Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 19, 1885, Page 5

P WASHINGTON NEWS. The Inter-Sate I dte Commerca Bill Stll Under Discnssion, The Senate Manifest Conaiderable Anxiety About It. Gen, Roseorans’ Bitter Animos= ity Towards Gen, Grant, Will Hinder the Passago of the Retiremant Bill Tha Uongressional Forecast of the Weeks' Business, various Other Interesting Items of News From the National vapitol, SENATE WASHINGTON, January 1 sided over the Senate to-day. A communica tion fiom Genersl Sherman to the rocretary of war ¢ noarning the policy of ths confeder- ate exccative department was received and Iaid on the table. Fry introduced a bill for rcouragement of tho American merchant marine and to promote the postal and}commer. cial rolations with foreign countries, The Senate proceeded to the consideration of bills calendar air laid before the senate the inter- ommerce bill, and_after a long debate Slater's amendment, probibit'ng higher rates for shorter than for longer hauls, was do- forted yias 11, nays 32—as follow Y. a - Oamden, Cockrell, Coke, Fair, Kon nan, Moaxey, Slater, Vacce, Van Wyck, Vest Allison pre- , Brown, Butler, Cameron (Wis.), Conger, Uullom, Dolpho, Frye, Gorman, Hale, Harris, Har: ison, Hawley, Hoar, Lagalls, Jackson, Jones, pham, Hendersou, Mitchell, Morgan, rrill, Pike, Plast, Pogh, Rans'm, Sa Sheffield, Shermaa, Walker and Wildon Tho amendment proposed by Allijon was agread to—22 yeas to 20 nays. amendmont incresses the number of |i cowmissioners from five to tes, amending ko as to r quire that no more than five of them shiall belong to ons political party. Tho amendment also provides that thy commis- sioner+ shall bs selected from each of the nine judicial districts cf the United States. be ameudmcnt ffered by Pugh was agreed to, hmting the powers of the commission to to' the powers specifically given by tho bill. He m.ved the bill by unauimous consent bd taken from the calindar, and Cullom moved o anend it by strikiog 0.t «1l after the enact- ing clanee, inserting tho provivions of the sonats bill.” On this motion Vest called for the veas und nays, and pending ac ion tho senata adjouraed. HOUSE, ’ Tho honse went into commitece of the whole on the consuiar and aiplomatis appro- prlation bill Townshend offered an amendment, r:queet: i1 g the president to invite the co-opration of the governments of American nations in securing the establishment of a ¢ mmercial loague by and between eaid nations, to ba knoanas the **Customs Union of America,” Ruied out cn a point of order. A debate ensued, during which thera wera mwany spirited passges regarding the position occupled by ths different wings of each party oa the present phase of the tariff problem, ‘Wilins reported the river_and harbor appro- prisiion bill. Ordered priated and recom- mittsd, Adjourne WASHINGTON NEWS, ‘WASHINGTON, January 18,—To-morrow in the house of representatives is the day for moutbly calls, The call rests with the com- ‘mittee on forelgn affaire, and representative Helt intends to move the passaze of his bi yoported this sesion to provide for the exer- cisv of juriediction by the consular courts, ‘The motion will be offered in bshalf of other committes ‘follows: Naval affairs and postoffices and post roads, to assign days for thoe considerati; n.of:the various measures here- tofore reported by them. Indian Affairs—To pass a bill for the allot- ment of Indian 1nds in teveralty. Labor (if reached)—To Eass a bill probibit- ing contracts for tue labor of United States priconere. When the houte adjourned on Saturday it was rumored that the committee on_judiciary would eadeavor to keep the housein eession to-morrow until that c. mmittes was reac in order that the bankruptey bill mighs agaiu be ca'led up This commiitae is among the luss on the list. Collins, however, who has had charge of the bil said he was not aware of auvy such parpose. The timefor legislative business in the house Tuerday will be thott, On December 1° th last the houseresolved that January 20th shou d Jbo devoted to the de- livery of tributes to the memory of late R presentative Evins, of South Caroling, During the early parc of the day the committce on elections inteuds to call up’ the cont:s'ed in case of Massey va Wisa of Wis- consiv. On the eawe day the committee will probably report the contested