Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 1, 1883, Page 1

/‘u TWELFTH YEAR. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Pagsage of the Bill INCTOASINE | s vennmre i the Pengions of Permanent- ly Disabled Soldiers. of Senator Jones, was to-day no;ni- d nated pcstmaster of Oleveland, O, . «tdn orlglnating in the house to repeal spatch to Tis F homestead laws, SENATR . # DIvas very active In behalf of 1 his effort, and Wasnivarox, Febraary 28, —In the | thinks he will be able to have the pro- senate Senator Kdmunds, from the | vision stricken from the sundry clvil commitiee on judiclary, reported ad- |sppropriation bill, in which it was in- vorsely on the house bill to provide sorted by the house. Maj. Stralt sald Various Important Ohanges |for a restoration to citizenthip of such | to-day he did not believe the leglela- Made in the Bundry Civil Bill The Democrats Bodily Desert the Tarift Conference Committee. Bmooth Sailing 2 ssured if the Protectionists are Protected. The Harbor Bill Causes & Rustle of Leaden Wings in the House, Thoe Reduced Jumbo, -ired by the Dead, is Lightly Tonched by the Living. CAPITOL NOTES. Spiciat Dispatches to Tis Brs THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL, WasniNeTON, Fobruary 28.—The sundry civil appropriation bill as amended by the sarate committee on appropriations, was reported this morning by Allison and ordered print- ed. The senate commlttee inorense the amount of the bill as passed by the house by $1,418,000. Among the {tems addod by the seuate committes are the following: For dry dock at Mare Island, $15,000; life saving ser- vice and new life saving stations, $15,000; New Orleans custom house, $15,000; farniture, gas fixtures, &o., of public buildings; $100,000; comple. tlon Washington monument, $100,000; public printing and binding, $460,000; new naval observatory, $200,000; oltizons of the United States as have | tlon would pass the aeuate, Under the become natuzalizyd citizens of Gireat [rule adopted by tho senate the Britain, clause would updoubtedly by stricken Senator Tabor cfferod a jolnt reso- | from the bill, and could not be reln- lation providing for a participation by [8:ricd exeopt in conforence, and it the government in the uational mining | Was extremely doubtfnl whether it and induatrial exposltion to b held fn | could be done there. Gen. Washburn Donver. is very aotive in trying to secure the The bill incroasing pensions of one | Passage of the provision by the senate srmed aud ony logzed soldiers was |[In regard to the argument of Mr, taken up, Pendlug queation was on [ Conger that the proposed change of thn motioa of Sanator Vest, to atriko | oxlating laud laws was in tho Interoet out the words ‘Or shall have suffored | of land speculators as agalnst the poor dleability equal thereto.” sottlers, Mr. Washburn eaid he defied Sonator Voorhees declared in favor | #ny man to show that it ieiu the In- «f the bill, terost of any one but the bora fide Senator Mitchell stated it would re. [settlers. It was understood that a qulre two milllon Yo earry out the pro- | larg» number of fraudulent entries fn vision of the bl the Daluth land district had been Senator Harrle moved indefinite [ made in the Interest of certain lum pestponement of the bill. bermen, which might possibly acconnt Senator Saulsbury eupported the | for the interest taken In the matter by motion, VanWyck opposing postpon. | certain Michigan people. The terma ment. | of the provislon were indorsed by the Senator Veat advosatea the bill, but | secretary of the intericr and the com- belleved the ‘‘equivalent dieability” | mistioner of the general land cflise, to clause would open the dours for | whem it had been submitted hefore it frand. Honce he opposed that clause, | Was presented to the house. It iz un- Sonator Shermsn favored inoroase | derstood that Senator Plum, chair- of penslons to soldiers who lost an |man of the senate committee on pub- arm or leg, or .those suffuring equal | lic lands, and also & membor of the disability from any actual wound re.|committee on appropriations, tavora celved In the service. the legislation, and will endeavor to The motion to posipone Indefinitely | have it pass the senate. Dalegates was lost—19 to 34, Senator Vest's | Pettigrew and Maginnis are both op- offort is belng made In the 10 .