Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 3, 1884, Page 1

Vi OMAHA DAILY BEE i .“,-‘ A THIRTEENTH YEAR. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Democralic Programme Regarding the Appropriations, A Test of the Strength of the Revenue Reformers. Lizzie Nutt's Touching Letter to the President, The Prospects For Forfeiting the Northern Pacific Grant, Sabin Thinks Sanborn Wil Sacceed Judge McCOrary—the Woman Suffragists, TROM WASHINGTON, i RANDALL PROCRASTINATES, Special Dispatoh to Tux Brk, WasniNgroN, March 2.—While the revenue reform members of the ways and means committee seem more hopeful of the passage of their bill by the house than they did a week ago, and whilo they snoor at prophesios of a democratic bolt in the house they manifest anxiety on account of Randall's programme of delay. Practically nothing has been done by the house in regard to the great supply bills. It will be possible for Randall to mass the appropriation bills from this time so that if congross is to adjourn before the meeting of the democratic national con- vention there will practically be little opportunity to transact any other busi- ness than the passage of the appro- priation bills. The general programme now is to have congress adjourn July first. The situation of the democrats in tho house isa perplexing one, not only on account of Randali's procrastination, but also because of the determination of Converse and a knet of democrats to push the bill to restore duties on wool. Converse has again promised that Mon- day next, when motions to suspend the rules and pass bills will be in order, that he will demand a vote on that measure. The speaker has promised to recognize him, If Converse shall do this and the republicans sustain him the bill will not receive a two-thirds vote, but the vote will be something of a test of the strength of the revenue reformers in the house. A TOUCH APPEAL. The president received a touching let- ter from Lizzie Nutt, of Uniontown, Pa., the girl, as everybody knows, whose father lost his life in defending her precious repation and whose brother was recently acquitted of -the murder of her slanderer. She asked to be appointed postmaster at that town. Her letter is written with most delicate taste and she describes her situation with modesty and dignity. The penmanship would pass muster before the civil service commis- sion and the form in which the letter appears is quite business like She says that being aware that there is a vacancy in.the postoflice, she has been advised by friends to apply for the appointment and believes herself to be possessed of the necessary qualifications, The terrible troubles which her family have recently passed through have left them not only fatherless, but impoverished and there are five children dependent upon her brother and herself. She makes no further allusion to the recent tragedy, but asks that if the president finds, uoon investigation, that she is qualified to per- form the duties of postmaster that he will give her the appointment. The president is kindly disposed toward the girl and will probably make the appoint- ment, 9, THE PUBLIC DEBT. The reduction in the public debt for February is $2,5682,686, and for the eight menths just closed $67,690,074, against $7,030,678 and $102,638,346 respectively for the two corresponding periods of the precoding fiscal year. = Tho average monthly reduction for the current year has been $8,672,759, and for the rame period last year $12,829,793. The dif- ference in the aggregate of reduction for the two periods named is entirely duo to the falling off in revenue receipts, which falling off is the result of the operation of the tariff act of March last. THE NORTHERN PACIFIC GRANT, Payson, of Illinos, who has been a leader in the fight against the Northern Pacific land grant and has charge of the bill to torfeit everything west of Bis- marck, was asked to-day if he had any idea that it would pass the house. He replied: ‘‘Yes, I am quite sure of it.” “‘But will it pass the senate?” “‘That is another matter. I don't be- lieve it will. I have no idea that the senate, as now constituted, will agree to a forfeiture of the land grant,” JUDGE M'CRARY'S SUCCESSOR, Senator Sabin was asked to-day if the president would appoint General Sanborn of Minnesota to succeed Judge McCrary. I think he will,” roplied the senator. “Every indication points that way. There is strong competition but no oppo- sition, and Sanborn's indorsement is much the strongest of any candidate. **McCoid is his principal oppenent?” “No. I think we have more to fear from Brewer, the Kansas candidate, or the Colorado man, who is being pressed by Secretary Teller, but I am very hope- ful of Sanborn's appointment.” WOMAN SUFFRAGE, The national woman's sufirage conven- tion meets here next week, and delegates are commencing to come. Miss Anthony has been at Washington all winter doing wmissionary work among congressmen,and she thinks there is a growing ntiment in both branches of the n tional legislature favorable to universal suffrage. The