Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 12, 1887, Page 2

ANOTHER ~ HORROR. orrible Acoldent on the Chicago & Atlantio in Indiana. A . REAR END COLLISION. A Freight Dashes at Full Speed Into & Passenger Train. CHATSWORTH SCENES REPEATED. Fire Breaks Out and Adds to the General Terror. MANY BURNED Frightful Tales of Sufferings Told By 4 Survivors. RAILROAD OFFICIALS RETICENT. TO DEATH. The Little Station at Kouts Strewn With the Charred Remains of the Victims—The Engineer's Story —Statements of Passengers —~The Company Blamed. Almost a Second Chatsworth. CnicMo, Oct. 11.—[Special Telegram to the Bre.]—A terrible accident occurred on theiChicago & Atlantic railroad last night at Kouts, a small station about fifty-five miles cust of Chicago. Passenger train No. 12, which left here at 7:45 p. m., stopped just this side of Kouts at 9:45 to make e re- paips. The fast freight tram No. 48, which should follow on instructions, received a «clear bill at Boone Grove, six miles west of Xouts, and had got up a good speed when it crambed into the rear of the halted passenger train. The night was dark and the scene @uring the next half hour was dreadful. The avar coaches of the passenger train were smashed and telescoped so that the three oc- cupied less space than one: No one in the Pullman sleepers was injured. The conduc- tor telegraphed to his company here that all escaped before the fire reached the car and mone were injured in the collision. General ‘Manager Broughton, with all the clerks and others who could be of any use at the scene, 1eft a8 soon as he heard of the accident this morning. Upon the arrival of the wrecked train at the water tank, the scene of the accident, the engineer discovered a portion of the engine out of gear and a stop was made to fix it. A j#iznal is said to have been sent buck to stop | the next train should it come along while the | pussenger was still at the water tank, but for wome reason this signal was ignored, if sent, amnd the meat express, which runs at a high feate of speed, crashed into the train. The rentire passenger train, consisting of five cars, awvas completely wre Amid a pandemo- mium of crashing timbers and human shrieks ud toppling fragments of the wreck the ror was tripled when the confused mass of splintered and broken wood was discov- Lerod to be on fire. Those who miraculously iexcaped uninjured immediately turned their l{:u. tion to those imprisoned in the wreck, 1 all but about twenty, it is now thought, | were rescucd. o A PASSENGER'S HARROWING NAKRATIVE. One gentleman, a passenger from Taunton, 1uss., Who was on his way home, was sitting n the first car asleep, with his hand on his atchel. “The first I knew,” said he, “I heard o frightful crash and the car seemed ishattered and the pieces were flying past me. 'The next I knew I found myself almost |@uried in the ruins and they seemed to koep ‘piling up. Itried to extricate myself and |found I was near a window. It was very lark and all around mo were yells and groans aud the bluckness made it fearful. I didn't gcom to be hurt beyond being shaken up, so I jeulled for help out of the window. Some mari—I don’t know who—helped me out, and then turned in and helped to get others out. JA little while after I got out, though, the avhole thing took fire, and we were forced #o give up workiug on it, bit by bit, and let 4t burn with the horrible cries of those inside an our At one pluice there were two or women, apparently all fogether, and we tricd to get them out. f'hey were shricking all the time in a man- « mer to freeze one’'s blood, for the fire was poming nearer to them all the time. We Worked us long us we could, but could not t them out, and the fire came all around hem and finally silenced their soreams. To hedr their desperate cries, as the fire came pearer and nearer, and finally reached them, ras simply appalling.” FIRE ADDS TO THE HORROR. The wreck burned to the trucks, no facili- Cies being at hand to extinguish the fire. A ear load of the injured was taken eastward €rom the wreck this forenoon. They were maimed, bruised and burned, some quite Padly. OTHER ACCOUNTS. A. Duncan, of Syracuse, N. Y., secre- gary of the Chautauqua assembly, arrived in $he city this afternoon on the Chicago & At- fantic limited from New York, which was five hours late. Mr. Duncan said: “‘Our rain got into Koutz at 7 o'clock this morning nd then we were told of the wreck which ad occurred two miles west of the town. 1, With several other gentlemen, visited the #cene of the disaster. There were hundreds ©f people around, but everyone secmed to e so dazed and excited that little had been fone to assist the wounded. When we got ghere a most sickening sight met our Btrewn all along the track amid the w @gq were ten or twelve charred bodies. Little Bohemian boy'was propped up against ehe fence, badly crushed and dying, and there An tront of him lay his dead wother, brother nd two sisters. It was impossi- le to secure names, as _ cvery me was half out of their wits nd it was a long time after the accident oc- purred bofore any assistance was rendered. 