Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 14, 1884, Page 1

———— P e wn L e e e OMAHA DAy BEE. THIRTEENTH YEAR. 10WA'S LEGISLATURE Vill Meet and Do Some Caucnsing To-day. No Manifest Opposition to Alli= son’s Renomination, Struggle for the Minor Places of Little Moment, The The Democratic Nominees for Complimentary Votes. Hatton Arrives to See that the Pro- ceedings in Due Form, OVER IN IOWA. THE LEGISLATURE. Special to the Beg. Des Moines, January 13.—The mem- bers of the legislature are about all inthe city, The leading hotels are all crowded with members and with persons seeking minor positions, The democrats have been talking some of attempting to break the republican organization of the house by inducing some new man among the republicans to onter the race for the speakership and be elected by the dem- ocrate, thus placing him under obliga- tions. It will not work. Hon. William P, Wolf, of Cedar county, will probably be elected speaker on the first ballot. The house stands nearly equally divided, but it is thought the republicans can or- ganize even with a loss of two or three. There is, so far, no opposition to Sena- tor William B. Allison for re-election. The senator is on the ground, having come in Saturday morning. The United States senatorship and speakership being practically settled, there is very little strife except on minor places. Martin, warden of the Anamosa penitentiary, has no opposition_for re- election. McMillan, of the Fort Madison penitentiary, has some opposition, but feels sure of an election. State Printer Roberts has no opposition. For binder and all legislative candidates there are scores of candidates. The democratic state central committee are here looking on. Other prominent statesmen of that party are here. and a secret caucus was held yesterday, of which the result is not known, but it is not dangerous. The legislature convenes to-morrow at 2 o’clock p. m., in_the old state house, and will not go into the capitol until after the inaugural, which occurs on Thursday next., The prohibitionists are here in force, and it 18 expected that the wine and beer clause will be repealed at once. A great reception, tendered members of the legislature by the ladies, occurs next Wednesday evening in the Grand opera house. ANOTHER ACCOUNT, Geoneral Pross Dispatches. All the members but four of the legis- lature are here. _The republican caucus for the senate and house officials will be held to-morrow afternoon, and the sena- torial caucus not later than Tuesday night. The democrats held a secret meeting _yesterday afternoon, at which all prominent mémbers of the party and state central committee were present. It is urderstood that they talked over the policy to be parsued during the com- ing session, etc. The candidates have been very hard at work pressing their claims all day, and each seems satisfied that they are the lucky ones. Senator Al- son arrived yesterday and his room was thronged all the afternoon There is no opposition among republican members to ithe re-election of Senator Allison, When the legislature convenes to- morrow noon it will only effect a tempo- rary organization and adjourn until Tuesday. Monday afternoon the repub- lican caucus for senate and house offi- cials will be held. For speaker of the house there will be no opposition to Wm. P. Wolf of Cedarcounty,andhe will prob- ably be nominated by acclamatioh, and Frank D. Jackson, of Butler county, will receive the nomination for secretary of the senate. The democrats appear to be at sea, even after their secrot session yos- terday, but from a prominent democratic senator it is learned that they will prob- ably unite on either H. C. Fisher of Lee, L. {t. Boller of Harrison, or N. B. Hol- brook of lowa, for speaker, eachone has friends, and as the party is in the minor- ity they want a complimentary vote. Tiuy will undoubtedly caucus for legis- lative officers at the same time the re- publicans do. The republican caucus for selecting & candidate for United States senator is appointed for Tuesdsy evening. No member of either house belonging to that party can be found who will tefuse to vote for the re-election of Senator Allison, and the nomination will be made by acclamation, When the democratic caucus will be held is yet unknown. From what can be gathered, nearly all favor tendering the empty honor of the nomination for senator to N. A, Merrill, of Clinton county, a member of the present legislature, while others favor the nomination of L. G. Kinne, late demo- cratic nominee for governor, The green- backers, of whom there are six members, have not yet done anything. NOT A CANDIDATE, The reporter of the associated press saw Hon. John A, Kasson last night, and showed him a dispatch from Washington to the effect that he had come home to be a candidate for