Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1887, Page 1

SEVENTEENTH YEAR. SUNKINTHE CHANNEL I have the Two Steamships Collide Off the Coast of Dover. Ra AN APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE. One Hundred and Thitty People Find Watery Graves. PANIC SEIZES THE PASSENGERS. A Rush Made For the Boats With the Usual Results. i pic WOMEN TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT. A Vessel ( Talks With ' the Sur vivors—A List of Those Saved — Other Disaster: s to th me ¢ artial Death in the Deep. (Copnright 1957 by James Gordon Bennett.] Dover, Nov. 20— New York Herald Cable —Special to the Brr] —Yesterday the steamer W. A. Scholten left Rotterdam for New York, having on board very few saloon passcngers, but wbout one hundred and cighty stecrage. It steemed toward [ Some of the passengers state that mostof the | to death. the straits of Dover in the thick, | passengers had retired to their bunks, | An ofticer of the Scholten states that the hazy weather, which opened to a heavy | ouly remaining in the saloon [ Rosa Mar, ng no side lights, but, fog a8 it was approaching the Dover coast ut | when tremendous crash was heard | was showing the usual masthead lights to 10p. m. Saturday night, about ten miles | on the port bow. They say it is impossible | indicate that she was lying at anchor. They southeast of South Sund Hew few miles | that the collision could have oceurred by the it down the chaunel, leaving from the admiralty pier. Here the Rosa n striking an anchored vessel 1t rooin to pass el When they 1l screw steamcer from Hurtle- cond mate of the Scholten reports they found she was steaming ¢ hor, when the Scholten, run- | that on deck when he saw an un- | and making right on to them. They tr ning at slow spe 1 into the Rosa Mary, | kr striking hier on the port bow. fo TALKS WITH SURVIVORS. stri The story is best told in the following ratives which your correspondent obtained from the lipsof the narrators. The only resident of New York abourd was Lawrence caken, sub-agent of the company in New York, who has been home in Rotterdam on business and pleasure, and was returning to New York. He said: “At 10:30 she sank gradually by the head. Two life boats were Rosa | He avers that the Rosa Mary was injured by lowered and overcrowded. There w no en with coal for St. Nuzaire, I | time to lower any other boat. We sceut up a Following is a list of the ba rs saved | anchor. aat, f“ the Scholten, had rocket of blue lights for assistance and blew | & Dover: h Zuhcrman, | only rece been appointed to the comn our whistle continually. Our signals wi Caroline Muller, Carl Muller, Svet Catzeline, | of that vessel, suc ling Captain Boujer. sighted by the steamer Ebro, which camw the miadic of the w cof thesinking ship, took aboard the passengers of the two boats and so many others as were found ‘Hoating. Our boats and the Ebro's boats rowed | I around for four hours and picked up all they could who were struggling in the w ud, a8 nothing more could be found, we came into Dover. It would have been uscless to Lave stayed any longer, us the tide would have carried the others too far away for us to be of any assistance.” When the Ebro landed the saved here a Dover resident talked a few minutes with he told it tome: “Isaw the blue lights, rock- ets, ete, Thinking there was something out of the ordmary course of events, I steamed toward the spot. When within 100 yards of the Scholten 1 heard the e and saw the steamer disappear, first. I ordercd the engines reve stopped her and found myself among a lot of people floating in the water. I launchied my Dboats, threw the life buoy lines overboard and did all 1 could to save life and rescucd many. All were completely destitute number being nude, especially the women. The s wus terrible. I cruised ubont, saving more lives, but seeing nothing further started for Dover and anchored in the roads, when | found that eighty had been saved, two, | however, dying aboard my ship through exhaustion. 1 saw one of the crew of the Scholten who was saved, who snid: “The collision dum aged the Scholten on the port bow. The Kosa Mary was heading at anchor casterly atthe time, Nearly allthe poor wretches'were asleep below, Our ship sank in twenty min- tes. There was great confusion and more have been lost than saved, going down with the vessel. We had only time to lower two life bouts and there was a great rush for these, the captain doing all he could. Many Jumped overboard.” TWENTY-ONE BODIES lie in the dead house, including the chief offi- fourth engmeer and second steward. The remainder have not yet been identitied. The inquest will be Leld to-morrow early in the morning. The passengers will go to the dead house and try to recognize some of their unfortunate relations, he superintendent of the sailors home, which is made a temporary morgue, said that all had been confusion to ¢ 4 to feed all in the home, to sleep out. Everyone appears tolerably cheerful, Almost all are without boots, hats and other articles of clothing. The weather was bitter cold. One woman was found in her night dress With two bubies clinging to her breast, all | in dead. rel . LIST OF THR SAVED, The following is a list of those of tho crew and passengers who were saved: Crew—Moritz Ayme, Hulsinga Hen, Ne Kamp Meikelbach, Link Fellinga, M Devries, Stom Felber, Francois Wegenda, Chriske Zethoven, Guiber Haleman, Barto Fleykooys, Konsig Bredius, Kebringen Man, Jacob Devries, Devooye Dricsen, Nielsen, Debic Dohina, Spriu perster, Dan Ow Passengers —Sara Zuperman, Carelin Mul ler, Carl Muller, Svet Catzelime, Fred Step- ney, Sura Gold, Maria Stetexer, 1. Robinson, Vondan Folytrum, Johan Benkie, M. Reich, Bromhoff, Albert Hinsler, Madelena Sin Anna M. Konig, C. Frierlich, Judi Levense, | & H. Pastoor, Wiluse, E. Siosky, 8. Alpser, J. Scbotte, C. Suscarich, F. Miles, A E. Flnnelton, Berg- stein G. Appleby, Pekel Schattmeider, F. Witma, E. Fraucois, Reiter J, ug, C. Fiske, J. Meyer, Schalsmerder L. Streick, Barbera Spata, Maria Hobels Bergen und Baron Kles, s rmeye Luns- reported to Linve been on board was 210, thus leaving 130 missing and doubtless drowned. Other Details of the Accident. Loxbox, Nov. 20.