Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1884, Page 1

e = \ E OMAHA DALY BEE OMAHA, NEB. TYIURSDAY MORNING, MARCIH 6, 1884, THIRTEENTH YEAR. THE NATIONM: CAPITAL, |menntime been appointed postmaster gonoral. the p_gxident sent for him and brought un cho subject of the star route servico. o maid ho was satisfied there hiad bean o wilful waste of pablic money and gross corruption. That while he did nat with to have mail facilities necessary to the wolfare of any community cur- tailed, all unnecessary and extravagant sorvice must be relentlossly cut off. That the proposed investigation must be aimed at the system, nof at moen; but that if the inquiry should disclose the fact that any person or persons have been guilty of corruption or fraud, that the person or persons must be handed over to th o department of justice, e gave inst" ye. tions to pursue this investigation gneit Mr, James' Staterant of the Star | there were no more faots to ascer! ain, $acrad All sources of information W are made Route Investigation. availablo and the investigatic a pushed in 7 every way. The state of » fairs revealed was truly appalling. Ir. the early part of April Woodward a.d mpselt oalled on Garfield and exhibited & comparative statement of tha most corruptly manipu- lated routes. Fle displayed great sur- rise, asked if the figures were verified y the records and also added that he had been pflwidon:&lly n}n{vod from hllh‘;g W, ws o L into a trao set for him. He seemed to be o ekl M e 5‘. LS WAty contemplating some peril which he had #nmitteo on military affairs has report- | gscaped. Heo asked whether the papers «dl faverably om the resokution to remove |had been shown the attorney gen- Bombastes Farioso Lozan Loading Up For Another Fusilade. Fitz John Porter Again the fiub- jeot of His Speech. The Bill For Retiring the High Privates of the “army. Garfield’s et mmination to Cut Out thes Ylcer Olean, FI(OM WASHINGTON. £ JOHN PORTER'S CASE. Specle { Digateh to THE Bre. tthe injunction of secrecy fron the mem- eml.md 1 mptliud alvlo 1’:“ flf“; i i itz | ques! me to call wil N 'bers of the court martisl that, tried Fitz | LARAS Qiyie Wanoallelp indva ‘Uoha Porter and it will be passsd before | jangthy consultation ensued. - In answer the Porter bill is taken up for considera- | to my question whether it would not be ttien, The court tc which this applies | wiser to institute civil suits for the re- was composed of Major Genoral David | Sovery of the money obtained through P . : dishonest contracts rather than com- ‘Hunter, who precided, Major General|menuq oriminal procoedings against par- ‘E. A. Hitchcock, end Iirigadier Generals{ties, he said ‘‘No.” The attorney gens Rufus King, B. M. Prentiss, James B.{oral interrupted him and asked him to Rickets, Silas Oscey, James A. Garfield, | Teflect before deciding that proceedings Na Puliadiand Ju PLSiouph, o Géadl might strike men in high places, might than Y gh. * | give the democrats a majority in the sen- Joseph Holt asted as Judge Advocateate, might effoct persons claiming General. Of this' board only three[the president was under political obliga- ‘Hunter, Ricketts snd Holt are now liv-| 'flm-s“?p‘:i?:g tio °“&:’fifi‘fl.’;‘?fl;§ 3 3 s /| wi vices d ing, and they all are in Washington ab|},vo boen elected, and asked him to look present. The resolution is said to have | these things squarcly in the face before “beon offered at th eir request, as they folt | deciding, as he (the attorney genoral) and 1 ng, ) ‘that the passage of a bill restoring Porter }):ist%merfgm{emlmwmlflrd B:“r:lot:v nnmfxl‘l:; will be accepted as a condemnation of | FIERC NOF 100 18 The pro e resident reflected a moment, and then “their action. "They want to give their [5aid: “No; I have awom to execute tho *reasons for his Gonviction. It is seid by [laws. Go ahead, regardless of where or Logan's feiends. that he hasobtained new [ Whom you hit. I dizect you b‘nth not and convincing, evidence against Porter, %:tyt:;ocgz‘}?"o‘:? o ‘.'15;‘3; c‘lzségetl:w:;:: which he will use in a spoech when the | versation, bill comes up., It is supposed that this| The preparations made’ for investigat- consiste of statements made by Tolt, ;ng t:;]e u}n\r_ routes yewd tel}fscn!rted ab . . <. |length. ““Very soon,” sai e witness, Hunter and R{ckstta regarding the origi: “Doraey began ncti\'v.:ly to engage in of: nal coart martial. forts to shield himself and to bring the THE ARMY RETIRED LIST, investigation to nought by disturbing the The house committes onmilitary aflairs | Felations of the president and cabinet. Thas reported favorably upon tho bill to | Tho most brazen effrontery und reckless provile a retired list for privates and for | prevarication were indulged in.” The . mon-commissioned oflicers of tae army | history of the Dorsey star route combina- : . tion was_given in-detail. On the last RiatolcyedRistitally tor S0lycars Wednesday in Jure, the witness contin- ormore. The same committee has re- s ported another bill authorizing the presi- [1ed, he called ~at the kw‘"‘; i dent to confer brevet rank upon_officers | House with _Attorneys _Cook an of the army who shall distinguish them- Woodward. Dorsey and Ingersoll selves in Indian wars. were there. James and the ntwme{; . . Wri i went into the red room. When Garfie ; w‘;.