tenator against Allison. He stated that he had come simply to deliver the address of dedication of the new capitol; that he was heartily for Al- lison, and that he be.isved Allison would get, and shou!d have, every republican vote. - HEAKT AND MAND, The younger Graus presented the opera ‘‘Heart and Hand” here for the first time out of New York and Chicago to a large and fashionable audience at the new grand opera house. It met o decided sucecss. WILSON NOT TO RESIGN, The rumor that Senator James F. Wilson was to resign to obtain the va- cancy on the bench caused by the resig- nation of Judge McCrary, is unfounded, {in relation to and was originated here by correspond. ents, Nut a prominent republican here had heard of it. NOTES. Assistant Postmaster General Hatton arrived here this mowning. Lieutenant Governor Manning has arrived. The movement by some democrats to give State Senator Hall a complimentary vote for United States senator will not probably be successful. e — A Consul's Explanation. 8. Louts, January i3, —Emil Karst, French consul, in this city, in an inter- view rogarding the French government American_pork, made the following statement: *‘An ontirely erro- neous impression. prevails in the United States on the French government's course, It is generally believed here that tho prohibition of American pork importation is the result of unscrupulous lobbying in the Fronch chambers. This is all wrong. Lobbyists are unknown in France. The wholo truth of the matter is that my government was informed that 10,000 pounds of diseased American pork was about to be shipped _abroad. The French minister at Washing- ton was motified to inquire into the rumor and found that although perhaps not 8o great an amount had been, or was to be, exported, still & very large pro- portion of that sent abroad was ment of animals which died from hog cholera. The American inspector at Chicago him- self declared that eight per cent of the hegs exported were diseased. These facts being transmitted to Franco an ombargo on American hog was the result. TRather than take the chances of eating trichinza-affected pork in France, they decided to have none at all. That is the whole secret of the much agitated and much less understood Amer- jcan hog question in France. A War for Ireland. AvstiN, Texas, January 13.—Senator Pfeutter, acting in the interest of Gover- nor Ireland, will introduce in the legisla- ture to-morrow a fence-cutting bill, which antagonizes the principleadvocated by Senator Terrell. The latter is an ad- ministration man. It is said that the governor's friends fear, if the Terrell bill becomes a law, that the fence war wil be at an end and the administration placed in an awkward position, and Ireland will have no chance to succeed himself. e ——— Rather High Water, Tucsox, A. T., January 13.—The rush to the Guyotoa mines is unabated. Wa- ter is scarce and selling at a dollar a bar- rel. Many new discoveries ave reported, and the excitement is so great that the reports are not considered reliable. S The Late Herr Lasker. New York, January 13.-~The remains of the German statesman, Herr Lasker, were taken to Europe yesterday on the steamer Neckar. Moritz Lasker, brother of the deceased, accompanied the body, which will be taken to Berlin for inter- ment. e — TELEGRAPH NOTES, The Chilian chamber of doputies has ap- proved the treaty of peace with Peru. The shops of the Tennesseo penitentiary were damaged 810,000 by fire Saturday night. Severe shocks of earthquake were felt Fri- day in the towns of Lingnaglossa and Catagi- lione, Sicily. The Tageblatt publishes the decree of the emperor of China, urgin ens:gem resistance to the aggressions il st A sudden change is noted im the relations of the khedize and the sul the latter mani- festing a more friendly fesling towards tke khedive. The wholesale cracker and confectionory house of Hirsh & Griswold, Peoria, Ill., was burned Saturday. Loss, €15,000; insurance, $12,500, The French government, it is roported, has been assured that England has urged China to accept the accomplished facts and arrange terms of peace with China. ‘There will be a grand mass at ‘“The Mad- eline” on January 1st, the anniversary of the birth of Louis XIV., which will be made the occasion of a royalist demonstration. The Willowdale mills, Ipswich, Mass., were burned Saturday, and an immenso stock of blankets and valuable machinery were destroyed, Loss, $250,000, The foreign exhibition which has been open in Boston since September 5th, closed Satur- day night. Tt has been a failure financially, and the deficit ix estimated at $5,000. Mike Cleary has issued a challenge for any man in America to fight him with hard gloves, Marquis of Queensbury rules, for $1,000 a side. His backer has posted $250 forfeit with Rtichard K. For, The largest iron ship