Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1884, Page 1

N Ful b Floharty 5 THE OMAHA [ f“l\‘,‘ «r nvTm ALRA RA AR NE RINE SIS \ X THIRTEENTH YEAR. W (i i iy PRESIDENTIAL PRATTLE. Horace White, of New York, Sanguine of Arthnr's Voting Strength, And that He Could Carry New York State Overwhelmingly. Carl Schurz Ready to Repeat His Mistake of 1872, His Threat to Canvass Against Blaine if He is Nominated. Sabin Will Not Accept the Cam-= paign Chairmanship, Sherman Said to bo After Don cron’s Influence—Various Cam- Political Char, TH YENCY HORAC DN ARTHUR, Special Dispatch to Trk Deg, WasniNaroy, May 18.—Horace White, of the New York Evening Post, is in the city, and says Arthur can poll more votes in New York than any Republican who can be nominated. White is supporting Eamunds, but does not think there is any prospect of his candidate being nomin- ated at Chicago. If Arthur is nominated he will support him cheerfully. SCHURZ BOLTING AGAIN, An intimate friend of Carl Schurz, who ately conversed with him on the political situation, asserted most positively of his own knowlodzo that in the event of Blaino’s nomination by the republican convention, schurz would stump New York and other states against. THE TALK AT WASHINGTON, Special Dispatch to The T WasnNarox, May 18.—The presiden- tial question is now the exciting theme, and taken together with the panic has given Washngton all it can talk about. Delegates are beginning to come and re- port tha situation in their various locali- ties. The prospocts for Arthur’s nomina- tion are considered very bright. LOGAN AND BLAINE. Logan proposes to attend the national republican convention himself, and be on hand to see that his delegates do not scatter. A nice little fight is in progress between him and Blaine, which can only result in Arthur's favor. If anybody wants to hear windows rattle with a ver- bal cyclone, the only thing he has got to do is to suggest to Logan that his adher- ents will go over to Blaine after a few ballots, Blaine has no love for Logan, as is shown by the talk of his friends who claim that 35 of Logan’s men in Illinois are pledged to Blaine after the second ballot. HARRISON AND WAWLEY. Special to the Chicago Daily News, WasiIxaron, D, C., May 16.—At at- temptis being made by Senator Hoar and certain politicians of Indiana and others to form a combination botween Harrison and Havwley, but they have not made much progress so far. Mr. Hour is opposed to Arthur, Blaine, and Ed- munds, and would not like to vote for either of them. Harrison suits him very weil, and he thinks that if he can get Hawley interested enough he can carry a formidable support for the combination into the convention. But Hawley does not look upon the suggestion with any favor, He would like to be the candi- date for president. s wouid accept the vice-presidency if nominated, but would not ask the support of any one for the second place on tne ticket. Hawley is for Archur, and Harrison has not sufficient strength in his own state to give him much influence in a trade. FEW CONTESTS, The committee on credentials of the republizan national convention will have very little to do. There will be two full delegationa from Virginia—one led by Mahone and the other by Desendorf but the former has been recognized by the national committee. 1t represented every county in the state, while the anti- Mahone convention was composed of but 135 delegates, representing but thirty- five of thy * anties. The delegates H. West, of Ohio, will place the name of James (i, Blaine in nomination at Chica. o, and they will be carefully drillad so that they may not make the same mistake that Joy did four years ago, when he for- got the initial of his candidate and nomi- nated *“J. B. Blaine. Wast is a blind man, but is said to have rare gifts in ora- tory. Asalready announced in these dispatch- s, Gen. Logan has decided to attend the national convention, as ho has & good ex- cuso to go, being a member of the nation- al committee which has been called to meet June 2. He will open headquarters at the Grand Pacific hotel and conduct his campaign in person, He seems to be confident thet his chances of securing the nomination aro good, but his_opinion is not shared by many people. His efforts at presont are directed to keeping hls for- ty-six votes solid until the Blaine men break, when, he thinks, the most of them will come to him, IDAHO AND Mr. Pride, a dolegate to the mnational republican convention from Idaho, arrived in the city yesterday, and the fact was announced in the daily papers. When he went to breakfast this morning he found a note in his box at the hotel signed by Walker Blaine, who took plea- sure