« foat the proposed leglsla- OMABEA NEB THURSDAY MORNING MARCH 1 1888 057 THE OLD WORLD. i ) homastond Taws, - Somuror Coner 1y | Tho Rovealod Villainy of Social- {sm Startles the People of Spain, An alusia the Hot-Bed of the “Black Hand” Band of Butchers. Britieh Press Oomments on the Applications for Bheridan and Byrne. The Latter Olosely Comfined in Paris, Charged with Arsas- sination’ GENERAL FOREIGN NEWs. Special Dispatches to Tun Bam SOCIALISM IN SPAIN. Mavrio, Februury 28.--Ta the chamber of depatics dom submit- ted an Interpeliation socialistic tronbles i declared that a 80g night a band of 300 men, well or- [ man shot himself, dying Instantly, e ganized, merched np Southport avenne | was were to Fallerton avenue, The; equipped with orowbars, jlmmies, piokazes, and ander the direction of | Special Diepatch to Tem bun chosen leaders proceeded to tear uy the track. Five hundred feet of rala were torn up and twisted out of shape |& Northwestern road was ditched and the tles and roadbed complotely The nd expected a riot but the mob by a stratagem had decelved the denm‘od for that distanoce. police officors as to the time and places. When the latter arrlved the rloters formed In line and marched some dis. tanoe {2 an orderly manver and dls- persed. No arrests. TELEGRAPH NOTES. Special Dispatchoa to Tur Buv, Hank Monk, the famous stage driver, is dead at Carson City, Nev, During the cross-examination of Rer- dell, yesterday afternoon, the latter called Tngersoll “'a puppy,” and Ingersoll called Rerdell “'a dirty dog.” . Charles H, Oate probably fatally shot Widow M. 8. Anderson ynt Lawrence, Masw, and then killed himself, Cate leaves a widow and family in Boston, Louis P, Oarman, ex-secretary of the Manhattan fire insurance company, of New York, has been missing since Sun. day. The accounts of the company are short $40,000, The receivers of the Philadelphia and Hand,” siniiav to th 1 existed, It almed at colléotive instead of Individual rights of property. He exhorted the government Yo vigorously roprees the organizstion The minister of the lnte: he had known of the | “Black Hand” and h affalr in the hands ot thorittes. The 0 lor replied latenco of placed the udlolal au. Andalusia amendment st:iking out the ‘‘equlva. | posed to ft, although the latter says lent disabllity oluase” was lost —ayes | he has heard very little from the peo 20, nagn 22. ple about it. He thinks some other Mr. Piatt offsred a subatitute, | course might be pursued to prevent which wae adopred—31 o 7. the frauds committed under the pre- The ameudment providitg pensions | emption law than by repealing it. for survivors of Mexican and Iadian = wara was loat, The Newhall Pl:lnlmx White- Mr. Willlams epoke in favor of pen- washe soning the Mexican veterans, and in. [ SPecie! Disvateh to Tun Bee. i cldentally exprossed the optnion that| MILWAUKEE, February 28 —The the increase of the pension bill would |graud jary in the Newhall disaster tako slxty millions thefirat year The [ made & fival report this afternooo. bill was reported to the senate and the | The document says: The Newhall surveying public lands, $50,000; protection of public lands from fradulent entry, $90 000; protection and improvementjof the Yellowstone park, $250,000; burean of engraving and pricting (expenses) $124,000 The committee have atricken out the item of $324,000 for construction -and repalrs of military posts and $200,000 for executive treaty and agreement with the Sioux Indians, The house provision relative to Yellowstone park was stricken out and a new par- agraph lnserted, authorizing the sec- retary of theiaterior to lease not ex- ceeding 80 acres within the park, but not toinclude the geysers or other ob- jects of interests, All previous con: tracts will be declared invalld, The committee also strike out the clause relating to the pre-emption lawa, HE'S COMING. Ravoninshiteimalivo, minister of | 07 manual forelgn affairs, head of the lhhcz embassy, and Ravitniroks, his “will aupive-rove-mowd wook, 'he senate has ratified the supple- mental extradition treaty with Spain. THE TARIFF AGAIN, per Senators Bayard and Beck with-[to be drew from the conference committee on the senate tariff bill, after sitting two hours vainly endeavoring to have the house resolution reported to the senate with an expresslon that it lim- ited the house conferees; therefore under the Ingalls resolutlon the sen- ate conferees must withdraw. Sena: tors Morrill, Sherman and Aldrich did not