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

/ I v'-'—‘\ =t OMAHA DaIiLy BEE TWELFTH YEATL. A MICHTY FLOOD. e Appalling Buin and Destitution Wrought by the Rising | Ohio and Tributaries. QOities and Villages Surrounded by Water or Entirely Submerged. Qincinnati Practically Isolated From the Outeide World. All Bueiness £topped and th» ‘Work of Relief Actively Begua., The Town ot Milton Wipad Out and Newport Badly Wrecked., The People of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, Surrounded by a Vast, Unbroken Sea. Louisville Terribly Excited by Glcomy Reports From Above, Heavy, ContinuousiRainsl Banish ::\o fall, and extends this worning s all Immediate Hope of a Fall Appeals for Help Promptly &espona- | 48y Will bo surpassed. ously embarrasses the ed to by Neighboring Clues Special Dispatches > Tk Brr. A LIFE SAVING EXPEDITION, do Pel —To.day | the oity to feed those able to get to M T % st | them. Bishop Eider ordoad all Oaihe with a corps of men and traversed the ‘;:l?d:?::fih"l'w::‘;“:: a‘[:‘;’“e‘“d“‘c‘ m istri i .| mc o ana, sends a cir- i submerged district, taking off a pum EHIREN oY aHuFAHGl | day CARTBRTLHRE | (7 a8 to s bo sent to the chamber | t0 high lavels of vast quantities of | form: d oity council relicf | goods hitherto supposed to bo above unbol o Thiz is done at | Wholly or ia part in the Eoglish lan. immense labor under the moat trywg | #13ge, 106 specially enumirated or circumstances, men standing in water, | provided for in this act; engravings Tho waier v atands in i gustors | bound or anbound; etchiage, dilastra: on the outh side .of Pearl street ana | ted books, maps and charts, 16 per The Little Miami rail Wagons are ber ot parsons and by means of boats supplying food to those who remained in the houses above water. A singu- lar incident occarred on the trip. ©ane over to that honse; there is a woman will hold here until you save them.” The house was 50 yards away. Tho|reported by the relief board, and iu men started. Before they reached it |somo cases the frantic cries of starv- the house turned over and was carried | ing childeen for food zve heartrend- No noise | ing. Nothing is | pressed to the fullest capacity to keep known as to whether the people had | the supply of bread. The man oling- | some fears of a meat famine on ac- ing to the tree was afterwards rescued | count of the difficalty of recelving live and declared thata woman and sev- |stcck, but several thousand rescued distillery cattle can be utilized in case of necessi| away In the.rash of waters, was heard from the house. been rescued or not. eral children were in the houso when it turned over. A family named Wat- kins was importuned to move out of e e but tha thy 3 ~mother. was | and they did not belleye the water wouldcoma over when a break camoin the out-off. The house was moved from the foundation and rocked toand fro. In themoment when the danger came the woman was in the pains of parturition, 2 was taken up, put in a skiff and the woman removed, The excitement threw her into spasms, and her recov- ory is doubtful. Au old colored man living alone is missing. On one point near Porland 1,000 houses are under water, A vast ma jority are owned by poor people The authoritles have taken eteps to provide fuod and lodging, The board of trade is ralsing a fund, Individual subscriptions are llberal, A Garman citizen give $716 Entertainments for the benefit of the sufferers will be held. Everything will be done for their relief. It is folly to attempt to fix the loss of property In the present state of affalrs, The question now is how to care for the sufferers. Tim Doaohoo and a man named Shippell were arrested on charge of kiliing Sam Bell last night after the water broke over the out-off dam. Three parties were drinking and got into a skiff to go to the rescue of a man. Bell fell out or was knocked out by the others and drowned. It is im- possible to say if the men aro gulity or it the death was accicental. THE SITUATION AT CINCINNATI. COiNcINNATI, February 13, —A gleam of hopa came to-night when the reports showed that the river had reached the highest poiotat 5 p. m , when the marks showed 65 feet 1} inches, and though 1t recoded but halt an inch during the next four hours, the fact that the worat seemsd to ba over gave relief. Tle tension has been stroug on the entiro busineas portion of the city, and the slight raina which are falling now giyes nerv- ous upprehensious ¢f mora disaster to come. The situation is alarming, and {t would require the publication of the groater portlon of the directory of names of the business