Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 12, 1886, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FIFTEENTH YEAR. DEATH AND DESTRUCTION A Destructive and Fatal Tornado Strikes Kansas Oity at Noon Yesterday. PUBLIC BUILDINGS BLOWN DOWN The Court Honse and Lathrop Public School Levelled to the Ground, A HOLOCAUST OF CHILDREN. Collapse of a Factory—Firemen and Police at Work on the Ruins— Ola ana Young Killed and Wounded-—Heroic Sufferers. A Tornado in Kansas City. KANaAs Crry, May 11—A fearful storm of wind and rain swept over this city to-day, from 11 to 12, The court house was totally demolished above the second story, A num- Dber of persons wece hurt there, but none killed, so far as known. The Lathrop school building was partially wrecked and many children canght in the ruins, Seven are said to have been killed. The full extent of the disaster is not yet known. The overall fac- tory on Second street was blown down. Five deaths are reported out of fitteen girls at work in the building. Nearly n!' «thers were wounded, A later report from the | » school makes ten badly hurt besides those killed. The old waterworks building near the court Louse was blown down and one or two per- sons employed there are missing. At the Western Union telegraph oflice but one wire is working out of the city. Communication has been established with St. Louis over that wire by way of Dallas, Galveston, New Or- leans and Memphis. 2:20 p. m.—A span on the bridge next to Harlem was blown down, and it is reported forty persons were killed at the bridge. The span was blown into the Missouri river, blocking the Hannibal & St. Joe, Rock lIsland, Wabash, and Kansas City, S Joe & Council Bluffs roads. Eight girls were taken outof the overall factory, four dead. Many others are in the ruins, Itis thought over twenty em- ployes are imprisoned in the factory base- ment. The fury of the storm was confined to tne north end of the city. Tie main office of the Western Union Telegraph building was in this por- tion of the city an d the poles heavily weight- ed with wires were broken off, letting th ires down in a tangled heap. Many W were also carried down with the broken bridge. KANSAS Criv, May 11,—2:20 p. m.—The span on the bridge next to Harlem was blown down, and it is reported that forty pe sons were Killed at the bridge. Tne span was blown into the Missonri river, blocking the Hannibal & St. Joe, Rock Island, Wa- bash, and Kansas City, St. Joe & Council Bluffs roads. Eight girls were taken out of the overall factory—four dead--and many others are in the ruins. 1t is thought that over twenty employes are imprisoned in the 1 basement. ~ The [ln?’ of the storm was confined to the north end of the eity. ‘The main oflice of the Western Union Telegraph company is in this portion of the city, and the poles, heavily weighted with wites, were broken off, lettng the wires down in a tangled heap. Many wires were also carried down with the broken bridge, Kaxsas Crey, Mo, May 11.—At 3 p. m, as nearly as can be learned amid intense ex- citement about twenty persons are known to be dead. Frank Smith and Smith MoiTett, owners of the s ills situated in the old waterworks — building, —on Second and Main streets, were Killed, Deputy Sher- iff - Dougherty was buried in tne ruins of the court house, and at 3 o'clock searchers are reported to have come in sight of his tody. A teamster who took refuge in the court house is also missing. At Lathrop's sehool eleven children are reported dead. Of four buiidings wrecked all w more or less unsound. The school building had been i condemned and the court house, many, was considered unsafe, No one was killed except in these four houses, The storm, though entailing so heavy loss ' of life, was nothing of the nature of the tornado that visited the city three { ars ago. 1t was a violent wind accompanied by a flood of water and some hail which turned many streets into rivers; signs, shutters, ehimneys, ete., were blown with the gale, and a number of vehicles were overturned in the streets, — Black clouds that rolled over the city created almost the dark- ness of night, and made timid ones crouch in terror In cellar e streets were deserted,and, in some instances, horses seen wandering about attached to v and sceking refuge from the Yn*lmm ‘T'he following lists are as near i‘ aceur can be % n at 4 o'clock, ‘e phone wires are all down, and this increases greatly — the difticulty in getting early and reliable information. Among those re ted killed there may be one ortwo not dead, At Lathrop killed—Nellie Ellis, May Bishop, tin and her little brother, Kate Jameson, Bessie Insco, Mattie Moore, ¥ ateh, Robert Sprague and L. T, Mooy Among the injured ure Hoover, ba hurt: a child named Edna Eva Hazlett, Ne t the water works b brick, used fas the Unite n s oflee; W. A Weldon was jinjured _about the head and bieast quite seriously, Major Liv- more was hurt about the head, Licutenant 11, Young had his knee broken and hurt about the head, and Mr. Nelson was hurt about the head, At the Smith & Mofitt spice mills ad Frank ith was killed and se riised, the courthouse, on Second and May Deputy Sherilt Henry Dougherty is ssing., e 15 Suppo Moore, of Independence, is d 14, Hodges had Nis b his leg broken and vas badly hurt, May 1L—About 10:30 this morning ominous storm elouds gan gathering over the city, ‘They first appeared in the northwest, ‘and surging westward across the eity, turned suddenly about in their course, and descending rap- idly, broke upon the eity in a terrific. burst of ‘wind and rain that swept all lighter objects before them. ‘T'he darkness was al- most like night and people fled to the near- shelter and awaited with blanched