Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 23, 1886, Page 1

SINTEENTH YEAR. RUSSIA DEPOSES ALEXANDER. | The Balearian Uomplications and the Re- sults Likely to Follow, OPINIONS FROM GREAT BRITAIN Prince Alexander Sclf Love of the Czar- What Should be D With Ba- toun—Other Foreign. Sacrificed to the | ne Bulgaria's Prince Deposed, Brrnis st 221t is stated here that Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, was deposed and made prisoner during an_inspection of troons at Widden. The Cologne Gazette and Berlin Post express the belief that that event Will tend to preserve peace. They say that Prince Alexander's personal qualities d gerved a better fute, but Enzland having re- Tused him aetive support against Russia, and Turkey being afraid to in behalf of Julgaria, and the Gastein meeting showing that the alliance was unbroken, his position was a hopeless one, British Press on Knsaia, LoNDoN, Augnst 23, 4 a, m.—[New York Herald Cable cial to the BEeE he prophesy of an eminent statesman, not long azo cabled, i begimning to be realized by the Bulgarian busin This subject engrosses newspaper attention. The Morning Post, the government organ, in commenting on the event, says: “Prince Alexander, who has shown admirable conduet in open dis cussion and in the fieid of battle, has been worn out by the slow course of incessant intricue and conspiracy with which he has been eonfronted. His deposition has Dbeen so swdden that time must be_allowed to pass before its tull effect can be discussed at all. At present what is plain is that Russia has suceceded in CRUSIING HER OPPONENT. T'o her diplomacy in the t of Europe and the forced abdication of the prince following the reputation of the Batoun elause of the treaty of Berlin. show restlessness. Russian activity is sure to engage the serions attention, not of Great Britain alone, but of the other powers concerned in the maintainance of veace in Europe. ANTIRUSSTAN COMMENT. The Telegraph comments with stron Russian feeling, taking for its te ezar cannot bear near his borders any people which possess even the semblance of free- dom.” Itsays: *“Alexander has been sacri- ficed to the wounded selt-love of the czar, who has just broken hig father's pledge re- gpecting the port of Batoun. Its conclusion 18 concerned with the conversion of Batoun intoa arsenal at the moment when the Black fleet @merges into view. The re- turn of Russian control over Bulgaria must awaken w lively refleetion even in the ealm minds of the sedate Ottoman EUROPE'S PEACE IMPF The Chronicle finished a sin leader by saying: B Europe las been iner fmperiled by this insolent defiance of by Alexander 1L must be appazent to most careless observer,” THE TIMES CONCLUSIONS. imes, discussing the event, and re- from Vienna and t for two empires to on while Russia I svstem of the 1LED, ar anti-Rus- : of wsingly and gravely rope the Terlin, remarks be prepared Teconstn Balkan y ove.” It asks: “And how is Austrin Jikely to bear it with equanimity? In the long run the great and undoubted growth of Russtan prestige south of the Danube witl be au inevitable result of _this and signal triumpluof hier policy.” SALISBURY'S DAN The Times Is forced to believe that Lord Salisbury at the commencement of his second term of offiee is confronted with all the dan- gers and dificulties, only of an aggravated form, which he had to face on his first ac- cesion to power. The Times dispateh adds: STt will be notieed that the members of the provineial government at Sofia are, with the exception of M. M. Kaxavelofl and Grekoff look politic ninsuly, no one in his senses can to the new L00K, dstonian, concludes that the eficet of Russia’s action, for as such 1t must be regarded, upon the peace of Europe may be extremely serious, and that Prince Alexander, bemng nominally o vassal of the sultan, if his deposition can be proved to have been cffected by a foreign agency with- out the consent of the porte, o grave intern; tional diflicuity will at once be raised. WIAT WILL BISMARCK DO? The Standard, which stands close to the government, i5 concerned over the work of Muscoyite plotters and asks what Bism arck s gomg to do about it. It takes a serious view of the situation and wonders if Bis- marek will allow Russia freedom to operate against Maceaonia It will thus be seon that the tone of the London press Is decidedly of a jingo order, The News in Parls, Tans, (via Havre) August 22.—New York Cable—Special to tho Bre.)—The news of Prince Alexander’s downfall mado a sensa- tlon here this aftornoon. It was at first di believed, but as successive telegrams seemed to settle the matter beyond doubt, there was considerable excitement on the bonlevards, By miduight, however, the excitement had subsided, ‘The general impression to-night in politieal circles i that the prince’s theatri- cal collapse would have been impossible with Bismarck’s connivance, It is therefore a guarantee of peace. Most people with whom 1 have disenssed the news rexard the prince’s removal s an Austro-German concession to Russia and the prico of the cz’s readhierenca, T'o-morrow may put a new complexion on the matter, but to-night war is not believed to be inuninent. Every- one is curious to know how England will take her prowege's upset, Provisional Government Formed. Loxpoy, August 22.—A dispatch from Bolin, Bulgaria, dated Saturday, say populace and troops quartered in the surrounded the palace early this There was no disorder, sombled and adopted a resolution praying the czar to re-extend his sympathy to the Bulgarian people. ‘The asseniblage proceeded to the palace of the Russian agent and sub- mitted to him the resolution, all kneeling ‘I'ie agent assured them of the czar’s friend- Mip. The following provisional government has been formed: 1'rime minister, Mons. Clement, Metropolitan of ‘Tirnova; winister orning, The populace then of foreign affairs, M. Stajonoif; minister of interior, M. Zunkoll'; minister of nee, M, Kurimnof; minister ot war. M. Nekiterosoff ; nuinister of justice, M. Radoslayotl, The Seventy-Sixth Victim, LoxNnoy, August 2.