Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 12, 1883, Page 1

y.d ! - " The Philharmonic society of this . of Fargo, Dakota, Henry T. Douglaes, v o "bey, Cltrecn +42¢- w Iy -~ o, E OMAHA DaAiLy BEE OMAHA NEB MONDAY MORN — ——— B o © [ QAL ING MARCH i2 1883 THE NATIOHAL CAPITAL. Several Items of Minor Irterest From the Deserted City. Eelecting Names for the New Navy—Fromotions in the Betvice, Recoining the New Nickel— Leasing Yellowstone Park, Tom Worthington’s Inventory of His Reputation—Another Card Frim Dersey. CAPITOL NOTES Spectal Dispatches to Tus Bxs, NAVA% CADETS, ‘WasHINGTON, March 11. —~The sec- retary of the navy has addressed a let- ter to tho superintendent of the naval academy relative to the cases of cer- taln cadots deficient in conduct at the recent somi-annual examiaation. The secretary declines to overrale the as- tlon of the superintendent and ordsrs him to maintaia strict discipline. BETIRED ADMIRALS. Rear Admiral Nicholson, lately in command of the Earopean station, was placed on the retired llst yesier— oompromise of the case for $5600 han no: yet been ncted upon SUIT FOR DAMAGES. Thomas Worthington, of Ohio, to- day filed suit agalust E. W. Keight. ley, third audltor of the treasury, for $50,000 damager, on what are do- soribed as ‘‘one hundred falss, malic- fous, libellous and groundless allega- tions caloulated and intended to pre- vent payment by the United States of the plaintiffs just olaims for army eupplies furnished volanteer troops at Camp Dsnison, Ohlo, in 1861." The complaiut sets forth that the allega- tlons referred to were mads by the A LOFTY FLIGHT. Eleven Lives Lost by the Burning of a Border Boarding House, Frightfal Oalamity ia a Rail- road Camp in Black Hills, MORE SCARED THAN HURT The Result of Wiggins Big Wind on the North Atlantic Cozst, reported yesterday Include ohe at the house of a Mr, Hyde in North O maha, THE OLD WORLD. CE Bpecial Dispatel s to s Bem, Paris, March 11 —To-day's arrosts number fifteen, At a meebing of the Masons Yoes Gugot, who preeided, said the Bonapartiats headed the mu- tiny on the Esplanade des Iavalades Feidsy, This remitk was followod by an uproar, and a free fight ensucd, daring which Gagot was assaulted. A Local Btorm of the Usual March Oalibre, Special Dispatch to Tun Bun, party to ‘whom they may be di. reoted Sre 6. Every cflizer or employe of any telegraph company or associa- tion engaged in the transmission of dispatchen who shall wilfally dolay the transmieslon or delivery of any dia- TWO FUNERALS. The Lowest and 'Roughest Ele- ments of New York on pateh, or ditalje tho ocoutents of wny dispatch entrusted to Dress Parade. his or her oare to any person — except the party entitled to receive the same shall be guilty of a misde- meanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, or imprisonment of not Burial of a Btrangled Young Murderer and the Mur- dered Pugilist. / third auditor in varloas offisial re- ports, THE BISSELL CHECK, following: states that the so-called Belf rd check was really given to J. B. Bissell certainly never gave him a check. I never played a game of cards in my a check {ssucd by me or an account in my checks examined back for ten yoars.” SUPERVISING ARCHITECT HILL, Charges have been filed by a person whose name is withheld againet Sa- pervising Architect Hill, aud the sec- retary cf the treasury is now consider- day by operation of law. He 15 suc ceeded in command of the Kuropean station by Rear Admiral Chas H. Baluwin, formerly a member of the lighthouse board. Rear Admlral E R Oalhoua will be ratired Apeil next. These two rotirements will oreate a vaoancy in the list of rear admirals, which will be filled by the promotion -ot Commodore R. W, Shateldt. THE NEW NICKRL, The secretary of the treasury hav- g directed that the word ‘‘cents” be added to the new 6 cent plece, the saperintendent of the Philadelphia mint is engiged in preparing a device for the back of the proposed coin. No order, however, has been made sus- pending coinage of the new nickel, and the mint bareau reports thelr iseue at the rate of nearly $5,000 a day, an amount sufficlent to supply about all the demand. The French government has adopted nickel coin- age Instead of bronze. THE ‘‘CHICAGO.” The Sanday Capital says: Secretary Chandier will name the new 4300-toa cruiser the ‘‘Chicago.” It 1s to be swift and strong and to represent the latest and pest in nav.l architecture. If tha vessel proves to bs as fast as the town it is named for 1t will have no d'flizulty in outstripping the rix- teen-knot war oruissrs which otber natlons are prepsring to sendont upon the ren. PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. It