Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 26, 1884, Page 1

| THE THIRTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA DAlly BEE OMAHA, NEB. SATL RDAE MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1884, * BLOODY WORK, Terrible Struggle of a wife With Her Crazy Husband, Carpenter Indicted #or the Mur- der of Zora Burns, The Execution of Snyder and Anderson, Another Horrible Murder on Long Island The Author is Oaptured by the Neighbors of the Victim. CRIME AND ORIMINALS. TWO MURDERERS HUNG, M. Verzoy, Ind., January 25.—Sny- «ler and Anderson, two young men, were hanged here to-day for the murder of Van Meyer. The crime was committed on the river bauk, a mile east of Mt. Vernon. Van Moyer was working thore, and, while his attention was directed the other way, Snyder strack him on the head with a club from the rear, felled him to the ground, then held his head, while An- “derson, sitting astride the bedy, cut his throat from ear to ear with a pocket knife, At the first plunge of the blade the victim revived and realized his awful position, begging for mercy, and struggling desperately. He was overmatched, however, and soon overcomo by lass of blood. After rifling his pookets, and before life was extinct, the body was thrown into the river and taken some distance out into the stream, the murderers swimming on each sideofit. The blood stains and disturbed condition of the ground was discovered next day, and the body, after a search, recevered Sunday afternoon. Suspicion was at onae directed to Anderson and Snyder, who were arrested before a line of denial could be agreed upon between them, and by skillful manipulation by the officers a confession from each charging the «commission of the crime upon the other. Van Meyer is a na. tive of Kentucky and had resided 'in Mt. Vernon only a few months, doing odd jobs. He was an industrious well- behaved boy. Snyder and Anderson are both from Mt. Vernon, the former 21 years of age, a shiftless idle fellow, but previous to the murder was never con- sidered vicious. Anderson is 17 years old, a boot black inclined to be induse trious, but his associates are bad. Sny- der’s mother and both of Anderson’s par- ents reside in Mt. Vernon. Snyder, the doomed man, retired at 10 o'clock Jast might. Dur- ing the night Anderson’s nose com- menced bleeding and became so serious that the guard was called. It continued several minutes, after which he slept soundly. Both were called at.5 o’clock, and ate heartily. The Catholic priest who had been with them was denied ad- mission, They had asked for Methodist ministers H. E. Wilson and J. W, Asburg.? These gentlemen wers sent for, promptly arrived and conducted appro- priste oxerciscs. At '0:34 the death warrant was read and listened to without emotien. At 10 o'clock An- dersou was shaved, the prisoners sing- ing, led by Snyder, who also delivered a prayer asking divine mercy, expressing confidence in hie .sins being forgiven. During the scene Anderson was very composed. Snyder was nervous and ex- cited and talked freely of the crime, He frequently cried. Anderson was much affected buc under great self control, freely cmwersinfi' with vieitors and oc- ir ceasionally smiling, This conclud- ed they returned to their cells, whiere they were again attended by miuisters, und the last preparations made. At 11:40 they were conveyed to the en- closure near the fail, attended by Revs. Asburg and Wilson. Anderson was wvery composed, and Snyder emotional. ‘They prayed aloud constantly. The trap was sprung at 11:50, Sny- «der’s neck was broken. Anderson strug- .led, twitohed o moment. Lifo was ex- tinct in Snyder in seven minutes, in An- \Berson in eight minutes. The bodies were cut down, putin coflinsand;conveyed #o Wasinger's undertaking establishment. The arrangements were very complete, there being no hitch from the firsi to the last. ANOTHER HOMRIDUE MUKDEK, Husters Poivr, L, 1., January 26— FarmerSprague was murdered this morn- ing by an unknown mulatte. He went to the barn to milk his cows snd feed his horses. Just as he reached the barn a tall slim mulatto attacked him with a fish plate coupling, steiking him several murderous blows on the head. He then Jeft baim for dead and made hisway to the house. Here he saw Mrs. Sprague in the kitchen, struck her one blow and demended money. She told him to get it out of the drawerand thea ran scream- ing from the house. Beforefshe had gone very far the man overtook and pussed her, seen getting out of sight. Some neighbars hearing Mis, Sprague’s cries hurried to the spot and found Sprague lying in & pool of blood unear the barn. \l general alarm was souuded and the farmers of Hicksville, Hewstead, West- bury and Farming-dale hitched up horses and started in all directions, scouring the country for the assassin, There is great excitement all through Queen's county in consequence of this the third and similar outeage, following so quickly upon the Mayboes-Townsend affaire, Mr. fprague and wife wero b0 yoars of age. nglicinnu give