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

g W B Lambort OMAHA DaAIlLy BEE. THIRTEENTH YEAR. INAND OUT OF WALL STREET Stocks Which Have Dropped and the Reasons Fore1t, Features of the Grain Market diven In Detail. Why Wheat Is Down and Corn and Oats Up. Specula # Leaving Stocks to Make Hundreds« Thousands InGrain, Special Dispatch to Tir Beg. New York, December 10.—Following is Riggilo's financial review in The Sun this morning: “The uneasy feeling in Wall street continues to increase, and business grews more and more dull. The age daily transactions were again on the decrease last week and al- though the general tone of the market looked steady several specialties were very roughly handled. The Villard stocks, the Union Pacific and the North- western were conspicuous among them. That the last named stocks had special reasons for showing a decline and in the case of the Northwestern at least, the fall is prabably temporary; but the Vil- lard stocks merely resumed their natural downward course which was slackened for a moment by the issue of the new mortgage. Now that the bonds are taken up by the creditors of that ill-fated con- cern, the stock held by them {ill now must be sold and last week’s drop in the price will probably go on with inoreasing velocity. There is no more CIANCE OF STOPPING THE FALL in the Northern Pacific, Trans-Continen- tal and Oregon Navigation stocks than there was of stopping Denver & Rio Grande in its retrograde from $1 14 a share to its present p $24. Mr. Villard, the e g spirit of the Northern Pacific securities, has no more _inducement now to sustain them then Mr. Woerishoffer, the leading spirit of the Denver & Rio nde securities, had then. They have both made all the money they could wish to make and ar now_anxious_only about washing their hands and living like gentlemen and they are right to As long asa com- munity allows this kind of business they would be fools if they had not taken to it when they had a chance. They hav net perpetrated any new iniquity. = They simply improved upon a modus operandi established by reputed American citizens long before these two ‘‘Cherman Chen- telmen” were known_aj hore outside ave . B‘t}u!d,‘_Ffs_l(, “Commodore it , v W, H. Crarrison nderbilt, T. Scott, Commodore 1d Daniel Drew were the American classics which the two gifted German students have tried to assimilate and i They have succeeeded bet- ter than anybody could have anticipated, but there is NOTHING SURPRISING N IT to anyone who knows_ the profundity of the German mind. Take the word of any Gierman student of Plato, Confu- cius, Mahomet, or any other light of an- tiquity, and you will find that the Ger- man commentator knows much more about what these men could and might have done than they ever knew them- selves, Messrs. Thomas & Brice are trying to repeat now in the Ohio Central what has been done in the Denver and Northern Pacific, but their work will be clumsy child’s play when compared with German workmanship Last week’s fall in Union Pacific was due to causes whicl have been at work for a considerable time past. THE WARS with the Denver & Rio Girande, the Bur- lington & Quiney, and the Northern and Southern Pacific areruining thecompany. The expected action of congress has any- thing but an exhiliarating cffect upon its stock, and the poo- health ot some of the ufticials prevents them from giving the affairs of the road due attention. The sad death of Mrs. Siduey Dillon was a fear- ful blow to her husband, who was very much attached to her, and the “street fears that it may cause Mr. Dillon’s re- tirement from active business. It is said that the estate of the late Mr. D. J. Prince proved to be much smaller than was expected. 1t seems that he has not left more than $300,000, while Wall street always thought he was worth a million, It is curious how people arc apt to over-estimate, THE WEALTH OF STOCK SPECULATORS, Probably many of them who are now betieved to be next door to millionaires are merely in comfortable circumstances, On the other hand, the fortunes of men who are not daily seen in Wall street are often underestimated, Thus it appears now that the Moses Taylor estate, which was estimated at only $13,000,000, will probably turn out to be worth £50,000,- 000. The feverish activity in the RAIN AND PRODUCE markets still continues unabated. The Sun presidted some weeks #go that corn would go up and wheat would go down, and so they have done. Corn is now selling on an average lic higher than it did three weeks ago, while wheat sells about He lower and would probably scll lower still had it not be for the sympathetic influence