Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 2, 1884, Page 1

i AT = J Aree— N o A Y AMMIIDNAY LRRRITARY %. 1884, THE OwMAHA DaAIiLy BEE - — — THIRTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA, NEB. S THE DAWN OF JUSTICE. | The Honse Passssr meflBm to Relieve Filz John Porter, Eloquent Tributes to His Record and Soldierly Qualities. The Speeches in Opposition to the Passage of the Bill, Laird Speaks and Votes for the Wronged General. The Vote by Yeas and Nays (183 to 78) Given in Detail, s FORTY-EIGHTH SENATE, WasHiNGToN, February 1.— Thesenate was not in session to-day, having ad- journed yeaterday till Monday. HOUSE. The house dispensed with the morning Lour, and went into committee of she whole on the Fitz John Porter bill, Mr., Springer (dem., Il1.) in the chair. Mr. Wolford (dem., Ky.) spoks in sup- port of the bill, criticising Mr. Horr's speech. The gentleman from Michigan, he said, assumed that confederates were interested in this case, and argued that self-respect should prevent them from taking part in the debate. He had con- sidered confederates members of the American congress, with the rightand the duty to vote on every question, He THE CONGRESS, - hoped no man of the confederate army had got so mad over the fight that, after twenty years, he could not do an act of justice to an opponent. He hoped that no man would get up and say, ‘'l cannot vote on this bill. 1 am interested; I am still mad.” He understood his confoder- ato friends were hdre, loving the flag and loving the country. Mr. Miiliken (rep., Me.) inquired whether he was to understand that the gentleman asked members to vote for the relief of Porter as an act of conciliation of his confederate friends. If asked on that ground, he would vote for relicf. Mr. Wolford replied that he asked it on the highest ground ever presented. He demanded it as an act of justice to a long injured man. [Applause on the democratic side.] Mr. Wolford passed on to review the case, frequently ap- plauded by members whocollectedaround him, buthis remarks at the time were almost inaudible. Mr. Calkins (rep., Ind.) opposed the bill, and said he knew there was no doubt about its passage. The hook was ovened where the page was turned down twenty years ago, but those who opposed that action would not adopt the means which they believed Porter used on the 27th and 29th of August, and refuse to fire a shot at the ememy. On the contrary they would adopt the more gallant con- ductof the brave soldiers, sailors and marines on board the Cumberland when she was raked fore and aft and sinking. They fired their guns at the enemy, mounted the yard arms and gave three <heers for the country. [Applause on the republican side. ] This measure might be called a vindication, but he denied it, and more than four million voters of the country would deny it. Speaking of the Grant letter, Mr. Calkins said he knew Grant well, re- ceived his early military experience un- der him. He loved and honored Grant ‘as a brave soldier, but when that soldier came out in favor of this bill he could only say that none of his officors ever dared disobey apllike order of his [Ap- lause]. Members were asked by this gill to say in the language of the gentle— mao from New York (Slocum) that Abraham Lincoln, Edwin M. Stanton and Gen. Halleck conspired to organize & court to convict Porter, and the gentle- man undertook to attack the name of Wm. T. Sherman tohelp him out. If these scenes are to be reenacted here there might come a time when the bugle blast of the Grand Army of the Kepublic by the side of their camp fires would ask Gen. Sherman to come out of retire- ment and lead them again to wict.ry as he did before [Ap- lause on the republican side]. The ouse was asked to write where James A, Garfield 22 years ago wrote *‘guilty” the words ‘“‘not guilty,” to march to the sacréd dust of Abraham Lincoln, and where he wrote *‘approved,” write the word ‘‘reversed.” The house might write these words if it desired, but the people would reverse its writing, splt upon it and spurnit. [Applause on the republican side. ] JMr. Phelps (rep., N. J.) spoke in favor of the bill. and stated he had private let- ters from (leneral Garfield which he could twist into an approval of this bill, a8 other gentlemen twisted private letters into a disapproval of it. Porter had his faults, but he was not guilty of treason. It members forgot that wound 1 Mexico, let them not forget the 30th of August, 1862, when he got an order that was sent in time, when the Fifth army corps went into battle with Porter 2t its head, when they marched “‘into the jaws of death, into the gates of hell.” 