no hope of her recovery. The murder was caught and jailed by the farmers. THE LUKNS MURDEK, Laxcowy, 1L, January 25, —The grand jury of Logan county to-day returned an indietment against Orrin A, Carpenter for the murder of Zora Burns, A num- Dber of witnessvs were examined, but it is but believed no material evidenco has been adduced in addition to that given before the coroner’s jury and at the pre- Jliminary examinstion, Carpenter's at- torney at once made a wmotion that Car- penter be admitted to Lail, but Judge Hendman replied that the presumption u‘{ suilt against Carpenter was sirong, an .A,c\ll\lilod g“l wnnloxt” and will not admit Jiw to bail.” It is believed that both the state and defondant — desire continuance, %o there is but ed until May. Carpenter will of necessity be in jail meanwhile. This indictment was fully expected, and creates no sur- prise. 1t is the general opinion that the case is not strong enough for conviction, One new point of testimony was that given by a miscroscopic expert, who showed that the hair-pin found in Zora Burns' hair and one which was found in Carpenter’s buggy, and that obtained in a storo at St. Klmo, where Zora Burns bought hair-pins, all bore the maik of the same machine, A TERRIDLE TRAGEDY. Erary, Ills., January 25.—Reports o a terrible tragedy come from four or five miles west of Elgin. Wm. Combs, a farmer 40 years old, cut his wife's throat, and in her dying agonies she wrenched the weapon from him and fatally stabbed him. Combs is said by his physicians to have been insane for somo time. The tragedy occured about noon to-day. It appears that Mrs. Combs staggered to the house of a® neighbor, forty rods away, covered with blood flowing from deep ga hes, and with a long knife in her hand. She said her husband tried to murder her, and, thinking he had done his throat. 80, cut Crombs was found dead on the floor of the louse, which showed evi- dences of o fearful struggle. The woman was alive at last accounts, She was Combs' third wife, and was con- sidered an adventuress before her mar- riage with him, and had one child. Some foatures of her story and the fact that she and her husband had frequent quarrels recently lead to the suspicion that she may have murdered her husband and received the wounds in the struggle or attempt to suicide. DEWALT NABBED, Dexver, January 25.—Dewalt, the defaulting president of the defunct First National bank of Leadville, has been ar- rested at El Paso, Texas. ——e———— DISEASES OF OCATILE, HOW THEY ARE BROUGHT WEST., WasHING10N, January 25, —The house committee on agriculture will to-morrow report the bill prepared by the commit- tee of cattle men, and a number of mem- orials from the live stock associations will accompany the bill, also communica- tion from Dr. D. E. Salmon, veterinary surgeon of the department of agriculture. The communication points out the dan- gers to the west by the existence pleuro pneumonia among cattle in_the east, and reviews the extent of the disease in the latter section of the country. These in- fested districts, he says, though small, are the real danger to the whole country because they extend all the way from Connecticut to Virginia, and these dis- tricts have large and increasing herds of thoroughbred cattle, which are frequently shipped west, and some of which from time to time had been infected with this disdase. With the increased price of cattle large numbers are being shipped from the east and west and the danger of carrying_disease is consequently in- creasing. I have been informed of a Connecticut outbreak which oceurred, and a few months later one or more of the infected herds had been accorditg to contract sent to a western state. While it is true that pleuro-pneumonia has ex- isted in the east forty years without hay- ing been carried west, it must be ad- mitted from what has occurred so many times in Pennsylvania and Connecticut that there has been danger, andthis dan- ger is increasing with the larger number of cattle new being shipped from that direction. Though a number of attempts have been made in states now effacted to rid themselves of pleuro-pneumonia, these have generally or always failed because for various reasons the work has not heen thoroughly done. At best the attempts in these states are spasmodic, and, while one is earnestly striving to accomplish something the neighboring one allows the shipment of diseased cat- tle, thus counteracting the influence of the former. Lack of unity of action be- tween the states has prevented any last- ing benefit even when much has been accomplished. With respect to the proposition to es- tablish a permanent bureau for. investi- gating communicable diseases of animals the communication says there is not a department of original research, or of agricultural investigation with regard to which there is more press- ing need of development than this, and none which promises a greater saving. Our losses are now heavy, but must increase as the animal population increases, and now diseases are introduced