existing between the different articles of the grain and provision markets, The main point, however, remains the same, there is TWO MUCH WHEAT everywhere and not enough corn for the primary requirements of home and for- eign consumption; besides, most of what there is of it, is of poor quality The continued warm and rainy weather out west affects corn in _the crib, and ren- ders it unfit for grading, some say even for hog feed. At all events hogs are poorer this year and will cor- tainly not = improve as long as they are fed on soft fermenting corn, the farmer being anxious to get his 50 or 60 cents a bushel for such good hard corn as he is likely enough to have on hand. THE SCAKCITY OF CORN and the steady alvance in its price must thus necessarily effect the produce mar- ket and also the market for oats. Horses cannot be fed on soft corn, and will be fed on oats all the more readily as the difference in the price of tho two cereals is greatly in favor of the latter. Usually oats sell from 12 to 15 cents a bushel lower th that difference amounts to over 25 cents, althou oats have already a riso of about i cents. It is thercfore swrmised that there ought to be a profit of 8 or 10 cents in buying oats. E. W, Bangs, John T. Lester's right hand man and an excellent judge of the market, tele ¢raphed to L. G, Quinlin & Co. Saturday night from Chicago: *“The best posted men anticipate LOWER PRICES FOR WHE n corn "o-day We have now 20,000,000 bushels inware houses in northwestern cities, 10,500,000 bushels here, and the receipts increasing steadily. The outlook is certainly not suggostive of higher prices, and 1 am waiting for some one to show me how wo are going to get rid of this immense stock. I am a great bull on corn, but consider the advance sufficient for the present, and have advised my friends to take their profits and wait for a break to get in again.” Oats were very active, advancing in two_days about 2} cents for May option. Traders begin to appreciate the fact that corn sannot keep advancing without putting life into the oats market. WALL STRE 1S COMPLATNT, It has been one of Wall st plaints for some time past that Cl had diverted a great deal of speculat funds from the New York stock market. This may be true but it will also prove that Chicago has so far puta great deal of money into the pockets of New York speculators. Within the last two years, several millions of dollars have n made in the Chicago market by Now Yorkers who formerly did not know the diflerence between corn and wheat or pork and bacon, Within the last three weeks hundreds of thous: of dollars have been wmade in corn in the different Chicago oftices in this city, L. G. Quinlan is said to have got sick and worn out. FIGURING UP PROFITS com- Z wnd signing checks for his customers. Some of the oldest Wall street stagers seem to have left stocks and turned alto gother to grain and provisions, Prominent among them are Billy Marston and Larry Jerome, both of whom are said to have made a pile of money in corn. The ever youthful Billy is said to be a member of the syndi which is credited with quietly preparing a corner in January corn. e — A Grand Ilumination. Special dispatch to Tie BEE. 8. Jostrn, Mo., December . —The illumination of the great qucensware THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Some of the Bills Which Congress Will Have to Wrestle With, The Provisions of Anderson's Postal Telegraph Measure, Ingalls Has a Trio Relatieg to Public Lands, And Converse Wants the Wool Restored, Tarift on CAPITAL NOTES. ANDERSON'S POSTAL TELEGRAVH BILL, WasniNaroy, December 9. Ropre- sentative Anderson, of Kansas, has re- vised the postal telegraph bill introduced by him last session, A8 Will 0N INERos duce it in the house. By its provisions the postmaster general is~ authorized to construct, maintain _and operate three wain lines of telegraph, the northern end to extend from Bangor, Me., to St. Paul; the central line from New York to To- peka, and the southern line from Balti- more to San Antonio. Tho postmaster general is also authorized to connect the wires of the postal telegraph with those of any telegraph company which accepted or may accept the provisions of the act of July 24, 1866, entitled “An act to aid the construction of telegraph lines and secure to govern- ment use the same for postal, military or otherpurposes.” The bill provides the i co by the secretary of the treasury 5,000,000 of 3 per cent. bonds of ch, redeemable at option, but not to run more than thirty years, to be offered for sale in the oy markots of New York and the procecds of the saleto be applied to the construction and