Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 11, 1885, Page 5

THE SNOW BLOGKADE The Railroads ere at @ Complete Stand-Still. Double-Headers Prove to be of no Avail, Trains With Eight Engines Fail to Get Through. Illinois Senators are Stuck in Snow Drifts. Thirteen COars of Sheep Frozen onthe C.B. & Q. Twenty-One Engines Bring in Thirty- Four Cara on the Mil- waunkee Road. LETSTALKABOUTTHE WEATHER MERCUIMAL FIGURRS, Ciicaco, February 10,-~The mercury fell +apidly after midoight and r:ports from all western points indicate clear wud cold weather, In this city at 8 o'clock the signal eervice re- ports the temperature 14 below zero; Omaha, 17 below; Kansas City, 14 b-low; St. Paul, below; Dubuque, 26 below; Keokuk, 15 be + Fargo + Winnipeg, The worst effect of the storm appeared to be southwest of Chicago, Traius between here, and Cincinnati are comp'ctely The morning paesonger tralus are aband ned, except by one line. The roads ect to s-nd out sfterncon ns. Al s from the west are x1x to eigh- ste. Traius arc leaving for the Freight business oa all roads ly +uspended, AN ICE-OLATED CAPITAL. SeriNarieLd, I February 10 Trans all late. Chicago & 7 and 11 last I below. Louisville blocked. wext on tin ars practic en hours late ral or Ohis & Mississippi and tha Warash trains are imbedded in suow. Tms is the severest storm koown here for years The now has ceased but the thermometer is 20 below, A FLOODED REGION, Cnester, P’a, Februsry 10 —Tho heavy rains welting the anow raised Chester creek toan unusual height la-t night and caused considerable damage. Lemi dam broke and let in an avalanche f water. From Limi to Delaware 1iver, a distance of eight miles, the dumage is exten ive to manuf ctuliog estab- lishments, dwellivg houses and reilroad and county bridges. No loss of life reported, THE BLIZZARD AT BURLINGTON, BURLINGTC , February 10.—Last night was mtente y cold, with a vorthwe tern biiz- zard, the wost for years. The mometer 33 below this morning, now (aoou) ten below, No mail the past twenty four hours. The C', & . tran due last night, and this mornivg are all stuck in the suow d'ift at Galerburg with the tast mail brhind them. East bound traing are blockaded in drifis near Humeston, attemptiog to pass the Creston wreck, going round on the Humeston ¢ & henand ah bravch, They will prob.bly not get through to-day. The spow is packed 1 cuts like sand. ANOTHER VICTIM of the Creston disaster died last night—Mee, Burliogt n, making seven. All twenty four will probably ro- Fioight and Paesenger Agent W. J. Davenport, of this c'ty, was se- ver.ly shaken up and bruised, but is doing well,” He will ratura to headquacters here as s00n a4 the road is open for a trai FRIGHTFUL ICE GORGE, Trextox, N. J. February 10. ~The ice on the Deleware moved this morning about six and blockaded from River View cometery to Marine island. The gorge is forty feet high. Fair street is flooded, bonts are in usa, Trave on the Pennsylvanin ruilrosd 1s theeatened, Asanpivk creek 18 swoolen and therc s dan- ger from back water. Much damage has boen done and more is apprehended. BTEAMER LOST, Bostox, February 10, 1he steamer Provi- denca, of the Fall 1iver line, left Now York last eve: ing for Fall river, and was dus there at four this morying. Sho had not arrived at noon_to-day. 1t 18 rumored hero that she foundered 1n the Sound last night. THE KARITAN FLOOD, Niw Brosswick, N. J. February 10.—Ice in the Raritan river was brokea up last night by & flood, causd by the heasy rain. The bank of the river is overflown, Manufacturing establishments and dwellings along the banks e flooded. Tho new Jersey Rubber Shoo Co., the New Brunswick Hosicry Co., and the New Jersey Lan p and Bronze Co., have been compelled %0 suspend, THE MERCURY AT MARSHALLTOWN, Mansnatitows, Ta, February 10— Twenty-eight balow at 5 this morning, eigh- toen at noon. The Northwestern main Jine is expected to bo open tomght Every thing abandoned and no work s beiog doue oo the Coatral Towa or Disgonal. The wind at noon moderated somewhat. BEANDYWINE UNCORKED, WILMINGTON, February 10,—The Brandy- wine river Lrgan to rise last night, and early this mornizg swept away the central falee work and uutivish d iron span of the new Baliimore & Pholadelphia railroad bndge. L84, $20,0 The water is very high, Moie s threatened, The Phil.delphis mmgton & Baltimore brijges over the Christian river are in danger, but the truins are sull 1unning, Hous.s aud mills along the Braudywine are flo.ded, COnicaco, February 10,—Specials to the Inter-Ocean fornish the follgwing storm now: At Gialena the blocade is the worst known for several years, The Madicon divisiin Northw: stern road passeoger train is off the track and in the drifes near Luke Mills and seversl freight trains are snowed in between Montfort aud Lancaster, At EaufClaire, Wis , the thermometer indi- cated 35 below zero this morning, At Lasalle, 111, at the same time 28 below. Within fiftoen miles of Streator, 11, th aro & dozen dead envines, Not a single train arrived on cither of the five roads runoing through that city. At Storhing, I1L., it was 22 below this morn- ing, aud is growing coluer to-night. ‘At one point in Decatur it tuched 86 be low, thoueh in other paits of the city it was about 20 below, At Mattoon, 11, 20 below. At Paxton, IIL, the ravge was from 16 to 20 all day. Hdwardavilly, 11l,, reports peaches in that vicinity killed, Kangakkg, 111, February 10,—The Illinols Central has ite enger trains snowed in, one at Rantout, at Danforth,four between Moneo and Peotone, and two between Bloomington and Kavkakee on the Iilinois Cantral branch near Buckingbam, An effort toclear the track of the Illinois, Indiana and Towaroad was made to-day, but the snow drifted faster than it could be cleared. The attempt had to be given up un il the driftiog ceaser. The Chicsgo & Eastern Illinois track is blocked above Mowme¢nce where the snow- plow and three eogines are ditched, below Momence the track 1s open, The thermonie. ter to-day is 209 below. The Chicago & Alt n road 18 snow blicked at Gardoer snd sevem wembors of the liinois 1 gislature are spowed n there. t te senators are in a simi- lar predicamens at Pontise. Dusvque, February 10.