—The Dutch steamer, W. A. Schoiten, Cuptain Toat, which left Rotterdam yesterday for New York Mary, of Hartlepool, at 11 o'clock last night ~ten miles off Dover, complement of 210 passengers and crew. The steamer Ebro, of Sund ©of the crew and passeng #t the sailors' home, Dover. One hundied | #ad forty of the passengers are missing. It l 1 land, rescucd ninety | ru; is hoped that passing vessels huve rescued 16 of the tnissing ones, The Scholten's sts arc visible from Dover pier. left Dover bound in all directions for possiole. Up to 5 o'cloek twenty-tw holten had bec The Scholten morning. At the time of the dense fog prevailed. The S struck on Immediately after the shock wa Scholten’s passengers, all of whom had re ed for the night, rushed on deck in their The boats were ordered to be lowered, but it was found that only two were available. useless and were not lowered. rushed swiftly through the scene ensued. panic-stricken night and a terrib kne 'n clung to their moth ¢ shricking ool und self-possessed, and re- bridge to the last upon Little child themms oftiee Reseue— | i persons pre the sca. the S¢ put on lif boats fr around until 4 of the und siste with Within twenty minutes of the shock alten was engulfed. All those who had belts floated and w i the steamer Ebro, which cruised ‘clock in the morning, cued lost wives, lusbands, brothers, The survivors were clothes, and e done to insure their comfo cirenmstances ports of the with those of th wh steamer coming through the fog. 13 s anything could be done the Scholten was in the fore rigging and port bow. The ar- | other vessel which he now presumes w: backed off and Within twenty minutes the Scholten sank. The captain of the Rosa Mary his vessc Rosa was run into while anchored south east of South Sand 1 steamer, damaged, Finding that the Rosa M proceeded to el is now docked. The Fred Stepn Robinson, Reich Bromhoff, nua Konig, L Sary ndam Foeybrum, Johan Bink Simiel, H. Pastnor, S S. Aloser Miles, Kles. the 210 persons on by are either drowned or missingz. The first mate aptain, who told him as he has just re- | rec Schalten the admir: at Dovel Blane, Burstig Friedy imidt and John Kocule, ed, showing that death was causcd by violence and not by drowning One of those the Tyrol. sinking ship were tervible. The stec s, stricken with terror, dis! passeng the dock in wild 1e | his utmost to hopeful of | fect. and it the oftic m s with the s could keep them from jumping | Doo! wnd sinking them, water two hour greatly exhauste and lis efforts to keep afloat after the vessel sunk. The erics of p heard for a long time in all di George Moore, passenger, states t the crash occurred a gencral rush was made for the deck 1 was told nothing serious had oc he says, “but I secu were six English pas vessel, and one of these, a girl, asked us to keep in the group, that the down time before being pic ten sank the cr captain of the Ebro, the r haved nobly. e had all his deckload of tim- ber thrown overboard, and this judicious act saved ten's boat not be got adrift, this was due to any fault on board, sel lurched so much that Some, however, had | not lives. be dropped into the water. People rushed about in the gry ment, all trying to get aplace in th boats which had been suc scare and diso persons being saved. This hastened the death of many, m power Charles Mills, of Red Hill, Su “The been used fol chopped aw er | of the the brid before th vailed Reekers | the, a long time, y With axcs with the assistance pusscugers, to five rockets, The ship was ri fired the rockets. water touched the boilers, kok, fires. 1 got hold of a belt, but a Duteh sailor snatched it away. all mixed together, foreigners and English, clinging to one another in the water. several drowned in this way and had the I, | greatest difficulty to keep clear of them. I a spar to a woman 1o hold on to. The Dutch sailors wanted to save themselves and | P4rl) even thrust women wside. and I swam about till I got to the Ebro, wheye a rope was thrown fo me. collision I went down into the cabin and woke ladies, but they or and wouldn't 1 heard many complaints about conduct of the Dutch fusion was extreme, two Dutch with ter: entreatl The total number of crew and passengers | the stricken, and this may account for the appar- ent wunt of disciplin d somwe of th from acting as bravely as they might have done. The captain did his best to restore order, was | 1 believe a good lookout was kept. sunk by a collision with the steamer Rosa | our . Mr The Scholfen carvied a | said: unner v, one of the passengers saved, “Iwas inmy berth as also were many others, when the crash came. deck, Upon fivst reaching the deck I did not think anything much was the matter till W that the port bow was stove in clese to and lunded them | crowd, O\IAHA \IO DAY the rigging and Boats lowered. The listed ov gers and vessel. landed at Do left Rotter W together Most of the be holten was r port bow by the Rosa Mary. | less. While the sailors w s felt the by rushing frantically against them. crew tried to keep the passeng losing valuable time. promptly them, Itr Then I decided to trust to a