Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 9, 1886, Page 1

T L i o FIFTEENTH YEAR, CONFIDENT OF THEIR CAUSE, The Official Force of the Embryo State Quartered at the Oapital, A DELEGATION FROM DAKOTA. To Watch the Course of Their Cher- ished Object - A Ioast for the Pen- sion Commission Democrats Secking Senate Control. To Witness Defeat or Secure Sncce Wasmxoron, Jan, &~ [Special Telegram. ] —There was quite an aceession to the Dako ta_eathering here tonight. Senator<lect Edgerton, Governor-elect Mallette, Represen: tative-eloet Kanense, Judge John H. Drake, and other prominent men in the stateliood movement, arrived aud have taken apart- ments at the National hotel for the winter. Senator-elect Moody has been here a couple of days. so that only one representative is needed to make present the full complement of national officers the proposed state has gelected. They intend to remain until they meet positive defeat or achieve full success, They were all seen by your corres- pondent to-night and were found to be full of enthusi nd confident (hat they will sue- cecd in territory divided and the gouthern half admitted to statehood, Their first work will be to ascertain the temper ot the members of the house, wator Harri son has expressed the belict that the bill he will report trom the committee the first of next week will pess the senate by the 15th, and the Dakotaians will try to Lave the lay of the land in the house by that time. They will select some able advocates of their move- ment to see that the senate bill is reported b to the house from the com- mittee at the carliest possible day, 80 that it may come up for final considera- tion within a month or two tf possible, They believe that a number of democratic members Wwill speak in bebalf of their bill, and that no republican will oppose it. They are all un- alterably opposed to admission of the whole territory as a state, preferring to remain as at present to coming in asa whole. How- ever, they will attempt division alone if they ean get nothing else, providing the territory is divided on an east and west line on the forty-sixth standard parallel. They spurn the suggestion that the people of kota want statehood for the office spoils alone, or that there is any division of sentiment on party lines. Judge Edgerton, referning to the insinua- tion made in the press dispatehes yesterday, that if Dakota was adwitted to statehood and he became a senator, ke would return to ante-betlum polities and act with the (s, said that his republicanism was well known to to the republican senators and he was perfectly willing that they should pass judgment upon it. e was a republi- can, he caid, pure and simple, and intended always <0 to be. A resolution is to be in- troduced in the senate giving Senators-cleet Edgerton and Moody and probably the two represcatatives-cleet and - Governor-clect Mellette, the priviliges of the fioor of the sei- ate, and it is likely tiie house will extend the e courtesies to theim. POMIOUS COMMISSIONER BLAC It begins to look as though Commissioner of Pensions Black would get a pretty tho ough roasting hefore e gets away from the re publicans of the senate and houw I'licre ar anumber of democerats, too, in both branches of congress who istied with Mr. Black’s way of doing business, and they will help make the coming investization of the pension oflice lively for its chief occupant, who appears to consider himself above a con- gressman, and to disregard their letters and Tequests whenever he wishes, One promi- nent western representative is quoted by this eveni ras saying that he never went to see Black that Le did not feel as if he were humiliated. 1 am nothing but a mem- ber of congress,” hie said, “but as an Ame fean eitizen 1 feel that [ should re- ceive hall way decent treatment from publi uts,” Senator Mitehell of Pennsylvania, man of the senate pension committee, 18 said to be very indignant over having been yefused an interview by Commissioner Black the other day. e called at the pension ofiee and asked to sce the commissioner. The wessenger at first refused to take ard in. Tle insisted that he had a right to enter, and commanded the messenger to announce him, With mueh reluctance the messenger com plied, but returned to state that Gen. Bl was busy and could not be disturbed. *Does he know who I am?’ asked the senator, “Yes, sir: but he's busy,” replied the messen: ger, “Well,” said the senator, and he went at ones into a deputy s room and requested to beshown into the presence of the commis sioner, expressing the opinion that s chair- man of the pension committee he had a right to sce pension officials on business, TI deputy took him into the room where Black sat looking over his mail, As they entered Black looked up for an instant, and then, without saying a werd, went on with his work and completed it before stopping to see what his visitor wanted, TIHE DEMOCEATS AND TIE SENATE. ‘The democrats are figuring very carefully on the make up of the senate in the nest congress, Developments in New York re- cently strengthencd their hopes of a demo cratic senator from that state to succeed Warner Miller, Their re ice is largely upon the chanee that lights between republi can factions will give them a majority in the legistature, Lx-Senator Platt is waging a bitter ticht for control of the lesislutine eleeted Inst fall, part of the membershin of which vote for a semator, his object being to defeat Miller's election, and if possible restore himself to the place he held along with Conkling, vacated in 1881, Plait will probably succeed in- preveniing Miller's re-election, and the republicans fear that contests in the republican ranks will give the democrats voles enough to elect a United States senator, As there is a fighting chance for a senator in Connecticut, New Jersey, California, and Michigan, sansuine demo- crats do not abandon the hope that with the ald or Indiana they willlave a