Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1883, Page 1

[ Wit T swihart THIRTEENTH YEAR. THE EVIL DOERS. Some Sensational Testimony in the Emma Bond Case. An Auditor Discovers a Tax- Swindling System, A Murder for a Paltry Sum of Money. Two Murderers Ripening for the Rope, CRIME AND ORIMINALS, THE EMMA BOND TRIAL. 8r. Louis, December 27.—A Post Dis- patch, Hillsboro special says: When court opened this morning, Judge Thorn- ton of the defense announced that either this afterneon or _to-morrow he would have Miss Bond put on the stand again. John OC. Mont- gomery then testified he was 33 years old, married, had a wife and _three children, left the house between 10 and 11 o'clock on the day of the outrage with his wife and family, visited Mrs. Pettus and took dinner there. Lee Pottus and Clementi were present, left directly after dinner, went to his father's house three hundred yards distant, met Sherman Yanckey there, left his father's house at 1 o’clock went down the road past the school house saw little Charley Masters there. Didn’t stop there; went to Joseph Yonkers. hsr. Yonkers and his sister went down to the field with Joseph and George Yonkers to look at a new binder; then went to the cornfield, talked awhile about Guiteau, who was hung the day beiore. Met John Margert there; then all four of us went to the wheat- field; looked at the cradle, tried to work 1t but couldn’t. Was in the field proba- bly an hour and a half, then all went to the house of Margert, and George Yon- ker and wife; then left for home and I started for Mrs, Pettus’ house, sun about an hour high; met Sher- wan, Yonkers and my father in the road; on arriving at Mrs. Pettus’ house saw Lue Pattus mowing; Clementi was there; got out my team, took sup- per, left with wife and children for home; sun then down. Saw John Campbell as 1 was driving home; also John Margert on horseback, got home at dusk, put up horses, went to the house; shortly after went to bed; was never in the school house loft till next morning; never pared my toe nail there. The morning after the outrage was in the loft with others; some one asked me to cut a piece of wood from the hole inside the boarding; cut out a piece of board; am.right-handed; can use knife easily with right hand; had nothing whatever to do with the outrage or attempted oubnfie of Emma Bond, stopped at the school house three-quar. ters of an hour; big crowd there; left with my cousin, went south to Grove City; bigcrowd there also, and excite- ment about the rape; stayed at Grove City till four in the afternoon, then went ‘home. I was ted dark; had on a “eolored flflffimfim with brown tody and a little white etripe; had worn it all the week; wore boots; didn’t wear shoes that summer; wore overalls of dull steel color. When I saw Clementi and Lee Pettus on the day of the outrage both were without coats and both vrore dark colored shirts, Montgomery gave an ac- count of his actions subsequent te his arrest and then answered a number of questions put by his counsel for the pur- pose of getting denials and explanations of little circumstances upon which the prosecution placed value. Among other things Montgomery denied that he ever told Heinlein or Swick to tell Lee Pettus to stand firm and give nothing away, or that he said when told that Pettus and Clementi had been arrested and the former made a written confession impli- cating him: *‘My God what shall I do;" didn’t remember naying any such thing; never told the crowd that people were i too great a hurry to arrest me, that if they had waited awhile they would have got. something out of me but they wouldn’t get anything now. The examination lasted an hour and a half. Instead of being a narrative it was in the form of short answers to questions, 3 Joseph Yonker was the next witness. He testified that John C. Montgomery was at his house most of the afternoon on the day of the outrage and fully cor- roborated Montgomery’s testimony as to how the afternoon was spent. He was cross-examined very closely as to all the circumstances of the day and proved the best witness the defence has yet had, his evidenco being very clear and convinc- ing. l(‘Mam-ge Yonker testified to the same facts as his brother Joseph did. He was minutely cross-examined but his evidence was unshaken. Both were good witnesses and the alibi fer Montgomery, so far, is very strong. ;{n. Sarah Yonkers, wife of George Yonkers, then testified and her evidence created a great sensation. She testified to being at the house of Joseph Yonkers with her husband, and to events, cir- cumstances, etc., given by the Yonker brothers and John C. Mon?ome , but insisted that it was on the .