lifeboat. scene on deck was appalling, Three others were The water hole in the bow 18, who with terror, The gers were on their knees When the Scholten sank beneath our there was a struggle in the icy water. of us had life boats. Surah Id, Robson and I kept together. W Sever life belts and leaped into finally reaching that vesscl ed by | The second offier declares that ever caution had been taken on board the Many | ten. A good lookout w “Phat not only had the ordin bridge, at the time of the d supplied officers of the Rosa Mar to signal her off, but it was too late. struck the Scholten on the port bow, Off the plates some distance the | inte disappeared. | low the waterline., 4 The officers of the Rosa Mary they w at anchor and we They sa; Qid not weigh an morning. states that 1 by an unknown Dover R vessel was in collision with the S Gold, Maria Stelzer, T. Dr yme, of the w ten, is of the ked stea Albert Hensler, Madele just weighed anchor and that her crew had C. 1. Andeartte, Juda | forgotten to put up si The N i a W York, Nov, 2 agents in this sstein, G & 2 » Nethe Wilma, of the Nether Avig: the 1 152 that many of those save ralyzed with cold and wer fourth engincer have been | resuscitated. among the dead. The four miles from Among the bodics identified | Vessels “inthe those of Mrs. Lebenstein, Henry Harl Life Lost. ann, Solomon Gold MILWAUKEE, The bodies are D.—A la ing snow storm. from | their deck loads scenes on the | and several had narrow e | evin "The crows suffered As far s known, there are no wri Shore, but it is believed a small fis that 1eft Lere early yester ved is Monte Colio, ates that the W were part , ran ahout onfusion. The captain tried reatest dificulty t ristie met with disaster off De rdue at Colio was in the tuken out ho owing to the xtreme cold | 15" 1A storm’ which suddenly burst over lakes and upon this region Saturday w violent as has been seen - yea tensity of the cold added to'the dang the wind and tidings of disasters are fo "The schooner Ida, which left her hall Friday morning, rsons in the ater could be ions, at when Milwaukee was for storm and put in he Johnson, was swept overb wave some time last n e Steame 2d to scud bef o engers on board the glish might go I was in the wate edup. When the Scl » heart-rending. The uing vesscl, be- An Oregoi AstoRIA, Ore., Nov. 20, phone plying between here and Port discovered to be on fire liere this evening. § rate of speed and the flan Burned. 'S wel all the boats could atest state of ¢ two | Business Comple sfully lowered. Three Roads in Texas, der preveuted many | HoUstoN, Tex. Tho water was frees | in the Missourl Pac struck, joining the striket ey Pacific road. . | Central have resigned to join the appeared as if they had not | Th hey had to be | the court. urds here 1 called out to those on 1t was a long time The greatest confusion pre- ht port side before 1 waited until the putting out the A Missouri To S1. Lovis, Nov. ported from Granb) inthe lead region of N late yesterday n Burned. ). —A disus swton county. We were burned like tinder, Ev to stop the progress of th men and buckets w 1 saw enable them to do much. this morning, over a hund had been consumed, including all the ness portion of the town, lies were how time that the entire village would go. T cau swim well After the LaTeER—Advi Granley wstrous as at first stated. huu~ es and a large numbe however, were paralyzed t up despite all rof residen ceryho e Forest Fires in K. ucky. The frautic passengers ew, preventing them We* Lad | destruction in that region, ——— The Inter Puiaverruia, Pa.,, Nov, 20. 1 immediately followed by, & confused | 3 A0 A ot enecte. id open for a great space The passengers soon crowded the deck and captain and officers shouted that the boats be vessel was then settling down kept and Cap v watch on the aster, butall the hing possible was | officers, who intended to remain there until The trous fire is Mo, a thriving town It started afternoon, and owing to the extreme dryness prevailing in that town on account of the prolonged drouth, the wooden buildings of which the town is composed effort was made conflagration, and ere sent from Neosho, but there was not enough water in the town to At lust reports, od building: DII'AI nd scores of fami- s, It was thought at that The loss, it was ‘hought, would exceed #20,000, eived to-night from mdicate that the fire was not so dis- Fifteen business were The homeless people of saving life and property if | by the head and the excitement was * Rosa Mary ancl 1 off | at its worst, I had hardly time sgate, with her bows stove, to look around me before the vessel to her port side, throwing passen- on that side of the ts were then worth- less. T'wo bouts on the port side were swung out and lowered, but the other &ix were use- ndeavoring to lower the boats,the passengers hindered them The s back, thus When the boats w finally lowered there was a rush to get into to, but did not stand a chanc ° he Passengers and crew were crowded together and the passengers uttered | shricks of women, the cries of the children shrieks and many fell | and the shouts of the men were s and prayed alond. | frightful, Some of the Most pney, » clung to cach other and drifted toward the Ebro, pro- chol- n 5 the vessel was down the channel. The Pusscngers uccounts differ regarding the | captain was cen_at his post trying to of the collision, and the re nd get the boats off. s of the Scholton clash of those whose bodics have been re- covered look s though they had been frozen She vipping i exposing the “The hole thus made extended be- aver that e run into. hor until sported that the captain_of the Rosa Mary denies the statement that his iiten. nd r Schol- hinjon that the Bosa Mary had fon compan BILSLIR LG & Co.. have no information about the loss of DS QUL the ill-fated steamer Scholten, furthe ording to the ltest olaten in the pres ches, He s ¢ the Ebro were withh difficulty Nilwaukee fleet of from a wale raging on the lake, with an accompany- Many of the vessels lost v disubled i SpAm uy morning 1 store order, but without ef- | yone to the bottom With two or_ three men vs rushed for the boats | pe lso cntertained that the_stean th's Vo advices concerning the steamer Ashland, have ~Vessel men agree that the s in s of red for White it, put back disabled this having ‘been badly disabled and having lost one of her crew. Other vessels sered | put in this afteruoon more or loss disabled. 