agree with Bayard and Beck a8 to the neceesity of withdrawal, and roceeded to consider the schedule he two democratic senators going out left ' Carlise alone, as a free trade member He soon after left the ocowmittee room and went to the house, not, how- ev.r formally withdrawing. The mat- ter of constitutional prerogative of the house was lefc for the present, the preeumption being that it will not be raised it the bill can be made to suit the preteotionists, The committee sat till nearly 12 o'clock and discussed the chemical schedule without making any materlal change. The important articles were not reached. To-mor- row morning the iron schedule be first considered. It is expected Bayard and Beck will report to the senate to-morrow that uader the con- dition of the Ingalls resolution, the senate conferess could not remaln, and request the recall of the senate’s committee. This report is not like:{ to prevall, and the conference will doubtless go on until consideration of the bill be completon. RERDELE AGAIN, In the star route case to-day, Inger- soll snnounced he had finished with Rerdell. Meérsrck conducted the re- direct examinatlon. Witness sald in December last he told Vaile he was in communication with the government; was trying to get out of the case. Valle ul;{w had done well; that if it had notbeen forjthe fact thathe (Vaile) had been on the stand at the last trial he would—— Davidge objecting the answer was Witness first learned the overnment was willing to lougt im as a witness on the night he went to Merrick’s house. He was glven to understand he must plead guilty and have no favors to expect Witness explained that his reasons for going over to the government wers Dorsey’s coming to the jail and threateniog him with those letterr; aleo the fact that Dorsey orsome one had ‘‘gene through” his office while he was = jail convinced him that he had been deserted by Dorsey, whose purpose waa to get him out of the way. Witness did not see Brady go Into Chamberlaln’s, but knew from Dorsey’s conversation that Brady was in the house. Adjourned. CONFIRMATIONS, Decius Wade, chief justice of Mon- tana; John B, Allen, attorney, Wash- ington territory; Wm, E. Church, as- sociate justice of the supreme court of Dakota; Thos, Jones, jr., brother amendments made in committee of | 788 oconstructed as eubstantislly as the whole conourred in. The bill, as|®uch buildings generaily. There is amended, passed—27 to 14. scarcely a hotel in the country which The bill as passed provides that|is 88 essy of egress, It vindicates the from the passoge of the act, all per landlord,except that hq never instruct- sons on the penelon roll and all per. [©d the help as to their dutles in case sons hereaftor granted pension, who of fire, and ocensures the coroner for while in the military or naval service | the mauner the morgue was kept. of the United Siates in line of duty, S ERE L shall have lost one hand, or one foot, or been totally or permanently dis- abled as to render thelr incapacity to perform manual labor, equivalent to James Mammelledorff, general mana- the loss of a hand or foot, shall re. |8€T of the Mexican National bank, re- oeive a penslon of $24 a month; tiros. Guatave Strak, merchant, tem- that all persons now on the pension porarily succeeds him. The settle- roli and all persons hereafter granted | ment of the Mexioan debt to the Eog- penalon, whe in like manner shall have lish bond helders is again rumored lost either an arm. at or above the el | The «fllsial organ states that the pres. bow, or a leg at or 'above the knee, or | 13ent th nka the time for settlement shall have otherwise so dhb’!od has arrived. No offislal negotiations be sited for #te on foot, Mex\can Affairs. Speclal Dispatches to Tus Bas. 0 per mouth, X talned in th nall be oo e v | re| section 4,609 of the Revised : st‘:::lm or to chauge the rate of $18 l‘;:r;:;‘::l‘:w:: 'i:‘l:,:.::m'" being month thereln mentioned 7 Ex Preatd ‘t Dia - "n rtionatel, divided o ey MBI PAtsy. A DEOHRERS y rived to-night, and were given a tor- any dlebillty eatablished,| ~oh0 o which reaton 4599 makes|T™® FeOSRYOD. provision. A Mint of Money. onator Allison reported the sundry | Special Dispatch to Tis Bas. clvil bill and said he would call it up PHILADELPHIA, Fabrnary 28, —Mint to morrow. After execative sesslon |coinage for Fubruary, 6,265,440 picces, the senate edjourned. valued at $1,100,360. HOUSE PR( CEEDINGS, The citizans' committee; while fa. The house went {nto a committee of | yoring the rotention cf Lsague Island the whole on the state of the union|by the governmont, ssy its abandon- and after ¢ brief centest In re fard to| ment will not be detrimental to the the respective claims for precadence | city, as the 617 acres are fairly worth of the deficlency and river and harbor | one million and a quarter. bills tho consideration of the latter G e v R AT measvre was resumed. ‘Wrecked by a Rail. Commenting on last year's veto of | Special Dispatch to Tun Bun. the river and harbor bill, Mr Moc. | CHICAGo, February 28.