men, partica larly in tobacco, produce, gealn, com- mission, whisky, and all kinds of manufacturers'interesis whose business speedily there is no hope of the river receding, while the gravest fears exist are doing all tribute of commer committees. e e S Tiogiog toa fros, g | teos will advanco monoy on the bonds tho men approsched he cried, ¢“Go | yeaterday authorizod by the logisla- J ture, ro that roliof and several children over there, I|LNEFo aro many dentown. and Whitewater rivers, is likely to be most damaged. The people of che latter place received a 1In this condition the bed :’:‘;;lingovhmn- in good shape this water is 6 feet deep at the forks of Tanver's creek, Guilford, Indiana. The water rose at Lawrenceburg Janc- tion since morning an inch aod a half, Raining all the time hard, The In- dlaua legielature appropriated $40,- 000 for Lawrenceburg this morning. The board of trade of Indianapolis York and elsewhere, offering asaist- ance. The school beard have closed the schools in the vicinity of the flood ed district, and the houses are placed at the disposal of the relief committee for the home'ess people. A sys- tematic visitation wae made to day to all parts of the city and all osees of distress were promptly relieved. Tie militia, in large numbers, are aidine |} the police to-night. Coal a1l lights have been placed on the streets in the business portion of the cily, and no ocases of pilfering have boen reported, Two false alarms of fire to night gave rise to the suspizion that it wae the work of thieves, The water is deep enough on Pearl street to allow boats to run within & square and a half of the Burnett house, and it reachos to the market house on Pearl and Broadway, There i3 no esseutial change in the railway traine ravning on the C,, H. & D., though the tiack 1s covered with water for a shore dis‘ance. The malls are very much delayed and the city service is also greatly confused. No just esti mate of the damage can be made now. When the attempt is made people talk only of millions, The river has beeu falling at Portswouth, 113 miles above hero, slnce lsst night, elzht ioches, and hsa beon faliing eight feet at Poweroy. This gives the hope that the worst is over here. THE RIVER RISING AGAIN. CiNciNNaTi, February 14 —There i3 additionul gloom over the people this morning caused by the fact that the river, afcer falling to sixty-four vanced from the west, thus checking r as Pittsburg., Unless it stops that the great height reached yester- the reliof commissioners, but they they can goods. Soup were opened to-day in various parisof eontributi The sinking fuud trus- will be prompt CASES CF EXTREME DESTITUTION Bakeries not inundated are There has been Dl-plhl?o'- stata the people are be-- i e o LAWRENCEBURG No lives lost yet. Tho has $1,500 for the same object, An- other carload of provislons were sent to-day. The river here Is rising at the rate of an inch and a half hour. It stood sixty-five foet an inch and a half at 12 o'clock, Reporte, both up and down the river, show rain. The river is talling at Portsmouth aud Mayaville, slowly at the latter place THE FIRST AUTHENTIC REPORT concerning the loss of life at the Cin- clnnati Southern depot yesterday was made to-day to the police at Oliver street station, by Herman Welsberg, a boy living at 17 Wilstacht street. He says he and his brother Joseph, with thirteen other boys, were on the platform when the water broke through McLean avenue; that the entire party were thrown Into the water; that ho swam to Gost etreet, escaped and went home; that his brother aund sll other boys were drowned, He does not know - thelr names. A TOWN RUINED. Mabison, Ind., February 14 -~The river is rising one and a haif inches an hour. Milton, Kentucky, opposite here, {s submerged, not a house is ex- empt. Cablos are used to anchor the buildings. Tae water is ia the scooud stories of many of the houses, The eastera suburba of this city are aban- doned and all front and extreme west- ern ports, The backwater and a crooked creek have inundattd the city on tho north. Bpringdale cemetery is partially submerged. Mora raln prevailing floods. need help are unsettled, the reach of water. ou Walnut, road depot is flooded, H no longer able to cross the Newport | billshould beopened for general amend- The Louisville & Nashville |ment he would move an amendment train are recoiviag passengers on the | to admlt free all books. designed ior trestle at the Ciucionatl end of the | instrustion in schools, They are reaching iv b bridge. bridge, boats. - " Dayton road, which has been the only lished i~ this country. outlet