approaching convention, she says, will be one of the largest and and most influential ever held, and she expects great good to come from it, PACIFIC RAILWAY LAND SELECTIONS, Regular Press Dispatches, an inquiry made by Senator Fair, of Nevada, touching the newspaper charges that the Central Pacific railroad has applications for patents for & large amount of land in Nevada of many months’ standing to which it has been unable to secure attention, the com- missioner-general of the land office re- plies that there are no lists of selections of land in Nevada awaiting patent to the Ceutral Pacific in his oftice and that there are no lists of the company in any state or territory on which the office can act, as the rule requires that the land shall not be patent- ed for five months after selection, in or- der to give timo for possiblo claims to appear if rocorded. The only other lists upon which action can be taken at the proper time, five months after selection, are, of Union Pacific lands in Nebraska, 318,000 acres. Largoe amounts have been selocted by the Kansas Pacific, Northern Pacific, New Orleans Pacific and other companies, but action has been suspended bocause of proposed legislation by congress touching the grants. MORRISON'S TARIFF BILL, Representative Morrison will report to the ways and means committe Tuesday the action of the eight democravic mem- bers of the committee on his tariff bill, Until then he says, he cannot tell defi- nitely when the bill will be reported to the house. 1f membersof the committee ask additional time to cousider the meas- ure, Morrison says, it will be granted. The republican mombers of the committee contemplate preparing a minority report. They say such a re- port can be prepared within two or three days after the meeting Tuesday, when they will be authoratively notified of the action of the democratic members. NOTES. Reprosontative Willls will ask_consid- eration of the bill for an annual appro- priation for ten yoars to aid in common school education, The course of legislation in the senate this week promises to bs commonplace and dull, e — CRIME AND CRIMINALS, DESPERATE FIGHT WITH A CONVICT, Jouer, I, March 2.—A murderous assault was made upon Captain John McDonald, deputy warden of the peni- tentiary here. The assassin was a notor- ious desperado, named - Frank Rande. Doputy McDonald, in going his rounds, entered the collar shop, where Rande works, As is customary McDonald stopped at the desk of Keeper Madden to receivo his zoport. While the deputy was talking with the keeper, Rande snapped his finger at his keeper and raised his hand, giving the sign for a request to go to the closet, Madden nodded assent and resumed conversa- tion with the deputy, whose back was turned toward Rando. The keeper also turned his back to Rande, to give an order to another convict. In- stantly Rande (who was crossing the room) picked up a heavy iron poker, throo feet long, and rushed upon Deputy McDonald, striking hin: on the head with all his force, smashing in his skull. Mc- Donald dropped senseless, Rande shouted, *‘I have killed the son - at last,” and drew a large knife. Keeper Madden rushed upon Rande and received a terrible gash in the arm, but held Rande until two life con- victs, Demolin and Roab, came to his assistance, and Rande was hurled vio- lently to the floor. Hearing the alarm, Assistant Deputy Warden Garvin and Keeper B. McDonald, brother of the at- tacked deputy, rushed in. Convict Roab was on top of Rande and had the life nearly choked out of Rande when Garvin ordered him off. Roab begged to be al- lowed ‘o choke him to death. Rande, rising, staggered toward the door and made a quick lunge, grabbing a knife on tho table, turned and desperately at- tacked Deputy Garvin, who broke a heavy cano over Rande’s head, cutting him terribly. Pulling a revolver Garvin shot Rande in the side, and then grab- bed the convict by the throat. While holding him thus, IKeeper McDonald frantically drew a revolver and placed the muzzle at Rande's right car, fired, and Rande dropped, Deputy McDonald and Rande were carried to the hos- pital. An examinaticn showed that Me- Donald’s skull was terribly crushed, and pieces of the skull were removed, leaving the brain exposed two inches long and one inch wide. He will die. Rande was unconscious for a long time, 1t is not known how dangerously he is wounded. On recovering consciousness Rande said: ‘I am Jesus Christ, and was sent to rid this prison of that cruel deputy.” Rande continued: I left a broad trail of blood all the way to prison when I came here. To do so I killed nine mei, This makes my tenth.” Dep- uty Gorvin says the responsibility of McDonald’s death rests upon the jury which sent hin to _penitentiary instead of hanging hun. During the terrible ltruzgfi: the convicts behaved admirably. Deputy Warden McDonald was still alive this evening and conscious, and hopes are entertained of his recovery. Rande is likely to recover from the wounds received in the struggle. He is| still very defiant, and expresses regret at his failure to kill Mclonald outright. Tho bullet in his head has not yet been extracted. He is eyidently preparing to E}A{Jths emotlonal insanity godge in case cDonald dies, as he asked several times to-day whether he will be hanged in that event, adding that he should not be pun- ished because he could not help it, being impelled by a higher power, PREACHING AND STEALING, SeniNerugiy, 11, March 5.