Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 13, 1885, Page 1

\ THE OMAHA DALy BEE THIRTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA. NEB..VWEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1885, NO. 228 THEY AGREE. Granville, De § acl. and Lesear Make a Compact, The Russian Minister Aots Sub= jeot to Approval, Gladstone Announces the ment in Commons—The Failure to Oensure—General Forelgn News Agrec- THE LION AND THE BEAR. GRANVILLE CORRECTS HIS STATEMRNT, LONDON, May 12,—In the houte of com- mons this afternoon, Lord Granville corrected his statement of yesterday concerning the ‘Afghan dispute, and said that the agreement reached between himself, the earl of Kimber- Iy, M. DoStael, and M. Lessar in respect to s Atghan boundary prootedings was not completed, in Loodon as yesterday's statement would imply, but had been put in ehape for submission to Russia for acceptance, GLADSTONE EXPLAINS THR NEW AGREEMENT. (Gladstone said that the agreement which had been reached by Graavillo, | the earl of Kimborly, M. Do Stael, and M. Lsssar, re- specting the Afghan boundary, had been for- warded by De Stael to St. Petersburg for approval, De Stael and Lessar, said Glad- stone, had not acted as Russian plenipoent- tiaries in the confereuce, which resulted in this agreoment, and Do Stael desired to have 1t stated that Granville, the earl of Kimber- ly, Lessar, and bimself had agreed to diaft an agreement and that De Stael had for- warded 1t to Russin, giviug it his support. LUMSDEN'S MESSENGER ARRIVES, LoNDoN, May 12,—Condoie_Stephen, the bearer of dispatches from Lumsden, has arrived i London, Mr. Stephen left Meshed, Porsia, on April on barely an_hour's notice, having bsen dered to proceed to England with all speed. He traveled six nights and days on horse. back. averagiug one hundred miles daily until he reached the Caspian sea, Crossing the Caspian he caught a train one hour after his arrival on the western shore and reached Tiflis after a railway journey of twenty-soven miles. He received every attention and facility from tho Russian officials. The governor of Tiflis rendered him the greatest assistance, arrang- ing by telegeaph for relays of horsesalong the road,” Mr. en arrived in Borlin yester- day morning yia St. Petersburg. Mr. Stephen denies that the battle at Penjdeh caused the retirement of the British forces to Tirpul, He eaid that Sir Peter Lumsden bad made arrangements a long time previously to fix his camp at Tirpul. HOMEWARD BOUND, LoxDON, May 12.—Advices from Tirpul of the Oth inst say Lumeden, Col. Stewart and Mr. Barrow start for home to-morrow in ac- ~cordance with the orders of tho government. No orders wera given for the disposal of the British-Afghan bonn‘ary commission. RUSSIA BTILL ARMING. 8. Perensponc, May 12.—The imperial councll of war ordered the transfor of the mil- itary and medical stores from Krasnorid to Askabab, and have instructed the commis Bary department to get ready to equip 20,000 aesorve. Gen, Annenkoff has started to push work on the transcaspian railway. ENGLIBH OFFICKRS ADVISE THE AMKER. majority by which the government carried t|ha|r point will not rehabilitate their reputa- tion, —— RAILROADS REORGANIZE, THR WEST SHORR A.\'YT‘[’;:{\IHO CENTRAL INTO NRW HANDS. New York, May 12,—The reorganization committeo of the West Shore railway com pany has prepared a plan ealline for the ap- pointment of a reorganization committee com- posed of the bondhoelders, of which each de positor with the Farmers' Loan and Trust company of 81,000,000 in bonds shall have the right to nominate seven members. The seven membors receiving the highest number of votes shall constitute the committee, which will be empowered to adopt such & plan as they see fit, sub- ject to certain limitationes, the substance of which are: A majority of the first mortgage bondholders must have control of the reorganized company; no loan exceeding £15,000,000 must be placed on the property of the new company in the interests cf the present firat mortgage bondholders; in order to give the new company time to make de- sirable improvements on the property the first mortgage bonds shall nut draw interest for three years and then not to exceed 4 per cent. _Inacircular issued to-day the reorganiza- tion committes cf the Ohio Central railway company proposed to exchange stock of the Columbus, Hockiog Valley & Toledo railw: company for that of the Toledo & Ohio Cen company—the new name of the Ohio Central, The new preferred stock of the latter com: pany is to ho exchanged at par for three- ourths of the preferred stock. The former common stock i to ba exchanged on the basis of one share of Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo for two shares of the Toledo & Ohio Central. The stock-holdcrs in both compa- nies, nccepting the terms, are directed to tranefer their remainiog stock to the Central Trast company for the benefit of both parties to the contract. PASS o — BARB WIRE MONOPOLY, JUDGE BREWRR SUSTAINS THE GLIDDEN PATENT AS ORIGINAL AND ABSOLUTE. Des Moixgs, To, May 12,—Important decisions were to.day rondered by Judge Brewer in the United States circuit courtin the barb wire cases, Inthe case of Wash- burn & Moen against the Farmers Protective astociation and against Walter and J. E. Rhodes, the court sustained the Glidden wire patent as valid and held that it wasin- fringed by the wire manufactured by the de- fendants. As the Glidden barb is tho one in of almost universal use, the deci ion is one of general interest. ‘The opinion of the comtt was oral and reviewed the case at length, Glidden was held to bo the first inventor of the barb bearing his name and his patent, therefore, was sustaiced throughont. Another case decided at the same time, was brought upon the Putnam machine patent, it being claimed that