Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1886, Page 1

4 4 WIFTEED 1| Delogate Gifford's Opinion of a Democrat's | Dakota Bill, ‘WESTERN POSTAL INFORMATION he President and His Force Hanai- capped on the Silver Question Removed to Make Room for a Democrat, ‘ A Burlesque on Sensible Bills, Wasimixaroy, Dec. 51 Special Tele gram.]—“This bill that is in cirenlation by the democrats of my territory, and purporting to be an enabling act, is the grossest insult to L Intelligence of a people 1 have ever anown,” said Delegate Gifford, of Dakota, to your correspondent to-night. t does not | vide for the admission of Dakota,” con- | jed lie, “or propose any relief whatever simply a burlesque on all sensible bills he subject. Boynton, the democrat who Te from the territory cireulating coples e bill which he is prond to eall his own, it is endorsed by his party in congress el as at home. 11 this is true the denmo- ty of Dakota at least hias already ed its infiuence her But there is not © least likelihood of Boynton's bill being passed. It simply provides for the election e [ delegates to a convention to form acon- sitution, which shall be by the governor certified to congress. It contains 10 provi- sion for the ratification of such constitution by the people, nor provision for admission to tatehood, appropriation of publie lands, or tn thing in fact which is usual in- what this Intends to be or should be. 1 never heard of dut ome territory cowing into the unipn of -8t tes by any such scheme, It was Kentuicky. She eanie in in 1792 with a constitution which was adopted by & convention without the sanction of ner people. Why, under the Boynton bill the railroads and other corpori jons could pack the convention and form a constitution after their own wishes, The bill, as L've said, is an insult, and will be repudiated as it should be. It does not go as fer towards statchood as our- people lave already gone.” WESTERN POSTAL IN Ferdinard Mucller las b postmaster at Schwedt, Neb., escott at Hopkinton, 1 Changes have been. ordered in the time sehedules of Star mail routes in Nebraska, as follows: Winnel daily e Decatur by 6 except Sunday bago by 12 m. Mound to Cotesfield—Leave Mound Tues- days and Saturdays at 1 p. m.: arrive at Cotestield at 1:45 p. m. Leave Cotesfield days and Saturdays at 2 p. m.; arrive at Mound by 2:45 p. n., or in connection with railway mails, The sites of Nebraska postoflices have been changed, as foliows: Enterprise, Keya Pahia connty, to 11y miles east; Horicon, Warren connty, to 115 miles south; Nevada, Loup county, to 1) miles THE PEESIDENT BEC < President Cleveland is alre begging quarter on the silver question. He is now trying to effect some sort of a compromise which he can mplish a graceful de- from the altitudinous height he occu- in his message, The trouble with him ‘at he finds it hard to launeh histoboggin, thus set him in moti He has had uent consultations with Speaker Carlisle, through him is trying to fix up the ¢ tee on coinuge, weights and measure Jto suspend the compulsory coinage of er, with the clause inserted to cateh the er men allowing the 1y of thetr y to direct the eoinnge at his discrc '[Jiis compromise is as much as the president now hopes to accomplish. MUST GIVE. WAY TO A DEMOCEAT. & The resignation of 1. 0. Gurley,who origi- nated the free delivery system of the postoflice department, and who hias been its head until now, has been demanded by the postmaster general. He wants the place for a democrat, Gurley has been o most eflicient officer, and was the first 1o suggest the adoption of the froe lelivery system, which has grown under hig fmanagement to its present wonderful By Jes % \ OIMATION. en commissioned nd Philo F. Leave Winnebazo ) p. m.: arrive at ave Decatur daily m.; arrjve at Winne- 0 1o Decatur 3 PERSONAT, AND OTIERWISE, Marator Van Wyek is not recciv $vinter on account of the recent and | a1 (th of Lier sister, wife of the Hon, Auken, of Pennsylvania, ..JU HAYS OF ronM The Star says: A well-inforaed Mich- ran gentlenian, who is thoronghly con ersant with facts, is authority for the state- ment that the effort of Don. M. Dickinson to convince the president that the cha (rainst Judge Powers, of Utah Tertitory, are pstigated by Mormons,was adesperate effort manufacture publie sentiment in his be- alf. ‘The truth is, he says, the grave charges sainst Powers mude by prominent citizens f Michigan, lave been for some time in the Jossession of the president, and is being in- vostigated by him. Itis asserted cerlain en lorsements of Powcers were procured by misrepresentation, and that the president, o wall as Dickinson, was imposed on, The statement of the latter ina recent issue of »the Detrolt Free Press inferview that the president would not only scnd in Powers pameafter recess, but work for his confivma ! gon, s regurded as rather a checky wsser ion. AHE ADMINISTRATION'S DISCOMFITURE, WaAsHINGTON, Do Wi "{he foree of Senator Beck's silver speech first struek the treasury departiient and the waite house, the oecupants thereof contidently in formed some of their wost intimate friends that there wus & personal animus behind Benator Beck, 1t was intimated that the ?ruumr liad been unsuccessful in offico g i is g, and that there had been some appoint- ents made which were obnoxious to him {ithin his state. Some one carvied this in- | X)l’llll\liull to Senator Beek, and he simply wook hituselt with laughter and exelaimed VHow sillyt” Since quite a large number of Hfepublicans and democratic senators liye an- nowsced that tl will eak inmueh the ame line as that taken by Senator Beck, the cosident and lis counsellors have looked at ¢ latter's course in a more seriol wanner an personal rellection, Of course, whatever ho senator would say about the president n personal grounds would amount to but | 'Sfig to bin; but when a subject so far reacl As finance is forced upon him by a great fority of the upper house