cases of Mol ean (re publican) vs Brodhesd (democrat) of Wissonsio, Fredricks (demuczat) ve ‘Wilson (republican) of [owa. Reoorss will ba in from Brodhead and Fredericks, The com- mitteo intends to call them up for coasidera- tion assom thereafter a3 possible. Of the fourtaen aunoal appropriation bil's not one hus become a law, Tae mlitary asademy ap p opriation bill bas passad both huses of con- xrass, bus the house has refused to concar in tha tenate smendments snd the Ll has bevn Ko b ) the conference committ-e. Both the jensions diplowatic and consular spproprintion bils have p wsad the house, nad ars uow in the sens! The committee on appropiiations’ river and harbor bill is in “the house. The District «f Colombia bill is ready to be re- ported by the hous appropriations commi & e naval hill i3 uader «ousideration, postotlice, fortineations, sandry logislative, executive end judi- aud deficlency Dbills are in the coursa = of preparation by the committees. The agricultural appro- priation billis still to be matured by the com- mittee on ag-iculturs. It ssible that the armv, navy und postoffice appropriation meas- res will be roported to tha. house duriog the weele. 1f 80, nearly the entire weok will by taken upin ther disoussion. If, however, the committee is not a' le to report these bills, and aa opp: rionity is offere | for the consid oration o, othir busiqess, an effort will be made 1o recure the discussion of sundry meas- ur s which have been pend pg somo tims. Stockslager says hs will continue to call up the bills makinz aporcpriations for public buildings throughout the countrv; Townshend the Mexican pension bill, and Willis the edu- cation bill, ~ Heuby, of the scommittes of public lands, will endeavor to obtain tha con- sideration of thy bil providing for the forfeit- ure of the Nort Pacitic land grant, and A, 8, Hewist if opportunity offers, the il to carry out the provisions ot the Mexican treaty, Iu che senate to morrow will bs devoted to eulogies of the late Senator Anthony, Twelve senators have aunounced their intention to areak. Itis prooable that the remawder of the woek will be cousumed ia the cousidera- tion of the interstats commerce bill avd the Nicaragusn tresty, Should the inter-stats commerce bill be disposed of or displaced, Seantor Coks will endeavor to secnire thy consideration of the bill to pro- vide for the improvement of the channel be- tweea Galve-tou harbor and the Gulf of Mex- 100. Following th's in its special order sie the Texas Pacifio torfeitare bul, in charge Sepatw Plumb, and Se: Van. Wyck's bill to deglare certain rai geaot lands +ubjc tto taxstion, The first measure to be in the morniog hour isthe bill to t the title of sett ers on the Des Moines lands in Towa, nud qu riy, The Inter-State Commerce Bill, Special Telogram to Tax Bew. WasHINGTON, Jaouary 18.—There was & vote taken in tho senate this aftsrncon which +hows precisely bow anxious the sensta is to regu'ate the reilroads I even tho most gen: | Gadsl eral way, Senstor Slawer had offered an that short hauls shonld for a long haul of the and kind of goo: m the eame direction, It will be noticed that this did not lavolve ths idea of a usiform rate Tt did not I to be amsndment provi not excead the cha in eams quantity ing rquire th Irss thon the of the traffic direction, and the cars must n carey freights at stuiply & proposiion New York to Buffalo s charge from New York arga from Chicazo to greator than the charge s measure vatives of the ad minsgera recsived the support of ea senators, and was opposed by Mr. Camden, of West Viginia, who fis largely interested in rail. , voted for the Slater amendment, Of cleven gentlomen on _ that __ s ten wera democrats, Mr. Van Wyek being ths only republiean eenator. Garlaud announced that it he had not been pirred with republicans he would have voted for the amendment, Of thirty-two senators who voted down the amendment tea wera democrats and twenty-two republicans, Wil- won, of Towa, who was supposed to enter the Senate anti-railroad voted with his colleigue. llison, who is somewhat interested in rail- 1a, voted againet it. The last vote cast s by Ingalls and was sgainst the amend mont. Ingalls is the wan who recontly warned the Sena'e in general and Mr. Bay- ard in particular, that the popular demand for eome @ government