and fresh areas infected. But it is not alone a question of dollars. The investigation of animal contagion must throw light on these human pla- gues, which in our country aléne sweeps a quarter of a million of human lives ouv of existence each year. Some of these animal diseases are communicable to man and have a greater influence over our health and lives than is generally sup- posed, and any meane for controlling them cannot fail t» have an important influence on human health as well. S ———— Kidoapped to a Mad House, New York, January 25,—James G, Silkman, a prominent citizen of Yonkers, has instituted suit inst Davis G, Croshy, who is charged with procuring Silkman’s incarceration in "a lunatic asy- lum(laying damages at $25,000, Silk- man says he was arrested on returning from a lecture on May 19th, 1882, and as he charges without being taken before any court was taken to a mad house at Wf;iw Plains and aftsrwardiplaced in the state lunatic asylum at Utics, where he was detained until August 23d,1882, and was only released on thu peremptory orderof Judge Barnard, The icarceration 18 attribul solely to ‘personal fear on the part of Crosby, who is a brother-in- law of Bilkman, that the latter would dis- close certain family secrets of the former. Silkman asserts he was subjected to the utmost rigor of the institutions and such as only was employed in the case of un- controllable lunatics. Ford's Emergency Fund, CicinNari, January 25.—The Com- mercial-Gazette will publish to-morrow un open letter from John Byme, vice- resident of the National league of Amer- ica, to Patrick Ford, editor of The Irish World, taking strong exceptions to Ford's call for an emergency fund to be subject to his judgment alone, without accounta- bility, for the purpose af waging war on England. Byrue claims that such a course as this fund implies would be regarded by all civi udp nations as geurilla war- {are, revolting tu the civilized masses of fi(t]p probability a° trial cau Lo reach- he age. B i THE NATIONAL CAPITA Arguing mb Fitz Junn Porter Bill in the Honse. A Ray of Light From New York on the Matter. Mr, Keifer's Nephew Tells About His Appointment, And Shows the Profits of the Stenographer. Various Matters of Legisiation and Otherwise, FROM WASHINGTON, KEIFER'S CLERK, WasHINGTON, January 25.—Benjamin inines, a nephew of ex-Speaker Keifer, was to-day examined by the house com- mittee on acconnts, now investigating the removal oi employes of the last conti- gress. Gaines was appointed to fill the position of stenographer made vacant by the resignation of Tyson on March 3d of Jast year. Ho testified that he was con- dential clerk to the ex-speaker at the be- ginning of the Forty-seventh congress. Gaines said thore was a tacit understand- ing botweon himself and his uncle that he should have Dawson's or Tyson’s position about the close of the last session. He continued: Dawson and Tyson each offered to give me $100 a month if I would allow them to retain the positions. I refused and a few days later told my uncle of the offer. Ho said he would have aothing to do with the proposition. With $1,000 I could have hired assistance and done the work performed by both Dawaon and Tyson during the last session of the forty- seventh congress, and with £5,000 1 could have done all the committee work of the stenographers which cost the gov- ernment over $20,000. Ex-Speaker Keifer was to have appeared before the committee to testify under oath, but pleaded fatigue after the delivery of his speech in the Fitz-John Portar case,and asked to bo allowed to appear to-morrow. His request was granted. BANK CIRCULATION. WASHINGTON, Jaauary 25, —When the senate finance committee adjourned last night a vote was pending upon a proposi- tion to substitute the McPherson for the Aldrich bill, and the members present had recorded their votes, leaving the ro- sult a tie. Senator Voorhees was ab- sent, but returned and cast his vote in favor of the McPherson bill, which was reported. Mr. Sherman joined the five democratic members of the finance com- mittee in voting to report this bill, pre- ferring it to the measure previously sub- stituted for his own bill. The McPher- son bill providcs that upon the deposit | their verdict, saying they wero the peers | the twenty-five years compact, this meant | Plis, was taken to the polica court to- of bonds, as required by law, any bank- ing association shall be entitled to re- ceive from the camptroller of the cur- rency circulating notes not exceeding the amount of the par value of the bonds deposited, provided that at no time shall the total amount of notes issued by the bank exceed the amount of at such time actually paid in capital stock. CLAIMS, POSTAGE AND SOLDIERS. The house committee on claims direct- od a favorable report on Mr. Holman's bill to prevent fraudulent duplication of accounts and claims by officers of the government and others. The penalty for the presentation of an sccount containing fraudulent items is made a forfeiture of the entire account. The