Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 15, 1883, Page 1

. "HE OMAHA DAILY BEE TWELFTH YEAR. 17 A KITCHEN CALAMITY. Burning of;*he Servants'!Quarters of the Planters" House, 8t. Louis. Ticee Men Buffocated in the 27" Garret and Their Bodies Partially Burned. ‘The Guesnts of the Hotel Hustled Out of Their Rooms Olad in Bleeping Dusters. Flight of the Servants Over Neighboring Roofs to Places of Safety. ‘The Eftsctive Work of the Fire Dopnrtmoni Preyentsa Becond Newhall. ‘The Number of Victims of the Milwaukee Horror Ia- creaeing Daily. ‘The Remnantsof [Forty-Twa Bodies Believed to bs Still in the Rufns. Three Hundred Persons Lose Thelr | aken out to-day, making 18 bodles in Lives by Fire in Russian Poland The Plante: Speciat Dispatch to Tus St. ’ Closs Cail ers’ house, oceupyin Fourth street between excitement prevailed among thegueats. Other occupants cf the house, nearly three hundred people, filled with the horrible recollection of the Milwaukée holocaust, were dashing hither and thither threugh the main corridors and down several stsirways in the Lous, January 14 —A fire|to be in the ruins, broke out shortly siier 4 o'clock thie morning in the kitchen of the Plant- a block on ne and Chest- nat streets, and extending to the pan- try, storeroom and servants quarters. Theze are all in a building in the rear of and detached fcom the hotel, which was not injured. One eervant was suffocated te death, one burned, and iwo others have broken limbs. Great of the butlding they succeeded in pre- venting the fire from extending be- yond a ce of twenty foet from the polnt of its orlgin. Bat.in that space it burned clear through to the roof, destroylng about ten rooms. The balance of tha rear buildings were made uninhabitable by water, but the hotel proper did not saffer to the extent of a dollar. The fire, how- crossed the alley to the furniture ware rooms, where the firemen had another fierce but short fight. The damage to the hotel property is aboat $10 000 and to the auction firm about §20 000 all covered. by in- surance, Thi ening workmen, en- waged in clearing away the debrls, found the charred body of a man amid the broken timbers at the fiot of the stalrway on the basement floor. It proved to be Henry Blancy, an employer, over 60 years old, who as boy, served as chore boy in the hotel. The other two dead men are Carlo Rebole, scu !- ion, and Dennis Repoate, carver. The new kitchen will be in work order Tuesday morning, The Plau- tere House wae for a quarter « f & cen- the best known hotel in the west, and its fame was extended by Charles Dickens’ ‘‘American Notes."” The Newhall Holooaust. Bpoclal ispateh to Ban. MiLwAUKEE, Janoary 15. —The call for volunteers at the exhumation «f bodies in the Newhall house ruins to- day, turned out to be a fizzle, only two citizens responding. The regular pald torce is hard at work, despite a cutting northwesterly wind and ex- tremely cold weather. Two boadies, charred beyond recognition, were addition to the 23 identified, or 41 in all known to be dead. Mrs. Bridget Bridgmans, the oldest employe ¢f the hotel, 1s reported missing to day, making 42 bodies yet supposed She is known to have started out on the morning f the fire arousing the servants and has not been heard of since. She was feom this city. Five bodies were buried to-day, among them T. B. Elliott, a prominent lawyer, who came to the hotel on the 3:30 train the morning of the fire. Half an hour later he jumped from the fourth story window, broke both legs, in- jured his spine and died Friday, He was a prominent Mason and state re- presentative of the grand lodge. Tae funeral ceremonies were imposing. Tae mayor received Jay Gould's check f)r $500 for relief of the suffer- ers, and the Western Union telegraph company’s check for $100. Local office and street. Tne hotel | charity responded liberally so that the employes acted with good sense |action of the three members of the and promptness, rapping long | councll stands isolated. : and loud on every door. five min- utes later making a second trip to in- sure that everybody was up and ad- Vory faw waited to dress, 8s the smoke from the rear buliding, where the fire was located, had already invaded the corridors and was making its way slowly into the rooms., Ntopping only to grab a fiw articles f clothing, men, women and children fled in dismay and would not the commodious main office, where there was light, comi irt i“ i, the 800~ vited cf the danger. even halt in «and li*ls smoka. As thieng first ¢f which