ever built in this country was launched Saturday by the Amer- ican Ship Buiiding company (Commander Gorringe's,) The ship was christened *‘Clar- ence S. Bennett.” The Irish Times intimates that the tour of Henry George and Michael Davitt through England and Scotland has been abandoned, owing to the hostility ef one section of the Trish party to George. The Chinese fear that the French are en- tertuining designs upon Canton, and the moople are very uneasy, Hai Phong reports. eay that Admiral Courbet would advance upon Bacninh ments, It is stated that the Fgyptian government (has given oraers to evacuate Khartoum, The ns will be spiked and the powder destroyed. fllh believed that all efforts will now be con- contrated in the defense of Massawah and Buakim, Figaro seserts that direct negotiations be- 4ween China and France will be resumed on & basis on the new frontier of Tonquin and the amnesty of the Black Flags. China will also guaranteo the free navigation of the Song Noi river to Lao Kay, Brisson, on assuming the presidency of the French chamber of deputies, pointed out that it was the duty of the chambers to preserve the present generation from the severo experi- ences of the past, and lead the country safely through whatever difficulties may beset its path. . Owing to a fire In the central office of the New England telephone company yesterday, Boston was entirely without telephone ser- vice, and will remain so for a week or ten days. Every connection with- 8,000 instiu. ments was destroyed, The Louisville whiskey men bave sent out & ciroular asking coustituents to impress their representatives in congress of the necessity of prossing the bill which provides for the ex- P ntol tha boudad Jeriod of two. years va the present stack of whiskies. The Catholics of Kngland have completed arrangements to begin the erection of a cathedral in Westminster, to eost over 8500, 000, and to bo erected within a atone's throw of the Victoria station, The design ap- ‘z]mvud is similar o the *‘Votiv Kirche” at ienna. In a letter to the editor of the Deutsche Revue, Marquis Teeng states that if the French threat to exact war indemnity from China is seriously meant, it is at present suewhat premature, or despite the fall of Sontay, China is far from thinking that she is on the road to a Sedan, Pehaps they will find out their mistake wheu the inland tax on £ commerce, instead of beiug abolished, , commes to be doubled, without awaiting reinforco- 4 inf TREATIES AND BILLS. The Matters Congress will Take up This Week, Views .on a Reciprocity Treaty With Mexico, War's Rattling Skeleton to be Paraded, And the Free Trade Ghost to Appear, The Appropriation Bills to be Re- ported and Other Matters, CONGRESSIONAL WORK. THE SENATE, WasniNaron, January 13,1t is now expeoted that a considerablo portion of the present week will be devoted by the senate to consideration of the Mexican reciprocity treaty. A proposition has been made in executive session that the discussion take place with open doors. Many senators expressed themselves in favor, but the precedents, with one ex- coption, are against such course, and it is uncertain what decision will be reached. Itis believed the treaty will be ratified, but serious objections will be made during the progress of the discus- sion. There’ aro senators who appre- hend war, and prospective annexation as the result of the complications they think sure to grow out of attempts of Ameri- cans to establish themselves in Mexico. Others hold the opinion that if the presi- dent and senate way establish free trade relations with one nation they may with all, and thus exclude the popu- lar branch of congress from any partici- cipation in the exercise of one of the most important functions of government, that of raising revenue. It will also be argued that reciprocity treaties exist be- tween Mexico and other powers confer- ring upon them all the advantages grant- ed the most favored nation, and a ratifl- cation of the present treaty would not, therefore, confer uvon the United States conspicous advantages since the other treaty nations must be admitted to share the benefits, By the provisions of the troaty ratification must. take place the present week or the matter fails. It is possible that Senator Sherman's bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury to issue to national banks an amount of circulation equal to 90 per cent of the market value of the bonds, will be reported by the finance commit- tee by Tuesday, in which case it is likely to receive the attention of the senate during the week. THE HOUSE. The pension, fortifications and military academy appropriation bills, will be com- pleted and reported to the house early in the week, one or more of them proba- bly to-morrow. They will be brought before the house for action in quick