Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 3, 1887, Page 1

SIXTEENTH YEAR. MINISTER MANNING'S NESCAL Boientific Gentlemen Test the Famous Mexi- can Drink and Are Paralyzed, HARD TIME AT THE WHITE HOUSE Mrs. Cleveland Has a Very Unec fortable Hotiday Week—French Spoliation Claims and the Surplus—Capital News, n- Red Liquor Discounted, WasniNaroy, Jan. 2.-—[Special gram to the Bre.)—Minister Manning's duct n Mexico continues to be a topic of dis- cussion here, and what will become of the case is a much mooted question. A short time azo somo officials connected with the selentific burcan of the government con- cluded to test the eficct of the famed n cal. In order that they might try the “real stufl,” they sent for a supply to Piedras Ne- gras. ‘The tipple arrived on Tuesday, and Friday afternoon about a dozen of them met in a club house and tried the drink in very small doses, Only one of the party has so far been able to zive his experience. 1le says the othiers may beable to put 1n an appear- ance at their respective oftices by ‘Tuesday, if they sutfer no relapses, but they all curse mescal from the bottom of their hearts. This one says he drank less than a quarter of a &ill, mixed with about the same qnantity of port wine, He remembers nothing since 5 o’clock Friday afternoon, but gives it as his opinion that if it can be proved that citizens of Mexico really did put any of the stuff in anning’s wine the United States has 00d cause for a declaration of war. MRS, CLEVELAND'S UNCOMFORTBLE WEFK Never has the mistress of the executive mansion known so uncomfortable a week as that just past, according to her own testi- mony given in an observation to an acquaint- ance on Friday. The main reason for her discomfort was her anxiety concerning the president, who has really hada very severe attack of rheumatism, and the borrible weather which has marked the closing days of thevear. Mrs. Cleveland's nervous or- ganization is of so fine an order th singularly sensitive to radical ¢l weather, The president’s illness and the ob- stinate nature of the attack, which resists medieation with unusual stubbornness, ren- dered Mrs, Cleveland extremely uneasy. “Ihouh she was told there was little danger, yet the sudden taking offt of Senator Logan made the well meant assurances of friends less effective than they would have been under ordinary eircumstances. Late on "Tuesday atternoon, after the callers at Mrs, Vilas' had almost finished their visits, Mrs, Cleveland with her mother came in to con- gratulate the postmaster generals young daughter upon her formal “‘muster in” to society, Mrs Cleveland’s toilette was a pur- ple-violet gown which she wore when she sat for the famous portrait made by the great artist and proprietor of Puek. Her hat was small, of dark brown, trimmed with a feather and ribbons of topaz red, The only visible ornament was a diamond horseshoo pin, with which she fastencd the st colar worn with the suit. On Friday, at General Logan’s funeral ~servi Mis, Cleveland’s costume was of the simplest—a black cloth suit, very piain and worn witl- out any ornaments,” and a little black hat, and long black gloves, She seemed greatly fipressed by the solemnity of the oceasion, FRENCILKPOILATION CLATVS, ‘The time for filing French spoliation claims under the aetof congress of January, 15%, will expire on the 20th of January next and it is probable that by that time a great many cases will be still unprepared and all hope will _in consequence dcpart of eyer securing anything for many eclaimants for = lossos = lnicurred “upwards ™ of one hundred years ago. Up to the vresent time eleven eases have been decided and have been referred back Lo congress with the recomnnendation that they should be paid. They went to the judiciary committee and Rudolph Tucker is charged with the duty of preparing a report recommending their payment. ‘Fhis will probably be forthcoming when Mr. Tucker sces (it to assume his seat i congress. It is said that about a thousand cases known to exist are still back, the at- torneys having been unable to prepare them rapidly enoueh to file them up to the y time. " Congress can scarcely evade the pay- ment of these claims, now that the court to which they were referred has unanimously determinea that the government is liab) It is said, however, by interested parties that if thestate depattment and departiment of justice had taken the pains to prepare a brief of the goverument a different result might have been cxvected, but that the ease of the covernment was so poorly prepared, while that of the claimants Was 50 wel before the court, that that tribunal coul nothing else than decide in favor of the elaimants, The eleven cases which have already been settled have in- volved about $50,000. No one can © any idea of what the final vesult will be, but it congress authorizes the paymentof those ad- Sadleated there can be mo reason on earth why the others, which are still to be de- elded should not be paid, and as several mil- lions of dollars are said fobe involved it is likely that the aggregate appropriations re- quired for the payment of these claims will ald materially in reduei that enormons surplus in the treasury whicl: seems to bother politicians so much. TIE BIVER AND IHARBOR BILT ‘The river and harbor committee, which has becn sitting through the recess, has practi- cally perfected the bill. 1t 1s understood that the total amount approvriated will approxi- mate ten millions of dollars, The basis of WpprowTiations is about 5 per cent of the es- thwates submitted by the engineers and is about two-thirds of the amount appropriated in each case by the last bill, INTER-STATE COMMERCE TALK, The railroad men now here assert th Tiave no objections to the long and short hal clause of the eonference comuittee inter- state commerce bill, which is likely to ccine up for diseussion and action this week in the senate and within a few days after that in the house, but tiat the clausé which prevents pooling i vere blow to all corporations, and, contrary to the belief of the projectors of the measure, it is likely to prove inimical to the nferests of the small roads, while benetitting the great trunk lines, The long and short laul - elause, about which 50 much has been said and written, does not prohibit railroads from charging a greater rate per ton per mile for a short dis- tance than for a long distance, but it simply provides that if two packages of freight are started fram the saie point, one to be car- ried, say, 100 miles and the other 200, the com- pany shiall not charge more for hauling the packaze (o go 100 miles than 1t does for the package L0 g0 500 miles. This has been the reat difficulity with freight rates in the past. Small towns bave suffered from