Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 14, 1885, Page 1

'HE OMAHA DAILYy BEE OMAHA, NEB., TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL 14, 1885, THIRTEENTH YEAR. NO. 203, BEYOND THE SEA. The Prince &nd Frincess of Wales Bid Farewell to Dablin, Eoglishmen Think the Wabash Management is a Swindle. 45,000 Russian Troops Are on the March to Sarakhos. The British Government Officially Notified of the Advanoce. Ruasian Seourities Suffer a De- oline at the Berlin Bourse. The British Government Vote Down the Resolution to Evacuate the Soudan, THE AFGHAN DIFFIOULTY, THE WAR FRELING, 1.08DON, Apri] 13—2:30—The stock market was unusually quiet this morning. The Russian explanation of the late battle does not seem to increase tho feeling that 3here will be no war, ot the contrary the gensral opinion on the strests seems to be that the action of llussia since the battle has largely decteass the chance of & peaceful settlement of the difficulties, Consols clcsed Saturday at 95 3, and opened this morning at 95, and are now 93] for both accounts. 1:30 -Consols 91§ for both acconnts. 5 p. m, —Consols 947 4:30 p. m.—~Consols 95, THE CABINET IN SESSION, L,oNDON, April 131 p. m.~The eabinat meeting, a summons for which was issued yes- terday, is now in progress. The war ques. ion is belioved to ba ab orbing the attention of the ministers. The result of the council 18 awaited with anxious eagerness, IN THE COMMONS. LoNDON, April 13 —Gladstons in the house of commons this afternoon stated that the g{ovunmm upon the receipt from Russia of omaroff's explanation of the Penjdeh inci- dent had telegraphed S'r Peter Lu sden for information #8 to the correctness of the Russian commander’s justification of his oonduct. Gladstone also announced that the government had received a full report of the communication which had passed between the viceroy of Iodiaand the ameer of Afghanistan in the council recently held between then at Rowal-Pendi, Theso communicaticns the premier added were entire.y satisfactory to the government. Explaining the delay of the government in reaching a fival decision with Russia, Gladstone eaid tho reports of the Ruseian officers who took part Pongneh aud thoss of tha Knglish offi:ers who witoessed the engagement differed so materi - ally in substance aud effsct that the givern- ment felt obliged to make an independsnt in- quiry. The government_1s doing all in its power towards ascertaining the facts, Gladstono further stated that Komaroff's veport of therecent battle had been tele- graphed to Sir Poter Lumsden, but no reply had as yet been received from the British commissioner. Russia had, the premier ad. mitted, failed to answer the material parts of England’s communication sent on_the day of the receipt of the news of the battle. In reply toan inquiry, Gladstone stated that the government had o official informa tion that the Russians had advanced to the Murghab river. A rumor, however, of such an advance existad, In response to other in- quiries ho stated he ex.ected to recelve fur- ther communications about Gen. Komaroff's action from Do Giers, Russian forsign min- The Earl of Salisbury, Isader of the con- servative peers in the "house of lords, this evening asked the government if they had learned of the report that another eogage- ment had taken place batwsen the Russians and the Afghan frontier yesterduy, and 1f the government knew if the report were true or not. Farl Granville, foreign minister, answered for the government and he said he had nothing to add to the official statements made by Gladstone in the house of commons, LoNDON, April 13 —-The Marquis Harting ton, secretary of war, in moviog & reply to the queen’s summoning the reserves, stated he was unable at present to epeak concerning the military measures under conside ation by tho government, becsuse recent ovents had moditied the views of the Indian government ooncerning the number of reinforcements re- quired, Heo hoped to suhmit to the commons # vote of cradit next Monday, when perhaps more might be siid. FURTHER FROM KOMAROFY, St. PrTERSBURG, April 13,—The Official Messenger to-day publishes a further commu- nication from Gen, Komaroff regarding the recent battle on ths Kushk river. He aserts that the meuacing attitude of the Afghans in advancing o close to his lines and occupying sovoral available pssitions togetber with the rofusal of the Afghan commander to pay any attention to his protests, made him expect that the Afghtins contemplated a night ate tack upon his lines, THE SALR OF THE AMERICA, New York, April 13,—Employes of the Natlonal line of steamships state the English government has bought *‘The Awmerica” paying £250,000 tor her. BIR PETER'S ACCOUNT WANTED, LONDON, April 18, —Instructions have been telegraphed Sir Peter Lumsden to transmit to London as quickly as possible bis report and that of Capsain Yates on the conflict on the Kushk river. 