Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 15, 1886, Page 1

OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1836, CURATINGS SORELY REGRETTED Beatrice Burning With Indignation Overa Business Compilation. FORTY NI e request an HAWKEE INAUGURATION | | sented a pet CARLISLE AS A ( Not Troubled With a Presidential Buzzing Bee, but Would Take It. fice to_push mmercial travelers feve them of Governor Sherman Steps Out and Go nd sensational stories of McCullough of late, and SOl PENTED reer and privat have gained curreney senate for in- THE FEELING AGAINST EATON. MERCHANTS IN TRIBULATION. PROHIBITION QUESTION formation as to 1l suspensions, is One of these storie was to the efte among his person: ton's theater, St Louis, was a paid-up lite in- 00 in 'u\w’ of 1 to many membe He had declined ned thent to the pers ed that conr Assurances Forms the petitions, and in Feature nd the tncoming The Chier Ch were sent to 1 o8 to-day by Kora's Ad endship f Morphine surance poliey for 36 going Message laughter, kn: dramatic professio 3 It was not generally known during the gzeat tragedian’s life that his marriage in early lite WA @ very unhanpy been estranged for years from his wife and 1 influenced by a eire rtinents conched Appointiments. ave the lionor i transportation. and Beek read a copy of conmmmication to write a pet somal letter (o Speaker Catlisle, to refrain from on the coinage committee of thie hons entatives, and wlso to senmpiors \<ion of silyer eol Mr. Teller presente | orado legislature, ur no diserimination and tavoring 1t was referr information That Leaked Out. BrATRICE, Neb., Jan. 14 city is all torm secret publication the merchants ot of every person in the county who deal rating is given Has Presidential Aspirations, WasHisaros Dis Moives, lowa appointuent e discovery piled by a number of write personal forward Berewith the information in v nation s to the presideut’s reasons for suspension (or removal thus transmitted rels wointee, and | Neither was it known to public at large that MeCullough in later years contracted a marital nent actress brought to die. and gives liberal various state interests and wany of the s and joins in S au appropriation for ¢hospital for the insane | recommends an sintment of a state e at the World's fair in establishment sunervision of banks constitutional | sustitution, par- ticularly in the interest of @ reorganization of the judiciary. attention to institutions. wrestions of the Kentucky friends this morning of talks with him a vial of the Col wl o nnmber relation with whom he was unable to make his lawful wife by reason of hLis inability to divoree from his tirst in this city. He incorporates and is given the name of M. 0. is supposed to signify bad, uncolle , slow, uncollectible: uneollectible, and so on. leadership a and 1 tell you tl mendations, couple of years isstie as yet bee the president on statement on th to the eftcet correspondence “Then he don’t want the pres ny determination pressed nor formed possible issue s what he will classed M. 0. and two or three of the oldest and wealthiest farmers in the county, who | do ot owe adollar a £ ble bank accounts, are ra Ile exposure has created a very ing, and a movement boyeott the merchants whose names are at- Several wembers Association™ deny any con- the gentleman its resemblance to h is in the wrong lo- Kkly, however, that he a strong race, on the second place | objected o by the go Allison, upon i characterized riuent of Spaia. Carlisle is afr conclusions, GLEANINGS, of the treasury has settled controversy in regard to t il to be used in the construetion of the Pittshurg, Pa., Tnstructing the supervising architect to award the contract to the lowest responsible: bidder for turnishing gr statement as Allison sent to | had the clerk read a leiter ary of state, to Kasson irdie was the fruit of union and is friends and relatives in ol and giving every evide ing into w beautitul She is now g The seeretary to revise tl building at from New York and that he might be e hy not take the ra ccomplished wom- ngon 12 vears of age, and besides her striking resemblanee to her fath- ergives cvidence of rked degree his s not yet bear her father's lias been withhield from her. and her friends sincerely hope it will by son's aeceptanee by the Spanis “The appointuent to Madrid,” tached to the the letter con PEMPERANCE “Singularly enough the the suppression of the liquor traflie has to contend not only against the vigorous it of its cueiies, but as well the apolo- gies ot its hypoeritic