—A foreign lady who lost £1%,000 at the Monte Carlo gaming tables has committed suicide iu a villageinear Gron- oble. This makes the seyenty-six case of THE OMAHA WILD WESTERN CATTLE, Range Steers Play Hayoe With Feed- ing Barns Near Fremont F NT, Neb, August Special to I'ie Standard Cattle mpany tablished a mammoth ranch six t of the city with a large barn hav apacity of 5,000 head, have met with an unexpected and serious reverse, Al ar rangements having been completed to begin feeding the company received on Thursday their first train-load of cat from the Wy oming ranch. Fifty head of the wild steers were first driven into the barn and fastened into their stalls, when an_exciting scene ensved The cattle, unused to continement, made a dash for liberty and swept out the stalls as they would Was 80 thore sive corral a only stopped freedom In rounding. were pro up and le Their fr lsobroke the mas- they would” a spider’s web, and when they had gained their the six-thousand acre ticld sur- A number of men on hol hack ared and the wild beasts rounded ded on to the inand the whole train <hipped through to Chicago, as werc three othier train loads which followed. “The company are now rebuilding the interior of the wreat barn and will make every part 1abric of straw el that they t massive and strong enouzh to resist the pvower of a herd of frightened cattie, Laying Track Fas Frisost, Neb., August the Bew.|—Track laying on the Elkhorn & Missouri V ward rapidly. The large bridce across the Platte, six miles west of the city, is com- pleted, and the rails are beinz strung Lin- colnward. Last evening the track layers ar- rived with the iron at Cedar Blutfs, the first Special to Fremont, is now going for- station south, and about twelve miles from Fremont, A gang also laying track on the Scribner extension about fifteen mil completed, Lincoln extension will not be finished in time tor trains to ran over it to the state fai The Fircmen's Tournament. FremoNt, Neb., Aungust 2—[Special to the Ber, [—Final arrangements have been completed for the Firemen’s state tour ment which opens Tuesday and continues four ds he towrnament will be held ou the fair grounds, one wile nortiiwest of the city. The race track has been put in splendid shape, a new and commodious amphitheater carefully anged to contribute to the con- venience and comfort of visitors, ‘I'he mana- gers are assurcd that there will be large del gations present from all portions of the The parade ro.te has been laid out and ¢ ratiye arclies span the principal streets, Nebraska and lowa Weather. For Nebraska and Io Fair weather, slightly warme - SUNDAY BALL GAMES. Lincoln Wins a Game With Denyer— Other Contests. © Lincory, Neb., Auzust 22.—[Special to the B he fourth and last of the Denver- Lincoln series of zames, postponed from last Wednesday, was played to-day on the home grounds, resuiting in or of the hoe tea inascoreof 12to 7. This leaves eacl the winner oi two games in the scries. fact that the clubs would play on Sunday was kept quict until nearly noon and the rame was not interfered with, Hefer pitched for the home club, Mountjoy for Denver, with Hurley nmpire, OTHER GAMES, S, ¥ . TEN LS1, Brooklyn 0 00600 Metropolitans....2 0 2 0.0 0 0 0 Pitebiers—-Cushuan and Uenderson, pire—Bradley. AT LOUISVILL. Cincinnati.0 0 ¢ Louisville..0 1 Eleven inniy Pitchers—Hecker and Pechiney, Base hits—Cincinnati 7 -onis Errors—Louisville 5, Cincinnati 6. Kell 100000 000000O0T1R2 =3 Unpire, A1 ST Louts— * Louis.. 010100020 Pittsburg 25000100 48 & Pitchers—Caruthers aud Morris. Umpire Walsh, e A Drunken Anarchist, CHICAGO, Augist 22.—Joseph Hillman is a German, who wes drank to-day and appar- ently unable to contain anarchists’ doctrines with which he seemed to be overflowing. He stood on a corner n Wost Twelfth street station and pour out violent and incendiary chist speec until he was driven Vi the police, Hitlman was particularly violent in denouneing her Krabolieli, pastor of S ernan Catholic church at the corner of West Twelfth street and Newberry After being chased away (1 veet, Hillma ent to nd South Halsted crved a large crowd b bid oratory. The propogation of socialistie ntiment was soon stopped by officers from Canalport avenne, who arrested Hillman and lie will have a chanee to-morrow in- court to explain away his sympathy with anarchists. —— ore Bom!i Tound. D, Augnst 22, afely laid away in md street station are four ma- which are supposed to be dynamite ‘Ihey were found to-day in the rear of No. %65 Fast Twentv-fifth street. The bombs are made of gas-pipe oneineh in dinm- cter and each eight inches long. The ends a0 plugged up with wood, and to one end of each is attached a fuse six inches longe. A piece of cord was tied to the bomb with a nail fastened in cach cord, The police explain the utllity of the cord and nails by say g the bombs werc in- tended to be used in buildings. to which they were to be fastened, ‘Thers 15 no clew to the parties that secreted the bowmbs, ~— THE FIRE TOURNAMENT. The Programme of an Annual Event. Omaha firemen will be interested in the state fire tournnment, which will be held at Fremont, August 24 to 27th, inclusive. The programme will be as follows: FIRST DAY, AUGUST 24, Reception of visiting firemen, al parade of firemen at 4 p, m, SECOND DAY, AUGUST 25, cond hose race, 9:30 a. m.; 1st £150; 2d prize, §100; 8d prize, $35. ond hook and ladder race Cnica Twent, chine bomb: Interesting THIRD DAY, AUGUST 26, Hook and ladder race for companies that have never contested, 9:30 4. m.; first prize, $i00; sccond prize, §315; third prize, $50. Hose race for companies that have never contested, 2 p. g tirst prize, §100; \d prize, $15; third prize, §5). Zxhibition pompier ladder corps, T p. m.; for the company muaking the tmest exhibit and performing 13 work in the wost alleetive manner—prize, $50. FOURTH DAY, AUGUST 27, Exhibition of water works, 10 8. m, AFTERNOON OF FOURTH DA ate race for hook and ladder com- + 1st prize, $100 and belt; 2d p $100; 3d prize, $50. Laddermen’s contest: Prize, $50 gold badge. State race for prize, $100 jand ¢ prize, §50. Couplers contest, for best couplers Two gold badges, §15 each. hos companies: 1st 2 prize, $100;5d suicide owing to losses at Monte Carlo since the beginntng of the season, Cleveland Attends Church. Prosrrer Housk, N. Y., August ¢ President Cleveland aud purty attended clurch this afteruoon, o Indignant Anarchists to Meet, CLEVELAND, August 22.