is understood that Senator Ed- munds will only retain the office of g-ldent of the senate until next scember, when he will give way for Seuator Anthony. Edmaunds left last Friday for Alken, 8. C. Ho has gone to joln his family, who spent the win- ter there. Edmuunds propuses to go to New Orleans with his fawily for a visit, from there to go to the Pacific coast. He will probably remsin with his family in California the greater part of the summer. This trip is made solely on account of the frail health of his sarviving daughter. Senator and Mrs. Logan expect to leave in a fow days for Nex Mexico to vislt their daughter. Later they will extend thelr journey to Oalifornia. HOME, SWRET HOME, oty will take charge of the musical portion of the exeralses on the occasion of the the reinterment of John How- ard Payne's body and reader with a large chorus, ‘‘Home, Sweet Home.” BOSCOE CONKLING, in the Ohandler-Porterfield scrip case, mada rearguament before the secretary of the Interlor, Tae OChandler cdse involves the title of valuable land bordering on Sault Ste Marie riv. er, Michigan, Tho secretary held in his original decision that the scrip could be located only upon public lands in & state of nature, YELLOWSTONE PARK, The secretary of the interior has formally leased to Carroll T. Hobart, of St. Yates, Dakota, and Rafus Hatch, of New York, a =number of small tracts of land In Yellowstone Park for a perlod of ten years, The lease comprised tracts of land ag- gregating ten acres. It {a pro- vided that the several parcels of land shall not be within one quar- ter of a mlleof.any geysersor Yellow- stone Falls. The parties of the seo- ond part agree to construct a hetel at Mammoth Hot Springs to cost $160,- ©000. They farther agree to construct six smaller hotels upon plans to be hereafer approved by the secretary of the Interlor, It Is provided that at the expiration of ten yeare the value of the bulldings and other permanent improvements belonging to the lessees shall be determined by arbltration and become the absolute property of the government upon {he ratification of the appraizement and sppropriation for the amount agreed to. The annual rental agreed upon is two dollara per acre. PAY OF CONGRESSMEN, The question whether the treasury department can legally withhcld pay- mont of members of congress who are indebted to the government is exciting attentlon just now, The treasury ae- sumes It can, and so informed the treasurer in the case of Ropresentstive Ochiltree, The solicitor of the treasury is in- clined to doubt the legality of such de- clsion, Secretary Folger now has the question under consideration. In this connection Representative Ochiltree filed an argument with first comptroll- er protesting ageinst his action in ad- that his be withheld uatil the settlement of his accounts as mar- whal of Texas, The application for a ing the best method of investigating them, The charges were filed about ten days ago, while Secretary Folger was confioed to hls honss. They are prepared {n formal style, with speci- fioatlons and a list of witnesses who are sald to be able to substantiate them, Secretary Folger declines to make public the particular nature of the charges. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Members of the civil service com- mission called at thé executive man- sion and had a short conference with the president in regard to the general plan of operations to be observed in carrying the law into effsct. It was sgreed that the commission should prepare a set of rules ‘in regard to queations under thelr jarisdiction and sabmit them to the president for ap- proval. Selection of chief examiner under the commission was not agreed upon, NEW WAR VESSELY, Secrotary Ohandler has instructed the nava! advisory board to proceed at once and prepare plans for five new United States war vessels provided for by congroes, consisting of three oruis- ors and two torpedo boats, Also to arrange for completion and repair of four unfinished monitors, The latter will be worked upon first, and it is thought the firat contracs will be given out {2 two months, THE CASE OF SHERIDAN.\ The state departmunt has » no information as to the intentiohs of the British government in_relation to the warrant for the extradision” of P. J. Sheridan. Inquiry at the British legation elicited flm information that while no further ateps had been taken in the matter, no instructions from the home government had been re- celved to abandun proceedings. ived The River Declining. Special Dispatch to Tas-Bxx, HELeNA, Ark.,, Maroh 10.