equip- ment of the postal telegraph by the post- master general, who shall held sufficient reserve of said bonds as surplus over the construction as may be necessary to meet the interest for five years. mple provision is wade for the redemp- tion of the bonds, the capital thereof to be reimbursed by the profits, and all fiscal details are properly arranged in consonance with the rules of the treasury department. The local ofticers are to be under the control of the postmasters, and stations established only in the government postoftices. Pro sion is made for compensating postmas- ters in proportion to the number of tele- graph stamps used, the stamps to be pro- cured and sold the same as postage stamps. The postmaster general shall have full power to regulate sales, and is house of Regnier & Shoup yesterday was one of the grandest sights ever seen in this city. Their immense building to say nothing of gas and the scene presented the most gor- appearance imaginablo, Their store was crowded from dawn until late in the evening by an eager and apprecia- tive throng to witness the grandest dis- play of their lives. Among the visitors were a great many merchants and busi ness men from central and southern N braska, e —— THE EXECUTION OF O'DONNELL The President Asked to Request a y— Congressman Finerty's Vicw of theCasc, WasniNGros, December 9.—The fol- lowing members of the house of repre. sentatives and prominent citizenscalled on the president yesterday and were grant- ed an audience in the cabin and Robinson, of New York; Morrison, Springer and Finerty, of 1llinois; Gen- erals Lefevre and Foran, of Ohio; Mur- phy, of lowa; Maybury, of Michigan; Lamb, of Indiana; McAdoo, of New Jer- sey; Collins, of Macsachusetts; ('Niell d Burns, of Missouri; AlsoJ, B, Ir- win, of the Pekin (11) Daily Times, Fritz and Young, of Ohio, and others, After a few minutes devoted to intro- ductions, the president heartily shaking hands with each gentleman, and some in- terchange of jocular remarks on the political status, the callers all being dem- ocrats, Cox delivered a long speech and presented a petition of the Clan na Gael seciety, praying the president to use his influence to secure a reupiu- for O'Don- nell The president said in reply thatthe department of state would at once tel- egraph Minister Lowell to make all pos- sible inquiring regarding O'Donnell’s citizenship, and he would take whatever action he could with proprioty. After reading the editorial in_his Chi. cago paper, in which these words occur: #0'Donnell will no doubt be hanged on December 17 The Irish race failed to save him, bubit will not fail to avenge him,"” Congressman Finerty suid: *1 en. dorso every word of this article,” and speaking as “‘an American journalist and not as a congressman,” ho' declared that 0'Donnell would die'in glory. He con- tinued: *In my opinion the Trish will act in their own behalf, and destroy not only the English parliamentary building” but ruin other interests so far ag possible. 1 can't say how nor when, if I knew it wouldn't be for me to tell. But I do know such procedure will happen. I'm opposed to raising more money to aid in the trial of Irish prisoners, O'Donnell’s trial has been a farce, To ask more money to continue similar trials would be dishonest, ) hope of fairness from an English court can be entertained,” “‘By postponement of the time of exe- cution what will be gained?” was asked. “If the president asks that sentence be postponed for a time England will no doubt grant the request for she will not desi 0 offend America, ividence of O'Donnell being an American citizen will then have to be gecured and an op- portunity sought for giving him a fair trial, * % % % % | don't want war to ba the outcoe, for our navy is not in condition for a conflict but I' do want justice for O'Donnell,” New Youk, December 9, —The Central Labor union has passed_a resolution ur- gently recommending the presidentof the United States to interfere in the case of anthorized to establish telegraph or tele- phone lines between the main and su- post oftices of the same or adjacent cities, or bel*m lht'i.:: and those of pa- gl amatnt TRy wasvavi 3% free delivery system is established. THE SPENCER CASE, In the criminal court yesterday the case of ex-Senator Spencer, charged with contempt of court in failing to appear as a witness in the star route case, came up for hearing. The government interro- watories and Spencer's answers wero read. ing to present the aflidavits of Postmas- ter General James, clerk of the postoflice depa them he saw Dorsey pay money to Brady, Judge Wylie said as this was not an amination