'fhat was magnificent, and that also was war. [Applause on the democratic side. That corps left 2,200 men on the field, That magnificent corps was and is, and always would be the steadfast, unfaltering friends of Porter. A leader of the con- federacy went down the steps of the cap- itoi threatening to return and destroy it, yet he w-llmg in freedom. Men who penned union soldiers in Andersonville and Libby prison still live. Officers trained at West Point, whose treason needed no investigation, are even sitting in this chamber, Should Porter be the only vietim! Should he be the sacrifice of the nation? Mr. Boutelle (rep. Me.) said as a dut; to his slate and members of the fift army corps who resided there, he wished to enter & protest against the passage of the bill. IL denied that it was the unan- imous desireof the men who fought under Perter that he should be restored to the army. In refutation of that he had this morning received a letter from a gallant cavalryman, who carried Porter's flag as his orderly, stating that the ment among the old corps was almost one of universal astonishment and indignation at the inaction of their general on Au- st it ber of short speeches were A number of sl e made, all but two, those by Mr, Laird (rep., Neb,) and Mr. Cutcheon (rep., Mich.) in opposition to the bill, Mr. Steele (rep., Ind.) moved to strike out the name of Fitz John Porter and in- sort B. Barnet. Rejocted. Mr. Calkine offered a substitute pro- viding for the convening of a new court martial to review the case. Lost. Mr. Converse (dem., 0.) offered an amendment making Fitz John Porter's retirement compulsory. This was agreed to in_committee, but subsequently re- versed by the house. Mr. Bayne (rop., Pa.) offered an am- endment striking out the words ‘ap- pointment under it,” and inserting ‘‘the passage of this act.” Agreed to. The committee rose and the bill was ordered engrossed and read a third time. Mr. Curtin (dem., Pa.) then took the floor to close the debate in_favor of the bill. He knew Fitz John Porter well, and in the beginning of the war that general was the most enlightened and ardent military disciplinarian, Tho rec- cord would show one significant fact, that the firet citizens who asked for the redress of his wrongs were Horace Greeley, Henry Wilson and himself. Certainly the fidelity of those persons to the Union could not be questioned. Por- ter had never app.onched him to ask him to be his advocate. He was pained to hear a distinguished member of the house (Koifer) over and_over again say Porter was a cowsrd. Before God he never knew a Porter who was a fool or a cow- ard. [Applause.] Ho gave an interest- ing Mistory of the movements of the Army of the Potomac in the beginning of tho war, and nearly every member of the house stood in a circle around him and frequently applauded his remarks. In a brilliant peroration, which was warmly applauded, he appealed to the house to do justice to a wronged man. The bill then passed—yeas, 184; nays, 78; as follows: Yeas—Adams (N, Y.), Arnot, Bagley, Ballentine, Barbour, Bayne, Beach, Belmont, Bennett, Blanchard, Bland, Blount, Boyle, Breck- enridge, Broadhead, Buchanan, Buckner, Burleigh, Cabell, Caldwell, Candler, Carlton, Cassidy, Clardy, Clay, Clements, Cobb, Collins, Connolly, Cook, Cos- grove, Cox (N.Y.), Cox (N. C.), Crisp, Culberson (Texas), Curtin, Dargan, Davidson, Davis (Mo.), Deuster, Dibrell, Dockery, Dorsheimer, Dowd, Duncan, Eldredge, Evans (8. 0.), Farrel, Fiedlar, Findlay, Finerty, Follet, Foran, Forney, Fyan, Gibson, Glascock, Graves, Green, Greenleaf, Halzell, Harmer, Hatch (Mo.), Haynes, Hemphill, Henly, Herbert, Hewitt (N. Y.), Hewitt (Ala), Hill, Holman, Hopkins, Houseman, Hunt, Hurd, Hutchins, James, Jeffords, Jones (Wisconsin), Jones (Arkansas), Jones (Ala,,) Jordan, Kean, King, Kleiner, Laird, Lamb, Lanham, LeFevre, Lewis, Long, Lore, Lovering, Lowry, Ly- man, McAdoo, McMillan, Matson, May- bury, Miller (Tex.,) Mitchell, Morgan, Morrison, Moulton, Muldrow, Murphy, Murtry, Mutchler, Neece, Nichols, Oates, O'Hara, O'Neill (Mo.,) Pattou, Pearce, Peel (Ark.,) Phelps, Poland, Post, Pot- ter, Pryor, Pusey, Rankin, Ranney, Ray (N. H.,) Reagan, Reese, Riggs, Robertson (Ky.,) Robmson (N. Y..) Rockwell, Rogers (Ark.,) (N. Y.,) Rosecrans, Scales, Seney, Seymour, Shaw, Singleton. Skin- ner (N. C.), Slocum, Smith, Snyder, Spriggs, Springer, Stevens, Stewart (Tex. ), Stewart (Vt.), Stockslager, Storm, Sumner (Cal.), Sumner (Wis.), Taylor (Tenn.), Thompson, Throckmorton, Till- man Townshend, Tucker, Tulley, Turner (Ky.), Turner (Ga.), Van Alstyne, Vance, Van Eaton, Ward, Warner (Tenn.), Wellborn, Weller, Wemple, Wilkins, Williams (Wis.), Wilson (W. Va.), Wi- nans (Mich.), G. D, Wise (Va.), Woiford, Wood, Woodward, Worthington, Yaple, York and Young—184. Nays—Adams (I11.), Anderson, Atkin- son, Barr, Bingham, Boutelle, Brainerd, Breitung, Brewer (N.Y.), Brewer(N.J.), Browne (Ind.), Brumm, Calkins, Camp- bell (Pa.), Cannon, Converse, Culbert- son (Ky.), Cullen, Cutcheon, Davis([]L{. Davis (Mass ), Dingley, Dunham, Ef Evans (Pa.), Alexander, wood, Goff, Guen- ther, Hanback, ~ Hart, Hatch (Mich.), Henderson (Ill.)," Hepburn, Hiscock, Holmes, Hooper, Horr, Hook, Johnson, Keifer, Lacey, Lawrence, Mc- Cormack, McCord, McKinley, Milliken, Morey, Morrell, Nelson, Nutting, Par- ker, Payne, Payson, Peele (Ind.), Per- kins, Peters, Pettibone, Prico, Reed, Robinson (Ohio), Rowell, Russeil, Ryan, Skinner (N. Y.), Spooner, Steelo, Stene, Steghenson, Strait, Struble, J. B. Taylor (Ohio), E. B. Taylor (Ohio), Thomas, Wadsworth, Wakefield, Washburn, Wea- ver, White (Minn.), and Whiting—78. When Mr. Poland (rep., Vt.) cast his vote in the affirmative there was a round of applause on the democrati h following members were among those paired: Blackburn, White (Ky.), Brown (Pa.), Ermentrout, Howey, Hitt, Eaton, Wait, Budd, George, Kasson, Talbot, Kelly, Randall, Miller (Pa.), Ketcham, Warner (0.), Wilson (Iowa), Rice, Cov- ington, Holton, Valentine, Hardy and " GONE TO THE BAD, A Chagler of Wickekuess Witk s Varions Characters, Collins, the Nevada Murderer, Hung Yesterday. A Brute for Whom Hanging is Too Mood. A Difference of Opinion on an Ex- tradition Case. Embezzlers and Counterteiters and Other Crooks Pulled In, CRIME AND ORIMINALS. AN EXTRADITION CASE, Ganvesrox, February 1.—A Larede special says: In the case of the young citizen named Tremble, arrested a few daye ago under a warrant from District Judge Russell, acting as extradition agent, upon the demand of the Mexican government, who chargo Tremble with complicity in the National railway rob- bery, Secretary Frelinghuyson takes the ground that the treaty does not author- ize the delivery of an American citizen to Mexican courts for trial. Judge Rus- sell holds that the treaty makes it in- cumbent to deliver tho prisoner to Mexi- co, and says he will do 8o unless prohib- ited by superior suthority. AN EMBEZZLER CAUGHT, Sroux Faurs, Dak., February 1—Al- fred M. Flaggerty was arrested this ove- ning for embezzling §1,600 from the Pro- ducers’ marble works of Chicago. ~ The money was sent here toloan n:fiuuurt.gnga but ho used it to settle othur embexle- ments. Bail was fixed at £3,000 which the prisoner will not attempt to furaish. When arrested he tried to shoot himeolf but was prevented by the officers. There are numerous similar claimg against him. COLLINS YANKED UP. Nevaoa Crry, February 1.—C. P. Collins, who robbed the Moores Flat stage September 1, 1879, and killed W. F. Cummings, a banker, tobbing him of two gold bars worth $7,000, was hanged this morning. The execution took place during a violent rain storm, and was witnessed by a large crowd. THEY OUGHT TO. Vixc s, Ind., February 1.—E. G. Lindsey is in jail at Princeton, Ind., on a charge of ravishing his own daughter, aged 13. Word is received here that ar- rangements are being made at Petera- burg, his home, for a mob to go to Princeton to-night for the purpose of lynching him. QUEER MAKERS CAUGHT. Sr. Louts, February 1.—(eorge Brown and A. C. Gibson, two notoriouscounter- feiters, were arrested yesterday at Kirby- ville, in this state, and taken to Spring- field for safe keeping. Brown was once concerned in a train robbery inColorado. A CHANGE OF VENUE, LiNcowy, IlL, February 1,—Applica- tion was made here to-day for a change of venue in the case of Orrin A. Carpen- ter, under indictment for the murder of Zora Burns, Q S —— RATES AND FREIGHTS, The Chicago Conference, CnicaGo, February 1.—The commis- sioners of the Missouri river lines ap- pointed yesterday for the purpose of drafting an agreement for maintenance of passenger rates both ways Detween all river points and Chicago reported to the general passenger agents of these lines to-day. The report was ratisfactory, but it was decided to submit it to the local passenger agents here for the pur- pose of deciding whether only local con- ditionsare affected. It probably will be adopted to-morrow. A conference between linesropresented in the Western Trunk association will be held here Monday for the purpose of consdering the existing trouble in freight rates to Utah points, which the Union Pacific has ordered restored to achedule rates, but which its connections east of tho Missouri river have thus far declined to accede to pending negotia- tions with the Burlington. It is believed a meeting of these lines with the Bur- lington for the purp pending complications will follow ina day or two 1 e ———— Iiinols Roads, Cuicaco, February 1.—The permanent state road association has issued the fol- lowing, signed by Carter Harrison, presi- dent, and Phocion Howard, of the agi- iation committee, to the tax-payers of llinois: Llis. Adjourned until Monday. e ——— A Huge Robbery in Austria. New York, February 1.