Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 11, 1887, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY SEVENTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA. MONDAY MORNING, JULY 11. 1887, BEE. A REDSKIN WAR. morrow. They may tumn the tide of disaster was not a bad fellow by any means. In the NUMBER 23 e e . ... ... T THEY DIDNT PLAY BALL. hie o tean CREMATED IN A THEATER. Beventcen Persons Burned to Death in a Wisconsin Mining Camp. HURLEY'S HORRIBLE HOLOCAUST Nine Charred Oorpses Recovered From the Smouldering Ruins— The Business Part of the Town Completely Wiped Away. Frightful Loss of Life, Hurrey, Wis,, July 10.—Fire broke out on the stage of the Alcazar theater at 8 o'clock last night, and within an hour the entire business part of town was in flames, while eleven persons had perished in the theater. The charred remains ot nine people have been taken from the ruins, The loss is fully £520,000. The Aleazar was a variety theater, chiefly frequented by miners, and was one of the resorts of unsavory repute associated with the notorious dance houses of the min- ing regions. Only a small audience had gathered wnen the fire broke out, and they scrambled out in a hurry. Several actors, however, rushed up stairs to save their wardrobes, and when they sought to escape tound that they were hemmed in on all sides, the flames having spread through the wooden building with incredible rapidity. How ihey struggled to flee will never be known, ag none of them except Sadie Wells and Mable Powers were ever seen again. The former appeared gt a second story win- dow and called piteousty upon the crowd outside to save her. Beforea hand could be raised the flames reached her and communi- cated to her clothing. She made a frantic effort to jump through the window, and then, with a piercing shriek, fell into the furnace below. Mabel Powers had reached A third story window. She jumped and was 30 badly injured that her recovery is doubt- ful. Among those who perished in the theater were: FRANK Youna, SApie JACKSON, colored comedians, TirLLIE MOORE, song and dance artist, 11, and husband, McCase and ‘T'wo or three others whose names are not known. The Aleazar was In the very heart of the ecity. It was a mass of flames in a very short time. 'The fire seemed to leap from building to building until several blocks became a roaring oven. It was not long before every building between Third and Fifth avenue wasin flawes, All efforts to set the fire un- der control seemed futile. The fire depart- ment, reinforced by scores of volunteers, sent its puny streams against the approach- ing wall of flames, but had to retreat as the fire swept resist!essly on. It did notstop un- til material for it to feed upon was lacking. The individual losses are over 000~ 000, and are as follows: Moore, McFarran & Co., merchandise and clothing, $50,000; 8. Moore, Agnew & Co,, general hardware, §40,000; Meinemann Bros. & Co., dry goods, $25,000; Cann & Minn, general merchandise, $10,000; Brill & Langdon, $30,000; Carrothers Bros., stock of liquors, $5000; J. B. Lan- glois, saloon and household goods, $5,000; Oscar Hanson, furniture goods $6,000; Lemon & Foster, drugs, $58,000; proprietors of the Fair, $5,000; John E. Burton, sixteen buildings, §50,000; Chas. LeClaire, Alcazar theater, $25,000; D. P. McNeill, saloon and household, £10,000; P. Biride, wholesale liquors, §5,000; A. E. Gallagher, law library, £5,000; Peaske Bros., groceries, with build- Ing, §11,000; C. Perain, restaurant, $5,000; F. A. Day, hardware, $5000; J. Ridgeman, saloon and restaurant, $5,000. ADDITIONAT NAMES, CiicAGo, July 10.—A special from Iron- wood, Mich,, across the river from Hurley, Wis.,'says that seventeen people lost their Iyes in the Alcazar theater, The following additlonal names of the dead are glven: Jo WL VaNQuick. AMUEL HEALEY, JAURIE BRAINERD. Tt 1s probable that John Jarrett, the staze carpenter, will die from his injuries. Jen- nie Sheridan, an aetress who leaped from the third story, is also severely hurt. Sne says that she tried to persuade’ several others to {ump but they delayed aud the toor fell in, aking them ywith i —— A WIERD STORY. How a Lady Supposed to Be Dead Was Almost Cremated. New York, July 10.—(Special Telogram to the Bek.|—A local paper prints a higaly sensational story which purports to give the details of a narrow escape from Incineration of a lady living on Fifth avenue. According to the story, the lady who is the wife of a leading sugar merchant has been suffering for a long time from heart disease and on June 30 apvarently died. It was her wish that her body should be ecremated and the body was taken to the crematory at Frelsh TPond. Her mourners took a last look at her dead face and theu the remaius were turned over to the superintendent. That gentle- man, according to his statement, began mak- preparations to cremate the body. While Retting the sliding apparatus ready he heard a rustling sound in the direction of the coffin which stood a few feet away. The lid being still oven, by glancing in the direction of the sound he noticed a tlower fall from the casket to the floor, “Just as I was about to wheel Into position the carriage which supports the body before itisshd in the furnace,” continued the su- verintendent, “I heard a renewal of the rustling sound, and turning my eyes toward the casket saw'a number of flowers dropping from it. Inthe midst of which appeared a hand grasping the side of the coffin, Not knowing what to think and pretty well frightened 1 walked toward the casket. 1 was horror-stricken to see the corpse sitting up and gazing wildly about her, With my knees sha l“i my first impulse was to run, but quickly taking in the situation I told her she had been quite ill and must keep quiet, Then [ lifted Ler out of the coflin and carried her upstairs to Iy room; then my wife helped me out by telling the lady she was her nurse, and putting her own clothes on her.” ‘The lady's husband was telegraphed for and after hearing the story cooly ealled on his wife asif she had been ill for several days. Next day the lady was s0 much better ber husband brought her to this city, i e Arrested for a Brutal Crime. Pavresting, Tex., July 10.