—Rev. McDonald, who preached an able sermon last evening, at Auburn, was arrested here this morning on a tele- gram charging him with theft of a horse and a suit of clothes, from a man named Foster,to whose househe went after reli- gious services, for the purpose of spend- iog the night. Minister, horse and clothes were missing when Foster awoke this morning, The stolen property was found in McDonald's possession. L — An Unfortunate 1. New York, March 2.—A young girl, claiming to be a daughter of Thomas Field, of Tweed ring notoriety, who fled from Canada, called at the police station and asked shelter. She said she was cold, friendless, homeless and hungry. She had visited a number of charitable institutions and been refused aid. She OMAHA. NEB. FROM FOREICH LANDS. General Grabam's Battle With the Wild Arabs of Bgypt, The Fight Bloody But Not a Great Military Affair, The March to Tokar and the Scenes Along the Route. Gordon's Great Peril Futile Mission, and His The Desperate Bravery of the Un- traincd Rebels When Obharged By English Cavalry, GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS, GRANAM'S BATTLE WITH DIGMA, Special Dispatch to Tie Brk. Loxnoy, March 2.—According to nows which has been coming in to-day, Gener- al Graham has met Osman Digma's forces on almost the same ground as that upon which Baker Pasha’s worthless command was slaughtered. Disciplined British troops were opposed to a horde of half armea Arab guerrilla’s and the resvlt was as usual, a rout and defeat of the latter with considerable loss. All accounts which special correspondents have for- warded have [the tenor of the digpatches which described the battle of Tel ElI Kebir and the skirmish of Kassassin. There are a handful of killed and wounded on (ira- ham’s side, but all London is aroused with high sounding phrases of the des- perate rosistance of the Arabs, the bloody nature uf the conflict and the heroism of the victors. It was probably not a very serious offair, after all, and it may, per- haps, be as well to remember that Gra- ham has not yet met the Mahdi. The news has not created any undue excite- ment in London, and there is a general feeling that serious work remains to be be done and that the engagement of Fri- day was a comparatively small affair. THE MARCH TO TOKAR, Regular Press dispatches, Svakny, March 2.—British troops en- tered Tokar at noon Saturday. A fow shots were exchanged with the enemy when 4,000 rebels holding the town fled. Osman Digma is encamped three miles distant from Suakim. A battle with him is expected when the British troops re- turn to Suakim from Tokar, All reports commend the steadiness with which the British moved on Teb. The square in which they advanced to battle was never broken. The determination and bravery of the rebels was shown, in fact, when they were charged by cavalry, ~Great numbers of them threw themselves upon their backs on the ground and speared the horses of the troopers as they dashed over them. The march to Tokar was accomplished in four hours from Teb. The Hussars scoured tho country and kept up a de- sultory skirmishing with the enemy, who retired in a disorganized manner in the direction of Tamanieb. The Arabslost 1,100 men dead on the field at Teb, be- sidesgunsand other munitions. The whole camp, including 375 tents and many camels, was taken. The condition of the camp showed that the rebels relied upon being victorious. General Graham send a part of the Tokar garrison to Tukala to destroy the fortifications. He will then march to Tamanieb, where he will convoke the sheikh, friendly tribes and those submitting to him to mnake ar- rangements to koep open the routes to Suakim and Berber, After the battle Baker Pasha and Ad- miral Hewitt returned to Trinkitat, The soldiers cheered Baker Pasha, who is severely wounded. The enemy's trenches were found completely filled with corpres, GORDON'S MISSION A FAILURE. Oamo, March 2—The government, convinced that Genera! Gordon’s mission will fail and_his life be put in poril, has offered Abd El Kader, pasha, minister of war, under sanovion of Baring, British minister, the governorship of Khartoum He refuses unless General Gordon as- sents. Gordon has ordered Colonel Stewart, commander of the expedition sent up the White Nile, not to attack the natives unless they attack him, but to try to negotiate with the Sheikh Buggar- as of Khartoum. If that sheikh prefers a fight he will precipitate a rising of all tribes of Dorfer and Kordofan and attack Khartoum, THE TURKO-AMERICAN TREATY, ConsraNTiNorLe, March 2, —The porte declines to accept Minister Wnlms'l view that the treaty with America was not denounced at the proper time The porte maintains the legality of the de- nunciation, thus making the treaty ex- ire June 4, The government is willing. Eowuvcr. to let the existing tariff remain in full force until negotiations with ocher powers are concluded, It grants America in the new treaty the same advantages as are accorded other countries, TOKAR'S STARVING GARRISON, Ca1ro, March 2.