—Later ad- Lean expressed the opinlon that it vices from the railway uo!@ant at was {nexcusable in the high exeontive | Palatine, IIl, shows one child was officer to apeak in terms of disrespeot | Killed and twelve persons Injured, of the leglalature whieh he was advis- [none seriously. All fr resumed ing, The impropriety became much |their journey. A number cf them more offenaive when accompanied with | were emigrants, Five cars turnod 8 gruzk display of ignorance. He had [Over. Cause, broken rail. never known an execuiive to be so S L Boe mhla;i and minngen. Ho would neve; Special m.:\:,': ’: g:‘,,,,‘ Lisap permit & man to denounce a vote of Lrrrie Rook, February 28 —W, M. his as one unworthy of respect without | 1y,¢14a0n, member of the legislatare calling upon him to prove it. He M Bankad God hasoald ‘}’ A, from Sharp county, while intoxicated, e jumped into the river early this morn- ot a8 a ;:ulumm“ur, as a man igoo- ing and drowned. The body has not rant of facis. been recovered, Both houses ad- Mr. Burrows defended the report of | ; 5 ) hi the committee on the Missigsippi river, |ournndwwy. Mr. Batterworth thought the waters of the Mississippi could be confined |8pecial Dispatch t> Tus Esn. within mud walls without a comprom- Pirrssurg, February 28 —The ise with muskrats or & truce with the | Western Nail Associatiod met to-day moles.” He did not favor a large ex- |and decided to clese factories two ditare for the construction of | weeks more, beginning next Mondsy. evees, but defended the general plan | No chauges in mtes were made, The parties charged with frauds The Nail Worke:s in Meeting. were commanded to_pio farmers, A band of masked and armed men, supposed to belong ¥9" the ‘‘Black and,” entered a fa1 il 85 at Paerto Serrano, Andalus| de the ' and de- ral planta- y de- men, poutraged the WOl stroyed everything." 'S tion in Andalueia stroyed by sircilar b BYRNE IN, PRISON, ; Paris, February: ‘—By:'ns, be- ore the public proseputor, relterated his replios at the prefestareof polioe, denied the assagsinationand refused to answer further questions. He is kept a close prisoners. No visitors will be allowed to until the ministers have declded the question of exgradition.. CRACK SHOTS, LonpoN, Februsty' 98, —'The duke of Cambridge, pi at & meeting of the anon‘-l mmm, said the sssociation looked forward with most hiearty welcome at Wambleton. DISTRESS '! ARELAND. LouaHReN, Fe tress among the ing. Crowds are housep of prieats, IRISH EEROTION. Dusriv, Febrasry'$8.—In the elec- onidor K&u for Port Arling- ton, f vative, received seventy votes; Mayn e toaal, Toaidvae o U TR ' Marra, Fel 28 —The steamer | “Willlam Dickinson” was abandoned at ses, Thirteen of the crew are missing and fourteen saved. BOMB THROWERS BAGGED, Rome, February 28 —Three emi- grants irom Triestie, and six others were arrested, being implicated in throwing the bombs yesterdsy. Itis believed the gang are ull arrested. SHERIDAN AND BRYNE. Lonvon, February 28 —The Timen epy8 the application for the extradi- tlon of Bryne end Sheridan jastify the belief the the government bave a strong prima facie cass to lay before the French and American authoritics Thera will be strong popular protesta {n Franco and Americs against the ‘ex tradition of persons who it will be al- leged are being prosecuted for what is really politlcal offense. American judges are not inaccessible to political iuflaence, and the fear of the Irlsh vote is ever before the eyes of the American people, THEY HAVE ARRIVED, BeruiN, February 28 —The duke and duchess of Edingburgh have ar- rived here. A HIGH SOCIAL EVENT, BeruiN, Febroary 28 —The silver wedding festivities of the crown prince aud princess, which was postponed at the time of the anniversary of the 2. e Prince Charles, took place