowded out by oth- ers in which the veters are more gen- erally interested, All indieations {.;uint to abont tfie livliest season Ne raska politics have pver kuown, and leadit livicians here express their undisguised belief that the develop: ments will make somebody quake, Governor Nance yesterday an- nounced his intention of convening the legislature, but stated that he would put it off as long as possible. Inasmuch as Omaha is WAITING VERY ANXIOUSBY to get her city charter amended, this hardly seems like justice to her. By the time the legislature meets, and the paving bonds can be placed upon the warket the sumuier will be about one, The metion for a ¢l e of ‘venug on the grounds of pm k(gthlpv‘?nu been overruled in the Bohanan case, his trial will begin Wednesday, March | bo; for the erection of foderal bnildings at Ooncord, N, H., Augusts, Ma,; Prankfort, Ky., J: Herson Otty, Mo, Montpelier, -Vt.,, and Minneapols, Mino. - Paesed. ~“The Liii authorizing the purchase of land adjacent to the custom house at | Providénce was.also passed, - - .~ - The' house- spent all the' afternoon on private bills, rejecting several pri- yate claims for relief,~ | ' <17 | A'bill was reported from the wzgn 0 S and means committee amending inteenal revenue laws.. It is the lisle 'bill already sent in these dis- patches with the clause which reduced the tax on whiskey. stricken out; also ono rela‘ing to the importation of Hrench liquor and the rights'of vine- gar makers'to distil their own low wires. The amount of bond required of distillers is also increased, The bill in orlef makos nv Shadge in the tax collected on whisky, but extends the bonded pariod to five years. A commupication was received from the sccretary of warin response to the resolution of Mr, King (La.), stating the number of persons thus tar relieved in the overflowed dis- tric's. to ba ‘about 75,000, to whom 17,000 rations havo been sent. The supphes on hand will lagt in Arkan- eas, Mississippiand Louisiana until the 20th, aud in Tennessee and Mis souri until the 30th, The sufferers are estimted as follows: Missouri, ,000; Kontucky, 800; Tennessee, 0; diliucis, 2,000; Mississippi, 30,- 000; Arkansas, 20,000; Louisiana, 25,000, - Relicf has-been"granted as foflowsi Missoufi, 26,000 rasions; I linois,: 86,000; " Keéntucky,~15,000; Tennessce, 2,600; Missistippi, 250, 000; Ackansas, 180,000; Louisiana, 216,000.” No more aid will be re- cewved in Illinois or Kentucky., Sec- retary Lincoln says- ‘Arkaveas, Mis: sissippi, Tennesses and Missouri “will éefl aifl for 8040 60 (days yct. He has no data on which te estimate the npeds of : Lpuisiana, Adjourned at until to-morrow, . e CAPITAL NOTES National Associated Press THE PERUVIAN MATTER, WasuiNeron, March 47, —Seeretary Prelinghuysen sout to fho ‘chaizman of the foreign affairs committee'a bopy of a letter to Minister Morton, in which he says he had no correspond- ence with any United States, Peru- vian, Chilegn or Frénch officials rela ting to 'Ohilean-Peruviau affaire, ex- cept an interview sought by President Grevy, which was reported ‘to the de- partinert and-called for the rep'y of Secrotary Blaine. The coptract for the sale of nitrates made by Mortor, Bliss & Co. was made by K]r. Bliss during his (Morton's) Absenco in' the ordinary course of business. ! MISCELLANEODH, Mhe republican caucus ‘to be held’ next Monday night has ne object other than the selection 0f & campaign committee, Secretary Hunt expects to be well enough to resume his dutice next Monday. General and Mrs, Grant will arrive at the White House on Tuesday, the guests of the president for a brief pe- riod, Attornby Genersl Brewster this afternoon accepted the resignation of W. G. Cook, special sounsel in the star route cases, “ROUGH ON RATS,” The thing desired found at last. Ak druggist for “Eough on Rats.” It clesr out rats, mice, roaches, flies, bed bugs; 15 2 Chapman and Beeson, of business on the star Judge Woolworth is now there on the tol is progressing finely, the winter having been very, favorable. The house of representatives will ocoupy OMAHA. SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH'x, 1882 — { CLAHOTR" 1ot HA DAILY — - EUROPEAN RACKET, T i Mil'tary Alilance Fomed by Gor- many and Austria, Lo Act Against Ruscia When Buch Action Becomes Neoeasary. German Agents Olosely Watch- ing the Work of the Slavophiles. While Russian Emiasaries are Kaown to be Stirring Up the 8trife. Miscellaneous News that Cam Ovor the Oable. National Awsociatod Pross, LonpoN, March 17.