in informing Pride that James G. Blaine, his father, would be glad to have him call at his residence at his car. liest convenionce. Up to this writing Pride has not subjected himself to the magnetic influence which has been so much talked about, and the Blaine shouters will go on saying that the great historian is taking no interest in the can- vass, but is indifferent to his prospects. DEMOCRATIC HOPES. Publicly the democratic newspapers are doing all they can to help Blaine to the nomination at Chicago, and are par- ticularly anxious to defeat Arthur. Pri- vately the editors of these papers are laughing over the effort, The more prominent public men of the party do not hesitate to say in their confidential conversations with republican friends that refusal to nominate Arthur at Chi- cago would be an act of self-stultification on'the part of the republicans. They have unanimously indorsed him; they have unanimously commended his ad- ministration; he has done mare for reform than any other president; his administra- tion is without a single scandal origin- ating during his term. Why, then, re- fuse to take a man in favor of whom everything can be said and against whom there is no syllable, even in the mouths of political enemies! When has it grown to be good policy to say to a public man: *“Well done, good and faith- ful servant; now get out! We have no use for yout” If such action should be taken at Chi- cago it will be charged by the democrats that the republican party refused to nom- inate Arthur because he was honest, and because he favored and fostered practical reforms, and thereforo that the profes- sions of the party are hypocritical and ite pretended love for econouy and reform a fraud. As thoso palpable truths dawn on thedelegates they are beginning to sec their plain_duty. As it becomes more and more evident that Arthur is the strongest possible candidatein New York his chances grow brighter. It is univer- sally conceded that the president has grown in strength veryrapidly during the past fortnicht, and if this continues it may be found, after all the doubt and speculation, that no convention hua mivt LAINE, OMAHA, NEB. by the judge advocate, closed the evidence, The court directed the counsel to file printed briefs by Wednesday morning next, when the arguments of the counsel will be heard, Meanwhile the court adjourned. ETHAT CONSUL AT KEY WEST, Tho secrotary of the navy received a telegram from Commander Batchellor, commanding the United States steamship ialena, at Kay Waest, saying the threats against the life of the Spanish consul at that place, reported yesterday, were made in & bar-room by two or three drunkon Cubans, but neither the consul or the authorities at Key West attach much importance to them. The secretary tole- graphed Commander Batchellor to use the naval forces if necessary to preserve the peace and protect the consul. HEWIIT'S HOBBY, e R Prrrsm 18. —The i May Globe prints the following letter to-day, Sunday being Hewitt's answer to Oliver’s critic on tho tarifl bill: Hexey W, Ouver, Ju.—Dear Sir: 1 have read your letter of the 15th inst. with pleasuro and profit, but as you have overlooked a_few points, I will, with your permission, endeavor to supply the omission and in the brief interval allow ed mo from arduous congressional duties, I beg leavo to inquire: First—What was the duty recommend- ed by the Oliver commission on wire rods barbed wire, ete., the well-known spocial- ties of Oliver Bros. & Phillips? Second— How does it occur that under the operation of the Oliver tariff you have been enablod to purchase two now wire mills, one blast furnace and a partnership in the Hartman mill, while other mills are content with the old fashioned 10 per cent? Third—How does it occur that under the benign operations of the Oliver tariff the mills of Oliver Bros., in Pittsbury, aro enabled to run the whole year, while other iron mills are run on an average of but four months in the year? Fourth—Now that you are operating Dlast furnaces, will you inform the pub- lic whether you hold the same view on raw material as you did when on the tar iff commission, and if not, why not? Fifth— Will you kindly inform an anx- ious public how many of your $1.15 per day employes enjoy the benefits of tho Oliver tarifi? 1 would suggest that so far as wire roads, barbed wire, etc., are concerned, that the Oliver tariff report might be appropriately termed *'a bill for the relief of Oliver Bros, & Phillips.” Very respectfully yours, Apram Hewrrr, CHOICE, atch to Tue Be 10N, May 18.