(flfo lowing the outrage and not on the day of the outrage, She said she first heard of the outrage from Mrs. Jos, Yonkers on the day of her visit, that she had not been there or seen Mrs, Yonkers for some days before, and did not see her for throe weeks afterwards. Witness was very closely quéstioned by the counsel, but she firmly maintained it was the day after the outrage that she and her hus- band were at ;gunken' and on which the events occurred as testified to by Mont- gomery and the Yonkers brothers. This evidence created a marked sensation, and is regerded by some as destroying Montgomery's ali Some express the belief that the alibi in his case has been “constructed on his actions on some day other than that on which the outrage was committed. The next witness was Mrs, Josoph Yonkers who testified luluhntiallfl the same as the Yonkers brothers and Mont- omery, as to what occurred at her ouse and giving Thursday as the day, said it was that day she told Mrs, George Yonkers of the outrage. She also testified that Mrs. George Yonkers was at her house Friday and brought her children to go to & picnic. Miss Laura Yonkers, daughter of the OMAHA, NEB. HE OMAHA DAILY FRIDAY preceeding witnoss, testified to about the same thing as her mother, but on cross- examination falled to remember several things she stated at the preliminary trial, John Morgan u-ufi-s to being at Joe Yonkers' Thureday afternoon, June 28; saw Moutgomery there and was in the wheat field with him and the Yonker brothers. Sherman Yanckoy testified that he Joe Yonkers' house between 5 and 6 o'clock Thursday afternoon and saw John 8, Montgomery there, James Klinp testified to the same ing and John Campbell testified to meeting John C. Montgomery and fam. ily in » wagon on the road going home Agnut Sundown. The Republican’s Hillsboro special says: Mr. Bond has received numerous letters the past four weeks from various parts of the country in which the writers offered to furnish any number of men to lynch Montgomery, Pettusand Clementi. Une letter postmarked at a town near Galveston, Texas, states that the writer is chief of an organizetion for the ishment of crime, and that he would be pleased to furnish forty men on short notice to hang the three defendants if Bond desired. Bond has destroyed all these lotters, and gives no countenance whatever to such communications, THREE YEARS TO REFLECT IN, Loursviiie, December 27,--George W. Levi, ex-chief of the Louisville fire department, was to-day conyicted of de- faulting the city of its revenue while he was in the tax department and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. HANGED AND REPRIEVED, Herexa, Mont., December 27.—A Bozeman special to The Herald says: John O. Clark was hanged in the jail yard at 11:30 this morning for the mur- der of Thomas Rogers in June last. He died protesting his innocence. TFrank Young, who was to have been hung to-day, has been reprieved for 60 days by President Arthur, to allow his case to conzs before the supreme court. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Aunany, N. Y., December 27.—Pri- vate dispatches from Hanover, Germany, stato that Colonel Henry R, Rathbone killed his wife and committed saicide. They were connected with themost prom- inent families here. She was the daugh- ter of ex-United States Senator Harris, BURCHARD ARRESTED, SAN Frascisco, December 27.—Fred- erick Burchard, who testified yesterday in the Hill-Sharon divorce case ‘‘that in April, 1881, he became engaged to be married to Miss Hill,” was this afternoon arrested on complaint of Miss Hill charged with perjury. Burchard was re- leased on bonds. A TAX SWINDLE, Cixcisyari, December 27,—Count; Auditor Brewster says he has discovere a million dollars fraudulent increase of valuations of property for taxes on the books, made for the purpose of getting a fee for procuring the refunding of exces- ive taxes. He says this has been done since 1883, AFTER A BIGAMIST. New York, December 27.—Two Pern, Indiana, detectives arrived to-day with a requisition for Walter E. Kidder, arrest- ed recently charged with bigamy, °, . 'CHOCKED TO DEATH. CrNciNNaTi, O., December 27.—The body of an unknown man, sup- posed to be fifty years old, was found among the willows along a little stream near Cumminsville, in the suburbs of the city. There was a rope about the neck,and the tongue protruded as if choked to death, Therowere marks of blowson the top of the head. The body has been since identified as that of Wm. H, Kirk, a dealer in sand who lately has been dealing in horses. He lived on Elizabeth street, this city, and was undoubtedly murdered for money. His wife says he left home Monday to go to Chevoit to buy a horse. He had 200 with him. She had not since heard from him. When the news of the finding the body was published, she visited the morgue and found it was her husband, There is nothing more than a suspicion as to the murderer, No arrests have been made. John Neill, a teamster, having a stable adjoining Kirk's was arrested on suspi- cion as the murderer and a large amount of money was found on him, correspond- ing with that taken away by Kirk, Kirk’s cap and some other articles were found hidden in the kindling wood on Neill’s prenuses. TO BE HANGED, Ewmronia, Kas., December 27.