Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 21, 1884, Page 1

— OMAHA DAILY BEE. ) SR N o S THIRTEENTH YEAR. TELLING THE HORRORS. Fther Detals of the Woesk of the City of Columbns. Shrieking, Cursing, Praying and Perishing, The Dead Terribly Mutilated by the Raging Sea. The Full List of the Dead Num={m bers Ninety-Seven, ‘Was There a Fatal Misunderstanding of Orders? AMIDST THE STORM ING THE WRECKED STEAN New Benrorp, Mass., January 20.— The towh is full of people looking for the bodies of relatives lost in the wrecz of the steamer City of Columbus, There has been a deplorable lack of system in regard to the disposal of bodies picked up along the coast, Stray bodies have been picked up by passing vessels and carried to widely separated points. Among them, Edgartown, Woodside and Vineyard Haven. There are eleven bod- ies at Vineyard Haven, and a number at other points unknown, owing to the fect that no cemmunication with them exist. A tug with newepaper correspondents and some of the relatives missing, started out to day g visit the wreck, but a sleet and snow.gtorm set in, making the sea rough and redering it impossible to get nearer than an eighth to a quarter of a mile fronf the vessel, whoso prow is fifty feet »nuténf water and the stern slewed around in geep water. 'There appeared to be thrde bodies hangingin the mizzen rigging. Spme correspondents landed with great difficulty at Gay Head light house, where it was learned that ten person landed from the wreck, all of whom are doing well considering the circumstances, Their names are: William Spalding, of Boston, purser; Henry Collins, of Taun- ton, second assistant engineer; John Hines, of Boston, fireman; Thomas But- 1gr, of Prince Edwards Island, fireman;, William N. MacDonald, of Boston, ##ar- termaster; Thomas O'Leary, seaman; Michael Kennedy and Edward O'Brien, of St..Johns, New Foundland, waiters; James Brown and J. Tibbetts, passen- gers. e IDENTIFYING THE DEAD. While the oflicers and seamen, still jn the clothes in which they came ashoge, were relating experiences to corresponds ents, the visitors, with guides, startegh. various points ¥ #he vicinity wl bodies were placed after being picks along the beach. The first place vis was a dilapidated and storm beaben church: in one of the wildest places on the coast and there found five bodies, four men and a woman, As the party enaru]f tered the building and beheld the out-{ge stretched forms on the floor, Mr. Bel, ot Lynn, cried out, “That's my da nieco Alice,” and ho kneit befora 4 prostrate and disfigured remains, wi ing convulsively. The remains wer 3 ribly mangled and covered with blood from head to feet. Another body, that of George Kellogg, was ientified’ by a relative present. The remaining three were unidentified, one of them, that of a passenger who died in the life boat while on the way from the wreck to land. Kel- logg left the vessel in the boat with Quartermaster McDonald and worked at the oars until he dropped dead from exhaustion and exposure. The party then proceeded to the beach, where it was reported a number of bodies were lying. As one of the natives lifted a tarpaulin from the form of the first victim, Rev. Mr. Dunning, of Lawrence, recognized it as his brother-in-law, Henry Batchelder. - The reverend gentleman was overcomo with emotion and wept hysterically. The party then continued on the barren waste until they reached cubin, guarded by a halfbreed woman, where the remains of Mrs, Belyea were found horribly mutilated from contact with wreckage and rocks. The body of Mrs. Atkinson was also found, her hands fnll of hair, which evidently had been torn from her head in the agony of death, Ther were live other bodies in the hut, four men and one woman, unidentified. The party proceeded along the beach back to Gay Head light., Along this stretch were nine corpses, all more or less disfigured, and faces wearing a haunting look of horror, but none were identified. Later they were removed to places of shelter along the coast. natives refused to allow the removal of bodies until the expenset of recovery were paid. The bodies of Mrs, Belyea, Mrs Atkinson, Kellogg and Batcheldor were conveyed inan ox cart and put aboard the tug. THE PURSER'S STORY. Purser Spaulding, after describing how he and the second steward went through the cabin arousing passengers said: The vessel keeled over so far on the port side that all staterooms on that side were submerged. On the weather side of the deck were three or four passen- gers. When the ship righted and settled 1t was a terrible scene. Confusion reigned on deck and men and women, some with children in their arms, clamb-. ered up to the deck clinging frantically to every available projection. They crowded up on each other so fast that they could not be counted as they rushed upon deck, only to be met by some monstrous wave, and swept off into the sea. Groans, yells and curses con- tended with “the fury of the gale. Women shrieked d men shouted themselves hoarse, Sea after sea swept over the ship carrying off everything not made of iron. ~ It was blowing a hurricane and the moon shone brilliantly. The land was plainly