1 @unted up the night operator at Koutz and he ave me the following account of the disas- t- which is about correct: The train aivcked was No. 12, which left Chicago at §:45. The train 'was wade up of five cars, the wo rear ones being Pullman slecpers. Just tw!omllwlrnin arvived at Kouts an cccen- icof the engine brokeand the engineer plowed up for repairs, A brakeman hung put a danger signul light and the thing least pxpectod was that a train would be along. Who train had stopped but a short time when the train behind, which proved to be the fast Chicago “‘meat” train, made up of freight rs, dashed into it. Notwithstanding the @anger signal the “‘meat” train rushed on at ghe rate of thirty-five miles an hour. She ptruck the rear coach, telescoped it and the two in front, and left nothing but the front baggage car standing. Three aches were swept completely away, pothing but the trucks being Qeft standing. The wreckage immediatoly eaught fire, and the wounded and dead lay in ghe flames and were burned beyond recogni- gion. The people around there said that Bbout ten people were burned,” added Mr. can, “‘but I think there were at least fif oen, as I saw a dozen ladies laid out. vank Cramer, general western ageut of One the Guion line of steamer, was on board the wrecked train, but escaped uninjured. *“The first we who were in the sleeping car knew of the accident,” said “Mr. Cramer, “onr coneh was run into from the rear. The forward coaches, it seems, were telescoped by the shock. There were only seven pas- eengers, 1 think in the slecper was aslecp when the shock occurrcd T dressed myself and when I got out to the wreck I saw the whole train was ablaze. Many who were killed or serionsly wounded must have been burnad up, as the fire broke out as soon as the accident occurred. The train men did what they could to relieve the wounded, but facilities were lacking and many people doubtless perised in the fames because no help could reach them." A Graphic Account. Kotrs, Ind., Oct, 11.—[Press. ] —The worst horrors of Chatsworth wers duplicated here to-day. Dozens of blood-stained, smoke-be- grimed dead and dying men, women and children, victims of railroad carelessness and blundering, littered the village station house this morning and this afternoon. Nine charred corpses of victims were laid upon the station platform, in the hoted and every other availablé resting place in the vicinity, while three miles west down the track of the Chi- cago & Atlantic railway, near a lonely water tank, piles of fearfully tangled debris mark the spot where a collision seldom equaled for terrible results occurred. Accordjng to the best estimates obtainable— for only ap estimate is obtalnable—fully thirty human lives have been sacrificed outright and half that number suffered injurics more or less serious. The cast bound express that left Chicago 1ast night with @ great load of passengers, had, without @ moment's warning, during a temporary wait, been smashed into from be- hind by a heavily loaded fast freight plung- ing madly forward in the darkness, bent on beating all competition in hurrying dressed meat to the markets of the seaboard. Some part of the machinery of the passenger en- gine had been thrown out of order during the run from Chicago. A trifling stop at the water tank would make all right, it was thought, and a stop was accordingly made. Suddenly out of the darkness behind came the flash of @ headlight, the rush and rattle of many wheels, and then & mighty o , just as at Chatts worth. The sleeping coach now got in its deadly work. The massive frame work of the sloeper was transformed into a huge cata- pault, and pushed mercilessly forward by the freight train it erushed into the cars forward, nnman? their comparatively light timbers and making the work of destruction complete, The wreck quickly took fire, and the sight of the shrieking victims and dancing flames was one never to be forgotten. THE ENGINEER'S STORY. To-day on his bed of agony at the little hotel of Kouts the.engineer of the passenger train told the following story of the terrible disaster: ‘“We passed No. 49 at Boone Grove on time and started toward Koutz. No. 49 pulled out of the station less than two minutes behind us when they should have waited much longer. When we were well away from town we could see her lights but a little way behind. We