Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 20, 1886, Page 1

A IS THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FIFTEENTHYEAR, NOT EXACTLY A PURCHASE. That Is What Garland Testifies in Regard to His Pan-Eleotric Stock. BEFORE HIS INVESTIGATORS. Bome Very Pertinent Questions Pr pounded, Which the Attorney- General Answors by **I Can- not Call to Mind." Garland and His Stock. Wastisaros, April 19.—The announce- ment that Attorney General Garland was to appear before the telephone Investigation eommittee eansed a large andience this morn- ing It was nearly three-quarters of an hour after the regular hour of meeting when the attorney general apveared, looking pale and rather weak. With a courtcous salute to the ccommittee, e immediately took the stand, and, on invitation of the chairnan, a statement of his connection with the Pan-Eiectrie company. He wished lie said, to lay before the committee and re- affirm the matter contained in his statement to the president on Oct. Sth last. In addition Mr, Garland wished to explain two or three points of that statement, In February, 153, General Atking said to wit- ness he believed Ryder's inventions were all of great utility if properly handled. Being a poor wan like himself, Atktus desired wit- ness to enter into this, “Itold him,” said witness, “that [ had never undertaken to ny money except by law and poker. i ays lostat poker ana generally won at law. 1was willing to go into this if 1t of- fered any inducement.” Continuing, witness said that Senator Iamis made substantially the same statement about the inventions, and w0 or three days afterward he (witness) had been Intraduced to Rodgers and his son their home, He bricfly told of their organ- izing the Pan-Kicetric Telephone com- pany, as detailed Senator Harris and other witness turned his at- fention to the applic de to him to Dring suit against the Bell company. Tt was an interence, and not o fact, he said, that the “an-Eleelrie’ company had tade app nce was_ founded on two re that Colonel Young came wi ! gentlemen in the latter part of July, and wit- ness knew hin to be secretary and 'treasure of the Pan-Electiie; second, heeause witness Jiad on May 25 vecelved aletter from Rodgers the suit to be brought as der of the company. Couj se facts together, Withess too granted that ~ thie Pan-Eleetrie pplication, but it was simply in- ference, as no name 'had been mentioned. Witness had treated Rodger's letter as per- gonal, and he knew Rodgers had o author- ity to'make application uch an appli- cition must come from the president of the pany. Therefore, the letter ad re- ined unanswered and the. personal paper had not been filed. In July V iy sen had presented his application for suit, basing it on the law, which, he stated, had been passed at the lagt session of congress. Wit ness had heard of the law before that, and had some ~earch made, but could not tind the act. The application was so well written and apparently set out the passage of the bill so positively that witness felt there must L some mistake and that _the bill had become a Taw. ‘The application had been referred by witness to the interior department, where it should have gone in the first insianc witness heard 1o wore of it until it wa$ re- turned last January with other pap. Afterreceiving Van Benthuysen's letter, witness had not set towork to- examine into the matter, for, thouzh e had no intimation 1o that efidet, Lie was satistied that applica tions would be made. Looking over author ties he cor etuded lie could not order the suit, and when the ventlemen came, Van Benthuy= gen, Yound and others, he determined he would not touch it at all under any circum- stan When witness was still in the senate Platt eame to him with a bill to authorize government suits, and asked his opinion of - ft. Witness had looked it over, and regarded ii s unnecessary—tliat it would do no good. Tiat was all he ever saw or heard of {1 Dbill until it hiad been brought to his attention through the application, In the early part ot the fall Huwphreys, of the Globe Tele phone company, had called upon him at_the depnrtment about the publication, — “He thought he was going to jump over me,” ©said the witnes: Humphreys insisted that he (witness) ord the suit, and bad said that it was very curious that because Le (witness) was in another company that his (Hlumphrey's) rights should be disregurded. “le got’ mad because | would not do anything about it,” saidthe witness, “and wé parled not with mu- tual respeet and admiration at all.” Witness denied that e had ey opinion about him. The given was to the effect that inventions were not infring telephon were differently | on a well stockholder, he Tad be y fonding méctings for tie ‘re place of meeting was inconvienently situ and the: were held ab - night when — witness rarely went out of his house. Although witne: was attorney for the company, yet Young and Senator Haris usually drew up the legal pa- pers, and when they were referred to him wit- ness made su halterations as secmed neces- sary. Theso papers had been submitted to witness in the senate judieiary room,but it was a mistake to say that any board mectings h been held in that room,” Witness was satis fied hie had never attend ting of the company since the last presidential election, Turning his attention to the ordering of the Memphis suit, witness said that he had artanged to leave Washineton on Ausust 27 and spend the entire month of Sepfember at his home in Arkansas, Ho had returned to «Wastimgton about October 1, and when he alled atthe white louse the president had told him the papers were speaking of the ase, whereupon he had made the explana- tion that had been published. Witness had never opened his wonth to Goode about it, because Solicitor Goode, under the statu wis perfectly free and’ independent, and witness had 1o mora control over him in his (witness') absence or disability than he had over the gentlemen in cong He hud nevor to this day spoken to Goode about th first suit, or the one alleged to be pend- ing. Goode had spoken somcthing about counsel and the practice of the govern- ment in dealing