arrived within onds & f .er the sounding of the alarm. dashed up to the house, the stream «f To-day excavatigns feom the Broad- way frout will reach the court in the rear cf the cffive and will be started near the west wall under the servants’ quartera, where most of the bod. ies are supposed to be. A vacant store has been fitted as a temporary morgue for the charred remains, To- day the Lincoln guard of militia was called out for duty at the ruins to ward off crowds of people, but only a few of the latter oongreg-ted at the scene, ex! cold weather pre- vailing., Thess worofuuiral aoviccs at all prominent churches:to-day be- fore crowded audiences. The tervants’ quarters in the New- fogitives began to pour from its|hall were on the fif:h floor and ranged doors. There ~were men in|along the alley side cf the building navght hut thelr underclathes, | from a point about twenty fset north womew with but night drees and pos- of Michigan street, to a point abont sibly ashawl or cloak over their shoul- | twenty feet on the north end i the ders and little ohildren hastily bun- dled in blankets or other wrappers; tew wore shoes and a great many were The light of The In their bare f2et. Republican and Globe-Democrat ol- ficos and of the gamblin of which were within a distance of a block, led the half crazed psople to temporary refuge and warmth whence carriages in a few moments removed Some of the scenes were quite threatening, their them to other hotels. effect being intensitied by the rattling, clangand shrieks of the engines and shouts of the firemen, and soon the main body of the hotel house, all building, The rooms were built along the hall which ran north and soath and at each end was totally separated from tho guests’ apartments by heavy doors. The girls themselves say that the first they knew of the fire was when Linehap, the engineer, ran up and yelled to them to wake up and ran out and follow him and not wait to dress. He says the hall was swarmoad full «f maids and he thought thoy were coming, conacquent- ly made his way down, ouly to find that but ove was behind him, It ap- pears that the rushing air the moment Linoban and one girl gat through the as cleared of _ guests and|gpreading doors closed them with & the building was in possession |bang and that they never opened of the firemen, who, within twen'y |again. ‘This also provented the hest minutes, had thirteen engines at work, Meantime events in the rear building were ¢f a far more ugly character The hotel, which is six stories in on the west side height, fronta Fourth street fcom Chestnut to Pine, while a wing rans back on hai the block, Thus angle. The frurth side is formad by afoar story building, forty years old, midway « f which on the ground floor is the boiler room above reforred to, and the kitchen is on the floor above it. The two upper floors are occupied by the help cf the house, some 75 Alongside the boiler ay srises and in number, room, & NATrOW B winds to the roof. The fire, which started very close to this stairway, was carrled up to the room by the draft in the stair, and thus not only cat off escape by that means, but also formed a barrier which pravented men sleeping in the south ha i of the building from reaching another stair- way at the north end. Hence these unfortunates, almost smothered by smoke, were compelled to climb out of the room on a frame structute, which abutted over the alley, and thence either to jump or lower them- selves by means of a pulley, rigged One poor fellow was seen to start down the there for hoieting supplies. the fisor, stairway before ed the third fire reach- found In the kitchen near the f of the stalis, ot female help all es both Chestnut and Pine street to a depthof the main building forms three eides ¢f a rect- and an hour later his crisped corpse was Another employe, who although answering to a call, seems to have been oo much stupefied by the smoke to get up, for two hours after- wards his dead body wass found on the smoking mattress in his bed, The ed by the stalrway at the north end, save one who broke her ankle In jumping to the rocf cf s shed. The firemen made a grand fight, and the nozzles were carried through the walls of smoke right to where the flames were raging, and not- withstauding the Inflammable nature |sons perlshed. aud smoks from entering ‘their heaa- quarters; so those who did not escape met death with & 11l realizatien (f what was upon them and were not half dead from suffocation. Mary MecCauley, who lies at the Axtell house in