faces the fury of the tewpest. The clouds seemed to graze the roofs of the highest buildings and poured out their torrents in apparently soiid masses for @ time “The storm struck the eity in full foree about twenty minutes past eleven and raged for halfan hour, The streets were running rivers of water, carrying boxes, signs and other simlar ght, blown from buildings or swept up by flood, A number vehicles were overturneds and in mady lustances drivers abandoned ' Lorses, their fate, and sought refuge in stores and house Sowe hail ac- companied the storm, but the fall was not great, Otherwise the loss to property would have been encriious from the water streaw- ing into the broken windows, As it w wildows inquite a large number of buildi blown in and goods and furniture were watersoaked. g WONSE TO COME, All this, however, proved entirely insignifi- cant when the full extent of the disaster wrought by the storm became known. Lothrop sehool building oceupied & prom- &ant site at the corner of Eighth and Main in- OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1886, NUMBER 28L streets, 1t consisted of the main building, to which a wing had been ad The building was surmounted by a tower, which for some time has been considered’ unsafe. It had been twice condemned. once within a few weeks, but no action nad been taken in the ‘matter. ~This ~ morning the building was crowded with children many of whom went nearly frantic with grief over the appalling darkness and stillness wh preceded the tempest. The wind swept mid- way ncross the brond prairie from the west, and seemed to coneentrate its foree in a de- scent upon the tower, which yielded with crash, and, tearing down the h bell, " plunged through the interyen- ing floors to the basement. The main building s A mass of ruins ithin, shattered walls which still stand, ‘The wing was comparatively uninjured, and the scholars in it were not hurt. In the main building, however, the one fact was that the awful falling floors precipitated_ter- rified children into the basement, where masses of bricks and boards crushed ' thei to ground and buried them from view. Persons near, hearing the erash, made their way as best they couid against' the beating storm to the scene, ESCUING TITE, CHILDIEN, quickly subsided, ‘and the work cuing was undertaken by cager hands, Owing to the prevaili itement the first work was not very effective, but the fire de- partment and the police soon_arrived and \ organized search was commenced. The dead and wounded were taken out as quickly as possible and carried to the natatorium ad- joining, which ‘was turned intoa hospital. Here the parents and friends of the little ones soon g , “each searching for own, and uttering heartrendin cries n8 they recognized in the maimed and bleeding forms ~those whom they loved. Amone the first taken out, several were dead, or two were mangled almost beyond nition, their clothing torn and their s covered with dust and mortar, the deathly pallor of the skin showing in painful contrast against the grime and blood. HEROIC CIILDREN, Herofe scencs were enacted during the rescue. Some of the wounded children seemed to have greater self control than their elders, One little girl half buried in’ debris over whom the reseuers were busy, begged them to leave her and help the boy beslde her, because, she said, he was only 5 years old. The seeénes in the natarium’ as “the litsle ones were brought in and laid wpon impro- vised cots, the dead pla zether upon one side were pitiful beyond expression. dozen dead were taken out during the d: and their bodies sent to houses of sorrowing ilies, and several of the children velonged to prominent families in ths eity. CTORY GIRLS KILLE o ory, 110 West Third his still_in progress and several persons are still missing. The following are known to have been killed: Jennie Fitz- cerail, Willie B nd ‘a woman uni- dentified. Mo weic Bird will die, and several otliers are in & dangerous condi- tion. Julian and Joseph Iaar, the proprie- tors, are badly bruised. Tl I factory ocetipied the third floor. The Graham Paper company oceupied the second floor. Its employés were unhurt. At No. 110 West Third street stood a three- story brick building in the middle of the block, the third floor of which was used asan factory, conducted by Haar Bros. and nd floors were oceupied b the Graham Paper company. In the tactor vere about twenty-five employes, chiefly girls, when the storm broke out. 'As they started for the cellar the building fell with a crash, being razed entirely to the earth, and most of the frightened eirls were caught in the ruins. Four have been taken out dead, Numbers of others are wounded and some are still missing. A force of laborers are busy to-night by tiickering lantern lights up- turning confused masses of bricks and tim- WN FROM ITS BASE, The county court house stands’ at Second and Main_streets, on the hill exposed to the winds from the noith and west. The build- ing was erected nearly twenty 50 for lotel purposes, but when complete pur- d by the county for $200,000 and con- verted “into o court 'house. The building has always been considered rather unsatisfactory ~ and - the roof had frequently suffered injury from high winds. The storm struck the west corner to-day, blowing In the xoof and the major portion of the third and fourth stories. ~‘T'he south wallat the east end was blown into the street and Deputy” Sherllt Dougherty vas caughtand killed. All others succeeded in getting out of the building alive, “The jail is located in_ the basement of the building, and that portion cscaped injury. The prisoners were itensely alarmed,” bit became quiet when the erash had passed and they found themselves