acts have really been +if he can get s sent to the comunication should be brought name of the United States to test the validity of Bell’s original telephone patent. Among the bilis introduced iy was one by Wilson of Towa, to fix the rate of postage on fourth class matter \d, tpon your sons Waving 1o eonneetion ever with or *to Vienna, “New York,” What of New York?" apinion fhat suit e will be a joint weciing of the Knights mers” Alliance Saturday ¢ 3 take systemati boycotting the merc be eonnected with the scheme, contains about 4,000 names, and embraces and conditions, number of merchants who are not into the sehieme denounee it in Svarts corroborated it of Mr. Allison, cing to the ealendar, the senate gave some consideration nof the Sioux Ind Without reaching a ter went over. Mr. Brown ealled up Mr, Bec In the course dress favoring the resolution the ofticers of of Labor and He docsen’t believe He thinks, though, some doubtful states in for instance, California, and Michi- whose cow- more deadly in the senate he could carry tl ¢ known to until she arrives at maturity, when all will be made As is well known, MeCullough left no willang property worth £50,00 went to the family from that he would carry elements, the law has sustain persuaded there is less of liquor drinking in Towa than meviously s less of outgrows its sale and use. of public and private good. lates its better - . RN MAILS, Senator Manderson's Resolution and planation of' i il Telegram.[— The Times Washington special says: In con- concerning his resolution duced in the senate yesterday, crime which 1d therefore more “Well, if he could do that, and save all the elaborate ad- 1 hie would provide danghter and frequently But John was ters and the most he treasury should want New York, would he?! they paid bond- ““That is not the question, enforcement. investization, is lots of musie in the air t frequent salutation is, “1 am going down to et my r: the M. 0. Book.” the “associy the corn eribs yester and the absorbing theme Who gave the thing away 1suits will grow out of the publis cation of the book, for malicious libel. brief, the Protective Assoeis tribulation, and the end is not yet. named the amount as £5 shiftless in business ever did was to take a paid up life insuranee the little one’s ben etit, rued interest, Itisrunninga | Cuicaco, J satistied the 1 throughout the state, intelligent publie endorsement than when enacted two years g fore, andas far as reasonably possible, made more rigorous.” INAUGURATED, make New York a strc that state wili or should be the nucleus of the northern demoeracy. faith in his free trade policy, and believes it will prevail.” Who s the speaker most in holders had expressly dor silver, they were being | s while everyhody else was paid This was neitiier i 11 the national demonctize silver andd it the ofiicials Senator Man- med to him that as the the Union Pa- ion™ were observed down ¢ Kicking themsclves, mong them is, 1t is probabl Tias amounted to about §10,000. will be invested in eity proy from which will give he ‘T'his is vouched for by withall the facts and delinitely settles the matter of the $65,000 which many for some time, 1t was acreditor of nd did not have a good chance of get- ting its dueexcept good poliey to have as wuch transportation as possible done by that company. ing lines, partly perhaps on account of better sment and partly on account of being freer in the management of their affairs, were running the Union i the company was in need of all the business ud the people of Omaha were aving the Union Pace instead of harimed, The postoflice oftic ing mails destined for points be- yond Omaha concentrated upon the Burling- ton and continuation, the Burlington & Mis- on puts on a common honesty, Mr. Brown, in conelusion resent the peoj ent departients of the government wiil take the watter in land, t their recurring ele and till all th crnment with men who will rective and forfeit the charters of sueh banls as abuse their priy a competence one conversant Te thinks Bayard areat combination: that it will bind th took place thisatternoon at 5 o'clock. 1 the people, was @ procession of four military escorting the governor and governoi-cleet to The inaugural ceremonies the rotunda, which was filled Al thousand people. jon™ is ingreat has worried departments of the coy Then there would be the soldier and civilian n elements, the free rayed Woman Suicides. ERMAN'S HASTINGS, Neb,, Jan, 1H.