—Reed and Pearce, murderers of W. II. McMil- lan, were sentenced to-day to remain in the penitentiary.one year and at such time thereafter as the governor shall set t.helflshnll be hanged within the prison walls, e —— Dodge's Corn Report, WasuiNgroN, December 27,—Profes- sor J. R, Dodge, statistician of the agri- cultural department, has just completed & preliminary estimate of the principal crops for 1883, 1t shows that potatoes, all roots and oats have grown unusually luxuriant, Of corn the professor says the averrge yield per acre the present year is nearly 23 bushels, which is 12 per cent less than the average yield for a series of years, or 1,661,066,8356 bushels stands for the quantity of the present crop. It is doubtless true that the qual- ity of corn 1 the nerth parallel is 40 per cent worse than for many years, As a whole the corn grown in 1883 in Michi- gan, Wisccnsin, Minnesota and Dakota, added to half that grown in Ohio, Indi. ana, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska, would make 400,000,000, only one-fourth of the whole crop, and that a possible depreci- ation of 40 per cent in all of it would be equivalent 1 a 10 per cent reduction in the value of the entire crop. One feature of the corn growing in 1883 should prove a lesson to the farmers of the country about growing seed corn in the west. Nebraska seed in Illinois has demon- strated the folly of attempting to accli- mate southern maize in more northern districts, Much loss from frost would have been avoided had seed been care- fully selected from the best corn grown in the immediate neighborhood. ~ The wheat crop is slightly in excess of 400,- 000,000 bushels, and the eotton product, as shown by the December returns,about 6,000,000 bales. There will be another investigation after the close of the cotton harvest and shipments of a large portion of the crop, when the precise results will be approached more nearly than is possible no.w e | Richas THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. A Governor Who Ought to be Medaled. — The Decrease in Internal Revenue Colleotions. Testimony Given in the Proteus Investigation, Mr. Morrison's Views on Tariff Legislation, CAPITAL NOTES. THE PROTRUS INQUIRY. Wasnixaron, December 27, —The Pro- teus inquiry was resumed to-day. Oapt. Pike, master of the government steamer Proteus, testified: There was no di ent between himself and Lieut. Garlington, He expressed the ogininn that one or two more boat-londs of supplies could be gotten off the ice to Cape Sabine after the wreck, and sug- gested it to Garlington, but the latter de- clined to let his boats go. In regard to leaving Payer harbor, Pike said that he told Garlington the water he saw north was ‘“no good.” He (Pike) was not ready to E!‘l:h He wanted coal in the bunkers. ereupon Garlington said: *‘I can seo open water and want to go. You shall have my men to help you in the bunkers.” Upon that witness said he would go and try it. Lieut. Col. Wells was called and flatly contradicted the evidence given by Pike. He said he heard no expression of opin- ion on the part of Pike that the water was “no good.” Referring to Pike’s statement that more supplies could have been saved, but Garlington objected to letting his boats go, witness (Wells) said that when they were on the ice floe one of Pike's boats, which had been to the shore, came along side, and Pike, with one of his officers, clambored over into the opening of broken ice, got into his boat and pushed it off, leaving some of his own crew on the floe. The men thus abandoned cursed Pike for leaving them, He spoke of keeping one of Garlington’s boats and keeping along the east coast, to the south, not going ashore at all at Oape Sabine. When Pike afterwards, at Cape Sabine, pro- Eo-sd to Garlington to take one of his oats and get more stores off the ice floes, witness, remembering the threats an mutinous proposals of the Proteus crew, advised Garlington not to allow the boats to go with the Proteus crew, feeling it unsafe to trust them. He said the stores ‘which it was proj tosave, were some he (Wells) had thrown out of his boat to make room for the men Pike abandoned. In response to Pike's proposition, six of Garlington’s men and as many of the Proteus crew manned two of the Protous boats and brought in a portion of the supplies. Witneas estimated the amount of supplies saved from tke wreck of the Proteus, left in cache at O:ro Sabine, at 700 full ration, and clothing for twenty-three men tg;- r six months, A 'FITZGERALD'S SUTTN, N. W. Fitzgerald, the suspended pen- sion attorney. appeared in court to-day in the suit of Cohen & Sons, againsi;him, but, on account of the sickness of coun- sel, the