‘i.‘é‘li‘:’, vgfir;:“;agred‘ffi}réh?ff,:; entered he was wtroduced to Cook, and this week, after forty years of active ser- it was obviously the " first timo they had vice, and will be succeeded by General [met: Cook explained what he and Gib- Nowton, who has nad charge of the Hell |son had done. *Garfield suggested that Giate improvements at New' York, they were too slow, they should be more THE STAR ROUTE INQUIRY. earnest, should have the accused parties \Regular Press Dispatches, indicted and tried. Ex-Attorney General MacVeagh testi- WASHINGTON, March 5.—Ex-Postmas- | fied at length, corroberating the testi- ter General James and ex-Attorney Gen- | money of Mr. Jawes in its main features, «eral MacVeagh were examined to-day by THE KEIFER-BO¥NTON CA! the Springer committee relative to ex-| pp tho Boynton-Keifer case to-day Mr., penditures in the department of justice | oifer was placed upon the stand and in the prosecution of the star aoutecases. |, hjected to a rigid -cross-examination James said his attention wes firstspecial- by Boyntons Eo s o s ly called to star route matters by ox-|poritively that he was mot in General United States Senator George E. Spen-|Boynton’s oftice on the night of March 1, cer, of Alabama, and other well informed | 1843 nor on the night of March 2, 1883, gentlemen. 1t was thoir belief that mil- | ,1,q did not think he had been in the lions of dollars had been wasted in un-|,fice or held any conversation with necessary “tstar” service, much of which | Boynton on the 27th or/8th of Februa- never had been performed, and was pro- | vy He had not spoken to Boynton after «cured by improper measures, It was also | the interview in his. (Keifer's) office, in maintained that an_honest, thorough in- | yhich the improper proposition had been vestigation would = render prastical | yad, to him by Boynton. Afterfurther great retrenchments without detri- o o hy : Tont o the mail sasvios, which | Mimportant testimony, adiourned. «could not only make the postoffice de- 4 5 = jpartment selfsustaining but would yield | _Secretary Folger has written a lotter to Mr. orrison, chairman of the @ respectable revénue to the treasury. N X - Continuing James said: ““That 1 enter. | ¥AYS and means committee, suggosting tained such views was more or less woll | 2everal amendmonts to the Potter bill, known. The publicity given them added to |14 8aying: ~¢Tho language of the sixth tho fact that while postmaster at New |#ection of the bill is not quite clear, and Fork when asked by Stephen W. Dorsey | 1 am inclined to doubt whother the poo- to certify in my official capacity to a large | P1e would approve its provisions. It is number of papers conncted with the | crtainly open to the chargo of boing the contract office of the poat office de- [ Partial t0 the bauks, and its effoct, wheth- purtment I refused to do so, which may | ¢ intended or not, would seem to bo to account, for the bitter oppocition to my [ defer calling in seaurity bonds until such appointment to a cabinet pesition which | time a8 the bonds not used as a basis for dsvolnped in certain quarters. I went to | circulation shall have been called. I do Washington on the night of the 2d|not think it wise policy thus to discrimi- of March 1881 in answer o a telographic | Hate in favor of banking associations and Gispateh from Whitelaw Keid which 1| 8gainst all other oldors of bonds of the understood to represent Gafiold's desire |8OVernment.” On the third I called on him in company with Reid, The latter said in substance addressing General Garfiold that he had asked me to come.cn as he, General Garfield, had desired, .2ud had told me it was in reference to the same suggestion of my name for postmaster- | Special Dispatch to Titr Bek, general, that I had nil}_lt‘hlllt if the treas-| DanviLie, Pa., March 5,—A prize Naw Yook 1448 o want To.be. 1 the | 1610, with hard gloves took place hre at way and that he, Reid, had aceured me|® late hour last night between Tom that du:-wu now sattled. General Gar- | Jones and William T, Epeiser, two local field addressing me said: *‘That is al ugilists, The ring was constructed in lutely sett’'ed, The treasury department Oy # Rei - ——— A BRUTAL FIGAT, Two Pennsylvania Local Celebrities Make Wrecks of Each Other. to N W ; :l;'tlf:uinzo said g he Yorl;‘ui told | nessed the battle which was according to ,me Gemeral Garfield expected | the rules of the Londen prize ring. to get on satisfactorily and without fric-4 Both fighters were middle aveights. tion with boths factions in New York wnd ::F; t::n {hfl;fitnl::l:";hh':d‘d:; ‘L‘;\:};‘, tion was most brutal, botki men being .whether in cese a controversy shogld be | dreadfully punished. Their faces were forced upon him he could be sure if 1|heribly disfigured and