Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1888, Page 10

A. = Voution o strike. JORTY KILLED AND INJURED A Conductor's Mistake Causes a Frightful Wreck in Pennsylvania. TRAINS COLLIDE IN THE WOODS. One Car Telescoped and 1ts Seats, With e Passengers, Swept From the Floor—The Dead and Injured, A Conductor's Fatal Blunder. MeapviLLe, Pa., Dec. 31.—The details of the wreck which occurred on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio road, five miles west of this city this morning proves the disastor 10 be one of the most horrible that has oc- curred in this vicinity. The colliding trains were thle through New York express from Chicago and the double header west bound freight train. Both trains were overtwo hours late, and the express being entitled to the right of way, was running without orders. Conductor Murray of the freight rain, takipg it for granted that the express was in, pulled out for Gen The two trains—the express running forty-five and the freight fifteen miles an hour—met on a long forest-hidden curve with a terrible crash. The engine of the express train and The first engine of the freight were raised bodily in the air and stood on the furnace ends, the pilot pointed upwards and the driv- ing wheels locked. Both engineers and fire men were pressed between the iron ruins. Tho sight was sickening, but was soon covered from view by friendly blankets. The baggage car, express car and smoker of the passenger train were completely wrecked. The baggage car telescoped into the smoker, splitting it open, and sweeping every scat from the floor. The total number of passen- gers on the train was fifty-three, fifteen of whom were in the smoker. All. of these were more or less injured, and William H. stephienson, of Toledo, dicd shortly after being taken from the ruir The crash was heard for a great distance | and soon the neighborhood were aroused and people living in the vicinity came to the scene. The passengers who were not injured, scemed dazed and for a few minutes everybody stood speechless. The grouns and cries that came from the ruinssoon brought them to tho irealization of the situation and inashort tim a large force of men were atwork systematic ally doing all they could. Two wrecking trains soon arrived, followed by a passenger train on which to transfer the passengers and bring the wounded and dead to Meadville. The wrecking crews worked with a willand soon a portion of the mangled remains of fireman Hume were taken from the wreck. were in an almost unrecogni form and presented a sickening ight, limbs and lower part of the body hav- ! ing been ground to pulp. Hume's aged father had arrived and his cries ana screams when he gazed ipon the mangled body were heart- rending. The body of Enginecr Swan was exposed but it was so tightly wedged in the (wreck that no attempt was then made to “““lmove it. A portion of the body of Engineer |Googe and also an arm and shoulder of Fi !man Irwin could be seen. The work of clear- |ing the wreck was prosecuted in the face of @ driving storm of sleet that lusted the entire afternoon. Those of the passengers who were not injured were transported and sent forward, while the dead and wounded were brought to this city. The railroad officials did everything in their power for the comfort of the injured. Following is a list of the . casualt RILLED, 4 ENGINEER SWAN, Meadville. ENGINEER GOOGE, Meadville. FIREMAN IRWIN, Meadville. FIREMAN HUME, Cambridge, O, WILLIAM H. STEPHENSON, Toledo. NJURED, H. E. Hony, New York, log crushed. Avorrnn WaeNER, Buffalo, leg broken, Avorent Hoses, Paterson, N. J., crushed. ‘H. Marvinie, Middlefield, O, one leg crushed and the other broken. Micuaes O'Briey, Buffalo, leg broken., ¥. N. Newroy, Shinglehouse, Pa., crushed. DAvip BeAULAND, Titusville, log broken, Cuarves K. Frexcn, Sterling, Mass., leg ‘broken. Fonest Granam, Kent, O., hips crushed. M. F. Wymay, brakeman, feet crushied. Josern Bocoxoy, baggageman, leg cut and ‘body and face badly injured. PuiLte Forrk, San Francisco, arm injured J. M. Woons, Greenvllle, Pa., badly bruised. F. A. MarLoxE, Salamanca, leg broken, Avorrn Busen, Cincinnati, leg crushed. Finevax Cuanrres Cruy, bruised about head and shoulders, —_— Another Fatal Wreck. CixciNNaTi, Dec. 31.--Two limited trains north and south bound, on the Cincinnati ISouthern collided this afternoon near Green- lwood, Ky. The officials of the Cincinnati {Bouthern road bere say the accident was Icaused by the conductor and- engincer mis reading their orders. Noune of the passengers Jwere injured on the south bound train. The ‘baggagemaster and mail agent were killed, !Ou the north bound train the baggagemaste +was kitled and the fireman badly injur The mail and bageage cars were destroy [Later.] No further particulars of the «Cincinnati Southern wreck can be obtained there. Al telegraph lines between this city and Greenwood are down, Notwithstanding all statements of the Cincinnati Southern officials, the opinion prevails that some pas- sengors were injur The news will be 81.—A leg leg special from icial advices wreck, stat- ing thut no passengers were seriously injured. ——— Accident on the Elevated. New Yous, Dec. 31.—Two trains on the Third avenue elevated roud collided this eve ‘mng. One car containing fifty people was thrown from the track. t u point where the collision oceurred the tracks are connected by ties and this alone saved the car from fall- ing fifty fect to the ground. A panic ensued With vuly oue person sevio e 30" On the Piil Po ' Cuevexye, Wyo., Dec. 31, gram to the Bee.