regula- tion ot th ads must not be ignored any longer and that the Senate was tuspested by the public of too great a subser- vienoy corporats intereats. Cameron voted in the negative and eo did Mr Harrison, of Indians, Congor voted in the negative, Palmer did not vote and neither of the Minnesota senators was rrexmnz, Both the Missouri senators voted or the amendment and 55 did hoth of the Both of the Texas & rosd is in one return empty noless they w, the West Virginia senators. senators, Fair, of Nevada, Vave: North Carolina through his colleague voted the other way and Vorhees. On motion of Sen ator Allison the number of comm ssioners was raised to nine 8o there might be one for each judicial circuit. The sevats concluded the debate dn the bil tomight, and took up the Reagan bill by unanimous consent, and adjourned after stor Collom had offered his bill, as amended in the renate as a sube stitute for the Reagan bill Tt is probable that tho causa of thyopposition of General Rosecrans to the bill for the RETIREMENT OF GENERAS GRANT. rzely due to the retirement of Gen, Rose crans from active service during the war after the buttle of Chickamanga. which ha ia a con- siderabls degree attrib ites to the influence of Gen, Grant. Gon. Rosecrans is chairmsn_ of the house committea on military affairs and it isin his power by virtus of his poeitim to great y cmbaras the passage of the Grens bill in the present condition ot affairs in the house, he says the recent action:f the majority of the comm ttee will not help the Grant cause, as Gen, Slocam will have no opportunity to call up the hill the time shall arrive when thera is no revenue or appropriation bill in the wa and the teveral prioe special orders bave been disposed of, He thioks this will preventithe bill from getting before the house at the session (Gen, Rosecrans can only vent his spite upon Grant by vreventing the considaration of the bill. as it will certainly pass if it can be brought before the house, — FOREIGN NEWS, AN TMPORTANT ARKFST, Brusskrs, January 17.—The police here claim to have made an important arrest in connection with the a‘sassinaticn of Pclice Commissioner Rompff, at Frankfort on the Main, They aro reticent concerning the prisoner, but state that he arrived at Antwerp yesterday from Germany, He immediately Tool the train for this city and was arrosted on his arrival Jast night. Tt 1s_stated that at the proper tima ths evidence will b3 forthcom- ing to thow thep isoner is the man who drove the dagger intoshe muidered man's body, A detec ive at Frankfort on the Main, after find- ing tho dagger, traced its owaer. ‘The arrest here itis said was made on a telegram from the German police, who are close on the hoels of the aseassin. THE MISSING PACKET MOORSEN, Livenroor, January 17.—It hag be:n defi- nitely ascertained jthat the missing packat, Aduwiral Mooreeo, is los Twelva of the crew aad five passengers are d.owned., LoxpoyN, Jume 17.—Partioulars of the disaster to the packet steamer Admiral Moorson, sunk off Holyhead on Thursda; meht by the American ship Santa Clara sre coming in slowly. The steamer Falcon ar- rived at Cork sni found the Admiral Moor- #on Fridey morning on its beam ends and took from”the wreck three men, one woman and child, The body of a man was found on deck, There was nobody else on board, Tae weather was rough and ths Falcon was ua- able to take the wreckin tow. On Satur- day the stsamthip, Lady Woodhouse, suc- ceeded in getting a line to the wreck, but during the heavy sea tho ropes parted and the Admiral Moorson eventuslly sunk. Nothing is known of the remainder of the crew not already acconnted for. ToNpoy, January 16,—The boat of the lost stcamer Moorson, which contained thirteen portons, is still ‘missing. Two men were illed trying to board the Santa Clara. The al number desd and missing, including the aptain of the ill-fated steamer, is sixteen. The Sants Clara has sai'ed feom Hollyhead for Liverpool. Her captain is reticent con- cerning the circumstances of the collision, but states that the Admiral Moor:on was in fault, RELIEF ¥OR KE LUNG, SiaNGHAL January 18 —Twelve Chinese vessels have gone to Foo Chow it is helieved to take Cbinese troops on board, which they will endeavor to Jand in Formos to a tempt to relieve Ko Lung. —et— - RAILROAD RAOKET, Cii104G0, Janvary 17.