Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1887, Page 2

* Towa Pri EDUCATION MADE COMPULSORY Towa's School Superintendent In- vestigates the Subject. HE REPORTS IN FAVOR OF IT. Despite Excessive Drought.the Hawk- eye State Shows a Good Crop Return—Hanging Likely to Become Epidemic. The People Forced to Learm. Des Moixns, Ia., Dec. 18.—[Spectal to the Ber.]—The last general assembly, by a con- current resolution of both houses, instructed State Superintendent Akers te incorporate in his next biennial report the result of some special investigations of the subject of com- pulsory education. He has done so, and the advance sheets of that report, now ready, show that he has made a very carcful and ex- haustive study of the subject. Towa is one of the few northern states that has no compul- sory school law. It provides the best facili- ties it can for educating its children, but, so far, has not compelled them to accept them. Notwithstandiug this the percentage of illit- eracy in Towa is lower than that of any other state in the uhion. Hitherto the fact thatthe state was so largely made up of a rural population has, in a large measure, done away with the necessity of compulsory edu- cation, The children of the country can be relied upon to obtain all of the educational advantages within their reach. But it is in the city where poverty, ignorance and criure go hand in hand. So, with the increasing population of lowa cities, some of them now representing large communities with idle and ignorant classes, the question is seriously considered of adopting a law that will com- pel all children to attend school for a certain time at leust: As the result of Supreintendent Akers' investigations, which are very thor ough and exhaustive, he inclines toward a compulsory law, and it is not improbable that the coming legislature will adopt some mieasure of this kind. DROUGHT MAKES VERY Considering the cxcessive drought that revailed over a_large portion of Iowa the ast year, the yield of crops was quite r markable. The secretary of the state aw cultural society has compiled from the reports received, a statement of the average yield of the lending cereals during the past year. He finds that, taking the state as a whole, the average of wihter wheat was 1815 bushels per acre, spring wheat 11 bushels, oats 3 hushels, and corn about %0 bushels per acr Under the circumstances this is a most r markable showing, especially in the co crop, When it is considered that the bulk of the corn raised in Iowa comes from the contral and_southern parts of the state, the sections which were most afflicted by drought the past summer, and yet the average yicld is 80 bushels per acre, there can be no doubt of the fertility and wonderful recuperative power of lowa soil. THE PRISONERS' AID ASSOCIATION. Next Tuesday the annual meeting of the i ciation will be held in this city. ization that, in a quiet and unobtrusive way is doing a_great deal of good throughout the state. 1t was organized a few years ago, chiefly through the efforts of a chaplain at one of the state penitentiaries. He, by practicniobservation saw the diffienlty with which men rel from prison and determined to lead g lives carried out their resolutions. A man who had once the brand of a_conviet upon him found his way hedged in cvery direction when he came buck to the ) one was willing to trust a jail bir chance to get on his “feet again, humble way, this good chaplain org little society to find employment charged convicts and assist’ them efforts to lead bettor lives. nuing has grown siderable magnitude thut ployment for hundreds of dischurged convicts and no_doubt saved to society hundreds of men who ofherwisewould have gone to ruin. 1t is doing# grand work and merits the con- fidence and support of the cntire state, I0WA'S INTER-STATE 1 ENTS. There is o great deal of interest tuken by the business men of Iowa in the coming ac- tign of the inter-state commerce commission on the subject of carload rates, The Jobbers' and Manufacturers’ union was represented at Minneapolis at the session of the commission with a very strong force, who presented in a very strong manner the claims of Iowa busi- noas inter As the commission made no final disposition of the subject there, but ve- ferred it 10 o subsequent meeting at Wash- ington, the lowa people ugain secured efficient representation, prepared to assert their vights, Commissioner Dey, of the state rail- way commission, and Mr. “George C. Baker, @& prominent manufactu { this city, made ourney to Washington 0 urge mmission the maintenance of the h could alone vive lowa business a chance to liv But the commis- sion was again unprepartd to consider the 80 un adjournment was taken till January ‘The Jobbers' and Manufactur- ers’ union of Towa has engaged Congressman Fenderson, of Dubuque, to present their in- torests at that meeting, They fecl that it the ear load rate is to be abolished, if the manufacturer or jobber who ships 10,000 tons of goods per year is to have no better rates than the man who ships ten pounds, there 1s little prospect of bui or commercial cor is state. Colonel Henderson, who is ong and forcible speaker, will present their interests in a con- vincing' way, and, 1t is to be hoped, a-suc- cessful one. MANGING AGAIN BECOMING POPULAR. The execution of Chester Bellows at Charles City is to be followed on the TLR DIFFERENCE. zed a for dis- in their From that hum- a seciety of con- 18 secured em- polic Dbuilding up manufacturing ors i th th of January by the execution of the murderer Schmidt at West Union After waitin stwo years for a legal hanging the 1 them A timent that ms to | §ve inhuman in lowa has been objected to capital p been molified by the uuml murders that have been commit the past ten years. A f. made of the policy of doing away with capi- tal punishment, ‘and, unfortunately, crime has not been diminished and life has not been +made secure. With the number of stays of proceedings and commutations of punishment and new trials on technicalities of evidence that have exasperated people under the old system, they turn witisome sense of rel that wlen a is huy wore stays oft