Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 30, 1887, Page 4

'THE !DAILY BEE. . PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. Dally Morning Edition) including Sunday ¥, One Year, L For 8ix Months, For Thres Mo Tlal- Omaha Bunday Bk, matled Lo any ad- 0 Orrice, No. 914 ARD 916 FAl YORK Orrice, ROOM 66, Tai! WASHINGTON Orrice, No. Brus NG, 513" Foun e v CORRESPONDENCE. JII communications rel news and ftorial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR OF THE BRE, BUSINESS LETTERS: Al business lotters and remittances should be nddressed to Tue BeR PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMATIA. Drafts, chocks and postoffice orders 1o ‘e made payable to the order of the compay. The Bes Pubishing Company, Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, EniTo. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Olrculation. Geo B, ry of The Tlee Pub- lishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily fice for the week Dec, 23, 1K, was as follows. Saturday Dec. 11 Bunday, 18, ;«lmfll < ursday, 3 Friday, Doc. AVerage............. fworn toand subscribed in my pry 26th day of December, A, D, 1657, N, P.FEIL, (REAL) Notary Piblic Etate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, {*% Geo, B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de- ex and says that Le is secre The Boe blishing company, that the actual average daily circulation ~ of the Bee for the month of Decem : for Junuary, 189, 16 Fury, 1T 14198 coglen;’ for March, 185, 14,400 coples; for April, 1887, 14,316 coples: for May, 4,221 copies: 'tor June, 1861, 14,147 coples: for July, 1687, 14 coptes; tor August, IR, 14, 351 : for Reptember, 1847, 14,89 copies’ oy October, 1867, | i for November, 1657, 16,226 coples. 6F0. B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 84 day of December, A. D. 1887, NP FRIL e Notary Pu DON CAMERON guarantees & majority in Pennsylvania of one hundred thou- sand for John Sherman if the latter is nominated as the republican candidate for the presidency. Mr. Cameron is generally credited with understanding the political situation tolerably well in Pennsylvania and he is probably not far from right. A BOUTHERN correspondent writing to a Philadelphia paper predicts that the census of 1890 will show that the negro in Ameriga is passing away and doomed to extinction. The correspond- ent should revise his observations. He will doubtless find that he has made a mistake. The negro is not that kind of arace. During the past quarter century each census has shown a decided in- crense in the colored population over that of the preceding one, and it is not at all probable that the census of 1890 will show a contrary tendency. S——— THE expressions of the prominent Canadians present at the banquot of the Boston Merchants’ association, Wednes- day evening, show that there is a very earnest and widespread feeling in the Dominion favorable to commercial union with the United States. All the speakers on that occasion are repre- sentative men and exertan extended influence. Their talk plainly indicated a feeling that commercial union is the policy to be sought by Canada under any circumstances, even though the ultimate consequences should be the loss of Canada to the imperial sys- tem of Great Britain. The in- dications are that this senti- ment is growing in the Dominion, where it occupies a lending place in the public attention. American interest is too fully absorbed with other and more pressing questions to give more than a passing attention to this subject. THE Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tvibune is authority for two statoments that are important, if true. One is that Mr. Blaine will not return to the United States until after the na- tional republican convention has been held, and the other is that he will be- fore long indicate in an unmistakable way just what his ideas are upon the subject of his supposed candidacy. A correspondent of the Z'ibune may fairly be presumed to have peculiarly favor- able opportunities to learn what the purposes of Mr. Blaine are, so far as that gentloman desires them disclosed, but we nevertheless have a doubt as to either of the above statements truly representing the intentions of the traveling statesmen. We hardly think Mr. Blaine will disappoint the anticipa- tion of his friends that he will return to this country at an auspicious time just near enough to the assembling of the convention to permit of starting a boom that can be easily maintained until the convention assembles, while as to his in- dicating anything there is no demand for it unless he means to honestly with- draw his name from the list of candi- dates, which nobody believes he has the slightest notion of doing. Se———— THE ship subsidy scekers are to have their turn in Washington next week. The American shipping and industrial league will holda convention in that city and bring all the pressure 1t can command upon congress in favor of the’ bounty bill, which provides for allowing to every American vessel trading with foreign ports 80 centsaton for each thousand miles sailed or steamed for a period of twenty years, one-third reduc- tion of this rate to be made at the end of the first ten years from the date on which the act shall take effect. The promoters of this precious scheme have been very active during the past six months, and their onset upon congress jsthe natural culmination of their efforts, but they are not immediately dan- gerous. The present congress is not the least bit likely to be favorably im- pressed by any subsidy scheme, how- ever plausible, and there has never been a more unpropitious time than now for such a raid upon the public treasury as the ship subsidy people ask for, The league may indeed consider itself for- tunate if it shall succeed in inducing anybody of influence to seriously cham- pion its cause in either house