0 Tite beit. ere | The schooner Penobscat from Muskgan for the Her muster, Charles vd by a huge The steamer Tele 1d was just before reaching ic was going at a high spread rapidly. 61 IORRLYALOf tholbonol: [ispe 1 to bunk and ull escaped without e lowered, the others could | fnjury ave one Arunken Tan arho was por I do not know whether | haps 1y burned, ne of the passenger: The ves. | orer Paralyzed On The switelnuen 3 have of the Southe The switchmen on the T n exas strikers ¢ did not strike, owing to the fact that ad is in the hands of the United States Business is paralyzed by thestrike, LovisviLLg, Ky., Nov. 20,.—Reports from towns in the southern and western portion of Kentucky state that owing to the pro- tracted drought forest fires are causing great ational Go-As-You-Please. The inter- national six day go-as-you-please race started shortly after midnight at the rink, Twenty- There are thir- teen contestants, including some of the best known pedestrians in this country aud Eug- J~ ped ¥ g The Beautiful Nebraska Villago Suffers Heavy Damage. VALUABLE BUILDINGS IN RUINS. Union and Masonic Blocks Completely Destroyed, Involving a Loss of One Hundred Thousand Dollars— Nebraska News. York's Big Blaze. Yonrg, Neb,, Nov. 20,—[Special Telegram to the Ber. ] —A disastrous fire broke out at 7 o'clock this morning in Smick's billiard hall, i Union block, and before noon the Union and Masonle blocks, containing seven stores, one hundred feet deep, had gone up in flames and smoke, involving u loss of over £100,000. The whole south side of the block facing the court house is laid waste with the exception of the opera block. The buildings were wned by Anton Simmerer, of Nebraska City, C Nobes, Hamlin Bros. and M. D. Einsel, who have only a partial insuranc The heaviest losers are the owners of the build- ings and the following occupants: Carl Sim- merer, general merchanise; Barr Bros,, fur- niture, F. D. Whedon, postoffice; W. C. Frank, news and books; Smick’s billiard hall; Vail & Greene, boots and shoes: Singer Manufacturing compuny, sewing mach Ewin Butler. dry goods; Coles Thomas, groceries; W. M. Cow law office; Jasper Hoffman, law office Hamlin B . loun office; the sheriff s office the large and beautiful Masonic hall,the finest furnished room of the kind in the state; the York Times oftice, including a power press, engines and a lurge stock of paper goods: ph Kulbert, tailor, the Leiderkranz hall and & number of private dwelling rooms. The hook and ladder companies made heroic efforts to save the block and after fighting the flumes against fearful odds suceceded in subduing the fire. Chief Newberry and his artment arrived from Lincoln after the had been ten under control and did #ood work to quench the flames. W, K. Will- iams, clothing; Reader Bros. & Co., con tionery: Tra A. Smith, jeweler, and the Citi- 1y zens’ State bank, occupants of the opera block, are also heavy losers on account of moving their stocks into the street. All the county offices were in the opera building and narrowly escaped being destroyed with all the valuable county records. The loss falls very heavily on some of our most enterprising and public-spirited citizens, The blocks de- stroyed were nearly new and comprised the best business front in the eity. The origin of the fire is as yet unknown, but is believed by many to be accidental. A prominent physician reports that he was re turning from the country at 4 o'clock this morning and saw a light and men playing cards in the billiard hall. As the fire started in this room, it is the generally accepted the- ory that some of these men dropped a cigar stub that ignited the building. There is a widespread opinion in favor of the theory that the conflagration was tho k of an incendiary. The argument in or of this theory is thi. after the fire had gained headway in the Masonic block a blaze was discovered in the district clerk's office in the opera building, which' must have been set by one ‘who broke through the back window, which was found broken open. Postmaster Whedon saved all the government property and mail matter in the postofice and has the oftice relocated in anether room and will be open for business to-morrow morning. It impossible to-night to arrive at the amount of the individual losses or the insurance. But it is believed that the insurance will not cover more than 40 per cent. of the I The city was almost wholly without water, the cit, cr works being only fairly begun, leaving the firemen with only for a water supply. a philosophiic probably all rebuild « few cisterns The heaviest losers take aw of the calamity und will once. Stanton's Progress. Stantoy, Neb,, Nov. 19.—[Correspondence of the Brr.]