—Sarah Pace, colored, wite of Henry Pace, came to town yesterday and made affidavits against her husband for an outrageous assault upon her- self and the murder of their infant enild at their home nine miles east of town, about six months ago. The woman alleges that she was kept under strict surveillance and terrified by constant threats of death if she divulged the secret to the neighbors or au- thorities. It was no secret that the child was burned to death at the time, but the people in the vieinity supposed it to be uceidental until the woman made the aflidavit. She states that her husband threw the ehild in the lire after it was dead, beat it with o stick, the tlesh adhering to the stick every stroke. Con- Btable Steve Crist and Deputy Stertt Lum Stockbridge arrested Pace while at work in his field. He was considerably agitated when told that the charge made iainst him was the wurder of his child, -~ Cholera Among Troops. LONDON, July 10.—There have been forty eases of cholera and fitteen deaths from the dizease awong the troops at Catania, atal Fight With Indians in South St, Louis, ST. Louts, July 10.—About two weeks ago a band of six Kickapoo Indians appeared in South St. Louis and plied a brisk trade in selling moccasins and other indian wares, They had a camp on the bank of the river Despares, just outside the southern limit of town. On the 4th of July one of the Indians attempted to whip a white boy who \\'|<|p\t'n- tering and plaguing them, when John liusi‘:.' a r!;ll\mz mill hand, interfered and gave the Indian a threshing. About 6o'clock this evening the Indian and a com- panion met Rose on the street near the Star of the West hotel and made at him with knives, Rose pulled a revolver and shot one of them through the body. The other hastened to camp and bronght the rest of the Indians into town, armed with Winchester rifles, Rose and two or three of his friends went Into a second story room of the hotel, ana when the Indians appeared near enough opened fire upon them with revolvers and brought two of them to the ground severcly wounded. The remainder of the Indians then began shooting promiscuously and fired into the hotel and surrounding houses. Great alarm seized the people in the vielnity, and almost unmediately hundreds of them wore flecing from theit houses, running to the hillside near by and taking shelter wherever they could.” A few moments later a number of citizens armed themselyes and with the aid of the police drove the In: dians to camy, but they would not surrender. Gray Eagle and another stalwart buck marched up and down before their tent, and with their sixteen shooters held the crowd at bay. The Indians had carried two of their wotnded to camp, and they being so serious- Iy hurt, the others finally sent for or permitted a doctor to enter the tent. ‘The whole party then surrounded them and the wounded were sent to_the hospital and Gray Eagle, Black Hawk and Moosehead were locked up. During the melee the Indians fired numerous shois, but luckily did not it anybody and the excitement which was in- tense for a time wradually subsided. The wounded Indians are Pawneas Tom, Indian Charlieand Little Chief, two of whom will probably die. Rose, it is said, gave himselt up to the police. ANOTHER FLAG EPISODE. Rebel Ranters Want the Banner Changed L July 10.—|Special Telegram to A'special to the Tribune from Lynn, Mass., says: General Landes Post of tho Grand Army, which has been at Gettys- burg and in the south forelght days, returned home to-day. The organization was hospit- ably entertained by the R. E. Lee camp of confederate veterans of Richmond, being in that city from Monday night until Wednes- day morning. They mingled with Pickett's at Gettysburg and saw or heard no re- e talk concerning the late unpleasant- until they reached Richmond. On Tuesday evening a banquet on a large scale was held at Sanger hall in that city. Probably 400 people attended, including nearly all the representative men of Rich- mond, save the governor, who was in New York, and the mayor of the eity, who was coniined to his home by illness. The hes were all of a satisfactory tenor until W. Flournay, sccretary of the common- Ith ot Virginia, was ‘called upon. His remarks concernin: the war and its resuits were so objectionable to many that they lett the hall. lIle defeuded the con- federate nction in the strucgle in such & manner as to make him- selt repulsive to the mnorthern visitors He wanted the American flag “amended” to the extent of placing the repel stars and bars in a prominent position thereon, 1t was the most unreconstructed speceh imagin- able, and the excuse offered by the few mein- bers of the R. E. Lee camp, objecting to the expressed sentiment, was that “the man must beinflamed with wine.” ‘The editor of the Richmond Times, who followed, more radical speech regarding the of the flag than did the of state, claiming that unity and good feeling would never result until the old rebel flag became a portion of the stars and stripes. The latter speaker read his speech from manuscript, so that it conld not be said his was a hasty re- mark brought on by an indulgence in liquor. Hedwelt on the “'new flag’ business at much length and thought it only fair that such amendments as were suggested should be im- mediately wade, Tho Lynn mewbers looked al the Richmond papers next morning and found that the references to flags being changed had been cut out of the speeches. ——— Nation’s Aberdee CHICAC On The Irish July 10.—|Special Telezram to the Beg.|—The Earl and Countess of Aber- deen arrived last evening from Milwaukee, In an interview Lord Aberdeen said the fate in regard to the lrish quuestion here which had most favorably fmpressed him was the entire absence of that fire-eating, fanatic element which Eoglishmen have been taught at home was universal in America. He was exceedingly gratitied to discover this and believed that if the English people generally were better informed on this sub- ject much good would be accomplished. Tn regard to the coercion bill he had no doubt it would become a law. How much value it would bave he could not say, but he under- stood that already there were certain ar- rangements being made in Ireland that would practically muke the law inoperative nd a-dead leltor. | OF course this was. Sim- ply what he had heard, but he did not know 1n’the least how it was to be accomplished. e Carpenters Want Eight Honra, Cuicaao, July 10.