5 At the various military and naval stations war_preparations coutinue to be viorously made. Adaical Sir George Sartorius is dead, EIERYED sFORBIGN AFFAIRS. DEPABRTURE OF THE ROYAL FAIB FROM DUBLIN, DusLiN, April 18, —A scene of great ex- citement attended the departure of the Prince snd Princess of Wales to-day for the south of Ireland. En route to Kings Bridge rail- sion. This display only made his enomies more demonstrative in their derisive greeting, TRe lord mayor, uoable to withstand tha storm any longer mounted the steps of the city hall, and called for cheers for Parnell. The response was not great and did not indicate that O'Connor had any great number of sympathizers. He then addressed the gathering and told them they would be sorry they had hissed him. He eald he would telegraph Parnell at Cork and Mallow an account of what had cccurred at Dublin and they would ses what the result would be. Soon after this the prince and privcess paesed the city hall on their way to the railway station and were grected with tumultuons and prolonged cheeting. RNGLISH HOLDERS OF WABASH BONDS. LoxnoN, April 13,—English bolders of ‘Wabash bonds at & meeting to-day appointed another ¢ mmittes to inq‘l;lw into ana report on the condition of Wabash affairs, At the meating several speakers denounced the management of the corporation as an auda- cions swindle, SIR PETER WILL HEAD THE RUSSIANS OFF, Loxpox, April 13, —Sir Peter Lumasden has occupied a strong position at Tirpul. It 1s be- lioved now that he will he able to prevent the Russians from attempting a coup de main in the direction of Herat. KOMAROFF'S RXPLANATION, General Komaroff’s explanation is regarded aa inadequate in official circlee, Earl Geanville. after the adjournment of to-day’s cabinet mestiog, had an interview witn Fehmi Pasha, special envoy from Tur- key, and the Austrian ambassador, Count Karolyi, FRANCE IN MORE TROUBLR, Paws, April 13.—The reply of the Egyp- tian government to France’s demand for an explanation of the suppression of a French newspaper is deemed unsatisfactorily. The French people has sent a note to Egypt de- manding reparation and the punishment of every official concorned in the act. REGRUITING FOR THE NORTHWEST MOUNIED TOLICE. OrrawA, April 18, —Gen, Middleton tele- graphs that everything is getting on well, and good prograss is belng made, The government wre reciuiting for the mnorthwest mpuated police. EVACUATR THE SOEDAN, . —The houso of commons after rejectiog by n vote of 143 to 89 the amendment offered by Labsuchere that England a% once evacuate the Soudan agreed to reply to the Queen’s messoge calling out the resorves, GLASGOW, April 13,—Corn matkat is cited, and prices are advaucing, RURSIAN SECORITIES DECLINE, Beruiy, April 13.—The bourse was weak to-day under continued forced eales, there was a general and important decline, Russian securities fell off 2} points, THE PARIS BOURSE, Paws, April 18.—The bourse here to-day 13 unsettled, but closed stronger on rumors that the attempts to mediate bstween Eng- land and Russia were makiog progress. 45,000 RUSSIANS ON THE MAROH. TRHARAN, April 13, -News has been re ceived from Askabad that Ruesian troops to the number of 45,000 were on the march to Sarakhos. THR CZAR'S REPRESENTATIVE, Berury, Apeil 13 —Emparor William to- day guve audience to Prince Dolgorsuki the personal mulitary representative of the czar, ex- FRANLE AND CHINA, OHINESE CEASE HOSTALITIES, SoUDAN, April 13.—A dispatch from Hanoi says: The Chinese forces in Tonquin have received orders to ceare hostiliti e —— WINNIPEG, TROOPS BEING RAPIDLY DEEPATCHED TO TR SCENE OF TROUBLE. WiNNIPEG, April 12,—Troops are being des- patched rapidly towards the scenes of trouble in the west. This morning Col. Otter’s com- mand, 500 strong, started from Swift Current station across to the Saskatchewan river. Thence, if steamers have not in the meantime been ableto get down the river, they will start to cross the prairis by teams to Hattle- ford, Capt Howard, U.S. A., with two (Gatling guns, is attached to B battery, under Otter's command. The civer ia very low, one of Galt’s steamers hflifl‘f’ at the itest advices, on nd-bar below Medicine Hat. Northcote is somewhere_between Medicine Hat and Swift Current, It will require tev- eral days, however, to arrange matters, and in the meantime the boats may turn up, It would take ten days to cross the praine to Battleford, aud preparations are well under way for the dispatch of Gen, Strange’s expe. ditlon to the relief of Edmonton. He will have about 600 men, mounted and in wagons, Will probably start Wednesday. The trail from Garry to the Red Deer river is reported good, and from Red Deer to Edmonton rather difficult, e — Ilitnois Legialature, SPRINGFIELD, April 13""1‘!:0 body of Rep- resentative Shaws was takea to Beardstown this afternoon for burial, It was accompan- by the committee appointed by the house and senate, Governor Oglesby to-day issued a writfor a new election in Cass county to fill the vacancy caused by the death of “Repro: sentative Shaw. The election will take place on May 6th, ILtis feared If any party ques- tion iy introduced in aho house a dead-lock will ensue, — American Puddlers for Australia, Prrmssunc, April 18.