Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1886, Page 2

BAD BRAKEMEN BROKEN. Fate of Deceitful Men Who Engineered the Western Trainmen's Strike, HE TRIED rO KILL HIS WIFE. The West Family in Pablic Promi- nence Again—A Busy Session of e City Counc City Mat- tersof General Interest. Brotherhood of Brakemen, Mr. S. E. Wilkenson, of Galesburg, grand master of the Brotherhood of rail- road brakemen, accompanied by Mars Nobbs, of Grand Island, member of the board of trustces of the same organiza- tion, arrived in the city last evening. Mr. Wilkenson is a finely preserved, stout, hearty, full-faced gentleman of 45, while Mr. Nobbs is a handsome, ener- getie and intelligent young man, possi- bly 80 years of age. Both of them have travelled about 3,000 miles among the striking brakemen on the U. P. They have examined into the causes which led to the movement at all the points, North Platte, Cheyenne, Lara- mie, Rawlins, Eagle Rock and Butte. As & consequence, thoy have concluded that it was onc of the most unprovoked, in- jurious, uncalled for and lamontable things that could have taken pla They emphatically pronounce it in no way authorized by or in any manner connect- ed witn the Brotherhood of brakemen. At the same time they disclose the la- mentable manner in which ignorance, stupioity, treachery and bigotry were utilized to cast the odium of the strike upon the organization. t is generally known that some time ago the Union Pacitic management en- deavored to equalize the wages of their trainmen. For this purpose Superin- tendent Smith issued a circular by which the mileage system of payment was to be introduced. i( gave dissatisfaction to some, and delegates from all points along the road called upon him for an explana- tion. To these he said that he believed the new plan would afford just as good wages as they had been receiving, and to {wovu it, he wished them to try it for hirty days. 1n the event of its failing so to do, he guaranteed the wages they had been receiving. After the matter had received a little ntion at their hands, some of the brakemen came to the con- clusion that, by means of Smith’s eched- ule, they could not earn as much as they had earned previously. This, however, 'was not the case, because while working for $65 per month, some of them had run as high as 3,200 and others 4,000 miles per month, This, at 2 cents per mile, or, as it would have been on the Utah & North- ern, 2} cents per mile, would readily have raised instead of decreasing their monthl Di sfaction ensued, and at Laramie, the of all the trouble the ring- leaders struck. This was reaily the seat r, and the uprising was occasioned by a man named Phel member of the bre qualified on gen will always ren bership in the brotherhood. Delegate Fuller was checking when Phelan approached him and said, *‘we have struck.” The malign influence of this man was injurious, and others fol- lowed under the impression that, as Lar- amie went, so went the system, Subse- quently the opposition = was aroused, crowds assembled, and determined men with cocked revolvers drove them back only by cou diserevion. If one age a ghot had been fired, have been killed. Cheyenne struck out of sympathy with Laramic, and before it could hear from their delegate, who was at Denver. Ina response to a telegram, he answered, “Take no action in the matter until my arrival.” But the message was receiyed too late. T n who authori: 200 people would an ex-Union In North Piatte ynes failed to in- form the men of the notice of Mr, Smith's cireular, which he had received « from Mr. Dorran Shuff, of North “Platte, finally received a telegram from Fuller at Laramie to ‘“‘stop the cars.” Ho then telegraphed Haynes at Sidney to the effect that he was wanted at North Platte as soon as possible. Instead of telegraphing or going there, he wrote to have the men insist on 2 17-100 cents per < mile. an. . Rawlins would not haye struck if the operator, instead of concealing, had de- livered the message from Ed F. O'Shea, grand sceretary at Galesburg, to “‘be overned by the circular issued on the 2d."” The ‘message was found in the low’s drawer, and the men, without instructions, blindly went out. 4 . At Engle Rock the men were to be paid #4870 ver month on the 1885 basis, that is, to receive $70 for that amount of work, which, in the latter year, had brought them %65, But then Delegate R. Gartin *would not figure on the plan. A union was called and everything was placed in wahis hands, and he never od them of the thirty days of t of Smith's Sachedule, hence the strike, At Butte the men w . Ragle Rock, they had rec: 5 mie to the eflect that “Wilkinson and master, “could do no good, “stop the cars.” The recipient was o #man named Russell. He had been one of the delegates to see Mr. Swith, #*while heve fuiled of election to cc with his division superintendent at o Rock, and became }mlom When h ceived the telegram to strike, he put it in “his pocket and pulled out his train, and when on the road, told others of the al- leged order, but kept on nself until gevery man had gone out, his division “remained out for over forty-eight hours after overy other place had gone to work, The first intimation Mr. Wilkinson had ,.of the strike was on May 5, at Stuart, lowa. It was then two days old. The telegram was from Mr, Nobbs, but after ussing throngh many hands it reached “Wilkinson, signed by O'Shea, and stated that the men on the Union Pacific were out wost of Cheyenne, and desired him to confer with Neasham, of the K. of L. at Denver. He immediately answered that he would leave for Denver, and re- uested Nobbs to t him at Grand sland. Another telegram sent him aft the commencement o the st Did you order strike on the Union cifict™ This was received only the nigh ““beforg last. Not having been answered, § gave the malcontorts ground to say that ikinson could not help them. we. Sinee the time of his notitication of the ~ strike, Mr. Wilkinson has been all + through the troubled district, and talked with every superintendent and a number of the strikers. He has witnessed the treachery, the deceit and the injustice «of the move. Ninety-one men have lost their situations, and’he has disqualitied everyone of them from membership in the brotherbood, and agwminst some of “these men the disqualilication I be “perpetual. The brotherhood discounte- nances all strikes, and has recourse only w40 arbitration, unless in extreme cases, Where o striké is upheld by the press, the won!e and the interests of the order, T and e Brotherhood of Brakemen is com- of from u,w& tulo:.