diserimina- tions which were made In the interestof wholesale or manufacturing centers,fand as a vosult & great many small places have been almost by discriminating freight vates. ‘Lie bill is, however, generally looked VDO AS & Very wise easure and oud against which no serious objections can be raised by any of the interested parties, It is not likely 1o meet with any serlous opposition in the Louse even, though the pooling clause will doubtless be attacked with more or luss vigor, VHE FEELING AGAINST CANAD It is likely that the power of the president to retaliate upon Canada for its uncharitable, unneighborly and unehristian acts towards Awerican fishing vessels will be extended before the present congress coumes to an end, The immediate cause of the present feeling agalust the Dominion is the fact that imperia assent has new been given to the new Cana- diab sy act, whicliis looked upon us the most stringent and oppressive measue of lexislation that ever was enacted by a civil- fzed comumunity. This new act gives the Canadian authorities power o seize any ves sel, whether a fisharinan or trader, found willin the three wile limit of the Canadian coast, and to put the oflicers and erew throuith A guisition, and to selze and forfeit the t they entire outfit of the vessel thus caught if she is proved or suspected of fishing or preparing 10 fish, or has entered the Canadian waters for any purpose not permitted by the treaty of 1518, 3 GENERAL MILES' PLAINT, General Miles has started on his return to his command. Before gaing away he called on the ecretary of war. 'To-day's Capital says that 1s understood the interyiew whi took place in the secrelary’s office was decids edly interesting. General Miles has besg 1Y restive under the censure convesed iy {lie secretary’s report, and has asked both at the war departrient 25id at the white house that soige exyianation be made which should reliove i of the reflections which seem to ba put upon him; that the secrefary of war was able to_eonvinee him that he “was not in reality suffering any injustice, and that he had been treated with consideration by the department. “Thie sole_complaint of the authorities in the matter of the Apaches seems to be that General Miles did not tele graph promptly and fully the precise terms of the surrender of Geronimo and his gang. {6 president was entitled to the fullest in- forination on this point in order that he know how to direct the disposition t should be made of the captives, CONGRESSIONAT, POKER VLAY EN Recently there has been an expose ing an alleged conzressional poker club, and the story has been”extensively eirenlated to show thie depravity of our solons at the capl- 1. Under the laws of the District of Co- Tumbia, open gambling has hoen rigidly pro- hibited'and in consequence nunierons private parties for poker playing have been organ. ized, In fact becausé gambling is so frowned upon as a public relaxation, a mania for specnlation hias been engendered and hun dreds of parties nightly curl their feet under the mahogany of accommodating and hos- pitable friends, and while away the long winter evenings at the game that ex-Minister Bob Schenck made o popular at the court of St. James, An instance of this kind of sport comecs to e i reetly from one of the particlpants, and 1 think it will be pretty fair holiday reading, so liere goes for what it is worth: A well- known_resident of the West End—not far trom Secretary Whitney's beautiful home— prominent at the bar and a pillar in the Pre hyterian chureh, was recently called away from home and took his family with him, ex- cept a_son, who had _just returned from’ col- lege, It was incumbent upon ihe laiter to remain at the house and loul: afier the ser- vants and contents, and_he’hit upon a novel plan to seeure company in his lonely mo- ments, It was quietly whispered around to some of his acquaintances that he would be at home on a certain evening, and that cards would be the diversion. Itdid not content young sclon of ‘the fuily” that his nds should meet in his” bedroom and wager their money, nor would the dining room suit his fastidious tastes, Butthe parlors, magniticently fur- nished and decorated with clioice paintines and engravings on the walls and bric-a-bra such as the wealthy accumulate binets and simlar rece for three lavge which sat five full hands, flushes, Straizhts, two pairs, bob- tails and ace high, Cigars and cicarettes soon charged the atmosphere of the rooms until it was almost stifling, and to add to the enjoyment oi the party some limburger chiese sandwiches were brought in from a neighboring suloon. The face of the master of the house would have been aninteresting ight if he could have witnessed the scono that night in his private parlors, and especially the position of the famlly 'Bible which had been utilized by a short member of congress to bring him upon a ievel L the lo at which he sat. This picture las not been overdrawn in the least, and is of nightly oc- currence in the most fashionable quaters of the city, although some of the accompuni- ments of this particular gathering may be lacking. Good housekeepers can imagis how the parlors looked about sunrise’ next morning when half-smoked cigars, stumps of cigareties, fragments of clicese sa wiches and 'empty beer bottles were con- spicuous on the cabmets in_juxtanosition to Parian marble statuettes and costly bound books and other valuable article i ILLED INTENTIONS, known that General ieath, had been for seve years quictly at work on a scheme to organize A movementin favor of the establishment in the city of Washington of a national college for the education of sons of soldiers—union —and confederate. movement took ~form soon after eral Grant's death. Several gentl men entled upon General Logan to wet his views on a proposition 1o build a monument or a memorial bridge across the Potomac river in honor of Grant, General Log heard their sugeestions and when they finished he said the memory of Grant could be preserved (o o better advantage byt ercction at the capital of the nation an en- dowment college for the education of sons of old soldiers, MILITARY MATTERS. By inquiry among artillery ofticers at the capital, itis learned that there is little if any prospect of thelr bill reluting to promotior eine brought up at this session of congress. ‘The members of the house committee on mi tary aflairs seem averse to tho inauguration by a report of any legislation for the army looking to uny radical ehange in the statutes, 5o the departinent of the army interested in the bill referred to will gird “up_thelr loins for another attempt npon the equitable side of the Fiftieth congress, Licutenant William E. Aty Tifth eay- alry, and Mrs, Alny, are in Washington visifing Rea” Admiral Almy and family at 1019 Vermont avenue Sixty-nine ofticers of the army and forty of- ficers of the navy were warried during the year 15 N ors of 1tis not gene Lowan, priorto his 1 the army and navy officers and nent peoplemade calls at_the neral Sheridan yesterday, Mrs, Sherid ho was elegantly attired in a combination'suit of plum colored velyvet and satin, with rare diamond orngments, was assisted Dy the wives of Colonel Sheridan, Colonel Blunt, Colonel Kellogg and Misses Tilman, Jonesd and Gouvenenr. KNIGTHS AND TRADES UNIONS, Ambitions and Me nary L Causing Dissatisfaction. New Yok, Jan, Speeial Telegram to the Bre.]