Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 2, 1883, Page 1

TWELFTH YEAR. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE OMAHA NEB MONDAY MORNING APRIL 2 1883 184 UNCLE SAM'S BOX. Mr. Gilfillan Tarns Over the Trearury to Mr, Wyman, His Succsssor. A Oommittee Appointed to Count the Uash and Give Him a Olean Receipt. How the Counting {s Performed— Dalley Balanoss—Shorts and Overs. Chicago Tribu ¢ Spocial, WasHiNaroN, March 31 —Unlted States Treasurer Gilfillan has sor: rendered his office and turned over to his successor the vast amount of moaey and bonds stored in the treas- ury vaults, Sitting at hiw desk the other day,;he was looking over tho stores of matter sultable for destroc tiou which accumulate on tho hands of even the most systematic of men. Ho came acroes a stray telegram dated New York, which ran: ‘‘We have got hinm " ““What do yeu supfose that msant{" sald the busy treasurer. ‘It means that I was privately called to New York as an expert in handwriting to make some ifl'fllfilfiofll as to the acthorship of the Morey letter. For pablic reasons I did not go, and soon atter I received this telogram. Tae ‘we have got him’ meant that they thought surely they had detected the forger.” DELIVERING THE KEYS. “What sort of a process do you go through to dellver the key~ of this great place to your successor?’ I anked. “‘The process is a very simple one,” roplied the tressurer. ‘‘A committee 1s appointed to inspec* the counting of the money. It is appolnted by the sicretary of the treasury, and has gen- erally consisted of two persons, both hml{in with money. Oane s taken from some branch of the treasury ser- vics notin the treasurer’s cffise, and the other from bank accountants out- side. This committee of two may ask to have as many expert counters de- tailed as they need. The balance will be closed at the end of business hours on the 31st of March, and very pos- sibly the count may be completed by mldnight. That depends on the com- mittee. When I received the office tha work began at 4 o’clock p. m., and {t was torned over to me at mld- nizht.” “How much actu:l monoy is there to count?” “‘The money ordiaarily rans about $70,000,000 in the vaults here. Thie is matnly in what are called the reserve vaults, and the money Isall in sesled packages, which hss been counted and certified. These packages ars not continuously the same by any moans, They may be sald to be cLanj almost daily. Every load of m: '-v that comea ‘rom the hureau of engraving and printirg is sealed with tLe counting check of that borean. It is immediately unsezled, recounted, and| If correct sealed up again, and the count agein certified.and placed in the resorve vault, The stores in these reserve vaults are used only as they are needed In the ordinary disburse- ments of the treasury.” ¢(What are the average disburse- ments daily of the treasury proper here over the counter, aside,of course, frora the payment of bonds and inter- ) st ‘‘We probsbly pay out over the counter $400,000 or $500,000 every t least $800,000 every salaries, which are disbursed right here in this Distriot on disbars- ing cfticers’ checks- the salarles of congressmen, of the host of employes in the different departments, the army and navy, and the Distriot govern- ment. We receivs about 1 530 differ- ent checks and drafts durlng the day, which have to be carefully inspected, and it lsa very great work, as any one acquainted with money operations will underatand. Every night, directly after the close of cffice hours, the cash is balanced, each teller balancing his own cmh, and his balances are carrled to the principal book-kesper, who I8 req1ired to take the whole dsy’s business dalance. No one employed in the cash room can leave until the balance is struck, orif there is a trifling shortage, or an ‘over,’ the amount of it definftely ascertained and the place where it originated located.” SHORTS AND CVERS “Dj you ever have shorts and overs?” «“0f course we sometimes do, but since ths daysof the large defalcation of $47000 under the old methods which are very different from. the methals which are now In use, we rarely bave any shortages. Once In a whil¢a teller is short a dollar or two or five dollara but generally the shortage can be accounted for and recovered back. The errors for the most part arlowith banks, and it {sa curlous fact that where there are mistakes they are ganerally overs. Honest money, where tlore isan error at all, is generally sver. Thls fact 1= so general that it has become an axiom in the treasury, /and it is one of the principles by means lof which we detect party thefts. We keep a ledger account of course yith every bank which makes its (xchanges and redemptions, Ocoas- fonly & bank