—The afternoon 200 puddlers left this city for Zeeland, Australia, towork in a Jarge iron- mill just fnishel The subssitution of steel for iron in the Pitts- burg mills is fast taking away their occupa- tion and driviog_ them to seek employment elsewhore. Within the last two years not less than 2,000 men in this city have beou thrown out of work by the introduction of machinery for the manufacture of steel. ————— Vermilllon Coal Miners Strike, CHicaco, April 18,—The Iater Ocean, Streator, 111, special says: Ata meeting of several bundred miners here this afternoon it was decided 1ot to accept the reduction of five cents per ton, making a rate of seventy cente for summer and eighty conta for winter, Tho result ia & strike of about 1,000 miners, employers of the Vermillion Coal Company. road station they passed Dublin city hall, where an immense orowd had assembled to witness the departure of the royal visitors, Lord Mayor Jotn O'Connor happened to drive past the city ball a few mioutes before the royal du‘:mp“ ;p;:m .:‘d the crol'd 0'Connor at this, fato **a * pas- flow " pas: NORTH CAROLINA AT N 2 NS J L — Apaches Raloiog in Arizona, Sax Fraxoisco, April 18,—The Oall’s Mor- enci, Arizona, special ssys: The people are greatly excited over the reported appearance of raiding Apaches in this vicinity, M, T. Cunningham and Charles Croach, rancheros, are misang, They are believed to have been killed by Apaches, g s |- FALLING BUILDINGS. Eight Five-Story Buildiags Fall Dowa in New York, Wretohed Workmanshin and Poor Material Cause the Disaster. Thirteen Men Supposed to Be Buried in the Ruins, Buddensick, the Builder. Has Left for Parts Unknown. The Police Arrest the Master Bricklayer, Charles Frank, Builder Buddensick Has Had Trouble for Years With the Authorities for Erecting Skin Buildings, FALLING BUILDINGS, EIGHT FIVE-STORY BUILPINGS FALL IN NAW YORK, INJURING THIRTREN MEN, New YoRk, Apnl 18, —FEight five-story ten- ements on the south eide of Weat Sixty- second street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, that had recently been put under roof, fell this afternoon while efforts were be- ing made to brace them up, that the yielding foundations might be made secure, The wreck was complets, not a stick remained etandiog, not a timber remained whols in the entire row, Half a hundred workmen were at work in or about the buildiog at the time. At lonat thirteen of them were injured, none fatally, It was said that goon after the acadent occurred twenty persons wore buried in the ruins, but up to a late hour nobody had been found. The excitement about the place was so great that it was diffi- cult to obetain reliable information as to who might have been lost, but gangs of workmen employed in searching for remains found no clue to any objects of their search up to-night- fall. The moet superficial examination of the debris showed the cause ef the disaster to be WRETCHED WORKMANSHII TERIAL, The mortar contained but littla or no sand, but loom or mud fhstead, and was wholly vn- fit for use, This, and the fact that the build- ing had beon erectad during the cold weasher, of wet and frozen bricks, were directly the cause of the colapse. The builder, Obarles A. Buddensick, wao waa responsible, left the neisbborhood 10 a carriage immediately after the disaster and drove to his residence in L ast Seventy-seventh street, Where he went AND POOR MA- from there nobody could learn. The police, who _arrested ; Master Bricklayer Charles Frank, could not find Builder Buddensick, He has_ been for years in trouble with the authorities on account of “‘skin” buildings he has putup, The evidence given by Frank and &ur}eu Swager, another brick layer, is very damog- ing to M. Buddensick., The erection of the building had been going on since lat Novarc ber, during all the cold weather; 1he fouarth story walls showed weakncss 1 a cudden thaw before the fifth story was reached and had to bo taken down. 'tha workmen were forbidden to carry home scraps of tim- ber left by tha carpanters, as by the builder's orders th were to be used in filling in the walls to save bricks, which were sometimes put in by the armful. When a good thaw set in the walls began to weaken, and steps were taken TO BRACK THRM UP FROM BOTH ENDS &0 they would stick together until the roofs could be put onand the end walls rebuilt, The wall stood thus for a week or two with- out 80 far as could be learned, exciting the curiosity of the building department. The heavy, warm rain of yesterday morning completed the work begun by the thaw, This morning it was seen that three houtes at the west end were in immi- nent danger of falliog, the foundation had bulged noticably, and the walls were shaky. Builder Buddensick's attention was called to the matter. He set men to work to fix up the walls of the fouudation. Four stone masons and eighteen carpenters were at work on this when the crash came, There were roofers, painters, lathers and plumbers, numn- bering perhaps thirty, at work about the presises at the time, fifty men had been laid some material had not arrived. About 8:15 p. m,, A BHOUT OF WARN = NG WENT TP that broueht pale faces to many windows, The end of the building toward Eleventh avenue was seen to tutter and then fall with a tremendous noiee, Both foundation walis had fallen out, and the body of the house de- prived of its eupport, fell to the cellar, The building adjoining it, having nothing to lean unon, fellnext, Then the whole