Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 10, 1885, Page 1

FOURTEENTH YEAR. LINGOLN. Legislative Delegates Visit the Institn- tion for the Feebls Minded. The House Occupied With Pat Hawes’ R:lief Bills, Four New Bills Were Introduced In the House. The Senate Did But Little Busi- ness of Importance. Several Bills Were Passed and the Civil Code Amended, A Few I'acts of Vital Interest in Re- to Our Normal Sschool, gard THE HO ondence of Tug I Special Corre i By the invitation of Laxcorn, Febrmary 9, Dr. Armstrong, of Omaha, twelve gentlemen representing both brauches of the legislature yesterday visited the asylum for fecblo minded at Glenwoo, Ta. The party was accompanied by overal ladies. Among the members of the expedition were Mr. and Mrs, Kaley, Mr. aud Mrs. Wright, Messie, Adams, Russell and others, The varty was shown through the institution and its benevolont uses explanied in detail. They bestow unstinted praise upon agement, and are of opinion that a similar asylum s abiolutely necessary for the atate of Nobraska Only about one-half the mambers were pres- ont when the speaker called the house to order this morning. of Furnas, business proceedings by that his vote on ths 3.ceat railway bill - ha recorded aye pleading ubsence’ at tha time, the bill was passed as excusc, Mr. Holmeiymeved that all members absent at the time have theic votes recorded aye, Mr. Nettleton wished to include senators, Members gestiog frisky. The speaker put his fort down and ruled tha whole procesdings ou This being the last _day h new bills may be_introduced, four talls were broniht up. One by Mr. Olmstead provides for tha appointment_of railroad commissioners, and ona by Mr, Temple provides compensat'on to householders in case theie properiy ba de stroved by riot, Mr. Temple said he was anxious to get the opiaicn of the people of Douglas respesting this me: Mr. Russoll wished the 810,00 for the Hom» of the a special orc o'clock. It was agreed to. Mr. Olmstead’s bill (H, R, 162) having been reported on favorably by the jndiciary committee, he felt aggrieved, and wished 1t placed on the journel fils, It was so p after the fatber of the bill had aired his o) tory. Mr, Kehoe introdnsed a resolution tl copies of the contris with Wm, H. B leesco of the i handed to members, It was allowed. Mr. King preseuted a resolution to the foct that the house bad been racklessly travagaot in the appointmentof itsempl: yecs He wished some o o appoioted to keep the capitol open at night that committess might bo accommodated with rooms to maet In, Mr, Blaine characterized this as a confes- sionon the part of Mr. King of personal recklessness and said if he had wished to make a confession he should ha gone to a priest, or ho might lay his griovances before the senats who had eeventy-six o Lployas to assist the thirty-three seuators, The rosolu- tion was tablad, The house then went into committee of the whole Mr. Adaws in the chair, House roll 49, a Lill to provide by election for tho location of cnty seats where they had not beea already I 1 eolved to report this bill to the house tho recommendati n that it do not pass, Houseroll To change the time of the bhoginuing « ) year from April to July, Aft iscussion it was reported to the house for future consideration. The committe: now rose and immediately the houso took n recess until 2:30 this afternoon, AFTERNOON Special telegram to Tix BEe. LiNcoLy, Febiuary 9,—The time of the ouse was ccaupied this aftsrnocn in discnssing two bills in the committze of the whole, The tirst was for the relief of Pat Hawes, which had boen reported f r passage by the claims committee, of which MeArdle i< chair g nd, Tha claim is ongs to the rame class of ims which Hawes has d in the state rs, thereby making himself noto perly his demands wera more bold-faced, and consisted of larger amounts, He finds that game played out now, and has adopted anocher scheme. The sum in itself no% large. but is the ige of the wedgo, whereby the treasury , and tho vauits’ may be forced o and his littlo game now is t» eall carly often, thinking that small claims wiil be y unnoti wheroas thousands would attract attention, The champions of Hawes were Olmsted, Troup and Holmes, who each ac- knowledged knowing nothing whatsver about the claim. They never had known and don't know now, still they supported the bill, be- cause the committee advised it, That is, Hawes commanded it, He tells the commit- tee to do this and they do it, Speaker Field could ot have selected & bet- tteo on claims than this is for Pat . The doughty McArdle is at the head Hawes con knead him into shape. It teamspired that mnobody had seen the alleged contract not even the claim committes, nobody knew the nature of the claim, still It was dacided to refer the bill and ask leave to sit again, this i+ evidently done to give Hawes a (hance of being present His absence was apparent to day for Mo- Ardle cou'd not say a word in support of the claim. Ho vainly attempted to hide his diminished head behind a mucilage bottle, The other bill was for appropriation to pay for the construction of tha new capitol. The sveaker and the Lancaster ring headed by Wright supported a one-mill tax. Brunuer and Nettleton fought them to the bitter end, in the mest forcible and logical manoer, against the increased taxation, The committee decided to refer this bill also for future consideration, and shortly after the house adjourned, opened tho actual ffering a resolution propriating dless made or Wednesday uext at three SESSION, THE SENATE, Diq little business of importance, passing sevoral bills, amending the civil cods and compiled statutes, Senator Eurr, fecling sen- sitive over an editorial inthe Bee this morn. ing, saying he would be a valuable witness in o land fraud Investigations asked to make & statement to the senate, He then declared ho was not nor ever had been concerned in any school land lease, and knew nothing whatever regarding the travsactions of the same. The planation” affectod some of the senators au Inverse ratio, and