— It was 222 below in the lower part of the city snd on the blutf it was 81 % be ow this moruing, Most trains on the roads runmivg into Dubuque are block- aded, and what are not are hours behind. No nail was received from the east or west till 4 p. m. On the Dlinois Central the west bund train got throvgh from Waterloo Fiom there to Sicux Ci'y the trains ure al #wodoned, 1t will take two days to op b the road, Trains left east for Chicago and south for C this worniog. On the Chi cago, Milw, e & St. Paul river division trains are running, but are behiod time, West of McGregor trains all ab ndoned. weather has contiousd throighout ha day, THE DAILY B EE- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY i1, 1885, e —————————————— e e e and is mada very cutting and severe by a bit ing north wind. Un1caco, February 10.—Chicago eeems to have been the center of the snow area, and for a distance of sbout sixty mil & in every di. rection it has fallen to a geat depth and is drifting badly, Most of it was very moist when it fell, which makes it very heavy, and as hard to handle almost as sund, having since been frozen hard avd ground almost to powder by driftivg. The level chacacter of the country in every direction and ita freedom from forests facilitates its carriags by tns wind and lodpement wherever o railroad cat furnfshes a place for it to drop into, In ¢ nwe quence of this and of the extremely low temperature which has prevail.d all day, has put most of the railrosds in a worse condition, if that were possible, than they were yesterday, Itis next to impossible for men to work, and about as difficult to ke-p up steam in the engines, From every direction come reports of engines “dead” and side-tracked. The Chicezo & Al ton road sent out no trains to-day, nor did any come in, The track is blocked at Brace. ville by a train in the snow, which left here yosterday, The Baltimore & Ohio hw run no trains since Sunday. It has thiee trains blockaded near South Chicago. The Nickel Plats sent out one teain, ouisville, New Albany and Chieago are complotely blockade: The Iliinois Cen tral hes half a dozsn trains in the snow and it is imposslble to get trains past them. The Kankakes line between Kaukakee and St Avne has no tralos either in or cut.to-day, The Nor hwestern sent out no the ughitaring, and its subu consolidated trains are blockaded at the city limits. Ity train tfrom Milwaukee is in the sn at Ra. venswood, n few miles out. 1he Danville route has pot turned a wheel to-day. Th triins arrive | from two to eight houra late the Pennsy lvania road. L= Wanasy, Ind, February 10,—Traffic on the Chicago & Atlantic, and_the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigau is completely suspeaded. Several lucomotives sent out by the f rmer this morning are fmbeded in drifts, whore they will remain until the weather moderates, Tha Wabash road is running n» freights ad has abindoned several pasvoger trains. It in hlowing a hurricane to-night and is bitterly cold. Trains went out as usual to-night. ! Chicago divi-ion of the Rock I-land road is fair working order, The Baltimo e & Ohio is blocked by trains at Haskett, Md, avd its track is invi-ible most of the way from tl pomt to Valparaico. Tha Wabssh has been out of business since yesterd .y, The Mi bi- gan Central had one train i late to-day nnd sent tho usual trains out this afternoon and evening. A way tiain on the Burlington L ft atnoon, and whon heard from to-night was progressing slawly . o traivs arrived ovor this route, The Chicaga & Atlantic is blocked, The Linke Shore ecoms to have suttered lars than others and its trains are moving uearly n time. Suburban trains in every direction ara moving slow, but many persons fear to risk night in_the cars, and temain in the city. "Tnw cattls at the stock yards are suffrring 10- tensely from cold, the elieds being unpro- tected by roofs, Many stock trains are snowed in on various roads, and, as the mer- cury goes down, the hopes of shippers and consigness go down correspondiugly. Dealers assert that uuless speedily re- liased, most of the croped-up stock will porish, entailing a loss which cannot not ba estima‘ed. Twelve car loads of catle were hrought to the yards to-day by eicht locomo- tives. * Double headers” were storted out with traios of ca'tle for the London and Liv- erpool markets, but after goiog & short dis- tance it was feared imporsible to m ke any bheudway, and they were returned to the yards, Railrcad men reporc snowbaoks fif esu to eighteen fect in height sl ng the southwestern roads. Thirty-tour cars of stock on the Mil waukee & St Paul came in with twenty-one engines. Thirteen cars of shsep, a few wiles outon the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, were found frozen to death, At Fifty viath strest thisafternoon, the F't. Wayne express was run into, head and head, by a switch engine geing to the relief of sur burban traivs. The trainmen saved themselves by jumping The paeengers were badly shakea up and both engines wrecked. On the *Gravd Trunk four engines 'spent four h urs in clearing two mi'es of track, and two of them were ditched. The weather has been very cold all day. At 8 oclock this morning & standard thermometer marked 16gm below and it remaiced unchanged uatil noon At3p m, it was 112 below. the highest evuinfi of the day At 6 p. m. it mrked 15° helow, at 8, 20° below and at 1.:30 p m. 22° below. ——— Washingtm Gosslp, Speclal Telegram to the B WASHINGTON, February 10,—The nowina: tion of Bierbower for