procecdings or n So there is & gen- eral disposition to t the plan of mak- ing, a8 far as human power can do so, the punishment of a murderer it his crime, RETURNING THE WAR TAX, Towa is considerably interested in the bill before congress providing for the return of the war tax which was levied upon the #fates in 1561 When that call for help was made at the time of the government's ex- treme necessity lowa promptly responded with all that was asked. e amount of the twx paid over by this state i repouse to tha oall was about &15 . So V- ernment needed the mone, cheerfully spare it. But inasmuch of the states did not pay cent of their share of the tax, and siuce the treasury is now groaning with the surplus which statesmen are trying to reduce, lowa naturaily fecls that it could help to that end by having its 350,000 returned. The bill, which has been avorably reported apon by the senate com- mittee, will be heartily supported und pushed by ull of the LINE OF THE DECLEN . The meeting of the state grange in this city the past week was a suggestiv ment upon the decline of a once power organization. Fifteen years ugo, when the grange excitement ran high in the western states, the lowa furmers caught the fever snd organized by the thousands o secure what they thought were rights denied them They carvied the orgunization into politics and elected a legislature on that issue, and for & short time cut w mighty big swath in Jows affairs. But the inevitable reaction came und the organization found its strength gradually slipping away till nsw there is but an luconsiderable remuuut of the ola.order. The state meeting the past week brought to- ther about fifteen members instead of the undreds that would have come & few years . The baudful that were here contented selves with passing some good teiy- resolutions and “A"“‘m‘ Aympathy ith various reforms. But the grange of iR, power and influence thet carried thin a high hand in its y dsys hulzv‘ll'h passed away. |4 il 1t ‘Broke Up the Family. Srovx Fares, Dak., Dec. 18.—[Special Tel- egram to the Ber]—The $15,000 lottery prize which has broken np the social relation- ship of & family in this city and attracted extended attention, has been settled. Mrs. Bernard and her five daughters made up a pot of #0 and received six one-tenth tickets. Upon the reception of the tickets they were distributed among the members of the pool without reference to the record kept by the lottery management, which placed the iucky number opposite Mrs. Bernard's name. This, however, in the distribution, was given to Mrs, Mason, who, upon receiving the in- formation of the dnvlnfi, presented this ticket to the Sioux Falls National pank for collection, and the money was placed to her credit. Though she was not entitled to it see has succeoded in gotting the butt end of the wad. The matter was compromised to- day by four of the sisters accepting $300 each, the mother $2,500 and the other sister, Mrs, Mason, 29, oy ettt BIRDS OF ILI; OMEN. Seven Crows Visit a Ship Far Out at Sea. 8ea Gint, N.J., Dec. 18.~[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.|—The French bark Scot- 1and, Captain Munroé, from Liverpool to New York stranded here at 10 o'clock last even- ing, after a very singular encounter far out at sea with a flock of crows which caused quite a commotion among the superstitious sailors. ‘When about fiftcen days out and about eight hundred miles from land, the crew of twenty men wére at dinner when a flock of seven crows flew in through an open window and surrounded the table. The birds appearcd tgbe famished for they immediately began to devour food. Although the men had eaten hardly a mouth- ful they left the room and not one of them would touch the birds, which, with one ex- ception, left, after sppeasing their hunger. Thé men were sullen thercafter and said the visit of the crows pretended disaster to the ship. After that when they sat down to their meals they made sure to close the windows. Mary Seymour, a girl of White Stone, La., was on board aud she kept the one bird which remained, although the cfow begged herto let it go. Last night a terrible storm came up and the ship struck a bar farout from shore. The crew at the station “house were notitied and @ huge bounfire was built near the wreck., The night wind W bitter. Apparatus from the station was immediately hauled to the scene of disaster und a shot fired that carried a line over the the ship. The shipwrecked mariners were in no danger, however, and it was not until daylight that the breeches bouy was put in operation. The mute of the ship and a sailor were then hauled ashore. The remainder of the crew, twenty in all, remained on the ves- scl. Miss Barbara Monroe, daughter of Captain Monroe, master of the vessel and Miss Mary Seymour, & friend of Miss Bar- bara, were taken off the stranded vessel this afternoon and proceeded to New York. = o ENDICOTT'S WESTERN TRIP. He Arrives in Chicago and Expresses Some Opinions, Cnicado, Dee. 18.—(Special Telegram to the Bee.]—Hon. William C. Endicott, secre- tary of war, arrived in Chicago last evening on his way to the far west. Mr. Endicott was entirely non-committal about the policy of the war department in regard to the In- dians, but he was inclined to the opinion thut the outer posts should be strengthened and an additional force assigned g the westorn | forts, He did not anticipate any danger, but he thought tho policy of a strong government was to be prepared for any emergency. He stated, howey that his western visit had no political or departmental sigufi- cance, @8 he simply wanted to the boundless west, of which he heard somuch, He did not_think General Sheridan would give authority to the absurd reports, which had been published from time time, about any question of authority be- tween the general and the war departinent, The sccretary of war was in perfect necord with the economic views expressed by the president iu his messuge, and he thought as a political measure, if without further support, the enunciations of the president would com: mend themselves to the _average intelligent citizen of the country, whether ho wus a re- publican or democrs —————— REMNANTS OF GERONIMO. A Few Wild Apaches of His Bana sull at Large. ErL Paso, Tex., Dec. 18.