—Stanton is doing & good busi ness, Grain receipts for the past month h been larg, The lumber and coal trade has been heav this fall than during former years. The three story roller flour mill has been kept running late in the night to till all orders, a thing that has never occurred I fore. For the past month an organization of some kind has been talked of for the purpose of advertising this city and county in the east. Last Seturday night the first meeting was held at ths court house and it was attended by forty or fifty of our most prominent busincsg men and citizens of Stanton. The crops of this county cannot be beat by any county in the state, and every business in the city is ina good healthy condition. The new Odd Fel- Jows’ block, a two-story brick building, i just ubout completed and will be ready fo occupancy in about a week. The postofice will be moved from the old frame building which it now oceupies to new quarters in u brick block next week, Swindling Fe Agents. ECUMsER, Neb,, Nov, 20 [Sp Bee.| our orfive good looking, well dre men have been at work in the rural districts tent fence, for which they said the lto the with ay wanted a good agent in each precinet to sell it on commission. Several farmers cntered into a coutract with them and cousented to give a bond for $120 for each precinet. One farmer near Johuson undertook to handle two precimets and gave @ bond for both for #40. A few duys afterward his banker sent nim word that lie had been offercd his note by a strangor for §240. The farmer's cyes were opened and he followed the two fence men he They finally compromised, the farmer giving them $100 for his bouds. O Holdrego in Jubila Holvreck, Neb., Nov. 20.—[Correspond- ence of the Bee.]—Holdrege is very much elated over the location of the B. & M. eat- ing house. It will be & fiue structure and will be located near the depot, fronting on West avenue, The material is now arriving and work will begin at once. The first se tion of the roundhouse is completed and an- other section will be built in the early spring. A large force is now #t work in thai vicinity grading and laying new track. Trade is very Tively here and real estate 15 frm and. ad- vancing. Much complaint is made against the rail- road company for the searcity in coal. No western coal can be had and a great many people are drawing coal from stations on the Uniou Pacific railroad. —~— The Governor at Guide Rock. Guine Rock, Neb, Nov. 20.—[Special to the Bee.]—Governor Thayer delivered an address at a meeting of the Gand Army post here last night. A very enjoyable bean bake and a dance were features of the evening's entertainment. A large number were pros- ent. e A Barn Burned. Dakora Crry, Neb, Nov, Telegram to the Bei |-The barn of John A, Bides, & young, unmurricd, prosperous farmer living about two miles west of this place, was burncd fast i oht. Six bead of 20.—[Special MORNING NOVEMBER 21, | DISASTROUS FIRE AT YORK. 1887, blooded horses perished, besi tons of and all the farming implements, The is supposed to be the work of au_ incendi Loss $1,500. t Wahoo. Wanoo, Neb., Nov. 20.—[Special Telegram to the Ber.]—Charlie, the ten-year-old son of Hon, Frank Kendall, was drowned in Wahoo creek near town this afternoon while ing. His body was recovered after consider- able time spent in drageing the stream, bk | bl oy A FATHER'S CR William Meyers, of Chicago,Trics to Murder His Family. Cuieaco, Nov. 20 —William Myers, fore- man of the blast furnace of the North Chi- cago Mill company at South Chic turned to his home this evening after having been away all day and without uttering o word shot his wife three times, infiicting fa- tal injuries, He then fired the re- maining shots in the revolver at his daughter Laura, aged eighteen, and son, Allie, aged fourteen, Neither of these shots took eficct. Myers started to reload the revolver when the girl ran screaming from the house He then hurriedly pushed the revolver into the boys pocket and rushed from the house He has not yet been captured, The cause of the shooting cannot be' uscertained, further thun that Myers has not been an good tern with bis wife for some time, = France Wants N [Copyright 1857 by Jumes Panis (via Havre), Nov. 20 Herald Cable - Special to the Be. Napoleon's addr. of Thelot, is a ve Prangine, Novembor 18, The prince says: “It is impossible that public opinion thor- oughly aroused does mnot mnow break open the doors of the Elysee. The executive power s a vacant wrench, The democracy is swamped by par. liamentary anarchy. Contagion is spreading to the army, to the judiciary, to every admin- istration of the country. What the nation wishes and demunds is a strong government, all the powers cmanating from the people, and this the nation will have sooner or later. This is not the first time France h: been weighed down with corruption and shame. France always cmerges intact, Do not, however, put your trust in any candidate, ready to buy the suffrages of s by means of mysterious facts and dishonorable bargains, Believe, my dear Dufour, however disheartencd the country may be by so many seandals, it does not wish to return to the monarchy. Ttwill be defiance thrown at national sovercignity, and this hybred royalty will be swept away by the first assault of universal suffrage. France will recover from the present diffeulty, and that, too, without recourse to dictatorship or coups de fore [Signed] Naroveos.” Baron Dufours, to whom the letter is written, is a Bonapartist deputy who an- nounced his intention a few days ago of in- troducing into his chamber a bill of impeach- medt of Grevy onarchy. w York Prince to Buron Defour, deputy A Famous Artist Dead, [Copyriuht 1557 by James Gordon Bennett.] Brussers, Nov. 20.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to the Bee.]