of con- gress. No scuator or representative who is concorned for his political future will care to imperil it by identifying himself at this time with such & scheme 88 the bountybill. S Benator Manderson's Infantry Bi The perseverance of Benator Man- derson with his bill to increase the ef- ficiency of the infantry branch of the army may yet be rewarded with suc- cess, It has not been fortunate in former sessions, but the etrong faith of the senator in the soundness of the principles on which the measure is founded has led him to bring it forward again, whether with better promise of Success than heretofore cannot be judged at present. The bill, however, has not {ailed to receive intelligent rec- ognition and approval. The New York Times very cordially commends it and gives some very cogent reasons why the chango it proposes in the organiza- tion of infantry regiments is desirable. The bill proposes for the infantry the three-battallion organization of the cav- alry and artillery. This would add two companies to each of the twenty-five in- fantry regiments, making them coneist of twelve instead of ten companies. It would also give each company three majors instead of one. Another con- sideration, which should make tho measure popular with the armny, is that 1t would necessitate a number of promo- tions. As to the system proposed by the bill the New York Z¥mes says: It is admitted that the ten-company organ- ization was long ago discarded by all nations on the continent of Xurope, and while China up to a late dato retained it perhaps the Ger- muns have by this time destroyed it even there. When a rifle company was habitually stationed on each flank a ten-company or- ganization was less objectionable; but now there scoms to be no reason why the tactical advantages of being able todivido a regiment into either three or four equal purts as easily as into two, without breaking up the com- panies, should not be enjoyed by the infantry as well as by the cavalry aud artillery. Other things being equal, it is an advantage also to have a common organization for all three arms. In our country this organization would be additionally useful, as there are many small garrisoned posts for which single battalion of four companies is enough. The great advantage in exchanges of sta- tion of having exact multiples of a battalion, four companics to deal with, substituting one battalion for another, is also evident, and will become more 8o when the smaller posts are abandoned and barracks and quar- ters crectod with a view to permanent occu- pation, The bill has encountored Objection because it would incrense the size of the army and the cost of maintaining it, but as both the sccretary of war and the lieutenant general, in their last annual reports, more earnestly than before urgoe the importance of an increase in order to make the army more perfect and of- ficient, it is quite possible that some who have hitherto objected may now be found favorable to the measure. The addition to the army which the Man- derson bill provides for would be than that recommended by the licuten- ant general, and the annual increase in the cost would not exceed a million dollars. E—— The Indian Territory Problem. Congressman Peel, of Arkansas, whose district borders on the Indian territory, has had a most favorable opportunity to study the Indian question as it is there represented, and he has evidently done so intelligently from a practical stand- point. His conclusion is that the es- sential thing to be done, imthe interest alike of the Indians and the govern- ment, is to dissolve the tribal relations and extend over all the affairs of the In- dians the jurisdiction of the federal courts. It is understood that he will, as chairman of the house committee on In- dian affairs, endeavor to secure legisla- tion embodying this idea. The problem which the Indian ter- ritory presents must finally be dealt with in a practical way, and there is no good reason why a solution should not be sought at once. This large area, comprising some of the most fertile land on the continent, cannot remain indefinitely in the control of 64,000 Indians. Not more thay one-eighth of this number now in- habit half the territory, and in his annual report the commissioner of In- dian affairs recommends that these be removed to the more populous half and the other portion of the territory thrown open to whitesettlement. The pressure of white population toward the territory is becoming every year greater, and as the commissioner says it is only a ques- tion of time when even the military power of the government will be unable to keep it out. It is believed by the advocates of a dissolution of the tribal relations that such a policy would result in in- ducing the Indians to open their lands to settlement on reasonable terms, and it certainly seems best to give them the opportunity. If they are incapable of being convinced of what is obviously to their advantage, it will then be time to consider whether they shall be com- pelled to dispose of their unused lands for settlement and cultivation or left to be driven from them by the inevMable and irrvesistible march of the whites. The situation offers no encouragement to that sort of sentiment which has hitherto obstructed all practical plans for dealing with the Indians, retarding both their material and moral progress. The Eleventh Census. A committee on the eleventh - census is to be created by the present house of ropresentatives. The object, as ex- plained by Mr. Cox, who suggested the committee, 18 to insure the completion of all the preliminary work,and he thinks two years not too long a time in which to do this. It is thus proposed to bogin preparations for the next decen- nial census while that of 1880 is still far from completed. There scems to he a great want of practical method and business-like ef- ficieney in the census work