is §5 short in its own pocount—sometimes a good deal more than that., Tae bank ls immediately notified, and often when its remittance \s short it protests that its account could not have been wrong, and that the money must have disappeared in ths treasnry. Bat banks, as a rale, have discovered that our methods are 80 accurate they cannot generally be questioned. Not long ago a bank whose package was short $56 or so was rery emphatlc In announcing that its count must have been forecot. Now, we keep a record b all the “‘shorts” and ‘‘overs” with 4!l the banks running back for many pears. We immediately turned to the tecord, and, sending to the bank a list pf the very large number of errors | which 1{y . . * in the course ofyear. ‘', of overa which the ... ack to It, we Inqaired if tne wver questioned theacouracy of tho treasury account when money was returned to it which 1t had sent In exccss of the reqairement, and the bank acknowl- edged its error. Few banks, probably no banks, keep a record of their shorts and overs as we do.” “‘HONEST MONEY ALWAYS OVER " ““You say that the principle that ‘honest money is always over'is used as & means of detecting petty thefts. How does that operate!’ ‘It oporates just this way: Of course In the counting room the large amounts of money are counted. Tae experience of the treasurer, as I have #aid, has beea that honest mouey, as rule, 18 over where there is an error in tho count at all. In a counter, there- foro, in making returns to the super- intendent continually returns money “'ghort” and never returns any ‘‘over,” we know that there is something wrong 1 the counter. The dif ferences seldom amount to more than a dollar or two, but if shortages are continually retarned by the same counter that counter has packages given to him which have been put up in the treasury, with suitable marks, with an intentional excess. This is trled two or theee times, and the money, upon its return, is Immediately privately counted by experts, If the ‘‘over” has been retained by the counter the sum Is deducted from his ry and the sounter discharged. Tiis happens now but very rarely. There scarcely has been a case of petty theft of that sort for two or three years.” TELLERS' BALANCES, “‘How do you keep the run of the tellers’ balancea?” “Every teller has his own tin box locked and placed in the vault at night. His balance is not accepted upon his own verdict, but at an unex- time—once & week or once a month; never less than once a month —aeach teller on some different day is relieved at the olose of hours and in- tormed that the treasurer haa detailed some one else to count his balance. If the money in his daily box s short 1t is npeedily aecertaiaed, but he is com- elled every day to make hls account grlnnoa without an examination of tha box.” ““How many bonds belonglng to natlonal banks have you in your cus- tody?” “‘Probably $400,000,600. The are all in large envelopes in the bond vault. They are constantly counted. Every bank has its agent, who is re- quired to see to it that the bonds are counted at least ouce a year, and the bonds of some bauks are surely count- ed overy day. The tranfor of the bonds to my succassor will be a com- paratively easy task.” E. B.W. S ——— CAPITOL NOTES Special Dispatches to T Baw. IRISH REFUGEES, ‘WasaINaToN, April 1,—While the president could not be expected to make sy direct statements in refor- ence to the represontations ot the British government concerning the utterance and the actions of citizsns of Ireland and Irish sympathizers in the United States, your correspon. dent has authority to say that the British minister here has for months called the attention of the government to these utterances, but in an entirely frlendly way, and without any de- mand for redress other than might b suggested to this government after a fall investigatton of the whole sub- jeot. The president, after the com- munication of the British minlster had been laid before him by the sec- retary of state, called the attention of the cablnet to it, and, after briefly stating his own views, requested the members of the cabinet to submit thelr vlews in writing to him at the mnext cablnet moeting, Tois was done on Friday lsst, and altheugh your correspondent does not feel authorized to give in de- rail the views of the cablnet, it can be sald that there was no dissent in the opinion that 1o the exlsting situation of affairs the government would uot be justified In interfering with the Irish sympathisers now in this coun- try. Oane of the papere submitted by the cabinet members enters into an exhanstive review of the policy of the British government with reference to political refugees from other countries who have sought an asylum in