‘u,(m llu(a;n. l:)r ese 406 arc wm the res at Omaba, ot i, Daover, Ogen, Shoshon North Platte, Cheyenne, Laramie, Raw % o Rock and Butte. The prinei - ples of the order are benevolence, so. “hriety and industry, In case of death the widow of the momber receives $609. “ITHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: In cases of sickness the sufferer receives &6 to #10 per week, It was organized September 23, 1833 in Oneonta, N.J., and since the strike it has been in Teceipt of scventy-five applications for new lodges. The officers are as follows: 8 Wilkinson, G. M., Galesburg; Neill Snlli van. Vice G, M, Binghampton; E. ¥ O'Shea, grand secretary and treasurer, Galesburg; 1. C. Foster, grand organ: izer, Ithaca; D, L. Cen sccretary of q l‘hilli]‘whur N.J J §icCarthy, Onvonta; Mars Nobbs, Grand I 1. J. 8heehan, Denver, trustees. The I reporter was permitted to lance at the ritual of the brotherhood. §i Shows tne object to be most laudable and worthy of being espoused by al honorable men. As an instance of its ef- fect, itis reported that on the Utah & Northern where employes stole $7,000 from the cars in one year, but $100 were stolen in 18 Mr. Wilkenson leaves to-night for Gales- burg, where he meets the Grand Lodge on the 24th inst., to sce if they will sus- tain him in his actof disqualifying the strikers. Mr. Nobbs leaves to-day for Kansas City, Before le inbg llmi' will endeavor to harmonize the Union Pac with the strikers. Thoy speak m kindly of ali the Union Pacific oflicials, to whom they claim to be indebted for many favors. A GOOD WORKING COUNCIL. A Busy Meeting Last Night-A Squabble Over a Policoman’s Appoints ment—Muunicipal Matters. The council met in regular session last evening, all of the aldermen being present, and transacted the following busi PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS. From W. F. Bechel, acting mayor, ap- proving ordinances adopted at last meet- ing. From the mayor, appointing Fred Behm, Chas. Neber and Frank Hanlon, to appraise damage by change ot grade of Davenport street. Confirmed. Same—Appointing Chas. Kauffman, W. A. L. Gibbon and W. J. Kennedy to as- sess damage for widening Howard street. Contirmed, Same—Appointing A. D. Balcombe, W. J. Kennedy and Chas. Kauffman to ap- appraise damage by change of grade on Pierce street. Confirmed. Same—Appomting E. Landrock and W E. Behm, Chas. J. Kennedy 'to ap- ange of grade of 's street. Same committee to appraise damage for widening of Clarke strect, and for extending Sherman street, and for change of grade of Nicholas street. Confirmed. ume—Appointing William Worthy, ank Reynolds, L. N. Yates and D. A, Hurley as special policeman. Confirmed. From ard of Public Works—Giving names of partics who_tear up paving Jithout replacing it in a proper manner. Filed. From same—Reporting contract of Raymond mpbell for the construc- tion of the Sixteenth street viaduct. Ap- proved. Same—Reporting estimate of C. H. Watson, sidewalk contractor, amounting Estimate approve 1. —Protesting against sed change of ade on ot from Jackson to Jones street. Grades and grading. Of property owners asking for the con- struction of an approach to Thirty-first from Farnam. f Cha by change of grade at Harne tecnth streets.” Finance and cf Of M. Lahey, protesting agains of grade on Jackson street, and as| Grades and grading. s Balback, asking for damages and Six- ims. damages. Finance and claims. Return of appraisers for opening and cx!cndiufi wenticth street to Spruce street. Adopted, Of Bernard Shannon protesting against chunge of grade on Davenport street. Grades and grading. Of property-owners, asking for re- moval ot slaughter house from Webster street. Police. Of property-owners on Izard street, asking that the council should order par- ties to remove certain houses which had been built insuch a manner as to ob- struct the street. Police LUTIONS By Mandel ering Izas company to lay necessary mains on Nicholas street, bétween Nineteenth and Twenty-fourth, Adopted. By Lowry—That the mayor be re- quested to appoint Frederick Albrecht as special policeman in place of Charles Nelson, removed. Adopted. By Bailey—That the names and num- bers of the streets be neatly panted on all street lamps, and that the gas com- mittee be instructed to make the best terms they cun with some painter for painting the same. Public property. A numbper of resolutiens ordering the construction of gas mams, siaewalks, and minor improvents w read and adopted or referred to the proper com- mittees. By Dailey—That the house now stand- ing'in Burt street be removed b 3 of the committee on strects and Streets an REPORT Commuttee on claims: ment of certain cl 1 for ivestigation. Adopted. Committee on claims—Recommendin, the reduction of the nssessment of J. k Van Sickle from £3,105 to $105. Adopted. Committee on grades and grading— Recommending ordinance ostablishing grades of alley. between Sixth and Tenth Recemmending I" ms referred to t & streets on Hickory street. Adopted., Same—Recommending establishment grade on Capitol” avenue from tieth street to Twenty-seventh Adopted. Committee on streets and alle