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

R s NO 255 THIRTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA, NEB., SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1885. WRECKED BY WiND. A Terific Storm Swieps Down 1he lissonri Valley, The Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Council Bluffs Destroyed. €. Linguest's New Four tcry Buid tog Crushed into a Mass of Ttutns—One Man Injured, DETAILS OF THE DISASTER?, WILD WINDS, The elements were vory angry for o while last evening, They roared and plunged and rolled, venting their wrath in wild peals of hander, wicked flashes of lightning, sweeping wind and the heaviest fall of rain that has been seen here for a long time, Tho day had boen hot and sultry. Old prognosticators predicted storm and thoy were right Between 6 and 7 o'clock black clouds began to loom up away to the north and little gusts of wind flirted with miniature waves of dust about the streets, Ina few minutes the heavens became Car- kened with clouds of inky blackness and the air was filled with & stupendous mountain of dust that wae deiven with terrific force across city and country, Ixcitement reigned su preme and hundreds of people were frightened for their lives, Following immediately upon the heels of the first heavy burst of wind came a very hard raio, accompaniea by a co- pions supply of hail, which continued to pour down about half an hour #o hard that the streets run rivers of rushiug water mx inches deep. As a natural result the wind left inits wake evidences of more or less damage. Omaha suffered somewhat. The |)||mlpn.l and greatest damage was that which;befell Mr. C. Linquest's new whole- sale stora building, a four story brick structure, occupying Nos, 1005 and 1007 Jones street, which was 1u course of erection, The walls of the buildicg were up and ready to receive the reof, which would have leen put on next week. ~With the first sweap of heavy wind that struck ths uucompleted edifice there was a frighttul crash, a fearful dust, and almost every particle of the entire structure laid in a broken, shapeless mass in the cellar and on the gronad round about, Caused by this wreck, ater Olson, a car penter, is the sufferer of what aro_belioved to be fatal injuries, Mr. Olson lived all alone ina small frame shanty on lot 1003 which ad- joine the fallen building on the east, At the time of the catastrophe, the injured men was in_ his abode pre- paring to retire for the night, About one- quarter of the east side wall tell on top of this listle shanty, completely crushing it to the ground and burying the nofortunate victim beneath a large pile of Dricks and mortar, He managed, however, to ¢xtricate himself and staggered, bleeding ])mf\m*l{, out into tho street, P, Wiig, who keeps the Foston dry_goods stors on the opposite corner, saw the injured man and ran at once to his assist- ance, He was carried into a barber shop on the cornar of Tenth and Jones stroets and Dr. Galbraith was summoned to attend him, On examioation it was found that Mr, Olson had the top of hishead laid «pen, tho gash being about six iuches long aud to the scull. The doctor thought that no boues were bro- ke, though Mr, Olson seemed to be suffering great poin and talked very irrationally, Hav- ingno family here or other home to goo to than the one that bad been laid low, his friends took him to St. Joseph'a hospital. His condition was considered very critical, and it is extremely doubtful whether he re- covers. The ill-fated building is a total wreck. The two side walls were blown down to the very foundation stones, and the rear wall has gone down the center tothe tops of the first story windows, leaving standing at cach cor- ner high columus of bricks which loomed ap in the gloaming and looked liks dark smoke stacks, About two-thirds of the front wall remained, buc it was all taken down last night to prevent further accident and possible loss of life. Tho brick and stone contractors of this building are Baily & Olson, and the wood work contractors are Hamilton & Wooley. They were to turn the struc- ture over completed to its waer, Mr, Linquest, for $22,000, What they had done before last evening’s disaster is a to tal loss, and will not fall far short of $10,000. The contractors had until within the past two days a builders’ policy on the job, but Mr. Hamilton stated to a Beg reporter last even g that he thought they had let it run out, Of course some of the material, bricks and timbers can be used in rebuilding but much of it will have to be replaced with new. A large crowd of people collected after the ruin was over tolook at the ruins, At one time a sensational rumor n{;rend around that a man had been seen in the building not three minutes before it fell, and was buried underneath the ruing, but this rumor proved to be groundless, A FEW STORM INCIDENTS, eral small out buildings were turned S over. Tt was tho hardest rain that has been scen here for many yoara. A street car was blown from the track at the corner of Tenth sed Farvam, A few very luuu{ things were noted, Douglas street looked like o river at ono time. A large number of collars were looded. Portable signs were transported in all directions. A hack with two people in it was turned over, ou Douglas street, but nobody suffered by reason of injuris, Tne rear wirduy of Bell's drugstore at 520 South Tenth stret was blown in and vome damage resultod to one o two cases of medicines, A buggy, containing lady and gentleman, ming down St. Mary's avenue, was caught by a stray gust of wild wind and tipped over, No serious damage, | In one of the Sixteenth street horse cars when u blinding glare of lightniog lit up the rurrounding ecene, a greac big woman sud dgaly faited and {lopped over iato. dho arms of a little man, Luting the very hardest of the rain an a'arm of fire wasturned in from box 54, calling te department to extinguish a small coal house blaze, at the rear of Edwin Davis' block on the corner of Sixtecath and Burt sireets IN UNCIL BLL THE DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM Spocial Telegraw to The Bek, Couscr. BLuers, June L8t evening » cyclone struck the institution of the deaf and dumb, located about three miles out from Conncil Bluffs, The cloud was