a bad nervous condl tion, end waa carried out in a faint by Fireman Strauss, says she ‘‘was awakened by shouts and screams of o‘hers aud ran into the hall. It was full of girls rushing madly up and down, crying and screaming, rushed to the end of the hall, peered through the door and saw every- thing was smoke ard fire out- eide. T then ran back, and passir z o room where seven girls had taken refuge joined them and we all knelt down in prayer, One of the girls had a cracifix, and a fat woman prayed out loud, Just as we had given up all hope the window crashed in our room and I fainted. It so happened the firemen with the ladder had found the room, out of thirty others, and wo with a few others were saved, I kuew nothing after fainting till T woke up here,” Another Hot:l Burned. Special Dispatch to Tun Exe MiLwAUKEE, January 14. —A fireat Neeuah, Wis,, early this morning burned the Ruesell house, bank and a number of other buildings. Total loss £100,000, insurance about half. The hotel went up like a flash, very much ltke the Newhall house, The carriage works of K. G. Maudt, at Stoughton, Wis., also burned, Loes, $125,000; insurance, §70 000, Frightful Loss of Life Special Dispateh to Tus Bre.) 81, Perersvurae, Janvary 14— Daring the performance yesterday at a clrcus in Berditeheff, Russian Poland, a fire broke out, and before the spec- tators could escape the whole struc. ture was abluze, Three hundred per- the gentleman OMAHA NEB MONDAY MORNING JANUARY 15 1883 THE STATE CAPITAL. A Brief and Unimportant Ses- sion of the House Saturday. Further Details cf the Investi- gation Into Railroad Man- agement, Pecuniary Profits and Free Pass Privileges of the Chosen Few, Moerchants Foroed to Saubmit to Tyrannioal Exactions, And No £quealing Tolerated. THE STATE LEGISLA1URE. Special Dispatch to Tnx Baw, . Lixcory, January 13.—The house met at 10 o'clock this morning. A resolution was introduced by Mr Seesions giving the clerks of the com- mittees the same number of stamps, wWrappers, neweppers, eto, as is re- ceived by the member. On the oall of the roll it voted down almost unani- mously. A few bills were introduced and read, and at 11 o’clock the house adjourned till Monday at 2:30 p. m. ‘The special railrond commission did not hold a session this morning, but agreed to meet again on Monday at 4 o'clock. Many of the members liv- ing at a convenieut distance left on the mid-day tratn for home. The railroad republicans have given up the idea of forming a senatorial cau- cus, although it is satd that Millard is hirtog members to gn into such an organization, It is argued that to receive money to go into & caucus is no crime. Some of the anti-monopolists have just dis- covered that there are from tweuty- tive to fifty officers concorned in the house to hold position who virtaally have no duaties to perform and it s more than probabte that there will be abreeze on Monday. THE RATLRUOAD INQUIRY. PROCEEDINGS OF THF SPECIAL MITTEE, £pecial Correspondence of Trs Bax, The public has already been in- formed by Tar BEE of the manner in which this committee was appointed; how Speaker Humphrey ignored all parliamentary usage, trampled upon the rights of a majority of the mem- bers and dld the behest of tho railroads in appointing the house members. Happily for the cause of truth and justice the men representing the sen- ate are of the right stuff and are re- solved that the object for which the committee was appointed shall be car- rled out. On Thursday the meetirg was held in the room of the committee on ways and means. Two. spectators were present. The proceedings were unim- COM- portan Lucepi for hi atr . of Mr, Gray to secure a postponement of the investigation for several days or until after the senatorial election, He exhausted every device for the purpose but Reynolds, of Butler, held the members to their work and steps were taken to secare an efficient clerk and to call witnesses, The next day Mr. Gray himse'f was put upon the stand and in reply to questions by Nanator Reyuolds, acknowledged his unlimited enjoyment of trip permits over the Union Pacl- fie, but gave as the r: for this discrimination that his' brother was general freight agent <f the Central Pac'fic, and that the general freight agent of the U. P., Mr, Saelby, wis his particular friend. The next witnees was Mr. D O, Brooks, late ¢i The ‘“‘Omsha Repub- lican,” who being aworn was examined us follows by Mr. Roynolds, Qaestion. —Whers do you reside Mcr. Brooks? A.- Omaha, Q —What is your business! A.