unhurt, A JUDGE'S NARROW ESCAPE, Judge Stover had” been holding court on the third floor, and had adjourned just be- fore the stormdescended. A portion of the roof in falling struck the chair the judge had just vacated. OTHER BUILDINGS BLOWN DOWN, Across the strect on_the northwest corn of Second and Main streets, stood a t brick bulding erected in INO by the Santa o Stage company, onc of the oldest buildings i the city, froni which stages formerly were started ucross the’ plaing in stage coucling duys. “T'he building has of lte years been occu- pled by the United Statés engineers, ad- joining that on the west was a three story brick coffee and spice mill, owned by Smith & Moftatt. ‘This building’ was demiolished, alling over upon the adjoining one, and both were completely wrecked. Frank Smith, senior partner of the firm, was taken bleed: ing from the ruins and diéd in a short time. My, Moffatt was badly hurt, and ti ployes were taken out. ‘Thé debris removed to-night in’ the search for any who may yet be buried beneatl. BRIDGE BLOWN INTO THE RIVER, “The second span- from nortn_end of tho bridge accross the Missourl, opposite to_the city, was blown into the river, a piece being dett apparently uninjured. A great number of telegraph wires were carried down with the broken span. Workmen night raising the wires from the s hoped that communication tion will be restored by momine, ‘The bridge 15 the Hannibal & St Joseph coni- pany, and 15 used by roa the Wabash, Rock Island and Kansas City, St, Joseph & Council Blafts, ~The bridge owners say they expeet to repair it in ten days, Meanwliile the railroads will make tempor arrangements passengers and freight, send {5 trains over the via Sedalia and Moberly, KANsAs Crry, May 11.—The following isa list of the lost, Killed and wounded so far as ascertained at 10 o'clock to-night: Killee at school houses: Josie Mason. 12, living on corner of Eighth and W dotte; Bessie Incre, 9. years, 1025 Ceitry Nellié Kltis, 11 ¥e Centre: Julig Ramey, 12 years, 904 C 10 years, 913 Washington . Evans, 11 yeirs, 01 Penn; Robert Sprague, 11 years, Son of the supertendent of the telegraph_of the Kansas —City, Fort Scott Gulf d, 620 West Eighth; T, T. X 12 years, son of T, I of thie most prominent business the city, Hotel Brunswick; Richard Terry, 11 ars, Ninth and Jefferson; Mary Lambert, y Tenth and Bla; Mary Bishop, 9 years, 503 West Twelfth ‘streef. Mrs. Ida Blows, * superintendent of the * second floor of the school, was terribly erushed about the head and hips, and died to-night, Killed at overall factory: Jennie Fitzger- ald, aged ushed: neck br home Kansas City, Ki aged 16, cliest erushed, Kansas City, skull broken Cavanaugl, Armourdal hole in 1 W K. Towne, youd recognition, Killed at Smith & Smith, proprietor, ple, boarded that direc to-morrow owned by for transporting ‘The Wabash will issouri Pacitic line aged 19, face crushed be- Cherry street Motfat’s: Frank O, s, hole In left tem- at Centropolis Lotel; John Kane, Toaster, 23 y skull’ broken, Central and Walnui: Henry Haekson (colored), head crushed and badly washed, Wyandotte, Kas, Sam Black, 18 years, neck’ broken, residence unknown, Killed at the court honse HenrvDouglierty, deputy sheriff, 25 years, 616 Locust. W Hedge: puty recorder, died this afternoon No. 101 Forest. Injured at school: Maude Askew, aged 10 ?'mu.-, daughter of Frank As- kew, wholesale leather dealer, ankle broken, may lose limb. A young son’of Postmaster Shelly, severely ~ bruised. James Bals ley séverely cut over eye. Frank C. Madison, finternal injuries, scrious; Bentrice Tefty, leg broken: Nellio Cur arm _broken, back hurt: Eva Hartzel, head cut: Katie Smith, 15, severely cut and bruised ; Margaret Hoover, 11 years, jntginally in- Jured, may ateé, . g Injired at factory: Joseoh Hoar, roprietor, 85 years, collar bone broken, ox fractired; .Julian IHoar, 30, slightly brafsed; Rose Butler, 18, concusslon of the brain, probably fatal; Mamie Creedon, 18 years, head gashed, probably fatal; Lizzie Riley! brufsed; Mary Bird, hurt internally Jessie Wood 2ard, 19 years, cut in the head; Annje ‘I'ravis, 21 years, lh]¥ crushe | and arm broken: Maggie Bird, 17 years, bruised; A. P. Hutchinson, cutter, ™S years old, arm broken, head and ehest hiurt; Kate Carroll, I years, cut in face; Annie and Burt Turner, sislers, ‘bruised: Stephen Morse, shipping clerk of Graham paper faetory, cit on hoad. Injured at court house Hedges, clerk, leg broken ; James Chase and Eugene Moore, clerks, lurt ‘about the lead; Wi, Seurris, clerk, bruised. Injured at United State engineer’s office: v n, serfously hurt about head . Liyermore, liurt about the K. M. Young, skull broken: a man nained Nelson, head hurt. It is proba- ble that thie list will not be completed for a day or two, or until missing ones are counted for. Several of the injured were l:x'!bh\hlv carried away without ti names being reported. - STATION AG They Hold an Annunal Meeting and Want to be Exclusive. Dr:s MoiNgs, May 11.—[Speeial Telegram,) —The station agents of Towa began the an- nual meeting of their association in this eity to-day, with the president, E. L. Hobari, of Cedar Rapids, presiding, and C. M. Simp- old, secretary, The presi his annual address re- viewed the growth of the lowa division, and recommended that the members confine 'their work to such matters only as concerned them in their business. strietly eschewing polities. e suggested further that the delegation to the national associa- tion be instructed to work for a change of name to international; also ainst the admission of telegraph operators, freight line agents and othe, not stri agents, Tl elected and the gates to the n meets at Indianapol son, Fairfield; W. L. TS. chosen tion, which O, M. Sti J. Jd Belle H. Dodd, Nichols, A. L. P. J. Martin, Eldora, I K. D. ) rley} oy, Epworth; Phéeney, Fort W. Kin- owa mem- le: P, Melbor ber of the reception committee. A Mendelssohn Quintette Row. Dis MoiNgs, Ta., May 11.