—Belgium to- day mourns the loss of the great painter, Louis Gaillait, who dicd this morning. His picture of “La Pest a Tournai” made a sen- sation when first exhibited. Examples of his work adorn the galleries of the Musce du Luxemberg, the Palace Versailles, the Na- tional gallery at Berlin. Several others are in Ameriea, Gaillait will be buried at his native town of Tourr the Atlanta. 20.—[Special Telegram J—Captain - Bun report Atlanta and a statement that Constructor Wilson concurs recommendations, while Chief Mellyille approves some sug. gestions, has ated a sensation in naval eir- cles hel M think that Bunce's state- ments have been exaggerated by the news- papers and call attention to the fact that Bunee is credited with calling the Atlant armored ship, though on; 1 iron shi ary Whitney says: “We huve been of the apparent faults in the Atlanta and Boston for some time. Captain Bunce made a collection of ull the criticisms which been made, There is probably no doubt that so low a frecboard would allow the shipping of seas forward to a disugreeable extent, Th would be no danger, howe from that source. As far as ordr concerned, Captain Bunce is und News Abou W Youk, Nov to the Be on the Chief in his Engincer right. These ships are uot armore ot intended to fight battles. For the pur- for which they arc intended six-inch would be amply sufticient. The rest of the eriticisms may aiso have foundation all the way through.” That is not surprising. My disposition wonld be to let these ships of war go exactly as they are at present and give them a chance to try themselves.” - Kidnapped For the Sea BaLtivore, Nov. 20.—[Special Telegram 1o the Beg,]—A number of men have been Kidnapped this fall and taken uboard Chesa peake buy oyster vessels, They are gener- ally poor fellows who are lured into some drinking den and when stuffed with vile liquor are drageed aboard the boats, When they recover the scnses they find them- selves down the bay with the captain or mate standing over theni witha_belaying pin and ordering them to work. Withini the last ten duys several shocking cases of bratality have been reported. e 2 Rome and the Knights, Lospox, Nov. 20.—The Chronicle’s Rome correspondent says that Cardinal Gibbons has sent the vatican further information re- lating to the Knights of Labor with the ob ject of showing that the association is in no way hostile to the Romish church and that it is the duty of the church to support the or- ganization, e An hist Kuhne Put Under Bond New Yonrxk, Nov. nest Kuhne, the anarchist who was arrested last night for as- saulting a reporter at a mecting, was put under #,000 bonds for good behavior to-duy This means he will be locked up on the Island for six months unless he gives the security, squired Steamship Arrivals. N, Nov. 20.— [Special Telegram ~Arrived—The British King, from Philadelphia. Prysovti, 'Noy, 20.—Arrived—The Rugia, from New York for Hamburg, NEW Yonk, Noy. 20.—The Moravia, from Humburg. —_—— Condemned the Anarchists Hanging. Kaxsas Ciry, Mo., Nov. 20.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—At a well-attended so- cialist meeting held here to-day a memorial was framed and resolutions passed violently condemning the execution of the anarchists at Chicago. The Hecla on Fire Again, Carrsmer, Mich, Nov. 20.—The Hecla shaft of the Calumet and Hecla mine, is on fire and the prospects are worse than at the recent fire. Strenuous efforts are being made to extinguish the flames, e The Montana Central Completed, Herexa, Mont,, Nov, 20.—~The last rail on the Montana Central road was laid yesterday afternoon, A grand celebration will take Pplace 10-worrow, NUMBER 150 TO PREVENT FRAUD. The Civil Service Commission Pre- paring Some New Rules. Wasningron, Nov. 20.—The civil service commission has been receiving, from time to time, from public men and others, complaints of persons having received appointments to the classified departmental service from states of which they were not, aud in some instances never had been, eitizen: With a view to effectually putting a stop to any such work, the commission has adopted & much more stringent form of application which will be put into immediate use In addition to requiring more specific answers to the questions propounded, the new form requires answers to a much greater number of questions, particularly as to per- sonal history, A change has also been made in the form of certificates requived from per- sons vouching for the applicant. ‘These must be actual, bona fide residents of the appli cants’ state, territory or distriet and one of them must be from his county, ity or town These certificates will be detached from the application ained by the commission instead of 1t to the appointing officer when certification is asked for. to prevent the appointing oft s0 disposed, from referring to and judiing from endorsements, not only the character ations of the aspiraut, but also The commission has in conten plation a rule requiring all papers to be seut toit at Washiffgton for examination and marking, thus relieving the local board of much work and securing absolute uniform- ity in rating, 1 this is adopted all boards of examiners, except one, i Washington, may be done away with, Sheridan Wasnixagros, Nov. to the Bre]--The interview Reno, printed ina New York paper to-day, wherein General Custer s referred 1o as having proven himself a coward on several occasions, has ereated considerable talk in urmy circles he With the single ex- ception of neral Sheridan, there are no army officers in Washington who scrved with Custer in the vivil war or subsequently on the plains, Gen- eral Sheridan — was greatly shocked when Reno's inter®iew was shown 1o him, He spoke of Custer in terms of the commendation, both as a_brave and a ofticer, In conclusion hesaid: *Any gutt snipe could make these churges agiinst an But the last man in the world who ord to muke such charges 18 Major o coming from such a wan y loso all its foree.” n Custer. The Nicaraguan Canal. WasniNGton, Nov, 20.