were not moving very fast because the engine was broken on one side. We had broken an eccentric strap and were*running but one pair of wheels, having been forced to disconnect the other pair of wheel which wore running loose. Of course the aecident held our speed down a little, but we had no idea that the engineer of No. 49 would have any difiieulty in keep- ing off from our heel time 1 looked behind there was o us. We stopped at the Boone Grove water tunk and were there almost a minute before they struck us. " William Goghyan, conductor of a Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg construetion train work- ing between Kouts and Hebron, asmall station ten miles west of Hebron, saw sourothing of the results of the accident. This construc- tion train runs into Kouts every evening with its load of tired workmen, and the consuflor hotel of which the awakened at 4 o'clock out the Wabash train that had been de A by the wreck. Upon going down stairs in the hall he found all coufusion in the little parlor. A boy of some fifteen years of age was stretehed upon the floor literally mangled and torn to pieces, with just enough life left in his body to speak in whispers to those who wsked him about the accident. In a room off the parlor another boy was lying with serious brui about the head. In one of the upper rooms he learnod that the engineer of the wrecked in was lying at the point of death, vere these sights and 8o piteous es of anguish to be heard on all sides, that the sturdy conductor could eat nothing and hurried to his dutic lad to escape such a sc In the littl slecps in the one little town bousts, this morni sitting room of the cottage which serves as a_hotel in this town two of the wounded survivors of the accident still remain 1#e this afterncon. Herman Miller, a Bohemian boy on his way from Dundec, Il to the old country, is stretched on a lounge in the low dark room. His head is fearfully battered and his right leg is fractured. The other wounded man is Joseph McCoos, @& bartender of Hoston, whose injuries are mostly internal and are not so severe but that his recovery is possible. He was able to tell of the accident, as follows: I was a passenger in the coach at the time of the accident, which was next to the last ear in the train, Just before mid- night I wont to the smokor, which was in3¢ ahead of our car, and °chattiy for an hour with a younz m at down near me. ‘1hat last I've seen or expect to the poor fellow, Just as I had stretched my- solf outtc go to sleep and almost beforo I el my oyes, there was an awful, un- earthly crash, which, God help me, I never want to hear' again.' I could feel myself thrown violently toward the top of the car and then I became insensible. On waking up 1 vealized thut all was confusion in the car, that canes, valises, rods of iron and lamps were in the air about me. I must have re- gained my consciousness in o very short time, for when I awoko all was darkness and the horrible shricks — and picrcing wails of agony almost deafencd my ears. In the end of the car furthest from me the stove was overturned and the flames wer Just starting to spread with magic rapidity There was some sort of new gus lamp in the car wnd the resorvoirs reaching from one to tho other the fames leaped up the sides and in less time than I can tell it the vas burning the whole length of th v our heads, 1 was wedged betwoon two seats where [ couldw’t move a limb of my body and there watched the five slowly ereep upon me, It was u terrible sig Tn the end of the coach near the fire T could see a lady caught be- tween seats as 1 was. The fire slowly orept across the car, her dross caught fire and in terrible ny sie burned before my eyes. Just across from my seat I noticed shortly before the o o father, his wife and daughter. 1 saw them also crushed to- futhor and burncd justas the flames were blaging but a foot or two away from me. A an puiled we into the aisle and sai ‘'ome to the window.” He must have mis- taken me for soine one else, for the moment he had looked vioseiy ut my face he dropped me and hurried through the window with an exclamation of evident disappointment. I then painfully crawled after him in - safety.” This afternoon when the reporters, who had been long delayed in reaching Kouts owing to the secretiveness of the railroad ofticials, began at last to arrive, there was littlo in the aspect of the village' to indicate that a calamity had so recently taken place. All the dead bodies had been carefully re- moved from sight, only two of the wounded were still in the village and the local em- ployes of the road were deaf and dumb to_all seckers after information. The coroner had boeen obliged to go to Huutington, over fifty miles distant, to obtain the statements of witnesses, and the villagers scemed wholly at sea regarding the extent of the disaster. About the only person about and willing to tell the *details of the horror was Dr. C*W, McKee. The doctor is a prosperous-looking, intelligent man of about thirty-seven, who promptly responded in the dead of night to the call that he take a hand-car and go to the scene of the wreck, three miles from his residence. Dr. McKee rendered noble service. He had scant time to give his experience in detail, but stated that to the best of his knowledge 1t would not be gverstating the facts to that the collision hus cost she lives of | ing at & correct ic and none of them wore killed or injured. 