|—C. 8. Erswell, a telegraph operator, and William Winters, a drug clerk, light weights, fought nine rounds with four ounce gloves this evening. Winters had the best of the fight for five rounds, butin the yemaining four the telegraph operator forced the fighting and the pill faiied to come to time on the feath round. The fight was under the Marquis of Queens- bury rulesand witnessed by a umber of Jocal sposts und newspaver men. ——— ‘They Did Not Strike, Bernuaney, Pa., Dee. 31.--The employes of the North Pennsylvania railvoad paid no sttention to the order of the Reading con- They have withdrawn or. [Special ‘Telo- from the knights. B Brovitie It is stated on good wuthovity that it is not true that Rev. Heory is inany way held ro- spousiblo or that thers is un ever attached to_him in connection with the appointment of F. H. Parker as collector for Castellar street M. 1. Church, It has been wlmost five months since he was transferred 10 the pastorate of Trinity M. E. Church and Castellar strect. had been without & pastor a guouth when the treuble with Parker arose. REFUSE TO OBEY. The Order to Strike on the Reading Not Generally Complied With. PuiraveLenis, Dee, 31— The action by the local assemblies of the Knights of Labor last night endopsing the order of the Reading convention for a general strike of railroad loyes did not materially effect the busi- ness of the Reading company to-d The men did not quit work with the alacrity which the leaders anticipated and, in many cases, they refused point blank to strike, pre- ferring to renounce allegiance to the Kuights of Labor. At the freight depot of the W low street wharf several hundred frei handlers und laborers struck. This del business for a time but in the course of a few hours the company had gathered a large number of non-union men from vari- ous points and put them to work. The movement of regular freight trains was but slightly effected. There were many ap- plicants for work at the main ofice of the company, Everything remained quiet at Port Richmond. ‘But the strike continued with unabated vigor 20 far as the men of local assembly No. 6,255 were concerned. “Tam simply giving my own_opinion said Secretury Hayes of the general executive bourd of the Kuights of Labor in discussing the situation, “but it is my im on_that the executive bourd will not interfere in the matter. It hasn't been asked to yet, and I don't believe it will be. The strike is in the Lands of the Reading employes themselves. The Situation at Other Points. READING, Pa, Dee. 81.—The most extraor- dinary offorts were made by the strikers in coal regions and in Philadelphia to-day to in- duce the men in the shops in this city to strike. Telegrams innumerable were sent here making all sorts of promises of support and plodging that if the Reading men would join in the strike it would extend to every station all over the Reading tem. These telegrams were all answered with stern re- fusal, the sinatl percentage of those in favor of the strike not daring to go out, Advices from the coal regions this aftor- noon say the must_serious difficulty is on the Shamokin _and Mahane division where hardly a dozen men are at work. Inthe Mahoney valley there are standing 4,000 loaded cars unable to be moved. Want Extra Pay For Overtime. Pirrsnine, Dee, 81.—A committes repre- senting the freight employes of the Pennsyl- vania company presented a demand to-day for an advance in wages and pay for time. The committe us informed thiy petition would be considered and an anSer returned in a few day Figl PirrsnrG, Pa., De the general execut Knights of Labor railroad coal ope pay the Columbus scale. ing for Scott Haven to call out the miners at Willium L. Scott's mines. This action will prevent the strike of several thousand miners in this distric ting the Coal Operators. -W. H. Bailey, board of the has decided to fight the tors who have rofused to He loft this morn- Another Inflammatory Appeal. New Yok, Dec. 31.—A conference of dele gates from the local Knights of Labor assem- blies of the Reading railroad system was held here to-day and issued an appeal “to the workmen and workwomen of America and outside of it,” to supnort the Reading strik- ers by contributions declaring the fight theirs as well. It is very bittor in its denunclation of the Reading management, charging it with deception, bad faith and plunder. It declares that telegraph wires were manipulated to prevent the managers of the strike from communicating with their men at other points, and that the agents of the company sent out forged dispatches, causing an ap- pearance of demoralization among the em- ployes; that the management of the road,iad been in negotiation with the Brother- hood of Engineers for two weeks to supply engincers mn casc of a strike; that they sub- sidized employment agencies and kept hun- dreds of men on hand to take the strikers' places, and being thus fortified, forced the issue. ' The empioyes are appealed to to side petty jealousics and quarrels and con- sider that it is a flght to disrupt the orgat tion of the Knights of Labor. The circular further invites “trades unions, socialists, anarchists, Knights of Labor, and all others intercsted in bringing about a nore cquitable condition of society to join hands with us in striking down the system whose representatives at all times combine to crush us.” It inveighs bitterly against the various newspapers which they quoteas showing that the pre against the Knights and in favor of capital and calls on the workingmen of the couutry to pit themselves against these masters, The circular concludes by asserting that the workingmen owe nothing but vengeance and says: *You, Messrs. Corbin, Gould and Compuny, who'are representutives of *so- ciety” to-day in your madness but suceeed in arousing the slumbering demon. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” pacle i THE TERRITORIES, They Need Aid to Sink Artesian Wells —One on a Delegate. Wasmixaroy, Dec. 20.—|Correspondence of the Bee.]—Notonly will the territories ask for admission to stutehood during the coming session of congress, but they—ut least a number of them—will ask congress to appropriate moncy to bore artesian wells at various points within their borders. Of course, if they succeed in securing statehood they will not press the request for artesian wells, as they say they can furnish their own money under a state government, although they believe it is a work the federal govern- ment should ao. “There are expanses of country, especially in Arizona, covering hundreds of miles where the soil is five feet thick and black and rich as can be, and not u foot of it is productive of cither wild or cultivated vegetation. The land belongs to the government, known as “idesert land,” and the herders have aban- doned it, as their cattle perish from drought, Those who have looked mnto the subject believe that it is wise for the government to wake valuable w] is now its des GROWING IN POPUL There appears to be a ver) ng nation in the house to stop the univel culation of gold and silver latter--and to issue instead coin notes,” Sil- ver has become. very unpoj with mer- chants and bankers, and under the present Law its cireulation is forced. It is proposed to continue silver coinage just the same, but pile it up the vaults and circulate certifi- cates ropresenting it. The certificates are pronounced more desirable in every way. NGRESSMEN GREENER THAN GRASS. Martin, the unsophisticated congressman from Texas, who succeeds Judge Rugan, by blowing out the gas at a hotel here, a few nights since, has attraoted attention to the vdaney of many wmembers ‘of the house of congress. During the past ten years theve hus no doubt that the ave age character of congressmen has degen erated to an alarming extent, An old Wash ingtoniun, whose memory runs back fifty yeurs, diseussing this subject to-day said : 1 bel an winendy t should be made to the constitution, presc s additional quadifications for members of congress. Civil service examinations are re quired of persons who re to be appointed to thousand dollar cherkships, that would puzzie a college graduate. Yet mem bers of congress ure elected Lo every congress who could Lot begin to pass such exami- nations—who do not know how to spell com- mon words or cannot formulate a dozen con- secutive sentences corrvectly, and. what is still worse, know absolutely nothing of the science of goverament and have not an origi nal idea on the econol financia! and othe! auestions that come before them. How somc who come to congress of late years get olected passes understanding. Somec of them were ovidently never outside of their districts until they started for Washington. Think of & member of congress blowing out the gas or trying to put coal oa tho reg or attempting to Light Lis vigar on an ¢ Yight. Yet all of these things have been done by men elected to Lelp make laws for sixty millious of people. And each congress is gotting worse in point of iu- tellectual capacity. Look in the present congress for.the Webster, Benton.. Clay, Calboun, Dougliss, Corwins, Wades or Lin coln. Or come down to even a late congress, the, forty-third, un Jare o few naues of wembers of the lower Louse alone, such as combi- sal cir- especially the THE OMAHA DALY BEE: JANUARY ‘1. 18 James G. Blaine, James B. Beck, Beunjamin ¥. Butler, L, Q. C. Lamar, William E. Nib- lack, James A. Garfleld, Joseph R. Hawley. Eppa Muntor, Lyman Tremain, Jeremiah M. Wilson, Willfam A. Wheeler, Alexander H. Stephens, with the names of members elec- ted to the fiftieth congress. This certainly shows the truth of what I say. Each con- gress shows a decline in the intellectual ca- pacity of the members comprising it, and of course it follows that the character of the laws enacted shows a like deterioration. is is not the lament of an old man_ over the decline of the times,” added the octogen- arian. *There are as many big brainy men now as then, if not more, but the trouble is that they are not sent to congress. In the old day s it was an honor to be a congressman, anil the giants were elected, while now the honor is so cheap that the pigmies get them- selves elected. Very few of the members of the Fifticth congress represent the intelli- geuce or the character of the respective dis- tricts. They have succeeded in getting the endorsement of the wire manipulators and ward politicians and are pushed throug primaries over the betterand abler men. WORKED AGAINST IHIMSELF, I heard @ good story about a delegato to frow one of the very far " said Commissioner of Civil Ser- vice Oberly to some friends the other even- ing: “and for the relation of it we_will call him Voorhees, of the territory of Washing- ton, “During the vacation preceding the conven- ing of the last_congress, Voorhees was mak- ing a heroic effort to havo upostmaster ap- pointed for one of the principal cities in his territory. He laid his man's name before the postmaster gencral, together with vroper endorsements and recommendations, and returncd to his home on the Pacific, A short _time after going home Voorhees re- ceived word from Washington that the post- master general had concluded to appoint an- other man than the one recommended by the delegate. There was another application on file in the department, and it had been pro- sented by very reputable men from the terri- tory, and those in opposition to Voorhees, who, as s0on as he heard of the likelihood of :hm‘nmpinlmclll. hustled off to the telegraph o stop i Delegate Voorhees wired the postmaster- general to not make the appointment of a postmaster at the city where the