majonty in the last half of Cleveland’s teri, WESTERN POSTAL INFORMATION, Towa postmasters were commmissioned to- day as follows: Charles E. Cameron, Al Poblas Cy Smelzer, Quarty : Juwes 1, Housh, Riverton, Lou Klepper was commissioned posty ut Rockton, Nel ‘The time schicdule of the Star from South Side to Brewer, Neb,, has been ordered changed as follows: Leave South Bide Tuesduys and Fridays at 8 a. w.; arive at Brewer by 5 p. m. Leave Brower Wednes- days and Saturdays at 7a, m.; arrive at South Side by 4 p. w, PLAYING AN DIPORTANT PART, 1e silver question continues to attriet ats tention, Members who Gome back f10m thel constituents come full of it. They say peop! are opposed to the suspension of the coinage of the dollar, They want it to contivue. At the same thwe the more thoughtiul of the members see the impropricty of waintaining two standards so widely dissimilar in yalue. PERSONAL AND OVIERWISE, e diss: Mail route Col. Thewas A, dMeFariin, surzeon United | THE wtes army, is ordered by the war to report in person to the general at Omaha, Neb, as m of the department of the Platte. J. T. Hackworth, of Ottumwa Ebbitt, en. Weaver has appointed Abram C. Weaver clerk of his committee on expendi- tures in the interior department, Representatives Fredericksand Murphy, of fowa, and Dorsey of Ne were President Cleveland's callers to-day A VACANT MILITARY OFFICE. WASHINGTON, Jan, & I’ress,|—It rumored in army eircles tie president will shortly recommned to congress the passage of a Uil authorizing him to fill the otice of jul vdvocate general of the army. Gen, who formerly held that offiee, was cinced by eourt martial to suspension for | twelve years, at the end of which period he will be placed on the retired list. 1t i3 said the president desires to fill the office, but is unceriain as to his powers in the premises. A plan has been suggested that he nominate aperson for the office, and let the senate on the legal questions at issie, TIEY MUST MAKE REPORTS, he St Paul, Minneapolis& Manitoba rail- way eompany, having talien the position that the road tloca hot come Within' the spitit of of the act of June f, 187, wlhich requires a system of reports from the d land grant roads, for the reason that the government made its’ grant of land in this ease through the state or territorial gov- ernment, , Mr. Montgomery, assistant attorney reral for "' the in- terior depurtment, has decided that without doubt the statute_applies to all COMPANICS, Corpora individuats which are owners of railroads that have been in whole or in part upon the of subsidies, in ci 15 or land the «l - States, whether such ¢ was ned by sueh ' subsidies given dircetly to the builders or first proprietors of such roads or to theirpredecessors in interest, AS A MATTER OF COURTESY, Judee Moo n United States sen- ator by the lezisiature which met at Huron, Dak., a few days ago, was at the capital to- L and Ju on, his colleague, is \ere to-night, It is prob- olution will be introduced in the senate when it meets next, admitting them to the floor as a matter of eourtesy. CAPITAL GLEANINGS, Secretary Whitney has decided not to con- t martial in the case of Paymaster Swith of the nayy. He will approve findings of the court, and subwmit the ca to the president for his ac Senator Wilson of Towa, Ay reported worably from the commitiee on *postoflices 1d post roads the bill introduced by him to Jroibit mailing newspapers and oflier pub- ica us containing lottery advertisements, - A GOLD BUG'S SQUEAL, secrefary of ommanding ical director at the raska, among built it or by aid An AuntiSilver Organ Very Greatly Alarmed. NEW Yonrk, Jan, 8.~ [Special Telegram. |— The Tribune's Washington special “Members of the ways and means commit- tee may assified as follows: Proteetion- ists five, all republicans: free traders, seven, and A. S. Hewitt. In everything except the votes the wminority of this committee is stronger than the majority. Lverybody pricked up his ear when the eoinagze commit- tee was reached. Would it be silver or anti- silver? ‘The reading of the names threw lit- tle or no light upon either, 1t is cortain that Bland, Lanha Bynum, Felton and Fuller arc opposed to thie suspension of silver coin- et is equally true that Seymonr, Hemphill, Seott, James and Roekwell favor it Littie, of Onio, would favor the restora- tion of the old law, anthorizing, but not r quiring the seeretary of the treasury to eoin standard doliars in‘any amount, with the re- striction, however, that the eoinage should be limited to a smaller amount, while the intrinsie value of the dollar remains below par, or below the 1 pproximating par, say 07 Little, therefore, may be set down as in favor of suspension. ‘The other members of the committee are Norwood of Georgia, who is described as a “friend of silver.,” and McCr of Kentucky, who, as soon as his appointment was announced, becaune tremely non-committal. He had pronounced views on the subject, he said to a correspond- ent, but he declined to reveal them. Upon MeCreary’s attitude and vote, thereiore, action of the coinage committee, if it takes any. is likely to tarn. “It is a neutral com- mittee, said Gen, Warner, afler scanning the listanxiously, “and,” he added, “it's action will be likely to depend wholly upon the shape in which the question of silver coin is presented to it.” teferring to the new house committees, the Tribune says: “On the whole the choice of committees is not encouraging. All intluen- ces which Lave made the democratic house dangerons in the past, sodangerons that dem- ocrats and republicans have prayed in fervent thanksgiving when sueh house adjourned, n to be espeeially favored by Speaker Car- lisle and endowed with increa: power fu nusehief, There will be eanse for rejoicing, indead, it this session of congress ends with- out harm to the country.” FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS, Senate WASIINGTON, Jan. S.