of fuunel shape and of graenieh color, and came rapidly aud straight from the northwest, Mr. Landis, one of tho teachers, was sitting on the porch chatting with Mre, Ham. mond,wife of the ruperintendent of the in stituifon, and they watched 1ts approach, but felt no alarm, until the wind began to grow 80 strong 18 to bend the trees, and scatter light objects ubout, There were only about twenty-five persons abont the institution, the term having closed Wednes day, and the pupils with the excepticn of four, having goue to their homes. Superintendens Hammond was in tho city, 'S, WRECKED, Georgo 8. and his fu aud the cmployes were at the Justitution, The ¢ ne struck the center of the main buillding, vo which wae attached two wivge. This main buildipg was sor mounted by & large cupola about twenty feet high, This was oze of the first things'to go, and it went almost bodily, strikiog the ouud at & distance of filsy feet from the Luilding, Avalarge window in tho seend story was | blown in, Mr. Landis sounded the alarm and ot all tho persons into a sort of tunnel, which is ured for coal, and which proved a place ot safety. 'They had no sconer got In then before the cupols, roof and npper storiea of the main building were torn off, and tim bers, bricks and 1oards were scattored in al directions over a space of two hundred feet, Tho ecene of terror lasted bus a few moments but it was thriiling, : Superivtendent Hammond was on his way with a tesm from the c ty and was nearing the institute when the stormicanie up, At Mos quito creek, the win | blew &0 that he wban doned the wagon, cut the traces, and spri ing onto one of tho horses, and the deiver cn tha other, tucy hurried tu the buildings, arriving juet in timo to help care for thy frightened group As soon as the storm had subsided enough to make u survoy ui Lhe wreck poweible such observations wore tiken as ths darkuess aud the debris would perwit, It was found that the roof of the main buildiog had not only gone, but the whole of the fifth story and a portion of the fourth, while the heavy torrents of rain had drenched everything, The wines which are not so high as the main building had suffercd some, but mainly by the tearing away of connecting timbers, as the main building was carried off, The lovg cortidor leading back from the main buiid 10g was swept away, and a part of the root of the new chapel was injured, while the front of the new chapel was damaged by the tearing awoy the corridor leadiog to the main building, It could not ba determined last night how extensive this damage to the front was, but it was not thought to be very ereat, Superintendent Hammoud last night roughly estimated the damage to the main building at £5,000, but it eeems that 1t must far exceed this amount, In the front of the main building was a very lsrge window above the entrancs and one of ths tirst waves of the cyclons was tv blow this in, and thus get mside of the bumld- ing, procaring an excsllent chanes to lift the roof. The roofless building with its shattered walls and its upper stories gone, seems very much as if & mammoth cannon ball had struck 1t in front and gone right through it, tearing it away in asortot V shape, the wings of the building being dam- aged only where they connected Tt was most fortuaate that the calamity did not occur a few days sgo, when the school was in progress, About fifty boys usually sleep on the first floor, in the very part of the building which was carvied off, and, as_they would have bean in their beds at that time in the eveujng, there must have been a great fa- tality, As it was, not a person wa3 injared, the alarm given by Mr Lundis causing all to leave the building in ti Tho grounds are strewn with the debris, Some of the heavy timbers were car ried 250 feet. The loose brick, as_they were broken from the wallg, seemed to ha whirled in a circle and brought back throuyh the win dows of the lower floors, smashing the glass and allowing plenty of opanings for the rain to pour into the lower rooms in addition to what poured down from above, A TKRAIN CRUSHED MANY P ENGERS INJURED IN A WRECK ON THE SIOUX FALLS ROAD, Stoux Crry, Ia, Juue 12 —Two men have just arrived from nine miles north of this city. They were passengers on the Sioux Talls train of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road due here at 7:10 this evening. The train was atruck by o cyclone and every car thrown from the track and emashed to pieces, There were three passanger coaches and a baggage car. A large number of persons were injured, ‘A wrecking train haa just left for the scane of the wreck, The accident occurred near Me- Cook, a small station across the line in Da- kota, about seven milcs northwast of here. The train was going at nearly full speed when the cyclone struck 1t, Every car was_blown fromthe track and the engine partially de- railed. Between sixty aud seventy passen- gers were in the cars and most of them mirac- ulously escaped with slight injurie L. . Scott, express messenger, was badly hurt, and is supposed to be intornally injured. An_old coupls, whose names were not learned, wera also quite severely injured, but it is thought not fatally. Nearly every passenger on tho train suffered from scratches, bruises or contusion, but save thoto moationed o one was badly urt, Thestorm waa a_very severe one, and the telegraph wires ara prostrated in all direc- tions except along_tha ling of the St, Paul rond. Along tho Pacific six miles of wire are lying flat. So faras learned there was no se rious damiage to crops or buildings, no hail accomponing the storm, The wrecking train will be late in_arriving a8 the track at the sceno of the wreck is _con- siderably torn up, The above repart of the accident is substantinlly correct, as gleaned from the passengers and railroad men who have reached the city by private conveyance. e PR Teemer Ohallenges Hanlon, Prrrsione, Pa,, June 12,—John Teemer issued a challengo to Edward Haulon to-day, offering to row one race of either four or five wmiles for from 81,00 to £5,000a side and the championship of ‘America, or fivo races each of 81,000 aside at the following distances: Three miles, threo and one-half milee, four miles, four ‘and oue-half miles, five iniles, Tho racos