—Tho Carpenters coun- cil has called a mass meeting of all carpen- ters at the Twelfth street Turner hall for Wednesday evening noxt, for the purpose of congratulating the bricklayers on the suc- cessful termination of their lockout, and also to take measures to solicitor compel the muster carpenters’ association to adopt an eight hour day, The carj.enters strongly ob- fect to working nine hours while the brick- layersare only obliged to work eight, and they consider this the most opportune time to make thetr demands. Some “of the mem- bers of the master carpenters’ association have expressed tnemselves as willing to ac- cede to eight hours, but otuers will oppose any such wovement. L The Constitution's Centennial. PHILADELPIIA, July 10.—Colonel A. Lau- don Snowdon, warshal in charge of the ciyle and industrial demonstration to be held as a part of the celebration In commemora- tion of the centenninl anniversary of the adoption of the constitution in September next, has addressed letters to the governors of the several states suzgesting that they ap- point committegs in their respective states 1o which shall be assigned the duty of direct- ing the attention of citizens to the subject and the organizing of industries for partici- pation in the demonstration, which 1t is pro- hosed to make, If possible, the most wpos- ing of the kind ever witnessed ou this conti- nent. e Fraudulent Mesmerist Sente SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July 10.—J. [ arony, charged with fraudulently obtaining money, was convicted here in the circuit court here last evening, and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Last winter Sarony ad- vertised himself as the world’s groatest mes- merist and bilied himselt for an exhivition at Musie hall, where he collocted about §30 at the door and then skipped out without even appearing on the stage. e was ar- rested a few miles west of here the same night, brought back, und has been in jail At liis trial he has been quite ill and had to be assisted to and from the court room. da. Working for Maxwell. Lovis, July 10.~A morning paver Mr, ‘I. W. Fauntleroy, counsel for Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, says that he hias 1ot thrown up the ease, but_on the other hand will do his utmost to save the sentenced man. He says that there i5 no foundation whatever for the report that he bad thrown up the sponge, says This Accounts for the Defeat of the Omahas Yesterday. BAD PLAYING BUT FEW ERRORS. The Score Stands 15 to 11 in Favor of Hastings With Two Charged Against Home Team. Frrors the Another Defeat. We know when moons shall wane, When summer birds from far shall cross the sea, When autumn suns shall tinge the ripening grain— But who, oh! Omaha, shall teach us when to look for a game from thee? Like Ixion clasping the cloud, or Lisypus struzgling upward, unrewarded to die in despair at last, is the Omabas trenzied effort todown an azgregation of country boys from the village of Hastings, wearing the uniform of a base ball team. But it is all of no avail. It is only Porphyrion assaulting Fate over again, and recoiling from the rock of its im~ mutability, like the balls rebound from Kreh- meyer's chest protector. The Hastings boys didn’t leave thelr corn- cutting and coms over here for nothing ! hey intend to exterminate the hated Omatins, and Manacer Malone says by next uesday evening they’ll all wish'they were ne born. 1t oo bad. ‘Thal's just what it is. And the people are getting tired, and Manager Philbin will have to put up some hammocks before long if he expectsto hold the crowd. Yesterday was the Sabbath, and the sky was robed in bright blue and gold, with an embroidery of pearl, while the sun was hot enoug’i to roast a turkey, but two thousand peopie never heeded this, and herowcally made their way out to Association park to see the Hastings play with the Omahas, And they did play with them, Lilke aeit does with a mouse. They never had so much in their lives, And when they get through Lere they are going down to Toveka, where they are booked 10 pliy & game I But pleasure However, let’s go o Mopping his classical brow with a’ very dirty handkerchief, M lengle ealled play, and Walsh, with his inflammatory curls stepped up to the plate. Everybody could see a resolve, strong as Limburger eheese, :lu_nl calm in its very depth, planted all over his face. He braced himself. One ball. But no more, for he caught the second one pitched about six inches from the end ot his bat, and it went sebilating through the air out toward Washington territory, and Walsh came home amidstan uvroar alinost sufticient to wake up the rest of the nine. But itdidn’t. For three men were quickly retired, two of them, Kreymeyer and Baudle, in a neat double play. After Reising and Whitehead had been put out, Curtis banged the sphere out into center trotting lome on a passed acked it for three him- fumble of Peoples’ hit me in, and he, too, scored a moment later on a hit and error. ‘The Omahas w kalsomined in the sec- ond, but the Hastings, on three bases on balis, by Bandle, and a siness every time, the game briet] another fumble serateh hit, the ball striking Bartson’s leg, tallied three more, In the third Walsh scored again, while the Hastings were woose-vgeed, as they were also in the fourth. In the latter the Omahas zot in three runs on three singles, a three- hagger and a brace of rotten errors. In the fifth, sixth and seventh the Omahas failed to accomplish anything, but the Hastings only added nine runs to their side, on some good batting, clever base running and a bouguet of beautiful errors, When too late the local team got down t work and slugged the ball to the queen’s taste, making two_tallies in the eighth and four in the ninth, The letter were gathered Laughlin - went out from rehmeyer cot his base on balls; then Babdle and Dwyor hit sate, and Bader died at first. Messitt lined one to right and Bandle and Dwyer came home, Krehmever having ously scored on Bandle’s hit. Genin knocked Messitt home, and Bartson g from second to Lirst, the gam that seems to liave overtaken the local team. The Hastings left the fleld much elated Iast evening, as they haedly hoped to wi the game after the Omahas’ brilliant opening. Krehmeyer was hardly up to his standard behind the bat, e several very expen- sive passed balls, and his throwing to second Was poor, Harter and O'Leary were spectators in the grand stand, ‘Llie blind floundering of their old confreres made them smile audibly sev- eral times during the contest. That promising young player, Bader, has been away off lately on his judgment of fly balls. He appears nervous anda doesn’t play with the same dash and spirit that marked his work of a few weeks siuce. The game was a poor one in all particulars, and many of the audience departed before 1t was over. 