before a jury, counter aflid vits w one point settled, that was that Spenc was endeavoring to avoid the star route tr the alleged unders with Garfield, the not recogniz to interferc with the administration of i Decision was reserved until to- judy WILL REFLECT CARLISLE'S VIEWS, Congressman Lowrey, of Indiana, one of C le's enthusiastic supporters, ex- presses the opinion that the ways and means committee will certainly reflect Carlisle’s views upon the tarifi, and the house will without doubt take steps this session to lessen the tarifi’ on the neces- suries of life and reduce the surplus rev enue, THE ATE COMMITTE The senate committees of both parties have finished the work of recasting the membership of the senate committees. They will lay their work before the rep- resentative caucuses Monday morning, If the work is approved by the caucuses the senate committees will be named Monday. THE WOOL TARIFF, Representative Converse, of Ohio, has prepared a bill which he will introduce worrow possibly, providing for the restoration of the duty on clothing, wools, combing wools, carpet and other similar wools to what they wero prior to the enactment of the present tariff law Converse had a conference yesterday with Delano, president of the National Wool Growers association, at which the latter gave the proposed measure his en- dorsement. To-night Converse said ho had no doubt his bill would pass the house by a two-thirds majority. A num- ber of representatives from Ohio and other states are pledged for the restora- tion of the old rates on wool and woolen goods, ATORL INGALLS' LAND BILLS, Senator Tngalls will soon introduce a bill providing that any person who en- closes an area of public lands to which he has no title shall be liable to a fine of 100 per day for the time such enclosure is maintained, and any person who ob- structs the passage of another over or through the public domain, shall for every offense pay the aggrieved person 8000, Also, a bill authorizing a resurvey of townships erroncously surveyed or in which the monuments marking the boundaries have been obliterated or re- moved. Also & measure providing for annexation to one of the Kansas land districts and for judicial purposes to the district of Kansas an un-named area ly- ing between Kansas and the Indian Ter- ritory, and authorizing the completion of ita survey, O'Donnell, the murderer James Carey, and endeavor to procure a stay of exect- tion, A BUREAU OF COMMERCE, Mr. Dingley will introduce a bill for the establishment of a bureau of com- OMAHA, NEB. MONDAY MORN Merrick said the government was prepar- Vanwormer, chief ment, and others, to the cffect that Spencer told uld be inadmissable. He regarded tendance on . With reference to anding Spencer had judge said he could the right of the president morce and navigation in the treasury do partmont similat to the British Loawd of trade, which will have the general super intending of the commercial marine and merchant seamen of the United States, UTAH LEGISLATION Reprosentative Cassidy will shortly in troduco a bill to provide for the alol ishment of the territorial le, Utah, and instead of a logishturo the ap pointment of & eommlssion of 13 or 15 members, to be confirmed by the senate. ARMY PROMOTIONS Congressman George R. Davis, of Chi- cago, will to-morrow introduce a hill providing for the promotion of General Sheridan to the rank of general of the army, and General Hancock to the rank of lieutenant general. | — VALUABLE MILLS DESTROY ED, \ Two Hundred Thousand Dollar laze at Erie, Pennsylvania Other Losses by Fire, Enie, Decomber 9. o'clock this morning the Mount Hickory rolllng mills, this city, were burned. The mills were orected in 1872. One of the principal owners was Hon, William L. Scott. The mills have besn shu' down for some time, but started up again carly this fall, The machinery in the mills was worth £200,000, and the stock on hand about $§50,000. When the alarm sounded, tho city fire department failed to respond, owing to the works being 1 h‘hju!l m\'sifiu of the corporate limits. The chief was appealed to, but declined to order out the engines, claiming that the city ordinances forbade his going hoyond the city lLimits. After considerable delay permission was ohtained from the mayor, but it was so late that the department was of little use when it reached the fire. Two hundred men are thrown out of em- ployment, just atthe begining of win- ter, with no apparent means to support their families. Seott's business manager places the loss at $200,000, and the in- surance at $90,000. It is not known whether the mills will be rebuilt' or not. Cueverann, December 