—The Irish World to-day says: “‘The decisions of the St. Petersburg commistion reuder a million Jews homeless with- out subsistence. The decisions are warrant for a repetition of the out. rages legalized by the commision ap pointed to investigate them. The Russ-Jewish committeo : hero = re- cetved formation of outrages too horrible for publication. +' A caucus of conseratives to-day re- sdlved to oppose Gladstone’s cloture measure, the success of which is doubtfui. A -dispatoh from St. Petersbury says a popular demonatration againat Gegnans in Russia is apprebanded. o rumors of Austrian annexation of Bosnia and Herzigovinia are said to be premature, but in the best in- formed political circles are not doubt- ed. Austria has kad the intention of annsxing't em ever since the treaty of Berlin. 3 & | The St. James Gazatte torday. conx taing-a-dispatch stating that Garmany and Austria have concluded a milit ry and diplomati¢ alliance for «he pur- pose of acting against; Rusia" if the futurp; cqurgg of; that| govarnment renders such a combination necessary. The ‘whols atmosplere. of Europe is now filled with rumor of coming trouble. The German government through consuls and military repre. séntatives: is: closely ' watohivg’ the movements of Slavophile agents. The provinces,of Bosnia and Herzegovina are in a state of vidlent agitation. Russian emissaries areknown to be among the people of the proviuces in considerable numbers; they seem to ba' well supplied with money, In Vionna the war feelingis stronz. In Berlin ‘public " opinivn 18 greatly divided. on the subject and the in. fluence of the anti-Bismarck party is \strongly against war, VA 'Eimu dispatch says that nothing has hitherto been received from Ht. Peotersburg to show that'the czar did not welcome Gen. Skobel:1f on-his re- jurn from Paris with the same favor he' showed on his return from the Turcoman campaign. Evidencos of this favor may have been less open but 1f they were to some extent secret they were none the lees expressive. The Times. dispatch, ‘does .on to say that the latest acoopnt of Gen. 8kohe- lefl's interview with' the czer is from Bimaelf, who ata mlilitary’ clab at £}, Petershurg explained. t0 his %rother officers hé never apt¥e uarofiect- ingly and that the czar fully shared his opinion but could not venture openly to espouse them, fiaring to oftend powerful Germany. 8t. Pererssura, March 17.—The Baltic is reopen te navigation and agtive preparations are guing on at different ports for resumption of buei ness in connection with its carrying traflic, Tt is reported that Gen. Skobelcfl Las received forty-three chalienges from Germany to fizht ducls in consoe: quence of his anti:German remarks in recent specches, “ Naional Assoclated Pross. Br. Pavr, Minn., March 17.--Wm, Filzgerald, an- emigrant from King- ston, Canada, on his way to Grand Forks, I 7., on the St Paul & Omaba road, was robbed on the cars of $250 while asleep, the perpetrators being three well dressed yonng men with whom he had formed speaking acquaintance, About the same time another pas- senger, a young man, while on the ‘platform, had his arms pinioned and ten dollars taken from him by two men, Robbers are getting urcom fortably numerous on emigrant trains. ' s = Death of Some Amatour Robbers. Nationa! Assoclated Pross. Josern, Mo, March 17.~A hugn eavern in this city, carved out of a eund bank, and used by hakf a dozen young boys as & place to spend their leisure time, caved in, burying Nick Kell, aged 15; Allen Rhodes, §; Sam Monrgomery, 9; John Montgomery, 14, vnd Fisk Garerish, 17, All were dead when found. No'one witnessed the accident, and it is not kuowa how long they were bured. - | The Mystery of a Young Girl Nitional Amociated Pros. Cuxeaco, March 17.