Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 22, 1885, Page 1

s 17 o1 dMseinl THE OMAHA DAILY THIRTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA, NEB., FRIDAY MOR) G. MAY 22, 1885 NO. 236 HORROR'S-PYRE. Foortéen Stop Girls Baraed to Death at Their Places of Werk, One Young Hero Adds His Life to the Fatal List, A Scene of Unbounded Horror Lighted by the Midday Sun and ‘Witnessed by Thousands, A SACRIFIOE OF LIFE. FIRE IN A WORKSHOP, CixcinNati, 0., May 21.—The fireon Sixth street, No. 10, this afternoon caused the death of seventeon persons, It was at first thought that only five women, who jumped trom the fifth story window, were killed, but | when the fire was subdned 8o that the firemen could enter, it was found that ten bodies lay in a heap on the fifth floor and one on the fourth, There were six who jumped from the window and were killed, One man, after saving two women by letting down a rope from tho roof, was himself killed by the burn- ing of the rame rope before he reached the und, This was Mr, Sullivan, brother of the proprietor of the printing works, The firo originated by the explosion of a gasoline stove on the second floor, The flames en- entered the elevator shute, which was next to the stalrway, and all chance cf excape was thus cot off. ' The killed are mostly employes of the dye works which occupied a portion of the bullding, The list now obtainable of the victims is as follows: Mary Lowry, aged 17, lives 1 Covington, illod, John Sullivan, ono of the firm of the print- ing works, killed. imma Pinchbosk, of No, 111 Bullock streot, badly injured. polotlo” Hawker, 21 Miller strect, soverely urned, William Bishop, Coyington, badly injured. Mamie Shepherd, of L Harrison street, fatally injured, Lizzie Meyer, curner of Hunt and Broad- wag, killed. ollio —, aged 22, jumped from top story, dashed to pieces. “Tho two Punten sistérs, of Newport, were killed. — Beentrim, aged 17, of Newport, was Xilled in loaping from the fifth story, Charles Braam made an effort to catch her, butithe forco was too groat, and she was dashod to pieces at his feet. Fannie Jones, of West End, was killed, 1n addition to the above list of those killed by leaping from the fifth story, eleven more corpses were found inside the building, and the search is now belng prosecuted. The fifth story was completely burned out, but the wall is still standing, Ths other floor was not_much damaged. The building was oceupied by Sullivan & Co,’s printing works, Orth, Nessol & Co.'a dyo _house, the Ledger postal news company, Porisian dying and scouring company, and J. R. Kinsley & Co.’s gold, silver and nickel plating works, It was not long before the fire was under control. The mass of telophone and_ telegraph wires provented the firemen from putting up ladders promply for the reliof of the inmates. This city has had its share of shocking dis- asters, but never has one happoned where such a pisiful loss of life has ocourred as that of to-day, with 8o little occasion, In less than fifteen minutes AFTER THE FATAL BLUNDER began sixteen or soventeen persons perished. Loolang over the sceno after the evont It is plain that every life could have boen easily saved, Short as tho time was there wero dusplays of thoughtful herolsm that saved o lives, but ono of tho heroes lost his own {3 At 1:80 o'clock this afternoon Mr. J, A, Green, city editor of the Times Star, upon Roing up thostairway to his office, raw dense glouds of smoks issiing_from the rear win- dows of the building at Nos. 19 and 21 West Sixth street and immediately_telephoned the alarm, The ecgines responded almost in- stantly and as the firemen could reach the building from the front and rear, it wasnot fifteen mioutes until the fire was 8o much un- der control tht Chief Envincor Wisely was able to reach the top floor. But he was TOO LATE TO RESCUE THE GIRLS employed there, and to his horror he found ten bodies with their hands to their faces and therr faces blackened and dlstorted i death, The cuief said, in speaking of It: **The house was not burned cut; in fact, the fire was chiefly in the fifth story. I counted TEN GIRLS LYING UPON BENCHES, tables and other things, some on the floor. Thelr clothing was not ' burned, but the skin on the backs of their hands was scorched. It was a terrible sight; the worst I ever saw in my experienca. Tho girls lay where they had fallon in their wild and helpless despair,” Tt has now boen fairly ascortained that tho fire started from a can of benzine on the sec- ond floor near the elevator shaft, A boy on that floor says ho heard a report, aud instant Iy fire leaped into the elevator shait, ond dartod upward. The shaft reachos to the top of the building, and from the third story to the filth was encirclod by a wooden stairway which was the only means of acccess to these floors, Tho elevator shaft, to add to its combustibil- ity, was encased with thin wooden lattice- work, The second floor, where the fire started, ‘was the press room, the third the compoking room, the fourth the storage and wash room, and the fifth was the folding room, As soon as the fire started, John Sullivan, & oung man, cousin of the proprietor, ran up e stairway to the fifth floor to give warning to the girls. Instantly, almost, he found he waa too late to get them down the stairway and that HIS OWN RETREAT WAS CUT OFF, ‘What he did for the frightened girls could only be told by glimpses that could be seen of him through ‘the smoking windows whence girls had already leaped to death, J. R, Kinsey, his son and the foreman had gone to their rooms adjoining this on the west, and knowing the girls were imprisoned on the floor below, they procured a rope and lowered it to the window where Sullivan was, Ho instantly grasped it, and fastening one of the girls to it he helped her out of the window, and Kinsley and Shrosder lowered her safoly to the sidewalk. The rope was brought up, and Sullivan quickly FASTENED IT T0 ANOTHEB GIBL, and sent her down safely, It ¢ the third tiwe, aud as the other “{rlu by this time were all suffocated or were