9. The Ohio Union rolling mill was mostly destroyed by fire to-day. The fire originated in the pumping room luPpBaedly from a stove. Loss on the building 220,000, on the machinery probably 860,000, insurance not ascertainable to-day. Much of the machinery it is thought will be left in fair condition, GLoucHEsSTER, Mass., December Annisquilia mill, at Brockport, burned this morning, Loss $40,000, insurance §30,000. The estimated loss will not exceed %200,000. The Rockport firo dopart- ment was unable to cope. with such an extensive conflagration, but with the as- sistance rendered from (iloucester and Salem the picker roor-mand store house containing 100 1 i cotton were ears has been ) 8 no.\‘e‘} SVrEoTED, Cueyesse, W. T., December 10.— Articles of incorporation of the Wyom- ing, Yellowstone Park & Pacific railway, have been filed. Among the incorporators are L. Dupont, the famous powder man- ufacturer, A. R. Converse, president of the First National bank of Cheyenne, W. T., A. Hale, governor of Wyoming The road will run through the coal, iron, soda and petroleum regions of western Wyoming, in the National park in Mon- tal Construction will begin in the spring. THE OMAHA BUSINESS POOL, o] Caicaco, Manager Merrill, of the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul road, has addressed a letter to a railway official of this city re- specting the tripartite agreement con- cerning Union Pacific business, Rock [sland & St. Paul and Union Pac Mr. Merrill as- sorts that he never contemplated and would not, under any enter into an Omaha business which did not all roads in the Towa Trunk Line tion E. 'I. Jeffery, general manager of the linois Central, has withdrawn his res- ignation, and will remain in the service of the company. Milwaukee erning include ssocia- e — The Everglades Expedition, Newl Oxieays, December 9. Times-Democrat’s Punta Ra: says the Times-Domocrat’s Everglades expedition reached the Gulf on the night of the ith of December, through Sharks river, and Lave just landed here from a schooner which they chartered at White Water bay to convey them to this point, The party became separated, and two of themn are still up the river in a boat. The men all show marks of the rough life en- dured, but are still in good health and spirits. They leave for Cedar Koyes the Lith inst, o — Finished His Cal . Louts, December 9. ling event occurred at morcantile library hall to-night. James F. ( and wife of jNew York were giving a spiritualistic performance toward the close of which Gein stepped into an ante room in the rear of the stage to rest after exhausting the cabinet exhibition and when follow- ed two or three minutes later by his wife he was found dead on the floor. An mmination by physicians showed that death was caused by heart discase, Gein was a mason in good standing, The body will be taken to Chic for burial, het Work., Quite a start- — Three 1 vied, Kassas Crry, December 9. After a third trial M, V. Jones has been acquit- ted by the criminal court on a charge of murder, The history of the case briefly told is as follows: I the spring of 1852 Gieorge Grant (colored), resisting arrest for larceny, killed Patrick Jones, & po- liceman, and a mob the same uight hanged Levi Harrington (colored), mis- taking him for S Joncs, a cousin of the deceassd officer, was charged with leading the crowd which hanged Hacrington, for which he has just been ac- quitted. ant, the murderer, is now in Jail under sentence of death, which has been deferred and @ stay of executien granted by the supreme court, g of the worsted mills at Mill- Caused loas of $160,000, which it alleged las been entered into by the General | NG, DECEMBER 10, 1883, FROM FOREICN LANDS. A Terrible Battle Near Snakim With Distastrous Rosnlts, Black Troops Fighting Back to Back With Clubbed Guns, Dervischs Proclaiming a HolyWar and the Country Ablaze, The French to Move To-Day. on Sontag GENERAL FORE ANOTHER PTIAN FORCE CUT TO PIECES, Camro, December 9. News has reached Aden that a great force of the hill tribes attacked five companies of Egyptian troops which were reconnoiter ing outside of Suakim on the Hth inst. Severe fighting ensued, the Fagyptians were completely annihilated and - their artillory captured. Another account of the Fgyptian de- foat at Suakim on the Hth inst. says: Spies entered Suakim and reported hill men hovering near the town. On hear- ing this Mahomad Tapez Pasha, anxious to eflace the defeat at Takkar, on account of which a court martial is pouiny, *ont forward 500 black troops and 200 Bashi Sazouks against the hill tribes, hohimself remain- ing at Suakim. At a distance of