Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 10, 1883, Page 1

THE OMAHA DALy BEE THIRTEE NTH YEAR. — - ri iy s 2 - "B Lanibgpy OMAHA, N iB. MONDAY MOR G, SE PTEMBER 10, 1883. NO. 72. GRAND INAUGURAL OPENING! Referring to our introductory GRUN 1309. DRY GOODS | Farnam Street. 'BAUM BROS.. 1309. announcements. we are pleased to state thut the improvements on our building are completed, and with this issue we formally announce that our GRAND OPENING will take place NMonday and Tuesday, Sept. 10th & 11th. We trust no lady will neglect the opportunity of visiting our esta Goods shall and will create a lasting impression on the minds of our v partments, which our patrons will always find full and complete, we eqmostly hope to merit the patronage THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS Will be under the personal charge of the following experienced Ladies’ and Gentlemen: The Silk The Black Goods The Dress Goods The Domestic The Linen The Wrap The Trimming Department—Mr. L. Swartz, formerly with Lord & Taylor, of the people. New York. A, Cruickshank & Co., Omaha. * Gkicago. L. B. Williams & Son, Omaha. J. Edward Bird & Co,, Baltimore. & Mr. C. D. Sydnor, % } 8 ¥r. G. W. Lucas, # R. V. Hillas, ¢ Mr. P. F. Andresen, % H Mr. Wm. Barrie, " i Miss H. Ruane. Miss M. Heelan: : Our foyce of assistants personaliy request the pleasure of a visit g‘ugl’ tl‘ifi‘r;:f -satisfy the wants of their customers, will secure for them the patronage. -3 ORET” %) uflng;'im b T gt acquaiptanices, an d impe that their OPENING. Monday and Tuesday, September 10th and 11th, will be an occasion never before witnessed in Qmaha. 1309 Farnam Street. GRUNEBAUM BROS. FROM SEA TO SEA. Nature's Barviers 1o Commerss Sur- mounted by the Taird Iran Highway. The Northern Pacific Finally Spiked, in the Presence of a Vast Audience. A RBemarkable Historical Scene on the Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains, Sketeh of the Golden Spiking. A Graphic HereNa, M. T., September 8. It is eight miles from Helena to the point whero the steep grade of the Rocky Mountains begins, and twelve from there to the mouth of Mullen tunnel. As the tunnel is not completed, Mullen pass is crossed by running in curves at a distance of about four miles. The grade is the same a8 at Bozeman. The sections were safely liffed over the height and the de- scent made to this point, where the cere- mony of driving the last spike has just been concluded. The distance from this point to Helena is fifty-five miles. The train arrived here iu good shape. From Portland there came a splendid train, bearing prominent citizens to participate in the ceremonies. The occasion was regarded as a remark ablo one and as promising & prosperous future. All were surprised at what they beheld. Instead of a wilderness there was a maguificent pavillion capable of seating more than 1,000 people. In front thore was an extensive promenade, The Fifth U. 8. Infantry band enter- tained the company with wusic. Hun dreds of hardy mountaineers had gather- od to welcome the party, The ceremo nies were opened by President Villard who divided the attention of the enthu- siastic multitude with Gen. Grant seated on.the platform, Viliard concluded amid tremendous applause. He then intro duced the orator of the oeccasion, Hon Wm. M. Evarts, The orator was very heartily applauded. After music Villard introduced Sceretary Teller, who spoke of the great energy and capital required to complete the various transcontinental lines and the prospective benefits to the nation This enterprise of the Northern Pacific railway, along whose lines there would be ina fow years nine million people, could not be called local in character. It was more than na- tional, It concerned the welfare of other peoples. It now remains for the man- agers to justify in the future the wisdom of the government in what it had done and that they will if the policy announced by Villard is carried out, Becrel Teller was followed be ex- President Billings. Villard then introduced Minister Sack- ville West, of England, who in turn in- troduced Sir James Hennen, as the En- glish representative for the occasion, Sir James said the English guests were filled with wonder at the magnificent country. The German minister,‘ Von