row followed ine of card houses. A continuous roar that seemed to last many minutes, a8 one after the other went down. The work- men in the buildings for blocks around, and 1he people living on the street for half a mile about were startled by the shock. In o short time the locality of the wreck was packed by excited people whose threats of vengeance on the reckless builder filled the air. When the heavy cloud of dust was cleared away the people looked upon the hea| of broken bricks and snd timbgrs piled only i few foet above the level of the street. MEN WITH BROKEN LIMBS AND HRUISED FACES were guuggling out frem under the wreck and dndgmng themsolves painfully away, Groans and shrieks were hemd from one er two vlaces and to these spots the people rushed, Firemen and all available ambulinces were summoned. People from all parts of the city flocked there. Roosevelt fiu-phd ambu- lances were first on hand and carried awsy nine of the injured. Commissioner Brennan, of the charities department undertook to di- rect the work of rescue and Building Tospec: tor D'Oench and the excise commissioners did work in the eams direction, Four hook and ies and the crews of three en- gine companies 6t to work removing the de- bris, A lurge g g of workmen were pressed into service and in fifteen minutes the labor of rescue was well underway, Night set in before their efforts were relaxed at all. Once or twice the workmen fancied THEY HEARD A CRY FOR HELP, but no person was found either time, At7 o'clock Fire Chief Reeves thought be heard | by Jacob oans under the heap ot the second building, ogs went to work, front rear, l’t haltpsst 7 ahole lsrge enovgh ffor a treman and two citizens to grope their way to the cellar was made. Search with a lamp revealed nothing but ruins, Two hours Iater in the same place groans came from & man caught in an upright position by many timbers and held fast, He was extricated with difficulty. He was Lewis Walters, age 10, a framer of 185 Ridge street, one of the man who had been engaged tn bolstering up the building. He was removed to the hospital. Then dig- ging was resumed under a strong calcium light, Policemen drew a line across the street, It waa said that the missing builder had boen hurt by the flying bricks when the buildings fell. Charles Schwazer bricklayer, was standiog by him at the timg. Schwazee 'refased the week before to work any longor on such buildings. As the dust arosa Schwazer turned to Buddensick and, shaking his clenched fict in the builder’s face, exclaimed: “YOU OUGHT TO BR HUNG FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONK HERE!" Buddensick made no reply but limped away. Many threats of lynching the man were made afterward, and it. was lucky for him he stayed away, Buddensick is notorious as & builder of cheap residences. He haa gon- erally of recent years huilt under anotner name thon his own, and thus been able to shirk the responsibility. He was' once inaicted for violating the building laws but escaped punishment, Four years ago he went through bankruptoy, but since hasdone plenty of business under another name, Frank says he epoke to Buddensick a couple of times about the quality of the mortar, and the builder replied it would be all right, It is safd the building examiner made a protest againat the method of erecting these houses to the department, and was soon removed to another district, Inspector D'Oench made a hasty examination of other buildings near by being erected by Buddensick, and remarked tnntl‘:e thought he would order extensive al- terations in them, There were many narrow eswcapes, Aundrew Love and John Gainer were painting on the third story windows of one of the houses when 1t fell, LOVE FELL IN THE CELLAR, and Gainor on the sidewalk almost unhurt, At midnight it is thought four persons, two stair builders and two plumbers are still in the ruins, The wounded and missing by the fallen buildings are, injured: Aenot, Oito, slight injuries; Bon erick, Robart 17 years, Inther, siightly injuried; Brandt, Henry, 36 years, slight injuries; Cavanaugh, John, Inther, elightly injured; Dexter. John, 18 years, lather, slightly _hurt; Flynn, John, 29 years, slightly huit; Fiyon, Thomas, scalp wound; King, Thomas, roofer, hand and arm burned by solder, hospital; Laverty, John, scalp wound and back hurt, went home, MclInery, John, 44 years, roofer, log and thigh broken,”’ injuries = very serious, hospital; Nolan, Thomas, slightly hurt; Saverbrie, Geo, mide injured, hospital; Schucht Jacob, aged 27, roofer, contusion of ride and internal injuries, hospital; Trainor James, 3L years, lather, foot o ushed, huspital; Ward Frank, 20 years. bricklayer, back sprained, hospital; Walters Louis, 40 years, framor, dug out of ruins after six hours, 'insensible and badly crushed; Seiverman Adam, 37 years, mason, head and thigh badly bruised, Missing: Holton, Bernard, roofer, coat found in ruins: Kuott, John, roofer, cont found in ruins; Watson, James. 