Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 19, 1886, Page 1

FIFT]‘ ENTH YFAR IMPORTANT ARMY MEASURES ! | this Introduced in th and IOWA MEMBERS IN THE HOUSE. A Batch te of Western Postal Ch Army Orde Tasn ils tntrodaced by Messrs, Weaver and Do Very Important to the Northwoe Wasis Jan Special gram. | e el were proposed in the | e 1o« by Mes Wilsom of lowaand | Manderson of Nebraska, which are of very | material interest to avmy men throughont the conntry, but especlally of the northwest, since they Dear upon subjects there been el agitated of lat Mr. Wilson's measure view of (he special requirements of lery aru of tie service, there be maintained as a part of the lishment of each regiment of art captaineies in addition to those no ized by T i b dilledin ment by p tion aceording tot of first | uits thereof; tains thus authorized shall in their respeetive 1 to ecach Dbaltery a3 that the nmber of first lieate fment of fivst artilery shall he fter be re dueed to four i two ol whom shall be ex- tra licutenants, and shall be assigned to duty, one asa regimental adjutant, and the other atrezimental hat the pay of the ins hall be $1,700 o when GTON, 18, which have that, the eate ent o twelve prov ichs » senfority that cap ned one ptaing nants ina reg b iment hereby ithort dismonnted, her with grade L of sery wheney the alle and an inc e taching to this forthe I law: that among the fivst twelve ea ment of artillery, i genior eaptain of those of such r provided for, who shall thereatt and allowanees ot a captain of s now established by Senator Manderson's bill provic appointment of hospital stewards United States army, and fixes their pay and allowan It makes the two ela hospital stewards appointed by seerct of war and permanen lLed to the medical depactinent, as vrovided for, to coustitute the first class, ppointed Dy the written « anding officer, upon recommendation of 4 ical oflicer, to constitute the see i ¥ first « sha the second cly anees to remain i ‘The number of determin ury of war may requir thesurgeon geneial, appoinied ided by shatl ocenr ny regi by the s for the in the no fir hospital stowar by the s el from time to time 5 the necessities of the ser wpon the recommendation of ad no pe hall be ition unl he shall passed a satisfactory examination as to his fitness and abilit perdorm its duti nor shall any per be desiznated for examination except wpon written authority of the surgeon genoeral, HOUSE MEASULES BY 10WA M1 In the house to-day, lowa mem dueed measures as follows: By Mr, Murphy—For the reliet of William aarrahan and for the adjnstment ot his S in the New Idria quicksilver mines of Calitornia, By Mr. IHenderson — For the Bridget O'Brien. By Mr. Struble—To provide for a uniform allot box to be used in federal elections, and ting money for the s r. Conger—Xor the r MBERS, ors intro »f of ief of Richard Mr. Hall=To pay S. ‘. Marshall of Keokuk 6,598 and interest thereon, mone expended by him as disbursing and pu chasing agent of the United States eomm sion sent to California in 1850 to treaties with the Indians; for the enfo ment of judgments and deerees of the Un States sourts in other states than where ven- dered; for the relief of Orson Youngz of Bur- lington, Hezekiah Harvey and Rowland Nobles, By M., Hepburn—For the relief of garet Ball, and to estal board of cont- wissioners of interstate commerce, and to regulate sueh comimeree, WESTERN POSTAT, CHANGES, Postin; ppointed for the folloy ing places in Towa to-day: At Peerson, 8. J, McKee: Elzin, . Wohlleters Harper's Ferry, k. Mullaly; ona, Mrs, M. Sheets; West Dol wker; Runnells, D, T, Brown St. Paul, 0. F. Junker; Shambar D. Slaytons Gopher, 1% Thayer; Dodgevil Mus, L. Klines Donulson, A, Wicgner; green, W, W. McElliney; Lacrew, R. Todd. For Nebraskq 1L the following postmasters werc appointed: At Peterson, Miss M. Peter- son: Blue Springs, W. M. Your The Council Bluffs and Brunswic! vay postofiiee Hine has been extended to Moberly, Mo,, and will hereafter be known as the Council Bluffs and Moberly railway post- miles in length, LATE ABMY ORDEIRS ISSUED, Maj. Robert 11 Hall, ‘Twenty-seco nd in- , inspeetor general of the department l'lul\' has bee 1 trom Omaha n special publie It jr. ordnanc wps, chief ory of the department of Dakota, has been ordered by rry from Fort Abraham Lincoln, PPanl on ofticial business, the army furloughs anthor day was that of Private Peter Brilling, com- pany F. Eleventh infantey, Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dak., who was given ten days ex- tension, BILLS BY NEBRASKA MEMBERS, Representative Weay of Nebraska intro- duced in the house to-day bills for the relief of Lewis W, Avers and Frank Lightner, and a Joint resolution directing the postmaster general to readjust the salaries of certain postmasters in accordance with the provision of ion % of the act of June 12, 1505, My, Dorsey introdueed a bill for the relief of Robert Moran, late lieutenant colonel of the twenty-sceond West Virginia volunteer intantry, ed to- THE TELEPIONE SULT, The suitto test the validity or the Bell tele- phone patent, which was recommended to the attorney general by the seeretary of the interior, will prol be brought in the name of the United States before the courts of the Distrlet of Columibia, This isa some- what different programme from that expeeted by those interested in the vival companies, who