Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1886, Page 1

OMAHA! DAILY BEE FIFTEENTH YEAR, ESCAPED A NOB'S VENGEANCE A Brutal Ravisher at Long Pine Barely Bavea From Lynching. ASSAULTS A YOUTHFUL GIRL. Latest Information From the Scene of the Terrible Tragedy at Oakland — Politics at Nebraska Oity. Bight-Year-01d G Loxo Pisg, Neb, M Telegram.]—At 2 o’clock this afterno unknown tramp outraged the 8-y daughter of John Wilkins, a resident of this The whole town turned out and en- a lunt for the brute, He was captured during the afternoon miles from town and returned to the place justabout dark, e was brought before the outraged girl and she positively identificd him as her assailant. He was immediately brought before J. Cowrtright, justice of the peace, for prelimi- nary hearing. Excitement ran high. The people began to gather in and around the court room until the number reached at least 800. Loud threats were made of lynching and preparations were under way to put them into exceution, The mvisher was remanded to the county Jail to await trial for his eri The consta- ble who had him in charge, sceing it was im- possible for him to protect his prisoner alone, called for assistanee, and thirty men were sworn in as special officers, John Wilkins, the father of the ou‘raged child, made o desperate effort to shoot the prisoner, but was kept buck after a hard fight by the constable and his deputies. 1t was still daylight and the excitement in- creased with every passing moment. 1t was decided to board the first train and take the prisoner to Ainsworth, The evening pas- senger train was alimost due. Durkness was gathering fast and the officers feared it they did not reach the depot before the night set in the man would be taken from them and hanged to the most convenient limb, ‘The rapist was plag in the center of the thirty deputies, with drawn revolvers, and marched to the depot platform. Sev successful attempts were made to break the cordon of guards surrounding him but with- out success. Among the crowd were several experts in the use of lariats and several futile attempts were made to throw ropes over the heads of the deputies, about the head and neck of the prisoner and choke him in the midst of his protectors. The depot platform was reached and again and again lariats went whizzing through the air, but each time missed the object of their mission. The crowd could have taken the prisoner in a minute if they desired to create a conflict with his protectors. They were cool enough not to preeipitate a fight that would result in the shedding ot innocent blood. ‘The train arrived and the brutal ravisher was hustled on boaid, pale, blanched and ex- pecting that each moment the erowd would close in and take him, A desperate attempt was made to secure him. Forty men followed the guards but were driven back. As qu aspossible the train pulled out and the brute was finally safely landed in the county jail at Ainsworth, The most remarkable feature of the affair is the successful work of the constable and his deputies in saving their man from the infuriated crowd of people. The erime was # most brutal one. Nothing is known of the criminal or hus previous history. rl Outraged. reh 23, — [Special News After the Battle, OAKLAND, Neb., March 25,—[Special Tele- gram.)—Itis now n known fact that tne shooting of HL C. Steadman Saturday morn- ose from a dispute with Wright over for three days labor, Steadman claiming according to his contract with the mur- derer he was only to board him and his pony for the work, Wright had been up all the night before at a dance, He carried his re- volver with im wherever he went, That night he was scen counting his cartridges and is known to have had nienty-five besides the chiambers of bis revolyerall loaded. This what ammunition he had when he starte his death trip after committing the cold- blooded murder of Steadiman. Before he shot Steadman lie had bis pony saddled ready to start, Yesterday morning, when o man by the name ot Whitcomb awoke, he discovered one of his legs was 5o stiff he could not use it, andsto his astonishment he found he had been shot in the member, He now recolleets feeling a sensation in the spot when the rush was made on the barn while it was burning. It was done by a revolvér he carried in his own pock calibre. ‘The ball has been probed for but not found yet. He was sent 10 his home at Lyons where the bullet will be removed. No serious results ave feared in Lis case. During the slege several xifles, revolvers, overconts, and other valuable articles of wear- ing apparel were lost or stolen, 1t I gen- crally customary for the eitizens to follow the lead of the sherift when an emergency de- wands their assistance, but in this case it ap- pears the citizens led the sheriff in every at- Cmade on the murderer’s retieat, This can be accounted for by the intensely bitter feeling of the crowd against Wright, Iis dislodgement canie 50 slow when lie’ was ap- parently within their grasp that they could not be prevented from placing themselyes in the forefront of danger, 1t was in this way that Edgar Everett received his death wound, George Stursis was the only man near Everett when he received the fatal bullet. He fell into Sturgis’ arms and had to be carvied from the field, About thirty-five cartridges were found in the ruins after the five enabled a thorough search to be made. ‘They had not been dis- wod but simply exploded under the infiu- ence of the heat. Tho charced remalns of the wurderer were drawn from the oat pile into whicli, weak and exhausted, he had crvwled to escape the flames which were rapidly clos- g inaround him, The right hand held his revolver with a firm grip, the left one being Lentirely burned off. Johnson's loss cannot be deiinitely esti- mated. His bara, with contents, is com- pletely destroyed. His dwelling is considera bly damaged, and his farm and fine orchard completely ruined, “The thanks of the citizens of Burt county are certainly d ue Superintendent MeCabe of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railway