—[She ~A young woman Brakey died at the Atlington lotel in this s afternoon from the effects of phine taken last night with sufeidal intent. ased came to Hastings about one week ago, incompany with another young named George Reynolds and the other woman man and wife, and oc room at the hotel, while ¢ nother part of the From a conversation heard betwe it seems that the dece 1 been betrayed by some man before com- ing to Hastings, and that she had become consequence, and statesny the state louse, the reform elements, all that they would suit all els you think Mr. present administrat! i very closely and Senator Speaks tlisle approves of the S el Washington this noon and was wet at the depot by a legisl ted to the house of the presence of o audience of Iy welcomed <, Ohio, Jan, which Governor hee delivered his inugural address. and national topics in line with the last republican state plattorin, of the supre creditors by lic had never nd industrions t the tall of sil sakier of the house of representatives remenber.” tive committe representatives, where, both branches and a 1 ators, he was fory 1 against a brave The peaple knew th ver was the result pital to destroy gamblers wer Cown folly. The suspension young wan PULLED THROUGH. oliise RECOMMENDATIONS, silver as @ money TATnong other things favoring the creation of aseparate state department of INPORTANT rinst the confirma foner Eaton, strong fight was tion ot Civil the fruits of th of silyer coinage was but | the total stoppa Sherman replied in-quige @ lengthy sp in which he returned thanks for the renewed honor and confidence in hiaving again been clected to the oflice of United Stat 1n the cour<@Ht his rema dressing nimselt to the members Tature as a body, he said 1 both the politi Brakey had aroom in i sueh sus- nsion or stoppage would be fraught with 1051 SeTions consequances o the people, Isalury bill was then One of the sections bill provides that 1o person related within I e of first cousin to a_judge of the United States shall- be appointed’ by such judge to any position in his court, and Lited who now utinue in ofice after six from the passagze of this act. ge of colng two women cattle and swine: favoring the pensioning of all union soldiers: favoring the ereation of a state board of arbitration to settle differences between labor and capital; favoring & law for governing telegraph tolls and fixing a 25 cents per twenty words points in the state, PROIIBITION rtof the message is devoted to views at length tion on the liquor government republicans small saving to sending all furthier’ cconomy to the government 1 congressional ments the Union Pacltic has to be paid full rates, while other roads earrying the mails by the above arrangement that he pulled through, The law raquires that the minority bave one place on the commnission, and the republicans want to be sure and have a true They say that Mr. Eaton is not a_republican, bit a mugwump, is the most unpopular quantity that can be produced in Washing P timo hao arrived despondent should address sumed name, purehiased ten grains Returning to ler room at the, hotel, she evidently took the whole aper which cou was found empty. unconscious condition clock, and medical aid at once summoned. he physician made a strenuous effort to save but all was of no u fitvored Ohio enac ing an election law similar to New York Turning to the tempe fraudulent voting. s of morphine. only 80 per eent. ned the deadly drug She was discove morning at 8 rtation of through mails from arncy, though it also loses tion of the Northern Pacitie, whiel es mails for Idalio, Montana and Oregon which it used to carry. can_hardly comy sending wails over the most direct 10ute, as fast as the opening of new lines affords the for choice, but it has for some time been trying to break up the ar- rt of the mail trans- portation it used to have has been given to or, the Burlington & Missouri loses is transp would affect personsat present in course of his ren of the motion, said fministration, the picture of ace, and of everything tl had w'lll 1o th prohibition, the history of state legisla and the advan w, and speaks very emphatie- its enforcement. The governor Zrowing sentiment in in this union that vent the evils grow- ing of out the traflic in intoxicating liquors. This question ought not to assume a political The legisiature of Ohio should address itself to this question, ane enact wise as is consistent with the The prohibition party, considered it an outrage,” the leading revublican senators to-da be placed on the commission to represent our party. rthan a demo needed a true republican in