their bodies torn were made postmaster general that my fgng bruised. fn the fifteentk round and natigna! affiliatiozs in New York would g * not interfere with my hearty support of | 148t the men were hardly able to walk his sdministratior, General Garfeld [to the scratch, Jones was stronger, said, “Yes, that is sbout it,” and I then | however, and led, planting his left on replied, *‘Such & contingency, in my|Speiser’s mouth. A clinch ensued and judgmest, will not azise, but if it lhoulJ}: then the men hammered each other and 1f 1 accept your nomivation, 1 must, as a | finally fell together ina heap. Jones gentlemae, either be logal to the presi-|claimed that Bpeiser struck hima foul ent or resign.” General Garfield said, |and a general fight seemed imminent. ““That is satisfactory,” The referee, however, decided that mo The conworsation then turned to the{foul had been committed and called work of the postoffice departaient. (ien-|time for the sixteenth round. Jones did eral Gaafield said he was afraid there wae |20t go to the soratch and Speiser was something very wrong iu the department | declared the winner. The fight lasted itself, and thought, if so, he expected me |one hour and twenty minutes. to find it out and then plow in to the e ——— beam, and after &1‘; subsoil it. Dorsey ol Tk L o8, s Daled B was not present at this interview, sor did | minl ayti, in etreot fight Letween James 840 him; neither did ho call on or | Whies aad blacks in Weshlugton, Tusedsy et Beuator Conkling or Vice President | 25t shot and kijled Jamgs Speucer, and se- usly wol e 8, fwe Arthyr, On the 0th, Mr, James having o ety W, 1 e Fif- ROADS AND, RATES. Tie U. PS Alzge Retirement_From the Tr° gsvontinental Pl The 8¢,ata Fe to Divy With the fouthwostern Association, “Gaxd @rant Forfeiture Bills to Be Reported Favorably. The Union Pacific's Earnings, Expenses and Losses, The Annual Report Made to the Stockholders. RAILROAD RATE THE TRANSCONTINENTAL POOL, Special Dispatch to THe Bk, Ourcaco, March 5.—On February 6 the annoupcsment was made that verbal motice of withdrawal from the Transcon- tinental association was given by the Union Pacific road ninety days prior to that time, and had been considered final by that line, and that it refused to ke bound by the rules of tho association after that day. The road claimed ‘that its notice given at Topeka was suflicient, while the commissioner claimed that there was no such notice on record. It seems that the Union Pacific was con- vinced that its notice did not hold good because it did not cease to be a party to the association, and is still reporting to it. It did, however, give written notice of withdrawal on February 24, which will expire May 24. A NEW ARRANGEMENT G. F. Goddard, general traflic manager of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail- road, arrived in the city yesterday, and during the day held a lengthy conference with Commissioner Midgely, of the Southwestern Railway association. A plan was agreed to providing for an ar- rangement for the division of through rates on competitive business between the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road and its competitors in southern Kansas south of the main line. The Southwest- ern Railway association agrees to make through rates with the Atchison, Topeka & Banta Fe railroad, which will be diyided proportionately between the two whenver the latter has to meet any rates made by its competitors. When a restora- tion is made the Southwestern associa- tion will make the west bound rate, while the Santa ¥e road will make the east bound rate. The report that an ar- rangement was to be effected between these two organizations similar to that between the roads in the Western Trunk Line association at Council Bluffs was announced. New through rates and divisions will go into effect in a few days. There will be no system of through billing as might be imagined. THE U, P, ANNUAL, Regular Pross Dispatches, Bosrox, March 5,—The stockholders of the Union Pacific railway held their annual meeting to-day. The old board of directors was re-elected excepting August Schell and Solon Humphries. Hugh Riddle, of Chicago, and James A. Rumrill, Springfield, were elected to fill their places. The annual report to the stockholders gives the length of the road as 1,820 miles; gross earnings for the year $21,022,541; operating expenses including taxes $10,365,640; surplus earnings §10,648,001; interest and divi- dends collected on 1nvested securities §2,086,682, making a total of surplus earnings of $12,714,683; total payments §11,452,809, showing a_surplus for the year of $1,261,775. The funded debt table shows a balance outstanding of 84,605,332, Compared with tho year previons there was a decrease in earnings of $1,821,342, The aggregate amount of passenger and freight traflic for 1883 exceeded the amount for the previous year, but the diminished earnings are caused by a reduction of rates. The total number of passengers carried was 1,180, - 984, an excess of 21 per cont, and of