of the gov- ernment. When the work of the last census was entered upon it was expected that it would be completed in a shorter time than any that had preceded it for a number of decades, and that while much more thorough than any previous census would also be more trustworthy, Yet goven years of time have passed and more than seven millions of dollars have been ex- pended, and _the work is still uncom- pleted. Moreover the portions that have been finished and printed are found not to be entirely accurate, the effect of such discovery being to throw discredit upon the whole. It is desirable that there shall bea national census takon at least every ten years, but it is obvious that in order to make it valuable as a source of informa- tion and a means of reference the work of one census must not run into that of another, and it must be done with the nearest practicable attainment to acou- racy. 1tis evident that a radical re- form in the methods of doing this work is mnecessary, and wo have not a doubt NMthat in can be accom- plished if there is a disposition in con- gress favorable to reform. Other gov- ernments have a way of completing their census work in one-third of the time occupied by our government, with at loast equal accuracy and at far less cost. If the committee to be appointed on the next census shall devise a more practical, accurate and expedient method of enumeration and compila- tion than that in vogue,its creation will be timely. — ‘Work for the Council. With the coming new year the city council should inaugurate many needed roforms in our municipal machinery. They should revise the building in- spection ordinance. Enterprising citi- zens should not be gouged for construct- ing substantial buildings. One of the main objects of creating the build- ing inspector’s office was to Bsocure reliable building sta- tistics. This object has been frus- trated by the exorbitant scale of fees. The inspector’s figures are worthless and misleading. They are actually damaging if quoted, because thoy do not reach within 30 per cont of the ac- tual costof building improvements. The street commissioner’s department should be reorganized and placed on a more efficient footing. A carcful inventory of all city prop- erty should be taken and an effort made t0 recovery any property belonging to the city that has been fraudulently or unlawfully obtained. An inventory should be taken of all movable city property now in custody of public officers, and care should be taken to have all plans, contracts, papers and records in fire-proof vaults or safes. The pest house sinecure and all other sinecures should be abolished and the city’s affairs conducted on a business tween the Reading railroad company and its employes is not yet settled, and that a strike involving the greater por- tion or all of the men employed by that corporation may not be averted. The entire country is interested in this con- troversy, for if such a strike as was threatoned should occur a general an- thracite coal famine is inevitable. No- where in the country is there now on hand the supply of coal usual at this season, and at most points the present stock would be exhausted in a week. The policy of the coal combination has heen to curtail the supply everywhere, and the result is that even the markets at the very threshold of the coal producing region are in danger of a famine should the supply be cut off for only a few days. As to the merits of the controversy, the most trustworthy opinion appears to be that in precipitating the strike the men were at fault, Their ground of com- plaint was not against the Reading com- pany, but against a firm with which the company did business. But the blunder having been committed, the company seems disposed to take advantage of it to make conditions that will very likely increase the complicationsand may lead to a general strike. Had the company any concern for the public interest it could very easily avert any further trouble, but its man- agers, according to the Ilatest advices, are showfng a dispositicn wholly selfish and wbich is calculated to incite resistance. A general strike of Reading employes would be a far- reaching public calamity that would call down upon the heads of all respon- sible for it the maledictions of millions. — It is to be hoped the representatives of the associated bureau of charities, who appear to have entered upon their work with very little idea of what they are expected to do, will be zealous in ascertaining the nature of their duties and diligent in performing them when learned. Winter is upon us in earnest, and there are humndreds of people in Omaha who are in dire need. The charity that is urgently called for must not be delayed, if a great deal of threat- ened snffering is to be averted. THeE abandonment of the plan of converting the Sheely building into a hotel ought to increase public interest in the project of erecting a commodious first-class hotel in some eligible loca- tion. Omaha would still require a great hotel even had the Sheely build- ing been converted to the use proposed, but the failure to do this will somewhat increase the necessity, and give better assurance of the larger enterprise prov- ing a profitable investment. STATE Al T RITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The palatial temple of Masonry at Hastings was appropriately dedicated last Tuesday. e building is 66x100, two stories in height and cost 830,000, Buxom Mrs. McCully, of Plattsmouth, shook her husband and two children a few days ago and skipped toward Omaha with a handsomer man. This is the second time she has given her legal lord an impromptu shake. Lincoln is catching on as a news scen- ter. Judge Broady's decision in the Beatrice bond case, delivered Tuesday, reached town by the BEE yesterday, and was immediately sent out by the enter- priiln;fi associated press agent. It was & needless