—The Utah bill n up and quickly broughit (o a vote, While the bill was on the final passuz Van Wyek attempted to fix the proposed fourteen trustees upon the me of thie present Utah commission, but was ruled out of onder. Heasked Mr. Edmunds whether he had” any objection’ {0 sueh i anienduient, 10 whicli the ‘senator answered that he t ‘e bill then passed—Yeas nays were Messts, Blajr, wupton, Hoar, Morzan and Vaned, M. Hoar, explaining his vote, sald he Sted azainst the bill onfy beeaiise of the see- distiancnising women, but ever with t section in he wonld have voted for the Liiis vote been necessary 10 its pa says: was Mr. tle ihers tuties of S, 100S 7, v, Call, Gibson, journcd until Monday, Tiie Utaly il as 1t passed the senate, s substantially as veported from the committ The only change of consequence is the dition of tion providing (hat mariug between persons within the fourth degree of consanguinity, but not including that degr shall bee deenied incest and punished as such, - - Colored Barber's White Wife. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan, S.~Inez Norton, the white girl who eloped with Barber, the colored tousorial mtist, Is in Painesville, Olio. The husband wis to-day at work at his chaiv in & barber shop in that town, as serene as if nothing had happened, and the wite appeared happy., She says lier ¢hoice was no trifling wmatter, and the warriage was not the result of any sud- den or unreasoning impulse, but ws entered upon after mature thought and deliberation, The g ather is in Davenport, lowa, at present, and the mother, who has bien pros- trated by by the shock, lias disowned her, S Bound Over for Libel. CuicaGo, Jan, 8.—The case agaiust M, J, Cahill, Editor of the Chicago Pilot, charged with eriminal libel by Very Rev, P J. Con- way, viear general of the Catholic arch- diocese of Chieago, cauie up to<ay before Justice Brayton, who held the défendant wer to the eriminal court in bonds of $500, ‘The charze was based on an article in the Pilot, reflecting upon the vicar general's dis- position of certain church fundse Very Noar a Majority, 15, Olio, Jan, 8.—The house of representatives of the state legislature to-day adopted & report seating all but one of the democratie reprosentatives from Hamilton county. Afterwand the point was raised that one less than & majority of the member elected to the legislutire hivd voted for the res- olution. ‘The speaker changed his decision and deelaved the resolution not adopted. The whole subject was submitted to the com: wittee on privileges and elections, OMAHA DaAiLy BEE OMAHA, [0LD BOREAS' BREEZY BLOW. Toeberg Laden Blasts That Oreate Ooal Deal- ers' Broad Grins, PROGRESS OF THE BLIZZARD. The Storm Extends om the Moun- tains on the West, Manitoba on the North, St. Louis on the South, and Traveling to the Gulf, Intense at St. Paul, PA®1, Jan. S—Signal Officer Lyons “A cold wave with high wind and snow extends with universal severity from noithern Montana as far south as 8t. Louis, | which is the most soathern station from which I receive direct advices, The therniom t registers 10 above at St. Louis, with It snow. The erest of the way 1 to have been transferred from Montana to northern Minnesota, St. Vin- cent being the coldest point in this state, with the mereury down to 48¢ below zero, with a northwest wind blowing twenty miles an hour now. There is a slight moderation devorted from Helena and the surrounding country, sho wing that the force of the W has been broken in that section. Reports from the Northern P acii show from 2° o below in Dakota and Montana. The storm has abated on this line and trains are running fairly well, The me at Fargo 50% in Minnedos Western Montana it is 10 Manitoba reports the mercury at Portland, Dak., Crookston 25%, Hallock 50%, Morris 22%and St. Cloud 12°, On the Northern Pacitic arezular blizzard is in progress. The Omaha road report that snow is Llowing so violently on the Nebraska division that orders have gone forth abandoning all trains until atter the wind and consequent dritting ceases. On the Sioux City division, the ther- mometer stands at 305 below, and the wind is drifting snow. At Marillan Junction on the eastern division it is 16 above, while at Hammond it is 9 below, The mereury on the Duluth road averages shout 109 below, with quite a snow storm at Duluth. The Minnesota & Northwestern re- vorts snow all along its line and that the II- linois Central is blockaded. Advices this evening indicate that the Northern Pacifie, St. Paul & Duluth, and Manitoba are all running smoothly. Mil- waukee, Omaha, and Chicago trains arc on time so far as heard from to-night, General Throughout the West Cnicaco, Jan. 8.—The blizzard raging at present throughout inois, lowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota and Minnesota is deelared to be of wider extent and more ficree In ¢! acter than known before in years. All west- ern trains are late, and many have been sudwed inand abandoned, Yery little can be learned concerning them or of the effects of the storm, owing to the blowing wn of poles and wires and the stoppage of telegraphic com- munication. The femperature througi- out Dakota is said to be from 20~ (040% beloy, ith a blizzard blowing, A telogram from argo says the thermometer registered 23 below at noon. Yesterday was described 4 hest experience that eity has yet ha he way of boisterous weather, Bismare La high wind, with the thermom v zero. A high wind linz at Sioux City, and the tem)i 1520° below zero. Omialin registe low. nmunication with O) his been arly all day. California telograms w ingz sent by way of St. Paul wd the Northern Paetfie, wiih wire working, A teleg says the cold | wave th with a hich wind il drifting snow. Al through trains west of there are blocked and branel roads snowe i The Chicazo & Burlington trains stuck fast in drifts about fifteen miles south of Des Moines, The Wabash road south from (hat ity is badly drifted. The Ft. Dodzo and Narrow Gauge roads have