hoped to sce Memphis selected by the department of justice, Solicitor Gener Goode says it 15 thought to ba more conver ient forall concorned to have the trial in Washington, where most of the papers and witnesses are at hand. Commissioner of Patents Montgomery is of the opinion that the suits should be brought where the corpor- ation concerned has a legal existen: In thocase of the Bell ‘Telephone company, ever, proposes to bring ham Bell as agent of the 1 1 be done In the d Bell reside MINOR MATTED tor Manderson introdu bill authorizing tha to allow the Oma tal stoe k 000,000, n where rrency to incr not exceeding Nothing new has by allowed, Senator Mande I suppose the nest thing will be ney General Leese to moye a l case before the sipreme conrt. HOUSE AND SENATH Wasmsaroy, Jan, 18, the honse bills int Mr. Breckentidge of for the a nment of army oy tary attaches to United State: the principal powers of Europe, it shall betheir duty to secure fo n ation relative to military L Clardy of Mi refurid toall enincors e 13y 1 of filty ban develc writ ¢ on s It Kent intrody url A merican nd m i tor United States 1571, and April cents Tor each lic bill was introduced by Missouri to amend the statutos i the eleetion of directors of natio s to provide that cach sharchiol: the right 1o cast as many votes i hall equal the n by Wi, sanltiplied by the i 10 be ele and ¢ 1l east the wii num capidate. of Ve n of Pennsylvania letine the 1 ary incidental to the appointien in cong nf thereof. The hill majk or botli, fora eand tion to the sentatives, to pay or 1y or Indir « to s ure LS nomitiat sintment, except to pay i esdor | and tiny dissemination of intormation to and for political mectings, de fmittee on pul amend tor Wil nt of the Des trodu the t lauds RS By Senator Voorliee Linission of thie territo nion of states, inecon s until the next Senator Van Wyl ational banks on which the Provi v ol h Ry urt. By Senator Cockrell-To rc amboat inspect oflice of iy e 1spector to $1,500 per ann IN THE INTEL About thirt, T OF WAT v-five dejecates i e conventions hel s City and New Orleans ference” this ~evening. R T by several delegates, conn of aetion anong the delegation. of Congi s of i Was app i delegation with the committee on rivers and form a plan for e presenta lutions and views of the three nt conterence, Il pointed Mark 31, K: New (hll till to-m ATOR VAN WYC ) Van Wy intre pplemental to the national 1564, 1t provides that wheneyer any national ter qualit m it nec n order to trist in 1 3 property by reason of legal ¢ thereto, and which property decree of conrt, he iy certi and value of the proper nd therein to the comptrolicr of NK tiie money of his trust as may to purchase the property at the yequest is approved by the it shall, tozether “with in the case and his recomment aumount which onght to be so mitted to the solicitor if ap) ey ved by hin, the request lowed after filing the pa the trea of th When any; sneh be allowed, enrrency is empow funds of any sieh trust as may with the tressurer ot the Unit the benefit of sthe bank in in ainount recommended an WORK OF THE COMMITT ppresentatives Townshend a ed before the house com ritories this morni i the pi ot the bills introdu for the ¢ m of the terrvite Del frord and Reagresel eriel will Wednesday in support of th to the admission of Dakota The house ..mnmlnunuu orzanized to-day. 5 the re: ACTED AGAINST In the \n[m'uwr‘n:u( nl' the to-day, the ease of Samucl A, \ the people of the state of dedd In June, 1583, W i s DEISOnS engaz e liguor in” that ny other state, Cliicazo 101 at Uni rea surer POsinE AL « ness of - selling shipped from drampier for a vieted of selling se,and Soliciting and o without, a license, itof pavment ST T i sup; who decided ot of the Uni minating tax operating to the di duiets of othier siates, 15 4 uint of commeree amor SEAAL TS wpation of ferred by the constitution, the supreme court of Michiy, and remanded, with instrucetion further proceedings as 1ay not ent with the opinion, sl St nposed reg t The Silver ‘\ln\ NEW Yo, Jan. S —In a London nh‘.'m i (nfl Heury Hurlburt eontirms the pr ments in those dispatehies that tural classes of Germany are elves heard in earnest tion of silver and against standard. Over 150 persons unions and over forty from p have been tto the Reich adds: *Ihis means busines: are now going on be the agricultural in erful party led by Herr arelikely to make this s enmany as important, silver movement iv An Advance Lins S1. Lovis, Jan, 15.—The pr il on the market has gone up o lon, the result of a secret meeti a0 of the seed erushers of th with a view to the reoizani weatern consolida At | moeet will be hie! this week, when the price of | be again advanced, this time f cents, the Nind ver v ti - — ndorsing the Resolu 81, Pavs, Jan, 18,~Th pted a memortal to coy which was incorporated under the laws of Massachusctts, Leston would, hie thinks, be the piuper 1! The altoraey general. how- the upper Mi ppi tiver, 1 Hi the resvlutions of the Ko i veation, 1 in the wring liced to-day was Mr. sber of shares sharel canor, punishiable by fine or iny contribute, any money or ot} ator Plumb to report ba Mont with one 1e nery the property is to be il 0 Teport @ Sulsequent iee is £ be sold by a currenc request for permission to cmploy of the trc ers in the allowe argned in v of Okl ppear before: this committee next Michigan was d lling