~ Emma Par- ker, who myster.ously disappeared ,['and the hustand, bécoming enraged, lthn matter will now be probed to the o bottom. = The elder Was once tried and acqutited by an ecolesinstioal tri. bunal, but this did mot satisfy no- quaintances who'have grod evidence of the pastor's guilt x‘f’:‘umndinoly had him arrested with & view to have thé matter settfed in & way satisfac- tocy to publie opinion. Special to Tx Brn, Des Motxes, March 17.—In the house the senate bill fixing the su- preme court at Des Moites was ro- ferred to the judiclsry sommittes, Tho senate Bill providing for ageo. logical survey of the o wah lost. ¥ The senate -bill no'dh( to the Uni« ted States land in Couneil Bluffs for a postoflice was passed.” The svnate bill giving to cletka of county courts fecs for fecording mar- riages; bigtha' and deaths under the health Iaw was passed. &, In the senate’ the Jhouse bill em- powering noond..aln.?’ oitien to baild fNatonal Associatod ress, < jails possed. o i i The. bill' to' cede ‘#0. the United' States lands in. 3 loffs for & postoffive passedy .. 4 A molfimm%fl declaring that the prohibr ndment was, intanr'f\sd‘m%l) ‘onfy'to thi , mands facture and; don age within ¢his :fit BB In joint conventio) istecs of the Agricultural college were elected: Q. R. Willard, of Lee; N. G. G.atton, of Allamakee; O, F, Striker, of Uion. For regents of the,state university —H. H. Burrell, of Washington; D. N. Richardson, of Boott; Thomas S, Wright, of Polkp 3 TT 4 1171151 The c\iignt;y'm\nfiom “wor adoptedef thanks to ofiiosr anid clerks’ Lieutenant® GovéfngFi Minhing and Spoaker Strublo were-each presented With a gold watch and obain and their respective chairs and'gavels. (7At 1:30 the legislature adjourncd fine dio. fosr heg e ———— " “I11inots Ruilrond Regulation. National Associatod Pross.,. .- Serivorienp; Il ch 17.—For some_time ‘the. . bard of rail- yoad and wareh ‘eommissioners have been engaged on'® revision of the classification dn_ the pressut schedule of rateson: thts. - To-day they uo;‘nplez n{in'm‘ nd dl'sm it to the printers; It is (based on complaints of manufacture:s, and als leges that undor the schedule of ratss the roads have: :fludm maximum charge allowed, and:the:rates for their shipments are ently higher than re. The m | wall not affect graln -rates, list of wréicles ~out, undarl;;vhichmithgd wo hereto- fore 0 raf o them in olasses for which the 'r&?m low- er. Manufactured articles and sen- éral morchandise, and rticularly furniture in all forms onhlpmem. agricultural implements and vehicles will be chiefly affected, There aroa fow cxceptions which, as: ice in oar- loads, which will rafo the same es ©00al; the schedule therefore is fixed at & ghort haul rate at five miles, The ‘revision adds a haul of two miles or loss at 40 per cent. less than the five mile charge and a haul of over two miles and not over four at 26 per eent. less than the five mile charge, Thisis for all freichts except coal, on which the rate will be 256 and 40 cents respectively per ton for each of the two shortest hauls, The revision will ba published about the 26th inst. and be in forcs on and after April 10th, ———— ——— .the classca’ A Murderous Italian, National Associated ross. Bavrisorg, March 17. —John Braz- zialaro, an Italian scissors grinder, and his wifo, . Julia, quarrefed this. | aiternoon about somp | triflingi matter woigod » hatehet and’ erushed in his wife's skull and after she. had fallen: to the fluny dew & - knifaandistabbed her in the abdomen, his three littlo children who were 1 the room in the meantime begging him to desist. After having, us he thought, killed his wife he drew a pistol and shot himself w the abdomen, - They wero taken to the city hospital and are in a dangerous condition, Bragzialaro, who is about 40 years of age, recontly came from Waushington, A g ¥ B 3 Asking His Brother's!Lifs, Natioual Arso inted Press, Hanrgissurg, Mareh - 17, —Frank Rumberger, who, with his brother Henry, is to be hanged here on Fri day, for the murder of David Trout- man, has written a toushin letter to Governor Hoyt, asking that thy liie of Henry be spared and sentonce be commited