Eag- land, and cites the invariable refusal of Great Britatn to surrender or inter- fere with them in any way In the ab- sence of commision of overt asts, Tale policy the Unlted states govern- ment adopts as its own, aund has so communicated to the Briiish minister with the assurance that our govern. ment will use {ts utmost endeavors to observe both national and interna- tional obligations, and to see that thev are not violated. GREAT I8 EADS, COapt. James B. Eads recently wrote Senator Gibson, enclosing his resigna- tion asa member of the Mississippt river commisslon, which he requested the senator to lay before the president for acceptance. Senator Gibson in re- ply says if there {s to be an merit in the Misslssippl river commission it be- longs to Capt. Eads, fer the success at the jetties led to the conception of ap- plying by appropriate leglslation the principles Eads had adapted to the whole river. The senator -predicts that the day is not far distant when a grateful people, from the jetties to the headwaters of the valley, will unite to erect some fitting memorlal in honor of the great engineer, Who not only gave them deep water to the sea, but securlty also agalnst the floods. ANOTHER TELEGRAPH, The next opposition telegraph com- pany will be the Postal Union, It s understood here thst the company has alresdy obtained control of the Bankers' & Merchants’, which is a woll-established new line between here and New York, and that it will come into this city upon the poles of that company. Tae Postal Union s also sald to have made an alllance with the Southern Telegraph company, which reaches all leading points in Virginia, and that negotlations are pending which will probably result in the transfer of the American Rapld Com- pany to the Postal Ualon, THE CLERKS, The olvil servicsa commissioners have decided nt to present thelr rules to the president uatil his return from his southern trip. Dorman B. Eaton says that the rulos are substantially completed, and that there is nothing in them to which auy one can ot j:ct. There are about 2,100 clerks In the treasury dopsrtment proper. There were about as many ten yosrs ago, and there are to-day over 800 people employed In tho de; ment who were on the rolis ton years ago. Taere are on an average ninety-tive voluntary retirements from the treasury dopart- ment every year. That nnmber of men or women resign to go into prl- vate business, Into matrimony, or out of politics, This leaves about 350 peraons accounted for, and that num- ber inclades all the dismissals for cause or political reasons. Not 10 per cent of the 350 have baen removed tor “‘political reasons’ in the last ten years, CROOK’S OPPORTUNITY. Arizona Indians Revolt and Are Kill- ing Oitizens ana Soldiers. Santa FE, N. M., March 31, —Mex- fcan troops undor General Carbo are in the field to take no prisoners but kill bucks, squaws and ohildren. The casualties in Arizona have been heavy, four men having been killed. Clark's osmp No. 4 on the Gila river and the two Baache's camp are total wrecks. The hostlles ave believed to belong to the Jus band, relnforced by some Calricahuas. All the troops of south- ern New Mexico are in the field and all possible measures for the protec- tlon of settlers and the punishment of the Indlans are being taken by Gen. MoKenzle. . RUMORS OF A BATTLE. TucsoN, March 31.—The troops are all moving towards the Mexican line to Intercept tho Indians on their re- turn to the Sonora. A baad of fifty nostiles are reported as baving been seen near the Arizona line going to. wards Clifton, There is a rumor that Msjor Tap per, from Huachaca, had a hghs with the Indlans and lost swenty-six men, Goneral Cirr and one hundred men will leave Tucson for Banson to-night. THE NUMBER OF KILLED. Tucson, March 31.—The White Mountalu tribes are open in declaring they will go on the war path this moon unless somothing positive is ac- complished, 'There is certain danger of an attempt by an organizad body of citizens from Clifton, Globe, Tomb- stone and S Carlog against tho Iu- disne. The reservation people are waiting to give Crook an opportunity. Twenty-scv:n have baen killed in nine days. Hivnsviiig, Mexico, March 31 — Thirty-two people have been killed in the past nino days. The hostiles are mov:ig toward ;Arizona to a sparsely settled reglon, e GRIGHTS OF PASSENGERS, An Opinion by the Supreme Court of Ilinote. CHi0AGO, March 31,.