'The deficiencies in the team, however, will all be supplied ere many days, r.nul Omaha will yet make a creditable show- ng. ey — THE WEEK IN WALL STREET. Trade Does Not Improve as it Was Expected To. New Yonrk, July 10.—|Special Telegram to the Brk.)—The week on the stock ex- change was a dull one compared with its Im- mediate predecessor, but this Is not surpris- ing tn view of a full holiday on Monday and A half holiday Saturday and the extreme heat of the weather, to say nothing of the fact that movements In the stock market were calculated to drive off rather than draw in the outside public. The bulls looked to easier money and favorable developments in the long talked of telegraph deal to bring about a better condition of affairs. The former came, but the latter did not, and al- though London bought stocks until near the close, and the railway earnings were gen- erally good, the market was a sagging one, and the rallles were so feeble there was very little support to anytning and traders took early advantage of this and for that matter 1t can Dbe said they maintained control of speculation throughout the week. As a rule they were bearishly inclined, and became bold in their attacks whenever they discovered weak spots. On_almost every day lower prices were recorded than on the previous one. and some tired holders dropped their stocks, thus helping along the decline, which ranged up to 5% per cent on the regular share list, and even wmore in Ameriean cotton oil certi 8, although the latter afterward had a sharp re- covery. verything suffered,includiny dard “dividend payers, and York Central at one time led the downward movement. The course of the market was a disappointment to most of the leading houses, who had been lnnkinf for an improvement after the natlonal holiday, and the opinion is becoming about universal that the surest ay out of the present unsatistactory situa- tion will be found in the advent of some bull er with courage, brains and capital. Railroad bonds were comparatively quiet, and the market was weaker than of late, some of the speculative issues having de- clined quite sharply. Governments were a fraction lower on small dealings, and the same is true of state bonds. Foreign ex- chanzes, on the whole, were somewhat firin, chiefly in_consequence of the easier con- dition ot the money miarket. = Iiates were slightly higher, but they are even now only a shade above the gold im- porting point. The monetary situation was refiected in the treasury disbursements on ac- count of interest, called bonds and pensions, and lower rates of interest prevailed, The highest quotatiom was reached on Tuesday, when there were a few transactions at § to 10 per cent, but lateron 5to 6 per cent were the ruliny fizures, and exceptional loans were made at 1 to 4 per’ cent, Domestic exchanges were more favorable and at the close rategat St. Louis and Chi- cago indicated shipmi of currency toward this center. Several consignments of gold from Europe, in all about $113,000 arrived during the week. THE ('l:lTJ RECORD. Monetary Transactions in the Cou try During the Past Week. BosToN, July 10.—|Special Telegram to the ]—The following table compiled from tehes tothe Post from managers of the leading clearing houses of the United States shows the gross exchanges for week ending July 10 together with rates per cent. of in- crease or decrease, as comvared with gross exchanges for corresponding week in 18 | CITIES, CLEARINGS. Increase. Decrease. TOMATIA Walsh.... ou - s © | = [T TCrOTTa socracoo ] is a5 follows: 180070 3003 waha 9, Hastlogs 10 Hughes, Lauman The score by lnnings ha 10 o, Home run—Walsh, Ebright 2, Left on bases—Omaha 7, Hastings 9 Double plays—Peoples, Huh Struck out—By Bartson 4, N Bases on balls— By son 5, Nicholson 5, Passed bulls—Krehmeyer 1, Wild pitehes—Bartson 1, Nicholson 1, ases stolen—Omaha 1. ime of game—2 hours, 10 minutes. Umpire—Hengle The American Association, Cix AT July 10.=The game between the Cineinnatis and Metropolitans to-day was postponed on acount of rain. Cincinnati ......0 8 0 8 26 1 0 1-91 Metropolitan 00002200 3-7 Pitchers—Serad and Smith for Cincinnati, Rosemand MeMullen for Metropolitan, Base Lits—Cincinuati 26, Metropolitan 13, Errors—Cincinnati 5, Metropolitan 13, Um- pire—Keenan, St. Louis, July 10.—The S8t. Louls-Balti. more game to-day was stopped by the police after the first inning, ball playing on Sunday being in violation of the Sunday law. LOUISVILL .—The game between and’ Brooklyn teams to-day resulted as follows: Louisville 7 a1 Brooklyn 2 2 0- hamberlain and Yerry, Base sville 18, Brooklyn 15 Errors— Louisville 4, Brooklyn, 6. Umpire Curry, Diamond Notes. Every man of the Hastings got one or more hits, ‘To-morrow's game will be the last on the houie grounds until July 30. Again Hengle umpired superbly. kicking, no back talk or wrangling, Fusselbach will play third and Harper piteh for the Omabas in Tuesday’s game, Although Ebright is credited with two home runs, they were both of the seratch order. The Hastings have no license to beat the Omahas, 1t has been dead luck, sir, in both games. Walsh’s home run hit was a danay. He had erossed the plate before the ball” eould be thrown in from the field even. Bartson is a plucky little pitcher, and most of the hits made off of him yesterday were after chances for outs had been offered. ‘I'he boys hit hard enough yesterday, but flelded like old women, notwithstanding the official score only gives them two errors. & Everybody go out and see the new wen to- No St. Louis. San Francis Baltimore. Cineinnal sPittsbure. i nneapolis. St. Paul Detroit . Milwaukee, Cleveland *Duluth Hartford . Omaha Denve Columbus. | Indianapolis New Haven. Joseph Portland Memphis. 