are to bo rowed on auy waters agreed upon. _ As an evidence of good faith Teomer deposited with the Pittsburg Leader * John Toomer is arranging for a grand re- getta open to the world to be held nero dur- ing July. Prizes aggregating $5,000 will be offered and it is expectod that the induce- ments will be sufliclent to attract the best scullers in the country, ———— The Day On the Turf, Sr. Louss, Mo, June 12,—At to-day's rices there was weather threatoning, but the track was fast and the attendance large, Birst race—Milo and an eighth; Jim Doug las won; Freeland, sccond; Valet, third, Time, 1:5 Second raco—ilo and a quarter; Pearl enuings won; Binnette, second; McCreary, the only other starter, beaten off, ~Timie, ) Third race—Mile and a quarter, three- year-olds; Volante won; Bootblack, second; Irish Pat, third, Time, 2:12, Fourth raca—Three quarters of a mi'e, two- year olds; Syntax won; Silver Cloud, second; Hattie D H., third, Time, 1 e ———— Children Play With an Oil Can, TARENTION, Pa, June 12,—Hemy Alte meyer's three sons, aged 7, 5 and 7 years respecrively, were terribly burned this morn- iog Ly the explosion of & can of refined petroleum, The children obtained possession of the oil in soma manner and were playing with it io an outhouse. One of them applicd a match tothe can and an explosion followed. The burping fluid was scattered in all di tions and ths children were with difiicult rescued from the flames. Two of them w die and the third 1s in a serious condition, ——————— Testing the Dolphin, W.ASHINGTON, June Secretery W hit' ney telegraphed Captain Belknap, now in Neéw York engaged 1o testing the dispatch boat Dolphin, that yesterday's trial was en irely valueless, as the test desired was for he purpose of proviog the boat's ability to tanda heavy sea, Tho secretary ordered nother teial to settle this point. aBayard has returned fromn the west, e The Transcontinental Association, Cuicao, I, June 12— The Transconti uental ascociation met here to-day, but fur thes than appointiog a committee to consider tho question of percentage. accomplished no usiuess of importauce, The session will be continued to-morrow VIGTORIA'S CALL, The Hargnis of Salisbury Summoed to Baimorel Cas:le. Invitad by the Queen, He will Orga a New Government, The Grand Old Man Iiesigns and Goes His Way—2horey Path ways_ for the Hew Ad- ministrution, PREMIER SALISBURY, GLADSTONE STANDS ASIDE, Special Telegram tojthe Brx Ne# Yonrk, June 12,—The Sun cablegram from London says: There is an exasperating slowness about the march of events in connection with the gov ernment arisis, but the people have got over the first flash of impatience and now seem content to await the return of the queen and the result of the andiences at Windsor whien will immediately2follow. Sheis expected to arrive Saturday and everything will remamn in obeyance until that time. All journeys to Balmoral which bave been planned have been abandoned. The ministry will have nothiug to say to the houso when it reassem. bles and further adjournment will probably be taken till Monday. Thers is absolutely no accees to the promier. The ministers are cqually iaaccessible, but their movements can be more easily watched. It is understood Gladstone still is determined to go out. THE CHOLERA, Special Tolegram to The Exx. New York, June 12.—The Herald's Madrid Cablegram saya: The cholera is slowly but steadily increasing in the provinces, spreading like ofl from its first contact, In Madrid the greatest excite ment prevails, consequent upon the removal of the troops trom the city, Al cases to date in Madrid can bs directly traced to excess or unhealthful life, THE COMING PREMIER, By Asscciated Press, 2, —It is learned from an authoritative source that the Marquis of Sals- bury, having been summoned by the queen, started at midaight last night for Balmoral, Now that it has bacome apparent, by the de- parture of Salisbury for Balmoral, that the tories will assume the reins of government, Parnellite members of parliamont have begun conferring with leading conservatives with regard to the government of Ireland. Par- nell and his followers strongly urge the tories to adopt home rule measures for Ireland, stating that the advocacy of such a step by the conservatives would completely dish the liberals, Tha Queen has accopted the resignation of the Gladstone ministry and has summoned Earl Salisbury to form the new cabinet. Gladstone announced in the house of com- mons this afterncon that he had resigned office and that the Queen had accepted hia resigna- tion and had informed him that she had sum- moned Salisbury, leader of the opposition in the house of lords, to Balmoral for the pur- pose of entrusting him with a formatioa of & new ministry, Gladstone, continuing, said that under the peculiar circumstances mrraundim} the out- going government, he would a little later pro- pose that tha house of commons adjourn un- til next Monday. The question had arisen, he proceeded, whether it would be best for the public confidence and interest to go on with pending legislation eoncerning the redistribu- tion of seats bill. The present government would only do so with the consent of the house. e_did not belizve that any differ- ence of principle in rezard to this important mensure could now possibly arise between the parties, and he reminded the house that the government and opposition were both under a compact regarding the redstribution bill, It would however be %nlifying to himself and collesgues in retiring from the cabinet if be- fore they ceased their rublil: duties the; could regard the bill as sealed and delivered, Northcote, on behalf of the conservatives, responded that his party desired to proceed With the redistribution bill as rapidly a8 pos sible, There wa) no reason why amend- ments to the bill by the house of lords should not at once receive assent of the house of commons, but he thought it would ba desira- ble to have them printed before formally acting on them, Gladstone acquiessed in this view and it was decided to make the amend- ments a subject of discussion on next Monday and adjournment was then taken to that At 5 o'clock this afternoon Gladstone re- ceived & communication from the queen, n which her majesty ackuowledges the receipt ot the resignation of the prime minister and cabinet, and also states that pending consid eravion of tha recignation of the (iladstone ministry sha had summoned to Balmoral the Marquis of Salisbury, In the houss of lords Granville annou:ced that Gladstone had ten dered the resignation of himee'f and cabinet, and that the queen had accepted the same, Therefore, Granville said, he hoped the house would abandon all ordinary business, The rem.icder ¢f the session was ocenpied in reading for the third time the redistribu- tion bill and passing the amendments thereto.