house committee on postoflices and post roads has agieced to report favorably Mr. Monroe’s bill fixing the rate of postage on second-class publica- tions deposited in letter-carrier boxes at two cents per pound.” The house committee on invalid pen- sions has adopted the following, offered by Mr. Morrill : #Resolved, That it is the sense of the committee that whenever the govern- ment has enlisted a soldier and accepted his services, the soldier should not be required, in order to obtain a pension, to prove that he was of sound and good health when enlisted, and the govern- ment should be estopped by setting up, that disability existed prior to the en- listment. The committee will report a bill em- bodying the sense of theresolution early. FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. SENATE, Wasupneros, January 26, —Mr, Blair (vep., N. H.) introduced a bill to provide for free circulation of newspapers, other periodicals and publications within the state where published. Referred. Mr. Cameron (rep., Wis.) presentod a petition of the merchants’ association of Milwaukee, praying for retaliatory legis- lation against forcign nations who ex- clude American meats, The petitieners aver that the wines of these foreign coun- tries are much adulterated, and should be excluded. Referred, Mr. Sherman (re% 0.) called up his resolution on the Virginia and Missis- sipi elections, Mr. Lamar (dem., Miss,) hoped con- sideration would be postponed till Mon- .{lr, Sherman had no objection, pro- vided it would not lose its position, so consideration of the resolution went over till Monday. | Mr. Miller (rep. Cal.) presented a peti- tion of the chamber of commerce of San Francisco asking for an increase of the strength of the navy. Mr. Gibson (dem. La. ) introduced a bill to facilitate reform of the civil service, Mr. Bayard, (dem. Del.), from the committee on tinance, reported favorably a bill providing for the issue of circulat- ing notes to national banking associa- tions. This is the bill agrced upon in the committee to-day. Tho house having disagreed to the senate amendment to the Ureeloy relief bill the senate insisted on 1ts amendment and a committee of conference was ap- pointed, Mr. Beck (dem, Ky.) called up his bill intended to prohibit the secretary of the treasury from purchasing bouds above r. Mr, Beck insisted that con- inued purchases of bonds by the secretary at his opiion would make the bonds as unstable ss bank circulation based on them, and under which the pur- chases imade have boen it wan intended for the secretary to buy such bonds as the government had a right to redeem at par, and not go into the market and purchase at 20 or 24 per cent. premium, Mr, Morrill (rep., Vt.) thought that, considering the time the 4 per cents. had to run, it was profitable to buy them at 17 or 18 per cent. premium and rein- vest in 3 per cents. | The bill was referred to the committee on finance, A bill was paesod donating a part of tho Fort Smith military reservation to the city of For Smith for the benefit of the public schools. The Alaska bill was dircussed and passed, including the clause prohibiting the importation and sale of liquors ex- cept for medicinal and mechanical use. Ir. Hoar's bill, providing for the per- formance of the duties of the president in caso of removal, death, resignation or inability to serve of the president and vice prosident passed. The bill vests the right to perform the prosidential duties in such contingency in the secretary of state, then the secre- tary of the treasury, then the secretary of war, and so0 on through the cabinet. After an executive session the senate adjourned till Monday. HOUSE. The morning hour was dispensed with and the house went into committeo of the whole, Mr. Springer (dem. IIL.) in the chair, on the Iitz John Porter bill, Mr. Taylor (Ohio) took the floor to conclude his speech began Saturday on the bill, He denied the statement that the bill is based upon a resolution intro- duced by Garfield. It was true that Garfield did introduce a resolution look- ing to an inquiry in regard to the alleged discovery of important evidence, but the resolution was defeated and what his apinion would have been upon that evi- dence did notappear. He (Taylor) knew what Garfield’s opinion was up to the 7th of March, 188L ~ It was the same as his was to-day. Congress might remove the penalty but it was a case of suicide and could not revive the glories once clus- tered around Porter's brow. Mr. Bayne (rep., Pa.), a member of the committee on railway atfairs, spoke in support of ¢he bill, hoiding that the question could not be made a political one. He held that Porter exercised a wise discretion in dirobeying Pope’s order. While quoting from Generaf™L.ong- street's testimony Mr. Bayne was inter- rupted by Mr. Herbert (dem., La.), who said he belonged to Longstreet's corps, of which Wilcox’s division was deployed in line before noon, and never knew the reason for delay in being pushed into the fight till he read the testimony in