—The river declined half an inch and will continue falling slowly for several dsys when a more rap!ld decline is ex- peoted. The levees are still being strengthened and will be made thor- oughly secure in this vicinity., The backwater is still rising in the over- flowed districts below. Most terrific currents roar, which can be heard here tearing through the country be- low, carrying destruction with them. In the old town with lake region the water Is higher than ever before known. Tae losses to planters will be greater than ever before, and from the same cause the cablns, fences, dead carcasses of animale are seen floating dowa the river in great num- bers, The weathor is clear with a strong wind from the northwest. THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD, 8t. Lours, March 11.--A dispatoch from Helena says the firat loss of hu- man life by the flood in that regton occurred by the upsetting of a house twelve miles south in which were six adults and four children. The latter were drowned, but the former were rescued by a party of hunters who took them off the roof after they had clung to it three days. The St. Francis swamp contains hundreds of horses, mules aud cattle standing up to their throats in water, their owners belng unable to rescue them. Many carcasses are floating about. The legislative committee is examinlng into the condition of the people in the overflo #ed distriots and will report in favor of giving state ald to actual sufferers. e e The Increase of Divorce: Speclal Dispatch to Tus Lxs New Haven, March 11.—Rev, S, R Dyke, secretary of the New Eng- land divorce reform league, dslivered a lecture in Center church this even- ing, In which interesting statistics wore given concerning the increase of divorce, not only in New England #iutes, but also in other parts of the Uoited States. In Connecticut, in 1849, there were but 91 divorces: now the aversge is 440 each year, Over 6,000 women died In the United States each year from attempts to de- troy unborn children, The lecturer held that monagamy only could main- tain the scclal fabric, o — A Gift to Boston. Spectal Dispatch to Tun Bus, BosroN, March 11.—Dr, Tourgee, who, sixteen years ago, founded the New Eogland Uonserva- tory of Music, now the largest music Eben school In the world, has presented the institation to a board of trustees, who acoepted th ft on behalt of the olty hn.nd will tal : polluulon a8 soon o4 the necessary legal torms are com- plied with, Ex-Senator Dorsey furnishes the *‘A dispatch from Danver The.e seems to be a determination to inslat that thero was such a check, and Bissell 1s selected for the reason that hts his initials are J. B, B. If I ever saw Biswell I don’t remember it. I {ife with anybody. There never was my books in the name of J. B. B. To be certain as to this fact, I have had Special Dispatch to Tus B, Drapwoon, March 11,—Hood & Sooti's lodging shell at Brownville wood camp, the terminue of the Black Hills & Fort Pierre railroad, burned at midnight last night. James Chalmers, Thos. Finless, R C Wright, Lewis Hanson, Petor Hanson, A, Len- necliffs, Harvey Wood, W. H. Au- drews, Chas. Hammonce, Fred T. Poters and Samnel Hays were burned to death. Four others, namos not known, were serioualy injared. Tho orlgin of the fire is not known. The building was one story, with a loft, where the men, slept, accessible by Iadder, usually occupled by thirty lodgers, but last night only fif- teen were in the house. There was one window ia the loft, bat only foar, badly barned, were saved by jump- ing. Two of thess must have legs amputated. The firo is supposed to have originated from kindlings left noar the stove, on which coals fell. Peters slept on the ground floor with- in five feet of the door, but the flames spread so rapidly he could not escape. The bodles .of eleven victims were charred beyoud recognition, BLOODY DEEDS. A CGraxy Policeman Kills a Su- perior Officer in New York Clty. Gory Picnics at Other Places, 8pcial Dispatches to Tirs Bus. New York, March 11.