Recommending an ordinance opening Twenty-second strect, Adopted. Committee on police—Recommending that the appointment of Thos. J. Orms- by as policeman be not confirmed P. Ford said he was proud of the fact that he ccured the uppointment of Ormsby, and that he would rather cut offhis right arm than to appoint a man whom he did not think worthy. He said Ormsby was a good, honest ‘young fol- low, and & man of n He said he was opposed only by cranks and whiskey bummers, Mr. Kasper said that he had been ap- proached by some of the best tax payers in Omaha who had opposed Ormsby's appointment, and that he had made in- vesti ations, which convinced him that heis not qualified for the place. Mr. Ford got the floor again, T 15 J. Ormsby i man as there is in thi sidc, The men who are mounteb. ety with Mr. as a gent Upon a vote the adoption of the report was lost, and the nomination of Mr. Ormsby was confirmed. Police committee recommending that the services of the pest house keeper be maintained by the city. Adopted The bond of Thomas J. Ormsby as po- liceman was approved. Police committee, instructing the poundmaster to strietly entorce the stock ordinance. Adopted. Publie property and improvements, R e- ig the numbering of the painting the names upon the Recommitted. Same, Recommending the purchase of two public drinking fountains, one for Sixteenth street and one for Eighteenth as re 1, inside or out- are opposing him I have been in soci- rmsby, I know him strees, - Adopted. Is:lflh‘! Rocommei mhn rémoval of the enee’ i érson square Adopted. Q‘ y 9 Fire and Witk = Works—Recom- mending laying of water malns on Har- ney street, and alsothe payment of bills against the fire department. Adopted. Sewerage—Recommending the adop- tion of an ordinance transferring certain funds to sewer funds. Adopted Paving, Curbing and Guttering—Rec - ommending the appointment of in- spectors of sewerage, paving, ete. Adopted. Viaduets and Railways—Filing papers and commucations. ORDINANCES Vacating a certain_part of Fifteenth stroot and the alley in block #794, and granting to the Omaha Belt Line railway the right to use the same for a freight depot. Viaducts and raily directing the city treasurer to make a transfor of certain funds to the sewer fund. Passed. Establishing grade of Capitol avenue from enty-sixth street to Twenty- seventh avenue. Passed, Establishing the grade of Sixteenth street from L street to north limit of the city. Passed. Making special_appropriation for the payment_ of liabilities incurred during the month of April HE TRIED TO KILL HIS WIFE. J. F. West, Armed With a Revolver and Knife, Raises a Domes- tic Row. The cries of ‘‘help’” and ‘“murder” aroused the residents of Hamilton street, near Twenty-seventh, at 1 o'clock this morning. C. W. Wilkins and L. E. Lucas, who were the first to reach the location from which the sounds came, found a woman in the middle of the street clad in her night robes which were covered with blood. She was imploring protec tion from her husband, who, she said, was trying to kill her. The woman was Mrs. J. F. West, whose a trav- eling salesman for the Simmons Hard- ware company of St. Lous. West was just coming™ out of the house after his ~ wife when he met by the men, He had his revolver in his hand, apparently ready to put it to use. The men who had_arrived at this time surrounded West, disarmed him and locked him up in one of the rooms of his house. Mrs. West was then taken to her bedroom and a messenger sent for the police to take West into custo- dy. The patrol wagon was sent in se to a telephone cull and Oftic yn sent to make the arrest. A BEE reporter, who accompa nied the party to the scene of the difticulty, found the streets in the vicinity of the West 1y filled with the “excited neighbors, all of whom were busy specu- lating upon the causes of the se wir, Inside the house were a bl dozen half clad men anding guard over West, who was t: mat- ry coolly, and was engaged in bandaging his right hand, wh cut in some manner in the dif} edroom, adjol fuenished perlor, Mrs. West was f pile'of bed-clothing, y, her face, hair and night-robe vered with blood. On the floor by the bedside’ Iaid an ugly looking butcher knife, with which Mrs. Waest says her husband threatencd to cut her throat. The window in the room was broken out and the furniture upset or broken, everything bearing evidence of the struggle that had taken place. Between her sobs Mrs. West told her She said she & lived with West several years, and that had frequently abused and ill- treated her. Armut three weeks ago she sued for divorce but he had begged so persistently and made such promises of better treatment that she had decided tolive with him again.. He came home after mianight this morning and found her in bed, He commenced abus- ing her and finally struck her in the face with his fist and threatened to kIl her. She sprang out of bed _ when he seized her and a scuflic en- d n which the window 1 out and she escaped through s n to the city jul. He took the matter very unconcerncdly and refused to offer any” explanation of his story. for h West was left at her residence in of kindly neighbors, is not the first time t been given to the publicity domes relations of the West family. fall the Bee published an account of the manner in which Mr. West watched a well known business man who had hired a livery team, s found his wife accepting attontio the business man and indulging ties with him decidedly unbecoming in a married woman. The case will come up this morning. AMUSEMENTS. THE CHARMING FRENCH ACTRESS, Rhea opens her engageme Boyd's opera house to-night, ing in “An Unequal Match the Boston Herald says: largo and kindly diposed auaience zave M'lle Rhen a cordial welcome st at the Boston theater, where : " in Tom arming She was receiy with a_ friendliness i seldom rinly ent shown