—[Specta! Telogram to the Bek.|—A band of six or eight Indians which have been- committing depredations about Sabrinal, Mexico, a hundred miles southwest of £l o for several months, has been again heard from. J. W. Provard, a svell known mining man, has just returned from a trip to his mines in Sabinal coun v back he had a narrow esca Provard and a man named win were riding along on a buckbour: ious of danger, when the; that put them on the alert. ) 'red and discovered a band of five ns lying in ambush in a dry “ar- h death trap the two men’ would have entered had not the signal fire warned them. These savages are the band that Mc- Grew and party had a sharp fight with last October after the raid on Co ito’s ranch and the same -band whose existence the United States military authorities twice de- nied after the first raids were reported. The Indians are supposed to bo a remnant of s teronimo’s band of Apaches who were either separated from the band when the latter were captured or escaped from it afterward. A Vicious Contest for the Champion- ship of Wisconsin. Asuaxp, Wis, Dec. 18.—[Special Tele- gram to the BEE.]—At a private mill ina burn about soven miles from Ashiand, Black Frank, of Ashland, and Downey, champion middle weight champion of Wisconsin, fought twelve rounds with skin gloves, M quis of Quecnsbury rules, toa fnish for a purse of $200. The fighting was stubborn und hard for the entire fight. with no decided advantage for either. Downer fouled Black Frank in the twelfth round by tripping hun und then deliberately falling on him whilo the referee was trying to partthem, Downer was duzed by two face blows in the third round, but braced up in the fourth, and from that ‘on stood considerable punishment. Downer had first blood in the third round by @ nose blow, and Frank in the sixth by giving Downer su ugly cut over the eye. After the venth round both contestants appeared re- hed, and fought viciously to the end of Downer apparently fouled Frank purpesely. It is understood the fight was for the middle weight cham- pionship, and is covsidered to be Downer's only real fight. fr the twelfth round, whe = R Suits Against Rallway Magnates. Burre, Mont., Dec. 18.—[Spocial Telegram to the Bek. |—The indictments found by the late United States grand jury at Deer Lodge ugainst Vice President Oukes, of the North- ern Pacific, J. M. Buckley, E. L. Bonner, A. B. Hummond and T. J. Hathaway for un- lawfully taking timber from the public lands of the United States and shipping it out of the territory, were demurred by the defendants and the'statu also pleaded in s prosecutions f to the mining - now largely dependent on the defeud- ants’ for supplics of timber for mining and milling purposes. The civil suits bronght by the goverument against the same parties have been virtually disposed of in a sunilar wuy. THS S0 Big Mexican Land Purchase. EL Paso, ex., De 18, —[Special Tele- am to the Bee. | —Scarcely a week passcs but a new v or heavy land purchase is reported from northorn Mexico. The latest is a big land purchase completed this week by Judge G. S. Crosby und W. 8. Bolton, bothy ef thi It eonsists of a strip of land sixty miles long and from three to six miles wide, lying on both sides. of the Boca Grand river in the northorn part of the state of Chihuahua, Afky milos southwest from El Paso. The purchase errlQ twhnty-four Mexican le oqual to over 100,000 acres of valleys in co. Tho total cost isover $40,000. " The purchusers first bought up sov- eral conflicting claims to the tract, then had it confiscatod by the goverem and now havo a clean ufie directly from the govern. ment, having obtained ‘“‘judicial possesaion' this week. The tract begins apout fi miles south of the New Mexics line and twelve milos south of Newtown and. the colony of Los Palomas. Tt adjoins the recent {mwhue of 170,000 ucres by Count De Prez or & French investment com of New York city and a large Mormom colony is located just south of the Crosby-Bolton tract. - e WENT THROUGH THE BRIDGE. Seven Men Killed in a New Bruns- wick Rallroad Wreck, Baruvksr, N. B,, Dec. 18.—A train.on the Intercolonial railway composed of an engine, snowplow and passenger car went off o bridge near Caraquette yesterday afternoon, Of thirteen men on the engine and plow, the conductor, engineer, fireman and four see- tion men were pinned down under the engine il the bed of the river and killed. Others were badly bruised but not fatally injured. - Murder in the Second Degree. Cnevexxe, Wyo., Dec. 18.—{Special Tele} gram to the Bee.]—The jury in the Ajazzie case came in at a late hour last night ‘with a verdict of murder in the second degree. Ajazzie is o Frenchman who shot and killed George Gilduff at the Silver Crown mines in September last. The verdict is received with general satisfaction. The penalty for murder in the second degree in Wyoming is imprison- ment for life. ——— Crowning a Gypsy Queen, Pirgne, Dak., Dec. 18.—The queen of the gypsies was crowned last night at Fort George, on the Sioux reservation. The queen is Mrs. Douglas Carlon, an_ intelligent Indian princess recently married to & white man, The onation was witnessed by a number of whites and-hundreds of Indians. - Killed in a Kansas Mine Explosion. FLEMING, Kan,, Dec. 18.—By .the prema- ture explosion of a blast in the Missouri Pacific coul mne yesterday afternoon, three men, John Edwards, William Reed and William Hunter were killed. olcorayis Death of Bishop Schweinitz. Soumi Betuvenes, Pa., Dec. 18.—Bishop Edmund de Schweinitz, president of the executive bos avian church of the American provinee died suddenly of ap- poplexy this evenin ek AR n the First Degree. CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 18, —James Robinson, the third and last of the murderers of De- tective Hulligan, was_ to-day found " gruilty at Ravenua, of murder in the first degree. Murder CALCUTTA, reported that a force under Rundir Jung has been dispersed with great loss of life. —— Hopkins' Trial Postponed. Cixcixsati, Dee. 18—The trial of Bena- min E. Hopkins has been postponed until January 10, e eSS, Short Shrift. QuiTsAN, Ga., Dec. 18.