Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 13, 1884, Page 1

EENTH YEAR. -F()Ul{’l_‘ WASHINGTON. fie Day's Work at the Natow's Capital, Personal Wrangles Among Mem= bers in the House, The Deputy U. 8. Marshals Ac- counts Being Audited, The Baker Cummittes Indulee in a General Laugh. A Very Interesting Letter from Greneral Brisbin, “The National Board ot Health—The Washington Monument and vari- ous Other Interesting News, / HOU WasHINGTON, December 12 —Tiie house on motion of Kilis, a concurrent resolution passed that congress, being nnable to attend the World's exposition at Now Orleans, that the president has decided to open the exposition by telegraph and start the machinery thereof by electricity from the executive mansion in the presonce of ghis cabinet and foreign repro- wentatives ahd representatives from cach state a-d territory in the Umted States, The seasion was taken up almost entirelv by & personal wrangle, principally between Tay- lor and Warner, both of Ohio, regarding a speech of tho former reflecting on tho pension committee printed in the Rec td but alleged nover delivered, During the controversy Warner charged Taylor's army _servico during the civil war was confined to the Ohio home nard. Taylor retorted that the only wound Warner ever received was in the back, Recess until % o'clock. Ten ponsion bills, including one grantint £30 & month to Esma Delong, were passed ail tho evening seasion. Adjournod. WASHINGTON NEWS, THE DFPUTT MARSHAL INVESTIGATION, WASHINGTON, December 3 —Barker con- tinned his testimony to day before the ceni. mittes to-day examing his charges against the comptroller’s « fice, He testified that he had no objection to pasking the accounts of the several United émmn marshals; also to the account of J. I Davenport, chief supervisor of elections in the city of New York. At the request of Milliken the witness read a section of the reviced statutes and the order of the conrt, showing that the account was legal and had been ordered to be allowed. During the cross exsmination of Baker by Milliken, the question was nsked whether the the judge who passed Wi sccount was better capable of passing judgment as to tho legahty of the vouchers on witness. *‘Yon will con- fine yourself, pleace, to gentlemanly ques- tions,” replied the witness, passionately add- ing, “I did not come hera to be insultel and don’t propose to be.” ““Well, we are 11 this investigation,” retorted Milliken. runniog this end of it,” said witness, xeplied Milliken, * you are ruunin, end of it.” Tha spectators roare: comugittoo joined in a general laugh. _Jusgt Fawrancs will testify on Monday, Tho t%:lln‘l of -Marshal Lot Wright, of the Cin- eimnatti distrjot, for the October election ex— penses have been referrad to the first auditor of the treasury for examination. They show tho following disbursements: Special depaty marskbals, $14,105; printine, S183, badges, £188; livery, total, $11,562. The cx- penditures for spocial deputy mar-hals are approved by Judge Ssge, of the district court. The accounts for printing, badges and livery, which arn desigusted extraordinary expenses, are subject to the approval of the prosident, and can ouly be paid with bis con- sent, The amount sent to Wiight was & ) leaving & batence due the United & ccording to the account rendered, of DISCRIM NATON AGAINST AMERIJAN PORK, WasHINGToN, Decomber 12.—For soma months past the euhject of the admission of American pork in Germavy has remained in statu quo, the ichibition impos ed by the im- perial decree March Gth, 3, still exist- iog, and the German meanwhile having been e d to the Awmerican producer. Hitherto the contest agaiust the Gorman dis- criminations have been waged alone in behalf of American pork interests; but hostile meas. ures in Germany bavieg recently been threatened agninet’ American petroleum, o powerful combination of the two interests is now bsing formed, lo king to @ decisive and detesmined etand by the now administration and the new cougress in regard to both thess essontially important branches of American exporte, ning T am “Yoah the butt and the THE UNION PACIFIO HOAD, Tho arguments in the Union Pacific r rond caso were concluded in the court of claima to-day and the case rubmitted, COMPLETION OF [HE WASHINGTON MONUME Gen, Sheridan will be marshal of the day for the celebration of the comp.etion of tho Washington monument, A NATIONAL BOAKD OF HEALTH, WASHINGTON, December 12.