suc- cession and an attempt will be made to- morrow by the chairman of the house committee on improvements of the Mis- sissippi to call up for immediate action the senate bill appropriating $1,000,000 for the continuance of the improvements on that river. A single objection will be sufficient to defeat this and if offered the committee on Mississippt river improvemeonts will report a similar bill on Tuesday and ask its consideration, A caucus of republican senators will be held to-morrow morning. o — WASHINGTON WAIFS, THE GLUCOSE IND)US WasHzNGroN, January tional Academy of Science, through its president, ‘0. C. Marsh, made & reporton glucose gesterday to the commissioner of internel revenue. After stating what starch sugar is, how menufactured, and how chiefly used, the report says that the starch sugar industry of the United States gives employment to 29 factori with a capital of §5,000,000, consuming 46,000 bushels of corn daily, and produc- ing grain, sugar and glucose of the an- nual value of nearly $10,000,006. Thor- ough investigation of the sabject was made by members of the academy. As a result the following facts appear: That the mamufacturo of sugar from starch is a longestablished industry scientifically vnlunb%’u and commercially important; that the processes employed at the present time ane of unobjection- able character and leave the product un- .contaminated; that starch sugar thus made and sent into commerge is of ex- ceptional purity and uniformity of com- position and contains no injurious sub- stances; that having at the best about only two-thirdsof thesweeenting powerof cane sugar, yet starchis in no way in- ferior to cane sugar in healthfulness, there being no evidence before the com mittee that maize starch sugar either in its normal condition or fermented has any deleterious effect upon the system 3| even when taken in large quantities. THE NEW CHINESE BILL. The senate committee on foreign rela- tions yesterday .considered the bill pre- pared by Pacific coast delegations and introduced in the senate by Senator Mil- ler, of California, amending the Chinese immigration act of the last songross. i on wslong and the bill was finally referred to a sub-committee, con- ting of Miller, Wilson and Morgan, The tone of the debate gave warrant for the opinion that & measure having fer ita purpose the correcting of defects in the present law and the prohibition of importation of Ohinese laborers will be reparted by the committee, DISEASES OF CATTLE. The sub committee of cattle men ap- pointed to prepare a bill for the suppres- sion and extirpation of plearo pneumonia and other contageous diseages among do- mestic animals, have completed the pro- posed measure, which was submitted to the entire committes of cattlemen ap- pointed at the recent Chicago convention to propose legislation on the subject, and accepted, The bill will be given to the house committee on agriculture to-mor- row, Representative Wilscn, of Iowa, exhibit - ed at the capital yesterdsy the luugs (f three head of cattle intended for Wash- ington markets, and slaughtered Batur~ day.One showed early stages of pleuro- poeumonia, the second just ne affected, and the third was absolutely rot- OMAHA, NEB. MONDAY whole ponly 2{ acres. ten, by « The eattle were bought and killed dur of Commissioner Loring. CALLED BONDS. The treasury department has redeemed £20,482,850 throo and one-half per conts, including the 121st ecall, which leaves only 011,000 outstanding. Thero are £295,000,000 of three per cents uncalled, in addition to the bonds embraced in a call issued yesterday for £40,000,000, to be paid March 16, 1884, NOTES. The war department is informed that the condition of General MeKenzie is considerably improved. It is generally belioved the present improvement is only temporary and that a reaction will follow. His restoration to command is regarded as an impossibility. A vacancy will soon occur in the grade of brigadier general. Wesley Nerrit, su- perintendent of the West Point Military academy, and Colonel D. S, Stanley, of the Twenty-second infantry, are promi- nently mentioned as likely to receive promotion. The house committeo on expenditures of tho department of justice met with closed doors yesterday, and commenced the examination of Brewster Cameron. An influential committee of local law- yers waited on the president yesterday to lirge the reappointment of District Aftor- ney Corkhill, THE RAILROADS, A RECEIVER APPOINTED, Sr. Louts, January 13.