for bis kindne fuinishing a special train to send to 1 for assist- ance, The hardware dealers of Oakland also showed a generous spirit in an hour of need. Firearws were scarce—not half enough to supply the number who joined in the pursuit could bo secuired from private sources. Our werchiants placed all the vifles, guns revoly- s and amuinition they had at the disposal ot those who, wished 1o Join in the chase. ar Everett is still alive but slowly sink- of the Imigs bus set i, wewentarily vxpected, r the Other Fellows. {Special | Pelegrau |—=The dewerats of tuis city took OMAHA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAROIL 24, 1836, every one by surprise thisafternoon by ad- journing their convention for the nomination of city officers over without inaking any nomination until next Saturday—not before, however. giving the Sage of Arbor Lodge a little political thrust by electing 8. H. Cal- houn as their chairman. It is thought they wanted to see what the other fellows are “oing to do before selecting their men, The prohibitionists in convention to-night nom- inated J. W. Waldsmith for mayor. A Naval Officer Rilled. WAKEFIELD, Neb., March 23.—-Tarry Elseffer, an officer of the United States navy, while visiting his brother here, was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun Sunday. The gun lay in the bottom of a wagon in which he was riding, and while lifting it, muzzle foremost, it was discharged, the bullet striking lim in the neck. Death was instantaneous, The Committee At Their Duty. Corustns, Neb., March 23— [Special Tele- gram.|—The committee to confer with the Northwestern — Messrs, Jaegel, Kramer, Glack and Kavanaugh—together with McFar- land and Cowdery, go to-day to confer with P. E. Hall of that road in regard to an exten- sion from Leigh or Scribner to Columbus. Smashed His Hand. OAKLAND, Neb., March 28,—|Special Tele- gram.|—George Bowker, while coupling cars here this morning, got his hand badly smashed. The wound was dressed, but it is feared mnputation will be necessary, The People Are Jubilant, 0'Coxyon, Neb,, March 23.—[Special Tele- gram. |=Union Pacific surveyors reached this voint yesterday. This s to be the terminus of the line, and the citizens of O'Connor are consequently jubilant. S BELL'S DISPUTED PATENTS, The Papers Filed In the ment's Case at Columb CoruvauUs, Ohio, Mareh 2.—District At- torney Kumler of Cincinnati this afternoon filed in the United States court in this city the government papers to test the validity of the Bell tefephone patents, the defendants named inthe petition being the American Bell Telephonecompany, a corporation under the Inws of Massachisetts: the Central Union company, under the laws ot 1llinois; the Irie Telephone and ‘Pelegraph _company, under the laws of Massach the Central Distrietund Printing company,under the of Penusylyania the Cleveland Telephone company, City and Suburban Telephone com- pany, Union 'Telephone company, and Buck- eye Telephone company, under ilie laws of Oliio; and Alexander Grahaw Bell, "The af torneys for the government are Solicitor General — Goode, Distriet Attorne Kumler, Allen G. Thurman, Grosvenor P, Lowry, Hlunton & Chandler, ‘and Chase Whitinan, of the special counsel. A process was issued direeting appearance by May 1 and requiring that answer be filed o b fore June 1. The pe with the panying exhibits, makes about seventy-five pages of pamphiet printed matter. ~ The points were made public in_the press some days ago,froma copy oblained surreptitionsly, One of the attorneys states that the abstract contains the substauce of all the allegations made. Taylor & Taylor have been retained as local counsel by the defendants. It is understood that the first question to be con- sidered in connection with the case will bo of jurisdiction. Gov, £ Attempted Suicide, St. Louts, March 23.—The Post Dispateh’s Springtield special states that the cireuit court of that city, before which the Graham case is now being tried, adjourned shortly af- ter the opening this morning on account of the serious illness of Mrs. Molloy, making it impossible for her to attend court. 1t is stat- ed upon good authority, although been denied, that Mrs. Molloy’s illness is caus- ed by 'an attempt’ to commlt suicide by taking poison. Sho was_seized shortly before the time for opening of court with a violent fit of vomiting, and physicans were immediately sum- moned, who administered an emetic which slightly relieved her, Ier condition at noon was considered precarious, S Pork Packed in the West. CINCINNATL, March 23.—The Price Cur- rent has nearly completed its annual report of pork packing in the United States for the past vear. It will show the following in re- gard to packing in the west trom November 1'to March 1: t has 1885-86, 188185, Number of hogs packed..6, 6,160, © gross weight g e yield of lard, 1 Average cost, 100 Ibs, ... R esterday’s Cabinet Session. WASHINGTON, March 23, —To-day’s session of the cabinet was devoted to the consider- ation of measures designed to secure a more rigid enforcement of the Chinese restriction ct, particularly with referenceto preventing the landing of Chinese laborers on fraudu- lent certificates. Another question consid- cred by the cabinet was in relation to the af- fairs of the Union Pacific Railway compan and the steps necessary to protect the goy- crnment’s interests therein, - New York Dry Goods Review, NEw Youk, March 23, —Exports of domes- tic cottons the past week were 6,063 phgs, valued at § making the total for the expired portion of the year compared with 45,173 pkgs the same time last year and 35591 pkes i 1551, As usual, to Tuesday the demand has been very light, the quiet of the day being increased by the con- servative takings of all markets, in conse- quence of the Tasor strikes distirbing the transportation of freight, S They'll Never Quar INDIANAVOLIS, Maren 25.