for trains north and east to- " night, wont under the flood to such an | following resolution, which was or- extent that no tralns ocould pass, |dered printed and to lie over antil to- This leaves stock ya sent oul baggage. trains, to reach tho train, ranuiog, thera being no place to land Ooal barges to-dsy wers towed up from Central avenue to Pearl atreet, where carts run slongside to receive OMAHA NEB THURSDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 15 1883 mont on account of the rise above [report in favor of his bill to facllitate No | the tax sales of rallroad lands where Many trains are | the rallroad companies have not per- irregalarly. | fected titles by paying to the River men prediot the river will soon [ ment the costs of survey and tion ¢ Water surrounds the entire |as is required by law. city, The wildest eetimates of dam. |clalmsthat the supreme court has de. ¢ Nothing |olded in one case to shield the rail- is known abcut the loss of life, | roads es being still cut off, exoept to | quently here. Basiness ls at » standstill, boats are arriving, stopped, and all run recede. ro made, noune reliable. divers, ordinarily large. RELIEF FOR LAWRENCEBURG. INpraNarouis, Ind,, February 14 — A committee sent to Lawrenoeburg Jast night reported suffering inoreas- ing, and more assistanca will ba ncun‘l‘»' being used even by the deolsions >t od immediately. Another carload provisions with delicactes for the n;xt Seepoteiting iv ShymMIoR will go to night by a special train, Gailfurd it was etill raining hard at 6 p. m., with indicatione that it will continue during the night, E. Burkham, of New York, serds §1,000 to the Lawrenceburg relief, AN APPEAL FOR AID, The following has been issued by |government. the mayor of Newport, Ky.: great calamity hes overYakon the city. After passing through a protracted |to the amendments made in committeo sioge of amallpox we find at least ove- [of the whole about putting books, third of our city submerged by tho|etc, rn the free list. About 3,000 fami lies are suffaring and destitute: It is only feet ten and three-quarter inches, be- L gan to rise uader the inflaence of a Sl gl steady hard rain, The raln has ad.| CINCINNATI, was sixty-six feet, three quarters of an | lish language.” inch, and rising slowly. The day has |noes 21, been the gloomiest in the history of | oent ad valorem, having been ohanged the ocity. Busincss was wholly ne. [ln committee of the whole from 20 to gleoted on "ohange, and all astention (16 before the paragraph wan truck The rain sori- | iven to the saving of property and af- | out. work of | fording relief. warm, almoat cause arother The Cincinnati, Hamilton THE CITY PRACTICALLY CUT OFF the maat 01X w18 world by railcom- municauv, except that the Bse Line ¥ ot 13 road still runs tnl\’m, leaving from the audited by the first auditor of the The Oincinnati Southern train to-night, and received one, but the water has permeated McLeaun avenue so tbat wagons sink to the hubs in unloading express and Foars are entertained that the whole street will sink under the It cannotv yet bo told what arrangement will be made for forward- A loog haul must be made No steamers ars du, ing mail, loads. doing other lawless acts. the discovery of crime. THE CITY 18 PARTLY LIGHTED to-night by lamps set inside of gas|appropriate money to cortain other The work ot relief has gono | people.” on vigorously to-day. Many touch- |tevistics of the river and harbor bill ing scenes wers witnessed. Though |lnst session, no appeal has been made for help from | same kind « f comblnation. 3, assistance has been sent, among these $2,600 by H. H. Warner | the samo principle - “‘sou tickle me, $1,000 from the[I'll tickle you.” Adams express Co., New York, $250 [ been conducted not only in the lobby from the proprietor of the Gilsey |but openly on the floor of the senate. New York. The Ma-|In organized @ |bodies of coal lauds in special relief forco and telegraphed | g'nia belonging to certaln gentlemen, to Oleveland, Sadusky snd Toledo for | representatives of thoso interests were Among the lucldents of the|in the senate voting money out ot the flood was the finnding of a buby|pockets of the peoplo of Oalifornia asleep in its crib in a house floating at | into their own. The|*“I have no sort of concesslons to littlo walf was rescued and taken care | make to monopolies srranged batween lamps, abroa & Oo., Rochestar, house, sonic fraternity has boats. the ferry bank, below the city. of by the Catholic Orphan society. barn with a fine barouche to day. drews were serlously ivjured, will cause the creek to