United States marshal for Nebraska yesterday ends a long fight, He will doubtlees be confirmed. Mandeison, Valentine and Laird had endorsed Michael, Van Wyck was for Bierbower, and Weaver Kept out of the fight, 'o-day’s vroceedings in the house give strength to the impression which has baen gaining ground for sumo days here, that there is pretty likely to be an extra session, Ths fecling on the republicsn side over the White affair yesterday 15 very intense, and there is an ivclination to fight for a falr statement of the case, There is no teliing how great a de- Juy or how general a fight it may devel p 1t is reported here to-day that President- eloct Cleveland has requested Randall, itt und others to try to paes o bill at this ses. sion giving the precident power to suspend o1 r-guinte, as he sees fit. the coinage of silver, aud that thera will be an effort made to do so yet this session, “Ualannty” Weller, of Towa, fs to the demo. crats what White, ot Kentucky, is to the e publicass, and b ih are luxuries which the majority would gladly dispense with for the suke of the dispateh of public busizees, To-aay the speaker laid before the House a requ st from Mr, Weller for indefinite leave of absence. It was granted with almest i plause and laughter. Catinet making is vot connued entirely to tes damocratic politicians gathered at the capital, but the republicans sre slso showiog & greut deal of int-rest in the persooal of th s coming administration, Of course such in- formation as the republicans have comes from democratic sources, but fo many tnstrnces, 1 ativg damocrats will talk with ‘more free dom to personal frienas among the republi- ca 8, than withfmemters of their own party. The present cabicet members fe-l & greas 10t rert regardii g their successors, and they expect to have early information as to wh» will be choeea, In republicaa circles it is ite generally belioved that Bayard will have the state department, instesd of the treasury, whi:h he would prefer, and that Senator Gar- land is certain to be made attor: general Outside of these two selections ovinions differ widely regarding members of the ¢ binet, Bouewell, of Massachusetts, wbo is around a great deal and who is on the best of terms with some of the most prominent demociatic leaders, ssid to your correspondent to-day, that he believed ho could name sev:ral mem- bera of Cleveland’s cabinet, Accordiog to his ioformation Bayard would be given the state department, y, of New York, the treasury, General Franklin, of Connecticut, the war departmient Garland the dej artment £ justic Lawan, of Missisrippl, the in to the navy and post office departments, he was not, he said, pre- pared to make any explanation, L — I Daring Bank Kobbers \rrested. CH104G0, February 10— Jos Howard, alias Kilvain, who was srrested by Piukertons ia Philadelphia on Saturday, and held to await & requisition from the governor of Michigan to-day, Is wanted for robbing the First Na tionul bank of Coldwater of $10,000 worth of diamonds and a ccnsiderable sum of movey in 1883, He was assisted Ly Eddie Quinn, s meak thief, and two others, The 'y was dove during banking hours while the cashicr was in the bank. The robbers stood off the sheiiff and assistant with revol- versand escaped, Howard is one of the most daring bank robbers in the country, und was concerned in the coolly perpetrated bavk robberies at Waterfo , Ba rie, Vt, the Ken ng ton and Catho vings bink of Philadelphia, and the First National bank «f Wilmington, lll\-l. He belogs to a grod New York tam iy, o —— Snow Bound CHieaco, Febraary 10, —~The passenger train over the Chicago & Alton road, which 1eft here at 11:20 last night, haviog on board a nbers of the Illinols legislsture, enow b und at Braceville, with an uncer- ‘win Drospect s to the time when the tran can he extricatid. . | stabbed while loaving tie government huuss b [appears tuls morniug THE SOUDAN. {There is no Longer Any Donbt - of (ordon’s Fate, He is Stabbad While Leaving the @Government House, All His Faithfal Troops OCut Down to a Man, Nov Even the Women and Chil- dren Beine Spared. All the Notables Killed Except the Treacherous Pashas, For Hours the Iest Part of theTown Was the Scene of Merci- less Slaughter, FOREIGN EVENTS. LATEST ADVICES FROM KORTI ANNOUNCE GEN, GORDON'S DEATH, Konrt, February 10.—Culs, Wilson and Wortley, with an expedition to Khait um, arrived here to-day. Tney made the j urney ubotin four daye.” They bring vews death, Oue of the pashas Among ‘s forces marched the garrivon to the s'd+ of the t)wo, snd n-ar et to Omaur- mav, saying arebel uttuck was expected at that' pornt. Meantime, avother trait 10us pasha open-d the gates at the oth rend avd allowed the Muliii's troops to enter, and they enily captured the town, Gen, Gordon was THE DAILY NEWS IN MOUKNING GOKDON. Loxnos, February 10 FOR GEN. ha Daily News in mourning for Gen Gordon, and pablished ths follswing foo Gakdul: *“The natives who es:aoed from Knartoum say that Gen. Gordon, whils iu the act leavivg his house to rally t'e fuithful troops, the latter were cut dowa t) 1 for hours the best part of the town ught«r, not even women or children biog spaced.” All the notables wera killed except tue treachicr- ous pashas and their followers,” SEN. WOLSELY BEGINS HIS MARCH, Loxvos, Febraary 10, Gen, Wolselay, with the British forces, started from Korti Lt evening to cross the desert to Giubat Only portions of two regiments remain at Korta. dhe storming of Mctemueh by the Butish is expected. LoNDON, Febraary 10,—Sir Charles Beres- ford and pamty were ten howrs w der fire be- fore they were able to rescue Wilson. The enemy used nfles from bebind en’ renchments, of ranching ( where he hasnow arrive . He son to Lord Wo'scley the detal noisance at Khartoum, ITALY'S The Ttalian government chattersd vix more steame s for use in the conveying troops to Egypt. INDIAN TROOPS FOR EGyrr, Bosnay, Febrasy 10.