atraid to venture, Sulli- van tastened the rops to his body and swung off, Whea he was half way down the flames shot out the window, and he fell HEAD FOREMOST TO THE SIDEWALK. in the presenca of the horrified crowd of peo- plo who had witnessed his heroism, 4 When the girls wero jumping from the window a large colored man heroically tried to cateh them and break the force of the fall, He nearly lost his own life in the ate tempt. Within ten minutes after the fire began the patrol wegons were called to bring away the wounded and dead. As well as can be ascertained there were about fifty occupants of the building, of whom twenty or twenty.five were girls in the fifth story, The boys were on the second and $hird floors, and this acoounts for their escape. All agree that the spresd of flames was al- most instantaneou r. Kinsley, who ran to his n the resr where the flames were in danger of coming through his window, found the smoke so dense that he had to crawl on the floor to reach his window and close it, All this while there was an av euue of escape which the panic stricken girls did uot think of, There was an opeming in the roof which they could easily have reached from a bench standiog beside the wall, aad buildings with perfect eate, The lack of ready acoess to thin place LOST ALL THESR LIVES, The fire was almost insignificant, The wooden stairway around the elovator shaft is not burned #o as to be useless or unsafe, yot the flames seem to have pervaded all the floors and to have ruined all the paper and other light combustible material, Mr. Sullivan places his loss at $6,000 to 810,000, with ample insurance. The loss to the building i slight. The scenes at Habig's undertaking establishment, where the bodies wore taken and where the friends and rola tives came to identify them, were most dis- tressing, In one plase a policeman of Cov- ineton, Ky, identified _ his sisters, zrie’ and Dollie Handel, who were twins, - Mrs, Meller found the dead body of her daughter, and had to bo led away from the terrible sight. Mrs. Leshan had the awful exporience of finding her three daugh- tora among the dead. THE FATAL LIST, a8 now made up, is: ANNA By, aged 10 years, wifo of P, Bell, No. 26 Lock street. i Dorrig and Lizzie HANDLE, twin sisters, aged 20 years; No, 713 Scott street, Coving- . TFANNIE JONES, 22 years; corner of Liberty and Freeman streets, DL and MARY LraHAN aged 23, 16 years, respectiv 206 Sixth street, KATie Lowngy, 20 years, Newport, Ky, Lizzie Mier, 16 yesrs, No, 347 Broadway, ANNIE MCINTIRE, 20 years, No, 90 Hast Sixth street, FaNNie NORTON, 84 years, Karie and Mary PurNay, sisters, 19 and 22 years respoctively, JOHN SULLIVAN, 22 years, No. 395 Broad- WAY, LiLuie Wysax, 20 years, No, 83 East Fifth street, Tho injured are: Will Bishop, printer, 23 years, 203 Fifth stroet, Covington, Ky.; crushed and burned; will probably die, i Josin Hawkes, broken leg, Emma Pinch- back, Covington; serious; will probably die. Nannie Shopard; head badly cut; lives on Harrison street. Atready preparations ars in progress for the reliof of families of the victims, most of whom were supporting depending parents, e ———— FREED THE FINE WORKERS, MACKIN AND GALLAGHER TRIUMPH JIN THE{DISA- GREEMENT OF HARLAN AND GRESHAM, Special telegram to The BEE. CHi0ago, Ill,, May 21.—As large a crowd of spectatore were present in court to hearthe decision of Justice Harlan and Judge Gres- ham in the Mackin-Gallagher writ of error case this morning as were in attendance during the early and exciting days of the trial before Judge Blodgett, when the sensational evi- dence and unexpacted developments held the close attention of the large audience witness- ing the original presentation of the great crim? inal drama, Mackin and (Giallagher were convicted of rifing & ballot box in the Third precinct of the Eighteenth ward at the recent national election, and substituting bogus bal- lots for those cast by the electors. Their prosecution was based upon the filing of criminal information against them by the United States district attorney and the point was urged by their attorney in the present instance that their offenses par- took or the nature of an infamous crime in meaning of the United States statutes and that a criminal information was not adequate, but that the accused should have been regu- larly indicted by o grand jury. On this point Justice Harlan and Judge Gresham disagree, the former holding that the couvic tion of the men-was adequato and complete. The prosecution of the two men has been long and expensive and great interest centered in the result, owing to the prominence of Mackin in local political affafrs, If the su- preme court should sustain Judge Gresham, the prosecution would have to be renewed. In the meantime indictments against Mackin and Gallsgher are pendihg in the state court. After hearing of the disagreement, Mackin said: I think I got the best they had to give.” As ho started out of the court room, after shaking hands with his counsel, he added: “It is no more than I expected from fair judges, I think we have given them points that will puzzle their big wigs a good deal. After this 1 have no fear that the su- preme court will make any decision upon which the partizan verdict and sentence of Blodgett’s court will be confirmed. Nobody can say that I haven’t made & good single- handed fight arainst large odds,” Mackin shook off several persons who crowded around him to shake hands, charac- terixing them aside us leap-year friends, and started for the Palmer house to inform his wife of the result, Much indignation is felt, and freely expressed that these ballot-box stffers should have been granted a further res- pite. The feeling was 80 strong in the court room that several men expressed s hope that Mackin and Gallagher would be lynched, The states attorney of Cook county says the trial of Mackin and Gallsgher uuder the indictments procured in the crimina! court of Cook county is set for next Monday, and that these cases will be prosecuted without any delay. The indictments embrace the same charges