visi- ble. Tsaw eight or ten men hanging to the rigging, T went to the main top with the stoeward and a passenger, The after part of the ship filled and sank and the vessel righted. The sea at this time was making a clean sweep over the ship. Isaw a life raft with half a dozen men on it. The firemen cut the lashings with a razor. One of the port boats was launched and upset. “‘Isaw other ineffectual attempts to launch boats, and at one time I let my- self down thinking to get on board.” The| sea washed the line away and back again and he clambored into the main top The | b, where he staid till taken off by the life boat. A steamer passed within four miles, but paid no attention to the sig- nals, Tho stoward sys the life boat crews of the Massachusetts humane so- ciety are the bravest men he ever saw. They saved 20 men. The list saved from the wreck of the City of Columbus foots up twenty-nine, including those at Gay Head whose names have been ascertained, and the additional name of Captain S. Vance, of North Truro, N. 8., picked up in an un- conscious condition from the overturned life-boat by the steamer Speedwell sev- eral miles from the wreck, Friday. The corrected list of survivors is as follows: Passongers—Horace Waterhouse, Bath, e.; James Brown, Lawrence, Mass.; F.W. Fairbanks, Gorham Me.; Captain 8. Vance, North Truro, N. S.; George W. Farnsworth, Townsend, Mass,; H. Weidman, Lawrence, Mass.; John L. Cook, Portland, Me.; Captain F. R. Hammond, Gouldsboro, Me.; Eugene McCarthy (steerage), Someryillo, Mass. ; J. H. Tibbetts, Somerville, Mass.; G. T, Whitcomb (steerage), Hudson, N. Y. Crew—Captain S, E. Wright, First Assistant lngineer H. A. Phillips, Sec- ond Assistant Engineer Henry Collins, Puarser W. H. Spaulding, Quartermaster Roderick MacDonald, Steward A. A. Pitman, Porter E. T. Briggs, Seamen John Madden, John White, Edward Leary, Robert Gallant, Firemen Thomas O'Leary, John Hines, Thomas Butler, Waiters Edward O'Brien, Michael Ken- nedy, Faber and Ansen. TOTAL LOST, 97. The passenger list corrected foots up 81 passongers, cabin and stecrage; 45 officers, seamen and waiters. Total death list, 7. There is no possibility of the figures being altered by thedis- covery of additional surviyors, OTHER STATEMENTS, . The assistant engincer, Henry Collins, says he was awakened by the shock and hurried on deck. He saw passengers washed overboard as fast as they appear- ed, He went to the mizzen rigging and saw passengers drop out of the rigging frozen stift. All the women were com- pletely helpless and their shricks were awful. Some curted and swore, but the majority prayed for death. The suffor- ings of a lifetime crowded into those few hours, Qartérmuster MacDonald who at the wheel At the time of the accident, said: At chout 2 o'clock the captain told ‘| him to set her course southeast by south, which he did, and kept her on that course till she ¢ captain in his original - staten " he course was southwest by west.’ 1t ‘is possible there’ was asmisunderstanding of orders hetwgen'ghe-captain andgrtermester. "The quarfermaster, con 2, said he staod by*he wheel, till Captain Wright cawe and.said, ** er mind-—that is of no use now.” Théchptain jordered him to get out the boats. One was launched ahd stove in. The second dashed against the ship, which stove a hole in it, andshe sank to the gunwale. ; Theresa Smith, the stewardess, became frightened and jumped into the 's%~ aud was drowned. heru were left in the boat, beside him- oe seamen and Kellogg, a passen- b worked. at an oar till hasied of . <The others contighed to bewrville. ki Héad light o e ® buoy shifted; that the steamer was two miles or more out of her course and fully a quarter of a mile inside tne buoy. Even if the vessel backed two ship lengths she could not have reached her present position from the outside of the buoy. Upon arrival of the correspondent’s tug at New Bedford the bodies were taken to the undertaker’s to be sent to Boston to-morrow. Bosrox, January 20.—Captain Wright was shown the statement of T. W. Fair- banks that the pilot of the City of Colum- bus told him he lashed the wheel and went to warm himeelf by the smokestack, being absent fifteen or twenty minutes. The captain said: ‘At the time of the disaster the second ofticer was in charge of the ship, He was in the pilot houss and superintending the steering of the steamer, which was done by the quarter- master, The pilot house was heated by steam and was very warm, There was no necessity to leave it to get warm. No person but the officer in' charge could change the course of the steamer and there was no attempt made after she struck to drive her on the rock.” 1t seems probable that Capt. Wright, in laying his course for the ocean, de- parted from the usual course too soon, steering in a relatively northwest course, which brought him inside the buoy marking the outside of Devil's Bridge, and consequently full upon the reef, ~ ° The bodies brought to New Bedford the tug Nellie were frozen stiff and the arms of each were stiffened in posi- tion, indicating that the victims died while clinging to the wreckage. One of the bodies picked up by the Nellio was that of a well