—Threa regiments of native infantry and one of cavalry will short ly embark for Fgypt. ported inper « of his recon PART THE NEW EXPEDITION T,oxpos, February 10—(General Newdegate will command the exvedition to Suakim. [he campugn opens, it is calenlated, on the 9th of March, Orders have bren throvghont the country bordering on the weat and south conat of the Red sea for the purch 13 for the use of the unkim preparations are being wmade for land- ing an expedition. —— WESTERN NEWS, DAROTA, Webster. Day county, has 800 population, Sioux Falls has a trotting course on the ice of the Big Sioux. Pierre rep rts lots of venison, red skins and chinoek wiuds in that locality, Union county has 9,000 population, fifteen churches and seveuty-tive school houses, ‘The Methodist and Preshyterian socicties will unite in buildiog a §1,200 church at Rome, Tllinois parties have purchased 3 000 bush els of wheat at Mellette, Spink county, for 81,500, The infant covnty «f Emmons has been suc- cen:ful in creating & debs of $9,000 in twelve mouths The extension of the time for payment of taxes, it iv thought, will resultin the tempo rary closing of wasy schools, irule ¢ unty will vots on the 7th of March on u proposition to bond the county for 210,- 000 to pay A its floating debt, Time biings its reveng s. The legislature hespas ed a bill changiog the name of the town of Ordway to Tudepi ndence, Returna from the agricul ural operation of the youthful refs at Pine Ri ge, show they raissd 500 bushels of potatoes last year. Spink conuty citizens bave hung their legis tive representatives in effigy, 1t is gencrally d d that this s the plcusantest way to be hung, A farmer pamed Elis, living three wmiles from Abe deen, lost his gain aud veget.ble crops by fire the other day, umouniiug to #1100, ~ He was fully ineued. It is said firhing is e0 good in Desil’'s Lake 1hat a tun of pickerel 18 shipped duly to the St. Paul market, It should be meutioned that the fish are captured with fluke-sared spears, In the silver mine “Star No, 1," in the ga lean distric’, near Deadwood, a_ nataral open- ivg or cave'was dircovered while driving a drift in the mive, It iseaid to be about fifty feet in bieadth and of unknown depth, The Farmers Allinnce is an organizaticn that seews to be finding « congenral sl in neary all the rral commuuities of Dakota Its purposes te ms to be to protect the inger- ests of (he grain growers, and one of its chief The tire from \hs eoemy's cannoa was effec tive, In addition to a hols mads in the boiler, wshell bursted in the stewnor, Tae Biitish fire was most «ff ctive in sileneing the rebel guns and forcing t1.e wen to resk shelter, THE MARQUIS OF LORNE. Loio, yFebruary 10. ~The Marquis of Lotns is nominated for J ristol, ths coming patliamentary election. Hus lordehip desices to re-enter active political life, Ho1sa staunch supporter of Gladstone, FRANCE TRYING TO COERCE ENGLAND, Loveon, Febiuary 12 —Waddineton, the French anbsssador, presented t) Earl Gran ville the amendea connter proposals of Fiauce regarding the Egyptian affairs. The propos- als embody increased demands on the part of France. “They insist that an intsrnationsl commis:ion must ke app inted to invesiigate the tinances of Fzypt und the international conferenca be cal ed to meet at Cairo to neu- tialize the Suez canal. Advices from Paris s4y the modifications of the Freach proposals are made in such & mancer as would, as far as possibie, avoid wounding the amour proper of the Euglish. The Pall Mall Gazette de- n unces the French demancs ssa humilia- tion to England to be followed by other de- mauds ~ Tue demands, j& declares, England will never accede to. The (iazette maintains that France and its alliss have sertously taken in hand the tack of coercing Englavd, BeariN, Febiuary 10,—Halys movements on the Red Sea Iterally have triamph.dtly irritated Germany. The consequences have been the closer knitting of entels cordiale be- tween France and Germany, GEN, EARL'S ADVANCE, Binre, February 10.—Gen, Earl's advaace to Berbor commenced yesterd DEATH OF CARDINAL M'CABB, KiNsto, Ircland, February 10, nal McCabb is dead. Cause, ioflamation of the bowels, ADDITIONAL DETAILS, Loxpoy, February 10, The following a ditionul details of the killing of General Gor- don and the fall of Khartoum aie at hand, On the day of the capsure, which is variously stated as the 2Gth and 27th of Jauuary, Gen- eral Gordon's attention was attracted by a tremendous tumult in the strests, He lefc the tocalled place or government buildiog in which he bad made his headquarters_to ascer- tain whut caueed the disturbance. Just as he renched the strect he wus stabbed in the back and fell dead, ‘Lhe tumult was causcd by the Mahdi's troops who had gained access to the interior of thetown torough treachery, and who were soon in complete porseasion of the place includiog the citadel, A fearful maesacie of 1he gari- 1 foll.wed the ecenes «f the slaughter described su sing the Bulgarian awroct ies, and revesling 1ar werse horrois of the Sepioy mutioy, The panic etricken Egyptiats were captured in their fight snd put to death with ths mos’ fiendish torturcs, some wers trans- hxed with spears and leftto bleed to death. Mot of the victims were mutilated 1nths mort horrible manner, thelr eyes were gouged out, theic noses slit and their tongues tora ont by the roote, In mary cases the mutilated parts of the vietim's bodies weie thrust wto their mouths while they were ¢till living. The massacre, including muny non-combattants and Fygyptian women, wers subjected to the most shameful indigoi- tiew, ard moe than & huncred women and girls were given over to the Mahdis fol- lowers to be used as slaves. Af- ams is to regulate transporiation, Mountain lions come down at n'ght from the mount.ins In the Black Hills and - laugh- ter