—At halt past 11 o'clock this morning Offiser Patrick Casey, of Hunter's Point pilice, killed Roundsman Richard Cowmisky, The murdered roundsman was sitting at his derk in the First precinct conversing with two officers when Casey entered It was noticed he was under the inflaence of liquor and acted strangely. He entered the resr room and called in the two oftisers to help him fix his petol, They did eo, shoving it in hia pocket. Caetey walked out to where Comisky sat. When within two feet of the unsuspecting Comisky he halted and msaid, ‘‘What do you follow me so for?” Comisky re) it was to make hin do his daty. Without another word (‘!,l:“ey drew a revolver and fired, entering halt an &‘x Mln:” Comisky’s eye, He fell back dead. The maurderer was instantly secured and hurried to the county jail. It was a fortunate thing for him, as within fifteen minutes a thousand people gathered and, under the {mpression that he was still in the station made a strong effort to get hold of him., It 1s supposed Casey was in a state of insanity when he shot Comisky. On the way to jail he manifested great fear, laboring under the Impression every one wanted to kill him. Comlsky is a brother of the chief of Hunters Point fire department and was unmarried. COasey has a wife and two children, A atrong guard was poated about the jail to-night as open thraate of lynching were made. Farreun, Texas, March 11.—A reat sensation was caused here by the alleged dying statoment of Samuel Finley, an express agent, of murder and arson committed on a traveler, name not given. The body was cre- mated. The matter is belng investi- gated. Prrrssure, March 11.—George Kirsch was found dead in his house on Brownsville avenue this morning Two brothers are accused of the orfme, New York, March 11,—Several Italians were drinking and playing cards in a tenament honse to.night. A dispute arose. One was stabbed to the heart with a shoemaker's knife. The murderer was captured, LoxspoN, O, March 11.—John G. Tracy yesterday murdered his brother- in-law, David Gillinevater, cuttiag his throat with an axe. Inpianarouts, Ind., March 11.--No farther developments in the Foreman murder case, No clue to the murder. ers yet. It s supposed tho{ are [mn sons well acquainted with the nelgh- borhood. Police Court. Ed Galligan, who was sent up for thirty days on bread and water, has got very sick of his fare, and Satur- day sent down a penitent letter, offer- ing to leave town and go to work if he could get out. Accordingly his sen- tence will be suspended to-day under the above conditlons. There were three susplolous charac- ters on the anxious seat Saturda; morning. Two of them were ordere: to leave town and the third was dis. charged, Two men were sent to jall for three dayo each for intoxication. A complsiot was filea against Mich- ael Wallerz and his barkeeper, Geo, Mader by the wlife of Aug. Schroeder, the carpenter whose leg was broken Friday night at Wallenz's place. Both are held under bail to answer to the charge of It, on April 9th. Jukge Beneke has taken under ad- visement the case of J. L, Welshans, who was complained agalost by Miohael Meaney, for laying drains without » llcense. Welshans had filed his upplication and bond with the olty clerk and had & ||:«'mlt from the oity enginedr, and his offense is purely tec! , a8 he had pald his fee and thought he was acting in acocord- anoe with the law. The several attempta at burglary At a meeting of socialists yosterday, at which to-day's mufium the Place Dol Hotel D3 Ville was desided upon, 1t was dotermined to Invite all soclal- ists to a great mesting in the Champs Da Mars on the 18:h inst. Violsnce towarns the police aud troops was urged. Louise Michel is in hiding to void arrest. - A meeting of 2,000 peraons was held to-day to protest agsiust the action of the chambers of deputics 1o adopting a motion declarlng that the chamber having confid In the government rejest the posal to consider the matter of revision of tho constitution, Prime Miblster Forry having declarod the subjeet would bo made a cablnet qaestion, = The reot. iag adopted a movion favosng revieion. Scversl deputies balonglsg to the ex. treme left were present. The police dispersed agweral groups Cnicaco, March 11 --The etorm proaicted by Professor Wiggins, the Canadisn prophet, struck Nova Scotia on schedule time Saturday morn- iog. It extended wmouthward, with diminished strength, as far as Long Islaud. No serious damage was done, owlng partly to the fact that all sea- ports were watohlng for it. At Halifax tho tide was the highest knowa eiuce tho 1860 gale. Much morohmndiza was swept from the wharves, S.oamors and sailing ves- sels in the dock wero all sevured with hawsers, yot atralned their fast- oniugs terrlbiy. Oae broke ita mcor- iugs and smashed her bowsprit, She waa finally scoured agaln, The effscts of the storm there provgnot as serions aa expucted, At tho south end of the oity » part of the wharf on which Howell's toundry formerly stood was blown away. O.her wharves and property on the water line suffared of socialisis i Place da I'Hoel de Ville They made no. resistance, Fifteen huadred pe: afierward reassembled, buat ths loe and mounted municipals dispersed them and arrested five s, The crowd is now marching $o lace du Trone, which is guarded. The caval. ry charged twice, kno down and only slightly. The chaffing of vessels waa (1ite bad and the heaving up of a few planks ia the wharves make up almost the other damage. Vessels at anchor in the harbor rode tho gale with trifilog injury, Shipptog report only trifling damsge. Kisewhere at Nova Sootia nothing ucusual was noted. The tide hes subslded. *Hagikh police " sllaga Soai Joh police egu ibat John Walsh wasseen In Phosalx park or the nightf the murder, Waish was arrested at Havre, * Frank Byrne intends "Sgo to the United Statesand settle down. ' ENGLAND. Special Dispatch so Tun Bas, Loxoox, Mairch 1L.