} PEOPLE GIVE SLISUUBY AN OVATION, Telegrams from princi route taken by the Mar through a continued serios of popular ovations. On all that part of the way which lies in Scotland, crowds of peoply assembled ut all railroad stations and cheered **Tho coming , At Aberdeen station, where the train man, stops , the demonstration was particularly enthusiastic. Here some ono called out “three cheers for Gladstone,” and the invitation was grested with groans and hisses, add Gladstone in commons It is reported to-day that the Marquis of Salisbury, after the consultation with the con servativo leaders, had decided to advise that efforts be mado to induce Gladstone to recon- sider his resolve io resign, and shonid thess «fforts fail, then to suggest that Sir Stafford Northcote be called upon to furm a cabinet, DUFFERIN'S POSITION SECURE, SniLa, June It 18 understood here that the change of ministry in Eogland wili not involve a change in the pozition of Earl Df- forin as viceroy of India, GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS, AN EXHIBITION RUILDING ON FIRE. J0N, June 12.~The immense buildiag upied by the international invention ex. hibition is cn five and bureing furiously, It is feared that most of the inventions on ex- hibition will be totally destroyed. The fire originated in the Indian museum annexed to the greatbuildiog and spread rap- idly, owiog to the inflamable condition of the materlal with which it was filled, Visitors and sttendsnts fled immediastely on the first alarm and escaped with- out accident. The fire department quickly responded to the alarm and soon fifty engines were sending heavy streams of water into ths building. The fizemen finally obtasned con- trol of the flames, but not until many articles in the Indian museum were desteoyed and the uuildiog serious'y damagad, The flames did not extend into the wain building avd the dreaded calamity was preuented, The dam- age to the main exbibition is, however, coneid erable, oc THE POPE AND THE IRISH, Roue, Juse 12.—Itis publicly ancounced that the pope has given sanction to the de cisions of the Irish bishopa upon the juestions submitted to thew, at the recent mesting in 1 points along the s of Salisbury to Balmoral show that the journey was made Rome, Tt is aleo stated that he has given ap proval of the programme for the meeting of the Irish bishops soon to be held in Dublin, TURIAL OF A BISHOP AT MONTREAL. MoNTREAL, June 121t is estimated that at least 10,000 people witnessed the funeral ceremony of the dead archbishop, The ser- viors began punctually at 9 this morning, the officiating clergymen being Rishops Williams of Boston, Wadham of Ogdensburg, Bishop Fabre of Montreal, Bishop Duhamel of Ot tawa, Archbishop Fayo delivered the ser- mon. After this the procession proceeded to the church of Notra Daime do Pile, where the remains of Mge. Lartique, first bishop of Montreal, had lain, These were exbumed yesterday snd have been 1,-in§ in state ever since, The procersion headed by two hearses cmtainivg tho bodies of the bishap and archhbishop then proceeded to St. Peters cathadral, where another core wiony took place, afrer which the remaine of the two bishovs were laid to rest within the samo vault, RARTHQUAKE IN CAUOASUS, §r PRTEUSBURG, June 12,~ An_earthquake occurred in eastern Caucasus, The town of Likuch was completely swallowed and the township suffered damago to the extent of several million roubles, SPANISH ARRIVALS QUABRANTINED, Panis, Jgne 12,—In view of cholera in Spain, the French government has given or ders to rubject arrivals from Spain on the Franco Spanish frontier to three days’ quar rantine, RIVAK*R ON T STAND. HE DISCUSSES RATES, Citicaco, Til., June 12, —Before the inter- state commerce committee to-day an import ant statement was made by Gen, Jobn Rina- kor, president of the state rmilrond commis- sioners. He said it was apparent that con greas thould take some action on the subject of equal rates in freight transportation. Tn some cases—notably on the Wabash road— in this state rates were lower between points, one of which was in the state and one in an adjoining state, than botween points in this state of shorter distance, In the former case, that this was a diccrimination was admitted: that it wss an upjust diecrimination was hardly to be questioned. The shipper was not on equal terms with the carrier, Senator Cullom asked what means congress should take to remedy the evil? (ien. Rina- ker said the government should furnish eome means to_ascertain the facts by presenting |} some means of inyestigation, some means or agency by which facts could be gathered, e ofhicars of roade should be made to fur- nish information as to the methods by which they do their business, He thought a com- mission would be the best sgency congress could furnish for that purpose, but if this commission undertook to fix maximum rates, the difficlty of the problem would then commence. Senator Harris asked if any powers should be given to sucha committee in regard to fix ing rates. Rinaker said that they should be clothed with powers of a board of arbitra tors, and after having ascertained the facts should on them make reccmmendations to congress, He then explained to the commit- tee the law of Illinois under which the rail road aud warehouse commissioners acted, Senator Harris asked whathe thought ought to be the unis of transportation, one car_or five, General Rinsker was inclined to think that one car should be the unit of transpor- tation, He did not see why the small shipper should be discriminated against, Senator Cullom asked it the witness thought that it would be wise to embody a provision in any law congrass might