which they were convicted of in the United States district court. e —— Riel an American Oitizon, Or7AwA, May 21,—The following statement is made in regard to Riel's citizenship: Riel took an actiye part late in 1882 or early in 1883 in the Montana territorial election, hav- ing become an American citizen there, After the elections be was indicted on the charge of having induced several half-breeds to vote, althcugh they had not the necessary qualifi- cationre, Before the prosecution was over he fled to his old home at St. Vital, Manitoba, Later he returned to Montana and removed his family to St, Boniface, Manitoba, In the fall of 1883, he went to the Saskatchewan country, where he has been ever since, There is no doubt whatever as to his American citi- zenship, ———— Congratulating Senator Logan, Aunaxy, N, Y,, May 21,—The following |3 has been sent: To Gen, John A, Logan, Chicago: The republican members of the New York as' sembly in caucus send their hearty congratu- lations on the occasion of your re-electionito the United States senate, and tender their thanks to the republican’ representatives of Tllinois for their united and unyielding sup- port of one whose patriotism and fidelity to to public trusts have won the regard and confidence of the republicans in all the states, Signed by N. M. Curtis, H, A, Baroum, committee, —— Attempt to Murder a Family, PITTSBURG, Pa,, May 21.—About 1 o'clock this afterncon Franz Karlind, a Bobemian, 18 years of age, shot and killed a three-year— old daughter of & man named Lepig and then fired two hots into his own heart, after shoot- ing twice at the child’s mother. No motive is known for the deed, young Karlind being on good terms with the ‘Lepig family, Mrs, Lepig was not hurt, ——— A Presbyterian Preacher's Suicido, CowunsyiLue, TlL, May 21,—The Rev, 'J, R. Ronsom, pastor of the first presbyteri church of {his: cley, commithed ‘sutelie b morning by shooting bimself through the head with & 82-caliber pistol. He was labor. ing under temporary insanit By Y, A Teller Skips the Country, New York, May 21—John A, Vangelder, receiving teller of the Union tional bank, fled. The examination of his books sh him to be & defaulter t0 the auiount of S50 ouce ou the roof they could have reached other | 000, ROGKETS, The Ch.cago Grain Markets Flash np in Brilliant Colors, Declining Consols the Primary Oause of the Advanca, What the Wise Ones Say of Wheat and Corn—Cattle and Hogs Make a Strong Decline, A DAY OF SURPRISE, WHEAT BOOMS, Special Telegram to The Bek. CH10AGO, T, May 21,—Congols were used again to-day s the lever by which to bull wheat, At the close last might they were offi dally quoted at 99 7-16 conts. At this morning’s opening thoy were 98 18.16 cents, from which point a gradual recovery was made to 99 1.16 cents, wheat in the mean- time being quotably firm and rather higher, June opening fc up, at S9%c, and advancing 1regularly to 90fc. At the top pretty much everybody let go and for an hour or two the situation gave promise of being easy, Looking around for the causes it was diseovered that some British troops from Egypt on another way home had been halted to await further iostructions, and straightway it was inferred that the late war with Russia was not yet over, The sensitive- ness of the grain markets at present to all sorts of foreign inflnences is both surprisiog and perplexing, a3 neither side knows what a day or an hour may bring forth. As a rul however, prices move downward very slo ly but go up like a rocket at the loast induce- ment. he bulls are growing more confident, and the bears hang on to their old therories and tactics with grim and stern tenacity, July wheat closed yesterday at 913c; opened this morn- ing at 92c, advanced 4c more and then d clined, The storm of selling which the sud- den rise evoked was more than the market could stand, though at the same time Liver- pool was 1 penny per cent, higher for Califor- nia club wheat, and cargoes on passago were quoted at 6 penca par quarter higher for C; ifornia just shipped. The crop reports were again bad, particu- larly from Kansas, The amount of whoat and flour on passage to the United Kingdom was reported to be about 150,000 quarters less than one week ago, and this was an additional element of strength, but the bears fought stubbornly, firmly resisting the advance, aud also believ- ing in lower prices for the future, Hence the market was kept within o narrow range, By the balancing of power toward the close of the sessiona part of the decline was re- gained, CORN, Corn was less active than wheat but pro- portionately firm, June and July options opened about fo higher than they closed yes- terday but there seems to be plenty of corn for sale at the advance, One party sold 50,000 bushels of July at 48@484c, and could have disposed of as much more at the same price. Tho entira situation in corn hangs on the receipts, Unless more comes in_ the market cannot go down, especlally with wheat firm, At the same time the present price of corn is about on a par with $1.25 wheat, There are a good many shorts out in June and July corn, and they feel quite confident in the safsty of their position. but they do not care to sell much more until they see car lots increasing. There are a variety of existing opinions concerning the future of corn, Some think the last crop was over.estimated, others that it has been largely consumed during the winter, while others still believe that there are ‘'stacks of it” lying back in first hands, which will come into market as s0on as planting is over, PROVISIONS, There is nothing whatever in provisions, Members sit around the outer edge of the pit and do everything but trade. The close in June pork was 5 over yesterday's quota- tions at $11.174, ~ Lard was unchanged, and only fluctuated Zhe. THE WHEAT OUTLOOK. The St. Louis crowd, alleged to be flong on wheat up to their eye-brows, are making des- perate attempts to hold up their own and our market, but the success they meet with is be- coming indifferent. Telegrams come in daily making the showing