—The commit- t20 on federal legislation appointed by the national conference of the state boards of health has completed a bill whick emb the views of the conference as to tha best wethod of preventivg the introduction into the United States of the cholera and other ds- easen dungerous to the public health, The public health, toc t f one member from every state b ard of health, now or he: establlshed, to be appointed by the e and confirmed by the senate, ond s ction in thaboard is invested with all tho authonity which is now or may hereafter be provided by law for the control and pro- teotion of the public The president of the United Stutes anthorized in an cmergency to make & pr clamation of necessary weasures, such as sus- pendivg the introduction by lsnd of any duvgerous kind of mercha dire, or prohibit ing entirely the entry into United States ports vosseln from infecte fcountrics, An appropria- tion of $(0,000 is made to meet the ex; euses incurre in carrying out the provisiorsof the bill. Delegates from physiclans and mem bera of etate boards of health placed o bill in the hauds of the house commicteo on public health this afternoon, The Convention of Cattlemen, Hrvena Mont., Decomber —The Her- ald to morzow will print a letter from Gen, Brisbin, vico presidont and fehairman of the " BEAL | NORTH CAROLINA national executive committes of cattlemen, explaining the purposes of the St. Louis con. vention. The general declares that free ranges are no more practicable or desirable, and says that the majority of the cattlemen in the United States favor tho loasing of the public grass lands for{ & Texas cattlo trail, and an animal industry bill. The statement 1s made that onosixth of all cattle herds west of the Mie- wour: river are owned or controlled by Foglish- men who feed their cattls on frea American grass and are gradually driving Americas out )f the cattle bnsiness, The letter appeals to tho people and to congress to potect the American oattle growers against foreign capi tal and to favor cheap beef for home consump- tion, e THE RESURREOTION DAY, A BODY STOLEN FROK A GRAVE 18 BROU LIFE AND MARRIRS ONE OF ST 1O THE THIRVES, SpriNcriELD, Mass,, December 11,— A re porter of the Republican visited Egremont and gleaned new particulars of tho grave rob- bing mystery. The case is farther than ever from a solution, Judge Rowley, a select man of Eigromont, and executor of Miss Estell Newman's estate of 87,000 says he first heard tho story purporting to_be a confession of the dying man, 1L, Worth Wright, a few days ago, Wright was home on a yacation when Miss Newman died. With two or three other students he took the body of Miss Newman to the west stock bridge in a sack and_conveyed it to Albany on tho night train. The students prepared to dissect the body when thers were signs of life, and they succeeded in restoring her. She was insane. After consultation Miss Newman was taken to the Bellevue hospital, New York, where she remained a while and was subsequently taken to the residence of an uncle of one of the students in Schoharie county, New York, where she regsined her reason about two years ago. \When H ‘Worth Wright diad in Connecticut. she read gbout it and said she knew Wright, and from that time on her memory camo eack, and she was fully restored to health, and subsequently married a young physician, s nephew of the man in whose care she had been since leaving the hospital, He further added that the conple are now living in New York state and are proposing a visit to Miss Newman' friends in Berkshire count; e — TATLROAD KACKET, New York, December 12, —Presldent Gar- ret, of the B, & O., and other directors of the company have been in conference to-day with the Ohio & Missippi people, All differences between the conflicting factions are settled, CHICAS December 12.—In accordance with the instructions from Commissioner Fink, the freight committee of east-bound 10ads met to-day and fixed the tariff on dressed hogs and sheep to the seaboard points with the fullowing rates to New York us the basis: Hogs in common cars, carload lot conts per hundred; less thana carload cenrs, In refrigerator cars, carloads 55 cents, Sheep in common cars, any quantity, 55 cents, in refrigerator cars'90 cents, MOROSINI'S DAUGHTER, SHE WILL SUE HER ALLEGED TORMENTOES, New York, December 12,—Mme, Victoria Schelling-Hulskamp haviog been greatly an- noyed by Froderick Mordaunt has placed the case in the hands of her attorney, and ho is about to cause Mordaunt’s arrest. Suit will also be brought against the Mail and Express for libel, ths grounds baing the puslication of an interview with Mordaunt accusing Mme, Hulskamp of being a blackmailer, the paper having refus d to make a correct on, 7! terview with Mordaunt was 6o the offect thnt Mume, Hulskamp had asked hum to muke o Dbogus contiach that she miglt show to her father, and so secure $25,000 on condition that she would not go on the stage, e UL A Bigh Old Time, New Yong, December 12, —Ths dinner of of the merchants aud business men's Cleve- land and Hendricks club to-night was a great success, The guests assembled soon after 6 p.m and marched into a large hall. J. P, Townsend is the president. Among the guests present were United States Senator Jonas, of the democratic national committee; Carl Schurz, Gov, Waller, Gov, Abbutt, of New Jersoy; John Fuord of the Fro klyn Union, Joseph J. O'Donohue, of the coff-¢ exchange; D. Willis James, of the committee of 1870 (a8 was also J. J. O'Donchue) which over- turned the Tweed ring in this city; Horace Whits, of the Evening Post; Mayor-elect Grace and General J. B, Gordon; of