—Tae supreme bonch of Illinols, the whole bench assenting, has just filed an opinion declaring in substance that the Pall- man palace car company and like cor- porations are common carriers, placing them ou the same category as railroad companies. This is contrary to the decision glven by the same tribunal several years ago, and affirms the principle that the preeent state legls- lature has endeavor to embody in the statute, The suit was brought by Luke Levin against the car company for refasing to permit him to ocoup the sleeping birth assigned him, whlc{ he offered to pay for. The lower courts decided the plaintiff had no power to enforce accom- modation from the car com- pany, and that it was optional on its part to furnish the same. The court asserts that the running of the slesp- ers has become a business and social ne- cessity, and in that view the law ocan impose obligations on the company the same as ou raflroads, ferrymen and inn-keepers. Ia the language of the opinion, “Where, therefore, a passen- ger under the rales of the company is entitled to a berth by paying the ueunal fare and to whom no personal objec- tlon attaches, enters the company's sleeping car at the proper time for the purposs of procurlng accommodations for a birth, offering or tendering the customary price therefor, the compas ny is boundto farulsh ic, provided it has one at its dispossl.” For a breach of any of these implied duties :ihc;)lnouxt holds the company clearly able Hood Recaptured Special Dispatch to Tan Bxs, Nemana City, Neb,, March 31 — I did to-day recapture my man Hood who eecaped from me at Syracuss March 8, 1883. Hope this will remove the great responsibility resting on my two frlends, Mr. Howe and Mr, Furey. G. W, Curp, Mormon Converts: Special Dispatch to Tus Ban. Sr. Lours, March 30.—This morn- ing 200 pereons under charge of Elder Morgan, of the Mormon charch, pass- ed through the Unlon depot enroute for Utah, Taese converts all came from the Southern * Forty Men Drowned. YarmourH, Eng., March : ing a recent terrific gale six smacks went down and forty sallors were loat, A Lifo Saving Service. Mr, M. E. Allison, Hutohison, Kon.: Saved his life by a simple Trial Bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery, for Consump- tion, which caused him to procure a laree bottle that completely cured him, when Dootors, change of climate and everything else had failed, Asthma, Bronchitis, Se- vere Coughs, and all Throat and Lung dis- eanes, it is gusranteed to cure, Trial bottles free at C. ¥, Goodman's duug store, Large size, $1, aprl Zeod&w 1w THEY ALL DO IT. Considerable Fuss Made About 4 Woman “'Shinning” Up to a Man. An Uneophisticated Kannuck Oaptivated by Agnes Langtry. Freddie Still Basks in ths Smiles of the Beauty. Speclal Dispatch to Tun Ben, Puitaverenia, April 1--Ia the Iatest news from the Langtry combina. tion the central figare is not Mrs, Langtry but Miss Agnes Langtry, chaperone and sister-in-law of the actross, who was called to this country by Lily to bo her traveling ccmpanion after Mra, Labouchere's departure. Miss Agnens le eaid to be a sister of Mr. Langtry and has hitherto enjoyed the Intimate frlendehip of the wife. She is more than a few years her senior, is moderately sood looking and very sedate aud dignified in her man- ner. Since jolning the company sev- eral months ago she has been almoat a constant assoclate of Mrs. Langtry and Gebhardt In thelr walks and drives. The Times has a dispatch from Rochester saying that on March 18:h the company were on thelr way into Canada and stopped at Niagara Falls for a day. With the party was a oung man from Toronto, who had gun introduced to Miss Agnes a fow days before, and whose attentions to her, it is said, were almost as marked as wero those of Gebhardt to the ac- tress, The company met at the depot at the appointed time to take thelr departure, but Miss es avd her friend were missing. No explanation of her absence could be given, and when last seen she wasonthe Canadian side in company with the Toronto ad- mirer, riding from the suspension bridge to the Clitton house, As they were not on hand when the traln was ready to start, the company wentwith- ont them. Telegrams were sent back to her kut no informatlon was obtained until severa! days later when a letter came to the clty requesting Miss Agnes’ trunk be sent to her at once to Toronto. This was too much for Mrs, Langtry. She positively refused to send the trunk and still retains it. Mra. Langtry is very angry st her sister in-law’s conduct and {s shocked that her own decorum did not iaspire within her a deeper aense of propriety. Meanwhile it isa rerlous question how a woman can stay away two whole weeks without her baggage. She sent several telegrams later demanding her things but they have not recelved atfention. Harrrorp, Conn., April 1,—Frank H. Corbin, who leaves a wife and boy of b years, has disappeared, and is reported to huve gone west with Miss Luoy A. Robblns, The parties ba: long in Newington, four miles from here, but for several months