pass providing that there should be no unit quantity but that the same amount might be charged per pound as per car load, The witness thought that they had better start with some unit of trans- portation, _ Senator Platt askol what was his_exper. ience of railrond companies in regard to fur- nishing information- ‘The witness stated that he found railroads very prompt in furnishing all the information desi.ed. Specific com- plaints in this state were overcharges and dis- crimioation. He thought a federal commi sion would have the power to fix rates after consultation with the roads; that their rates should ba published to the world, and should not be changed without notice, say twenty days. The question of fixing rates was one full of perplexities, on account of the immenso size of the country and the diver- eitied conditions of ~the different parts of the country. The commitsion should not be s0 large as to be cumbersome, and yet too small to meet the exigerencies of the case. Ar a general rule rebates and drawbacks should be prohibited, but the law should be flex1bls enough not to discriminate against the customera of one road in case of a cut in rates by other roads, But any road should be pro hibited from allowing rebates or drawbacks, to discriminate between its own customers, He thought it wculd be eafe to pass a law of & general character prohibiting pooling rebates diecrimination, and requiring the pub- lication of rates, but that elasticity would have to be a prominent feature of such a law ——— LILAVAN SIMPLY FULL, THE HERCULEAN POSER ON A FEROCIOUS BEN- DER IN PHILADELPHIA. Special Telegram to The Bk, PHILADELPHIA, June 12,~John L.Sullivan, broke out Iast night on an old time spree and made matterslively about Ninth and Chest- nut strects, Hemade his appearance at the Girard houee bar after 12 o'cleck and drank himself drunk before leaving the place, He then stepped across the street to the Conti- nental hotel, where all who appeared were made to scamper before the infuriated pugilist., At 5 this morning ha returned to the Girard cafe and demauded somothing to eat, and go- ing to the oyster bar consumed six dozen clums, This is verified hy an attendant,who grew tired with opening them, After this he drank considerable whisky, and then by main force his attendant and several acquain- ances took him to the Continontal, carried him up stairs and put him to bed. Being aroused at 11 a m to take the train for the west he becamo beligerant and everybody was compelled to stand back, Finally with much persuasion howas dreseed and after swallow- ivg a pint of whisky consented to go to the depot, Several times he dispersed the crowd of onlookera but was at last safely seated in a car at the Broad street depot, ——— Railroads Agree on Arbitration, Niw YORK, June 12,—At a meetiog f the executive committee of rallroad mansgers ay Commissioner Fink's office to-day reports containing a plan for arbitration and another for pooling were submitted, The plan for arbitration was unanimously egreed to, and the pooling idea was partly “accepted. The reports were ordered printed and will be finally considered at the meeting et for June 2ith,” The Weat Shore pool was to-day ex tended to July Ist, Nothing was done to ward restoring freight rates —e— Free After Many Troubles, Specfal Telegram to The Bek, BroowiNGToN, Neb,, June 12, 0, Far- rell, held in July last for trial on a charge of comwitting the robbery of the Burlington & Missouri River depot at Franklin, and who, in September, broke out of the Bloomington jail aud was captured by Shenff Deary at Pareons, Kansas, was ntc(flll“ull to-day i the district court. He says he will sue the com pany for false imprisonment, e —— Destructive Pire, Hiu Poist, N, C., June 12.—The weay ing, dyeisg and spinning dopartments snd eogine and boiler rooms of the Randleman cotton factsry burned last night. Loss, §150, | 009; partially insured. Seven hundred hands were thrown out of employLient, who has been posing at the National theatro, ' STOLEN LANDS. Commissioner sparks on-tke Famons Maxwell Grant, Seventy-one Townships of New Mesico Gobbled Up. Peculiar Action of ex Commissioner Anderson—Bavkruptey of the Agricnltural Burcau— Exporte THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, A BANKRUPT BUREAU. Special Telegram to The Brr, WasHINGTON, June 12,—The reductions in the pay roll of the agricultural department for the month of May were a little over 23, 000 as compared with the previous monthly average. Additional reductions for June, amounting to about $500 have besn made, and othersare thought to be inevitabie in oider to prevent deficiency, The working force of the statistical bureau has already been greatly roduced, but closs c¢omputation discluses the fact that the available fuuds on hand are sufficient to carry the work through a month npon the present scale, and it is ap. prehended that the discharge or suspension of mnearly all the remainiog forco will take place st once, On the sther side, a considerable fund appropriated for the bureau of animal industry, and available for no other bureau, will be returned to the treas- ury while the etymolorical burean and one or two others of the department have hasbanded their resources and will come out even at the end of the year. The chief of the bureau or_stasiatics reports that the total value of exports of domestic breadstuffs from the Umted States during the month of May, 1285, and during the five and eleven monthe, ended May 81, 1955, a3 com pared with similar exports during the corres- ponding months of the preceding year were as follows; 1885. ......811,358,086 Commi_tioner Sparks of the land office, this afternoon submitted to Secretary Lamar a re- port upon the famous Maxwell Iaud grant in New Mexico, in which nearly 2,000,000 acres of a public land grant were claimed and pat ented in 1870, The official proceedings lead- ing up to the patent are recited in detail by the commissioner, whe then says im brief: *‘Pending these proceedings a large number of letters, complaints, petitions, protests, and charges were transmitted to this office and the deartment from citizens of New Moexico, alleging frand in the location and boundaries of this claim, its extersion far beyond