—Circ.lars haye becn distributed here eailing @ weeting ot local Aunarchists to-morrow evening to ex- nation” at the conviction of the eight conspirators at Chicago. THE STORM'S DESTRUCTION, of Desola the Waves Galveste rought Havoo, LOSS VERY EXTENSIVE. THE Hlomes Washed Away and Families Left to Suffer—Vessels Lost in the Gulf—The Cottg Crop Destroyed. The Texas Hurricane. GALYESTON, Tex., Ausu wind freshened Friday evening there were appreliensions that the night would be a rep ition of the night before, but these were put away as the night advan By 10 o'cloek the rain had ceased and the elouds lad broken away. Fawilies who had been driven from their homes by the rapid inroad of the gulf waters the night before returned to their water-logzed houses and began the work of reparation, while hundreds of oth- ers, whose homes, with all their possession: been swept away, sought much-needed tafter the terrors through wiuch they had passed. Morning broke clear and beautiful, ‘I'he waters, which had inundated one-half o f the eastern and southern portions of the city o a depth of from one to seven feet, had sub- sided exeept in Jow places. The beach and adjacent portions of the city for several blocks back from the shore presented A deplorable scene of havoe and desolation as far as the eye could sce, ‘The ruins of hundreds of houses, large and small, had been hurled and twisted into every sivape, while brick pillars and wooden pil in every direction contiguous to the beach and exposed to the full force of the rale, in- dicated where happy homes had stood the night before, but whien were swallowed up and destroyed in the awful maelstrom that then prevailed. All the pleasure resorts along the gulf shore were either swept away or ruined. The plaza in trontof the Beach hotel s furrowed by the foree of the waves and piled with debris, whileall the false work protecting the foun- dation of the hotel, with the fresh water tanks and ovtbuildings, swept away and deep furrows were cut under the building itself, In the menagerie, consisting of a long row ges on the beach lawn, many bir uimals, were drowned or Killed, while others made their escape. Among the ani- mals that escaped were the Mexiean lions, which were on the point of making things lively when they were shot by the night watehman, who received a dangerous wound by the accidental shot of his assistant, pass- g through his arm. The e to property occurred in the vicinity of the Beach hotel, "The wide area devastated by the water makes an ap- proximate estimate of the amount ot damage done somewhat diflicult, but it is now esti- mated by close caleulators that it will not fall below §600.000, and nay exceed thbt. The street railways are being yepaired and travel has been resumed over sotie of the lines, but many months will apsed betore all traces of the n are fuced. The majority of the sutferers from the flood are of thie poorer class of people. Many of them lost all they had, and are des- titute and discouraged, being dependent upon friends for temporay shelter and relief Private charity has been a in providin tor the relief of the sufferers, Much appre- hension existed all duy Friday 10 the salely of the sisters orphanagé, five miles down the island on the gulf side, but it was ched yes! v and tound to be intact, the only damuge beiny the washing away of the steps of the building. News reachied the cily yesterday afternoon that the schooner J. W. Perry, from Brashear City, with & cargo of eypress. paying blocl foundered durin the fitteen niles of the island. Captain Whitmoreand a colored cook were drowned. Two colored sailors clung to some floating timbers and were driven ashore eighteen mil down the island, They were nearly dead from ex: lhaustion wlien they reached shore. The body of Willie Barniw, eleven years old, re- siding in the western portion of the city, who was diowned Friday at the foot of ‘Thirty-third street recovered at the foot of Forry-ninth s yesterday morning and was buiied. Lhis makes the tenth vietim of the storm. _ A special to the News from Corpus Christa sy riday morning one of the heaviest rain-stors for years struck this eity. The wind had conmenced blowing very hard om the southeast the evening before, and changed to the northwest between 5 and 6 o'clock in the morning, It blew with territie force for two hours, its_velocity being esti- mated at seventy-five miles an lour. A large number of houses were woved from their foundations. ‘The colored church and the oflice of the Ar 15 Pass railroad company wete completely destroyed. Large trees were uprooted, and fences and outbuildings were SWept away. It blew very havd yesterday from the south: east. ‘The steamer J. C. Harris arrived yes- fay alternoon, two days over-due, The reports terrible storm at Roekport and Iarbor Island. All improvements and grad- ing at Harbor 1sland were washed away. At Rockport, sixteen houses were blown off their foundations. Seven men are missing and it is supposed’ they were drowned durimg the storm.The amount of dwmage has not been estimated, but the loss is heavy, THE STORM AT SEQUIN, Sequry, Texas., August 22—The da by the storm here is very heavy, ~The | oilice was tot destroyed. T'he new tower of the Epizcopal chiurel Was blown down and o large number of public and private buildings were _either - destroyed or damaged. At Southerland Springs fwo ™ men were ed. The cotton plant has been whipped into shreds, but many persons belicve that it wiil take ‘on a new growth and develop a top erop. The damage has not yet been estimated, bat it will be very heavy, REPOITS FROM [EMPSTEAD HEMrsteEAD, Tox., August 22.