been aban- doned. The snowstorm prevailed through- out Llinois all day, but the weather has 1ot becn very severe <o far. but has heen growing colder to-night. Al the rouds to Omala veported practically blocked in central Towa, At midnight the snow has nearly ecased to 11, and there being not suflicient wind to e much drifting, railroad travel is not materially impeded.” The temperature is still 9 degrees below zero, At Den DExvER, Jan. 8,—The blizzard in eastern orado, Kansas and Nebraska, which sub- sided Wednesday and allowed the snow blockade to be raised, was renewed I Wednesday night with great vigor, demolish- ing telegraph wires for miles, and retilling cuts on the Santa Fe, Burlington, Union and Kansas Paciic roads with snow and sand o sueh an extent that all bavel was comperled (0 suspend, Not a single tum left Omala or Kansas City for Denver yesterday. No trains have arrived from the east or departed from here since Wednesday night, when the tempera- tire of Colorudo —fell 145 between mid- nizht and 5 o'clock, Very little snow has allen dwring the “storm. An immense nwmber of - eattle have been driven from —the north by the wind and dvifiing snow towards Arkansas river, w tiey will Liave to stoy the river 'is not irozen so they can No wrcat loss 15 ex- ted unless the cold continues two or three enty of grass is uncovered to keep them oy Las been warm and the snow meltine, ~Tiie storm, it is thought, has reached its end, St says while in continues Des Moines, Towa, Drs MoiNe Towa, Jan, 8,—The blizzard hias raged he all day, with the mercury 12+ to 15 below, Reports from all parts of the state indicate that the storm 15 very goncral, A larze number of members of the legisla ture are blockided and unable to reaeh hcre, Not one-third of them are In town at present, thonghi the legislature is to conveno Monday. The railtoads are having much difliculty to keep open, All the narrow gaugo lincs into this city are closed, The Fort Dodge been shui up for three days. Diagonal s ed, and Nias @ (in stuck at Vatona, i Chicago, Burlington & Quiney had one train in to-day on the branchi, though the main line west of Albia is_teported closed, e Rock Iniand and - Norhwestern, i both closed west, but the Rock Istand s noving cars east on the wain line. The Winterse branch is abandoned. The Milwaukee is also closed and the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern is reported elosed north of W Liberty. ‘The Wabash is open 1o the south, Sioux City, Siovx Crr The high wind and extreme cold continues, and the weather is pronounced the most severe ever ex enced, 1t is not usual for the mereus fall 0 low during the prevalence of a high wind, and all precedents are broken by the present frigidity. The ther- mometer was 20 below during the with a eutting north wind. Al trains ctieally abandoned. The Sioux City is o) but make 0 conneetion with the Noithwestern, which is blocked tight. “The weather is to cold to perwit any elfort to be made to open the roads, At St. Louis, 87, Louis, Mo, Jan. 8.—The snow here is drifted, but there has been no serious deten- tion to business, The thermometer to-night was between zero and 5% below, according to location, and the wind weeps through the | streets twenty-five to thirty wiles an hour, \TU | at Coal Hill etfected their e | club last nigl RDAY MOR for towrs of Missouri and the central and southern farts of Illinois in- | dicate hign winds, low tenperature, but not much snow. Railroad trivel has been im- peded in all diredions, but so far not scriously In this state or south of here. ‘The Omsha division of the Wabash is blocked, and sone branches of the Missouti, Kansas & Texas in southeastern Kansas are seriously obstricted, but the main line is in operation. Tnins are generally delayed from one to three hours on Missouri roads, and the eastern roals are feeling the weather somewhat, The full force of the storm is said not to have deen felt here yet. | Reports from inte The Blckade at Yor Yonx, Neb,, Jan, 8,—[8pecial Telegram.] The snow ckade coniinues, We have had no (rain or mail shce last Saturday. Wednesday the snow jlow train passed through at 3 o'cloek, readied Grand Island the same evening and returned to Lincoln the same night, having deared the track in good shape, Abont mideight another storm | arose and continued all day yesterday and Inst night. As it blew the north it filled all cuts that some new drifts are higha than the old one - As Far as Tampa Bay. WasiiNaron, Jan. 0.-12:0 a. m.—~The cold wave now extends from the northern portion of the upper Misissippi valley, and utheastward tofhe Atlantic state covering the gulf staes and Tennesse It s been unusually severe in the southern states, It s advancing toward the middle Atlan states, and will be generally felt during urday night and Sunday. Killing frosts will oceur as far south as Tampa bay in klorid thenee At Devil's Luke, Dakota. DEviL's Lake, Dak., Jan. 8—It was 55 below zero early this morning. Passenger traing were delayed six hours last night, and freights were abandoned to-day. Davenport Iowa. o, Towa, Jan. 8—The blizzard t aight at midnight. day. A heavy wind y, ‘The thermometer DAvE reached this city | Snow has been falling a is drifting the snow b is 5% above. e T P At Cincinnati, CINCINNATL Jan. 8.—It has been snowing here since 2 o'clock this afternoon and about four inehes is the average depth to-night, with the snow still falling. The temperature is about 20° above this evening, and is fall- Clay Center, Kansas. 