—The Tubune says: The de- fection of the brewers from Distriet Assen- bly No. 49 of the Knights of Labor causes consternation in that district, Every effort was made to prevent them from taking any such action, but they were so enraged at the ion of the knights in Philadelphia that all pleadings were in vain, By trades union- ists the defeetion is regarded as the beginning of the disintegration of the lknights, and they are consequently much pleased with it, A man well known in labor cireles said yes terday in speaking of the affair: The knights have fallen into the hands of a 1ot of unscrupulons, ambitious men, who are bent on using the erzanization for their own advancement, no matter what the effeet will be on the labor movement. ‘Lo general ex- ecutive board has never won a strike, but by their unwarrnnted interference have lost several that otherwise would have been won ‘The working people do not propose to be bossed by theso men, ‘Ihere is only one w by which the order can be maintained, and that 15 by a special session which will plirsue live action, doing away with the desporie methods now i vogus and which will adopt afair policy towards trade unions,” - A Cnallenge to Vessel Ow, NEW YORK, Jan. 2—[Special Tel the Bre. | —Mr. R L. Bush, owner of the keel schooner Cornet, and wewber of the New York Yacht club, ealls upon the owners of all American built vessels of the keel type to join him In a race trom Sandy ook to Queenstown, the entrance fee not to exceed §10,000, and the start to be made the middle of May, T'his will give all yaehtuen who de- sire to enter the Roval Thames prize plenty of tin rive at the starting point and an opportunity for sailing masters to put their erafts in shabe, Itis wore than twenty years sinee the Fleetwing, Nesta_and Henrl- ©tta raced across the ocean for $60,000. An- other big race of the kind would excite Aer- icans throughout the world, - A Surprised Frince, MANDALAY, Jan. 2.—The camp of a vative prince has boen surprised by British troops. ":'Ilw ince himsell and forly followers were illed, raders “"‘.-"",‘“Zm'-»‘ » T I—. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY AN OLD SLANDER PUBLISHED The Story of Mrs. Foster's Course in the Gam- paign of 1879 Again Brought to Light, A VINDICATION BEING PREPARED So-Called Fortune-Finders Gulling the People of lowa With Their Scheme—Prof. Foster on Deck Again, The Temperance People Aroused. Dis Moisgs, s, Jan, 2—|Special to the Br.]—The temperance people of lowa—or, more strictly speaking, the portion belonging to the Women's Christian Temperance union —are in a little flutter over the recent publi- cation of an old slander on their president, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, During the campaign of 1879, Mrs, Foster was very active in adyis- ing against separate or third party organiza tion on the part of the temperance folks, and as a matter of fact, the proposed moye- ment was abandoned and the temperanee people very generally acted with and sup- ported the republican party. Some tinie af- terwards it was reported that Mre. Foster Lad been paid $1,000 by the republican state central committee for lier services in prevent- ing a third party movement. The report has been repeatedly denied, but it manages to Dbob up serenely nearly every year in the col- umns of some demoeratic or assistant demo- eratie, to-wit: prohibition paper, for the pur- pose of injuring Mrs, Foster, and breaking down her influence with the temperance peo- ple, who believe in non-partisan pro- hibition. ‘Three years ago, during a debate vrohibition in the senate, Senator Bills, of Davenport, the leading anti-prohibitionist in the legislature, vepeated the old story and was inmediately atterward challenged” by Mrs, Foster to pi duce the proof of his charge. ile retreated behind his “senatorial privilege,” aud gave 10 proof, and the matter dropped. Recently it hias come up again in letters from some Towa W. C. "I U, women—violent St. John ites—published in the Chicago Lever, a St John orzan, Mre. Foster's friends thonght that the matter had gone far enough, and'so have pr wlete vindieation of ner character, wh 2y have just published in thie oflicial_organ of the lowa branch o1 the unton, It ineludes a letter from Hon. John Rumeils, who in 1550 was chairman of the republican state_central committee, in which he dentes positively and nnequivocally that Mrs, Foster was paid any sum of money for opposition to whaf was known as the d party movement. As hesays, th Tation of the lic was chlefly due to' * which no representation ot the facts ¢ cheely” and so he hiad not before this taken the Fouble to deny it in public, though inc Diad otten done <o in priyate. In addition to Mr. Runnell's letter, the ‘leading temperanee wonien of the state, including oftieials in their state orzanization, wnite in a card expressing their utter disbelief in the eharge against. Mrs. Foster, and their sovere condempation of the persons wio lave so persistently skandered her, 1 is hoped {hat with this final “squeleher” the dear sisters il have peace in their order. Iut Foster's prominence in onposing paitisan prohibition in the nal association and through the country at large, make e the object of constant attack, espeeially from the deputy demoerats, the St John erowd. FIAUD EXPOSED. That venerable delusion that unelainied fortunes of vast amounts are hoarded up in the Enzlish chancery courts waiting for some enterprising Aweriean to put inan appear- ance and sweep the stakes. is still traveling in towa. Sowe of the elaim ngents wiio for a consideration will undertake to tell all they don’t know about the watfer, have been b guiling some of the unsoplistieated in this State. One vietim writes that read ther advertisement and sent for one ot the books in which in a list of 50,000 names, he found his own tawily name, But to k whether his ehristian name’ belonged to the couple of 1o obtain in whieh ko another ortant decrees, orders, oe. I take i W progressive W arrangen il the fees for finding out whether the individual stood an v elaim, amounted to S30.50, Afler having gono a little way in- this expensive road, e 