tons of freight carried 2,683,385, an excess of 24 per cent over 1882, The business depression in Colorado for the greater part of the year, together with the division of Montana traffic with the Northern Pacific railroad and the entire division from our lines after Sep- tember 15 of the passenger business bo- tween Oregon and Washington territory and the east caused a large loss in pas- senger Business on the Union Pacific divisien, But for a reduction of ratesin Colorada and Utah arising from competition with rival lines and the failure to agree upon rates the gross earnings of ‘the company for the past year would have been legally in excest of the year previous, The lat- ter of these causes has now'been remedied and witk a maintenance of the present rates and continued imorease of traffic the grose and net earmings for 1884 should shew very favorably when com- an unused building, and fifty men wit-| pared witk the past year. Sales of sthe company’e lands in 1883 amounted o a larger sum thanfor any previous year since the sales commenced and exceeded the sales of last year by the kl"rnumbar of teen rounds were fought aad the exhibi- | gum of $2,308,830, The acres sold duxing the year was 1,160,349 for the gross sum of $4,081,133. The nuberof purchasers was3,814 whobought at an average price of §3.560 per acre. All lande granted the company have been sold for a distasce of 200 miles west of the Missouri river. The weport then gpeaks of thetripartite agreement, and of the differences pond- ing betwaen the road and thegovernment in regard to compeueation for carrying flu[a)m»}xll‘m h uring e coming year, and under the the uaw!,lboud of dn—uzt/.u- the operation of the road is, it is stated ongood author ity, to be divided into fowr departments mos is to have charge of one, Clark of another, and the heads of {he other two are not yet named. The old officers werc reslected, and the usual quagterly divi- Frank Langston, son of tho United States | deud of 1 per cent declared, YORFEITED GRANTS, WasuinGrow, March 6,—The eenate comumittee on ‘};ublin lands this evening ordeted favora®le reprt upon house bill BRUTAL BUTCHERS. Some Startling Developments Coming In the Cronch Case. declaring the forfeiture of lands granted to the Texas Pacific Railroad comjany in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, and restoring them to the public domain, The houso committeo on public lands agreod to report favorably the houso bill declairing forfeited the Ontonagon and Brulo river Railroad company's lands, The grant was stripped of the section |>l'nvi§in1( for confirmation of the acts of the department of the interior in per mitting entries upon those lands. Strik- ing out this section the bill was agreed to by a majority of one vote in the com mittee and the minority will bring ina roport recommending an amendment to the bill in the house by a reiusertion of tho section. The land graut forfeit- ures which is recommended by the com- mittoo amounts to about 120 sections of land and ontries upon these lands which the bill sought to confirm, an aggregate of between 300,000 and 400,000 acres. The committee also agreed to report fav- orably a bill to declare forfeited the un- earned land grant of the California & Oregon railroad company, amounting to about 1,000,000 acres. s Bt FORTY-EIGHTH O SENATE, The Evidence Against the Three Perpotrators, Judd Crouch’s Attempt to Mur= der a Deteotive, A Wife Beater Commits a Murder and Suicides. The Veedict of the Coroner's Jury on the Winnetka Butchkery. CORIME AND ORIMINALS, THE CROUNSE MURDER, Special Dispateh to Tk e JAcksox, Mich., March b.—Importavt and authentio information of a startling character relative to the Crouch tragedy was to-day doveloped. A complete and seemingly conclusive chain of ciroum- stantial evidence is in the hands of the officials which seems unaccountable on any other theory than that Dan Hol- combe, Judd Crounse and Jas. Foy were the actual perpetrators of the crime. Only a portion of this evidence can at present be made public. It will go to show that the crime was carefully and deliberately planned fully two months befors its nctual commission and that the chief conspirator was Dan Holcomb. Holcomb wus largely indebted to Jacob Crounse and had tried bard to borrow more moriey from him about two months before the murder, but failed, The old man used bitter words regarding Hol- comb’s mismanagement as a farmer and the result was that the two were barely on speaking terms for a good while be- fore the murder was committed, 1t is believed Holcomb and Judd would both be practically disinherited in favor ol HIVESS, WasHINGTON, March 6.