dressed woman, about 22 years of age. A package of jewelry and & small sum of money were found in her dress, but nothing to show who she was. Another was that of a woman of 40, dressed only in her night clothes, The others were of men, one supposed to be a seamen, In the lap of the younger woman was found a pair of baby's shoes, Nearly all the bodies had on life preservers and were floating on their backs. The faces of five of the victims were badly cut and disfigured. Captain Hart reports that when off Gay Head light a boat put off from Gay Head manned by two men,who reported ten survivors and all landed there, one of whom died, making two that have died among those previouly re- ported hrving landed there, Nemly all the bodics were found in a line due cast from Devil's Back ledge, where two currents formed an_eddy and kept the bodies floating around within a radiug of a mile and a half. Owing to the heavy sea, great difficulty was ex- perienced in getting the bodies aboard the tug, and Captain Hart reports seeing bodies which it was impossible to recover owing to the gale and thick snow. BH. V. Philips, first assistant engineer of the City of Columbus, states that when the vessel struck, Morrison, chief en- gineer, exclaimed, “The vessel's ashore.” Wo shut down right off and the ship backed off; then we got bells to go ahead and she drove right onto the reef again. It did not seem ten minutes before she sank. - 1 had just time to get a life preserver. The boat was outside the uoy, but there was a terrific wind blow- ing, Captain T. R. Hammond, "Goldsboro, i Maine, a survivor, states that between 7 and 8 o'clock on Friday morning the stoamer Glaucus passed to the westward of the wreck, but took not the slightest tice of tho terrible tragedy which was acting so near. He says that from his outlook in the rigging on the City of Columbus he could have distinotly reen a man standing against the house of the passing steamer, and cannot conceive how she could overlook the crowd of hu- man beings in the rigging of the wrecked steamer. The mate of the Glaucus, of New York, states that the Columbus, having taken the southerly course and the Glau- cus the northerly, the latter passed the wreck at a considerable distance, eight or ten miles, At the time the wreck was sighted by the Glaucus there were some forty human beings in the rigging, but the mate avers that he concluded the wrecked steamer was on a reef, but after a prolonged scrutiny through the glass he could discover no evidence of human beings. THE REFORM SCHOOL. Nebraska’s Prison School for Unraly Boys and Girls, A Pen Sketch of a Flying Visit, Keaniey, Neb., January 10, 1884, ‘ditorial Correspondence of Tk Bk, How far is it to the State Reform school! About two miles. Please hire me a carriage with a_driver. How soon do you wantit? Right away. Very well, Iwill go and order it for you. Ten minutes later Mr. Holden, editor of the Buflalo County Press, who had volun- teered to procure my transportation, drove up with a carriage drawn by a pair of spanking bays. 1t was about 4 p. m, when myself and two other grangers started on a trot for the reform school. The ground being near- ly level all the way and the roads in good condition we made good time. Isay, driver, do you know any- thing about the reform school! How do théy treat the boys out there! It'sa pretty hard place for the boys. One of they whip them very hard. It is worse now since Collins hus gone. He wasa splendid man. Everybody in town liked Lim. Mosher, the new superintendent, isn’t popular. He does not run the school conversation_until we reached a bridge that crosses Sthe Platte river ditch or canal by which the enterprising people power for mills and factories. A few rods further, on an elevated plateau, stood a plain three story brick building with stone basement. school, said the driver, as he opened the carriage door to let us out, Just as I stepped down a couple of full grown boys in well worn clothes started on a run out of the building toward a jrench which was being dug by several other boys between the main buildingandbarn. Presently a man walked leisurely up from the barn toward our group. He was of medium height, nette, somewhat lean but wiry, with a careworn countenance. This was Mr. While he engaged in casual conversation who, "1 _ found, hailed from Omaha, How long have you been here? About seven months. How do they treat you? Pretty fair. Do they whip the boys! Somtimes, when they deserve it. What do they whip them with! A rawhide. Do they whip the girls’ 1 don't know. Another boy from Omaha came up. led him away out of hearing, How long have you been here! Two years, How new superintendent has’ taken charge, rough when Collins was here. How did they punish the boys? They whipped them, Was there any other punish- ment?, Yes; thoy locked them up. on bread and water, How long? A day or two. When Collins was here_ Craig, Ius assistant, had one boy locked up on bread and water thirty-six days. That wust be very hard. O, ycs. Have you learned any trade? No, sir; they have no shop to learn in, ~ What do you do? We are kept in school or we work on the farm. spected the