past have resided in Hartford, as their intlmacy in Newlngton made un- pleasant gosslp. Last fall it reached the ear of Mrs., Corbin, and she had a conference with the Robbins, who promised the wife, her old schoolmate and warm personal frlend, to abandon the affalr, but the intimacy was renewed with a week, and Corbin brutally bossted of it to his wife, Thereupon she sued for a divoroe, and Corbin came to Hartford and bought a drug-store, which did not prosper. Mies Robbins about the same time removed to Hartford and farnished a room elegantly in one of the fashiooable bulldings, Corbin was a frequent visitor. Withina fow days both have disappeared, and Miss Bobbing told a relative that she wonld be absent an indeflnite time. She is worth nearly $60,000 in her own right, and is reported to have drawn $10,000 In cast just befoss the flight. She was a belle of Newington, remark- ably handsome, highly edacated, and hnrd refused several advantageous offsrs, A GIRL'S INFATUATION. She Elopes with and Marries Her Father’s Negro Coachman. Harrrorp, Conn,, March 31, —Miss Ann Brooker, o bright, protty girl, ltving in Torrington, In this state, has eloved with her father's negro coach- man, named James Bradley. A short time ago Miss Brooker went to Naw York on a vislt, and when she left there, instead of coming home as her friends supposed she was golog to do, she took the Housatonic road at Bridgeport ana went to Ashley Falls, Mass., where she met Bradley. as had been previously arranged, and they went to Sheffield and were marrled. Miss Brooker is a young lady of fine appearance, about 24 years of sge, and is of good family, hor father belng one of the prominent men of Torring- ton, and ln very good circumstances, living about & mile and & half from the village on the road to Litohfield. Mies Brooker is the YOUNGEST OF 81X DAUGHTEKS and has one brotler. Her mother Is dead. The girl had always conducted hereelf in a proper manner and no one had ever wsuspected that there was anythlug tmproper between her and thé young fellow, Bradley s a full blooded African and has worked for her father about three years. Last .| week, when Mr., Brooker discovered the whereabouts of his daughter, he went to Ashley Falls, accompanied by bis son, and tried to persuade her to retarn home. She would not lsten to them, and, crushed with shame and dispair, they were compelled to re- turn home, leaving her with her hus- band In & miserable shanty in Ashiay Falle, Misn Brooker's conduct is in- explicable, as her home relations have always been the pleasantest and she has grown up tn luxury and refine- ment, Her family feels the disgrace keenly and everybody sympathizes with them, MY FATHER'S BUSINESS. A Lady Who i8 Following the Mastor's Footsteps. A Story Full of Real Life Ro- mances, And Suppressed Sensations of Re« cent Ocourrence The following is the report ot city misslon work for the first three months of 1888, by Mra, H. B. Fuller: Darling the first two months of the quarter T worked thirty-seven Fours a woek, sinca then not belng well, have bsen out comparatively little and should have accomplished little had not the work come into my hands by constant calls for help. There has been more necessity of this than ever before, and though the supplies have been greater they have still FALLEN SHORT OF THE NREDS, 1 wish to acknowledge the receipt of about five barrels of potatoes and other grocerles, some olothing and $1.60 oash from the Coantral school; and two or three barrels of provision, olothing and $2 50 cash from the Pa- cific street school. These came with- out my having askea or suggested that any portion of the sapplies col- looted be given me, and they were very thankfully recelved. They were glven out in small quantities and I have visited personally nearly every family into which they have gone Some, too, have been recommended by Mr, Pierce, county superiniendent of the poor. I have the address of every family and if the donors would like to see for themselves, I shall be very glad to have them do so and learn by Investigation WHETHER THRIR GOIFT3 HAVE BEEN WASTED, I would acknowledge, too, a month- ly order for grooerles from Mrs, G, H. Clark, grooerieas from Mr. Flemlng, gitts from Mra. Daltz and Mrs, Mo- Cague, and second-hand clothing from many friends (500 garmonts having been distribated), and quite a supply of new elothing from the benevolent society of Irvington—the dear friends of my home church—of whom it may almost be said: “They have done what they could.” I have received from the Flrst Congregational Sunday sohool $12756, and have collected $§14 60 on MY ‘'PENITENTIARY BOX,” which is sull unsold (who will buy 1t7) These last two gifts have boen kept separate, that