—The storm did ereat damage 10 the cotton erop in the uplinds. ‘The loss to the erop from the ray- ages of the wind and rain of Friday will be fiilly cent, e —-— Passenger Trains Collide, PHILADELPIIA, August 22.-—-Quite & seri- ous accident, by whieh seven persons were injured more or less seriously, occurred at Anco a swall station on the Camden & Atlautic railvoad, twenty-eight miles from Caden, this iworning by a collision between the regular excursion train leaving Camden at9celock and the fast newspaper train which leaves Atlantie City on its return to Camden at 9:15 a. m. The latter train had orders to sidetrack at Ancora and wait for the excursion, due there at 7:30, to pass, The excursion teaiu consisted of an engine and six erowded coaches, When nearing a curve Just this side of Ancora, the engineer slacked up in order to pass on time, he then being one and one-hall minutes ahead. As he rounded the curve he saw the newspaper train just about to enter the siding, but before he could reverse his englue they collided with territic force. ‘The tender of the pas- senger train’s engine was telescoped in the suioking car, and the car lmmediately behind was badly damaged. ‘The enginéers and firemen jumped and escaped injury, with the exeeption of Engineer Pine, of theexcursion, who was badly lurt and way die. Six exeur- i Sionists were injured, —~——— The Bohemian Picale. Yesterday morning the Bohemian inastic elub and its friends made a very crediteble street parade headed by the Second Infantry band, They then took a special train for Narth Bend. Seven cars w erowded with excur- s’onists and at the end of the route large yler delegations joined them trom Schu and Wahoo. The day passed off ple antly and all returned about 10 o'cloc last might fuli of pleasant momories of the picai OMAHA. MONDAY. MORNING, n Where | THE CROP OUTLOOK. Poor Indications of a Good Corn Yield Continne. CrieaGo, Angust 3=The following crop summary will_appear in this week issue of the Farmers’ Review: ‘The tenor of reports trom the corn belt, while indicating slight flprovement in some sections, does not ticular chiange for the better. The crop as a whole, has been badly injured, and recent showers in [linois, while staying the injury on the low lands, have not revived the zeneral crop, the conditions indicating that a large proportion of the corn area has been burned, dried up and ruined. The general situation in Ilinois and Iowa has also been aggravated by the presence of clineh bugs. The yiela in Hlinois does not promise to exceed one-half that of last year, while that in Towa will beabout 6o per cents of last year's crop. In Minnesota, Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, the condition of growing corn is still reported as averaging In Wisconsin, Missourl and neral outlook is poor, but suf- ficient data is not at hand to make any close computation as to the probable yield. In Clinton, ~ Fayette, Henry, ~ Putman and Harding counties of Ilinois the corn crop i reported as a practical failure, In Carroll, Macon, Macoupin, Me- nard, Scott, Will, La Salle, ‘Franklin, Jersey and Johmson_counties the crop will range from 45 to % per cent of an average. In Douglas and Lee counties there is promise of an averave vield. ~Tn Dubuque, Floyd, Van Buren and Wapello counties of lowa, there is promise of 30 to 50 per cent of an av- ge crop. In Buena Vista, Buchanan, Benton, Franklin, Guthrie, Grindy, Hamil* ton and Carroll counties the outlook i for frou 60 to 50 per eent of an average yield. In Clinton, Cape Girardeau, Livingston, Miiler, Newton, Randolph, Ralls and S oun* ties in Missouri the crop will ave 5 0 50 er cent of the usual yield. In_ Mercer and Benton counties the crop is a fuilure. In 2 Marshall and Gentry counties the outlook good for a full crop, In Manistee and Neway- g0 countiesof Michigan the corn crop is n failure. In other connties there is promise of average crop. In Chippewa, Columbia, Dare, Fon du Lac, Marquette, Pepin, Sheboygan and St. Croix counties of Wisconsin, the average ranges from 8 fo 65 per cent.’ 1n Martyn and Cuyahoga counties of Ohio, the rop” will not “exceed one-half the usual d.Other Ohio counties reporting this eck indicate a full average yield. In De- Kalb county, Indiana, the crop is a failure. Harrison, Madison and Randolph counties repor age, In Dodge, Winona and Scott counties, Minnesota, a tull average yield 1s indicated. Washington county proni- ises only halt an ordinary vield. The coun- ti Sansas reporting this week indicate an average ranging from 50 to 7 per cent. There has been nothing in the reported threshing of wheat to indicate any special change iu the estimates heretofore made re- W earding the output for the entire country, namely, from 416,000,000 to 420,000,000 bush- els. The yield of ' Dakota, Washington Ter- ritory and Oregon will fall short of estimates lieretofore published. e VISITING ALDERME) Omaha‘s City Legislators in Kansas City. The Omaha eity councilmen arrived in Kuansas City Saturday. During the day they fell into the elutehes of several re- porte The Journal has the following to say about therr visit: “The entire board of aldermen of ved at the union depot yester- 4 nng and spent the day in the city inspecting the cable line and paved streets. They #xe en route to Denver and the west on & ted almost exclusiyely to pleasure. They are heing chaperoned by