the sheep of the ran ters, Nuwwt Hinton, who has a rench near the mouth of Horeehead creek, lost thuty-three brad in one night, de- siroyed by these bitds of proy, WYOMIN The Lutherans of Cheyenno are calculat- icg the chances on raising 33,000 to build & church, The requirad capital for the establishment 1bat Col, Wilson started for Kovtl, Legitimate and Realistic Dramas an the Principal Actor bl Noted Figures at (he Koothghrs New York—A Ohat With Lucille Yseult Dudley in the aTombs, Special Correapoadence to Tir Bik, New York, February There is a story going the rounds of the press of the application many years ago, of the actor, George Mi'n, to Edwin Booth for a sub- ordinate position in his company and of Mr. Booth's emphatic declinature. Whether Mre, Booth lost anything by his refusal is, of ccurss, an cpan question but the st 1y serves to il'us rate the nar. rownes of the men who ¢ reading of Shakespeate's tines hay won for bim the homage of all men. Groat and grand as Eiwin Booth csn be at all times, one cmnot help wond rng by what means 4 ins he unconec ouscess of the fact that he )8 surrounded by a set of wooden m:n and women who speak their lines witn- out feelir g and move and act 1 ko autom- aons, Wheoes draws thls man his in- tprition? Louks he never for touch of pasti 1 in bis Ophelis, In his ncting, as ia h's private Iife, Mr Boo h lus held bimse £ aloof from all eympaihy, We hear of him as avodiug soc jiving amoet the life of a recluse, a cal still hang over this man's soul. We sse him when he_tvsnds the boards, s Hamlet every inch, morbid, isolat:d and aloae; apgroached at no point by any msn or woman of his company, and when we try 4> solve the problem of his life arc f roed to think its motive paesion some- tr1ng very like seltisbness, Heo is, how ever, playing to large louses st tha F fth avenue thea ra, ana in all probabili y is amply able to defy criticism for miany years to come: One tnis relief and plassant charge, however, at the Star thestre, where Lawreace Barratt has been giving the publ ¢ a treat as Caslus in Juiius Ceasar, with Louis James as Brutus,1aud the Lyceum School scholars a0 the mob, ci'izens, &e. Asida from the tone and colcr which they have leat to the scenes they have also awakencd an interest in the tlay such as has not been known hera for “ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE.” ing communistic soctetie ame |t , will go easton th he first stop will be at Ditts He met with considerable succes mission. ) [hare || The indistment agairst Hon. S, A, North way for wrecking thy Se at Jefferson, O, becanse of | geand jury | and the cas | was quashed this morni | irregulatity in summoning t Another fudictment was fo 1 stponed till M is & prominent poritictan in t district f rmerly vapresented by Giddings, and was a personal friond « dent Garfield LEGAL LURE, Northway 10 and Prest Morsels of Newa From the ding Judiciaries—The Mullen Case, In the dlstrict court yesterday the trerpass case of Robinson va, Clifton was atill on telal. It ls not probable that the conclueion of this much tried case will be reached beforo to-night. Te-day the cass of J. D. Thomas ve. Henry Ritter will be on trial before Judge Nevlile. In the district court yesterday Her man Kountzs filed a suit against the Cty of Omaha for the payment of §2,056.07, on an alleged transferced con. tract. The plaintiff, it appears, bought out two claims of Contractor James Duffy, amcunting, ecverally, to 81,80, 07 and §240.45, which the latter unable t5 col cot agatnst the city, W liiim Cleyburae sues F. F. Geislor, Angusts Geiver. W. L, McOa us, B Rood, F. Sch icf and th Ch eago Lamber © mprny 0n a nete of $800 due aud un P i1, exsen'ed by Geielor and wife, Willi m F eming sues Cather no and Jesde Long onen unpaid no e of €500 It isnot e xpecred that that grand jury rto the 1oy gs anoant ot crim on hind before Mondsy next POLICE COURT, Tnthap les comt yos-erday afternnon Wil iam J hoson wes tiied on a o of ctealing asuit of cloth's from .Ja Heron, Ho was found gullty and sou 10 15 days (1 bread and wator, ‘Tno celebratad casc (f the state of Nebraska va. Cireie Mulen, chargod withopening letters not her own and takivg movey fron them, was then cal ed for prelminary h srng, The de'ails of this case are wo iresh to need r state ment, Theevidence against the ac.used was many a diy. So grest was the demand for seats that it was found necossary to extend Me. Bairctt's engagement ‘Ihe Lyceum schlars may well feel proud of tueir first apperance. They cortsialy tave not found Mc Barrett ungeat ful He has presented the Lyceum echol with a very handsome sum cf money. He brings out Rubert Browning’s “Ilot oa the 'Scutcheon” and “The King's Plias- ure” Mcnday evening, and plays *Yor- i:k's ) ove” later in the week. lovers of the higher drama sttest their apprecia- tion of his work in most substantial fashion, as inleed it des rves. A more ¢ nicientious artist, or one moro liber 1 in his views and williog to adopt an, of a reduction works at Larumin has besn subtcribed and the company has been legally organized. Three men are on trial in Cheyenne for sua iig buster. Usually Cheyeune margar ie is self-supporting, but the case in dispute was struck by a c.ivook and had to be carted, The Laramie rolling mills will start u on the h, after a ehut-down of nearly a year, I'he mills have becn leased avd will mauntacture merchant iron exclusively, It will employ 150 men. A breezy zephyr, with a sixty milo gait, bru-hed the cobwebs off the territory one day last week, The impression thatthe Cheyenve newspape:s were the greatest blowhards is bappily dissipated. E A Slack, proprietor of the Cheyeune Sua, is s id tv have invested £20,000 10 & bus- 11.ess block which wili be fitted upas an office, Sack is noud as a defendar of pretty sopool waams aud using ten dollar bills for pen wipes, That