—At Hagers- town, Wayne county, tuis afternoon, N. S, Bates and wife quarrelled, and the woman struck Bates with an axe handle. He wrested the weapon from her, struck her a blow with it, and then made a slash at her with a pockét knife, nearly beheading her, “The wouan il o the floor'dead. iales was rested, ol Again, Four Babies at Once. EVANSVILLE, Ind, March 25.—A special trom Jasper, 1nd., says that the wite of Hlen- 1y Conrad, & prominent farmer, gave birth last Friday to four living ehildren, All were well developed, and of medium iz, One died three days after its birth, the others a {ow hours sfter, Nominations Favorably Reported, WAsIHINGTON, Mareh 0 senate com- ‘mittee on tinance to-day decided to revort fa- vorably the nominations of several inte revenue colleetors in yespeet to whose pr ssors Seeretary Manning says no_ char reilecting upon iheir oflicial or moral ¢ ter are pending. e ulled Down the Cincaco, Mareh 25, —The Inter Ocean's Cooperstown, Dk, special says: Tho Bank of Cooperstown suspended to<day, owing 1o the recent failure ot th nhany Eleyator company. ‘lhiere were no ve vy de- positors, Tl county teasur the baw March 24.-The safe in wnaan was blown open A i notes, $10,000 in reg- fste and $120 {n cash stalen. T alsy rovbed, Weathier Kor To-Day, MissoURE VALLEY - Fuir weathier in southe erv portion ; local raius in northern portions winds varigble; slightly warmes in southern portion; colder Iu uorthern portion, MORRISON A FLAT FAILURE. Consternation Abounds Among the Tariff Reformers at Washington, HIS BILL MAY BE ABANDONED. A Settler's Pointed Prayer For a Veto —Rumors of a Strike by Govern- ment Lawyers—Patents to Western Inventors, Dead Lock on Morrison's Bll WastINGToN, March #5.—|Special Tele- gram.]—There is but one subject for com- ment in congressional circles to-night. It is the consternation abounding among the taviff reformers. Work upon the Morrison bill was practically suspended last week, when it was stated by the friends of the measure who are mewbers of the ommittee on ways and means that nothing would be done tili_an understanding or compromise was effected by the majority in the house. It was then re- ported that a large portion of the southern delegations would opposo the measure, on ac- count of its provisions in relation to metals. 1t was proposed that the section effecting iron ore should be stricken out and free wool in- serted. At the meeting of the committee on ways and neans to-day an effort was made to renew work on the bill with a view to this amendment, but a dead- lock ensued and it was immediately aban- doned. Mr. Morrison Is “all broke up” and discouraged at the failure to please a majority. His want of knowledge on the subject and Inck of tact in treating the dele- gations who lately appeared before the com- mittee have done muchi to cause the failure of this Dill in its present shape, but till some one takes liold of the matter who can handle 1t rightly and judiciously, Mr. Morrison will be allowed to amuse himself by thinking he is an authority on #1e tarift question. ‘'he outcome cannot be safely predicted. Many think it will be abandoned altogethe A SETTLER'S POINTED PETITION. Senator Wilson presented in the senate to- day a petition from W. W, Clarke of Boone county, fowa, which was so pointed in refer- ence to the president’s veto of the bill to quict the title to settlers on the Des Moines river lands that it was ordered printed in the Record. It says: “After three years of ser- vice for the government in the late war, I settled on a tract of the Des Moines river lands, believing then, as now, that the title i5in the United States according to the Har- ney settlement, which was approved by dhe government and the state. 'This theory has been sustained by repeated memorials tocon- gress asking for asettlement of this title: also, ports of committees, with one exception, the Forty-fifth congress, Twice the action of the house and once the senate have endorsed it previous to the Forty-ninth con- gress, and now, after eight years of struggle, your honorable bodies having passed the sen- ate bill to quiet the title of the settlers on the Des Moines river lands in the state of Towa and for other purposes, weare defeated by a veto of the president. Believing that the case was misrepresented to him, for no person in his position could afford to veto such a just measure had he known the facts, your petitioner earnestly prays that your honorable bodies will pass the bill over the veto, let the ease go to the courts as provided in the bill, and scttle the title to the homes of over a thousand families of sturdy, hardworking persons, hundreds of whom hold patents, pre-emption and home- stead papers. Nothing short of this will ever settle the title. We aresatisfied to abide by the decision of the highest tribunal, and hope that you will pass this and let it go there, TRIC LAWYERS MAY STRIKE, unusual proceeding has already taken place in the forthcoming telephone suit to be instituted by the government, at Columbus, Ohio. All the government attor- neys, numbering balf a dozen, excepting Judge Thurman, have applicd to Attorney General Garland for an advance of $1,000 each on their prospective salaries, The torney general referred them to the secretary of the treasury, and he has returned their bills unpaid and unsigned, 1is excuse for this is that there is no appropriation yet for this suit, and no fund out of which to pay the legal gentlemen, The remun- cration for the attorneys has not yet veen fixed, but no objection was made’ to their receiving this advance if it could have been provided for. Thereis a nervousness at the department of justice through appre hension that the lawyers may strike and re fuse to £o to Columbus unless they get an advance and some kind of an assurance about the magnitude of their pay. ‘Uhere is a rumor that the attorney general intends to put up his Pan Electice stock as collateral for the poor lawyers, PATENTS TO WESTERN INVENTORS, Patents were issued to the following to. Lester H, Gear, Mentor, lowa, mouse Wlllizm E, George and M. Harney lan, Towa, stock wagon; Charles C. Gil- man, Eldora, lowa, (ten) construction of wooden buildings, fire proof floor pavement, fire proof post and columm, fire proof floor and ceiling, outer wall of build- ings, roof, floor, arch, construction of firo proof floors and cellings, and electri- cal subway; Harlan Hodges, Neola, Iowa, grain weighing and delivering apparatus; E. A. Harnbast, Oskaloosa, Iowa, billiard table leveler; Frederick E. Richardson Uniontown, Towa, washing wachine; John M. Shuck, Des Moines, Towa, beo hive; Har- ver M. Wilson, Fullerton, Neb., pipe wrench; James K, Woodward, Seward, Neb., eleetrie belt, PERSONAL AND POSTAL. M. M. Ham of Dubuque, lowa, is city. o The attorney general of lowa is here to represent the settlers in securing passage over the president’s veto of the bill quieting the title to the Des Moines river lands. 