3 n., Jan. he severest at has visited this part ef the coun- for several years is now raging. Heavy snow fell_the greater part of last night and is now drifting badly. Indications For Toxtay. Missourt Variey—Fair weather, fol- lowed in northern poition by loeal snows enerally northesly, slowly rising ture. Southern Icicles. The cold wave has reached New Adviese state the weather is the known o men were found in the streets of bile, AL, badly frozen last night. Gulveston s being treated to nortii The Florida. - CAPITAL ANY LABOR. Serious Low, the Result of the Makers' Strike, n. 8—A portion of the West side police force were engaged this morning in escorting employes of Maxwell Bros. box factory to the scene of their labors, At 7220 o'clock, fifty-six worknen assembled at the Tenth street station. The ofticers aceom- panied them on Blue Island avenue ecars to the factory. Another bateh of seven em- ployes came with six ofieers as @ Land a téw others strazzied to the factory without an escort.” One ol the latter, who ‘gave his name as O'Connell and who lives on Went- worth avenue near ‘Twenty-second street, wis the one to furnish the sensation of the morning. He walked from Wentworth avenue along Eighteeath street as far as Hadstead without being molested, but at the corner of the latter strcet two men suddenly attacked him, one of them attempted to strike imwith a’ elub. O'Connell was on the alert and drawing a knife plunged it into his assailant’s breast. The injured man ved, the blood gashing from the wound, st eadled on Lis companion forhelp. 0°Con- nell took to his heels with all possible speed, not stopping to inquire how badly the mai wits it The Knights of Labor. St Lovis, Jun, 8.—The district assembly Knights of Labor, will convene in its first annual session at 104 m. to-day at Light- stone’s hall. This district embraces the L sonthwestern system, taking in three states—Missouri, Kansas and Texas, with about 8,000 members, The distrietassembly was organized in - July last, but temporar officers only wereclected at the time. At the n to-day a permanent organization will feeted and new officers clected. There > thirty-iive assemblies in- the ¢ity and st St Louis, having a total of 500, "There Jout cighty delégates expected to-day, Orleans, severest Mo- a regular d wave will sop at Tampa bay, Box- CireaGo, More Mined Than Can be Sold St Lovis, Jan, L—Work in the Lexin ton, (Mo.) Coal Mining company’s mine has been stopped, throwing 500 men out of em- ployment, ‘The suspension will continue for some fime. On one switeh yesterday the company’s mine there were ninety-sey ars of 1" awaiting shipment when t should be a demand for it. pe of ¥ )] LN Livree Ark., Jan. 8.~The news has reached here that the penitentiary con- viets who have been employed in the mines it 12 0'clock on Wednesday. tunneled a distance of fifteen feet, Phe work was commenced at the time of ' the stike, which occurred the about three weeks ago, and was continued up to the present time, bt was concealed from the officers, ade through the wine ing the passage by whic L but_could not he tound, they “having kept it closed behind them, so that 1o trace was left. Two of the convicts were recaptured, but the other four- teen wade their ese Blood-hounds and a posse are in pursuit, and the delegation is icading for the Indian countr; - A Dam Breuks Away. LAMAQUA, Pu., Jan, %—The dam across Wabash cre at Reevesdale, burst this morning, The passenger train from Potts- ville was just opposite when it broke. The KWilor stk the cars ad b ito tio aters under them, causing a vast volume of steam to atise and envelope the entire train. The passengers were very much frightaned, The engine lowever, escaped the flood and plted the train safely through the w he tracks of the Phifadelphia & Reading were uuch washed and completely inundated, de all trains, The burst was eaused by the ing of un old tunuel in the “abandoncd Reevesdale colliery, | DETS Roc, - John Sherman's Thanks. LuMBUS, O., Jan, 8.—At the opening of the legislature this morning the following te’egram was read in each branch, being ad- dressed to the speaker of the house and pres- ident of the senate respectively: WaAsHiNGTON, D, C,, Jan. 7.-Please con- vey 1o the republican wewbirs of the gencral assembly, my profuund and great thanks for their nomination as senator.” JOnN SHERMAN, - The Chicago Press Club, Cnicaco, Jan. 8-—J. F. Ballantyne, managivg editor of the Chicago Daily Nows, wis elected fuesideat of tle Cliicago Press \ING, JANUARY 9, 1850 SATISFIED T0 BE A CIVILIAN, Ridiculed Into Resigning His Monster Military Title, THE ORDER COUNTERMANDED. For Epaulettes, Shonlder Straps and Brass Buttoned Toggery—Minister Winston Resigns His Iinois Brigadicr Generalship, Fun for the Newspapers, CiicAGo, Jan, S,—[Special Telegran, |—A Washington dispatch says: The story of our new minister to Persia ordering a gor geous uniform to mark his appearance at the shah's court created much amusement here among people in the state departient who came in contact with Mr. Winston while he was one of the ablest pupils in the sehool of diplomacy Secretary Seward established. At the department the statement was made that the story conld ot be true, because the only represen- tatives of the American government who were entitled to wear uniforms at for courts were o m soldiers of the late war. These were entitled to wear the unitorm of theirarmy rank at that time and none otier, The fact that civilian dress was to be worn by all other ministers abroad was included in the instructions usually given, and therefore must have been made known to Mr. Wins- ton, though 1o special stress would be laid on them. Thisis the statement of an official who thought it should be suflicient to dis- credit the story that M. T, Winston proposed todon the uniform of brigadier general in the “Hlinois National Guard.” At the same time the belief prevails that when here Mr. Winston unfolded his plans of going abroad inuniform, or at least, made cantious en- quiries on the subject, among some of the people in diplomatie cireles, and that they Dl s innocence and enconraged him togo ahead. Gov. Ozleshy was seen at Springiield last evening and saic ome time ago while in Chicago 1 met Mr. Winston on the street, and was introduced to him. In the course of the ensuing short conversation 1 request him to write e concerning people of Persia, and espeelally note the military and militia or; tion, matters I take great interest in, In return for this T prom- ised to write him the news from Hlinois, He d to cker” and s sted that I vest him with some oftice, if possible, in order that he might pursue his investizations with some show of authority. 