Mr. W. I'. Bechel, president of the Omaha counciland auditor of the Pacitic Express company of that place. The board com- prises Aldermen Ford, Goodman, Low- ry, Kaspar, Schroder, Gocdvich, Daily, Cheney, Mandeville and Baily and Clerk J. B. Southard. During the day yesterday they took several trips over the eable line and ex- amined those in process of building. In the afternoon they were driven about the city and personally examined a number of the streets paved with cedar blocks, which class of ving has but re- cently been introduced in their city. They expressed themselves as pleased with it, and gave it as their opinion that it was fully as durable and a great deal more economical than that which has been used in their city, namely, asphal- tum. In conversation with a Tournal reporter lust mght, Alderman C. S. Goodrich said a few of their had been ntly paved with cedar blc From interviews had here regarding the paye- he ned that it liad proven it was wearing fully well, even where laid upon nd foundation. This he considered a at argument in its favor, and thought lfl at the majority of the streets in Omaha would soon” be ‘paved with this class of UL ol LA S ST The board of atdermen are traveling in the special Pallman car Silesia, furnished them by the Union Pacific Railway com- pany. ar was side-tracked near the express of at the south end of the union depot, where it remained during the day yesterday and last night. The company retired early last night, oceupy ing cear. They saw littl ht, repuiring to their y hour. They leaye at 10 o'clock this morning for Denver over the Union Pucifie, From there they proceed to Leadville over the Denver & Rio Grande, passing through the Grand ennyon. From Leadyille they £o to Cheyenne, and from there they pro- ceed to Salt Lake, where they will re- main several duys, after which they will return home. wveling as they are in an ordinary sleeping car and registering at no hotels, they claim will save them from muny interviews with the news- papers. —-—— CHEATED BY A LOVER. And a Widow with.1wo Children At~ tempts Buicide, “Go away and leave me alone! T want to die!”” were the words which Mrs. Belle Delany, a widow living on Sherman avenue, near the fair grounds, hurled spitefully at a crowd of peo- ple around her bedside last evening. Mrs, D, had very foolishly taken morphine with the intention of commutting swicide. Her condition was promptly discovered, and medical aid be- ing summoned her feet were once more planted firmly on the land of the living. She was very feverish, when she (ulfy recovered conseiousness, and swore right roundly that she would repeat the attempt upon the first opportunity, Mrs. Delaney, it app has had some trouble in love affairs which weighs heavily on her mind. Her husband died about four years ago, leavine her a choi assortment of debts und two tow-heads children, She has been supporting her- self the best she could sinc ¢ way . time, and has managed to earniny ways o pretty fair living, A few months ago a fellow named Barley b came acquainted with her. He was one of these smooth, oily gen- tlemen one oceasionally reads about, and soon managed to ingratiate bimself into tho conf.dence of the woman, Under the promise of marriage he became inti- mate with Mrs. Deluny. Night before last he disappeared, us did also some money and valuablés belonging to the widow. Mrs. Delany swears that lifeis Jno longer worth living, AUGUST trip which will be de-. PROUD HEROES IN POVERTY. Moxican Veterans Make Billions Tor The Government But Remain Poor. ANARCHISM OF THE SALOON. The Assassination of Rev. G, C. Had- dock and its Effect on Politics and Prohibition — Political Points and lowa News, No Pensions For Them, Des Moises, Anzust [Special to the Brk.|~*Ican't help feeling sad,"” remarked a gentleman the other night after witnessing the parade of the Mexican vetarans, “when I ese those old fellows and compare their pos- sessions with what they won for this coun- try, There is hardly a man awong them but looks as if poverty were a familiar friend, For forty years since the scene of their exploits they have been struggling along to make a living, while other men who never shouldered a gnn have gone tothe territory that their valor won and made themselves immensely rich. The Mexican veterans brought this nation over five hun- dred thousand square miles of territory. whose mineral wealth alone, so far devel- oped, has amounted to nearly two billions of dollars, and yet as a rule these old fellows are poor men and have little to show for the hardships they endured to entich this coun- try.” I thought there was a good deal of truth in what he said. Under the old regime of tree- booting the men who won shared in the spoils and recelved some substan- tial reward for their services. But in these Iatter days of higher civilization, the men who fight the battles take their teward in slory. and the other fellows get the spoils, t would 1f anation that has acquired a_ territc ger than the whole of the United States at the time ot the Louisiana purchase, and wealth whose value no man can estiniate, could afford to give to the few survivors of the war that won these posses- sions the palt sion they now ask HADDOCK DER AND 1TS T 1T, 1 have been an anti-prohibitionist and have acted with my party (the republican) for the last two or threc years,” said a well known citizen recently, “but this Hadds murder will swing us all into line again tell _you” he continued, ‘we can't stand that sort of thing, and decent men who believe in law and order have got to stand together, A party that will encourazea re- sistance to Taw, and stimulate assassination, goes a little too far for me.” "This sentiment can be heard day. Men feel that the issue is not so much thé supremacy of this or that party as itis the supremacy of law, 1t is a question whether the saloon can defy the state, and