it is likely Mr, Burr will be subpoenesied. OUR NORMAL SOHOOL, Lixcowy, February § —1It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. It will take ten per ent of last season's corn crop to priot the Wi Us with which thus legislature has flood- «od the State Jeurnal job office, No wonder a | ot after the OMAHA DALy BEE OMAHA, NEB., TUE that whole-souled Jand genial patriot - the Honorable Charles H, Gere—~who for fifteen years has existed npon state pap, cannot find words to express his admiration for this matchless legielative assembly, There is o great deal of art and design die Played by Gere and his partners in the bil printing To stretch a four line hill over two pages and have both pages measured as rolid reading matter, requires greater tal- ent than is displayed by the pisus pickpocket who forgetfully pulls the watch from the pocket of the prayerful and deacon while the solemn minister is serr izing on the text, “Thou shalt not steal? And this awakens a new train of thoughts in roy mind, If I mistake not there are bills pending for establishing RLEVEN NORMAL SCHOOLS in addition to the existing normal school at Peru. Why o many normal schools have been projectedat a time when retrenchment and economy are everywhere demanded by the tax-ridden people is beyond my compre hension. I qusstion whether thera is a mer bor in the present legislaturo fami isr with the history of the Peru normul school and I don’t believe halfa dozen members have the remotestidea what it costs to maintain it. 1 will endeavor to enlighten them. The present State Normal school was founded in 18 7, soon after the admssion of the state into the Union, By the act of June 20th, 1867, the normal sc ated at Peru, upon condition that sixty acres of land, with the buildings then occupied as the Peru seminary, would be douated to the state, Tywenty sectious (12,800 acres) of land were set apart as an endowment, with authority to appropriata saline lands if needed. Three thowssnd dollars were also appropriated to complete the buil in| On February 1st, 0, an_additional appropriation of $10,000 was made by the lesislature for repairing, completing and furnisbing the building, On March 1st, 1879, the 1 gislature authorized tho erection of additionul buildings, and levied a state tax of half a mill to meet the outlay. By the act of March 28, 1871, authority was granted to dlepo e of the lands donated to the nermal school for & permanent endowment fund. It was rapre-cated from the eutset by the managers of tha normal school that the institution would ba self-sustamning and no appropriation or additional taxes would bs asked, Bat what do the records show? On March 24, 71, appropriation for school 1 sineas, deficiency, $5,000; heating teachers in full, $14,00! On Fobruary 23 ° teachers, ligh February | tor, $10,000; 1epairs, $852; printing an Fel uary 27, 1879, salaries of teachera, 0 0,fuel aud light, $1,800, repairsof building, stern and force pumnp, $400, chemical apparatus, $500, printing, pustago and station- ery, $400, 1, 1851, teachers and janitors S$18,- sl aud lights, 00, Tepairs of build- ivg and stationery, 20, incidental, 3200, bruary 28, 000, facl And bin ding 700, ¢ sents'on onthouses, ete., $ postago and printing, 00 586 ara considerably ) a year. Ibitcosts (00 & year to maintain a ed with twenty sections state has paid for ths necessary baildings, how much wouid it coat the taxpayers to maintain one, two or half & dozea normal schools that de pend entirely upon st .ty appropriations, and why should thej peopls be taxed for any ad. ditional nocmal echools auyhow? 1t was o wreat blunder to locate tha school at Peru, even with the sixty acres bonus and the dilap- idated old ecminary buildivg thrown in, Tne yroper location for such a schocl was Linzoln, t ought to be there tu-day, Convected with the university it would not require half the out lay und the school would be more efficient There would huve been no need of nvesting in a s, ecial apparatus and library for the nor- mal schocl, Some of the professors could hava lectuced for both university and normal s.hool, and last but not least” thero would bave been & groat sa n expenditures for from 240,000 to S normal 0ol endc wells and cisterns, which are gelting so deep and numerous at Peru, judging from the ap- propriation bills, CLAIMS AND CLAIMANTS, IHere we are again, as the clown say: Jenps into the aaw-dust ring, T ants are on hand like so many warts, T notice among the bills the claim of Prof. Bacon for over 31,800, which ke pretends is due him for money expnded while in charge of the blind instiiute at Nebraska City, Mr. Buconis s very peculiar claimant. About oight years azo he lobbied und lobbied around tbe legislature until hs pulled through a bill t) estublish an institute for the blind, Bacon foisted himself upon the state as superiuten dent, and if memory serves me right, employed his _ wife s matron When the iustituto opened he bad nine men and women toinstruct and take care of. bli-hing w state institute for nine inmat g In dus time the state board dism Bacon. He refused to go and compelled 2 to eject him by due w and ths constabl On Februar, priatea $5,1 con for services rendered and mo a8 principai of the blind institu'e, Jsacon trumps up another clsim, Ho evi denily umagines the present legislature is very credulous Send the hoggish Mr. Bacon to the courts with his bogzus claim Hardly less important is the so-cailed claim of the city of Lincoln for some $8,000 pro- fessed tohave been advanced to the state in the year 1879, to pay for the foundation under the university building. Who asked these people to advance this money? Why didn't they present their claim to the two legisla- tures that have held sessions since that money was advanced? Is it not a notorious and his- toric ‘fact that the state had to pay for a foundation under the university building within less than three years after that seructure had been completed under the Butler-Kennard-Gillespie contract. How many foundations the state to pay for? Hasn't the city of Lincolnreceived mora than a return in the ehape of donations in lots and blocks for any such pretanded outlay? —— when claim- Mr, Cleveland Keturns to Albany. Special telegeam to the Bee, New York, February 9.