waste of energy. Scores of bogus drafts from Lincoln, Beatrice, Hastings, and Grand Island have turned up in Pittsburg, drawn against a lead manufacturing company. An energetic swindler induced parties in the towns named to cash the drafts, and they are just out the amount of the accommodation. Mr. C. W. Pool, of the Tecumseh Journal, is wintering in the Carolinas. His pictures of the country and people, its wild animuls and tame beasts, snakes, rsimmons and earthquakes, boost the mpea of his friends at home that he has been only temporarily divorced from truth, The county seat fight is forcing the meroury to & high noteh in Greelox county.” Scotia is fighting to retain an Greeley Center to capture the emolu- 2 monts of the oapital. The latter has tho support of the B. & M. townsite company of tax shirkers, which now owes the county $20.441 of back taxoes, The following s slightly whiskered with the moss of anfiquity, but it is the oldest that could be' fouud on the sub- ject: ‘“Albeit as often as leape yearre oth occure, the womanne holdeth pre- rogative over the ‘tanne in matters of courtship, love, and matrimonie; sothat when the ladye proposeth it shall not be lawful for the manhe to say her nae, but he shall entertain’her proposal in all courtesie.” The turmoil of the holidays and tedious work of squaring accounts with the dying year should not obscuro the fact that an original poem will be hurled at the burean of hrains which assembles at Lincoln January 12, Meinbers of the press should husband their energies for the oceasion or woara commodious wasto basket. A concerted effort ig bein, made to induce the poet to swear of with the new year. An experienced teacher gives itas his conviction that there exists an ap- paling variation of speed in the move- ments of boys. His opinion was reached after registering the movemouts of a class of four armed on one day with skates and the next with coal skuttles, Ninety-nine per cent of energy and bruised skull are cheerfully exchanged for the pleasure of the slide, but the conl bin chills their ambition and sickens them at heart and limb. Collector Calhoun, of this internal revenue district. believes that the state stands more than an _ordinary show of being the center of distillery interests of the United States. To the Nebraska City Press reporter he gave these rea- sons for his belief: *‘Because no other is not barred out by prohibi- s can_compete with her. The aha and Nebraska City houses can <o whisky just 33 cents cheaper than they can do it in Peoriaj that is a big item. Until the formation of the trust now being rfected the eastern men did not n‘umo this, or acknowledge that the place for the business, above all others, was the Missouri valley, but that was just what the trust committee reported when it went back after in- vestigating.” Wyoming. Daily mail service has been started on the Chyenne & Northern road. Passenger trains will not be put on the Burlington extension io Cheyenne until the middle of January. Bishop Burke, of the Catholic dio- cese of Wyoming, has taken a three month’s vacation to visit Rome. The annual*report of the schools of the territory shows a total of 5,288 chil- dren enrolled or 1887 against 4,996 last year. There were 282 teachers em- ployed at a cost of $84,967. The new policy adopted by the Union Pacific in giving private parties an op- riunity to operate coal mines is hav- ing n good effect in more waysthan one, The latest is the establishment of a coal agency in Cheyenne by the Colorado Fuel company, which will handle daily almost eighteen éar loads of Rock Springs coal from the Blair mine, sup- plying the Burlington railroad and sell- ing ut different pdints along the B. & M. railroad. A5 The Shoshones have a way of dis pensing with doctor’s bills and trouble- some women that would not thrive out- side the reservation. An old woman who had sustained 'a fracture of one of her limbs became guch a bore that the bncks decided to put her to death They_ stripped her of every garment, tied her to stakes driven in the ground and left her to freeze to death. At the exnimtion of two days and nights both of her arms were frozen solid but she was not dead. Concluding that some more expeditious way must be adopted, they gathered a lot of old blankets, piled them upon and around her and set them on fire. The result of this terri- ble torture was that her body was so badly burned that her inner orgaus were left exgosml. They then let the fire go out and left her again to freeze. At the expiration of twenty-four hours death at last came to her relief. The Pacific Coast. The California fruit pack for 1887 js estimated at 1,122,500 cases, or nearly 27,000,000 cans, A 875000 woolen mill will soon he erected in Union, Ore., with a capital stock of $125,000. There are 750,000 acres of tillable land still (3,““ for settlement in the Hailey land district in Idaho. Clara Hogshead is & teacher of Men- docino county. Some young man ought to persuade her to change her name, There are sixty-four flouring mills in Washington territory, with an esti- mated capacity of 8,885 barrels per day, To this number Walla Walla county contributes seven, with an' aggregato capacity of 985 barrels per day. Five of these are located at Walla Walla city, one at Prescott and one at Waitsburg. ‘The marble deposit upon Slover moun- tain, near Colton, San Bernardino county, Cal., is turning to onyx as the workmen penetrate into its depths. Beautiful specimens of this valuable mineral have been taken out,and in such large quantities that the company owninkv the quarry have recently con- tracted with the Coronado proprietors for puttinF in onyx tiling floors in the office, hall and mbsic room of that great hotel at a cost of about 84,000 — Railroag Notes. THE CALIFORNIA RATE. Taking effect January 1, the round trip California excursion rate over the Burling- ton will be