—1 have no business now. late I was editor of The Republican, ) —Do you know Mr. Brooks whether any f the k of The *‘Om- aha Republican Co.” is owned by U, P raf Chairman (Grout, ¢f Otoe,) T don't believe that is a pertinent question After alittle discussion upon this point in which Brown, cf Laincaster, remarked, ““I don’t suppose Mr, Brooks knows anyhow." (Brooks taking the cue.) 3 A T don't kuow anything aboat it, Q.—I will ask you Mr, Brooks; if while you were acting as editor of the Omaha Republican, whether you wore on the pay roll of the Union Pacific railroad company ¢ (Brooks, looking fiercely at his tor- menters, exclalmed, ‘“What is this in. vestigation?" Of is an improper question, Reynolds, —1 presume to differ with The chairman,—Mr, Brooks is here as aprivats individual. T don’t see thatit makes any difference whether he was on the pay roll or not, We are here to investigate the public con- duct of the nilrong, and I don't see what this has to do with the matter, Reynolds.—Well, we shall sce how much it has to do with it, Brown, of Lancaster.—Well, it would effect the public a little, and as Mr. Brocks is here he can answer if he wants, The witness, A,—1 should decline to anawer avy such question 1 don't know whether the conmittee would desire it or not, In the discussion which arose as to whether witness should auswer, Mr, Grout (the chairman) thought they were golog outside the resolution under which chey were appointed, Mr. Dech, <f Saunders, thought, |h coneidering the %l‘fll'. iafluence news- vapers were wielding in this state, that il they were the property ci the railroads, or if their editors were in the pay cf the railroads, the people should know it. ‘They would then be able to attach a just importance to the teachings of suon a subsidized press The chalrman that the fict that rallroads owned newapapers, or that newspapers favored ratiroads, had nothing to do with the committee After farther disoussion Mr. Roy- nolds moved that Mr. Brooks bo re- spootfally requestéd to answor the question, lTn. Mlon“?elng almost unanimous uflf, @ questlon was again p{‘lt and Mr. Brooks replied “I shall decline to answer that ques. tion,"” Mr. Humphrey, & shipper of Lin. coln, was the next witness, He com- plained that he could not secure cor- tain aiventages unless he complied with what he regardodpy as arbitrary regulation on the part of the B. & M, ard stait!l that since the oconsolidation of the B. & M. and the . & N. rates had been advanced. He also quoted lb.h’l.‘?;.:nnl: lan- guage at s meeting n Lincoln during & previots session, that the people had better let railroads alono, and stated as s faot that merchants generally were ¢ f¢bid to oontend with the railroads lest faretarn should injure and ruin trade, Other witnesscs were examined in. oludibg Messrs, '~ Stepheneon and Towne, but noflla‘:ow or material was elicited. Another meeting was announced for Saturday but this (Saturday ) mornlog in consequence of absence ¢ f witnesses, the meeting was adjourned till to/dey at 4 p. m. The appotutment ‘and work of thia committee has alrendy produced no little excitement. = Tho town talk is occupied with this topio to the exolu sion «f senatorial matters. Some who think they san’t stand tha racket have sought hiding‘places, and lhittle doubt remains that much will be brought to light as to the secret meth- ods by which the railroads seek to dominaie over every branch cf trade and hold in absolute subjection the entire people ¢f this stato. The Silver Questien Special Dispatch to Tum bk, WasniNgToN, January 13 —Re. cently there has a very import. ant fall in silver, owing to the action of the Austrian government, but the causes have not been generally under- stood in this county. Senator Hill, of Colorado, probably the best author- ity on silver in ocongress, has written the following letter to the editor of The Tribune, explaining the situa. tion: ““‘Whenever there is a deciine in the price of silver bullion, tho monopol- 1ste profess to aee in it additional and more imperative reasons for suspend. ing coinage of thatmetal. It is made to appear that tho decline 1s caused by increased produotion or by the failure of the markets of China and India, which for s0 many ‘years absorbed a Britton, of Wayne.