with counsel. He did not know what was inthe bill, had neyer seen the papers on which the suwit was predietated, and had never talked with Scerefary” Lawar or the gentieman who had sat with him. He had even declined Lo talk with the president about the suit. Oue of the gentlemen in Sceretary Lamar's deparunent—Zach Mont gomery, an old collexe (riend, and appointed at his solicitation—had deciined to sit in the case beeause o hiad seen sowe notice, now and then, about Garland being {pient of a block of stoek as & gift, Of course there Diad been no giit about it. As to theguestion of propriety, there was no more impropriety in s position than in the case of a gentle- man hokling railroad sto in con- EICSS, OF cougiessmen going over to the ' suprome cowrt to pragtice for money. It was lexitimate business and witness had never dreamed of any legis- Jation being asked. His only regret” was it had not “panned out.” If any question had coe up I congress conneeted with thecolu- pany he should not have voted on it He had reecommended Dr. Rodgers and his son 10 Messrs, Cox and Hewitt beeause he reziftded them s very competent men in their line, Witness had talked with Archi- . feel Clarke about Harris Rodgers' applicas tion for appointment as house elecirician, and about putting in Rodgers’ telephones, but after consullation with Senator s, president pro tempcrs of the senate. Clarke hiad refused to wake the appointment. The chairman inquired if the Withess re giamed the stock as & gift, He replied i the uegative. Chairinan Boyle—"Did" yon' contemplate using your oflicial position for the advantage of the enterprise?™ . Witnces—"Not at all. If I had been a pri- e citizen 1 could bave done ek belier than wheu 1n oflice.” Ai apswer Lo a question . stockh ling tl it for Dad i on given an opinion he had the pan-clectric pments upon atentable by the chairman | witness said he had never argued a patent case in his life, Mr. Ranney took up the examination at this point. He auestioned whether the wit- ness regarded his stock asa purchase, as he had said it was not a gift. Witness replied (hat it was not precisely purchase, 1t would be difficult to define one word. Still, taking the assessments into consideration, it might be called o parchase. He was $400 out by the assessments. Mr. Ranney began an inquiry into the con- tracts of the company, but the witness knew very littie about them. Ranney took up the lezal phase of th and examined the witness at some leng as to his understand- ing of the issues litigated in the Dolbear, Drawbaugh, and other cases. Witness had never understood trom the cases he had read that anything more than a_question of in- fringement had been decided in each case. e never understood that the jssue was Bell's broad elaim to the art of telephony. It was due to all sid e shiould state the l'lVIl:llA;llhw he had declined to take any action in the matter of ordering the suit a number of vrominent gentlemen (legal gentlemen) had written to him insisting lfiu! notwithstanding his econnection with the Pan-Electric it was his duty to have bronght the suit. Sowe of the most prominent men in the eountry i written to that effeet. Mr. Ranney wished to know if the witness had feit thatit would be improper to tell the anplicant that he was disubled, and refer them to the solieitor general, It would not have been improper,” re sponded the witness, “but it was a question of delicacy with e, Mr. Ranney inquited if it had oceurred to Witness, as areason for not telling Goode of the recerpt of the application. that if he had told him of his action in refusing to consider the applieation that Goode might feel bound to refect it, while if he said nothing, Goode would aet upon the original application and might grant the request, Witness responded fitmly in the ne As Ranney stitl pressed the witness reason in remaining still, he remarked that after what | wired it seeed to him that < witlh the utmcst propriety that e had Kept sile Oates. “Since you have general, have you done any indircetly, to sts of the Pan’ Elee cither as counsel for the con nolder, as an interested party? Witness—4I cannot call to mind any thought or any word of mine since I aave be- come attorney general that 1s caleulated in the reniotest degice to inerease the value of that stock, or enhiance its value in_any way. L Tive not been at a meeting, and have had no conference with the gentleimen conneeted with it at all The examination of the attorney general was concluded at this point, and the co mittee adjourned until Wednesday. THE FIRE AT STRY. Additional Details of the Terrible Holocaust—Many Lives Lost. VIENNA, April 10.—The five at Stry is still razing. The situation there is appalling. Thousands of inhabitauts are bankrupt. The charred remains of many victims have alteady been dug out of the ruins, The wor of the town has sent a telezram to sinberi asking that troops be sent to Stry with appliances to extinguish the fire. The damage is estimated at several million florins. 'The total number dead is now forty. Most of the vietims were children, When the fire at Stry had reached its height the prisons were opened, but ‘the authorities had delayed the reiease of prisoners too long and fourteen of the unfortunate inmates were burned to death, In the suburbs of the town all was confusion. Peasants looted houses and shovs after conflicts with their owners, some of whom, in their despai committed suicide, The gale was so severe that sparks were carried three miles and set fire to a number of huts occupied by the peas- antry. The emperor has donated for the relief of ‘the suffcrers, latest estimates of the fatalities is placed at 100, ineluding fifty children sup- posed to haye been burned” to death in s sehool house, When the fite commenced the bulk of the inhabitants were absent at a fete, andon the were 50 completely dazed by the calamity the_contlagration was aliowed to proceéd unchecked, been attorney act or thing, enhance the vic company, any or stock= Scotch Oppose the Land Bill, Loxpox, Apnl 19.