15 anxiously looking for some one to tell iiim whether he isjnaking a 1ol of himself or not. He is only one of thousands who are annually bled on this old and yet alluring scheme, fi- stead of peing $450,000,000 of money awaiting owners, there is but about $84,000,000, and of this sum 555,000,000 has already’ found its vightful elaimanis, and dividends and inter- estare now being paid o them, Butt little million, as elusive as the Irishman’s flco, will probably e used for many vears vet'to work unsophisticated folks, like this Towa farmer, PROF, FOSTER AGAIN T estive weather prophiet at Burlington, r, who aspires to become the owa s smilingly into the ring again Eral mow predictions, though badly knocked out with liis last. e was severil degrees ont of plumb on s predictions for December storms, and so he is a little more discreet in the way he DProposes to sum up the weather in February, e begins some distance ahead, possibly with the {dea that if wrong, many people will ave forgotten L predictions by that time, while if right he can easily claim the credit tor the weather, e first throws out the hazardous guess thut there will be important storins during the first eighteen days of February, and with it remark that no single period will reach every but taking it the on 18, copy of any advertisement elaimants were ealied for would t then have o aneery eare DICTING, the eminently s storm of this Storn part of the United States, whole period, “they will cover every part ot the country cast of the Rocky mountains. During this period there is to he every cty of weather that an epicure cos There will be snow, rain, hail, high and heayy geles” " which also seems to bo an eminently safe prediction. Coming downto particulars he proposes to have . series of storis_whose prineipal disturbances will reach the Missis Sippi river moving eastward twenty four hours of sundown of the following dates: February 1, 7, 1and 18, The storms on the 1st and Lith he expects to be the Deaviest and cover 1ar:e scope of country, Ho hasso wuch faith their appearane( that he is ready to nut up 525 on the strensth ot it, which he will donate to the poor of Burlington if his two great storms do not cross the river at the time designated, the bet 15 of course conditional that some unbelieyer will put up @ similar amonnt to be given to o like purpose in case Lie is mistaken. So the professor seews to be pretiy confident that iie can furnish at least two “storms o order before the winter is over, PROHIBITIONISTS ON THE WARPATIL e prohibitionists of this eity are taking a new turn of the serews, in proecding against the owners of buildings where liquors are sold. They have prepared u serics of blanks in whiell they notiry property owners that their piece of property is belng used for ilegal purposes, and that it bears the reputa tion of being a nuisance. So Mr. roperty Owner is given warning that his property will be held for all costs for the entorcement of the probibitory law, under a provision of the Clark law passed Dy the last logislature, Chis [s frightening a “good many business wen into an unwilling support of prohibition who would not concern themselves with it s0 long as the saloon keepers alone were held respousible. The result in Des Moines |5 that there is not one saloon where liquor is sold, openly in defiance of L. FEW CHANGES FOR THE NI The new year brings tew changes in_ stato affairs, execpt in the judielary system, There is but one chauge at the capiial in the heads of departments—the auditorship, Mr. John L. Brown, who has served his two ‘terins as auditor, retives, and is succeeded by Mr. James A Lyons. The deputy seeretary of state, Mr. D. W. Smith, is transferred to the suditor’s oftice and besomes deputy auditor Mr. C. 8. Burkitt taking his place in th staie department the other stato ofticers retain their deputies, making almost no changes in the official force. The wost notable change in the state is that of the Judiciary, the new systen of district judges going luto effect with the first of the year, i wil YEARL There are now forty-fourdistrict jndies dis tributed over eightson districts. * There are no_ecircuit judges, their funetions having been transferred to the dstrict bench. So ‘With the exception of poliea judges in a few cities, the only nisi prius judees in the state are the district jugiges, whieh 1s quite a swoep- ing reorganization of the Towa courts, - QUEER BLAINE COMBINATION, Watterson, Halstead and 100l lssues For 'S8, CINONNATL O, Jan, 2—[Special Tele- gram to the Brr)—A local paper says Mr. Henry Watterson, editor of the Louis- ville Courier-fournal is in the elty for an un- questionably momentous political purpose. He and Mr. Halstead spent the evening up to midnight last night in close conference, at which the slaughter of Cleveland and the ad vancement of Blaine's candidacy for the vresidency in 1858 were sonsidered and di- wested and a line of poliey for the two jour- nals marked out. 1t means, o far as con- erns these two journalistic generals, that they are to unite against the mugwumps of Dot parties, and it mears the nomination and election, so far as their efforts may prove of efiect, of Blaine. The Enquirer is known to be already in the field for that pur- pose, and hias been quoting the Courier-Jour- nal's editorials of late to show that that journal is of the same mind. The reading between the lines means substantially that the present administration has 5o far been devioralized by issues unpopular with those who are politiciaus for revenue that it can not fire about in time o elect a democratic president; and that, tehrefore, it is better that a stalwart republi- can should b elected who can erush out eivil service reform. 1t will be observed as o pe uliar feature of these editorials that the name of no demoerat is mentioned to antag- onize Cleveland, for tae simple reason that none is wanted. Notwithstanding the per- sonal ity between Johin It MeLean and M. Halstead, Watterson has effected a tripar: lite alliance on the issue of the next presi- dency, beeause for once they are all of_one mind. ‘The alliance ineludes ths New York Sun and Tribune. - Anotiier editorial of Wat- terson's is recalled which substantially stated that ‘when the country was in danger of a third term, Blaine was called up to erash out the movenient and that now Blaime ean Tush out mugwnmpism in both parties. The Commercial-Gazette, too, aftacks Cleyeland, not asa democrat, but a8 the conimon mug wump enemy of ‘bhoth parties, and also re- gards Blaine as the coming man. Halstead just returned froni the east, and poth M 1 and Watterson lave latély been cast, Now Watterson his come up to Cineinnati and spent Listnight with Halstead fixing up acomuon fine of policy to ve pursued by ail five journals—the Commereial, 'Pribune, Sun, Enquirer and_ Cowier-Journal-— looking the nomination and election of Bliine. - QUALL LATE A Pourth Man Added to (he List of the Champions. Cicaco, Jan, 2.