Laramie county railroad subsidy of £300,000 to build 100 miles of road northward, is again a subject (f contioverry, Itis now sidthe B, & M. and U, T, aro ‘tryiog to so cure control of the local company “which gt the prize. The Union Pacific hae dzeded four blocks of ground to Laramie for a city park, 1t is the intention of 1he authorities to fence the prop- erty at once, lay out convenient Crive-weys, plaot the avenues with trees, and wake t.e tract at an early day one of the ple.sautest res rtsin the city. Cheyenne has orgaized another mammoth corporation on pajer the eastera Standurd Hydro-Carbon * company $1,100 000 stroop, e ubje cs of the company is topurchase, uso and hold, lea d sublet, such patented in- ventions aud discoveries w8 relate to lighting and to heating snd to metallmgic proceeses, and more especially to gas lighting and heat ing, and to whe reduction of oxes aud meials by the use of crude petroleum or avy hydro- cubon process, They will illumivate the territory to make moncy, COLORALY. Denverites propese to csletrate Washing: tow’s birthiay with a parade. A total of 691 bills were introduced in both houses of the general assembly, The total number of deaths in Denver dur ing the year 1681 were S76; births, 725, Nearly every ranchman in the Uncom- pabgre valley is setting out fruit troes, Slijah Wease, aged 75, was mrrest'd at Petershurg recently, for murderiog Hirou Ault twenty three years sgo, The railroads have cut rates to such an ex- tent that corn is now sold in Denver at 50 cewts & hundred instead of $1.10, ter the slaughter many Arabs wera seen rushiog about the strécts with heads of Egyptiavs inpaled upon spesrs, 'Ihe next night was spent in & saturaticn of blood and debauchery, i nee the capture of Khartoum the mahd ired ths fo tifications and made the place wctically impre, nable, He bas made permanent headquarters, and is 5 id to bundance of gunw, #m. ms and ammuniZton. Both of Col. Wilson's steamen s were wrécked, owing to treachery of the pi- lots, who will'be court martial THE ITALIANS IN EGYPT, Roug, February 10,—The Italian expedi. tion which recently Janded at Massowah, has been ordered to aid English operations in the Soudan by marching into the interior and 10 lieving the garrisons ot Kassala and Seuhi, Tuvis movement, if successful, will open ths line of communication from the coast to K| toum parallel with the route from Suakim to Berber, NEW GEBMAN COLONIES, Loxpox, February 10Tt is officially con firmed that the German squadron in the South Pacific has hoisted the flag of Germauy at twelve points on the islinds of New Britain, Now Iraland aud New Ciuinea The Telegraph’s Vienaa correspondent says it is understood Italy will be content to occupy Oairo, Alexandris, Suz and a portion of I mu'ia 80 a8 to cnable the British troops Pt to proceed forthwith to the fronticr, COL, WILSON KETURNS, Loxnoy, February 10,—A dispatch _from Koiti, dated February 9, says Lora Beres- ford returns in safety to ( , bringing with bim Col. Wilson and party, who were stranded 0 the laland soms dlstance ur the Nilo while returviog from Khartoum, Some difficulty was experienced in fetehing away the stranded party. Toe rebels on the river banks kept up constant firing and shortly sfter the party embarked a bullet from a 1ebel rifle pierced he boiler of the steamer. It was neceasary to apchor under fire and make repairs The Britiah fire, howcver, now took effet and tha rebels were repulsed. Inimediately after ), Denver highwaymen boun, gagged, boat and rob* ed & woman in her own house in day time. Oae of the ruffians was captured, Deep snows and & rcarcity of money and | 88K provisions is makin San Jusuer one ol nes f(hu lifa’ of the aversge extieme uncomfuitable- Crested Butte is now one of the liveliest spits in the state, Her mives are paying b g and her people are bappy. The cval interests aro being developed to some extent, Aspen has five meat shope, seven dry goods stores, four drug stores and three hard ware means whereby the minutest detals of the plays h» presents shall be made per- fect does nct exist. He is to be admired for his breadth of thought and lack f English alrs, 0 much atfeoted at the present time by members of his profes- eion, IXION, IN TWO ACTS, was brought out a: the Comedy {heater Wednesday eveniag. I have been trying to find & name for this production ot an overwrought brain, It fs Heaven forbld. Burlesque? Bah! there never was anything deserving such treatmert. Well, it s somethirg that ra good house anyway. An audience of the kind that departs, en masse be- tween acts to talk over the thing *‘You know” and comment on the dresser. Did 1 eny dresses ? Heaven save the mark ! What puzzles one s, how such effects in color can be produced when there is so lit'le t> show for it, for the co tumes were a deeam of the milliners’ art, Venus was, I think, attired in a wreith of roees, and one fe't really gratefal to tha admrar who sent her a bouquet. It helped to drers her wonderfully, for the poor thing must have been cold. A TALK WITH MRS, DUDLEY. 