deluge Walnut street. A large part of the town of jarrollton i1s suffering for is wholly suspended. Mauy of these also lose goods, and manufacturers all lose heavily in damage to machinery stock aside from the loss of time. More than a thousand business firms and manufacturers are thus proa- traied, yet the business mon are not discouraged and for two days have sent in contributions to the fand for the rellef of suffering among that much greater clase, the poor, who are driven from their homes and are de- prived of work, It ls estlmated that from thirty to forty thovsand men are out of work by tue closing of the man- ufectorles, To them the loss of time sad injury to household goods is the smallest loss. The dampness In the houses after the flood subsides must bring sickness and suffering. The common council actlon, who ask authority to issue a loan, was romptly met by the legislature, th houses having passed a bill au- thorizing a loan of 8100,000, Thus the city has arranged to provide for iteelf. Telegrams have been re- ceived to-day from Chlcago, New|an hour. food. The provision stores are ex- hausted. The Western hotel is de- serted as dangerous. RAIN AND RUIN, Inp1aNaroLs, February 14, —Rain- ing hard stnce midnight. Pogues run has again overflowed. Railroad tracks are under water, A Jeffersonville dispatch says: The city is flooded from two to twenty feet deep; 5,000 people are homeless, many lose every- thing. Many cottages in the lower part of the city have been swept away Hundreds are quartered in the second story of public bulldings and stores. Focdls sent them in ekiffs, The water is filty from the sewers and the suffering isappaling. It ls still ralning, and river rising. Loss over half a million, tribol are auked for. Franxdorr, Ky., February 14.-—- The Kentucky river is stationary, at 34 feet, It ls now ralning, THE FLOOD AT LOUISVILLE, bmx:u, February 14, —The(’)hlo is 41 inches, and rising an inch There s Immense exclte- latter is & well known merchant, WHEELING, February 14 —Tho river | the same? Theso m is 26 feet and rising. Raining hard | regular ‘‘congresses and the congrees all day. ORGANIZING RELIEF. CreveLaND, February 14,—In re.|poople, was not the servant of these sponse to s oall from Cincinnatl Free | great monopolies and their lobbylsta, Masons for boats, the Masons of this | There has been 'h“""’e“"'“k upon city to-night lhlfped eleven row boats | this floor,” said Morgan; “every man needed, to send to- morrow a life saviog crew with appa- [t will be proclaimed from the floor of and promised, i ratus from this station, Tho Grain Speculator. Special Dispatch to Tix Bxn, Torosto, Ont., February 13,—R, | to be on the free | J. Flemmivg, of Chicaga, was arrested here on a charge of obtaining money | Pacific coast paid v The frauds|tax on cosl, & amount to nearly 8500/000, and §150,- | was an unfair ap Fiem- | princliples, ming declares the arrest a scheme to squeezs money out of him. He knows | plained that there was no duty on that he cannot be extradited and will | anthracite coal, the kind used for do- under false pretenses 000 were found in his person, not give up a cent. A Sliding Supreme Court. Spectal Dispatoh to Tux Bex, WasHiNGTON, February 13, —Sena- Theo loss of life is ot oxtra- [ to aid the same companfes to defeat G, ‘A The tariff bill was resumed, the We | ment. necessary to announce this fact to tho citizens of | books upon the free list, but upen re. our common country to obtain relief, Please send rellef to W. H. Lope, | mittee ought t> bo modified, and as treasurer of the citizons’ jrelief fund, | preliminary to restoring the para- Newport, Ky., or to Wm. H. Harlan, February 14.—Mip- | langusge so as to restrict the daty to i M‘lng 32 While the unexpected rise of nearly a foot to-day has not|the duty to 20, the original figures, to dls.|made a very grest chenge apparently | Lost—ayes 29, noes 32. A vote was houses | in the siruation, there is such uucer- | then taken on concurring in the ac: taincy about the fature that all plans | tlon of the committee of the whole No ono can tell when | striking out the paragraph so sa to let the rain will cesse along the river. Weather sultry, | aotion was disagreed to by a vote of The effect of this uncertaiu- | —ayes 31, noes 331, Jifiing | graph was reinstated in the biil in this loads f8arisaiare, :ff:dif;":é':;f and this increaso would add $150,000 water's edge demanding whisky and Carefal in- quiry shows there is no toundation for such stories, Soft punishment follows flyated by | States through lobbies and upon these This evening & collision oo curred