1 fold him I thought that would be pod plan. When 1 came back to Spri 1, I could think of but oncofiice in my gift, thatof brizadier gene: alofwilitin, The state allows three brigs dier generais and but two have assignments, s0 1 coneluded to make out Mr. Winston” commission as brigadicr general, whieh I did December 15, As e has no assignment 1 saw 1o use in advertising the fact, While 1 admit that th and uniform will make a n on the shah’s people and Vinston’s importanee will be in- wed in their eyes, nevertheless tl considerable merriment avong the ‘mi over theappoiiitment.” “What if the shah would ask Mr. Winstofrihont the battles he fought and the wounds he recetved in the ivil ed one veteran sarcastic X of the affair came this after- noon, The republican press, not only in Chicago but throughout the entire country, seeing in the matter of Mr. Winston’s easily acquired military title so much for sarcastie comment, have laid to with & vengeance, and the democratic minister to Persia has been the laughing stock of the community. So mortitied did he become over the fun poked at him that this afternoon he sent by mail to yvernor Oglesby at Springtield a missive generalship of the mythical Third bri Ilinois National Guard, is hereby resigned.” Mr, Winston is thus relieved of the possi- ity of being ordered to return on the spur of the moment from his ministerial post on the shores of the Caspian sea 1o assist in sup- pressing some revolutionary riot within the condines of the Sucker State, The Asiatic monarel comes in for a share of relief, and the American government from possible di plomatic troubles, sinee the opportunity is lost for an armed invasion of a friendly pow- er's domain by a full by 0 reserve force of an alicn power's military protectors. ‘Lhe resignation of General Winston natuy ally carries with itthe resiznation of his son and aid-de-camp, thereby disbanding the bri- gade, those two ofiicers embodying the en tire ofticial force of the organization, Some obloquy is being directed by the minister and friendsat the garrulousness of the mili- tailor, but for whose indisercet utteran de would probubly have embarked for Teheran without any publie com- ment being made of the fact, The even- ing papers to-day print pictures of Minister Winston as he appears in military attive, and the pictureis not unlike that presented by James Fisk, Jr., when commanding the Ninth New York regiment, e United States legation at Teheran will sfore live for its new ehie! a- gentleman whose simplicity of dress and absence of ofli- cial poinp will e all that the most Jefter sonfan hieart could desire, stidden ehiange of heart is aseribed” by some 1o an intimation from Washinzton ihat this would Prove i wise conrse, 1t being understood tiat Seerctury Bayard did not care o have a repetition of is troubles respecting the ap: pointment of ambassadors at 0 coutts WORSE THAN A BLIZZARD, h Swallowing Untortunate Miners' Homes, SuENANDoAl, Pa. Jan. S—The excite- mentat Boston run, where the block of winers’ houses was swallowed by a mine breach yesterday, was renewed this after noon when another luge arealof surfuce, upon which is located eight blocks of ons began to settle. The people fled from the houses in terror, Jeaving all their effeets be hind. The grotnd hissctiled about four and ihe houses are twisted ont of all shape, and are expected to go down al any moment. The bridze between Bos- i run and the village on the opposite side of the valley Lins becn swept away by the tloods, and itIs only by a long, circultous route that the Lhomeless people can convey their household goods to Where they can find shelter, About twenty-iour families have been driven trom their fiones by the caye-in, it The Dry Goods Market. MANCHESTER, Jan. 8.--The Guardian, in its commercial article, says the market is un- chauged. The sales of eloth Lave been mod- erate, Orders of any hmportance are invisi- ble, owinig (o (he irnness of rices, especial- 1y Tor India wnd Chiba goods, though there s air inquiry at below the current pri Yarus are quiet, The Ea - A Storm in England, LoNDON, Jan. 8.—A hurricane has pre vailed along the north coast of Great Britain, causing serious damage to property. A life boat was eapsized in the harbor at Whiteha. ven and one of the ciew diowned. Several smill wreeks are reported, The weather has moderated and a thaw | PARIs, Jan, & ajorsy of the Paris | newspapers express satistaction with the | new ministry, Fhey describe it as a cabiuet NEWS OF NERRASKA, Plattsmonth Proving One of State's Best Cities, Prarrssovt, Neb,, Jan, 8 At the annual meetin board of trade very shown of this city’s pre year. They improvements the first Plattsmouth Canning perity in the other year's work of mpany showed among not L which pi the Special of the Plattsmouth flattering reports were past the ud a dividend on the year's work of 30 per cent, and also t works in the mouth Gas and Electrie Light ‘T'he fact was also announced at this an meeting tha t the Burlington & Missouri establishing ot ity by the as Platts: company, nual had recently acquired by purchase a large amount of ity real estate, which is a definit ance for the coming year of extensive road improvements in the city, ineludi new union depot building, The Plattsm board of trade have as their ofiicers for coming year Joseph V. Weekbie dent, 1L M. Bushnell as scerefary, a1 board ¢t seven directors from among wost encr®etic business men, The sign the are very promising wouth tines Pounding in the Pulpit. SCHUyLER, Neb., dan. S—[Special.] Hogan is conducting a her He delivered his tirst ence. E. churel. Sehuyler resitits are sure 0 follow, BANQUETTING BIG ME York Merchs s Do ) Gov. Hill. NEw Yonrr, Jan, S.