Georgia. - e— The Spanish-American Treety, New Yok, Dacember linister Foster this afternoon in the chamber of commerce met the sp:cial committee of that body ap- pointed to consider the Spanish-American treaty, Other committees from like bodics were present, Foster briofly exvlained the proposed treaty and the history of his errand to effec adding that his mission had result admthe complete execution of its purpose. The gentlemau did not make a specch und the meeting was mostly devoted to the puttivg of juestions by those present to Foster relativo 10 the treaty. CnicaGo, December 12 —The persons ind ted for participating in the elcction frauds in the Second precinet of the Fighteenth ward, appeared before Judge Blodgett in the federal court this morning and gave bml in the sum of ten thousand dullars each, The accused de- d they had not time to examine the 1n- dictmeuts, aud were allowed until next Tues- day to plead, port, December 12 —For the upper Mississippi generally fair woather; stationary temper riab'e w ly northerly; for Missouri valley, fair weather, variable winds, nearly stationary ten pera: ture, Weather Iie WASHINGTO Cigar Makers Strike, PHILADELPHIA, December 12.—Tho em- ployos ot J. Portarondo, cigar manufacturer, resolved to strike agninet cut of wages of per 1,000, They will go out inw body to night, ——— The Egr:mont Mystery Exploded. PRINGFIELD, Mass, December 12.—The emont mystery has ceased by the opening to-day of Estells Nowmau's grave and bodivg tho body undisturbed, ——— cher's Ohurch has 2, New YoRK, Decomber 1 meeting tonight of the Plymouth church Henry Wara Beecher's), 2,067 names 567 Membrrs, At the annual Jannounced on the roll of wewbership, + White was elected treasurer, OMAHA DALy BEE OMAHA, NEB., SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1884, FPULLERTON ITEMS, DEVELOTNENTS I8 THE QUARTUPLE MUKDER— HARRY PERCIVAL'S GRANDFATHER THE PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND—NEIRASKA WESTERN UNIVERSITY—LOUP RIVER BRIDGE, ETC, Special to TrE Bee, FrieenroN, Neb,, December mystery in which the Horse creck tragedy was involved has lifted but little, A number of dotermined men, including Dr. Tanner, of Ovwatouna, father of Mrs, Percival, with the assistance of numerous detbctives, are con- stantly at work on the case, and will never casse until the murderor s brought to jus tice, PERCIVAL'S RELATIVES, Tnquiry by agents in England bring forth the fact that his grandfather was prime minister of England, and that his unclo is immensely rich, and that Harry Percival would have become his heir. The bearing that this fact might havo on the murder is not yot clear, as it has not been ascertained who the property will fall to. FURNIVAL'S PREVIOUS GOOD CHARACTER, Every particular of Furnival's life outside of the damniog evidence leads the investi. gators to doubt his guilt. His good connec. tions, wood character and straightforward nuer made him a friend to sll that knew him, Search for Furnival’s body has not yet been entirely abandoned, although it is now carried on more at the instigation of Furni- val's rolatives, The London “imes recently contained & _notice of Furnival's death at Fullerton, This was done in n effort to counteract the record of his crime among Fuoglish friends, A PECULIAR FACT, One peculiar fact is that two horses were loose and the poorest animal of the lot was ridden to Fullerton. When the investigatcra’ conviction of Furnival's guiltare for a moment ehaken by his splendid standing, they have but to lock back at his conflicting stories on Monday, the day succeeding the murder of Hugh Mair, the blood found on his shoes, to make conviction doubly sure. A letter from Spoocer A Percival urges the authorities to further efforts ond says he will arrive n America himself in March. NEBRANKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Next to the most terrible murder murder in Nebraska Fullerton has witnessed the great- est steal, in the loss of tho Nebraska Wesloy- an university. A school was founded here a number of years ago, and partly managed by the Methodi t conference. A~ faw months ago the conference met. Fullerton was told previous to the meeting that $15,000 would secura tho school, At the meeting of the con- ference this sum was raised to $20,000 and a committee of seven appointed to decide lo- cation and adjourned for ninety days. Fuller- ton raised the required 20 000, including tablished buildivg and grounds. At this neeting Norfolk bid $6,000, Fullerton 000, and Central City £30,000, of which 000 was 100 acres of sand The commi adjourned until December Y, to Fren lerton again came to the front with $3 bankable notes ani lands at actual val ator Mecklejohn, B. D, Slanghter, Rev_Gale, Coozier, went from here to represant Fuller- ton’s interest, At this meeting Contral City was represented by numerous ci izens who presonted a section of land laid off in lote and in the center was 100 acres for co lege grounds and they gu-ranteed to sell 816 (00 wirth of lots and )00 worth of scholarships thus presentiog a bid ef 311,000 without $1 outlay, Elder Maxfield, who from the start has been pladged to Fulterton, turned, aud the school was located in the Platte bottoms, whera ma- a and the bull froga reign supremo. For. tunately it 18 convenient to the grave yard should iny be foolish enough to send their childreq, - Ou citizens_are-justly” indignant and propess to sift the thing and nscertain the price of minister.’ sruls. The vote stood 3 for Fullerton and 4 for Central City, LOUPE RIVER BEINGE. Bids will soon be advertized for in the state paners for a bridge acroes the Loupe River whichre quires 1,400 feet of bridge, b JOHN M'OULLOUGH, IHE ACTOR'S FRIENDS INSIST THAT HE CRAZY, NEw Yok, December 10,—[Special ]—A. morning paper says of John McCullough, the tragedi. who have approached his wife with a view to having him locked up received their informa- tion wholly from sensational newspaper stories concerning his doivgs. To those who have most closely watched the tragedian the thought that he ‘may do harm to himself or toaaybody o'se seems particularly absurd For several days after his retarn from the west Mr, MecCuilongh was carofully followed by n professioual wdtcher, who resigned his position in disguse, & his eareer & man who took better care of him- self or who beha more rationsl man- ner. Thoe one parti thing which has been developed in connection with Mr, McCul- lough’s difficulties is a disizclination to spend his money. Up to o year sgo he distributed his funds with great freedom, but now it is declared that he rigidly holds on penuy. These 'hings, howeve mild” and inoffensive econtricities one who regards John McCullough highly feels that to put him under restraint would he a needless blow ca culated to destroy his reason more quickly and more surely thon that end could be accomplished by any other possibls course, B Gas Explorion in 8t, Louis, 8 Louis, Mo, December 12 ISN'T storms to-day caused the collapro of the largest naso- | meter of the St, Louis (fuslight company. The heavy enow caused one of the columus to fall about 11 o'clock to-night, and the friction which foilowed produced an explosion. A solid column of fire 2)0 feet high shot straight in the air and ilumiuated the city from the western Jimits to the river. Theloss by the explosion is 815,000, A gacometer 400 fect in circumference coutaining 400,000 feet of gas exploded and is & complete wreck, A large amount of property in_the vicivity was dan aged. There is a little insurauce on the works, ——— Wall Street Stock Market. WaLL Streer, December 12 — Stocks feverish and weak, Lackawana the inain featu ¢, ranging from 957 to 1003, with latest transactions at 993, St Puul declined to 73 further bond issue closed weak. ‘ailares tor the Weels, New York, December 1 ‘The failares for tho last seven days were 348, Last week there were 320, e A Murdrrer Hoong in Georgia, WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga., Decomber 12,— Warren Price, a murderer, was havged to-day It is belieyed that the people | ying he never saw in the wholo course of | GENERAL KEWS. Prauk Cook Huog at Laramie City for Murder, The Governor Refused to Interfore and Cook was Hung at Noon. A Shrewd Scheme of Some Iowa Politicians. The Iron Mauufacturers at Pitts- burg Reducing Wages, A Big Budget of Foreign News of the Day. Strikes, Fatlures, Exccu- tions, Casualities Otner Interesting Happenings, Fires, and Varions A HANGING MATCH IN LARAMIE, Special Telogram to THE Bk, Lauanmik City, December 12 - ¥'rank Cook, who shot and instantly killed James Blunt without provocation, on Thanksgiving, 1883, swung from a gallows erected in asmall square building in the rear of the court house yard this noon, Cook came to this territory from England in 1876 and had resided inthe vicinity of Lar- amio City ever since, most of the time being employed by stockmen as a herder. In an- swer to the question what he attributed his downward coursa and tragical end to, he said, ““Tt is all from drinking.” Hesaid he acquired the habit of drinking after he came to this conntry and while he was a “‘cow puncher,” Until recontly Ccok had seemod to boe almost entirely destitute of any sensibility, and to regard his pustcrime and approaching end with stupid and stoical indifference. Recently, however, he appeared considerably changed.” He recéived spiritual advice and rovise tho navigation and tariff regulations which may be adopted tor the Congo after five years, SUSPENSION OF THE ROHEMIAN MORTGAGE COM PANY, Viesna, December 12,—The Vienna Na- tlonal bank will not press the claims against the Bohemian Mortgage company, which sus- pended yesterday, owing to the great depres- sion in the sugar trade. It is believed that other banks will lend their assistance to the corporation, ko that it will be abla to liguidate privately, A private dispatch from Vienna received at New York saya the suspension of the Mortgage company cansed a great panic on the Vienna_bourse, shares falling from 70 to 80 florivs. Many banks are