—The garrison at To- kar numbered seventy men half starved. The remainder had joined the rebels. The bodies of Morice Bey, Surgeon Les- lie and four other Europeans killed in the rout were found. Baker Pasha’ troops found at Teb were buried. Evelyn Baring, telegraphing the ne: Friday's victory to General (Gordon, used the Arabic language, that the news might spread all along the line, Baker Pasha’s wound is not considered serious. It is believed Osman Digma’s power is broken. THE QUEEN'S PRAISE, et ] Loxpox, March 1,—The queen has sent a telegram cengratulating the troops on the victory. (ieneral Graham tele graphs as follows: ““I'okar relieved. The rebels had held the town since Februmy 16, oppressing the garrison and inhabi- tants. The rebels fled to the mountains. said her father plaved her in the convent of Notre Dame to be educated. Since then she never saw him, It was expect- ed that she would take the veil when of age, but this she refused to,do, One of WasuiNoroy, March 2.—In reply toithe sisters then brought her to this city E and left her to earn her own living, The rolice placed her in charge of the society o 5 § r the prevention of cruelty to children, in a letter to the Times, says: The time The rebel guns at Teb were served by Eayptians, The Arabs of Houdieda have declared in favor of El Mahdi, The governor has telegraphed Lennaar for troops PROTECTION FROM DYNAMITELS, Loxnox, March 2.-—Cornwallis West, MONDAY MOR has come for England to demand of a friendly government) protection from at. tompts of O'Donovan Rossa and his blood thirsty crow. The German new the dynamite outr England is now rea hospitality to anarchijta and cut throats from all parts of the world. AMONG THE BERGS AND STORMS, Hanrax, N, S, March The steamer Juliet, from New Castle, Eng- land, roports fearful storms and seas and revolving hurricancs, Heavy fields of ico and innumerable icebergs were sight- od and a two-masted steamer, apparently hard and fast between two bergs. The latter passed an oil eake or petroloum ship afiro. The crew are believed to have been rescued by & pasaing ship. o — re, roferring to tondon, says the fruits of hor Salvini's Marviage. Special Dispateh to Tue Bek Burrato, March 2.~It is currently reported here that Salvini, the tragedian, is soon to be married to Adele Belgarde, the actress. THE TOWA LEGISLATURE, The Houge Passes the Kennedy Prohi- bition mill, Des Morxes, March 2.—The Kennedy prohibition bill, ns given below, passed the house yestorday by a vote of 52 tod1. All the republican members voted for it, except Curtis, who is confined to his bed by sickness, and Johnson, democrat, also voted with them. The democrats and greenbackers voted against it. The fol- lowing democrats wore absent or dodged the vote; Baker, Billingall, Grant, Rus- sell, Lucan and Stowart. It is the same as the Donnan bill, except the word “now,” and will be brought up in the senate on Tuesday, where there is a pro- hibition majority of twenty-four,aud will bo passed without delay. Following is the bill entire: Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of lowa, that section 15065, chapter 6, title 11, of the code be and the samo is hereby repealed, and the follow- ing is enacted in lieu thereof: Section 1666. Wherever the words “intoxicating liquors” oceur in this chap- ter, the same shall be construed to mean alcohol, ale, wine, beer, spirituous, vin- ous and malt liquors, and all intoxicat- ing liquors whatever, and no porson shall manufacture for sale or sell or keep for sale asa bevorage any intoxi- cating liquors whatever, including ale, wine and beer, and the same provisions and penalties of law in force relating to intoxicating liquors shall in like manner be held and construed to apply to viola. tions of this act and the manufacture, sale, or keeping for sale, or keeping or establishing a place for the sale of all wines and beer and all other intoxicating liquors whatever, Section 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re- pealed. The republicans have thus carried out all their pledges in‘refard to prohibition as promised 1 their platform, In the senate the session was chiefly occupied in discussing the bill of Carson to authorize Council Bluffs to improve its streets and alloys by issuing bonds and lovying a rpecial tax against adjacent property. Hemenway opposed the bill on the grounds of unconstitutionality and and because it was special legislation. Zastman opposed the taxing of adjacent property to improve streets. Carson, Smith and Larrabee favored the bill, It was postponed until next Friday. A res- olution was introduced to ecxamine into the working of the board of health and recommend such changes in the law as thought necessary. FORTY-KIGH 'H CUNGRESS, HOUSE. WasniNaroN, March 1.