—On applica- tion of the Central Trust company, of New York, Judge McCrary of the United States circuit court at Keokuk, yesterday afternoon appointed W. R. Woodard receiver of the Texas & St. Louis Narrow Gauge railroad. Null in- formation leadiug to this action cannot be obtained but it seems to have grown MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1884, FROM FOREIGN LANDS. China Tucks up her Quene to Pl Hair with France. E1 Mahdi Offors Priests and Nuns for Gold. The Number of Gay Parisians who Blew out Life's Candle, France Don't Exactly Want Uncle Sam to Retaliate. British Columbia's Proposed Anti« Chinese Leglislation, GENEBAL FOREIGN NEWS, SLENDER HOPES OF ESCAPE, Loxpox, January 13.—When the Egyptians evacuate Khartonm and the adjacent clties, it is estimated that 11,000 Christians and Europeans will fall vie- tims to Moslem fanaticism, unless they can bo immediately transported to upper Egypt. 1t is thought that tho govern- ment will send a flotilla up the Nilo to assist them to escapo, the hopos of which are very slender. PARIS SUICIDES, Pats, January 18.—Tho Figaro com- ments on the extraordinary increase in suicide in the gay capital, which it attri- butes to the “‘tremendous pace in which wo live.” 1t estimates that during the past year over 4,000 porsons have de- out of the partial failure of what is known as the readjustment plan to pro- vide means to clear off the floating in- debtedness of the road. THE NEW ROAD TO OMAHA. SeriNariers, 111, January 13.—Arti- cles of incorpcration were filed yesterday in the secretary of state’s oftice for a new railroad, viz: the New York, Rock Tsland & Omaha railway, with a capital of £3,000,000. The principal office will bo in Chicago. The incorporators rre Joseph S, Reynolds, Edward L. Holden and Josiah Brown, of Chicago; Joseph M. Davis, of New York, and George W. Bagley, of Coldwater, Michigan, The road will commence at the east line of Illinois, within five miles of the north- east corner of Cook county, and thence running to a point on the Mississippi river, in Rock Island county opposite Muscatine, Lowa, STILL UNSETTLED, Cntcaco, January 13.—The Utah Traf- fic association, organized yesterday sub- ject toratification by general managers of roads interested, is not likely to be finally consummated. General Manager Clark, of the Union Pacific, has tele- graphed that he is not satisfied with the percentage allowed his line. Another conference will be held in an endeavor to reconcile matters, but no result is antici- pated pending settlement of other mapts ters now in dispute between w lines. e — Texas Fences and Land, GALVESTON, January 13.—In the state senate yesterday a bill was passed provid- ing that all the public domain exoept homesteads to actual settlers, be donated to the public schools. The judiciary committee favorably reported bills mak- ing fonce cutting a felony punishable by from two to five years in the penitentia- , and the killing of a fence cutter in fhe ot of applying the nippers, justifi- able homicide. The house special commitbeo on fence cutting heard evidence as to lawlessness in Coleman and Runnells counties. In the former every fenoe except one is down, and that is guarded day and night by armed men. A num- ber of houses and many enclosed pastures have been burned, It was shown that a great deal of land fenced in was not owned by owners of fences, Out of 1,400 men giving in H0 head and over of cattle each for their land, 27 owned land enough for goazing their cattle, one owned no land, and 59 owned only enough to liveen. One man owning 2,000 horses did mot own a single acre, and one man owning 12,000 horses had Forty-two thousand head of cattle are grazing in the wounty. Owners of pastares aro organizing into companies, as they are in despair of pro. tection from the state. e The esponsibility Fixed. 8. Louis, January 13.—The coroner's jury completed its inquiry into the cause of the Belleville fire and returned a ver- that the use of dormitories above the second story in such buildings should be condemned, and that there skould be legislative enactment on the subject; that the blame must rest upon the manage- ment of the institution for net taking precautions which the size and ckaracter. of the building and number of inmates required. Sister Elenthina has been appointed Mother Superior of the order in Belleville, to fill the vacancy wccas- ioned by the death of Mother Myny Jo- rome. o — California’s Grain Orop BAN Frawoisco, January 18.—The es- timated amount of wheat in California Junuary 1st was 68,000 centals, barley, 500,000 centals. The Alta will say to-morrow that fram the stock of wheat on hand at this dateit is evident thet California cannot export to Europe over 2,660,000 bushds, exclu- e of the .uantity now loading in ships, Should rainfail, it 1s probable that none will be exported, except to dispateh the loading fleed. | —— High Xdcense Cuicaco, Janwary 13.—The Catholic Total Abstinancs union of the arch dio- cese of Chicago, keld its annual meeting to-day and passed resolutions strongly endorsing the Harper high license law stroyed themselves in Paris alone. AFFRAID OF RETALLIATION, Paris, January 13.