three hours march from town the Egyptians wore attacked by soveral thousand mon. 1y s fought fiercely, but were cut to pieces, only fifty, of whom half ware officers, escaping. This defeat of officers hitherto regarded as the flower of the army has caused consternation, as it tends to show that the task of opening the route from Suakim to Be with the material at Baker Pasha’s disposal is nearly hopeless. Twenty cavalrymen accompanied the stian force defeated near Suakim on the Hth inst. The t loss was 680 men. There were two Kuropean oflicers with the force, and the whole under com- mand of an Egyptian major. The sur- viving oflicers say they were surrounded by 5,000 men. The Egyptions formed a squaro, black troops being stationed on three faces and Bashi Bazouks on the fourth faco of the square. The ltter fell back throwing the black troops into disorder. Tho black troops fought with great bravery. One gun and all arms and - ammunition were lost. In consequence of the disas- ter the garrison at Suakim is reduced to 1,000 men. Dervisches are appearing in upper Egypt who propose to preach a holy war. The whole country beyond Egypt proper is ablaze. o black troops fought back to back in groups or pairs, some with clubbed sauskate and many rebols were killed. The fight ocou on the 32d instant, o oh e idin the dister, and 19 wounded soldiers, ; s The defeat proves that the rebels are firmly established south of Suakim, on the Berber frontier. The news of there- volb at Sonnar londs to daily_expectation of an attack on Dongola or Khartoum, THE SULTAN'S MESSENGERS, CossrantiNorLe, December sultan hos dispatohed an nide-de-camp to Hedjaz and two court dorvishos to tho Soudan on errandsrelating to El Mahadi’s revolt. DUELISTS TO I Rome, December 9. Signor Lovita, who fought Baron Nicotera, Friday, hag signed the secretaryship of the ministry of the interior, loth duclists will be prosecuted. CONVICTS NOT WANTED, Syosey, December 9. —The inter-colo- nial conference passed resolutions against the landing in New Guinea of convi from other island; and recognizing purchases of land in Now Giumea before British dominion over Ire- land had been established, A PRIEST CHANGES HIS CREED, 2wk, Decembor 9-—Mgr. Savarese, doctor of civil and canon law, and until recently the pope’s domestic prelate, has left the Roman Catholic church, and to- day was received into the communion of the Kpiscopal church by Dr. Nevin, in St. Paul’'s American church on confes- sion of the Nicene erced and objuration of the dogmas of the immaculate concep- tion and papal infallibility, He asked for the guidance of angelican Episcopate against the usurpations of the bishop, O'DONNELL'S STATEMENT, Loxpox, December 10,—0'Donnell’s wife has come to London to visit her husband, O'Donnell’s brother writes from Ireland stating that what O'Den- nell had determined to say in court if permitted to speak was that Carey drew a revolver after a heated discussion, be- gun by Carey cursing the Americans. O'Donmnell struck the revolver from Carey’s hand and as the latter was stoop- ing to regain it O'Donnell fired three shots instantaneously. A NIGHT ATTACK, Hoxa Koxa, December 9, A Chinese night attack on Huiphong has been frustrated by the French, The Chinese advanced close to Haiphong and burned avillage, French gunboats and troops were dispatched to the scene and the enomy routed, A PANIC, Loxnox, December 9, — A Suakim dis- patch says: There is a panic among the Egyptian oflicials. Tho fall of the garri- song at Tokar and Sinkat is expected daily, owing to starvation, It is_stated that Othman, chicf of the slave dealors, was killed in the fight. The Britishship Ranger holds this town, and no fear is felt for the svfety of Europeans. HOSA BONHEUR ILL, Pants, Deconber 9.1t is reported thet Rosa Bonheur is again dangerously ill at Fontainbleau, AN ADVANCE EXPECTED, Hoxo Kong, December 9.—It is ex pected that the French will advance on Sontay to-morrow, — Pennsylvania Gives it Away. Euig, Pa., December 9, - Twelve years ago the state of Pennsylvania_erected, at an expense of 100,000, a large brick structure in the eastearn part of the city, to be known as ¢ The Marine Hospital,” The building was about half comploted when, from vavious causes, work was suspended, and it has romained unfin ed to the present time. Lately Hon, J. Welsh, in bohalf of the and Army of the Republic, and Hon, S. M. Brain- ord, congressman for this district, inter ested themselves in the matter of getting the building transforred to the United States government, with & proviso that it ho completed for a soldiers and sailors home. At the last sossion the ture of Pennaylvania passed an act ing the building and ground to the eral government, also giving an addi tional £5,000. Congressman Brainerd will shortly introduce a bill in the house to accept the building and appropriate a sum suflicient to put it in shape for a home for soldiers and sailors of the late war, for whom very few homes have been provided. legisla feed SWi How the New York Treasury i Robbed. New York, December 9.