embarrassed, HOSIERY OVERATIVES COMING, Toxnoy, December 12,—One hundred op- eratives left Nottingham for Amorica, where places have already teen enpaged. HOSTILITIES TO BE SUSP PaRis, December 12 —La Franco says the Chinese commanders have been commanded to suspond hostilities, NDED, THREATENS TO RESIGN. LoNnox, December 12,—A Hong Kong dis- patch to the Times says the affairs of Keo Lung and Tonquin are in statns Quo. Gen,, Do Lislo threatens to resizn it the reinforco! monts are not sent. Each mail stosmer brings moro Mosmons for the Chinese military aud naval service, 126 Germans have already entered the Chinese servico. TURKISH ATROCITIES, Loxnox, December 12'—A dispateh from Odosea, to the Times snys the Turkish atroci- tiea at Macedon aro increasing. Two hund- red christians have been murdered within tho past_fow weeks, Tree villages burned on the Kednapping common. The inhabitants are afraid to leave their houses, THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY COMMISSION. RowE, December 12.—The inter-national monetary commission_concluded its sittings. The proposal of America to suspend the coin: ago of silver waa discussed. A FRENCH VICTORY. Pants, December 12,—Gen Miot telographs from Madagascar that on the Gth iustant, af- ter a march of fiftoen hours. he captured a s cond for% south of Fort Vohemar, Ho cap- tured five guns of the Havas two hundred of whom were siain, The French loss is four wounded. CHARGED WITH TREASON. STasBURG, Decomber 12, —The president of the supreme court of Leipsic handed Autoine, a well known member of tho reichstag from Alsace- Lorraine, an indictmeat charging him with treason, THE C(ONGO COMMITTER instruction from Father Comisky— the Catho- lic priest, and other clergymen also visited Ho professed to believe in a future existence, and thought he was prepsred for it. He, for the first time, on Sunday last, pro- fossed sorrow and regret, for his crime, The circnmstances of the crime for which he suffered thy death penalty are still fresh in our miuds. On Thanksgiving day of last year— November 20th - he came to Laramio from Medicine Row to spend Thanksgiving and “have a good time.” Mo arrived in the early morning, snd at once began visiting the vari- ous grog-shops and drinking. He kept this up through the day, and just at night. while stoggering along Front street, he met s Lrother-in-law —James Blouni-—who came out of A bram’s saloon. Both were un fer the in- fluonce of liquor: a few words passed betwoen them, and Cook drew his revolver und shot Blount through the head, killing him in- stantly. Upon the scaffold he was ccol and composed and did not give away in the least, This is the second legal havging which has taken place in this territory,the first being the hang- ing of Donovan l?i ng. g A Shrewd Scheme of the Iowa Poli- ticians, Special tolegram to the Bre, Dis Morxes, December 12,-— A very shrewd political scheme has Leen uncarthed here to. day. A larga sumber of republicans have agrecd to start an agitation calling for the assemblirg in extra session of the state legis- lature for the apparent purpose of fixing lower freight rates. The real object is, however, to get the governor to call the session and then for'that hody to turn in and repeal the pro- hibition law which has proved such an ele- phant on the hands of the republican party. Several circunstances strengthen this in forenco. The present legislature at its last session would engage in any kind of legisla- tion not ciroct.d at the corporations. The committees were made up in their interest snd especi lly in the rairoad interests, The mo: ement is also headed by parties who have heretofore always opposed “the legislative con- trol of rates. ludeed the dodge is quite travs- parent, and the prohibitionists having seen through it are already greatly éxcited. They promise to make it interesting for any po- litical party that threatens to wipe out the pregent prohibitory statute Reducing Wages, Prrrspvre, December 12,—Carnegie Bros, & Co , op;rating the Union Iron miils, have ordered ureduction of 10 to 15 per cent in the wages of empluyes, by which 900 men will be affected, The Isabella Blast Furnace com- { pany orde ed a 10 per_cent reduction, but the rent of the company’s houses has been reduced 10 per cent, FOREIGN, NOME WANTS A COMMISSION APPOINTED, VieNNa, December 12,—Political corre- | epondence says that Rome wishes an inter- national commiseion appointed to gettle the Egyptian finances, A DIG REDUCTION, Benuiy, December 12 —Reichstag was re- | duced by helf yesterday on demand of the government forthree million marks with which ) completo the fortifications at Alsace-Lor- aine, BECOME A CATHOLIO, 1, Decewber 12.