of congress, and 8 called upon to battle with the ablest wen g, and hus 10 champion Who seeis equal oceasion, the aspect of alfuiis is nged very radically, Now Senator Beek 10 longer charged by anybody with enter- hing & personal feeling toward any one in adiinistration, aud the weight of his ar- nent is having a telling effect. After such 1 as Seuators Sherman, Allison, Wilson, arts, Logan, Harrison, and that class of den have spoken, the president, Secretary anning and their associates will begin ove that there Las been a cloud buzst upon Since it has become pretly elear that | dri silver over co 1 materia APATHY TOWARDS THE SCHEM Indiana democrats now in this city have expre at the small amount of intere people here over the construction of a monument to the late vice president. After sueh prompt and positive steps had been taken at Indianapolis and three othier points in the country they A there wouid be little trouble in amovement liere, where Mr. Hen spent <o much of his life and was so well liked. Somehow the efforts to the question haye very litt It scems that Mr. Hendricks did not form that intimate association -ith prominent men ot national capital which would guarantee the suecess of anything looking towards the perpetuation of his memory. People who seek oflice and who find nothing in politics its cireumstances excepting oflice, are, ereral rule, ungrateful, and on forget their benefactor. A meeting is 1o be held by the Indiantans and it will soon | be known whether Washington will do her self credit in this laudable cause, and the fund will be sent to Indiana. THE APACHE TROULES WASHINGTON, Dee. 81— Associate Press.|—Goy. Zoulick of Arizona has tele- graphed to thie secretary of the interigr, call- nattention to an erroneons impression that the purpose for which the troops have been recently ordered from San Francisco is merely” to protect ) Indians _from threatened attacks by the lawless white ele ment. Gov. Zoulick™ says that his appeal to the government for troops was for the pro- teetion of the lives and - property of Arizoni- ans from the attacks of -murderons and thieving Apach J eople on adds, “have ex: iibited a higher sense of law abiding qualitics than the Arizonians have shown for their ferrible afllictions of the past eight months.” e remarks that his proclamation Tast week, warning all evil disposed persons that the power of the federal and territorial governments would e evoked to preserve the rights of all persons within the borders of Arizona, was directed against inflammatory publications in the territorial newspapers, and says: 14 has had its effect, for the en tire pross in the ferritory is tow arrayed upon the side of Taw and order.” He assures the seq ry that he will see that the San Carlos reservation and the rights of peacetul Indians are protected, and in conclusion he asks the sceretary for an_authoritative state- ment todispel the erroneous impression as to the purpose of his appeal for troops. In reply, Acting Sceretary Muldrow to-day tel eapiicd to the governor that the interi departiient has teceived no dispateh trom it suggesting a need for troops to protect the Indians on the San Carlos reervation, and noaction has heen taken by the govern® ment to eoncentrate troops in that vieinity for the pupose indic od. My, Muldrow adds: “The purpose of the’ government has been and is to protect all persons in Arizona in the full enjovment of their rights and property s to punish all awbreakers, suppress outlaws, and maintain peace within that ter- ritory.” SHARON'S WASHINGTON REAL ESTATE, Tiie zents of the estate in thiseity of the late_ex-Senator Sharon, Nevad, to-day placed on record adeed which was made by Sharon November 4, 185, a short time_betore his death, by which' lie transfers all his prop- erty in this city and elsewhere to his son, Ered G, Sharon, and_ his son . Francis G. Newlands, in trust for the heirs who are mentioned inthe deed by name, and the division of the estate described, "Ihis deed has been published in full, and_contains the clause in_reference to Sarah Althea Hill, whose elaim to be Sharon’s wife has re- cently been decided by the United States civeuit court at San - Francisco adversely to Miss Hill. Sharon, inemphatie langiiage, declares that she' is not his wife, and thé Sdear wite” letters are forgeries, and in- structs his heirs to continue the legal fight against his claim to the last resort. On account of the dower right whieh a favorable verdict for Miss Hill woukd haye entitled her to in all’ the pioperty “of Shaton, all his property in - this city has been with- drawn from the markct. As soon as the trustees notify the agents there, the property belonging to this estate which consists of unimproved property 1ying antirely in the heart of the most fashiotiable art of the eity, valued at a quarter of ion, will be ‘placed again in the ark Mlost of this property was acquited by Sharo in satisfaction o a tryst deed which he had given to ex-Senator Stewart and Judge Sun- derland, members of the famous California syndicate which in 1571 bought large blocks i land in the northwestern seetion of the city woeakened, sed some surpr t shown by the expec been of CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS, Chict Lyman will start west in a few days 1o purpose of conduting civil fooviee examinationy in Kaisas© City, The commission intend to sprietly apply the rule of dropping all applicants that have been on file six months. They say they ave compelled to do thisin order to get throtigh with the examiy ations. That unless some Jimit is_tixed it would be inpossible for the commision 10 ex- anine all applicants. Eaeh person whose name is dropped is at'once notined of the faet and can make another apylication if de- sirable OF CROOK'S FINAL VICTORY, Gen. Dium said to-day that he Jonghit it would be unnecessary to_ organize the proposed body of fronticrsmen to hunt the Indians. e was of the