—I think that |* large share of the :production of ounr mines. These canses are represented as permanent, and: i is claimed that ruuld:’ in the stability in the market value of silver rendems it unfit to use a8 a money -metal. The fact i, neither . of ;. | ; of b but enough for wo to say that if an increase of produc- port of silver from Austria, prineipal- ly during the first halt of 1882, did not arise from any tendency in that country towards the gold standard, but from the fact that, until the re- cent fall in the gold price of silver, the florin of thut metal was worth more than the paper florin of Austria. It was the high price of silver and the premium on it, as compared with the present paper money, which caused that metal to be sent out of Austria, The decisive proof of that is the fact that sincoe the late fall in gold of the price of silver, it has begun to flow back, To alarmists among mono-metalists who declare that they can see no limit to the fall of silver it may be said that 80 long as the rccent fall has arisen from Austiia they can see exacily what the limits are; for every florin is lawful money in that country; its mints are open to its coinage when- ever sllver bullion has declined to such a prica so that florins can be coined out of it at a cost less than the value of paper florine; or, in other words, with profit silver will move in that di. rection, and that is what is taking place now. et e A Huge Swngerfist. Spocial Dispatch to Tiik Brr, New York, January 14.—The Ger- man singing societies of Brooklyn pro- pose building a $30 000 hall for the fourteenth great esingerfest of the German socleties of the United 'ates, June next. The festival will last five days. Twenty thousand singers are expected. Buried at Sea. 1 Dispatch to Tix Brs, New Yorx, January 14 —The steamer Neckar arrived to.day from Bremen, She took off the crew of the brig Mary Lizzie, burning seven days. The crew numbered eight persons. The fire was kept down by closing up the holes with sails and blankets. The men wers greatly exhausted, belng at work day and night tince the fire broke out, A Wrecked Bank. 9ectal Dispatch to Tus Bux, Jersey City, January 14 —-It is now believed §100,000 will not cover the amount of funds missing from the wrecked City bank, All lef: feom the wreck In the shape of assets is cheap cflice farniture and $1,200 ac- cidentally lef: in the cesh drawer, The Washburne Family. Special Dispatch to Tix Bar, Lewiston, Janusry 13 —The sur- viving sons of Israel Washburne, father of the noted Washburne family, resolved to erect a memorial building at the family homestead in Livermore. Ths is to be white gran- ite, 40x0 feet, and be equipped by donors, with sultable books for & public library, SHEAR-ING THE SHEEP. The Magnetic Ifluence of a Grab Stake Set Up by the Monops at the Millard, An Appetizing Morsel Prepared by Jacob for Joseph's Brethren, But the Stomach Route to the Senate Proves Acceptable to Few. A Ourlous Quartette Sketched ‘While Button-holing on a Corner. Gen. Thaysr's Appearance Rup® tares the Caloulatiors of Sev- eral Candidates. The Latest Phase of the Senatorial Contest- The Sabbath Lull, ASQUARE MEAL. Qorrespondence of Tiin s, (0 ADVERTISE THE HOUSE." Liscory, January 14.—On this bright Sunday morning we are now enjoying the calm that precedes the storm. A majority of the legislature who reside within a hundred miles ¢ f the capitol have gone home, Quitoa numnber are up at Omaha on the in. vitation « { Jake Markel to partake cf the hospitalities f the Millard hotel. “‘Comeintu my parlor said the epider totho fly.” *Cowe up with me to Omaha,” said Juke to a prominent state senator Friday; *‘bring you wifa with you, and we will make yov com- fortable at the Millard. Tt won't coat you a nickle. We want to advertise the hotel and wo shall be much pleased to have your company.” “But{ don’t travel on passes,” ex- claimed the senator, “‘and I can't &f ford to psy my way to Omaha and back.” CSTHAT'LL BE ALL RIGHT, T'll buy the tickets for you,” said Jake, in hia bland and taking way. “I've been auxicus to show you how we entertain oor guests.” ““Many thanks,” replied the sena- cor, “but I guess I'll have to decline your kind invitation.” There were many other legislators, however, who went up to take a Editori loast a dozen railroad attorneys at home here who do thelr part either in the lobby or on the floors of the logla- Iature. The lawyera are by no means the most dangerous of the railroad lobby, There are scores of people who at home pass for respectable, but down here are DOING THE CRIMINAL WORK ! assistant highway robbery, by using their personal influnce upon members in the (nterest ¢ corporate monopoly, jobbery and feaud, If theso people persist In their nefirious work T shall by compe'led to expose them ani glve the legislature the chance to investigate the attempt to corruptly inter fore with legislation. Among the republican candidates that are looming up at this time, be- sides those I have already mentloned are, George W, E. Dorsey, Hon. Thomas 8. Mo jore, Hon. James Laird, Ex Governor Nance and Judge Poat. E. R L BT s The Lily Explains. Spovial Dispateh to Tik Brr. Cuicaco, Janusry 13.