advanced to $30 from the Missouri river, and will then become a daily rate for individual tickets. In addition to the daily rate of $30, the B. & M., by agreement of the Transcontinental lines, will run two special excursions, leaving the Missouri river on all trains of January 12 and February 16, at $60 for the round trip. After Jauuary 1, orders for California excursion tickets at the $60 rate may only be drawn for these two special excursions and such, orders should bear the condition that they must be presented at the Missouri river for exchange on the date of special excursion. PERSONAL. Frank Semple, city passenger agent of the Union Pacific at Denver, and Meyer Harrison, another representative of that road atthe same point, are in the ¢ity on business. A Lost Son., Mr. Michael English, who lives at 1316 California street, Mourns the loss of his twelve-year-old son, Johnnie, whom he has not seen since Wednesday afternoon. Mr. English stated to 8 Bxe representative last night that ho had punished Johnnie by “chok- ing him a little” and had driven him from home. Johnnie took the cue and departed and now his father mourns his absence. Johnnie is probably a boy of nerve who does not propose to be abused by anyone, not ex- cepting his own *‘dad.” e Only One Marriage License. The blizzard seems to have a chilling effect on the ardor of love struck individuals. Yes- terday only one marriage license was issued by Judge McCulloch, the applicants bein, C{Ill"lfil D. Woodworth, aged forty-one, an Katherine M. Kuhn, twenty-eight years, all of Omaba. ———— Elks' Rooms. The Elks’ directors have decided to throw open their rooms to members after next Sat- urday night. W. N. Babeock, R.C. McClure, J. W. Miner, and A. Parrotte were appoin! a committee o make arrangements event. ) NEW COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. They Hold a Secret Session at the County Hall A SLATE FIXED UP BY THEM. Applications Pouring in From the Poor For Relief—Sad Stories and Painful Scenes—Deserted By Her Husband. The County Commissioners. For the first time since their eiection the three newly-chosen county commissioners, Mossrs. Turner, Anderson and Corrigan, gathered yesterday about the cousulting table in the commissioners’ room and imme- diatoly proceeded to make themselves at home. Messrs. Turner and Anderson look venerable and dignified with gray hairs and beard. Mr. Turner busied himself studying, with a view of familiarizing bimself with the statutes rerulating the acts of county com- missioners and Mr. Anderson consulted the county maps and asscssors’ books., Mr. Cor- rigan is a youth in comparison with his col- leagues, and looks pleasantly through a pair of gold rimmed spectacles, During the early hours of the afternoon Commissioners O'Keefe and Mount trans- acted routine business, occasionally receiv- ing and acting on a suggestion of the new trio with becoming kindness and grace. A number of officials and employes about the hall strolled in, and were formally intro- duced to Messrs., Turner, Anderson and Corrigan, A SECRET SESRION. A fow minutes after 4 o'clock the heavy door leading to the Commissioners' room was closed with a bang and the key turned in the lock from the outside by one of the janitors f the building. It was announced that Com- ners O'Keefe and Mount had gone into t session with the three new commis- sioners und County Clerk-Elect Roche. The progeedings caused somo oxcitemont, and. all inds of amusing rumors were put in circu- lation about the building. The session con- tinued until long after b o'clock, and it is un- derstood to have been to create the salary of Billy Moran, who is to act as clerk to the commissioners and put in his spare time as- sisting County Clerk Roche, who, by law, is clerlk to the commissioncrs, but will be 'un- ableto give their proccedings much time owing to the incrense of work in his depart- ment. The commissioners also docided on committeos for the coming year, which will be given to the public when they formally organize on Monday next. Mr, O'Keefe will continue as chairman of the board at his old salary of $3 a day, the same to received by Mr, Mount, as the law that recently went into offect increasing the pey of the commis- sioners to 5 a day embraces only those elected under the rew law. FILED 118 BOND. Yesterday George Shields, the county udge-elect, took the oath of office and filed is bond in the sum of 50,000 is sureitics are_Dennis Cunningham, P. Goos, Henry Eicke, H. Berthold and D. Fitzpatrick, THE UNION PACIFIC KICKS, ‘The real estate representative of the Union Paciflc railroad appeared before the commis- sioners and complained that land taxed to them was out of sight in the bottom of the Missouri. He cited one piece taxed and as- sessed that had been washed away some ten years ago. Upon these representations the Tollowing resolution was odopted : Resolved, That the county treasurer beand is hereby directed to cancel the taxes for the year 1857 on the following lots, viz: Lots 11 and 12, block 97; lots 1, 2, 11 and 12, blook 66; lots 1,9, 7 and 8. block N lots 1, 3, 7 and 8 block M, and east half of lots 1, 2, 7 and §, block O, all in the city of Omaha, on account of being washed away by the river, MANY APPLICANTS FOR RELIEP. ‘The biting blasts of the blizzard are llflh’l swamping the commissioners with applica- tions for relief, and the seerctary of the Omaha bureau of charitics and the poor in- spectors are kept busy furnishing supplies of food and fuel. Some very sad sights are ‘witnessed, and the tales of woe disclosed by the freczing and perishing are generally of the tearful order. Yesterday a comely looking young woman who is_soon to become a mother came up to the railing and pleaded with Commissioner O'Keefe to furnish her with transportation to St. Joseph, Mo., where she said she had relatives who would care for her in her dis- tress. Two weeks