1| diSaater the doto o'clock this wreck, and is services ta the badly hurt when must have had 80 _quickly had the cars taken fire and sc thorough was the work of the flames, As an ilinstra- tion of the destruction and dificulty of arriv- of the magnitude of the disaster the doctor suid that probably not a soul would have been made aware of the all but total wiping out of the Miller family of six had not their been saved. Dr. Me- Kee stated that only nine bodies had been recovered and they were 8o badly ch us to be almost beyond recognition, the most left of scarcely any of them being a blackened trunk and in some ¢ little beyond a few handfuls of ashe nine were as fol- lows: The Miller family, of Dundee, father, mother, two brothers ' and girl, their fourteen-year-old il prob- ably die alsc Ind., Dr. P Perry's daughter, aged eleven, and a young Irish lady A TACITURN SUPERINTE! people. Tt was shortly after 10 morning when he reached the immediately b wounded. Th the crash camo, Superintendent hi Atlantic, was seen late in the afternoon gloomily' pacing the station platform. He ‘was extremely taciturn and was very sure no more bodies “could be, by any possibility, under the wreck. Only nine persons had been killed, he declared, and not more than eleven or twelve hurt. None of the latter were seriously injured. He admitted that no flagm an had been sent back from the passen- ger train when the stop was make, Mr. Parsons said thambthe trainmen depended upon @ semaphore fully two thousand feet in the rear of where the stop was made. The conductor of the train said he pulled the cord for this light when he stepped from the train. This would throw the glare of the red danger signal on the track. The night, however, was foggy and the engineer of the fast freight must have failed to see the signal. Superintendent Parsons thought the accident would have been & very ordinary one had not the stove in the sleeper upset. That caused the destruction of the sleeper, two coaches and the baggage car, and in the main was doubtless the cause of the loss of life. Coroner Leatherman, Mr. Parsons said, reached the scene from Valparaiso about 11:30 8. m. and after viewing the debris and making some inquiries, had found it neces- sary to go _to Huntington in search of wit- nesses. The wounded, Parsons explained, bad been taken there as early as possible and the passengers who were unhurt, to the number of twenty-five, had been forwarded to their destinations without delay. Teappears that Coroner Leatherman did not empanel & jury. That procedure is not a necessity according to the laws of Indiana. At the wrock the coroner was met by Mr. Johnson, attorney for the Chicago & Atlantic, and being told that the engineer of the freight had been taken with the other survivors to Huntington, he decided to go there, which he did, in company with the railroad’s lawyor and soveral other gentlemen. The coroner is well spoken of among the people at Kouts. They did not criticise his action in going to Huntington, believing that he is square. The coroner is desc a8 being rather a young man to be charged with such an important duty as determining the responsibility for the wreck. A PATHRTIC INCIDENT, ‘A pathetic incident of the wreck is related by the station agent. Itis of the story of a young lady from Ohio, whose name could not be remembered. She was one of the pas- sengers on the ill-fated train, and when the crash came, with presence of mind and energy worthy of a strong-minded masculine, she séized an axe from its resting place on the side of the car and hewed her way through to a window. Her own safety - assured, her thoughts turned to the helpless unfortunate ones wh s for assistance sounded behind her. They did not call in vain, for she rushed in the' direction of the crios' and onally uided those poor souls from Touse her own language: *I ould, and _would have continucd ard Dr. Perry crying and moan- ing pitcously that his were burning. Then my mgth gave way, and I was c.u}....»u.»dm desist and. seck assistance my- self.” did all T had I not h BULL-HEADED RAILWAY OFFICIALS, 11 p. m.