case went over. Immediately after, C. W. Grant, attorney for Fitz- gerald, went into the clerk’s oftice, and, by direction of his client, dismissed the suits recently brought against the St. Louis Globe-Democrat for libel and §50,- 000 damages, and against General H. F. Boyington and the Cincinnati Commer- cial-Gazette for libel and $100,000 dam- ages, against Fulton, of Indianapolis, for slander and $20,000 damages, and against Charles T. Murray, of St. Louis, for libel and §50,000. Hardly had these cases been so entered, when A, A. Lip- scomb filed a suit against Fitzgerald to recover $2,500 on an Indiana judgement, GEVE MIM A MEDAL, N. C. Irwin, governor of Idaho terri- tory, returned to the treasurer of the United States a draft for 8650 sent him as salary for the quarter ended October 30th, and declined also to receive the salary due him for the quarter ending December 31st, He states that he has been unable to attend to the duties of the office since July 1st, and does not con- sider that he can conscientiously accept pay. REVENUE COLLECTIONS. For the first five months of the present fiscal year the total internal revenue col- lections were §51,279,418, being 811,- 343,071 less than for the correspondin; pertod of last year. In spirits the total increase in collections is $2,074,771; total decrease in the collection of tax on tobacco, $9,191,607; from banks and bankers, $1,068,292; miscellaneous taxea, £3,050,231, MRS, ROSECRANK' FUNERAL, The funeral of Mrs, General Rosecrans took place at St. Aloysius church, A requiem mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Cusam, Nearly all the members of congress now in Washington were present with their families, The casket was covered with flowers, The remains were p aced in a vault at Mt, Olivet cem- etery, A CLERESHIP, Morrison expects to appoint Henry Talbot, Jr., of Illinois, clerk of the ways and means committee, TARIFF LEGISLATION, The Post will contain to-morrow an interview with Mr, Morrisen, chairman of the ways and means committee, in which he ll{l the committee will report & bill to make a pretty general reduction in existing duties, and that in arranging the provisions of the bill the committee will look to the possibility of preparing a measure that can 8 congress, but whether or not the bill can get through the house without being amended so as to destroy its usefulness is a matter of mere conjecture. Mr. Morrison said he was not in favor of disturbing the tax on whisky and tobaceo, Work and Wages, Prevspung, December 2 Oflicials of the local miners' organization Bsro- nounce the report that they intended to strike on the first of the year with 20,000 miners of West Moreland, Char- field, Bedford and Huntington counties, absurd, They say there are not that many miuers in the district and the men are notin condition to strike as they have had but little work and havescarce- ly money emough ahead to buy two weoks provisions. The amalgamated union miners only organized last summer and are too poor tostand such a strike. The miners of the Connellsville coke regions met at Soottdale to-day and after passing a series of resolutions denouncing Hunga- rian serf labor, appointed a committee to prepare a petition to congress requesting the of some restrictive law upon their wholesale importation. The 3,000 employes of tho National Tube Works company, of Keesport, de- cided to-night to accept a reduction of 12} to 25 per cont on January Ist. The mills will probably continue operations all winter. e — Ohio Liquor Men, Conumnus, December 27.—The state convention of lquor dealers assomblod m-m, with delegates from all the county tions, organized with William Backus, of Oleveland, as chairman. The object is mutual relief and {»mwdion, witha view to seeuring desired legislation. Backus, as permanent chairman, made a radieal speech, demanding the repeal of the obnoxious legislation passed by the last legislature, and full protection of the traffic free from all tax Meas. ures were taken for uniting brewors, dis- tillers, wholesale and rotail dealers, all in one perfect state organization, with aux- illaries in each county to begin an aggres- sive campaign for the fullest rights and personal rights. RAILROAD MATTE GOULD AND THE 1. ROAD: New York, December 27.—Jay Gould has arranged with the Mercantile Trust company to purchase from the Manhattan Railway company the first proferred stock holders' dividend, payable January 2nd, on assignment of their claims, ac- companied also by an assignment of their claims to & dividend from the New York Elevated railway company for a like amount in case the ugreement between the elevated railroad companies should be adjudged invalid. FAILED 10 CON Prrrswore, December 27, —Negotia- tions looking to the lease of the Pitts- burg & Western railroad to the Jewett interests, it is stated positively by the stockholders of the former, have fallen through and that if the Pittsburg & Western is leased at all the B. & O. will be the lessee. 