1t is very evident tha: confisement is telling on Lucille Yesult Duadley. She seems {0 have grown sharp-featursd aud o'der in the week that has passed since +ho brovght berselt to putlic mnotice Yesterday found her tirad and nervous; to-day she is pale and baggerd, snd has seen fow of the wany callers st the Tombs, Whatever this wcman's motive in attempting the life of & man for whem itis worch no woman's while to suffer, one cannot see her now without beir g comvinced thet underneath her bravery of mencer there is a hearty looging for frscdom, and a wish that ehe had never ad a finger in the ple.” She is & bright, Intelligent and good looking wes of & cle vy positive character and pointed direc:ly to the fact «f her guit By three persons, at leact. she had ben ssen to haye the opined lotters in her tomeesicn, and acecrling {o the admie tin of all, she had tiken the money fiom the letters, The on'y point which wransferred the case trim the juricdictic n of the United States autherit cs was t1at decld-d by United States Commissioner Andirion thab after the letter, r Ittors, had Den delivered, the gosernment was held In no wise md National bauk —_—————————aan 6| Bayard Offcred the Portfolto Seeretary of State. Special telegram to Tie Drx New Youx, Febr J World dispateh from Washin \ prominent thority for the statement thag Mr. Bayard this eveniog received & o mmani ya from Cleveland t t scoretary of state. This is the lute office that has Feen one and the impression in W Bayard will accopt, The ¢ to Bayard is a confidential o clines to say anything npon the understood that Clovel nd'a letter s a basi oifer of the depa twent of atate in very terms, with & request for peronalinterview at Albany as 8oon as coovenient for the senstor it he ndos to acoept. It s bolieved that Bayard will tako a day or two to_consider his reply, Tt is believed that he will accept al- thiugh he has not yet said snything on the subject to hi tintimste f.iends. — of ary 10, — A apec n Ay damocrat is & cat dering him the ffice first alwo offered any shington s that misication sent Ex-Mayor Eason Nkw Yo in the supe: uilty of Gontempt, Februaey 10 - Judge Freedman t court, to-day rendered a de- cision In the proceedings brought by Theodoro Roosevelt and others against E: layor Franklin Edson, implicated wath othere, on & wiotion to puni h the ex-mayor fo fcoatemy ¢ of court in disobeying au injunction, order granted by Judge I3 ach last December, which restraine i tha ex-mayor from making any nominat ons for commissioner of public wor ks or corporation counsel. Judge Freedman finds ex-Mayor Edaon guilty of contempt and directs ho be cnfined in the county jail fif- toen days and in addition to pay & fine of §.:60, —— he anti-Fencing Bill, Passag Special to the Brk. WasHINGTON, Fibraary 10 —Senator Van Wyek's il prohibiting tha ere tion of fences i and provid ng for the removal on tha public Gommin, passed the it any mateidal change il This till, if it passes the house, will strike down a ereat evil in the egi e of the west, where thou-ands public lind« bave been _fenced in by greedy caitle corporations, and will give rihand poor, large aud small an equal show on the public A Feace-Maker's Pate, A printer, named Cllaton, of the Times Dispatch , wes severcly gashed on the head last night by a clab in the hands of an assailant whose namo s kuoown. Clinton was trying to separsto two prin- cipalsina Fourteenth street riwjwhen an outsider jumped upon him, striking him from behind. Mo was taken in charge by Dr. W. C Spalding, who sewed up the wound, a four-incli cut on the back of the head. Clinton is not dangerously injur-d CAPIPAU PRIZE $75, 000 Tickets only $5, Shares in Proportion Louisiana State Lottery Company "' We do wereby certify Aat e superviss the @re angements for all the MontAly and Seavi-Annvel responsible for any vijlation of corre- epond nce, and thet only the state laws petta ning to larceay could bring tho case 10 sl Ac:réiogly, on thls brovght face to face with her accusers. Buc it was not destied that the sen t nce of “guilty” should ke pessed upon the noted cyprian. Tte principal wit- Des) agatnst her, the sick woman, Jeonie Kesslor, Fad dissppeared—in all pioba. bility had te nspirited awsy. All that was known of the matter was that the sick woman had been transferred secretly and hawily to some convey- ancs and dciven away, whither, no cne opera ?| knew. The pollce authorities, however, | §5e0.000 say that the dicappearance was «¢ff.cted through the sgeccy of a man, whesa con- nivance is a mattsr of little secresy. As 1hs principal,witaess could not appear all prcs:catlon was dropped, and the frail defendant wss once more allowed to join the band of the free. THE CRESTON EORROR. The Account of thw Disaster Gi.cn by & Traveling Man to a Re- porter Last NI The Creeton disaster of Sundsy night has not yet been fully and lucidly de- tiled. A repcrter meeting at the Pax ton botel a gentleman who arrived on the Iots “Q" train latt night, gleaned from his conversation an interetti- g account of the maoner In which the accident happened. Said he, in response ) a query: “Tte accident, ss I learned shortly sfter iv occurred, (being on the epot) was occasioned by a broken rail some rods eatt of the hridge, which is thirty feet above the zround. The fore pact of the train passed over (hsrail safely. The smoking car first jumped the track, the first coash = fol owing, and the slceper last. In tnis wa; woman, who talks animatedly one mo- ment snd becomes moody and cast down tha next. She told me that she had never met O'Donovan R s until she did 8o by ap- pointment, “‘Heisa coward,” shs 1, “'and telked to me as freelyas thovgh my allegisnce to his cause was an aseuied fact, Men who will irsst their lives in his hands ars worse than fools,” “Dd he reveal to you any of the secrets of the soclety he represente?’ I “‘He told me several things that will be of valae to the people agaiust whom he iy plotting, but the grester part of his conversation was made vp of boasts of what his party bad done and would do, Always making hims:1f the cintral figura and takiog the credit of everything,” “Did he specify in detail how the houses. Water iy wold for 85 cents per bar- 10), coal $25 per ton and wocd §8 per cord, A G.foot vein of cal has been opened up and is beiog worked on Tongu creck, fi teen wites from Delta, It is being hauled to Del- ta and other points, thua cutting off the Utah trado, It is reperted that another cave near Man ton equally s wonderful as the Cave of the Winds has been ciscovered in Williaw on amd will be opened up to the public durivg the coming summer, Some of the chambers are swid to be very large and can be more cas- ily explored than those in the old cave. (old keeps coming in to Hathaway's bank at Fairplay from the winter diggings of the Chinese miners in the adjacent gulches. Cashier Sheldon has to keep wide awake to detect the various schemes the wily Celes. tials have for gett'vg pay for more gold than they actually pave, Sometimes these trick- 1 use brass filing, sometimes bits of (uartz, r nuggets, iron and black sand. They ver meko by it but always seem o think will « The) point on the Colorado Central road wheie the wind dumped an engine and three cars into the ditoh, his « record of three rim ilar acc'dents, It has always been noted spot in which all air currents from the v gulches converge, formiog as it were the dis: chargiog point of an immense fur nel, through whi b the wind 1ushes with frightful violeoca during storms, ard where oidinaily & sbif breeze 18 eucountered when its presence is ly noticed above and below. The train was blown frow the track and turned over o that the paseenver cosches lsy an thelr roofs wish their whoeels in the air, money which you proposed todonate was to be used?” “Oaly in a general way. He said it would go to s vell the common fand, upon which demands were belng made from time to time,” “And did you Intend to make the promised payment provided an oppor- tanity for carrying out your plan of as- ssination did not preseut itselt(” “Have I said that I had a plan of assassinatlon!” She sald quickly, “‘That was 1ot necessary, But I did Intend to kill him and am sorry i did not suc- ceed.” the troin rarhed around t> the bridge. The er «ine snd 1iggage cars passcd ovir tafely, nut when the derailed portion of the train struck the bridge, the stiucture fell witl a crash, All three cars were jracipitated tnto the aty.s below, Never Il T forgat the sight that greeted my eyts, wheu ghortly afterward, 1 resched the ecene of tlio disart-r. Men and women, piled in among the dead and dying, were shrickiog for the help which was slow to raach them. The train hands still on that pcrtion which had paesed over before the fa chasm had been made, turned in and allevist:d as for as posei ble the sufferings of the passengers. A relief train was immodiately dispatched from Prescott, and the dead, dying and wounded werc tiken out of the debiis, How mny were thers on the traln? I sappose from thirfy-tive to forty passen- gers and train men. Of this number three were killed immedia‘cly,whila three mora have since died The bodfes wera taken out, placed on litters, and put on the relief traln, tcyether with the io- jured urfortunates,and taken to Creston. 'he accideat wes fatal enoogh as It wes, but had the traln been in possessicn of a full week day compliment of paesenger?, the horror would have been a repetition of Ashtabula,” Toe Way They Do It In Mexico, MEx100, via GALvestox, February 10 —A Whenever anythiog is sald regarding | sccret agent of the revenue stamp department Mrs, Dudley's being in the employ of the | attempted to act the spy at Jalisco, He Eoglish goverament she grows irrltabls | bought a packags of cigarettes without a and refuses t) talk, Tho impression i8 | samp poor tradesman gradualiy gaining groand 1hat she acted | Uvon attemptivg to confiecate from personal mo ives under intense ex |mau's goods, the agent was win oltement by the p pulsce avd dousrd in the public Rofereing to the newspsper acsount of | (L't A1 BECRAG S b Teatiinedy her attempt to commit suiclde, sho satd, | Ty . i buct ‘I have never made such sn attempt. They report me as having jomped over: [ yyignitul 12 board from a steamer. | fell overboard while suffering from fiiotoess,” Mrs. Dudley will be brought up for examina- tion next Friday. K, from i losion in a Rolling ML Buazin, lud,, February 10.—A terrible ac cident occurred in the rolling mills at (:30 this worning. A boiler exploded burying four men wnder the ruins of the puddling furoaces Ao Anarchh . Organizer, s i el CLEvELAND, ()., February 10,— Gor:uch, the | huried under the furnace were all taken out Chicago anarchi't, who has been here organiz- Ydead, The damage to the pioperty is $15,000, Drauwngs of the Louisiana State Lottery Company, snd in peraon nanage” and conirol R Draad 4 ves, and that the same are conducted \onesty, fairness. and in good faith toward all par. tics, and’ we authorize the company to e (A(S cors ificate, with fac-similes of our signatures tiseked 5 | basls of arralgnmert, Mies Carrle was | ™ 4 ddvertisoment 77 Imcorporated In 1868 fus se years by the e - (o1 odusational and OBAFIIALIG PUTPOSE WLk B L1y 48l of §1,000,000—40 which a reserve fund of o # OCommissioners, ‘sinoe By an ovorwhelming was mado a parh of the adonted Denembor 9. The only lottery evor the peoglo of any state. It never scalos or postponcs. 1ta grand single number drawings ts place monthly., A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FOR- TUNE, THIRD GR ND DRAWING, CLASS C, IN THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, MARCIL 10, 1885, 175th MONTHLY DRAWING, CAPITAL PRIZE, 875.000. 100060 Tickets ot $5 each, Fractions, in Fifths in oportion, LIET OF PRIZES, 1 OAPITAL PRIZE. 1 do a0 popuiar vole [t france Rroseoy wate snnsins tod on’ and eudorsed by Application for rates 0 ciubs should be wads only o le office of the Company i New Orleans. Yor further fnformation write clearly giving foll addross, POSTAL NUTES, Expross Money Ordors, Now_York Exchange In ordinary lettor, Currency by Express (all suwme of 6 and upwaras ab our ox- pensc) addrogsod M A. DAUPEIN, orM. A. DAUPHIN, New Orloans La, )7 Beventh Y. Washiogton D. C. Mako P. 0, Money Orders payahl snd sddrers Beglstered Lotters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAT, BANK, Now Otloans fa omen r any reaton sro unablc to with wuch difliculty i rak. 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