save to old fuyvorites, was w applauded throughout the performance, ince and wus twice recalled before the cur Mlle Rhea’s acting proved th; an intelhgent and ¢ r standing of the ol y The charm of her comedy m agrecable impression on the Last night than did the si genuineness of her « u}mn to depict the more of the character de a no less andience of 2 When emotional Support. iday evening Mlle Rhea pl. rou-Frou.” Saturday matinee, P lion and Galatea, and” Saturday n he Country o ht The Forgery Cases. Frank Poppleton and W. X. Kennedy wore arraigned before Judge Stenberg yesterday afternoon on three charges of obtamning goods under false vretenses and two of forgery. The trial of the charge made for obtaining goods under false pretenses from Tootle, Maul & Co. was heard. It was shown that the fel- lows had blank orders printed for the different firms of the city, and also had the signatures of the firms in rubber stamps. They obtained eighty dozen spools of thread from Tootle, Maul & Co. and eighty di Robinson & Co on forged orders from Vinyard & Schneider. They then forged an order from Tootle, Maul & Co. and obtaincd seventy dozen spools from Vinyard & Schneider. The thread secured ™ in this manner amounted to $120. They were held under §500 bond each by Judge Stenberg on the charge preferred by Tootle, Maul & Co. The other five churges will be called up this morning. Inviting the Assembly. At a meeting held ut the office of O. F. Davis & Co. on Mondsy evening, it was decided to extend an invitation to the General Assembly of Presbyterians of the United States to hold their next annual meeting in Omaha in May, 1887. The as- sembly meets in Minneapolis this year and will number aout 600 delegates. ~ Omaha will be represented by Kev.T. C. Hall aud Dr. Kuhn, who have been instructed to extend the invitation to the assembly to meet here next year and to tender them the use of the Exposition building free of charge. Hot water, — Jnraleu nurse, — child scalded. St. Jacobs OIl cures scalds. HIS CONDITION SERIOUS. Bartley Campbell Satd to Be Losing Hid Mina. Bartley Camplcli's, Fourteenth stroet theatre closed Safurday might, says the Now York Sun, affer {lie performance of “Woman Against Woman,” by Eftie Ellsler and her company. There was a good house, and the prosper- ous one, but the theatre was nonc the less obliged to close its doors, for on Monday Ned Gillthore and Sam Colville yot out an injunction restraining Ernest h rvier, Lthe receiyer who has been ran- ning the theatre since Feb. 24, from pay- ding any of the réecipts to the common creditors, and yesterday Robert J. Walker, one of the common creditors, enjoined him from paying anything to anybody else. Five hundred dollars, too, became due for a theatrical license on May 1, and, as the mjunctions prevented its payment, Mr. Harvier concluded that rather than violate the law by running without a license he would shut up shop. There were other complica which rendered Mr. Harvier’s 1ot as anything but a happy one his return to town ten days ago, Bartle Cuampbell, 1t is said, has been regnla helping himself to lialf a hundred or 50 of the best seats in the house without regard to the interests of Miss Ellsler or his creditors, preferred or otherwise. Yester- day ho is'said to have arrived at the box office_before thoe ticket agent, and whe the oftice waa closed. This made but 1i tle difference to him, for he got a pully weight used to steady scenery with and smashed the wooden shutter of the box- office window through which the tickets are sold. He then, it is alleged, crawled through the narrow aperture into the office at the risk of breaking his neck, and confiscated fifty or sixty tickets. Leaving the pully weight behind him, I waltzed off with his booty out of the M“‘f door, which was the door he had got in by, and disappeared from the view of the junitor, the only other person in the thea tea, who first learned of his presence on seeing him go away. Taking tickets from the theat y presumed to be his own i unny thing Mr. Campbell has been doing. He summoned his creditors, by an advertisement m a theatrieal paper,to meet him at Fourteenth Street (L atre a week ago yeste ¥ summons and waited thr and lus lawyer, who, according to the ad- vertisement, was to explain things. But neither Mr, Campbell nor his lawyer put in an appearance. The lawver knew nothing of the appointment which had been made for hum until he met an indig- nant creditor later in the da In addition to the sixty creditors there came to the theatre that day several actors and actresses with whom Mr. Campbell had made imaginary engage- ments, and these, being mistaken for more creditors, were treated with corres- ponding contumely. Mr. Campbell is said to be continually engaging somebody or other to play somewhere at fome hour. Those who are acquainted with this habit humor his eccentricity, but oteasionally his offer is treated seriously, | Mr. C; .nphv]l seems to bave a vague idea of the extent of his habiliti 1e refers to them hs a bagatelle of %1, or $1,200, whereas'they, are estimatec £0,000. His assdks qught to be much more, but nobody knows whether they are or not. WA As may be expedted 'from the forego- ing, Mr. Campbell’s friends consider his condition very serious mental L:bor and y 3 cansed o tempogary, dpraiigemont of hi aculties. One ‘who knows him i mately said last night that he been himself for a that he was repeating ‘the. expe John McCullouglh, s (1 (AR AN ENGINEER'S STORY. 