on the Cincinuati Northern | make opon these, and though I ehall railroad, batween Avondale and Idle: | stand alone, eir, I will battle for the wild, in which John Roborts, colored, | right upon this question. was instantly killed; Isaac Knight, | monopolies combine f r motual pro- Russell M, Manning and Daniel Au- | tection and why should not the sena- The | tor trom West Viraini» and his con- 204 vern- The report taxation and subse the decision from abandoned the rights given to citizons by the terms of the grant, The committee believe it acts a sample of justioe that the lands of companies shonld be taxed, and that the United States should be placed in the attitnde of the supremo court to further ald in CONGRESSIONAL. Special Dispatch to Tin Bum, SENATE PROCEEDINGS. WasniNaroN, February 14 —Sona- tor Blair introduced a bill to prevent convict labor being pald for by tue pendivg question being upon agreeing Senator Morrill opposed the awmend- Senator Bayard sald he voted to put flectlon thought the action of tha com- graph laying a duty on books, ‘which did not care to get Into personal con- troversy, Sonator Morgan—When the senator tolls mo that a portlon of my argu- ment is unworthy of notice, I wish to ask him the questicn (addressing Davis), *“Are you not a large owner of theso coal lands?” .Senator Da: Oertainly I am. Are yn\: not the owner of the coat you got on Senator Morgan— Yes. Senator Davis—And don’t you vote lower tax on it ? Senator Morgan—No; not on this coat, on the next one I buy. Senator Davis—Well, I don’t care to go into a personal controveray. Sonator Morgan—When the senator orises and says that my argument is not worthy of notice, I want to know who It is that makes that remark and to show that 1t 18 & man who s voticg taxes on my poople to put into his own pockets to enrich himeelf. Seuator Davis—1 want no personal controversy with the senator, Senator Morgan—Well, keop off my feet if you don't, Seustor Davis—I believe the sena- tor will think better of it hereafter. As to my ownership of coal la am one of a corporation in which per— haps a hundred other people areinter- ested Senator Gorman defonded Senator Davie, and the debate was oarried on in great length, Senators Brown and Beck had a poiuted controversy on the qaestion of “protection” and “‘monopolles,” and had been struck oat in comwittee of the whole, he moved to amend the NiouT—The river at nine to-night|books ‘‘wholly or partly in Agreed to--ayes This left the duty at 15 per Senator Morrill moved to restore bookes, eta,, go on the froe list. That 8o the para- “Books, pamphuts (bound or , and all printed matter cont advalorem.” Mr. Morgan .gsvu notice when the Saulabury announced ‘he would mova to admit free all books not pub- morrow: L) , Resouvep, That the' secretary of st agion of hod] treasury on account of the expenses incurrad by tho devartment of justice since January 1, 1882, with the names of special atturneys employed by the department of justice,and by what au- thority in law he'audited bills and ac- connts of said speclal or assistant at- torneys. The amendment made in committoe of the whole, raising the dnty on bituminoua coal from 50 to 75 cents per ton, being reached, Senator Vauce asked for a separate voto upon agree- ing to it. Senator Farley said the chief bur- don of tax of coa! foll upon California & year to the tax thus lovied upon her people. Senator Davis (W. Va) advocated the amendment Sanator Morgan said this bill ought to be entitled **a bill to tax the padple of certain portions of the country and It had all the worst charac- It has producad the Both bills woro framed and pushed forward upon Negottations have coal, large Woest Vir- this matter of +Sir,” sald Morgan, A | different industrics of the United floors, I have noching but war to All other freres, ownera of lar. - coal fields, do spolios had their of the United Stater, which used to eract lawh for the beaefit 01 the whole here knows it, everybody feels it, and this senate until the people of the United States shall know it and feel it.” Senator Williams thought coal ought Senator Miller (California) said the oo-fourths of all that, he thought, ation of protective Senator Davis (West Virginia) ex- Sanator Van Wyck introducod che | liabls ‘‘arifl for revenue,” Senator Beck talked about the iron and steel mon- opoly, and Senator Brown declared the “‘whisky ring” had the greatest |Special Dispatches to Tux New York, February 14, -Ex-Gov- the upon thousands of dollars to pas fraudulent and inflated olaims, cap , | monopoly in this country. A vote was finally taken and the