—[Special Telezvam to the Brr. |—Another quail eating champion 5 been added to the list, making four in all who have suecesstully accomplished the feat in this country so ta as recorded. The new champion’s nume is John Mann, ot Minncapotls, He undertook the task on a wager of $1,000 hetween George R. Clarke nd Alderinan Harry Hildreth, of this city. Mann s only twenty-one years of age, When he commenced his task he weigled 17 povnds. At its complotion last night he tipped the scales at 141 ppunds, having lost SixX pounds. Out of thiviysa . ils caten twenty- nine have been broiled arnc one roasted. No pepsin was used. For seven days elaret served a beverage, while on the three days Wankesha water sufliced, Mann commenced he never « yiling and claret was an experiment. 1o soon found it overloaded his stomach and e relinquisiied it Mann trained iimselt eare- fully hefore commencing his task and while at it dieted himsel§ earefully, - lis daily pro- fne was Lo rise at 7, eat a swall bowl of weal, rest until 9, then go for a ten-wile Ik, When he came back he ate a dinner of colid roast beef and after this rode on horse- back for two honrs. Then eame o mustard bath and vicorous massage treatmont, aiter which lie ate the quail and devoted the re- mainder to light exereise il 10 o'elock, s backer wants now to bet anyone $1,000 that Mann ean cat ten quail in five d A SCHOONER International Compiications to Avise Over the Matter. OTrAWA, Ont, Jan, 2—[Special Telegram to the Bri.)—An important point, and one that may lead to unpleasant complications of an international character, has been raised as rezands the legality of the seizure and sale of the American fishing scooncr, Highland Light, by the Dopinion government for vio- lation of fishing regulations, Last summer the Highland Light was scized and confis- caied, Pinding that a mistake had been made the government ordered all subsequent seizures to be made under the cnstoms and not the fishery regulations, although for what reason was not generally known at the time. All wondered at this, but the govern- ment said, “If we seize under the fishery regulation we confiseate the vesscl, whereas it the seizure is made under the eustom laws we ean Lnpose a fine, and as we do 1ot wish to be arbiteary we choose the latter, The last session of the Dominion parliament passed a bill, the objeet of which was to give power to the Dominion authorities to enforee the provisions of the treaty of 1515 and con- fiscate all offendine fisiing vessels, 1'he queen, however, did not approve this aet until the 2ith of November, months after the seizure of the IHighland Light, An effort will now be made to prove that the seiznre and confisen was illegal, It 15 evident that before this fishery matter i scttled there will be some interestins developments, - McLean [ 5 SE1ZURE, Likely The Bartholdi New Yonus, Jan the Ber.J—Wil ue All Right. Spectal Telegraim to atements have . recently been printed and circulated to the eilect that the Bartholdi Statue of 1y was likely to be a burden to the government and a constant worry to tho efticials in charge, Major David I etary of the lig house board, who recently made a carerul in- spection, is reported to have said that the torch arni is unsate and that some day it will drop into the bay, He is also credited with the statement that the copper will corrode rapidly and the statue ought to be repaired, General Stone, who has: had charge of the erection of the statue, indignantly denies the justice of the criticisin, 1o says’ I was tested by the best Frenel encineers before it was sent over Liere. Our engineers quadruple the strength that the French engineers ic- gavded as enough to maketie torch arm last acentury orso.”’ General Stone thought the talk that the statine wanld be weakened by corrosition of the copper was neither selen- tilie nor intelligent, *“Phe plates,” he said, “are of hammered copper, und will last about a thousand years, Allowed to Remain the Prosent, WASHINGTON, Jan, 2.—At Calument place to-day it was stated thiat no steps have been toward seleeting the final resting place for the remains of General Logan, On New Year's day some of Mps, Lo triends from Chicago called upon her and it was de- cided to let the mattex rest for the present. 1t is not probable that the body will be re- moved from its present resting place before spring, - Oglesby aud the Senatorship, CHICAGO, Jan, 2.—Governor Oglesby, who arrived bere to-day from the east, was asked whether the report fron; Washington that he was not a candidate for the vacant senator- ship was correct, He said it was. Later he admitted thathe was not prepared to state what he would do in the event of his Triends utting him' forward without Lis consent, 1 that case he would shape his course, 3, 1887, THE GREAT CATTLE SCOURGE Commissioner Uolman After the Illinois Live Stock Board, RULES FLAGRANTLY VIOLATED Pavoritism Shown in the Case Wealthy Distillery Company Some Sensible Advice as to Fature Action. of a Commissioner Colman’s Letter. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—Commissioner Colinan has written a letter to Governor Oglesby, of lllinois, sharply protesting against what he terms the violation by the Illinois state live stock commission of “rules vrepared by tho commissioner of agrieulture to regulate co-operation between the general covernmnent and the states for the suppression of pleuro-pnenmonia. He cites rule 10, pro- viding that “All animals affected with con- tagious pleuro-pneumonta are to be slaugh- tered as soon after their discovery as arrange ments can be made,” and says: “It is no- torious that such animals were not promptly slaughtered either In the distillery sheds, upon the Harvey farm, or in other affected heras,” ile declared that despite the express stipulation that inoculation should not be vracticed in Illinois inoculation has been permitted. He calls attention to the provision that quaran- tines shail not be removed without due notice to the department o agriculture and that all necessary disintection shall be conducted by the department, and declares that there has been “Violations of these rules are of so im- portant a character that they threaten to im- pair if not destroy the value of what has been doue in Chicago, and may lead to results so far-reaching and disastrous to the whole country that he cannot allow them to pass without entering a_most emphatic protest.” Iie continuc “It requires no great amount ot search to discover the reason and necessity for these rules, In co- operating — with the state authori- ties this department has expended large sums of money, and it would be ridicu- lous to do this without some means of as- suring itself that intellicent and thorough measures would be adopted and enforced as would secure with reasonable certainty the abjeet for which the appropriation was made.