—A banquet was New LSS rail ne a outh the id o our 18 of for Platts successful revival discourse on Tuesday night to a large and attentive s “The serviees are belng held in- the M. s awakened and good audi- Honor to ten- dered to Governor Hill to-night at Delmoni- co’s by the Business Men's Democratie asso- ciation of this city. There were fifty invited guests outside of the guests of the evening, nl the 200 promoters of the complin The banquet nall was decorated and the tables laid. Back of the guests’ huns a portralt of Andrew Jackson, and velyet-hound - menu cards contained ts of “0ld Hickory eveninz. - After the edibles had been dise ed letters of regret were read from Samueld, Tilden, the mewbers of the tional cabinet, General Hancock, Gove Patterson of Pennsylvania: — Gove Abbott of New Jersey, Governor Lee of ginia, Charles AL Dang, edite the Sun, and others, he plead pressure of public dutics, ient, tastetully por- nd the guest ot the 1SS na- rnor rhor Vir- of cabinet ofticers while the others stated they were prevented from being present by health. Gov. L m replying to the toast to shests of tie eveniig, enunciated the pr ples of his adiministigtion as he ed them in his message the legislature, and then said: *Those expect me to antagonize the national istration will bo disappointed. istration needs no dele is adininistering the governnient safely, suceesstully and to the of e people, Of President Cl honesty, courag can be'no quesiion. 1 had of being associated with him in the govermment for two years, and our relad were and haye ever since been. of pleasant and cordial character. sinwerity of purpose, - hig and party fealty.”” The governor procecded ™ to enumerate soveral th which the now demceratie administ Yad not_done, which it was, said wou Amon ] roes to s previous eng stac el v nor assumed (he cont ate” debt. 1t heid not levied political ments, and had retatned in otiiee repubi who performed their duties faithtull The banquet lasted il a late hour, Bourbon Feast at Columbus, Covuanrs, Olio, Jan. 8.—The club at Columbus, the leading demoeratic wanization of Central Ohio, zave (heir annual banquet this evenine, ‘Thore 0 uests, ineluding a number of Ohio s members ot the legislature oflicials, The arrangements and were complete, Hon, 1 Booth, presi of the club, was master of cervmonies, Hon. Powell master of toast A the post-prandial - speakers were Watterson of Lowisville, and Thurman, A telesram of regret trom How. Sumuel . Tilden. - WIND AND FiRE. Suceeed in Destr With a Loss of Three Live LovisviLLg, Ky., Jan. S.—Late th noon, during rhe hieavy snow storm, the { and middlc . four-story house oceupied by H. 2. Forwood and Trabne & Co., Bulnforth & Co., all cotton commission merchants, fell suddonly, overturning a stoy started g de 1) fire. The building was nlled with cot (obaeco, molasses and dry goods siornge, the thunes sproad all — over the , instantly, There W clevin sons in the buildin when it Peter Perkins, porter, heard the ¢ and gave warning o seven men on the ond tloor, who escaped by jumping back windows onto a shed, Charles 8 forth, colored porter, gave the ion rst floor and started for the front o, thought he was canght and killed by fal walls, M I Wricht, manager of the pl and J, 1 were in was Ving a the laig their oflices on the first oor nd trne demoeracy tl the ~ ho sements or by il the inei enun- to who, admin- ‘That admin- my hands. It wisely, tion nl's icre or the most sterling integrity then ings tion id be e, it had not retwrned the Jackson . or- third were con- and state service dent and Lo Henry Hon, Allen G read Warchouse, after- ront ares Co., and and tive ton, i et fell. rash see o the It iy ling Balmstori, one of the proprictors, and started for the daor, but it s belieyed they were caught in the wicek, Match Makers SEDALIA, Mo, Jan, 5.—A fire was ¢ ered Tast night in Mitehell’s mateh factor one of weipal blocks, and for a tiy was [ 0,000 bliaz owing to the terrific gale and coupled with the i Fhe vro action of the nre department, wed the fire mnder control before it headway, and Toss was contined to contents of the building where it origini and will not excewd 510,00, thouzh fecurate s becn obtained, 1085 s | covered by insurance, ovehed, SHOW sl Among Lumber Piles, 81, Louts, Jan, S.—Last night the five partment was called out fora fire that been discovered in the oflice oi t Ganchal Lumber company, situated Broadway, Cave and Eigiith streets, spread with rapidity wimong the fing Tumber piled utder the sheds, 160 depth by 50 in width, and eansed a stocls and building of 10,000, with insu I home companies on the enlire al 315,000, As to the origin of the fie if mains a mystery, but the supposition is it originated in‘the southwest corer of oftice, where there was a stove, CLEVELAND, Jan, 9. ing tire was discovered in the the ladies’ hall connected with the colieg brick Oberlin, Ohio. The structure, three stories owned by the collese, It females and 100 male students, Tl i caped in their nizht garmenis. The i “Thae Loss will probably approxin building is a high, and aceommodate At Laurel LaurgL, Ind, Jan. S, destrayed W. T, Steffey’s grocery and i store, and the stores of Mis. 8. A, 1 T, Hackman, O. Hazurl, The total loss 15 about » 10,000, *Thrce men wer picion of incendiarism, ¥ a Steamer. Loxpox, Jan, A slight fire yesterday on the Guion line steamer at Liverpool from New York, It wa extinguished, after destroying a tew bale cotton and soime of the beltings ol Lealer, aud 1, J. 1 6,000, Tnsura arested on 0% howe scov- yin e it was Duminent win, mpt ver, ) Ihe de- Liad sdoon AL “he fire feet in 10ss on umber yard 1 thit the o e al is 10 1o is nate A fire yesterday on, J. ond. nee, s Alas AN INSANE FATHER'S CRIME. urders His Wifo and Two Children by Cutting Their Throats, SUICIDE ENDS THE CARNIVAL. The rightful Deeds Committed Sunday Last But Not