any place it is the one now held by Mr. E: Cleveland desired such a man as Eaton But I can assur ‘The Union Pacific n ot the dep senate the noni- son {0 go to the « the functions of aily and she died same place, (o exe oflicers, one under the other,” Atterdebate the Nothing was developed at the coroner’s in- quest to show where she lier parents or relatives were, who came to the hotel with her testified that y had known he fed in the pott some friend or re laws, going as far rights of her citizens ax it is called, is not represented by general assenibly, proved a failure, nor has it proved an entire on and Jjustice dictates such a ame from or who The parties department room 2dimunds amendment was course as will T dn g tjourned until Monday. A fair trial implies not only that the should remain upon our statute book for a suflicient time 10 test its constitutionality and the rights of parties betore the courts, honest and determined effort should be made to seeure obedience, too, the large cities and in communities where public sentiment is opposed to the and tlagrantly violated, the state compels individuals contributions cannot be relied upon to en- torce a law which the il saloon and the partisan inty zogue constantly aid to defy, cirenmstances, the state to come to the rescue of the individ- Public funds should be appropriated, whole power of angement whereby only four days. s field here unless ive comes to el in the place. thing: 1f it had not be resign within who believe in wise law: strain the traflic, and di best measures th to regulate or re 14.—On behalf of the Springer called up the ccting that committee to quire into the expediency of ihe passage of the ascertainment of a judicial tribunat its competi claims committe would not have dopted for that N FLASHE Opens the Prussian mperial Speech. mperor William opened the speech his atefnl for the love nd for the benevolent extended Our toreign but that an ken at York. 14.—[Special. | The Blockade Brol I he remainder of the address wa Ate ineasures by ction by congres prohibiting the Emperor William Diet Withan duty of legislators is te vancement of the newly elected oflicers now here, Cleveland to-day to et his views on Dakota matters generally, and the admission of south Dakota to statehood partict land received thew ve he was much interested in the question, informed the delegat hear all they had to say about t he would give out of his own private time on next Monday, Dakotaians are pleased over the sceming atti- tude of the president, tavor their project, dence in the pre congressional the laboring classes n-opportunity to make (., seeure to them all djudication of pri- alins or relict meastires by congre ed that the o Wiy to some legisla train from Lincoln eame out to York Tues- This is the first train that we There has been great stagnation of business in consequence of the The M. E. college could not open time because many students professors were snow-bound. forty were held at Lincoln for about a wee Some students waited at ra several days and then returned home to their way in the w the advantages of education, without reed or color, or Above all, seeure to them their contest with Mr. Springer st resolution was to have n which would rel vindicate its jesty said : “1 amn g fidelity of m sympathy which foreign countries, fendly, and support our belief that the o ot Enrope Is sure to continue The emperor concluded by aseribing the de de to overproduction, which, \e said, it was impossible so prevent by legal He announced that bills would be construction of railways have had for ten v cordiatly, Jtten money of the My Tucker of Virginia, while he had no gue ot the dem- abjection to the purport of the resolution, contended: that which the judi A purty of n he would be gld to toa matter ove 1y committe 1 wnendment” provid- tion be condueted by pression in t d stations for return (o Washington to-morrow. ing that the investig the committee on judiciary agreed to, and the resolution as walked over the drifts from eighteen to forty miles in order to get here on time, would be desig went of the Ger Polish element from pressing the Germans ed to assure the develop- - nd [:l'\l'll[ |IL- Hundred Weed rike in New Y They have great confi- sident’s well known sense of justice, and believe he will treat their case and without political bias, enator MeDonald of Indi ing demcerat in the f the committee on presidi Taows, Mr. Caldwell called np the Hoa dential suecession Dill, and as there were but iing hour remain- I that debate should continue aldwell reserving Whatever authority vested in me will be unhesitatingly Schuyler's Lynching. SenuyLEs, Neb,, Jan. 14.