—-The Trib- uno says: Careful investigation of de- partment records by Tribune reporters reveals the existence in the city of a ring of contractors whose methods are similar to those of the canal ring which was broken up oight years ago, but no effort has been mado to break up the corrupt combination which is defrauding the tax- pryers of Now York. The systom of un- balanced bids by which the public treas- ury sutfers heavily has grown to startling proportions in tho dopartment of public wut'es under the eye of Commissioner Thomas, Misleading estimates of work to be done are the rule rather than the ception in that Wepartment, and cer- tain favored contractors, succeed in ob- taining secret information ag™tw, the real Mwisload - nature ot the work whioh theso ing estimates cover. They ar thuiwen- abled to put in unbalanced bids at fig> ures, which result i large gains to them and serious loss to the city. The extraordinary nature of these bids may be imagined when it is known that the department of public works is now paying on contracts still in forco all the way from one cent to $8 per cubic yard for exactly the same kind of excavation. Honest contractors are driven out of the field by the ring men who put in unbal- anced bids, Theso outrageous streot contracts, of which the public works de- partment is full, result in the ation of assossments fon an extensive sealo throwing the whole burden of expendi- ture on the city. By the vacation of assessmonts resulting from these abuses municipal treasury has suffered to the extend of millions of dollars in the last fow years. The method is absolutely simple. A stroet or sower for example, will require the excavtion of so much in rock, so much in earth and the engineer states approximately the amount of each and bids are invited, An outside contractor NO. 148, THE EVIL DOERS. Bisbee, Arizona, Raided, Three Men Killed and @ Woman Wounded, The Robbers Secure $1,200 and Make Their Escape. A Spiritualistio Crank Arrested For the Zora Burns Murder, The sposed Defense in the Bmma Bond Case, € oriMINAL MATTERS, THE ZORA BURNS MURDER, Prowuia, 11l Docerber 10.—John W. Hunter, the Mleged murderer of Zors Burns, who was brought here and lodged in jail last night, was taken to Lincoln this ovening. The ofticer who had chargo of him refused to divulge any- thing in connection with the arrest or allow the prisoner to e interviewed. From what can be learned, however, the arrest was made on the strength of a lotter written a day or two ago by Hun- ter to Carpenter’s attorney stating that while in Peoria in August last, Carponter tried to induce him to marry Zora Burns, Ho also stated that he had the missing apparel of the mur- dored girl in his possession and would return the same on payment of 2300, This letter accidently fell into the hands of the state’s attorney of Logan eounty and a search for Hunter was instituted. Ho boarded a Peoria, Decatur & Evans- ville train at Delavan yesterday, and was: arrested a short distance from this _cify. Hymaeoo at difforent LIMes aua 1y —aowil @rtho = ties hero. From what they know of him and circumstances connected with his arrest they regard him as n cvank and do nob ablach much importance to his cap- ture, BISBER, A, T., RALDED. Townsroxe, Dec. 9.—Five mounted men rided the town of Bisbeo last night, killed J, C. Tappiner, J. A. Nol- leyand D. A, Smith, wounded Mrs. Roberts, and then robbed Castenada’s store of #1,200. The whole business was accomplished so rapidly that no at- tompt was made in detense. Advices since the above state that the men are believed to be the same who robbed the Southern Pacific train at (iange station, November 16. The robbers fled in the tirection of Sonora. ONLY A CRANK. Cnicaco, December 9.