Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1885, Page 1

THE OMAHA DALY BEE FIFTEENTH YEAR. “OMAHA, MONDAY MORN NG, AUGUST 17, 1885. "OVER THE OGEAW, The Queen's Speech and the Cabinet's Fureign Palicy, ‘ The Trade Commission and Chol- ‘ era’s Onward March, The Worst of Scenes Aseociated With Famine and War, An Interesting Budget Contributed by Special Oables and Regular Pross Dispatches, A BUDGET FROM BRITAIN, THE QUEI 8 SPRECH, Special Telegram to The Bre. LoxnoN, August 16.—The queen’s speech { isan epitaph by the present ministry on tho aots of the late ministry, Official decorum forbids direct criticism by her majesty, of her former mervants, but it is known that the quoen shares the views of the existing govern- P ment respecting the Nile expedition, the gen- V’JJ oral condition of Egypt, and England’s rela- § tionn with Rassla, Her saying that she had learaed with deep sorrow that the Nile expe- dition srrived too late, is understood hero as | meaning that it started too late. Her prom- is0 not to relax her ¢fforts to place the gov { ernment aud good crdar of Egypt upon a firm | foundation, is interpratad 1n connection with Sir Michazl Hicke.Beach’s racent spaech, as pointing to an indfinite occupation. The queen’s hopes of _a eatisfactory settloment of the Afghan frontier with Rusiis, ase not san- i e guine enough to exclude a referencs to the | necossity for placiog the Indian frontier in a condition of adequate detenso, THE MINISTRY's FORRIG POLICY. Lord Randolph Churchills answer to a queation in the house of commons on Thura- day shows plainly that he expects no sub- stavtial progeoss of negotiations pending elac tions in Englaud. The departura of M. Les sar from Eogland confirms this inference, “The truth is that Salisbury, thioking it im- possible to deal with the Kussian and Egyp- | tian difficulties simultaneously, has devoted himsclf to Eaypt, re-established good rela- tions with the chief Europsan powers, and ee- oured their sanction of the isaue of the Egyp- tian loan, which for four months they had ro- fused to the Gladstone ministry. If Sir Henry Drummond Wolff succeeds in his mis- sion to Constantinople and Calro, the con- servatives hopo to convince the country that they have achioved a reai success in their for- elgn policy. { THE CATALOGUE OF COMPLETED LEGISLATION ) in the queen’s speech includes no great meas- ure passed by the Jibaral ministry, electoral reform excopted. The presont ministry unex- pectodly succeeded in carryine every import- ant bill it undertook. including tho Irish land purchace and the dwelling-for-tho-poor meas. ur:s, both of which it once thought it _would bo obliged to abandon. Its success is duo partly to the loy.1 co-operation of the liberal msjority, and partly to their compact by which the Trish members, for value received, | abstamed from obstruction, nor did either party, in view of the coming election, wish to oppoeo the measures which were belioved to promise direct benefit 2 the people, THANKING THE EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION, Tho adoption, in both honses of parliament, of vote of thanks to tho officers, soldiers and aailors of the Egyptian expedition, was unan- I imous, radicals like Sir Wilfred lLawson and Mr. Lhbouchero absenting themselvos, Lord Hartington supported the motion in the house of commons, vainly attempling to excuse the refusal of tho late ministry to propose similar votes on the ground of want of precedants, TLord Wolseley’s wall-carned viscountship de- scends to hia daughter if ho shall have no a0 ‘Wednesday's resolution was the first parli mentary tribute to Gen. Gordon, to whose character Lord Salisbury offered 'a just and adequate ministerial homage, MEANS TO INQUIRE FOR ITSELF, Lord Iddelsleigh’s (Sir Stafford Northcote) <commussion of inquiry iuto the causes of tho | depression of trade and ageiculture, in spite of the refusals of leading liberals, contal many strong names. Free tradera are alarmed, and protest against it, becanse the : commisyion mesns to inquire for itaelf, in- atoad of blindly accepting free trade dogmas. | DILKE'S DIDOS Discussion of the charge against Sir Charles Dilke 18 moatly confined to minor tory or proviacial papers. His lettar to the Chelsea iberal association, offering to withdraw as n candidate for the next parlisment, elisits no xe ponse. Most of the printed gossip is wholly untrue or @ porversion of trath, The only fact within public kncwladge s the filing of a petition of divorce by Mr. Crawford against his wifs, The allegad coufession of his wife would not sustain the petitioa unlew corrob- orated, If eyidencoe confirming ths charge exists, it remaing socret, Sir Charlos Dilke's denial Is supported by & beliof of his friends that the accustion” will ultimataly breal own, RUSKIN'S CONDITION, Acounts from Brantwood give a elight hope of Mr, Ruskiu's recovery, THE CHOLERA SCOURGE. A FRIGHTFUL OOFDITION OF THINGS IN SPAIN, Special Telegram to The Bes, LoNDoN, August 16.—Reports of the chole- ra which reach here from Spain bstray s frightful oondition of things, The epidewmic | iy spreading more and more, and accounts of its torrible ravages which have come to Lin- don have aroused great anxisty among all persons who are in any way conceraed in Spanish affairs, All Aoglo-Spanish firms who have offices in London bave made sn at- 3 tempt to do something to stem the contagion, and bave addressed the Spanish ambassador v on the subject. They offered to make united appeal to the people of Eogland for assist- auce for the cholera-strickea districts. Tae ambassador forwarded this offor to the lord ‘mayor of London, but the lord mayor_replies thatthe is not prepared to invite an English national subscription, and so the efforts of the Auglo-Spanish firms remains at pressut with- out results, Stories which come from the in- footed districts recall THE WORST OF SCENES f which ave associated with famine and war, For example, in the town of Erla in the proviuoe of Far there is no longer » A ayorzor & muoicival government, the mayor ) and all the city officials are dead, stricken down by the plugue, and all the doctors and chemista of the place have fallen viotims to the pestilence. The