tne donors may know jost where they have been bestowed. Much of the cash has been used for shoes and medicines, prescribed by physicians. I donot mean the shoes were prescribed by the doctor, though many times he ocould not do better than to order them. Amuig] the cases which have inter- ested me is that of & woman whom have known for years, who called -the other day to say that she HAD HER HUSBAND ARRESTED the night before, because she was in fear cf her life, and she could endure 1t no longer. Her house was shut up for lack of rent, and nothing remained bat to go to her father's. Her children were alceady at the depot, but she had depended upon the wages hor husband told her were due him to take them to thelr destinatlon. She found hls story antroe, and scarcely anything left. It was not the firat time she had been cruelly decelved, bat it placed her now in very trylng clroumstances. A half fare ticket was obtalned of the county commissioners, and she was re- joloed to go to her childhood's home, and thought she would not again be betrayed Into leaving it by talse pre- texts. Whisky, of course, was the cause of the trouble, Another oase from THIS ‘‘IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT.” A lady called one morning--a lady, notice--with the daintiest, sweetest little five year old girl, and Inquired for nome police officer. With difti sulty she told me that her husband had not been home since the previous morn- ing, He had never stayed away so before, She had walted for him at dinner, waited for him at supper, walted for hira all night. Who can guoss what snch a night of waltiog means but they who have triad it/ He had never boen arrested, but she fearod it, because he sometimes did drivk too much. We found him in the clty prison, She readlly obtained his release, but while she waited for this the little girl came home with me, In her childish prattle she surprised me by saylng, “I guess I'll P"’ about my Papa, nk any more,” , 80 -he wont drl ond presently added, when he Is drank, head down agalnst that hole,”—the grated door fi the cell—* and crled.” And probably this Is but the begln- ning of sorrow to the tempted, sin- ning man, and THE POOR STRICKEN WIFE and helpless child, A widow who has found It very hard to support her poor children— tho youngest, of three months—born slnce the father’s death—is going to take them down to the Soldler’s Or- phaus Home,‘in 8t. Louls, where sev- eral years of her own early life were spent, and I have promised to see s, that that the children are made ready for the journey. Lsaw, & week or two since. a little three year-old girl, who was adopted last summer. She has Improved very much, and herfoster parents think her quite as remarkable as people are wont to think thelr own. WAITING FOR HOMES, Two nice little girls are going on trial to a heme In the west, where ‘‘It 18 more than likely they will be kept."” Two or three children are yet waiting for homes, Are there not some Obris- tian hearts who will hear throagh this call the Masters, ‘‘Inasmuch?” Those who have been Interested in 1|om my prison work, will be glad to know that two of those released have good places and doing well at last accounts, One Is In a place of trust and writes, It fliclent to show me that I have one more chance to be a man, and with God's help I mean to Improve it.” He sent me $5 to be used for one of his friends In prison, MORE FAITIH, These give me more falth In others there, when they write as ono did the day before Christmsas, ‘‘Yes, right here on the eve of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. I promlse you to live for Him, and I hope my future life may prove the sincerity of my words " This man I have heard Is the non of & olorgyman, though he has nover told me so. Is not a covenant keeplng God yet fallowing mauy of these wanderors “*Who haye but fallen in the path We have in weakness trod,” P - s METROPOLITAN HOTEL, OMA HA, NEB, Tables supplied with the best the markot attords. The traveling publlo olaim they get better accommodations and more goneral satisfaction here than at any other house in Omaha, Rate, £2 per dav. ang2ltfm TELEGRAPH NOTES. Spscial Dispatches to Tan Ben, The estimated reduction of the public A NEW MAJOR. Being the New Commandant at Fort Robinson, Col. Louis H. Oarpenter, The Oolored Troops and How They Fight—Views on the Apache Outbreak, Brevet Colonel Louls H. Carpenter, late of the Tenth cavalry, but recently promoted to a majority In the Fifth cavalry, was met by a BEe reporter yesterday at the Paxton, Major Car- penter Is a fino soldierly officer of wome forty years of age, who has seen over twenty years of servics in the army, more than ten years of which have been spent with the