buildi; rooms are kept clean school room is perhaps as school rooms usually are, For the present the forty two boys and thirteen girls are compelled to dine in the same room in the basement. One school room serves for all. ‘The sleeping room for boys in the second story is rather airy and_their bedding very thin. Tu fact 8o thin that scme had to double up their mattrasses, When the thewmome- falls below zero they must suffer a great deal. Itis simply monstrous to compel the girls to sleep in that story above the boys. There is no fire-escape, no water within two and one-half miles. Not a soul of them could escape if a fire breaks out in that fire trap during the night. Mr. Moshier admitted that, but, said he, we are helpless. His assistant, Samuel C. Mullin who had beenemployed several years at tho National reform school at Washington, is what we call a strawberry blonde. From all appear- ances he is competent and reliable. Do you want to see the accounts kept by Mr, Collins? Here is all }u‘ léft us and he handed me a druggist's pad with a few names scribbled on. Did e keep no books? Nono that we can find. How do you know the record of the boys! We have to send for it to the different counties where they were con- victed. How long do these boys and girl» have to romain here? There is no time fixed. Our laws are defective, said Mr. Mosher, in that respect, but we propose to grade these boys and girls and releaso them on probation when their record shows them to be well dis- posed, If they become bad again we will recall them, Further inquiry elicited the fact that Collins had exhausted the whole appro priation for clothing and furniture for the next two years, within loss than five months after the legisla- ture adjourned. As a consequence no bodding can be found, and a number of the’imynnra compelled to go barefoot in the severest winter we have ever had. Before leaving and the OMAHA, NEB. MONDAY MORN N(-}, JANUARY 21, 1884, the institution I madean inspection of the foundations of the new £30,000 building. So far as 1 can judgo the material and work are good. The foundations are brick, with Ft. Collins sand-stone facings. This stone is botter for building purpeses than our limestone, What the superstructure will be I could not guess. The plans are at Lincoln, but if there are to be no brick cross walls there is Hability of a terrible catastrophe sooner or later, E. R. —— BULLS AND BEARS, FEATURES OF CHICAGO MARKETS, Cuteaco, January 20.—Tho specula- tivo markets on 'chango ruled stoady yes- torday. Wheat went down Jcall arcund. During the recent decline the bears made heavy winnings and gained immense courage, while the poor bulls lost both. Said a speculator yesterday: “The situation is now worse for those on the long side than it has been for months, owing to big losses. I am sensible of the fact that wheat looks cheap, but the situation is the only thing to be con- sidored. Our recoipts will bo governed only by the ability of warchouse men to care for them.” Rumors of heavy failures on Wall stroet have resulted in a panic to sell. Everybody seemed to turn bear all at once, and did their best to break down the already weak market. May wheat dropped steadily under the strain until it touched the lowest point since the break began. Corn and provisions fol- lowed suit, and the bottom seemed likely to drop out of everything until it becamo known that the rumors of failures had not the slightest foundation in fact, but were the invention of certain big bears, who found legitimate means unavailing, Irom this on the different markets began to strengthen up and many bears turned around and bought heavily. In provisions Armour and Fowler Bros. swallowed up all they could lay their hands on and strong houses made heavy purchases i other selling all he can ho has got a broker on hand to buy everything that is oftored. Tho bulls so far have not lost much money, but when they commenco to lose, thoir enthusiasm will subside. The goy- ernment estimate, just published, indi- cates that we have' raised, perhaps, the emphasized by the large arrivals of No. 2 | now coming in. On the other hand, many conservative houses think that wheat has touched bot- tom. A. N. Bliss, who has for months as Collins used to, We kept up a running | Past been the Liggest kind of a bear, has |3 flopped. ‘I think that henceforth we will have o higher range of values in about everything. With present of Keasnoy oxpect o securo anplo water | conditions _existing next summer, we |1 shall see wheat botween §1.15 and £1.20. price may stop. Under certain circum- stances I am just as biga bull on corn as on wheat. I put tho price of May corn at 0c. This is my judgement and I have got lots of other people’s money to back it up with,” and, as an unusually hearty yell rose from the pit. the big bull wad- on his last fifty. The trath is if it were possible to get D. C, Mosher, the mew superintendent, | tidof the large stock of wheat in store |t without question prices would bulgo at with my companions I accosted a boy |once, but not a bushel of wheat has left | ¢ here for foreign countries since January 1st, 1883, and now, notwithstanding