1 at A Thrilling Run With a Wild Engine Behind. Ihad arunout of Columbus, O., ten or twelve years ago, and several things conspired to bring about the incident T am about to relate. I had apassenger run of nine hours, beginning at 7 o'clock p. m. For nearly three years 1 had a wfter a railroad of- nd I got to know that piece of v v better than any cever knew his horse. You may buy two watches of the same make, of the same jeweller, at the snme time, and while one locomotive named ficial, “Ben 1 will fkedp excollent time "and givo good 5. st ction, the other will have off 1t the same with two locomot While “Ben Davis’ would make regular trips, day after day, for months, without giving me the lea ouble or wanting a ent's worth of repairs, other locomo- tives from the same shops were in the hands of the repairer: often as out on the road. One of our freight engineers was a man named George koby.” He ea to our road from some line in New Eng-. land and gave good satisfaction for about three months, Then whisky got the bet- ter of him and he went to the dogs, One day, after his fireman had brought “the train into Colambus, with Roby drunk and asleep on the floor of the his blue envelepe. The ide: lodged in his head that the ofiicials were down on him and he swore that he would have revengo for being discharged. One afternoon he turned up the voud and was noticed to be drinking heavily and have the bearing of & man bent on some desperate deed. — This was at a station cighteen miles from Columbus and on somy April evening. I was due th £ 7:28, and it wis o tvo-minute stop, A mixed freight always sidetracked ther for us to pass, and then followed us down the line. Well, T was there on this special even- ing on time, as usual, having baggzage, express and three coiches. It began to drizzle just bafore we reached the sta- tion, and I saw that we were in for a d; night and a slippery track. Idid not see Roby, nor did any one tell me that he had shown up there, 1 noticed that that freight train was unusually long and that it was pulled by one of the big- gest engines on the read. Three or four people got off, and perhaps as many got on, and we were oft on a second. It was a run of seven miles tdithe next stop, and my scheaunle was thirty-seven miles an hour. We hadnogyeticome to a stand still at the next stov yhen the telegraph operator, whose faco ‘Was as white as snow, ran alongside apd called to me “There's a wild cogine behind you— for heav " Heran back to the conductor, and in ten seconds that official rushed up and shouted to n “It's a rul once!" ) He yelled *All shoawl!” sprang for the steps of a car, anhawny we went, some of the peopld gétting oft or on being flung down as they jostled eacn other. Afl we left th station where the reight was sidetracked a brakeman ran down the track to open the switch, As he did s0 Roby mounted the engine with cked revolver in hand, and drove the engineer and fireman off. He had pre viously uncoupled her from the train elfgine—pull out at without being detected. He ran t )e gine out on the main line and half a milo Beyond. Then he filled up the fire-box, saw that she had plenty of water, pulled the throttle wide open and jumped off. That was how we came to have a runa- way engine hi $. As soon as th engineer was driven from the cab he ran ingo the station and informed the oper ator, and_about the time the runaway started off we got the news. We were about six miles abead of her. That meant obout six minutes. When | pullod out Isupposed the pro- gramme was for some of the station folks to run down and open the switeh so that the runaway would be ditehed, but it ur peared that the agent was so dreadtully WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1886, -2 rattled that he did not attempt this stop until too late. The switch was forty rods from the station, and just as the reached it the runaway came ast. My next stop was ten ant. 1 reasoned it out in about a minute that if the runaway was ditehed the fact would be telegravhed T 4 sho wasn't, that fact wonld als over the wires, and 1 would get sor or signal as we passc f sho was lowing us there would be no time to switeh in, and my hair stood up at the idea of trying to outrun he I made the ten miles in twelve minutes and a half A milo away T began tooting the whistlo, and as we neared the station, still flying, I'leaned out to look for the agent. He was on the platform. If he held up his hand 1 was to stop. But he did not. On the cont he waved his arm down the line for me'to keep on, and I knew that we were in for it he runaway could not be over three minutes benind, and there would not be time to turn her in on the siding here, Thonext stop, was closon miles away, and it was a good piece of (ra Little by little I gave her more steam, and after irst mile T knew that we cling off a mile every minute. There was train enough to hold us steady, and the track was straight, and but for tho awful roar it would have been easy to imagine were flying. The agent ahead would let me know by signal, as the other had done. He was on the platform, with a great crowd behind him, and he motioned me on. The runawny was still after us. 1t was eight miles and a half to the next station, and Tcould not do botter than forty-five or forty-eight miles an hour on up-grade. The runaway must catch us in the next six or seven mules. We had gone about five miles when I got the sig- nal to stop, and as soon as I La'l slowed down a little a brakeman came over the tender with the mstructions to stop atthe station. The conductor knowing that we could not outrtn the wild engine, could think of but one plan to save the train. He called the passengers from the rear coach and castit of. This was on the eleven- mile run, and the coach had about two minutes to lose its momentum before the runaway struck it. The pilot ran under the platform, the end of the coach was lmml up, and the next moment engine and car were in the ditch. Neither one of them was ever repaired, the wreck being too complete, nor did the officers of the law ever succeed in laying hands on Roby. R gy ALWAYS PLACID. An Ineffectual Attempt to Rouso a Telegraph Operator Into Feeling. Detroit Free Press: The