—All efforts to obtain_information from Huntington as to the names of the killed and wounded have up to this hour been unavailing. The Chicago & Atlantic rail- way officials, who went there with the roner to-day, seem to have complete pos- session of all sources of information on this point and they refuse positively to make pub- lic the names of the victims of the disaster. “The killed and wounded were taken from the scene of the wreck to Huntington early this afternoon accompanied by the coroner. The water tank at which the wreck took lace was tended by an employe, for whose accommodation a small shanty was attached to the pump house. For a long time he has not used it, but has gone into Kouts every night, leaving the tank entirely alone. He was asked to-night what precautions were taken in his absence to prevent such a catastrophe as that which has occurred. v'call a semaphore. Its an ivance and is supposed to act 1, but it don't.” The w ng forco atthe scene of the disaster numbers 800 men and their many lights, stretched along the full length of the wreck, can be seen miles away over the marsh. Enough of the wreck is still left to gzive an idea of the mass of ruins strewn be- fore the tank after the collision. The freight train in part_escaped, but the front were piled in the most fantastic ys upon each other, Not a vyestige of any of the passenger coaches’ woodwork was left. The telescoping of the baggage car, smoker and day cozon had been com- plefe aud the spesdy flumes did the rest, leaving not 2 splinter, the sleeper even ghar- ing the fate of the others, The bodies which the coroner found were burned into cinders and covered the ground under the trucks. At midnight the track was still impassable. The coroner telegraphs the Associated press from Huntipgton at midnight as follows: “Cannot as yet give the names of the killed. There were eight adults and one child dead and two persons wounded at Kouts. Know noVhing of any other wounded." e BELL'S LATEST MOVE, He Has An Injunction Served On a St. Louis Company. Sr. Louis, Oct. 11.—Judge Thayer, of the United States circuit court, in the case of the American Bell Telephone company against Philip L. Rose, et al, to-day, issued an order restraining the defendant from directly or in- directly making, using, selling or furnishing ing telephone or telephonic ap ing invention granted to Alexander Graham Bell, The defendants arc summoned to appear in the circuit court Saturday next to argue the tion for a temporary injunction. This step by the Bell company is more important than appears on the surfpes, Philip L., Rose et al are Rose & Rein, of this city, who muke instruments for the Pan-Bleetrie compuny, hence the action is indirectly aimed at that concern, —_— Typos Take it Back. CixcrsyNamy, Oct. 11.—William Aimison, president of the International Typographical union, announces to all subordinate unions that at a meeting of the executive council held here to-day for the pur}msfl of confer- ence and the consideration of the nine-hour law adopted at the Buffalo convention, it was unanimously resolved that a committee of seven be appointed to confer with the Publishers’ association which meets in Chicago, October 18, to bring about har- mony, and_that tho enforcement of the nine- hour law and all its provisions be suspended. Subordinate unions, are required to with- draw the demand made September 1 until further notice. e L S Ea s Important Letter Made Public. St. Louts, Oct. 11.—A special from Santa Fe, N. M., gives the text of & letter from President Cleveland to Manager Pils, of the Muxwell Land Grant, company, in reply to queries made by the latter. The president says in substance that the judgment of the supreme court of the United States on the questions involvedis authoritative and inclu- sive and that its judgment must be respected and obeyed. R No Such Action Taken. WasniNeTON, Oct. 11.—It can be authorita- tively stated that at the recent confercnce between the secretary of state and Fishery Negotiators Putnam and Angell, the matter of the froe wdmission of Canudian fish was not agreed upon, nor was final decision taken fully thirty | wpon any point of the coming negotiations, SHADOWED BY ENCLISH SPIES. Mys + Visit to Denver of Two £ ugers From Scotland Yard. . WANTED TO BE ,A RANCHMAN. An Unsuccessful Atgempt to Trap P. G. Sheridan, the Famous : had of the Phanix Park Tragedy— Lincoln and Omaha Visited. Sleuths From Scotland Yard. Dexver, Col,, Oct. 11.