this wasinfringed by what is known as the Penny machine. The court held that the two machines were radically distinct and different and that the Putnam patent was not infringed by the Penny ma- chine. The question of infringement was the only one decidedin the machine case, The counsel for defendants asked that pending an appeal to the supreme court of the United States, they be allowed to continue the man- ufacture of wire upon payment of a royalty into the court, but this matter was reserved to ba settled by the judge some time during next week, ———— Sad End ofa College Romance, TONDON, May 12, Advices from Mished 'state that Col. Stewart and avother British cfficer will vo to Herat to examine the fortifications and give the ameer any advicc needed in regard thereto, KOMABOFF AGAIN, 81, Prrersoure, May 12,—The Official Messenger publishes to-day a long dispatch from Komaroff, in which he gives details which led up to the battle batween vhe Rus- sians and the Afghans on the Kushk river on March 80th. He reiteratos everything smd in the former dispatches regarding the unex- pected aggressive movemsnts,of the Afghans and claiming that the latter were aggressors. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWE, THE PEACE PROTOCOL SIGNED, SHANGHAL, May 12, It is roported on good authority that representatives of France and “China have signed the protocol of peace at Tien Tsen. THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGN, Caro, May 12,—When the British with. draw from Soudan 12,000 Egyptian troops will be added to the Egyptian army already there. It is reported that two-thirds of the Berberines desire peace. A CHANGE OF TONE, Beruy, May 12, ~The papers here have changed their tone and are now dwelling upon the peaceful zelations b.tween Evgland avd Germany, THE DYNAMITERS, T.oNDON, May 12, —The_trial of Cunning- ham and Burton, alleged dynamiters, was re sumed this morning, The taking of evidence was contioued, bving o repetition of that taken at the.morning trial, Stroug evidence wan adduced connecting Cunningham with the explosion of the Metropolitan railway, but the «fforts of the prosecution to connect Burton with the same outrage were futile, AN EXTENSIVE FIRE LoxpoN, May 12.--An extensive fire raged all last night at Chatham, Thelocality of the conflsgration was High street, aud several buildings were destroyed, among hich were the Midkent club house, Bullinn and a large printing works, The amount of damage was placed at $200,000. NEGOTIATING FOR AN ISLAND, Paris, May 12.—The Figaro states the governmentis negotiating with China for the ceaslon to France of the Fishers islands, lying ‘between the island of Formosa and the Chi- aese mainland, PRAISING GLADSTONE. Pams, May, 12,—The Journal of Dobates and the Temps praise Gladstone for securing peace, THE CANAL CONTROVERSY ENDED, Parts, May 12, —M. De Freceynet assured the committee of the chamber of deputies that the difficulty respectivg the supervision of the Suez canal would bejamicably settled, This assurance indicates’ that the international Suez canal conference nuw sitting has solved satisfactorily the problem of the international contract of the canal, DEFEAT OF THE CHANNEA TUNNEL, LoNDoN, May 12, - n the house of com- wmons this afternoon, Sir Edward Watkin, liberal member from Hythe, moved a second reading of the coaunel " tuunel bill. Joseph Obamberlain, on bebalf of the board of trade, of which ha is president, opposed the measure, stating that the government as a whole, were opposed to further progress of the bill The opposition cheered this declaration, The bill was then rejected by a vote of 381 to 99, GETTING BID OF THE CBEDIT RAPIDLY, Tn apswer to a question put by Hugh C. Chulders, the chancellor of the exchequer announced that about 835,000,000 of the credit of $55,000,000 had already been absorbed, GLADSTONE'S VIOTORY, THE INDICTMENT AND THE VICTORY, Loxpox, May 1 he Times, in an edi torial on Lord George Hamilton’s motion of censure, says Lhe GPpO/ilion C460 WAS Fre: sented At th er time. Hamilton, how ever, the Times tuinks, (ught to have with drawn his ameudment after the official docu: ments concernivg the Afghan question had been promised, snd should have reserved indictment for the time when he could have made it complete, The Staudard says the PITTSBURG, May 12.—This afternoon Mrs. Annie Pershing, wifs of W. O, Perching and daughter-in-law of the Rev, Dr.J. C. Pershing, president of the Pittsburg female college, shot h: raelf in the right temple and is now in a dying condition, Six weeks ago, while & student at _ the college, sho married young Pershing. The marriage was clandestine but sub- sequently there were satisfactory explana- tioas for all concerned. A quarrel last night it is said culminated 1n young Pershing going to Chicago, His wife etarted out to hunc him to day, and not finding him returned to her home inAllegheny where she shot herself Mo, Perahing was the daughter of a wealthy and respectable resident of New Castle, Pa, She is eighteen years old and quite handsome, —— Auditor Brown's Final Bounce, Cnicaco, May 12.—The Journal's Des Moines (Lows) special says the supreme court, Judges Reed, Rothrock and Adams, held that the law in the state auditor’s case is con atitutional and affirm the action of the gov ernor in_suspending Brown. Judge Seevers dissented. Judge Ee:k did not sit in the case, e A Grand Temperance posed. Niw York, May 12.—At the twentieth an- nual meeting of the national temperance so- ciety, rosolntfons wero adopted cougratulating the friends of temperance on the great ad- vancos tho cause had made and upon the wide- epread and rapidly increasing intorest in it. Temperance organizations throughout the world were urged to unite in_a_monster de- wonstration on the centennial of the inaugu- raticn of temperanco next September. Jubilee Pro. o —e— Ship Owers Preparing Rates. Bostox, Mass , May 12.