murder those who attempt” to enforce the law, or whether government can exist and vindies its authority. I[none way the hight that now being made against the enforeement of law Is closely akin the the an- archism that has~ been so powerfully rebuked at Chicago, and the verdict, ‘These will be salutary in Towa. The anarchism of the saloon, that breeds assasstus who shaot men down in the dark, is justas dangerous to the welfare of society and the liverties of the people as the anarchism of the socialist or the nihilist, and needs just and se- vere punishment. No crime or tragedy within th e has ever aroused the people of Towa as has the murder of Rey. George C, Haddock at Sioux City. Indignation meet- ings have been Lieldi n neatly every city and hamlet, and his death has wedded together the friends of law and order, without regard to party, into solid and unrelenting opposi- tion tothe lawlessness and anarchy of the saloon. speated every THE COMING CONVENTION. The republican state convention meets on Wednesday next, ‘Thiere will probably be no particular eontest over the noimni ions, ex- cept for that of auditor, ‘T'he ofticers tilling the positions have had but one term, and will probably be renominated, althougl there is a good deal of aissatisfac with the course of the present attorney general, and he may bereplaced by someone clse. ' For au the leading candidates are: Hon. Ch Beardsley, of Burlington, who was acting auditor during Brown's impeachment. trial Hon. J. A. Lyons, of Guthric _county, mem: ber of the last two general assemblies, and Mr. A. D. Peck, county auditor of Sae county. The question of “geographical location is going to_enter very prominent nto the contest, at least on the part of tl friends of one candidat ‘T'he northwester part of the state in which Mr. Peck lives has never had astate oftice, although it furnishes the bulk of the repnblican majovitics. T seetion is now practically solid for Pe and will urge this point in his favor. Drl Bearasley lives in the southeast, ana M Syms lives near the central portion. So the will_urge the question of itness and party service her than locatio| The conve! tion promises to be large and enrhusiasti 1t looks now as if a resolution condemning theact of the senators who took back pay in the impeachment trial will be pas That may raise a little breeze, ‘I'here will be an attémpt probably to allow Colonel Anderson, the bolting republican of the Ejghth district, to enter the convent tlo is running as the democratie candidate for congress against Colonel Hepburn, yet his friends selected a set of delegates and will try to get them into the convention. 1t is expéeted that the com- Mitice on credentials will settle the trouble in short order, and keep out the wmen who refused, in their county convention, to en- dorse the republican party, CONGRESSMEN BENOMINATED. So far, with the exception of Murphy in the Second district, every lowa congressinan has been renominited, Phere are but two remaining congressmen whose ¢ have not been acted upon—Conger in the Seventh and Fuller in the Fourth—but they will both be renominated, a pretty good testimonial for the congressmen. considering that some of them have had two and threc terms alveady. ——— SWAM THE RAPIDS, A Boston MaaSuc essfully Braves tho Terrors of Niagara. 1AGARA FALLS, N. Y., Aug. 23.-Wil- liam J. Kendall of Boston to-day swam sue- cessfully in a cork vest, the Whirlpool Rapids of Niagara river, The trial was to settle a wager of $10,000 made by Boston parties, he to receive $1.000 of the stakes. There were few spectators of the affalr, it havi been kept quiet. Kendall relates the following ex- periences: When be reachied the spot where Captain Webb is supposed to have lost his life the water seemed to go from under him and a huge wave struck Lim unconscious for l‘h*w moments, fle found his swi ming abilities of no o whatever and never expected o come out aliy When entering the whirlpool ho was so be- numbed and partially unconscious that he could not use his limbs, aud did not know what he was doing. ‘The current took him right into the wain eddy and sucked him down like a flash, keeping him under fully fifteen second: Upon reaching the under current he wus shot ont of the pool fully tirty feet from its center. When he reachid the surface of the water he had partially re- gained consciousness, aud knowing there was no time to spare before he would” be dashed down the lower rapiis,he swam tothe shore, While landing hy was 50 overcome that he again became unconsclous, and his assistants were fully half an hour oceupied reviving him with'the ald of stimulants and rubbing. When asked it he wanted to make anot! trip, he said, most emphatically there's not enouzh woney in the worid to duce me to repeat this afternoon’s exy ri- ences. A child would have the sale chances o go through the rapids and come out all right 4 an expert swimmer,” victions. The evictions at t of Donegal, Pitiful | DunLiy, August 22 Gweedore, in the distr 5l been concluded, The total awount of rents coneerned does not exceed £30 yearly. ‘There were 130 policemen aud bailills and sixty cais and boats engaged for eleyen days in the proceedings, at a cost of hundrid of pounds a day. ‘Thie scenes were pititul, peo- Ple belng steeped 1o puvesty. DAILY BEE. WOMEN IN THE CASE, Social Immorah urer y a Factor in Treas- y's Case. Bostoy, August 22.