2, 3 2,615,770 2,276,408 2,215,197 #opeki Grand I Noriolk.. *Not Includeq in totals. B AN ODD VSPAPER WAR, The RBusiness OMce Unsuccessfully Bucks the Editorial Roomas. NEW ORLEANS, July 10.—|Speclal Tele- gram tothe BEE. |—An oddsort of newspaper war has been going on at Shreveport. A bright young fellow named Puckette formed a partnership with a fellow named .Johnson to lease and carry om the old Shreveport Daily Times. The former was to manage the editorial and the latter the mechanical de- partment. Puckette promptly and vigorously swung the paper into the support or Gienaral Nicholls for governorand the reformed de- mocracy. Inspired by the owners, who are friends of McEnery, present governor and & candidate for re-election, Johnson threw out Puckette’s poliiical articles, Iuckette went into court and obtained an injunetion preventing any iterference with, bim, The ohnson party went before a judge of eon- current jurisdiction, who dismissed the in- junetion. Pucketie them appeared before the supreme court of the state, which re- versed the last decision until a hearing ean be had on the merits of the case next Octo- ber. Puckette is now at the helm and Nichi- olls’ cause has scored a triumph. —— A Terrible Accident. 8r. Joskrn, Mo, July 10,.—The news of a sad accident comes from the farm of Martin Wagner, some eight or ten miles southeast of Skidmore. While cutting rye his little three- year-old boy came to him in the field and wandered into the grain and fell asleep in such a position that the reaper, \n_vassing over it, cut one leg entirely off. Mr. Wagner, when he saw what was done, fell from his seat in an unconscious eondition; and was picked up In that way, The litde sufferer was tenderly eared for” and will probably re- cover, END OF AN EVENTFUL CAREER Death of Ben Halliday, the Great Pioneer of the Wes KING OF THE STAGE COACH ERA The Dauntless Courier of the Pathle Prairie, Who Made Millions Al- most in a Day, Dies in overty. Ben Halliday's Death. Portland (Ore.) Dispatch to the St. Louis Globe-Dewocrat, July 8: Ben Halliaay, one of the best known characters in the western country, died at St. Vincent's hospital in this city to-night at 7:45. The linmediate cause ot his death was paralysis, from which he had been suffering for some time. He had been uncouselous for several days, and up to his last moments was unable to recog- nize his wife and children, A VARIEGATED CAREER, ‘The career of Ben Halliday was that of a remarkable man. He was a native of Ken- tucky, and was probably sixty-five years of age. He moved from his native state when fifteen years of age, and located in Mis- sourl. In 1549 or ’'50 he settled at Weston, and for several years was engaged in the drug business. He finally abandoned that prosy pursuit for a more exciting life still further on the fron- tier, and in 1852 made his first overland trip to Salt Lake City in charge of a train of goods. He found no market in Salt Lake, and moved on with the train to California, where the value of his zoods grew as if by magic. HIs venture was far more protitable than he had anticipated, even in his wildest dreams, and the result was the foundation of a fortune. Becoming Interested in San Francisco property, he soon grew wealthy aud influential, aud finally secured a con- tract to supply the Pacinc Mail company with fresh beef. This brought him an income ot from $2,000 to $4,000 per mouth, and was fol- lowed by otlier contracts even more profita- ble, in which the government and various overland companles contributed to his in- creasing fortu FABULOUS EAR s He eventually became Interested with W. H. Russell, a well-known Missourian, in sev- eral governinent contracts and cleared fabu- lous sums of money. But Halliday, who was onthe western end of the continent and manipulated the various deals, managed to capture the most he prolits, while Rus- sell and his copartners in Missouri and the east furnished the principal portion of the capital. 'The firm of Russell, Majors & Wad- dell, of St. Louis, finally failed at the open- ing of the war, and Halliday generously kept everything which the tirm owned west of the Missouri. TNE OVERLAND COMPANY. A reorganization was finally affected and the firm of Russell, Joves & Cartwright and Alexander Mayers became sole owners of the Pike’s Peak Express company from Atchison and Leavenworth to Denver, The government beiny behind in pay to the com- pany, Russell, a democrat, deemed it pru- dent to make Halliday president of the Overland npany. _Halliday accepted, and advanced or §40,000to fit up the line, and took a chattel mortgage on the whole concern. This was made payable at some obscure town In Kansas, and “Halliday soon captured the line which had previously been inyoiced at about $700,000. He afterward sold it to the Wells Fargo fixpress company for $2.000,000 cash. Halliday’s first wife and four children by her are all dsad. The wife was an estimable woman, charming in appearance, and character, Their two dauchters, Pollie and Jennie, ench married a French count with more title than anything else. Botn were beautiful women but both had been sought and wedded for their wealth and their married lives proved uniappy., Jennie the eldest, died on a Pullman c; way east from California, ‘The doctors it was heart disease. ‘The other died at a New York hotel. The two bovs, Joseph and Benjamin, who were well known in St. Louis, among the young bloods of their day, died while they were yet young men. A the children were buried on' the Ophir farm, in Westchester county, N. Y., beside their mother, in a private chavel which she had built. ~ Ophir farm embraces about 1,000 acres which finely improved after the French chateau style; and in her will the other left it to her daughters with the stipu- lation that at their death’ it should not go to their French husbands. This provision was the causc of long litization, the KFrenchmen making strenuous eftorts to secure its pos- session. It finally passed into the possession of Joun Roach, the ship builder. [From the Denver