—A convention un- dor the auspices of the New England Ship Owner’ associstion was held to-day, The primary object was to fix a minimun. rate of freight. Koy resentatives wese present from New York, Philadelphia and New England points, A’ committoe was appointed to take into consideration the varicus interests of the convention. e —— Capsized by a Squall and Sunk, Sax Francisco, Cal,, May 12,—The Brit- ish iron ship, Earl of Dalhousie, while being towed across the bay this afternoon, was struck by a heavy squall and capsized in deep water. The vessel had no carge nor ballast. She was owned by W. Stephens, of Dundee, and cost 160,000, The officer d crew were saved, _——— Opening of the Memphis Meeting. Meyinis, Tenn, May 12.—This was the opening day of the spring trotting meeting. The events were: First race—Half mile, class 2:26; Mirtie won; Texas Bill, second; Executive, third, Second race—Olass three minutes; Katie Tnler won; Lumix, secoud; Belle Isle, third, Time 2:34}, ——— Cholera Will Surely Come, BarmivoRk, Md,, May 12, —The medical and chirurchical faculty of Baltimore to-day ussed tho probability of & visit of cholera this summer, Prof. T 'S. Latimer stated that the history of the disease left little room for doubt thatit would become epidemic in America elther this or next summer. Cleanli- noes in every rospect, he eaid, was the most potent safeguard againat it. ———— Mrs, Johnson Causes Trouble, LixcoLy, Neb., May, 12.~Late last night Lowis Johrson came home aud found his wife in & room with Edward Long. Johnson broke down the door and both men began shootiog wiih tho revult, Jobeon dead wog Loug unable to survive, Both were railro men. e e— Saloons Must Close in Inoiana, InpiaNarous, Ind, May 12.—This after- noon the supreme court afiirmed the validity of the law requiriog the saloons to be clossd from 11 p. m, to & & m, The decision was uoamimous, CAPITAL NOTES. Sparks Acquitied of Assanlt on De- Abng.: . Vilas Declares That Negligent Postmasters Must Go. by & erowd of 200 labarers and foroed to quit work, A crowd of 300 marched to Peoneer & Shermann’s eaw mills and shut them down. Some violence ensued. All other saw mills were shut down before the strikers got there, except the Eau Olaire Lumber company, whose mills are still runaing. Work on the water works was suspended, The demand of the water works’ strikers Is 81,50 per day, The saw mill employes made no demand, but were forced by the strikers to quit work, Eav Crame, Wis., May 12.—About 1,500 | Incidental Discoveries of Some mill employes have quit work,but it is expected they will return to their positions tomorrow and nit meet with further molestation, By order of the mayor all saloons and breweries RATHER SEEDY. The Condilion of Afairs in the Burean of Agricaltare. Very Peouliar Operations. McLaansboro, the Rev, L. A. Abbott of Alton, and the Rev. C. P. Price o Lacon, vice presidents. The address of welcome was by the Rev, L. A. Abbott; sermons by O. B, Morton of Chicago, the Rev, William Tracy of Granville, The executive comwittees re-. port showa that in the best year of the work in thehistory of the asscciation about six hundred thousand pupils were in the Sunday #chools of Tllinois. . ———cet— Broods of Locusts Coming. WASHINGTON, May 12.—Prof. C. V. Riley, entomolegist of tho agricultural devartment, saya the country will soon be visited by two Cleveland Distributes Patronage in | bave been closed and a special police ordered | Fabulous Prices Paid for Certain |Rreat broods of locusts, of the seventeen and Every Quarter of the Country— Changes in the Bureaus. EVENTS IN WASHINGTON, THE SPARKS-DE AHNA TRIAL, WASHINGTON, May 12.—In the polica court this morning the case of Commissioner Sparks [ read a lone report, which dealt lengthily with | Coleman of the general land office, charged with per. sonal assault upon Col, De Ahna, timber in- commissioner was vresent with counsel. De Ahna was the first witness and repeated on the stard substantially the acccunt of the sseault as already published as coming from him. Assistant Commiseioner Guther Har- rison then took the stand and repeated nearly the sam facts given by De Ahna, Commis- sioner Sparks took the siand and said he treated De Ahna mildly and gentlemanly until he commenced abusivg the delivery clerks and_returning offensive answers. De Ahna was ordered out three times, When the com- missioner arose and went toward him, his object being to put him out, De Ahna said, “don’t touch me, don’t lay your hands on mo” Do Abna looked back ‘when Harrison said something to him and he went out, The witness had no ill feeling towards the com- plainant and had no thought of striking him. De Ahna again took the stand and said that the commissioner's testimony was incorrect. Harrison, McMares, and a messenger took the stand and denied that tne comwissioner took De Ahna by tho throat, but agreed that Sparks seized him by the coat collar, The court dismissed the case, saying there was no testimony to show that violenes had been used. The commissioner of tha general land office has selected William Walker, of Odin, Til, as chief clerk of that offise to succeed William Dompsey, present chief clerk, The appointment has 1ot yet been formally made, but it is generally understood that Walker will assume charge of that Wednesday. The president this afternoon made the fol- lowing appointmente: Joseph M, Pos, ap- praiser of merchandise for the district of Cuyahogo, O.; James Curren, spervising in- epector of steam vessels for the third district. o ba collectors of internal revenues: George L. Spear, for the district of Vermont; Charles E. Hazbrook, for the sixth district of Mis- souri; Edmund A. Bigeler, for the twenty- third district of Pennsylvania; Edward C. Wall, for the first district of Wisconsin; Hugh Kennard, for the fifth district of New Jersey. William A, Vincent, of New Mexico, to be chief justice of the supreme court of New Mexico; Lary F. Youngans of South Carolina, to be attorney of the United States for the district of South Carolina; Francis H. West of Wisconsin, to be marshal of the United States for the enstern district of Wis- consin; Christopher L. Williams of Towa, to be marshal of the United States for the south- ern district of Towa, Postmasters: Samuel N. Ashe, Raleigh, N, C.; James F. Vogte, LeMars, Ia,, vice F. M. on duty. e ——— Men of Alliances Meet, Sr. Louts, Mo., May 12.