shops are all closed, and the town is deserted by the inhabitants The people are iu a deeitute condition, and the mayor of the neighboriog town of Egen, which is the only place from which the fugi- tives could expect aid, has forbidden the citi- zens to revder them uny assistance. . declared an absolute blockade and Bo parson is allo 1 ever, Thisis an instance of what is com monly going on throughout Spsin—provincia tot huttivg their gates to all intruders physicians and government officisls as well e the people FLEKING FROM THE DISEASE. The survivors of Erla ars consequently camped out on the hillsid houses; and with but scaniy mesns of subais. tonce, Accor He has nter gan on any pretext what- sud without ug to the latest news, some «f them had set fire to the town, boping by that means to burn out tho plague, Fear of the importation of the chulers 14 taking practical shape all along the Mediterranean cosst, and the most rigorous quarantico precauitions hava been estaolished at Gibraltar, on the island of Malta, and at parts of Egypt, for all Kronch and Spanish vessels, ~Marseillos e not allowed to call at Mal ort Snid, and the most urvent mens: ures are being everywhere taken at other places toward off the threatening pestllence, PROGRESS (;I." ’ll;% PLAGUE, A PANIO AT GIBRALTAR, GineaLras, August 15 —The oxistence of cholera within the Spanith lines is officially declared to-day, and the disease is spreading. There have been four deaths here to-day, Itis thought the infection was contracted on Spanieh soll, A deputation has waited upon the governor of Gibraltar to-day, and re- quested him to shut «ff communication with Spain, This he has refused to do. The panic creasing daily, and the exodus grows correspondingly, The populace is greatly discontented over the conduct ef the mllitary authoritivs in refasiog to adopt ne. cessary precautions’against thefintroduction of cholera from other countries, AT MARSEILLES, ManseiLes, August 10.—There were thirty-four deaths from cholera hera to-day. MagsriLLes, August 16, —Thers were twenty-seven deaths in this city to-day from the cholera. At Pharo hospital nineteen cases were admitted, and seventy died and seventy remain under treatment. THE PLAGUE SPREADING, Mapun, August 16 —Rsturns from the cholera 1nfected d'stricts of Spain show a total number of mew cases on Saturday of 4,706, and a total number of deaths from the dis- ease 1,758, The plague has made its ap- pearance at Barcelona whero twenty-five cases and six‘een deaths aro roported. Somo of the wost crowded houses have been emptied and their tenants temporarily lodged a few miles outside of the city. Public build- inga are disinfected daily, The epidemic is still ravagiog Granada, but is decreasing in other southern provinces, LoXDON, Auzust 16 —A letter from Saigon reports that 600 Irench eoldiers died of cholera in Formosa and Peseadores; that the hopitals are overflywing with suffarers, and the epidemic is increasiog, MabRID, August 16,—The cholera reports for to-day show that ther. wers fifteen new cases and twelve deaths in the city of Madrid, and sixty-five new cases and thirty deaths in the provincs. Tha slight panic which broke outa fow daya ago has subsided. The epi- demic shows no further sign of an increase, Wherever tho diseass prevails the most stringent precautions are taken to prevent it spread, ERAL FORKIGN NEWS, THE CHOLERA, Panis, August 15.—Stringent measures are being taken to keep the cholera away from this city. Travelecs from th south are quar- antined, The strects are cleaned every night, The Nationale, the first journal to aunounce the appearanca of cholera in Marseilles, in- sists that the number of deaths from this dis- ease is still greatly underrated, MausrILLES, August 13.—There were thir- ty-seven deaths from cholera during the past twenty-four hours, ending at noon to-day, Mabgin, August 15.—There were 4,819 new caees of cholera and 1,840 deaths from the disease reported yesterday throughout Spain. COLERIDGE MARRIES AN AMERICAN LADY, Loxpox, August 15. —Lord Chief Justice Coleridge was married this aftarnoon to an an lady named Amy Augusta Jackson «d, Tho wedding ceremonies were con ducted privately and a special liconss was granted August 10, so that the marringe could take piaca at any time of day that the parties wished, THE BRITISH PUT A PRICE ON PAINE'S HEAD, Pans August—Ln Iutransigoute, Roche- fort's paper, will to-morrow publish & letter which, it is alleed, will prove thay Paino, the reputed military adviser of EI Mahdi, was executed by British officials in Egypt. Thia Jetter will ey that tho British put a price on Paine’s head; that he was tracked and arrest- ed and then summarily executed by order of the staff of the Eoglish army, at the time engaged in war with El Mahdi. GEBMANY'S PROPOSALS REJECTED, BERLIN, August 16, —The tariff committee of the telegraphic conference has rejected the German proposals by & vote of eloven to five. AN OUTBREAK AT KHARTOUM, CAtBo, August 16, —Tnformation hs been recoived here that a clvil war has broken_out at Kbartoum, that the treasury has been sacked, and that the Mahdi's sucosssor and other officials huve been killed. AN AMERICAN PROTEST, CONSTANINOPLE, August 16.—Mr, Hoap, United States consul, has sent to the porte another protest, couched 1n stronger terms than those of the firat, against the expulsion of Americans from Jerusalem on the ground of their being Jows, Mr. Heap points out that the expulsions are in violation of treaty stipulations, nd are liable to lead to serious difficulty, He has also referred the matter to the government at Waskingtou, —— The Roach Failure. Nuw Yonk, August 15.—The schedules in the matter of the Roach assignment were filed this morning. Liabilities, $2,263,000; nominal aesets, $3,238,000; aciusl nssots, $1,631,000. Tho preferred creditors with amiounts sud items arw: William R wiand, for money loaned and work done, £62,0.0; Morchaut's ad Trador's bank of Brooklyn, $20,000 for money loaned on note due Sep' tember 13, 1885, recured by mortgage bonds of W H Keyaolds, and Alfred Crevaling for 38,40; P W Gallandet & Co, Now York, 00 money loaned and advanced as fol” 30,000 on June 27, 1835; $10,000 on July 11th.’ Theso loans were 1 advance of the sale of the notes of the assignes and tho amount due them is to bs determined by ad justment of their amount. Totsl amount pre- terred is §122,217 93, $ L — The Appointment of Rapid Deliv.ry Meesenger Boys. ‘WasHINGTON, August 16,—The statement that Chief Kxaminer Lyman, of the civil ser vice commiseion, had an interview with the postmaster general on the subject of requiring applicants for appointment as postoffice mes sengers under the special delivery system about to be inaugurated, to pass a civil service sxamination is denied by Mr. Lyman, He says the matter has not been formally consid- ered yet. The mauner of appointing boys, he says, will be upon the recommendation of postmasters, who will seud the names of ap- plicants to 'the postoffice department, or to the civil servics commission, in case the boys aro a; pomnted under the civil service rules, —————— The Grasshopper Plague, WasiiNaToN, August 15-Owlng to the rumors of injury by grasshoppsrs in parts of Montana, the signal bureau has instructed the northwest to telegraph at once ons of in{ury or movements instead of sending monthly us beretofore. Piof. Riley hassentan agent to the place where the reports confirm the previous statements. Not only are there large nunbers of this desructive Rocky mountain specis at work, but the common native and Bun-ii- gratory species sre more numerous than usual,” At Fort Buford and Poplar Pine sgency lcusts are very abundant and are destroying crops, Oa July 20ch, during the middle of the day, 8 large proportion of the Rocky mouatain species left toward the east and southeast, . ——— The Goehen, New York, police force bas boen supplied with rawhide whips, ta be car cied during the daytime instead of the ordi aary locust clubs. Owivg to the ease and satety with which they cau bs wielded, it is snid they inspire wore terror among the evil- doers than the old-fashioned clube, A 2 V8 A1 RSB GELTIC SONS. Meetiog of the National Commiteee of the Irish National League. They Issue an Address to the Irishmen of America, A Monster National Demonsiration — Pulitical Points—Other Newsy Notes, GATHERING OF THE OLANS, AN ADDRESS ISSUED AND A CONVENTION DE- TERMINED UPON. CH10AG0, August 15 —The national com- mittes of the Irish National League, com- posed of ono member from each state, went into session here at 11:30 this morning, The chief purposs of the mesting of the crmmit- tee was to determone when and where the next national convention sball be held, Senator Riddleberger arrived about noon and was taken in charge by Alexander Sullivan and Gen, Kirwin, Duriog the session of the committee a letter was read from Parnell in which he advised that the date of the conven. tion be fixed at a period after the Eaglish general elections, AN ADDIESS 1SSUED, The following is the address formulated and adopted this afternoon at the meetiog of the Irish Notional League of America: In okedienc to the ruggestion of the chosen leader of the peopls of Ireland, tho national committee of the Irish vational league of Awerica, nbled to designats a time and place for holdiog the next national convention of the lesgue in the United States, have de- cided to postpone the date of meeting ustil January, 1856, It must be mamfest to all members of the league, and all friends of self-government; in Ireland, that it would be impossiblo for Mr. Parnell to attend the con- vention in this country or to seud any of his able associates pending the general election, which will probably occur next November, hence the wisdom ot his suzgestion that the convention be postponed. Iu ths meantime, howover, the league should INAUGURATE A PERIOD OF ACTIVITY not less earnest and energetic than that which prevailed when Ireland was threatened with another artificial famine, and when her lead. ers_were imprisoned and her press silenced under & so-called liberal government, The party led by Mr, Parnell needs support, How well that eupport is deserved we neced hardly tell the world, Aesuredly we need not tell men of Icish birth or descent, Sery- ing without compensation, without official power or patronage among aliens who have persecuted and who have sought to degrade them, beiog numerically less than one-twen- tieth of tha body in which they have achieved a success uoparalelled in the history of the struggle for tree government, by their ability, their unity, their discipline, their faith in the justice of their cause, and by their restless Iabors, they bave forcad mot only their eno mies, but the world to look upon this oppres- sion and to listen to tha recitals of an out- raged, plundered, mirgoverned people, They have with matchless skill seiz3d upon every opportunity to thrust before tha world their cause. It is one which will BEAR THR SCRUTINY OF LIGHT. They never allowed it to be hidden, They blockaded tho legislation of tho Eoglish par- liament; they objected t, postponed and de- feated local legisiation, intended to foster and expedite Boglish business interests in retalia tion for the dull, bratal indifference which was shown to Irish interests. For the firat time in Boglish history i possibla to extend the franchise privileges in Eugland aud Scotland without giving Ireland absolute equality in the extension, While they have not been able t& compel the government to disgorge the surplus of the unexpended fund rased to support the now discstablished church, they have wruog from the champions of that colossal robbery the admission that it belongs to the people of Ireland, and have compelled the return of a portion of thestolen funds, They have not secured the land of Ireland for the people of Ireland, but they bave forced the enactment of leguelation which, although inadequate in its effects, it so extraordinary in its terms and confessions as to awount to & confession of the enormity of ch?i system which has 0 long ground down an IMPOVARISHED TH & IRISH PEOPLE, They havo not been able to get back Grat- tan's parlisment for Ircland, but they boldly announce that no lasser measuro will bo ac- copted by them; and, pending its restora- tion, though prohibited from the government of Ireland, they have been able to dictate who must ceaso