—Inspector Byrnes to-day received s circular from officials at Budda Pesth, Hungary, giv- ing particulars of a great bank robbery at that place, recently mentioned by cable. The massive iron chest contain- ing the Austrian bank notes was stolen. from the platform in front the main postoflice while in' transit; 240,000 florins were in it, 351,000 gulden notes, 1,300 one hundred, 100 fifties, 1,000 tens and 1,000 one gul- den notes. The box had four safety locks and was in & wicker work basket covered with green kbaize. No trace was found of the thieves, who, it is surmised, fled to this country. A reward of $500 is offered for information leading to the apprehension of the thieves and §1,600 for their arrest or the recov- ery of the notes, - — Scooped Ohickens and All, Puicaverpiia, February 1.— Sixty policemen at midnight last night made a descent upon a cock pit st the new hunt- ing park, secured ninoty-five spectators of tga battle, captured twenty teams and also secured seventy-two chickens of all sizes and breeds, any number of gutls, scales and other paraphernalia, The men wero fined 81150 each, Seventy. two paid the fine, but the remaining twenty-three were committed. ———— Business Failures, New Yovk, February 1.—Business failures the last seven days were 373 as compared with 817 the previous week. “‘At the January meetin board of agriculture the unsnimounsly adopted. “Wugreas, The last therefore be it *‘ Resolved, That this board tion. . “The permanent state road association also calls attention to the value of said It is & local option law, and, te be by » majority of the voters in each township, tem of gravel, rock and macadam roads in each ich will in a few years se- cure that desirable end and operate to suvo the tax-payers a large amount of The association hopes the friduds of good roads will inau- gurate the necessary details required by law, made effective, must be endorsed 1t provides for beginning a township, w! their road tax levy. the law.” e A Raging Rive Prerssure, February 1 gheny river began -lull{n to 11 o'clock it had risen many hours, miles, and traffic is entirely suspendes Several rafts of lumber haye been swopt away, and great damage is expected i the rise continues, A Brilliant Career rtoned, New Youk, February 1.—7he Cath olic Review anuounces the détl e of considering of the state ollowing was - general assembly passed what is called & hard road law; | @ upon | the farmers and business men of the -Lp:w the necessity of adopting and putting in force sail law at the ensuing April elec- ATURDAY MORNING was rocently mado domestio prelate by | Pope Leo, A brilliant career was before , FEBRUARY 2, 1884, | ANOTHER HOLOCAUST. him, 2 ¢ = EROM WASHINGTON, A Terrible Gasolino Bxplosion &t Al : THE I ,"”” T ; lh’mufl‘ thl Wasmisarox, February 1 —The de. ) croase of the pubiic debt during January was 811,058,004; decrease sinoe June 30, 1883, $ 88; cash in the treasury, gold cortificates, S101,- ver certificates, 8110,187,061; cortificates of deposit, 816,880,000; re- funding cortificatos, 8307,050; legal tenders, 83,406,810; fractional currency, $0,087, A NEW FEATURE DISCOVERED. A few davs ago Secretary Chandler made a requisition upon the civil service commission for nominations for & vacancy in the clerical force of his department, and in response the commission certified to him the hames of four persons from which to make a selection. This aftor. noon Chandler returned to the commia- sioners the neminations sent him accom- panied by a note, in which he stated that having carefullyinspected the exam- ination of the papers of the four persons whoso names were certified, ho renched the conclusion that none of the candidates had shown suficient intelligence to give promise of filling the vacanoy in his department ac- ceptably. This action of the secretary raises an interesting question that has not yet been considered by tho commis- sioners. Commissioner Thoman said to: night that the persons whose names were certified to the secretary passed fair examination before the womm and in certifying them all the provisions ot the law and civil service rules had been fully complied with. In his judg- ment no other certifications of names would be made to the secretary under this requisition, SOUTHERN OUTRAGES, WasHINGTON, February 1.—All mem- |sion wrenched and broke windows in | motion of the Bonapartist cause. , | block in the middleof the town. Its Force. The Inmates Roasted to Death in the Burning Debris Before the Eyes of Their Horror Stricken Relatives, time Before the Fire Breaks Out. GASOLINE FIRED, A TERRIFIC EXPLOSIC Avuiance, 0., February 1.