—[Special Tel to the B araguan Canal com- pahy is preparing for a vigorous onskiught on congress for an appropriation for its enter. They claim the president to bein fit, and he will recommend it warmly in his message, They are also en- deavoring to work up public fuvor through the press, and are ready with very favorable figures, showing that the canul between the two oceans can be built with cven less than the 65,000,000 estimated of its cost two years ago. They also claim the Panau to be a \nmplt't failure and state that e 8- seps’ recent declaration about the opening the canal —in ruary, IS0, re made mainly for the purpose of pre: uting our congress from aiding the Nic aragua_canal. A prommnent engineer, who thinks well of the Nicaragua project and is paying a good deal of attention to it, says that the company seems to be in di uu«-: of having objectionable advocates to present its cause before congress. Howoever that may be, it is certain that the pressure to bo brought on congross in favor of the scheme will be v e Wi R TMENT. How It Was Received by the New York Politicians. W York, Nov. 20.—[Special T to the Brx.]—The selection of Mr Reeves f(ll‘ first assistant sceretary under Mr. egram orge L. of state roused very great inter- est in this n\' yesterday. By the lawy ticularly, the appointment is reg an admirable one, The selection is ace as one of jthe lust during President land’s term. But 1o machine politici ne as a very great surprise, b ecanse of Mr Reeves' recent and very conspicuous support of Delaney Nicoll for district attorney as against Colonel Fellows, the regular ddm cratic nomince. They had come to beliey that the president would proscribe all the democrats who bad opposed Colonel Fellows and the appointment of Mr. Reeves almost upon the hieels of that notable contest, took them quite aback. - No Mecting at Trafalgar. Loxnoy, Nov. 20.—The police arrange- ments to prevent the meeting to-day in Tra- falgar square were not &0 extensive as last Sunday, though the force on hand ficent, it was believed, to disperse ing. The police made no attempt to exclude the public from the square, although any thing like a crowd was promptly dispersed. No noticeable disturbance occurred during the day, and by dusk it was evident any at- tempt to speak had 1 abandoned. The special constable fore me five thousand strong, was then dismissed. A lot of roughs were around all day apparently disposed 10 give the police trouble in cas pportunity offered, Several of them wi arrested. Despite that rain and fog probably five usand persons assembled in Hyde park wher King was going on, A small force of police were present, but did not interfere i ¢ with the gathering, Resolutions ed protesting against the imprison- "Brien, denouncing Charles and Home g the 1 “Ihe bands played and the “Marscilllaise” the crowds sang a topical song directed at the ofticials to the tune of *John Brown's Body.” I'here was one collision in Holborn where the Irish Temperance league with a band and carrying banners attempted to push- through vdon of police. They were driven buck, their banners seized and a nimber of persons struck with batons, Several arrests were made. The [rish home rule, union and lib- eral clubs sent large contingents to the Hyde purk mecting. Conflicting Reports About Dunkiy, Nov. 20.—At a National league meeting at Stepaside Place, six miles distant, to-day, Sullivan declared that O'Brien had been secretly removed to the north, Ex- hausting inquiries made in Dublin to-night failed to confirm the statement, The late dispateh from Tullamore says that O'B is still wearing a smuggled suit and is in ex- cellent spirits, Al the suppressed branches of the leugue in West Clare held meetings to- duy. Praye in wany chapels for O'Bricn, To F Cabinet, Panis, Nov. 20.—Goblet was summoned to the Elysee palace to-night and requested to form a cabinet, He asked time o consider. The president has summoned Clemenceau toa conference in the mornin The three republican sections in the senate have decided that a presidental erisis has not arrived; that crisis affects the cabinet alone and that it is needless to call a full mecting of all the groups. Raids on the Nihilists, Loxnos, Nov. 20.—In recent raids upon nihilists in the leading towus in Russia 150 persons were arrested. Nine officers under arrest bave committed suicide, Ll Burial of John Breslin, NEW YouK, Nov. 20.—The funcral of Johin Breslin, the Irish patriot, took j this afternoon, The remaius were viewed by large crowds for hours. O'Brien BARNUN'S SHOW BURNED UP, The Greatest Aggregation on Earth Devoured by Flames. HUNDREDS OF ANIMALS KILLED, The Sacred White the Cremated -An Escaped Lion Devours a Cow- 8¢ of Excitement, phant Among Wiped Out Brivaeronr, Conn building of Barnum & show on carth Existene e main Bailey's atest was destroy tire this morning about 10:20. The alarm was sounded and in less than thirty minutes the building, which was 600 by 200 feet and - two stories in height, was entirely The fira originated from the exploding of a lantern carried by a watehman in the horse building, setting fire to the hay and straw. Before the first alarm ceased sounding the whole building was enveloped in- flames and 1o one dared approach it, being fearful of the crazed animals. Three elephants wero burned up and thirty six broke from their fastenings