8. Herbert James has been commissioned postmaster at Jolley, lowa. A postoftice has been established at Butka, Loup county, Neb., and Frank Butka ap- pointed postmaster, Livingston L, Wagers has been commis- sioned postmaster at Lawbert, and Liplaim J, Lefler at Bliss, Neb. THE CAMPBELL-WEAVER CONTEST, “The house committee on elections has fixed upon & time when an effort will be made to disposo of the Campbell-Weaver contested vlection from the Sixth awstrict of lowa, It will be called up next Monday if opportunity ifers. 1f not on that day, then on Thursday of next we It is believed by many that a \“A,mn, report will be rendered for Camp- in the HOW NEWSPAPERS ARE BLED., A Kausas City Journalist Exposes the Western Union. WAsHINGTON, March 23.—Tlie house com- mittee on postoflices and post roads, conduct- ing the telegraph Investigation, to-day began its lnguiry coucerning the alleged attewpts of the Western Union ‘Telegraph company to coerce newspapers i the western states into waking exclusive contracts, ete. E. C. Ayers appeared in behalf of the Kansas City Tines aud Kausas City Journal, aud submit- ted a statemeut by J. A. Mann, secretary and bustuess munager of the Journal, together with a letter from Morrison Mumford, pro- prictor of the Times, and iseveral communi- cations that had passed between the latter and the Western Union managers relative to the news contracts of the Times. Mann's statement was read to the committee. Its principal points are substantially as follows; Through_the course of years the new papers of Kansas City haye been at the mercy of the Western Union Telegraph company, With the consolidation of that company and the American Union and Mutual Union companics, some five years since, the extreme measures characteristic of the Western Union have increased. ‘Thelr form of con- tract had contained a eianse or clauses bind- ing our papers to use the Western Union lines and 1o others under penaities and pro- visions designated to bind the party of the pnd part unalterably to the useof Western nion_service. The press of Kansas City either had to sucenmb for want of adequate acilities ot yield to the Western Union, It is believed with good reason by the writer that nota single rate agrecment has been made by any paper with this eompany in five years except under protest, and that in every one of the contracts the pub- lisher ~signed away his right to fair competition, Spies’ in somo instances were employed to follow. ny messengers to learn the sources from which” matter got to us, There were clauses in sundry other contracts by which we were Leld, provided all others failed. The delivery of ‘even our regular press report was threatened to be withheld by the Western Union if we failed to give the Western Union all our special business, 'This jeopardized the foundation of our telegraphic service. We had violated repugnant contracts only after long and veary efforts to first obtain a fair measure of lands of the Wesiern Union comy; \We were threatened that unless we signed those contracts we should be placed upon a higher scaleof special rat ractically to ruin us—notwithstanding tho prohibitory “clauses in the contracts. Of course we signed, for we dared not risk our business, No open contracts were ever al- lowed to'be made, and we were always con- fronted with iron-clad tixtures, binding us to oycott all other lin, "The writer then refers to the change in_the special arrangements of his paper, which necessitates a_ largely inereased telégraphic service, application to which end was made to the Western Union company, by which matter was delayed, endangering the inter- psts of the paper, ~ When the company finally responded to' thie application it was at higher rate than the contract then in force specitied, and from that date the rate on all our specials they advanced fifty per cent, We eannot legaily claim that we have not iolated these contracts, but when occasion ands that we carry an_inereased amount scraphic matter, ns is the custom, we expeet to get better rates than for general service, But in every ecase the \#l'&ll’ln Union has had service first offered them st preferred nd then they had always stood “‘on the letter of thebond.” It is man- itest that some remedy is required to restrain the rapacity of these consolidated corpora- tions, and that the protecting {u)\\'\-r of the government must step ‘in _and perform the telegraphic service of the country just as it does the mail service. Mr. Ayers said that the purpose of the Kan- sas City” newspapers was. simply to inform the coinmittee of their existing rélations with the telegraph company, and if it thought the matter of suflicient importance the proprie tors would come to Washington to verify their statements. He requested that the pa- pers be returned, gs they would be used in a law suit to be instituted against the Western Union company. Mr. Somerville,'6f New York, superintend- ent of the press department of ' the Western Union company, u-plll‘\w A - state ment read by Mr. Avers” He said that the Western Union had two special rates—one Open to every newspaper, and the other 33 ver cent Jower to papers’ that signed agree- ments to send all their news over the West- ern Union wires, - Both of the Kansas City papers had signed thatagreement