3 A NEW/BRIDGE, New Orueans, December 27 —The d | first train crossed Atchafalaya bridge on the Texas Pacific railroad December 26th, The structure’is nowcompletedand trains are crossing it regularly. Tho bridge is 1,045 feetlong and cost half a million. e — Business Unfortunates, Provipence, December 27,—Follow- ing is a statement of A. D. Smith & Co.'s paper, held b{ Providence banks: American National bank $175,000, Na- tional Bank of Commerce $105,000, Peo- ple’s Saving bank $10,700, other banks of Providence $205,000; total amount of held by these banks $767,000. pmmo,%)mbu 27.—'-0. A. Cou- tant & Co., and notions, ‘Thave failed. retail value, $50,000. New York, December 27.—The num- ber of schedules of assignments filed in this city in 1883 was 343, The liabili- ties were 20,807,853, actual assets £9,5374,451. Bostox, Decomber 27.—In_the in- solvency case of Frank O. Nash, of Weymouth, the liabilities are §150,000, assets $82,000, Bosroy, December 27.—C. H. Ward, boot and shoe manufacturer, who failed for $1,600,000 last summer, has mort- gaged his entire property for the benefit of the oreditors. Easr Weymourn, Mass., December 27, -Dizer & (0., boot and shoe manufac- turers, have decided to stop business rather than accede to the demands of the striking lasters. Nearly 400 workmen will be thrown out of work. o — A Brilliant Reception. D erroir, Mich,, December 27.—A. re- ception was given at the elegant rooms of the Detroit club this evening to Chief Justice Benjamin F. Graves, of the su- rome court, who retires voluntarily rom the bench Monday next. Tho re- ception, which was participated in b leading members of the bar from all parts of the state and many judges of the circuit and municipal courts, was a very brilliant affair, During the evening a brief testimonial addrese, beautifully en- graved on parchment and signed by about fifty Iuding lawyers of the state, was presented Judge Graves, with a fitting address by Hon, G. V. N, Lathrop, of this city., Judge (iraves has been on the supreme bench fifteen years, and was on the circuit bench before his promotion twelve years, e —— The Bishop's Wife, Denver, December 27.—The marriage of the eminent Methodist divine, Bishop Henry W. Warren, of Georgia, and Mrs, Elizabeth 8. 1liff, of this oizy. was cele- brated at the Evans Memorial church at noon to-day, Rt. Rev. Bishop Simpson, of Philadelphia, officiating, he recep- tion at the palatial residence of the bride was a very elaborate affair, Mrs, Iliff is a lady of rare culture and possessed of a rrinuely fortune, and is widely known or her charity and liberality to the poor, The bishop and Mrs. Warren leave to- night on a trip to New and Old Mexico and Cuba. Wasninaron, D, C,, December 27.— The president left Washington last night for New York for the purpose of attend- ing to private business and also to attend the reception given this afternoon by Stephen B, French, He will probably return to Washington to-morrow. New Youk, December 27.—President Arthar was in town to-day and attended a reception at the house of Charles E. Miller. It was reported that he would return to Washington to-night, e A Glucose Injunction, Syracusk, N, Y., December 27.-- the matter of the New York (Gilucose company sgainst the American Glucose company and C. J. Hamilton otal. a motion for an injunction to restrain de- fendants from using & patented process invented by plaintiff, was granted. The injunction affects nine of the largest glu- cose manufacturers in the United States. MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1883, 'FROM FOREICN LANDS. The Bloody Riots in New Found- land Not Yet Quelled. A Prospeoct of Still More Desper- ate Fighting, El Mahdi Loses Courage and Pre- pares for the Worst, The Dynamiters Reviving Their System of Warfare, GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS, THE NEWFOUNDLAND RIOTS, 8r. Jonns, N. F., Decomber 27.—Ad- vices from Harbor Grace state that the Orange procession yesterday whilo pass. ing Shigshoad, was fired on bythe crowd. At first the Orangemen thought the tiring was from powder guns carried by their frionds, until they saw their mon fall, Four men were killed, two Orange- men and two Roman Catholics, eight are reported mortally and cighteen to twenty slightly wounded. Head Constable Doyle is among the wounded. There is alull in the outbreak at Grace Harbor, but the neighboring town of Carbonear isin a state of wildest frenzy. Over 1,000 men are parading the streets and preparing to march to Harbor Grace. Crowds are hurrying up from the whole oxtent of tho north shore of Conception bay to the scene of the disturbance. All business places are closed and most pri- vate |lwohingn are protected by bars and bolts, The police dispatched from St. Johns reached Harbor Grace last night. 