amendment adopted in committee of | o'clock this morning, whole making the duty on bitumenous coal 70 couts per ton was agreed to-— ayes 23, noes 18 The amendment inserting friction or lucifer ma ches at 35 per cent advalor- emwas agreed fo, Senator Cockrell asked for a seper- ate vote on the paragraph laying a daty of 20 per cont advalorem on gar- den sceds. The amendmont was agreed to—ayes 22, noes 20, Wood pipes, which had beeu 1u- cluded by the committee of the whole with “‘common pipes of clay” at 85 per oent advalorem were atruck out, being left to come under the general olass of “‘pipes.” Senntor Beck moved to add a sec tion repealing sections 2,907 and 2,- 908, Revised Statutes, and providing that hereafter none of the charges im- posed by said sections or any other provisions of existing law shall be eco- tlmated in ascertwiving the value of goods to be imported, nor shall the value of sack, box or coveringe of any kind on such goods be estimated as part of their value in determiving the smonnt of duty for which they are e Senator Hoar moved to amend by adding ‘‘provided they are fit for nothing else.” After some discussion the smendments wore reserved for nsidavation tyRooREDING = nad, ThdTouse went into comittes of the whole on the tariff bill, the pend- ing paragraph being that imposing a duty cof 456 per cent ad valorem on manufactured articles or wares partly or wholly made of metal. Several amendments wers lost, Mr. Morrison offered an amendmont that after July. 1st, 1884, no bizher daty shail bo lovied on any article in the metal schedule than 60 per cant ad valorem, Lost—7b to 101 Mr. Cox offered an amendment for the edmiseion of forelgn bullt ships on payment of a duty of 30 per cent ad valorem, Lost—59 to 92, Consideration of the schedule, “Wood and Woudon Ware,” was en- tered upon, Mr. Holman moved to strike out the olauso imposiug a duty of 16 per cont advalorem ou lumber, hewn or sawed, and timber used for spars In building warehouses. The qauation involved the Imposition of duty on lumber was not one of reven- ue; 1t was one of proprietary, whother congress should by rogistration creato a motive for the destruction of Ameri- can timber. Mcr.JHoar made a statement showing the vast importauce of the lumber in- terests, epecially in Michigan, whero over $100,000 a day were paid laborers employed in that Industry. He was in favor of retaining the present rate of duty. Mr. Springer called attention to the fact that while the present duty brought a ravenue of only 81,000,000 Into the treasury it imposed tax of millions upon the oconsumer. That seemed to him to be a grievous bur- den upon the farmers of the west, who lived in the prairie regions. Mr. Holman’s amendment was lost - 49 to 104 Mr, White moved to increase the duty to 20 per cent. Lost. Mer. Anderson moved to strike out the whole clause relative to sawed lumber, Lost, Mr. Oux moved to reduce the duty on hubs, wagon blocks, &o., from 20 to 16 per cent, advalorum. Mr, Anderson advocated the mo- tlon. He said he would not be sur- prised if it should turn out that the vote on the su, question would bear somewhat cf an analogy to the yote on the lumber question. Mr, Ford, in an amusing speech, took umbrage at Anderson’s ‘‘as- porsing the motlves of every man who voted s he pleased.” Mr. Springr advocated the reduc- tion. o smondment was lost, as wero several otuer smendmenta look- {ng to reduction of the duties, Having ooneluded consideration of the wool schedu'c without making tion of consideration with the Inten- :’lfir of calling up the bonded spirits When Mr, Batterworth saw he was beaten, he endeavored to make the E;nrmtlon that just one hour should evoted to the consideration of the bonded spirits bill, Mr. Joyos declared that the whisky bill should not get one minute during this seaslon, LECALIZED LARCENY. The Robbery of the Treasury Boid, Bare and Un- blushing, Mr. Rood suggested that Mr, But.