—John Porter, a negro rapist, was lenchied last night. oot il Get Out Your Winter Clothes. Soon after darkness set in last night the thermometer became uncasy, and dropped down soveral degrees. It scomed to antici- pate the following telegram from Washing- ton: WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 1887 Omaha: Hoist cold wave signal. The tem’ perature will fall fifteen to twenty degrees or more by Tuesday morning. GREELY. Personal Paragraphs. J. Prouty, of Wilcox, Neb., is at the Wind- sor. To Observer, . Christerson, of Lincoln, Neb., is in the city. Johu M. Rogers, of Hastings, Neb.,is in the S, P. Brockway, of Kansas Cit, city. George Haynes, of Fremont, Neb., is at the Millard. L, W. Millard. F. M. McFarlin, of Lincoln; Neb,, is t the Windso John Newlan, of Wahoo, Neb., is’at the Windsor. George W. Andrews, Dubuque, Ta., is in the city. D. Baker and wife, of Ottumwa, Ta., are at the Windsor. G. B, Wemgart and wife, of Hastings, Neb., e at the Windsor. J. M. Cabell, of the United States army, 1in this city. O. M. Ladd and W. B. Armstrong, of Ot- tumwa, la., are at the Millar . Thom Y,+i8 in the May, of Kansas City, is at 4he and B. F. Arn- the city. J. MeArthur and Alex. Wessel, of Lincoln, Neb., are registered at the Millard. — - HOW SPIES WAS BEATEN. A Queer Experience in Omaha by the Chicago Anarchist, Chicago New **Several yoars ago August Spies had a rather peculiar ex- pience in Omaha,” said a gentleman rom the Omaha metropolis the other dny. “The Germans of our city gave a grand ‘fest’ and pienic in anniversary of the birth of some society, the name of which I don’t remember now. One of the features of the aff wis o de- bate between Spies and’a local German orator on the question of anarchy. Spies, of course, defended his favorite theories. This part of the dus’s pro- gramme was arranged for by the com- mittee on speakers, most of the mem- bers of which were radical in their ideas. When the members of the gen- eral committee of arrangements heard what had been done they weve highly displeased. Most of them were conser- vative, and they argued that it would cortainly cause trouble and perhaps so- riously mar the p\.-:mum,..,? the day if a bitter debate on anarchy was allowed to take place., However, it was too to change the order of affa S was then on his way to Omaha, and all arrangements for the debate had been made, “Instead of overruling the committee on spenkers the general committes pro- ceded to plan a revenge, of which the innocent editor from Chicago should he the vietim. In appointing the judges for the debate they selected men who quietly promised todecideagainst Spies, however good an argument he might make in support of his side of the ques- tion. “The debate came off. Mr. Spies, cool, smiling, self-possessed, and confi- dent of victory, made a really splendid speech in defense of anavch Ie farly thrashed tho floor of the rostrum with his unfortunate opponent, who from the Rt Spics’ ed and unable to meet spacious arguments. Imagine one—and especinlly of those who were Spies’ admirers and disciples—when the judges decided that the local speaker hid carried the day! A howl went up from the friends of the Chicago nnul-vl}:isl. but the judges were firm. Spies professed to take the mat- ter without surprise, but nevertheless he wasdeeply chargined, Idon’tsuppose he ever found out why the man whom he defested in that debate was awarded the vietory.” ———— Snap. Wae have some of the cream of the South Omaha Syndicate lots which we will sell ata gréat bargain, Call at Peo- ples’ Saving Bauk, 16154 Farnam st. and investigate. i of the Bex.] —Somg A HELP T0 THAYER COUNTY, What a Non-Resfdent Land Owner Has Done, to Develop It. : 1) DIVISION OF KEITH - COUNTY. i ) How It Has Resulted in a Great Benefit — Oushing and The Dredhier Farms. Desnrer, Neb., Dec. 17.—(Correspondence days ago a traveling cor- respondent writing the Bex from this point spoke incidentally of the Deshler farms, which are near here, and from which this thriving town was probably named. More particular mention of these farins should be of interest to your readers, it being, in this locality at least, the first exten- sive attempt to make the property of a aon- resident owner an element in the building up and advancement of the country instead of being, as is more usual, a hindrance, if not a positive drag. The owner of this property, becoming impressed a few years ugo with the justice of the complaint of settlers against non-improving speculative holders of land who sit_quietly by and reap a large share of the results of the efforts of others, determ- ined to make his property productive both to ‘himself und the community. Acting on this line, work was commenced in 1584, the prairie was broken up for three farms, com- fortable houses and stables built on each, and they were then leased on favorable terms an loug tin while this was in progress, men were busy in running lind and making fences, 80 that at the end of that senson there were also about three thousand acres enclosed in pastures varying in size from a quarter to a whole section. The demand for such farms being active, and the tenants, as a rule, being desirable citizens, six other farms were started in the following seasons, improvements were con- tinued on those of the previous year in the building of cribs and granaries as needed. The above is outline only of the work done in the star fthe plant. Under the personal superyision of Mr.J. M. Bennett, of Hebron, this beginning has been carefully and 1ntelligently followed up siuce, trees have been planted on every farm, cared for and protected, all native timber been guarded and preserved, the farms have been furnished from time to time with ample sto age facilities, fences ave kept up and all re- pairs looked after, all possible labor ex- Dended on the roads, in.short, in all ways the estate is hundled s a progressive man of ample means handles his homesteud,and to-day the places stands as parts of a harmonious whole and have not the usual shipshod-hap- hazard-rundown-at-the-heel look, common