contest wi going on till he (Voorhees) could arrive he that he had something to say; that he didn't want the appointment of the man likely to be given the place, “There was a good deal of agitation going through the brain and veins of the young del- egate. ‘Could it be possible that the post- mastor-general would make that appointmert against the expressed wish of the delegate from the territory, and a democratic dele- gate, too " he asked himself about every half hour during his first day's journey towards the national capital, for the took the first train for th . Nervous over the matter, the delegate got out at a tele- graph office and wired the postmaster gen- erul to not make the appointment till he came; that he was on the road here. Early the next morning the delegate, having studied over the matter during the night nn(‘i being still more nervous, sent unother mes- sage to the postmaster general, asking that the appointment be held up till he arrived. At dinner that day he duplicated the mies sage. During the afternoon the delegate had the train wait long enough to permit him to file another message to the postmaster gen- eral, asking, in more positive lunguage, that the appointment be held up till he arrived. “The telegraph oftices along the route of that delegate did a good _business for four or five days—on franks. Finally the train bea ing the delegate reached Washington. All agony has an end sometime, “Without waiting till_he visited a hotel to do his toilet or rest, the delegate from Wash. ington territory called u hack at the dopot and told him to drive direct to the residence of the postmaster general. It was then after the hours when departmental business is done. The postmaster general was about going to dinner. ““Have you made that appointment yet?" inquired the delegate, almost out of breath, as soon as he entered the roowm. ““Yes," was the reply. “Then I am too late to have it held up#” “Too late,” came the answer. “But didn’t I telegraph you.” ““Yes, many times,” replied the posmaster- general. “I had your papers and recommen- dations, and I could see' no reason why I should wait about appointing your man, and Ididso yesterday.” The delegate looked sort of dazed, and moved out with mingled pride_and embarrassment. He bad been working again THE STORM. Rallwpy Trafic Generally Inteirupted hroughout the Northwest. MiNNEAPOLIS, Dec. 81.—The snow storm which has prevailed throughout “the north- west for two days shows signs of breaking to-night, though all western points report snow still falling in greater or less quantity. During this afternoon the wind, which, throughout the storm, has been from the south, shifted to the northwest and it is ing colder. Railway traffic is generally upted and several of the lo important western and _southern roads are entirely abandoned, while the trunk lines moving trains with difficulty. The storm is most severe through northern Towa, south- ern and western Minnesota and Dakota. In the latter section it is regarded as the worst for many years and a repetition of the fam- ous blockade of 1850 is looked for. This cven- ing the mercury ranges from 10 to 20 degrees above, throughout the northwest. The snow fall is from one to two feet. Blown Up By a Blast. MARQUETTE, Mich., Dec. 81.—Two men were killed in the Jackson mine at Negaune this morning by being blown up with a charge of blasting_powder. They were working near an old charge that had been put in_ a week ago and which had failed to explode. It went off without warning, killing both men instantly. s IMPIETIE D One of the problems that puzzle childhood How the angels get their night-dresses over their wings. When a church sewing society meets at a member's house, the session soon develops into an English-speaking race. Jim Woods, out in Kansas, pliemer, and was_immediate with lightning. This reads like a school story turned wrong ends on. ‘When little Meg saw a picture of Christian, with the burden on his back, she looked at it iriou: for a minute, and then asked “Mamma, what makes the manny wear his bustle so high upon his back ¢ A little eight-year-old, who was asked if she believed in what she read in the Bible, said: *‘Well, I don't know; Ithink some of it true. “Do you belie: n God's being?" Well, I don't know. They told me Claus was a being, and 1 found th about it, and now [don't know whether to believe them about God or not. Ono day a little girl about five years old neard a preacher praying lustily, until the roof fairly rang with the strength’ of his sup- plications. Turning to her mother and beck oning the maternal ear down to & speaking place, he whispered: “Mamma, don't you think that it he lived nearer God he wouldn't have to talk so loud " . ‘Well, my son, what did you learn at Sun- day school to-d asked Johnny's mamima. +Oh, mamma, sick lots of things the teachen told us, She told us about a man what preached so long the people went to sleep, and oue of them fell out the window and broke his neck, and they went and gathered up the fragments,and they were twelve bask ets full! and--and - they fed 'em to a herd of swine that ran violentiy—that ran away!" An Austin colored pastor, named Wh doodle Baxt has made himself ve popular with J sbster. He was passing the house B! nue, when the propriotor called him in. *Come, pavson, and hab a glass ob wine. Dis heah am my buffday.” W gentleman pled the invitation. o was o large on_the table and the clergyman s urged to divide it. “Where shall I cut it? he asked, taking ap the knife and look- g at the cake in a bewildered sort of wi SYou cangess cut it where yer ple son “Which! Say dat ober onet more, “Jess cut it whereber yer sees fit.” A smilo litup the dusky features of the hunble