and who must assume the work of governing England, They have driven the party of coercion, the party of judicial mur- derers, the party of eviction, the party which vainly sought to imprison idess when it thrust men ioto dungeons, the party led by Gladstone, who wrote boastingly ot the cown~ fall of the American republic, into disgrace- ful retirement from Dublin castle; and they have thowa that while Dublin cistlo was tho home of 8-called English liberalem and the seat of tyranny, its unnatucal vice and im- ported Eoglish bestiality made it only worthy of a sito 1 ancient Sodom or Gomorrah, or in modern London, Their labors have been herculoan, Their accomplishments under the most adverse circumstances, are almost miraculons, When they next ap- pear in parliament their number will by in- ceeased from thirty to at least eighty, Thay will have more or less of thy ouly reliablo Foglish support—that which comes from fear from s bumber of En- glish members who will owe their election to the judicions excrcise of the balance of power by the exiled Irish in England and Scotland. | With ihat strength ey will b able TO THROTTLE ENGLISH LEGISLATION, and thus to compel the Eoghsh to allow them to retire from the atmosphere polluted by royal aud aristocratic bestiality, and to estab- lish o free parlisment for the government of a free people in Ireland, lu the accomplish- ment of this work they need more American auxilisries, We appeal to every branch of the lengue to give renewed life and determination to the work, We earnestly request all who are not members w)uln uhie league; and wein- vite all members of our own race, whether members of the league or not, to forward sub- scriptions for the varlismentary fund to the Rev. Charles O'Reilly, D, D, treasurer, Detrolt, Michigan, At the conventiou to be held in’ January it is more than peobable that Mr. Paroeil will bo present. It is cer- tain that the Irich parliamentary party will be represented, At that gathering the pro- gress and conditicn of the Irish people will be stated to your representatives; and we be- lieve, as wo earnestly hope, that the next con- vention after that will be one ca'led to receive « delegation which will come from the Irish parliament in Collegs green, A MONSTER DEMONSTRATION Ta the evening a large demonstration was held at Ogden’s grove, the same being at- teoded by several thousand friends of the Irish cause, The grounds were brilliantly illuminated and decorated with banners and emblems euited to the occasion. Among the addreases was one by Senator tiddlcberger, of Virginia, Alexander Sullivan, ex-presideat of the Irish-National Lesgue of America, was called to the chair after speakiog briefly oa the object of the conference to-day aud the leagus in general, introduced or Riddle- berger in the following wor: The distin- guished American patriot who s to address viu this eveniog dies not claim, like Mr. Lowell, that be is Eoglish. He will not tell you, liks Mr, Phe!ps, that the prioes of Wales i« proper model for your sous, snd that the Eogiish queen is our queen, He doss not believe, with some Amerloans, that the United Statcs senate is a0 suntx to Scotland Yard. Ho does not put on mourning when ever a stone falls from the walls of modern Babylon,” A CONVENTION AT OHICAGO, The executive committeo of the lrish Na- tion League of America decided to-night to hold n national convention at Ohicago in Jan- uary, the exact date to be fixed through cor- respondence between Parnell and g, CLEVELAND DEMOCRATS DEMAND THE OFFICES, CLEVRLAND, August 15 —The democrats of Ouyahoga county moet this morning to eelect delogates to the state convention, The com. mittee on resolutions was out over an hour aud a half, Several of the members wanted to condsmn President Cleveland's administra tion; others were anxious to return a mild en- dorsement, and still others were in favor of non committal, Kxtracts from the commit- tee's reports are as followe: Reeolved, that the democratic party, having boen in possession of the government sinco March last, and that a large number of offices aro yot held by offensive partisans, therefore o it Reeolved, That wo domand that our sena- tors and ropresentatives hasten the removal of all republicans in office, and that efficiont democrats be placed in their places. The administration was mildly endorsed. FOR LARADEE AND MERRILL, Towa Otry, Aug. 15, —Johnson county re- publicane to-day selected the following dele- ates to the statv convention: Herbert S, Fairall, A, J, Miller, C'ay Bowersox. X_Sau. dere, Dr. . J. Schroeder, Dr, \ Clapp, John T. Jones, John Tantlinger, Kobert Long, Samuel Lizengar and Thomas McFar- lane. The convention was unsnimously in favor of the nomination ot Senator Larrabee {.g: governor, aud the delsgation will support him I'he democratic county convention chose the following delegates, said to be for Merrill for_governor: George J, Boal, George Paul, C. M. Reuc, L. R. Patterson, Dr, Hobby, Owen Caliagh, Max Otto, L. M, B, Lstovsky, G. R, Irish aud Geoige W, Ball, JEFFERSONIAN SIMPLICITY, Cepar Raris, Aug, 15,.—There was a largely attended meeting to-night of commit Delegations and clubs attending the conven— tion should notify D. H Ogden, chairman, by wire or otherwiso of the tims of their arrival, e that proper quarters may be eecured for them, e Miss St. Qua:nten Cuwhided on the suage, St. Louis Republican Special, New Onceans, La, Auguss 13.