worse throughout Kansas than it was the day before, Local judees say that even allowing a crop’damage of 38 1-3 to 385 per cent in winter wheat in the Q8 ricts mentioned, it is improbable, in the lizat of 13,0€0,00) in store here, that we will have to eat four strawberry shortcake witbout the shortcako part of it for the want of flour to to make it out of. The longest heads on ’change are inclined to think that until some- thing very discouraging is heard from other winter wheat states, which are largely in the majority, capital will continue to carry the wheat as long as there is epeculation in it. CATTLE, The heavy receipts, not only here, but in competing markets, was more than this mar- ket could stand, and there was a sharp down turn of 10@16c on nearly everything that is used in the beef line, There were but fow loads of choico fat cattle, but there was an unlimited number of rather rough but fat and useful steers, and on this class the decline was_greatest, The low grade of canning stock was also lower and slow, with o larger per cent among tha fresh arrivals than for any duy this week, A few loads ef fancy dis- tillery cows made fancy prices, and a few loads of choice distillery bulls sold well up, but in & general way second class butcher’s stock sold off a stroog 10c, The stockers and teepers trade remains dull, Buyers are accumulacing and so far for the week there has not been a dozen country buyers on the market, 1 to0 1,600 pounds and over, £5,40@b,65; 1 to 1,350 pounds, butchers' common, 2 45@ good, $3.30@1 60; slopped steers, $4.75 @h,40; cows, 3.75@4 60; bulls, $4,005 grass Texans, $100@ stockers, 83,60@1,40; feeders, $1.50@1.9, HOGS, The market opened with a drop of a strong 5o on all sorts, and as the forenoon wore away low grade and medium packing sorts in many instances sold at 10c lower, but on good ay. sorted light or heavy tho decrease was only about 5o, Low grade and common packers wold at $4.00@4.10 and thereahouts, and best at $4,15@4 25, with fancy assorted heavy at N 30@4 35; packing shipping, QSg to 860 pounds, $4,15@4.30; light, fi(l to 210 pounds, 84.00@4 30, —— A Mexican Editorial Junket, Cmicaco, Ill,, May 21,—E, H, Talbot, publisher of the Railway Age, says that on Jupe 48 twenty-five of the leading editors and editorial writers of Mexico will leave the City of Mexico for an extended tour through the United States in the interest of the commer- olal relations of the two countries. Arriving at Elpaso, June 20, the party will visit in the order named: Las Vegas, Topeks, Kansas City, 8t. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Rochester, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, \\Va:hlrxtun. Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and San Auntonio, e — The Illinois Legislature, SpRINGFIELD, May 21,—Crawford offered o jolut resolution in the senate this morning donating certain tracts of land on the lake frout of Chicago for the purpose [of erecting barracks for military companies, It was re ferred to the committee, The general appro- priation bill was again takem up. After amending so a8 to appropriate 55,002 to put & new roof on the domo of ths state house it was sent to final reading, Leman'sbill to re- 1se the military code governing organization of state milltin was read the second time. Consideration was temporarilly postponed, Streeter’s piggy-sow bill was made the special order for next Wednesday, In the house Craft's hill providing for coun- ty clorks assessment rolls, passed, Willers bill passed providiog locomotives may stop within eigh hondred _feet instead of two a8 mow of a drawbridge or railrond crossing, allows run by junctions, the fine go to the county instead the informer and cumulative suits cannot be brought against the railroads, Boutello’s joint resolution adjourning from to-day to noxt Tuesday, was lost, tenrepublioans votig no with the democrats. inslow’s joint resolution for adjournment tine die Monday, June 14th, was laid on the table, Oalhoun’s bill changing the ;name Illinois Industrial University, to University of Illinois, paseed, A joint meeting of the revenue committoes of both houses of the legislature waa held thia afternoon, when a long discussion took place a8 to the revision of tho revenue lawe. It was the general impression that it would ke botter to appoint a revenue commissioner to make recommendations. The meeting ad- journed till Wednesday, when some definite action will be taken. i A 1t is now understood that Gen, Logan will leave for Chicago Saturday noon, and will attend the reception that night. e — DEAD IN A HOG OAR, THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF JOHN COLEMAN, A STOOK BUYER, AT PONCA, Special Telegram to The Ber. Poxca, Neb,, May 21.—This town is con- siderably exclted over the mysterious death of John Coleman, a stock buyer. He was Inst seen alive on Monday night about 10 o'clock, when he went with Mr, Crew, of Crew & Martin, stock dealers, to bed down the cars preparatory to loading some hogs. When this work was finished Mr, Crew left him. OoJeman’s absence from his hotel on Tuesday was not remarked, as he often went out of town, This morning Mr, Martin opened one of the cars to load it with hogs, and saw Coleman’s dead body lying on the floor, The body had not been disturbed, ex- cepting his right hand with the reyolver it it bad been on his breast, but was then by his side. The body lay faca up, the legs out straight, Dr. Hassen said that if he had shot himeself whero he was found the legs would naturally have been somewhat drawn up, and not straight, unless the bullet struck the spinal cord, in which case there might be in stant paralysis, and the legs not drawn up. The bullet wound was in the left breast, over the hsart, The hole in the clothing looked as if the shot had boen at very close range, ——— A Murderer Hanged by a Mob, Coruvmsus, 0., May 2L.