Eisendecker, was then prosented and ex- pressed the hearty good wishes of his countrymen for this entcrprise. Dr. Kreip, of Berlin university, then spok at length in behalf of the German v tors. Dr. Hofmann, the greatest mi scopist of the ag id the constructi of the Northern P miracle, and unlike iracles was perivimed in compliance with the laws of nature. - The governors of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota, Montana, Oregon and Washington Territory were severally introduced and made appropriate re- marks, There were loud cries for Gen, Grant, and as the General came forward the air was rent with cheers, He made a few remarks suitable to the occasion. He said he was reminded by the speoches to which he listened of the fact that he had had something to do with the g Northern Pacific enterpr When Stevens, thirty years ago, otganized his surveying party, he was a licutenant act- ing as quartermaster on the Columbia, and he issued the supplies for the expe- dition. Was he not, then, entitled to some credit which Billings had appor- tioned out to otherst It was true, while Billings had contributed of his own mon- ey, he paid out Uncle Sam’s, The many veterans present became perfoctly wild ‘whon ho sxid that thoso inter-colonial railroads would have amounted to but little but for the men who after the war sought the territories as fields of enterprise. At the conclusion three cheers were given. A photograph was then taken of the foreign guests and Villard family. After that a horse that had helped build the road from its incep- tion was brought upon the platform, Then 500 men quickly laid the' iron aud drove the spikes on the thousand feet of uncompleted track, except the last spike. During the progress of the work, which amazed the foreigners, the band played and the peoplo shouted. When nearly completed a cannon salute was fired. The lust spike was finally driven home by H. C. Davis, assistant general passenger agent of the road, who drove the tirst spike on the opening of the road, and and this spike was the same ono first driven by him. The end was reached as the sun was setting, The enthusiasm of the 5,000 people was indescribable. This brought to a happy terminus one of the greatest events of Awmerican history The trains were reformed and the guests departed, a few for the east, the balance cstward, 'n | —— A Church Fi With Powder, CuicaGo, September 9. —A Quincy, 1L, special says: Early yosterday morn- ing, at Erwin, a unmlf settlement in Bchuyler county, an attempt was made to blow up Rev. C. A. Obenshain, organ- izer of the sect kaown as the **Pilgrims,” who are offensively polygamous. Last July a number of citizens were arrested and punished for tea lown the tent which the pilgrims erected. The feeling gainst them has been growing ever since. e sect had just completed & new church Friday, and it was to be dedi- cated in two or three weeks on the arri- val of the high priest from Europe. Obenshain slept in the building. A large quantity of giant powder was placed under the structure, which was fired, and an explosion followed, com- pletely wrecking the building. Fortu nately for Obenshain he was not i the church at the tim FIGH NG ‘LOODS. Texas Deluged and Great Damage Done, Southern | from the heavy loca | have suddenly become raging streams 20 to 40 feet deep and spreadi ross the | country, washing everything before them. Hoses, cattle and shéep were seen flont- ing by hundreds down the current, wind mills and out houses were swept away. The loss to stock cannot be iated, as the entire west is flooded. The Texas and Mexican railway lost eleven bridges and culverts and several miles of track within a width of 60 miles a station, 100 miles west, th > sitaa- One section ecast of and a mile and a half of roadbed and track are gone, The situation is even worse at Reali- bos, along the coast southwest of Corpus Christi, The damage to stock will exceed the loss in the districts stated above, as various streamis debouch in the larger Madre, and the country being low and flat, with no protection from floods except sand drains, the waters carry cverything boforo them. At Konnedy pasture two horses with saddles and bridles on swam ashore, The riders are supposed to be drowned while striving to cross the fierce currents, As Mexican huts are situated in sparsely settled dis- tricts and communication between them is interrupted, the loss of life will not be ascertained for some time. Nearly all the tanks for watering stock have been burned. The bridge at San Diego, fifty- four miles west, was swept away last evening. It was 450 miles long and one of the strongest on the Texasand Mexi- can road, LarApo, Tex., September 9.