~The follow- Ing are the names of survivors of the steamer Navarre, h foudered Thursday, who werelanded at Maasluis, South Holland: Mathiesen, Oarl Stark, Jorgen Sorecnsen, Gander Tollefssn, Gavald Guavaldsen, And- reas Qaensen, Wm. B. Sanderson, John A, Hughes, John Wright and C. Koberts, The Observer states, that Jndah P, Bepjamin's health permitting he will probably accept & judgesiip, Committees are being formed for the purpose of freeing Paruell's ee- tatea, GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Spocial Dispatches to Tus Ham. Rome, March 11.—Twa ladies, the last descendsnts of Amerevs Veipuo- cio, who gave the name af iwerica to the Wostern Hemisph.. , are mow begging that & _crowns por wontis; whish W, ayd b their family by the republis of Flor- ence in 1€90, be restored. ViENNa, March 11.—The comman- der of the French squadron in the r waters has been ordered to blockade the shore and occupy the several ports of the island, but not to send troops into the Interior, . BADEN BADEN, March 11,—Prince Gortachakoff, ex-chancellor of the Rossian empire,is dead. ATHENS, March 11.—The chamber of deputies adjourned until the 16th inst., out of respect to the memory of the late M. CUoumoun- douroo, ex-prime minister. A public faneral is proposed. 8t, PrrEnssurG, March 11.—Itis stated the police were warned from Paris of a plot to murder the czar. A 1ady was arrested at Charkov, A key was found on her cipher documents which had been previously selzed. A Fear in 8t Louis. Special Dispatch to Tin Exs. 81, Lours, March 10.—A fear of Wiggins' storm has reached here and about 160 fishermen, who operate on the Mississippi and Illinois rivers from St. Louis to Poorla, are said to have all taken their nets out of the river until Wednesday next. The weather lllcl‘;)lld, with rather a higk and grity wind, The Voice of Trade. Bpecial Dispatch to Tus Bun, BostoN, March 11.—The Central Trades and Labor union passed reso- lations denounciog the attroks of Sen- ators Anthony, Plumb and Hals upon Oolumbla Typographica! union, Wash- ington, and thanking Seuators Voor- hees and Conger for their efforts in be- half ot organized labor, Down With Royalty. Epecial Dis, atch to Tus B, New York, Murch 11 —A meeting of shoe manufacturers to-dey de- termined to resistin tko courts the royaly demand of Donald, McKay & Co. for use of their machines. A large amount of money was ralsed for the purpose. The company's patent ex- pired July 6, 1879, since which time over $300,000 has been paid the:m, PHRSONAL. J. B Lucas, Centeal City; M. B, Hoxie, Grand T+land; Miss Jennie McLouth and J. D. Seaman, Kesrney; J. W. Moyle, Blair, Geo, C. Newmsu, wife and child, Lincoln; B, Davidson, Fremont; Samuel G, Owen and Thos, W, Lowry, Liacoln, are among the Nebraskans at the Paxton yesterday . * Mrs, R. G, Clarke snd son, and Mr, and Mrs, G, W. Young and son, of Denver, are at the Paxton, Geo, H, Thompson, the Plattsmouth | i, The severest stormy known for yoars prevailed at Waterloo, Qaebec. Baow falling yestorday after- noon and continued vhroughout the night, the wind blowing a gale all day. The snow makes traffio of all kinds impossible. The roads will be blocked for days. In the middle of the torenocon two shocks of earthquake were felt, passing east to weat, caus- ing great alarm, The atorm is now abating. angu reports the storm of last night was not very strong but ao- companied by a heavy fall of snow, The roads are again all blocked. To- night another cold spell set in. Very high water to-day in St. Louts and St. Oharles rivers. Counsiderable dam- age to property Wwas done, Montreal reports the heaviest snow of the season, No storm to-day. The steamehip Dovon from Bristol to New York reports strong variable winds the first four deys out. On March 3cd oa the eastern odge of the banks a terrific gale et in from the southwest Jlasting 48 hours. The weathor was intoneely cold. She pas- ned twelve large icebergs and sailed through fitty riles of field ice. Br. Joux, N. B, March 11.