opinipn that Gen. Crook will have accomplished the task of subjeeting the hostiles betore the frontier troops can be organized, Gen. Crook has g larze force of men and has heen supplied with eyerything he desired to carry on the campaizn, and Gen. Drum thonzht he would sooti be sticeessiul in either subjecting or ex- terminating the hostile Apaches, R COUSINS CRIME, *d Suicide, with Hints ot ninality. St. Louis, De Miss Mary Reader for the past few months has been hiving with her alleged Charles W. Parish, a prominent boot and shoe dealer of this city and member of a well-known family, She presented herself at Parish’s residence as a cousin of his, and apparently substuntiated her elaim by @ letter from the pastor of ¢ Baptist chureh, St. 1 The relations be tween her cousin and hersell have been of a most friendly and happy nature since her equaintauee with him, Lastevening he wont out to a party. Upon returning at 2 this morning he found her ina dying condition, Aninvestigation was at once had and it was found she had swallowed an ounce of chloro- form. physicial was at onee summoned, hut betore he arrived she was dead, Linme- diately afterwards Panish went out, saying that lie would return in a short time, biit he has not been seen or heard from, Miss Reader seemed In good spirits ull day yester- day, und no cause has been assigned for her suicide, The other inhabitants of the house suy the relations between Parish and his alleged cousin were of a crimival character and that they lived togetheras man and wife: - Fatally Shot by a Burglar, New Castre, Pa, Dee. 8L—James Kin caid, a prominent eitizen of Mahoningtown, | near here, was fatally shot by an unknown | Luglar early this morning. The burglar had | secured Kineaid's money and wateh and was | leaving the house when he was awakened. He followed the burgiar down stairs and the latter turned on him and shog, him breast, the ball passing through the body and coming out at the back. “The burglar escaped, No hopes of Kincaid's recovery are enter- talned, An Unexplain nis, - A Dead Norm: St Louis, Dee. 8L.—Allan Norman, the negro who was shot by Oiticer Lewis yester- day morning, died this moruing at the city hospital. ‘The coroner will hold an inquest aver the remains to-day, wheo the facts will teamed, The only’ question at Issue 15 whetier he was engaged in the robbery when shot, ‘The evidence is now very xmnilruu;. - A Bank Collap: Lakk Cuvy, Miun,, Dee, 8L-The First National bank: annownced tgday it will go into liquidation, No deposilors will loss, a8 the stocklioldors are umply able (0 mpet all de- winds, The suspeniion was calsed by @ fhe adunnistation willuet have ity way in Tuen, in the | | | | [ | | The Upper ¢ | brains spattered the floor | nA | The Government With the Marine H Bank Defranders. | New Yonrk Dee. 51.—[Special Telegtam.) The Sun this morning prints the following: | We learn froma Washington correspondent that the government has had a proposition from J. Henry Work and W. S. Warner to refund the full amount of the checks which | form the basis of the indictment upon which their trial is now pending and that the offer ense Wealth—D lias been declined. We are glad to learn the and Death—Tan | 1t shows that felonies cannot l»]rv-um- % Ohte pounded at Washington now-a twill bl AN gl perhaps before long be pertinent to consider in strong public light the conduct of Julian T. Davies, their associate and partner and now receiver of the property of Grant & Ward, NEw Yonrk, Dec. 3t—The following Wash- on special was published here to-day: re was recently presented to the attorney Lon_benalf of Wi, 8, Warne other-in-law, J. Benry Work, a | ition to refund to the creditors of the Marine | bank, the full amount of the cheeks upon which their present indictment was found, namely £125,500. The government has e elined the proposition, and both of the ac- cused will stand trial, All the parties in interest who could be found to-day, ineluding the attorneys for the govermment and for Warnerand Work, were questioned as to the truth of the dispateh, [ and without exeeption declined (o make an | statement about the matter, - WHAT THEY SAY OFTHE Prosperous Growth of Weste During 1885, Dics Moixes, Towa, Dec. 8l—Des Moines is improving ne pidly than any other city in the state, and-during the past five vears its growth has béen so rapid that our ANANTI-PROHIBITIONIST'S PIT dded with Sharpened Stakes for War- rant-Serving Sheriffs, THE SOLDIER’'S HOME SWINDLED. ngo Country Capable of Yielding Im enness Ay, A Pit for Warrant Servers, Des Moixes, lowa, Dee. $1—[Special Telegram.] —Last evening Deputy Sherift Pierce went to the saloon of Lorenz 111, in the Des Moines house, to serve a search war- rant. As he entered the room he held up the avarrant and announced his official position Not finding anything contraband in the bar room he tried the door leading to the cellar, but found it locked. He called upon the bar- keeper to unlock it, but was refused. He i callea upon the man to open_the_door, id when refused the second time Pierce broke it open. Descending the stairs by adim light, he saw a beer keg in the cellar i started for it, but walked into a pitabou t nine feet de the bottom of the pit being set with sharpencd stakes, Pierce threw out lis arms and caught on the sides of the hole, | and by theaid of Constable Hansen, who accompanied him to the house, wis reseted before falling on the stakes, Had he done sohe must haye been killed or crippled. The oftic the pit had been freshly dug le ot MSELVES Cities 1S S The Uppér, Congo. NEW York, Dec. S1g-[Special Telegram.