was pros under the state i, and was e whole: against advantage of ‘T'he judgiment of n s reversed favor of restor from farmiers' n repre: orest as suchand a own countiy,’ red Oil, west 1 in Chicago Thursday of chamber of se of the appropriation npany, and Columbia, sen trollor National iy ha K to uin ped - the | S error was il to-night: » for Attor of the Among one by v, providing s il tiony It sy aceurate in- | Tairs in those iced abill to | nt captain t! amonn less he 18 e Bland of n relation to nal baniks er shall | n the a held ot dircetors holder for | es one introduced a 1L proper ex- and IS OF Fepre- authorize the it a misde- isonment, wnination or 1se of repre ither di- N, hecessar ling for th > the publie, monstrations jlic Lands to- 'k the bill in- Towa (o quiet Moines river ding for the 1 into it ntative census, ors to buy holds mor sold under v ccognize the It abolishes | r general of mpensation s from & ERW m the met i joint narks were ing unity On motion nois, a com- ointéd, one to consult and harbors, ation of resg- conventions o St. P Dunnell meeting ing. MEASURE rduced te bank act of A r erof jon, shall ully or persona Aim attaching 1y the facts interest with s0 mueh be necessary »sale. It the comptrolle the tacts tion as to the “l, be sub- sury, and shall "be al- e with States. shall ted uest el States for terest to the I and’ nittee Weaver on ter- ntative ted upon 10 connnitte Taw in Ui the bus state 1o | He was n- sale without Xing orders He was im- of the fine, reme court of lim, The lieid that by o state, tha pro- tlation in re- o states, and power con- s Lo take sueh Le inconsist- am.) , Wi, vious stat the agricul- aking th » single gold ant unions Hurlburt otiations eutatives of pow- thorst, which muiement in G as the of linseed ne cent a gal- 15 A few days nd held zation of the wol, Another seed oil will rom three to tions. com- ress to-day, stedt's | after nd endors s Uity con OMAHA, SERIOUS NE BR ASKA BLAZES. The Town of Papillion Vm ed by a 8 Conflagration. Serious FOUR BUILDINGS DESTROYED. The Contents Shave in the Destruc tion—Six Business Houses, With Stocks Therein, Totally Wiped Out, at Beatrice. Papillion Scorched by Fire, Pariiion, Neb,, Jan, 18— [Special gram, A disastrous fire began here at 9 o'clock this morning. Tt was first discovered in Steinbaugh s barber shop, which is near the south end of along row of frame strue tures on Main street. The town has no fire artment and the efforts with buckets and water availed nothit The flanies covered the Dbarber shop, harness shopand Hemp- tore building infive minutesafter they discovel Wien those buildings were beyond hope of reseue, all efforts were dirceted to keeping the flames from spreading to the north, "The fire was finally checked burning four buildings and the entir contents, creating a total loss of 6,000, Nearly all the mail in the postofice vas de stroyed. The families of George Heupstedt 1L B Wymonth, living over the post- L narrowly e il Following is a list of surance Geo, Hemsted's, stock, S5,000; insuran S, Carpenter, po $500; < ank Steidle 1ee, $400, L E. Wymo: no insurane Julins Kras ness shop, $1,000; Chas. Keys, frame surance. A. W, Clark, damaged by removal, $1,000; fully insure All the above insurance isin the Phonix, of Brooklyn, except that ot Clark, which isin the Home of New Yor ANOTIHI An exceiting tive t the losses and in ceneral store, building and $1,000, toflice fixtures, stamps, stock of harness, $1,200: insu b, household goods, $700: building oceupied by har insuranee, 8600, building, $5003 no in ACCOUNT, sk place here this morn- ing. About 10 ¢ 'k fire was noticed in Jim Steinbangh’s barber shop. The building of wood and the fire spread rapidly to the ini The whole side of (he et honses and con- s of business the meral ste K's general stor ety body expected to the side and - only well organize Tabor on the part of the eitizens saved one-half of the town from the flan: Just noitl of the barber s stood a by g owned by Chiarles | NOW 0c alaw oftice Judg don. My 1,000 for this buildi and had no insuranee upon it, Judge La don suceeeded in saving a part of his hooks and oflice furniture On the south of the barber shop was the har- ness shop, the buildinz owned by J. Krassie, the saloonist, and was insured oy four or five hundred dollars, The harnessmaker carried afine stock, estimated at $2,500 to 33,000, in- sured for 5400 in Phanix insurance eom- pany. His loss will be about $2,000. Next to the harness shop stood the grocery and postofiice. Hi Hempstedt opened up this Dont three months ago, and had it el with fresh groceries, On the arried an insurance of 400, and on the building $600, in Phaenix, His family lived over the store, and were glad to escape with what clothing they Laa on. No stock was saved and Mr. Hempstedt will sustain a los of about The postmasteris Mr, penter, & Hempsteadt® cept the mail that ws registers Judge Langdon stood not from the aloon, and marvel to all that the saved, The snow on the buile and the excellent work of the bucket brigade, which was hurriedly organized, is, perhaps, all that saved it A. W. Clark sustained eonsiderable dam- age, having removed nearly all his goods, 0. W. Roece had his faee seorehed by the flan and Gus Hueek was considerably in- Jured about the head by a falling timber, Geo. Hempstedt was also seorched, The family of Mr. Wymouth lived