toiler in the Lord's vineyard, and he re- arked, rntly much obleeged te Jeems, leeve de bes' place ter cary suh cake um in de seclusion ob my own house,” and wrapping up the cake in a news- paper he curried it off under bis arm. Lo i Coughs and eolds come uninvited, but you can quickly get rid of these, with a few doses of Dr. J. H. McLean's Tar Wine Lusg Balm, ebuked_ a blas- dead unday A" COMPROMISE: COMMITTEE. T ‘Lhree Democratio Senators Selected to Confer With the House. - VIEWS HELD BY THE APPOINTEES £ 261 —— All of them of thé Opinion That the Tax on Tobacco Should Be Abol- ished and W'Mnky Materie ally Réduced. (i Adjusting ths Tariff. WASHINGTON BUrgav Tie OMana Beg, } 3 FOURTEENTI STREET, Wasnixaroy, D. C., Dec. 81 1 learn that the democratic senators have appointed a committee to confer with the democrats in the house in the compilation of atariff bill. The committee consists of Mr, Kenna, of West Virginia, Mr. Hearst, of California, and Mr. Jones, of Avkansas. It was appointed at a secret caucus several ago. Considering the views of these itlemen on the subject of tariff reform, the composition of the committee is signifi- cant. Mr. Kenna is a radical protectionist of the Randall school. His state has developed into a tariff protection state by a large ma- jority. Mr. Hearst is by no means a radical tariff reformer. He believes that the tarift should be revised, but is in favor of pro- nounced protection to many of the industries. Mr. Jones also entertains moderate views as to the revision of the tariff. All of the gentlemen are against the internal revenue system and believe that the tax on tobacco should be abolished and that the whisky tax should be reduced very materially, while the tax on fruit, brandy, ctc., should be repealed. The appointment of this committee shows that there is no such a thing as an “administra- tion tarff bill" and that all that is to be pro- posed on the subject is yet to be compiled. The idea in selecting this kind of a committee is said to be to effect’ a compomise on the tariff bill—a measure which will not be ex- tremely radical and which will admit of ma- terial modification of the internal revenue system, THE PACIPIC RATLROAD QUESTIONS, The publication to-day of the official re- ports of the Pacific railroad commissioners has brought out a great deal of comment upon the subjects they treat. I am told that the president was extremely anxious that Mr. Crisp, of Georgla, should be chairman of the house committee on Pacific railroads be- cause he 1s an ardent advocate of the posi- tion assumed by the administration on the debts of the Pacifics. The president is anx- ious that the Outhwaite bill, which is prac- tically the same as the recommendations of the majority of the Pacific commission and telegraphed the Bk last night, should be passed by congress. It was to secure the success of this measure that he desired the selection of Mr. Crisp as chairman of the committee. Mr. - Cri is a good lawyer and was ~second on the committee in the " last congress. When the house selectedMr. Crisp as chair- man of the committee on elections, taking everything out of the hands of the speuker, he was, of course, taken out of the line of possibility in relation to’ the Pacific railroad question. Mr. Outhwaite. of Ohio, who was third on the committee last year, isto be made chairman in the place of Mr. Crisp. The president endorsed 'Mr. Outwaithe, but be- lieves that Mr. Crisp tould be a stronger man. The president may not make any commendations to congress on the subject, but it is known beyond any question of doubt that he is taking a very active interest in the debt of the Pacificrailroatls and that he is ad- vocating the propositions, made by Commis- sioners Anderson an Littler. CULLOM AND I’flfiT%L TELEGRAPH. Senator Cullom s he thinks the amend- ment he will offe: is Postal telegrapn bill, reducing the tarift” he” proposes for press matter, will bring to the support of his prop- osition’ nearly all of the newspapers of the country. Heacknowledges that the press rates in the bill that he has introduced are considerably higher than those paid at pres- ent. He proposes in the amendment whicn he will offer to make the rate 25 cents per 100 words within 500 miles, 30 cents per 100 words between 500 and 1,000 miles, ete. Where the despatches are dupli cated and “‘drop copies’ are made, the post- master general may fix the rate, which is to be very much less than the tariffs named. Senator Cullom has taken the suggestions in his amendment from the tariffs charged in England. The senator finds that the press is pretty solidly against postal telegraph and he is going to try to do away with its opposition. MONEY FOR KEOKUK. Secretary Fairchild sent to the house com- mittee on uprmprmnious to-day his recom- mendations for the urgency deficiency appro- priation bill. In it is an item of $15,000 to be expended in completing the government building at Keokuk. This is in excess of the i fixed by the existing law. It also has $3,500 for the surveyor general of Dakota. THE LINCOLN HABEAS CORPUS CASE. The supreme court reconvenes on Wednes- day next. Nebraskans here expect a de- cision to be rendered then in the Lincoln habeas corpus case. None of the defendants are here now. STILL ANOTHER ELEMENT. The Bancroft-Carroll and Hillyer-Bulkley elopement, in which the brides were engaged to marry other fellows, and the Mclbourne- Wall elopement, have been supplemented by the clopement of Miss Nellie A. Colton and William P. Vandegrift. Miss Colton was to marry another man in the afternoon and eloped in the morning. The cards werc issued by the other fellow, the confectionery was bought and spread and the minister was in waiting, when a_note was received from Miss Nellie. at the Baltimore & Philadelphia depot, saying: “The wedding is off and so amI.” She was wedded in Pennsylvania. PERSONAL. CR. C. Cushing and wife, Miss O'Keef and John O'Keef, of Omaha, are at the Ebbitt, nator Paddock will go to New York to- row for a couple of duys. Senator Manderson is expected here on Wednesday. The absence of the braska delegation during the holidays has put a good deal of work on the junior senators. Perny S. Hearn. Army New WasniNarox, Dee. 30.