—The supremo lodge of the Knights of Honor met in annual session this afternoon, There was a large at- tendance from all parts of the country, Su- preme Dictator 8hoat, of New Haven, Conn,, troubles resulting from the removal of the headquarters of the grand secretary from night. &\ York, May 12.—The military. order of ths Loyal Lisgion of the United States to- night re-olocted Gen, Grant grand com- mander, The national convention of the Aucient Oedor of Hibornions opencd to-day. Fifteon states wero represented, The New York riages to Oentral park and other points of interest in the city e The Washington Season Opened, WasHINGTON, May 12, - This was the open- 08 day of the spring meeting of the National jockey club, The weather was warm, the track fast. First raco—Six farlongs; three-yoar-olds and upwards; King Lyon won; Miss Good- rich, second; Greeufield, third, Time, 1:16§, Second race— Mile, for three-year-olds; Te- cumseh won; Mentmore, second; Wickham, third, Time, 1:45§, Third race—Seven furlongs, selling race, three-year-olds and upwards; Windsail won; Mordaunt, second; (Jacen Esther, third. Time, 1:32, Fourth race—One and one-eighth miles; al ages; Col. Sprague won; Farewell, second; Halef, third, Time, 1:57§. Fifth race—Mile; three-year-olds and up- warde; King Fan won; Frankie B, second; John Sullivan, third, L g at Lexington, Seeds and Lots of Them—The Bureau Now Bapkrupt, TURNIPS, BEETS, AND PEAS, BREDS FOR THE MILLIONS, WassiNg1oN, May says that the of affairs in the dafiubmnnt of agricul ture that soon after he fiscal yoar without pay, Now it appoars sovoral othier specific appropriations are like condition of exhaustion and man: branches of work pendeb, loss of all its state made. only $32 of this fund in the treasury, Kt mates made in detail by the head of this divi sion for the purchaso of seeds called for an expondituce of 70,000, which would leave acking and The amount actnally expended for seeds from this fund seems to have been [ ent. aro hand e, with ey T e Threw Her Ohildren into a Mill Poad, ero £30,000 to pay the expense of distribution. £80,000. A » . o there result eeeds on g_and distribuion, 12.—Commissioner condition thirteen year variotios, and that this will be the first time in 221 years that they have ap. peared in conjanction, They will not prove grestly destructive, and the injory thoy will inflict’ will probably be confined to fruit tress, Visitation will be prolonged until lats in July, Roller 8kating lsrm Draw. Nuw Yonk, May 12.—Uhless thero is an t entered upon bis [ increase in the attes Louisville to St. Louls. A reception was | duties, his attention was called to the fact i LRI T R s spector of that office, came up for trial. The | given to the delorates at the Lindell hotel to. | that the laberatory fund was nearly ex- hausted and he was therefore compelied to furlough several employes until tha end of the ing contest: at Madison Square garden before Thursday the manngers will be obliged to draw on their bank accounts to pay bills, that | Thero wore less than 1500 peopio present in a | to-night. ‘mipor | More than four hundred miles each, as_fol b temporarily sus- The statistical division suffers the agents Hibernlans took the visiting deleeates in car- [and other suspensions must necessarily be In the seed division the appropriation for the current fiscal year was §100,000. On the first of the pres:nt month there remained Atla. m. five men had made lows: ~Snowden, 401 W. Boyst, 473 Mad: docks, 4745 Sehak, 450, A~ oyt 480, o —— Hotel Men in Annual Session, Cnioaco,, IN,, May 12.—The sixth annual meeting of the Hotel men’s mutual benefit as- sociation of the United States began hore to- day. In his address President John R. Bow- ler, of Des Moines, Tows, eaid thirty-four members had died during the year, and that the death losses paid had amounted to 965,~ 000, About twe hundred delegates are pres- Reaving, Pa., May 12.—Mrs, Hiram u 18,000 pounds of beet sugar | Pfoutz, re:iding near Binkloy’s mill, at Lititz, seed, 700 bushels of peas, and 700 bushels of | took her five children to the mill pond and sorghum seed. cient to last nearly three years at that rate. Some of the peas on hand cost $7 a bushel, A part of the sorghum seeds has been emptiod from sacks upon the floor and boss o employed . to them round to keep them spoiling. stir paid for seed. For example: seventeen hun- 8 There have been distributed in the past year about 5,000 pounds of beat 1| sugar seed, and the supply on hand is suffi- two from A wide variety of prices was threw them sl into the stream, and then jumped in hersolf and was drowned, together with two of the youngest, Tho others were rescued, The oldest is sged ten years. ——— Villagers Fruitlessly Fight Fire. Porr JrrrerzoN, L, I, May 12.