1f the riot breaks out anew the law ofli- cers will be powerless to protect life and property. It is rumored that the gov- ernment has cabled Halifax for troops and war ships. 1f the Carbonear con- tingent marches to Harbor Grace the result will bo terrible to contemplate. AN ABROGATED TREATY, Mavri, December 27.—A decree is gazotted abrogating Article 5 of the de- cree of March 12, 1868, whereby goods from the United States pay a duty in Cuba as if they had been brought in for- eign ships, even when arriving under the Spanish flag. The decree becomes opera- tive thirty days after publication by the Spanish consuls in their respective locali- ties. CHINAMEN NOT W Toronto, December 27.—The Trades’ congress unanimously resolved that the future welfare of the working people of the dominion requires the prohibition of the importation of Chinese labor. THE CZAR 18 BETTER. {abilitios $100,000, assots, | 0L A MONEY PENALTY, Panrs, December 27,—The chamber of deputies discussed the bill granting a credit of 2,000,000 francs for the proposed The National and Temps (newspapers) both state that France will exact some security for the due discharge of the pecuniary responsibility incurred China's aggrossive attitude in connection with the Tonquin question. COURBET'S MOVEMENTS, Paris, December 27.—It is reported that the government has telegraphed Admiral Courbet, urging him to follow up his victory at Sontay with the utmost promptness and energy compatible with prudence. It is reported that Admiral Courbet will make an attack upon Horhoa before marching against Bao- ninh, FLEEING THE QUAKE. Zrvee, Bohemia, Decembor 27.—A se- vere shock of earthquake was felt here, causing the inhabitants to flee to the neighboring fields. HAVANA'S HEALIN. Havana, December 27.—The sanitary condition of Havana is improving. Only ten deaths from yellow fever occurred during the week ended yesterday. The cases are scattered among the population and not confined to shipping and military hospitals as they are usually. THE FALSE PROVIET ALARMED. Camro, December 27.—One thousand three hundred troops have arrived at Khartoum from Fashoda. They met no resistance on the way. The garrison of Khartoum now numbers 4,000, A female slave captured by El Mahdi after slaying the Kabobish chief, her master, raoemll! escaped from El Obeid and reports Kl Mahdi in great fear and that he has sent his family to a place of safety. The neigh- boring tribes refused to help him. An emissary of El Mahdi was arrested in Minich, forty miles above Cairo. He declared it was his intention to proceed to Caire and Mecca. AN OVERDUE KTEAMER, Liverroor, December 27.—Sowe anx- iety is folt regarding the steamer Celtic, which is overdue, The Oeltic sailed from New York December 156 for Liver- pool, SPANISH POLITICS, Maokip, December 27.—At the cab- inet council the ministers explained the political situation to King Alfonso, and exrmwd their fears that an agreement between the ministeriali and support- ors of Sagasta is impossible, HE WAS SILENT, Beruiy, December 27.—1t is said that during the visit of the crown prince to the pope the latter repeatedly referred to questions concerning the church, but the prince declined to commit himself on that subject. DENAMITERS IN BRITAIN, Loxpoxn, December 27 27,—There is a revival of attempts to destroy life and property by explosives. Besides the explosion at Birkenhead on the night of the 25th, a dynamite cartridge was ex- ploded in Barrack street, Strabane, county Tyrone, Ireland, yesterday, de- stroying the roof of a house. A box of explosives and fuse were found and attached, on the track of the Gireat Wes- tern railroad near Axminster, BELLIGERENT 8TUDENTS, Pawis, December 27.--Two hundred students, feeling offended by an article in the communist journal, Ori du Pouple, besieged the office yesterday evening llll‘ demanded retraction. The editor re. - | that it was the sentiment of the meeting Y |in three sections, college department, NO 163. fused, and the students dispersed, but | will moot to-night to determine what course to pursue. HOGS ABROAD, THE PRENCH PRONINITION, Panis, December £7, - The government has decided to prohibit the importation of American salted moats until the cham- bers have pronounced upon the bill which the minister of commerce will in- troduce at the beginning of next session. Tho prohibition will not apply to the ports of Havre, Nantes nns ordenux, where, however, arrivals will bo subjected to rigid scrutiny, the chamber of com. merce to bear the cost of inspection. BERT'S FALSE STATEMENT, Cuicaco, Decomber 27..--The state- ment made by M. Paul Bert, contained in a Paris dispatch published this morn. ing, in which m professes to quote from the report of Dr. A J. Detmars, of the United States bureau of agriculture to the effoct that diseased and dying hogs passod through the stock yards at Chica- go daily, and were sold cheap and ship- ped to Bordeaux and Havre, has drawn out a letter of protest from Detmars, Heo declares tho statement of M. Bert not only o perversion of facts, but a falsehood. 