—(Special Tele- gram.]—The famous Mendelssohn Quintette club, of Boston, met with an unfortunate experience when 1t reached Dubuque, where it gave a concert last night. The club had a falling out among its members, Franks, first violinist, was superseded by a man from Philadelphia. This raiseda row in the choir, and two other members of the club, Viein and Miss Edith Edwards, soprano, refused to appear unless Franks did so. Both were dis- charged, and their vlaces filled by some local singers from Dubuque. Then the concert was given. in Towa. DEs Mon Telegram.] —Reports received from different parts of the state show that Sunday’s storm was very vere. In Burlington, Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, Humbolt and Monticelio especially much damage was done, houses being unroofed, trees uprooted and in one or two instances persons were killed by lightning. The rain- fall reported is unusually heavy, flooding small streams. He Didn’t Succeed, DEs Moixes, May 11.—[Special Telogram.] —John Yaunt, saloonkeener at Anamosa, at- tempted suicide by shooting yesterday. The wound will probably not be fatal. Fatal Railrond Wreck. PrrTsURG, May 1L—By a freight train ac- cident on tho Pennsylvania railroad lust night, three men were instantly killed and twent s wrecked, The accident was theresult of a heavy storm, which swept through the Conemaugh y last night. The tornado picked up several empty freight cars standing on @ side 'k and_ carried them to the A heavy west pound in‘going at the rato of thirty mi hour Led into the obstacles befor engineer lnd time {0 reverse the engine, Twenty-five cazs were tofally demolished and the wreck strewn along the” track a distance of several hundred yards. The conductor, engineer and fireman were killed instantly. West bound trains have been delayed twelve hours. ‘Lhe loss reaches several thous and dollars. —~—— A Newspaper at Auction. Anaronor, Neb., May 1l.—[Specialj— The material and stock of the Homerville Boanerges has been sold under a chattel mortgage in favor of the Union Type Foun- dry of Chicago against G. T. Webster, and was bought in by Mr. J. A. Stewart, who has been managing the concern for the past month, He will change the name to the Homerville Recor Destructive Fire Near Stanton, STANTON, Neb, May 1L—Farly Monday morning the barns of the Stanton Breedimg ourteen miles south of here, were by Thirty-eight head of rs, valued at about $3,000, and one stallion, valued at $2,100, perished in the flames, besides the m implements and harness. he loss will be between 515,000 and $20,000, The raneh was principally owned by Marshall Field, of Chicago, In bout £5,000, mship Aca- o Baltimore iled from Port Antonio, April 10,with & cargo of banauas. ys ago A vessel ar- riving in Boston reported passing the house of a steamer at sea. Shortly after the Aca- dia sailed w cyclond prevaled i the vicinity of the West fndies, und it 15 presumed she was caught in it, Some twenty-four persons were on board, A No Cause Assigned. Bostox, May 1L—At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Dr. Frederick A, Palmer, u_well known homaopathic physician, left home with his 4-year-old grandson, and $00k pas- sage on the steamer John Brooks for Port- land. About 10 o'clack he was seen by the captain to take the child in hisarms and jump from the rail into the water. The stéamer was stopped and boats lowered, but the bodies contd not be found. ™ “Tie doctor was 75 years old, A A Montana is All Right. HrLeNA, Mont., May 1L—Spruille Braden, superintendent of ‘the assay office, in his ofii: cial report made to the director of the mint to-day, gives Montana’s production of the preciolis metals last year at $24,000,000, di- vided as follows: Gold, 5,000,000; silver, $6,000,000; copper, $9,000,000, The Captured Fishing Smack. HaLFAX, N. 8. May 11.—Commander cott last evening handed over to the collec- tor of customs at Digby the confis ing sehooner, “*David J, Adans,” b tain and erew of the Adams are expected 1o arrive at Digby to-day, when their aflidavits will be taken, aud a protest entered. agalnst the seizure. ———— The Trial of Brooks. ST, Louts, May 1L.—The work of selecting ajury to try the case of H. M. Brooks was continued in the eriminal court this morning up to 2 o'clock. Fourteen men out of thg necessary forty-cight from whom the final twelve are to be chiosen have been selected, SHAKING ~ UP- MONOPOLY. Senator Van Wyok Exposes One of the Disgraceful Methods, MILLIONAIRE STANFORD KICKS Tweedledce and Tweedledum—The Difference Betwoen “‘Ru Competition” and Combina- tions to Beat the Public. nous Van Wyck on Monopoly. WasuinaToN, May 1lL—[Special Tele- gram. |—During a speecli in the senate to-day by Mr. Stanford on the inter-state commerce ill Mr. Van Wvek engaged that distin- Kui 1 railroad magnate and forty million- aire Californian in a cross-examination which was quite spirited and interesting, and which bronght out some good points, It was as follow » Van W, understood the senator from California to say that San Francisco has been & competitive point in traffie. 