—Kastbound freizht rates from hero to New York are reported to be completely demoralized. The withdrwal of the Pennsyl ania railroad from the pool his precipitated a cut of ten cents per hundred on grain from here to New York. A fifteen cent rate is now bemng quoted by the trunk lines, BurraLo, Janvary 17.—Erio has defsulted on the intefest due holders of the bouds of thy 10ad since it loated tho nsrrow goage system 1 noertsin when it will be paid. The stion of what will b doneis being debated, busg no sati-factory conclosion has been reached, If the narrow suage antagonizes the Ero by taking the matter ioto the courts, they fear that the Erie froighte, upon which they are depondent, will be ¢iverted from their lines, They are therefore waiting ia hopes that when ™ President King completes the work of organization some satisfactory wews will be provided fr paying the bond holders, 8aN Franoisco, January 17,—The Travs- continental Railway atsociation finally sgreed to hi the southern Jives pay the norchern lines eight per ¢ nt of their gross eamiogs on through business. . PHILADELPHIA, January It s officia'ly aunounced ths Pennsylvania railroad com- pany has not ordered ‘auy cut in either pas senger or freight rates to or from Chicago or elsewhere, e ————— An Alarmist Problem, Special telegram to Tu Bex, LoxDoN, Javuary 18,—At the Aspland brary rale next week au o1igival copy of the treaty with the Iroquois, priated by Frauoklin in 1744, will be old, 11oyd's Shipping Gazstte has a long slarm ist articlo on the probable climatic effect of cutting the isthmus of Pansma by a canal, and thus divertiog the gulf stream. 1t draws a pleture of reindeer again being bunted on the Rivi and walru it ninhabited Clogging the W CHICAGO, January 17.—A meetiog of the produce exchauge to-dsy unanimously adopt- ed the following: Resolved, That we, repre- senting the dairy interests of Illinols, express our hearty approval of the bill introduced in the legislature having for its objecs the tutal suppre:sion of the wanufacture or sale of sny olesginous substitute in the place of butter, that we earaestly wge its immediate pas- sage and sbrict eaforcement. VAN WYCK'S LOXG HAUL. fie Sfrikes Out from Beth Shenldes A Vigorous Speech on Eallrons Al 11pne Twn auoiy 1wl Tation n and Ingalls Si- lencod—€ketch of the Battle, cial Telegram to the Dax Wa January 17.—Sena Jr Van Wyek's anti-monopoly epoech in the senate yesterday att:acte 1 a great deal of attention, During the debats Ingalls and Allison tried to corner tha latter, who had ¢ uejnst thecharging of more fora short than for a long haul, Thoy wanted to know if he upced as | was prepared toadmit that it was justto charge as much for a short as for & long haul, Van Wyck seized the opportunily to ask Toglls personally whether he thought the charges from Missourl points Topeka ought t> groator than from the eamo points to Denver, This is a subject upon which the peopla of Kansas bave of their own, and as the opponent of snything like the Regan bill it was a delicate question for Ingalls to answer, In fict, he made no answer for some time, and while Van Wyck was waiting for roply some one said in a etage whisper: “He is thitking.” The gintleman from Nebraska turned on Aliison next, and aske { him if he justified the chsrge of higher rates from Chicazo to Des Moines than trom Chieago to Council Biuffs, After some lively sparring, 1n waich question was met by ques- tion, Allison and Ingalls admitted that a4 amatter of justica charges ought to ba proportioned 10 length of haul, but watances frequently aroee that compelled daviation. In conc'usion Van Wyck eaid: “Look at Kantas and Nebracks, great and rich in the wealth of their soil, the energy and intelligence of ~their prople; yot Jay Gould, who nei her toils nor epins, ha greater weslth than tha ussessed property, real and personal, of both states, and Vanderbilt could buy both states, their farms and lands, villages and cities, hotelr, banks, manufactories and rail- roads, and have a saug fortuns of $40,000,000 Tefs for the necessaries of life snd 1o keep the wolf from the door.” ———— THE TAXPAYERS' TRIUMPH. river be opinions A Temporary Djunctin Grauted by 1he Court. Full Text of an Intereating and Im- portant Declston. A hearing of the erguments in the in junction suit brought by Lewis Men: delssohn et al., against the cify, was held in tho district court Saturday morning. The court issusd a temporary restraining order preventing the collection of the sewer taxes, and allowing the defend. ants until February 19 to filo answer. The opinion of the court in granting this temporary injunction, was presented in an sble and exhaustive document. The decision, which will undoubted}y furnish the basis of further action in ths matter, is imwportant and interesting. The full text is herewith abpended: “This is an applicstion for an injunction to prevent the ccllection cf speoctal taxes levied on the property of the platntiffs for the construction of sewers in siwer dia- trict No. 19, upon the ground that there is no authority under ths existing laws for the levy of specis] taxes in this city for such purpote. The concluelons arrived at, upon as careful and thoroagh an investigation as the limited time therefor has permitied, are here stated. Bat itis not prasticabls to set forth the reasoning nor refer t> the y | authorities upon which the conclusions are founded, They aro deemed satisfao- tory for the purpose of determining whether orn>t an injunction should be granted until the cauee shall be finally tried, but will be subjeot to modification if further argument or research shall show that they ace in certain partioulars un warranted, By Sec. 6., Article 9, of the const u- tion of 1875, it is provided that the *Jegislature may vest tne corporate au- thorities of towus, cities and villrges with powor to taake local improvements by speclal aesatsments or by speclal taxaticn of the property benefitted. In this state, therefore, the power is onquestionable, whatever doubts there moy bo as to ita existasce in states hav- ing no constitutlons] provisions cn the subject. 2. The pow:r is not canferred by the constltution directly upon municipa'ities, and they cannot ex:roise it, unlets it is given to them by the legislature, in ex- press terms, or by necessary implication from powers expresely corferrea upon them by statate, 3. It is concsded that no proviron of the charter of this city (being the scs of March 1, 1881, to incorporate cities of the first-class, and tho amendatory actr) purporta to authorlze special assessments, except Sec 53 of that act. Ths section provides that *‘special taxes mey be levied by the mayor and council for the purpose of constructing sewers or draws within the city,” and that each taxcs shou!d be lavied on all the real esta'c within the sewerage die- irict, according to the va'uation, 4 This provision was not annulled, nor affacted, by section 22 of the act in ragard to the bonded indebtedness of the city, cither as 1t was in ths act of 1881, or as afterward amended. ‘Lhe two sec. tions were not inconelstent. One con. templated the uee of bonds to a certsin extont, and when authorizsd by a two-thirds vets of the e'ectors, fir sew. ers deemed 1o be of general utility to the city a8 a whole. The other was intended to apply 10 such local teme:s as would be of epecial henefit fo particular locali- ties in which they mizht be constructed. Wh.ther tha distinciion hes or not been elways observed in practice, does no af- fest the rule of the consiitation, which requires courts to give effect to all pro- viri 03 of a stalute, when they can be reconciled, 5, The rule cf assessment prescribed in section 53 upon all real estate within | I the sewerage triot, according to its valuation, is in disregard of the principlo fairly dedacable from the consiitution, and upon which the right of special as- sessment rests, namely: that it must be in proportion to the beaefits derived from the improvements, and not in excess thereof. Because no rule can Infallibly secure this result, a basls of apportionment which may, and ordinarily will, assess the burden with such an ap- proach to equality as s reason. stly practicable ‘should be upheld, But the rule of the statate distribaves It arbitrarily without regard to the relative benefits received or to whether the real estate ls or not o situ- ated that it can have access to the sewer, or derive any benefit from it, The tax in question was not levied in cordance s eotion 63, but upon the lineal frontsge on the tewer, and #s beosuee the city council fied, or advigad, that tho ¢ ns ational, resent purpo the court adopts