34 years, car- penter, was working on third building from Eleventh avenue as were two uoknown laborers and an unknown carpenter who had not been accounted for up to midaight. ————— The British Grain Trade. Loxpoy, April 13,—The Mark Lane press, in its weekly review of the British grain trade, says: The slight rainfall has brought the spring grain well forward, The imminenco of war between England and Russis has caused native wheat to advance 3s @bs. The actual business done has been very small, Sales of Eoglish wheat during the past week were 42,800 quarters at 33s 3d, against 47,770 quarters at 87s 9d during the corresponding week last year. It is belleved that from three-fourths to four-fifths of the English wheat crop of 1884 has already been marketed, and that millers hold but little of the stock. These condi- tions, together with small reverses in fareign wheat, and the fact that half of 3,000,000 quarters of foreign breadstuffs on passage are from two to fonr months off, would warrant the belief that the position is sufficiently elas- tic to bring about un advance of twenty shil- lings per quarter within the week should war be declared, Values are so low that there is plenty of room from such an advance with- out making wheat dear. How long such an advance would be maintained would depend upun the action of American speculators dur- ing the next two months, at present the trade is experiencing extrame tension which deters both buyers and sellers from operating. For- oign trade is_greatly excited on account of war rumors, off const market is in o state of suspense. Ten cargoes arrived, rix cargoes were sold, five were withdrawn and eloven remained, including six of Californi,a about nine sailing vessels with carg es ‘are due Friday in absence of definite news ugnrcfiug the vrobabilities of war the tepsion of the market was extreme. English and for- eign wheats eince Easter have advanced fully four shillings. ¥ our to-day was very firm, American corn sold at 24 shillings | ex-ship, an advance of 18, Round corn was scarce. Barley was 1s 61 dearer, Onts showe: advance overa fortnight sgo of 2 shi Beans and peas were 13 (d and 2s dearer, e —— llinois' Trouble, SemixarigLp, TI1,, April 18,—In the house this morning but few members were present, Juitable joint resolutions were adopted rela: tive to the death of Representative Shaw and a committee consisting of Scnators Darnell and Soyder and Representatives Langford, Gray and Humphrey, were appointed trom the house, The house then took a recess till 11:55. No business waydone in the senate except to concur in the joint cesolution relative to the death of Shaw. In the joint assembly 13 senators and 48 representatives answe the roll call, Morrison received 19 votes; Dr, Robbins, of Quincy, 2; John O. Black, 10, Adjourned. e —— Aun Old Squaw and a White Woman Oreate a Bensation, ToRTLAND, Ore.. April 13,—The Indian ex- citement around old Fort Lapwai, in north- ern Idaho, rosolves itself into an assault upon a nutorlau‘lLbAd white woman, who associ« ated with Indians, by an old squaw, Everything is quiet, Killed With an Ax, MARSHALLTOWN, Ia., April 13, —Elmer E, Firth, whose head was #plit open with an ax bort while' sttempting to enter Iatter's house, Friday aight, thinkiog it house of prastitution, i d‘mfl Seal of North Carolina . Smoking Tobacco. FROM WASHINGTON. Land Commissioner Sparks and the Ter- mingl Limit of Witodrawal Of Lands Located on the North- ern Pacific Railroad. The Oivil Service Commission Say the Number Applying To be Examined Greatly Exceed the Demand. Oleveland Determined to Appoint Some Colored Men to Office. Admiral Jouett Telegraphs the De- partment that the Situation the Isthmus is Unchanged, CAPITAL NOTES. BOME APPOINTMENTS, WasHinGToN, Apiil 13.—The president made the following appointmenta to-day: To be consuls of the United States: Charles T, Ruesell, of Connecticut, at Liverpool, Eng- land; A, Haller Groes, of Pennsylvania, at Athens, Grercn; Wm, M. Long, of Texas, at Hamburg, Germany; Henri Vignaud, of Lo iana, scccetary of the legation of the Unit States at Paris; Augustus Jay, of New York, second assistant secretary cf the legation of the United States at Paris, ‘The three consuls named above were nomi- nated during the special session of the senate but their nominations werenot acted upon, JUDGE WYLIE WANTS TO RFTIRE.] Justice Andrew Wylle, of the United States supreme court of the District of Columbia, notified the president he wishes to be places on the retired list. He is 71 years old, THR SITUATION UNCHANGRD ON THE ISTHMUS, WasHiNaToN, April 18, —Admiral Jouett telegraphied to Secretary Whitney as follows: “‘The situation is unchanged on the isthm Trains run across regularly without molesta- tion.” It is the genaral opinion among the officors on duty in the navy department that the ma- rines who were 6o recently sent from New York will leave Aspmwall on their return home within the next two weeks, THE 5UP REMELCOURT, The decison rendered by the supreme court of the_United States to day in the case of Francis Dodge ot al, appellants, against Thoe., Knowlea which presents a question of the liability of » married woman for certain debts contracted by her husband nominally as her trustee. The court holds that neither liabili- ty for provisions supplicd at the ouse where the hus- wife and their childron are living tozether, nor a promissory note given by the husband describing himself