—A large| fire is burning in valuable timber land at Stony Brook. All the villagers are out en- LEXINGTON, K., May 12,—At to-day’s races | dred bushels of sorgum seed were purchased | deavoring to proteet their property, but with| were: First raco—Five-eighths of a mile, two-year- olds that have not won a stake race, purse winners and thote having run gecond in stake races, Red Girl won; Girimaldi, second; Mar- moset, third, Time 103§, Secdud race ~Ono and one-sighth miles, all ages, W. R. Woodward won; Slipaway, sec- ond; High Feigh, third. Time 1.55§. T'hurd Race—One and one-half miles, thrse- ear-olds; tierssn won; cubt, third, Time 2.42j. Fourth Race—Three-quarters of a_mile, aslling raco, Helianthus won; Charley Lucas, second; Grace J, third. Time L 16} e ——— Failed in a Good Intention, Avcusta, May 12, —William Roberts, president of the defunct bauk of Augusta, for 1| whom a requisition was made by Governor Hill, of New York, and is now pendingin Redstone, second; | i $2.85 to $2.95 per bushel, while three hundred bushels of the same variety were obtained from a Western man for $1 a buthel, The attention of tho chemist of the depart- ment was called to this fact to-day and he was asked as an expert what would have been a fair price for the seed at thejtime this stock was purchased, He said it sold as low as 25 cents a bushel in Nebraska, but that $1 a bushel would have been an exceed- lnu? good price for the very best quality, ready prepared for planting, He was asked ow large a quantity of sorghum seed he would have purchased, had the matter been left to bim, “Not a pound,” he replied ““There was no reason for the purchase of either sorghum or beet. There was no pur pose in view. There was no new variety to be tried. There was no more reason for dis- tributing the old variety than for sendivg out white wheat.” The chief of theseed division once lastsum- mercalled the attention of the chief clerk of the department to the fact that he nad more than mery, suspended; i ) el i a ool AL Ry the courts, cut his throat with a razor from |two hundred Indies employed in the seed In ex- planation of the suspension of Postmaster Emery, the postmaster-general states that in February lest an inspector examined the office st LeMars and found the postmaster short §672; that he bad not made the deposits at the close of the month a8 required, but often a week or two later and the offica was negligent and | troubles, rendered him partially iosane and | previousle purchased carelessly conducted, The inspector was of ear to ear. ugly, physicions say they will not be fatal, a8 the caritoid arteries are not severed, As president of the bank of Augusta, the grand jury now in session found true hills against him for perjury and embezzlement. These tre bills, with other led to the rash attempt to take his life. It is & room and protested that this force could not hile the wourds are gaplog and | FCRC T EEoitl, 3 bt there acems to have been no efficient reform, There soems to have been a very liberal dis- tribution of turnip seed. So far this year the amount purchased is stated to be 15,165 busi.cls, yet the amount on_ hand is not re- il : The largest amouut cattle from Illinois and Missouri when ac- ported n excess, within five years was 2,800 bushels. These discoveries bave the opinion that the loss had occurred by |reported that the grand jury basfound a |been made incidentally,. No formal investi- theft, resulting from the careless manner in which government property was left exposed by the postmaster. The postmaster immedi- ately made good the shortage, but, says the postmaster-general, it is the fixed determina- tion of the department te remove every poat- e O A T () g s conduct of his office. The secretary of the interior appointed the following epecial agents for the tureau of labor, at a salary of $4 per day: Henry Jones, of Gflflf fi for general duty in the Umted States; J. H. Graves, of Delaware, for duty in Delaware and New Jersey. Oscar H, Mills, agent for the Sac_and Fox Indians in Towa, aod Oharles H. Gould, receiver of public monies at Miles City, Mon- taus, have resigned. Postoffice inspectors have reported for removal 8, H, Bronsev, postmaster at Howark, Dokota, for neglect: ing to deposit postal funds and failure to ac count for money collected from publishers, The count of the money and eecurities in the United Sf treasury has been com- pleted. Everythirg was found to be in a sat- tefactory condition and the reports of ex- Trescurer Wyman were proved 1n every in- stance. Even the al'egea discrepancy of two cents,reported in the count of the cah room, was shown to be incorrect. The missing pon- nies were eubsequently found on the floor, where they had dropped during the count. The books and accounts of the treasurer’s office aro yet tn be verified The superintendents of the United States mints at San Francisco, New Orleans and Philadelphia have been authorized to purchase mutilated and uncurrent United States silver coin of standard fineness at the rate of 98 cents per ounce, troy weight, when presented in sams of $3 and upwards, ——— Morrison to Get One More Vote, SpRINGFIELD, T1L., May 12,—The situation here to-pight is a decidedly interesting one and every person is on the qui vive as to what to-morrow will bring forth. The dem- oorats will all be here to-morrow and one last | ampu'ation of his only remaining leg. A | the fighting is still going on to-day, and that [ very next timo the man come s, ona rainy effort is going to be made to elect William R, Morrison to the United States senate, If it is not accomplished to-morrow then his name will be dropoed and some perton else will be substituted in his stead, with what success is yet to be seen, appeat to be a eventa and feel apparently perfectly satistied with the aspect of affairs, The only thing which operates advereely upon democratic minds is what Mulhorad will do, They bave been laboring with him all day, but no defi- truo bill agamnst 1. H. Walton, cashier of the Bank of Augusta, for perjury. — ——— Orop Prospects in Iowa, CepaR RapDs, In., May 12.