—Senator Sher- man has gone to New York, and the gos- sips say his mission is to meet Senator Don Cameron on his arrival from Europe. There has been a good deal of talk about a movement in favor of Sherman as a presidential candidatebeing led by Came- ron, but nobody has paid any attention to it, as Cameron has given no indications either of his choice or intentions, Congressman Barr, of Penusylvania, who ought to be as well pesed as any one, says the senator’s first choice is Logan and his second choice Arihur, * ROMANCE in cight years where tho candidate to be nominated was so woll sottled upon prior to the assembling of the national body as in 1884, LEGISLATION'S LOG, THE COMING WEEK IN CON b WasHINGTON, May 18,—There is rea- son to believe the house to-morrow will set aside the Wallace-McKinley contest- ted election case and give preference to the regular order. Tu this event the call will begin with the judiciary committee, which will offer a resolution to fix the duy for the consideration of the senate bankruptey bill. There is strong possi- bility that the banking and currency committee may to-morrow determing_ to ask a suspension of the rules to pass cith er the Dingley or McPherson bills Other commitiees, if reached, will offer resolutions as follows: Coinage, veights and meusurcs, to pass a bill providing for the issuance of one, two and five dollar certificates; public lands, to pass a bill providig for the repeal of the preemp- tion and timber culture laws nd the homastead act; militia, to pass a bill in- creasing the annual appropriation formili- to the so-ca. Ltraight out” convention were only from the counties along the line of the Chesapeake & Ohio raiiroad, which ie owned and controlled hy C. P. Huntington, a perscnal friend of Mr, Blaine, and may bs properly called Huntington's convention. There are also contests in the 1st Georgia, the lst Alabama, the 19th New York, and the 6th and 7th North Carolina districts, where both delegations are for Arthur. In the 2ud 1llinoss, two Logan men con- test the seats of two Arthur men, and in the 21st and 22d Pennsylvania districts, in the Gth New York, and in the Gth Maryland, the contest is between the friends of Arthur and Blaine, Itis ex- pected that the Hth Minnesota district contest will be settled by the delegates themselves before the convention meets, THE CHAIRMAN, The selection of a chairman for the national republican convention is already a matter of discussion among the friends of the candidates, and although it is sup- posed to be the dlity of the committee on permanent organization to name the man the choice will be made long before the committee are chosen. The Blame men are advocating Harrison, of Indiana, who is supposed to be Mr. Blaine’s second choice for the presidential nomination, but if he is a candidate before the con- vention, the honor of the chairmanship will be soughr for the Hon. Cushman K. Davis, of St. Paul, in whose oflice a son of Mr. Blaiue studied law, Horr, of Michigan, is also spoken of, and Senator Sowell, of New Jersey. The Arthur wen will concedo the chairmanship to the Elmunds contingent, or to the friends of some other dark horse candidate, and are talking of several gentlemen whe are well qua'ified for the position, Among the names mentioned are those of (zeorge Wililam Curtis, of New York; Augustus Brandegee, of Connecticu Senator Henderson, of Missouri; ex retery of the Navy Thomyson, and Con. gressman McKinly, of Ohio, The latter tia, to $600.000. DORSHEIMER'S DODGE, IT DOESN'T WORK WITH DEMOCRACY, WasHiNGroN, May 18.—It is under- stood that Doreheimer’s circular has not received the support in tariff reform ranks he expected. A very large number of liberal free traders have refused to sign it, not because they were oppused to de- claring their principles on the tarifl ques tion, but because they do not approve of the provosition to declare upon the action of those who disagres with them. Dor- sheimer, it is said, was making a personal question of the matter, thereby causing some ill feeling, which is looked upon by the Randall men with evident satisfac- tion, An address to the people may be issued with the signatures of a large num- ber of reformers, but it will probably not refer particularly to Randall, but be con- fined to & declaration of principles. SK Ok SABIN, HE WILL NOT CONTINUE CHAIRMAN, Sr. Pavi, May 16.