as trusteo for the wife in payment for puch_supplios can be chargad in equity upon the wife's separate estato, without clear proof that she contracted the dcbt in her own behalf or intended. to bind her separate estate for its] payment, The decree of the court below ia reversed and the case remanded with directions to dismies thebill. Opinion by Justice Gasy. THK CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, The civil servico commission furnishes the following for publication: We haye informa- jon that in many of the states the number applying to bo examined are greatly in ex- cess of what are needed to securs competent porsons for all vacancies likely to occur for at loast six months, While there will prob- ably bs a considerable number of removals the vaguo expectation of sweeping changes, for the mere purpose of partizan patronago, does not seem likely to bo realized, The commission_does not wish to be respon- sible for many disappointments, which must follow the examination of a needless number of requests for_examination, They sre most excensive in_Maryland, Virginia, Ponnsyl- vania, Ohio, Tlinols, Indiana, Towa, Kansas, Colorado and California. TERMINAL LIMITS OF WITHDRAWAL OF LANDS THE NORTHERN PACIFIC. Commussioner Sparks, of the general land office, to-day sent the following communica- tion 'to the register and recoiver at Walla Walla, W, T. GENTLEMEN: On March 20th a diagram was transmitted to you with an office letter, advising you of the amendiment of the termi- nal limit of the withdrawal of the land in your distrit on the definite location of the line of the Northern Pacific railroad, and you were instructed in effect that the railroad company would be permitted to select lands under its grant withinjsuch extended limits, It appears that [this change was.asked for in ‘the inf t of certaiu alleged purchases from the railroad company of lands not subject to selec- tion or sale by the company ander order of the commissioner of the land office of August 16, 1881, ’ FIXING THE TERMINAL LIMIT OF SAID WITH- DEAWAL, My attention has been called to the matter by 'a complaint referred to me on the7th inat, by the secretary of the interior, alleging that the interests of settlers upon 119,76V acres of land were prejudiced by this action in favor of purchasers of 2000 acres from the railroad company. I am satisfied that the action of the 20th ult,, was taken under a misconception of the purport of the letter from the secretary of the interior of the 18th ult,, in veply toa letter the preceding day from the commis- sionet of this office, asking instructions in the red | premises. The secretary stated that fixing the territorial limit was & matter of mathe: matical ascertainment, and if a correotion was necessary to truly represent the grant on either sido of the road — THIS OFFIOR WAS COMPETENT TO MAKE IT. such Jimit was fixed by the commissioner's order of August 16, 1881, Tn nccordance with the vules used in the adjustment of the early land grants, and adhered to from_ that period to the present time, It ls not shown that any error was made in the ascertsiument of that Hmit 1n the present case. It was clearly nos the purpise of the secretary to chage the rule for fixing the terminal serms, whlcfi had been applied to all rai rodd grants, nor to suthorize the extension of withdraw of the definite location beyond terminal limits when already fixed by mathematical ascer maioment in which no error discovered. The action and ivstrustion of March 20th 1885, being erroneous are hereby revoked. In Jdeen twergwfiere, where reco&nizea as indispensitle to Peafer a\o:z +| settlement, ns within and'a part of the In- Because every- . Why? ot Gonsdumer., &na, and stote & vev-. epenking of this subject to-day, Commissloner Sparks aaid: The order of March 20th ought not to have been made, Tt brought into_the Iand grant what I thought should not have been brought in, when my attention was deawn to the mutter by the letter of complaiut. Aftor conference with the secratary I decided to revoke that order. It is stated at the land office that the amount of land involved in the change of Iimit was 176,000, and that two- thirds of it had already been patented to set- tlers, thus placing it beyond the reach of the railroad oompany. g i A—— CGAPT, COUCH. SECRETARY LAMAR OIVES HIM THE BHOULDER. WASHINGTON, April 13, —The Post to-mor- row morning will publish an interview which occurred between Capt, Crouch, leader of the Oklahoma boomers, and the secretary of the interior with regard to Oklahoms, in the 'SPECULATION. The Day on 'Change Was Characterized by Heayy Trenszctions. And the Highest Prices Known for Nearly a Year. Tremendons Amounts of Wheat Bought and Sold at Advanoe, coLn The Was a Very Large Specula~ conrse of which Secretary| Lamar tive Business in Corn. anid: “What is it you wish?