— [Special Telegram to the Bee.]—Captain Rudolph G. Evert, assistant surgeon, is releived from duty at Fort Custer, Mont., and ordered toreport for duty at Fort Pembing, Dak. Colonel James M.’ Whittemore, ordnance department, 15 ordered €3¢ report January 4 at the department of justite for the purpose of giving testimony in certain cases pending there. Major William T. Tucker, paymaster, is or- dered to pay the troops nolv on the rolis at the Washington barricks, Fort Myer, Va., Fort McHenry, Md.| dnd Fort Monore, Va. Nebraska and jlowa Pensior WASHINGTON, Dec, 31— Special Telegram 1o the Ber.—The following pensions have been granted Nebrasktans: Mexican war— Charles C. Redmoré, Lincoln. Origi David W. Hopkins,, Dewitt. Increase— Thomas Kirk, Reynoldsi Charles Jenkins, Barada; John Regan,#ansen. Pensions for Towans: ‘George, father of Mathew P. Tennant,, Mt. Ayr. Original— Leonard Dencen, Adel: Alexander 8. Cis- ney, Exira. Increase W. Creath, A Elias Hoffman, Vinton; Francis M. Simith, Leon; Peter H. Long, Ottumwa; James Steele, Ostonville; Abner Allison, Walkerville. There were 15,000 applications for i of pensions filed this month, the g number ever filed in one month. eases test National Capital WasHINGTON, Dee. 31.—The receipts of the government from all sources during the present month were $20, , and the ex- penditures §10,400,082, leaving a net gain of receipts ovi expenditures of $185,924,608. Out of this the net gain, however, must be paid about §3,500,000 for interest upon the public debt, which will léave the actual surplus for Decembe 4 15,424,008, The public debt was also reduced es. during the month to theamount of £15,250,000, For the entire ealendar year of 1887 the debt was diminlshed by $117,016,000, the largest reduction being made in June and November, when puyments on that account aggregated £16,852,000 and 16,213,000 respectively Naval circles have been thrown into a state of consternation by recent reports from Cali- fornia relative to the discovery of grave de fects in the steel intended to be used in the construction of the cruiser Charleston, now Deing built in that state. Whaile an attempt Wi being made recently to bend slightly heavy eight-inch steel deck beams several of them snapped in piec under the strain of the hydraulic jack, to the great astonishment of the con- struction officers, The steel was from the east and has been thoroughly tested accord- ing 1o the requirements of the steel board, passing successfully all test as to tensile, elongation, elasticity, ete, Much of this steel hias already been used in the construction of other cruisers and the gun boats now build- Ing and an alarming feature of the accident at the California shipyard is that it casts a grave doubt upan the strength of the ma- terial that has already been built into ships and which may fail unexpectedly at a critical moment. Owing to the prevalence of a disease of an epidemic character which has attacked hogs in Denmark, the government of Norway and Sweden has established a quarantine against the importation of Danish hog pro- duct. The treasury department has been in- formed that being thus deprived of their principal market, Danigh hog raisers will en- deavor to find a market in the United State: and the department has taken steps to pre- yent the importation of diseased pork from Denmark. Our Wool Trade With Russ WasuiNgroy, Dee. 31.—The United States consul at Odessa, Russia, has made a special report to the department of state in regard to the wool trade between southern Russia and the United State: The conclusions of the report, which is contained in a pamphlet of forty-five pages, ave briefly stated as follows : That the wool trade between south Russia and the United States has been carried on for twenty years, greatly to the detriment of the revenue of the United States. All of the wool shipped from south Russia to the United States is the property of four' American im- porters. These importers, in combination with shippers, have conspired to prevent the recognition of the market price for so-called donskoi washed wools at Rostoff-on-Don. All of these wools are, and ever have been, scoured wools, These wools have in many instances entered th United States at low the duty limit ige, others again at high the duty (5c¢.) when all should have paid duty as scoured wools. The fraudulent designation of these wools has benefitted American impo; and been a corresponding loss to honest wool mer- chants and to the United States government. That this loss will reach between 815,000,000 and 20,000,000 is very probable. The report further says that the charges in the invoices of wool shipped from Odessa and Rostoff are false und are introduced for the purpose of defrauding the revenue—that is, the omissions charged are never paid as com- missions; that the legitimate and proper charges hiave been excessive; that the gross weight in an invoice has caused great loss of revenue, and been successfully practiced for many years: that the interests of the United States requires the permanent closing of the Rostoff consular agency, and that a salaried consul should be sent to Rostoff- on-Don. HONEY LADIES. Heinrich Botel, tue tenor, has retu Europe. Russian