this case. He did not believe Porter a traitor to his cause. If he did he would be the very last man to excuse him. The committee roze informally to permit the speaker to appoint a conference com- mitteo on the Greeley bill. The committee resumed its session,and Mr. Keifer (vep., 0.,) spoke in opposition to the bill, He defended the members of the court martial from aspersions for and more than peers of the board of re- view. He reviewed the case, quoting from the dispatches and letters to show Porter was-disloyal to Pope because of his loyalty to McClellan, Mr. Ray (rep., N. Y.,) supported the bill, asserting the charges were not pre- ferred against Porter till long after the alleged disobedience of the order. This statement was vigorously contro- verted by some members, and as vigor- ously re-asserted by Mr. Ray, who said it was not, at the time of the removal of McClellan, known to be determined that charges would be preferred. Mr. Miller (rep., Pa.) wanted to know by what authority Mr. Ray asserted that Pope poisoned the mind of the president. Mr. Ray replied that he could prove it beyond controversy from the records of congress and Pope's report. Before the conclusion of *Mr. Ray’s speech the committee rose. The senate bill passed providing for the removal of the remains of the late General Ord from Havana to Washing ton. The speaker laid before the house the response of the secretary of the navy to a resolution stating that he has no knowledge of any service rendered by American officers or men to the British navy at the bombardment of Alexandria. Referred, Also a letter from the postmaster gen- eral in response to the house resolution in regard to expenditures in the star route cases, requesting the names of per- sons indebted to the government, and expected to be relied on for the prose- cution of such persons, Referred. The postmaster geueral informs the house that an itemized list of expendi- tures is being prepared, but it would be aetrimental to the public interest of the government to yive the names of persons indebted to the government, and pre- pared to act as witnesses. Adjourned. T'he session to-morrow will debate the Porter bill and no other business will be transacted excent the reception of the re- port from the committee on agriculture on the senate bill to extend the provi- sions of the act, for the relief of purchas- ers of swamp, overflowed land to all en- tries and fivmtiom since March third, 1867, — McGeoch's Answer. Mivwaukek, January 26,—Peter Mc- Geoch has filed his answer to the suit of Daniel Wells, Jr., growing vut of the provision corner of 1883, The first point made is a compromise settlement bha- tween McGeoch and Wells, stating the terms of that document in full, and the amgunts to be paid by each in payment o?‘fimir debts at 50 cents on the lollar, The second is that during the copartner- ship Wells drew out $100,000 and in- vested it in real estate in fraud of his creditors and McGeoch, which pro. perty is now said to be worth §300,000, and McGeoch asks an accounting for this; that Wells caused property to be covered with false and fictitious mort- gages. Third, that Wells' dilatoriness in furnishing money caused a loss of $500,000 by sacraficing property, Fourth, that through the promises of making alt losses good, Wells induced Mo(ieoch to invest far beyond his meane, whereby he lost half a million more. e A Mysterious Case, Hoxesviie, Ala., Jauuary 26, —Two gypsies, man and wife, were found dead in their tent this morning. No mark of violence was discovered, and the case 13 & mystery, misconstrued, as NO. 188, 1, 1884, but by mutual understanding the agreement was extended from Janu- ary 1 until the meoting of western rep- rewentatives this month, The question of a renewal of the compact was dis- cussed at the mecting to.day, and prior to final adjournment of the conference the “‘pass agroement” was formally de- clared oxpired. —— GENERAL FORKIGN NEWS, A DETECTIVE MURDERE! ViENNA, January 25.—Detective Block while going home yesterday was shot dead. The assassin was secured by the police. He carried a revolver, a pois- oped dagger and a dynamite bomb, One of the citizens aidify in the arrest was shot twice by the murderer, who also lttemrwd to explode the bomb to kill himself and captors. Block was recently arrested as one of the suspected assassina of Police Commissary Klubeck. Several arrests have been made in connection with that crime, Tho assassin refuses to make a statement. Ho is unknown to the police, and is believed to be a foreign emissary, The dynamite cartridge, which he had thrown down when arrested, failed to explode because the ground upon which he throw it was soft. The assassin says he was commissioned by a socioty to murder Block. The assassin belongs to the superior class, | THE TROUBLED POOL. Burlinglon Refuses o Plange in &nd be Hoeled, Excopt on Conditions Made by Ttself. And Withdraws From the Chicago Conference. Leaving the Union Pacific and Allies' to Themselves. But Kimball Says a Private Talk Fixed Taings All Right Again, BURLINGTON'S ULTIMATUM, THE PRESENT SITUATION, Citicaco, January 26.