—The judiciary committeo reported favorably a bill for the colloction of statistics touching mar. riage and divorce. The bill extending the limitaof Yellow- stone Park passed; also the bill authoriz- ing the postmaster general to lease build. ings for postoftices of the first, secondand third class, for terms not to exceed ten yenars. Mr. Pendloton’s (dem., Ohio) bill pros viding for the exercise of jurisdiotion conferred opon the United States ir places outside their dominion was ther taken up. Pending debate Mr. Sherman (rep, Ohio), by consent, presented a message from the house announcing its agreemert to the joint resolution to appropriats §10,000 for the senate contingent fund with a proviso that the money be use for no other investigation than such af havealready been ordered. This caused objection to immediateconsideration,and it went over. Mr. Cockrell (dem,, Mo.) introduced bill to amend the revised statutes so as to ive procosses of the United States courts jthe same force in all states thdt the processes of the several states have in their respective states. After debate on the Pendleton bill, an ; . H White's child, which would exonuiso soson waa held, and tho s LY D Py VR T ate adjourned. Ba tunate mother been permitted to HOuE live one or two weeks longer. Tho On mction of Mr. Blanchard (dem. La.) a bill passed making an appropria, tion of £8,100 to supply the deficiency in the amount required for expenditures to ascertain the depth of water and width of channel in the South Pass of the Missis- sippi river, and gaugo tho waters of the Mississippi river and tributaries. « Mr. Randall (dem., Pa.), from the committee on appropriations, reported back the senate joint. resolution for the addition or $10,000 to the contingent fund of the senate for witness fees inthe Danville investigation, with an amend- ment providing that the sum shall only be available for expenses in investiga- tions heretofore ordered. The amend- ment was adopted and the joint resolu- tion passed. Mr. Robertson (dem., Ky.), from the committee on elections, reported a reso- lution unseating T. Luna, a delegate from New Mexico, and seating in his place Manzanores, who appeared at the bar of the house and took the oath. Mr. Lewis (dem., La.), from the com- mittee on public lands, reported a bill to repeal section 22 of the act incorporating the Texas Pacific railway company, and to declare the forfeitureof the land grant therein made. Calendared. The following bills were reported and referred to the committee of the whole: Providing for the removal of obstrac- tions to free navigation of navigable wa- ters of the United States. Committee of the whole. Establishing a uniform systom of bank- ruptey throughout the United States. The house then went into committee of the whole, Mr. Converse (dem., Ohio) in the chair, on the nayal appropriatian bill, the pending amendment being that of Mr. McMilien (dem., Tenn.) reducing the number of captains to 30 and of com- manders to 50. The amendment was ost. Mr. Calkins (dem., Ind.) moved to strike out the provisions prohibifing pro- motion in the various grades of the navy until such grades are reduced tothe num- l bers fixed é:y the m:lvul ml:lt of lflrt:’f!, also the amendment adopted yesterday re- ducing the staff cflrps.l Agr}:md et Des Mowes, Iowa, March 6,—In the Mr. Calkins raised a point of order |senate the bill to provide for a uniform against the paragraph respportioning for flf"'w"' of text books in schools ocoupied tho uso of the bureau of steam cngineer- | the entiro session. No vote was reached ing the unexpended balance of about|On the main bill. An amendment was e e Taat | carried striking out the clause exempting $170,000 of the appropriation in tho last | arried striking out th cluuso exompting prosecution will aim to prove that a spe- cial motive for the murders existed two months before their commission, that the'deed was then carefully planned,that the murder and robbery of Polly was one of the prearranged blinds; and that ey was an actual participant., Judd was exsmined to-day on a charge of shooting Datective Brown and the latter bore a rigid examination of over two hours, de. tarled the shooting and events cennected therewith and calmly told the story. He thought Judd Crouch was the man who shot him but did not think the other man was McCullum. The two rode away after the shooting. Judd’s counsel alluded to him as the *““poor boy” when the crowd greeted the expression with jeers, and whistles and an adjournment was had. A BLOODY TRAGEDY., Crevenavn, 0., March 6,—William McMillan, living near Huron, went home drunk last night and abused his wife who threatened to call on the neighbors for help. McMillan swore he would kill the first man who came to the house, Goorge Thompson, aged 19, came having an errand and being ignorant of the trouble. McMillan mistaking him for another person fired and killed him, and then discovering his error tried to shoot him- self, but only inflicted a flesh wound He was arrested, jailed and found dend in the cell this morning, a suicide from rat poison which he found, THE WINNETKA BUTOHERY, Cuicaco, March b,—The coroner’s jury to-day concluded the investigation of the Winnetks murder. The verdict finds that Mr. and Mrs, Willson came to their deaths by violent means at the handsof a person or persons unknown, “‘but we, the jury, believe the evidence casts suspicion upon Neil