to tenant farms, These improvements have been made in a part of the county that had been quite back- ward, and where, at the beginning of 1854, there was hardly a wagon track, there to-day some fifteen miles of good prairie roads, seven large pasture fields, in which the native timber is making considerable show, nine comfortable_houscs, whose red colored roofs cover industrious, thriving familics—denied the blessing of surface springs, the depths of the pierced for its abundast suppl, the restless winds of these prairies harnessed to bring it to the sur so that no where on th broad ac d man or beast wan- der thi i The Chicago, Kansas's runs for some distanét: through this land, the B. & M. andi$t. Joe & Grand Island lines have stations onvenient driving and hauling distance o the farms. The surface of the land in the same as > country—gently un- frie, not hilly enough to at enough to be monoton- \ v a square foot that the plow cannot turn. ‘There wre points where ene d and sce the:jentive ostate spread like a picture at his faet. The foregoing is.a hpstily written skoteh of the work done by ome_nan for the upbuild- ing of our gr fate—work done not for glory, praise or cha , but done for the same human endeavor has al- ways had for investing its garnered labor known as capital, viz: the hope of reaping a sufticient r em- ployed—and in this hope we thiuk the owner us gt been disappointed. Keith County's Division. GRANT, Neb., Dec. 17.—[Correspondence of the 13 ~The d the Novewber election has resulted in great benefit to both the old and new county. It has brought peace to the divisionists and non- divisionists, and stopped a bitter warfare that has waged for the past eighteen months, with the cessation of hostilities by the di vision of the tervitory, The towns in each part commenecd to make substantial improvements and the country surrounding inciple towns sloping with, r ble rapidity. Parties who into_the_territo alall North river, where they find thou s 0f Just sucl ands of land & they desire, well watered and thic retl with nutritions grasses. While pa who are looking after furming lands as well as good grazing lands, are rapidly filing into the new county of Perkins and settling on the bewutiful plains that sur- vound Grant, Lisbon, Venango, Muadrid and Elsie, fine néw towns that all lie in this new country and all striving for supremacy. The voters' in Perkins county are anxiously awaiting the governor's proclamation calling an election for county officers and location of county se Tho two are organixing the opublican and democrat s committees and forming their forces in line for the coming contest which is predicted by many will be a warm one. The connty is largely republican. The New Town of Cushing. Crsiing, Neb., Dec, 17.—[Correspondence of the Bee.]—Cushing is a new town in How- ard county, situated at the junction of the Loup and Spring creck valeys and on the B, & M. line which extends from Central City to Greely Center. The town is sheltered on the north by the table land. It is arich farming country. Spring creck affords a good water privilege. Cushing’s corn crop is the best in Howard county. Frowm two to five cars of corn are loaded daily. The high- est price paid was thatof last week, 8ilg cents, shing is in need of a hardware, a drug and u general store. Whoever first starts cither of these stores will soon have a paying trade. St. Paul, the nearest competing town, s nine miles distant and across the Loupviver. Four milpaof the roud to St. Paul is so sandy that it 15 next to impossible to haul an ordinary logd over it without doubling up the teani. . Then, too, the Loup Dridgo 1 dangorous 10" ofoss. A pertion of it goes out every year.d And no wonder. The uorth ond is at this tinle supported by 2xti inch scantling, snd the south cnd_stands at an angle of 45 deg. und bt a fow feet above the v ing will see such mbreantilo enterprises started as its surrounding country merits and warrants. 1 —— Wreck on , Elkhol v1, Neb., Deg, 1 pecial to the A wreck occurred on the Fremont, & Missouri Valley road about four miles cast of Frewont., The section men were repairing a small beidge und taken out one stringer to replace & with another, They put out a flag us a danger signal, but the engineer on the approsching freight train failed to see it and ran into the bridge. Th engineer and fireman jumped in time to sav themselves, The engine and four cars were badly wrecked. . Hog Killing at Fremont., FrEMONT, Neb.,, Dec. 15.—|Special to the Bee.]—Yesterday closed the first wi slaughtering at South Frewont. It has been a very satisfactory starting. Seventoen hun- dred hogs have been killed, which is a gaod showing, considering that everything is en tirely new. It has been demonstrated that a supply of hogs can be obtained here. waha prices are paid. An O Good Work, Laxcory, Neb,, Dee. 15.—[Correspondence of the BEE.]—Your correspondent was on the worning 13, & M. train which carried pring opens il;.“i»i to be hoped Cush- Marshal Pothond, of Beatrice, and a prisoner which the offcer had just arrested in Omaha, The pflwyr‘l,nnm. was Pickard and he was wanted for highway robbery committed Beatrice December 11. The crime was a peculiar one and shrouded in mystery, but the case was placed in the hands of Mr, Pethond, who located his man and placed him under arrest. It was a clever piece of detective work, and calls to mind arrests of a similar character which Mr. Pethond has made. He was the officer who arrested the Spanish rapist, and was afterwards taken from the authorities aund lynched. Ho also captured Cell, the Iowa rapist, and in the last two months has added to his reputation a8 a sharp detective by running down two horse thieves, Mr. Pethond is yet a young man, about thirty years of age, and thor- oughly reliable and trustworthy. His latest captive, Pickard, has been bound over to the district court for trial J.C G —_— Tried to Jump to Death. BeNKLEMAY, Neb, Dec. 18 —[Special Telegram to the Bee,]—Philip Erzgraber, & liquor merchant at Denver, attempted suicide w-day by jumping from a passenger train when running at high speed. He was only stunned and bruiscd, and seemed greatly dis- couraged at his failure to kill himself. He ‘was brought to Benkelman station and shipped to Denver by the sheriff on the train, Three months Ifig Erzgraber was doing & good business at Denver, but seld out and loft his family and went back to Germany, He crossed the Atlantic and camg straight from New York. He says he no recol- lection of his trip across the water, and real- izing that whisky has made him crazy, he says he will take his life at the first oppor- tnnity. He is highly educated and claims wealthy relatives at Omaha, Denver and Chicago. PR b Won His Suit and Died. Wanoo, Neb., Dec. 18.