above the postotlice, and was glad to eseape with barely enou slothing to keep them warm, Bad eno r some, but might have been worse was the general verdict, A Big Blaz Br ATH Tele- gram. |—A fire last night on Fitth street, one block north of the court house, totally de- stroyed six trame business houses and dam- aged several stocks of goods and adjoining buildings. I B. W. Davis, furniture, fully insured in the Springficld of ) \- chusetts, C. I White, building worth $500; S500 in the Springfield, Sithell Br building, worth $1,000; sured 100, in the German Awmerican. K. Kees, boilding, worth 56003 400, in the North American, Schell & Niec tock ot hoots and shoes, worth $6,000; insured for $5,000—%1,500 In the Fireman’s insur; sociation, 1,000 in the Commercial — Union compan and 1,000 in the North British and Mereantile, 1,500 in the Fireman's Fund, Most of their store was saved. ‘The loss will be 81,000, Ge Smith, stoek in meat market, worth S500, insured for $250, in the Commercial Union, W. 1. Cox, building worth 1,200, for #500 in the North Awmerican. John Perhinne, stock of painfers’ goods, worth $5,000, insured for 34,000 in- the Home of New Yor Phenix of Brooklyn ana Harttord Fire, One halt of bis stock was saved, Buchanan Bros, and worth 1,200, no insurance, Sperry & Co., stock in bakery; built of mong othe post Geo. e J. Ky s saloo and banking hou street is tains iliee, st il ¢ upied by than a foot ttagisl i n saloon was mo at Beatrie Toss insured in- insured insured Laselle, building stock M. Hill & Sons, building, worth $200, v destroyad ; 1088 §753 10 Insuranc Klein & Co, and J. H. Alden, across the street from the fire, had several hundied dol- Jars loss in cracking of plate glass from the leat, All buildings except Hill & Son's were totally destroyed. John Terhune's §5,000 was in the sherifi’s hands on attach- went. The fire started in a vacant buildin g, and was undoubtedly incendiary. The row burned was frawe, but when rebuilt must be briek under the ordinance, “The water works proposition will be most sure to carry after lhlse\lx*n«uue with no water. Tho question of voting $50,000 bonds for er works comes up on January 22, The dealers burned out are alveady getting new quarters, while the owners of the ground are angl to rebuild with brick, The total loss will not fall much short of $10,000, Itisthe first serious five that Beatrice has Lad, There was no wind or the damage would Lave been much greater, ll K \‘I)AY MOl MONEY AND TRADE. Omaha Leads Denver, Minneapolis Detroit and Milwankee, .M Jan. 18~The following table, compiled from special dispatehes to the Post, from the leading clearing houses of the United States, giyes the gross clearances for January 16, with percent and inerease eompar ponding week of 1% » week ending jenmanivGs Increase. Decrease, New York Boston Philadelphia Chicago St Lounis Baltimore Cincinnati | Kan Francisco Pittsbu Louisville Milwaukee Kansas City Providence Minneapolis. . Denve Omaha Galveston Detroft Cleveland Tndianap Columbys Memphis Hartford. .. New Haven Peoria Portland Worcester St Joseph ield Review of British Trade, Mark Lane BEx- iew of the British pite the fact that the have been violent storms during the weels, wheat crops have a satisfactory appearanc Trade was eheerless, and values weake es of English wheat during the week, L8 quariers at 208 10d, against 82,8010 quarters at {4 the corresponding week last yea Flour was freely delivered; prices rbuyers. “Themarket for foreign wheats mant, Russian and Indian selling vy oat the lowest rates: South Australia for the first time an exportable The markel for cargoes N es ha heen nall s two FOCS 1 old (one of whiel an red win- ter, the supposed prie ), three carzoes were withdrawn and’ one remained, Frade forward is quiet; several carzoes of litornta old for prompt delivery at (1035 Gl 1ys market wh iprove wlish G lower; Amer cheaper: barley dull. LoNDON, in its weekly uin trade, says: De press, A Dakota Bank Suspends. ‘1s L, Dake, Jan, 18.—~The , the pioneer bank he Ubank depositors issui (lm himent for 3,000, A, M. rris is resident, and O, k. wo former were Northwestern Car ¢ A mortgage ) filod - wEATISE Stone; ot yout $:,000, and Dejosits amount to_about 00 National bank of New Y nd st National of St. Paul are corres- pondents ot the suspended bank. The only member of the firm res iding here is O, B, orsett says the [N ~uH He thinks the heing chietly vault and ik ol 2, SUs- od \\llhllu' ot Stillwate recently Yout =2,000, assetts suflicient to cover thes al estate and the bank safe, lixtures, The Visible Statement, CricAGo, Jan, 18.—The following figures, to be posted on ‘Change here to-morrow, shows the amount in bushels of grain in store in the United States and Canada, January 16, and the i ase or decrease from the ‘pre- ceeding weel 118,183 0,595, 409 Elgin Daw Cuicaao, in speci little firm 1bs at light. Privite ported. Market. —The Inter The butter market -ay, Rezular sales, 17,240 w33lie. Cheese was dully sales enty-ive boxes of skims sold at s of S0 1bs of butter are re; tal sates, 8,505 1bs, -~ A DOCTOR DEPARTS. A Prominent Physician of St. Mysteriously Disapy h St Josern, Mo, Jan, 15.