any original claim or possession by the grantees, the invasion of settlement and mining righte, and of the rights of native inhabitants and Indian occupants, Nothing more than a mere formal notice of these various complaints and allegations appears to have been taken or dome by this office. No investigation was had, but the claim for this enormous region of country appears to have been carried through the office with readiness but without regard to the interests of lhegovarnmanl or the rights of the citi- zens of the _territory in actual occupancy of the land. Evidences of fraud were manifest in the bold fact of the presentation of a claim for nearly 2,000,000 acres based upon a grant of less than 1,000,000 acres, ‘“The grants of. the Mexican authorities were governed by the laws of native coloniz- ation, The grants were limited in quantity to eleven equare leagues, or about 40,000 acres, to each person. The outbounda- ries of the localities mentioned in the applcations for grants are usu ally of & most general character, Inthe present case those boundaries might have been found or slleged to be found at most diverse points, The alleged making of boundaries under the purported judicial pos session was of an unstable character, easily removed and liable to early destruction from natural and other causes. Nothing was eaeier than to find such alleged monuments wherever they were desired, but in the eo called adjudi- cation of this case the boundaries claimed and the monuments assorted bo the interest ed parties were accepted as the actual bound- aries and monuments of the grant, which was thus swollen from a little over four townships at the most to more than seventy-five town ships of the public land, “The procaedings of this office in carying this extravagant claim through to patent ~ap- pears to me to bave been of an extraordinary character, The decision of the secretary of the interior in 18G9 that the claim under the confirmatory act of congress was limited to 22 leagues but became final under the rules gov- erniog this department in its administration of the laws, The refusal of Secretary Delano toreview it rendered that decision as to that case res adjudicata 8o far as any exertion was concerned If the secretary of the inter ior could not have reopened the case, certamly The commissioner could not under such rules, The commissioner, however, did reopen 1t as assumed result of correspondence between himself and the secretary heretofore cited, An examination of this correspondence shows that 1t furnishes no proper or sufficient basis for the commissioner’s action in reopening the decided case, The commissioner's letter asked for instructions as to future cases only, not to cses previously decided, The s crota ry replios to this specific request, and in. structs the commissioner in what shall be dome 1m similar cases, but does not ey that anything ehall be done in _the cases already settled, He is not instructed to reopen any case that had leen decided, The commis sioner asked for no instructions in respect to the Maxwell grant und reccived none, This grant was not before the comwioner on_a re- view of the decision of the secretary of 156Y, o had no duty to perform in regard to it, but he proceeded upon his own motion ap. parently, to order o new survey, He directed it to be in strict accordance with judicial pos- seesion, not according to the grant which must have been determined by the law; not according to the confirmation which made no mention of the alleged mounds by which 2,000 square miles of territory was claimed to have beeu marked outtas the boundaries of the colonization grant limited under the Mexican laws to 150 square miies, but precisely according to these aggreeated boundaries; and 1n_accepting the alleged boundaries of judicial possession as aeter mined of boundaries under the grant and con firmation no notice appears tp have been taken of the fac's disclosed by the record and adverted in the report of Commissioner Anderson to the secretary in 1560 that the sketch map, purporting to defiue such bound- aries, and in sub:tautial accordance with which the approved eurvey was executed, did not accompany the surveycr general’s report, upon which the confirmation was made and was . therefore mo part of such coufirmation but was produced with but slight or no evidence of its authority eleven years after the report was made, bine years after the contirmation of the grant and twen- ty-six years aubsequent to the date of the doc- ument of poseession, of which it was claimed to b & part, claim to postession of the extent so desoribed was contradicted by grany claimants themeelyes befora the depart- ment assembly in 1844 when they stated that the grant did not exceed fifteen or eighteen legaues and exhibited to the assewmbly the judicial certificates confirming such state ments, The surveyor geueral, Mr, H, M. Atkinson, had anticipsted the commissioner by makiug a Contract for the survey Ly the targe claimed boundarics with the samo sup- veyor whohad made the private survey for the grant of the claimant in 1870, which up. authorized contract was vot approved by the | commissioner. Tho commissioher's instruc tlous {0 the surveyor gemeral that a ' dls interestey deputy” should be selected to make the survey “‘who has no connection or business transaction referable to the intercats of the owners of the granta” appear however, to have been ign rod by the surveyor general and his neelect of such instructions also does not appear to have besn disapproved, for the contract for tha survey was given to a brother of the alleged owner of the grant and the alleged owner himself was the bondsman, and this contract, obumoxious as it seems to ms, to public morals and official obligations, was approved and the survey made nader it approved and patented, No decision was rendered by the commis sioners uponthe boundarics or otherwise in the case beforo the issue of the patent, but the patent was sammarily issued without a formal decieion and without an opportunity belng afforded adverse parties or protestants to appeal to the secretary of the interior to inyoke his superyisory judgement.” In corclusion Commissioner Sparks recom- mends that suitable action be taken looking