1In his official reports to the commissioner of agriculture are contain- od all ho has had to offer concerning the transportation of diseased or dead hogs and there he simply called attention to their transportation to rendering tanks entirely distant from the packing houses, as affording means of spreading hog cholera prevailing in 1878 and 1879, Dr. Dotmars declaves the regulations of the Chicago stock yards are such as to ren- der it absolutely impossible that dead hogs should be smuggled into them, and should any animal die in the yards, it is at once delivered to a soap grense render- ing establishment, outside the yards, and cannot possibly get into the packing house. br. Detmras says, that during the last four months he has examined fully 40,000 hogs without discovering the slightest trace of disease, as he certainly would if any had existed. During the last two years very little swine plague hes existed anywhere, and, as far as he has been able to learn, no diseased hogs have bean shipped, nearly all small ren- dering tanks having been closed, his ex- osures five years ago having contributed largely to that result. Detmars declares Bert must be a true demagogue, other- he would not resort to falsehood to please his constituenta. i —— A Sound Principle, New York, December 27.—About forty professors of modern lungulguu from the principal institutions of learning in the country convened at Columbia college, with a view to_ establishing an association to promote the study of mod- orn languages in American colloges, President Carter, of Williams, was chosen chairman, A committee was appointed to draw up a plan fora permanent organ- ization. The afternoon was spent in the discussion of a resolution to the effect at no college should grant the degree . A. to a student who could not read with facility French and German. The Teachers of Iowa, Drs Motes,, ‘,Dmmbq:‘.fl, the State Tefu.g;n’ association, the attend- ance was largely inureue«{, numbering over 400, The work of the day was done graded school department, work and county superintendents section. Inter- ting ;lmpuru on different phases of edu- al work were)presented. In the evening, the annual address of President Klinefelter was delivered and the annual lecture before the association wasgiven by H. A. Burrell, editor of The Wash- ington Press. Mixsearous, Minn., December Senator D. M. Sabin, recently elected chairman of the national republican central committee, arrived home to-day. In a letter to The Tribune the senator explicitly denies the authenticity of re- cently published interviews wherein he is represented as using disparaging lan- guage in reference to prominent republi- cans throughout the country, especially. Now York, Ho utterly repudiates the langnage in such reputed interviews, Boston Cranks, Boston, December 27.—A mass meet- ing was held in Tremont templo to-da; and considered the constitutisnal prohi- bition of the manufacture and sale of liquor. About two hundred persons were present. The case of Rev. William Mitchell, the clergyman arrested for stealing a book from a store, has been dismissed. Ho is now in a private asylum. P Stamping Tan Bark, 2 Nuw Yonk, December —The Turf, Field and Farm says: Madison Bquare garden in engaged for a six days race, for which Charles Rowell and Alderman Fitzgerald have already signed articles, at & rent of $5,000, The start takes place at midnight February 24th, the stakes being §600 3 The Lost Charley McComas, WasHinaton, D, C., December 27,— Lieutenant-General Sheridan received a telegram from Major-tieneral Pope, at Fort Leavenworth, Kas., saying he thought the white bay Charley McCo- mas 18 with a band of Chiricahua In- dians daily expected to reach San Carloa agency. Wil Bosrox, December 27.—The will of Professor Bophocles, after several private bequests, gives the rest of the estate to Harvard college as a permanent fund, to be known as the ‘‘Constantinus” fund,in memory of an uncle of the deceased. e e— - ON SEA AND LAND. Details of the Loss of the Steamer Plantyn, Horrible Deaths Met {)y Colorado Miners, ~ Condition of the Frozen Japanese Sailors. General Grant Sustains a Severe Injury. PERILS OF THE SEA. WRECK OF THE PLANTYN, _ Loxvoy, December 27.