—A fright- ful gasolino explosion occurred in F. M. Orr's stove and tin store, demolishing the building and burying in the ruins an unknown number of people. Four per- sous have been extricated and four more ave known to have been inside. Men are at work to rescue, if possible, those still alive and roc the hodies of the dead. The atore is in & large new brick 1t in rumored that a child turned the spigot of the gasoline tank, and the gas escap- ing was ignited Dy the fire in the stove, Several people were in the store, and two families lived on the second and third floors. Bemde those engulfed in the debris, many were more or less seri- ously injured. The force of the explo- Buildings Utterly Demolished by Talking With .the Imprisoned Vie- NO. 194, Art School nssociation. of the Cincinnati Musoum — RAL PO iN NEWS, IREAT QONFLAGRATION, _Panss, February 1,—Thero was a se- rious conflagration last evening noar the cometery Pero La Chaise., A lace factory, sovoral coal dopots, shops and dwellings were dostroyed. A hundred familios wore rendored homeless. THE ABSCONDER. Lonvoy, February 1.—Blake May, ab- sconding member of tho firm of P, W. Thomas, Sons & Co., which failed for over 1,000,000 and having no assets, is bolieved to have sailed for tho United States. A VERY FAIR REASONS, Havana, February 1.—The Spanish government will furnish as ground for the extradition of Carlos Agnero, ro- cently arrested at Koy West by the United States authorities, proof of his guilt of threo highway robberies, with murder. In the case of Emeliano Mures, who #as rocently arrosted by Cuban au- thorities at Sagua La Grando, the gov- ornment will bring forward proef of his guiltin seizing the property of persons on account of their release from captivity. ENGUAND'S POLICY, LoxvoN, February 1.-—Goochen, & member of parliament and formerly spe- cinl ambassador to Turkey, in a specch at Ripon said England cannot and dare not ignore the question of the slave trado in Soudan, and she must teach the Mus- sulmen that in any conflict with Chris- tians Mussulmen are certain to be finally defeated. JEROME AGITATES, Pants, February 1.—Prinze Jerome Napoleon informed the Bonopartist dep- u‘ation which waited upon him that mu timo had arrived to commence a legal, open and untiring agitation for the pro- 1t has bers of the senate’committee on privileges | other buildings for an entire square. The | been decided to hold & large meeting on and elections were present at the meet- |damage to structures is estimated at|the 17th inst. to discuss the necessity of ing this morning. The Sherman resolu- tion was under ccnsideration, Senator Hoar, chairman, was directed to ask the senate for authority for sub-committees to act. The opinion was expressed, and met with favor, that the Virginia inves- tigation take place in Washington and a sub-committee be sent to Mississippis NOTES, bad Detailed reports are coming in to the postoftice department of frauds practiced upon postmasters by Postoftico Inspector Lanier. It is said at the départment that the postmasters must lose the money. Lanier has fled to South Amer- ica. Robertson, of Pittsburg, a member of the Glassblowers' association, appeared before the committee on labor this after- noon, and suggested that such an amend- ment be offered to Foran’s bill to pro- hibit the importation of foreign contract laborers as would allow menufacturers to import foreigners for new industries es- tablished in this country, until American mechanics could learn the new trade. Representative Hopkins, chairman of the committee, in an interview said the work- men of the country are opposed to any reduction of the tariff, and he was of opinion that the committeo he repre- sented would oppose any such measnre a8 might come from tho ways and means committee. The senate committee on education and labor has ordered favorable reprts as follows: On Logan's joint resolution providing for payment per diem of gov- ernment laborers for certain holidays, when clerks and other salaried employ- ees are 80 paid; on Blair’s bill to a-u{- lish & bureau of statistics and labor in the interior department; on Blair's bill to fix and regulate the hours of labor of la- borers, workmen and mechanics employ ed by the government of the United States; on George's bill providing that servants, employes, etc., nLnH be entitled to damages for injury sustained through the carelessness or megligence of em- ployeas. The housb committee on war claims has instructed Representative Geddes to roport favorably the bill allowing officers of the army who served in the late war pay from the date they actually entered on the performance of their duties. The president has approved the bill for removal of the romains of General Ord from Cuba to Washington, e e—— FIRIS RECORD, THOUSANDS LOST, Dexver, February 1.—The Denver & Rio Grande round-house, with six loco- ives, was destroyed by fire this morn- Loss between §60,000 and $80,000; partially insured. PuesLo, Col., February 1.—Fire this morning destroyed six residences and Desmond’s livery stable. Loss, $20,000; insurance, 7,000 Belmont, was burned yesterday. $20,000. urrnce §10,000, — - The Gamblers' Trick. Darras, Te: lication in t/ county court to a standstill yesterday, caused the opinion to prevail thal fines and costs involved agurey such decision was rendered. gamblers, Bax Fraxcisco, DarrixaroN, Wis., February 1.