—Senator Sabin, who arrived yesterday, says: I never expected or intended if requested, to re- tain the chairmanship of the republican national committee ~after the Chicago convention, and I told the sub-commit tee 80 very plainly at the time I was chosen. The occupant of that position would be obliged to give up all his busi- ness interests and attend strictly to the campaign, This I could not do under any circumstances, and certainly not now. Furthermore, it i3 now claimed hat for a public official drawing a salary rom the United States to levy or receive ssessments for political purposes renders him liable to imprisonment in the peni tentiary, 1 never expressed or felt any fears ahout the snccess of the republicin T~ A TRAGIC VIHGIN, Eloping Lov ake to a Boat—The Girl's Brother and Father Fol- low—Th er and the Love owned. Special Dispatch to Tie BEk, Curcaco, May 18.—Miss Ellen Farrier, a great belle in Green Briar, Va., sur- rendered her afiections to John Biggs, a handsome but worthless fellow, without family and without means. Her father forbade Bigas the place, and her brothar threatened his life if he caught him. Thursday night the lovers met by ap- pointment and flew toward Green Briar river. The father and son pursued, and reached the river just as Biggs pushed the boat off, Farrur levelled his rifle, but Biggs kopt his sweetheart bofore him and the father dared notshoot. Another boat was near and into it the father leap- ed with the son. The pursuing boat rap- idly overtook the other one and had almost reached it when Miss Farrier arose and attempted to get into the bow As she did sothe boat overturned and she and Biggs went into the water. He was no swimmer and could not aid her, but hor brother leaped in, and in 8o doing he overturned the boat he was in and cast the father into the torrent. The suitor sank and rose no more, The brother was a powerful swimmer and succeeded in saving the sistor. The bodies of her father and Biggs have been recovered. — A SMAL ALIOK, How President Mitchell is Killing Several Birds with one Stone— Buying ali the Wheat Along His]Road, Special Dispatch to the Omaha Bee, MiLwavkee, May 18 —1It is alleged by those who ought to know that Alexander Mitchell has during the past week on his own account, been purchasing all the wheat he could get along the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road in Dukota and Mionesota for the purpose of shipping it to Milwaukeo and Chicago There are two reusons given. The Mil- lers' association of Minneapolis on Wed- nesday aunounced it would purchase no morewheat until tho crisis was over, This brought the price down and made buying a soft investment. The secoud is help- ing the farmers out along the road, (it is the dullest time they have had), by an officer of the compuny, which will give the road a prestige that could not have been gained otherwise. The bulk of wheat bought was for 70 cents, a very profitable figure Ferninst Tobacco Tax, Harrroro, May 17.—The movement ts secure the repeal of all intergsl revenue tax on tobaceo, started by the oflicers of the New England Tobacco (irowers’ asso ciation, took definite shape to day. An appeal to the 10)ucco industry of the DATI ——— 00t AT A N7 a0 J / of ¢ ) P L L ? BEE. 7. e B Yy f J DAY MOR M( THE STATE CAPITAL, The Crying Need of Lincoln 1§ @ First Class Hotel, How a Black Brigade as Dis- placed by Pretty Waiter Girls. The Restaurants Where Our Cor- respondent Fares Free, An $8,000 Fire on the Outskirts of the City, The Tom Karl of the Capital Goes a Seranading, And How He Came Back Thinking Life a Biankety Blank, LINCOLN, SWANTY GOOD HOTE Special Correspondence of Tirk Ber. Lixcory, May 18.—The abovo is a sign that overy visitor to the capitol of the state, who has ever stopped at a first class hotel, can see written in large black lot- ters all around him. He sees itin the slip shod way the business, as a genc thing, is now carried on here, ho hears 1t in the continual complaints of outgoing travelers, he feelsit in the direful ex- perienco ot his own sojourns in Lincoln, and ye Gods he can smell it in the do- lightful aromas that permeate tho at. mosphere in hotel vicinities rising in thick waves of air from culinary |and contiguous departments. 1 venturo to say that there is not a capital city in the Union outside of Sitka (if that seal skinned seat be a capital) that is not ahead of Lincoln in hotels. Tho good citizens here recognize the fact and are frequently agitating the crection of a suitable structure and piacing the same in exporienced and compotent hands. There is millions in such investment and JAMILLARD OR A PAXTON would pay woil in this city, which is so woll up to the times in other respocta. A capital without a first-class hostelry is like a night express without a Pullman, and it will be a red letter day for Lincolu when the old cabooses are side-tracked and a desirable palace cur is coupled on. Even were the buildings at present uses! as temporary homes heis suitable and the cuisine above eriticism there are many other things that need reforming. One, wo might mention in particular, and