voluntari- Iy, and both had_brokén"it. The Western Uhion had simply notified them that the con- trac would be abrogated if the, persisted in breaking the acreement by send- ing their news over the other lines, The pa- pers had signed the agrecment to get the ad- vantage of reduced rates. The Western Union does not collect news, and is entirely distinet from and disconnected with the Asso- cinted press or the Western Associated press, It was simply the transmitter of news, in ases of ynusual occurrences, such as the death of the president, when' the company sent bulletins as a puplie service without pa In general elections the Western Union man- age were allowed to collect returns in places where there was no regular press agent. FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS, Senate. W AsuINGTON, March 23 day passed the bill graitine $2,000 per year to the Hancock At10:50 the pending order was laid aside and on motion of Mr. Van Wyck the senate took up and passed the bill to confirm entries heretofore made upon publie Jands in accord- ance with the rulings of the land oflice in ime the entries were made, unfinished business, being the ju- ry committee resolutions, was then taken up, and Mr. Jackson procecded to ad- dress the senate in opposition to them. Mr o followed Mr. Jackson, ilso in opposition to the majority report, e con- tended that the power of removal was vested in the president alone, Mr, George had been ccustomed to regard the senate as the high ouncil in which the rights and_interests of the states were maintained, Since he had been he had seen little to impair that view but mueh to confirm it. When Mr. George had finished Mr, Morgan obtained the tlo id the senate adjourned. he senate to pension of widow of General House, WASIINGTON, Mareh 23.—In tho morning hour the house passed the Fourth of July claims bill, The amount involved is $235,200, A number of bills were introduced at the expiration of the morning session, My, Burns of Missouri submitted a eonfer- ence report on the urgent deficiency bill, SECRETARY MANNING ILL. A Sudden But Not Dangerous of Vertigo, March =3, — Rumors y that Secregry Mauning serlously il The rumors grew out of the t that the secretary was taken to his regidence in a carringe and assisted up the steps, The facts are the secretary was seized with vertizo on his return to his ofiice fiom the cabinar meeting, le had been working - all day - with- out any mnourishment: and was feeling very weak. He walked up two flichts or stairs, and on reaching the top was attacked with vertigo and paly fell and partly sat down. Hissudden illness alaued Lis friends and he taken home, His mind was per- fetly clear and lie liad the free use of wll his Timbs and gave a very cleéar aceount of every- thing that occurred: ~ Two or three hour affer his attack he had improved yery nuch, At midnight Dr, Lineoln, who had just lefi the secretary’s bedside, said that Mauning was holding his own, and slightly improved since making his last visit. The secretary’s illness, Dr, Lincoln says, was cansed ky pros- tration' frow overwork. 1le has been work- ing very hard and had a great wany things on his mind lately, and the result was this pros. tration. In spite of the hopeful view of the case taken by Dr. Lincoln, some of the friends of the seerctary are exceedingly anxious, and consider his condition quite serions. ttack WASHINGTC afloat to. were was The Militia Appropriation. WASHINGTON, March 23.—Representative Forney has been directed by the house com- mittee on militia to report fayorably the sen- ate bill increasiug the aunual appropriation for wilitia, but the committee has reduced the amount to $400,00 per annum. Several members of the commuiittee, while favoring the report, when the bill is reached in the house, will endeayor to have the awount restored to £600,000, as provided for iu the senate bill The commitiee also directed Mr. Forney to report favorably the bill introduced by Mr. Cox, authorizing the_secretary of war, upon application of the governors { states’to detail army officers 1o instruct the wilitia iuwili- tary tactics. WOOLSACKS FOR FORTY-THREE The Bill For Reorganizing the Courts of | Towa Passes the House, THE DISTRICTS AND JUDGES. Oarson's Bill to Punish Drunkards— ong Opposition to Senator Knight's Labor Measure— The lowa Legislature, Morxes, Towa, March 95, gram, |—The bill reorganizing the dis- trict courts, which passed the house to-lay, abolishes the circuit courts, redistricts the state, and assigns judges to the distriets in proportion to the amount of work consid- ered probable. Thereare to be eighteen dis- tricts according to the bill, with the follow- ing number of judges allowed each: First District — Includes Lee and Moines counties, two judges. Second District—Laicas, Monroe, Wapello, Jefferson, Henry, Davis, Van Buren and Appanoose, three judges. Third District — Wayne, Deeatur, Union, Ringgold, Taylor, Adams, Montzomery, Mills and Fremont, judges, Fourth Distriet—Cherokee, O'Brien, Osce- ola, Lyon, Sionx, Plymouth, Woodbury and Monona, three judg Fifth District — Dallas, Guthrie, Adair, Madison, Warren and Marion, two judges, Sixth District—Jasper, Poweshick, Mahas- ka, Keokuk, Washington and Louisa, three judges. Seventh Judges. Eighth Distri judge. Ninth District—Muscatine, Scott, Clinton and Jackson, three judges. “Tenth District—Dubuque, Delaware, Buch- anan, Grundy and Blackhawk, two judg Eleventh District—Marshall, Story, Boone, Webster, Hardin, Hamilton, Franklin, Wright and Humboldt, three judges. Tywelfth Distriet—Clayton, Allamakee, Fay- ette, Wineshick, Howard and Chickasayw, two judge Thirteenth District—Bremer, Butler, Floyd, Mitchell, Worth and Cerro Gordo, two Judges. Fourteenth District—W innebago, Hancock, Buena Vista, Clay, Palo Alto, Kossuth, Po- cahontas, Emmett and Dickinson, two Judges. Fifteenth District—Pottawattamie, Cass, Shelby, Anderson and Harrison, two judges, Sixteenth Dist oun, Crawford, Carroll, Green, Ida and Sac, two judges, Seventeenth District—Tama and Benton, one judge. Eighteenth