—The Gazette will this evening publish crop reports from stations of the Burlington, Cedar pids & Northern ralway, cover— ing nearly the entire eastern half of the state, They show that corn planting is progressing rapidly, and will be finished this week or early next, with good weather, Little damage by frost, and small grain is doing well. Corn is about the same as at last year, ———— Indian Contracts Awarded. Nuw York, May 12.—The Indun com- missioners ¢ontinued to award contracts to- day, and included coffes, beans, bacon, beef, foed, corn, oats, lard, and wheat, to go to Kansas City, Sionx City, the Crow agency, Cheyene iver, Standing Rock, the Arapahos and Kiowa agency, Ashland, Wis, Omaha, Senccs, Mo., St. Paul, and the Yuma agency. e —— Grants Condition New YORE, May 12, —Gen, Grant passed a quiet night. He awoke atintervals and slept until lato this morning, His condition s un- changed, Gen, ——— ABSTRANGE COINCIDENT. A Daughter Commits Suicide at the Same Moment Her Father Suf- fers a Severe Accident, —_— Helena Herald, Our readers will remember when the Herald published an item of a man’s hav- ing leaped from the window of a house in Bautte, susfaining injories that caused the strapge circomsiance coincident with that accident has s'nce beon brought to light ttrough rellable testimony. The unfortunate sustainer of this accl- daughter. Having gone to Butte he put up at a lodging house there for then/ght, and was assigned a room in the second tory. urlog the night he experienced gation has been undertaken, ——— NEWS FROM MIDDLETON, MOBE TROOPS ORDERED AT THE COMMANDKR'S REQUEST—STILL IN BATTLE, CrLarkk’s CrossiNG, May 12.—News from the front up to Monday morning is that fight- ing has been going on since Saturday morning, and was commencing for the third day when the messenger left. The supplies and tents bad been brought up from the ping round on Friday night, and a zereba en formed about & quarter of a omile from the field, where the army stays at might. The tents, howsver, are not pitched, and the men lio in trenches, every fifth man standing sentry, The half-breeds fire into the zereba at night and harrass the troops. All the buildings about Batouche have been burned except the church and the echool house, Gen. Middleton has not allowed these to ba shelled, 83 priests, nuns, women and children are sheltered there, The occupsnts have been notified, however, to leave and the buildings will be shelled. ‘The insurgents take adyantage of the sheltor these buildings afford. The traops have profited by their experience at Fish Creek and_do not unneceesarily ex- pose themselves, The casualties at Batouche 50 far have consequently been small compared with those on foimer occasfons, Up to Monday morning the loss had been: Gunner Phillips, of “A” battery, and Private Moore, of the Teronto grenadiers, killed, and sixteen wounded. The steamer Northcote had got down the river below Batouch and sn attempt was be- ing made yesterday to communicate with her, Nothing has been heard from the front to-day. ‘WinsipkG, Manitoba, May 12.—The tele- graph line was repaired this afternoon, and tidings of the fightug at Batonche csme through military dis, atches, They state that Gen, Middleton is anxions for more troope. Col, Scott's battalion has been orderod north from Quapsile. Advices to night state that eight companies of volunteors and the infan- try school corps have been ordared from New The republicans do mnot | dent was named Quinn, and lived down | Branswick, aud the Prince of Wales riflos, all distwbed over coming|on the Yellowstone with his wife and |from Montreal, This aken to mean that the government has wore alarming news than has yet been made public. . O1TAWA, Ont,, May 12 —Middloton has or dered up all forces % strengthon his column, nite answer can be chtained from him as to|an attack of vightmare, in which he|and wants more cannon and gatling guns, what he contemplated doing. Streetor voted for Mr Morrison to-day and the democrats were much encouraged, They bolieve they now have Streetor sohid. Their ouly .ecreant is Mulheran. Returos from tho thirty-fourth distilot will not be received here in full until Toursday, the last day for their rcception, The demo- crata are holding meetings each day to perfect their plans for the contest, ———————— Murderers Oonfess, OH1cAGO, May 12, -The three Italians ar- rested in this city for alleged participation in the murder of the Itallan lemon peddler, Carusso, practically confessed to the perpe- tration of the muwrder this afternoon, They in & measure absolve Gilardo, who was also arrested, They state be witnessed the deed, how- ever, and demapded a share of the money taken from Carusso as & pricy of his silence, | lady, who was sixteen years o'd, was of a | bh and then and there sided them in shipping the body in a trunk to Pittsburg. The detectives declares that the confession s sufficient to cauge the hanging of all three of the parties, Tho particulars are now known to the police, The murder was perpetrated solely to ohkain £300 of $400 which it was known Carusap bad ia his possession, —— Bulldozing Strikers, Sr. Paut, Mian,, May 12.