—Last night and this morning it was expected and announced that Cleveland would return to-day to the wetropolis from his visit to Tilden at Grey- stone, and confer with statesmen as to the cabinet appointments, and that he would see only those requested to call. But for some reason unknown Cleveland decided to go di- rect from Yonkers to Albany this afternoon on the 3:30 train, Col. Lamont kept secluded throughout the forenoon in the Victoria hotel expecting Clovelan’s return, At 11 o'clock at woon he recaived adispatch from Tilden saying Cleveland’s mind had been changed, and that the president-elect would not return to New York. This was a surprise to Lamont and the hotel people. Colonel Lamont immedi- ately notified the office that the rooms would be no longer required, and took the firat train to Yonkers, Owing to reports in some of the morning papers that Clevelavd would return, several politicians waited inthe Victoria hotel during the for- noon, and ttey, with the special headquarter detectives on duty at the hotel, left as soon as the announcement was made that he would not return, — Peoria’s Katal Fire, Ciicaco, February 9,.—The Journal's Peorin (T1)) special says: A large force continued to search the ruins of the starch factory all night and & portion of the morning for the remains of Eghraim Doolittle ad Audrew lesier, The bodies were recovered at 9 this mornivg, The loss by the fire reaches $100,000, insur- ance $54,000, WASHINCTON NEWS. Tog Fate of the River axd Harbor Bill Settled Townshend Explains the Postal Appropriation Bill to be The Most Tmportant One Ever Brourht Befora the Country, The Provisions of the Fortifica= tion Appropriation Bill, The Second Trial of Gan, Swaim Postponed Till Wednesday. The House Increnses the Approprie Pablic Baildings at Peoria and Quincy, tions for SENATE. WasHINGTON, February 9,—Van Wyck re- ceived the unanimous consent for the con- sideration of the house bill, to prevent the unlawful enclosure of the public lands, batter known as the fencing bill. The amendments of the senate committee were concurred inand the bill went over, and the untinished busi- ness was laid before the senate being the anti silver comnage bill, The hill was passed increasing the appro- priations for the pubiic buildings at Quicey, 1lls., to £200,000, Peoris, 1lls., to $245,000, upported those provisions of alling for the redemption ot the teade dollar, but strong opposed the suspension of coinage of the standa d dollar. The proposi- tion to suspend silver coinage had no neces- sary or propar conneciion with the trade dol- lar bill. 1f our own fiscal agents had con- spired to defy the laws of the United States and prevent the proposition to suspend silver coinage, which would be the result of such consviracy, we would soon have a new admin- istration, If it should prove as bad as the present something would to be done, The pension appropriation bill was then taken up, a loug discussion ensued regarding the interpretation of the senate rule, forbid- ding tho proposing of & general leglslation on the appropriation bills. ~ Ingalls wanted the senate to establish a precedent that would enablc senators to offerfamendments to such general legislation as the house might put on the appropriation bills, Iidmunds spoke stronely against “‘opening the door” to any proposition which would permit such amendments. Hoar intimated that 1f Ingalls’ proposition was voted down, the senate might well propose an amendment to the constitution, fiualnmug the house to be the only law making ody. Bayard sided with Ingalls, Hale said that if somsthing were not done to relax the rigor of the senate rule, as hith- 17 dauger that an ex- ssary, Were the senators ready for tha After a further debate the proposition to lish a new precedent was defeated—35 After executive session journed. the sepate ad- HOUSE WasHiNGToN, February 9, — When the house met this morning the continuance of Saturday’s session began, Townshend moved that the house go into committee of the whole on the postoffice ap propriation bill. Willis opposed the motion and hoped the house would take up the river and harbor bills, After considerable discussion the house went into committee of the whole for the considera- tiom of the river and harbor bill, A sharp colloquy occurred between White and Temporary Speaker Blackburn over the question of privilege. After which, on mo- tion of Townshend the Louse went into com- mittee of the whole on ths postoffice appro- priation bill. At 12:50 Townshend moved that the com mittee rise, Agreed to, Townshend explained the provisions fof the bill and said it was the most important postal appropriation bill ever reported to congress. The committee then rose and on motion of Townshend the general debate was limited to five hours, Horr opposed the provicion of the bill which charved the 'uethods of companeating railroads for the mail transportstion, ins of resulting in a saving of a million and a ha to the government as stated by Towcshend, in would in Horr's opinion incroase the compensation to the railroad companies, and pu’ the excess into the pockets of the roads, which already ®ot a large amount of mouey, it was duclared that it was not the estion of robbing little roads for the benehit of larger corporations, 1f small roads did not carry large mails, they ought not to get a large compensatic Pending a further debata the committes rose. The resolution was adopted reserving the whole east gallery of the house for the ac- commodation of the fawilies of senators and members during the counting of the electoral vote on Wedneeday next, Recess until to- MOrTow, The River and Harl Special telegram to the BEE, WasHiNGtoy, Febraary 9.