to imprisonment for life. He sya nowhere is it gaid in the Bible that two lives should be sac- rificed for ene; that as far as the mur- der is concerned his krother is in- vocent, and says that he himself is guilty and wi.ling to suffer the pen- alty. The Tobacco Convention, IN THE LAND OF COTTON. The Gansralinarstitnflun Has Not Boon Half Teld. 3tarving People Hagerly De- vour the Dead Bodies of Animals Floating Past. Having No Other Mode of Ob- taining the Neoessities to Bustain Life While Others in the Back Oountty Must Perish for Lack of Reliel: The Doom of the Dwellers in the Land of Plenty, Yazoo Crry, Miss., March 17. —The river lacks six inches of the high water mark of 1867 and rising. One hundred dwellings aro overflowed and ‘deserted and muuy business houscs washed out completely. Refugees are daily arriving and t{a destitution is appalling. Tho loss of property dannot be estimated. Over E,OOO wules will be drowned on the upper 229 train ran over , orushing his entire right leg and cutting off his right arm, He was brought to his homo_ in this oity and as physicians were giving him whisky he said it was of no use; that he was dying, and immediately g\lxpm-d. He leaves a wife and fam- ily. e — - Marine Intelligence. National Associated Pros Axtwerr, Maroh 17.— Sailed —The Pieter De Cornening for New York, Arrived ~The Waealand from Now York. SovtnamrroN, March 17.- Sailed ~-On the 16th, the Hamburg and the Elbe, both from Bremen for New York QuerrxsrowN, March 17.—Bailed-- The Brittanie from New York, Liverrocr, March 17.-Arrived— The SBamaria from Boston, gk - Failares. National Amoclated Pross, New York, March 17. There were 140 failures reported to Bradatreets during the past week, a decrease of 37 from the prior week, and 10 loss than in the curresponding week last year. The only region whish showed an increase was New England, al-, though very alight. Tho failures generally were of mach less import- anco than of the preceding week, Natlohal Ameamey iy it Curcaco, March 17. — A special from Watsika, 1ll., says J. W. Johnson, editor of the Sheldon Gazette, and Tallahatchie, Boats and hastily con- structed flats aro bringing down large quantities of stock, and copatant re- ports are coming ot lives lost in en- deavoring to escape. The hills are filled young deer and bears, driven from the swamps by the water, and several have been seen in the out- skirts of town. The town of Stalatia is entirely submerged; not a house is visible and the people are camped in the range of hills beyond, Cuicaco, March 17.—A special dis- anh from Helena, Ark., says half as not been told absut the inunda- tion of the Mississippi valley. For a distance of a thousand miles it 18 under water to a width of from ten to one hundred aud twenty miles. No such flood has ocoured in history ac- cording to the accounts of old river men. Several old pilote and captains unite in saying that the overflows of 1862, 1867 and 1874 did not compare with the floods which are now laying waste hundreds of thousands: of acres of the most fertile land the sun ever shone.on, The deluge has averaged from 10 to 25 inches on a dead level. Insignificant creeks have swollen to the proportiens-of-raging—rivers. Through southern: Missouvi <and’ Illi- nois it has - not been so bad; but in broként % Kentuoky, Tennesseo, Arkunsas, Mis- ‘wissippi and Louisiana the destruction of bridges and foads, to say = nothing of buildings and.other. property, has been immense and beyond: computa: esa large | tion, Tho -uflbflntol the “pophla- tion of ‘the Miasissippl kansas qundnlgdu . distriots h.d':- t been or uately de Sobod ity Cavqaalp bssmgemmerar Thousands of families. living a mile back from thé jriver in litile aettles ments for 20, 30, 40and even 50 miles in the intotfor have been out off ‘from sfidcor for tho reason that thoy have no means of letting the world know their cause those who are safe cannot reach them with pro- visions. The loas of life is already known to have been large and the lowost eatimale places the number at ong hundred. The government relief boats cannot reach the places wheme the suffering is the