permanent advance, weight drops down below the starting undoubtedly advance it not held back by seoma much shaken, The o somewhat irregular. At the opening of the week the condition of the market for shipping cattlo was rather “shaky.” Values were decidedly weak at 160260 lower than at the close of last woek. The quality of the cattle offered was poor, good to choice fat beeves being very scarce, Rough and half fat cattle, how- over, wero in heavy supply, and such stock was rather neglected. At the closo of tho week, when the Upon Mr, Mosher's invitation 1 in- |continued heavy supplies is taken into be hard to make anyone hero believe him The halls and |account, the sustained character of prices morally guilfy, even though on technical the bill occurred. is a surpriss to tho trade generally, uy the cattle cheaper, but after they all got to work the competition was suf- ficient to check any tendency to lower prices. Common, rough, thinnish lots, which unfortunately comprise a protty large propoation of ‘the offerings, showed some irrogularity, but for anything de- contly well fatted it was an easy matter to get former prices, From $4.75 @4.90 for very common lots, quota- tions ranged upward to $0.400:6.60, at which a few droves%f smooth, fat, 1,460 to 1,400 pound steers were taken for ex? port. Few prime boeves are offered, and sales at over $0.00 did not reach over 400 head, while $5.00¢ got the bulk. at $4.600:5.00, and bulls sold fair), $3.25a0, The canners and butchers bought their quota of cows at $2 b 4.90, and one choice cow, weighing pounds, sold at $6.00, ' Very few cows sold under £3.00, Calves were sold at $4,0007.256 per 100 pounds, and milch cows ranged at 825 05h per head, The stocker supply was somewhat larger than usual and sales were brisk at 1, 70004,80, a few poor ones going at Feeders were also plentier and ruled cheaper, with sales at $4 4.80, choice being nominal at $4.85@ 5,00, Although receipts of sheep have been surprisingly liberal, the market does not lose anything in firmness. It is active and strony for good ones, and at least steady, though a little slow for loss de- sirable grades. The several classcs of buyers take hold in & generous way and few sheep have gone from day to day. Sales range $5 } for poor choice, | — go's Citizens' League, ), January 20, Ohic Cuioa liquor to minors, The officers of the Citizens' League, an association whose object 18 the uup{)rouion of the sale of ! R du\(o uulll)inedhthuir as- sault on the grand ju) challengin, the right of a mlmbe:’;.;l l{!oon-ku?mr% whose un who are members o serve on the panel. | his christian faithfulness has not failed | generally warmer weather, wester! “This has occasioned & sort of open warl of completion. The church which would | and falling barometer. with the liquor dealers of the city, who havo called n mass meoting for Tuesday night to defend their confreres. The Citizons' Loague makes the claim that the grand jury has been made up heroto- foro with the sole view of defeating any indictment sought to be obtained against saloon-keepers, B— The Cruickshank Divorce, HANNInA L, Mo., January 20.—The colobrated divorce caso of Mrs. Mary L. Cruickshank against John J. Criick- shank, Jr, which has agitated church and_social circles for soveral yeara past, has beon docided by the judge of the cir- ouit court, granting the plaintifi' a decree and giving her 30,000 alimony, a valua- blo residenco,an equal share of the house- hold property and the custody of the daughter. The minor son was placed in the care of the father. John J. Cruick- shank, th€defendant in the case, is very woalthy, being one of the largest lumber merchants of the Mississippi valloy. DEFENDING SNELL. His Sndden Departare From Omaha Explained, His Carveer In’ \'xll-‘\llll;lo and What People Think of Him, Varestiveg, Neb., January 18, To the Editor of Tr Bee, In your issue of January 17 appeared an article headed, ““Sneaked Away,” in which you accuse William Snell, whowas held for the shooting of Jessio Wright, of acting the sueak and coward, in that im- modiately upon his being released from custody “‘he quietly slipped down to the depot and took the noon train west,” and the impression 15 also conveyed that markets, who sold and who bought, how- | Snoll is one of the wild, reckless, loud | Beerber, and tho goneral oty is, “‘who ever, cuts no figuro, as, just us likely a8 | kind, too frequently found upon the|shall help us, wo avo deserted.’ The not, whena wembor of some firm s |G ko in in the habit of shooting|ToDels are camped within two hours off boot-heels, hats from heads, ote. These are not facts, either as to the man- ner of his leaving Omaha or as regards the character of the man. he knew, in it, telegraphed of his mis- fortune to his frionds at Valen- tine, and they immediately sent messoge to Mr. John H. Smith, a Valentine stockman, who happened to be in Omaha at the time, to render Snell casary to secure his reloase, being waved and bond fixed at 1,000, When this was done the stockman, who had several car loads of cattle ready to be shipped to Valentine on the noon train, found that he had just ten min. but on the contrary supposing that so long a time had elapsed sinco her death two arrived hero Thursday evening. hearted man, He has lived in Valentine since the town started and was never known to sport, howl, or make other “bad breaks.” Although living in a com- rmunity whero six shooters are carried by a majority of the men, and engaged in business that made a rovolver almost a necessity, ho was seldom if ever scen with one in his posses He has the friendship and sympathy of overy verson in Valontine and itwould grounds he should be convicted of man- It is not believed that he | sneuked away from Omaha, and as for at the next torm of the Douglas county district court ag sure as he is alive at that time, Readers of Tue Ber here feel that your article is unjust and injurious to an unfortunate man who has their heartfelt pity, and who is in no respect so bad as you have painted him, and they desire that the truth which is told above be made public. Many C) N5 OF VALENTINE, - —— The Garfield Memorial Church, Wasnixaron, January 20.—The new City butchors bought soveral lots of stoers | Gprigtian church in this city, known os | floor, wero panic stricken, and at | the Garfield Memorial church, was dedi- | jumped from the windows, landing safe- coted to-dny. In November, 1880, the 0 | work of raising funds began,and subscrip- | were rescued. tions were received from various parts of the United States, Canada and England, In May, 1882, ground for the new build- ing was broken and the corner stone laid on the first anniversary of the assassina- tion of President Garfield, The services will be continued and concluded Tuesday evening. The attendance to-day was large, incluing Garfield’s colleagues in congress, President Arthur and Secretary Frolinghuysen, who sat in the circle aisle in the body of the church. Governor Bishop, in his history of the Christian church of Washington, spoke briefly of (ieneral Garfield’s connection with it, and said: It is now little more than threo years since a fow members of the church met to_inaugurate a work in whose completion to-day we rejoice. In some of our hopes we have been disap- pointed. He, whose clection to the presidency gave such impetus to the work and inspired the congregation to new hope and courage, is no longer with us ere the work is scar { begun, He was called away from his high honors to a higher. He has gone, but the work dertaking is so largely due to When he was arrested for the shooting |}, them who ran away the other day said |largest crop ever produced, and this is |of Jessio Wright, William Snell, being in a strange city without a friend, so far as [in ten days. remains open to Cairo, ment of Chin utes to roach the dopot, and not knowing [ 1oy a decided bru-|dled away to see how much he had made {.Imt the deceased had not been buried, hat her burial had taken place, and ac- | court of 1llinois has given cordingly hurried his fellow townsman to | the case of A. M. Wright et al. against he depot and aboard the train, and the | the Chicago board of trade, which holds that the courts have no jurisdiction in a Snell was worn out with the grief and | cage where the arbitration committee of the fact that the wheat market is large- | anxiety of the three preceeding days and | the board votes to expel membors for ly oversold there is little prospect of any | excited over the legal proceedings to|failure to pay the differences fixed by the The feeling is firm, | Which he had been subjected, scarcely | committee. quiet, encouraging, but little strength is | knew what he was doing and naturally | an alleged *‘corner” in wheat in July, shown. The bulls, after persistent cffort [ obeyed Smith, who was acting as_his di-| 1882, © somotimes succeed in working prices | rector and advisor, like a little child, and | were brou i i i = | |up a trifle, but the moment the support | s he himself says, *‘Didn’t think of the | mitteo and denied its authority, and|will be 46 cases each against Easton, is withdrawn the market of its own |duty which he considered he owed to the [ when the committee had fixed the set- | Cormack and Lohnstein, for complicity dead girl until it was too late perform | tling price for that month and notitied e int. C: er s it.” those who had failed to settle to do so on do thoy trent you! Pretty wll since the | point. Cor, on the other hand, would |16\ o0 L puin of cxpulsion, the latter sied out an | twrn state’s ovidence, and startling de- forfeiting hia bond-—he will bo in Omaha | Ad° have been his religious home, naturally bocamo a memorial to his name, and here through coming generations tho visitor to the national capit will pause to look upon the seat still with us which _bears his name. G RAL FOREIGN NEWS, WRITISH CONTROL IN EGYPT, Loxvox, January 20.