® “T wish to know what course the administeation Bt in dotermined to pursue in reference| The Prices of Cattle Ruled 10 to to Oklahoma and the settlers, replied Capt Couch, Well, sir, said the secrotary, I will state to you tne policy of this admin{stration with regard to this Oklahoma country, It considers the Oklahoma treaty on which the Ppersons you repreeent are proposing to muke 16¢ Lower. §peculators in Hoge Opened the Mar- ket With a Boom and so dian territory, The administration regards Held It. it ae not_part of the public domain open to enter and settlement, and_the acquisition f titles under the land® laws of the being an indian country that is territor y ac- quircd and reserved for Indian occupanc ‘I'ne government 13 pledged to the protection of it and eeccurity of the Indiane from in- tiuders. No white persons have any right to go there and reside without a permit and when they do go there they are intruders who sre acting illegally and wrongfully. The policy of the president is to execute the pledge of the government and to protect this territory from the intrusion of the white per- 8on8 who claim they have u right to enter up- on it and that it is public domain subject to pro-emption and homestead settloment. “Is that the final decimon’’ asked Capt, Couch, *Tt is, and will be enforced,” 1ephed Mr, Lamar, Secretary Lamar declared with emphasis that no cattle men should be per- mitted to graze their stock within the limits of Oklahoma, ———— wee 1'* LOHIOAGO MARKET. Special Telegram to the Bee. Cnicaco, April 13, ~The day on 'change was characterized like the closing ones of last week by heavy transacti ns and the highest prices known to the trade for nearly a year. The early news from London was considered verv ominous of war which view appeared to bo reflected in the opemibg quotatiomy for Eoglish consols. The WHEAT market opened fuller, 2c over Saturday, and rose §@fo additinal. Tremendous amounts being bought and sold at the advance. With the rtiffening of coneols, there was a reaction «f 1, but the final closing of the day was with §@lc of the best prices paid during the session, here were scones of great confusion HORRIBLE ACOIDENT AT O:-|nnd excitement duriog the session, prices CEOLA, MICH, fluctuating rapidly and the ml‘r,knt appeared 2 e _|to be entirely under the ivfluence of nows SIX MEN DURIED IN THE RUINS OF A SMOKE- coming from the British capitol as affecting STACK, the likelihood of war. Thero was a very large speculative business in CORN, and at the opening it was found _difficult to buy, prics during the first fow minutes cov- ening a range of 1{c. Prices advanced rapidly moving up fully Zhe, then declined_ 1§c, an closed-1c over Saturday. oATS opened yery strong aud 1§@1{c over Satur- day, but nearly all of the advance was subse- quently lost, raliied and closed sbout 8o higher. Dersorr, Mich,, April 13.—A Free Press special from Oaceola, Mich., says that a hor- rible accident occured there about four o’clock to-day. While George Fulton, Joe Biddle, Tom Mitchell, George Gordon, Frank May- nard and Johu Hartwick were engsged in clearing the brick out of John Gram’s mill smoke-stack, the bottom tier gave way, and the six nen were buried under fifty thousand brick. At seven o'clcck several bundred people were gathered around the stack and every effort to secure the bodies, aliveor dead, was being made, The work is slow, being through forty feet of debris, but it i thought some of the men will be saved. It is uncertain who are alive, but some can he heard implorivg help. Great excitement prevails, No one had been secured at 7 o’clock, and it is_feared that at least threo men are dead, The burners which fell with the men are about 100 feet high and 30 foet across, The men were in- side about 30 feet from the ground repaliring the brick walls when their ecaffolding gave way, aud brought down a mass of brick and lumber upon them. Most men have families who are anxiously waiting around the ruins. La er—There were seven men on the bur- ner which fell in this afternoon, the seventh being unknown by name. ¥ive were killed outright, Hardwick, Biddle, Mitchell, M.nr ly PROVISIONS opened higher, but did not respond to the general advance, and closed about the same as Suturday. Wheat, sales ranged April 85}@ @863, closed at 85k0; May 593@91c, closed at 89§c, Jupe 91§@y3ic, closed at Olfc, Im corn thers was a very large speculative trade, and prices early advanced 2ic, but fell back 1§@1jc, rallied, and closed lc higher than Saturgay, Cash 43}@4%c: April 43@ddje, closed at 484c; May 46@48}c, closed at 461@ 47c; June 47}1@49}c, closed at 47fc. On the afternoon board wheat wns strong and A@§c higher; corn was strong and j@Zc higher; oats was firm and 3@3c bigher; pork and Jard were unchanged Afcer the close of the after- noon buard rumors came over the private tele- eaph wires of the big houses that war had fieen declared, and numerous purchases of wheat were made on the curb at 97c for May on the strength of these rumors. CATTLE. With about 3,000 more than on Monday Iast, and theso largely fat_cattle, prices ruled 10@15c lower than on Saturday’ on ordinary run of shipping and dressed beof steers and at thedecline there was & fuirly active business, A large number of fair to good, 1,200 pound nard and {he unknown, Fulton was severe but not fataliy injured, and Gordon, nged 17, marvelously escaped ' any serious_injury. Nearly all those killed were mangled beyond recognition. The last man was taken from the ruins at 9 o'clock, A gang of men will work all night to