to-day. The streeta wera thro ged with people and busts of the crown prince and princess were exhibited at various points, and the clty will be illumi- nated to night., The emperor Wil liam, paid a visit to the duke and duchesa, appropriating for river and harbor im- | outlook forepring trade ls encourag- provements. ing, The bill was then read by paragraphs for amendments, The commitvee rose informally and after appolntment of Spear, of Georgla, as a conferee on :he '&nlx) blll!l.' ::hfillll tge lnnnoy ocoas one Al 's ination om | Y A Py Zflulon. A nrm::rl:f ’n:.en d- | city and town cfiisers, hold olty snd ments were lost. The committee rose. ‘lo'"' offices and vote at town meet- Mr. Page said he would ask the house | 'P8% to sit the bill out to-night. Evexing SpssioN. A bill p for the reappraisement of the trans- port *‘Planter,” captured by Robert CH10A00, February 28 —Arrange- Saalles. ments have been completed for a matoh The house resamed, In committee | Petween Carver and Bogardus at the of the whole, consideration of the O,M‘“E“ driving park Saturday, 100 river and harbor bill. Several mo. |birds each, fige ground traps, London tlons to strike out certaln small ap- |8un club rules, 80 vards boundary, propriations ‘were lost, sfier a running How Kind of Them debate of an hour, From 8:30 until | Specisl Dispaich to Tax Bur 11 no amendments were adopted, and | Arsanv, N Y., Fobruary 28,—The but little progress made. Every small | assembly congressional apportionment item proved a stumbling block to the | committee referred to a sub commit- progress of ths bill. Great disorder |tee in New York city districts with a characterizad the proceedings. view, it is said, of giving one district An smendment on the Ohlo river |to the republicaus, appropriation was adopted, The com- ' mittee at this polnt, without quornm, rose and the house adjourned. THE LAND LAWS. Bpecial to the Globe-Democrat, PROTECTION TO SETTLERS, 1 $50,000 will WasHinaToN, February 26,—A very | placed in the estimate, 4 o3 ‘Where is Phabs? Special Dispatch to Tus Ban. Boston, February 28,—The house The Pigeon Shooters Special Dispatch to Tus Bxs, Canada and Mexico. Bpectal nlvn-lcn.w 'ru.-lbn. i Orrawa, Febroary 28.—It is un. derstood the overnment has n::— _— Rt D'.MM in New Mexlioo: pec t Tux Ban, SaNTA FE, Fobruary 27.—Reports from the stock sec‘ions show that stock has wintered ;omarkably well western portion of the territosy, In Nalencla, Bernddillo and Rio Arlba ocounties the losses foot up $30,0L0. The cattle are now doiug finely, but a ncarclty of water and grass is report- n the northern sectlon, but no serlous results are apprehended, ———————— ught. Two Crooks Special Dispatch to Tus kxa. CHICAGO, Yost and ‘Bld” Hoolihan were arrested here for connection with the robbery of Vail's jewelry store at La Porte, Ind., some weecks ago. Six hundred dollars worth of diamonds of was recovered. criminals in the country. The Railroad Riet. Special Dispatch to Titx s OuicaGo, Febeusry 28.—The riot. ous demonstration ls more wserlous than reported in these dhgnohu s made upon the Evanston railroad, About mld. Reading Railroad Coal and Iron com- paies formally eurrendered to the officars of the companies control of the property of those corporations. Feottor Late Than Never, Spocial Dispatch to Tk Bre. New Ym«ub Fob. 28 —~A French- man named Desiere Howet, has for over a year been maintaining illiclt relations with the wite of Antonle Quinbine. The husband discovered the relations avd the wife confessid the guflt. To-night was fixed upon when Howet ehould make explana- tlons in the presence of all, arrived before the husband, began Itbertles with the wife, she protesting, owet persisting she plunged a knlga into his heart, killing him instantly, Maine Fusionists Special Dispatch to Tus . Aucusta, Me., February 28 —The fuslon greenback state central com- mittee decided to act with the demo- ocratio party in 1884; that the Solon Ohase greenbackers be ignored in the futare; also that at present they be- longed to the ‘‘anion” party, and any one calling himself a demoorat or greenbacker got a cold shoulder. It was agreed a big fightshould be made st the republicans in the spring election. g The Oyster War. Crry_or Mexico, February 28, —|pleasure to give the Amerioan team a | gpecial Dis, atch to Tus Ber. Norrork, Va., February 28 —One of the ateamers of the oyster expedi- 28, —The