—The Dispatch’s Eau Olaire (Wis.) ‘special says: Fifty men that were beginniog to 1ay toe pipes of the water works this morning were overpowered | 8go, thought that bis daughter was menaced by some horr.ble Injury and called on him for assistance. In'his frantic endeav- ors to raach her he leaped from the win- dow, with the befor .meutioned resalts. Sobs:quent testimony has shown that on that very night, at the same hour,almost the precise moment, when the father’s dream came to 80 painful a termination, the daughter, at her home on the Yellow- stone, over 300 miles from Baite, came mitted sulclde by taking morphine. There {8 no doubt now in the father's wind that atthe very moment he was beset by this horrible nightmare, his daughter adm'nistered to herself the fatal doso that ended herlife, What led to the tulcide {8 unknowm, ss the young the time of her deajh nothing unuvspal wis notieed In her gpnduct. The mother, aftexburying her daugh- tor under sucn dletressiog clrcumstances, wes summoned to the bedside of bes hui- bind ia Botte, obeyed thecsll and is now there in atlendance uvpon him, Mr, bright, cheerfut dlu}:itlon. and up to ration of one havii accldent veceived ina mine gome yeare Bruce battalion has been called out, and the Montreal garrison artillery started for the front, The Prince of Wales' R fles of Mon treal and the Siaty-second regunent of St. Johns have been. ordered cat. The Toronto field battery expects orders at any moment e = Perils of Fighting ¥ire, HuNTisa 008, Pa., May 12—Walliam Hess, | offico next [ thoro was a good attendunce, The ovents |from & New York firm at prices ravging trom | little succoes. —— Thomas Tackled the Right Window, Taos, Kan., May 12,—Thomas Hughes, o] tramp, attempted to force an entrance into B, D. Schiender’s farm house last night, and re- ceived a fatal wound from a revolver whiclr :nd been set in the window to trap such visi- or8. — e —— The Weather. ‘WASHINGTON, May 12.—The upper Mies- fasippi valloy: warmer and fair weather, va- riable winds. The Missourt valley: fair followed by partly. cloudy weather and local rains, southerly winds, higher temperature, ——— Omaha Wins Another Game,. TorLgvo, O., May 12,—The Omaha ball team defeated the home nine again to-day, the scory nding b to 3 in the visitors’ favc Kansas Cror, Mo,, Moy 12.— Kansas City. 8; Tndianapolis, 1 Another Cow-Doctor Aavertisement, Dixver, Col., May 12,—The state sanitazy bonrd [to-day raised the quarantine againet companied by & certificate of health signed by Dr, Trunibower, at Kansas City. ———— More Illinois Strikers on Deck. Mouing, IIl, May 12.—The railway em- ployes are on a strike and the sheriff has baen called on to preserve peace, e — Men as Dry Goods Purchasers, hiesgo Mail’s Club Man, Rainy and disagreeable as- it was yes- terday I had occasion to do some shopping on State street, snd found one- of the eales ladies in Mr. Mandel's store in quite a communicative mood. *‘Wealways like tosee sucha day as thls,” sald she, “for it is on just such days that men are sent in by their wives todo the neceseary buylng,. It I3 really refreshing to have a mancome in to trade. Any sales-woman of experi- ence knows in a minute when a man is sent in to purchase. A man will buy okt anything in a woman's. line that is placed before him. You hayo: te. humor the whime of & woman, but with a msn all that is necessary is to use the least bit of harmless flattery, and ho bites like a fly. A man is # good eubject to work off remnants on, or to induce to purchase any particular line that we want to get rid of. On a raioy day most down town stores put cut sach goods, and the order | ie passed aloug the lino to look omt for men, purchasers, Of course, there is this| drawback to 1t —whateyer a man buys is very apt to be returned, There are very few professional shoppers of the, female persuation who are willing to tak ca mau’s judgmenton a purchase. He pays say 81 for an artlcle, and his wifi) brings it back under the Impression thiit he has been swizdled, and we will sel Lher eome- thing that costs twice as mucb, And the day, he will do the very sam e thing.” e — CAUTIOUS BULLS. They Allow tie Bears to Chass {he Market Down, Wheat and Flonr Fall in the Face of Decreasing Supplies. Loug Horns Enter the Northern Cate tle Markets—Warning to Reg- nlar Shippers, THE RULING PRIOES. N TEE WHEAT PIT, Special Telegram to The Brs Cnicaqo, TlL, May 12. —Wheat opeaed at 91jo for June, tho closibg price yesterday, There was a good disposition to buy at. the start and the feelivg lasted for a few mirutes, Then the bears made an ovslauth, June wheat soon sold down to 90§ when some of she bulls who had sold out on an advanoce ap- peared as) buyors, An advancs of a few points resulted but it was again met by heavy solling. At this point the shorts came in and covered, and the markst firmed up under this influence, the June option reaching 90fc. New York wea reported as strong and higher, and this had some tcndenoy to make this market firmer, The beurs again scored & point on telegrams that the Minneapolis + milla were closing for lack of orders and increnso in freight rates, The principal feature that kept the market: from breaking badly was the decrease in the vimblo l\l[;ply, which. was nearly. 2,008,000 oushels, Prices eased off toward "the closs of the morning sossion on_further heavy selling by the bears, June closing at 9030 VORN, Corn opened strong on the light recsipts— 385 cars—and liberal shipments—417,000 bush- els—re ducing the sapply in store to ' less,than 7L0,000 bushele, A decresto. in the visible snpply, amounting toover a miliiwm bushels, also tenden to strengthen the market; Lhere was o fairly active trade After the firot orders were filled the mamket eased off on room traders realizing and the poandiog of the bears. The June option openad at 47%c, point over yesterday’s closs and sold down o 47dc, closing at 478c, 1 rympathy with wheat. PDROVISIONS, Provisions still are exceedingly dull and life- less, dragging along at an almost unintorest ing pace It was rumored that the decline was caused by the boarish fesling.of packers. June pork opened at the clasing price of yos- torday, #11 224, seld up to $1L.25, and olosed weak at $11.)2§, OPPOSED TO THE GRAIN-CALL, A petition was circulated to-day and signed by & majority of the members of the clearing Rouse, asking the boa d of directors o abolish the call of grains. The firat call was made $o- day and was resporded to by the wheat ciowd, but the corn crowd didnct take kindly to it, and not much was done, The oppysition to the call eay