—Mr. Oates (dem., Ala,) from the committee on pub- lic lands, reported a resolution calling on the secretary of the interior, asking in- formation relative to the unauthorized fencing in of public lands by individuals or corporations in the several states and territories. Adopted. The house went into committee of the whole on the naval appropriation bill. Mr. Thomas (rep , 1iL) said there were fifty-nine officers for every ship in the service, or one oflicer to every fivo soa- mon. The navy was perfectly helpless. The pending bill had no provision for armament. When the ships were com- pleted there would be no guns to put in them, Mr. Finerty (ind. Ill.) then made his maiden speech, and said the approprie- tion committee seemed determined to ba economical in a weak point in the na- tional structure. The world was aware that the condition of our defonsive marine was a menace to the well-being of this country if in event of war it should be unprepared to mest any enemy of re- spectable strength, He was sensible to l{:c fact that a war navy could be built in a short time, but thare was nothing to hinder the construction of ships which weuld be formidable in sudden hostility onists. It made little difference who was responsible for the present depleted con- dition of the navy, the fact remained that virtuslly the United States had no navy. Ho was not a professional alarm- ist who wished to say we were on the eve of war., Hedid not dosire war, Ho wanted to see the country peaceful and prosperous but peaceful and prosperous she could only remain when she had means to defend her honor and to assert the supremacy of her fla; He wanted to see the work bsgun:iytha Forty- seventh congress followed up by the Forty-eighth congress. He might talk about the Monroe doctrine, but he could hear the click of spades at Panama as they dug & canal to bring the Atlantic and Pacific together. Whatever Europe dug with a spade she defended with u sword, The sooner the country saw to it that it was not left to the imercy of events the better it would be for the na- tion. the danger. by Messrs. Belford (rep. Onl.), Aunder. son (rep. Ks.) and Hiscock (rep. N. Y, The committee rose and the house ad journed, | — and witn his head, arms and feet cut off, six wiles below East St. Louis, s i waballow geave and ‘worted to b been buried about threo daya, 1 ¢lue as to who the w { that he was murdered, G, This was the time to prepare for Mr. Finerty's remarks were listened to intently and at their conclu- sion he was applauded and congratulated, The discussion was further continued ‘The dead body of & 1man denuded of clothing | merits and favor »'l‘lllc)::vur lmlaho ) was vantageous e people, unearthed at the little town of Cabookie, 111, iast, wlvaniay The body ve There is no 1 wis, but the theorie i | t) now res MARCII 3, 1884. MUSIC IN THE AIR. The Exislence ]1[ the Western Tran Line Association Threatened, War Paint On, A Now Alliance Colorado Business, Prospects Good For a General War of Rates. Dillon to be Elected U, P. as a Vindication—The Road's KFinances. RAILROAD RATES, A WESTERN WAR COMING, Special Dispatch to Tiin I by the Weatern Trunk Line association and met by the Burlington has involved the association in an unpleasant predica- ment. Vining ordered the reduction of Colorado rates against the advice and re- quest of the Burlington and Alton, and his procipitate action has put a damper upon the Burlington negotiations, which were progressing favorably toward peace, from which it is doubtful if they will soon Alton and Burlington, with their western recover, have donned their war paint and there will be music in the air. As soon as Vining and the members of his association learned that the Santa Fe had decided to stand by the 'Frisco line thoy proposed to Alton and Burlington to restore old rates. The latter, however, would not be persuaded. Vice President A, I, Touzalin, of the Santa Fe, arrived in Chicago yesterday morning, and in the afternoon. and evening was in close con- sultation with the Burlington and Alton ofticials, The conference terminated at 8 o'clock, and at 8:40 Touzalin left for Topeka. The result of the conference has been the formation of an alliance be- tween the Burlington, Alton, Santa Fe, St. Louis & San Francisco and Denver & Rio Grande as against the Western Trunk Line association. The alliance thus far is for the purposo of dealing with the Colorado complications, but that it will be continued is not improbable, Not- withstanding the repeated requests yos- terday on the part of the Western 'lrunk connections, Line association to consent to a restoration of rates, the lines in the new alliance flatly rofused to do so. Whether further cuta will be made by cither combination has not been announced, but the general impression is that a material cut will be made to-mor- row by the new alliance. Should this be done the bars will be lowered for a general western war, Tho Colorado pool has already sustained a blow from which it will be diflicult to recover and