™ I'lie commissioner gives as an instance of the non-co-operation of Governor Oglesby the cirewmstance of refilling the Shufeldt distill- lery stables — with healthy —eattle with- out allowing the deparment the necessary time to - pass judzment on the matter and take the neces- sary precautions. The commissioner adds “Siteh course makes our efforts to co-operate with your state a farce. Worse even than that, it removes the only guarantee that there could be some substantial result tor the thousands of dollars expended in Cook county out of the nutional appropriation” for the suppression of pleuro-puetimonia, and now, after three months of anxious waiting for tidings that the contagion had been thoroughly eradicated from at least a few of ihe infeeted vlaces in Chicago, the country is amazed to learn that the commissioners have allowed the owners of the worst infected place now remaining in the city to disinfeet their own premises withi- out satisfactory or competent supervision and wiactically with no superviosion at all, And not satistied with this they have shown the most extrandinary haste and most obsti- e dotermination to have this piace filled immediately with fresh cattle, They allowed buta single day o elapse between the slaugh- ter of “the “in animals and_the issuance of retill the stable: Kable fact that every movement of the commission for the suppression of the pla and the protection of the people at large was attende With (he utnost conservatisim and delidera- s no undue haste to slaueli- vosed animals in these sane si Ten long weeks, every day of which ecost the this” country thousands of dolla Howed to dray efore the courage of these ventlemen could be bronght to; the point of carrying out the plain provisions of the luv. But now how different when the infercsts of w wealthy distilling company were to be protected, the company which had harbored this plague and allowed” it to multiply on their premises and which had vioited the law by failing to report it. "To save this firm from 1oss a permit was granted with the most ex- traordinary preeipitaney for the refilling of sheds as =oon as the last hoof of the plague jad been slhwghtered. 1t 15 xplicable that a commission appointed to serve the interests of the country, of your state, should adopt sucli an- erratic’and dan- ons poliey.” The commissioner refers to the tion the com- mission i “resolving itself into a tific_commission for the purpose of ascertaining whether pleuro-puenimonia can be spread by immediate contact,” in pursuance of which object the obligations of the state are violated and the confidence of the country aestroyed, and says: It is zen erally consldered safest 1o leave scientific searches to be seftled by scientific men, and departures from this riile have nearly always been followed by confusion worse con founded.” ‘I'he commissioner in pointing out the dan- ger of yefilling the infected Stables, says: “With the floor underlaid by a great mass of organic filth, as is the case with these stables, thedilih, which is vossibly satura’ed with contugion, the removal of a fow boards many months henee might set up an old break which would repeat all losses of restrictions and burdens of various kinds that have been uftered from the present ealamity,” In conclusion the commissioner says: **It appears now doubly important tiiat vou shondd take such action as will leave no son for doubt n the mind of anyone as to the future policy of your state live stock com missioners. To this end | would respeet- fully suggest that you cause the. order o the board in regard (o the refilling of the Shu- feldt sheds to be revoked, that the eattle in these sheds be imwediately stanghtercd, and that this department be given an opportinity 10 practiee such tionsasis indescribi ble and impossible under the cireumstances, I make this sugeestion on behalf of the great cultle industry. for the protection of an portant part of the nation’s food supply, and on bebalf of an unrestricted eomnlerce, which are tozéther threatened through this Iack of co-operation with the departiment of wericalture on the part of the board which represents your stat of ~ , Land and Cattle Assignment. iALvEsToN, Tex, Jan. 2—An Austin spectal to the News says: The Dolores Land nd Cattle company, of Texas, which was hartered lust year with a stated capital of 000,000, made an_assignment lere yester day, ‘The company a8 chartered was com- poséd of W. S. Carothers amd George A, Sea- Hzht, with 1,000 shares each. ~ Recently, how- ever, Carothers disposed of il interest to the other members of the company. Papers of assignment, a8 filed here” and sizned by Messrs, Searight and F. Rt bins, show _in vound fignres _ liabili ties ot 500,000, Assets, $540,000, The prineipal creditors are: Johu ¥, Coad, of Owaha, S0.000; Julia A, Fleteher, of Chicago, $50,000, each seeured by first uiort gages; George A, Searight, $90,000 without security. e —-— Result of the Texas Dronght, Forr Wonrn, Tex,, Jan, 2.—The Fort Worth Gazette published to-day the ofiicial report of the convention of county judges in the drought distriet of Yexas, held at Alban in this state. Twenty-one counties were reprosented in the convention. ‘The total niumber of people in those counties now in ced of food, elothing and fuel is placed at 30,000, while' thousands more are’ without seed (o plant during the coming winter. An anpeal is made to thie state and nationa! feg- islatures and to the country at large to fur- nish at once $500,000 to ielicve immediate wants. -~ Kaulbar's Successor. S1. PETERSBULG, Jan, 2—General Gouieft has been appointed 1o snceeed General Kaul- bar as military attache to the Russian e bassy at Vieuna, Sem— | NUMBER 199. THE WEEK IN WALL STREET. The Stock Market the Past Week a Fairly Active One. NEW Youk, Jan. 8 —|Special Telegram to the Brrk.]