--The son of the Bishop of Rochester has becomo a Catholic, A GRAND DUCHESS WANTS A DIVORCE, Loxpos, December 12, -1t iy roported that the wife of Grand Duke Sergius, who was married a few months ago, is sbout 'to apply for a divorce, | A BOLT AMONG THE NATIVES, | _Doxgora, December 12,—The natives littlo con dence that tha British expe | will prove successful. They positively refus to accompany the Eoglish forces beyond Nira- Wa on any condition, CHOLERA VICTINS, Pants, Decomber 12,—There were twenty- one deaths from cholera in Paris last week, AN ITALIAN P Brruiy, Dacember 11 n scting powers ehiould reserve the right to OPOSITION —Count Launay, an It cont Smoking Tobacco. PROVISIONALLY AC- CRPTS, Benuiy, December 12,—The Congo com- mittee_provisionally ac Yted the French neutrality proposals which provide for the freo navigation of all rivers and canals and the freo passege over all railways and roads both 1n the Congo and Niger countries by all nations, peaceful or belligerent, for the pur- pose of commerce, in time of war, e — The Striking Coal Miners ot Angus, Des Moines, Towa, December 12.—Two companies of militia wero sent to Angus at an early this morning, but on their arrival they found everythwg quiet thers, The recontly imported miners went to work and one_com- pany was lefs at the Keystone mino on Smoke creek while the other company was returned home. It is thought that the backbone of the strike has been broken and that many of the strikers wil| soon return to work. NO GOOD GROUNDS FOR SENDING TROOPS, Lnicaco, December 12, —The Inter-Ocean’s Abgus (Iowa) special savs: There was no } Cook made no ramarks on delegate, proposcd yesterd vy that the | to know ho was con good grounds for sending troops here last night, as the striking miners showed no_di position to molest the new men. The busi- ness men of that place to-day signed a peti- tion for the withdeawal of the troops, One company has already gone, and the others will probably follow at ones L ——m— The Swaim Conrt Martial, WasnINGTON, December 12— When the Swaim court martial convened Robt. T, Lin- coln appeared as a witness for the prosecution, His examination was confined to the inquiry whother he raceived any report or communi- n from Swaim prior to April 18, 1881, relative to the pay of accounts of Col. Mor- row. The secretary tostified he had received no information on the subject from General Swaim prior to the date mentioned, Geueral Grosvenor said the defenss would prove that at the date on which it is alleged General Swaim knew of ths alleged duplication of Col, Mororw’s accounts the secrotary of war and a general of the army had knowledge of such allegad duplications: had known it for wecks, and had taken offizial action in the matter, e —— Three Girls Burned to Death, D mber 12,—This evening the girls employsd in the second story of Gray, ‘Toynton & Fox's candy factory were terrified by a fire breaking out in the rear of the build- ing. A rush was made for the fire escape In descending one girl fe'l and was slightly hurt. Three others appeared at the window, but the flumes drove them back, and the trio were not aguin seen until the fire subsided, when their corpses were found near the| window, Their faces were burned black, Their names were Frances Messore, aged fourtern; Annie Lynch, aged twenty eight, and Ellen Colgase, agod seventeen. The loss and damage to the adjoining buildings is £1,000; fully insured, The origin of the fire 18 unknewn, — Twenty-five Colored Men Bautionk, December 12, — Reports from the Rappshanock river say that Tuesday about twenty-five colored men were out tong- ing for oysters when a terriblo galo arose cap sizing the boats, The meu hung to the sides of the boats for a whilebut finally were swept off and_most of thim were drowned. °n bodies havo been found and many more are expected to b found. Laten —Twenty-seven oystor mon at least wero drowned. Thirteon bodies have been recovered, A Drowned, i $100,000 Assignment, New Youk, December 12—H, G. (iood- win, of Woolen, hes assigned to J, H. Bird, Picforences S100,( 0 The firm heretofore has been rezarded ns sound, Tho failure Js believed to be due to bud débts, shriokage in values,snd dull trade, The firm’s affuirs will be settled in thirty daye, — A Wyoming Murderer Hung, Larawig, Wyo., December 10,—George Cook was hanged to-day for the murder of his brother-in‘law, Heory Blount, a year ago, the scafiold and maiutained to the last that he was too drunk NO. 164, Special to the Chicago Daily News, - PP wstenoay, N, Yo, Decersbe Jemwen |6 Gonerel Markel Remains in the Same Msatisfectory Conduton, A BEA ARDEN Y8 8 AN ENOCH MODER ty-threa go Ambrose Ster a position in one of the city mills, His fami. ly consisted of a wife and one daughter, 20 yenrs of age, who was noted for her beauty. A young man named John Sherwin came to the village, and gaining the affection of Miss Sterling against the will of her parents,e’oped with her to Syracuse, There he soon proved to be a professional gambler, and in a fow days he abandoned her. 8he determined not to return home, snd went to work as a domes- tie r Utica, Her parents, after fruitless efforts to _discover her whereabouts finally gave up the search and re urned to Scotland, their native land, where they died a fow years g0, About & year after her elopement Miss Sterline was employed at a Fort