Discovered Until Yesterday Excitement, on Intense A Family Cold in Death, Biviie Creek, Mich, Jan. S Neigh- bors noticing the absence of persons around Dr. Martin Wite's residence, in this city, | broke into the this afternoon and | found the entive family with their throats cut from ear o ear Dr. White and wife were lying on the floor and the two children | inbed. TS thought they have been dead since Sunday night as they have not been seen sinee th White is believed to have insane and murdered his family. e shows evidence of a terrible strug- husband and wife, No The cotoner's jury is house hecome Il gle between the other cause is known. now in session, Intense excitement prevails over the tragedy, ‘The family consisted of White and wife, and Bessie and May, aged 4 and 12 years, Mrs, White's body was by the side of the kitehen stove, dressed as she came from the ehurch, with a terrible cut on the chin, and with Ler throat eut. White lay in front of the stove with a great cut on his neck, Bossie was found upstairs on the bed with her throat cut, and on the floor lay May in a pool of blood, her throat cut from ear to earand the head nearly severed from the body. The walls throughout the house were spattered with blood. 1t is supposed that White took little Bossic up stairs, cut her throat, then called May up, had o struggle with lier, and waited for his wife to come lome from ehurel and struck ler withan axe and eut her thr White is a cousin of the White who was murdered in the Crouch slaughter near Jackson gt THE TEXAS Plans for the Reorganizat Company. . 8.—[Special Telegram, |— The Times this morning says that the tol- lowing outline of the proposed plan tor the oreanization of the ‘Texas Pacitic was quoted on Wall street yesterday This proposal makes the capital Stock $:53, 000,000, “I'he holders of the present stock are to be given 100 shares of new stock for 500 shares of the present stock. s will uso up about S1L,000,000 of the new stoek, the rve- mainder, about $22000,000, s to be sold in the market. First consolidated bondholders are to receiye 5 per cent bonds at par, interest to hegin July 1, 1557, and “Tesas Rios to receive 50 per eent in new 5 per cent bonds and 7 per cent in an income bond on the Rio Grande division, and the New Orleans Pacitie first to veceive 50 per eent in new s por cent bonds and 50 peveentin an income bond on that division, The present Jand grant bonds are 1o receive lands of the company, already held against these bonds, in full sctilement of their lien upon the property. It is said this plan has been azroed to by the people. who control a majority of the securities of the company. Without Practical Result. CcaGo, Jan, S.—The castern trunk line managers adjourncd to-night to meet next Thursday in New York, The session has been marked by the utaiost seerecy, and the only informatirm obtainable is that a con- tract has been adopted 1o go into operation January L and that - a o commission or for the western organization and an_arbittator for the Chicago pool, hitve been appointed. So far as known the Cliicago & Atlantie foad has ot given countenance 1o e meeting, and the Fint & Pere Marguette rond distinetly refused to co-ope “The opinion is prevalent that the meeting was practieally withont result. The Times to-morrow witl piil the name of Georze R, Banchard, formerly vice presi dent of the Toric road, as the mai chosen for commissioner of the organization, - Death of a Missouri Ancient. HANNIBAT, Mo, Jan. iflin, colored woman who cliimed to be over 120 years of aze, died yesterday, She has daughter here S0 yearsold. Several old ¢ izeis place her age at from 110 to 120, ACIFIC. of the S=—Lottie ( Directions to Spe. Topics. From an Addvess by Ecangelist Moody. 1. Don’t talk too much, 2. Don’t talk unless you ave posted, 3. Give the best you haye, 1. Don't talk wlicn people are aslecn, \[\':.l s some one man and you will hold the rest, 5. Don't on Religious try to show ofF your learning, 6. Get hold of the most stupid n wd youwll hold the rest, 7. Don't try, but don’t he make people liugh way will the othcr, B Be natural; don't try o be some one else 9. Avoid eant and pulpit tones. 10. Don’t talk too long. A man in London, who preached wntil the people all Teft, said he thonght it wasa ity to top when there was anybody to hear, 11, Don't hesitate to repeat what God uses. 12, Don’t keep on talking just because you are holding the audicnee. Send them away hungry, While the plople are gathering use ime with son, Shoot where people stand, As the old Qualker said to the burglar: *“Friend, L going toshgot where thee stand, Thee had hette tout of the way, 15. Don't gestare and move about too mueh, and don't talk with your hands your pockets, Catarrh Cured ‘ Catarrh Is a very prevalent disease, with distressing and ofiensive symptoms, Hood's Barsaparilla glves ready relicf and speedy cure, from the fact it acts through the blood, and thus reachies every part of the system, 1 suffered with eatarth fficen years, Took Hood's Sarsaparilia and I am not troubled any with catarrh, and my general health is mucly better,” LW, Liiiis, Postal Clerk Clicago & 8L, Lovis Railroad, I suflered with catarrh 6 or 8 years j tried many wonderful cures, inhalers, e iz nearly one hundred dollars without benefit, 1 tried Hood's Sarsaparilla, and was greaily fmproved.” M, A, AusEY, Worcester, Masg, afraid, to Milk that slops'one Hood s Barsapariila is characterized by 1hiee peey 15, the combination of ents ; 2d, e propotion; #, 1he ceuring the active medicinal 5. Tho result is anicdielne of unusual strength, effecting cures nitheato unkuown, 8¢td for boo aining additional evidence, *Hood's Sur up ny sy purifies 1y blog Wy i) petiie cis 1o ake ¥ Tuoxnrso Deeds, Lowell, Mass, (il beats a1 others, and S WO #old. 1 BAKIINGTON, Luuk siicet, New York City, aritics : Hood’s ESarsaparilla Fuld by a §1; six for §5. Made Gily by €. L HHOOD & €O, Lowoll, Mass. 00 Uosecs_One Dollare