=The New York stock market dur- ing the past week has been fairly acti with a degree of strength and an advancing tendency which were to some extont unex- pected, ~ The holiday dullness reasserted ftself as anticipated in the be:inning of the week, but was followed by a liberal buying movement, which is held to demonstrate not only that the general fnclination toward bull activity on a large seale is still upperinost in spite of late reverses, but that bear specula- tion, which created the recent break, has been practically liquidated. In this way it is held that stocks have passed into strong hands, while the general conditions favor a further appreciation in their values tendency in conservative cireles is to question whether the present exhibition of strength is not somewhat premature. This view seems to be a prevalent one in the street. The d velobments of the week were measurably favorable to improvement. A somewhat more hopeful feeling prevails, both as to the scope and form of the inter-state commerce bill. Anincipient strike on several roads was promptly settled, and this was followed by a dec pated dividends and tlie presentation of favorable statements by varions Vanderbilt lines, Large reccipts of gold from abroad, supplemented by funds from the fnterior, has given the money mar- keta lower tone, and commission houses, finding it comparatively easy to carry stocks, are advising purchases of staple sceurities. It would secm that there has been consider- able covaring by the bears, and the amount of short interest which remams outstanding has been Jargely reduced. It 18 stated that buying by “the out- side public has recommenced in & way to indicate that it will assume large dimen- sious. A noteworthy feature of the week has been that foreign support was practically withdrawn, and that in addition to the dis- uieting revorts rezarding the condition ot the London money market and for(nightly settlement, there was serious interruption in telegraphic communieation between New York and London, Nevertheless the inde- pendent strength of our market supported American stoeks in London, and though the relative position of the two markets casioned, when cable communication made it possible, a certain amount of arbitrage sell- ng here, it is not thonght that a disposition to unload has yet developed itselt in that quarter. ‘The latter part of the week wit- nessed i renewal of speculation in- sonthern and non-dividend payiog stocks, — - Tinols Legts SPRINGHIELD, 111, Jan, ngnard of the legislature havet arrived and matters e becoming lively, The following candi- dates for speaker are at the Leland to-day: Littler of Sangamon, Fuller. Messiek, Col- lins, Calkioun and Miller. McMillan is ex- pected to-morrow. The fight is not tar enough advanced to make predictions. John Reeves, of Cairo, has arrived from Washington, e is a candidate for clerk, hayving filled the office in the session of 1882, J. K. Magie, of Cook county, is also here, and is a candidate for clerk, There are other eandidates who have not yet arrived. The senotorial fight has not advanced enough to define, but Iar- well has several friends from Cook, who are working, and = Hamilton’s brother, from Bloomington, is said to be here. Senator en is a candidate for speaker pro- tem cnate and scems 1o have no opposi- tion. The other senators now hiere are Dan Hogzan. Crawford, Leman, Garrity, Knox, Yost, ‘Thompson, Washburn, Curtis, een- wood and a_few others, There are about twenty members of the house on hand, e ) Hemmed in By Ice. Rockaway Beaci, L. L, Jan, 2.—Great 1 are entertained for the safety of five unknown men who are out in open boats, hemmed in by ice in the middle of Jamaiea Bay. Itisalmost an impossibility for them to suryive the exposure much longer, and unless extricated very soon, they will be frozen todeath. ‘The men, as well as could be seen from shore, made great efforts to get out of their unfortunate predicament, but up to half past 5 o'clock this evening ey had made but little headway and were being carried toward the inlet by the tide. The Scaside landing and other points cent to that portion of the bay have used cffert to aid the unfortunate men, but arze quaniity of ice floating in shore s it impossible to take a boat through it. A New Cineaco, Jan. 2.- Departure, A new movement w. started in Chicaco to-day, the chief promoters being Rev. Dr. Bolton, of the Clark Street M. E. Chureh, and Ion, J Hobbs, ex- president of the hoard of trade. The new departure was a public meetinz, the first of a series to the joint inferest of temperance an i social purity. It Is Intended to have tho meetings non-partisan, and not sectarian Miss Frances 1. Willard, president of the National W, ¢, 11, “made the inaugural address, [twas mainly an appeal for the improvement of woman’s legal protection, “The hall was well filled while” Miss Willard was speaking, Similar meotings will be helil every Sunday, Striking Brewc nployes. PiitAvELPing, Jan, 2—A jarzely at tended meeting of stiiking brewery e ployes was held to-day. They resolved to stand firm in their demands and to earry the question of sympathy into every German society and organization in the eity, 1t was decided to join the German federation of united trades in-a body, but the question as to whether the beer wagon driveis’ assembly would withdraw from the Knights of Labsr was held in apey the men preferving o wait the aetion of District Assembly No, 1, whieh threatencd their expulsion trom the Kuiehts if they did not return to work us o1 dered B Cabinet News, Loxnox, Jan. %—5ic William Vernon Har- court and Arnold Morley visited Mr, Goschen to-day. 1002 rumored that the latter was sent by Gindstone to advise Gosclien to leave the liberal party. ‘The Marauis of Londonderry, lord Tieutenant of Ireland. oifers to sell 1g Irish_estates to the tenants. ‘The terms of sale are not mentioned. Lord Templemore has oflered to sell his estate in Donegal at twenty years putchase on a basis of (he pres- - he Clearance Record, Bostoy, Jan, %—(Speciat Telegram to the Bre,j—Reports from the manazers of the leading clearing houses of the United States for the week ending January 1, show the total exchanges to e 8511,614,056, a decreuse over the corresponding week of last year of 7.5 per cont, Omalia stands thirteenth on the list, with a total of 3,775,034, and an werease of 7.5 per cent. - WASHINGTON, Jar, 2.-It been de cided to invest the Logan fund in United States 4 per cent. bonds, and Captain George E. Lemon will purchase at once as the first installment $20,000 worth of such bonds and have them registered in Mrs, Logan's nuwe and deliver them to her. Disastrous Kire in London LoNDON, Jan, %—A disastrous fire has oc curred on Wood street, London, affecting the property of twenty-five fivms, The daw- age Is enornous. 1L is impossible to est wate the loss at present. - *the President Recovering. WasuinGroy, Jan, Z—The president has entirely recovered from the fatigue ineident 10 bis long publie teception yesterday and 15 in better health to uight than before the vand-shaking of New Ye wa Weather, lowa: kight snow Nebraska and For Nebraska and warwer, The | DEATH OF MILTON TOOTLE The Millionaire Dry Goods Merchau Away at His Home in St. Joe A PARALYTIC STROKE THE CAUSE Sketch of His Life and the Many Busie ness Enterprises With Which He Was Connected - No Will Lefe Passes A Public-Spirited Man Go St. Joskrn, Mo, Jan Special Tele- | gram to the Bre. =M. Milton Tootle, St Joseph's foremost cit'zen and leading busi- ness man, died at 4:10 o'clock this afternoon, of hemipleaia, or paralysis, Death was ab- solutely painless, and for twenty-four hours preceding it the decensed tiad beon in a deep stupor or unconsclonsuess, He was sur rounded in his last moments by his tamily and afew intimate friends. 