|The Kennard, Hawes and Pear- terworth should walt until the next congross, when the whishy bill would be more at home, Mr. Hiscook's motion was agreed to 87 to 62, The house went into the committee, the pending amendment being that offored by Mr, Thompson rodnofnu the number of Internal revenue distriots to 46, To thls amendment was the pending amendment offered by Mr, man Bogus Olaims Backed in the House, The Mysterious Iofluence of the Livcoln Lobby and 1ts Converte, Holman, fixing the number at 82, Names of Some Rampant Op- This amendment was adopted 92 to 82, and Thompson’s amondment as amended agreed to, This is & reduc tlon of 44 distriots, and will, if finally agreed to, go into effect the first of July next, Mr. Thompson moved to amend so as to place grain distillers of a capacity ponents Who Suddenly Flopped, The Railroads Blooking nll Logise lation Affecting Themvelves of loss than 500 bushels a day on the | epectal Dispateh ts Tus Ban. same footing as fruit distillers. Loat, On motion of Mr, Atkins an amendment was adopted repesling the law providing for an assistant secre- tary of war and asalstant secrotary of the navy. After completing 64 pages of the the bill, the committee rose and the house adjourned Death of Governor Morgan . ernor Edwin D. Morgan died at 8 Lincouy, February 14,—Jobbers, bogue claimants and tax eaters are holding high carnival at the capital while the rallroad lobby /s blocking all legislation that affords relief to ship- pera and producers, The passage of the capitol appropriation bill on the heels of the most recke less appropriations that saddle taxpayers with thousands Flags on publio bulldings are at |the climax of extravagance, and the half mast to-day In honor of the mem- ory of Ex-Governor Morgan most surprising thing about this le- At a | galized larcency is the fact that men, meetiog of the directors of the Western | who have come to Lincoln with high Unlon to-day eulogist'c resolutions | sounding were passed. The directors will attend | and three At midnight last night it was ap- [impuatation t parent that the ex-governor was fast | these His anxious family saw that | record in the funeral in a body. sivking. death was inevitable. All during the early hours of morning he lay peace- mont flimsy protoxt. there is somothing rotten in Denmar] pledges of © honesty economy --men who only days ago scorned the they would support sures, have gone on the vor of these jobs under the It is safe to sa; fully without sufforing any visible|in nearly every Instance where the pain. a change for the worse, ALBaNY, N. Y, Fobruary 14.—The senato to-day passed resolutions of eulogy on the late Gov. Morgan and adjourn in respect of his memory. Tho Consolidated Telegraph. Special Dispatch to T Brx, New York, Febroary 13.—Botween 1 and 2 o'clock to-day the whole mat- ter of the negotlations between the Western and Mutoal Union telegraph companies was settled by a lease and other papers being signed, and the property of the latter surned over to the former. Joslah O. Relff, a Wall street jobber, on Tu t in the supreme court Woestorn Union telegra) Union enles from oarrying in Fflll@ mado on Saturday last \g the Western Union of the Mutual Union property. udge Freeman granted a tempovary injunction with an order on the de- fendants to show cause on the 23d of Fobruary why it should not be con- tinued. ~ In an interview with Presi- dent Green he states ilbe injunction oame too late, the transfer and condi- tlons of the lease having been ful: fillod before the servico of the writ, The injunction will be of no effect, even under other circamstances, A Brakesmen Braised. Spocial Disp.teh to Tis | ke, Cargorr, Ia, Fobruary 12.—Last Sunday, Robert Wilson, a brakeman of Conductor Gallop’s train, was drendfuliy, if not fatally injured while assisting in cleaning away a wreck near Halbur, a small station on the Southwestern branch of the Chi- cago and Northwestern railroad. The injured man was immediately brought to Carroll and Dr. Wright summoned to dreas his wounds and rendered his condition as comfortable as possible until to-day, when Dr. W. left for the south and the case was left to the care of Dr. Kriebs. He is at the Uom- meroial house. The injury consisted of & compression of the abdomen, be- twoen two engines, one of which was a wreck and the other backing In to clear it away, It was the heedless- nees of Wileon himself which caused the accldent. e Tho Ohicago Viotims. Spocial Dispatch to Tur Brx, Onicaco, February 13 —The postal aathoritles here have lssued a circular to be mailed to the victims of Flem- ming and Morriam and others, Under the iaw tho postoffice authorities are warning them of the frandulent char- acter of the business transacted by them., Missouri's Pet. Bpocial Dispatch to Tix Box, Kansas Ciry, February 14.