greatest. They can only tonch at a few of the landings. Thousands of human beings are left like drowned rats to perish. Cuapt, Corville of the steamer Dick Joucs, who has just arrived from the St. Francis and the sunken lands, tel's a tale of woe wost incredible. There ia 1o communication between those points and Helena and thus far no aid has reached the people from without. The people of these districts are chiof- ly white; they cultivate a good grade of cotton and were well off, Now they,are drifting about o rafts with no ‘sustenance whatever, actually starving and even devouring dead beasts that have been flcating in the water for several duys; as their carousses pass them they wre eagerly sought after and devoured; the bodios of the dead animals have largo sliees cut from them, where those starving have been butchering them. For three hundred miles there is not visiblo & spot of land except four Iudian mounds which rise o high that their tops are out of water, New Orceans, March 17,—Thore ismo apprehension of an overflow of the oity. 'The loveos can stand a foot more water and are not likely to re- ceive that much, They are patrolled nightly to prevent attempts to cut them. Point Coupee crevasse has widened to 1,600 fect. Water is poar- iug through 12 fect deep flooding the falee river and grosse-tete country. 1f there are 1o rains along the Red Tiver the condition will nnulm-;-. 'i‘ll‘m d his worst is considered | orning & break ore hundred feet wide occurred in the levee five miles bolow this city which will probably flood St. Bernard parish, Wasuinaron, March 17.— Members of congress from the overflowed d s- wrict et this afternoon and, alter electing Mr. King, of * Louisiana, Natioual Associdh Frow. Wasuixgron, D, C., March 17.— n this afier- from hor home in this city ten days cted by ‘the proprietor of Italian dago shop, has been from in Minneapolis, Minn. ) hu’tsi Tt is not ocumstances she reached that city, ———— Trial of a Ministerial Buok. Notional Asoclated From . 8. Pavs, Minn., March 17.~The trial of Rev. Wesley J. Knapp, form- erly of - Wisconsin, - charged with the members of his fluck, bega day, Judge Bundy presidin, one of the greatest scandals cver had in Wisconsin and both parties declare The tobacco conyen noon directed its executive committee o and was thought to have been | o bemnin here and give wice to i s | fter some disoussion tv accept i'a pro abdu ‘vigwa before the committees. The orgaization was extended to embrace all sections of the country and late in sine die. Many members left this A Boy Uniuntentionally Killed Amsociated Pross. National New Oxieans, March 17.—Last night Capt. Wilde, United States se- :sz 12 years old, Wilde gave him- up. chairman, considered the house bill for relief in the Mississippi valley as amended by the senate, snd deécided, ons. The senate amendment and * Ar- |7 one of the most prominent candidates last winter for appointment as minis- ter to Sweden, was arrested last night LABOR'S LAMENT. That Wages Paid are Not, What They Should Be, A Possible Ueneral Upricing Throughout the Country in the Spring. The Only Doubt Being the Status of the Locomo- tive Engineers. Railrosd Employes, However, Remember the False Promises of 1877, And are Said to Be Ready fur the Rumpus WAGE WORKERS, INDICGATIONS OF TROUBLE. Spotial Dispateh o the Chicago Tribune, Ku‘r York, Murch 15.—The wide- spread discontent of the miners in the Pennsylvania coal region, coupled with the labor troubles at Pittsburg, Omaha and Chicago, create intense in- terest among the labor and trade unions of this city and vicinity, and,, from present indications, it is not im- probable that within a few weoks there will be a general and concerted demand for higher wages . here, The for forging endorsemants to a note of $1,100, upon which he secured the money. He wscaped from the officers, after him, Respited, National Associated Press. LouisvitLg, Ky, March 17, — Isaac Turner (colored), sentenced to be hung to-day at Lexington, Ky., for murder, was about to be conduated to the gal- lows this afternoon when a telegram was received from the governor grant- ing a respite, Sergeant Mason. National Pross Association, WasuiNaron, March 17, —Popular subscriptions are being widely filled here for the relief of Sergeant Mason, A public meeting for the same object will be héld next Tuesday. - Brilef Telegramv. Nutiona Associated Fross, Marterra, O., Marck 17.