Republican.] ‘There is much in Ben Halliday’s history and a great deal that is of Interest to Colo- radans, as Mr. Halliday was the man who brought the first stage-coach to Denver and occupied very much the same rank in the early days that railroad presidents occupy now. Ben Halliday was a bluff old fellow, very hearty with his friends and very blunt with those not fortunate enough to have secured his good will. Ile had many of the eccen- tricities which seem to be natural with rich men whose careers have sprung from small beginnings. He could be very arbitrary with his employes if the fit seized him, and "again he could requite a fayor in a generous, whole- souled fashion, which often made him a lion among those by whom he was feared. He was one of those men who seem to take a grim delight in surprising people who do the most unexpected things at the most unex- pected moments. He was often affable and occasionally he was bearish, just as all men are who aré as heavily burdened with busi- ness cares as he was. A BOLD SPECULATOR. W Like most of his elass, he was a bold specu- lator and would take almost any risk where he thought there was a_chance of making anything, Altogether those who knew Mr. Halliday in Denverin the early days remem- ber him as a kindly, eccentric man; fond of a joke and always willing to help along any worthy publie scheme. It is concluded, however, by those who knew him best, that although the, v that was remarkable in Ben Halliday’s his- tory there was little that was in itself re- murkable about the man. The greatness .n which riches envelop a man were rather thrust upon him than otherwise. e began his career in a most propitious time for men to make money. He was so situated that he had every opportunity to make it, and kis would have beer a densely stupid mental or- ganisin indeed had he not followed up his advantage as far as it led him, A GENIUS AND A BENEFACTOR. He was a genius and a benefactor, inas- much as he was progressive. ‘T'he midions that he ence owned were kept in active eir- culation, and for that reason the world is better that Ben Halliday was once a rich man. ‘There are those perhaps who will bear some yet tenderer memories of this erst- while'hero of the famous Overland Stage line, Little s now known in Denver of Ben Holliday's family relations, which may have been somewhat broken up when some years ago Mrs. Halliday went to Europe to re- side with her two daughters whom she mar- ried to German counts, after the most approved fashion, which even the wives of the bonanza kings of the present day cannot execel. Mrs, Halliday s said to have queened it for a time in Eu- roe, just as Mrs. Mackay does to-day, but her judgment in the matter of the choice of titled husbands for her daughters proved but ill-advised, as both Ben Halliday's daugh- ters died of broken hearts, their royal hus- bands doubtless proving little more than for- tune-seekers. Atone time Halliday brought his avistocratie sons-in-law to America and gaye them employment. but this proved rather an unsatisfactory proceeding, and it is thoughit that the old man was glad enough to pay their passage back to Germany in order 10 get rid of them. HIs EARLY BEQINNING, a1s a50 Ben Holladay kept a little gro- y store in western Missourl, In fact it is 1ed by sole that It was not groceries v sold, but bad Missouri whisky However this may have been, Holladay was* agood natured, ordinary kind of eountry J werchant whow everybody liked aud who yn-nr 1858 circumstances and the voice of a riend called him further west and he soon became concerned in the government pur- of flour, which was to supply John- Fort Bridges in the days of the Mormon . 1lere he made large sums of money by lmflnc flour for a very little money and selling it for a great deal.” 1t was hiere he got his “start in life,” as it is called, ‘The first trip Hallid: y"mnde he left Fort Leavenworth in an ambulance, making the trip to Salt Lake In six or seven days by the assistance of the government officers, one of the quickest trips which had ever been made at that time. 'The stages ran between Atchi- son, Kan., and Salt Lake City, Halliday re- celving $250,000 for carrying the mail be- tween those two points. The stages were the thorough-brace Concord coaches, invariably painted a bright red, thoroughly squipped for service and drawn by four spanking horses, the whole making an’ imnosing spectacle, HIS STAGE-COACH DAYS, The accommodations of staze travel of- fered by Mr. Halliday were of the very best. The horses were without exception fine. spirtied unimals, and the stuges wero the best that could be procured. The stages were run on platform time. The end of the route was Placerville, Nevada, and it w to this point that Horace Greeley was hastening to deliver his lecture when ™ Hank Monk, the famous stage-driver of western romance, driving along a fearful precipice at an alarmingly rapid gate, called to the af- frighted journalist, who had stuck his head out of the window to_protest: “Keep your seat, Mr, Greeley. Lll get you to Placerville i time.” RUN OUT BY THE RAILROADS, Halliday ran the siage line from 1861 until 1867 When the Union Pacific road was fin- ished to Cheyvenne he found himself out of business, so he took a great deal of his money and bezan building a railroad from San Francisco to Portland. At one time it i estimated that Halliday must have been worth Live million dollars. * He devoted him- self to the object of developing the Pacifie coast, and soou lost a great deal of his money in railroad schomes. Betweon 189 and 1573 he lost nearly everytbing that he had in con- nection with the building of the Oregon rail- road. He securea from the government between $250,000 and $400,000 for carrying the mails between Atchison and Salt Lake. When compelled to kive up the stage busi- ness he settled in California and there erected one of the grandest mansions on the Pacitic coast. Ever since he lost his money, which hap- pened somo yeals ago, Halliday has been rln!lnlnz to complete his railroad to Port- and. When he became involved, he deeded the remnant of his property to his brother, and when in the course of “time his brother refused to restors it to him, Halliday de- manded restitution in the courts