—Intelligence is received of the arrival at Oporto, Portugal, of fifty-three men belonging to the steamer Plantyn, Captain Scott, from New York November 11th for Antwe: and not since heard from. A dispate states that the fifty-three men were brought to that place by the brig G. D. T., which rcscued them. THE MISKING RIGHT, New York, December 27, Edye & Co., agents of the Pl that the vessel was inspected ous to the departure from !gn —French, w York, and was furnished with rafts and boats sufficient to carry 300 persons. She had provisions for 120 persons although she had only twenty-one passengers and a crow of forty. The agents are of the opinion that the Iiftr!.hree persons landed at Oporto were all the brig G. D. T. could carry and that the remaining eight will be heard from aboard some other vessel. Her passengers were almost ex- clusively Italians. THE FROST BITTEN SALLORS, New Haven, Conn., December 27,— A large number of froat bitten sailors were landed at the marine hospital here yesterday. Most of the sailors are Japa- nese. Pl ruiuimut&tathnttheywillbeun- able to tell for the next forty-eight hours whether amputation will bo nes in the cases of nineteen of the eflected sailors, Guroveesten,Mass., December27.—The bark Paragon, fifty-tive days from Tra- ain, has arrived. The crew are badly rost bitten. PERILS ON LAND. BROKE THROUGH A BRIDGE, Cuarrorre, N, C., December 27.—A freight train broke through a bridge on the Chester & Lenon Narrow Gauge rail- 10! Joseph Henderson, fireman, and William Simmons, a brakeman, were killed. A FRIGHTFUL RUNAWAY. AsurAnp, Pa,, December 27, —The horses attached to a sleigh containing four couples from Roaring Creek, ran away at Rooktown last nigh dx!ggin the sleigh over a_precipice. t.iu. mxtg is leg and arm broken, Henry Green had an armbroken, MnrAKmh- W rn red, othr .. 7 DVRIBD ALIVE. i GirArDVILLE, Pa,, December 27. Three men digging coal near here were buried by falling earth. One was fatally and the otheys seriovsly injured. A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION, Burraro, December 27.—A terrific gas explosion occurred in the French res- taurant to-night. Workmen had been fixing a leak in a street main, and one of the stopcocks under the sidewalk was left loosely closed. The gas collected was ighited by a lamp, Head Waiter Purcell was knocked senseless, and in- ternally injured. Charles Rehard, cook, was seriously cut on the head and body. Two waitresses were also badly cut in the herd. The dining room, bar and fixtures were badly demolished, Loss, $9,000. COLORADO AVALANCHES AND STORMS, Dexver, December 27.-—~Following is a list of the killed by the snow slide at Mendota mine, near Telluride, on the 24th: J, H. Bond, C. H. Herrick, Thomas Dunegan, William Tlgnr, John Davis, William Applewhite, F, Slater, Lewis Huckins, At Silverton a terrific wind storm set in on the 19th, raging furiously for six days, It proved the most disastrous to life ever known, Of five persons ser- iously injured at the Virginia mine, on Friday, three have since died, making nine in all, Yesterday a miner named Brett Wal- lace was buried in a snow slidv at the head of Clement creek, and cannot be found until spring,, Yesterday two men, names not learned, were mugm in a snow slide, near Iren- town, and carried 15,000 feet down the side of the mountain. When extricated one of them was frozen from the waist down, the flesh.opening in seams, He cannot recover. A train of twenty-five cars, at Monu- ment, were overturned by a high wind ‘l:lx"ll:hdu 26th, and a number of cattle Geuneral Grunv's Fall, New Yorx, December 27,—General Grant on leaving his howe to-day slipped upon the ice lns fell, receiving a severo ock and seriously injuring his thigh, Frederick Grant, his son, says he seen tho surgeons who attended his father, but they were unable to deter- mine whether the injury is dangerous. They said, however, that the lunb wo uld be Afll’l"lfld for the time being, nother account says: It seems that General Grant, while alighting from his coupe at his residence on Monday even- ing, slipped and fell on his left side, re- celving serious injury to his 1 about Against Cheap Labor, Reaving, Pa., December 27.—A peti- tion requesting congress to prevent the importation of foreign laborers under con- tracts made ab has received many signatures of workingmen., | ——— Balled Our, Kansas Crrvy, December 27,—Orth. stein was released on $7,500 bail to-day. ‘The new trial, for the killing of Gieorge Fredoricks, is set for January 16th, | ——— Suakiy, Dec. is rebels are menacing Rimayeh, Egyptian gunboat embarks garrison and inhabit. ants, four inches below the hip joint. The surgeons say no bones are broken, and the supposition is that & bruise of the sciatic nerve was sustained. The general immedintely after the accident was as~ sisted to bed, where he has remained over since, :{h:fln one position—on s back, While injured leg is wost painful, the ge. 's health :fiumu is ood,and he is even comparatively cheer- ¥Ill under the circumstances, surs geons anticipate nothing serious, but at the same time they predict the it will be several weeks before the general will be able to leave the house, General Grant's injuries are less pain. ful to night. At a late hour ha was reat- ing ly. Hia log is very much swollen,