| —The Herald's Brussels eorrespondent, Wed- nesday, interviewed Lieut. E. H. Taunt, United States navy, who has just returned trom the Congo, where he was commissioned by the navy department to report on its con- mereial prospects and political state. He is here to give King Leopold information on the region of Stanley falls. He agrees with Tisdell gs to the dreariness and worthles ness of the lower Congo up to Stanley pool, but finds the climate, scenery and fertility of the upper region, which Tisdell did not see, as quite marvelons and pable of yielding immense wealth to European and American commerce, provided foreign labor such as Chinese caolies, is imported. The lientenant will see the king, after which he will join the Ameriean squadron In the Mediterranean, Drunkenness and Death. Nrw YorkfDee, $L=[Speeial Telegram.] —John Darrington, hardware porler, re- turned howe yesterday morning and found his wife lying on a sofa drunk. Iehad been at work late and demanded something to eat. “The woman growled at him, when he be- came enraged, and seizing a broad bladed adze, proceeded to buteher the unfortunate creature, He chopped her skull until her 1l then hacked her face out of all human semblance. Harring- ton suddenly realized what he had done and yelled for an oflicer. One eame and took him to the station. When arraigned yesterd afternoon Harrington freely admitted the murder and said he was perfectly sober at the time, argu ish for contempt of court Ed and had eve appearance of having been eity is not only the firse in population but in sicclally constructed for a trap. wealth and prosperity, The success of the Swindling the Soldiers' Home. factor Iready here has been sufliciently NEw York, Dee.31.—[Special TelogramJ— | demonstrated to encoge the establishment = S Tasdit i ol many more. The husiness ot the A Washington dispateh says there has | oy WY " o Hearthiul. basis and evidently been an- effort. to suppress the re- | {ho prospeet i4 good for Des Moines to by portof the Rosecrans military committee, | come, in the near futu.e, the leading com- whicl investigated the soldiers' home. This | mercial aidd mannfacturing centor west:of report made a very bulky volume, It should | LS i, Miny fmprocenents will have been in the Tiouse document room im- | he made, and no doubt important industrics mediately upon the elose of last congress, | will locate here. A reyiew of the past year's Just before congress adjourned 5,000 eop improvenents and business transactions wil vere ordered printe order was never | e published 1 to-morrow's State Itegister, b ’.']‘.'l'";," palitah, ol ""“‘L‘_‘;" | from whicl the following figures ave taken fulfilled. - Rosecrans went to work this fall, | oy new buildings and improvements, and only through the most strenuous efforts | 85,101,209 10 9f hianufacturad pro: suceceded in geiting the report printed. The | ducts, $15 totgl Wholesale business essentinl facts of this report had never been | transacted, $: 504 total population o printed in any newspaper until this morn- | ¢ty and suburbs, upward ot 40.00. ing. when the World reproduced them. The SHUTTING PHEM OUT. ° charge against Butler is of sueh serious char- 3 - acter that it is believed the case will go to | A Whole Parish Quarantined for Re- the eourts. The only trouble is that no one thllllu&nlllmr.\'llph 3 is directly interested outside of the managers | MONTREAL, - Dee. 8L —The suburban of the home. Butler has always claimed | municipality of St. Cunegonede having r that the large defieieney in bonds was charged | fused to comply with the regulations of the Y on account of the differ- | eentral board of health, it has been quaran- Roseerans says the com- | tned. All its strests conneeting with wseript of Butler's | Montreal have been barrieaded, and polic own books to ascertain the difference. Ile | men placed to cut off all intercourse. “This dwells emphatically on the point that for one | morning the St. Cunegonedé: peaple showed nd i half there was ot & single record | fights and * commenced pulling ~down L oy the ' barrieades and assaulting — the of any kind of money reccived or expended. | police. A stronz detachment of oflicers has Just been ordered out, as the quarantine ery indignant a_free ficht isan LA fnan named Trudel, who tried to persuade the mob towreek the barricade, was arrested and tined: The fences will bo made twelve feet gl fo-night, a suflicient foree of police being on hand {0 protect the workmien, Persons tronr uninfeeted distriets il be allowed to pass k2o brricade on pro. ducing tickets. ‘I raivey authorities will co-operate with the eily w7 tee anitten Called for Contempt of Conrt, raéuse, No Y., Dee, 8L—A motion was 1 before Judge Wallace to-day to pun- A L. Stokes, president of the Banker's and chant’ telegraph company and others, on the ground thit they e refused to turn over to the re- celvers of the Awerican Rapid Telezraph company certain property as directed by Judge Shipman’s order, There was a_di; fingished array of sel, including Hon Roscoe Coukling and Col. Robert (. Inge soll. The case oceupied the attention of the conrtall day. ‘The papers were handed up and the judge reserved Lis decision, - $100,000, Cueaco, -William Baker to-day onfessed judzment in favor of the bank of Montreal, in the eireuit court, for $11,000. He subseqiently made o voluntary assign- ment to his brother, George B, Baker, and his total tiabilities are | At 2100,000, Willim Baker is president of the 4appan, MeKillop & Co. mereantile agency and publisher of the Jowrnal of Comierce. No schedule of assets has been filed, but it is believed they will equal the liabilit ————— No Prison Product in Canada. Orrawa, Ont.. Dee, 5L—"The customs aw- thorities having learned (hat Chieago wer- chants were shipping lazge quantities of pork in barrels made in Jolict prison to lumber men here, speeial azents were sent to Chi- cago who' wirned the parties against a_con tintance of the practice, and informed them that any further shipments: would be confis- cated, as the products ot American pr labor are not permitted to enter Canada. - A Journalist Joined. WASHINGTON, Dec, 8L—Georga 1, Jami- son, one of the proprictors of the Chicazo Dinly Business, and foemerly editor of the National Republican of this