-—~The re- port that the Solado bridge, on the Mexi- can N National railroad had been carried away by the floods, isincorrect. The rain has continued in showers to-day in the vicinity of Lorado and the weather is not yet settled. —— Boston's Banquet to Coleridg Bostox, September 9.—A pany assembled at the Parker evening to partici tendered by the cil 2o com. house last ate in the banquet overnment to Lord Chief Justice Coleridge. Mayor Palmer presided, He spoke bricfly, and intro- duced Justice Coleridge, who said he re ognized the testimonial & to the English people and himself. Americans were wrong in saying they had no history, You have had, and have now, Webster, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Russell Lowell and the Howells. Those men make your history. Lord Coleridge was followed by Governor Butler, Governor Jarvis, of North Carolina, and others. — Concordia Colleg S1. Louis, September 9,—The Ger- man Lutheran Theological seminary, to be known as the Concordis college, a new and costly edifice, wsitua on Cherokee street and Jefferson avenue, was dedicated to-day with very imposing coremonies, Fully 10,000 people were present, THE OLD WORLD. The Relatious-0f France aud China Again Tending Toward War. National Demonstrations and Strong Talk by the Irish at Home, The Riots at tion: un—The Java Gladswone's Pleasure Trip, te. STGENLRAL FORKIGN N FRANCE AND CIINA, Loxpox, Septomber 9,--The Chinese embassador had another conference with the French Minister of Foreign Aftairs, Tho departure of Marquis Tzeng for England is postponed. A l’mmdin{mwh says & member of the Chinese vmbassy at Paris states that nothing in the nature of a treaty between France and China has yet been agreed upon. China sub mitted her propossl, and now awaits o counter proposal from Franee. The Standard’s Hong-Kong dispatch says the absence of the British flect at the present time from Chinese waters ex- cites the deepest indignation among the English residents there and at all other Chinese ports, as the relations between Europeans aud the natives have alto- gother changed since the opening of the French [m]lcy of aggression in Tonquin, The Daily Telegraph has advices from Paris, stating that a telogram was sent from Paris to Pekin yesterday evening, asking tho American minister to sound the Chinese government on the subject of American arbitration, if such were suggested by France, The Telegram ad ded that Earl Granvile was advocating British arbitration, but the moment had arrived to assert the commereial influence of American commerce in China, It is reported that the Chinese are erecting defenses between Canton and the mouth of the river Haiphong, The question there now is not, will there be war but when and where will it begin, THE JAVA ERUFTION, Tne Haoug, September 9, [t is of ficially announced that the passage of the | strait of Sunda is now clear, the only | physical change being between Krekatoo and Sebockol, The light house at Erstepunt is intact. Advices from Te longbetong, Sumatra, say the Dutch residents’ house, fortross and prison are stil. standing, but thut everything else was destroyed by the eruption. No further details have been received from the coast districts, BTANLEY IN AFRICA, Loxvoy, September 9. —Advices from Sonda, west Africa, dated August 17, state that Henry M. Stanley, after pen trating far into the interior, returned to Stanley Pool. It is believed that Stan- ley intends to travel the country covered in his former journey along the east coast, THE VATICAX has adopted very important measures in regard to the church question in Prussia, | which will permit removal of misunder- standings botween the Prussian g ment and the Pope, and render resump- tion of negotiations probable, POPULAR K10TS, . Aciax, Septomber 9. A persons yesterday sinashed tho wi crowd of dows Jews, Several rioters were arrested. orders were not suppressed o'clock this morning. The communal olections to-morrow were postponed through fear of further outbreuks, GLADSTONE'S TRIP, The military fired on the inob, The dis- until 2 LoxvoN, September 0.