—The defection of the Scoteh radieal members of the house of com- mons has been growing since the land bill was made known, It is estimated that twenty-five will vote against Gladstone, and that more will abstain from yoting, Duncan McLaren, A former member for Edinburgh ' and a prominent radieal since 1820, denounces the whole scheme. He is Bright's brother-in-law. Bright’s hostility to the scheme is pro- nounced. e considers the terms of the pur- clase infolerable. It I8 reported he wises appeal to the country if the home rule bill ‘passes by only a suinll ma- The Greeks Still Faming. Arnns, April 19,—Grock troops are being pushed to the frontier as rapidly as possible, DeButzow, Russian minister to Greee parted for Livadia to sce the czar, in pursu- ance to nrgent orders from His Majesty, Panis, April 10.—LeTemps states it is ru mored the Gre consul at Candia, Crete, with the approval of his governm 1 been actively engaged in plotting rebell among the people, the majority of whom Greeks, azainst Turkish authority, and that the consuls of other powers asked their goy- ernments to interfere to prevent the wmove- went from being earried ont, The Cholera Scourge. Rowre, April 1 holera has appeared at Lecce, the capital ot the province of that nawe, and is spreading rapidly, Several suspicious eases have been discovercd at Milan, g The Wounnds Prove Fatal, Mapnip, April 19.--The Bishop of Madrid, who was shot several times yesterday by a priest, lias died from his injurie o Cowardly Work of a Mob. AxTHONY,KS. April 19.2About two months agoa fight oceurred at Danville, near this place, between two brothers named Weaver, and aman named Adel. ‘The latter was fa- tally wounded and the Weaver boys were ar- rested and hurried away to avoid mob vio- lence, Last week they were veturned for tri- al, but the cases were continued for the term with bail of §10,000 each, At one o'clock this morning & mob of forty or more armed men surrounded the sherif’s residence in this city, where the prisoners were under guard, ‘Phe guard Learing them rushed the prisoners out the biek door and into the basement of the new school building, The sheriif was taken pris- oner by the moband guarded. The d finding it useless to resist, surrendered. T Weaver brothers defended themselves with a revolver which they had taken fr ong of the deputies. They were finally overpow- ered by the mob and disarmed. Ropes were placed around their neck and preparations made to hang them, but the tramp of a proaching feet frightencd the mob, so they tired fiftecn or twenty shots into each man, literally shooting them to pieces, Mounting their liorses they rode rapidly away. The motherof the boys and the wife of one of them witnessed the entive tragedy. Yesterday's Base Ball Games, ‘Phe games played by the leading base ball clubs of the country yesterday resulted as fol- lows: At Hartford—Detroits 9, tartfords 4. At Baltimore—RBaltimores 2, Brooklyns 0, At ‘l'lul.ldvlvhli\ - Athleties 1, Melropoli- tans 4. At Richmond—Bostons 14, Rochesters At St Louis—Browns 5, "ittsburgs 6, Chicago's Frenc psul Recognized. WasiiNaroN, April 16=The president has recoguized Henri Leon Verleye, consul of France at Chicago. Nebraska Weathoer, The weather indications 1ar the state .o Nebraska are: Fuir weather, and slightly coul OMAHA. TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL 20, 1835, WEAVER WILL HOLD HIS SEAT The Demooratio Majority Report in Favor of the Towa Greenbacker. DIRTY WORK ACCOMPLISHED IT. The Minority Arguein Vain for Camp- bell - Bills Introduced in Cone gress for the Benefit of Towa and Nebraska. The Election Committoe’'s Reports, WasnmiNGre April 10.—~[Special Tele- gram.]—The majority report of the house committee on elections in the Campbell- Weaver contested election from the Sixth district of lowa, in favor of Weaver, which is exclusively democratie, and the minority report in favor of seating Campbell, which is exclusively republican. were made to-day to the house and will come up for action, and Weaver will hold his seat by the graee of the forty-ona demoeratic majority, made up of sixty-seven of the most unrepentant rebels and the balance of northern copperheads and dough faces and free traders, The ma Jority report was written by Weaver's assist- ant attorney, Ben Ilall, who was left in charge of the case by Judge Cook when he left here, It is a matier of common notoriety here that Hall, instead of acting as a judge on the committee, has been Weaver's especial champion and attorney, e was closeted with Cook the day after the argu- ment before” the commuttee, and received special instructions how to proceed in the ense While Judge Harris was argeing for Campbell, Hall intel rupted him o frequently as to finally be reminded that if he wanted to argue for Weaver he would please wait and make his arcument at the proper time. 1t now turns out that his appointment on tie committee on elections was seeured by Weaver in return for his vote cast for Carlisle for speaker, and was a part of the scheme by which Weaver was to be enabled to hold lis stolen sc was u shrewd, unprincipled move on We but what must be thought of the con- gressman who permits himself to be made a tool for such dirty wo Weaver holds his seat, but Hall loses what little virtue he may have had on coming to this congress, and will henceforth be regarded *as an unprinci pled political tramp, instead of the fai minded man some had given him credit for being. Hall's report is a ash of Cook’s speech. Never having read the evidence, he adopts Cook’s views and tncorporates them into the report with all their misstatements and clowing misrepresentations. He gives Weaver several more votes than he elaims, and cuts Campbell off with less than one-fifth of the illegal vote he clearly showed for Weaver. The Taw in regard to registration he perverts, and the decisions of the courts misrepresents, and is so unfair and unserapulous as to lead a prominent democrat outside to denounce his report as a tissue of falsehoods and mis- representations. But the demoeracy will fol- low it down for the good of the party, and Weaver will think heis a “bigger man than old Clever.” The majority report is a strong legal docu- ment, drawn by Payne, of