city, was matried in this city tonight o Miss Carrie Nouh, daughter ot Judge J. J. Noah, Washington COrTe ondent of several western news- pay John Kelly's Dliness. Nuw Youx, Dee. 31,—[Special Telegram. ] Jolm Kelly's illness Is now asserted to be caused by a disease very like softening of the brain. One day he appears quite well, and next is confined to his bed. Iis termas irman of the Tammany organization ter- minates nest May, when he will formally and forever withdraw from polit ——— The Trouble May Be Renewed. DETROIT, Dee, 3L—The police are in readi- ness for trouble in the Polish quarter at any lour. While to-morrow is generally believed to be the time when watehfulness will be most needed, the oftleers are on duty to-night. and have on hand a supply of strethers i other things veeded in the event of & serious disturbance. The militia will b ealled out it necessary, and the companies in this eity are | vania & Ohio railroad, was shot {om an under or IL rtat once on the ringing | bush by an unknown person last night at worrow being a holiday [ Wadsworth, Gallager nad =ome trouble with ater, IS thought that | people in e vieinity where the body was the knowledge that the militia are’ under | found, and threats had been made against :l-_‘“h r; l»ir M'Hi"n 'H-IA\’ '\ 5 i -lm.\’ mrlllm-.-!». his lite. Railroad secrot service ofticials ar ie bishop is out’ of the city” but Father | nvestizating the matt Kolasinskl. [ lere, ‘and tho Reallng of thg | 1Ye3Hgating the maticr, churely is as high as ever, - Night Turned into Day, Cmeaco, De To-night at 5:30 that quarter of the ity in which the new board of trade building is situated was suddenly il minated so that night seenmed alwost turned into day. The souree of 5o much brilliancy was a corona of electric lamps about the to of the tower of the board of trade building 51 feet gbove the street level, 4 plant of 40,000 candle power, said to bo the faigest nass of electrie light and- at the greatest altitude of any in the world. “The engine furnishing thé power will be stapted at dark every even- ing and run il daylight, makinz gas”in that nefghborlidod almost @ superfluity, - OCalling tn Bonds, W ASHING Dee, 51, elary Man- ning holds that the sinking fund for the cur- ront fiscal year requires $45,000,000, He said that it would not do to call that amount at once, aud hence he had made to begin with, acall of only $10,000,000. " This would indi- cate that Between Febrfuary and June 50 there will be four bond ealls 1017$10,000,000 each, —— l(nl}runll Business, NEW Voni, Dec. L—The New York Cen- tral divectors to-day declared & dividend of 1 percent. The Lake Shore directors decided 10 pass the dividend. "The statement for the | year 1885 shows the gross earnings to be $14,085.000; operating expenses, $9,247,000; net earnings, 34,541,000, Al charges, S50, | o, leaving a surplus of §9 .00,"or' ucarly WO per ceilt on the ca, u.nlli(a: . At Sioux Olty, Soux Ciry, lowa, Dee. 8L—~The total amouut expended in building improyements in Sioux City in 155 is $1,027,47L, Nearly 700 new louses have been put 'up, This is the largest building record Sloux City bas over bad duripg its Listory, d - Mysteriously M Ax N, Ohio, Dee, track mspeetor of the New York, Geon o Covrsen. BLiris, Nonpareil will to-mor of the business interests st Council Blufls, showing improvenents magle during the year to the amount of nearly $700,000. The whiole sale business at this pont amounted to $30,- 000,000 for the year, ‘'he year 195 s looked forward to as likely to fie one of the most Prosperous years in the el §'s history. il iy A Police Ocer in Livree Rock, Ark., Dee Copeland was found on the corner of Coin- merce and Second streets padly beaten about the Lead and unconscions. Ile died about 1 ock this morning, An ex-convict has been arrested on suspigion of being Cope land's assassin. ovin, 5 oy publish un dered. #1.—Patrohnan o hituary. Brownwoon, Texas. Dee, 81.--Col. Ed- ward Wallace, brother of Gen. Lew Wallace, and son of Governor Wallace, of Indiaua, died here last night of pneumonia, aged He was & veteran of e ican ' war and served with distinetionsin the federal army during the rebellion. ~ Collided With § Fory Boat, New Yousk, Dec, 31,-¥0he propeller Pequot crashed iuto the side of the ferry boat Alaska this morning, driving ler sharp prow twenty | feet into the hull and ‘{u» 1y it to the wate « edge. Fortunately thdre were few people the Alusku, ailfl the panie which en- WUS SOOI OVEICupie. o obe was - aboatd sued jured, £ ——y Want the M CAuson, Nev,, De 8Lt s anne to-day that Gen. Clark, on behalf of the citi zens, Will Institute a mandamus suit against | Buperintendent Garrard to cowpel i to 1 opén Carson mint reg I under in J shuctions from Wil Reopened. need | the Dilke scandal ha THE FOLLY OF FAIR FRANCE, A Orisis Approaching in the Affuirs of the Young Republic. ON THE VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY. L with Alarm the Gravity of the Situation ~Her Pe Overtaked and Commerce at a Standstill. Her Political lers View Brisson's Resigr Panis, Dec tion Accepted. President Grevy acecpted the resignation of Brisson, | last evening, and this morning summoned De Freyeinet, minister of foreign affairs, to form a new eabinet. Do Freyeinet, reluctant to aceept sneh a rosy the present moment, in- view of of the situation in France. He las asked th president to grant him' time to consider the proposal and to consult with his triends and e republican leaders, An English obser the following pieture however, is nsibility at the gravity er has recently given ot the commerclal and industrial - situation in - France: For the month of November the figures of French rts and exports show a decline of €15, as compared with the ssme month 1884, 3 was a decrease on both sides — of account. There is no loubt that France is approaching a erisis incommercial and financial afiairs, and one that will long be felt by the French people, The