McKeague.” The verdict in no way alters tho status of the case, two indictments for murder having been found against McKeague prior tothe cor- oner’s investigation. : m—— OVER IN 10W LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS, bill for engines and machinory for double tarretod smonitors, Overraled by the |ren from the uso of such books as may sl be adopted as standard. On & motion to striko out the enccting claute of the bill the vote stood yeas 21, nays 24, In the house Mr, Russel arose to a question of privilege and wished the re- solutions pending concerning his ineligi- bility be disposed of. After considerable debate the resolutions and all motions in relation to the .aatter as well as those ccncerning Messrs, Clayton and Hall Messrs, Glasscock (dem., Cal ), SBum- ner (dem., Cel.) and Budd (dew., Cal.) apoke of the defenseless condition of the const, and the latter moved to strike out the paragraph against which Mr, Calkins had raised the point of order. Lost. Mr, €alking’ amendment, uniting un- der one head the bureaus of steam engi- neering and construction and repair, was ! rejected. presented two weeks ago were on motion The committee rose and the house ad- | of Mr. Bolter indefinutely postponed. faurned: The railroad committee reported favor- ably on the bill authorizing actions against railroad companies to be brought in the name of the state on the recom- mendation of the railroad commissioners; also authorizing the railway commission- ers to decide cases brought before them on complaints against railroad companie The school committee roported favora- bly a bill for the relief of I;ubuquu coun- e — The Public Debt. Wasninaron, D, 0., March b, —Secre- tary Kolger, in replying to the house resolution as to how much money is now in the treasury that can be applied in liquidation of the public dent without embarrassing the department, says that after making all deductions, for special funds, ets., and providing for the reserve | ty, relative to the school fund. { fund, there remains as the final result{ The committee on military uffairs re- §7,034,281, which may be n{)pliad to an ?OEM favorably on the bill to provide government purpose, and that the best|for the erection of monuments to de answer as to what he conceives wmay be|ceased union soldiers. ' done in the way of liquidating without| The committee on judicial districts ro- ewbarrasswent, 1s perhaps what he, m | paried favorably on the bill to divide the use of kis best judgment, did on the | the Sixth judicial district into two eir- 218t of February last, when he called for | euits. the redemption of $1¢,000,000 of 3 per| Bills were passed to enablo the M. 1. per cent bonds, payable church at Towa city to sell certain realty; to legalize the incorporation of the town Impoviant Western No the duty of the prosecuting attorney to prosecute suchZcases, the money to go to the school fund; also passed the bill to prohibit traflic in disoased hogs, REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION The call for the republican stato con- vention, to be held in Des Moines, April 30, was issued to.day. The call says the convention will be charged with the duty of selecting four delegates and four al- ternates to the national convention, It says the districts have the option to elect dolegatos by convention or by district sub.divisions at the state convention, and recommends the latter plan to the end that tho state convention may be more largely attended, and so got a ful- lor party convention for conference and counsel. The state convention will be composed of 917 delegates. KILLED BY A SNOW PLOW, Stovx Oiry, March 5.—A snow plow on the St. Paul road struck a sled con- taining a farmer named Fisk, his son aged 19, a married daughter and two small children, at Sibley, Osceola county, this state, to-day. The son was instantly killed, the father fatally injured, and the othors slightly injured, STRUCK OIL, Vinton, lows, March b.—Workmen who have been boring hero for petroleum for the past month, struck oil to-day in paying quantities. It causes much ex- citemont, i TELEGRAPH NOTES, The Wostern Export association has decided to reduce the production of whiskey 10 per cont. aftor May 1. Judge Bare_yesterday quashed tho indict- mont against Douglas, mauager of the Henry county, Ky., lottery, and has caused the avrest of the postal inspector whom he sues for $10,000 damagos, Spurgreon, the Baptist preacher of TLondon, has fallen heir to a large fortune left him by Joseph Pool, of Leicester. An immense crowd of farmers will attend the convention at Winnepeg to-day. (eneral unanimity provails, The Massachusetts prohibitionists moet in state convention May 7, An extra session of the logislature of Oali- fornin is called for the 24thy M. O, Van Fleot, treasurer of Huron coun- is u defaulter to the tune of from $50,- J. W, Burdette has been confirmed as col- lector of internal revenue of the Fouith Towa district. The Bedouins of Jeddah have revolted. The entire clerical force of the census bureau, 