—The Pall Mall Gazette, alluding to General Gordon's wission in Eaypt, says henceforth Great Britain has full undivided responsibility in Soudan. Gordon, in going to S udan a8 a reprosentative of the British govern- mont, must entail, a8 & natural corollary, the assumption of similar responsibility for affaira i Egypt proper, General Gordan goes to Suakim direct, At Suez he will reach an agreement with rogard to the co-oporation of English authorities in Kgypt. Moussa, one of the leading chiefs, whose sons Gordan saved from death, will be summoned to Suakim, Gordan will assemble the heads of the tribes at Khartoum and an nounce that he has come in behalf of England to restore their liberty and put & stop to the slave trade. Having finished the task in Soudan he will go to the Congo country and deal with the slave trade at the fountain head. He Expects to be five months in Soudan. —— BLAKE'S CRITICISM, Orrawa, January 20.—In the house of commons, Blake, leading the opposition, in eriticising the government's policy as indicated in the speech from the throne said the part Canada had taken in the London fishery exhibition was barren of results and the meney would have beon spont to better advantage in coneluding the work of making a fishery treaty with the United States. A CRY FOR TELY, Camo, Januvey 20.—The position of the troops andEuropoans at Khartoum is most critical. Iutreat is cut off as the Arabs hold both sides of the river., Herds of Arabs are closing around march of Suakim, Osman Digna, chief of the rebels, has sent a communication refusing to negotiate with the Egyptians He occupies a position on the Sinkat route twenty-seven miles from Suakim. 1t is reported that dervishes near here have summoned tho people to join the false prophet. A great army is expected The bearing of the people has changed omniously. Some strong influence is at work. Camo, January 20.—Reported mur- der of Christians at Khartoum. WARNING THE WORKERS, Loxnon, January 20.—The ironwork- whatever assistance was |ers’ society at Darlington to-day received a telegram from the iron and steelwork- Smith received this communicationlate | ers’ society of Pittsburg, stating that 1f damages or short crops intorvene, or | Tuesday night, and it was the first inti- | agents wero going to England to induco the ncreago proves smaller than now re- | mation ho had of Snell's troublo or the | workmen not to "go to~ America, The That's the reform | Ported or an unexpected foreign demand | accident which led to it. He then busied | society resolved to circulate the telegram springs up, there is no telling where the | himself in Snell’s behalf, and effected his | in all ivon districts in the hope that no ; liberty by going on his bond about noon | British workmen would assist in defeat- | cific railway, at Sherman, who defaulted 1.50 for wheat would be cheap. | of Wednesday—preliminary examination | ing their brethera in America. 3 Y 4 STILL Carro, January OPEN, 20 —Khartoum still The appoint- ese Giordon ig generall, vit«b(:fiweufcfiu O ial sanction of the government, e e—— Settle or Go Oat, Cuicaco, January 20.—The supreme a decision in Tho litigation grows out of tain members of the board it beforo the arbitration com- i Vel 3 wheat, and confidence in that cercal [ern Nebraska where he has lived for sev- | injunction,which is now diesolved by the How is that! Well, they used us protty % | oral yours, ho is known asan honost, | court, attle market rules active and |quict, gentlemanly, good-natured, kind- | opinion, Two justices dissented from the e Divorce in Hlinois, Cucaco, January 20.—Judge Shepard of the superior court has decided_that in | valloy vi or nois statutes it is essential that the |mars, lowa. complainant should bo a_resident of the state one year prior to the filing of ap- r to secure a divorce under the Illi- ation for divorco, and it must be pli i \ proven that bsth parties to the suit were residents in the county where nrplimtiun is made at the time offencos o harged in As suspicion has al- g ways boen entertained that a large num- as cheerful | Shippers at first seemed determined to | slaughter. sor of applications for divorce were by eastern people who took up her residence here to that end, and it is expected the docision may go a long way toward break g up the practice, —— A Pamic at a Fire, Cixcisxari, January 20,—A hoiler ex- rugating company's manufactory. The building was burned, It was also occu- pied by the Cincinnati Wire Works com- pany and Bontes' twine factory. The total loss is over $105,000; fully insured, There were many verfr NAITOW escapes but no one was seriously hurt, Fifteen girls in the twine rooms, on the second and several ly. Two fainted on the stairway, but A young man, in saving some wraps belonging to the girls, had to jump from a high window, but escaped unhurt, R Ordway's Innocence. Cuicaao, January 20.—W, F. Steele, of Steele, Dak., passed through this city to-day on the way to Washington with documents intended to show Governor Ordway's innocence of the recent brib- ery charges in connection with the loca- tion of the county seat of Potter county. Steele will gubmit the documents to the seretary of the interior, e — [ Bricklayers, Cixoisar, January 50.—The Brick- layers' International union has just closed a several days’ session. 