New York, assist- ed by Ely, of Massachusetts, and demon- strates in the clearest possible manner that Campbell was honestly elected and is en- titled to the seat heyond question, An opinion from such eminent lawyers Tayne, Ely, Hopkins ot Illinois, and Petti bone ot Tennessee, is testimonial that Campbell may well be p of, for they ai considered among the ablest lawyers in the house. Weaver 1s already beginning to fecl his s and swell with iniportanee, as he con- gratulates himsell that the fusionists of the Sixth Towa dirtrict cannot get along without him, and that they will be compelled to re nominate him this fall or go under proposes to *Hight it out on that lin FOI AN I0WA SOLDIERS’ HOM In the house to-day Mr. Frederick of Towa introduced a bill locating a branch home for disabled soldiers and sailors for Minnesota, Nebraska, Dakotaand lowa at Marshalltown, fowa. It authorizes and direets the board of managers of the home tor disabled soldiers and sailors to locate a branch home at some initial point within a distance of a few miles of the city of Marshalltown, upon a tract of Jand of not less than 200 acies, within three months after the passage of the bill, provided the purchase price of the tract of land shall be advanced and paid by the citizens of that state; that work shall be begun within six montlis after the passage of the bill, and appropriating $100,000 for the construction of the building, ILLS INTRODUCED BY T0WANS, Bills were introduced by other Iowa mem- bersas follows: By Mr. Henderson—Au- thorizing the construction of a railroad and wagon bridge by the Council Bluffs & Northern Railread company across the Mis sissippi river at or near Dubuque, Towa, By Weaver—Pensioniug Hannah E, Wil son, Julia A, Cornell; removinz the charge of desertion from the military record of Geo, W. Moss, Nicholas Heit, By Lyman—Amending the pension by inercasing the pension of sailors who have lost an arni or leg service to 818 per month, By Holnes—Granting a pens French, By Hepburn—Pensioning John 8., Carus and Naney J. Cline, Conger— Increasing Clark Boon to $24 a month, MUBPHY'S BAD BLUNDER, Jerry Murphy, of Town, the alleged friend of the Hennepin eanal, committed another ¥, which will result in simply rele: gating that measure to another congress, He attempted to have the house set aside a day for the bill to make it a special order fora day a fortnight hence, and ne presented his claims so0 bunzlingly that his motion falled by a8 vote of 12 to 103, 85 a two-thivd vote was required. There was suflicient debate on the bill to bring out its strength. This leaves the measure on the calendar where there 1s no show for it what- ever, unless soue able and infiuential advo- cate of it, like General Henderson, of Lli- nois, takes hold of it, when a day for its con- sideration may be fixed. Every time Mur- phy moves tor it, its chances of success ure depreciated and it is in peril, NEBRASKA AND I0WA POSTAL CHANGES, The vostoflice at Hoskins, Woodbury county, lowa, has been discontinued. The wail will go to Sioux City, The postofiice at Anderson, Brown county, Neb., has been re- woved by the authority of the postoflice de- partuent to a point a half wile south, PUBLIC BUILDINGS FOR NEBRASKA, The sub-committee of the house committee on public buildings and grounds having northwestern bills in charge, has expressed in favor of the bill for a building at Fremont, Neb,, and the prospects are that both Hast- ings! and Fremont will get public puildin by this congress. Mr. Van Wyck introduced in the senate to-day a bill appropriating $100,000 for a pub- lic bullding at Plattsmoith, Neb, A NEBRASKA CLAIM ALLOWED ‘T'he secretary of the luterior Las allowed Richard F, Barrett, of Storling, Neb., $1,008 laws and in the soldiers n to Uricah the pension of of his claim against the government, amount- ing to $2,043, for depredations committed in 1504 by the Kiowa and Arapahoe Indians, Tt is understood he will aecapt theallowance as full payment of his claim{ PERSONAL AND OTHER MATTERS, Ex-Senator Wright, of Des Molnes, was at the capitol to-da; S, I Adams, connsel for Cobb and Farley in the famous Dubuque whisky suit, has filed in the snpreme court of the United States a strong affidavit against the continu- ance asked for by the saloon men. The mo- tion has not yet been determined. Mr, Touzalin, of the Council Bluffs & Northern railrodd, is here, and is working for the bill introauced in the house to-d by Colonel Henderson, to bridze the Missis sippi at Dubuque, The bridge is to be forthe accommodation of wagon and foot passen- gers, The republican members of the Towa dele- ation introduced in the house to-day copies of the coneurrent resolution passed by the Towa legisiature in favor of Senator Cullom’s interstate commeree bill. - FORTY-NINTH CONGRE! Senate, Wasmyaron, April 10.—The senate re- mained in secret session about three hours and a half considering the will and Labro Mexican treaty, and adjourned with the un- de nding that a vote will be taken to- MOITowW, S, House, Mr. Herbert, from the committee onnaval affa moved to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution making the bill to increase the naval establishment the continuing special order from Thursday, April 22, until Tues- day, April 27, on which latter day the pre vious question shall be considered as ordered. It expeets, however, the appropriation bills, prior special orders, public land bills, and pri- vate bills on Friday, which shall not be an- tagonized. Mr. Herbert appealed for the con- sideration by the house of the great question involved in the resolution. —Our eities by the sea, he said, were absolutely at the mercy of any foreign power. Brazil could saccesstully bombard “any city on the Atlantic coast, while Chili could siceessiully bombard San Francisco. Both parties were ccmmitted to 1 increase of the naval establishment and on no pretense should the biti be allowed to fail. The motion was lost—yeas 119, nays 104=not two-thirds voting in the aflirmative, On niotion of Mr. Dockery, from the com- mittee on_ postotlices and postroads, the rules were suspended and the bill passed to