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]—A man and woman of the Scot- land yard force of English detectives that ar- rived from New York afew days ago, de- tailed to look up charges against members of the Parnell party in the house of commons | andto secure by any means possible any letters or documents of importance these agi- tators in America may have in their posses- sion from the leaders in Ireland, arrived here one day last weck and went to the Capitol hotel wh they registered under an as- sumed name as man and wife. Next morn- ing they disappeared as suddenly and mys- teriously as they arrived. An agent of the New York branch of the League who followed them to this city is here watching their every movement, but to-day refused to speak upon the subject, except to say that they were in Denver on their way wost. They stopped over at Omaha and Lincoln, Neb., for the purpose of giving Judge Brennan, chairman of $he republican state central committe at Sioux City, and Fitzgerald and Egan, of Lincoln, a little of their uttention, but whether their mission to these parts was successful or not is un- known. Their visit west is understood to be for the purpose of visiting P. G. Sheridan, the “No. 1" of the Phaemix park tragedy, who now resides in Rio Grande county, Colorado; Martin Johnson, of Idaho Terri- tory, together with several other prominent League men of the west. Johnson was here last week, and his movements, us well as those of his friends, are now known to have been assid- uously watched. Several attempts prior to this have been made to secure valuable documents in the possession of Sheridan, About six months ago a detective arrived here from New York, bearing forged letters from one of the New York leaders to Sheri- dan. The man represented that he was de- us of learning the ranch business, with a view to investing, and offered to work one year for nothin The detective remained at Sheridan’s ranc couple of weeks, when' one morning Sheridan thoughtlessly stated he was expecting a letter from his New York friend, and that night the man disappeared without gaining any information, Kdward J. Maguire, one of the most prominent and trusted Irishmen in the state, is assisting the eastern agent of the League in keeping watch of the Scotland yard men, but posi- tively refuses to speak. it WESTERN WATERWAYS. Opening of the Improvement Conven- tion at Peéoria. PEORIA, IIL, Oct. 1L—The Illinois River Improvement convention met in this city this morning at 11 o'clock with 400 delegates in attendance, mostly from iIllinois, but there were also good delegations from Iowa and St. Louis and Kansas, Wisconsiu, California, Oregon and Tennessee were also represented. Colonel Isaac Taylor, chairman of the local committee of arrangements, called the conven- tion to order and it was opened with prayer by the Right Rev. John Spalding, the Cathol bishop of Peoria. Governor Oglesby was chosen temporary chairman and made an ex- tended, forcible and interesting speech, ae- knowledging the honor. ‘General Sunders, of avenport, Ia.: E. . Dunn, of Cook count E. J. Ward, of LaSulle, and George Stone Cool, were appointed femporaay sc After the appointment of committees on per- manent organization, credentials and rules and order of business, cousisting of oue member for each state, the convention took a recess unti lock. = At the afternoon session the committee on credentials reported Ilinois, Towa, Missouri, Oregon, Maryland, Tennessee and California represented by 595 delegates and the report was adopted. The committee on permanent organization made a report which was unani- mously adopted, providing for the following permavent officers: President, Senator Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois; vice presidents, Alfred_Orendorff, Springfield, IlL; Johu Wahl, Missouri; ex-Governor John H, Gear, Towa; Judge J. H. Muxxhy, Towa; Judge J. W. Clapp, Tennessee; A. J. Tullock, Kansas; George Sutrobaugh, California; Mr. Russell, Alabama; W. F. Cowden, Maryland; John ©. Dore, Chicago; T. R. Margwand, _ Oregon; A, Alton, 11l.; W. F.” Slackpole, Fairbury, Ill. s, Henry P. Day, Peoria, 1iL.; A, Davenport, In.; E. F. Duim, Cook county; E.J. Ward, LaSalle county; J. . Kclsey, Mason county. Senator Cullom was introdiced and made an able address, thanking the convention for the honor and dwelling upon the advantages of the proposed improvements, : ‘The commitige on rules recommended that each stete be entitled to ten votes and each congyessional district to one vote. The pro- posal elicited much opposition and it was decided to allow every delegate present a vote. The committee on resolutions was then named. Rogers, ey THE KNIGHTS. Scathing Resolutions Introduced De- nouncing the B. & O. Deal. MixxEAFOLIS, Oct. 11.