—[Special Telegram to the Bek.]—Yesterday in the district court the jury rendered a verdict of $155 in favor of the plaintiff in the case of S. S. Parks vs I. E. Phelps. Last night Mr. Parks dropped dead a short time after his caso in court had termiated in his favor, The immediate cause of his death was heart disease. Mr. Parks was a resident of Chadron, where his famly is now. He was formerly u resident of this city and wus highly rcspected by everyone. R LOCAL SPORTING GOSSIP, A Number of Interesting Items About Persons and Things. G. Whitaker, the Chicago bicyclist, is in the city. Charlie Krehmeyer has Buffalo International club. Since the BEE's expose of the wrestling match “fake’ but little has been heard of it. Mr. C. C. Williams, of Missouri Valley, wants to shoot Frank Parmeleea fifty bir match Christmas, for §100 a side. At their gallery. 1108 Farnam_ strect, on a score of seventy-five, Mr. Nathan Shelton won the prize at the Omaha club shoot Fri- day evening. Messrs, Swiggert and_Williams, of To- anda, Kan., have declined to uceept the challenge of Benrose and Hardin for & one hundred blue rock shoot. The Omulia management havenot yet suc- | gned with the ceeded in closing with Healy, of last yoar's team. Some seem to think that it would be well if they fail altogether, as new re what the public want to see. ing scats are to be put into the ladies’ partment of the grand stand at the ball park in the spring. Among other improve- ments, the diamond will probably be sodded. “Skinned” diamonds are a thing of the past. s one of Omaha's néw ¢ wont get him. or is a man the Omahas can illy afford to part with t now-—a tremendous hitter, fine base run- ud one of the best fielders in the coun- is no doubt now but what the much pout match live bivd shoot between rank Parmel and H. A, Penrose will take P! in the near future. The Beg will pub- lish Mr. Penros s acceptance of Parmelec's chalienge, together with a_defi that will slogeer some ef the ambitious wing shots. Messrs. Rother who are managing tions, bave at last e a meet between Tke We and Crawford, f athletic exhibi- ed arrangements for the “Helfast Spi- der,” and Tommy Miller. It is to_be a twenty: round contest, winuer to take 75 and loser 25 per cent of the gate receipts. The match live bird shoot between John J. Hardin and H. B. Kennedy, twenty«ive birds to the man, 0 a side, modified English rules, will take | at the ball park this after- noon, beginning promptly at 2 o'clock. The shoot is’ attracting a good deal attention among sportsmen and a_large crowd, with pleasant weather, is certain to be in attend- ance, Owmama, Neb., 18. editor of the B Aptain v and Judge Eisenhel plonel Hardin, I .rzeant Hulett to shoot a match ut twenty @ biue rocks for the price of the targets. Time and place to be mutually agreed upon.s er of Lawlor, A * Europe by the steamer Ktruria on y. Before going he obtwned from James Patterson, the Seventh avenue sporting man, a fine carricr pigeon, *Bell Patterson,” a sister of “Lady Patt on,” owned by Edgar Rothe of this city, saying he wished to take th bird to his home in Ireland. Yesterday morning Patterson was surprised to find the bird in the loft. The homer was almost ex- hausted, and Patterson, belicving that the bird had escaped from Waters, picked it up. to see if it had met with any mishap. Under the left wing he found what seemed anew dollar bill. On the face of the bill was this inseription written in ink Released at sea from Etruria Sund My compliments. THOMAS WATTERS, Patterson is at a loss to know how the hird could have flown home through the fog of Sunday. The organization of the base ball reporters’ association at the recent meeting of the American association at Cincinnati was a step in the right direction, and the necessity of such an enterprise has long been felt. Properly fostered and kindled it can be made of inestimable benefit in the great national pastime, It was high time that the men to whom the public looks for e facts about base ball, should ¢ make their importance work in the past they have receiv lutely no recognition, notwithstanding they are as much to the gawe almost as the play- themselves, and are entitled to no little credit in maintaining interest in the sport, for benefiting, upbolding and purifying it. While it is a_good thing for the clubs it is equally a good thing for the reporters, and its happy results will gleam forth during the coming season in a more 'm, accurate and houest record of gam vus ever known before. The base hall edito the BEE is the first one in the western cities 1o joiu the ussociation 0 the sporting urose, Major * hereby chal- d nt Me 1 erac v noon. M A The sugar trado in this city is stivred up by the report that the sugar trust has purchused two important refineries which it desired to control, and has set- tled down definitely to create a corner in that staple. At the same time a mutton trust has been formed in this city by some fifty dealers in live stock, and it proposes to fix prices and prevent competition without regurd to supply and demand, This is all very well for speculators just now, and no doubt they ave chuckling over their prospective gains. But they forgot that th ina very small and are sowing the seed of di moug the masses which n vipen to their ruin, What with minorit conjent in timi trusts in coal, sugar, at, flour, and ulmost all tho necessities of life, the workingman of the period may begin to think, however foolishly, that his only safety is in_revolution—a change that shall be radical. Napoleon