—Marshal Henry Auer, of New Straitsville, 0., in a quarrel with Albert Guest, at that place to-day, wat shot by the latter soveral times in differen parts of the body, and cannot recover, One shot missed its aim, and hit a boy aged 11 years = filty yards away passing through his spine. He cannot recover., Guest loaded his revolvergand en- deavored to fire on two Pinkerton men who followed him, but they compelled him to sure- render, and he was locked up in jail, Strong threats of lynching are indulged in and trouble is feared before morning. Reports as to the trouble between the men are conflicting, one being that Mr. Auer was about to serve a warrant for the arrest of the Guests, and another that they were talking over some troubles they had had in the coun- try on the evening previous, 'wo hundred masked men beske into the prison to-night and compelled the constable, at the point of revolyers, to give up the keys, A vigilant mob then took Guest outand hung hhfi to a tree and riddled his body with bullets, e — Towa and Ransas Brewers Get Aid, New York, May 2L.—At the final meeting of the Brewera’ association here to-day the committee on restrictive legislation reported requests for aid from the brewers of Iowa and Kansas, John Walruff, of Leavenworth, spoke of the affaira in Kansas. The commit- tee's recommendation that the requests from Towa and Kansas be e¢ranted when test cases were carried to the courtof appeals was adopted by the convention, San Erancisco was fixed upon as the place for holding the next meeting. e — Disastrous Forest Fires, NeWBERRY, Mich, May 7 —The forest fires above this place have again broken out, and along the eouth side of the Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette railroad they are burning with great fierceness, Back of Newborry the for- ests are a perfoct mass of flames, Eight build- ings in the outskirts of town have already been burned, The village of Dollarville, a fow miles distant, is entirely destroyed, A gang of men are qut fighting 1hs flames. ——————— Samuel Counld not Hippodrome, B1LooMINGTON, IIl., May 21,—Samuel Nutt, who began a forty days fast on the Sth in- stant, saying he was commanded to do eo by the Lord, died at 1 p. m. to-day, Ho was somewhat widely known as the publisher of a curious religious paper entitled “The Spirit of the Truth.” e After a Northwi n Outlet, New Yok, May 21.—The inspectora of the Northern Pacific ralway held a prolonged session to-day discussing the contemplated lease of the Oregon navigation company to the Northern Pacific and the Union Pacifio roads, Nothing definite was agreed upon. e —— Indians Force Steele to Retreat, CaLcARY, Man., May 21,—Major Steele, with the advance guard, has had a skirmish with the Indians mear Fort Pitt, Ho lost some men and had to retire towards Edmon- ton, The reports of the affair o far aro ox- cocdingly vague, e —— A Brute Meets a Just Doom, Bavtmionk, Md,, May 21,— Howard Cooper, » negro convicted yesterday of raps on Miss Katie Giray, of Baltimore county, was this morning seutenced by Judge Stewnrt to bo hanged at such time as the governor may appont, —— Monument o Gen, Blair, 8r. Louis, Mo,, May 21.—A bronze statue of Gen, ¥, P, Blair was unveiled in Forest Park this afternoon, before 10,000 people, by Mrs, Ohristine Graham, daughter of the —e—— Miners Accepta Reduction, CoLumsus, 0., May 21, —The union miners at New Straitaville have decided to work at & reduced rate of 40 cents per ton, owing to the slack demand for coal, Very few can be ac commodated, Schwab Escapes by a Disagreement, New Youk, May 21.—The jury in thecase of Justus Schwab, socialist, under indict- ment for inciting riot, have been discharged, being unable to agr p i ——— Onio Prohihitionists Organizing. Covuurcs, Ohio, May 21,—The prohibition state convention will be held at Springfield on July 1+t and 2d, and a full i G l’mm(nn.ed an state ticket will ——— Ouba Defeats the Yaquls, Guavuas, Mex., May 21, —General Carbo engaged the Yaquis yesterday. A bloody battle eusued, fifty-seven Mexicans being :(lllad :n{dd m’lrlay “iu“ndll’dt:h He captured the tronghcld, o uurhinbd‘.‘ oss of the Yaquis has not STAND ASIDE. Cleveland’s Order To Repablican Office Holders in General: Demooratic Comment on the Con= fidential Letter of Vilas, &R Gall for the Mugwumps—A New Order Instituted—The Guillotine at Work—New Appointments, MR, VILAS SPEAKS, HIS LETTER DISCUSSED, 3pecial Telegram to The Brk. WasHiNgToN, May 21,—'‘ Vilas made a d—~ fool of himself when he wrote that con- fidential lotter,” said a veteran democrat to. day. “OF course the object he had in view whas all right, but there was no need of his issuing a confidential circular on the sublect,” Another democrat who had been in public life many years said:,*' I don’t share the opin. 10n of the men who regard Vilas's letter, and essentially the publication of 1t, a bad blunder, On the contrary, I consider the document a wiso production, and the publication of it, as he managed it, is a shrewd movement on the part of Vilas, Just remember the sit- uation of affaira when the letter was written, The administration had been beset for weeks with importunities for the re- moval of republican officeholders, and with complaints because the changes werenot made more oxpeditiously. Insoma quarters the dissatisfaction had become 80 great a opinion of some of the president’s advisers, to threaten party disaster. Now the president, as well as every member ot the cabinet. i3 a thorough damocrat, who wiehes above al things to Emmnh the success of his party, but of course he desires also not to alienate the mugwumps if ho can avoid it, and ever since he took his place at the helm he has kept his weather eye open for mugwump breakers, From the first the mugwumps were weak and innocuous, but the fact that the experiments were treated by the mug- wump newspapers as exceptions, or temporary aberrations of the administration, so to speak, convinced the president that some- tfii';g broader and more comprehensive was necessary not only to test the fidelity of the mugwuwp recruits, but also to show our lead- ers that the administration meant business, The circular of Vilas was not ieswed until ter the subject had been maturely considered by the president and