~The Knights of Labor general assembly this morning in a sot of resolutions approved the demand of the local printers for an increased scale of wages and congratulated them on the matter having been submitted for arbitration. The committee appointed several days ago to de- nounce the Baltimore & Ohio deal brought in some scathing resolutions and advised that a memorial be prepared for signatures and sont to congress in order that the question of government telegraphs might be brought bofore the public. The committee on mileage roported and a rate of four cents a mile each way was adopted. Upon the call to order of the Knights of Labor general assembly this afternoon T. B. Barry moved that the finance committee be instructed to act first upon the accounts of the general executive board. Carried. The convention app: 2d $5,000 for the prose- cution of the “capital syndicate” of Texas for introducing _forcign oontract labor in violation of the national laws. The committee on co-aperation pre- sented 8 document roquesting legislation asking that lecturers be sent out; that the official printing office of the order be estab- lished, etc. This was, Toferred back for further consideration. The report from the committee on the good of the order, favora- ble tothe ostablishment of fraternal rela- tions with the Patrons of, Husbandry and the Farmers' National alliance was adopted and Mr. Powderly appointed the whole convention a cogmittee to carry -out the spirit of the suggdtion. Resolutions commending the early closing of business places was adopted Tt was agreod to send the general Jecturer to the Pacitlo coust for threg montis duting the coming year. To facilitate the spread of the order among the newly @rzived foreign ele- ment it was decided to publish the constit tion and ritual inPolish, Bohemian and I jan. On the introduction of & resolution that no charters be granted assemblies of “rat” printers, Mr. Powderly stated that no such Chawters had ever been issued, and none ever would be. PiTTsuURG, gruph stated this afternoon that it has infor- mation that on last Wednesday night after Michael Davitt addressed the Knights of Labor convention at Minneapolis & secret meeting of the leading officials was held and Mr. Davitt was made a member of the order, it being proposed to have him organize mem. bers of the Irish land league into a_special distriet of the Knichis of Labor. Much op- position is expected o this project from Eng- ish and Beotel | aud it has been kept a profound secict by the leadors up to this tune LotsatGrandIsland October 13th. One Fare for the Round Trip Over All Roads, The United States Investment Company will offer some of the At Grand Island, at public auction, without reserve, A GRAND OPPOR- TUNITY for investors all over Nebraska to come and see the most pros- perous city in-the state. Grand Island is now a city of 12,000 population, possessing unequalled advantages as a manufacturing, jobbing and rail- road center. Real estate values have been advancing steadily and rapidly for several years. No inflated boom liable to bust, but the safest city in the west for investment. Special train leaves Omaha for Grand Island at 10:55 a. m., October 12th. Come and see the future capital of the state. BEN. RHODES, LAFE WILLIAMS, Auctioneers. C. M. SCARFTF, DOWNED BY DETROIT. The St. Louis Browns Lose a Game to the Wolverines. Sr. Louts, Oct. 11.—The second game of tho world's chainpionship series was playde The following is the score: 0000012 0-8 2200010 0-5 utz and Conway. Base hits— s 10, Detroit 12, Krrors—St. Louis 7, Detroit 2. Umpires—Nelly and Gaftney. ——— The Best Catch Ward Ever Made. NEW York, Oct. 1L.—The Fribune will an- nounce that John M. Ward, captain of the base ball nine, will to-morrow Helen Dauvray, the talented and ctress. They will at once leave for - Piitaverrina, Oct. 11.—The Bryn Mawr hotel, sitnated at Bry yon the Penn vania road about twelve miles from her burned this 1 The loss is estimated y Oct. 11.—J. A. New- to-day arrested and identified as the famous lone highwayman who eral times recently robbed a stage between here and San Angelo. S WELL-SHAPED WOMEN. Tests of Meas ment Indicating Sym- otry of Form. Here is an interesting eztract from an article in the New York Mercury: Art should always be based on nature, and no art is true which does not take nature for its model. A perfect, sym- metrical, healthy woman of five feet five inches in height must comply with the following standard: She should be 138 pounds at the least, and could stand up to ten pounds more without injury to health or artistic perfection. The dis- taunce between the tips of her two mid- dle fingers when the arms are extended should be exactly the same as the height or ten ten times the lenth of her hand, or seven and a huif times the length of her foot, or five times the diameter of of her chest from