remove the remaining do. bris, in search for others who may poasibly be in the ruins eteers, sold within average, $4 80@h 15, and — —— a few loads of best 1,300 pound steers sold The News ai2 Beardstown, at 36 20@5 65, and anything above this range would have to be fancy. Light steers of 1,050 to 1,260 and thereabouts sold with range of $125@470. Eutchers and can- ners stock in fair demand and selling equally an high s last week. HOGS, The speculators opened the market with a boom, and so held the trade from olmnina to the finish, prices, especially on light and mixed, averaged about oc higher, and closed teady at the advance. Rough avd common packers #old around about $% 50@4 bb; fair to geod mixed, $4 60@4 65, and best assorted heavy, $4 710@4 pigs and skips, $4 50@ 4 55; packing and shipping, $4 60@4 85; light, $1 46@i 0. BAN FraNCiEco. April 13,—Another rise in wheat occurred this morning_in_sympathy with Chicago and Liverpool, Market opened at 81 46, reachod %1 47 and closed strong at $1 468, The closing price is an advance of 2l cents over Saturday’s close, Bearostown, Ill, April 12, —[Chicago Times Special.]—The news of the sudden death of Itepresentative J. Henry Shaw, of this city, 1n Sprivgtield to-day, was received here this afternoon with sadness and gloom, although it was kuown that ke had been in feeble health all winter. This eveniog an informal meeting “of leading citizens and members of the bar were held at the residence of the mayor, W, H. McCormick, and, although no definiee arrangements have been made for the fuveral, it is known that the re- mains are t» arrive to-morrow on the Ohio & Misslesippi train, whence they will be con- veyed to the Coogregational church, where they can be viewed by the citizens, The fu- neral will not occur until Tuesday, so that relatives and friends from abroad can arrrive, BIOGRAPHICAL, Hon, J. Henry Shaw waa born in Boston, Bion, July 20, 152, aud was thus poarly 60 years of age at his death. In His early e ————— poyhood he came west with his CBASE CORNERED. father's @ tamily, and settled on & b , farm mear Jacksonville, in A COLORED VIRE-EATING EDITOR SQUELCHED BY Morgm country, Until his majority ke spent his on the farm, scqmring what _education he could, and at the suggestion of Richard Yates he entered upon the study of the law, After four years of hara and_diligent application he was admitted to the bar, and removed go this city, whero he rdsided until his death, When he came here ho was but 2/ years old. He en- tered upon the practice ol profession with much vigor, He knew he had to meet such men as Lincoln, Yates, Dovglass, Baker, Dummer, and others of less note. He an effort for cffice, but at the solicitatic his democratic friends he was nomiouted and elected In 1E80 to represent the district, then comprising Cass, Brown, Mason, and Menard counties, Last year the democrats nominated him agasin, and he was elected by a large msjority, Mr. gilnw has been indentified with Cass and Morgan counties and acquainted with the people and their affairs for half a century, In 1876, at the suggestion of the president and by a resolution of congress, the pesple of every county in the United States were re- quested to l§1|m|nl a suitable person to deliver on the 4th of July of the ceutennial year an oration containing the local bistory, etc, of each county. Mr. Bhaw was selected the orator for thht occasion, CLEVELAND, WasHinaron, D. C., April 1L.—An ioter- esting incident occurred at the White House this afternoon during ths call of a delegation of colored citizens of the district, who made to the president an adress and read the reso- lutions passed by u recent convention of col- ored citizens. The spokesinan of the delega- tion was W, C. Chase, the editor of the Bee, # weekly paper published here. At the con- chusion of the formal epeeches the president engaged 1n conversation with the vititore, and takiug from bis table a eopfi of the Bue issued shortly after the elaotion, he said to them in substance that he sincerely bopcd that the cotored people are not controlled or influenced by the utterances of this paper, and he indicated a very incendiary article, Among other declarations made by the editor of the Bee in this article are the following: 1t is time for every American negro in south to make appeal to sims and to firc ev ery dewmocratic bome whero negro-killers live, from palace to hut. in retalliation for foul an dastardiy murders committed io the south, The 1563 electoral votes of the scuth were ob- tained through theft and assassination. Un der these cireumstances it will cost the lives of willions to inswgurate Grover Cleveland.” Chase, the editor of the Bee, isa §1 00 clerk in the war department, i —Saturday night a trawp bad his toes cut nearly off at the depot by a tesin, He tried to find lodging in the Electric Light com. pany’s buildiog and was refused, and when last seen he was going past Tue Bk office murauriog ball gaily, half saaly, “I'll never get drunk any more,” e e——— Paper Mill Burned, Mxxasia, Wis,, April 18, —Hewitt & Seott's aper mill with nearly 100 tons of paper wan Eumad this morniog; , $50,000; no msur- ance. Becaude we velectthe beslt 1T beit Jobaceo