District—Jones, Cedar and Linn, two judges. “The district court hereafter is to have juris diction of all nise prius business, lncluding probate matters, TIE DRINKER AS BAD AS THY SELLER. The Carson bill, passed by the senate to- day, is intended to suppress intemperance by Des lark, Page, three District — Polk county, three ~Johnson and lowa, onc punishing drunkenness severely. Senator Carson said that he did not believe in put- ting all the blame and punishment upon the saloon-keeper and allowing men to get drunk and violate the law and go unpunished. So his bill proposes to make the drunkard amenable as well as the man who makes him 0. It provides that any person foun.t in an intoxicated condition can be arrested by any peace oflicer without a warrant, and be fined for the first offense £10 and costs, or in default, five days’ imprisonment; for the sccond offense, 525 and costs, or ten days in jail; and for the third offense, he doubles the preceding. It also provides that a portion of the npenalty may be paid Dby working upon the strcets for the im- provement of highways, The general driftof thebill is to provide very severe penalties for drunkenness, increasing in severity with cach additional offense, the author of the bill holding that if men wer punished for the effect of drinking they would not be so likely to drink. The ofiicer before whom a person arrested for intox tion is tried may remit the p-nalty in the f offense, but in 1o other, and_ order thy oner's discharge upon his giving infors under oath stating when, where, and of whom he purchased or received the liquor which produced the intoxication, KNIGHT'S LABOR BILL, The Knight biil for the better careand protection of persons employed in factories and workshops was stubbornly fought in the senate to-day. It was pushed by its author, Knight of Dubuque, but opposed by a major- ity of the senate, The bill is chiefly objee- tionable {o manufacturers and other empioy- ers of labor from one scetion, which pro- vides that they shall bo held respon- sible for damages for every a dent to ome of their workmen through the carclessness of a fellow work man. Manufacturers from all over the state have sent In protests against passing the bill, many of them saying that if the bill was passed they would remove from the state, To-night & meeting was held here of manu- facturers and business men from several cities in the state, representing in their own capl- tal cieven millions, to take action to se- cure the defeat of the DIl Sever- I of those representing very larze busi- ness interests say they would mot put thelr business in jeopardy it this billshould pass, but would sell out or remove to another state, ‘Phe fight in the senate over the bill to- day took on a political character, the demo- crats all secking to make a bid tor the lubor vote by supporting it, and the republicans, recognizing the injustice of the bill, opposing it. ‘They succeeded in getting it sent back to the comnittee, and the pressure that is being brought against the bill will probably keep it there, OTHER LEGISLATIVE DOINGS. The bill to aries of county auditors from 1,2 500 was lost on the final passage. The senate took up on recon- sideration the bill locating the supreme court at Des Moines and passed it—25 yeas, 17 noes. The Donnan bill, allowing judges of courts of record the same power 10 commit ehildien to the soldiers’ orphans home that boards of superyisors now have, was also passed, after reconsideration, on the third reading, The Johnson bill, removing the president from the bourd of regents of the state university, was passed. The senate concurred in the house amendment on the butterine bill, so that it will become a law as soon as signed by the goyernor. THE PROPOSED SOLDIERS' JOM The soldiers’ home commwittee, having in- spected nineteen sites, axe prepared 1o re- port, and unless otherwise ordered will do so to-morrow, ‘The feeling about the capital to-night is that unless the legislature first passes the bill authorizing the erection of a home the bill will fail it the locality is chosen first. ‘The rivalry between the several points is so. sharp that it is thought that the unsuccessful ones might combine to defeat the measure if left till the placeis chosen, ‘The contest secws 10 be narrowed down to Marshalltown, Colfax and Builing- ton, Strong lobbies for each place are Leie, | B it s matter is settid lute .veumll NUMBER 22 legislative work can be done. Inquiry de velopes the fact that there are very few olde soldiers who could go to & home if one were buillt—in many counties none at all—and many are dounting the propriety of investing £100,000 for a home when there will be so few to enjoy it. CROOKS AND CRIMINALS, A svecial from Dakota City says one Henry 8. Willinms, claiming to be from Cornell uni- ty and the Smithsonfan institute, has been working the people of Humboldt county for several dollars. He sells geological speci- mens for cabinets, taking the pay in advance, and some of his vietims are still looking for their cabinets. A card from the president of Cornell university pronounces him a fraud. Jack Sullivan, a young but hardened erim- inal, born and raised at Clinton, was sen- teneed thero to-day to Anamosa penitentiary for fifty-nine years on two cliarges of at- tempted murder, one of burglary, one of house breaking, and one of larceny. FIGHTING THE FRENCH. Rupture Between the Natives and Troops in Madagasear. Loxpox, March 23.—An_ African mail steamer which arrived at Plymouth to-day brings the news of desperate fighting be- tween the French and the Hovas in Mada- gascar, About the end of February the Hovas, under General Willoughby, attacked 3000 French troops, routed them with a lieavy loss and pursued them to Tamative, French houses and. stores in Tamative wore shelled by the Hovas and destro The tovast hen returned to the eapital, Their losses were small. A few days later Gen- eral Sherrington_surprised 4,000 Sakalovas, Dreceded by 20 Frenclmon and. throé machine guns. The Sakalovas were routed, forty being killed and many wounded. 