the other associations will tumble if matters are not speedily fixed up. Commissioner Danicls, of the Colorado pool, admitted in a recent interview that if the Union Pacific, in obedience to Vining's orders, would cut Colorado rates, the pool must necessarily colapse. The Union Pacific has done 8o and unless a retreat is or- dered at once the death knell of the Colorado pool will have been seunded, A general war may yet be averted, but the outlook is not encouraging. THE UNION FACIFIC PRESIDENCY, Special Dispatch to Tu I Bosron, March 2,—The talk here is that at the annual meeting of the Union Pacific railway company, to bs held in this city on Wednesday, Dillon will bo ro-olected president as a personal vindi- cation but that he will not serve out the term. Two New England men will be added to the directory. It is learned from high authority that the report will show a total net income from all sources of 1 per cent on capital stock against 13, 1882, A loss of $1,000,000 in traifio earnings is ofiset by an incrense of $2,260,000 in land sales. The proceeds of land sales must be used fora reduc- tion of the debt of the company. The land grant bonds having now' all been provided for the surplus will be used to take up sinking fund bonds. o —— Suicide of Enos Morris. Special Dispatch to The Boe, OAKLAND, In., March 1.—Enos Morris, a respected young man of this place,com- mitted suicide by shooting himself in the forebead with a 38 calibre revolver about to prey upon the commerce of her antag- | ¢ o'clock last evening, at the residence of | is claimod that tho officers ure in pussession F. Walker, and in the presence of a young lady he had been courting for some time, e — IOWA OCOURTS, Burlington After the United States District and Circuit Courts, BunruiNatoyN, March 2,—At an enthu- siastic meeting of citizens yesterday af- ternoon, the question of moving the United States district and circuit courts from Keokuk to Burlington, was discuss- ed, and a series of resolutions were adopted, the preamble of which recites that the federal court was originally lo- cated at Burlington and secretly changed to Keokuk without the knowledge of the people; that public opinion throughout the district has ever since demanded a wealth, population importance and easily ) gress from this district, has perscnally expreased the opin the proper place for the permane: tion of the courts and has pled, self that he will urge the dec od him. ) | concluding resolutions are: i Resolved, That our representativ Alton and Burlington Put Their|.q Formed On sident ot the Cuicaco, March 2,1t is balieved that the recont cut in rates which was made | crime has o Hon. M. A. McCoid, member of con- pion that Burlingten is NO. 218, from Towa be urgently requested to favor the bill for locating the court at Burling- ton now pending before the judiciary committeo of the house of representa- tives, _ Resolved, That a copy of these resolu- tions be sent to oach member of congross from this state. Tho ~resolutions were unanimously opted. From oxpressions of leading citizons Burlington will demand her rights on the mooted United States court question, o — TELEGRAPH NOTES, English railway officials now examine all baggago at terminal points. [Tho prosident has approve the act making all public roads and highways post routes. A firo at Sioux Gity, Towa, Saturday, burned a saloon and second hand store, Loss, £4,600; insurance, $8,000, Mr, and Mrs. Tiostory and Mr. and Mrs, Arnold were arrested at Smithfield, Ill,, yos terday for counterfeiting, A box containing clock-work exploded in the postoftice at Grersin, Gormany, yestorday, One of the officials was severely wounded. The Madrid El Progress (a newspaper) has been contiscated and the management will be proseouted for pubiishing articles insulting to Alfonso, The New York socioty for the prevention of aused the arrest of manufacturors of confoctionery who preparo Easter prize packages, The Indiane roported to bo accompanyin Lieutenant Davis to San Carlos are believed to bo the same who committed the murders Iately at Sonora. The Weatherford, Texas, court house was entirely consumed by fire Friday night and all the county court records destroyod, Loss £20,000; insured, Durig January disordors oconrred at Littlo Popv, West Africa, The man coryetto, ophin, landed a force which chastised the natives and restored order. Prince Napoloon has decided to postpone the American tour of his son Victor, He in- tends to send the prince to Roumania to serve in the Rowmanian army, The Pennsylvania Tron works, of Lancastor, Pa., have shitt down for an indetinite period. Oause, high prices in iron and the refusal of workmerr to accept reduced wages, A party of Hungarians encamped at It ing Creek, Pa., engaged in a fight, and named Lowenthalisky, stabbed and fataliy wounded two men and one woman, The works of the United States Stampiny company at Portland, Conn., which covered four and a half acres of ground, were burned Saturday. Loss smu,nn“; insurance $225,000. Two freight trains on the Chicago, Burling- ton & Quiney railway collided Saturday be- tween Alillington and Millbrook, 11l The traing were both wrecked, aud one engineer and fireman fatully injured. Nellie Kaiser, employed at the Palace ho- tal, Ashley, Ill, who was knockad off a twen- ty foot embankment, by Ed Roach, last Fri. «1,.