1t is too early an hour to learn anything about the condi= tion in wlieh Mr. Tootls leaves his estate, Nothing is known of the existence of a will, His wife and business partners know noth ing about one. As by tho law ot Missourl the death of a member of a firm dis- solves a copartncrship, Tootle, Hosea & Co. are no longer in existence as a fivm and a reorganization of the honse will be necessary, If there is a will, however, there may be a clause in it perpetuating the firm, A rough estimate by those who are in a position to know caleulate the wealth accumulated by Mr. Tootle to aggregate $4,700,000, It is not possible in the short space which can be devoted to the sad affair at this time to speak in detail of the exoressions of the comuunity over the death of so enment a man. Mr, Tootle’s fame was not contined to St. Joseph, He was kuown all over the country in financial civeles, and in the west particilarly, For yeats he was the most consplenons eharacter it commercial circles of the Mississippt river, Milton Tootle was b in Ross county, Ohio. While lin was fant his tather, Joha ‘Tootle, moy, Marion county, Ohio, whete youns Tootlo received in the common schools the rudi- ments of an English education. About the year 1836 his father removed to Jersey county, Hlinois, when Miltou, only thirtcen years” of awe, entered a mercantile house. Soon afterlie entered the store of his unele where e remained until hie removed (o another part of the countey. He was then employed as u clerk by Mr. George Smith. 1 1542 My, Smith moved to Savanaah, In 1844 M1 Siith divided lis stoek and sent a art of it to Afehison county. giving Mr Tootle exclusive charce of this new houst Here he remained one year, 1n 1548 he em- barked in business toi himnsoli in Oregon, Mo, In 1819 at the request of m, Mr. Smith, he came to St. e ho was given wently Bedford and Tootie. Mt ing of 154 and My his two brothers and William ased the stoek and becan 1, the name of Tootle & Faleizh, shortly afterwards — es 1 Sionx City, Council Biuits and Omaha, . Tootle has always heen a inan of gr enterprise and has done wueh to enfarge improve and beautify the city which has been for many years his home, ~To all publie enterprises hé was a free and liberal contribu- tor and has undertaken ome of great impor: tance where he himself bbre all the expenses? In 1832 he erected the handsome amuseient edifice, Toot ¢'s opera house. of which St. Josepli is so proud. at a cost of $165.000, M Tootle was marvied in January, 156, to tho daughter of James L. O'Neill. ¢ashicr of {he Western Bank of Missouri, {le has living his wite and three chiidren-—Tannie, aged fifteen: Milton, aged thivteen, and Johnni aked eleven. In February, 181, Mr. Tootle united with the First Presbyterian ehureh, The death of Mr. Tootle is Omaha’s wholesale interests, 1le was tle senor member of the fivm ot “Lootle, Maul & Co., the oldest wholesale dry goods Cstublish- ment in Omal It canvot yet be de er- mined what efféet his deatih will have upon the business of his Omaba hotse, A Michigan Capitalist Dead Dyrrore, Jan, L—Jdohn S, Newberey this afternoon at4 o'clock in his sixty-firsy sar. e was a member of the Grm of New- berry & MeMillan, capit wl was inte ested in a great many railvoad and other en- terprises in this city and state, and in 1881 wits proniinently nvced for” the position of sceretary of the intervior in - President Gar- field’s cabinet. Ilis estate fs estimated as 0000, e Teaves o widow, iiter. The Adams Expross 13ahbhers, . Lotis, Jan, 2—Fred Whitiock, Thomas Weaver and W. W. Haight, the latter of whom was brought Lere from Louisville yes terday, are the only members of the train robbers who will e proseer in this e All others who were arrested hiave b Tesed with the exception of Oscar Couli, who will answer to the court in Kansas City. 1t 15 pretiy wenerally believed that Whitioek’s contenplated official statement of the rob- bery will remove all suzpicion that Fothering- Lanil was inany way voluntarily connected with the obbery. i Febroary uterest in as that of Smith died Lootle, with arleigh, pur- siness undex Mr. Toolie louses in an 0 died - Sunk in a Collision LoxboN, Jan, 2.--The British s Dragoman, from Savannah December 12, for Liverpool, collided with and sank an un- known vessel dseye. Fourleen persons were drow anier ntine Republic National Republiean: Consul ( of B Ayres, has mil s report o the department of state in vegard to the trade of the United with the Avgentine Repubhie. He 1o the strong desive on the part of the lat- ter governnent to engage in close com- mereinl relations with the United States, and the aelive movements i prog for establishing an Amervican line of steamships - between New York and Buenos Ayres. The nts of the United States and Brazil N Steamship com pany ¢ rgotiating for an extension of theiv Brazilian line to Buenos Ayres, and have applicd for a subsidy of 5,000 for each voyage mude trom New York to Buenos Ayres. The Avgentine govern ment is willing to give the company i subvention of $100,000 gold for twelve fn- nual trips between those (wo ports, pro vided stops are not made at any Bra- zilian ports south of Para. The consul expressed 1 hope that the offer would be accepted, if not by the Brazilian line, by some other company. Hesays theve is no dount of its being cminently successful to its owners, and that it would be the inauguration of a prosperous trade be tween the two countries, The consul thinks thut an enlarged angoe with the Argentine Republie would prove of tdeewdedly more advantuge than the trade with Brazil as it now X ists, Lhe value of products imported from Brazil is about §50,000,000, annually, while the exports Lo i average in vaiue only about $5,000,000 year. When congress attempted 1o cheapen the price of coffee 10 our peopls by the reduction of tanifl’ duties tho government of Brazil at once followed up the opportunity with t aposition of &n export tax, defeating, in a large measure the benefits intended for the re lief of the American consumwer. Brazil sells her products to the United States, but buys her supplics chicfly of England, Portugal, Germany and France. The consul concludes his report by saying he cannot understand why Americin mer- | ehants should make Rio o terminal point 1 when there isa ter mivkel for our | products in the Argentine Republic, only 1 1000 wiles beyond.