once secured good rations for his soldiers by hanging P army contractors, and congress ot begin tco soon to legislate out of existence those common encmies of man- kind who masquerade under the flimsy guise of trusts. P s Dr. Hamilton Warren, Magnetic Phy- sician and surgeon, Room 8, Crounse bloek, cor 16th and Capital ave. Chronic and nervous disenses a specialty. Tele- phone 94, ENCINEER THOS. WADHAM. Death at Brainard, Minn, of a Vot- eran at the Throttle. CONNECTING LINKWITH THE PAST Wadham Acted as Driver on One of First Passenger Engines in Enge land—Varied Experiences in Europe and America. Brainard, Minn., Correspondence o the Chicago Tribune, Dec. 8: The death of Thomas Wadham, the veteran North- ern Pacific engineer, which was briefly announced in the dispatches, was a more than an ordinary removal from life, for Mr. Wadham was one of the few re- maining links which connect the present fast age of steam with the partof the century in which its application to the uses of commerce was made. Thomas Wadham wasborn in 1819 in Somerset- shire, England, the ecldest of six children, whose father was a practieal worker of iron, and all of whose children became railrond men. Thomas, as a mere lad, was apgrenticed in the same line, and at twelve yearsof age found himself working in the machine shops at Bristol that,were making experiments on locomotives to run on rails. In six years, after Stephenson’s “‘Rocket™ had in 1820-"3 proved a success on the Liverpool & Manchester railroad, young Wadham had be- come a wiper, cleaner, and was in the line of promotion. At twenty-one he got his promotion to fireman and was married to Miss Eliza Vic y of Taun- ton, who was two years his junior, and who, the mother of thirteen chitdren, seven yet living, in a hale and vigoyous old age survives him. It took the am- bitious voung railroader full ten years of faithful service under the vigorous English system to “‘get an engine. which was on the Great Western road, and it was a freight of the most crudest style and patte: The run was from Bristol to Bath, twelve miles, and the required stint way two trips a day. The then English system of prometion was by & book record of every item of ser- vice rendered, but it took five years of the record to ruise a passenger engine ‘When Mr. Wadham had so risen ther were but four engines to be used on the Great Western to do the entire passen- ger business, and it wos the last of the series that Wadham secured, and s was named the *Jeuny Lind No. 4 from the then rising songstress who has just pussed away. His first sery was on the part of the line known as the Justern country, d the run from old Cambridge to Peter- boro. Then, as now, the servicc changed off from day to night @ night to day. At night the mai carried, and one day train d the lightning e run in the day for of at night. In nts handling the British muils the cars which eirvied them had to be pulled out to some v ing central point. and then, the delivery having been made with due formality, the car sealed and returned to its train: and the same when delivering mail—a decided con- trast to the nerveless arms attached to our lightnitg postoflice cars that streteh out and snatch up the pouches along the distant ways. But with the “Jenny Lind Mr. Wadham some of t fastest tr ran in England— often a mile a minute. If there was some official ov royal party, or some ex- igeney. he used 1o s spoed casily. And engineers controlled the schedule more then than now. Their pay was by the mile, “threepence ha'p-penny”’ per mile, 74 cents,and they find themselves, pay their own fireme wiper (cleaner), and do their own re- pai But any *‘tips,” or a frequent gift from some M. P. orvother official desiring extra speed made ¢ sure ar- rival on time, was the engineer’s, one ocension M dham with the “Jenny Lind™ drew the queen Victoria, and Prince Albert, de bed as then a spave youth, from Southampton to Gos- ran port, to some great naval occasion at the latter port. This was about 1850, The ‘tJenny Lind” was. from Mr. pllection, but little im- arance and power over ducted from Stephen- She had but one pair s, had no cab, no “‘cow- *ho top works or adornments besides the slimstock, save a huge brass or copper dome surmounting the five- box, in which hung a bell. his dome was the indexof the enginee! apacity, in the degree of polish bestowed upon it. The cngineer and fireman rode outside, without covering or protection of any vi. Mr. Wadham rode a lo- comotive nearly & quarter of a century in England, and then saw in Ame thy first locomotive with a cub. curly English passenger train w orously made up of Next fo the locomoti class carringes or ca rs, the second class next, third class next, and the luggage or baggage last. The fivst cluss had the present compartments, with door and window all in one, and richly upholste chairs: the second s had one divigion, seats ides like the pr trances from the sides. The wges were undivided, and and rough s our present box cars. conductor or guard went with the train, but the enginecer slowed up for one to get on as the train neaved the station and tickets were taken up before the doors were opened and pas- s ullowed to alight. Wadham's 1 proved in apy e CONrse seng ; !, Of an carly experfence n railrouding 3 m used to ate what he told by his seniors on the line, oviginals no doubt of some old ehestnuts of railvoading—like the strap- iron of the teack curling up through the bottoms of the carriages, like stiff Thoe: od hy eata rr b pain betwoen them; in the cars, the nose i comfortable d of the sense of ble symptoms disap, Hood's Sussaparilla, which expels fr mpurity from which catarrh art iscusod organs 1 Lealth, the whole systeu. Bo sure to gt Hood's Catarrh in the Head. . I used Mood's Sarsaparilis for eatarrh, and re- cuived grent trom It catarrh was very disagrec tho winter, caus- 1 constant dischargo frow my ., Finging 1wy ears, and pains in the iy hend vur my head in b tul dletely. wh 1. Lum never without the n s I taink it s worth its welh q Gup, 1020 Eighth Streot, N. W., Washington, D. ¢ bad breath, these and bullds up me reliof lwy v he could do that neckéd