—The general impression here is that the course of the house in refusing to go on with the river and har bor bill to-day, settles the fate of that meas- Willis will fight for it at every oppor- tunity, and hopes to get it through yet, No action was had on the Galveston barbor mat ter wuen it was reached, but it is ned that the plan_of the river and barbor committee was to eliminate Capt. Eads’ name from the . but te keep his plan, and to appropriate 500,000 to carry it out, if the eccretary of war would approve it. —_— ‘WASHINGTON NEWS, PROVISIONS OF THE FORTIFICATION APPROPRIA= TION BILL, Wasninitox, Fobruary 9. —Messrs, Hoar, Ellis und Haucock, of the house appropria. tions committee, completed the fortification appropriation bill, but have uot yet reported Pt e tal committee. 1t provides for ap propriations of $4,35,000, The amount appro- w Bill, ure, respect, the eecretary of war shall contract with the manufacturers who are bost prepared to exccute the work, to the full amount of the appropriation, The guns are to be rifled steel guns, not less than eight inch calibre or in lien thereof, materials ate to be suitable for making such. @une, all of which shall be American, and American manufact For the purpose of aiding the sce war in the expenditure and application sums recommended by she bill, it is provided that an advisory board of fivemilitary officers, consisting of thegeneral commanding the di vision of the Atlantic, the chief of ordinance, chief engineer, president of ordinance board and commandant of Willets Pomt torpedo school, shall be ereated. This board ehall ex- amine and report to the secretary of war the different points where the fortifications ara most needed, the kind and character of the works best adapted to each point, and the amount of appropriation to be expended at onch place; niso tho kinds and character of gquus, torpedoes and other means and appli ances necessary for the defense of thecountry. MADAME ARLINE OFFERS THE 81,000, WasHiNeToN, February 9.—Madame Ar- line, whose goods were rccently seized in Chi o for alleged violation of the customs, ay made a formal offer to the eccretary of reasury to pay 1,000 in compromise of . suit pending against her. The dutible value of the goods in question is about £3 800, The matter has _been referred to the solicitor of tha treasury for investigation and report, Tt is likely that Madame Arlne’s cffer will ba accepted in view of the belief that there was no intention on her part to defraud the government. GOVERNMENT CONFIRMATIONS, Postmasters —Charles V. Rockwell, Taylor- ville, Towa; Thoa. M. Purtell, Cimber.and, Wia; William B, Curtis, Tllinois, secretary to the South American commissio e — e FOREIGN NEWS, WOLSELEY'S REI 'ORCEMENTS CON- SIST OF NINE BATTALIONS. LoNnoy, February 9. —Lord Wolseley tele- graphs from Korti to tho war office to-day as follows: The Korti advance euard, General arle’s column, consisting of a squadron of calry, under command of Col. Butler, sur- prised a large body of the Mafarsix tribe un der Wadgam, the murderer of Col, Stewart, while encamped at Shakoob well. The cav- alry charged the encampment, and the enemy fled in every direction, leaving behind thir'y men killed, a large number of camels, eattle and men, and many Reminogton rifles, Col, Butler captured six prizoners, Great activity prevails at Chatbam, Woolwich and Alder- shot, and the preparations for sending rein- forcements to Egypt are being rapidly pushed. The third bettalion of the rifle brigade, now at Alderchot, a battalion of the Coldstream Guards and a squadron of the Fifth Lancers have been ordered to proceed at once to Sua- kim, Three _battalions of guards and four Dattalonh of infantry, including two from Malta, and two from Gibralter have been ordered to Egypt, two batallions of in- fantry and @ regiment of cavalry have besn ordered to proceed from India to Egypt. The unine batallions of trecops ordered from Fn- gland, Malta, Gibralter and_India are sent at the request of Wolsley, The guards leave BEogland the ead of the present week, the second bataliion of the English intantry are at present in lowar Egypt, and will proceed im- mediately to Soudan, It isstated that all the forces comprised of the nine batallions to be sent Wolsely will, after reaching Suakim -ate between Saukim and erber, with the ct ef securfng the routo between these points, and the effecting of a complete junc- tion with the British forces, on the Nile both above and below Berber, THE FRENC)« UAPYURE FIVE FORTS. Panrs, Februa. y 9,—Brierre Do Lisle tel graphs the government as follows: On Fri- day and Saturday wo destroyed five forts be- longing to the Chinese, the enemy having evacuated them without fighting.” In_the forts were found immensestores of provisions, gunpowder and other ammunition, we re- connoitered twelve kilometres and found the Chineso retreating hastily towards Tapg:an, Our loses duriog the engagements were twenty-one killed and 162 wounded. COL. WILSON AND PARTY SAFE, TLoxtoy, February 9.—Tt is understood that the government reccived word that Col, Wilson, who after failing to reach Khartoum, was etranded with his entire purty onan island in the Nile, is fafe, The opinion pre- vails at the war office that Gen. Gordon is still alive, and eogaged in defending himself in some inacceeible part of the city of Khartoum, where he had prepared a rofuge for use in case of emorgency. EL MAHDI'S DEF£A Loxnox, Febru a long interview The Pall Mall G that the Ml GENRRAL VESSART, 9.