that is an end skould be put to the absolute control which the Sam’l of Po- sen portion of the comuercial traveling public have over certaiu hotels. They not_only monopolize uli attention of clorks and attaches but goso far as to shape the management a» as to accord to their ideas of comfort, This was notice- ably shown by the entirs change of din- G, MAY 19, 1884, acoount the other night, without accom paniments or chorus. Aftor getting his voice trained up to the clearness of a trush, he gently wended his way toa anborban villa of the sleep-preparing city. His seloction for the evening was that old but ever dear melody, *Kath. leen Mavourneen.” The name perhaps had something to do with the choice, al theugh your corresponden knoweth not the given appellation or patronymic of the fair seranadee to whom Lin om Karl Wwas to act as serenacer on this particular ovenil At any rate Kathloon Mavour- noen was billed for tho firat part, with ex- pectation of courdo that tha sutside song would receive an insido encore with “Will you love me when I'm old,” or Lot mo pillow my head on your bo- som,” ar somo other WO ON-A-SINGLE-CHATR S0LO, Subscquent events proved that the encoro was *‘Over the Garden Wall” in basso profundo with pater-families ve ism, for no sooner did the serenader’s “Mavourcen’ commenco playing around in tho sylvan shades of tho tree-linod gardon than a window sash was raised and a rugged elophantine ear commonced receiving the honoyed notes of the tenor, Eithor tho owner of that ear did not un- dorstand the endearing expression of the coltic language or he was preparing to liston to the specches at the coming democratic convention for ho mistook “Mavourcon’ for manaeuvering and just as Charlio ronched his socond, 16 may bo for yoars and it may bo for- over” thero brokoe upon the balmy night air, ‘Seo hero, young man, | hardly think it will bo for ten minutes, no not ten soconds, 1 want none of your manaeuver- ing around horo. oU GET! manwuvre over that fonce.” Just then tho faithful dog Tray loomed up from be- hind the back step, and added a fugue stram which very foreibly recommended our typographical Tom Karl ho had bot- ter dump his musical take into some other galloy. Ho reached o paragraph before ho knew it, and retired to his own alley. This memorable serenade would, perhaps, ver have leaked out had not a typographical insertion brought it to light. [t seems J. D. Calloun, “Topics,” of the Journal, is putting his political poems cf the south into book form, and Chaudis thought he might as well con- | fight botween yeara old son, His proporty is estimated at 8100,000. He is supposed to have gone insane over business cares and anxioty., " — ML BErWEL 1 Macs, oo Prize Fight 1 oy and Duncan N ~The Former W May 18,—A prizo Duncan MoDonald, of this place, and Poto McCoy, of the John L Sullivan combination, occurred here to-day. Over threo thousend persons wero presont on tho race track, The crowd was orderly. Thirty-one threo minute rounds wore fought, Marquis of of Queensbury rules. McDonald drow first blood, McCoy got the first knock- down. McCoy was knocked down threo times and McDonald four times, MeDon- ald was badly punished about the faco and neck, On the thirty-first round MeChy got in a loft hander on MeDon- ald's neck and knocked him out of time, McCoy is around this ovening, MeDon- ald i in bed and no one permitted to sco him, ween Peto Donald Borre, Montana, — CAR COLLISION, Traln Accidont in Pennsylvania, The jured. Prrrssuna, May 17.—This evening the Alliance accommodation going east, and a froight train going west collided near Enon Valley, Pa., on the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago railroad. Both trains woro badly wrecked and soven porsons soriously njured, two freported fatally. The trains were going at a rate of,fifteen milos an hour when the collision ocourred. Both engines, nine freight cars and the mail andbaggage car of the accommoda- tion train were demolished. Seven por- sons wero injured, but none seriously. Their names are as follows, The enginecr of the freight train, W, ’ONTEFRACT, bruised and cut about the oad. Engineor P, OVERLAND Firoman C. BETZ, log brokes Conductor of passongor train, MORROW, anklo sprained. Ixpress ‘mossongor, namo , bruised, not learned, tribute to its epic with a little addendum to the proof, so the dismay of the author can readily be imagined, when he found the following marked ‘‘insert” on the the proof sheot: Broak! Broak! Broak! O voico I must urge thy ploa, Tor tho tonde ateings of my larynx aro broke Aud T fail in my upper G.” This has to be explained and of courso the serenade cat (this word to be taken metaphorically, not