—Daring the course of a conversation on America, Mrs. Langtry sald that she found the soclal ideas so different here than in Eogland. There she had been ussd to admirers ever since she weunt into London society, Concerning Chicago newspapers the English beauty re- marked: “‘1 was prepared for a graat deal by my experience with the Amerl. Can newspapers press on my arrival in Now York, but I eannot say that T anttoipated the fruita of what weatern journaliats call enterprise. Luckily their inyentiveness does not The presence of my husband’s sister, and the fact that the life of an actress s lived in a fercer light than ever beat upon a throne, ought to appear to me some protection against tuch attacks as have been directed against me, but they donot. This much I will say, I have received from Mr. Gebhardt no more courtesies than are daily shown acores of ladies in private life and upon the stage. I am ot a loss to understand why the simpliest acts cf politeness and hospitality performed to meke the mojourn cf a strangor in astrange land somewhat pleasanter than it would otherwise have been, should be groesly and malicioualy dis- torted. TELEGRAPH NOTES cial Dispateh {o Tux Bre. The Memphis Avalanche has Leen sold S Nichols at a value estimated at $200,000. There ia no change in editorship or politics. The Paris Lo Temps says Eoclaud has pronounced the deposition of Franco 1n K ngland, and itis possiblo Gladstone and Egyptian enterprise may lead to the re- opening of the eastern question. A sleigh containing three boys was struck hy an express train on the Delaware & THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Preparations for the Meeting of the Republican National Com- mittes Next Wednesday. Several Hlaborate Pians Pre- pared to Regulate Repre. sentation, A Voice feem the Netherlands Sa« lutes the Old Flag and Calls for an Appropriation. The Mexlcan Treaty Commission. CAPITAL NOTES. Special Dispatch to Tue ks, THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, WasiiNaroN, January 14.—It is expected about 30 members of the national republican committee will be presont at the meeting Wednesday to settle the (uestion of representation on the district plan in accordance with the resolution of the national convention of 1880. Naveral elaborate methods will be laid before the com- mittee. The matter (i proxies was mentioned to a prominent member ot the committee. He siid he believed there was a rule that the holder of a proxy must hail feom the state for which given, This will be erforced as far as practicable, In the case cf territory it will not be enforced. It is understood three plans i ap- portionment i representation will be submitted to the committee, viz: OChandler's for four delegates at large for every state, two delegates from each district, and three delegates for every republican senator and repre- sentative, making a total of 1,306; For- bes’, for two delegates at large from each state, one delegate for each dis- triot, and one for every republican senator and representative, total 671; and Martin's, for four delegates iat large for state, one frr each dia- trict, and one for svar¥ 17,000 repub- lican votes or major nct{un thereof, total 867, on a basis of the last elec- tion, THE MEXICAN COMMISSION, Gen. Cando, one of the commis- aloners appointed by Mexico to nego- tiate a commercial treaty with the United States, has arrived. Canedo and Romero this afternoon pald their respects to Gan, Grant and Trescott, the American commissioners. A formal meeting of the commission will be held to-morrow. THE HOLLAND EXHIBITION, The managers of the Holland inter- equare meal at the Millard, just to advertise the hotel, you know, Mil- lard’s lobby has also aceepted Jake's lunch, and only & faw remain on the bl s 1] b bl ol , olly-tongas demoorat who trained with the Valentine and Pete Schwenck land cffice rings and made a record corporation capper. There was Lew Lay from Stanton, a democrat who was elected to the state senate four years ago from the Norfolk distrlet, was put on the railroad committee by Carna in the interest «f the U, P., and was