—A coach on the Cleveland & Marietta jumped the' track “seven miles from here, Several | ‘passengers wote ' injured and two: Marietta ‘people’ had 'bones | Bricklayers’ union of this city, one of the largest and most influential of the many labor aesociations in the east, at a secret meeting here last week resolved to demand an increase of 50 cents, On the same day meet- ings of other labor associations have been held, and from all that can be learned they have agreed to BTRIKR FOR INCREARED WAGES or have made such arrangements that this utw¥ will bo taken at the proper time. In order to secure union and harmony in all branches, efforts are being made to hold a monster m: meeting next week, at which the lal question in all its aspects’ will Lo dis- cuased aud the demands of thelabo: ing men set forth. With this end'in yiew, couferences have been and are still being held, and the promoters of the scheme aro confident that when the final move shall have been made there will be no failure. A leacing member of the International Work- ingmen’s association said to.day that there was not. fho least doubf that there wéuld bé 1A GENERAL UPRISING OF LABOR. 4 I Pavi, Minn.; Mardh 17; - AY & | Uvoughout, tho- country: this spring - meeting ot the directors of“the Min, neapolis & ‘8¢ Louia' railwayut Min. neapols this ‘diy, A. D. Stickney, of Btu.l%’ml; formerly “superintendent of the Canadian Pucific, was elected vige-) ident. ! . . Emigration’ . the northwest is s0 savy that the rol ; ort! u? Pucitic s itoba railway competie to suppl: ’; domand, orN®s, ‘March 17, A young man named John W. Smilly, in at- tempting to board a moving freight train at the Rock Island depot, was puslied by tramps falling betweon the ocara and mangled 8o he cannot live. BamxesToN, Pa, March 17.— Masked robbers entered the house of Samuel Lewis and after binding him and wife with a stout cord, ransacked the houso, broke open trunks and bureaus, and secured $2,000, No trace of the retreating robbers, SaN Francasco, March 17.—An at- tempt this afternoon -to send back Chinese harlots who dcrived on the steamer Aujer from Hong Kong re- sisted by habeas corpus, New York, Muarch 17.-8t, Dat- rick’s day passed off quietly here dur- ing the diy.' There was a largo parade of uniformed societies and at night the Hibernian society held a banquet at Music hall. d 81, Paul & Man- 8 ia inadcquate Pretty Women in the Lace. New Y £k Lotter) For several years thoro has bocn a congiderable minufacuro of real lace in this city by French, German, En- glish and women. Reproduc- vions of old s are being made for house decorations, and exquisite bits for personal use, one yard having just boen completed for a ball dress that cost €60, Mrs. A. T, Stewart hasa largo fortune in laces really a8 well as My, John Jadob Astor, Mrs, 8. L. M. Barlow Mrs, Belmont, Sr., and scv- eral others, Mrs, Cyrus W. Ficld has a lace overdress whic't cost several thousand dollms, A beautiful ball dess worn by a leader of fushion re was made of white cashmere centl tmnuynul with lacos that resembled eob webs and white ostrich tips, Mrs, William Astor, it is said, has 50 yards of a rare kind ul.Vulun- ciennes Jaco, Auother eraze in lices is to have listorle pieces, Oue lady in ) peasessing a white point lacs a'n that bolonged to a daugh- ter of George the Third, v laces owned by tho Emoress Eagine have been sold hero. Scveral years ago, before tho fiae laces wero #o com- mon here, there wasalady in f abionable dds of,,the union, .and professes | to'the stock of the P“ Some of the society who always exclivd tiie envl: He is. in commutication; with ' the - bor .union in all; the @rhnip-l--d‘:' ‘ know , whereof -he. apeaks. . He howevar, in doubt atpresent in wfa-da of. the bpotherhood of losomotive . engineers, and : i of Mr. Arthur, ta! preident, - thin it was - in- ferred