—The business portion of the little town of business of the term is null and void. The greater number of cases decided are against keepers of gambling houses, the ebruary 1.—Judge Hoffman, of the Ubited States court, in £75,000, The catastrophe occurred at 4 o'clock this afternoon, Orr's block was loveled to the ground and two brick blocks, one wn each side, succumbed to the shock, while others further on were shattered, riddled and badly injured. In a few moments flames arose from the ruins and a fire alarm was sounded, but the fire gained such headway as to nearly con- sume the ruins and burned twdhouses, but it was finally got under control. Meanwhile tho sceno was harrowing in the extreme. Men, women and children, bareheaded and wringing their hands, relatives of the inmates of the buildings destroyed, wandered about in the hopo- lessness of despair at their inability to save the unfortunates. F. M, Orr, Elmer Orr, his son, Mre, Homer Highland, a daughter, Mrs. Frank Evans, and two children aged two and four months, were known to have been in the building at the time of the explosion., These all perished. The women and children were in the second and third stories, and it is supposed were killed by the falling walls, Orr and son_both were spoken to while confined under the debris, but wero burned to death. The bodies were all recovered at 10 o'clock to-night, crushed and charred 80 as to bo hardly recogniza- ble. The only person in the Orr build- ing known to have escaped is Frank Evans, whosewife and children perished. Bosides those killed, the following have broken limbs, or are cut and bruised b; flying bricks, etc.: Robert Joyce, Fran! Evans, Frank Tries, J. D, Lewis, Jerry Miller, Maggie Miller and John Baker. John Curry and Charles H. Hayden, of Duprez & Benedict's iinstrels, were blown ont of Orr’s store through a plate glass window and carried clear across the street. Both were badly injured, but will recover. Business was entirely sus- Emnded in the city after the explosion. tis thought all the bodies have been recovered. e The Towa Legislature. ate Mr. Carson offered a petition in favor ot a bill to secure a uniform series of school book. Referred. The following bills were introduced: By Mr. Hall—To punish the act of taking human life and regulating im- tence. without justification. school Iaws of the state of lowa, repeal’ subgtitutes therefor. ho president announced a me from the governor relating to the hei quently had been mustaken for pleuro. pneumonia, but is a bronchial affection which , February 1.—The pub. [ Proves fatal. Herald of what purported No. 6, recommending its p: e aftel amend Adjourned te February 8, T — The Ripple Brook Disaster, that the wor of peace officers for taking human life Mr. Hutchinson— To revise the ing certain sections of law and enacting € | other condition of live stock iu the state, ac- companied by a report of the professor of veterinary science in the state agri- cultural college, showing there had never been a case of pleuro-pneumonia in the state, but that a disease now and then Loss | was found in certain localities which fre- Reports of committees: Poyneer,from to be a decision of the court of appeals|the committee on federal relations, re- of Galveston, declaring unconstitutional | the proceedings of all terms of county courts exceeding four terms, authorized by the .ecent election, brought the Dallay ported joint resolution No. b, recom- mending its passage; also joint resolution Tn the house no quorum was presnet, and it stands adjourned till Friday, Feb- ating | ruary 8. many thousand dollars, The judge of the court of appeals telegraphs that no It appears| Iswiaxarous, February 1.—The cor- that the bogus report was started by the | oner began an inquest on the remains of the five victims of the wreck at Broad Ripple to-day. The testimony shows {mun repairing the bridge had removed the permanent supporting rods, supplying their place with tempor- ree faet in as | Of the treat The Pittsburg & Western railway tracks are submerged for rmu:ly in | senator to-night. Rome, February 1, of Rev. Louis E, Hostlot, rector of the American college. Deceas.d was a native of Brooklyn, and ary rods. 1t is generally thought the accident was caused by the weakeuing of the bridge, as a result of removing the permanent rods. One body has not yet n recovered. Soamen and Clark, the men seriously hurt, are still alive, but ave very low, a long explanatory decision to-day on the Chineae habeas corpus cases, con- cludes that in accordance with a Chinese who were © United States at the date of the treaty, November 17, 1880, and who left the United States before the passage of the restriction act on May 16, 1882, are en- e Cinclonati's Art School. f | titled to land. CiscinNari, February 1,—The board . T of trustees of the Cincinnati university ) The Hopes of Monday, have transferred to the Oincinnati Lovisviuee, February 1.