styles rage for furs. Quite a number of women are engaged in fruit-growing in California. Fashionable favor is about equally divided between long and short wraps. Boston has a female sup schools, Mrs. Louisa Hopkins. Imitation fursin the form of seal Astrakhan and other plushes are much worn, Wings and quills are the favorite trimmings for seal hats, eaps, and turbans, All short wraps, whether of seal or cloak- ing stuffs, have longe tablike fronts The circular, fur lined or wadded, is only used nowadays as an extra carriage wrap, Striped fabrics are in the ascendant, and vivid colors on neutrul grounds the preferred form. Henry Irving and company drew over$21,- 000 at their lust week's performance in Phil- adelphia, We've known several women to be out- apoken, but we're still looking fos one that's been outtaiked The creditors of Bartley Campbell havo comprowmised their claims for twenty-five cents on the dollar. Soft India silk, China silk, surah, and crepe are the proper materials for the useful tea gown or matinee. Belts, pockets, bands, collars, cuffs of seal and other furs are n on rich peau de sole and other silk dres: Anton Rubinstein has endeavored to fuse into the operatic and oratorio styles in a new work entitled **Moses,” A Brooklyn maid servant threw up her job the other day because the parlor ornaments were too *‘orful vulgar.” Ladies’ pocketbooks are getting larger and larger. That's good. If they keep on they’ll e too large for a thief to get away with. Most dinner dresses for American women are mado very high bodices, or opening only in V shape in front, but high in the back. Striped fabrics look best when cut on the bias for the corsage and siceves, all th stripes running in points down, not upward. Black lace dresses bid fair to never go en- tirely out of fashion. They only change their shape and under dress from scason to season. He (at a very late hour, with deep tender- ness) : How can 1 leave theet She: Really, Mr. Stayer, I can't you. I wish to heaven I could. The red slivper, with black ent leather tips, like the bl satin one, is worn in the house with any costume, no matter what its color may be. Mprs. Jenness Miller's plan of combination undersuits does not make much progres, but the short-cibbed silk and mixed wool shirts are all the rage. A lady has been appointed medical exam iner to the Postoffice lite insurance for women proposers in the metropolitan district of London, Eng. The keeper of the lighthouse at the mouth of Rondout creek, N. Y., +Mrs. Catherine Murdock, has kept the light burning brightly for thirty-two years. The latest agony for bridesmaids is o sweet little satin slipper filled with pink 1 brown foliage. Itis hung on the arm by silken cords. Miss K. Elbe is the name of a charming young Swedish dentist. It is 80 nice to have & tooth drawn by her that young men come miles to get ‘em extracted. The fashionable brooch is either a moon- stone set round with diamonds, o in shape, or of the faintest pink coral, also having the small diamonds sct about it Miss Story, the daughter of a clergyman orth of Ireland, has won the litera plarship of £100 & v for five years, ¢ the Royal university of Treland g gowns are not worn much above the elbow, and they are not as wrinkled, but pulled up plain and smooth if the arm is plump enough to adinit it. There is a fud for bags of all sorts Shoe g%, stocking bags, shopping bags, lorgnette bags, and all these ave made as dainty with decorations of one kind or another us possi ble. Augustus Evans Wilsen, *F ah. Florence Nightingale during the war and no d in the south. She was ud of the sick and wounded and be- loved by all. ss Skervett, ned to are in favor, and there is a isor of public wes o once private scovetacy b n Victoria, reached the age of nine The last thing she did was to study Icelandic, but she caught a bad cold over it and passed away ry many of the neweat tallor gowns colors of the same cloth, the r, strange to say, forming the accessor- ies—collar, cufts, and 0 on—and the brighter the body of the gown. "The wives of Clemehceau and Ribot French statesmen, are bpth Americans. They first hailed’ from the stato where wooden nutmegs supercede the original meg and the latter saw the light in lowa. The wife of President Diaz, of Mexico, has established iu the city of Mexico & large the “friendly home of the Workingwomen,' at which small childron will bo cared. for dur- ing the day while their mothers are at work A granddaughter of Robert Morris, of revioutionary fame, is very poor and is now secking admission’ to a womon's home in Washington. Had it not been for Morris our beloved republic would have gone into bankruptey The smart gloves are of undressed kid, rather heavier than those usually worn! have eight buttons, very large ones, are heavily stitchedZ on the back in the same color, and are very much ou the beige rather than the tan shado The women's union in young women for hookkeeping, kintergarden work, dressmaking, needle work, and short hand. When they are com petent in any department the union procecds to find employment for them. The heavy cumbersome bands of fur which for two winters past have been uselessly laid around the foot of the long cloaks, ulsters and Newmarkets ave wholly dispensed with- in the formation of the stylish Russian redin gotes and polonaise worn this season. Nearly all the young ladies of White Cloud, Kas,, have sighed a solemn pledge that, “God helping me," they- will henceforth ab. stain from the use of gum and slang, and not keap company with young men who use to- bacco, strong drink and profane language. has gone color-mad. Tho wild pursuit of change, which grows to a mania when given rein, hus developed a craze for