his advisers, and it was designed to effect two objecte. Firat, to draw the fire of the mugwumps, if they had the spiritand courag open one, and second to convey assurance the congressmen and sen- ators of our party, and that the republican office holders were to be removed, and that in the selection of their successors the wishes and recommendation of congressmen and other leaders of the party were to be regard- ed. The plan has succeeded admirably, The mugwumps have roared about as violently suckling doves, g0 that the prasident feels as- sured that they will raise no nutcrg against any policy in regard to offices which he may deem necessary to adopt, and at the same time the malcontents in our own [)nrt{ have been silenced. The administration has been re- lieved by one bold stroke of two serious sources of embarrassments, and hereafter the work of filling offices with men who are in full accord with the party in power will pro- ceed smothly and swiftly. "The success of the new policy, in_a party sense, will depend largely upon certain modi- fications of the civil service rules, which it seems are now under consideration by such eminent civil service reformers as Daniel Manning, Nicholas Bell, Eugene Higgins, Daniel McConville, and “‘General” Sparks, By Associated Press. The president announced the following miscellsneous appointments this evening: To be colloctors of internal revenue—W. . Thompsnn, or tho second distict of Lowa; Byron W. Webater, for tho third district of own. To be collector of customs—Robert M. T. Hunter, for tho district of Tappannock, Va. To be surveyor of customs—Daniel O, Barr, for tho district of Pittsburg, Pa. To be attorneysof the United States— Henry C. Allen, for tho west district of Vir- inia: C. P, Black, for the esst district of ichigan. To be marshal of the Unlted Statos—Albert C, Gibbon, for the district of Louisians. Postmasters—L, W, Caldwell, Warren- ton, Virginia, vice W. M. Pattie, suspended; William P. Kittenour, Harrisburg, Virginia, vice James Sullivan, suspended; John A. Varner, Lexington, Virginia, vice O. 1. Deaurs, suspended; George B, Head, Lees- burg, Virginia, vice O, Thomas, suspended; A . Bibh, University of Virginia, vice K. H. Tife, fuspended; Mrs, Mary H. Long, Charlottesville, Virginia, roappointed; Johu ¥, Reagan, Terre Haute, -Indiana. The following explanations are offered for the suspensions of the above noted: Tho suspen- sions are mado in the exercise of the presi- dent’s power of removal, and removals wero mado because the postmasters were_partisans of such o kind as satisfied the president that they ought not_to continue_in the service under the administration. In addition, the postmaster at Leesburg has three times, upon inspection, been found to bave applied the moneys of his office to personal nge 8o thut his cash was twice deficient in 1881 and onco during the prosent spring, though in each in- stance it was made good. He had also ro- dated remittances in other cases, ¥, A, Switzer, of St has' boen appointed chief burean_ of statistics of the ury department, vico Joseph mo, resigned by request, The pointment of United States marshal for the sonthern district of Jowa in still an unsettled question, The commission of Christopher L, Williams 1a still suspended awaiting further inquiry by tho president into_the caso and Towa congressmen here are confident 1t will be rovoked and that Ed Campbell will finally got the appointment, Representative-elect 11all, of the First Towa district, in_which Mr. Wil- lioms lives, has arrived in this city and brings & protest against the appointment, To-day Hall, Congressman Weaver and other Towa democrats called upon the president and had a conference with him on the subject. These gentlemen express themselyes confident of tho success of their labors. Louis, o — Hanlan Compliments Bet 8AN Franoisco, Cal, May 21—Rdward Hanlan, the oarsman, has arrived here from Australia, Questioned regarding his defeat by Beach, Hanlan replied: * I simply met a better man than I was at the time. I was beaten fairly and squarely, I shall return to Australia in_eighteen months aud try him again, Boach is the best man I ever met and Tam authorized by his backer to eay that he 18 ready to row any man in the world for from §5,000 to $25,000 and allow trayeling ox- penses.” Hanlan is in exellent health, He will remain here ten days, He then goes to Toronto to train for summer rowing. A Distinguished Divine. Monsigneur Capel, the dlstinguished Eutopean divine, will arrive in Omaha Saturday, snd a com- mittee from the catholic church kave completed arrangements for him to lecture at Boyd's opsra house Sondsy night. Mgr, Capel s noted as belng one of the greatest orators now living. Bome conception of his oratorical powers are afforded by an extract from a description glven of him by the New York Tribune of a recent date, which 1s a8 follows: The speaker lays down his propositions With almost annoying simpliolty and di- roctness, and recapitulates at evory step, as If distrasting the memory or receptive intelligence of the congregation, But he clearly believes with all his might what he has to say, and THE BEAIL GROWLS W1 Englieh gt snd phuok 1o meve o [RUSSia Obstinate in Her Demands for Var with England, hearers accept and share thete convic- tlons, The logle is olose, simple, severe, Ie]umul:tlval, and that man who makes an onest reslstance must look about him fn lvely way, aud burnia,up his tras @ladstone Says no Aereoment ieat weapons. 