- gram.]—The remains of Lapour were, upon of the coron Undertaker Cannon this the coming of his fawmily, which is expected Crowds of curious people were at the court house yesterday view the remains, pecial Tele- e W minutes of went on a strike to-day in the f The trouble that led to this action was the adoption of what the Ci tion consider to be a uniform rate of priees, and with which the employes in the factory controlled by the association are dissatistied, dered Levy Brothers employes to strike test ease, hecause it ong the others will do likewis An Iris h Bis LoNDON, Jan. 14.—Archbishop Walsh, in an address at Dublin t loped to obtain a) settl op's Hope. COMMITTEE Betore the adjournment ol the senate this afternoon, Lientenant nounced the standin the important chaivianships are as follows: Hutehinson of Wapcllo, Robinson ot V' Sutton of Marshall, dinine the afternoon, Mr. <hit to eall the previous question at any My, Caldwell st yeporting the meastre | difference or disrespeet with other pron i many measnres perly meet all taken in cha tate, Isnow in Washing- ton, and is quoted by his Hoosier friends as tmission of Dakota Levy Brothers, the committ ent of the Iish He trusted the pe would be realized, and that the sad r t would not be witnessed of deperate men despairing of securing freedom by being in favor of Manufacturers’ lie present state movement, s when California was civeumstances, and McDonald thinks the stion: should not be made a partisan one, and expresses contidence that the denoc will vote quite largely tions betore it proposed that would more pre aginable exingencies thim the one now reported, but all required a constitutional could beecome laws, and to-day to But little excitement pre vails, and the pall whiehi Lias enveloped our city since the murder of Sheriff. Degian adually lifting, Charged With Attempt to Kill, RivenrToN, Neb,, Jan, 14, -A. Williams as principal, and Bill s and Means admitted under similar Appropriations and the dagger of the assasin, it before they mstitutional amendment v which would 1] ae Providing the To-morrow morning L between a conmit: the strikers and the manufa association, with a view of s I no agreement is etfected, it is all the shops ¢ will lock their employes out, Contemplating a Conp de Etart. The Daily News @ rumors that the government in Ireland, and that ontemplated 15 the ap unt Woolsely to be Insurance—Glass of Cerro Gordo, ] sonof Henry, mittee will have important business in set- tling a contested vlection distriet, where sted by six majority, but Lis tested by his opp for Dakota's admis. LoNDoN, Jan, 14, st hody of people re many exigencies which the meditates a coup de in the forty-fourth | yending me to-day trans: entalives an es sustoms dues "The seeretary of the treasury mitted to the louse of repre timate of the cost of at different 1o estimated the pointm ent of Gen. Vis commander of military torces there, by the association bridge’ thrown g 1o et the and would be followed in due time by an en e, over whichi the long presiaents might charged with assault with intent to Kiil, hav- iug in astreet row attempted fo stab J. Ash- A xib stopped the force id saved the life of Ashburn, Liberal Lead ports throughout ers Reconelled. Supplying a Knead, The bakers' conyen- wdopted a constitution and ef- organization burn with a knife, of the knife a MODERN After Poisoning Four Wives, Fails on the Fifth Atte LONDON, Ont., Jan. 4.—Letiers have been deseribing the recent . Who was tried 151 WIDE A Quick Witted Engi a to e §1,200, mareh in unbroken sticee: tone and colleagues 300, simply the salary of the collector at ¢ d . permiane Grany ille and Deiby and the M; Harti ngton have given assent to a tactic & suggested by Gladston take the first chan con servative government, MHlinois, and NEW Youk, Jan, 4, was narrowly av gineer this morning press on the New York & Long Istand rail- road was tilled busimess wen, coming to their ofti Mattawan and just before reaching a trestle long, the cars were derailed by a broken frog. s down on the ties ran across the bridge, si “The objects of the association are Laflescho of Nebraska has been pro- lixdt e QunIt nealiss tional, erude, and in its tendency dan north bound ex- verthrow the £000 to §1,000, atlesche is an Indian, labor and to Unele Sam’s most faithful and wembers, shorten the hours of higher and more party in power to an indetinitc nun ) a constant temptation to'erimg received from Dako death there of Geo here & year ago on the charge of poisoning at Dew Drop Inn, umstances of the case were very sus- ous, poison being found in Mrs, McCabe's stomach, but ghe prisoner had previously ¢ 1l presented Her Majesty Commands. Loxpoy, Jan, 14.