receiving clerks behind the desks at the telegraph oflices are cool, placid fellows. They ake your message of life or death with perfect indifference, mechanically count the words, and look a bit bored as they reply SIt wi I had several I de. He by softly wl counted the ain chap for 5 conts, please eye on a cer before 1_humbled his sulted me. He insulted me iispering to himself as he words_ in the following go: irandmother died last night very suddenly, How many of you can ateend n I handed in that me: pected him to exhibit a little While he could not have been personally aequainted with my grandmother, be must have suspected that she wa nice, old lady, and that her sudden death had o tly ‘overcome me. Why didn't he 0ok up with a bit of sympathy in his eye and say: “Too bad; T know just how you feel and I'm sorry for you."” But, no. hu whistled and counted, made atch or two with his pen, and remarked “Three words o —seventy cents.”’ And as he made change he’ told o the boys behind the counter that hy if he wasn’t going to the dog fight that night. ‘Then he picked up my dead grandmother’s dispateh and banged it on a hook, shovéd me over some change, and turned away to resume the perusal of a sporting paper. The next w I went in with a d pateh, announcing that my grandmother’s will had been opened and that I came i for $25,000. That man must have by my face that I was highly elated. 1(’:m,,ri.;m, he never had a fifth of that sum, and his salary had just been cut down %10 per month, but when Le read the dispateh he cadmly announce “Forty cents, and you forgot to date 1 And then he began talking to one of his fellow elerks about a slugiring mateh, and how he won $3 by betting on the right man. [ don’t say he ought to have swung his hat and cheered over my good fortune,but why couldn’t he have extend- ed his hand and said: “Eh, old boy? In luck, ain’t you? Well, I'm glad on it. Send around the cigars and we'll smoke to your good health.” £ made up my mind when 1 went out that I would upset that man’s equanimity or lose a leg. 1'd tumble him off that pe- destal of placidity if it cost $1,000. I'd upset, unbalance und unhinge him or die ve him two weeks to repent. trying. 1 Itisn zht to rush a telegraph man out of the worldin u day’s notice. I went back one evening, and I felt a bit sorry for him as he glaneed up and and then let his eyes return to his Polico Gazette. I knew that his wife and child were in Ohio on a visit, and 1 stepped to the desk and wrote Derrorr, June 6. bus, Ohio. Pl ticuls J. H. Smith, Colum- se telograph us full par of the accident by which Mrs, orge Taylor and daughier of this city nstantly kifled this afternoon. T felt a bit sorry as I handed it knowing that the man might faint 1 the terrible news. Still, e cceived the dispateh, whistlcc as was his wont, clattered the point £ his pen along the words as he counted, and then drawled out: HA dollar and twen shall I send the answer “Did you read that dispater¥' I asked after looking at him for half a minute, “Yes." “Do you know the parties?"’ *Yes, sir,” v conts and where n't your name George Taylor?" i n't the parties your wife and daughte No, sir. They returned home this morning. Here's your change!" e In Defense of Mothe: Cassell's Family Magazine tor May: To support the idea that mothers-m-law have never been favorably regarded, ethnologists tell us that a singu tom, which enacts that a man shall neve look upon the face of his mothe r he is once married, 1|uxv.n] us savage peoples apj dely sunde; tion and differences of race. The cus- tom obtains among the Kaflirs of South America, among several of the Australi tribes, and among many Polynesians, a fuct which some people asgume to point toa common origin of these ruces, but which_others look upon as testimony of the existence of a natural law, as a piece of wisdom indigenous to each of these countries, and the direct growth of indi yidual experience. The custom bel found in such widely separated con as Africa and Australia is considered a roviog that it must I been suggested ¥ 50IGe Common necessity of human na- ture, and ressons are not wanting to show why savages discoverea it was bet ter for a ‘man not to look us his mother- in-law. - Primarily say the supporters of this theory, beeause his mother-in-l wus a piefure in anticipation what hi wife was likely to be. Before marriage, arently 2d by geographical distribu- man’s mind may not be open to the cold I\rn«nuns of comparison, but afterwards he begins to consider what sort of a bar- ain he has made, and if his mother-in- aw has notimproved with age,the ghastly possibility of his wife becoming like her rises before him. Hence these savage tribes prescribed the rule that never after marriage should a man_ see his mother-in-law, and thisin time became a social law or custom. It has been more than once flippantly suggested that this lesson of & venerablo expericnce might be accepted and the adopted here, while others, regardless of social and other s, have advocated the insti- tution of a kind of suttee arrangement, which should bind the I sh matron by social vropriety to close her moruwl career upon her daughter's marriage Apart from the suggestion only being available in_cases where one daughter alone blessod ingo, thero is the mwore important consideration that to eliminate mothers-in-law alto gother fr society, even if it were po; would bo most disastrons in its’ effcot. 