extend the immediate delivery service, It provides for this service within the ecairier delivery limit of any free delivery office, and within one mile of any other postoflice which the postmaster general may de On motion of Mr. MeRae, from the com- mittee on public lands, rules were suspended and the bill passed providing for the sale of the Chierokee reseivation in the state of Kan- tion of Mr. Hill, from the committen torics. the ruie: e suspended and the resolution adopted setting apurt the 1st and sth of May for the covsiderition of busi ness reported by that committ Dusi- ness will include the Okiahoma, but not the Dakota bill, i Mr. Murphy, from the committee on com- meree, moved 'to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution making the Henn il bill the continuing speeial order for May 6. Mr. Browne opposed the resolution because he opposed the eanal il which ought not to pass the house, ‘The motion was lost—yeas 132, nays 103—not the,necessary two-thirds afiivmative. 4 Mr. Richardson, from the commiltee on Pa- cilic railroads, also moved to suspend the rules and puss the bill requiring the Northern Pacitic railroad _company to pay the cost of Jocatingz and surveying the lands granted to that railroad, ;i Pending action the house adjourned. Democratic Campaign mittee. WASHINGTON, April 19.—The house demo- eratic congressional committee met at the pitol to-night, and after filling a number of icies in the commiitee, appointed an executive committee of nine to _constitute, with the committee to be appointed from the members of the senate the democratic congressional —campaign committee. The members of the commitiee appointed a Messts, MeMillan of ‘Tennessee, Burns of Missouri, Murphy of Towa, Greew of North Carolina, ~ Wilkins of Ohio, Robertson of Kentueky, Blanchard of Lowisana, Spriggs of New York, and Crain of Tex; avoring the Land Forfeit Bill ASIINGTON, Apiil 19.—Senator Dolph reported favorably from the committee lands the bill to forfeitall lands whieh apoertain to orare coterminous with that part of the Northern Pacific main line ex- tending from Wallula Junction, Washington territory, to Portland, Oregon, except such of the Lands as appertain o braseh lines neross the Caseade mountains, The bill also pro- vides that where ersons are now in posscs- sion of lands torfeited by the bill under deed secured irom the railroad they shall have the right to purel ands from the United States in - quantities not ex- ceeding £ 2) acres for §2.50 per acre, A Temperance Measure in Disfavor, WASHINGTON, April 1.—The house com- mittee on the alcoholie liquor traflic to-d: by a vote of six to five, ordered an advers report on Representative Taulbees bill to svide that 10 person shall be licensed as 1 dealer in_intoxicants by the Unite States until he first receives o license 1rom the loeal authorities where it is proposed to carty on the business of selling liquors, Cntered On His Duties, WASHINGTON, Apil 19.—The bond of William ‘. Trenlol, as comptroller of the currency, was approved by the acting secre- tary and solieitor of the treasury to-day, and hie subse ty qualified and entered on the duties of that ofice, The bond is for $100,000, The Com- Cannon's Forfeited Bail, WASHINGTON, April 10.—The treasury de- partment has received a certificate of deposit of 25,000 in the case of George Q. Cannon, of Utah, who was held in that amount of il and which was forfeited by reason of his failure to appear for trial. —— Bull-Dog Kelly Let Loose. St. Pave, April 19.—Bull-Dog” Kelly, accused of murder in Northwestern Terri- tory, was released from econfinement this morning upon papers received from Wash- ington, after continement for nearly half a year, | The Canadian government will prob- ably make no further'attempt to get hiw over the border, A Strike of Newsb Derrorr, April 19,--The afternoon news- boys to-day struck on the Evening News, of this city, demanding two papers for one cent, instead of one as heretofore. About one ' hundred boys are in front of the News oftice and will allow no other boys to sell papers. —— —— Prohibition in West Virginia, CuARLESTON, W, Va., April 19.—The mat- ter of prohibition which has been hotly con- tested in this country during the past week, resulted this afternoon in the county comms- sioner refusing to grant licenses. The sa- loon men say they will sell, let me what may. ‘The prohibition party say they will do all in their power to prosecuie those who sell, e o ey A Colored Thief Lynched. DANvILLE, April 19.—On Monday, near Axton, a negro named Kellis Moorman in- duced Mike Mahone, a white man, togo to a neighboring house to play a game of cards, Malone took a small sum of money with him, and on the way Moorman kuocked Ma- lionk down aud ro'bed him. A party of wen soon captured Moonmwan and lynched him last night, — Maleue's iujuies we thought to be taluty THEY RAN THE STREET CARS But the New York ;’E Had to Oharge a Nob, Inju»rinAgSsvan{y. A NUMBER OF ARRESTS MADE, The Striking Switchmen at Chicago Prevent Lake Shore Trains From Running—One Man Injured— Other Labor Troubles. The Street Car *“Tie tTp." New Yonx, April 10.—With the exception of the Eighth and Ninth avenues, the streets on which horse ears usually run are deserted and quiet to-day. All rgad men, drivers, conductors and stablemen have concluded to {akea holiday in sympathy with their breth ren of the Third avenue line board of the Empire Protective decided 1ast night to tie up all r city, but excepted the Eighth and Ninth ave nues roads, because the men on these roads have no grievances, The lines involved are the Second, Third, Fourth and Seventh avenues; Brodway, Belt Line, Avenue C, Dry Dock, East Bronaway and’ Battery, Blecker street and Fulton_ ferry, the Central. Crosstown, Chani- bors street and Grand street ferry, Christo- \Ihl'l and Tenth streets, Forty-second street tanville and St. Nicholas avenu ity-second street and Grand street ferry, Houston street. West street and Pavon ferry, Thirty-fourth street and Twenty-thivd street Crosstown, Almost the entire police force of the eity has baen on duty sinee 5 o'clock this mor- i All street car