it iuterferes with the business of the board, but that if the call was made after regular hours they would not objsot. CATTLE, Tho cattle trade was slow and big. heavy cattle n shade Jower, meking.a deslin of 16@ 200 an compared with: tho highort prices of lat week. Dledium and handy little sbeers were in fair demand and abont steady, sslling around about where they, did. 2 weok ago. Asido from tho rogular;demand from._dsessed beef doalers, the abose. classes ase iniactive domand for feeding, farmers paying as high as 81 90@b.25 for feeding stock that will averags 1000 fo 1,100 pounds. Fat cows and heifers continue to sell at_bigh prices. The supply from Toxns will bo greater than ever the comisg season. Country shippers shoald: keerpwell yosted as from this Cate onwe md they aro. linbie to en- counter keen compatition fros, lowg horns, and in the encounter nutive cowe, bulls, and butchers’ stock wikl bs likely to sell lowen. To-day’s prices wese: 1 000 tor 1,30 poundr, $1 60@5.25; 1,200 0 1,320+ pounds, $5.20@ 550; 1,350 to 1,600 pancie, 85455 65: butchers command $2, 5@ 25;' good, $9.5 )@- 450; stadl ted cows, $4,50(34, 20; stockeza und feeders $4.00@5 .3, HOGE. The hog market opened rzther weak. Foa an houz or k0 thers was. togecely £uf ficiont. businoss to maka.s market, s#h 1 & | gencral way %he first sales ctho'sed a et line of about 5c. Light korts were negledd ed as is usual on Tucsday, ensters: shippere. 1.0t ope- ratiog on that day, 1:ugh and coaw non wold aronnd about #4.00@4.20; geod ic ced, 84,47 @4,46; best heuvy, $u 2 T ght, 34,10 @130, ————— . Russian Flour Offered in N ew York. New Yoak, Mey 12 —A e ipla of 2,000 eacks of Ruesian ficae, quality ve ry #ne, was offered this morning on he predi.ices exchange, @ anrive from Masoilles, st 6 1per barrel, The grade was nealy if not qui .o g good & tho very best Amemcan patan/, ¢ spra, e e em— - Plowmakers WDiscuss tue. Situation, Cuieaso, L., May 12,—T b, plow and cul- tivator association of the Nt' hwest met here to-doy and dicsussed varlorss matters of inter- est, Including the expenser; «f traveling men, the oerstockad condition « f the market, the revision of price lists, oW, The meeting will be coutinued ho-morrow. Thirty firms were representod e [ S— Bondholders G «g a Railroad. Dks Moy, Ia, May 12 —The case of the second mortgage Londholders sgalnst the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern rail Bamboo cane Is growing thy tily near Red- ding, Shasta county., Some has attained s height of twenty feet. way was decided in favor of the bondholders in the Umted 8t ates circuit court to-day, Justice Miller pre yding, That / Tired Feeling axtremo tired feeling, want of appetite, dullness, languor, ‘and lassitude, aflict almost the entico hu'ma jily, and serof- wla and other disewses caused by humors, manifest themselve s with many. 1t is lm- possibile to throw “off this debilidy and expel humars. from the blood without the id of a When the weather grows warmer, llml\ @ facmer, was burning Yrush yesterday near a | reliable medicine; like Hood's Sarsaparilla, valuable plecs of timber land on his farm at A high the morning v/ith haxdly life enough to pet Wells Valley, in Fulton county, wind carrled the flames into tho timber and | 0% ©f bed- He fought the flames until he became ancon- the fire was soon beyond his control. tcims. His two daughters, Lizeie aad An 2:. found him lying on t! govery s comsiderad daubiful, fourd by neighbors and carried home. atill ungons gious, and will die, i Jitnots Sunday Scnoul Workars, Avtox, Iil, May 12,—The twenty-scventh convention of the Illimcis State Sunday | better. Dele Qaten has now lost both legs, the smpu- | gates from all parts of the state are present beea eaused by sq|and arriving on every train. organized by eleating John Benbam of Cli ¢ go, presideat; the Hon, T, M., {Eckley of Scheol assceiation met in the city ball round by the They dregged him to place of safety, bus in doinw 8o their clothing caught fire und oy were 5o terribly burned thob their re- The convention, #1 could ot sleep, and would get up in 1 had no appetite, and 10y tace would b reak out with pimples. 1 bought Hood’s a botthe of Hood’s Sarsaparille, and soor, began to sleep soundly; could got up wit'a- Hess was | out that tized and languld feeling, and 1 ny Ho is appetite wuproved.” K. A, BAN¥OLD, Kev ¢,0¢ “T had been mueh troubled by ge aeral debifity. Last spring Hood's Sarsa parilla proved just the thing needed. I der tved an fmigense wmount of benefit. I 1 ever felt H, F. MiLLer, Boston, Mass, ,Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists. $1; slx, for §5. Made only by €. L. HOOD & CO., Lawell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar ceptible to lable tonic y and {nvigorant, At D0 othe £ geason 1s tho system 80 sus- the beneficial effccts of a re- Tho impuro state of tl o plood, the deranged digestion, and the W eak condition of the body, caused by its 10 ng pattle with the cold, wintry blasts, # 31 call for the reviving, regulating and ¥¢ goring nflucnces so happily and effecti’ ely combined in Hood's Sarsaparilla, “H y0d's Sarsaparilla did me a great deal of g 0d, I hud no particular disease, but was , tired out from overwork, and it toned we,up,” Mg, G, E, S1Mmons, Cohoes, N, Y. Sarsaparilla “¥or seven years, spring and fall, I had scrofulous sores come out on my legs, and for two years was not {ree from them at all. 1 suffered very much. Last May I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, and beforo I had taken two bottles, the sores healed and the humor left " (. A. ARNOLD. Arnold, Me, “There 18 no blood purifier equal to Hood's Sarsaparilla,” E.8. PukLes, Rochester, N.Y. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for §5. Made ounly by C. L HOOD & C0., Lowell, Mass, 100 Doses One Dollar