ago she was deserted by her husband, who was a driver on one of the green line street cars, which he robbed of its cash box and dmm:od‘ Sl then she has had no tidings of him, nor have his victim- ized empioyers. A railroad pass was given her. A delegation from Sputh Omaha came in to report the starving and_freezing condition of a womun and six children living in the vi- cinity of Sheely’s station. Two of the children are twins and are but six weeks old. The husband and father was Killed by the cars two weeks ago, leaving his family desti- tn:&o. Anagent was dispatched to investi- ate. Word was received at a late hour from Mrs, Johnson, the woman living on Cal- fornia street, who lost her husband by death a few duys ago under peculiar sad circum- stances. The messenger stated that Mrs. Johnson had become a raving maniac, and arrangements for her care were entered into. MORTUARY. MRS, MARIA M'CANDLISH, Mrs. Maria Howells McCandlish, widow of the late Rev. William McCandlish, died at her late residence, 800 Park avenue in this city, on the night of the 2Sth inst., and will be buried from there at 2 p. m. Saturday. Mrs. McCandlish was born at Bristol, En- gland, in November, 1816, and was therefore seventy-one years of age. She came to this country with her father, Henry C. Howells, in_ 1831, and in 1838 was united in marriage with the late William McCandlish, who has been 80 well known in Nebraska, where the family have resided since 1858. Of their six children three survive; W. N. McCandlish, of the firm of Bell & McCandlish; Isabella S. Bell, wife of John S. Bell, of the same firm, and Robert C. McCandlish, living in Polk county, this state. Mrs. McCandlish has de- voted many years to labors of love, and will be greatiy missed, not only by the ¥'rst Pres- byterian church, of which she was a devoted member, but by other congregations which she delighted to help. DONE WITH A RUSH. A Ten-Minutes Session of the City Council. There was a bare quorum at the special meeting of the city council held last night, and the ten members present were not in session to exceed that number of minutes. The ordinance to tax, license and regulate employment agencies was referred tothe police committee; one to provide for the is- sue of $2,500 of bonds of the city of Omaha to pay the cost of curbing in paving district No. 124, and to create a sinking fund for the pay- ment of said bonds, and & number of others were referred to appropriate committees and laid over. The appropriation ordinance for the month of December, amounting to 56,802,857, was read the third time and passed, with the fol- lowing additional sums: Regan Bros. & Co., $2,043.37, paving district 85; Regan Bros. & Co., $5,007.88, paving district 88; Regan Bros, 30., $5,005.41, paving district 43; Regan B 7.7, paving district 25; J. . Riley, #3, 78, paving d'strict 57, kY djourned until next Tuesday night. e —— The Veteran Firemen. The veteran firemen held a large and en thusiastic meeting at Chief Galligan's office. Five ncw members were received among which was Postmaster Gallagher. J. H. Lichterberger was elected recording secre- tary, and Louis Kratizsh trustee to fill the vacancy occasioned by Lichterberger's res- ignation &8 & member of this board, mado necessary by his election us secretary, A lot of miscellaneous business of no interest to the public was then transacted, after the completion of which the contemplated visit to New York was brought up aad thoroughly discussed. It is probable that the vets will make the trip, but as yet no definite conclu- sion has been arrived at. Articles of incorporation were filed_yester- terday with the county clerk by the Veteran Firemen's assoeiation of Omaha, The incor- rators are A. J. Simpson, presidont; Jo- Borh I Sheely, trensutors Joseph Teahon, secrotary, and Edward Wittig, trusteo. —— COPPER NEWMAN'S BREAK. Which, if True, Will Cost Him His Brass Buttons. Thomas Harris went before a notary pub- lio yestorday and swore to charges he has preferred against the colored police oMcor, Jesse Newm These charges have been placed in the hands of Chief Seavey, who will doubtless suspend the officer pending an investigation by the board of police and firo commissioners. Harris alleges that Officer Newman entered Frank Bellamy's saloon, corner Twelfth street and Capital avenue, m _a state of boastly intoxication, snd, without cmuse or provocation, jumped nron him, Harris, and brutally beat hlm). He made no attempt to arrest Harris, but ;(‘r:lply maliciously and mercilessly assaulted Letters tor Fatherland. There was & repitition yesterday of the many funny incidents that occur daily at the county building, A green German boy en- tered the office of the county clerk and in- sisted that an obliging clerk should forward several episties to Fatherland. After many gesticulations and a wild outburst of bad Ger- man on the part of the clerk, the applicant was made to understand that the postofoe was located on Fiftoenth street, whither he drifted. Social Odd Fellows. The ladies of the Ruth Rebekah Degroe lodge of the I O. O. F\. gave a very pleasant sociable last evening at Odd Fellow’s hall, corner of Fourtocuth and Dodge. A large number of porsons were prosont. A dramatic and musicol programme was presentod and a fine supper served. The floor was covered with ducking and the latter part of the even- ing was spent in danomg. —— Not the Bismarck. Mr. William Alstadt, known to fame as Bismarck, has been greatly annoyed by being confounded with another Bismarck, who Iately llfimrod in a digraceful fight, which was reported in Bre. He desires to have it known that he is not the fighter. Oue Bullding Pormit. Only one building permit was issued yester- day, that to Jacob Jacobson, cottage, Sahter, near Twenty-fifth avenue, to cost $500, Internal Revenue Collections. Internal Revenue Collector Ballentine took in yesterday $9,291.11. e lpiiiia