{, died from her injurles Saturday, The police ave looking for Roach, A Posth dispatch says the editor ot an anarchist Journal, radical in politics, has boen arrested and securities found at his house which were stolen when Iisert, the Vionna money changer was murdered. William Thackery Marriott, liberal mem- Der of the commons fiom B.ighton, has been re-elected, Ho rosigned and appealed to his constituency for vindication in yotine to con- sure the government's Ezyptian policy. - A warrant has boen issued for the arrest of Trancis J, Smith, city treasurer of Bayanns, N.J. It iy alleged ‘that a deficit of over $47,000 has been discovered, but the com- plaint only embraces a deficit of $16,000, Mrs. Minnio McGill wan arrestod in Wil- linnsburg, N, Y., Saturday, charged with Kidnappitg bor own ohild, Nirs, MoGill ros sided {n Chicago, hor husbaud loft her,aud she went to Williamsburg to recover hor child. Torsome months past the courts of Chicago emvowared to grant divorces huve been crowd: ed with applicants for severanco of themarital bond, Inono court Saturday no less than twonty-ono cases wore on ths decket for hear- fng. A new Amorican ship, Ranior, from Phila- delphin for Japan, wus wrecked January within_one woek of her destination, Ti cargo 730,000 gallons of refined oil, valued at 871,000, was insurod. The vessel i valued at 135,000, Suits have boon ontered against_tho Con- nellsville Tron and Conl company by five of tho widows whoso husbands were Jilled by tho rocent explosion in the West Leisinring, Pa., shaft. The dumages aro laid at 15,000 in oach case. Tho Lexington, Ky., city election on Sat- urday resulted in a dofeat of the democrats for tho first time in ten years, Four inde- pendent democrats out of twenty-two candi- lutos ware elozted by republicans and bolting democrats. In Phltapeiphia Saturday tho prico of qui- nine, which had been in only moderate do- mand, jumped from $1.40 to $1.80 por ounce. The foreign article has beo od at 81,10, but went up to SL50, with only a limited quantity at that price. Two neeroos, on Thursday, camped near tho depot at Now Bradford, Florida, and Sat- urday merning both were dlcovered dead in their camp. One was shot throngh the head, and_the other terribly mutilatod. head was chopped off with an axe. Socretary Folger, commenting on tho dis- outeh frem O nwul King at Birmingham, and, relative to the spread of foot and m disease, says thero is great necessity for legis- lation to protect the United States against the importation of diseasod cattlo, and he hopes the matter will soon recoive the atton- tion of congress, Judd Crouch wnd Dan Holcomb, son and wonin-law of Joseph Crouch, who, with Mr, and Mrs, White and Moses Polly, 'were mur- dered in Novembor last, wero arrested at Jacksou, Mich., Saturd vy, chargad with com- witting tha wurd s, Thay wero committal to jail to awais oxamination noxt Friday It of important facts that have a bad Jook, Ths treasurer of the United States has pre- pared a statement showing the total coiuage of standard silver dollars under the act of February 28, 1878, to March, 1884, was 166, 125,118; held in tne tmullr?' oftice and mints, 126,822,389; outstanding, 39,302,720, Of the amount held by the trensury there are held to redeem the outstanding silver certificates, 86,- 247,721, leaving owned by the treasury, 89,- 574,678, A Hardly Resting in Peace, Laraverts, Ind., March 2,—The body of & young man named Geary sometime ago was refused burial in the Catholic cemetery under the belief that it was a case of suicide, . The hoy's father sought redress in the courts, showed the case to be one of accidental th, defeated the church and the body of the young man was buried in the consecrated grounds, To-day the elder Geary was excommuni- ted and the ground declared desecrated return of the court to Hurling:uu,‘thpt 80 long as the body of young Geary re- i di city in the district in | maing ix s Kptng o ’;md commercial |ing the cemetery. Threats have accessible, that|made to remove the romai there, A strong gua by violence. C —— Stricken with Paralysis. - | Chicago, Milwaukee Information ob effect that he may never be able to re sume work, Alexander Mitoholl, pre Hon, M. A, McCoid, be earnesly urged tdent of tho road, smid taat Mereill war noor \ deem his pledges to the people, | suffering from numbness in the right leg, $wor i be s e i ralbigera R e and that the sonators and representatives , which Le did nut consider very serious, , | clear weath *| clothing house on Catherine street, W, Half his f is patroll- been | 1, MiLwaukee, March 2,—1t is rumored | defeat, nt loca: | that General Manager Morrill, of the|owners in 1l miath ruys he does not St Paul, has had | think m on its | a stroke of paralysis and will leave in a | frg n is | few days for Florida. A The | tained” from private sources is to the BLIZZARD BLASTS, March Brings Xiung [ile That Makes all Others Tnsignificant, How the Zephyr Howled In the Northwest, The People Held Prisoners In Their Homes, Trains Abandoned Owing to the Terrific Wind, The Bodies of the Nclson Family ‘Who Perished In the Recent Storm Recovered, THE MARCH BUIZZARD, ITS EFFECTS IN THE NORTHWEST, St. Pavr, March 2.