stables are guarded by iments of police and the strects: aloni the lines run are filled with “blue deta which coats,” ‘The employes of the Dry Dock line state that they léft work because they were ordered 10 do &5 Ly tho consmittee and not beeause they any grievances, Forty Second street 1i en” stopped for the same reason. In fact, on none ot the lines, with the exception’ of the ‘Third = ave- mie line, have the men any com- plaints to make recarding the lours orpay. The general ticup was_ordered so as to force the directors of the Third avenue line to yield to the demands of tho strikers. The men ordered ot on & number of lines feel very bitter over the action of the committee " stopping alt ears, and say that this general tie-up. business is run into the ground. About 4:30 this afternoon the Third avenue line started the first of twenty-five cars they [ovosed to run over the line. ‘Inspector 3yracs and four men were ou the platfori, At Sixty fourth street a_big fellow rushed out, sped the horses by the bits, and drew a knife to cut the reins He had not aceom- plished his purpose when Inspector Byrnes put him aslecp with his club.The man was ess i the stieets and the car went next ear was driven by a new ver, and when at Nineteenth str oaeof the horses fell on the pavement, crowd ot stri long the walks cheered in derision, The tumult grew greater, and finally the erowd began hurling bricks from the new building@on the corner, Windows were smashed and the car_aemolishd The oflicers were hurt by the wissiles, T'he police then charged the erowd and seventy of them were injured. Eight prisoners were taken, nd in the pockets of two of them were found feenses as drivers of the Fourth line, the men of which road have no wrie ances and are out beeause ordered o tie up. The Strike in Chicago. CmicAco, April e Daily News' South Chicago specialsays: A crowd of some 20) men are congregated around the tracks and round houses of the Lake Shore & Michi- gan Southern raitway at Forty-third street this morning. As only seventy men are in- volved in the strike the majority of the crowd is composed of outsiders and sympathiz “The committee of safety,” which the strikers appointed to “look out for the inte ests of the company and to prevent any da- ace to the property or violence to the men,” i on hand. At $:30 a. m. an engine guarded by two deputics left the round houseand steamed slowly up the track in the dircction of the freight y The groups of strilers who had been 5 ingz aronnd idly zossipping with policemen on duty immediately broke ap. Twoor th of them jumped “on to the moving eng and had’an_earnest consultation with the engineer. They jumped off again -and the gine proceeded to where a train of three 1etrigerator cars and one ecommon ear and caboose stood. The engine was coupled_on without any” difliculty. The signal to go ahead was given d Cwith two policen stationed af caeh ear the train slowly started up. General ehit Agent Blodzott and General Yard Master Jones boarded the caboose and everything seemed to be moving all right when a dozen men elimbed on topof the train and set the brak The train be ) to nd ina moment the full Tead of steam which the engineer turned on only served to turn the engine wheels, fike so'many windwills, without moving the train an inch, Cries ol derision were sent up by the erowd of strikers, which rushed for the train in spite of the expostulations of the police, uncoupled every car and sent the coupling pins flying through the air on tho Ner side of the cars standing on the side oflic) smounted from the L strikers formed affair and await- Not a blow wis the wmen, who good liumor The town of poticemen. tthe * ake the present it right 10 re- he 15 I and the police little knots discussing the ing further developments, strick by either the police or maintained the utmost throughout the alffair, nas ¢ Snore oflicials propose to strike an absolule issue as to t tain their non-union men, and also to afford them absolute protection,” 'The fariure of the police of tho town of Lake to proteel their property asainst the strikers will' be taken as elearly Showing that the town cannot or will not afford protection, and the sheriff and governor in turn will be called upon for as- sistance, All Baltimore & Onio strikers went back to work at 7 o’clock this morning, The non- union men witl probably be scat out o the 1opd. Seventeen men, some from as far Buffalo and Erie, were on hand this aiter- noon to take the placesof the striking switeh- wen. By promises of oticer employient or by intimidation, eight ot fhe seventeen im- iwdiately upon their arvival were made to beheve that it was to their interest to refrain from doing a stroke of work, ‘I'he remain- der of the sevenicen explained to the strikers that they were without means of subsistence, and thereupon after much perley, one by one of these men furtively accepted boarding house tickets from the strikers and decampe ina hurry, There was one excevtion in the seven- teen, He repelled ail advauces from the striliers, and finally, becoming angered at their persistence, applied an offensive epi- thet to them. Instanlly the wan was felled by a blow from behind and injured to such an extent that he will be of no servies to the company for reveral diy Chiairman Stahl, of the strikers’ executive commitiee, had atalk with Genera! Yarduins- ter Jones this evening and it was agreed that three engines should be sent ont as a precau- tionary measure, one 1o ‘T'wellth street, one to Forty-third street, and one to Englewood, About dark the engines were sent out, and are to be permitied to run in case of fires or any serious trouble. Xs“an evidonce that the company has no 1dea of yielding to the strikers, General Yard- master Jones was instructed by his superiors to issue an order to the men notifying them that their money was ready for thém at the Polk sweet office. Jones did not issue any written order to this effect, but sent word to Stahl. When the matter wiis made known to the strikers they laughed at the order and said it was a bluff--that the company had a gular pay day, aud they koew when it mearound, None of the men applied for their woney, Ast as The Situation in St. Louis, April 19.