'This is Qe fist news. of o Fronoh rupiure in Madugascar, and has created a great sensa on. Labor Troubles in Belginm, Brussers, March 23.—Reports from ing_districts staie that conflicts between striking miners and the troops continue. To-day’s reports soy that many more persons on both sides have been wounded. Numer- ous arrests continue to bo made. Brussers, March In_the riots to-day at Saraing one of the strikers was shot dead by the fire_from the troops. A number of German_ anarchists who took part in the dis- orders have been arrested BRUSSELL ch 2.—A dispatch from Licge s strilie is extending, but that tho city min- Scamen Joining tho Knight Ciicaco, March 23.—At a meeting of the Seamen’s union to-night, 250 members being present, 1t was unanimously agreed to join the Knights of Labor. It is understood there is a general movement among the seamen throughout the country to take this step. Will Take An Appeal. orr, March 23.-—Police Commis- sary Meyer and a policeman, who wero re- cently sentenced to imprisonment for exceed- ing their dutics at a socialist funeral in July last, have given notice of appeal. e AMONG THE RAILROADS, Gowen's Plan For Reorganization of the Reading. New Yonk, March 28.--Franklin B. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad company, makes public to-night his plan for the reor: zation of the company. He criticises the syndicate plan and cautions the bond and shareholders against paying assessments to or depositing securities with the agents of the syndicate. For his own plan Gowen ys the security lolders can form their own syndicate, save $1,600,000 in unnecessary charges, prevent foreclosure and keep control of their prop- erty. ‘The plan embraces the issue of $100,- 000,000 ot seven year 4 per cent new consoli- dated mortzage bonds to provide for the gen- eral mortgage and ting debt. In additioh to this, no amounts being mentioned, provi ion is nade for the first and second pref cnce income 4 per cent bonds to take care ot Junior securities He proposes an amieable foreclosure, which he says can be effected within ninety days. e e Forty-Five Kounds Fought: LouisviLLe, March 23, —The longest fight er known under the Marquis of Queens- bury rules took place in the open air at Mile Creek, Ky., this morning, between Tommy Warren of Louisville and Tommy Barnes of England. The fight was with three-ounce gloves, for 8500 and the gate receipts, and the feather-weight championship, It took thre hours and a quarter and forty-live rounds for Warren to knock Barnes out et The Ice Gorge Above Us. CmicAco, Mareh 25,—Inter Ocean Yank- ton, Dakota, speeial: The ice gorge still holds above Elk Point. The St. Paul rail- road track is covered with water a distance of twenty miles. Many farims and homesteads are flooded. 1t is now asserted the Big Siou bridge was not washed away. It is fmpos- sible 1o extimate the damage yet, but it will be very luge. — Pig Tal Blown O, PorTLAND, Oregon, March About 8 o'clock this evening the front of the Chinese washliouse, corner Sixthand Madison st was blown ‘out by dynamite. A Cii was injured about tho head. No eluo to the verpetiators, Fraxx: —— Wants to Locate in Omaha, Postmaster Coutant was the recipient of a letter yesterday from A. G. Sells, practieal wool manufacturer of Kanka- kee, 111, seeking information in regard to the establishment of & woolen mill in Omaha, Mr. Sells thinks such an insti- tution would be a suceess here and yield a good profit to investors, If & company can be formed he ag take tion of the stock, or raige about §25,000 for a huildin, purchase the necessary machinery at a cost of $10,000, Itis Ins idea to manu- facture blankets, yarns and all classes of woolen goods for the western trade and employ fifty hands. : Carefor tfie 0bl7d)'en Children feel the debility of the changing seasous, eveis more (han adults, and they bes come €ross, peevish, and uncontrollable, - Thie blood should be cleansed and the system £ luvigorated by the use of Hood's Sarsapavill 1 “Last Spring my two children were vacels © nated. Soon after, they broke all out with rune ¥ ning sores, so dreadful Ithought T should lose them. Hood's Sarsaparilla curcd them coms pletely; and they have Leen healthy ever since. Ido fecl that Mood's Sarsaparilla saved my childien to me Mits, C. ke Luonpsox, West Warren, Mass, Purify the Blood \ Moods 8 three peen! re a ces to “ rsaparilla s ehars arlilos ¢ torized by 15, the eombination of geuts ; 2d, the proportion; 54, the process of securing the wctive medicinal qualitics. The rosult is amedicine of unusual strength, effceting curcs hitherto unknown, Bend for book coutaining additional evidence, “Hood's Sarsaparilla tones up my syste purif d, sharjens iy aprctite, BCCS 10 Mako Mo OVCLY J 1.k MOMESON, v of Doeds, Lowell, Miss, ~#Hoad's Sarsap: is worth 103 welghit 1 10 Bauk Slree of hers, and t 1. BARIANGTON, New Yok Ciy, s, Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists. §1; sic for §5. Made anly by C. 1. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass, 100 Bosea One Rallar. THE WORST IS YET T0 COMR ALeading Knight Declares They Will Nover Submit Without Recognition. THE SWITCHMEN REMAIN FIRM, No Freight Trains Moving In or Out of Kansas City—A Daring Outrage With Which the Knights Deny Connection. Rtecognition or a ¥ St. Louis, March 23,—The Knights of La= bor say they will aceept no terms from the company unless offercd to them as members of thatorganization. A memberof the excen tive committee said at a late hour last night: “The worst is yet to come, 1 dread it, but there is no help forit. If we were to subimit now and return to our work without being recognized as Knights of Labor, it would be a defeat not only for us but also of Labor Unions, the trades’ assemblies, and for every labor organ- tion in the cauntry. We will wait threeor tsome way towards a settlement poned; and, then, if the situation remains unchianged, every fricght train, on every road running and eyery treight train running out of Chicar wo, will e stopy KANsAS CIry, 1 23.