—It was ex- | Museum association sl ondowments for pected that a caucus would wvowminate ala schonl of design, heretofure under their a ravision of the constitution, THE IRATE FARMERS, Du February 1.—The conven- tion of farmers at Carlow denounced Lord Rossmore, the Orangemen, and ro. solved to prohibit hunting on their lands, and if necessary in order to pre- vent it, declare they will poison l‘mir grounds, et A REIGN OF TERROR, ViexNA, Febrnary 1.—The increase of ovime, espocially robberies, has almost caused a reign of terror. A scavenger to-day received a cartride froma stranger and handed it to a policeman, The cartridge exploded, probably fatally wounding the policomon. A MATTER OF DIPLOMACY. Camo, Februsry 1,—A spy captured near Trinkitat says 7,000 rebels are five miles distant. The spy is a mere boy, who came armed with a spear to avenge the death of his father, who was killed by a shell Tuesday. The youth fought furiously until wounded. Baker Pasha has sent letters promising full pardon to rebels who submit. The relief of Tokar and Sinkat is dependent upon diplomacy as much a8 upon arms. An unconfinned report states that Sinkat has been re- lieved by friendly tribes. VICTIMB OF GAS. Bupau Pesta, February 1.—A family of five peraons have died and four others are expected to die from the escape of a8, MAKING THE WEBRIS AT, BeLorAvg, February 1.—The govern- ment is selling the property of peasants recently in revolt to raise money to pay the expenses of suppressing the insurrec- tion, A FORT IN A BAD FIX, Loxnox, February 1.-—The commander at Tokar in Soudan, writes: It would be imposeible for our condition to be worse, The rebels filled up all wells outside of town The water inside is brackish and bad, and the troops are suf- fering from diarrhowa, i surrender, of ammunition per man is still left. The rebels continue firing day and night, g oy Paper Electric AvLpany, N. Y., act is 13; capita], $225,000, telegraph companies, some of loeal char- ngle line of tion_illustrated by shall go into the telegraph business, ot Ll A Btrunge Sheep Discase. ) in cases of youug stock often | Wiuconsin and Iowa last Jul in Montana, reports that have died. The animals swell uj bleed at the nose before death. travasated in the intestines. The dis been unknown. — Big Fires in Toronto, Toroxto, Febru; 1.—Adamson’ elevator burned last night. The building is valued st 850,000. 'Th ing cost $190,000, Loss $200,000, A diaries, e — Blue Laws In Pennsylvania. Reanse, Pa, February 1, well-known citizens, treasury. e e— A Farmer Burnel to Death, Bweeny was with- { control, to enable this school to receive drawn from the race. On motion of | the rezent large endowment given by day, when s nomination will be made, ‘vhhu of his father, recontly decoased. I N AR PR Hallaw, the caucus adjourned till Mon. | Nicholas Liongworth in pureuance of the | says Heury I} Holmes Laxcous, Fehruary 1. ton, Nebraska, special to The Jourus burned to death in his The school hereafter will be known as There is great Des Moixes, February 1.—In the sen- | fear that it will be necessary shortly to Only ten to twenty rounds Y. k February 1.—An ex- prisonment of persons under death sén- | amination of the records in the secretary 3 4 X of state's offico shows that within the last The bill provides for tME' punishment | t}req years the number of comparies in- corporated under the telegraph companies 'his includes acter, and also schemes for promotion of every phase of electrical contrivances for transmission of intelligence. In mno aotivity do the h | rocords show nnythi% ke the competi- eso figures. Thin condition of things in this state has wrtinency in view of the discussions at ashington whether the government 81, Paus, February 1.—Marquis De Mores, who shipped 12,000 sheep from 4 to nnm; r cenf o and post. mortem examination discloses blood ex- P is_incurabl d heretofore has being amended; also joint resolution No. RS0 18 THCUTAILS, - DR IGEIVIORS. nd |4 recommending passage after being 1t contmned $100,000 worth of wheat and 45,000 bushels of barley, valued at $60,000. spread rapidly to the adjoining pier, firing it and Chapman & Son's elevator. The latter contained 30,000 bushels of grain iosured for $30,000, The build- 3a. m, another large fire was raging in the western part of the city, Both fires are believed to be the work of incen- ight for horse racing with sleighs on the public streets, were areested and held for trial under the blue laws of 1794, which provides also that upon conviction, the horses be sold and the procoeds placed in the county A Blooming- a dairyman, was Larn tlE mor:ning. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Thirty evttle and all the contents of the build- ing was destroyed. A Berious Threat. Avsrin, Toxas, February 1.