-Dr. S, A, Ri mond, manu facturer of patent mmn ine, has heen missing sinee Thurs 3 o he was. sned by an S adverfising nt 08,000 for b 1of contri e s Eeeently compromised for, 53, which Richwond agreed to pay. On Tuedday Tast he left asick Ded and went to Cly eturning Thursday, but s not been see i of sine Phe theory prevails that he was physically and mentally exhasisted, and probably wai- dered 1ato e Missouri tiver, the ehannel of whielt 15 open in front of thé Franeis depot, where he left the frain, Dil search has been made, but no of Jean be found. His wife is completely trated with grief, and ecan offer no explana- tion, except that her husband was not in lis right mind, and has not been for several weeks, IS business was worth st eral hundred thonsa . and his wite owns oneof the n utifuil homes in St. Joe, with Iy the finest conservatories of any private person in the w N o eti hits yel been taken uvlluxllln-' e maniag i o Ocean’s was a Joseph that he i p SUn ain hiwself, althongh the in- dications are that there is little foundution for such hope. A Young Woonsrock, girl named Collins died here, a posed, very suddenly, A day or . ihe hody wis exhumied, prior “to its remoyal to another burial l]d(‘n Wi the horrinle discovery was made that the girl was buried alive. Her shiroud had been torn into shreds, her Knees drawn up to the ¢hin, one of the arms twisted under her, and her features bore evidence of o dreadful torture. - Cut In Rates to New York, Cinceaco, Jan, 15,—Demoralization in east bound passenge winto the rezular oflices here, t thee of he stronger lin ver their ounter throng! if the custon regular fare, 1o 85 off, could not be induced to 1 Sealpers were selling troni - Killed by Coal Gas, Apnrax, Mich,, Jan, 15.—Thomas Cowpsie, Sr., an old resident of this eity, was found with his wi I!Nlusibh- from gas. Mrs, Cowpsie died at 2 o'clock this morning and Yier tinsband cannot survive, AMrs, Cowpsie was il and it is supposed her husband re moved a tea-kettle {0 mix mmedicine nd forgot to replace the stove hd, - ars of Foul Dealing. Camo, 1L, Jan. 18—John Turley, land agent of the Ilinois Central railroad. left hiere two weeks ago to-day o look at land on the Cairo & St Lowis ralioad. and nothing has been heard of him sinee. Lt is feared hie J has been toully dealt with > | and b ING. J ANUARY 19, 1856, | COMMITTEES lN ‘[llE KITCHEN The Vh.nng Da'lv gations o"[hx Legisl on Their Junketing Trips, ature | SENATOR'S SONS FOR PAGES Vartous Bits of Gossip of Matters Pros- ent and Prospective, of the Session ATerribie Calamity at Creston pecials, The Hawkeye State Solons, Drs Moines, lowa, Jan. 18, The people who have been bored by an of oflice seekers for the last ten days dra sigh of relief, for the logislature has ad jonrned. The solons at the state house who have devoted their mighty energies to the work of organizing and tting themselves in line with the box oflice so they could draw their little stipend, have concluded that they need a rest and so have taken one. adjourn Ing till Monday, the 26th. In the meantime the members who liave had the distinetion of being chosen visit committees to the various ill start ont on thelr junketing trip and find everything pre pared for making them happy. culinary department the varions hospitals and other public institution by no means neglected by those in ¢l h,and thoe visiting brethren may be assured of a full larder and achoice cuisine. Of cour under such ci cumstances how ean they help tinding every- thing lovely and in most admirable oider. So they wiil have a good time, and eome b after the recess and cor e institutions, Speaker Head will [Spectal.] rmy nprove the time to e fect his committees, if, asrumor suggests, he has not alveady made them out. He is so completely in the hands of th v four men who sceured his election that there is not much speculation as to where the chief pla will zo. y have already been appointed, and inall probability were betore his elee- tion, In the senate Licutenant Governor Iull ha nnounced his committees, and the selections oceasion a good deal of unfa- vorable eriticism, There secms to have been an Intention on the part of the president to use the committees t it to reward favorites and pay off some politieal grud Bome of the oldest and strongest members of the senate were given no chairmanships, ox it any, those of inferior committees that amounted to little, The senate so far hasn’t loomed up into publ or very hixh, 1t Tas developed a most alarming tendency o n stism which is deserving of severe rebuke. It chose for retary of the senate, a position of great importance and responsibility, the son of one of the senators, and no one supp that he ever wonld have been eleeted had his father not been wember of the eleetii body. Then the senate decided to ele seven pazes, and for fiye of the seven it chose sons or grandsons of its own members, some of these little ehaps hardiy yet out of bibs and tuelkers. ALl of these boys draw $2a day salary for the entire session, and &0 five sons or grandsons of the men who chose then are given positions which many a poor boy with @ widowed mother to support wonld gladly have obtained it he could. With s voor lads suflering for the neeessa * and begging for work, it is no credit senator to put his well-fed childien in these places which the state pays for, and keep the starving boys out. Both branckes of the legislature so far ave shown little disposition to get after Iroads and other corporations, though they will not get their guns faivly unlimber- ed till later in the session. There