~ ter Gladstone with family ewbarked to- day on the steamer Pembroke Castle for o cruise along the west const of Scotland, ALFONSO'S TOUR A correspondent at Paris says: King Alfonso’s fivst intention as to his jeeted journoy was to visit England, Bel- gium, Austria and Germany, and return Madrid by way o vin sent a request to the king beg- ging him to defer his visit to England owing to the precarious state of her majesty’s health, The king arrived at Vienna this ovening, He was met at the depot by the Emperor, Crown Prince Rudolph and Archdukes Albert, William and Bugene, who greoted him cordially, King Alfonso was escorted to the palace, He remans in Vienna until the 16th, TALKING ON IRISH LIBERTY. Hugh Law, lord chancellor of Ireland, is seriously ill, A demoustration under the auspices of the Irish national league was held at Waterford to-day in which several well known agitators took part, Michael Davitt in & spoech said tho object of the league was to achieve national independ. ence for Ireland, At a banquot in the evening Richard Power, mewber of par- lisment for Waterford City, replying to a toast, *‘Ireland as a nation,” described England as a nation insulted by 5 hated by Europe snd harassed and em- barrassed by Ireland, CRIMINAL JORD, BLACKMALL Ot ADULTERY, SAN Fraxcisco, Boptember 9. Hx Senator Win, Sharon was arrested yester- day afternoon, on the charge of adulte s he was taking the train for the eu The chargo was preforred by Miss Aggic Hill, well known in society cirel The ady cluims u contract of drawn upand agreed to bet that in addition she loaned him $90,000; 1 them; Sho placed matters in the hands of & man named W, M, Neilson, of unenviable reputation, with instructions to claim the balance of £12,000, said to be due her, and at the same time swore out & writ charging Sharon with adultery. It is stated that Sharon drew his check for the amount and gave bonds in 86,000 to answer the charge. Miss Hill bases her claim of marriaxe on the fact of an agreement of marriage, as she states, having been entered into between Sharon and herself, holding that in point of law it is oquivalent to the marriage having been consummated. The aftair is openly pronounced & miserablo case of br:ckumllm;;, kept back until the last Sharon was leaving for moment, when the East, BOLD BURGLARS, Merioey, Conn,, September 9, —Burg: of a cafe and soveral houses occupied by | ° Prime Minis- ' France, but Queoen | I‘H o W | $78,000 of which ho had repaid her. | entered the large jowelry store of Henry M. Mather this morning and opened the safe by cutting the doors to pieces with costly tools which they left behind. They secured abeut 100 gold silver watches and-seal rings, valued at 3,000, Part of the same store, by H. Brooks & Co, stationers, 1 their safe also forced open and about #300 in cash taken, POLITICS IN 1T, SAN Frasorseo, September 9, —Ex- Senator Sharow’s friends aro conspicuous ly absent to-day. Nono of them are to be seon. The house of Frank (. Newland, Sharon's son-in-law, is locked up. No..- lund has apparently gone out of town. It i muid this ovening that Sha- o' political enemies are concorne in the plot which they have hims to be s, for the purpose of de- won'’s political influ imspircd to Migs Hill, who hi fi o, to ta ronsing 8 Nevada, The ox-senator gave | bond to appear Tuvsday before the I police court to answer the adultery cilnrge, but as he has gone east and can- not appear a bonch warrant for bis ar- rost will be insued, his enomies being de- termined to make the matter as unpleas- ant for him as possible, JUDGE BLAUK'S LAST, A Reply to Jeff Davis' Oriticisms—Im- portant Additions o History. PriLavkiriia, September 9.