the junction of thighs to the ground should bo the same as from the former point to the top of the head. The knee should be exactly mid- way from the junction of the thighs to the bottom of the heel. The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger should be the same as from the elbow to the middle line of the chest. Krom the top of the head to the chin, with the head posed naturally, should be the same as from the level of the chin to the arm-pits, or from the heecl to the tip oi the large toe. The bust of a womzn of the height named should be forty-three inches measurement over the arms, and the waist twenty-four, The vupper part of the arm should be from thirtecn and a half to fourteen inches and the wrist six inches. The ankle should be six inches, the calf of the leg fourteen and the thigh twenty- five. Any woman of the height men- tioned who has these measurements can congratulate herself on having as per- feet a form as the Creator ever made., Of cou the proportions vary with the height. S A Pretty Girl Routed Them. On the elevated train this morning I was attracted by the beauty of a young girl who was going somewlhere or other alone. Opposite her sat & fat man and a thin man, and by her side sat a me- dium sized man., The fat man looked over his paper at tho curve of her shoulders. The thin man looked over hisat the creamy roundness of her chin. The medium man glanced side- ways at her shell pink ear, and from o to her dainty hand; and she sod abstractedly at a memory. The o men would each pretend to read a paragraph and_then proceed to take another look. The girl became con- scious of the arrangement after a while and bogan to get nervous. Men way down at the end of the car were begin- ning to stand on their toes to examine her loveliness. The girl looked as if she wanted to shrink away. She re- minded me of a hunted fawn with a lot of dogs ranged round her ready to fasten their teeth in her. At Chatham square the guard called: *Ch ngo for Fulton, Wall and South Ferries!” The girl arose and moved for the door. 'The fat man, the thin man, the memium man_and several other men started also. When the train fl[{){)pl‘d the girl turned back and re-entered the train. And there stood the men who had followed her out on the station plat- form. They had been routed. The game had doubled on them. I tell you, a pretty girl needs to have a face of iron to go on an elevated train between 9 and 10 in the morning. R Indians on the Travel. A large number of Indians from the Omaha reservation arrived on the train yesterday morning. They say that they are going to Nebraska City to visit their friends of the Otoe tribe, ——— For sick headache, female troubles, neuralgic pains in the head take Dr. J. H. Melean's Littlo Liver und Kidney Pellets. 25 cents a vial, DRUNK OR CRAZY. Express Messenger Owens' Explana- tion of the Robbery. St. Louts, Mo., Oct. 11.—It was understood here at a very late hour last night, that John B. Owens, the man mentioned in the dis- patch from Little Rock, as probably being concerned in the recent rdbbery of the Pa- cific express on the Iron Mountain railway between Little Rock aud Texarkana, hus been arrested, and is now in the Pinkerton ‘“‘sweat box" in Chicago, and that he has on fessed to have taken money, but does not know what has become of it, and that he was The story rela received from Little Roc lition that he left the agzes, consigned from this city to p iding in Texas, but the names of the con- signees are not obtaimable. Owen was cap- tured in Illinois and taken to Chicago. There are several theories, as is usual in , the chief one being that Owen was made drunk by other parf robbed. He has been in the servic years, and was fully trusted ers. and has several children and a wife. wife said last night she had b 1 of husband’s arrest in Chicago, and that she expected him to be brought here by Pinkerton's detectives to-night or to-mor- row. No other arrests have been made yet, but the detecti are said to believe that somebody besides Owen was concerned in the robbery, and that th et o cap- ture him in good time. vials of the express company are now in Chicago in con- ference with the detectives, and helping to work up the case. Superintendent F' r, of the Tron Moun- tain road, has reccived the following tel gram from Mr, Morsman, who is in Chicago tracing the matter: “Otvens was crazy from drink and trouble. He is now in sound mind and everything is satisfactorily explained. There is no loss nor ground for criminal pro- ceedings. No objections to so informing his wife and friends.” The amount of money in Qwen's charge Monday night was §34,500. No further particulars are ascertained. 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