—State Senator Terrell received an anynomous letter to-day, threatening that, if free grass in intorfored with fiy the logt ture, all waters in the state of Texas in- closed by pastures will be poisoned. The letver has oreated a sensation, in view of the mysterious aweeping off’ of & number of cattle in certain sections of the state. sl bty Sy A Special Election, Drs Moixes, February 1 —Governor Sherman issued a proclamation to-day for an election to be held in the Fifty- third representative district (county of Delaware) on Tuesday, February 12, to choose a member of the house of repre- sontatives to fill the vacancy caused b the death of Representative Holbrool yostorday. — ble For Contempt. CINNATH, February 1.4-Judge Bax- 1 the United States court to-day, decided that United States courts are the only ones having jurisdiction in suits against recoivers appointed by thofe courts, and that persons bringing in a suit againat such receivers in state courts arc liablo to a charge of contempt. e —— After Many Years, SAN Fraxcisco, February 1.—The groat land suit of E. Merick vs, the heirs of ex-Governor Alvanado has been de- cided by the supreme court in favor of defondants, It has occupied the courts 17 years, and involves 18,000 acres of land, valued at $2,000,000. i ot oo The Ice Moving Out, Sr. Lours, January 1.—The ice is pas- sing out of the river rapidly, doing little damage. A hole was broken in the hull of the steamer Maggie and the wharfboat. at Clarksvillo was sunk. e ——\ ‘Wendell Phillips Seriously 1. Bosron, Febru 1.—Wendell Phil- lips is dangerously ill with heart disease. He appears a triflo more comfortable to- night. o Prossing Washington, Cuicaco, February 1,—Sixty-five members of the Illinois State Press asso- ociation arrived here this evening, and leave for Washington to-morrow. e Bogus Butter, New York World. It was only in last July that the bureau of statistics began to publish the figures showing the exports of oleomargarine, The latest revised statement gives the movement of ‘‘imitation butter” and *oil” for the month of October aud for the ten months ended October 81 in each of the years 1882 and 1883. This state- ment indicates that the trade in oleomar- garine, butterine and the like is growing rapidly, and already has no mean propor- tions.” It may be that our friends abroad are not aware that they are building up our oleo manufacturing interests; but if they buy the patent product, beliovins that it 1s dairy butter, they probably fin that it smells and tastes just as sweet as it would under any other name, especially its own. In Uctober there were 222,741 pounds of so-called *‘imitation butter”and 3,908,- 004 pounds of oil exported, a total of 4,140,806 pounds, valued at $516,650. The. &po!h of for the same month amounted to only 2,957,733 pounds, valued at $072,446, so that the bogus butter manufacturers are getting a pret- ty large share of the foreign trade, what- ever they may be doing for the domeatic market. For the ten months ended October 81 the exports of imitation butter amounted to 1,698,712 pounds, valued at $198,925, and of oil to 31,601,926 pounds, valued ot $4,104,105, malking a total of over 33,000,000 pounds, valued at $4,300,000. The total exports of butter for the same time were only 18,884,346 pounds, hav- ing a value of $3,414,299, being over 40 por cent loss in quantity and 20 per cent lcnn in value than the exports of oleomar- garme, Aunother Alleged Young Lady FPuts Herselt Up ..t a Ratle, Cleveland Pros. The following from The New Lisbon Journal may surprise some people, but to a person wh has vver been in the burg it reads all rigiit. A New Lisbon girl could never get off the shelf any other way: +Wo learn that one of the most novel as well as exiting rafties that ever took place is to come otlfim this town at an early day. A benutiful young lady has made the novel proposition of putting herself up to be raffied off at $1 a chance, At first the matter was treated as a joke, but now that it is known the offer is a bona fide one chances will go off ‘likehot cakes' and heavy premiums will be paid by young men anxious to win this handsome prize. The giil is & mcst bewitching beauty of eighteen summers, respectable and a member of good society. Sheisa decided belle, and is ad by all who- enjoy her acquaintance, and probably envied gfllt the least bit by the young la- dies, She would be an honor to lll[ household, and we are inclined to -| the lucky chap will never regret the meet.” .| PURIFY T BLOOD. ME marvelous results of Hood's Samaparilla upon all humorsand low conditions of the blood prove it the best BLOOD MEDICINE, :‘m has © nelgnborboods have boen the sume time, 1t PURL aud enriches the blood, #ia, biliousness, and all ¢ thestomacheausedvy “JAS. H. PEABODY b, 2. PHYBIOIAN & PURGRON. X e, No. ik S6 4 " chance that gives him a clever help- e eeere——————