that, if efforta have beon made to induce this all-powerful assaciation to join in the contemplated strike, it has been unsuccessful. . ‘‘If these men,” he said, ‘‘would stand by their brethren, our ends would be gened; but I fear that Arthur has grown too rich to lend » hand.” ' Other mem- bers ot the international laborers” union who were found in Justus Schwab s saloon expressed the belief: that THE LOC)MOTIVE ENGINBERS and railroad men in general would strike for higher wages when the sig- nal was given, ‘‘Arthur,” said one, “‘may huve been bought off, but he does not represent the railroad em- ployes of the union. They remember the promises which were made in the groat atrike of 1877, which have never been fulfilled, and are ready to strike hands with us when the time comes, In the next striks there will be no mincing of matters, and mo- popolists will be made to learn that,. all, the laboring man must, live apd have some 1ights which even they ae bonud to respect. We do not de- siro bloodshed, bat, if force is brought to béar, as in the case of the working- men of Omaha, then WE WILL MEET IT BY FORCE, Tt was said before by the capitalists and monopolists that whon the times were good they would advance the wages of their cmployes. Have they done as they promised! No; yet the. country Wes uever 80 prosperous as it is to-day. Provisions and re it are as high now as they were in war times, Who made it sof” STRUCK. N BPANNERS. Lawresce, Mass.,, Mare' ‘gor g7, entire {ur;::s 4;}‘ cuw}l): 8P .oners ab the Central acific mill (freck to-day, stoppirg 23,000 spi' dley and ‘“meyl' A meoting of stiike o wag hold in the . City hall thisaf' oo, presided over by Peter M.arry, editer of the Catholic Heculd, There is groat ex: cicement over the strike. LAwRENCE, Mass,, March 17.— After roceiving their pay to-day thirty-five ring spinners, employed i the lower Pacilic mills, left their frames aud retived from the mills, of her femenine acquintances as she almost always wore the same costume a maguificent white round point lage [overdre:s a nd spruy of d amands that reached from her throat nearly half way (down 5]\-4 front of the dress; she haud -iresided ubroad, and had made a es out the portin permitting re. pairs of levees, which they had hoped yet known how or uuder what cir the afternoon the conventivn adjourned | k0 carry. The lecre(l;)r&yul war this afternoon directed 25, ndditional rations be sent to sutferere 'in M ppi. I Run Over and Killed, National Associated Press. Reaning, March 17, —Frank Reese aduitery with Miss' Northrup, one of | eret service, borrowed a small rifle to | an employe of the Reading Railroad was orossing the track and oould extricate himself an express study sud colestion of rich laces Being ef u stately figure and having the art of walking gracefully, she be- camw Lthe cynosures of all eyes us she slowly prowenalid across the ball- Yoo two or times in an evening, hut never dancing, B S ptd 1f Adam had kad & placed iw his hand ot sick headache or dyspepsia were nulnov':: SeriNg Brogsou would mot Le need Trice 50 ocnys, trial bottles 10 un{a‘. b iw e of “Fifteen” I oxl o B R i , Vhe 51 1 0 the | scare boys from plum trees, It was|company, met with a hLorrible ae- mla;: ;’::‘:‘lm;nm:.;un“:l?r:d for th’-’ cirouit court at Menomee, Wis., to- |afterwards learned he bad sent & ball | cident at Sinking Springs this even. [ better, un! i Liliusnes, indigesticn, ‘This is | through the brain of Albert Weet, a|ing. Hia foot caught in l'w’ as he before he thus stopping C.‘:"‘!’ ‘!_“'3:' .t:g:ly‘ all give as a reason fo. that the Pacific authoriti boarding house keepers not to the strikers from the upper miw.." Mutters arg at fever heat. Fires. Nublonal Assoclated Pres:. 8. Pavy, March 17.—A large fico is raging in Faribsult, Mion, Tt started in the Barren house blodk. The postoffice is gutted, and at l_ut accounts the fire was still raging with the prospect of a serious conflagra- tion, Natlovel Assocleted Press, WasniNaroN, March 18,—Kor e lower Missouri valley: Clouddy weathy er, light raios, southwes: winds shift- ing to west, with cooler weather, rising baromete!