this viow, and Lo'ds that an asment nceordirg to valuation would bs ureoa- was utory ol 6. The clause of sect'on [3 providing that “special taxes may be levied for the purpoeo_of constructing eowers,” elo not be supported from the rewainder, ch provades for the method of assess ent, oud upheld as comstitutinsl, leaving the mayor and council to thelr o#n mothod. Upon all the au ties, when the legislature prescribes this mode of exercise of the powor of local modes, The methud of ascertaining the facts and the proportion cf tha benefits is thus shown to bo vital and mancatory; and a court would not be justified in say- ing that the leglslature, if advised that the method was unconstitutional, would have granted the citles the power vo make asseanments for sewors or local improve- ments in such method, or upon such basis as they might seo fit. 7. The provislon of section 53 being the only one in the charter, which pur- rorts to vest the cities of the first class with the power toconstruct sewers by means of special assessment, and that being unconatitutionsl, it follows that the mayor and council bave no authority to levy special faxes for that pur,ose, either mccording to the frontage of property on the sewer or any other sys. tem of ascortalning the benofits to property from vewer cohstruction. ‘Whether this may be defrayed by gencral taxation of property within the city, it is not necessary now to Inquire. 8. It follows, from these views, that the provision in Sac. 42 of the charter, amendatory of the former act, found on page 106 of the laws of 1883, inhibiting courts and judges from granting injunc- tions to restrain tho levy, enforcement or colleotion of *‘any spestal tax provided for” by that act, or the acta of which it was amendatory, docs no:apply to this cue for the reasen tha the tax sought to be enjoined is not 8o provided for, And tho court thuld be governed, n allowing or refasing the injanction prayed for, by the general rules und principles of equity —jaricdtotion. 9. According to sach rules, the ir- junction ghould bo allowved upon the grounds that the tax_wow levied without autb oelty of law, and the sale of the lots would cioud the titls. Thia applicaticn is haard ana decided upon the facts es thay appeur upon the petition, it being submitted upon that alone. What reliefs plaintiffs may be entitled to upon the final besring on the plead— ingsand proof, or upon what terms, if any, as {o doiny equity in tho premises, are questions not yct for determination. 10. Whetber o¢ not there may or ought to be a remady by legislaticn for the eerious difficalties which exist, if these views be coriest, it is not the pro vince of the court now to determne. But the matter is supgested tor the con- tideration to whom the inquiry belongs. Ths Injunciion is allowed upon an un. | g, dertakirg in the rum of $3,000. The undertakiog, or bond, wss imme- diately provided by H. Mendelssokn, J. E Boyd, A. Koch, Thomas Gibscn, M. Hellwan, J. Obarfelder, William Pitt Kellogg, and Mary E. Kellozg, and will remain in force until the final disposifi-n of the case at the February term of court A SUBURBAN BLAZE. The Residence ot O. E. Mayne Burned 10 the Ground Yestarday, Yesterdsy, between the Lours of 11 and 1 o'clock, the rasidence of Mr, C. E. Mayne, the well known real estate man, was destroyed by fire. Mr, Mayne and family had lef: the house, which {s located on Saunders street, beyend the city limlte, about 10 o'clock in the morning, and went down town to church, During their absence, feom some mysterious cause, the house took fire and barned rapidly. No alarm of fire was given, for the rea- son that there is no alarm box in the v cinity, When firat discovered by tho nelghbors the fire was begond co frol. A side entrauce to the house was broken in, and a fow articles of furniture were saved, All efforts to extinguish the coaflagration were futile, and in an hour or 80, the house wes in ashes. The first intimation Mr. Mayce had of the catae- tropho was when ho roturned with his family early in the afternoon, and found where thortly before his residence had boen localed, & tmoulderlng mass of ruins, The loss will bo_about $7,000, “which is parta'ly covered by insurance to ths amount of $3,000, Amoog the ' ciiscls destroyod by tha fire was a valuable library, the result of