—The Burling- ton road announced its ultimatum to the other wostern railway managers this after- noon upon the proposition to pool trans- Missouri business, and upon its rejection quitted the conference, and the session SUDANUSL OB BTARVATION was adjourned without date. This is the | KiNastox, Ont., January 25.—Settlers outecomo of the long pending negotiations | in rear townships are in dangor of stary- which have been pursued by the Union |ing as the snow is stopping traffic. A Pacific and the other four Omaha lines to | lumber dealer telegraphs that unless he induce the Burlington road to join the |gets provisions he will be obliged to close tripartite alliance or to agree to form |down the shanties. Such a state of af- another tripartite pool with the Burling- | fairs was never known in this locality ton on one side and the Union. Pacific | before. and its new allies on the other. At the conference Tuesday the Burlington an- nounced its readiness to organize a pool, but on terms which would leave matters in_about_the same condition they wero prior to signing the tripartito agreement between_the Union Pacific, Rock Island and St. Paul roads. The work of arranging porcontages for the new pool was referred to a sub-com- mittee, which labored during Wednesda; TYPHOID FEVER EPIDEMIC. | MoNTREAL, January 25.—An epidemic of typhoid fever rages at Hyacinthe and the schools of the convents are closed, Many members of the religious communi- ties are very ill and five nuns have died. e i The lowa Legislature, i5 MorNes, January 26, —The senate pied one hour to day in discussing a n Y| oint rese i izing and Thursday, and somo progresn was | g Te00iflon 10 homoralving congrens male on business west of the Missouri s vored by bills of Larabee, Logan, Sutton and Hall, and opposed by HKastman, Pending discussion, adjourned. river, in which the Union Pacific and Burlington were interested in common. the Burlington declared that, it must | o Print all bills referred to committees havo it full pro rata of all business orig- |~ jeby'exulizing aots and bills of a pure- AL b v loopl charactor. The important bills e n oot Dointa o the, Union P introdused woro o amend the code i ro- Omaha. In othor words, its Omalm line | 14100 to the exsmption of homostends was o bo placed_on oven terma with the | Parchased with pension money, author- othor Towa roads, and no discrimination | ¢ 15 PHOMS SEAINSE Tatliond companies . to bo bought in thename of tho state, to was to be made against it. By reason of | %} ) IS AT define and punish fraudulent practices in the company PP ] 3 3 . . g and distributing election tickets, had other lines reaching out nru:mné an . 8 Hol s iHito INGbraaks - fanal . OGlbrads limiting attorney’s foes in partitions of the situation would bo the same s that prior | <6 @8tate, to provide for selling, leasing by $ and patenting land belonging to the ag- to the dissolution of the Iowa pool, ricultural college, to require railroad cor- namely, that the Burlington company ; l was wiing to nogotinto withthe Uniop | beratione (o incorporate undar th laws Pngilic. and that road only, for a division Lt i of business beyond the Missouri, and with the Towa roads for businoss enst of | General McAuley Arrested, New York, January 25, —General that river. On the part of the Union ¢ M Pacific and four Town roads, parties tc] Daniel McAuloy, ex-mayor of Indiana- day on _a charge of violating the lottery of the new alliancen and the stand taken | 1aws. He "ngm‘““"' and general man- by the Burlington demonstrated that the [#ger of the Mutual Union Improvement interests of the roads wero irreconcilable [ OmPany, an _incorporated concern, the to the extent of an agreement to pool | oDiects of which as stated, are the accu- wostern. business, Tho statement was | Mmulation of a fund for the purchase of made to officials of the Burlington road | roal estate, its improvement and distri- present that no such concession could be | bution among shareholders, Bonds are made, that the Burlington would have to | issued monthly for & and the holders of recognize the Union Pacific and |® Portion of these are entitlod to premi- Northwestern, Wabash, Rock Island and |gms. The method of distributing pre- St Paul roads as pratically | iums or prizes as they are declared to one system in the handling of compoti- | e is alleged to be in the form of the lot- tive trans-Missouri business, and _that | tory drawings, hence the arrost. Gon. there could be no other basis for negotia- | €l McAuley was paroled iu custody of tion. The Burlington said it would not | counsel for examination. proceed upon any such basis and to-day's answer was final. Its representatives a A withdrew and the sub.committee ad.| BrLUFFron, O., January 25.