are some members in each house who wouldn't have to turn away from their own looking-glass to see ademagogue, They.will howl the loud- est about the aggressions of railroads and feel the meanest it they are forgotten when the passes are distributed. They may make some tronble for the companies, but it is doubtful, for there is a pretty level headed wan in the governor’s chair, Representative W y of Hardin county, who was defeated for the speakership by the snow blockade, is very popular with the membe nd has been ele speaker pro tem for the session. Me will fill the speak- er's chairwhenever Mr, Iead is absent, Senator Whil of Monona county was the late democratic eandidate for nor, has dropped into complete obseurity in the senate, e hasn't the fivst qualific for leadership, and so doesn’t try to but sits as quict as a d on a loz, ng when his name is called for and noes, ator Kuight of Dubuque will probably be the leader of the democrats in the senate, afine lawyer, being state solieitor for the Ilinois Central, and well poised, well bred man, On the republican side Woolson of Henry, Sutton of Marshall, and Hutchinson of Wapello, are the men whose counsel 1l words w. ) farthest in diveeting aflairs, In the house there is such a mob of fellows that it is hard to tell just who will lead, There are at least a dozen of each party who think they have been forordained to that position, but there will be fewer before the session is over, \ln- ible Disaster at Creston Towa, Jan, 15.—[Special mammoth tank in the render- lment of Short & Cooley, at the ston & Quiney stock yards, d for cooking dead animals, exploded at 0 this morning, blowing the entire build ing to atoms, instantly killing two workmen (dly wounding four others,one of whom will die. Hundreds of citizens are visiting the scene of the disas nd the sight of the dead and wounded, mingled with the debris of the building and the cooking mass of dead hogs, 1s most appalling. The killed and wounded arc Nelson Cone, laborer, killed, family. Mitchell Severe, aged 15 Short, a proprictor, ace, and broised, Hiaw I, Fiskins of €l skull fractured, will die, Tom S. Clark, foreman, scalded, John Boyer, workman, arm broken, The works have been in- operation few months and were doing a thriving busi- ness, rendering all dead avimals from the stock yards, The disaster was caused by a defeetive tank, which was warranted to stand 100 pounds pressu. But tifty pounds of steam were on when the explosion oceurred, The building is a complete wieek, The lows i §15,0005 1o inswrance - atal BanGon, Me., Jan, night a fire was discovered in the house of Bery on at Greenbush, fifteen wiles from “Phe flames spread rapidly and Cool- son, in endea ing to resene his son's wife and two children, was canght in the ruins by the falling roof, just as he passed the second child out, and he was burned to death, He was 15 years old. The womun and children i were terribly burned, but will recover, Te: ESTON, T'h o granm ing sl leaving kNled, adiy sealde hout sineer, braised and but a | will ne | played the Ruy Lopez. BISMAKCK AND THE POPE. The German Pridee’'s Letter Creates a Sensatio Jan, 18-A nsation has created by the publeation of a letter from Bismarek to the pope, acknowledging the re- ceipt of the d n of the order of Christ, recently conferred on the German chancellor by his holiness, r commences by ad- dre vl says: “Your kind veatly grati- ficd William, ™ state that papacy poace tirst the idea of ness in the nee o his in the Loxboy. €0 boen Sire' nd decoration have and Emperor on to that th works Bisy X on of | and « 1 and fmpar san arbiter of Vs words ans fo practice the Ge LNy g 1 of th (o me the effect \e prinee attest his and deep: future, mble servant, {o lively n s s marck 1e British Cabmet liie roval speech was o the cabinet te hill overcame th Doings of (he LONDON, Jan. 18 drafted at a meating Lord Randolph Clut mand of asection of the cabinet I whole cocrcion act be 1wewed The ernment will rely upon a division of the crals to seeure the support of its Lrish posals Lord Salishmy has consentod to recoznize China as a nominal suzerune over Burmah on condition that the Pekin government abandon its elaim fo (ribute o Burmah, ad open the Chinese fronticr (o British traders wer cent ad valorem rates; except on opiun, 1o lib- pro- Teetand. on to<lay sent ladstone with a More Cocrcion for Loxvoy, Jan, 18,~The her private secratary to Mr. letter on the Irish situation. It is stated the government will at (he earliest moment introduee a bill in parlia- Cinee hoyeotting a felony, enlarging \tes” powers of summary Jurisdiction, and otherwise strengthening the criminal law. “The introduction of this measure is sidd to have been decided upon at the cabimet council to-days Bditor Stead Released, LoxDoN, Jan. 15— Mr. Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, who, in- November, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for his conneetion with the Elizy Arimstrong ab duction case, was released (rom prison’ fo- day. Stead is well, and will speak to-nizhit at a meeting of his friends and sympathizer He will then take a fortnight's loliday. ounee the League, The St James Gazette 1, to be delivered to Will denounce. the nlawlul organiza- to support a bill league or 1o sup The Queen Will De LoNDoN, Jan. 18 The queen’s spo Tihment on_ T mal Leasue 18 {lon, and sk par il ting atened With Dynamite. 