eauses which are slowly and surely bringing about this state of aflairs are several, but the most prominent_ one is the extravagance of the government during th past several years, The government, since Marshal MaeMaion retived to private life, has built thousands of miles of un profitable railvoads “and thousands ot schools, of ~ which fourGifths were not wanted. From £100,000,000 to 500,000,000 for the roads, and from S15 000,000 1o FLiH0W00 tor the schools were thrown into cireulation and created the false prosperity of which 11 marked the culn nating point. The people literally did not Kkuow what (o do with their moncy, and as it could not find any prositable employment in agriculture and_industry, it went into all sorts of stock exchange and building opera tions. Now lias come the reckoning and it is by no means a clicerful one. Though faxation in every form and shape has reached leights undreamed of before, the ineome fron this souree his failen off during the last few years, and the most ingenious book keeping s not been able (o hide from the public the con- stant deticit A tloating debt is rolling up of nobody knows the real mmount. So long as money éan be had, itis not oy wosed fo matter Whether it be the states o' oan. Year after year Franee hias been spend- inz ‘millions bevond its income. 1T it pro- ceeds mueh longer in its habits of extrava- zance the French treasury simply will have to confess itis insofvent. Lihe prospeets of agrieulture and indusiry are not more eheering, owing to competition from America, Australiaand dia. French farmin has been less profitable of late ye and the valne of live cattle lias droy par cent. The investors in house property are not mieh better off. In the provineds such property has I very difficnlt of sale, un an enormons depreciation, and in Pyris the state of things is not much Better, though there is of course @ lage mar- Ket. More than 50,000 apartments are o let in Paris, rents having gone down 50 £ 50 per cent, and even at the reduced amount now' of thie sixty wrivileged, barely a dozen stand in theivalloted places and talk of the new play which came out the night' betore, or the Balkan question. ¥ The French republic’ stifl feels il Tossos sustained in 1820 and 1951, How great these losses were may be judged from the endless wnount_of compaiics in_bankruptey and liquidation, and from the prices of thio of these companies still’_alive. W] freely sold at £12.50 to $15.00 is now worth 1roni $6.25 to 6,35, Even in the best stocks the depreciation has been fearful. ‘Ihe fall railway shares is due to the falling off of traflie, and this again is caused by the en- l stagnation of trade. 1l L sulTering amonz the poorer elasses may he judzed from the fact that one of the indusirial towns, Stetienne, has Jost 15,000 inhabitants out of 10,000, They have left the town to seek bread by country lahor or In some other em- ployment. The old established companies, whieh for many years paid regular dividends, Tave absorbed tier rescive funds and pay uo dividends. . Burmah Annexed to Great Britain, LoNpox, Dee. 831.—-By a proclamation which will be issued in India and England to-morrow, Burmah will be formally annexed to the British cupire. The proclamation will say that the tervitories formerly gov- erned Dy King Thebaw will 1o longer b under his rule, but will become part of the dominions of the queen of © Britain and Treland and the express of Tudia, aid that the zovernment of the country will be ad- ministered during her majesty's pleasure by oflicers appownted by the Viceroy of Indi ANl Treatics Prolonged. Mangin, Dec, 3L—Committees of congress have approved the bill to prolong nntil 15642 all treatics of commeree which will expire in 1857, This virtually ensures a renewal of negotiations for pmmercial treaties with England and the United States, The com- mitees have wlso approved the bill for re- forn in the treasy. Both houses will con- firm the bilis. Thi will elose nest week, Auy attempt 1o raise political de- Date will be prowptly checked. Michael Davitt on Home Rule. LONDON, Dee, i1, —Michacl Davitt, in an interview, said: [t home rule anted to Treland, it is diffi o see how the Irish members can continue to sit in parlia ment at Westminster in 5 are similarly reprc Lin that body. The ap pointient of a prinee of th 1l family as Viceroy of Lrelind wor Treland requires statesi to administer attiir 11 1o me s the cole 1o ol tact and i not @ royal of Extension. ir Charl I'rey said, ought to propoiid it it should be reje Gladstone would speak whole liberal party. Dilke in 1 oLoxbox, Jan. 1, in a speeel last ding Mr e Vol s Dilke 1555, ) favor of Kin Asking Parnell to Spe Losnoy, Dec. #L—A nuuiber of liberal wembers of the louse of commons hive been overtures to Parnell with »f having him formnlate a distinet sroposition for home rule in ireland he Jimits of his demunds with a view further negotiations. privately making the obj et LONDON, Jan. 1, association has been formed ut Kasth opposition to the Primrose league Mervale, wife of Mervale the drawatist Cobden, Mrs. Dilke, and other well-, ladics were present at the (st mectis - The Past Panis, Dee. 51.—Pasteur ulated four children from Newark, N, J Pasteur says the children are progressiy vorably und he is coniident that they will e cape hydrophobia. Mis, Miss oW Mlan. has finally inoe A Huge Failur Loxpoy, Dec, 5l.—Eugene Scharre & Co., West dndia, merelants have become ban rupt. Liabilities, $500,000; assets said o ho “shadowy servi nities. Loxnox, Dec 8L 1t is said when the Ser vian troops evacuated Widdin distriet they devastated the countyy and - looted eattle und corn belonging to Bulgarian favmers. The Dilke Scandal, Dec The 1 effort to setile failed, and (e bearing of the casy bas bevn tixed for Juuuary o4, LONDON 3 tin THE WIDOW? Skipped to Ca at Le i, 11 ed rumor afloat Yates, who ement, has 18 o judge cam and ey him. Fi him him herctofore, of belonging to v tardian, trosl Tn char affer lently will S chargos s were the e itis 30,000 J e war from O teaching sehool early days tion and with a practice of law, and a_few months after the | ccived close of the war was elected county. which years, W e public oflice, with that of Known, CARTER'S Judge CICAGO, to reachin tion bel oftice. 