—A mixed journed sine die. train on the Lake lumls & Western was It is_acknowledged on all sides that|Wrecked near here this morning by a the period_for negotiation is past. One [broken rail. A passonger car turned official said it was plainly apparent that | over and took fire, but the conductor the strength of the contestants would |8aved the lives of the passengers by ex- have to be tested by a show of ability in | tivguishing the fire with snow. A brake- securing business on the agreed basis of | mun had both foet frozen. The injured rates or by open war. It is thought cer- [ty are James W, Shaw, of Ne- tain that rates will be maintained till | braska, scapula fractured and badly the abandonment of the avowed purposes e Saved by the Conducror. ments expire by limitation or notice, and | Mrs. Langan, of Bluffton; all seriously somo officials affect to believe that rates|and several others slightly injured, It will bo maintained after that date by|is 50 below zero, __~ ° mutusl understanding. . T The general passenger agents of lines in- | STOSL Ok AR RAIR. . 0, torcated n business betwoen Chicagoand | Enir, Pa., January 25.—Frank S, Kansas City met to-day for the purpose | Heath, lato propriptor of The Corey Her- of adjusting rates east from the latter 81d and chairman of the ljunngglvnnm city, which have been/somewhat demoral- | state greenback committee in 1882, was izod since the troubié between the sea- | arrested last night charged with sending board trunk lines and Missouri river |indecent matter Jin advertisements of linos, growing out of the paying of com- | abortioniats, otc., through the mail., In missions by the latter at New York on|# hearmg this morning he gave bail in the business to the Missouri river, Tho rep- [ sum of $1,600 to appear in_the United resentative of the Burlington road stated | States court in Pittsburg in February. that it was not willing to enter any tem- - N — 3 porary arrangewent, but insisted on a A Buit for $800.000, February Ist, when all pooling arrang- | bruised; A. J. Owens, O. 8. Langan and | d can pi solid, substantial agreement to secure maintenance of rates west-bound from Chicago as well as east-hound from Kan- sas City. Without reaching a conclusion the meeting adjourned till the S1st inst., when it is thought such an agreement will be reached. A FRIVATE SETTLEMENT, A private conference was held to-night between Potter of the Burlington, Cable of the Rock Island, Merrill of the St. Paul, and Kimball of the Union Pacific, lasting till a late hour, Kimball states that matters in dispute between the Burlington and tripartite roads were talkad over, and that an agreement was practically reached so that there is little doubt the trouble will be icably ad- justed and a war of rates avoided, declined to state the terms agreed upon, AN INQUEST HELD, Members of the defunct Iowa Pool as- sociation held a final meeting this after- noon, Referee George M. Bogue presid- ing. Four old cases v.mnu«min‘g1 robate and special rates were ued, decisions rendered and penalties inflicted. The meeting, which portcok somewhat of the character of an inquest, after considering other unimportant deferred business, ad- journed sine die, | KESTORATION OF KATES, It is learned by a pripate dispatch re- ceived from Denver this evening that the war in freight rates on Utah freight has been settled and that all interested lines will restore rates Monday. It is also asserted that the trouble in the Uiwh passenger pool is practically adjusted. THE DEADHEADS, westorn trunk of passes expired by limitation Januwry Puinapknraia, January 25, — Argu- THE DEATH CHAMBERS. Where the Crosted Buttes Miders Perished, The Terrible Scenes the Search Revealed, Bodies Blackened, Broken and Mutilated. The Awful and Fruitless Fight for Life. Feara that the “Mollie Maguires” Will Wreak Vengeance on the Boss. THE WRECKED MINE. EXPLORATION OF THE CHAMBERS, Dexver, January 26—For thirty-six hours twenty to thirty men have been constantly employed searching for dead bodies in the mines in Crosted Butte. The work is very slow as the mine is badly choked with piles of displaced tim- bers and other obstructions. At noon ten bodies had been found in the main ontry, terribly burned and blackened,and in soveral cases arms and legs were found broken, and the bodies otherwise mutilat- ed, The workmen gained entrance to the chamber No. 1, this morning, but no bodies were found there. Searching fur- ther, however, eghteen bodies were found almost in a heap in the air passage leading to the up cart near the entrance. The men, alarmed but not injured by the explosion, evidently attempted to reach the furnace room and were overcome by fire damp within 200 feet of it. Fifty fest further back, six more were tound, a'l evidentl, suflocated. Some had tied handkerchiefs over their mouths. This makes a total of thirty- four bodies found and includes all at work in chamber No. 1. These bodies are now being brought to the main catry and will soon be brought to the surface. The workmen will then begin a search for bodies in chamber No. 2. This is further into the mine and is undoubtedly where the explosion took place. It is expected the bodies there to be found are badly burned. It is known that there were fifty-nine men and boys in the mine and to the list of names sent last night may be added: David Thomas, John Thomas, and Miles Roach, which complotes the list except one. The cause of the accideat is not yet definitely known. The mine inspector who inspected it six weeks ago says it had the worst air and best ventilation of nn% mine in the state. 