—Leon Chatteau sails for America, via England, on Wednesday next. His mission is to en- deavor to prevent the United States gov- ernment from adopting retaliatiory measures on account of the refusal of France to permit the importation of American meats. A MURDERER IDENTIFIED, VIENNA, January 13.—The man ar- rested on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery and murders at the house of Herr Eisert has been identified. PREPARING FOR WAR, LoxnoN, January 13.—A Canton dis- patch says the authorities of the prov- inco are vigorously presmring for war. They are building a telegraph line be- tween Canton and the Tonquin frontier, The viceroy of Canton has issued a proclamation summoning the people to prepare to repel the French invaders, at the samo time expressing friendship to- ward other nations, . Six thousand Chinese troops have been sent to Hanan. The greatest activity prevails in Canton, Barges have been sunk in the Canton river to block the channel, The Chinese troops sent to Hanan possessed & good vhysique, and are fairly armed but inditferently drilled. ~Tho Chineso state that' some extraordinary stops are imminent. PIRATES AND PERSECUTION, Panris, January 13.—Admiral Meyer telegraphed Admiral Peyson yesterday that the state of public feeling in Hong Kong is very satisfactory, the pirates being vigorously pursued and gradually forsaking the Delta. Europeans in the far east aro very confident concerning the success of the French enterprise. The Temps says that since the ar- rival of the French expedition in Ton- quin the Catholic missionaries have been subjected to renewed persecutions in the southern provinces of China, A VIOLENT REMEDY, Parms, January 13.—A meeting of 4,000 Gnemployed persons, including several women, was held in Salle Levis to-day. Violent speeches wore detivered favoring an armed revolution as the only means of ending the stagnation of trade. Delegations prosent from workingmen’s associations, however, adopted a more moderate tone. THE OELTIC ALL RIGET, Laverroor, January 13,—The steamer Paroma from New York, which spoke the steamer Celtic Thursday night, met E'ri- day afternoon the tug Challenger, sent out to search for the Celtic, and indicated to her the Celtic's position Thursday, latitude B8°, longitude 22, 26". The Paroma reports the Celtic apparently doing well and the weather favorable. COHINESE LEGISLATION , Vicroma, B. C., January 13.—All quict. A stringent anti-Chinese law is to dict that the firo department did all that |V introduced into the houso declaring it could bo doue under the circumstances, unlawful for Chinese to enter British Co- lumbia, and imposes an annual tax to be fixed by the ‘house, on Chinese over 14 years, FREPARING FOR TROUNLE, DupsuN, January 13,—The garrison t Enniskillen is ordered to make prep- arations to accommodate 1,000 additional NO 177, SNOW, FROST AND FLOOD. A Train Located in a Five-Mile Drift for Seven Honrs, oxceods 14,000. The dry season has set in and it is hoped much progress will be made this season. A DECISIVE BATTLE EXPECTED, Viesya, January 13,1t is stated that China has dofinitely decided not to re- call her troops from Bacninh, where a decisive battle is expected shortly, HURNING AND SACKING TOWNS, Kuanrrovy, January 13 —It is report- odthat the rebels have burned and sacked Helonan, They are now marching in groat forco against Reflaz, on the cast bank of the Blue Mile, and Musalenne, on tho west bank. There ate small gar- risons at those places MOVING TO EL MAHDL VaRna, January 13,1t stated that the tribes of Tripoli are moving toward El Mahdi, THR PORTE'S DRECISION, VARNA, Jnnunr{ 3.—Itis stated that the Porte has finally decided not to in- torfera in Soudan, The Thaw and Rise of Rivers in Ohio. Favorable to Small Losses of Property, Saving the Trees by Keeping Fires Among Them, WINTER'S FREAKS, A SNOW BOUND TRAIN, CincinNaty, January 13.—A gentle thaw and snow continued all day. The situation could not be mcre favorable to boating interests,. Tho river here is de- clining slowly, and is now fifteen feet in the channel. A Point Pleasant special, mouth of the Kanawha river, reports the Elk river ice running out, and tow-boata picking up logs and lumber. Specials from other points on the Ohio river and tributaries report the thaw steady and gradual, which is favorable in every way to the least loss of propoerty by flood. Heavy ice is mportnrr in the Ohio river at Ironton and Portamouth, but rotting and breaking. DAMAGEE §2,000.000 BY FROST. Cuicaco, January 13.