105 in number, have boen suspended from the 10th instant, owing to the exhaustion of tho appropriation for tho maintenance of tho bureau. The governor of South Carolina_offers a ro- ward ot $600 for the afrest of W. B. Cash, who shot Town Marshal Richards at Che- raw. The Louigiana_republican tate convention mat yesterday, Kellogg, Pinchback, Badgor and Dumont wero chonen delagates to the nn- tional convoution. A full state ticket will b nominated to-day. Dr. Trombon is to_ immodiately” investigate tho cattlo disease at Neosha Falls, Ka. An Trish immigration company, with cap- ital of £250,000, has been formed in Dublin, Parnell heads it. Brigadier Genoral McKenzio, being insane, will be placed on the retired list. The house comwiltes will report advorssly on the $25,000 appropriation for secds for the flood sufferers. The name of John W, Mason, of West Vir- ginia, is mentioned as the probable successor of John C. New for assistant sccretary of the troasury. ‘The committee of the Union league co siderod yesterday the matter of alloged m rule in the sonth and will report to the league which meets in Washington to-day. President McCosh denios that the faculty of Princeton employ spies. A fast mail train is to be pat on between New York and Chicago, 1t will run in 27 hours, Princeton students wantithe L:u]]eqo faculty investigated because they emmploy spies. The water is two foet over the new levee at Arkansas City and doing great damage. The sixteenth annual convention of the Woman Suffragists has opened in Washington. A gang of counterfeiters has been arrestod in New ‘Iln\'ml, Conu., and several merchants aro implicated. Gordon_belioves the slavery question in Baypt will bo settled within a year by the rising of the alaves. Workmen in the Pullman shops at Pull- man, 1L, have struck against a reduction of wages from $1,50 to 180, The Irish informer who proposed togive the names of the murderers of Lord Leitrim, is now believed to be a lunatic. The Novelty iron works at_Cloveland_ havo wignod, Linbilities 60,0003 assots doublo that amount but not available. Los Angelos is again doprived of communi- cation with SBan Francisco, the repairs to the railrond having been washed away. Finglish dotectives in New York have beon provided with portraits of suspected dynamit- ers,The police believe the dynamite used was windo in. France, Lopez Martablo, editor of a tri-weokly pa- per issuod ut Laredo, Texas, was killed Mon- day, infa duel with the editor of The Cronista, publishied at Matamoras, Tho only chango made in the rules by the National base ball league limits the pitcher to wix balls instead of seven, Western clubs open the seson in the east, Extraordinary proautions are being taken to insure the «ulut{ of Buckingham palace. The movements of all persons found lurking about the neighborhood are closely watched, Tho American consul at Dundee has asked captains of whaliog vessels to kvep a lookout for Lisutenant Greely in Baflin’s Bay, in view of the possibility of his drifting from’ Smith’s sound on an ice floe. Paul do Cassagnac, n Bonapartists, writes in Le Matin, urging that the Bonaparists and royalists should unite with a view to uf- fecting the dowafall of the republic. Tho Napolconists and Orleanists, ho raya, are onl different labels for the same sort of uurdlux The Princoss, Marie Anna, returnod to Ber- lin Tuesduy, and rejoined her husband, Fred. erick Chuuios, tho red prince, who met her at the railway station. Liater in the day she was recelved by the emperor and empross, Thus the difficulties botwoen husband and wife which sot all Germany agog have heen amisa- bly wrranged. Suits for eriminal libel have been entered against the editor of The Uuioutown (Pa.,) Ropublican-Standard, by . A. Acklin and Luwronoo Kuotta, mebera of the jury which acquitted Dukes. ' The alleged libel appenred in the issues of March laat, nd consist in great part of head lines of the articles writton on the subject of Dukes' acquittal, Damages suits will also be brought by the same parties. A shooting scrape oscourred at Topeka, Kan,, last Taesday night am ng the colored tupulnlun in which George Blackman was illed and Peter Bloodsoe mortally wounded. Isiah McClary is she murder. The two vie of Fonda; to provido for the erectionand maintenance of station. houses at po of intersection or crossings of tw more railroads. This bill provides tu. 90 days’ notice by the railroad comnuis- sioners shall bo given to therailroad com- ies for the erection of such sfation ouses when deemed necessary, and fixce & penalty of §26 for each day such rail- road company shall neglect or refuse 1o Wasnineron, March §,—The follow- ing nominations have been made: W, M, Buun, Penasylvania, govemor of Idaho, J. C. Perry, New York, chief justice of the supreme court of Wyowing, Norman Buek of Idaho, ussociate jus- tice of the supreme court of ideho, W. F. Fitzgerald of Mississippi, asso- ciates justice of the supreme¢ court of Arizona, comply with such demand, It js nmdulum burt, tiws, it seoms, had boen intimate