ten years' caroful and expensive collec- tion. It was estimated as worth $3,500, e —t— Smoke Seal of North Carollna Tobao co. o An Explanation, Miss Nell King claims that an error was made inJSaturday's Bre reg rdiog her house and its inmates, The following is tha fact, as stated by her. “The police called at her house to collect the monthly fine from Mrs, Paker, who had left town, and being o told, they demanded tosearch the house. Kather than have the house searched, Miss King paid the fine. No ariests Were mate, nor was anyone taken to jail. And, further, the liouse was not pulled, e — Beal of North Carolina Smoking To acoo fa the best: ———— : The Weatber, WASHINGTON, January 18.—For the nupper lake region: fair weather, clearing at (irand Haven; wind shiftiog southwesterly; generally warmer weather, For the upper Mississippi valley: falr, alightly warmer weather, (quuwnd by a slight | ia temperature; variable winde, For the upper M uri valley: fair, slightly warmer weather; variable winds, generally shifting south-easterly; fa)ling baromete ——— Striking Brakemen, Four Warng, January 17.—The situation a8 regards the railroad strike is unchanged, both sides are quict and no demonstiation has boen made so far to-day, The heavy snow storm of last night iwpades travel. Passen- ger trains are frum three to five hours late, e — Subsidy for Ships, WABHINGTON, Janasry 17.—Fiye's bill to encourage the merchant marines, provides for & government subsidy to American ships for carrylog mails ;ul relgn posts not to exceed $1 per wilo eac) ——— The report is prevalent in Calro and at the Euglish war office 1hat Turkey is prerapiog to take part in the Egyptisn war, assessment, thia is exclusive of all other | The Crop ¥ ports, MitwAvKyE, J 8.W of this i wnuary 1 a his crop reports says. hat owiog to thy u conditin of whoat i and th pr oven o fair ¢ v fatt | Michigan, tucky. . Rep andowing age hns | bean unu the wi most unf and many of the yal wheat ¢ ties hiave beon bare of snow to within tha past we: is wh frozen out, which will n'cessitate p'owing v i pring and the cowing or plasting of othor coreals. The damaga in thevo states | varlously esti [ per cent Kaneas, Missou y being th departments or statistical Al winter wheat of th the area rown t) wheat rod t 1ist year's figures, show a lar ase, ranging from ten to thirty.thres per Many of the large producicg states in cluding Kaneas, Miisourd, Illincis sod Indi decrease in the average w compirad with last your. It thows said short age to bo fully twente por cant, P i Texas Oat p Dying. 1. Louts, January Advices fiom the Kiowa Indian reservation are to tne effect that thote Inalans are in a distressed and suf- fering condition, notwithstanding the aid fur nished by the government. Five members of this teibe, evidently a hunting party, wer found frozen to death forty miles north of Wi chita Falls, lats on Friday evenivg., Di patches from Texas ¢ wtinue to repert a gre 1038 of cattle sheop by the late cold weather in_various parts, On many ranges in ftho northern and western part of the state ereat numbers of cattle have drifted south ward till stopped by the wite fencing, run- ning many milea east and west, and are now dying by havdreds, and even thousands from hunger, thirst and cold, They are lost chiefly on ranges which had suffered trom the drought, and water being scarce, and the cat- tle being in poor condition; but even in the most favored parts of the stats, amount of atock has been lost on o the unusual eeverity of the weather estimate is that 10 pee cant of caitle ana 2) per cent of eheep have perished 0g states, givio a8 comy ——— Bay Stato Sugar tieflnery Burned, Bostoy, January 18.