1. 18—\ number of the present ministries have received letters reialiation with dynamite it a in relation to the Irish is nome rule for that country is LoNDox nd Jast ening o policy d, o if Orange Idioey Brrrasy, Jam I8.—A great meeting, amder ile auspices of the Loyal and Pa- Ariotic unioh, was held b o-day. A reco Intion was adopied protesting against the aze by parlidient of any measure gran - lhome ritle fo Ircland. A GLEAM OF HOPE l||<l\ Some of the Buried N Miners are Alive, Winks Bay Jan. 18.—[Special Tele- gran, J—One of the men now at work dig- ging for the entombed miners at Nanticoke came up with the vegular shift Saturday mid- night and reported that while at work he had seen alight ahead of him. 1t ment is true of course some of the wien imyp Nmnl in the mine stll alive, visible only a moment. ‘The men rapped long and loud, but received sponse. It is thought if the men were too weak to respond. It is pos: some of them may have subsisted on mule flesh, and it is extremely probable if €o that they have had plenty of fresh air and water. Al first Davis's story was not believed, bat he was so emphatie that additional men were putto work., ‘The t excitement has been ereated, all the eitizens re- mained up all Sund; ht, watchir hoping. Should eyen one man he iveat would be the most miraculous thing in the hi. Winkes | There 5 10 anticoke o at Wi A [Pros nedition of aff 1 o Nanticoke mine wh re enfombed. The sensational v (0 yesterday that a resuing party brizht light ahead ot them 15 deé- he works of elosing up the gangways s slowly, Nothing has been discov- up to noon to-day of the buried m A considerable stream oF water i3 now ru ning along the .uv“\ 1y where the men ar worl and another vsh of sand is expected n ment. From all appearanees this nmorni 1'be weelks betore the hodies of the men are 1 L il they are ever e ered. 1tis possibte, however, that if the vi tims were canght in (e ganzway and oy whelmed by the flood, their hodics may be i ved any time, 15 HER BOLLE nu Boat TED. Tow Smashed mall i Prerspuna, P, Jan, the tow-hoal Moo this morning near the Si on the Allegheny viver. pl demolished. The pilot s Tstanily Killed, i e thew 11 i i ) fatally injured, ‘e batinee of ci nhurt mian had up when s clission was An Ohio ver teenth s The b it Joell Evans the crew s just gived fon ¢ The con- and the boat was nt asunder, the nts heing seattered five hundred yards, Pilot Davies was blown into the rives and the hody has not vet been recovered, Fireman Hizgins was blown on toavaft and itis thouzht his injurics are fatal, Capt. Evans was bhadly hort, but will probubly recover, Others we inte the viver and regencd uninjured of the explosion is not kno thouglit the feed pipes clozged with ice Doilers |numhll’ vy exploded. i was owied by Capt. Evans fir and The and valued - Fourth Game of the Oness Contest. New Ye Jan, s, —The fourth zame of chiess between Messes, Steinitz and Ziclier- tovt was played to-dav, Steiniiz havingewon one ganie aid Zickertont two, great interest was manifested to know wih 1 win to- day. Jditors D ., Pulitze o1 tendorfer were b Sinvited among the chess experts present in MeKenzieand Messr 1 and Lyons, It 2305 . when ntestants began game, Steinitz knights wambit, At irty-ninth move Steinitz 1 of game heing three and one the o the'end of the't sined, the - The Highbind s 15.—The lars ever present in the reuit eourt tint conrt this morning to witness the ing trial of the Chinese Highbing Chinese inhabitants of this city were pr in large numbers, The opposing fact Hong-Kongites and Cantoniese e sitions o opposite sides of the ‘ WOXIING Session was oecupl opentng proceedings and wranglii posing counsel over some techn {he law, A recess wes taken at 1 When i1 is expected the fabing of testiviony s oon Trial, crowd 1 will bigtu, tended | NUMBER I‘*O CONGRESS AND COMMERCE, Report of the Onllom Committee on Raile road Transportation. CHIEF CAUSE OF COMPLAINT, Unjust Discrimination Demands Leoge islative Limitations Favo Wa- terways and a: National Come mission—The Cullom Bill, The Transportation Question. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 The report of the teommittee of he senate upon inter- state railroad transportation, o accompany the Cullom inter-state oree bill intro- duced to-day, forms a printed volnme of 216 pages. 1t says the ontlook is not good for the United States to ship breadstuffs in une limited quantities thronghont the civilized world, and the principal markets both for bread and weats must | forth be sought at home, [n its discussion of the power of congress to regalate commeree, the commits tee reviews exhaustively the declarations of the United States supreme court on the subject. Unjust diserimination, it says, is the chief cause of complaint acainst the managenient of railroads in the eotnduct of their bisin and gives vise fomuch o the pressure i ress tor a regulative limitat railroad companies do not recognize as they should the fact that they sustain a different relation to the public from persons engaged n ordinary business enterprises, The ra rond corporations necessarily v same obligations to deal fairly with all citizons, withont state itself, "The subject of competition between waters sand railroads is diseussed briefly, and conclusion is reached that water most effcctive regulators of rairoad and the