and re- ceived therefrom three-fourths of what he deeded away. HIS CLAIM AGATNST THE GOVERNMENT, 1In 1864 and 1865, Holladay lost great num- bers of horses, mules, stages, stations, hay and grain by the ravages of the war between the Sioux and the Cheyenne Indians. At this time it is estimated that he lost one-half a million dollors clear. He immediately rut a claim before congress for that amount but has never receixed anything to compen- sate him for his loss, Halliday has been in- terested In one of the Pacific steamship lines and In a great many other large con- cerns in and about the Pacllic const. Halliday street in this city was named after Ben Halliday b o of the stage oftice which was situated at the corner of Fifteentn and that street. The old barn where the stages were kept was located in the block now occupied by the postoflice on Lawrence street. THE BE HER BUSINESS. Efforts of the Dopartment to Squelch the Matter. WaAsHINGTON, July 10,.—[Special to the Bre. | =The attempt to belittle the effect and value of the affidavit and lists of charges against A, F. Beecher found among the ef- fects of Alver M. Black, which the treasury aking at this time, seems a little curious in view of the necessity for his rejection which the senate found upon thorough investigation of Beecher's se last winter. Every possible opportunity was given Beecher to prove the falsity of the charges made against him, and his” excuse was 80 lame that the senate found itself un- able to confirm him for the office to which he had been nominated. Martin, supervising special avent of the treasury, says that I!Iflrk'lchmuus had been fully’ ln\mll;:ull(inl y was demented and found to be without foundation. further asserts that Black and actuated by & grudge. Martin is chief of the division to'which Beecher now belongs and probably appreciates the desire of the administration to keep Beecher in oftfice. The failure of the deportment to take any notice of his charzes aside from the “investigations” alluded to by Martin proba bly led Black to secure stronger start for Washington perso ite the charges, Of this new evi e y officials know nothing, and their haste to deny that there was anythi in them has raised conslderable comme among people who know of the administ tions efforts to gat Beecher confirmed as col- lector, The slilmhnd method of the treasury investigation also lays the department open to the suspicion of knowing little about the matter. Did Harvey Have Confederates. W AsmINGTON July 10.—|Special Telegram tothe B [lere are grave fears among of the ofticials of the treasury and war de- partments that Harvey was not entirely alone in his frandulent operation by which he secured so much money. It is thought that he must have had accomplices, as the {mpm‘s upon which the checks were is: 1 had to pass through a great many different hands. It is believed to be one man to have successfully forged all the necessary check narks, signatures and stamps without aid of an accomplice. A rigid investigation is in progress which may dv\\-lnF much more corruption among somo of the trusted elerks than has ever been sus- pected. The Hawaii Revolution. Wasm~GToN, July 10.—Nothing is known at the state department of the revolution in Hawaii beyond what was printed in this morning’s pers. The Adams, Vandalia and a third naval vessel are known to be in the neighborhood of Honolulu if not at that port and it Is believed that they are fully able to protect the interests of the Unitea States, It is the general opinlon in Washington that the affair has no significance trom any inter- national point of view, but is simply the pro- test of the business people of the island against the financial mismanagement on the rt of the ministers and the king and con- sequent oppressive taxes. moossible for Where Clevelan, WAsHINGTON, July 10.—The president and Mrs, Cleveland and Colonel Lamont will leave Washington to-morrow for a stay of about a week in New York state. ‘The party will proceed over the nia railroad direct to Holland_Patent, where the presi- dent will spend Tuesday with Miss Cleve- land. On Weduesday he goes to Clinton to attend the centennial anniversary of the settlement of the village in which his tather lived. From Clinton the preciient will go to Forestport, whera he will stop several days with his brother, Rev. William N, Cleveland. Will Go, -—— armers Battle, ., July 10.—Sllas Clark and W. M. Weaver, living near Macksville,twelve miles south of hers, claimed a quarter section of government land, and upon meeting each other on the land yesterday morning Clark opened fire upon “Weaver with revolver, shooting at him threa times hout effect. Wi then perforated Cia face and chest with a chiarge of shiot trdlu a shotgun, inflicting fatal wounds. He surrendered to the authorities and elaims that the shooting was done in self-defense. - Tne Exc nunication Not lRead. New York, July 10,.—It was expe the excommunication of Rev, Dr. would be announced to-day from the pulpits of the several Catholic churehes throughout the diocese, but no such ahnou ment was made. A number of the parish- | ioners of St. S n'e chureh, of was l;m:m said tha [ nt of his excommunication was MeGlyu nounce made they would rise aud leave the churcl, | ROME'S EDICT NOT SUPREMB In Matters Political Oatholio Allegiance i Due to the Constitution, DR. M'GLYNN'S RINGING SPEECH. He Declares That a Man Should Sufs fer Imprisonment and Martyrdom Rather Than Sin Against His Conscience, A Man’s Conscience. New Yourk, July 10,—The anti-poverty meeting to-night was the largest yot held, many persons being drawn thither, no doubt, in view of the recent ex-communication ot Dr, McGlynn. James Fahan, of the Catholio Herald, presided over the Academy meoeting, and John Feeney over the Irving hall over- A choir, composed of mem= ynn's old church, struck up “Marching to Freedom" to the air of *March- ing Through Georgia™ as the the doctor en- tered the Academy. The effect was eleetri« cal. The burst of applause from 4,000 turoats was carried to the crowds in the streets and thence to the Irving hall meeting. Chalrman Gahan said m his introductory speech: “‘Weo are here to-night to let Rome know that, in mat ters political, not one jot of our alleglance is rendered to the power of the potentate, but in its entirety is given to the laws and con- stitution of the United States. [Cheers.