—Lord Granville had h Mr., C tte this afternoon inet decided t s necessary to vindicate England, immediate _advance upon Khartoum is considered prssible. The Gazette says unla:s it is found that there is good reason for be- lieving that Gordon is still holdiog out with a handful of followers in the blission house in Khartoum, where, 1t isreported, he had t. refuge when the city fell into the Muhdi's hands. In the abzence of this Lord Wolse- ley, it is «aid, wall continue to advance by tha river until he reachcs Berber, where he will spend the hot weather of the summer with his army, and wait for tha September rise of ile before advancing. T'wo months will expire, aceording to the plan, before there can be any advance in force from Suakim. NEWS FROM GEN! S ARMY, Konrt, February 9, —News from General Earl's army dated February 7th, shows that on the Thursday preceding, the Camel Corys bad a skirmsh inland with hostile Arabs, who who were driven from the well where an_en- gagement occurred with a lows of six killed and six taken prsoners. The Dritish troops captured a number of rifles, camels sud cattle, ! EIGHT THOUSAND REINFORCEMENTS FO& SELEY, Loxnox, February 9 — Eight thousand re- inforcements, at the urgent demand of Gen, Wolseley, have been ordered to proceed as rapidly a8 possible to Egypt, to open the route vetween Snakim and Berber, Nuval demon- strations in the Red Sea to cooperate with the land movement have been arranged, The des- pateh of eeveral British men of war is immi- nent, The total number of reinforcements al- ready ordered to Egypt 18 8,000. The war de- partinent bas completed preparations for the transportation of commissariat, and the ordi- nancetervice vensels are already loading with stores at Woolwich. The grenadier guards have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness for foreign service. e —— 2 at Bloux Oity, lowa, Stovx Ciry, Tows, February 9.—A fire at 6 o'clock this morning destroyed the Galena house, a frame building near the union depot. WOL- priated at the last session of congress for the presint fiscal year was $700,000. The bill pre- pared by the sub-committée provides for the rotecti reservation and repair of the [ortificatio ready begun, and to continue the work upon them, as well a8 for the con- struction of new works of defense in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Hampton Roads and San Frincisco. For these purposes it ap- propriates £3,060,000, The president is directed to appoint a board to propare and submit to cengress before the first Monday in December the plan for the construction of the defense works for the city of New Orleans. The bill also recommends that for the procurement of heavy steel rifle guoe and carriages for the armament of deep water ports i the United States, & permanent anoual appropriation of $1,500,000 shall be made for five years from June 30, 1885, pro- vided thut in 80 far 43 is practicable this sum shall be so expended o induce private manufacturers in the United States who may best be prepared to meet the requirements of the government, or who will increase their plant 8o as toundertake the work of furnishing the bpecessary material for guns, or sample biaok guos, of cast or wrought steel. These ¢hall be thoruughly tes by the United States, If found satisfactory in every The ;guests barely escaped in their night clothes, several losing money ranging from £100 to 8175, The lozs on stock and buildivg was $4,000; insurance, $2,800, It was the first trial of the new water works, and the demonstrated their success in saving the ad- juinicg property, throwing water With ereat force.} e —— Wrightrul Fall, Havie Deomase, Md,, February 9.—This morping five workmen employed in repairing the bridge over the Susquehanna were thrown down on the ice by the breakivg of the scaf fold. They fell fifsy feet. All went through the ice int the river, Two were drowned. The other three were rescued in & precarions condition, e — Cleveland Sleeps With Tilden, Yoskks, Febroary 9.—President-elect Cleveland and Danlel Manning romained at stone last night as guests of Tilden, From eariy moroing the Yonkers depot was packed h{ an anxious erowd esger to catch & glimpee of the party,, SDAY MOR ING, FEBRUARY 10, 1885. scuthern Nobraska, It was light and there was no blockade or-felay in local travel At Wicnooa, linois, the Illinois Con'ral trains are struggling along with double | ITHE ‘sngy'_ STOAM. Reports of fhe Poarfal Storm From AJL[ousd Taenser on th' ity branch is Iaid up at Blackstore with Pfl”i pect of being able to move within twenty Do four hours, - —— At Beloit, Wisconsin, the blizard was very I q S t' I F n\ll\\y"’ J lln-l('V{\'LI(MI\ur being MI about 7')!]“. n Some oti " apt | No trains reached the city to-day over the 0 eotions Lt is Four Feet | ot o wseters. et A emaics D“'I’- & 8t. Paul, either from Chicago or Milwaukeo, At Wabash, Ind,, the storm is at its worst - to-night. Tralus on the northern division of the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan road are the | abandoned, The ibound (passenger teain tuck in a drift at Granger, and an engine sent to it reliof fared likewise, Another t=ain is in tho snow soven miles from Benton Harbor, CHicaco, l-‘.-hnmry 9. crn points in Iilinois, eastorn Towa, southorn Wisconsin, and_ western aud northern Michi- gan at 11 o'clock to-nght are to the effectthat the temperature is falling rapidly, As thorough a blockaas on the railroads s a|not been experiencea hero for years. No trains, passenger or freight, have gone out to or tonight, on the' following roads: rand Trunk, 'Kankakea line, Chicago & ; Tilinole, Uatimors & Obio, Louis i S SOAGTT villo New Albary & Chicago, Pan Hand Manaucrs Say it Will Tako Scveral|\fichigan Centeal, Chicags & Alton, The Days to Got Back to Sche- Yabwh and Towa division of tho Hlinois Jentral roads have been hiring every idle man dule Time, who could be found duriog 5‘" lln))' to go out iz = on the lines to <hovel saow. The Burlington, o Alton o d 8t. Paul roads’ wlone sent out thousand men, Even unde Nearly All the Railroads in Country Advices from north. Are Blockaded, and Their Trains Are Abandoned, Roads Did Not Turn Wheel Yesterday. Some BOREAS' BLABT Cricaco, Fobruarg 9. —Reports from all western and northwestern points indicate that the heaviest saow storm of the season is pre vailig. The snow is very fine and ten- dency to melt, indicating it may degene into rain, Traing are delayed in every di rection and very few freight trains on any of the roads are moving. Tho telegraph service west is somewhat impaired but the lines gen- crally are in fair working condition, R Cii1caco, February 9. Noon ~The storm | The St Paul road