1 and to this 1in and attention, plied Jud, by a comnmittce citizens lea frandulent prinet iy dings enongh il ’l\l.f: 2 1o Lovis, fecte of hydropl by Pasteur, f Kept and showed slight ard been 4o up und yeale ave almost nnmistakable evi scase, but developmants will It tho' dog proves roilly wiad Aiis skull will be trepaned and a brain remoye brain of the s used atter the ope will he sixteen days betore virus e cantnes dence of the i be awaited th th cured with w oculated. ove be treated. THIS KING OF CRIM Capture of Austin’s Woman Butcher. LYESTON, De sy Mexican abont 40 years old, was arrested la night on suspicion of being implicated in t wrders whieh of near resulted G from Austin mysterions the eitizens luded spot s preiises hlum‘ niale an wight of Mrs. months ago, i 3 have of Ella A, Eamsey written on the was also found, toue chiets one of which worked in silk, Detectives th will elear aw and murder idence was prisoner with the re Philli the Latter's hisband. tand Mis THE FIRE L Lebanon, NasnvaLL IESSALE Wals 10 at astrons five had br town and asking foraid from Engines we i 1o telegraph ofic been received Later in Biroxt Cannin [ M . Vi A Ay of Mexic iped on the Rio Gr ALVESTON einl 1o the Nows si day returned 1 1 viving at b under Mexican dondo, the re, ey alt the can of 1 participating o Moxicans Major Kelloge m reported n Mivy ey Mestcan suthorities, wid discovering no large « released the pri to their satisfietion, Major kellc The G NEW Yo, Dee, 31 the treasury department arvived in th the eal (i duy us ning to clase of business formed o evening o vhe o the doors the money i arrive M. Acton the books of th next wondl to s i th correctly kept ither erimin donbtless by have many of which i répute in piblicatic nst i, it W Yates came to retnmed He was then elected pro and served i that eapacity until 0, sinee whic i1 ox-Governor Illinois, but the two are not relate 1 as far as | Smith Chicago Ma il to-day sent the following letter to his legal adviser in the contest against son for the mayoralty of Chicago: A, W. GREEN, KBsq—~Dear Sir e election contest case of Carpente al, vs Iarrison, 1 desire to say th ments in its progress up to this time convineo me that there is 0o reasonabl 1y final term tend to devot understinding that event consent to aceept amere remnant of term of the mayoralty. Justice to myselt personally, Smith has not taken an in the contest, the e, returns ke Judge Smith th it is very probable that will bring the ison’s more randulent votes discovered, PASTEUTD A Hydrophob in St. Louis, De 1 i this city for bia after I tie patients iy be one of more (hai enzaged in 1Care maki parations for the experin liave suspected “Phien the virus fy ation and any garments . Among the Rinsey A prayer book with 1 o also discovered enn., § us ( yeloel this morning sayin, HARMLISS HORDL nee up the rive scainpient el de Ja Hateha protection of (roops, arr amon Maldondo denied that lie o icans in representative of Se stored torday wid will t icen clevks from Washingof S FRIEND, . | 1n After Embezzling | st 1,000, | Dec, 51 I a well aw: in this city to<lay that is under indietment for to Canada, and the the sheriff's Wi two days ago too warm_ for ings agginst ted Vart been pending azainst have been mentioned laving aporopriated money tions estates of which he was or exceutor. e was held the community and the at first believed. Soon 1s began to be made stated he was very ill at ied by down t tound h 1S Procee. instit il not eclared that his alleged dofalen tions are very laige, and iy approsimate 1lingis before the where he studied law wh 1o entered the ariny rebellion, received ter the war w He commenced record, the judge of Peoria (- for twenty ate judge a year or e time he bas lield no e has been confounded Richard Yates of position he - TITLE CLEAR, Withdraws From oralty Contest. Judge Sidney Smith the 31, Carter Harri- In relation 't develop probability of ation of the litig exviration ol the term of wned the practice of law uy entire time unembarrassed” by any im- 1 should in any 1 say, this mueh in Truly y Siny part ction having been brought the nueleus of which was the in view of the apparent which rectitiod would stecessiul eandidate, e withdrawal of mtest toa close, the present stage of pro- majority lare thancover turther louks any PLAY fospital to be Opened Arrangements have the treatment fallowed t the ont treatec. The method is vy interest, and the most thor barn \ where Wil be dozs which of hydrophobia have ing Alternaon aue weeks' t ihethods h been of tehed. VI pLom portion of This will be injected into ud, and rabbits will be tion of the tirst dog. Tt Vb se- B human beings may be in wwill b in full number of patients may - a Man Supposed to be B1L—The Eusta News' special Martinez, ntly startled Austin, te Jived ina se the river, and a search of in ihe recovery of several aticles of fe- articles found was experts declare in the murder ter several the name and sueh been as used and day it her with two | ore the initid The other was 1 that the arrest of Martines the mystery of the outinge the Ranisey women. Ly connecting the ent murder of My Vin- and the assault upon - LHCORD, oeehed by a Seri nilagration Tenn., Dec A telephon ved from Lebanon, Tenn., that a dis cen out in the eenter this eity ccial train, Vovanon nd now be had g burned W from here | distingt 1t utormation has yet orwarded by it cannot od this morning i v, alter consumin, b Insurrectionists 1e Grande City Kellc [ W Mujor cgold barracks in the viclnity of Moxicans, Ar-q Sheritf Shelly, d tour ) Mul- itenpl abject of Ao wrest Lo Mics from Loder whotn wis ited Jeader of th and sald the on uiing. ever to tie Viver v avoid the election riot 1o greatly d deliver e ip G hearing their Iy, | Lody of Mexic | ho - | eals Attached, | Cashier Whitney of | city to retary Man ults at the ceremony was s aelock Al United St wer attached vaults in rer Jordan w ke chirge until ppointed.” 