serpents; that the baggage (1u, smgo) master and porter nmfio it theie . husiness in snow storms to sit on the front of the locomotive and sweep the tracks clear, or, at “sticking" points to sprinkle sand on the track with their hands out of a bucket, Before coming to America with the oung engineers he was raising his inglish boys to become, he visited Wales and then France, learning much n the la tter about the French system of railrondingf which was a great im- provement on the early English ways, n this country he ran on the Canadian Great Western twenty-four years ago, his run for years being from Hamilton to Niagara Falls, Subsequently ho went to the Grand Trunk, running from Sarins to St. Mary's. Theun, nis sons having risen to the footboard, ho retired from locomotive to stationary engines, Twenty-six years ago he run the large elevator engines of the Wal- bridges and the Covingtons at Toledo, 0., subsequently the Wabash shop ens gines ® the same place, aud for fifteen years past the huge Corliss of the Northern Pacific shops at Brain- erd. He was the typical English® mechanie, with the American spirit, and bequeathed the same to a large family of children. George, the eldest son, recently deccased, was one of. the first engineers upon the Northern Pa- cific, turning his first wheel at Daluth in 1869. A daughter is wife of Engineer Charles Chambegs of the Great Western . in Canada, running from Windsor to London. Another fiuugllter is the wife of Engineer William Adams of the Wa- bash road, running from Clayton, Til., to Keokuk. The only living “child not a railronder is Charles V. g\'udhlu“‘ in the real estwte business at Spokane Falls, W, T. All the children gath- ered at his bedside last summer during his long illne: Engineer Wadham ran o locomotive for over a third of o century, and in all that time nover had an_accident, never was in a collision, and never had an illnoss due to service or exposure. In a runon the English Great Western, which was a double track, the out trains keeping one track, the opposite trains the other, one night when plunging along with his fast train he became suddenly impressed that something was wrong, He had run into an open switch which connected the two tracks, and had gone a mile beforo he succeeded in stopping and ran baok. Tor this he was laid off, but immedi- ately restored upon proof that an em- ploye had left the switeh set open. Ho was a Mason, but not connected with the brotherhood, either of firemen or engincers, Ce ] How Jurors are Obtained in Chicago. Chicago Herald: There was a shout, a whirl of excitement and a seramble in front of 150 .West Madison streot at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Clerks and salesmen ran out of stor women with wild flowing hair sudde their heads out windows and and teamsters with their vehicles in street. Al eyes spot. This spot w that led up one i tice Blume's court. Counstable White, who is almost as heavy as Sumpson was in his prime, and who is muscular and athletic, bisides wearing o gold ring in his leff cur from motives of superstitious origin, had come down to subparna a_juryman i case pending upstai The “tentative juryman was unwilling, and at the samo time blindly ignorant of the demand made upon his citizenship. blonde-whispered German, meek, inno- cent and smiling. He was merely pase- ing by on an important matter of per- B business Hello there »d Constable White, holding a writ in his nand. “What do you want mit turned the German, stopping i ment. I want you ups! s the said, smiling with a profe sardonic smile, “I'm an ofticer of the law and I want you for a juryman.” “1h i haf [ shed one accord halted the middle of the were focused on ono s near the door ht of stairs to Jus ional and dene? Retter you not ar I done notings. 1 heen aG 1 been not arresded : I not go up Then Constable White read him the in loud tones, while the - iculated wildly ina deprecat- ing manner, and p ted in broken English that he had **done nottings,” Still the juryman protested. He would not go. 1o not up,” he said, “und you not take me up.” S show youy shouted the con ble, and he hed the frightened 1 ber by the and shook him till his hat fell off. ou go not up, eh? Well, 'l ou up any way." Fhe constable wis & bigger man than the German rher. The two clinehed and struggled till a crowd collected. “You won't go up!” and the constable grasped the frightened man ahout the t and carvied him bodily up the to Justi Blume's saused by the man's Wi long fight of Tustice Blume stopped all proc ings in court when the constable jurorentered in this most extraording fushion. “Silence 1 the court!™ he shout “Here, your honor, I've brought yo one more juror,” gasped Constable White. 1 - “Vat haf I done mit your laws?" ng German barbe the court said sternly. “Keep still; we want to doyou an honor, B A citizen of the great state of We want you to siton a jury, rhest honor that can be accorded you. Don’t be s d. We'll not hurt you.” “Vell, done nottings to be arrested dis way.” Upon examination one of the lawyers challenged the juror for cause and told him to go home. As he started for the door, Justi Blume looked at bim sternly and said: “Constable that juror is bound to_escape, the man fled like a wild man, knocking wer two or three spectators, and caus- ngr great merriment, yelled the strugg! “Nothing si White, "Eyes Ears Nose o twith entarrh in my head for * sre that 1 could not 10 tuke Hood's Sarsaj rly cured, the wi appotite 18 Koo Sarsaparilin 0 permanent nd now my catareh is ness of Mg, A Hood's S tarrh wnd tmpure biood thian suything used.” A. BALL, Syracuse, N. Y. Ringing Noises & roaring, burzing sound ot ot & pistol, caused by great blood y for this Myl the blood. 1f you a0, Hood's 15w peculinrly It eures by p Ken Hook's Sarsaparilia for eatarrh and wreat deal of good. 1 recomuend i§ LUTiER D, ROBMING, East Hood’s Sarsaparilla B0l by all druggists. §1; six for 5. Propared only by ©. & HOOD & (0., Apathocarios, Lowoil, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar. Sold by #)l druggists. 81 8ix for 85, Prepared ouly b l CoLH00D & OO, Apothecaries. Lowell, Mase. 100 Doses One Dollar