1t makes for the proacher's i purpse that he usually t%pmuc)ml Therein Has Baen Reached masser who think or care but little or ::dlll'erently about the o;ntnl themes he | The Government too Busy to Attend scusses—so mnot unfrequently men awako to the conclusion tllnt this firsty T e s S dellberate, thorough exposition, Is an ex: Ordered to Halt at Oairo, haustlve finality, and that notning more remains to be sald. _ Ho disclalms the raputatlon and noto- rioty of controverslalist, is fond of de- veloping the postulate that life and man| 1-ONDON, May 21,—The Times this morn- are stronger and nobler at the heart than | ing, in speaking of the order issued yester- the head, and {s habitually courteous and | day detaining in Fgypt the guards who were conslderate In the analysis of hostlle the- | on their way home from Suakim, says: There ories and dn(‘ine!, is no need to attribute this action to the posi tion of the Anglo-Russian difficulty, There is more than enough iu the affairs of Ezypt to enforco the necessity of precaution, if not to justify positive disquiet. RUSSIA WANTS WAR, Stocke, home and foreign funds, are de- —_— THE AFGHAN SITUATION, NOT OF SIONTFIOANCE, MYSTERIOUS BPIDEMICS, DOCTORS BAFFLED BY UNKNOWN DISEASES IN 10WA AND PENNSYLVANIA, Des Moroks, Tows, May 21—A very peculiar and extremoly fatal diseass of short duration to the patient is prevailing in Wayne | Drested in consoquence of the general feeling township, Jones county, and mostly fn On. | that Russin will permit no peaceful solution slow and Langworthy, The disease is first | Of the present troubles, but that she Is bent noticeable in a slight sore throat; from there | 00 haviog war, The delaying of the return 1t goes to the lungs, and finally lodges in the ;:;!“.Rfl';'d' O’ba“fll;: nng the news f‘wm the spine, when death Immediately follows ia in regard to continted war proparations - | thero 1 th asy feeling upon Tho discaso is generally of about two days’|the vatious exchampaer " ¢4 feoling up the various exchanges, duration, and has go far bafiled all medioal HARTINGTON REFUSES TO EXPLAIN, skill. It is supposed to have been 1In the house of commons this afternoon the brought from the old country by John Claes- Marquis of Hartington, in_reply to an in- sen and family, who arrived from Germany | quiry by Sir Stafford Northcote, stated that about April 1, stopping a while with 'Dick it was not thought by the government desir- Collman, Soon after the members of this | able to give the reasons for the detention of tamily wera attacked by a disease which | the guards at Alexandria, It was stated by caused an eruption of the ‘skin similar to that | the government some time ago, said Harting which attends measlos or scarlet fever, This | ton, that it was desirable to concentrate the was followed by a sore throat and ewelling | British troops then in Soudan for possible and blackening of the tongue, This disease | service elsewhere. That operation is not yet " soon caused the death of two of Claessen’s | suspended, ;huldmln, a boy 4 years eld and a Igm of 11, GLADSTONE ABSORBED WITH RUSSIA, becamo. aflicted, snd e wite, agod a7 |, Cadetone sald the government would bo and his sister-inlaw, a young lady o : T R ST Ay been quarantined, and every effort is being | government, he said, would give notive of made to prevent the apread of what the phy- vy WiSIREN usl a contagious disease, The I'lvpllgye! their intentions with regard to these duties. NO AGREEMENT WHATEVER, of the disease have been confined to those ‘‘Nothing is yet settled”, said Gladstone in places where the emierant family visited. How it became seated at Onslow is ehe ques- | the commons this evening, “in regard to the tion, The Towa medical association has |arbitration between England and Russia, taken 1t in hand, and is attemoting to ferret | nor has it been absolutely settled who shall out its origin and learn its causo and the|be the arbitrator,” proper treatment, There are four or five CABINET MEMBRRS TO RESIGN, now down with it at Langworthy, and a num- ! ber in Onslow, It is mostly in German fam- | It was rumored this evening that Chamber- ilies, It is the opinion of some doctors that [ 1ain had resigned his seat in the cabinet, but it is a species of “'ship fover.” the report proved untrue, It is stated, how- PirTsBURG, Pa,,May 21.—A strange disease | ever, in well-informed circles that bis resigna- Daffling the skill of physicans has broken out | tion is certain with, perhaps, that of Dilke, in Paris, a station on the Panhandle road, | the dissenion in the cabinet over the crimes eiehteen miles from Pittsburg. In one fami- | act having become acute, ly there has been five deaths, and the mother | In the house of commons this evening (ilad- Is insane. Eight persons have died, and |stone stated that the time was inopportune to eight more are sick. The local physicians re- | explain the grounds for the renewal of the fuse to attend the patients, and Steubenville | crimes act. physicians are there, The disease is eperading GLADSTONE'S DRISTLES ARISE, rapldly, and w Replyting to numerons crhidu;ns of the gov- ernment's policy and charges of withholdiny SMOOTH MR, FINK, information, /Gladsiono retortod that ho THE GREAT COMMISSIONER DISCUSSES RAIL. ,3:,';.“’;;,"“;};‘5,':,‘5,’,,‘,‘,‘,:"’:,,;m""b,;',";z*;.;‘;; ROADS BRFORE THE SENATORS, making utterances and criticisms which tend- New Yonk, May 21,—At the meeting of | ed to strengthen the hands of tho Russian the United States senate inter-state com- | WAt party. merce committee gq.dny, Railroad Pool Com- OFFICERS OF THE POWERS CONFER, missioner Alfrod Fink) made a loog state- | Baron De Staal, the Russian minister to ment, in which he said: *“There is now very | England, after consulting with M, Lessar, listlo complaint of excessive railrond chargo | tho apocial Kussian agent horo, had an nter” Many railroad corporations have boen driven | view with Earl Granville, foreign minister, into bankruptcy because their charges were| The Earl of Kimberly, secretary of state for too low to” ‘pay _oxpenses. do | India, had a conference to.day with M, Lessar not believe in establshing by law|and Baron De Staal. a maximum rate, The action of a road_can RUSSIA EQUIPS STRATEGETIOAL POINTS, geucnl points along tha gulf of Finland. of late, The questionis, 'shall one road by a adopting ruimously low’ rates be allowsd by | 14r0 ordera have bean issued to gun carriers, MERELY RUMOR. bankrupt others?’” The roads are better able to fix their own rates than any state or na:| Sr, PrTERsBURG, May 21,—Rumors are cur- tional commission, Railroad men | rent hero to the effect that the Anglo-Russian