toa vigorous prosecution of the suit now pending in the district court of Golorado, and that a new suit bo commencad in New Mox- ico, wnere the greater part of the lands lie, to setapart the patents already issued under this grant, FIREMEN IN A ROW, THE 10WA ASSOCIATION IMPERILED BY DISe OENSIONS, Davesront, I, June 12 —The fourth and best day of the mosting of the State Firet mens’ association ended in quarrels, Las year contentions almoat broke up the associa tion and from the presont appearances this year's tournament will be the final one, The Waterloo club withdrew from the ground and eald it would be the last tournament they ever attended. The principal matter in dis. pute is the state racs, in which the stato belt is o part of the prize, Tho entries for this race wero ten in number, A part of tho race was ran yester- day and to-day the contest was finishoed amid mich excitoment, The entries and the timo of the company’s were as followa: Marshall- town, 44}; Towa City, 413; Waterloo, no time; Council Bluffs, Clinton, 45§; Cedar Rapids, 413; Davenport, no time; LaPorte, no time, Thus Marshalltown and Cadar Rapids wero a tie, nud Waterloo (the cham = plons of yews past) had no time, Waterloo made the run and coupliog all right, they claimed, and_cried, “Time! Time.” The time as marked, was42}. The judges declared the coup ling incomplete, and no time was given. o Waterloo company protested, but to no avail and the champions left the grounds in disgast, and took the first train home, The tie between the Marshalltown and Cedar Rapids was then run out with a record of 44 for the former. Marehalltown thus se- cured the state belt. The hook and ladder race resulted in a victory for ths Wilton team, the record being: Wilton, 47§; Stuart, 19, 'The sweopstake hose company race was won by Clintou with the foollwicg record: Council Bluffs, 467; Towa City, 13{; Marshall- town, 44; Clinton, 2}, MOUNT 1 A CUPTING BEE TETWEEN TOWN AND COUNTRY cooNs. Special Telegram to The Beg. Corvnpia, 8. C., June 12,—News has been received here of a bloody riot which oc curred Sunday at & negro camp meeting at Mount Zion church, about nine miles from Yorkville, The country darkies had promul gated the idea that they did not deserve the presence of the town negroes at their meet ing, ‘‘puttin’ on airs,” and in turn the town negroes had boasted they would go down to Zion and teach the rural darkeys a lesson 1n etiquotte, Besides knives and razors, and cheap pistols, which go to make up tho ne- groes' defonsive outfit, each party wero well supplied with = whisky, Scarcely had the first town contingent arrived when hostilities began. The conflict was des- perate and bloody, and raged for over an hour, at the end of which time the country ‘‘coons’ were in_possession of the field and the town darkies in full retreat, The casualties as near ascan be learned were one man killed, two fatally wounded, and at least twenty more or less seriously ivjured, A general stampede followed the first clash. The meeting closed without the formality of doxology, and the frightened negroes of both eexes and all ages and conditions scampored off i every diree ion, LURID, —— PROHIBITION IN MAINE, A MOB RAIDS THE TOWN WITH STONES AND BULLETS, SPRINGFIELD, Me,, June 12,—The trouble which has been brewing for kome time over the enforcement of the prohibitory law cul- wninated last night in the organization of a mob anned with rovolvers and siones and made attacks upon a number of houses n which the wicdows were smashed and other damage done, The gang went to the house of William Frost, abouta quarter of a mile from the village and sent a recks through the windows, ley of bullets from _re direct road to the villugn th ped at the house of 1, \V. Frost, u trial justice ere, Shota were fi-cd into his house where women, children a:d «n old wan slept, but fortunately no onc wis injured though the windows were deuolished, Several other houees were afteri v s visitod and treated in o similar naner, The final effort of the mob was 111l against the offica of the Advocate, whero tho editor of the paper sleeps, A portect fusilade was kept up for some time, a o butlets fairly rained into the room, but he, too, excaped without injury by whst recnced slmost o miracle, The raiders tlon disbanded, Much excitement prevai's thia wwr vd the sheriff of the county has ben te hed for, LVRIRBLE MR ALY Shoct Whest Crop in Ilinos, C11caco, Jnne 12,—The Journal's Spring fisld, (IIL) special says: A bulletin was is- sued by tho stato board of agriculturs today, supplementing to the June crop report, which says that in order to prove the acouracy of the estimates of the regular correspondents in quiries were directed to the leading millers throughout the state, Thoso subsequent re ports confirm the former statement that the winter wheat yield will be smallest in Illinois in twenty five years, Ll Funk, the Book Stealer, Insane, Cicaco, Iil,, June 12,—Authony Funk, alias Talbot, charged with syftematically stealing more then 2,000 volumes from the Ohicago publie library in the course of two years, while in the emiploy of the library, and who was suspected of a design to Elow up the Chicago university by the employment of an infernal machine, was found to be Insane to day, and was sent to the Elgin insane asylum, o — Tackled The Wrong Editor, Bpecial Telegram to The Bek, Tecemsen, Neb,, Juae 12,—W, W, Wilson, sherifl of this county, feeling aggrioved at an article which avpeared in the Journal as- saulted O, W, Plol, the editor, on the street this afternoon and was out of time in ove round, i e The Fly at Work in Michigan, Karanazoo, Mich , June 12, —he Hessian fly is doivg great damage to the growing wheat in Itichland township, in this county. 