—Ritter & Horst, rs, were calied upon by a committee of the Kniglits of Labor yesterday, who request- ed them to cease tosupply Vice President Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacifie, with meat, undes pain ot belug boycotteds ‘Lhe senior NUMBER 262 member of the firm informed the committee he could not accede to their demand: that | Mr. Tloxie was agood customer, and he would continue to il his orders as'long as Hoxie shiould continue his patronage. The Bridge and Tannel and Belt Line companies employed a sufficient number of men to mad all their engines and switches, and they now announce their readiness to do all trans fer- ing across the river between the various rail- road yards in East St. Louis which may be required. Their inability hitherto to engage full erews hias boenthe only impediment to a full resumption of operations by the dit- ferent roads, and now that this difficalty has been removed the freight business on the east side of the river has assuined its normal condition. Purniture Makers Strike, Cnteado, April 10.~The men employed in the school furniture factory of A. H. An- drews & Co., at Wabash avenue_and Adams streets, struek at noon to-day. The number employed at this shop is about one hundred. “The men asked for an increase of 15 per cont. The company claim that they locked the men out, THE Of The C RECORD, ross Bank Kxchanges For the Lust Week., Bostoy, April 10.-The following table, compiled from special dispatehies to the Post, from the managers of the leading elearing houses in the United States, shows the gross bank exchanges at cach point for the week ending April 17, in comgarison with the cor- responding week in 1858% CITIES, CLEARINC St. Louis Baltimore San Franc Cincinnat Pittsbu: New Orleans Kansas City..... Providence.... Louisville, Milwauk *Denyer ]’\"I(‘HI 00,000 . 0,000 Minn Hurtfond. Columbus. . Memphis. *G eston. napolis. Haven. i Portland.’", Worceste epht LS 11380 L £10,014 516,034 564,588 20.8). 0. 831, Lowell. Outside New York....| the totals. British Grain Trade Review. Loxvoy, April 19.—The Mark Lane Ex- press review of the British grain trade for the past week says: Wheat trade has been excecQingly-dulla-Sales of English wheat were 40,514 quarters at 505 10d, against 44,157 at 845 1d during the corresponding week last year, Foreign wheats are slow of sale and rather weaker, Flour is 6d lower, Corn i steady. ‘Ihrec eargoes of wheat arrived. One ‘carzo was sold and two remained; Trade forward is languid. To-day’s wheat market was not iniproved; ‘only a retail bus ness was done. Flour was quict and steady but generally neglected. Onts were s lower! The Visible Supply Statement. Cmicaco, April 19.—The number of bush- els of zrain in store in the United States and Canada on April 19, and the increase or de- crease as compared with the previous week, will be posted on change to-mortow follows: Wheat.......45,819,12¢ Decreaso. ....1,80 COTM, .2 s0r 15,8 Deerease ... 1 Oats. . 1701 De e 0451 1 5612 Deer Ihe mimber of bushels iv Eigin D: CircaGo, April 19 ein, Ll special sa Market. The Inter-Ocenn’s Butter declined heay- ily to-day under free offerings. Resula: sales were 17,000 pounds at No cheese was ofered or sold on chat - vate sales of 19,437 pounds of butter 100 boxes of cheese were 1eported. total sules aggregated §51,55 and The A IOWA'S SOLDIERS' HOME, The Fight Between Burlington and Marshalltown for the Institution, Des MoiNes, Ia., April 10.—[Special Tele- gram.]—"The bill introduced in- congress to- ay by Representative Fredericks for a ng tional soldiers’ home at Marshalltown, is in- tended as a foil for Congressman Hall’s bill locating a national home at Burlington, The strife for the Jowa soldicrs’ howe is practi- ally narrowed down to these two eities, and tlre vivalry is very intense. Kach hopes to gain the advantage of being a possible loca- tion for a national home, with the expecta tion that if this were done, in n few years the state and national homes conld be combined, and the state could thus relin- quish its property. When Burlington led off afew days ago, with a bill for the home there, everybody knew that Marshalllown would follow sult, as it has done. Thoe lowa commission te locate the Jowa home organ- ized on the 25th of this wonth, and it s ex- pected that the site will be selected with some reference to the contingency contemplated by these bills for the National home, A Mysterious Disappeance. DEs Mo lowa, April 19.—[Spec Telegrani, |—A mysterious case of disappear- ance is butiling the ingenuity of the polic Laust Saturday afternoon a little boy, Pere Cross, about 7 or 8 years of aze, went fishing on the bank of the river. As Le did not re- turn, later in the day search was made for him andihis hat was found on the bank,but no trace of the child coutd be seen, The presump- tion was that he had fallen into the river and had been drowned, but the police dragged the river yesterday withoutavail and to-night there is no clue whatever to the mysterious disappearance of the child. Imitating Their Riva Sroux Crey, lowa, April 19.=The Sloux City & Des Moines Railrond company, follow- ing the example of the Chicazo, Milwaulce & St. Paul, commenced grading east of the city today. President Pierce, of the Des Moines company, disclaims the existence of any contlict between his company and the St. Paul. An lowa Ma DEs MorNes, la., April ram.)