Plain hotel where sho met an uumarried farmer named Robert Jennings, living i Galway, Saratoga county, He engaged her aa housekoeper and finally married her, A daughter was born to the couple & year after the marriage, Last summer a framp camo t5 the Jennings farm. house and begged shilter for the night. He tnrned out to be the John Sherwin of other days, Mrs, Jennings persuaded him to preseive silence as to their former relations, and he was given work onthe farm. He gained the affction of Mrs, Jennings’ daugh- ter, a beantiful girl twenty years of age, and the two eloped a fow weeks ago. The heart- broken mother confessed her early wayward- neas toher husband and he forgave her. Sherwin and his wife are now living ona farm iu Dolaware county. cars The A ::co in Freichts Have Uns £:d the Whole Trade. —g PR The D =od Beef Bhippers in a Quandary. The 1 ‘:‘rz Trade has Almost Passed out of Mind. A Reduction of Rates is the Only True Remedy: Thero is no Material Ohange from the Prices Given Yestorday— Special Dispatohes, OHICAGO MARKETS, OATTLE, Spocial Telegram to Thk Brx: Cnicaeo, December 12,—No Texans report- ed among the fresh receipts, but several loads were carried over from last night, The gen- oral market remains in the same unsatisfa tory condition as noted for the past three days, m fact for the wholo week., Receipte are not crowding the market, The advance in freights seems to have unsettled the whole o. Itwas thought the movement would stimulate shipments of live cattle, but so far the stimulation is not visible, Then the pressod beef packers aro alsoin a quadw what to do to adjust their business to the ad- vance in freights, and they are feeling their way, and buying about half their usual num- ber, and next the export trade has almost pasa- ed out of the minds of the dealers, the cattlo for British markets are seldom mentioned, and there has not been a cargo boug'it into this market for direct shipment for at lonst two months, About the only class selling at satis- factory pricos ro fair to primo cows and bulle but the low grades are yet selling at losing prices, Stockers are selling at rather high prices and feeders have advanced nearly out of sight the last day or two, Thera were a fow loads of Christmas steers that are selling around about 86 25@6 75, a nd premium Christmas cattle referred to yesterday averago 1864, and sold for 7 85, Best Liverpool cat- tle can not be quoted higher than £5 75@6 00, and best shipping cattlo at $4 50, while the Rreat bulk of 80~ called fat cattle are sellug between $450@4 90, and many a_load of good butcher steers were sold_around about 34 25@d 40, Good to choice shipping 1,3)0 and +,400 lbs, 5 40@6 00, Cowmon to medium, 1,000 and 1,5000 Ibs , 21 00@5 00 Texan cows, $2 50@ 300, Texan stoers, $3 25@3 75, oGS, 'ho hog matket opened active and a trifla fizmer, but not quotablo higher.ae compared with the closing last night.” Tho first sales of the common to fair packers wore at $4 10 415, and for best packers, 81 20@4 25, whil choice heavy sold up t., $1 3)@4 45; but along. about 10 o'clock there was a charp down tu of 56 10c, Common light sorts sold at $4 10 415, and choice_assorted at $425. Packi and shipping, 250 to 875 lbs., $4 10@4 374, closing at $1 10@4 20; light, 180 to 215 lbs,, $3 90@4 25, A cuie AQUEDUCT FOR NEW YORK CITY, Chicago Daily News. New Yoik, December 12.—The contract for tho new aqueduct for this city has been bid for by 117 firms, but the contest has prac- tically narrowed down till it lies between Brown, Howard & Co., of Chicago, who built the Nickel Plate railroad, and John O'Brien, of Rhinebeck, N. Y., who has constructed many extensive works in this state, At yesterday's meoting of the aque- duct commissionera there was a tie vote as to which firm should be awarded the contract, The figures of both are substan tially the sawe, 80 nearly so, in fact, as to cause some comment. It s said that O’Brien’s bid was originally much tho lowest, but that his suretios were not considered fully adequate, and new bids were callid for, On the opening of the new proposals it was found that the Chicago firm _had come down toa trifls below O'Brien’s origioal estimate. Meanwhile O'Brien had addod ample sureties to his list, butone of the commissioners who had objected to O'Brien's first bid as _too low to be safe voted yesterday to accept the still tower bid of Brown, Howard & Co. Thero will probably be i good deal of wrangling and charges of unfairness in the matter before the end is reached, e A Blood-kied Ooflin, Marex, Mo, Decomber 12,—Jerome Blan- ton, a well-known farmer, was met yesterday on the railroad track by two tramps armed with guns, whe demanded his monoy. “Do not musder me and T'll give you what I've got,” eried Blanton, but, instead of his pocket book, drew his rovolver and shot one of the men dead in his tracks, The other fired, hit- tivg Blanton m_the shoulder, nnd escapod. Blanton will recover, The dead tramp was buried in a blood-red cofli R Duel Betwe:n Two Cow Boya, D, Oregon, December 12.