--[8pecial Telegram to the Brr Sensational fact o leaking out concerning the social morals of the late William Gray. jr. There are several women in the case and certain members of his fam ily have for some time known of the scanda The tacts did not reach many out until there eame the exposures of the pre week, but now they area good e about. Twao of the names mentioned in con neetion with this matter are of persons who propld at times have been members of his house- hold. Charles E, Cram, expert accountant, who examiped the books of the Indian Orchard — and Atlant mills, s reported as” saying Tho examination of Gray's accounts is being - carried on_as rapidly as possible. The report will be presented to the Atlan tie mills coipo ration on the 22th instant and to the Indian Orehiard mills corvoration on e 2ith. The committee of iny \on fs oW Awaling the decision of the question as to how the amount involved i iray's detaleation shall be distributed between the Atlantic and In- dian Orehard companies. 1 will not say whether $500,000, 300,000, or $100,000 will cover the defaleation.” The detaleation of ay will not in any way eibarrass the At lantic mills company. T do not believe Gray had an nccomplice i is stealing operations. Tam placed in a trying position and have almost decided to act no ionger as expert ex- aminer for mills, - A BRIGHT TRAIN BOY. His Appetite for Whisky Excited the Admiration of Lumbermen and Miner ail and Exy Mr. David headed, clean-shaven, Known to his intiy 1 ) and at present ofli S news agent on New York Centr in, was Jounging fully aronnd a Fourth avenue bar Yoom, yesterday, telling reminscences to a small company of Kindred spivits and idle listene “A man doesn’t always know his luck, said Mr. Smitii, philosophically, I re- member the first time I took a run up in northern Michigan I thought I had struck ardest streak of luck 1 ever had in my life, but it wasn't—not a bit of it. 1 had taken a run over the naba di- of the Northwestern railroad, es through the roughest coun' aw and - is patronized by peo- rough as their country. Ther nothing un there but pieries and copper mines, and noboay lives there but lum- bermen and mine As soon as a crowd of cither class get ona train they proceed toget drank, and everybody “on board has to arink with them, whether or no. And the whisky they have up there! Well, there is no beverage like it under the sun. [ think the mere smell of it would kill an” ordinary mule. Ttis like drinking live coals. The first trip T made up there a crowd of lumbermen took possession of the tramn and went through making everybody drink, 1didn’t want any of the stuff, so 1 tried to refuse, but afriendly brakeman warned me thatif Ldidn't drink the Jum- bermen would likely as not throw me out of & window or shoot me. So I'made a tremendous eflort and gulped down some of the villainous decoction. It nuude me sick. The next trp it was ex- actly the sune exverience. Also the next. As I couldn’t drink with them, the lumbermen lookedson me with contempt and refused to buy e me. n i nut from This thing went on for five or six ys, and I had searcely sold a dollar's worth, when the conductor took me aside one day and gave me some zood advice. He sai Now, look her expect to earn you coung feller, if you Ut up here you've got to do than this, You've got to drink with the boys, and sing with 'em and be one of them, or you can’t sell a cent’s worth. You've gov to get used to their ways and their whisky and gulp it down. Do as I tell you and you'll do well,” “I'went back to Chicago at once and asked the news compa other 1un, y to The superintend; atme and gave me the same advice as the conductor. Then 1 lzid off a day. and set to work thinking. After a while I hit on a s heme. I got a rubber bag made about cight inches square, ca- pable of holding a quart. ‘To this'was fitted o long rabber tube, with a wide mouth, Then I Lad another tube made with a wide mouth, something hke a lit- tle funnel, and fitted with a gold ring to o around my fin, 11 i to the inside of my shirt front and fixed the rubber wibe that belonged to it so that the wide mouth eame just below and inside my collar, out of sight. Then [ fastened” the Dhittle rubber funnel to my left hand, so that it was entively con- ceuled. 1 found that with a little prac; tice 1 could put my ieft hand to my ¢hin, fit the i\lnuc\ to the mouth of the tube below my collar, take a glass of liquor to my mouth with my vight hand, and while giving a good’ imitation of 4 man drinking, pour the liguor throngh the tubes into \lim bag every time. When I had got these things working lively I went back to my run. 1 began at once to tuke ey drink offered me and found that' it was no trick at all to pour the stufl into the bag in such a way that no- body suspected 1 wasn't drinking. In a little time 1 got a rveputation all up and down the road as a man who could stand an enormous amount of liquor and be- me the most popuiar man in northern Michigan, After that 1 conldn’t luy my stull ont fast enough for the people who wanted to buy. Frequently a gang would gather around, buy up everything I had, throw it out of the window, ;mh then mike me drink a couple of bottles and get up on my box and sing. L made more moiey that season than I have made in my life in an equal length of time. 1 coild soll those miners and lum- bermen anything, no matter how worth- less it might be., But the snap was too good to Jast. One night, when the bag w 1s full as it could be, o big, brawny niner, in a fit of drunken admivation, hit me a tremen- dous glup on the chest. The whisky flew in all direetions. Some of the brighter men in the gang suspected something and started 10 1vest When they discovered that bag yon never suw sucl a pack of howling wolves 1 your life They wobbed me, and if it hadn’t been for old Joe Davis, the biggest and braves, of them all, and the conductor, they wonld have threwn me out of the win- dow. nesure a8 fute. When I got back to Chieago 1 resigned, drew all my money and started eust. 1 had §1,150 to show for my work. buck up there for amount,” But I wouldn't go several times that L. C. Burr, of Lincoln, wlo immortal- ed bimself in the Mat Simwermaun case, is ut the Millard, J 8. McCue, of Sun Francis and A. £ Suow, of Brigham City, Utab, ar billurd Lotel guests. ‘'he Hon. €. H. Gere and the H Charles Bu wries of the roud Paxton, W. W. W.Jones, state sun of public instruction, tar ut the Pax- ton last night on his way to attend the Normalinstitute at Broken Row. registexed at the tendent {ternoon for iends in an York and Boston, 23, NUMBER 57, THE WEEK 1N WALL STREET. Two Days of Decli ied Nows of < on Startlic Charao! THEN FOUR DAYS OF RECOVERY. Phenomenal Rise in the Money Market and Accompanying Conscquences—Gold Come ing to Amer Mid Bulls and Bears. NEW York, Auzust 22.