—The Times’' Gallatin special suys: A well known and rellable ocitizen to-day positively identified Frank James as one of the four men who stopped at his house the night before the Win- ston train robbery and murder, It is said when the case is called next week the state will able to present some sirong evidence. L Bl A Mining Transfer. Spocial Dispatch to Tis Brs, HereNa, Mont,, Febroary 13— The heaviest sale of mining property ovor made In this vicinity was com- any change the conamittee rose, Mr. Cannon sskod that night ses- eion be sasigned foi consideration of the legislative appropristion bill, Mer. Butterworth obieoted . Mr. Randall—‘‘What is the fssue mestic purposes. As to the argument of the senator from Alabama, he|whisky!” thought large portior of it unworthy of the seuator or of notloe, Senator Morgan to be between?" Soveral republicans — ““Whisky! Recess, , When the house met this evening, Mr. Hiscock moved to gu lato com- asked Senator | miitee of the whole on the leglalative tor Van Wyck submitted to the senate | Davis to ‘nlnt out the unworthy por- | appropriation bill. argument, Davis from the committee on public lands a | tlons of Mr, Butterworth ralsed the ques- pleted to-day, the Drum Lummon mine being gold by Thomas Cruse to an Eoglish syndicate for $260,000 down and $138,000 to be paid in April and June next. Died From the Injuries pecial Dispatch to Tius Brx Deapwoon, Dakota, February 14.— H, 0. Clark, an auctioneer of th's clty, and formerly & prominent buel- ness man, died to-day from {ojuries rocelvod at the hands of Thos. Rol- lins, a clerk in the store of J, T, Ed. maunds, At 7 o’clock his condition took | lobby has made such sudden conver- Ho lost con- | sions, soiousness and remsined in that state | knows that until he expired. and Evory intelligent looker on nearly all the claims schemes of plunder are tied up with the oapitol ring. The ropublicans of the Douglas county delegation have distinguished thomselves by voting solid for the onpitol tax, while McGavook s the only democrat from Omaha who is rocorded for it. Tobias Caster and the Burlington & Missouri pressure changed Remsey and Palmer, of Sa- line, and some very mysterious influ- ence converted Foward and Nettleton of Olay. Ashby will probably ex. plain his very sudden flop after the":llsnu‘r: adjourns, while xo- explanation w‘d from the. wretohed fraud p Y trossurer of J county, or any mu- nlo?ll corporation therein, shall be paid in the order of thelr registration out of any money collected to the credit of the fand upon which the same s drawn, without reference to the {‘en of the levy of the tax from which the money so received Is de- rived. Tho evident purpose of this bill {s to draw morey out of the gene oral fund for the capitol ‘build’ng. Warrants before the tax is collected or even before it is levied. Senator McShane's motion to indefinitely postpone the capitol bill when it was first read in the senate, only recelved ten out of tl:hty cast. These ten are opposed lo any capitol appropria- tion this session. The bill will be modified in the senate so as to make the capltol tax for the next two years only three-quarters instesd of one mill, This change is expected to mol- lify certain senators who want an ex- ouse for supporting this unpopular measare, Among the clailms which the houso agreed to pass are Pat O, Hawes and Tom Kennard's claims and Pearman's bogus milltia clalm, Th evening sesslon of the house was devoted entirely to debate on Jensen's railroa b, It only developed more strongl the organized oppositien to any - road legislation, The railroad attor- torneys and cappers on the floor made the most captious opposition. Among the opponents wers Franz, Field, Draper, of Oass; Payne, Johnson, Bierbower and Gray. Among its suj porters were Robberts, Jensen, Dods: Steadwell, Howard, Hall, and Cook, of Nuckolls, Much interest was manifested by the specta- tors, among whem was » large railroad lobby, The bill was fipally killed by a yote of 44 to 42, The following voted against the bil Bierbower, Britton, Brown, Oassel, Chapin, Charleston, Chris- topherson, Collins, Colpetzer, Daven- port, Dawson, Denman, Draper (of Qass), Draper (of Knox),Field, Franse, Gray, Grimes, Grout, Helmrich, Hoe- bel, Holman, Johnson, Kuoney, Laird, Lee, McGavock, Miller, Mor- rison, Neville, Payne, Savage, Ses- slons, Spanogle, Swearinger, Sussen- bach, Thomfiaon, Tower, Westoott, Whedon, Wisenburg, Wool and the speaker, The Ferry's and Their Mines. Special Dispatch to Tux Bxs, Saur Lake, Utah, February 13,— The business mon of Sait Lake think the affalrs of the Ferry Bros., in Utah, have been ably ard honorably man- aged, The Gentiles are praying for Feorry's olection to the eenate, and pa- pers to this effect wore signed to-day. o — A Fool With a Gan. Special Dispatch to Tus Bxa. Wanoo, Neb., February 13— Ben Riddle, of Cereeco, shot & h- bor named Dougherty in the Monday afternoon, while foollng with a revolver inagun shop In Wahoo. Dougherty Is serlously but not dan- gerously hurt. The ball has been ex- tracted.