dis- | tlon returned with a portion of the Jhere 1s alarm- | troops, one Jmngy 88 & prize, one besleging the | white man an fcr food. | The governor found a fleet of twenty- six negroes, prisoners, alx vessels at work in Virginia waters, about the mouth .of the Potomao and only got one; seventy-five rounds of musketry and twenty-six solid shots -Brewster, conser- | were fired at tho vessels that gotoff ip river and took shelter on the aryland side. idionigen Repuimi Special Dispatch to Tux Ban, o sk East 8AcINAW, Mich,, February 28, —The republican state oconvention convened this morning. John 8. Newberry was made permanent chair- man, For justice of the aupreme ceurt, long term, Austin Blair was nominated; for justice, short term, Thomus J. O'Brien, of Kent; for re- gent of the university, full term, Harry B. Hutchins; regent short term, Jas, C. Jones' Saginaw. A motlon to ad- journ was voted down. The conven- tion broke up amidst confusion. e Diamond Pit. #pectal Dispatch to Tan B, Braiowoop, February 28, —Twenty- four feet of water still remain to be pumped out before the search can be made for the bodies. The pumps are working badly. Two new engines are expected to-morrow. The rellef committee made arrangements for burial of the dead to-day. They will be buried in the spot set apart in the oity cemetery. The relief fund reached $11,000 to-day. The Stowaway Case: pecial Dispatch to Tus K. New York, February 28 —~Themas Doss, the stowaway of the wrecked steamer Glamorgan, kept in duress by Capt. Irving and First Officer Bar- rett, of the rescuing steamer Repub- Ite, on suspicton of implication in the Yoadiogaen secaunt of shakdest ol b rix park rurders, has begun & sult for $10,000 damages. Orders for arrest were granted sgalust the officers, e Texas Miftings. Special Dispatch to Tux Bax, AUBTIN, in, ‘ gl'he leglslature to day defeated the rohibition measure by an overwhelm- defeated, 127 to 60, the bill giving | and there have been fow losses. The |ing majority and also passed a resolu- female citizens the right to vote for |sheep men report some losses in the | tlon to purchase the Alamo eite in San Antonio for $20,000. Chioago Iron Mills. Special Dispatehjto Tun Hua. Februsry 28.—A negro was huog by an enfurlated mob last night it Egin for attempting to rape a little school girl yesterdsy morn- FLOATING CITIES. The Devastation Wraught by the Ohio Flood on its Down- charged with embezzlement. A Big Railroad Oasuali(y. Pavatine, I, February 28, —Three oars of a Dakota train on the Chleago near here at noon, One shild was ward Coarse, killed and about fifty passengers were wounded. W Bhawneetown, Ills, Almost Spocial Dint Y i ks Tagoesver. Swept Away by the Hartrorn, February 28,—Senator Torrent,. Orville H. Platt was elected member of the republican national committee In place of the late Marshall Jewell, Beveral Towns on the Ken- tucky Side Pract.cally . Wiped Out, SRR Making a Mash. Special Dispatch to Tirs Bax, New Yorg, Febroary 28, Straa; snuff mille, at Datch Hills, and mashery, on Long Ialand, were selz:d | Hundreds of Houses Floating with and destroyed by revenue officers, the Tide. Bt A5 b STRUCK IT RICH - 8pecial Dispatch to T Bur, The Suburb of Englewood Furnishes [ SuawNEsTowN, Ills, Fobruary 28, @ Romance Wherein 8 Gentlemanly [ —The worat la over hers, The town Tramp Does Not Steal the Spoons, |{s sn awfal scene of desolation, Geeat But Runs Against a Fortune. gaps have been left by housca awept Chicaga Times BWAY, one addition four solld The village of Englewood has been | blocks of dwellings have entirely dis- this week the scene of a romantio re. al’l’:“‘;fld~ Tho P;l“b}";"»m I( lll{?‘h OAte away & mile. ‘Several mills ualon of two brothers who had not| g, bnuineu’homu are entirely gone, seen each other for upward of twenty | Tho principal merchant {n Biackburn, years, and tc one of the pair, at least, :(y., hu; s ltmlfi)f 012,.200 worth of aslon was & j ry goods on a barge tled to a treo, :':: T e ‘:';:"":""::‘:"':“f Th villagos of Blackburn ard Ralcigh, plic‘d & thevesidence of - H. L. ”s_ Ky., have l::thdbsan lllielfl’ wiped out, i, on Sixtioth streot, for food and o | For one hundred houses in theso night's lodging. He had the manner | P120°® are gone, olumbus, Ky, and demeanor of a gentleman, but his :vcr "figlll‘lfeat of r“?l‘ .k?r“d over the clothes were tke uniform of a tramp. sl e LA L His coat was in s, his toes peeped