~The queen wanded (he production of Gounod's oratoris, Morset Vita. at Roval Albert hall. from Windsor This will be the que telegrams were ». Omaha, Kansas City, Boston ational Bakers' association of COMMITTEES AT WOI W~ [Press.| on publie lands agreed to- bly to the house Payson's bill declaring torfeited certain grantsof lands made to Mississippl, Loulsiana and the construetion of railroads with an amendment excluding the Gulf and Ship Tsland grant from the operations of the act, L o banking and eur reney held its first meeting to-day, and orean- nized under the cha business was transacted, The house committee on also met for organization to-day. The house ju London, south, Al Scuey of Ivocated the pending m that notwithstanding nevertheless WASHINGTO! house committe Jesty will cons 10 attend the perform ance, seara nee in publie in 1 the' objeetions named, it wa decided improvenent npon the existing L, Tomiorrow the diseins after the tansaction of private busi; Indiana, Fii- day night sessions were ovdercd for sideration of pension bills, was acequitted, aped convietion on the charge of wurdenng another wife in Inger- and it was alle Woodstock, Ont,, had It is now stated after Dakota and | ied again, One morning his wite detect- | od him putting some foreign substanee into \ing his operations she ex- ™ McCabe drank the draught intended tor the wife, and while in the ago- nies or death confessed an der, and also poisoning the ogher tour wives. Impressive Pile of Tee L PATL, Jan, 14 the St. Paul ice palace contributed by Fargo River of the north, and by wlli be resumed, A Stab av t 14.—The Daily Telegraph he government will introduce a bill abolishing the vicere I lost its trucks, and was driowi a long distance on Clickner, the enginee 10 stop his enzine, wh s hour, sas that the only He threw opei ed that other | of his passion. he lowse commiitted cerenmonies, participated in by local snow shoe tobaganing and neighboring towns, t that indu ces the K of Carnaryan to tesi gn the lord lietenancy. - DEATH I'ROM COLD, Persons Missing, Snpposcd vished in the St hope was 10 iner the throttle aid thus prevent toppling ove from side to sic unship’ of Miller, clubs from this city An innnense crowd was in attendance, torchlight procession was very long. Speech- es were wade by tice of St Paul, and Pilisbury of Minneapo- Fineh performed the up to the tirst her tea, and wats General Amnesty in France. 14, President iting amnesty 1o per- L offenses sinee 1570 he passengers w b, but nobody seriously | ¥ commitiee at its meot- wd 10 subcon tson, Bennett, attempt to mur- The 1ull extent of lule storm in Just becomin signed the deerce g | sons convieted ot politic and reducing the sentences of many oflend- ers against the common law sisting of Collins, Culb X ker and Hepbur, Colliny’ bill to esti unifori system of bankrupte onvicts Corralled, 4. —Some time wviets eseaved by tunnel ling from the mines in Coal Hill and started Resolve and h Jan. =11 the convention to-day waterways reported, rec- L of $400,005 for Trasverse and Big The connnittee on county tax deeision reported, asl cislation to compel the cific ratlioad co) S wlien surveys ax then took o r ved the eonve te its work this evening The ice palac story, and will open February 1. clghitecn, while AINONS 410 KNOWI § Thie dead, 18 reported, a Isracl and an nuknown wman am was received to day 4go a number ot crnor Knott of Kentucky now in session T ‘The following teleg: Changing Sp Maprin, Jan, 14.—~Count Pascon has been appoiuted Spanish place of the Marquis De (: been transterred 10 W halt a dozen Abandoned. The Projec MILWAUKEE, who interested themselves in forming a stoek and were working 1o Milwaukee a place in the ndional leag rovided that it should be « Cork meeting Saturday 1o i omw ending an appropriatic a canal belween It was adopted. is considering the question of plowro pneumonia, but the Guasi in which your departuient has ating will expire tomorrow, u will order its e gislatore shall soie provisions to prevent the suread of th Commissioner b quarantine contined USICFIEN 10 AN EXDING. er from ex-Delegate Dow- of Wyoming, in behalf of a prominent caitle man of that territory, proceedings huye been recoinie pel the remos ) of fenees