re- warded soon i fier the legislature ad- journed with a railroad contract Mhere was Charlie Matthewson the Norfolk banker, who was the repub- ucan railroad speaker of the house four years ago and is noted also as one cf tho members of the old Norfolk land cflie ring, Then there was John R, Manchester, ex-county clerk of Douglas county, one of the strik- ers, who has been hired to work up the Millard boom, THIS LITTLE GROUP couveys a fair impression of the des- porate effort being put forth in the intersst of the U P. candidate. Pol- lock, Lay and Matthewson, republi- cans and democrats, pooling lssues aud exertir g inflaence on republicans and democrats for the same man, The arrival of Gen. Thayer last evening hes given new momentum to the sepatorial contest. The yganeral has quite & number of warm iriends in the legislature and will receive a re- spectable support. While Millard is still regarded as formidable it ls ad- mitted on all hands that he is DOOMED TO DEFEAT, His supporters are already beyinning to weakengand are making terms for another ohoice. Three days ago Mil- lard might have made it by a sudden charge, but the disclosures of Neme Bre and the numercus letters from constltuents to members who have thrown & damper on the boom, There may be some members who do not want to go homa ¢/ er this legislature adjourns, but those who do will not care to go on record for a man who hae come here determined to buy his way Into the senate. My attention has been called to the assertion f the Omaha rallroad organ with a republican label, that the hue and ory about the railroads taking a hand in the senatorial fight, 1s all bosh. ““There are no railroad attor- neys at Lincoln,” says the Repi/lican, “‘and never in the history of Nebras- ka have they shown such indifforence.” That will do to tell the marines. It is true that ~snator Siunders occupies John _M, Thurston's former head- quarters witk the oil room, but 'f‘huuwn has simply changed frcm the Commercial to the Arling- ton, bocause Imhoff charged him §716 for himseli and Jim Kycer for twenty days lodging two years ago. The policy of Thurston jast now is T0 PLAY POSSUM, but 1 notice that Charlle Gresn, Frank Ireland of the Missourl Pacific and haif a dozen other railroad at- torneys ¢ less note have been oper- ating extensively among republicans and demoorats, There are also at Hudson Saturday night at Spring Creek Crossing, One boy was killed and the other two fatally injured. The horse was prom| 'ungarian position. He naserts that ever since the Berlin congress Russian has been deter: mmed upon war with Austris, and that the latter's army is numerically inad- equate, Polk, the defaulting treasurver of Ten- nesse has reached the scene of the thieving, in charge of his captors, Tho reports of the committee of the legislature investiga- ting the treasury default show the entire deficiency to be $10°,0 0 In March, 1875 Polk was behind $40,000;in 1581 the short. age was 41 000; in April, 1852, it was 8216, 000, A collision occurred Saturday morning at the lndianapelis & Vincennes crossing of the Belt railroad, A switchman gave a freight train the signal to advauce and be: fore it could be corrccted the engine crashed into the rear coach of the Indian- apolis & Vincennes passenger train, knock- ing it (ff the track, Several passengers were seriously but not fatally injured, The stories put in circulation concerning Miss Garrison, the St. Louis belle, who was abducted last week and returned to her mother Friday night, places the {u\mx Iady in an unpleasrat position, What gives an unpleasant color to some of these statements is that the police knew who were concerned in the affair and yet have taken no action in the matter, nor have the relatives of the young lady shown any disporition to prorécite any ore. Clarence Whistler and John Grahamn wrestled in the opera house in Lov le Saturday night in the presence of a lirge crowd. Lhe stakes were §500, and the conditions best two in three. The firat round, catch-as-catch.can, was won by Whistler, the second Giry Roman by Grabam, on a claim of foul against Whist: ler. In the third round, after wrestling seventeen minutes Graham threw Whistler to the floor heavily, breaking the latter's right shoulder. The match was decided in favor of Graham, to whom the stakes were aid, o alia oocutred: Exiday an Mos: quito mountain, aboat fifteen miles from Leadville. A body of snow nearly a quarter mile long, 100 yards wide and 15 foot deep was swapt down the mountain side at n great