improvement ot our national ressity, Of the Hennepin canal the commitiee says: The commerce of the nation would deriye fresh and eontmued advantages from the construetion of this e Che, T trans- portation be n Chic nd the scaboard, whe committee says, is assured by a line of free water commnm fon open throngh the great lakes, the Erie canal and the Huason, and no method has be wgested by whic the controlting inflicnee of that water con petition could be extended over o Wide, pop- ulows and productive a territory and also moderate an expense, as by the construe of this short canal of iy four mile: which would give to the people of - the uppe Mississippi livect water transit con- nection wi hall the state of the Atlantie seaboard, and with Eur The necessity of this improvement is made mora urgent 1 the ligh and oppressive i freight pre- vailing between the grain producing states of the northiwest and Chicnto, as compared with the ehar made between that point the Atlanti thy sonstruetion of is eanal. These chia would be flly veduced, and the crain producing state wotlil be wiven that elicap transit which has now beeome necessary to enable them to suceessfully their surplus produets in the foreizn market, The commitiee formulat follows: "The public ulation of the bisine comm and equitably favoritisim, as the at e s conclusions interest demands of transpor tation, in the absenee of such regulation the carrier is actually the and final arbiter upon all disputed questions that arise b tween the shipper and carrier as to whethe rates are rcasonable or an unjust discrim- infition has been practiecd. It i3 the duty of congress to undertake the regulation of the business of tran use of g mitted abuses in uent and of acknowledged dis s sons and plices tions. National legislation to remedy the evils complamed of, beeause the operations of the transportation system o for the wost part beyond the jurisdietion the states, and until congress acts, not subjeet to any governmental control in the Jublic inferest, and becatse the business of ansportation §s essentiallly of a nature that requires a uniform system” andmethod of vegulation, which th jonal authority can alone preseribe. Phe failure of congress to actacts as an exense tor the attempts made by the railroads to regulate the commerce of the country in their own W andd Th thej own intereits by whatever combinations an methods re able 1o put into operation. — That a problem ~ of sue magnitude, importance and intrieacy ean ho summarily solved by any master )-?ml«- ot legistive wisdom, is, The commlite . he- yond the bounds of reasonable belief,” That tailroads, unaided or unrestrained, ummommu, work out its solat judiging from antot rensonably | y solution of” i secured withont the aid of wise committeo does not believe, 10 commitlen declar licity as the hest renedy for unjust diserimination, and ree- ommends the posting of rates under the di- rection of a commission. The concluding chapter embodies a recom- mendation for ihe establishment of a na- tional commission to enf the leg- islation which the committee recomends, sole Provisions of the Cullom Bill. WaASHINGTON, Jan, 18—The following i5 @ brief synopsis of the billtto regu ale commerce, reported from the senate ses lectcommitfee upon inter-state wailvoad trangs portation tolay by Senator Cullom After specitying the « rather the kinds of v lations claving that T seetion Hmhnpmhvh‘l eVery vari just disevimination: (o preseribe penalties tieretore ind to preserib s, or e the i t thatall carrie lities for the intewhs with conneeting — ling proliibition of o greater chi 1o Jonger distange it can bl H ( y vrier il el njiist erimitis oy, ever, i special e ized by Diniission 1o charze o s ¥ ot for longer than for shorter distances for the transportation of pus-ensers and - prop- ity Anotlier seetion * equires. riers subject to the the act to tile their ta with aninter-tate ¢ and provides they shall be posted o7 others published, but ~ I it to be o de mined by the. wission the man- nerof - publication and the places atand between which rates shall be pib- lished. Provision is wade for enforcing the yequitenents of the commission in- ihese Tos) throwgh the courts, and for the wain {the rate that' may be this publishied. Provision is also mide for tho aprointment by the president of five conis- stoners, to be contirmed by the senate, the comissioners frst appointed to continte in oftiee for the term of two, three, font, iive and six vears respectively, heginuiiing tie tivst day of July next, not more than ihiee of which “siill Do of tho same political party, The salary of = each 1 | Siouer is to be” $7,500 per W Several seetions are deévoted 1o preseribin the duties of the conmissioners and e inan ner i which compliints are to be investi- gated and prose is dnstitated under its | direetion when fonnd noesssary. horter when pelked, ale oftice | County Treg Niw CA<1L County Treasurer Hartman's blown n this morni thiey and 520 in n £10, and 34,500 in county warr notes were the personal | Freasurer Shatfer, payable of no value to any othe 1 just hie foners, hut s treastrer the W “ouy Iy cold n wiis ack by notes The uty about 2 W in 5 taken ol 1 Lis order, and peison. Tl Wi | by counly D 1 corded wthile wrly ather For Yo-day. Varey--Faie weather; gen- Lin extrene noithon portions by slowly tizing temperalue; perth | orly winds,