1 should like to know, first, which, if any, part of the railroad fixed the rates between New York and San Francisco at the point of time referred by the s or from Kentueky; when was the competition then between New York and and who ixed th es between N and San 0 then?” Stanford—'*At that time there wasa general schedule. Ihere have been times when competition has been so great that the flic agents were nermitted to exerc discretion, but ordinarily it is fixed by schedule rates, By whom?” the companics.” —“By the railroad mana- Then do not the railro; ix the rates between New Yotk and Sa Did they not at that time: M ominally, yes, “Then where wasthe com- cisco? ates.” Wyck—"Where was the competi- Stanford—The competition was by n Wyck— At that time did not the Central Pacitic and Unton Pacilic ronds, by the payment of $1,000,000 o year, more’ ot less, control the negotiation by ocean between New York and San Frai- Stanford—‘*The great competition was ape Horn. When people are 1ot m a hurry they can ‘well afford to ship.” Mr. Van Wyck—Then Cape Horn was the cometing poin: Mr, anford—*One of them,” an Wyck—*Then let e question. At the time spol by the semator from Kentucky, and when the sehedule rates were fixed by the railroads, did not the principa Pacit railroads at that time control the 1 navigation, the Pacific Mail steamship Ving tiie steamsiip company over “At that particular time 1 know, but of the weneral fact 1 do w. It was to prevent ruinous com- . The railroads riered the ege of sending so tons in_these and paid them so much for it nd filled them up witle such kind of freight s they did not want to carry on the railroad. “That is what-they did. Thaf was business, in wy judgment. | justify it and have no ocea- sion’to offer an apolozy to anybody for it.”’ % —*Then tlie fact is, how- Pacific railroads—the Central —made these terms uship line for the purpose of enting competition on that route?” “A minion’s competition.” —*1 do_not ask whether it otherwise, it was done to ent competition.”” . Stanford—*"I answer for myself. You put your questions I 'say to prevent a ruinous competition,” Mr. Van Wyck—*That competition was d, the riiinous part of that competition s checked by the railroad compan. ing a million doli 1o the steamship line. Mr. Stenford—+Do not think we ever paid that uch. Mr. Van Wyck—“Whatever it was, the railroad companies did not consider this com- petition around Cape Ilorn sufliciently ruin- ous to purchase it off.” Mr. Stanford. with it. FORTY- rsor upwards @y No, we could not inte NINTH CONGRESS. Senate, GToN, May 11.—Senator Hoar pre- sented a memorial from the republican cen- tral committee of Ohio, charging that the election of Ienry B, Payne to be Unite States senator, was secured by bribe: and corruption, and requesting the senate to investigate, Referred to the committee on priy elections, WaAsn ing congress to enact ley st oleomargarine, outine morning business the intel state commerce bill was taken up and con- sideration resumed. An amendment offered by Wilson of Tow which would punish men who knowingly asked for or received reduction of rates, was after short debate rejected. Mr. Morgan formally offered his amend- ment heretofore referréd to, to punish by fine and imprisonment men who conspire to” stop nterfere with the running of trains en- d in the interstate commerce. : er and Maxey contend t this was matter for the states to deal with, Mr. Cullom feared that the amendment would embarass and perhaps imperil the sassaize of the bill, and 5o lie opposed Mr. Morgan’s amendment. On the motion of Mr, Hoar the amendment was laid on the table, “Yeas 49, nays 3, Mr. Brown offéred an amendment proyid- ing 7or the punishment of _persons injuring the property of the rail companies, tracks, bri cars, ete. The amendment would' make it felohy to maliciously injure sich property, and, If death resulied from injury, then the offense should constitute winder. “The wwendinent was laid on tie table, Considerable debate then arose upon an amendment of My, Plumb’s, offered for him, his absence, by Mr. Ingalls, It ¢ hfeh My, Plimb some tiuw prohibiting members of , ofticials of the go nilies {rom aceapting free passes rohibiting railroad companies from g e sich passes or reduced rates, “T'o this Mr. Teller offered an amendment prohibiting any of the subsidized railroads Tom giving {Toe passes. Mr. Eduiunds said that if Mr. Teller would extend the provisions of his_amendment so asto cover not only subsidized railroads, but all roads coming within the purview o the “act. hie would favor it. My, Teller modified his ame cordingly, _Mr. Logan said that the proposition about free passes was making the bill ridiculous, We veere dealing with this matter in a wa to induce the country to believe that men bers of the United States congress were atraid of themselves; afraid to trust their own honesty, Congress has been in a hurry to deny its own members franking privileg while ‘allowing every elerk in the depart: ment, Or ary, or navy to use free envelopes. State legislation, affécting legislators, had prohibited members from accepting raiiroad Wihy? Because the meibers wanted ople 1o think they were more honest n others. Yet he noticed that wmembers aveled up and down the railroads just the ne, Itcould not be stopped. It was this kind of weakness in legislation that the country to think legislators were dishon- est. He (Logan) did not propose to tell his constituents that he éould” be bought with a Iway pass. They did not believe he could, 1t was about time for wen o aet like honest men. dment ac- Y committee {hen -diseussed, for some time, the coitumacious conduct of the wit- ness and it was resolved to secure answers from him if there were any power in congress to,enforce them, The committee then adjourned, House. Wasmixaro: y 11.