—The Daily News’ Lincoln special says the man who was argested at Peoria yesterday, charged with coneealing evidence in the Zora Burns case, under the nameof J. W. makes a straight forward bid allowing him a fair profit on each. The inside contractorm n hi ccp‘tive estimate and secret knowledge of the re % together and the unbalanced bid beco as thorough a piece of burglary as if the city treasury had been pried open with a jimmy. The Trilyune gives the details of the sewer contracts in which the city was syrindled. The following is o fair illustra- tion: Bids were invited for regulating and grading Ninty-fifth street, from Tenth avenue to the Riverside drive, and olng the sidewalks thereon. The tment called for bids on 1,930cubic yards of earth excavation, 21,540 cubic yards of rock excavation. J. Brady bid 88 per cubic yard for tho earth, fand le per yard for the rock excavation, his aggregate, £14,676, being the lowoest re cetved. His contract for rock excavation is 80 small, and for earth excavation so great that it is estimated he will r $112,000. e by v Flock to I Him, Broowisarox, 111, December 9, —Ex- Rev, Hoflman, who 'was expelled” from the M. E. church by tho conference, he having been charged with immoral con- duct, including seduction and bastardy, to-night began a series of sermons_in the opera house, intending to found a new church. Ho had an immense audi- ence. THE DEATH ROLL, Funeral of Louis Other Deaths, The Beindorf— LOUIS BEINDORF. funeral of Louis The held yesterday afternoon st 2 from his late residence on Harney streot, between Tonth and Eloventh, Ho was buried with the honors of the 0dd Fel- ows lodge, of which organization he was & momber. The procession was one of the largest ever seen in Omaha. It was headed by the U, P. band. Besides the 0dd Follows u large concourso of citizens attended, The remains were buried in Prospect Hill cometery. MRY, MARGARET CLARE, The funeral of Mrs. Margaret Clare, who died at Forest City, Neb., was held yestorday afternoon, The remains ar- ved on the train at 1 o'clock, and were conveyed to the Holy Sepulchre ceme- tery. The deceased was the wifo of James Clare, of Forest City, and the mother of John Clare, of Omisha, STEFHEN FORD, The funeral of Stophen Ford was held at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon from his late rosidence on Wheaton stroet. Rev. Leedon, of the Eighteenth street M. E. church, conducted the services. The remains were buried in Prospect Hill comotery. 1 L CARE The funeral of H, L editor of The Papillion at Papillion yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, indorf was o'clock, TER, rpenter, late GEO, W, KENDALIL The death of 0. W. Kendall, form- erly of this city, is announced as ocour- ing in Chicago, last Wednesday, the bth ust., after a protracted illuess. At the time of his death he was working in the advertising interest of The Republican of this city, imes, was held [ ¢ Hunter, appears not te be that person, but a man named Vance; fu De- W concealed, THE EMMA BOND CASE, 3 Curcaco, December 9.— The Daily News', Taylorville (11L.) special says: The trial of the men under arrest for the out. rage of Emma Bond will begin at Hills- boro to-morrow. It is rumored that the defense will make two particular points, first an alibi, second that the suffering of iss Bond was not such as would be cauged by outrage but of a character which ~ aborton or miscarriage would produce, and that in fact she was not outraged. That the defense will en- deavor to show this by the fact that no blood was found in_the loft where the outrage was said to have been committed and the condition of the loft was such that the act could not have been com- mitted there, On the other hand, the public prosecutor says, he does not be- lieve the defense will undertake any such line of testimony; that il tion of Miss Bond by physicians proved conclusively that there had been no abortion but had been an outrage, e Distribution of Assets, Nasuvinie, Tenn., December 9,-—A final decree has been entered in the chancery court by which £300,000 of the assots of the bank of the state of Ten- nessce are to be distributed to the note- Half a million dollars of out- ing notes of this bank were issued g the war to be tunded and made receivable for taxes. TS A Detiant Army, Haves, Conn., December The Sulyation Army defied the municipal authoritios to-night, and paraded as usual. It is expected that all will be ar- rested to-morrow, Street parades of the Salvation Army have n forbidden in New York, CATARRH Sanford’s Radical Cure, Head Colds, Watery Discharges from the Nose and Ringings Noises i ead, Nervous Heads ‘and F wd, Choking mucus dislodged, newibrane cleansed and nell, taste and hearing healed, breath swee restored, and ray ‘oughs, Bronchltis, Droppings into the Throat, i i Clost, bisperia, Wastiog of Strengul ¥ ir, Marigold, Cloyer Blossowms, ele, Pormas DG AXD CUEMICAL Co.. Boston. ¥or the relief and pre COLLINg R T Y ica, Coughs, C W\ .d(\,»;// Stomach and Bowels, < malo Pains, X s, Liver Colanlnfi,u;dflu“l aud o CTRICANTRIC BATTERY PLASTERS ™3 ¥us Fasten sad R