with Mo- Clary's wife aud thoy weut to his house and he grdered them away, and, they refusing to go, 1o fired. The secoud soction ¢f east bound freight on the Northern Pacitic railvoad, with .K-nuw plow iu front, while going thiity miles an hour, rau into the first section of the train while the latter was halted at Jackemont, without dis- playing the sizual light. The cabogse in which ning men were slseping, was -..mm end to end, throwiny the men in every direction, The Batlling of the Buls and Bears Wheat Fluctuates Moderately and Trading Tame and Limited and Corn Follows the Lead of the The Oattle Market Shows no Mate- Special Dispatch to Tre Bre. played a fair degree of activity early in the day, and prices were firmer all round, but trading grew more tame and limited toward the close and there ensued a pro- portionate depression in prices, business was transacted in wheat, chiefly on local account, and the feeling was somewhat unsettled, with fluctuations cargoes off coast. small, make tho | P ' Llood i o A iy All w0 ; tegs 'CHANCE CONNINGS. on Wednesday, Oloses Lower, "Shorts" Covering. Wheat Transactions, rial Change in Prices. CHICAGO MARKETS, THE FEATURES OF A DAY, Cricaco, March 5.—'I'he markets dis- A good within a moderate range. “Foreign ad- vices quoted wheat quiet, but firmer for Receipta continue The market opened strong and } to {o higher, but later under rather free speculative ofterings, declined | to {c, then rallied about jc under a better demand, with *‘shortsa” covering, and finally closed easier and jc lower than the closing figures on 'change yestexday. Oorn rules irregular and the foeling is unsettled. A moderate business was transacted but at times the market ruled quiet. Receipts were smaller, and about 28 Eurcunt inspectod contract corn. The market opened | higher, and de- clined undér free offerings about §, ral- lied {, and finally closed about § under the prices of yesterday. Trading in mess pork was only fair, and chiefly in contracts, for May and June deliveries. The cattle market was moderately ac- tive. The best grades show no material change from yesterday but others ave b to 106 lower. Good Lo choice shipping steers, 1,200 to 1,350 1be., $9 50; 1,200 1bs., $5.25 to 6 80; corn fed Texans, 700 to 1,050 lbs , §5 40 to §6.00 e —— GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. THE PORTE 8 APPEAL. LoxnoN, March 5.—The porte has been sounding the powers regarding the Soudan. Germany roplied that she will not intervens, and suggests that Turkey arrange the matter directly with Eng- land. Tho other powers wade similar replies. Jn view of this Masuras Pasha, Turkish embassador at London, has re- quested Earl Granville to use the sultan’s influence in seeking to conciliste the Sou- danese. AMERICAN PORK IN FRANC Panis, March b,—The majority of the parliamentary committee who have bean examining the question of importation of . salt meats are in favor of the government roposal to appoint officers to inspect the imports on their arrival in France, M. Paul Bert is in favor of a convention with America for the regular inspection of pork in America by officers empow- ered to issue certificates, which shall then bo vised by the Freuch consul at the port from which the pork is shipped. When the pork arrives in France it would only be necessary then to see whether the French consul had properly vised the certificates or had endorsed an objection upon them. THE EGYPTIAN CAMPLIGN, Loxvon, March b.-—~Gen. Graham is making preparations at Suakim to ad- vance upon Tamanteb. The sheiks of several tribes have Jsent envoys offering to desert Osman Digma and assist the English if paid for their services. Two thousand’and seven hundred bodies have been buried at Teb including Egyptians killed in the fig"t between Baker Pasha's troops and the rebels. ~ Gen, Gordon asks further supplies of money and the tronsurer at Cairo has sent him £4,000 and a number of decorations. e Southern Euterprise, Bavrniong, March b,—The Manufac- turer’s Record publishes a statement showing that during January and Febru- ary the capital invested n southern manufacturing and mining enterprises increased $28,200,000, Kentucky shows the largest aggrogate, $6,851,000. C— The Kansas Cautle Disease, Emronia, Kas,, March 5, —Large num- bers of our promiuteut catie men held a: F“blio meeting this evening to take steps or the suppression of the cattle plague which exists in a malignant form at Neosho Falls. Several lerge cattle own- ers who returned from Neosho Falls yes- terday report that many catile have the disease in a very virulent form. Some have their hoofs off and legs off, some have rotted off as far up as the second joint The disease rescmbles and is communizated exactly like small-pox, e ee——— PURIFY ™ BLOOD. HE marvelons results of Hood's upon all humors and low conditions of tho blood provo 1t the best BLOOD MEDICINE. Such has. been the success of this article t home: that nearly every family nelghborhoods have been the same time, 1t PURI. aud enriches the blood