—The “‘Chimes of Normandy” was producad at the Spanish Fort opera-house last night with va- riations. Miss St. Quenten was the prima donna of the piece, Mr. Harry Golden wa tho tenor, Tnone of the first acts Miss Sts Quinten by a miscue cut out & ecene in which Golden ear g and where he thought ho showed to great advantage. In the next econe,where Miss St. Quinten was singing a solo the tenor, who had wrought himself into a passion over the slight, stalked on the stage when he cught not to have been there, He was armed with a good: d rawhide, with which he pro- ceeded to cowhide tha Ia 1y in & very vigorous and energetic manner. She was #o surprised at first she did not move, but finally she ran screaming behind the stage, where G.lden continued his assault until carrizd off by some of the employes of the theater. Miss St, Quinten sang out her piece, but very hyster ically. Golden’s friends excuse bis conduct on the ground that he had a little too much wine aboard. —— Proller's Body Exhumed, 8. Louis, August 15,—The body of Prel- ler suppoted to have been murdered by Max- well at the Southern hotel last April was ex- humed this afternoon to accertain its condi- tion and determine whether it would be worth while to summon witnesses to identify it when Maxwell is put on trial, The remains, which were embalmed bsfore burial, were found to be in an excellent state of preservation and lovking even better than when interred, Probabilities are the friends of the deceased will be brought here from the east and Canada. to identify the body. The trial of Maxwell cannot be brought on until the October term, e —— Shoc His Cousin and Then Hin..elf, Port Curster, N, Y., August 15,—At the house of J, W. Carpenter, of New York, four miles from this place, a tragedy occurred in which two of his grandchildren were partici- pants, The cousins wera bova of 17 or 18 years and were close friends. Tn the course of a triendly frolic Jasper W. Umberfield be- came angered and sent a bullet_through the body of bis cousin, Johnathsn W, Carpenter, and theo blew out his own brains, dyivg in- stantly. Youog Uerpenter's wonnd is thouzht to be fatal, Over study by young Umberfield in bolioved to have baen the lndirect cause of the shooting, ——— Camden's Oholera Oase. PHILADELPHIA, August 15,—Coroner Beale, of Camden, and jury, to-doy made a thorough investigation into the case of Margaret Kea- ley, who died at Kirkwood, on Tuesday, and they declare that it was not of Asiatic cholora a8 was sapposed, but that sho died of cholera morbus, caused by eating green apnles. WASHING 10N, August 15, - Au officer of the marin hospital service has been instructed to ingEulI:zlt! tho allegad case of cholera in Cam: en, N, J, —— Anoither Bonovoly, PirTsnuRG, August 16,—Dr, Hostetter to- day concluded negotiations whereby he be- comes ¢ole owner of the Fuel, Gas and Penn- sylvania Fuel companies, which were recently consolidated, and which constituto a natural gas plant worth over one million dollars, The amount of to-day’s purchase is estimated at half a million dollars, 1t will likely be fol- lowed by a consolidation of the Hostetter and Westinghouse companies, which will estab- lish & monopoly in the new fucl, e ————— The Weather, WASHINGTON, Aug, 16, — Upper Mississippl yolley—Light local rains, varlsble winds, stationaryt emperature, M valley ~Generally fair weather, local in the northern por’ tion, variable win ionary temperature, o — Smallpux in Montreal, Moxraear, August 16, —There are now forty cases of smallpox in the hospital here, andithe health authorities would be able to place more patients in it if there was room, Over one bundred hou re pla- casrded and in mauy hoases there are soveral cases, e — Of the seven presidents who have held the office in the last iwenty-eight years five are dead; two—Hayes and Arthur—are alive; while of the seven candidates for the different terwa in those twenty-eight years five—F're mont, McUlellan, Seymour, Tilden and Han- cock—are alive, aud only two—Douglas and Greeley—are dead, e — The new paddle wheel built at Boston for tho steamer Empire State contans 444 pieces of whits oak, measuring b,640 feet and weigh- ing 28,000 pounds, Ot b)lts, siraps and other wrought iron fastenings thera are 5,042 pieces, weighivg a total of 11,912 pounds, — —— It is given out in knowing quarters thit Fort Robineon will soon be abandoned us & mil tary post. It is said the troops there will bo trausferred o Fort Niobrara, which s now brlu‘t enlargel to & ten compeny po . The lucreassd railroad facilities will' eaable troops A the latter post to precect the torri- tory waich heratofore required two poetd, BONDED BUDCE. An Order from Commissioner Miller of Interest to Lignor Men, A Labor-Prolonging Body Whose Existenca Bhould Cease, The Bee's 8pecial Dispatches from the National Capital—Pointed Brevi- ties and{Washington Waifs, WHISKEY IN BOND, CRMMISSIONER MILLER REPEALS MONTHS' CLAUSE, Special Telegram to The Bxg. WasniNoToN, August 16,—Mr, Miller, commissioner of internal revenue, yesterday tolegraphed to all revenue collecters. who have been recsivivg transportation bonde, in which the time specified for the delivering of epirits at the port of exportation excoeds thirty days, that they are not toroceive such bonds after the 15th inst., thus virtually ro- paling the seven months' clause contained in tho circular ¢f January 8, 1685, extending the bonded perfod, Collectors were farther in- structed that they are not to approve trans portation bonds after the expiration period of three years mentioned in the warehousing bond, theraby shortening the timo by one month, allowed under circular 253 of January 5, 1835, The order of Secretary McCulloch based on an opinion of Attorney Gienera |Brewater, which had the effect of adding seven months 0 tha bouded period of whisky, was frem tho s THE SEVEN OF RATHER DOUBTFUL LEGALITY or of benefit to the distillers, The law v clearly limits ‘the period bonded to seve monthe, but in the case of whisky that is bonded for export, various margins of time are allowed by law within which the certifi- cate that spirits were landed in a_foreign port must be filed at the port of ehipment, in order to reloase the bondsmen on the oxport bond, margin of time varies from a few weeks for North America, to eighteen months for Australian ports. Of course it does not take eighteen months to reach even the most remote ports and get tho Janding cortificate back. Brewster and McCulloch apparently reasoned that if the spirits started ssven months after the bond was_filed, they could still reach the antipodes and get their landing certificates back in eighteen months. eo they allowed the distillers to keep their spirits In bond here that eeven months, duriog which the distillers hoped to tind purchaters or get more relief. The market bas not improved, and they have been trying to got the siven months expand- ed to the whole eighteen. They have DERIVED VERY LITTLE BENEFIT from tha seven months’ extension, Its effect was that 2,500,000 that ehould bave been c)l- lected during the lact fiscal year is still owed the government. The first lot of whisky bouded under secretary McCulloch’s order will have to travel or pay taxss next week. There are about 1,601,000 gallons of spirits under export bonds and 5,000,000 under trans- portation bonde, Tha second order of the treasury rescinded had tho effect of giving the distillers thirty days after the tax was due in_which to de- clare th upirits for export, Now they have g0' to come right down to business and pay taxes when their three years ara up, unless they previously gave notice that they were going to export, and if they bond their spirits for export they must get them out of the country within thirty or forty days. The fact is that no extension except an indefivite one is of any real use to the distillers,:and the presont administration has shut down on the whole thing, and is going to stick to the law, VERY UNANIMOUS, BOTH IN THEIR DECISIONS AND THE IFFORT TO PROLONG THEIR EXISTENCE, Special Telegram to the BEE, W ASHINGTON, Aug. 16,—The court of com- missioners of the Alabama claims will expire by himitation with this calondar year, unless congress can ba induced to pags an act pro longing the court’s existence, which is proba- bly the thing the commissioners are working for. 1Itis very doubtful if the business of the court can Dbe finished in less than three monthe, and that is all the time the court has left itself, With the enormous amount of pending business, the court adjsurned July 29 until October 5, Congress will not again prolong the existencs of this court, but the commierioners will let the claimants suffer rather than put up with less than ten weeks' vacation, In fact, the court would have ad- journed in June but for the vigorous yrolc:tx of the attorneys of the claimants. ¥or the accommodationfof the court the goyernment hires an old-fachimed private residesce at 59,000 » year, when adjoining buildings about the ramo size. rent to private parties for §1,200 or $1,000, Ths three commissioners conteact with the New Zealand government, Superintendent Bell, of the forcign mail worvice, has addressed a letter to the superin- tendent of the railway mail service, as fol- lows: “I have the honor to inform you that the direct mall service from San Francisco to Australia has been rosumed, and that mails for New Zoaland and Australian colonies, and correspondence for the Fiji and Samoan itlands will be dispatohed from San Francisco direct per steamer Zelandia to sail thencs on the 20¢h inst., and that until further notice all correspondence for destination above named will be dispatohed from San Feancisco direct unloes specially addressed to be forwarded via Brindisl.” The contract roferrad to expires GED TO NOLLE PROSSE, Tho attorney general has beon urged to dis- continue criminal prosecutions instituted against Oklahoma boomers, but has declined until he shall receive aseurances that they have permanently abandoned their attempts to enter the forbidden territory. NOT APOINTSD, Pention Commissioner Black says Exum Saint, who was said in a recent Indianapolis dispatch to have been appointed special ex- aminer of the pension office, has not been ap- pointed to, or recommended for avy office, A PATR OF APPOINTMENTS, Bannett B, Simms, of New Ocleans, has been appointed chief of the special sgents division of the general land cflice, vice Al fred G McKensio, who has been appointed special agent, Toeodore W. Hoole, of Wil wington, N, C., has beon appointed special agent for timber depredations. TROOPS TO BE HELD IN READINXSS. The secretary of war has instructed Gon, Miler, of the department of the Missouri, to hold troops in readiness to enforce the prosi. dent’s recent proclamation in relation to cat- tlemen on the Cheyenne and Arapshoe reser- vations By the torms of the proclamation the cattlemen will be compelled to remove their herds by September dth, Troops will be held at Fort Reno, THE KAW INDIAN SCRIP, The secretary of the interior has authorized the Indian office to pay out 868,000, the pro- ceeds of the sale of certain lauds in Koansae, for the redemption of the Kaw Indian scrip. The amount outstanding is $120,000, of which £85,000 hus been presented. The available funds will not be quite sufficient to pay the principal and interest of the scrip prossuted, and they will be divided pro rata among the sctip holders, THE MISSING MEDAL DISCOVERED, The National Rapublican has roceived a letter from tho United States consul general at Paris, statiog that one of the four gol meda's commemorative of the death of Pr deat Lincoln is in tne possession of David T, 8. Fuller, an attache of the Paris consulate. The whereab:uts of the four are now kno wn, CAFPITAL BRE T1ES. COMING TO OMAHA. Special Telegram to The B WASHINGTON, August 16 —Joseph Nimmo, je., ex-chief of tho bureau of statistics, left last night for Omaha and the west, via St. Louiz, where he will stop a fow daye, » THE PISCATORIAL EX -PRESIDENT. Ex-Prosident Arthur goes to Weat Teland on Monday to tey his hand at catching bass, NO MORE FREE PASSES. The chief signal cflicer has issued an order, prohibitiog officers of the signal corps from. availing themeelyes of passes or free trans- portation frum railroad or steamboat comp: niea while on inspaction toure, Au tt e allow— ance.on their tiips is very small, tho officers consider it a great privation, and will hers after rogard inspection duty as a great hard- ship. —— THE OLD COMMANDER, A MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY BY THE G, A, B WaSHINGTON, August 16,—(en, S, 8, Bur- dett, commander ia_ chief of the G, A, R, roturned here yesterday from the G. A. R encampment at Gettysburg, and Hillsboro, Il. To aRspublican reporter, Gen. Burdett said that at each of these places he spoke to the veterans regarding the erection of a monument to Gen, G:ant, aad they were uoanimously in favor of its location in Washivgton, *It would have done you good,” said he, ‘'to see the enthusiasm that was awakened at the chance given the boys to honor their dead commander. The Grand Army proposes to subscriba ten cents from every member, and there are 