—<The speclal order for to-day being the consideration of the business reported from the committee on private land claims, the house after read- ing the fournal went into a committee of the whole on bills providing for the appointment of a commission to settle private land claims in the territory of New Mexico, Arizona and the state of Coloraito. ‘The committee on commerce reported the bill authorizing the construction of a bridee across the Mississippi river at St. Louis. T'he house then went into a committee of the whole on the army appropriation bill, Mr. Grosvenor moved to strike out the ap- |]\\'np|l. tion for the judge advocate general's department, He said that the department had deeided cases without a knowiedge of Iaw and that the system followed by the de- partment was outrageous. AMr. Wheeler admitted that existed in the devartnent, and, as an_in- stance of this, h ted that General Holt had been appointed for the purpose 0! strik- ing down MeClellan. Mr. Hepburn replicd to some remarks pro- viously made by General Brage, in which he alluded to him (Hepburn) as the boiling pot from Tow: The di! ‘Wisconsin, congenial ang for his langu: abuses had culty with the gentleman from said Hepburn, seemed to be lie_ought not to be censured . The gentieman from Ala- bama, (Wheeler,) had taken upon himself the roll of slanderer, when he made the ehavge that he did against Abraham Lincoln who had appointed’ him to ofice. General Hoit had not been appointed to oflice for any purpose that was inimical to justice and right-dealing. There had been no purpose of assaulting General McClelland or any other general. It ill became the gentleman from Alabania. It i1l became any gentleman situ- ated as that gentleman had been, to assume the roll of slanderer of Abraham Lincoln. [Apvlaniso on republican side.| Mr. Brazg said that tho gentieman from Alaban e not a slur on Lincoln, but as he sion to say once before in this house, the gen- tlemn who were opposed to having the drapery of garments drawn aside for fear of showing the political and moral leprosy that existed, always dodze behind Lineoln's great coat. It was Mr. Stanton and not Mr. Lincoln to whom the gentleman from Al=bama had referred. As to the personal allusio of the gentlem; from Towa, it had taken that gentleman long to get into action that ont of compassion for him he (Bragg) would not stir him up narks of the Pending further action the committee rose and the house adjourned. VIEWS ON OLEOMARGARINE, Ex-Congressman Decring of lowa Speals Bitterty of the Article. WasmiNGroy, May 1L—[Special Tele- gram.]—Ex-Congressman Deering of Iowa is here earnestly supporting the interests of the dairymen of his state and Nebraska and is helping on the fight against the fraudulent manufacture and sale of oleomargarine. Heo regards this as one of the overshadowing questions of the day and says the matter has reached that stage where congress must de- cide whether or not a few greedy and grasp- ing men shall be permitted by deception and fraud to smother out and destroy one of our greatest industries—one in which 5,000,000 citizens with 15,000,000 cows are engaged on small farms and large farms in all parts of the country—and whether the many millions of consumers of butter and cheese shall be deprived of pure and healthy dairy product and com- velled to eitiier do without or use the bogus article. He believes the question of 1 alone will settle this controversy in fay the pure article. In reference” to the claim of the butterine men, that the demand for butter cannot be supplied by farmers and hence butterine becomes a necessity, Mr. Deering said to the BEE correspondént to- night that the northwest alone could supply the world with good butter it left untram- meled and given a fair opportunity for de- velopment, and that in the west their meth- ods of tarming had changed. The practice sing wheat almost exclusively had been andoned and dairying had taken He said that in his own vears azo mot one pound of i been made, but last year pped to the east 50,000 0 it would soon be in 500 other v can liave encour ent and 3 ing expressed the belief efforts of bogus mat- e this congress and would fail, and thata compre- aid shingent law will be enacted vill ‘furnish that relief from this and fraud whieh is demanded by nths of the American people, Lavish Appropriations, ay 1L—As it passed the house the river and harbor appropriation bill s the following division of the total ap- colinty pounds: and counties if th $ 100,000 Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut. New York ew Jerse: Pennsylvani: North Carolina. South Carolina. Georgia, . Florida 410,500 1,000 000 105,500 50 930.00) Arka 140,000 Tennessec. .. Kentucky. Indiana Ohio Hiinais Michi Wisconsin Minnesot Montana. . California Missour Oregon. Washing Oliio river.. Falls of Ohio. Missouri river Mississinpi Fiver.. ... Examinations and Sirveys 1,000 91%.50) 5,500 103,000 e Nebraska Sadly Lefv, WAsHINGTON, May 1L—[Special Tele- gram.]—Patents were issued as follows: Al- exander J, Arthur. Fort Dodge, Towa, three, inside blind, folding blind for windows, and window blind, George Crain, Fairfield, fowa, fence post. Thomas 8. Davidson, Colesburg, Towa, hay carrler, George L. Eaton, assignor of one-half to R. Fullerton, Des Moines, Towa, collapsible flying target. Chas. W. Eckerson, Creston, lowa, 100se nul- ley oiler. Charles C. Gilman, Eldora, lowa, filtering cistern or vat, water filtering, well or reseryoir liltering materi Allen John ston, Ottumwa, Towa, under braider for sey ing machines, Martin V. Jordan and C. O. Cole, litts, assignors of onethird to G. 1. Ramsey, Algona, lowa. corn planter. Jacob V. Loydig, ¢ Towa, sheel carrier for haryesters, a genius has run down toa very fow ebb, & patent has not been is- sued for over two weeks to a Nebraskan, A Complime WAsHINGTON, May 11,— —The following from te World will doubtless be of Miller and his allies: *Vifquain who recently appointea consul general to