colored troops of the Teuth cavalry. In Oot. '68 he commanded two companies in the Indlan war In Kansas, and re- ceived the brevet of colonel at General Sheridan's request for gallantry in action. Having recently read some strictures about the colored troops as ebt for March is §9,500.000, The steamer Polar Star exploded her boiler at Columbus, Ky, Four men were drowned and two killed by the explosion. The Wabash ralway hias completed rangementa with the Rook Island railroad by which its system is to be extended to 8t. Paul, Bishop_elect Nicholson, of 8t Mark’s church, Philadelphis, writes to Rev, Dr, Wakefleld, president of the standing com- mittee, declining the episcopate of Indiana, George Buchanan, son of the bogus di- plomar, Dr. John Buchanan,was convicted at Philadelphis, of baving caused the death of Elizabeth Holstein by a criminal surgical operation, The United States express company has Arran, to deliver, without charge, a donation from Hiram Sibley & Co., of 80,000 packages of selected garden seeds to sufferers by the tornado at Grinnell, Towa. The twenty-ninth annunl roport of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railrond shows gross earnings, $21,051,000; operat. ing expenses and taxee, $11,284,000; net enrnings, $10,267,000; intereat and ex- change, $162,000; total, $10,719,000; divi- dend, 8502,400; oarried to thej reserve fund, $750,000; number of miles of line operated, 8,228, The Chicago and Alton road has eerved notice of withdrawal from ths Chicago and 8t. Louis passenger pool, and from the agreement not to issue passes to shippers, on the ground that the agreement had been violated by other lines, parties to the agreement. It is thought probable it will also withdraw from the Southwesfern u;ochflun. A war of rates is liable to re- sult, Colhert Strahe and Jesse Milholland were waylsid and shot Friday night near Oakfield, Audibon county, Iowa, by an un- known man, who stepped from behind treo. Strahe died at midnight. Milhe Iand was shot in the head, reported fatally, This is the outgrowth of a reign of terror in that vicinity, inasugurated and sustain. ed by Strahe and confederates, and known aa the Crooked Creek crowd, ‘The Tribune publishes a statement that the 12 fnst, $9,000 in gold certificates were abstracted from the cash room of the custom house. Over $500,000 was paid in daties that day. When the money was counted in the sub.treacury it was short the above amount. Secretary Folger au- thorizes Colleotor Robineon to make thor- ough investigation, While President Ar. thur was collector he lost 85,000 in the same manner, The New York Oathelic Review has ad- vices from Romo stating that the Holy See has A‘ypalnled Rov, Jo-cw Rade- macher, of the diocese of Fort Wayne, to the see of Nashville, vacant by promotion of Archbishop Feehan to Chicago. Bishop Brondel, of Vancouver's Island, has been .rpnlnud apostolic admintstrator of the vioariate of Montana, now added to the Emvlnno of Oregon, although heretofore elunging to the plovince of St. Louls and administered by the vicars of Idaho and Nebrasks. At Knob Noster, seventeen miles west of Sedalia, Mo., a negro who had an arm broken by jumping from a train, was taken to the house of a colored [man near by, the fracture set and he given a bed. About 10 o'clock Friday night he arose, and began to fire promiscuously with his revolver, The inmates all “M{, Murshal Jeff Haire repaired to the place and in attempting to arrest the frenzied negro was wounded twice Finally the bufl?flng was set on fire, but the negro did not come out until the timbers began falling He was greeted with a volley of shots, two taking effect, Ho was then secured. Haire is thought to be mortally wounded, The jury in the case of Thos. Waldron, better known us ‘'Brother k," resident of the St. col- ege, Brooklyn, N. Y lfiu! week on the cha ittle girl, nged six and a half yi after deliberating Fridey night and Saturdsy, rendered a vordict of guilty on the second count, the attémpt at rape. The prison. er's counsel made an eloquent plea in his behalf for merey. Judge Haight, in pro- nouncing sentence, intimated that the jury bad been pretty merciful in the case, and that the parents of other children had in- formed him of similar attempts by the prisoner. Ho therefore sontenced the pris- oner to the full extent of the law, five years in Auburn prison, except that he might have added a fine. THE PHILOMATHEANS, The Loming Concert Next Wednee- day Evening. The Philomathean club will give its next concert, the second of their third series, at Mox Meyer's music hall, on Wednesday evenlng uext, April 4 The followlng 18 the PROGRAMME, 1. String quartette, in G A—Adagio, B Op. 14, No 2, Trio in it ola, ....Schubert o6 Club, 8, Serenade. ... (Qaartette from M . Strine quartette, in C A~—Andante. B—Mennuetto, C—Ad. aglo, D—Allegro 6, Tenor solo, ‘If,”. 