Dispatchon from Calro, say opinfons through his - dilapldated boots and [differ ss to the condition of the layed hide and seek with Jack Frost, | river, but the prevailing one Is that it Eia hair was ragged and uncombed, hes been at & stend since noon, It snd misory sat enthroned upon |Fose nearly one inch since last night, his face, Mr. Prentiss gave him focd, the gauge recording 52 feet, 2 Inches. of which he ravenously partook, and That it will begin falling some time when told he might sleep in the house | to-night there Is no possible doubt, his eyen throstenied to part compsny |88 advices from Paducah and Grang with their sockets, He protested the Tower report the river falling at those luxury of & bed beneath a comfortable [ polnts, The lovees are still In good roof would kill him, and begged that shape, and no washes or abrasions his host would, instead, give him a |have yot developed. mat ress and a blanket in the wood.| . Specials from Grayville report the shed. This prosperity, which he sald | river baving fallen 27 inches all told, was all he couli stand, bocame his lndhdropplng at the rate of one Inch portion, and that night he slept a sort | A0 hour. of a you-don't know-whnt‘-.uc‘;t-thlng- c“'“"‘w} Ky., Ia reportedin a very you've got sleep, awakening In the Pad plight, from ten to fifteen feet of morning with an expressed determina | Water over the town, with two to tlon to do up the famlly chores In | three feet in the stores. Roan and Ken- return for his host's kindness, This ‘“k{'"““ onlyare open for business, privilege was granted him and he re- |and but two stores In the place open, mained at the house doing odd jobs ot | sd these reached by high scaffolding work to pay his way. One day this|from thehills, There is considerable week he returned from a marketing | toffering smong the classes. expedition, with the change remaining | The negroes all escaped from the low out of » sum of money that had been |1ands and are quartered In freight cars entrusted to him and several huge |of the Mobile and Ohlo railroad. bundles. Leter in the day he appear- | An unusual event in the navigation ed before tho bowildered Mr. Prentls, [ of the Ohlo even at flood times Is the dressed in the helght of fashion, | Yoyage of the M, O. Cole, Wednesday, his smoothly combed locks surmount. |bound up with orane bost in tow ed by a glossy tile of the best make, | Which shefound impossible to handle. anda 30{4 chain dangling from a vest nat the strong ourrent. She left in the pocket of which there tloked | themain river atthe lower cottonwood merrily a $300 gold watoch, Near) m-i:, F“‘ into the fields in the wild with joy hnlntomodhhhnaho! rear of Now Liberty, and emerged vor that the day previous he hsd by [8gain into the river three miles above. * | noctdent met hb Eoglawood h?%:',: *A.rumr Oole was I:“ command, twonty years, but who instead trin. wau_raads been I{nyrhd in the wiids of Montana, | showed an inoh rise last night, snd where he had amassed a snug fortane | four inches above the high water mark of $500,000, and that the Montana fof 1882, brother had declared hia intention to| The people are fighting the an, sharo his comfortable competency with | waters with energy and pluck and will the tramp brmhar.hpr;vlded ll;'a ‘would [ pull through. sccompany him back to Montana. The tramp brother bid Mr, Prentls| Wil Bave Taddy. g pecial Dispatch to Tun Bas. good bye, kicked his threadbare rags REi T Fob, 28, —Th and his hard lot contingent upon his| ST LOUIS, Xet "‘?" T d’""“:; tramp lite lnto the alley, and with _his | Witteo on_constitutions] amepfmonts generous brothor went out intohis new | f the lower house "l'l \ td "";" world of prosperity. legislature have in thelr possession ot 823 petitions asking that prohibitory amendments be submitted to the peo- ple of the strances against such an action, Troubles of an American in Adapting | committee will report unfavorably on Himself to the Length of the a joint resolution providing for such Blankets. sabmission. The Establishment Seized: Special Dispatch to Tus Bax. Onicaco, February 28 —Geo, H. Taylor & Co., the large paper and pxlntluguubllahment, avecoufessed udgment this morning for $120,000. ’l‘he place was seized bythe sheriffand he hands of » deputy sheriff, THE GERMAN BED Berlin Lettor. And that bed is enongh to make a man stoop-shouldered. It's about as broad as a knife-blade, as hard asa billlard table, and six inches too short. T couldn't straighten out in it to save my life. I had to lie all twisted up 1ike a knot, like a rattlesnake ready to is now in strixe, But I could have made out m’,‘;‘lg‘:: s that Tonthes aoncern. which thep belleved if tho ontatandiog sccounte almed (/T on me for a coverlet, |80 be realized on in full he can pay hat was too short; abont a foot|dollar for dollar, and a half shorter ttun tho bod. I| gp Earthquake in Rhode Island. triad to cover my shculders, my feet | gpacial Dispatcn to Tis Exn. got 8o cild that the uvwis nearly | pyovipence, R. L, February 28.