brought in a stoc continues with unabated force and i this city | of forty-five cars this attorsocn. — oo F M0 business of all kinds is nearly suspendod. | The telezraph wires aro working heavily in Snow lies to a great depth on the street. The | every direction, At 1 to night the storm street cars drawn by horses are moving only | here has ceased and the stars are shiniog, with great ditliculty and in ‘n\fiht yards in | though the snow is still driftiog badly, The the rmlway stations, freight bandlers and [ mercury indicates 4 degroes o' ove zero, tr in employes are eogaged in an attempt to| At Dixon, 11, the Illinois Central and clear tracks, paseencer trains only attempt- | Chicago & Northwestern trains ars blosaded., iug to leave, At the signal stations the news [ Fourteen inches of enow has falleh, was rather conflicting and confused. This | At Mattoon, in southern Illinois, there was much was authorized, however, that the snow | a heavy thunder storm lust night, accompa- storm has come from the south, It arose in|nied by hail and sleet. the Gulf of Mesico yesterday | add storm and has been traveling a little east of north [ At Davenport fully ten inches of snow fell, since, the wind blowiug with the velocity of | and the thermometer early in the evening was about twenty miles per hour, It has gone far | 8 below zero, The Rock Island tonight to the northwest. the weather being especially | reports the snow fall over 14 inches, followed fierce in all the lower lake regions from here | by a bigh northwest wind and a cold wave, to Buffalo, It has taken its flight to the St. | The Illinois Central train duc at Dubuque at Lawrenca region in a northeasterly direction, | 6:30 this morning is in the snow near Marcus This morning the storm had not reached the | “A telegram frota Burlington, Towa, at 10 p. northern end of Lake Michigan, neither will [ m., eays: “Of 36 passsoger and accommoda- it reach as far northwest as Duluth, but it is | tion trains each way in 21 hours, the Butling. taking in Wisconsin, While it is snowing|ton has run 8, the Cedar Rapids 1, and the here and all along the the lake region, the | Keokuk branch 1. All freight trains are storm has vroduced rain in the Ohio valley, [ abandoned. The mercury i below aud this being s large a storm,” said the signal | going lowe office, ** a8 to Includeull kings of weatherinits [~ In Bloomington to-night the snow ke, While it is snowing_fiercely in Buffalo, | twenty-four inches on tho level with formida- for instance, 1t is raining in_ Pittsburg, but a | ble drifts. A dispatch from there says the couple of hundred miles south.” The rain ex- | Indianapolis lines, the Lake lrie and the tends as far eouth asnorthern Mississippi. [ middle division of the Illinois Ceniral aban- The actual messurement of the snowfall has | doned all trains, not bewn poseible by renson of the excessive [ Keokuk reports as follows: The Wabash drifting, but at least six inches fell between | enst and west passenger trains are in & drift the begioning of the storm last night and six | ear Granger, Missouri. The afternoon this morning. Although the temperature | train from, the east camo no further than early this morning was five degrees | LaHarp, Iilinois. The Rock Island has highor by the thermometer than yesteday | practically abandoned all traine, as has the morning, it is rapidly growing colder. In the | Chicago, Burlington, and Kansas City snd northwest region, especinlly in Manitoba and | Northwestern roade, The passenger traine Dakota and Northern Mianesota, the frigid | on these ronds are either in driftaor side wave is spreading, At Fort Gary last night | tracked. The Keokuk & St. Louis live pas the mercury had reached 41 degrees below or trains are moving, but beaind time. and at St Vincent 38 below, This ex | St. Paul, at_ midnight,” telegraphs: cly cold wave is moving eastward, and | weather here is cold, but clear, no_snow at |1 way be upon us to-night, In this city at noon | northwest: rn poinus beyond here. The Mis- tha mercary stood 20 aboye. souri and Yellowstone are breaking up.” CEpaR Rarms, Towa. February 9.—A fear- fol gale prevailed all day, snow fine, but seven or eight inches deep. Trains on nearly all roads are delayed, and many abandoned. Kaxsas iy, Mo., February 9.—A light snow fell last nivht and drifted’ by a strong wind, Traios somawhat delayed. Dks Moines, lowa, February 9.—The worst enow storm of the serson prevailed ail night drifting badly, all roads badly blocked, Trains are many hours late, - Some roads have not turned a wheel to-day, Tt 13 worse further | four hours b blockade 15 I OKUK, Lnn, Fobruary 9 —The most severo | fFeight trains have been suspended. Those |1 snew storni of the seasun prevailed last night [ that are abolutely necossary to be run are fo and to-day. Trains on all roads are late, ud [ Biven two cogines, Tonight the snow is | on the Wabash and the C., K. I. & . trains | Bbating, but tha high wind coutinues forming |« buge drifts. The only hope |ugx:l to ])re?-):!t a bad blockade is that the | o wind may subside, ot o Ui | "Dy’ Morsks, Towa, Tabruary 9—Tho |t b heavlest snow storm of tho s s o et in yos terday afternoon, and prevarled until this forenoon, 1t was accomparicd by high wiods | ¢ hways about Kankakec are impassabla on ;l":f"'.h)‘,";f}'l“ Jebadly ""“";;,fu‘;:":l‘;';'w]t R omplets blockado on o cen railroads S o O, iy 0,—The severest snow | And the same raports reach us from all. parts storm of (e \».A;vr]n-mtbln:llfu't.'luck on Sun| of tholatate. Tl Des Melues) A Todee day evening, aud has been snowing steadily ot moved a wheel to-day, and regular morning trajus from the east and west | 10 I lino, Wabash, North and |y have not yet arriv d. The fast mail arrived | touth, and the Chicago, Burligton & Quincy. | ) five hours late The Chicago & Noorthwestern | The St Paul cx,ress on the Northwestern |y started out this moring belind . suow” plow lethisimoroing, Lubionly seacheditielerom g o 1 of nai d still Jiva there, anc Michigan, Febr .