—The sloru subsided at 3 o'cleck this morn- ing. The tids was higher than usual 4 shis #me the resr, nea ‘kroke over sevéral wharves. ' Litue damage done. AR A RS, THE TELEGRAPH BILL. An Act to Probibit Extortion ana Dis- crimination in the Transmission of Telegraph Dispatches. Be it enacted by the legislature of the state ot Nebrasks: Becrion 1. That all assoclations, whether the same shall have been or may hereafter be organized or incor- poratod uader the laws of this state, or by and under authority of any other state or territory, or by anthority of the United States, whose object and purpose is the transmission, collection and dis tribution of dispatches by telegraph, shall ba subjeot to the regulations and restriotions herelnafter preacribed by this aot. 8rc. 2. Every telegraph company and every presa assoclatlon or corpo- ration eugaged in the transmission, collection, distribution or delivery of telegraphic dispatches, either for pri- va e or for publisation in newspa- pers, shall within thirty days afier this act goes Intoeffect file In the office of the secretary of state a statement, cortified to under oath by its presi- dent and secretary, or two of its offi cers, embodying the following infor- mation, to-wit: The name of the as- soolation, amount of capital invested, character of the business, to- gother with a true copy of ita articles of Incorporation, or articles of copart- nership, with regulations and by-laws then In foroe. Sko. 3. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to issue a certificate to every association or oorporation that has filed the etatement required by the second section of thisact upon payment of five dollars, which oertifi- cate shall convey authority to such as- soclation or corporation to conduct its business within this state, under the restrictions and penalties imposed herein, 8kc. 4 Every telegraph company, prees assoclation, or corporation eu- gaged ia the transmission, collection and delivery of telegraphio dispatches that shall refuse or fail to comply with 1he above provisions within tie time prescribed, shall forfett its right to carry on the collection, transwmission and delivery of dispatches for publi- oation or for private use, andshall fur- thermore furfcit to the county where such bualness ia carried on, for each and every day it 80 contlnues in vio- lation of this act, the penal sum of one thousand dollare, to be recovered in any court of compstent jurisdiction, and it shall be the duty Jot district at- less than thirty days nor more than three months in the oounty jail at the discretien of the court. Skc. 7 It shall be uulawfal for any telegraph company, iis agents or oper- ators to demand cbarge or receive from any individual, associatlon or corporation, a greater sum for the transmission and delivery of any tele- Qram or wmoessage over a given dlatanos than it demande,charges or reselves for the transmission and delivery of any telegram or message containing an equal number of words over a groater distance providing that diapatchos transmitted during the night and dias. patches for publication in newspapers may be forwarded ard delivered at re. duced rates, such rates muat bowever be vniform to all patrons for the tame service. Sec 8. It shall be unlawful for any telegraph company, association or or- gnniunion engiged In the busineas of orwarding dispatohes by telegraph to demand, collec: or receive from any publisher or proprietor of & newspaper any greater sum for a given mervice than it demands charges, or colleots from the publisher or proprietor of any other nowspaper for a like service, and the violation of the provisions of seo- tion seven and eight of this act by any telegraph company or l-oellt!on& shall constitute a misdemeanor, an upon conviction sald telegraph ocom- paay or association shall be fined for each and every offense In any sum not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars with cost of pros- ecution, and in addition thereto such ulugr‘:ah compeny or assoclation shall be liable for all damages sustalned by the person or lea in consequence of such disorimination, 8kc 0. Every telegraph company and every press association en, in the transmission, ocollection, distribution or publioation of dls- patohes, shall afford the same and equal faclitles to ail publishers of news. papers and furnish the dispatches col- lected by them for publication in any given locality, to all nowspapere there published on the samoe conditions as to payment and aelivery, Brc 10 Any prees associatlon, cor- poration or organization violating the foregoing mection shall be deemed guilly of a misdemesnor and upon convictlon rhall for each and every offense