—Judgo Black’s posthumous reply to Jeft Davis' recent attack upon him comes in the shape of an interview with the great jurist by one of the editors of The Pres who was a personal friend of Black’s, It is fully authenticated and deals with important subjects, The response to Davia' criticisms forms but a small part of the paper. Judge Black isvery scvere upon tho ex-confedorate rmuidum. Ho asserts that Davis was talking peace to Buchanan and planning war and always trying to get Buchanan to yield to the demands of the secossionists, The most. important purt of the article relates to his association with Buchanan during the lust throe months of his administration, Much of the inner history of that period sob out in forcible language, The articlo places Judge Black in a new light I‘ before the country. — Z=A Haven for the Brotherhood. Cuieaao, September 9.~ The order of | the Red Cross, a mutual benefit associa- ! tion, has issued a circular proposingterms | upon which members of the recent Brotherhood telographers may be trans- forred to its ranks in a body, and A. J. M ris, lato master Brotherhood in Chicago, has issued a cir- cular to its members asking them to par- ticipate in the new movement and assur- ing thew it will not be a violation of ‘blut]gus made by them to the Western Jnion company when thoy roturned to work after the strike. It is not known | whether the late strikers will regard the | new move favorably or not, — No frost reported in Wisconsin, The ther- wmometer ranged whout 45 degrees above zero, A tho aky was overcast, he proximiy of | the lake nlwuwl' ).. prul,uul‘i!un. di\'u (oars Wero expr on "change, and no dispatches Werd reotived which o mauch aa Bunted at dane ger, “endeavors to please and it tenaeting overy one a hearty welcoms, we will state that our: GRANMD workman of the | blishment on this occasion, as the attractions in decorations and display of sitors and by placing before the public an assortment of goods in all the de- BLACK JACK ABROAD. A Vast Ares of Northern Conntry Swept by @ Waltering Blast, o Field After Field of Corn Laidr~ Low by the Frost of Two Nights. Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa and Da- kota the Principal Sufferers. Cuicaco, Septomber 9. Associatod press advices and scattering specials to The Iuter Ocean and > ews seem to in- dicato that the frosts of last might and the night beforo did little damage to- corn threughout the central and south- ern portion of lllinois. Reports from the northern portion of this state, how- ever, and throughout Iowa and Nebraska, on the same parallel, and throughout the entire northwest, north of the line indicated, are generally to the effect that frost was heavy and corn sharply nipped, cspecially on low gronnd, No estimates are given of the fim..g. done. The ex- pressions of correspondents vary in all ogrees, from damage slight to crops completely ruinsd‘.“gt wifi be several days before'any accurate estimate of the damage done can be made. ToLrpo, September 9.—The black frost this morning in these parts was pretty severe on small garden stuff and tender vines, as far as can be learned. Reports received at a late hour to-night from Put~ in-Bay and that region are that the grape crop is uninjured. All local reports agree that asfar as corn is concernedno damage will bo sustained except a light check that may occur to the growth and ripen- ing The frost is by far the earliest and and most seyere one known here for years aud extonds very generally through- out this locality. Davenrorr, September 9.—A heavy frost fell throughout Scott county Satur- day night. Tomatoes. cabbage, ete., killed in many places. Most of the vorm is as yet slightly damaged. The Fatal ¥Frost, Kroxux, September 9.—Light frost last night, but no damage done corn. Miuwavkeg, September 9.—The frost in Wisconsin scems to have been very general and in most directions very sovere. At Sturgeon Bay there was a ropetition on Saturday night and crop was totally rained. In Oconomowoe frost. culminated Saturday night, aad buck- wheat and sorghum suffered accordingly. Black frost put in an appearance on the lowlands, and the corn in such places was ruined, Two weeks more are needed to mature corn, Appleton dispatches say is ruined there, 1t was pmx od late, and is nowhere near maturity, Wheat and barley are doing well at Marshall. Corn will yield nothing, INprANArowss, September 9 —There was @ slight frost in this locality last ght, but no serious damage was dene to crops. . Anoth o S °§’:""w L Louia, Baturday .“";g"{,"" fifth first-class theatre now in bas o seating capacity of 2,600, ° was city,