1s hor prosence really always so disazrceable, so baneful to onjoymont? Is her advice 1 neoded?” The world has always sided against her; it doos not stop to consider the double characteristics of maternity which are involved when both sons and qu'xhu-rs marry; it still persists in view- ing her only in her character of wife's mother, and repeats and revivities from time to time all the malicious denuncia- uons or witty epigrams that have become associated with her name. Thackeray eyen, who, with his large knowledge of the world and the human heart, might have been expected to be more lenient to the unfortunate race of mothers-in-law, goes out of Ius way to draw the horrible Mrs. Mackenzie, pity- ing his sweet, silly little Rosie and the much-injured wives of her acquaintances, without reflecting that they in thelr turn might become mothers-in-faw. Does not this fact furnish ooa for reflection to the young husbands of to-duy, who a quar- ter of a century henco may find their loving wives unavoidably drifting inio mother-in-lawhood? And again, is it not rather unreasonablo in a young man to object to her who has hm? the greatest share in molding the character and train- ing the habits of the one woman he chosen from all others to be his compan- ion for life? How strange it is, when onelooks the question in the face, that a lady who is considered harmless enough until her children marry, should after that happiest of family events be elovated to such a painful pedestal of disagree- ableness! As a matter of fact, in spite of all that novelists and playwrights haye written, the mothers-in-law of sons generally get n far better than with ‘their heir Scalp: said Maj. Cooke, ny, “we made up i bhunting “In tl par ri Laramic and proceeded up the “Laramie river valley about fifty iles. There were twenty-one of us, in- three or four citizens, We had been out for about a week, and had seen no sign of redskins, when' one morning we awoke to find that we were in for a disagree The clouds hung low, a fine drizzle was falling, and we knew that it was useless to look tor any change for the better before midnight. “A gentleman named David Mills, at- to some eastern college as taxidermist, and who wus also an en- thusiast on the subject of mineralogy, member of the ty and o great favorite. When breakfast had been dis- patched he donned his waterproof and expressed his intention of scouting up the valley a short distance after speci- mens. I offered to accompuny him, and after canvassing the project for'a fow moments we concluded to take our horses and inspect a canyon which we had passed two or three days before about six miles up the valley. He took a double-barreled shotgun and I my Win- er and a h , with a° lunch strapped to my saddle \\ e got off about 9 o'clock, with the n coming down in a steady drizzle, and we reached the canyon without inci- dent worthy of record. * It was known to the camp that we expected to be gone all day. The entrance of ti jon was a sort of basin, perhaps half an wcre in eir- cumference, with enough grass to keep our hovses eating for two o¢ three hours, We unsaddled and hobbled them, tucked the saddled under an overhanging rock, and then started in to explore the can. von. At the back end of the basin, and just before th I split in the mountain hegan, a tremendous rock which fallen down from above. Its crest was at least twenty feet higher than the floor of the basin, and its broken and jagged sides offered' n elimber an easy way up. We stopped for awhile tosurvey the great mass, and to imagine what a ‘crash it must have made when it rolled down, and then passed into the cunyon proper. Just about this time the ran began to pour down with great vigor, and our en- thusiasm for exploration was a good deal dampened, . “Mills gathered various speci rock as we stumbled along the t # spot where a large slab of sandstone «d opportunity we stopped and_eut our names in the soft rock. By and by the way b s 50 gloomy thit we de cided to tu ck, the more cspeeially as the terrific rain was sending a_ str of water down the center of the o This stream kept growing in size, until it I become a reapectable creck as it ched the basin Lhere it took a p to the left of the big rock and rushed out to join the Laramie, which stream made a bend toward us just in front of the basin, and ouly three hundred feet aw: “1 never saw it rain harder. The roar of the falling drops on the rocks was enough to prevent all conversation, and our s im was to find some sort of Ve got it under one side of the poken of. A shelf pro- ected out far enough to shelter our bodies, and we drew our legs up und sat there for the next half hour as dumb as oysters. All of @ sudden, with no more warning than the snap of the finger, n wuve of water flooded in upon us, and literally washed us out. As we went out from under the shelf we found the basin to be a lake, with the water waist decp. The big rock was our ouly hope, but we had to drop our guns as we pulled our- selves up. The waters followed us, and paused not until we reached the top. From there we looked down on a strange sight. The Laramie river was pouring into the basin from one side and the can yon was sending a riyer in from the other, and by the time we gained the crest the wafer around us was twelve or fifteen fect deep. “We had not yet spoken when we caught sight of thie bodies of our horses being whirled around in the basin, and the next moment we saw the heads of half a dozen Indians dotting the water. The two rivers flowing into the basin created a sort of whirlpool, and though the redskins were swimning bravely they could not break ont of it, At onc point, where the eurrent swept past the vocky side, they would cluteh and hang in the most deésperate manner, but only to be sw along again after a moment They made the most tremendous efforts to break through the circle and reach our rock, but it was i vain. We looked down upon them until the last Indian ave up the unequal fight and sank from ht. Shortly after the last one di:n‘). peared the water in the basin suddenly went out until we could sce the rocky bottom again, and soon after that tho CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET. Wheat Low at the Outset, but Legitimate Oonditions Assert Themselves. "GUN&ING FOR LONG WHEAT.” Cattlo Market Dull-Pork Higher— Wheat Closes Tame — Hogs Open Strong and Close Quite High. CHICAGO GRAIN MARKE CittcAqo. May 18.