bafined in any sum not less than one hundred not more than one thousand dollars, and in addition thereto such association and the mem- bers thereof shali be jointly and sever- ally llable for all damages sustained by the owner of an 1 n éonsequerics o ‘wuch dicatalazdm, | Sko, 11, It any telegraph éompany, or association engaged in the trans. mission of dispatches from any placa in this state, or the person having the control or mansgement thereof, re- fuse to recelve dispatches :from any porson, corporation or uny other telegraph company, mit the same with fidelity and without unreasonable delay, it shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined for each and every of- fense In the sum of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars and in addition be liable for damages to the person or corporation sustain- ing & loas by reason of such refusal or fallure to so transmit, Sk, 12, Any telegraph company engaged in the tranamlission of tele- graphio dispatches is hereby declared to be liable for the non-delivery of dispatches entrusted to its care snd for all mistakes in transmitting mes- sages made by any person in its employ aud for all damages resulting from a failore to perform any other duty re- quired by law, and any such telegraph company 8! not be exempted from any such lability by reason of any clsuse, condltion or agreement con- talned in its printed blanks, Bec. 13. In all cases where appli- cation Is made to any telegraph com- pany, or the operator, agent, clerk or servant therecf, to send a dispatch, it shall be the daty of such operator, sgent or clerk, who may receive dls- patches at that station to plainly in. form the applicant, and if required by him to write upon the dispatoh that the line is not in working order, or that the dispatoees already on hand for transmission will ocoupy the line, 80 that the dispatch offsred cannot be transmitted within the time required, if the facts be so; and for omitting to do so, or for iatentionally glving false information to the applicant in rela- tlon to the time within which the dis. patch offered may be sent, such opera- tor, agent or clerk, and the company by which he is employed, shall fnour a like penalty as in section eleven of this act. This act shall take effect Sgc, 14, and be In force from and after the first day of July A, D, 1883, S — A Telegraph Declsion. CH1cAGo, Maren 10,—Judge Drum- Remarkable Gatherings of Charao= ters Familiar to the ¥Police Special Dispatch to Tas Ban. New York, March 11.—There were two notablo funerals in this ofty to- day. Both were of the lowest order and were woll attended by the rough- est element. Ooe took place from the late home, on Twenty ninth street, and was that of the strangled young murderer, Michael K. MoGloin. When living be was loored afier by or falls to traas- | the police, and dead they still fol- lowed iim. ~ The cortego attracted an immeuse throng, who followed it until a little mound in Calvary come- tery warked his last resting place. The other was in the most missrable of the squalid part of Canal strees, ond from a wrotched tamble down rookery. Early in the day the hard- ened Bowery roughs aud the gaily bedizend female companions began to gather in cumbers, They thronged the little square on which the house where the dead man lay fronted and the constant theme of conversation was ‘‘Poor Jimmy Elliott.” On the second floor lay the body of the dead pugllist in a ocloth covered oakeny casket surrounded with flowers, over it hung mourning trim- mings that hung over the bod, of Qornelios J, Vanderbilt. At 1: six pall bearers wearing high hats, white sod me eutered the room. A were *Jaok” Stiles, Ellott's frlend and backer; Charlle Johnston, Jimmy Mofll'nn, ex-Alderman Jimmy Dunn, ‘‘Red” Leary, ‘‘Shaug” Deaper, Ohlef Magin, of Philadelphis, and Matt Grace. As the ocasket was ocar- ried lnto the street a number of amall boys began to cheer but were qalokly hushed. The order of on was taken up. Following the hearse came the pall bearers aud about 1,000 men and boys; following this were about one hundred and fifty coaches. At the Seventh street ferry to Wil- liamsburgh, four ferry boats made two trips each to transfer the crowd. After tho uzual Cathotlo services at Calvary cemetary, “Jimmy" Elllott was placed in his last home, and the crowd found its way beok to Now York. In the procession were Jas. Lowle, of San Francieco, ‘‘Abe” Coakloy, Dan’l, Dwyer, cf Boston, and largo delega- tions from Baltimore, Philadelphia and Cinciunati, Every well known thief in the city waa present, A large force of police preserved order. TELEFRAPH ES, - Dot Speclal Dispatches to