—A. ter- was fought between two cow boys in Idaho, opposite Assortin, Weshington ter- ritory. The duslists tied their left hands to- gether and fought with knives uutil both fell dead, One recsived 13 stabs, the other seven- teon, The affray was witnessed by the friends of both men, e — Jollity was Uubounded, Ciianwestox, S. T, December 12.—The col- ebration of the'election of Cleyeland and Hen- dricks was begun to-day by firing a gun for every electoral vote—219, Jollity was un- bounded during the day. In the eveuing the city was ablazo with lights. —— Each Win Run Separate, 8. Louts, Decomber 12.—Under orders from New York today the postal telegraph and tho Bankers aud Merchants telegraph offices, which have been apsrated jojatly in this city, were separated aud each will Lere- after be run independent of the other, e i A New Bedford Fire, New Broror, Mass., December 12,—A fire is raging in the business portion of the city. The whole fire dopartment is out. The 1oss will be heay, —— A New Bedford Fire, Niw Brnrorn, Mass,, December 12,—The 168 by fire this morning was about ninaty thousand dollare; iusuranse about soventy-five thou d dol WHEAT, There was . weaker fecling in the wheat trado to-day, growing out bi the Vienna fails ure, and ths reported failuro of a dry_goods housein Now York, Weakness in thostock mar ket and anticipated heavier arrivals for to- morrow. Values were moderatoly well main- tained, however, during the greater portion of the session, Jannary early in the dav nd- vancing to 72ic, but receded on the afternoon board to 71fc, which was closing and also the lowest figure of the day, May closed at 78}c. CORN, A very quist feeling provailed in corn, Early in'the day prices were advanced 3o for year and January, and c for May, but later ruled weaker under fair offering, due partially to the decline in wheat, finally closine at over yesterday, with year 57§c, January May 374, o, 0ATS Ruled dull but showed very little chango in prices, closing 23%c for Decomber, 2 January, 271c for May. oK Opened firm and roon #old off 15@20¢ closing steady at $10 77} for January, $10 874 for Fobruary. LARD Ruled easy, closing at 86 52 for Dacember, $6 674 for January, 36 65 for I"ebrdary. WALL STREET, Special Telegram to THe Der, Niw Yok, December 12,—The biggest break oceurred to-day, and the real dark eyo of the market was Liackawanna, which broke tho first half hour from the price of 103 to 99, There was no end of selling by the big bears and manifests itsclf in running sores, pustular (o2 the ground that tho coal combination eruptions, boils, swellings, enlarged joints, | could not keep up the prices, It is simply a Hood's Sarsaparilla | question whether the present prices of the 6 per ceat stocks are cheap, with Lackawanua 12@20 per cont above, and paying 8 pe+ cent. Grangers to-day are lower, especially St. Paul, which is sold by the Chicago contin. gent. o bip failure of the bond and mortgage company in Vierna had a bad effect here. It was rumored that a reduction of 10 per cent in the wages of Western Union Tel egraph operators had been ordered, A reduc tion of 10 per cant in Elevated railway em ployes wages was also rumored ——— Sherma troversy, ® 1 Wf Scrofui Serafula is peoé J¥ 7 mors gencral than any other diseas>, It ¥ insiddous in cl T, leaving it pure, enriched, and Lcaldy. 1 was severely afflicted with scrofula, and for over a y 1 two running sores on my neck, T s of Hood's nd consider myself eured,” ) v, Lowell, Mas C. A. Amnold, Amnold, Me., had scrofulous sores for seven years, spring and fall, Hood's sarsaparilla cured bim, Salt Rheum’ William Spics, Elyria, 0., suffered greatly from erysipelas and salt rheum, caused by handling toba At times his hands would erack o} d blecd, 1o tried varlous prep- arations without aid ; finally took Hood's Sar- saparilla, and now says: ** Lam entfrely well.” “My son had salt rheum on his hands and on the calves of his legs, Ho took Hood's sarsj and i3 cntirely cured” J. B, STANTON, Mi. Vernon, Ohio, " Hood’s . Sarsaparilla Sold by all druzgists, $1; six for 85, Made Lincoln on th avis Cone Wasnisarox, December 11,—Secretary Lincoln said to day, in speaking of the Shor man-Davis controveriy, ho bad received no communication whatever from General Sher- man upon the eubject, and he knew absolute- Iy nothing about the alleged consplracy letter, 1f such a letter iuin tho war departm nt he waid, it fs in the rchel archives division, the record papers of which are in o most chaotic condition, owing t the small and in suflicient clorieal forco employed there, The secrotary added, “I don’t even know whether iittivg murder, He died | easily in ten miout { gieen teverywiiere, fecause everyw L where recognized ad izc]iéperwifif’e to Peafer ‘1\02 {+uch a letter is supposed to be here or not. { At uny rate I will not search for it unless ot the request of Genoral Sherman, only b 1. 1IOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 10C Doses One ©nllar. 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