'he foreman made his regular reunds yesterday morning, He found gas in three of the rooms. In two of these the men were given safety lamps. A miner who belonged to the third was told nat to go in until a break in the brattice was repaired. It is thought the miner disre- garded orders and went into the room without a safety lamp, e An inquest will ge held to-morrow. The ‘Mollie Maguires” of the mines have an enmity toward mine boss John Gibson, and it is feared they will“take oceasion to wreak vengeance on him. e —— Board of Trade Resolutions. ‘WasHINGTON, January 25.—The Na-. tional Board of Trade to-day adopted a resolution reciting the enormous value of property annually consumed by fire in this country, m({ recommending the appointment of a board to investigate the cause of such great waste of the country’s wealth, A resolution was adopted urg- ing congress to repeal the law making the coinage of silver dollars compulsory and that a proportion of all taxes on home products be repealed and the in- ternal revenue bureau abolished, was laid on the table. Resolutions were adopted recommending to congress the passage of the measure now pending be- fore congress to allow the president the privilege of vetoing separate items of ap- propriation bills, and declaring that the uty of congress to enact laws for pre- serving the rights guaranteed by the constitution and allowing freedom of in = tercourse among citizens of the several states withur! payncut of local taxes or licenses. D na'e uhen turned on the ex- pediency of .duj.ijou by this country of measures of retaliation against nations which discriminate against American K. Po’I'lm result of the discussion was the adoptisn of a resolution requesting con- gress (o act promptly to secure a removal of unjust discriminations against Ameri- roducts. jjourned to meet in Indianapelis, May 12, Kaxaas Ciry, January 26.—The hor- The agreement of 1883 between the 1es regulating the issue ment was begun to-day in the case of | ticultural conyention adopted resolutions Sulzbach Bros., bankers, Germany, |calling on the government to establish against the estate of John Edgar Thom- j experimental stations for horticulture eon, once president of the Pennsylvania |and forestry to solve the problem of road, to recover $800,000 damages, al-|adoption to climate, best methods of leged to have been suffered by misman- | cultivation, ete.; also for the creation of agement of the construction of the|a board of foresery to establish sub-sta- Davenport & St. Paul railroad. tions in each climatic belt, that agents be sent abroad to select seeds, roots, in 'Frisco. ete., for experiment, and inviting the SAN J January 26,—8ix | Canadian government to J'o.i’n the move- thousand admirers greeted Sullivan the|ment. A~ committee to 't » bill cov- “‘slugger” this morning. One thousand | ering these points includes J. Sterli men followed his carriage choering. The | Morton of Nebraska, R. W. Turner of sparring combination this evening was a | Nehraska, Professor Budd of Towa, Rob- isappoiitment. ert Douglass of Illinois, and Porter Earle : of inois. Adjourned to meet in New Orleans during the world's fair, SCROFULA Probably no form of diseass 18 50 generally dis- tributed among our whole population us Serofula. ‘Alnost every individual has this latent polson coun- ing his velns., Tho terrible sullerings endured by thoso afflicted with scrofulous sores cannot be understood by others, and tho intensity of thels yratitude when they find o remedy that cures them, astoulshes & well persou, We refer by pers 3 ‘mission 10 Miss A ”ood § Snh G Whiter, Frozen Twins. of Wamer, N. i, Lanserry Miiws, Ind., Jaouary 20, - ——— The Fire Record. ; SaN Franaisco, January 25, —Dallas, the countyseat of Wasco county, Oregon, was visited by o destructive fire this morning. A «quarter of a block of busi- ness houses was burnod. lLoss about $60,000; insurance, $20,000. — est Ever Known CINCINNATI, January 20, —Specials from Ohio points indicate the coldest weather ever known-—24 to 32 below 4ero, e twin babes of Isaac M\rl.m.l threv u.z months old, wera frozen to death in & | theseverity of ‘whichconfined erib placed 1n & irorens, Bisinatitn DN e Nods R ——— out. friend ways: “1did not think 1t 80 Glad, shake " possible for beb 10 live many mouths; she was 1v- New Yok, Juuuary 25.— President| gucedios mer skeloton, Her cure i havdly less Arthur called on General Grant this evening, and veturns to Washington to- wmorrow, —— noss fuilures for the lust seven duys, ! B17, awainst 420 the Jrevious week. & positive cure for erofula in Soras, 1ic0 $L00, sx for $500. an :T..- & cu..mnu..‘tmm‘ g