7. Qui i, o . Quintuor, in C, Op Rell gl o RIS 8, String quart B SLAVEN'S MITE COLONGE Mado from the wild flowers of the rar ramep YOSEMITE VALLEY it is the most frageant of perfume, Manufactured by El B, Slaven, San Francisco, Forsale in Omaha by W, J, Whitehouse and Kennard “Broe, soldiers, Tue BEE reporter ventured the inquiry, “‘What sort of soldlers do the colored men make, Colonel?” ‘‘A great deal better than many uppose,” replied Msjor Carpenter. “The records show that there have beon less desertions in the Tenth ocavalry than in any other regiment in the service. We have had fewer court martials, foewer offonses against the regulations, and as good general dis- clpline as can be found elsewhere in the army. The men are unusually cleanly and tidy, and spend more on thelr dress than the white soldiers; they drill well, and are obedlent to their superiors.” *‘How ave they In action?’ asked the reporter. ‘‘Can they stand fire}" “My experlence has been,” sald Major Carpenter, ‘‘that they are as roliable as white soldiers in action, I have seen them in a number of Indlan fights, and they behaved unusually well. You know thelr record durlng the war, and since then the troops in the colored reglments have malntained their reputation. I certainly have no tault to find, In 'G8 the two compa- nies that I commanded «id excellent service and deserved all*the compli- ments that they got.” ““Then you belleve in the enlistment of colored men into the army?”’ ‘I dldn't say that, did I! On some accounts I do not. T'ae moral tone of the colored men {s not as high as that of the whites, They are more uned- ucated and it is extremely difficult to find mechanies among them for- the work of the regiments, I mean blacksmiths, carpenters, etc I think that for three reasons {t would have been as well If the enlistment of ool- ored men had been postponed for a generation at least. Still it is only falr to say that they are improvin greatly in the matter of eduocation an will doubtless improve more rapldly " fn this respect ev: “I oo tthum papers are oritiolzing the Apache campaign,” sald U T, o eepcs t in to be ex; , of course,"" sald Mr. Carpenter. ‘“‘The Apaches oan't be subdued in a day and it will require hard work to capture or sup- press the band who are dlsturbing the territory. The characterof the country is such that a half a dozen Indians can burn, plunder and massacre In the face of a couple of companies of troops and escape to the mountains or dodge acress the ilne Into Mexico before much can be done towards thelr ocapture, Indlan fighting in Arizona is hard work, even with the beat of troops and officers, as anyone knows who has been in an . Indian campaign. The Apaches are like the Irtshman’s fles, you put your finger on them and they ‘are not there.’ It Is unfair to prejudge the results of & campaign before it has begun.” Masjor Carpenter takes a month's leave of absenne before assuming command of Fort Robinson, to which he has been assigned, in the place of Msjor Sumner, transferred to Fort Niobrara' He leaves in a few days for Philadelphia, roturning about May 1st. o —————— THE EMMET'S ANNUAL Thelr Rogular Bpring-Time Bail Will be Held on Wedneeday, April1l. il That substantial old Omaha insti- tion, the Emmet Monument associa- tion, are out with tickets for their fourteenth annual ball, to be held on Wednesday evening, April 11th, at Orounse’s new hall, which they have eecured for formal opening for danc- ing purposes, The wall of distress now floating over the Atlantle from the famine stricken sectlons of lre- land has decided the Emmets to donate the net proceeds of the ball for the suffering people of thelr mother coun- try. The capaclous new hall erected by Mr. Orounse has been placed at thelr disposal, and no effort will be spared to make the affair as great a success and fally as enjoyable as for- mer efforts of the Emmets, The hall will be fully completed by the 11th of next month, with every accessory nec- eseary to render dancing enjoyable, They should meet with hearty sup- port in this eftort to contribute some- thing to relleve the terrible suffering which the telegraph informs us is of dally occcurrence in Ireland. The tickets are placed at $1 00, and are now in the hands ot the members for sale, Competent committees have the ter In charge, and & jolly good time ls assure FOR SALE. A drugstore 1n western Iowa, popu- lation about 3,600, stock from §6,000 to $8,000, sales $18,009 per annum, only two drug stores in the town, a large country trade, Inquire of Frank Rogers, Millard Hetel drug store. Ma:30-smw2w - e — |