300,000 of them throughout this country, They mean to erect & monnment to Gen, Grant in Wash- ington, and I don’t think that the day is far distant when Gen. . Grant’s remains will be placed for final reat in Washiogton,” In reply to Gen. R, B. Hayes' letter sug- gestiog that the authorities of the Grand Army of the Republic encourage their com rades to cont:ibute to the building of a monu- ment on the grave of Gen. Graot, Gen, Bur- detto saye: *'I have been unable to bring my mind in accord with yours oa that point, I hold to the opinion that the Grand Army will desire, first of all, to erect its own distinctive monument to our comrade, not at a great cost, tut for that purpoee raisiog euch a sum #s 14 composed of the equal contribution of each 1ndividual comrade, and within the reach and glad gift of the poorest, The na- tional monument to Gen, Grant should be get 6,000 each, and since they organizsd, threo years ago, they have been oscupied with their judicial duties about half the time, The commissioners are SUSPECIED OF BEING OFFENSIVE PARTISANS, The presding judge is cx senator and ex secretary Harlan, of Towa, who acquired his Jegal learning ns & collego profeesor and M thodist minister. Oue of the associate commissioners is Asa French, of Massa- chusetts, who is president of the Norfolk county club of Boston, & republican organiza- tion, and the latter part of Juoe, when busi- ness was very preesiog in the court, French absented himielf for a week to take part in the reception of Logan in Boston. He pre sided at the dinner given Senator Logan at Young's hotel, The other associate is Andrew Drapers, of Albany, who was last year chairman of the executive committee of the republican state central commitee, and superintended the distribution of anti-Cleve- land literature, These three men constitute the most uoanimous court in the couniry. They have decided about 4,000 cases, and bave dissgreed only twice, Thus far the court has cost about $500 000, of which §2)0, 000 was for printing. Ex Postmaster-Gen - eral Oreswell is counsel for the United States at $8,000 s year, Heo is president of a banl here, and has other private business, eo that HEHAS VEBY LITTLE TIME TO GIVETO HIS COURT DUTIES, He is seldom at the building after court hours, and in court he is often represented by his assistant, Blaloe's son, Walker, who has never practiced at the bar sufficiently to distinguish “bimself, and who gets $3,500 & year for belpiog Creawell, Cresswell finds it neceasary to bave the son of the secretary of state, or an ex-secretary, to help him, Be- fore he secured the son of Blaine he had the help of & son of Fish and & son of Frelng huysen, All the members and attaches of this court are convinced that cogress ought to extend the court’s existence for several years. It is terrible to think that it congress does nothivg sll these gentlemen will be thrown out of employment in the dead of winter, The court will see to it that there aro plenty of claimants suill waiting for deci- wions of their cases when the end of the year comes, and demanding that the court shall be kept alive until they get justice. WASHING FON WAIFS, WILL CARBY CERTAIN MAILS, WasHINGTON, August 15.—The postoflice departicent haa been informed that the Pacific Mail Steamsblp compsgy wi continue to carry certen wails untll the expiration cf its of such proportions and cost a3 to be beyond the roach of private benevolences, aud of right and propriety ought to be ordered by tho congress of the United States and paid for out of the national treasury, and consequently the Grand Army rhould not be called upon for the effort you indicate, e —— TELEGRAPH NOTES, Four boys wero drownod in the Monopga- hela river at Pittsburg yesterday afternoon, Oue of Sells Bro’s circus wagons_tipped over at Sandusky, Sunday, auo killed Edward Fuller, the dnver. Philip Esterbooke, of Cambrier, Ohio, was killed Saturday night while walking on the railroad in an intoxicated condition. At Fast Tawas, Michigan, a light frost was observed Jast night. 1t i the first of the sea son, and but little dawage resulted, There were 3,000 persons in attendance yes- terday at the various departments of the Chautauqua sssembly Suuday school, A Lawrence, Kaneus, special suye: Adelride Radolph, of Cleveland, Ohilo, Misa ech k | of Mrs. Garfield has been chosen professor of Latin in the Kansas state university. The Cincinoati posts of the Grand Army of the Republic are cousideriog a suggestion to buy the lot at Point Pleaeant, Obio, on which stauds the house where Gen, Grant was borp, The Ksnsas City Journal's Waterville, Kans,, special, says: A fire this evening de- stroyed McFadden's livery, the Adams house, sod Rommes store aud’ residoace, 3.0ss, £30,000; ivsurance light. The leadiog clearing houses of the United States roport the total clearances for the five business cays ending August 15, were, §721,- 424,808, an iucrease compared with the cor responding full week of last year. The itoman Catholic church at Unienville, ught fire about midn'ghe Saturday bt i tho, vestry rooi, pod Was entiraly destroyed, Tha church cost from $20,000 to $300,000, Tt was insured for $130,000, A special from Vicksburg, Mississippi, saye: Ann Hogav, colored, died 10 this county yes terday, at the age of 120 year, Her peeuli ity was her hair, which was \hree feet lorg, and asawple of which was on exbibition at the world’s exposition, Toe Kalamszoo, Mithigun, Daily_ Tele- worniog. there wore two_curpses in it, identived a5 William Gibron and ¥ lwar Gallagher, f Beaver Tolund, CRIME'S GOHORTS. Maxwell, of Traok Mystery Fame, Arrives at St. Lonis, An Attempt to Murd:r an Ohio Miner with a Hand-Grenade. A Fatal Louisiana Plantation Quarrel ~Negroes Kill a Brakeman Near Nashville, MAXWELL'S ARRIVAL, GREETED IN ST, LOUIS Bt A POPULACE OF PEO= PLE, 1. Lovts, Aagust 16, —Walter H, Lennox Maxwell, alias D, C. Dangier, alias H, M, Brooks, the supposed murderer of C, Arthur Preller, at the Southera hotel in this city last April, arrived here absut seven o'clock this morning from San Francisco, In charge of De+ tective Tracy and Offiver Badger, of the St. Louis police force. A crowd of two to_three thousand men, women nnd children