—Advices from Mobile say that the late cold snap caused immense damage in that section. The loss to orange groves is estimated at the party whe wrecked the Southern Pa- | nearly §1,000,000 and the value of vege- cific train near Gage last November. | tables killed in Mobile county alone will Goorge Cloveland, another of tho party, | roach the same sum. Great damage was is jailed at Silver City. The other two| also done the orange groves of Florida. are in Now Mexico, and a posse is close | But many orange growers profited by the on their trail, The whercabouts of De- | signal service warning, built fires in their laney, the only one of the Bisbee mur-|groves and thus saved their trees. derers at large, has been discovered in ESCAPING A FLOOD. Sonora, and throe officers have gone + 3 d Prrrspure, January 13.—The Buffalo, after hrm, His capture is certain. Niw Yok & Phiuzalphin il left Bufialo at 8 o’clock this morning, en- countered a fearful storm and struck a snow drift five wiles from Dunkirk, the snow covering the entire train and loco- motive. The passengers, who included Minnie Hauk and company, remained in- accessibly snowed up in the cars seven hours, and provisions were sent them from Dunkirk, Snow-plows ahd work- men arrived this afternoon, and after hard work the train proceeded to Pitts- burg, nine hours late. The Sunday fast express, on the Rochester & Pittsburg railroad, was de- railed near Warsaw this morning and the train badly wrecked. A number of pas- sengers were slightly hurt and the con- ductor seriously injured. The accident was caused by spreading rails, o —— s — CRIME AND ORIMINALS, BLACK BART'S PARD, Baurivorr, January 13, —Goorge B. Saylor, arrested here, churgod with hav- ing, with ‘“Black Bart” and another, robbed the Wells, I'argo & Co.’n express stage near Sacramento Uity, has been delivered to a special officer of Wells, Fargo & Co., who will take him to Cali. fornia, A DASTARDLY ATTEMPT, Bosrox, January 18.—A plot to burn tho Forster grammar school, at Somer- ville, was provented by the janitor ex- tinguishing the flames. Several hun- dred children were in the building at the time. The miscreant is unknown. TRAIN WREOKERS. Tucson, A. T., January 13.—Detect- ive Lem Harris has received intelligenco of the capture of Frank Taggert, one of - —— The Yellowstone Park, Farco, Dak., January 13.—Superin- tendent P. H. Conger, of the Yellow- stone National park interviewed by an Argus reporter said some portions of tho dispatches published about the trouble botween him and the Park Improvement company are true, and says the company assumed as much authority as if the con- tract asked had been ratified by congress and consulted only their own desires in the management of the Park. He wants congress to provide some judicial au- thority that tresspass may be guarded against, e — Texas Free Grass Profits, Avusriy, Tex., January 13.—A mem- ber of the late convention of stock men ostimates that 2,000,000 head of cattle and horses are supported on free grass and that half this grass is public prop- erty. The net profit is 256 per cent. Two million head of stock is worth §40,- 000,000° Owners of stock therefore get out of free grass a profit of $10,080,000 a year, half of which comes from school and state land. There is no expectation that any legislation to compel profits to be divided with the state wlll be adopted. Carlisle Declines. Louisvitig, Ky., Janu 13.—In a private letter Speaker Oarlisle declines to allow his name to go before the cau- cus for senator. ‘Western Horse and Cattle Insurance Company. ‘The annual election of officers of the Western Horse and Cattle Insurance company, of Omaha, Neb., was held Jan- uary 11th, and resulted as follows: President—Henry Pundt. Vice-president—Edmund Peycke. Treasurer—Max Meyer. Secretary and manager—Rudolf Dorn, Assistant secretary—Charles E. Bur- mester. Attorney—Chas Ogden. Directors—Henry Pundt, Max Meyer, Edmund Peycke, Ernest Peycke, Ru- dolf Dorn. Lot Two Stages Robbed, ApiLeng, January 13.—Near Colorado river Friday night the San Angelos stage, south bound, was halted by four mounted men, who robbed the mail sacks and passengers and then delayed the coach until the arrival of the north bound stage, which was also plundered. A largequantity of registered matter was on the south bound stage, and it is believed the road agents made a heavy haul, A Satisfuctory Release. Laneno, Texas, January 13.—The ac- tion of Collector Plato in releuin%n considerable amount of live stock be- longing to citizens of Mexico, which was stolen in that country and seized in Texas as smuggled property, has been approved b{ the secretary of the troas- ury. 1t is believed here that the release and its approval will do more to estab- lish friendly relations with Mexicans than any influence exercised in a long time, Army Orders, Recruit Frank P, Turner, enlisted at Fort Douglas, Utah, is assigned to com- pany G, Sixth infantry. {x The quartermaster’s department will furnish transportation from Omaha, Neb., to Fort Laramie, Wyo., for Private Jos. Maurer, band, Seventh infantry, a fur- loughed soldier without means to return to his station. The regimental adjutant Seventh infantry will be notified by the quartermaster furnishing tke transporta- tion, that the cost of the same may be roperly charged against the soldier, ————— Dorsey SBued Again, DENVER, January 13.