| Allof you weut to your several churches this morning. In not one church did any one dare to stand up and read the decree of Michael Augustine Corrigan. [Hisses and. cat calls.,]| When church authorities attack and depose a holy man, whose very shoe latchet they are unworthy to untle, they go to the daily press to promulgate their edicts. They do not publish them from their holy pulpits, Dr. McGlynn was received with vooiferous avplau Juring the course of his speech he said: Jur God is a merciful as well as a wise one. e will never condemn any being who follows the dictates of his conscience, even be that conscience an erring one. —1n nlll?‘ln it heis forever obeying the will of God as s the dogma of the Catholic faith and according to all christian philosophy and teaching the man who goes axafost his con~ science #ins against the Holy Ghost; and despite the power of any authority, even of the popes, if a man does or says anything in obedience to that power, doing he goes against science, he sins, even high Roman tribunal summous the man before them for teaching the truth which he knows to exist and if that tribunak should condemu his doctrines without giving them trial, and command him to retract them it is his dusy before God to refuse to do so. | Prolonged cheers.) And if it was In his power, as it at one time was, but thank God no longer is, to imprison and martyr the truth In the persons of those who havi rend God’s word in nature before the: have been able to see it, should they sum- mons him and command him to retracf der penalty of imprisonment or mart; it is his duty to resist and he alive at the s e rather than commit the unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost of declaring what in his conscience he believed to be false, As long as Catholie people continue to la the pope do as he pleases, in politics as wel as in religion, allowing the cardinals to be elected to assembles and daring to forbid an American priest from makinz any speeches or attending any political meeting in future without permission of the propaganda, which thinks that Florida is a suburb of New York and Mobile a streev in San Fran cisco: s0 long as such Is allowed, 80 long will the Irish, German and Awmerican poor be sold out for any price that Lome can get in return. CROP PROSPECTS, Summary of the Situation in the Western States, CiicAco, July 10.—The following ecrop summary will appear iu this week's issue ot the Farmers’ Review: During last week re- fresbing rains were experienced quite gen- erally throughout the states of the Missis- sippt valley, though many unvisited locali= tivs suffered from drought. The western wheat harvest is now so nearly completed as to furnish a safe basis of the estimate of the yield. The estimates of the yleld per acre reached by summarizing the reports of our correspondents in this issue are as follows: For seventeen counties in Ili- nois, 17 bushels; nine counties in Indlana glve an average of 15% bushels per acrei twelve counties in Kansas, 13 bushels, whichy from former reports, incline us to think is too high; four counties in Kentueky, 11; bushels; three counties in Michigan, I bushels; seven counties in Missouri, 18 4-7 bushels; twelve counties in Ohio, 16 bushels, and four counties in Wisconsin, 165 bushels. Leports on the condition of spring wheat are. wnlform from Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, lowa and Wisconsin, The lowest per centage of condition, as_compared with the ayerake crop, fs 7 from Nebraska, and the hizhest 78 from ( . Sprin, wheat 18 rapidly approaching maturity, an now, in spite of the drought and inseet in- jury, gives promise of about three-auarters or an_ averaze crop. 'The same condition will very nearly apply to the condition and prospective yield of oats, Corn cenerally is I a very promisiug condition and taily two weeks ahead of the season, ‘There I8 al- ready some complaint of chineh bug depre- dations, and there 18 danger that as wnnfi wheat and oats wre harvested, the bugs wil move In force to the adjacent corntields, doing much injury, Government Weather € WasHINGTON, July 10.—The following i8 the weather crop bulletin of the signal oftice for the week ending July 9: There has been an excess of rainfall in the southern states and thence northward to the lake reglon, in- cludin g the southern portions of New Eng laund and the middle and the A tic states, while there has been less than the usual amountof raintail in the states of the Mis- souri valley, Numerous and abundant rains have occurred in the cotton region and in that portion of the corn region east of the Mississippl previously threatened with drought, ~ For the season from January 1 to July ¥, the large aet iey of rainfall con- tinues throughout the southern states and Mississippi valley, but the rainfall during the pasttwo weeks has greatly reduced the season’s deficiency, and occurring at critical periods, have probably affected most bene- ticially corn and cotton, ‘The weather gener- ally during the past week has greatly im- proved the condition of growiug crops.” Both rain and hay harvesting are wel] advanced in the extreme northern portions of the y arded in » Bulletin. Boro, N, C., July 10,—There is much ent in the vicinity of Whittaker's over the recent lynehing of a colored mun, Austin vart, for assaulting a young white woman. Hart was nopular with the negroes, and they alloge that he was flynened on - I suflicient evi tis clalmed that the neeroes have planned, as a retaliatory meas. ure tue lvnehing of the voung lady, the vie: tin of Hurt's assault. In consequence, the white men have placed a guard about thi house in which the young lady lives, and trouble s feared. A Four ftioters Killed. M tp, July 10.-~There was no further rioting at Valencia to-day in consequence of the attempts to colleet the octrol taxs The nilitary tivwd into the crowd, kitling four persous. leinforcements have beon sent to the W, - St Louis Salo Wide Open, Lotis, July 10.—All the saloons and er vardons were open as usual to-day, bup everything pi A off quietly, very few Yests for drdnkenness x'unu} w:uymuu. “’