maintained by him enclosing public lands, requesting that the | 1ocecdings be postponed until spring, the shant comwissioner of fhe general land J named James Johnson éaptured six of the conviets in a hay stack, fouw e believes said he would return more escaping their location. with the rest and ¢la His only weapon was a doub; | barrelied sliot gun. eriff Kills His Man. Yester day | evening Marshal McGraw attempted to ar- amed Clayton speelfully request i A Royal Dead Beat, The kingof Bavaria has | ded al the New nde eight cities b oand two ch | whose fatier is also s | Seward conn Muxicn, Jan. 4. Garden City | forbidden Lis cabinet to interfere with his | of the cabin Ag's debts wount Lo 15,000,000 | I'he convention 2 two brothers in Ford county ately ordered tl and it 15 probable 1o further effort will he ) waukee in the league Lincoln eounty. further reports will In reply to a lett 'ty Soldiers Killed. alst whom ded to comn- His Doct Jan. 14.—Contrary to the us, Ewperor Willian to be present at the opening of the Prussian Brooks, who rest a farmer, CurerEwa Fars, Wis, Jan 15 street school was bu, y an ineendiary this w insuranuce, 314,00, ecting an Alliance, aw shot him. MeGraw was taken bastily 1 the county seal Lo aveid Jyneliug, of his physic sistanee and MeG Brooks died Loss §15,000 ing lor an alllauge sguinst Lul MBER 178, A CASE FOR THE GOVERNMENT Recent Secretary Lamar's Opinion on Telephone Litigation, THE PEOPLE HAVE INTERESTS Which the honld be P retary Considers by the Gove crnment’s Bringing the Quese tlon Bet Judicial Sody., @ neet A Case for the Gover it WasinNGroN, Jan, o Sceeretary Lamar this afternoon sent to- Acting Aforney Gens eral Goode a letler containing his conelus sions upon the proofs and arguments sub- mitted touching the validity of the Bell tele- plione patent ot March 7, 1896, in which he Sy s i pad The petitivizers, upon the grounds and for the reasons set forthi i their petition, ask the department of justice to vause or allow | appropriate Tegal procecdings to be in tuted in the proper court by the governient, or i the name of the government, on theit relation, to vacate and annol the Beil tele- phone patent of the ith of Mareh, 1576, in e petitions specitied. Inorder 1o know what suggestions 1 sh make as o the a tion of your department, 1 have submitted it to you: Lhave heard thie prosentation. of the case and considered it azain upon_ the proofand the able arcument of eounsel as they appeared. 1 thought that my own con- cration should e direeted 10 two ques- tions, and to meet these questions 1 re- quested that the arzments of connsel should be shaped. They are: First, has the govern- ment the right 1o instinte steh suit for such a purposet Second, it if hes sueh right should the procecdings involved in the speetive petitions, or either of them, be ine stituted? The first of these questions, speeinlly with- inthe coznizanee of your department, as it 15, s the aflitmative answer of nuy recedents in that departument, and_has v ved like affivmative answer from the owrts. The government is asked to insti tute judicial inquiry as to the patent of Bell telephone eompany upon the allegat that such patent was obtained by fraud of the patentee, with the collusion, or by the inadvertance and mistake, of the execitive ofticers of the government. 1 these alleg- tions be true, o great wrong to the wh people rests in the name, and is sustained b the power, of the United States, To say the government inflicts the wrong would v o imply that somewhere . among s resourees the government conld have the power to rediess it The arciment against the practice of the petitioners does trovert this, hut rests upon the theory t the zovernment has provided a remedy which exclides all other models, and therefore pre- cludes further governmental action Of the two patents issued for the same in- vention, one s certainly wrongtul. It the other is vighttul, the whole interesi in the quesiion as to which s vighttul is eonfined to the two patentees, and private litization will secure the needed remedy in determining who has the vight o the patent as between rival claimants, 1, however, there is only one patent, and it his been frandulently ob- tained to the exclusion of the_ one really en- titled to be the patentee, o it a patent has issued for something not patentable, an invention alre Hlonging o the worldiit becomes the daty well as the rvight of the government, when sutticient fin- portance, to aectively seek its cancellation, ecause private fitigation is not a