IN A WATERY PRISON. A Woman Immersed Five Days in a Capsized Vessel. New York Express: Willlam O'Neill, although more than seventy-five years of age, is a boatman on the Pennsylva- nia canal. Fifty years ago ho was a sailor on Lake Erie, and was seven times shipwrecked in the terrible gales that are common on that lake. Ho drifted on one wreck for six days, being exposed during the entire time to a fierce northeast storm of wind, rain and sleet.. “Fifty years ago,” said the old boat- man, *‘Captain Gilman Appleby was one of tho best-known of lake craft com- manders. He lived in Conneaut, O., and T sailed many a trip with him from Black Rock all over the lake. The most wonderful experience that ever any one had on the lakes was that of an aunt of Captain Appleby’s, an olderly woman, whose name I did not remem- ber. She lived at Black Rock, which is Buffalo now, I suppose, and on one of the captain’s trips up the lake she went along with him on his schooner to visit father at Conneaut. That was to be Captain Appleby’s last trip on the schooner. as the steamboat North America was then building at Conneaut and he was to take charge of her. His aunt got home-sick the day he landed in Con- neaut, and although the captain begged her to wait a few days until his new steamboat was launched and go back to Black Rock with him aboard of her, she would not stay, but took passage the very next day on a schooner bound for Buffalo. The second day after the schooner sailed the crew returned to Conneaut in another vessel. They reported that soon after they had assed Erie on their way down they were caught by a squall. The schooner was capsized, and, although soon becoming almost full of water, did not go to the bottom. The crew, all on deck at the time, obtained a boat, and abandoning the drifting vessel, landed at small village near Dunkirk. Captain Appleby’s aunt was_in the cabin, and cou‘(l not be reached. “Captain Appleby sent men by the steamboat Peacock, which was on its way to Buffalo, to look for the aband- oned schooner. The steamboat came across the wrecked vessel, which was drifting about on her side just as the crew left her, The men from the Pea- cock bourded the floating wreck and found it, to all appearance,full of water. They thrust les down into the cabin, ut none of them came in contact with any floating object inside. ]johcv- ing that the body of “the captain’s aunt had washed out of the cabin into the lake, the men returned to the Peacock and left the wreck as they had found it. ‘Word was sent to Captain Appleby. On the fifth day after the wreck of the schooner he went out in another schooner to search for the capsized on with facilities for righting her if poss ble. One of his crew was the son of the lost woman, who had hope that he might still recover his mother’s body. I was also one of the crew. “We found the missing vessel still drifting about in the lake on herside. After several hours of hard work and difficult engineering the capsized schoo- ner was straightened up on her keel, and she had scarcely settled in the water when the missing woman, hag- gard, worn almost to u skeleton, and with water dripping from ever shred of her clothing, staggered up the cabin stairs and fell (ulhcngth on deck. The thought of her being alive having never entered the ffind of any person among us, her sudden appearance, as if arisen from the dead, before her relatives und the crew was so startling that every one of wus except the captain and his cousin fled in terror to the other vessel. Even the captain and the woman's son were so startled that they stood pale and speechless, and it was some time before they recovered their self possession. Some of the crew could not be induced to return to the righted vessel, so badly were they frightened. As soon as Captain Ap- pleby recovered himself he used cvery effort to restore his aunt to conscious- ness and succeeded. but she was 5o weuk that slre was unable until the next day to tell the story of her extraovdinary existence during the five days she had drifted about in the lake in the half- submerged scheoner. “*When the schooner went over she said ghe did not know what had hap- peded. She was thrown down, and by the time she regained her feet the water had poured in until it was up to her waist. It subsequently rose to her armpits, at which depth it remained, She could not lie down, and although the cabin door was open, the water was nearly three feet above it, and she could not get out. For two days and nights she heard nothing but the play- ing of the water ubout her and the ronr of the waves outside. On the third day, when the men from the steamboat Pea- cock boarded the drifting schooner, she heard them walking and talking over- head, aud she called to thRom l: loudly as she could, but her voice was 80 low from hoarsenoss that she could not make them hear her. She saw the pole they thrust down in the cabin and knew then that her friends believed that her dead body was floating about in the abandoned vessel, and that some one was searching for it with the polo. The pole always came in at a spot where it could not touch hor and out of hor reach, Before she could got to it to grasp it it would be with« drawn and thrust in_at another place distant from her. Finally it came in no more, and she heard the men walk away. Then she felt that there was no more hope for her, and she tried to ond her misery by holding her head beneath the water until she drowned. but found it a physical impossibility. She could not keep her head under long enough. “‘Stanaing upright in the water 5m would fall asleep and would sleep until awakened by dropping beneath l.