+Associated Press specials from Bismarck, Jamestown and Kargo show that March came in with a blizzard that throws all previous ones of this year into insignificance, A heavy snow provailed all last night and this morning the wind commenced blowing forty to fifty miles an hour, catching up the snow and driving it in blin ing masses 80 it was impossible to stay upon the streots. Up to midnight no lives have been reported lost from the fact that it was Sunday and none ven- tured to leave their houses. Trains were delayed all day and all cuts have drifted full of snow so that it will be necessary to clean them out before trains can be resumed. Reports come from all parts of Dakota that the snow in some glncus was light but the wind terrific. 'he thermometer was five toten de- grees below zero and the blizzard reached this city this evening but had spent its force. To.night all points north report and ten to fifteen degrees below zero, THE NELSON FAMILY, Vauiey Ciry, Dakota, March 2, —The bodies of the Nelson children have been found. The body of the youngest was feund in a snow cave, which had been dug by the father for the protection of the children from the storm. The oldest child had left the cave and wandered off aoout a mile, whére her body was found, The bodies of the father and children were buried at Sanborn to-day. The body of the father was found several days since. It will be remembered that the three left their cabin in the late blizzard to go to a straw stack half a mile away for fuel and loat their way. e — A Disastrous Fire in Utica. N. Y, Urica, N. Y., March 2.—Fire was dis- covered this morning in the shoe manu- factory of H. J. Holbrook & Co., on Catherine street. It proved the most disastrous in the history of the city. Tho Holbrosk building, W. P. DeLong’s furnituro house and John B. Rockwell's C. & E. Comstock’s large storehcuse on the Erie canal, the Utica City National bank, Wewell & Sons paper and glass dealers, The Utica Observer building, Comstock Bros.' whole- sale house C. Sayers’ H, hardware store and Edward Martin's gas fitting and plumbing store, from 109 to 123 inclusive, on Genesee street, were totally destroyed together with most of the contents. Assistance was rendered by the fire departments of Little Falls, Rome and Whitestown. The total loss is about $475,000, insurance about $325,- 000: The losses above noted added to the many others make an aggregate of $800,000, insurance, $450,000. - ——— Raising a Church Debt, Bosron, March 2, —At the First Bap- tist church, Columbus avenue, to-day the pastor, Rev. 0. B, Crane announced that he would omit the regular sermon, as thore was a wore important duty, He called Deacon Lonsing Willis to the platform. Mr. Willis ssid there was a debt of £55,000 resting upon the church and it was his greatest desire that it should ba wiped out, Years ago he had resolved to set aside a sum each year to purchase a farm to which he could retire in his old age and this amount he would now give toward the cancellation of the church indebtedness. He then called for further gifts and in legs than an hour the entire $55,000 was subscribed. The doxology was sung and the congregation dismissed with the benediction o —— The Kansas Eleciioi Lawnence, Kas, March 2 —At the | election hetd Saturday in the old Second cougressional district, to fill a vacancy causud by the death of Dudley 0. Has- kell, the candidates wece K, H. Fun- ston, republican, Samuel A Rigus, dem- ocrat and greenbucker Reports from all but two countivs in rha district, indi- cate Funston's elsction by about 5,000 majority, ———— The Ohinese Must Stay Our, SN Francisco, March 2 —Since the 0 of the restriction act there has Euan a continual strike of Ohinese cigar- makers. The manufacturers in retalia- tion have organized and have ordered a lock out on Monday of all the Chinese (3,600) employed in cigar makicg, The whites are retained o — Dynamite in Bags Loxpox, March 1.—A black bag made of American cloth has been found in & cloak room vt Ludgate Hill station, con- taining 46 packages of dynamite and a portion of American alarm clo ck. C —— A Howl From Texas, anm‘ Woxrs, '1;:"‘(.. March 1,.—The uro _pneumonia bill as passed the ouse is regarded with general dziunr cattle menin the vicinity of Fort Worth. They unauimously say it can be of no practical benefit to the cattlo inter- ests of Texas, und wre hopeful of its Col. Young, one of the largest owever, the bill” in its present oan aeriously 1 flaot the catile teade - | of Pexns it the provieivus are s xecnted i cwping Hoo says any viclous o trwtapartation of T xus -l ue wer d oaautiate el velrigeain 2 2ot b ik e Jthe mintors of the wounny,