velocity, carryivg every- thing in its course, Two minere, unable to escape, were caught in the avalanche and hurled a distance of 100 yards down the mountain side. Though still alive when found, they were mutilated in a horrible manner, and recovery is doubtful, W. Cook, committed to the Con- tste prison in 1579 for the mur. der of Susan Hanrom, died on the 9th On confession cf Cook, Joseph Buswell wis hinged—for hiriug Cook to shoot Miss Hanson—sfter a noted coutest before the supreme court and legislature, Cook left & contession, which admits the shoot- ing, and also that be testified falsely con- cerning Buswell being present when the deed was committed, He says after Dus- well got to Wolfborough on the day of the murder he relented and drove back at break-neck speed to Brookfield to prevent ook from doing the killlng, but arrived twenty minutes too late, Couk having kill. ed the woman and gone to bed as Buswell had directed. . — Bus/ness Failures Bpecial Dispatch to Tus Brx, New Yoxk, January 12, —The bus. iness failures tor the past seven days an increase of 98 compared with last week, e o Don't Die in the House. “‘Rough on Rats.” Clears out rats mice, roaches, bed bugs, flies, ants moles chipmunks, gophers, 15¢, thrown twenty feet over a feace and invitation for free tickets and a free | killed, A g - national exhibition hope congress may be induced to appropriate $100,000 to provide 8 suitable display of Amerl- an industry ucts. is is only half the sum voted the Vienna exhibi- tion, while the trade of the United States with the Nethoelands jn 1851 op- | P to make an exhibit which they sent to Philadelphi 1876, NOTES, The ways and means committee has reed tu recommend that the duty on It be increased from the rate previously agreed upon and left as fixed by the existe ing law. J. ¥, Olmstead has written to President Arthur a letter declining the nomination of commissioner of the District of Col. umb and the nomination has been withdrawn, Petitions fora reduction of the tariff on sugar are pouring in on congress from all parts of the country. The prospects of their accomplishing any result, however, are not flattering. Commissioner Raum gomes up fresh and #miling from his defeat for senator in Soringfield, and says he fought his own battle and is perfectly satisfied with the result, Most of the prominent politicians think Cullom's election is pretty certain, despite some defection and muiteringe, A statement has gained considerable circulation that thousands of those on the pension rolls were never in the army in any capacity and are put on by congress. This is ot credited at the pension office, where the su'jact of atterapted frauds in securing pensiors is receiving the Closest possible atention. Fvidence of military service is necessary to . and this must appear from the flicial mus- ter rolls. Many applications of those who have terved arerejected from a variety of causes, Democratic senators say they won’t op- pose the repulican eenators changing the sonate officers next session, for if the re- publicans have & me jority they have appar- ently no hope of controlling the senate. One democrat says it is understood the re- publicans would re-eisct (orham secretary with the votes of Riddleberger and Ma- hone, and be did not see how it could re- sult otherwi 1t wa s not a matter of simply personsl preference on the part of the Virginia senators, but Gorham as the mouthpiece of their movement from the beginning must be sustaingd, and the meral effect of his defeat would bo a very severe blow to the power of the readjuster party. The reyublicans could ot afford o antag- onize their choice, A Profitable Lottery. Special Dispatch to Tus Bux. Burravo, January 14, —The district attorney decides that the lwporters’ Tea company, which does busiuess by selling tea and coffee in packages that contain prizes, iz a lottery. A civil suit for $30,000 has been commenced agalost the company, and it ls stated that the authorities are preparing to begin eriminal proceedings It is es- timated that in the last week or ten days the concern cleared §40,000 to $50,000 by the scheme, e A Crazy Widsw. Npecial Dispatch to Tik Bes, WueeLine, Janoary 13.—Mrs, Hettie Cunningham, widow, at noon to-dsy, threw her three-year-old boy from the suspension bridge at Fair- mount, into the Monongahela river, a distance of fifty-two feet and then jumped in herself. Both were res- caed after Hoating over the dam below the bridge, and with difflculty resusi- ciated. No cause s assigned for the