Central Ameriea, 15 a Frenen editor from Nebraska, He has been an editor in Nebraska fighting monopoly aiid corporations tor the last twen- ty years, Hecawe to this country justbe- interest to Dr, fore the war, becanse of his love for our in stitutions. Ie went througn the war of the rebellion as an ofticer of the Union army. He is one of few officers who have received the thanks of eongress for gailant services upon the field.” . —— ew Orleans Port. WASHINGTON, May 1L —In view of the ne- cossity for the shippers of flour from St. Louis and other points along the Mississippl and Missouri rivers to inake use of the Mor- ean line of steamers, from New Orleans to Havana, via Key West, in exportation of that commodity, the collector ot customs at New Orleans has been authorized to con- sider New Orleans as a port of exportation in such eases within the meaning of the l'mi- ulations, and allow drawbacks on bags which be shipped in future by the said provided exporters produce, in ad- dition to_the requisite bill of lading and return of officiai inspection, a certificato from the collector at Key West that no flonr in bags had been Janded at any port within his district by such vessel, and " an a erave specified in the preliminary drawbac entry filed at New Orleans, The Drive-Well Cases. WAsnINGToN, May 11.—The supreme court refused to grant the motion made by Col. Henderson of Towa some time ago to consol- idate the drive-well cases, his decision is not regarded as in any degree an indication of the opinion of the supreme court on the its of the cases. Had the decision, how- pver, been favorable, it would provably have guaranteed a more speedy termination, as the cases will come up singly and consume more time than otherwise. Refating English Lie WAsHINGTON, May 11.—Representative Ward of Chicago sent the following cable- gram to Hon, Edward Gray, Freeman’s Jour- nal, Dublin, [reland:—"As a represontatiye in the American congress from a Chicago district, where the recent riot took place, I desire to say in refutation of the Standard’s articles and of certain English newspapers that not a single person of [rish birth or of Irish extraction v vith anarchists who incited, organized or participated in the as- saults, but on the contrary al of the brave Irish-Americans were lost in protect- inge the lives and interests of Chieago ,citi- zens, Jases M, WARD.” Pension Matters. WAsiINGTON, May 1L—The senate com- mittee on pensions to-day adopted a resolu- tion calling upon_the commissioner of pen- stons for an estimate of the outlay required under Ingall’s bill for the removal of the lim- itation of arrears of pension act. "The committee ob military and_militia or- dered a fayorable report on Logan’s bill for the equalization of bountics. The Mexican Reciprocity Treaty. WasHINGTON, May 1L—The ways and means committee received the report of the sub-comm ittee adyerse to the Mexicaneci- procity t e reading of the repoit pract v consumed all_the time the com- mittee was in session. No action was taken. The Telophone Scandal. WaAsHINGTON, May 1l.—In the telephone investigation to-day, A. N. Hill testified that ad been told of the Pan-Elcetric meeting G street by another person not con- nected with the Pan-Electrie, whose name witness absolutely refused to divulge. His nt had said that Mrs. Rines, the /of the house, would make an afli- at Secretary Garland had attended that meeting. “The committee directed thewitness to give thename of hissinformant,buthe still refused. Thereupon Mr. Ranney moved that the wi Dess be presenied to the house (or contenpt but did not ask immediate action. The wit- ness pleaded illness and asked to be excused at this point and tho request was granted. New Iowa Postmasters. WASHINGTON, May 11, — [Special Tele- m.)—Seth D. Hoagland has been commis- sioned postmaster at Douglas, Iowa, and Lewis J. Kennedy at Bondurant, Iowa. Susan It Klint has been designated acting portmitiess, ot Bowen lowa, - Josepl atchell, of Montezuma, Towa, is here, He Will Return WASHINGTON, May gram.|—Representative ver, of the Omaba district, who has been in Pennsylv nia tor some time, is expected to return here the latter part of this week, e Base Ball Games Yesterday. The followi s the result of the various games of base ball played by the leading clubs of the countr AT PITTSHURG, pecial Tele- Pittsburg. Cincin Base nnati, 8, Br- s—Pittsburg 5 Cin 5 Umpire, Clinton. Pitchiers, Hofford and McKeon. AT NEW YOI Brooklyn. 80004010 0-13 Athletie 3000000 1—4 Base hits—Brooklyn, 15; Athletie, 7. Er- Brooklyn, 3: Afhlefic, 10, Pitehers, Kennedy and Hawkins. Umpire, Ferguson: LouisvitLe, May 11 lle, one in six. St Louis Base hits, Louisvilje, #; ¢ . Ervors, Lowisville 3; St . Pitchers, Rumsey and Fantz, ite, John Kelley. CmcAGo, May 1L.—Chicagos, one in tourth inning. Boston, 3, 0,0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1—, Iits, Cliicago 1, Boston 10, 'Ervors, Chi- Boston 2 Pitehers, Clarkson’ and Stemnie; Unpire, Cunr Dr: 3 10,0,0,5,4,00 Yorks, nothing. Unipiré, Gaft- — et The Greeks Advancing. LoxDoN, May 1L—"The porte notified the powers that a body of Greek irregulars aro advancing toward the frontier, Turkish troops had been ordered to repel them._The Ottoman bank will adyance the porte 50,000, e Four Persons Drowned, KANsA5 Crey, May 1L—Four persons wera drowned near Parsons, Kan., arday morning by the overturning of a ferry boat, and that ! STRIKERS RETURN T0 WORK. Many Railroad Oompanies, However, Re* fuse to Discharge New Hands. “THE CURSED BOMEMIANS." An Ominons Quict Prevails in the Chicago Lumber Yards—Most, the Anarchist, in Jal—Employers Combining Against Strikers, Chicago Again Alive. Cineaco, May 1L—|Special Telegram.] ~Business has resumed its usual aspeet ab all the freight depots to-day, and is moving along as smoothly as before the strike began. New men who were brought Lere to fill the places of the strikers are still retained by the majority of the roads. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road was among the first to reopen their freight Louses with a full set of new hands, to whom they promised steady eme ployment, and they are keeping this promise to them to the very letter. They have refused to take back any of their hands and are stilb running with a full force of new ones and are now, as they were for several day: fore the strike collapsed, taking and deliyer- ing all freight offered them. The Northe western road, and a majority of the others, also refused to discharge new hands and re- instated only as many of the old hands as were necessary to give them a full comple- ment of men. In regard to the end of the strike of switch tenders on the Western Indiana road, the ofticers of the company say that they made no concessions whatever, but that the men returned to work on the old basis of pay- men SSED BONEMIAN ROCTALISTS, A ride through the southwest Iumber dis- trict at noon to-day found most of the great yaurds stil deserted. i ono or two places venty-five or thirty men were at work as on 3 In nearly avery yard five or ten stand-bys. who are hired by the year, are keeping things in shape and guarding bilos from suspicious looking strangers. Proprie= tors are ensaged largely in-sitting at the doors of their oflices waiting. “T'hiese cussed Bohemian socialists,” said one man who would not allow his nawme to be used for fear of fire in his shingles, “'are the ones who are blocking ull our business. “They form 95 per cent of all men_employed in our_yards. There are others who can talk_ English “who arc around here anda ly to work, but they do not dare lift a_hand for'fear of these ugly, ignorant socialists, 'Ihey are enraged bos cause of e deull” of soine of thelr ‘gan from police bullets, and_from their own foll; at the drug store, and my belief is they wiil never consent to'zo to work till they have re- yenie, citlier by destroying property ur tak= ng life.” Notwithstanding the strong protection, the lumber men and - planing mill bosses did not attempt to start up their wo Both em- ployers and employes who are willing to go to work on the old basis, afraid of at- tacks by the anarchists. They were not afraid ° of ~ open attacks on men while at work in daylight, but of secret at- tacks on workmen returning home from their day’s Iabor. This is thouzht to be one of motives for renining die fo . While lumber men will not conced anything from ten hours work—it is asserted that the majority of their hands would return t one were it not for this fear of ation, trike In the North Side lumber yards is practically settled. Frow 8,000 to 5,000 men are_employed there and they have resumed work at the old scale—ten hours work and ten hours pay. Most of the wounded officers now lying at the hosvital “are improving visibly, and it ig the present opinion of those attending on the patients that there will be no more deaths, Affairs in Chicago. CnrcAGo, May 1L —There was no attempt to resume work in West Side lumber districts this morning, and §,000 to 10,000 men em- ployed in the yards are still idle. The lum- bermen claim a_great majority of the mert are overawed by the Bohemian socialists who infest that region. A large force of po- lice continues stationed in the district to guard against any outbreak. The yards in the north and south divisions of the city, and at the South Chicago yards x\n«léxlnnluz mills, are all fully resumed on th basis of teri hours’ work and ten hours' pay, 80 that the Iumber business of the city is in reality onty lightly affected. The meial working “estabe ishments opened again_this morning with lnrger working forcts than yestorday, and the proprictors exect to see all men on duty again within a fewdays. As a class the furnifure workers constitute the only ‘one still holding out for eight hours, "The boot and shoé manufactuiers who tried the eight hour day as an experi- ment, are considering the advisability of re- turning to ten hours, Evidences of the pres- ent great strikes ato rpldly disappearing fn every portion of the city. The Brunswick Balke Collender billiard tablo: compny this morning claimed they had on hand 150 men at work, ‘This number is not near) suflicient to run the factc At9:30 o'cll agreat crowd of strikers' stood around tha factory on Market street, but were dispersed Dy a squad of police, The police reserves are still on duty at their respective stations. The wolice are devoting their encrgies In proeurs 1z evidence against the anarchists, 1t i aton the trial of the conspirators will be ample for the conviction of murder against August Spies, Schwab, Parsons and Fischer, rom Under a Bed, rw Youx, May 1L.—Most, the notorious anarchist, wis eaptured in ahouse in Allen’ street in this city to-day by Inspector Byre, He was dragged from under a bed, hand= cuffed and taken to jail, - Ilinoise Dentists Convene. pumy Rock Istaxn, 1L, May 1L—The Stete Dental association met in - its twenty-second annual convention for a four days' session in the city hall here to-day, About seventy members are in attendance. There was an address of weleome by Alderman W, H, Lundy. and a response by 1'resident Giline During the day many important papers weie vead and diseussed . Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ts prepared from Sarsaparilla, Dandelion, Mandrake, Dock, Pipsissewa, Juniper Ber- and other well-known and valuable vege- table remedies. 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