—To-night a firs broke outinthe Bay State sugsr rcfinery, No, 87 Eastorn avenue. Tho building was of briclk, four stoties high, with a froatage of about forty feet an Eastern avenus and extending back about ninety fset to Sargent's wharf, The flames spread to the Standard dye wood worke, which abut upon the eefinery on Sar- gent’s wharf and extend down the ‘avenus to- ward the wharf. ‘Lheso mills are three stories and about eighty or nicety feet in length They are tearly all destroyed. Other adjoin. ing property was in great danger for a time The refinery is operated by I Atkias & Co., who, it is understood, own ths brick block as well as the refinery buildiog. Their loss will probably bs heavy, fully insured. The dve miils a0 owned by the heirs of George N, Black. ——— “DOUBLE HEADEKS," THE EXTRAORDINARY BRAKEMEN'S STRIKE AT FT. WAYNE ENDED, ¥, WAyNE, Ind., January 18 —The rail- road brakemen’s stri which wes inavgurated here Tuesday last, termivated this evening. The strikers held a meeting th's sfterncon and delegated a committee of four of thoir num- ber towait on Mayor Zollinger at his 'resi- ca. which was done, Later the committee waited on Supt. Law of ths railroad and at this meeting it was agreed that the railroad company thould bs permitted to run *‘double headers, freight trains if desired, while those of the striking brakemen who choose to work wilt be reinstated by the company and will not he dissharged for their participati n in the etrike., e —— TELEGRAPH NOTES, Dodge City, Kas., suffered a $75 000 fire yesterday, Another rupture of the whisky pool at Cin- cinnati is threateped. The mercury touched zaro in St. Louls last night and 30° below at Jamestown, D; An 88,000 roller skating rink at Elgin, 111, rolled out in smoke and ashes this morning. The marriage of Prince Collona and Mies Mackay will be solemnized at Paris, February Threo thousand men are engaged at Klagonfurt, in the Austrian Alps, digging in the szow to recover the bodies of the hun- ijmd. overwhelmed ia the avalacche Friday ast. The special graug jury appointed by the Cook county (Iil.) cfimiosl court has retmned indictments against Mackin, Gallagher,Shield, Hansbrough, Sullivan, Biehl and Gleason for varticipation in the Eighteenth ward election fraude. Muckin was also indicted for perjury in swearing he did not order the printing of the bogas tickete, Inthe Corgo conference at Beilin three re. sons haye been given for the parlicipation of America in the deliberatione: first, Ame was the first power to officially recoguize the African international association; second, the population ot America comprises six million negroes whess parent country is A frica; third, Americans mainly have explored the country! dispatch fr m Gakdul eays: ‘Thirey nels of the Gordon expedition dropped dend on the marchto Howeiyatt, Tho troops suffered severely. The majority of water sking leaked and the men, yielded to thicet, axhausted their rations of water prematurely. Very few fell out of line and the condition of the men under tho cizcamstances was oplou- At Winnipeg, Ménitoba, yesterday, where Rice’s Theatrical conpany is playing, Kate Castleton, the well known star, wes ussan ted by her busband duriog the performares and beaten until she became uncouscious. Cas la- toa was arrestad and tourd to have his wife's diamonds upon his person He was bailed out and the whole company left for tho south, e — A Prize inthe Lottery of life which is nsually unappreciatcd until itis lost, perlips mever to return, is heslth, What a pricel(ss boon it is,and how we ought to cherish it, that 1ife mey not be a worthless black to ns. Mary of the diseases that flesh is hewr te, eny which mwuka life burdensome such a5 con- sumption, (sorofala of the luoge,) and other gcrofulous and blood diseases, find a complete cursin_Dr. R. V. Plerce’s “Golden Medical Discovery,” whn all other remedies have fai'ed. Dr. Prerce's pamphlot on ¢ usumption mauiled for two Atam| Addri world's Dispensary Mecical Association, Buffalo‘ N, Y. . TheNew York Excise Law New Yonk, January 18 —Ths excise law was enforced to-day as etrictly as it ever was, The police have been rotified by Superinten- dewt Walling toat the liquor shops must be closed on Sunduy, A large number of arrests were made during the day. Five buudred dealers met in Trviog hall this evening and adopted resolutions pledging themselves te asalat the police in 1ha impartisl enforcement of the Law, belieying that such will compel the citizens to demand a modification of the Statute, e — Tho Oklaboma Boomers, WeLuxoton, Ks., January 17,—A courier from Oklahoms county says that Captain Couch has 800 armed men intrenched in a fortified camp at Stillwater with a large sup- ply of proyisions, Ths troops are reported waterbound and not expected to reach the boomers camp for several daye. nd Elevator Bursed, CH10aG0, January 18,~A News Blooming- Priest and Gor- r and mill st Mt. 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