literally) had o bo let out of the bag. The Lancaster de ts selected their representatives to the state convention, They are in favor of John McManigal for delegate at-large. Some of the wheel horses of the party hero think John, who is a ponular and ~thoroughly honorable resident, should rather strive for the dis- trict delegate position, which he would have a more easy time in securing. Quin Nua DIGGING FOR DIAMONDS. ing room help in one of our hotels a short time ago from courtsouso /=, ed waiters to iformod and in s o) Aninzormed girls—uninformed fs far as tar business 18 concerned. It is of course of little mo- ment fora guest to bide the lime of tho “PRETTY WAITER GIRL” engaged in digesting the contents of an epistolary communication from *“der drummer”—he can drink in the favorite French expressions for slap jack aad hash from the bill of fare and his order will be nicely cooled in the meantime, and the train he intended to take two stations away from the starting point. The laxity in the management of the hotels heie of late has been productive of some good—as ill wind, you know, blows a pencficial gale sometimes. A decided improvemert has sprung up in the res- taurant business. Tako that lately es tablished by ¢ “Judge” Lindsay on O street. In the floral vernacular of the day “It's a daisy.” The ‘‘Judge” is well known as the colored Adonis who was as popular as chief of the Commercial dining room, He is keoping a metropol- itan place infevery respect, and already many of the first families and individuals of the city who b.ard out unfold their napkinsat Lindsay's. Odell’s on Eleventh street is also a first class restaurant which b S is largely patronized by tho first peoplo | 4 in the city, and a meal can there be ob- tained at reasonable rates that would make Sam Ward, the national connoisseur of elegant edibles, wink. FIRE FACTS, Early Saturday morning a fire, some distance trom tho business centre of 1his city, destroyed two or three buildings, entailing a loss of some $8,000. Had the usual Nebraska zephyr been on deck and foeling right good the flames would still be ekimming around on the outskirts of the city, and rapidly reaching the green grass of the country, where the munici- pal fire would be réduced to the plebeian character of a prairie blaze. This is ano- ther reminder that the water works ques- tion should be hurriedly brought toa settlement, for withouv the least chance of contradiction it can be truthfully said that Lincoln is entirely without firo pr.- tection. 1 believe that plans for a system are being made for submission to the council, the well has been pronounced fully equal to all demands that can be made upon it, 8o the only desideratum is. **keep the water-pot a-boiling.” The county commnissioner through their attorney have filed an answoer to the in- junction cazo grought by Mr. Courtnay as attorney for the citizons who make the Hprayers” for & restraining order. It is avery Lamb-like document and its nu- merous negations will be just old mince meat for the lions who will give 1t legal dissection, Everything is denied, past, present and fature, yes and all things in the heavens, on the earth and on the wa ters under the earth which have the scin- tillation of bond business about them 1t is ingeniously drawn and partakes con- siderable of the forced reply of an agnos tic's argument, THE TOM KARL OF THE CAPITAL, They tell & good story here of the genial and popular assistant foreman of the whole country was adop!ed, party this fall. I don't feel any now. WASHINGTON NOTE was chairman of the Ohio state conven- tion and tavors the nomination of Sher. ‘ man. It is unders ocd that ex-Congress- BWADMI, WasuiNGrox, May 17.—In the Swaim nan Burrows, of Michigan, and William [ case to-day Myron A, Parker, summoned e Destructive Vire tothe N. Y, & H, New York May 18 —A fire in the re- pair shops of the New York & Hudson railroad destroyed two passenger cars, three locomotives, and other property, loss $200,000, Journal job departnent. He 1s an adept with the types and at tne same time one of the best tenor singers in the state, being a prominent mermber of the Arions, the favorite musical organization of the South Platte, It appears that Charles intended o do ialittle serenading on his own individual A l!!';wankoe Man Finds Several near A' (ulu--h-— Also a ousand of \ Year Old PI Lumarac MiLwavkee, May 18.