1t iv estimated that one quarter of the stalks 0 daiaged so that they will not mature, Te. sulting in & losa of 50,000 bushsls, Lt Another ctato at Hest, Hasg1s5URG, Pa , Jue 12, Both brenches of the logislature adjourned to-day elne die, CREEPING HICHER, Weeat Heals lh; LISFHI Chicigo in an Upwerd Tarn, Corn and Oats Keadily Assent to Bacome a Gocd Second. Hogs Mark a Decided Improveme:nt and Oattle Continuoe to Make Tonecy Oaly According 1o Grade, —— THE OHIOAGO MARKETS, WHEAT TALK AND SALES, Special Telegram to The Bek. Cnicaco, Ill., June 12,—There was a firmer feeling and higher market for wheat tc-day owing to several causes, A large amount of short wheat was put out yestor- day with the expectation of much lower prices to-day, The market opened only jc lower and immediately sold up to e, Another fact that intluenced prices was a report that the millers association, of Minneapolis, had estimated the next crop at 340,000,000 bushels against 360,000,000 as put forth by, the Wash- ington bureau, This led many to think that posmbly the latter authority had made a mistake, and that all the bad reports herotofore given wero at least a8 well founded as the estimate of thegovern. ment officials, It seems certain that there must be amistake somewhere about the re- ported condition of the growine wheat. As the cage now stands it is virtually the Wash- ington bureau va all other sources of inform tion., Private and all etate authorities been lying. or the Washingto bureau is misin- formed, Both cannot be right, July opensd at 884c, told up to S0c, back again to S8fic August following at _about 2¢ premium, Aronnd 89c for July and 91c for August, quite A battle took place between the two forces, Tho bulls came out ahead. erpool report- ed ouly a moderrte demand while cargoes wore quiet and neglected, but the quotations were unchanged. No one, however, expects anything encouraging from foreign markets whilo their present lut of receipts continues, The weather in Eoeland was warmer, New York opened {c lower for July and fe for August, while St, Louis was greatly demoral- ized at the start, opening 13c off for July and 14c lower for August. Dut that market for a'long time has been the higyest in the coun- tey, ond the decline was greatly needed to bring it on a level with the others. Whether the chavge in administration in K meant further international complicat an open questign, but a slight decline in con- sols rather favored the chances of more diffi culty. So far as can be ascertained the "‘5 bulls are still holding onto their wheat an firmly believe in better prices for it later in the season, CORN, The situation in corn continues dull and strong, and will doso until the farmers ehell outmore literally, Tradiog is light, compar- atively, because no one cares to sell much under existing circumstances, Neither js there any great profit in buging. Everybody i waiting for more corn to come in, When it gets here or looms up in sight, trading will commence sgain, Liverpool snys that corn was firmly held, and the same i true every- whore. The receipts hero were fair, but mot heavy, while the demand s stoadily good. July and August opened }c lower; but ad- vanced about c with whoat, the range ruu- ning from dtic to 46kc, OATS, Oata wera quiet for the speculative, but the firmness in whoat and corn circles created strength, and the near futures chmbed 3@} cent, while the long futures remained Bta— tionary, July ranged at 33)@334 cents and cloted at 331@3¢H cents, CATILE. The demand was strong and prices a shade higher on best fat steers, either corn or stall fed. Among the fresh receipts were about 2,000 Texans, largely of an inferior quality, that sold considerably lower than heretofcre, Low grade native steers, especially canning stock were dull and neglected, and with the increased supvlv of Texans will continue to sell ‘ower until the seison is over. Best na- tive beeves are waking 85.26@0.70, and stillers are ranging between §5.00@b,40, Low grades, natives and grassy stock are goingaslow at $1 70 4.80, and fair to good steers $4.90 @5.10 and thereaboute, Stockers were plen tiful with a most active market. their prices ruling rather high this week. The American (ilucase company, of Towa City, are making free deliveries of fat cattlo, They will ship shout 4,000 hero this season. Omaha dressed 'beef s beginning to arrive on eastern markots, and so far has been in good condition, The sales were, 4,350 t 1,500 pounds. 87 00@7.65; 1,200 to 1,850 15.50; 950 to 1,2 81, 90@5.40, lop fad steers, slop fed cows and buils, $3.50@4.00; thro Texas catele slow and 10 lower; grassers, 950 to 1,0.0 ponred 4 00, 750 to 900 pounds, $375@1.00; 630 to 700 poi-de, $5.50@3.50; HOGE, The turnin_ affairs in thi gonuine surprise. \Vith 28,0( frosh receipts early every o expected a sbarp down turn of 16@16c, Ui instead the nmerket opened eteady, geaduslly { reed up and fiolly closad ste ng av.d higher on the ordinary 2d a atror s 100 higher ssortedligh . the market arket was a r 30,000 for cecial and fancy cloring st tha . Rough and comm woid at @375 and fair to good, $3 7F@3 9%, with {0 b st mixed ard assorted and howvy ab @4,10; skips and common hght, %5 09@% 755 fancy hight Fhiladelphias and stcking viy» 4584, 10@4.15; packing scd shipping, 200 t, 340 peunds, £3.95@ 1073 light weights, 1) to 170 pound 54.0021.10; 100 to L — Apache Deviltry, ToNBSTONE, Ariz,, June 12.—The body of a man murderod by the Apaches was found wear Mulo Springs, Tho dead man iy sup posed to bs Charles Thillman, manager of the Erio Cattle company. It is fearcd his two companions are also killed Bewars f Scrofuly Sorofula I8 peed 3Ly mors general tha other diseas. and ma sts itself in running soi cruptions, boils, swellings, enlar abscesses, sore eyes, ete, Hood's S 1t of scrofula from the blood, 1 b sidious in characteg pustulag leaving it pure, enriched, and healwhy, “1 was severely afilicted with serofula, and for over a year had two running sores on my neck. Took five bottles of Hood's saparilla, and_consider myself cured.” Lowell, 5. €. A, Arnold, Arnold, Me., had scrofulous C. E. LoveJoy, sores for seven years, springand fall, Hood's sarsaparilla cured bim, Salt Rheum 3 ilyria, 0., suffered greatly 3 s and salt rheum, caused by handling tobacco. At times his hands would crack open and blecd. He tried various prep arations without aid ; finally took Hood's Sar saparilla, and now says: * Lam entirely well.” # My son had salt rheum on his lands and on the calyes of his legs. He took Hood's Sarsaparilla and 1s entirely cured.” J. B STANTON, Mt Vernon, Olio, Hood’s - Sarsaparilla S01d by all druggists, $1; six for §5. Made ouly by C. 1, 100D & CO., Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One "allar, s ity