—{Speciat Telegram, |— The speeulative markets were excited and ragged to-day. With surface influences all in favor of higher prices wheat broke 1e righs from the opening, June going down to 74!, July to Tolge and August to TT@TTe. There was a tremendous selling, and there being a dearth, buying orders on the floor of the market were left without support. It was given ont that [ra Holmes had broken the market by throwing 1,000,000 bushels into the pit. The explanation was offered in cer- tain quarters that the salos wero on account of a very wealthy bucket shop syndicate and that a rald was made to frecze out an army of stubborn customers throughout the coun- try who had margined their trades down to 5@75%e. That something of the sort was on the tapls was hinted ata week or ten days ago, but not much stock was taken in the gossip. The first explanation of the early break was that Cudahy had raided the market to bring out some long wheat ho had been ‘“gunning for" and for a time it looked as though all the wheat in the world was for sale, but before the day was over the theory of the bucket- shop raid was accepted as being probably not entirely without foundation. At any rate the market reacted sharply when the pressure was taken off. The big fight was af e, and only a few trades were made af 7d75c. No sooner was that point reached than the pressure was lifted and legitimate condi- tions asserted themselves, 81 NG DOWN. There was heavy trading on the break, and on reaction, but after the market quloted itself values softened somewhat and the close at 1 o'clock was only ¥ @!gc from the bottom, - On a rally the price advanced near- ing level, tN-—Kverybody wanted to scll corn at e start this mo ng.'. and it look: very for holders who had bought Yor g stron advance. The market was unmistakabl shaky, but Wari Orr, Crittenden, Comes and a few others checked the decline ana st rices on the up-turn, jumping prices L there was only a frace 1y to the ope! Co toward the close. ts held fairly steady, showin woakness early, but recovering an ng firm, Provisions independence and strei the strongest article on t wheat never affed tained its firmne: encd break in corn. Pork—Pork scored n and closed at 1 'clock ¥’ last quotati 2:50—Wheat firmed up on_ the afternoon board on_taking of fourteen boat loads in New York and engagements here for a lake shipment of a quarter willion bushels, and then eased off Trom lack of buying orders g tame. Provisions also spiritless and all the early strength seeming to have displayed great 1t was Tlie raid on e provisions, and It main- 0 the tace of a threat- advance of 12}go, o higher than yes: 0—Puts on June wheat, Tio; calls, OHICAGO LIVE STOCK. CmrcAGo, May 18.—|Speetal Telegram, j— CarrLE—The { cattle market (this fmorning w omewhat slow from the fact that sales- men on the strength of moderate receipts de- manded considerably higher prices than buy- ers were willingto pay. The demand for light cattle was very good and all light and medium weight cattle sold at very strong . Some 1104 1b stoers, very fat, sold at 3 For really prime heavy cattle offer- ings were light and the demand was quito equalto the supply, But the “‘pretty good” 330 and 1400 1b cattle, wnicn were not of very attractive quality, were exceedingly d to sell at steady prices, 138 Nebraskas, 3 , 1083 Ibs, lbs, $5.45; 19 Nebraskas, 17 export, 1454 1bs, $5.85. market opened strong and e higher that the lowest yester- and shippers bought about 17, ud there were 2,000 or 3,000 left —iot large number considering the rrivais closed about di for the past two days. Best assorfed heavy made $ and mixed $4.1504.25. Light sold at 5. FINANOIAL. MoNEY—On call, PareR — 4@5 New York. May 18, easy at 1 Prive Munc per but steady; ys; $4.59 r!;r Dull and unchanged. EXCITAN 377 for s Opening res were ot or lighest prices reached, while final pr were close to the lowest of the day, and the market olosed dull but steady. BTOCKS ON WALL STREET. 3% centbonds... 1001 C. &N, W U. S, 4i¢'s.. n2ig| New 4's Pacific 6's of "5, 1 Central Pacific . g Ki ferrod Mo, Paci North weferred. .. CHICAGO PRODUCE, florce rain was replaced by a steady dri 'he results of specimen hunting were the loss of our firearms and horscs; but we did not complain. But for the flood we should bave lost just as much and our scalps besides.” Chicago, May 18 —Flour unchanged; winter wheat, £4.00004.50; Wisconsim, gan soft spring wheat, sota bakers, $3.50@4.50; patents, Wheat—Active ata further decline: opened at about yesterday’s tigures but elosed a shado lower, and steadily declined le for June and on deferred futures, improved 3e, closing Sc below yesterday: cash and May, 74%@ THi4e: June, 1@ e. orn—Stronger; opened easy. selling off 3c became firm, advaneing adic, becane s ing e above yosterday's closes Sics May, 83%c; June, S04@ Gais—Opened a little low futures, tien " uproved steady: cash, 285¢c: May, 2% ye—Dull at o G0e. for deferred and closed June, 25)c Whisky Pork—Stronger; advanced 10@15c, towaras the close seitlcd 'back d@Tige, and closed yi cashand M 5507 June, $5.50@ 8.8214, fard—Ruled steady and unchanged; cash, May and June, $5.95@5.97). ats--Shoulders, @ hort ribs, §5 Dull ‘und weak'; v, 1342, ir demand; 544t 10 short (540, creamery, 13@ full eream clied- flats, 10w10)¢. green salted, oull hides, @lic; calt deacons 506, white country, A, #do; i brown Gre: B de; yellow, Recelpts, Shipments. Flour. bl 4,000 Wlieat, ou. 190,000 Corn. bu.. 97,000 . 140,000 bu. 7,000 ¥00X BoA kD.~Wheat—Easy; J une, 4 rlc ~Weaker, Juue, 85175, Others unchanged. New York, May 18.—Wheat—Receints, 70,000% i 57,000; spot declined Kglige aid options 5 @/ge. leaving ol stgady; um | 4 } 1;1 b |