--S. B, Boynton of this city, who is digging for diamonds noar Waukesha, Wis., found two in a gravel strata this week., Ono of the stones was a splendid specimen, but the other was of imperfoct crystallization, and is what is known as *‘fort dlamond;” at a depth of 55 feet, the digger came upon a pieco of timber , evidently tamarack, in a splendidly preserved condition. It must have lain in its present bed for thousands of years. ——— Base Ball, Saturday. At East Saginaw-—Milwaukee, i; Saw« inaw, 18, At’ Chicago—Nationals, 8; Chicago, 1. At Now York—Metropolitan, 4; Balti- more, 12. At Columbus—Columbus, 0; Louisville 7. At Philadelphia—Washington, 0; Ath- lotics, 12. At Toledo—Toledo. 12; St. Louis, G, At Boston—Boston, 9; Chicago, 7. At New York—Now York, 7; Buffalo, At Providence—Providence, b; De- troit. 2. At Philadelphia — Philadelphia, Clovelands, 2. At Bay City—Stillwater, 1; Bay City, ) 165 At St. Louis—St. Louis Unions; 16; Baltimores, 18, At Altoona—Keystone, 9; Unions, 8, At Grand Rapids —Grand Rapids, 12; St. Paul, 0, At Muskegon — Muskegon, 8; Min- neapolis, 12, At New Yori—Brooklyn, 3; Alle- ghany, 4. At Terre Haute—Torre Quinoy, 8, : At Indianapolis—Indianapolis, 2; Cin- cinnati, 8. At Fort Wayno—Fort Wayne, 10; Poora, 8, At Philadelphia—Washin gton, 0; Ath- lotics, 12, g At Indianapolis—Indianapolis, 2; Cin- cinnati, 8. At Fort Wayne Peora, 8. Altoona Haute, b; Fort Wayne, 16; GAMES BUNDAY, At Columbus, O,—Columbus 8, Louis- ville b, At 8t. Louie,—8St, Baltimores 3, At Cincinnati, — Philadelphia stones b, Cincinnati Unions 7. At Indianapohs— Cincinnat dianapolis, 1. N 3 Powr Dovex, Oxr,, May 17.— tary Lincoln, Gen. Sheridan, 2 Stager, John McCullough, Gen. €. H. Pompkins, Bishop McLaren and fifty others crossed from Sandusky on Thurs- day and are fishing at Pelec island, Louis Unious 6, Key- @ In a Bath. The relatives Miwavkek, May 18 of Tully H. Smith have identified the articles found on the man who committed suicide in the New Orleans bath-hous:, and have requested the body to ba senv home. and cut about the head, dnctor CASTNER, badly bruised, A number of passengers wero slightly bruised. The accident was cauced by a misunderstanding of orders, The trains onst and west were delayed several hours, — SHOT AT THE PLOW, A Double Murder on a Kentucky Barostows, Ky, May 17.—Herbert Armstrong and David Brown were found dead in a field whero thoy had been plow- ing, one shot through tho heart and the other through the head, The killing was done with a Spencer rifle. Tho sup- position is that the murdercer concealed nimsolf in some bushes, and coolly shot the men down. Circumstantial evidence is strong against Wm. K'reze, who had a business trouble with the murdered men. The three are all well-to-do farm- ors. Excitement runs high and 1t is feared that Freeze will be mobbed. nE e ———— OLVIE RECKLESSNIISS, A Des Moines Boy Killea While Fool- ing With a Weapon, Des Morsis, Towa, May 17.—While two boys, John Jones and Freddie Chap- man, were looking at a revolver this afternoon, it was discharged and the ball, which was a large size, entered the chin of Chapman, passing under the tongue and lodge near the spine. Tt is impossi- ble to probe for the ball now. The left sdo of the boy is paralyzed, showing that the spine was struck, The physicians fear the spine is injured and that death must result. e The B. & M egraph Company. Barnsone, May 18 —Thestockholdors of the Bankers aid Morchants’ Telegraph oompany, of Bultimore, yesterday elec the following officers by unanimous vote President, Anthony W. Dimock; vico president, Robert Turner; sccretary and ] treasurer, G. Onse; general superin- tendent, G 8. Mott; attorney, Francis P, Stevens, It was stated that the company Wwas in a prosperous or Branding 5 New York, May 17.-The flour trade rosolved to-day that all flour inspected shall have the name of the New York produce exchange inspector and the grade it represents, together with the month and year, hranded upon each sack and on the side of each barrel. —— Mexico to Borrow $30,000. MEexico, May —The chamber of deputies has authorized the president to contract a loan of §30,000,000, covering $8,000,000 already received by the gov- ernment. The loan recently reported will probably be effucted in Paris. An Indiana bezzler, Ciicaco, May 17.—Gireen W. Brown- lee,ex-treasurer of Marlan, Tudiana, was ar- rested here to-night on a warrant for embezzlement, 1t is charged that he is short in his accounts $4,000. e A Tennessce Tragedy. EAMERY, n., May 17.--Two men Frind Ml and’ Kirby, quarreled over a trivisl matter to-night, and Frindell cut Kirby's throat, and Kirby shot Frindell, Both died in half an hour. Arbitrator Tucker, Cuicaco, May 17— Joseph Tucker has accopted the poition of special arbitrator to arrange the percentages of the money pool of transcontinental roads, o — His Son, i, INp., May 18, —George H. Slyer killed his son, Solomon Slyer, aged 20, at their howe, near Trenton, Sunday morning, Cause, family trouble, S Wants a Jury of Libertines, Loxno, May 17.