1o will g0 over treasurer i this eity o n sub-trea This atter yov the six Irea of whiclh o 1 nls have bevin | Phe woney will ulso b viilileds | mail PAPER NOT WORTH A PENNY. An Adept Torger Working the Banks of the Southern States. BELIEVED TO BE SUCCESSFUL. Presenting Drafts Purporting to be Issued by the Stock Growers' Ni tional Bank of Choyenne--One Probably Honored., A Porger at Work. Creyesse, Dee i The Stock Growers National bank of this city received & _tel amn from the First Narional bank of House ton, Texas, asking confirmation of their let- ter dated December 18, and requesting the number and amount of a draft covered by the said letter. No such letter having been writs ten the Stock Growers at onee replied to that effcet. Decomber 50 a similar letter was re- from the National bank of Texas at 1, asking it a diaft drawn on the National thnk of New York for S5,000 in favor of George L. Sanders was good. such draft having been drawn, telecrams were sent to that effect, and the of Jast evening brought a letter to the k Growers National bank from abank in Montgomery, Ala,, acknowls edging the receipt of a lettor of the Stoek Growers National baik, dated December 18, identifiying Geovge L. Sandoers, and request- ing them to eash adr \c Stock Growers National bank for $5,000 on the Fourth Na- tional bank of New York, and enclosing the signature of Sanders sealed with the bank’s No such letter having been 1 the Montzomery bank was wired aceordingly, and telegrams sent toall correspondents of the Stock Grower's National bank, cast and sonth, warning them of these attempts to negotiate forged drafts, cram was received from the Fourth National bank of New York, saying & forged draft, purporting to have been drawn by the Stock Grower's National bank, had 1 presented and payment refused. From ngth of time clapsing between the date of the letter from Montgomery and telegrams from the hank pronouncing the letter s forg- ery, itis teared that the Montgomery bank paid the forged drafts, 1 Wave Coming. Cineado, Dee, 51—"The United States sig- nal ofticer reports a cold wave coming. The temperature will fail fifteen to twenty-five degrees in the next forty-cight hours. It is now twenty desrees below zero north of Da- Kota and Montan Pavt, Dee, 51.—A | 55, but the temperaty Brarxanin, Minn , D A heavy Snow. wevailing here and diifting to the south. It 15 believed the fall will be suflicient for the movement of logs, Galve Fourth A Col avy snow is In s not low, ather For Today, Vareey—Local snows, colder eatlier, winds shifting to northerly and be- coming variab THE ¥ URE OF REAL ESTATE IN OMAHA. i As Seen by W. H,Green, Rol Eatate., Deal r.vumu-r'l"'mnccmh::‘a’ll'nx = nam, over First National Sank. The devclopments of the past ninety days have settled the question a8 to future of Omaha, and to-day it is hot a n with men of menns how little . property they ean own and still do busis ness but how mech they can get hold of, questi cstate and the daily list of trans will have but very little to do de in Oma property, is mot a city west of wher castern money is invest inreal estate as in Omaha, The business of our ofli ing every day, and our list of - proy for sale embiices many of the very best s in centrally loeated by property, with or ‘without buildings; propertios on whicli fortuncs ae os sure o be made in the next year as time goes on. Choice residencesin the most de- siruble logati in the city, vacant res. idence property near business “centres, and many of (he choicest additions in subrurban property so eheap and on te y that anyone iy, il a few years, own o beantiful home in the future mes tropolis of the west - Real Estate Transfers, The following transfers were nled Dee. 50, with the county clerk, and reported for the by Ames' Real Bstate Ageney: A. B Muberman and wite to Leal Rose- 1 »] 1ot 2, block 116, Omaha, w d--$10,000, Thowas Co Bronner and wite to Susan Langdell, 1ot 52, Dlock 2, Himebaugh's add to i, W =500, Fames G, Mezeath el Tots 21 W 51,000, (oD, Jones ana wife rml»l[m?:ig Bedford and’ others, Jots 6 : Hawihorne add o Omaba, W d Oscar Grotmack (singlé) dlord aud ohers, Tots e, Omalit, /(- 51,000, Paul and wite to 0. Pearl 110, block 5, Luke's add to 0. Land to G Lyon, S W 35 feat Dloele 5, Lake's add ™ to Omaha, w d— B B wile o Osear Grot- Clunk Placey Omaha, . fock %, * S1.100. to Jefferson W, A and 25, Clark nders and wife to Chicago, St Omalia 1 {2, part of lot 10 of See. 10,15, 1, Douglas 1otz and wife o Omaha Belt 190 feet irongh S 2 of 5 W 35 See, [ o N W 1 See, 9,15, 15, Douglag county, W2 Hay W, Mec Omalia Belt R 1t Co, N Wijof NE iy See, 15, county, w d--s245.01, Juanies O'Connor to Bernard bloek 13, West Omaha, g ¢ 52 Catharine Cannichiael (widow) to Omaha IR Coy, lot 54, block 3, Brooklng, sl county w d--$i0) Eiton, man A, Kulin (single) to J; wl} H, 15, 18, Douglas NE ol S Wi COnLY, 4 e—Eni, ) 10 Jueob Eiton, 15, Douglas wife nd others to lot Dof 8 1§ of 14, Douglay nd il of Maginnis, doseph P Mo N'E i of 5 Wi Connty, q -850 Lariion I Priyn and v Crim, W10 feet iront by 1 Paulsen’s d Lo Omaha, w d Him Paith in Prayer, Brudder ke, suid " uuunuflx of color 1o an v durkey, Cyer orter bee tor i ¢ 10 nighte Wg prayed fur yer.” A dat S St Den I'se ot fai was answered.! Sure ‘null' Fo' God hit was “Lell e “hout it Zokicl, | hoi in Lonis V. ot of lot 10, ik What G in pra‘e Dat pra'y Bradder lke."* ot de fatiest yer cher seed. An' low lus' night- berey - mintoxicated indi. by the police lasg fuliof vaw liver, not being aware the prigome: ) an thd elamm; clity s sel, i lunatie asylu, thonght be hud struck shakugy sth i s