—The situa- tion this morning is one of quict, but anxious expectancy, No_frelght traing have been moved, and there has been 1o attempt mado to start them, Passenger trains are not in- terfered with. Railrond superintendents of: the various roads have arrived here, and will hold a mecting early this afternoon. The strikers are also engaged in sceret council. Grand Master Monogan, of the Switehmen's association, is here in'_confer- ence with them, A stock train consisting ofy thirteen cars of cattlo and five cars of hogs came in this morning over the Atchison, L0- weka & Santa Fe, and was delivered by the rain men; no other business has been “dond as far as has been reported. A report received trom Atehison says a pare ty of masked men visited the Missourl Pacitie round house last night and intimidated the guard and killed all engines in the louse KANSAS Crry, Mareh 23.—A port has b § freight train by the striker: the injury of several men. Arcinisoy, Kan.. March 2 morning the'ten mien on giard at the Mis- souri Pacitic round louse were surprised by the appearance of thirty-five or forty masked men. The guards were eorralled {n- the oil room by adetachment of the visitors, who stood guard with_pistols drawn while the rest of the force seriously disabled twelve en= gines which stood in the stalls, They held possession of the house about fifty minute and upon taking leave notitied the imp oned men not to stivuntil’ the expiration of twenty minutes, At noon there was another exciting event when a large number of strikers and others seized o large fregght train below town bound for Kansas City. They elimbed upon it in scores and tizhtened the brakes to prevent its further progress, ‘They uncoupled the ears and threw the links and pins into the river and killed the engine, KANSAS Crry, March The Journal's Sedalia special says: Shortly before 2 o'clock the Missouri Pacitic people succeeded in_ got~ ting out a freight train composed of an ene gine and ten cars. As the train passed ihe cyards It was running ten or fifteen miles ‘per hour. Somo torpedoes were ex- ploded on the track and several men jumped aboard, “When the train was three miles out and going at good speed, the rails suddenty “spread, and the engine and four cars went intoa_diteh, ~ Police Officor Lason, who was on the train, had broken'and Special Policeman Leal | broken. Division Superintendent had char, S The track was torn a dist and will block the road until workmen can Do sent out to rep . An examination of the rails showed that the fish plates had been removed and thrown upon an embankments “The strikers deny all knowledge of the work, ht to the End, yards, The Few Against the Many. Cimcaco, March 23.—The fact will be puls lished here to-morrow that a movement is on foot and letters are being sent out quictly to arrange for a national meeting of business men and manufacturers, to be held some time next month, to take action toward devising some means of defense against the power of organized labor. ‘Ther: is nothing definite yetarraneed about the proposed ecing, hut the opinion of business men s being ked in confidential eireulurs, which speak of the outrageous demands” now being made by the workingmen, and suggest - action to meeg theso demands and put thecmployersin a po- sition to withstand them. A Successful Strike. Privspure, March 25.—The great strike of four thousand workmen at the National Tube Works has ended satisfactorily to the strikers and work has been resnmed in all departments at once, ‘The troubles we tled this morninz by the workmen ace the proposition of General Manage to restore wages ruling in 1884 and the wages of laborers to increase will range from 7 g The Coal Pool Re, New Youi, March 23, —Presidents of the antliracite coal companies met at J. Pierre- pont Morgan's house, in this city, last even- ing and, after a session lasting until 2 o'clock this morning, unanimously agreed that the tota output of coal this year should not ex- ceed 50,500,000 tons: also, thut the output for Aprilshould not execed 2,000,000 tons, and that prices should be adVanced 25 centg to-day. The Oar Didn't Run Very Far, DAYTON, Olio, Mare ‘The annonnces ment that the sherifl, assisted by the police, would start a car running brought out a large crowd o« One car was taken out, but before it had procecded far the wob had smashed the windows with stones and finally ew it ol the track. Four policenien were viously hurt. No {urther efforts have been made Lo 1un cars. | ulating Prices. 'wo Thousand Workers Out, New Yonrk, March 25, Al inside operas tors on dress and cloak making left work this morning pursiant to the eall of the stiike committee. They number nearly two thous sand, Negotiations are pending for a settles ment of the ditficulties, New Yo, March 0-MOITOW Imorne ing 500 cloak eutters will stop work until the striking eloak maker's demaiids are met, - A Red Men's Meeting. Euravia, 1, T, March Delegates from tive civilized tribes of Indians n cony vention here have entered fnto n compact pledging themselves not to cede or in any manner alicnate to the United States any part of their present territory, Provisions are made for the punishment of crime, the vestoration of stolen property, exelinge of citizenship from one ation 16 another, and the suppression of the sale of ardent spirits, - Jachne's Second Night in the Tomb New Yonk, Murch 25, — Assemblyman Michael Brennan and two others apneared at the district attorney’s ofiice late this aiter- noon and offercd themselves as bondsmen for Alderman Juehne, Determination in the watter was, however, deterred until to-mors vow, and thus the alderwan is spending hig second night in the Towbs prison. The Mikado's Contribution, N York, March 25.~The emperor of Japan lias sent a contribution of $500 to the Graut monument fund in token of the high estiwation which be holds the memory of the illustrions deceased. - John A. Wishart, Davison, Mo Murphy, Ainsworth, Nel and parly, Loadon, i } Cunbicid, W P, J, ; Sidney Hayes lund, are at ihe