—Lord 8t. Lenardo, areested on & chargo of assaulting o maid servant of his host, demands trial by his peers, A Tow ArLanrio Cra town of Absec in Danger, , N.J., May 18.—The b is in imminent dan- Smith leaves & wife and a 10§ ger from forest fires, NO. 288 * CRIMINAL CLEMENGY, Pandon of & Lit-Sentonced. Marderee By the Governor of lowa, The Orime a Deliberato and Pre= determined Aot The Murderer Serves but Eight Years of His Sentence, Formerly a Liquor Dealer but Took His Own Poison, Ho Kills His Friend and Neighbor for Refusing a Loan, The Governor's Action Generally De- nounced by all Conyersant with the Facts, LENIENCY TO THE LAWLESS, THE BRUCE MURDER CASE IN T0WA, Chicago 'T'imos Special. ¥r. Mavison, Towa, May 16.—The gates of the Towa penitontiary opened on Wednesday afternoon for the exit, after cight years of prison life, of Edward Bruce, who was sentenced for lifo at the December term, 1876 of the district court in this city, for the murder of his friend and neighbor, P. McNamara, in the summer of 1 at Keokuk, in this county, Bruce in 1876 was n wholesale liquor dealer at Keokuk, He became embarrassed and TOOK TO DRINK. After a debauch he tried to shoot McNa- mara, who was a grocory merchant of Keokuk. He was an exemplary and es- toemed business man and a man of fami- ly. The marshal of Keokuk, having been advised of the state of aflairs, confiscated Bruce's weapon and took him to his home. After lying down two or thres hours, Bruco got up and went toa gun-store, bought a revolverand went to McNamara's place of business and SHOT HIS FRIEND and neighbor, simply because he had re- fused to cash’ certain questionable com- mercial paper for him. The unprovoked deed created an immense excitement at the time, and lynch law was threatened. Bruce was indicted at the September term of the district court at Keokuk, and upon application of the defendant a chango of venue was had to Fort Madi- son, where, at the December term, 1876, Bruce was tried, convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment for life, HIS PRISON CAREER was marked by his good behavior, and by tho untiring devotion of his wife, who, with her children, visited him at intervals. At tho laat session of the general assem- bly, Governor Sherman sent a message to both houses stating that certain convicts for life had made application for pardon, and among them was that of Edward Bruce. Under the laws of the state of lowa, if the general assembly recommends executive clemency, the governor can then pardon the convict, but he is not compelled to do 0. THE BRUCE PARDON CASE Wwas tho first one to ,come up, Mrs. Bruce went (v Dos Blotnes and imploved the members and senators for thoir vote in favor of her husband’s pardon. The senator from Lee, R, W. g(othert, and one of the representatives from that county, H. C. Miller, were untiring in her behalf. At the same time, the McNamaras, who are influential people in Keokuk, were opposing the pardon, A PROTEST, signed by four times the number of those on the petition, was presented, Telling speeches for and against the pardon were delivered, and finally the joint resolution was passed in the senate by 26 to 13, and the house by 65 tc 40. This action on the part of the general assembly created great excitement at Keokuk, at this point and all through Loee county. The meas- ure was generally denounced, and it was prophesied by many that in view of the opposition on the part of the public the governor would withhold his pardon. This proved to be a alse prophesy, for Wednesday afternoon BRUCE SHED BIS PRISON GARB, donned a suit of broadcloth, met his wife at a house not far from the prison, then walked up the railroad track to Weaver, a station on the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy about seven miles from h Mrs. Bruce boarded the evening going north, and at Weaver was joined by Bruce, Both proceeded to Burlington, and at that city purchased tickets over the Burlington and Cedar Rapids road and went northward at 8 p, m. that evening. It is supposed they have GONE TO DAKOTA, where the father of Bruce resides. The whole affair has been kept very secret, and no one outside of the prison officials here is yet aware of the pardon of Bruce. The citizens of Keokuk, especially, will be surprised. ANDREWS’ ot vegfi ‘Hallmll‘nru‘n{léuur(lofifi\;blunc i b, found n Andrews’ Pear! ywder, Is et il chdorged, and iestimonala recefyid Tron fuah chiomists a88. Dana Hays, Bos- tou; M. Delafoutaine, of Chicago; and Gustaves Bode, Milwankee, -Noversold in bulk. w2l A PEARL BAKING POV/DE! ITAMEOUNDTORISE, e / '.4’ l'_l/'\., Fd -r&w‘,. fi