—Jumes Bruce, 8 well-to-do farme living near Kockwell, Cerrogordo county, shot himsclf dead this forenoon while under aspell of temporary despotidency. - Messrs. W. Milligan . and Charles Rad cliffe returned Suuday from a pleasant trip to California. The others of the party wilo accompanicd these gentlomen still in California, retained theve Ly cer tain sttong attractions. Suicides, ~[Specinl Tele THE EIGHT-OUR NOVEMENT. New York's Oentral Labor Union Disousses the Advisability of Enforoing It May 1. CONCESSIONS ALREADY MADE. But the Conclusion Reached to Loave the Decision to the Various Trades — Chicago Work= men Urge the Move. Shorter Hours for Labor. New York, April 19— [Special Telegram.) —TIhe question whether the skilled workings men of this city should insist strietly upon putting into effect on May 1 their demand for eight hours as a day’s labor was discussed atyesterday’s meeting of the central labor unfon in Clarendon hall. Many delegates said they had already made their demand, and nearly every in- stance it had been acceded to. The delegates of the united piano makers, the cabinet makers, the custom upholsterers and the wood earvers, said they had made a demand for eizht hours, and in the majority of the shops it had been acceded to. The tin and slate roofers said they had asked for elght hours, but had compromised upon nine. “The machinists’ and patiern makers' unions are to demand nine hows. One iron moulder reported that twenty-three out of twenty-cight foundries had agreed to work only ten hours each d The central labor union decided finally that on account of the great number of unions in their body it was unwise to insist upon the entorcement of the eight-hour rule for all, but the unions should move for shorter hours inall trades. They are to hold a mass m ing in Union Square on the evening of 1, and to have a parade with torch lights be- fore the meeting. CHICAGO WORKMEN FOR EIGHT HOURS, 17 CrieaGo, April 19.—The elght-hour com- mittee of the trade and labor assembly to- day issued acircular to the trade and labor associations of Chicago and vicinity an- nouneing that May 1 has been set apart for the general inauguration of the eight-hour of Chieago, ng the most influential bedy of organized labor west of New York city, it was natural that the working people and the pub- lie should hold it responsible in a great measure for the suceess or failure of the eight-hour movement; that there is a uniform understanding among the different unions to aceept a corresponding reduction in wages, if neeessary, to bring the eight.our system into operation and advising all trades which have not yet completed ariangements to elect. snitable committces and prepare for tne mu- tual solution of the question at the time men- tioned, in A New Labor Crreaco, April 19—V president of the Independent People's party of the United States, is i the eity, and will soon be joined by other members of the party. ‘They have in view the organization of thie workingmen into bodies called “‘coun- cils,” and the object is to support. candidates for oflice, irespective of party, who have the interests of wage workers at heart. The party advocates the eight-hour working day among other things. o THE CANADIAN FLOODS. Montreal and the Surrounding Coune try Submec MONTREAT, April 10, It is almost impossible to idea of the state of things existing here, ‘Lhe water is twenty-cight feet above the summer level, three feet higher than ever reached be- fore, St. Paul street, the great center of the wholesale trade, has three to four t of water in af. Every store is inundated and the loss figures up in the hundrads ot thou- sands, In Point St. Charles and Griffentown every house has from four to eight feet of water in it. This is the poor quarter. and the suffering and misery are appalling. In St. Gabriel the houses are collapsing, the foundations being undermined, The river is running over the country through the city by way of Chaboillez, a square from the Lachine rapids, and huge picces of feo are being carried through the streets. Two suicides have ocenrred. One man, Doyle, had his house swept aw and lost all he had, He hung himself inabarn, — Several deaths from fear and one or two drowning accidents are reported. On the south side the honses and barns have been carvied away bodily, cattle drowned by hundreds, the railroad tracks and bridges earried away, and general havoe caused for miles round. The iee gorge is still sound below and the water still rising, ‘The 1oss will never be known, New, Your, April 19.—Advices just re- ceived from Montreal staies {hat the luns on wl's Island, opposite that eity, are in a very precawous eondition on accound of food. They are obliged to fake refuge in the attie of the building, and the blockade of ice ren- ders all access to them impossible, - Splitting the Solid Sonth, Lw Yoni, April 10.—[Special Telegram.] The World’s Washington special s A prominent sonthern democrat said to me to- day that the leaders of the party must not count positively upon soiid democratic rop- resentation in the house froin the south, He that the situation at gton was 50 discournging to the party ith that itis possible for the republicans to earry from twelve to fifteen districts, e said that two districts would bs lost in Texas if the lumber features of the tariff bill were adhered to, There Is a prospect ot thres being lostin Lous isiana, one fn Mississippi, from two to three in Missouri, two in ‘Tennessee, one in Ken- tucky, one in North Carolina and one in South Carolina. ‘There is a_further prospect of losing two in Viiginia, Tl loss of twens ty-three districts would pass the majority over to the republican: aram, | 1y adequate ‘Phe Herald’s Washington There is a well founded rumor that the pres- ident has become so thoroughly convineed of the vastness of the land frands, of the misuse of the land Jaws for land grabbing syndicates and corporations, and of the necessity of thorough reform of both land laws and land administration, that be will presently send & special message to ¢.ngress urging it inwes diate action in the way of reform aud repeal of bad laws to help him in saving the stll re- maining public lands for homesteads for the people, special says: - An Expressman Arvested. Henvy Dierson is in the city juil on charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, and & complaint against him to that effect was filed in police court yes terday. Heischarged by Peter Besen with obtauning £2.25 on Saturday to haul a sewing muchine, and pocketin, the money without doing the job. T'he ex pre: n claims that he could not get the machine on Baturday, but agreed ta haul it yesterday. In the' meantime by spent'the money, supposing that he coul returd it withiy See Lehmann & Co. Noveltivs in Luwas and Organdig’