wero at tho depot ‘when the train amived; there was o great scramble among them to wet n view of tha prisoner, but good order was preserved, Maxwell and his custodian were mot at the train by Chief of Police Harrigan, with a detachment of police and placed in a patrol wagon, and driven to the four courts, where after a brief stop in the detectives’ room in polics headquariers, he was put in the “'hold over,” and s being held under an alias warrant, which was sworn out last Friday by the propér authority. Ac- counts Ly reporters, who roda frem Halsted, Kansas, on the train with Maxwell, and had full access to him, are to the effect that he ABSOLUTELY KEFUSED TO-PALK ABOUT HIS OASE, and positively assorted that be has no time or placo to make auy statement in regard to it, or in anyway acknowledge that hy had any- tl 0 do with Preller’s death, or knew any- thing about it. He says all stories to the contrary are entirely “untrue, Detective Tracy slso says that Maxwell has made no statement, Maxwell wrote out, whi'e on the train, for the reporter of the Republican, an account of his trip from St. Louis to Auck- Jand, bis arrest there and return trip, but it is a commcn place story of minor events, and contains no information or interest. Detec- tive Tracy thinks that farther developmente will show Maxwell tobo a weak man men- tally, but that ho has gotan idea wedged in his mind, that his eafety depends upon his silence, and that he will startle nobody with & eurprisiog or romantic defense, Tracy thinks he killed Preller for money, that the very few admissions he has made point in that direction, thaths voyage from St. Louis to Auckland was & money spending debauch, and not a well planned escaps fiom justice, andthat it was theluck that takes care of drunkardsand fools, that stood instead, and not good management of his own. HOW HE SPRNT THE AFTRENOON, Maxwell was in Chief Harrigan's office an hour or 80 this afteruoon, and a Jarge number of cullurs were introduced to him, but nothing regurding the case or what line of defease he will pursue was cbtsived from him, Charlea _ Breger, tho trunk maker, recognized Moxwell ay the man to whom he s0ld the tzunk In_which Prellers body was found. and the porter at the Soul ern hotel recognized him-as haviog been a guest at that house in April Jast, Maxwell will be turned over by the police authorities to-merrow to the sher'ff, and will be placed in jal. What other, if any, legal action will be taken has noi baen detormined. A Hand Grenaae as a Weapon of Murder. CoLumius, Ohio, Aug. 16,.—The State Jour- nal’s Shawnee special says: Botween one and two o'clock this morning an effort was made to assassinate the family of Hugh Kinney by throwiog a hand grenade or bomb in his sleoping chamber. Tha windows were shat- tered tre walls wrecked and large holes made i1 the floors, Kinney was found lying at tha foot of the bed badly maogled and bleediog. Mrs. Kinney had run into tho yard to give an alarm, and was badly. wounded, Kinney is losked upon in the community of miners as an informer of the important actions of the miners, 204 was sua- pecied of keeping the operators posted on their movements, and had bzen threatened, The villaga council held a meeting this afternoon and offered a reward for the apprehension of the perpetrators. The feeling is very high in the commanity, and it is thought if the proper parties aro found thera will be lynch- ing. The injuries of Kinnoy and w.fe, it is theught to-night, will not prove fatal, A Murdered Brakeman, Nasuv.LLe, Aug, 16.—At 4 p, m., as the south bound freight train on the Louisville & shville r 1lway was pulliog out from Edge- jivld Junction, ten miles north of this city, two young negro roustabouts gob into an. empty box car for the uurpose of ntealing » ride, They were ordezsd out by the brake- men, when an altercation ensusd batween the brakemen aud tbe negroes, one of the latter throwiog a stono which hit one of the brakemen, The latter chased the negroes up the road and into a cornfield, The fore~ moat of the parsuers followed into the corn- field, and was shot and killed by one of the negroes, both of whom esceped. The brake- man killed was nemed J. B, Ludding. The body was found in the cornfield & few minutos after the shot wae. fired. The sheriff and a posse are ou’ searching for the murderer, graph's specinl frow Comlevoix aays: The fish tug Sea Wicg was found off Charlevoix this Her v a1l boat was full of water and The men were A Horse Thief Oaptured—Double Tragedy, New York, August 10,—Special Officer O'Connell, of Bloomirgton, McLgan county, Ills,, was presented in Jeff :rson Market coart to-day with reqnisition papers for Goorge Jones, & horae thief from the locality named, The prironer was turned over, Fritz Fien and Jalius Wolll, eailors, belong- ing to the German bark Mozart, from Ham- burg, fouzht la;t vight on board the ship, IMien stabbed Wolff with his sheath knife. Wolff iu turn wpened a wound o foot long across the abdomen of his ssemlant, killing him instantly, Wolff will also dis, ——— Got the Drop on Him, Niw Orunans, August 16,—A Vicksburg digpateh to the Times-Democeat says. Nows has been received here of the killing at nyside, on Tallahatchio river, last Sun McMarth, mansger of John Ty'er's Bellechase plantation by Dz Adair, manager of D, W, Durden’s Beverly Place, Ap old misunderstandiog was revived, and McMarth rode vp to Ada r's door, called him % and threatened to shoot hin, when Adair sho$ and killed McMarth, Adsir was arrested and subsequently reloased on $1,000 bail, --A moonlight picaic is to ba givia by the young ladies of Council Bluffs at Fairmount park, oo Tuesday evening, It will bo at- tended by & number of Omaha young Kentlemen, —Maud Muller is & colozed resident of Omaba, who bas got hersedd into trouble. Sho was arrested last night at the 1vstance of id, Curtis, colored, for kealing a watch from , bim, sud will answer to that charge this moraiog, Curtis was also detsined as & wit~ ness, ~—The Thomas Carrolls had a hard time of it Buadsy, Thomas No, 1 was run in for beating Lis ‘wife, aud Thowmas No, 2 was oaps tured by a6 polica on a charge of larceny Lhey wisl both appear before Judge Hienbyg this eroivg.