— dropped off, aud when 1 tried to save | Ay, carthqueke shock at Newport last my toe-naile, my shoulders were cov- | eyening was very generally folt. A ercd with goose-pimpien a8 big as hazel | number of panes-of glass were broken nuts, When I'd get one side of the | iy the vicinity of Mantonoine and the thing tucked in nice around me, all | h{)l houses at Stonebridge and on the the feathers would Fo sliding over to | Tyland were badly shaken, At Tor- the other side, leaving nothing but a pedo Statlon the shook 80 great double thickness of oloth (and mighty | that the offisers thougbt . magazine ocold cloth, too, I tell you) to keepme | had blown up. . The Norwich meteor warm onlfih“ l'llde. And ss the lut:- had been observed by large numbers ers would all congregate on the i o e other side, that side would rise Hhres "fl‘“fl‘i‘fl——k op so that there would be an The Passed. interval of about two Inches for the |Special Dispatch to Tus Lins. pura air of heaven to find an entrancs| Cairo, 1., February 28.—The and circulate around my shivering |rivir has fallen nearly two inches body. If I'd hit a hillock of feathers | since noon yesterday. All -bhe rivers a rap to make 'em even, the whole |above are falling fast. Mound Oty is Onioago, Februsry 98.—The dl- confounded thing wounld fly up, I|safeand all danger past. rectors of the suspended Union iron and steel company held a secret meet- ing, at whioh, it le said, they resolved to submit a proposition to the stook- ; Holders, at maoeting th bo held Masch | Whole thing would assume a new atti- Februsry 28, —Gilbert | 12, to {ssuo $1,400,000 proferred stock | t2de: And thut infornal wedge-shaped on which to start the mills agalu, Train Ruobbers Fenteuced: Bpecial Dispatch to Tux Brs, ELko, Nev, Febraary 28,—The train | low until T had pulled the whole bed the $15,000 of the property stolen |robbersall plead guilty to assault to | to pieces. Anc when I did find It, it | Special Dispatches to Tus b They are known to|rob and aeked to be sentenced imme- the police ss two of tho most expert|distely, Nuy, Hawley and Frances feathers in one corner and tle a knot | Cassidy presented & memorial from fought those feathers nearly all night, Lo - and never did manage to get g'ol;‘l leugnwnz"flnl:::-.“ farve fixed right for more than a minute at ) WasHINGTON, February 28, —Repre- » Mme, . Ereey. Hime T9C ik itbe sentative Randall has declinod to serve on the tanff conference committee, as have also Morrlson anl Tucker, who were afterwards appolnted. The speaker then took the matter into further consideration onmderetion. - 22 They Wont Water. bolster nearly broke my neck until I went rumagiog around and found it, Then, sfter I had pitched them ¢ ft onto the floor, I couldn’t find avy pil- was 80 small that I had to get all the WasniNgroN, Februsry 28 —Mr were sentenced to 14 years; Earl and |In the tick to decelve myself Into the | the legislature of Nevada ssking an Jackson to 12, in the penitentiary. An Embegzlor Suiocides: Special Dispatch to Tus B, Gelaleman, formerly sented to subsldize a direct steamship | having occurred a fow nights sgo as Wourtemburg, Germany, was arrested | mattress, you know—sewed through line with Mexloo, belng 8an and(on the steamer Bothnia to-day, as |and b4 bt the vessel neared the dook. belief that I had a pillow under my |appropriation of 260,000 for the head. But that bolster business took |sinking of an arteslan well in that the cake. Who ever heard of a wadge- | state, shaped bolster made as hard and un- Nxw You,Febrmr{ 28,—Johannes ilold aa & Kansas Olty eating-house Large Fire. otter carrler in|blscult? Made just exactly like s |Bpecial © Tus un. PaRis, Ve 28,—A busl. through and covered with bed- | ness block lestroyed by fire here. Gelsel- | ticking, Loss, $600 .0, J——