1t was voted to urge the passage of a bill in congress to prevent the importation of alien labor. The matter of cight hours for a day work was referred to the local uniens, their votes to be sent in by August 1. e — The Weather. NO. 183, STERN JUSTICE. Mary Rosc Mattews' Manderers Pl’flm]]"y Hameged, The First Woman Lynched in Colorado. " Kid" Wade Bagged by the Vig- ilantes, Tappan's Second Confession of the Maybee Murder, Other Crimes and Crooks ot More or Liess Importance. CRIME AND CRIMINALS. MERCILESS, DUT BEGGING MERCY, Drxver, January = 20,—Some three months ago Mary” Rose Matthows, a bright, wingom little girl of 10, was adopted from the Denver Catholic Or- vhang Home by Mike Cuddihie and wife, living on a ranch ten miles from Ouray. Last Saturday afternoon little Rose sud- denly died and was buried by the Cuddi- hies on a distant part of the ranch. The little girl was cruelly treated from the first, the neighbors said, and her myster- ious death and hurried burial aroused their suspicions, and the coroner of Oura; was notitied. He found the grave and exhumed the body, when unmistakable evidences of her crueldeath wererevealed. The body was covered with knife wounds, ono log was brokem, the skull crushod and limbs frozen. She had, no doubt, been driven out in the winter storm to die. Cuddihie and wife were immediately arrested and jailed. Friday they were tried and found gulty of mur- der. About 1 o'clock a. m., a band of masked men went to the hotel where Cuddihie and wife were temporarily held in custody, overpowered tho sherifi’s guard and took the prisoners away. They both cried loudly for mercy. but as they had ever been deaf to the pleadings of little Rose for mercy, so the vigilantes closed their ears to the prisoners. They wore taken outside the town limits, where the woman was hung to a ridge pole of a vacant cabin, while her hus- band was strung to the limb of a tree on the opposite side of tho road. Their work done, the vigilantes retired quickly. Tho bodics were cut down and buried by the coroner to-day. John Carroll, Cud- dihie’s brother-in-law, was arrested with the others, but for want of sufficient evi- dence was allowed to go. Thisis the first instance of a woman being lynched in Colorado, READY, BUT TOO LATE. Mausiain, Tex., January 19.—Easton and Cormack, ex-agents of the Texas Pa- to a large amount, passed west and were captured at Ocean Springs, Mississippi. They had everything in readiness to start to Mexico. Sr. Loums, January 26,—EdWird D, Enston, who' was_arrested yesterday at Ocean Springs, Miss., is said to have stolen $8,000 from the Texas Pacific railroad when ho left Sherman, Texas, for Now Orleans, and that he'and his confederates must have realized $75,000 to $100,000 from bankers and cobton dealers of Now York, on forged bills of Iading. Morton Cormack, _ who was arvested with Baston, was also an em- ploye of the railroad company and well RGBT, DGR tobo the man known as Anderson, in the fraudulent traunsactions of the gang, Darras, Texas, January 20,—There in the Pacific cotton swindle, It is ex- pected that Cormack and Easton will velopments are looked for. 0D GROUND FOR SUSPICION. v Y AnKrO0N, Dakota, January 20, —“Kid” Wade, the noted desperado, and captain of a_gang of professional horse thieves, wan brought here last night by Niobrara ilantes, en route for the scene of his crimes. They captured him at Le- He is a hard character, and is wonted in lowa, Dakota, Nebraska and Montana. _There is strong suspicion here that he will be lynched. THE TAPPAN FIEND, Jasmarca, L, I, January 20.—Edmund Tappan, charged with the murder of the Taybee women has made a supplement- ary confession, in which it 18 said he acknowiedges that he and not his brother John, committed the crime, and indi cated where the property stolen icom the Maybees is hidden. THE NUTT CASE, Prorsnvre, January 20.—When the testimony was all in Saturday, the coun- ploded yesterday in the Cincinnati Cor- | sl in the Nutt case agreed t- argue three hours and a half each, the case to go to the jury to- e —— Captain Mary WasmiNGToN, January 20.—Congress- man Kellogg, of Louisiana, in whose state Mrs. Mary Walker made applica- tion for a license as master of a steam- boat, argued her right before the solici- tor of the treasury yesterday. The soli- citor acknowledged that there was no law to prevent her holding a license, and so decided. Secretary Folger will erder her license issued next w Wyoming's First Legal Hanging. Rawrins, Wyo., January 20,—Leroy Donovan, convicted for the murder of William Leighton at Rock Springs May, 1883, was hunged here yesterday. Donovan was 23 years old. He was also known as John Lee, and by some he was supposed to be a son of John D, Lee, the Mormon, of Mountain Medows massacre notoriety. He killed Leighton for his money. Donovan was the first white man executed in Wyoming by process of law. The Skeleton's Bride, Puruavereuia, January 20.—The father of Bertha O, OClear, secretly mar- ried a fow days since to J. B. Garrison, the *living skeleton” has filed a bill in equity praying that the marriage ba de- clared null and void, ss his daughter is a lunatic and incompetont to enter any contract. The body of August Kusenberger, mup- | ert. Ruehl, wes found ot Union 4 A 2t derved by For the Missouri valley: Fair ,'"d‘u:el:k, y Roehl whot his viekiw and lywllldlldrwmlll a quarter of a mile to the creok. The murdere: has disappearsd,