make rates the study of their lives. | negotiations have collapsed. It is belioved, There are hundreds of things to be taken into | however, that the rumor originated with the consideration which outeiders know nothing | war party about, Many interests can be controlled and T subserved only through such commerclal cx-| B s En OB ganizations as I represent, Railroad corpora- | VARNA, May Russian influes tions should be compelled to organize them- | the porte has been iccreasing since Greece de- selves for this purpose. A law to compel cor- | clared her intention to support Enpland in porations, after they have entered 1oto an | the event of war with Ruseia, agreewent n regard to rates, to keep it PERSIA AIDS RUSSIAN SOLDIERS, should be passed.” Tho raileoad property of | rpgrg, sy, May 21, The governor of Persia, the whole country should bo managed as one | gurikhs, has granted the request of the Lus. property, FEither railroads should be gov-|iyn commander at Merv to allow two bat- erned by the government or by associatlons | torjeg of Russian troops to march through formed among themselves,” Mr, Fink prom- | pergia on tho left bank of the Tejan river, the ed to proparo somo suggestions whioh might | roady on the right being flooded. aid the committes in formulating bills, Gladstone Objects to Denmark. e ; —= s 81, PETERsBURG, May 21.—1t is stated that A BnootingiBorapoiatEorsia, Gladstone has refused to_refer the Afghan Correspondence of The Dk, dispute to the king of Denmark, and has Pansia, La., May 20,—Quite an excitement | asked Russia to name some other ‘atbiteator, occurred here over the supposed shooting of Mr. Bell, the confidential clerk of the firm of Bradley & Metcalf, of Milwaukee, Wis, This BERNHARDT'S PERFORMANCES, morning Mr. Boll called upon Mr. Bartell,| Pams, May 2L—The German authorities ostensibly on o friendly business call, and it | have forbidden the proposed performance of scems that during this interview some few | Mme. Bernhardt in Metz and Strasburg in words passed, when Mr, Bartell procured a|June, Ak revolver, as Mr. Bell says, and_told Mr, Bell VIOTCR HUGO'S CONDITIO! that he (Bartoll) was going to shoot him. Mr. | Victor Hugo passed the night fairly well, Bell made for the door, and Bartell shot at | His condition this morning Is unchanged, him twico. Bell felt, something strike bim, and walked to hiu hotel, a distance of thred hundred yards, bleeding profusely from a| The prediction is made that the outbreak in wound in the head, Dr. Hill, of Persia, was | Macedoo and Bulgaria against_the Turks called; also Dr, Van News, of Neold, Both |and Groeks will sot the whole Slavie world failed to find any leaden missile beneath tho | in flames, ""m"“?"d d“%‘:l‘n I‘ln" no ‘"fl'i"‘fi fl”‘l“l“ “)"a THE STATUE DEPARTS FOR AMERICA , apprehended in the case, as at this hour the % s 5 wounded manin resting. comfortably, M. | ROUER, May a1 - Tho stomabip Tuece with Lartell was promptly arrosted, aud Wil have | oy Now York. Ity departure'was made the ol 2 . oceaslon for a demonstration of all civil and Presbyte) Preachers Quarrel, z.li‘n‘ah::{:¥ 3«“3;‘:‘;::“1;‘: e‘v‘(‘s:zu Y ASILRHAE 5 CNoisNati, O., May 22, —The general 88-| g DYNAMITERS BEGIN THEIR SENTENCE, semhly of the presbyterian church began its | Tonnow, May 21.—The convioted dyna- session this morning in the first presbyterian | miters, Cunningham and Burton, were re church. The Rev. George P, Hoyes, of |moved toduy from Nowgato to the convict Denver, the retirng moderator, preached the | prison at Chatham, opening sermon, aftor which the general as. sembly was formally constituted by s prayer, A ERIvaY and adjourned till Afternoon, Frival @Upon reassembling the Rev. Nicholas, in| At the Metropolitan: J. K. Vandemark, seconding the nomination of Dr. Cravens for | Valparaiso; D, C, Ireland and wife, Grand moderator, made referanco to former maniv- | fyland; A, ¥, Willis, Lincoln; L. D, Wood- ulations and letter writing in cons i) 3 lagn nection with this office, ~ Moderator | Full, ¥ork; A, Beckmap, Oakdale; J, N, Hayes said it was impossible | Southgate, Blair; G, C, Houck, Ainsworth; to m:nuu;lu;e ihl-I-mem"ubly«ma ;I‘h;- l:uunl;u D. K. Rinehard, Aurora; W, D, McKay, number of of members their feef After i s G several speeches deprecating any recogaition | ¥ oPing Water; G. W. Oulp, Nemaha, Neb, of the roferences to wire pulling, nowspaper [ Willism A. Johuson, 8t Louls; J, H, Bull- ivfluence or manipulating of any kind, Drs. | ard, M. D., Pacific Juuction; E. ), Berveson, Hmwnn_nn, Monfort and Pomeroy'’s names David Endres and wife, Albany, N, Y .; Mrs, woro withdrawn, and the eleotlon resulted: | y"yron "o Fa e ¥ ol T B AG T Hopper, 19; Dickey, 207; Cravens, 501, Dy, |- Heins and daughter, Chicago; C. R, Wil Cieay s e AcclatAateicl coa iams, 8¢, Louls; John Whiteley, Chicago, O B. Buckingbam, New Millford, Conn,; Fred W. Eaton, Boston; C, F. Fahs, York, Pa.j Heary ¥, Green, New York; C, O, Bailey and wife, Akron, Ohio; Mrs, J, Woodworth, Des Moines; Towa, e — Desperate Battle With Burglars, o with GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. A SLAVIC WAR, ———— tThe Weather, WASHINGTON, May 21,—The upper Miss- issippi:—Local rains, partly cloudy weather, preceded in the northern portion by fair woather, variable - winds, etationary temperature, IThIB Mlu:‘url v.llayfi:’v;,u‘m "rhnm. |&r“y Burrox Oy, O,, May 21,—A clerk sleep- cloudy weather, preceded in the southern i ) . A portion by faie weathor, winds blowlng varia. | 1€ iB James Connor's store awakened this Dle, stationary temperature, except in the ex- | morning and saw several men working at the treme northern, slightly cooler. safe, Ho aroused his employer who, with R p——— hls & empted to arrest the burglars, As Usual, The latter made a desperate fight. Four of CLEvELAND, Ohio, May 21,— Clevel and, 12; | them escaped and one was killed. Connor Omaba, 7. ; was fatally wounded, The dead burglar bad MiLwAukge, Wis,, May 2),—Milwaukee, | papers on his person bearing the name ef H, 0; Indinnapolis, 9, ' Adams, 'fhv thieves seaured $3,000,