possible of iedy and beeause the whole peo- ple are wronged withoutany other mode of Under our government, a trust can never fail for want of a frustee, nor can frauwd, nfs< or aceident in business transactions es- investigation for want of a tribunal, acourtol equity is maintained. If a patent ought to be vaente [ il can always be ated thore, hut the patent bears the great seal of the government and only the govern- ment, even there, can ask to have the seal torn off, The second inquiry was as to whether the right of the governiment existing, the pro- ceedings invited by these petitions, or either of them, ought to be instituted. The grounds of inval v alleged against the Bell tel phone com, may be substantinlly sum- marized thus: © First, the patent was seeared by the fraud of the patentee, through the col- Insion or mistake ut the officers of the pat- ent oftice, and in violation of the rizhts of a caveator named Elisha Gray, Second, the invention as patented was not patentable bo- use already publie, These allegations de- ve the oceasion in which the government, upon my ought to actively interfere for reellation of a patent. issue before me lies outside of the te merits of the case as a subjeet of fal investization, As to what the final Judgment should be, [ have not felt called upon to form, and it 1 had formed T would notexpress san opinion, The question i3 whether enough has been shown upon the | hearing to require the submission of the matter to the court, at the instance of the govermhent, ‘The allegations and the evi- touching the circumstances attending e issue of the patent are of such nature 1 have such support as to render it, in my opinion. improper to ignore or dismiss them, Sueh acase s presented as 1 think oughit o undergo thorough judicial investigation, In a case involving such questions it seems o we especially imperative upon the govermment, as a duty to its own oflicers, ta Vindicate or'condem, and a duty o the peo- ple to set on foot and follow uj & completo inyestigation, In my opinion all pre - ings should be in the name and wholly hy the government, not on the relation, or for the benefit of all or any of the petitioners, but in the interest o the government and the people, and wholly at the expense and under the conduet and control of the governmient, L ahink it should be instituted at sueh points and insuch courts a8 will best subseryve the purpose of publie conyenience and full in- quiry. Sueh a proceeding, so condueted, will, as L think, comport with the dignity of the government and the gravity of the subjeet, and will insure afinal and just adjudication of the merits of the controversy, Very Respectfully, L. Q. C. LAMAR, - FEAR OF A FAMINE, Cleveland’s Water Supply Threate ened on Account o Cruverasn, Ohio, Jan. H—There is ims minent danger of a water famine here, At 12 o'clock last night it was found necessary to shut down one of the pumps on aceount of needle dee, and another was compelled to stop this morning at daylight because of s penson, The five remaining pumnps are working about onahalf their city. They furnished about onefourth of the average supply per day, Residences on a number of iy streets were eit off from the wainsat Lo'eloek this aftermoon, and an eloit will be made to SUVE WHAt water is now being pumg The engineer thinks with great care the supply Wil =utlice for ordinary circumstances, biig should o tive ocenr, (e city would be'in a sty plight. A toree of nien were sent out to the crib, bt the - engincer thinks nothing can be accomplished until e weatier mod= evening the supply of water was ek off @tirely. Five men have been at work all duy trying o discharge the obstruction, but thus fur without avail. Ttmay b ary o winit G warm weather thia < the e Thie wi ! and south sides are without wate | and this is the ease with the cast side, except on the stieets with direct wains fron the reservoirs, which hive a very seanty supply, The people. bin wells are using witer therelrom, and those who “ tunate enough o possess cisterns drink rain wat Others are conelled 1o wmelt snow. M facturin: that dopeiydel o eity wild 15 hive shut down, tthe mercy of thg | ui Given Up as Lost, GLov ek e, Miss, Jan 14.-The schuong er Mabel Dillavuy, one of the fleet of misse | ing tishin 1s, wits to«lay given up a lost, Sk sailed Decemiber 20 on a fishing wis spoken Clivisturas, and Lias not heon U TITD There were on board sixteen 0, @ niber of whom were married, s, ¥ e Butler, whose husband was Ot erew, died yestevday, lvaving louwp all chiildien,