—Moses Levy & Co., bankers, London, have commenced suit in the Unitee States court against |P e ex-Senator Stephen W.‘ Durlley for over A Prot $(3,000 sud interest for eleven years, In an intorview Dorsey says the suit has _ Omaus, January 11, 1884, wown outof # transaction in 1871 in|To the Hditor of Tux Bue. ; Arkausas state and Arkansas Oentral| Dear Smm:—You will pardon the in- railway bonds, of which company he was | trusion, but I desire to call attention to sotdon, licemen. r— A Break lu O A To-night, about half-past 9 o'clock, an' Prrrssora, January 13, —Thirty-seven |intoxicated soldier was being taken tor flata, containing 3,000 bushels of coal | the prison by a certain tall member of cach, were out from their moorings at|the police force, When crossing at the troops, which will be sent there in view of tfw nationalists’ meetings announced for the coming week, one at Cavan on the 16th and another at Boyle on the 20th, THE BYACUATION OF KHARTOUM, ©Oa1ro, January 13.—The government hae received advices from Suakim that an agreement has been affected with soveral hitherto hostile chiefs on the Suakim and Berber route to Khartoum, by which it is hoped the evacuation of BSoudan will be facilitated, It is in- tended to despatch Abdel Kaedir, min- ister of war, to Khartoum to superin- tend the evacusation, REPORZH FROM CAIRO, Carws, January 13.—El Mahdi de- mands £2,000 ransom for five nuns and four priests whom he holds in eaptivity. The Austrian consul is asking merchants to subscribe the smount. 1t has been decided to retain Suakim in Egypt. The rebels made a night attack on Takar, but were repulsed. They looted the in Illinois as the most sulutary measire and denouncing a government by and for saloon-keeper: A Burik Parewson, N, J., January 13,—A se- cret meoting of silk weavers was held this afternoon. They decline to make any statement except that a strike is postponed till Wednesday. Four members of the Balvation Army wero arrested tu-dsy for parading the streeta. house of one of the principal merchants of the town, earrying off his wife and daughter, The garrison lost five killed and seven wounded. The rebels are en- trenched 600 yards from the town garri- #on, and are short of ammunition. Let- tors from Buakim state that the townean- not hold out beyond the 30th inst. The garrison is sutfering severely from cold. THE PANAMA CANAL, PAxAMA, January 13.—Men continue to arrive by every vessel for the cansl company. The wumber now employed Point Bridge by heavy ioe, at 1:30 this | corner of Fifteenth and Douglus streete, moruing, and drifted down the Ohio|the drunken fellow slip) Fif the ice river. Nineteen were recovered this|and fell heavily, Insf of asking as afternoon., {One sunk and the balance | gistance of those passing by, the brute of have not yet been heard from. It has|an officer kicked the pr been thawing all day, and & high river is | abuged him .h.mgmuy? osieste man sud expected, Deradled and Robbed, Davesrorr, Xa, January 13.—A bag- age car on the Rock Island road was SBnilsd near Ononwau yesterday, and a baggageman badly injured. The express safo waa broken open and robbed of five money packages, but they contained only swall amounts, OBSERVER. THE MERCHANTS Natonal Bank| A Bad Fallure, o¥F onazra. Warasosera, O., Junuary 18.—The | Authorized Cu}ntnl, - $1,000,000, failure of Mr, Bitler on Friday, resulting | Puid-up Capital, -~ - = 100,000, - - 70000, BANKING OFFICE : in the collapse of the Farmers' bank, is Surplus Fund, - believed more serious than at first re- N. W. Cor, Farnam ana 13th St. OFFICFRS: ported. Bitler's liabilities exceed $60,- 000, Beveral towuship treasurers had fiduciary funds in the Farmers’ bank, Fuaxk Muwruy, President. | Sam LE, Roanks, V-Pros, Bk, B, Woov, Cashior. | LuTuus DRAKE, ‘A. Cashie New Yok, January 13, —A largemass DIRECTORS: of ice flonting down the East river has | o rank Mynhy, Sasuel & ogem Beu. B, Wood, wrecked pier 27, and destroyed a large | “ivaneact a General Bauking' Busiuess.® A1l who quantity of flour stored thereon. The ::l‘;-'l"yl‘wkluvhuln-wmm o bark Jabez Howes, from San Francisco, | fihy, Somatict how Iarge or swall the woelvo our carelt was badly damaged. i T . o Uy e An Unkuown Wreck, lpal cliion of the Unitod Blates pt ey PriLaveLPuiA, January 13, Aschoon- | | Accouits of anks nd Hankers o er has arrived here which reports that on the 10th, near Cape Hattoras, she passed u wreck resembling a large steamship. then president. Ho denies suy cause of | ¢he inhumanity of one of Omaha's po-