and dashed through the sides of the burning structur ing and trumpet- ing in aterrific manner, Six elephants and a large Afviean hippopotamus rushed about the strects presenting o sickeniug appearance. Their sides were burned and great picces of flesh a foot squure fell off, Thirty clephants and a large lion have started across the country toward Fairticld and ston. Great excitement has seized many residents and they 1 ed the windows and doors of their houses, Tn the horse-room were all the ring animals, trained stallions, ponies, ete., and all were burned. In the cat room were bi monkeys, vhinocer ouses, hycnas, tizers, lions and all the menagerie, which also fell a proy to the A great deal of valuable tent and other property was also burned. The total loss is estimated at not less thun §5700,000, With but £100,000 insurance consumed Later—It is now learncd that the watehe man discovered the fire while muking his rounds, and sturted to give the alarm, when some unknown person hit him on the instrument, felli head with some blunt lim to the ground. One of the three clephants burned was the “Sucred White Elephant.” The lion which eseaped from the palace at the time the fire broke out was later found in a barn, whero he had killed and was devouring a cow. Ho was shot. e STRUCK A LAND SLIDE. A Construction Train Wrecked and Two Men Killed in Virginia, Wieenine, W. Va, Nov. 20—A construc- tion train on the Cleveland & Pittsburg rond nto a land slide this morning. Engineer son and Brakeman Niles were killed and 1 others seriously injured, s Ll A Wreck On the Mexican Central. 80, Tex., Nov. 20.—It {s learned there was & wreck on the Mexican Central road Iast night of a freight train, by which Harry Townsend, a sub-contractor on the road, was whose names are will give no infore killed, besides two oth unknown. The Mexics mation about the affair., A QU A Man Lives Two H in His Heart, Ex Paso, Tex., Nov. 20.—A case of peculiar interest to medical men was developed here today, Last evening a Mexican, named Rico, stabbed another Mexican, named Pa- rado. The wounded man did not at once give sizns of being fatally injured. He stood up, and cven walked, with a little assistance, Physician J. A, McKinney was called and Parado’s wound was examined. It was found to be a cut about half an inch long over the beart, From Papudo’s strength and his quent efforts 1o gt on his_ fect, the doctor neluded, without probing the wound fully, at the kuife had not gone in deeply. ado’ would have. stood up and wilked around again, had he not been compelled to lie still. He was undressed and the wound sewed up, when he suddenly fell back und expired, huving lived nearly two hours ufter being stabbed. Being at a loss to cxplain the symptoms, Dr. MeKinney held a post-mortem to-day, and on removing the heart found that the knife of the murderer, ev Pa { the heart, making a gash about & quurter of un inch wide, According to all medical theorics the man should not have lived over ten min- utes, if that long he only explanation of the phenomenon which I can see,” suid Dr. MeKinney, “is that the blood elotted at once and filied up the small hole made by the stilleto, As fur as 1 know the ease isunprecedented. — A Gambling Room GLENWOOD Spiinas, Col,, N perate gambling room affray oceu yesterday morning, in which two men lost their lives, one being a bystander. Chester ker, o gumbler, did the shooting. He had u playing faro all last night und had lost. The proprictors of the gambling room were Frank M. Toust and Francis Smith, When Baker had lost all his money he borrowed 20 from Toust and also lost that; then ho tried w borrow §20 more from Toust, but his tuer, Smith, advised him uot to lend moncy 10 Baker. This was the ficst affront, Pinally Smith said that he could do up anybody who carred a six shooter, Baker's reply was that he had agun strapped to himself and he was not afraid to use it. The two went out of the O, is e vbhody in it supposed, to fight a duel, but in about fifteen minutes they re- turned and Baker invited the twenty men present up to the bar to drink with him and extended @ personal invitation to Smith, who refused, saying he would not drinl with sucha person. With this both men pulled the revolvers and comm ed shooting, Siith fell mortally wounded. three bullets having passed tnrough Lim. John Math- ison, u bystunder, wis also it and died within five minutes, Baker gave himself up 10 the ofticers, Heis twenty-seven years old'and only recently took !nfimnlllmu Muth isoil was twenty-five years old and was well liked. He was not s frequenter of gumbling roonis. — - Died From His W' ds. Lenanoy, Mo, Nov. 20.—~While attempting 10 burglarize the store of David Moulder, a Is merchant of Richlund, Mo., thirty st of here, on the night of October 16, John Renes received in the forehead a full load of buckshot from a gun in the hands of Mr. H. O. Votau, the clerk, who was sleeping in the store at the time. He died to-day. Although his wound was pronounced fatal, and his death momentarily expected, his brain protruding through the wound, be has lingered twenty-three days, during which time abeut four ounces of his brain had oozed out through the wound. Congestion of the brain caused his death, He v buried at the cemetery at that place to-day. His mother resides in St. Loui - The Weather To Day. For Ncbraska and Towa—Warmer; genere ally fair weather; light to fresh winds, gene erully from south to west; stationary tems perature in the western portion of Nebraska, or Eastern Dakota—Snow in the northern ‘ Portion, vl or snow m the southern portiony | wariner followed by colder weathery light tg | fresh vaviable winds.