—The | the Dakota train abaudoned, The main worst storm this winter ket in last night, and | line of the from four to six hours it has been snowing heavily ever since, 'with | late. T tral is at a dend etand, |} no sign of abstirg, 1t is impossible to disting. |40t Tiiaois Contral i th e ey ulshipsplo 100 fcabigway. i Salled I i honredates andihon tot St OtroMwa. Febroary 9.~ Snow commenced | the west about two hours behind, No traius falling at 3 p. m. yesterday and has contivued | werg run between here and Keokuk snd ever since, colder hwhlulmlm hour, | Ogumwa to-day. Jauauschek's private car no Wabath trains in Tho Rock Island | attempt d to reuch the latter place with a ;m,.n,par.‘]‘\u Irnmd Iu};»kuk. lh]vllnwn tram | “qouble heador, but after being out rom Des ines, due here at 11 a, m, was G ; 8 o B! ot o at Bo'clock, tho Milwakeo is nob in | hghe, 7o 4T, Toburved | ot and four hours late; trains on the Burlington | we can learn has turned a. feeish 1 ail ¥ rived from the east late, but none from the | Yes. wnd it LI R :31“( " J.\).um]llllu prospects are not good for to et i morrow, It is rapidly growiog La Crosse, Wis, February 9.—Weathor | to night, and with & e juieuse cold it will be cold and blustering. A light” snow fell st | inpossible to hire mon to clear the blockade, night, and is diiftiog badly to-day. The | Many of the north south ronds have aban. trains are from one to three hours late, A | doned everythivg, and will do nothiog uniil blizzard is ragiog in southern Minnesota. On | tr6 weather moderates and the storm subzides, | 1 the division of the St. Paul roud a heavy | The cold wave signal is flying and reports;/of force of men are at work keepin the cuts | another blizzard comng from the northwest cloar. is current hero. Stovx Cirv, Tows, February 9 —The < weather to-day is about the worst of the A Bloomingion Trage: e o0, Althaogh tho 1un 18 shiniog DRBUY: | Guicae. Teeas ot St a atreng northeast wind is blowing, and the 8 BATY he Tnter Ocean's thermometer was 13 below zero at noon, A | Bloomington, Tl special says: A man named Light, dry snow foll all day Sunday, aud this | Douglas Enois spent Sitday here, saying he basall blown into drifts, “The Tllinois Cen- | way in search of & man named Chauncey Me- tralis badly blocked from Towa Falls west, | % ; Herly to this peint The Sioux City & tuer: | Callum, whom he would kill on sight for fic was nearly on time . Txais on the other | keeping compauy with b girl, whom ho (Jin- roads generally on time, The storm here came | nir) had followed to this city from Memphis. He went to the neighboring town of Danvers favorable circumstances, the managers of roads say that they cannot get back to schedule time before two or three daye, and if the snow continues to drift it will be a week or more, The loss to the roads in business and cost of cloaring their tracks will basomethivg enormous, On gome of the roads which have refused to send out passen ger traine, special effurts are being made to oring in the stock trains, several engines MILwAUKER, February 9,—A severe wind |° and snow storm sct in atan early hour this morning, and continued throughout the entice day and well into the n Reports to the general office of the Milwankee & St. Paul railway show throughout Wisconsin and all | ¢ ly felt in southern Wisconsin, nortcern I nois, and rorthwestern Towa, trains on all lines in Witconsin have been delayed one to | to-dey, but no case of ab-olute bound passenger train from C: cago, on the Cincinati, Indiang ; Louis & Chicago railway is snowed i near St Aune today. All traing on the Indiana, Tlinois and Lowa rouds are abandoned, Al | & — } from the northwest. Citicao, February 9 —The Tnter-Ocean’s | this morning and bought revolvers, and he | special dirpateh fiom Paxton, about one hundred miles south of this city, |/ ohn Parr, a farme reports the storm of last night very severe in | went to Pare’s hovs: cning. the way of wind and ¥now, with the very rare | dertook to load his revolver. accom caviment of heavy thunder and lightn- | and Ennis shob hiw twice. ing. This place appears t> have been nenr |to his father's rescue, and the border of the snow and rain belts, At|bim, Both men will probably Sycamore, Lil., 6 o'clock to-night there were | caped, 10 sigos of abitement in the storm, In the - cauntry the snow covered the fences and was A Threatened Eloud drifted to » depth four foct, in the principal | e ; e streets and the public schools are closed, . Parreuono, February 0, —A disas gwws Hor 4 Jaskson, Mich,, the snow is roport:d shree |i8 feared horo unless the waatlaz becor aes 4 very cold within the next bvalve b urs, Einuis wa. Parr objooted, Pare's son supe feet deep on tho level, and piled many feet ligh indrifta iu sheltéred places, Tho fall i+ | Aloug the Manongahila and Al kgheoy tivers the gieatest within twenty years. y . ! 3 above the city to the headwat s are 9 cres o At Janesville, Wis,, tho storm eontinues |ice’ 20 thow” varying from - six. o ol reen with heavy fall of rnow and furious g b anaw, vay R Al ; Tt in tho mevorest for years. ALl (reight train | facrey yit gl Geriee, F With, & rush it fs have been sbandoned. At MoGregor, Tow, {'A"varm rain s falling si'seo last Al Aho air continuos to be full of waow, and & |Geupat hes from poiate ¢ bove report the vivers strong wind b Llowiog, Railrcad traffic fa | deebat; hes [ be suspended. e LS o Wixona, Mina,, February . —No_storm S - here, but & heavy v ind blowing and dniting Steel Work 4 esumio Work. the snow slready fallen, makiog, 1t veocssary | BRADDOCK, Pa., Februgry 9.—The Edger mub;sdun the night trains. “n.