--[Speclal Teles cram to the Br Ot the general drift of the stock market, obeying impulses given it by trade and fndustry, and yet at the same time the respeeting intlucnee of the gamb- ling cliques, there can no longer be any ous question. 1t has been severely tested during the past week and it nas stood it very than well indecd, far better always sanguine and hop bad dared to think. For a week provious it had been gradually boginning to yield under the with- drawal of money from this center to be em- ployed 1n the legitimate movements of trade, but the readjustment of the vate of interest, which for two years has bee at 9 per cent, to a new of & to 6 per cent, which will always rule when the industries -of the country begin to Jlind employment, was £oing on without serious embarrassment. New and unlooked-for complications arose. any save the 150 steady sealo Speculative and unremuncrative property had already yielded in price, when the Baltimore & Ohio's relations with the Penn- sylvania, which liad been strained for some time, were abruptly broken off, and a wide- spread demoralization of rates, with the vap- ture of the pool and the dissolution of the central traflic association, which had becn growing in strength, were very generally an- ticipated. Right over all this came the thunderelap from Boston, the detaleation of overa million, following the que-tionable more in the same neh of trade, and all Boston stocks were on up. This, with the resiznation and suspension of a bank president there in con- sequence of stoaling, makes up the weight under which those who had coniidence in values had to stagger, and were bur- dens which made them alwost helpless to defend the market against assaults, The daily course of the market is interest- ing to note. The July rise was slow in beginning, and dated from the middle of the month. It was steady and continuous until the 5th of August, when the highest average of the year was reached, The nioney ques- tion alone it was so lightly felt g was given to preventanythinzs beyond a frae tional « ine, the weak market being usuall followed by 4 better sfecling, duting which the recovery was almost complete, [ ten days preceding last Saturday the net decline was only a trifle more than 1 per cent, in a dozen active stoeks. On Mon the Dela- Wil aritan canal was ¢l to Balti- WOTE 48 2 hrough 1ino and appre- hensions of ressive action on the part of the Pennsylvania resulting in - its insistence upon the exclusion of the Balti- more & Ohio from participation in the earn- ings of the west west hound freight pool be ame very general. London buyers stoppe as if shof, andthe decline was accelerated On the following day the bearish fecling (. veloped rapldly. altimore & Ohio was re- ported as interfering with east-bound busi- ness and waking 8 new attack upon the through passenver pool. Money scemed for onee to liave taken wings to itself, for it was sought in vain ai 1 ‘ent, was at one time to 30 and clos 5 , with the last loan at that rate and some persons still unsuppli ‘The followimg morning brought no relief until peaceful news cama trom trunk line headquarters and it was made ovi- dent that there was to be no breaking up of! sacrifice of half as much br. heeiced the rise at that tinie, and o tsuflicient resistar pools, - With tiis came a reduetion of the rate of foreizn exchange and the welcome news of gold shipments, On- this hope re- vived, eoniidence retuined and the market closed steady at a decided improvement over quotations of carlier hours, There was a good advance on Thursday. with much less trading, and London a eame in asa buyer and sent word of more s0ld to come, Yesterday the fight of o8 fomoward was continucd, aud the coal cone panies readily agreed to restrict coal tonn 10 un allotment which assured no wore. ship- ments than the marker would take, and at onee stimulated purchases. “The record of the week 18 then summed up thus: "Two days of decline, in which prices fell Off 13 per cent on an_ average, and four days ot vecovery, in which the vise stéady and the advance from the lowest a fritle more than U5 per cent, leaving the weneral market per cent, the best prices of the year, rsare again down in the mouth, though many of the wost conservative who thinnk the rise will now be some ar, and will be days of low followed ultimately hy fur- Money idly settling to id the promise of and an abundant sup- considerable activity ply. OMAHA JUME Her Clearances Bring Her to the Eleventh Position, BosToN, Mass., Auzust 22— [Special Tele- gram to tho Bek.|—From “figures compiled from the reports of the managers of the lead- ing clearing houses in the United 8 Omaha ranks eleventh in the list with cl ings amounting to §: 3, her inerease bo- ing 60.2 per cent. ‘The total gross clearings for the week ending August 21, in_comparis son with those ¢ corresponding period Of 1555, are 885 increase 15,9, Police Pick-Ups, Lottie Coombs was the only female representative, she being arrested for her old disease, drunkenness Jefl Green, a conl black African, was ina fighting mood and Oflicer O'Grady deemed his retivement to t iboose necessity. George Washington was asleep on the sidewalk, not with his forefathers but solitary and alone, and his slumber was continued in the jail. DYSPEPSIA ses its vietims to bo miserablo, hopole: Goutused, and depressed in mind, very frritas Lic, languid, and drowsy. 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