Tin Bxx. Journeymen tailors in Deaver, are on » strike fur higher wages. % A break reported in the French cable 225 miles ou from Duxbury, Mass, A cremation socloty, with a capital of $1¢0,000, isto be formed in Chicago at noe. Two hundred seals were seen on ice two miles south of Ifeath Point, Anticosti, yesterday morning. ;l‘hfln Sprinzfield. iron company h;;'l :l:- cided to engage new men to supply the rlaces al‘:gc stricers, ‘fi:ulu g)l\w;-flky' ell'ltl;ed » -h:.ntlu ry in New York, seized a large target Plstol ‘and blew bis bratas out, Senator Fair passed through Chicago yesterday on his way home from Washing- ton. He is still suffering from malaria, A drunken father in Hall county (Ga.) named Herting poured a ahovel ot hot coals on an infant child, which was burned to death. Huvg N. Follansbee, defaulting treas- urer of the Boston police relief association, was Indicted by the grand jury for embez- zlement of $27,000, At New Richmond, Can,, Jobn Mo- Quarter’s house burned with his wife and cnild, The wife's father, aged 83, died soon aftér leaving the burning house, * The Academy of Music snd Horti- cultural hall of Philadelphia, have been engaged for the Irish Land Lui;uuol- vention, April 25th and 26th. Parmell, Esgagand Davitt are expected. Mrs. Lucinda Forman, widow, sged 91 years, and maiden dnna‘ur. b1 years old, living alone on their farm, fourteen miles from Indianapolis, were murdered Friday night, One of the bodies was found out- side the house; the other in the kitchen. An ax was the instrument used to accom- the deed, No clue to the murderers. A student in the Kentucky state college named Fugate, while drunk, fl;urished » pistol recklessly. He was put under cherge of four other students while the olice were called. When the police came the four students, armed with riflee, re- fused to give up the prisoner, hut after some 1 atley they wore suspeuded und also 'ugate, Miss Dora Tnea Calvert, who married ex-Governor Sprague, was last Monday divoiced by the Cabell county (W. Va.) circuit court from John Calvert, traveling saleswan fir o Cinciovati beok huuse. Her waiden vame wos Weed, Her parents wore from the east, She had livad st Gusyndotte siuce the war, where ¢he re- sided till divorced, She is 25 years old, and of attractive appearance Judge Gresha, of the United States district court of Indians, has decided the suit of the stite anditor ageinst the Pull. man palace o compary for £ X2 on gross mond has rendered a final decision in | recei. t», according to ‘the law of 1881, m tho case of the Mutual Union tele.|faver of the rleeping car company, on the graph, e emphasized his former opinfon that the mayor's action in ground moinly that the state had no taxing power of the company, which was & creat- ure of foreign jurisd otion, The tax, he cutting the wires was unlawful and |held, wes nncoastitutionsl, as interforing actionable, but held that asthe Mutual | with iater state commerce, over which the Union's rights had terminated under | United States alone had control, the charter, the court could not order the wires repaired, or prevent the out the ordinance clty from carryln torneys to prosecute such violations of this act at the expense of the respec- tive countles wherein said act is vlo- architect, will leave this afternoon for Mil. waukee, W. B, Wilibank and family, of Toledo, are guests of the Paxton, E. M, Allen, of Schuyler, was a guest of the Metropolitan yesterday, G, H, Lyons, lof Peoria, was at the Metropolitan yesterdsy. ted, Skc, 6. All telegraph companies and associations operating (ologn‘rh lines in this state .K:u transmit and forward all dispatohes directed to newspapers, or private indlvidaals, or publlo ofti- ocers with impartiality in the order in |ing which they are recelved, and use due diligence in thelr delivery without dis- orimination ss to soy person or whion prohiblt wiros, the stringing of He Ntill Burvives. Bpecial Dispatch to Tus Bun, The taxes andipenalties involved amounted to about $90,00 gL Church Anniversary Special Dispatch to Tus Bas. New York, March11,—The ninety- third apniversary of Forsyth Street M. E church was cslebrated to day. New Yurk, March 11,—Early this| Among those present were Mayor Ix i won, evenlng it was rumored an nufim‘t': Francisce, and Rov. Lools’ Hawkins “lay out” Harry Hill b, friends would be made. b Harry, the rumor, stald at home, h'u; tice of invitivg penitenws to the altar Rev. W, H, Garland, of San of Illinols, In this church the prec- It trolled th t in front | origlosted. The grandson of the orig- 5, fim& b“a uu'm...‘ 'o.u :In\:r:a Rev, Albert 8, Hart, cune uet not needed. the evening serylcea. ~