-pu-m from | Thomson Stee) Woiks resume operations in every direction in the great storin arce are o | 41| departme: S ivi 5 ] /' G d. C {1 O are | ¥ Py ha \en, 10 D! imssabte,] Mapended. - Couniry roads 8¢ {iglg cight, weoks, Thaomen retarn 10 Work s mbadsable, | “LINCOLY, Neb, Febiuary 9,~Snow fell in' & $iibt raduction, were (3,000 to some early disposi number 112 graded N, 2, in provisions is helpng wiasig strength in gorn as the old adage sbout pork and corn goinfl to gether has some foundation in fact, and much more in the general understanding, or imagin- ation of traders, The market, ho whole 18 most entirely g.verned by the re ceipts, when thes when they fall off prices adv. about all there is to it at present, the adjoiniog states, its fury ia being cspecial. | & S0 cosier. A locomotio t reported. Nearly all the|on account of the heay, of the ralroad [and lo ke stock, there was little or no change ns compared with Saturc at $. ; 12 1370 b, con { and a mainly on alive, Mder here | him, the death of Gordon, would do all in his currenc Eogland he said: avert new disaste s, Soudan by kngls nc under the present ¢ stances i juin tho Mahci aad if unmed sto stefis toc may the Eritish o1 1 e —— The Prof,eilor Oneina Fre 111, which is | began_drinking in the villave saloons with s (wang to the Storm the Cattle Trade was Light, The Number of Hogs was Barely Sufficient for Pagkers. Stories About the Damaged Whea Crop Are Ridioul:d, The Next Year's Crop Will be the Largest Known, Corn Fluotuated With the Price of* Hogs. Oats Virmer—Provisions, Pork and Lara Sull Continue to be Firmer, OHICAGO MARKETS, WHEAT Special telogram to the ke, Cicaco, February 9. ~Tho wheat markot opened ab-ut § lower for March and May, but the storm made some traders bullish, on the expoctation of light receipts in the future, and alittlo extra bid caused an advance of § to § for May, but there was nothing to sustain the market, and it naturally fell off by its own weight. Liverpool was called quiet and steady, and the mark line was the same, Parmers’ deliveries in England the past weok 000 quarters. The receipts to-day were cars against 97 Saturday. The *‘visible” supply for to-morrow will show an increase that may possibly put it higher than any figures yet recorded. about the damage to the crop, are ridiculed by All stories the best judges and oldest traders There 18 hardly any export movement, and. it looks as though we should go into the next crop year with the largest surp 'ns ¢ known, Thesc are the real facts of the situation at precent. How soon all these goyerning con ditions may bo arravged or reversed no one can tell. On account of the storm there wero very fow outside orders on the market. On account of the real strength of pork theve was. , n to sustain or put up, CORN, bt when provisions woskened corn follawed: suit, steady, but both declined J@d later, with the- other markete, not quotably is [ 604 cars agui March opened } higher, whilo May wus Liverpool was called firm but higher, Receipts to-day wero- inst 2806, Saturday #bd out of (this ) The present boom ever, a8 & incresso priccs weaken, uce, and that is OATS. Early were abont c better, but later lowed the course of wheat.and corn, PROVISIONS % were generally impreved under the infidence “The | of alittle bet'er market st the vards, and nore £0 on account of the uncertainty as to receipts, and the improbability of hogs gets ting in for several days, An earl; | ! advance: of 10c in pork was not sust ined, val 5 588 ging off e under tha opening, maicly for the wan of support. activ The close at 1 o'clock was. and ubout steady at bottou prices, On the afte:novn board there was no change in he erain market, but pork and lard ‘were the stock yards the trains yed and blocked on all road n through the yards was slmos wossible. car It was & were light, y snow, ucky incident that the receipt stherwice it would have been a disastrous market for shippers. As it was thers was® only a sufficient numbor for the dressed beef al butcher tride. Shippers were shut ut on account or not being uble to get trans- portation, all the eastern roads refusing to So far as prices aro concerned yot eales wore few. Among f froon 14€0 £0 1600 1bs., 5 00@b 60 and mixed, 3 7he steckers and Texans, $4 10 he 0 (0 to 1200 Ibs, ) nocs ho number on ealo was barely ho wants of the half dozen he market, hence there was consi good deal ¢ oxhiusted, The gonoral @10c st-onger wit's an adrance light eorts, Shippors were not uying. Sales at 46001 70 for common wckers, 4 80@4 9) for geod to choics, and 5 00@? llnurlhm)' beavy, with a rmnored ale w5 15, Laght sorts wold at 4 636 kin, opog. 200 te 400 lbs., 4 7 . Light, 150 15210 1hs., § 40@d 90, The Khedive's Comments, UAIR0, Februcry %,—1n an mters o+ to-0uy he Khedive said ha belioved Gordon ig still s tho Mahdi is tos wise 3::em to kill The Maidi had na interst in wishing + 90, Ou ths contrary he power to Lievent such oc Peparding action oo the part of 11 is necessary to provent 1mogress of b Mahdi's cawse and “The adandonment offthe cum- take, Tribes. Y Britain would now ‘gland does nob take wsh him, his infucoce. usl'y thienten the stability of the @ in Indi urther would be a grave hitherto inendl'y 30 Gr From, 1ae Ice, VEICAG 0, Tebruary —Tha Inter-Ocean’s Grand 7 faven, Mich., special says: The pro- pellor “Michigan, which bas been confined ta tho hi rbor hore by the ice for throe weeks, ' .ded in getting fres this morviog, the tug Arabi: went in wesrch of tho prof wllor Ooeida, which has been in_the ice ner r Muskegon for thrce weoks, She was for and to bave broke looks from 1he ice, and W as en routo for Grand Haven. Sbe rosched Fiere i safoty this The crew did not. r greatly, a3 they had plenty to eat and enough fuel to keep them warm, though the #lock of the latter was ranning low, e — Round House Burned, BUBLINGTON, February 9.—Karly yeaterday morning the engine houss and maohine shops of the Burlington & Northwestern and Bur- lington & Western Narrcw CGiauge railroads. near this city, were destroyed by fire, the or- igin of which is unknown, ~ Threo locomotives and machinery in the building st the time of the complotely pulued. 1.u8, 820, The National Democratic Committee, Wasamaiox, February 9,—A call has been istued by the secretary of the national demo- cratic committoe, for & meeting to be held at the Arlington hotel on Monday March 2ud, the purpose of the meeting is not stated. 'he second trial of Gen. Swaiw has beom: ostponed till Wednesday.