{:a sur- face. At times she hoped that she would not awaken, but might drown while asleep. Then she would be seized with a great foar that she might do so, and would nf;m against being overcome by drowsiness. A water- souked cracker floated by her ono day and she dovoured it. Another day an onion drifted within her reach, and she ate that ravenously. That was all the food she tasted in the five days sho was confined in hor watery prison. On the fifth day she felt that she was losing her mind. She saw familiar faces and heard herself talking in a strange, hoarse voice to those she imag- ined near her. With the fasting of a fow hours more she would have been lnmt all help. When hor nephew and his men boarded the wreck she heard them walking above her. She did not scem to understand why they were there, but heard them *n & listless, dazed manner,which only left her when the boat turned back on its keel. Then she appreciated the situation, but it was only by almost superhuman efforts that she gatheved sufficient strength to make her way up the cabin stairs and escape from tht socne of her five days' misery and terror.” i ROBBERS RESISTED. A Talk With John Grimshaw, the Pa« ciffc Express Messenger. A Sedalia, Mo., special to the Kansas City Journal says: John Grimshaw, the Pacific express messenger, whose car was attacked by robbers in the Indian territory at 4 o'clock Sunday morning, arrived here on his regular run at 11 o’clock this forenoon, and received quito an ovation at the hands of the express people and citizens generally. Mr. Grime shaw is & married man of thirty-five years,and his parents reside at Jeflerson City. He has had several yoars’ exner- ience as a messenger, and, although this is the first time his bravery has ever been_ tested, it has never been questioned by those intimately acquainted with him. A year or more g0 Mr. Grimshaw retired from the ex- press business and went to Arkansas for the benefit ot his health. He remained there until about a month ago, un;ingod in the produce and commission business, and then returned here and accepted a run between Sedalia and Denison. In speaking of the attempt to rob his car yesterday, he spoke as follows to the Journal representative this afternoon: “The dispatches sent out regarding the affair state that the two men who boarded Engineer Ragland’s engine got on at Atoka. This is a mistake. They entered the cab just as the train was leaving Stringtown and commanded the engineer to run up to flfi\u bridge that spans North Boggy creck and stop. The command was obeyed and the train came to a standstill on the bridge. I supposed we were at Atoka, and, as I had goods for there, I opened the car door, Instantly there were two or three shots fired and then I hastily closed the door. Baggazemaster Sparrow was in the car with me and was lying down a the time. I called to him, as I realized the situation tlloroughl{. I asked him to extinguish the lights, as we were about to be raided by robbers. He re- marked that he guessed not, but half a dozen additional shots and continued hammering at the door soon convinced him that I was right. The ‘glim was doused,’ and I at once began hiding the money in my custody. I was not par- ticular where I placed it, but threw it here, there and everywhere. In the meantime the robbers were calling upon me to open up, but of course I paid no attention to them. I had only a 88- calibre five shooter with which to de- fend myself, and my companion, Sparrow, was without a weapon of any kind, We had _severnl boxes filled with meat in the car, and we piled these in such a posi- tion as to form a sort of breastwork and took our position between them. We had a small phial of snakobite preven- tive with us, and we took a pull at it to brace up. Then we awaited develop- ments, while a perfect volley of cannon= ading was going on outside. The doors were filled full of bullets, and then an effort was made to batter them in, but all to no purpose. I will admit that I was somwhat frightened, and so was Sparrow, thut I believe the robbers were as badly seared a8 we were, There were scven or eight men in the party, but only one person gave orders, and I feel satisfied that I would recognize his voice if I did not hear it again for ten years. From everything connected with the affair I am satisfied fo my own mind that the attacking party resided in the neigh- borhood of !{lrlngwwn, one of the toughest holes in oxistence. They were not experienced in the business,but if Sparrow and 1 had shown any .evi dence of weakening they would have made a success of their venture. Iwant to say right here that Sparrow is a man who willdoto tie to. He had norevolver. but he never showed the white feather in any particular, his conduct as- sisted materially in bracing meup. Asto the amount of money I had in my posses- sion, I do not care to say anything, as that'is a company secret. Had the rob-_ bers got in the car, though,I guess they would have been repaid for their trouble. When we were told that tho car would be set on fire if we did not open up we thought our time had come sure enough, We knew that any such procedure meant death for us, but we expected the same treatment in case an entrance was forced, so determined to run the risk. This was not all the trouble wo were in, cither. We were duc to pass a train at Atoka, and were in dunger of being run into from both the front and the rear, as there was o freight train follow= ing us only a short distance, It was a close call, and you can rest ase w and [ breathed con= when the train pulled car having been fired gained an entrance, I the express business a rs, and this is the fivst experiencé of the kind I have ever hud, but I do not care to .m}w;u it Mr. Grinshaw ate dinner to-day with his brother-in-law, ex-Mayor George L. Faulhaber, and while seated at the table received u congratulatory message from his father, praising him for his bravery in resisting the demands of the robbers. The express people here say that Mr, Grinshaw is sure of substantial recognition at the hands of the express oflivials for his conduct yesterday, = . been in nany yei