unheard-of, unknown, unnamable ilors, homely in themselves, hideous in combin, tion, and positively fiendish in their effect on the sight, A queen was crowned Satur Old Fort Pierre, on the Sioux rescrvation, in Dakota, before an interested crowd of In- dians, many of whom traveled for miles to witness the coremony, Her royal highness was presented with forty buffalo robes aud two horses, A young lady who was formerly one of the Welis college A . Cleveland was the greatest favor ew, for when mending day came every girl in the college would gladly have darnod her stock- ings.” Could good will or philanthropy go beyond this? Mistress (to cook)—Why, Bridget, what in the world are you doing? Hridget—Shure it's the docther thot tould me Oi must take oiron for me blood, an’ Oi'm thryin’ to melt down the poker, coss to it! Mistress—But gracious, Bridget, you can't drink hot melted iron! Bridget—Thin Oi'll lave it till it cools, Rev. J. T. Wightman of Bultimore, sa A part of a woman's education is to make good loaf of bread. We men must eat girl is not it to be called a girl unless she make good bread, and the world is finding that out. Every givi ought to bea good house- keeper. If she not the young man who marries her will have to keep house himself, Mrs. J. N. Cushing, sccretary of the Women’s Baptist Foreign Missionary society of Philadelphia, was for years a commissioned captain in the United States army, under full pay, during the war, and sent a well drilled and efficient company to Colonel Higginson's regiment. Mrs. Cushing was but twenty-one years of age when she received her commis- sion. The dancing gown grows shorter, rather than longer, as the season advanc and there is more and move a tendency to make it full and undraped in the skirt, low or V- shaped in the 0ss, Debutan- tes, however, and brides wear their gowns high, or half-high in the neck, with half or three-quarter length sleeves, and debutantes, like brides, wear white, cr ivor) tinted fabrics. In an envelope recently opened at Wash- ington was a £ bill, which the sender said had been exposed to contagious discase, and, although fumigated, had better receive care- ful handling. When the young woman who received it read the warning, it is told she diopped the bill with a scream, which brought fifty other young women in the division crowding around her In the charming array of op bonnets and hats are those of velvet, trimmed with golden brown velvelt, or with willow-green ostrich plumes and gold cord pipings und ornaments. White and gold and pale-blue and silver still favor- ite combinations in_dress ning bonncts this season. Directoire honnets, edged with fur, are worn en suite with fur sets of Alaska b fnclide a large Russ and an immensely long boa —~— GULARITL The largest cow in Dakota is reported from Cass county. She stands six foet high at the shoulders, and, though thin in flesh, weighs 1,800 pounds. During a heavy gale a few days ago at Mos- quito Inlet, Fla., a few days ago, more than 100 ducks were killed by flying against the glass in the tower of the lighthouse, The oldest two trees of the world are sup- posed to be one in as county, whick is believed to be yearsold, and the cypress of Somma, in Lombardy, Italy, which is 1,911 years old, planted B, C. 42, Farmer Liesman, who found a spring on his farin near Holland, Mich., that will make hair grow on most anything, has the cow and calf on which he had raised long whiskers to a Chicago museum for £1,300. He will ship some of the water to the animals each week. A flock of about a hundred crows, passing over Cumminsville, O., were attacked the other afternoon by thrice their number of English sparrows, who comple routed the big birds. Several crows were disabled, and one was found with both eyes pecked out. A shark following a Rockland lime vessel recently, and eating up the garbage thrown overboard, gulped down a big lump of lime thrown over by one of the crew. The lime at once began to slack, and the shark !dhnl;s)md about in terrible agony and finally ied. An apple tree on the farm of T. J. William- son in_ Pleasants county, Va., which has borne fruit for a number of years, been known 1o blossom. This ye again full of fine, large apple thing about which is that the core or seed, Mr. Andy Fleming of Hartwell, Ga.,caught a white squirrel near his resid; veck, after cutting down sevoral trees. Ho ac dently set his ax on it and broke its neck. was entirely white and had pink Tleming’s father killed a rabbit sev ago thot was as red as a red fox. A Macou mule has an artific was siclk with something like laryngitis, and the veterinary surgeon seeing it would soon be impossible for the animal to breatho through his windpipe, u portion of the pipe was removed and a sitver tabe was inserted, and now the mule breathes freely. day a hunter in Lincoln, a town y-five miles south of Bangor, Me., shot white otter, one of the rarest animals to be found in the United States. These is an- other une sowewhere around Lincoln, with a handsower coat than thut of the one shot, the whole town is now on the warpath for it One of the strangest couples ever seen in this city were buying toys and Christmas things at the stores yesterd: The peculi- arity was the great difference in size. The man was 8 feet 4 inches in height and only W 160 pounds. His wife's height was 4 feet 2 inches, while her weight was exactly that of her husband. They were buying presents for ecight boys aid eleven girls. They lived near the headwaters of Bledsoe's creck in the Twenty-sivth district of New York state. A Phila ia Vienna educates drawing, v night at ard theater cream-white the stranges fruit has no roat. He family, living near the bells of and r girls of tne fam parrot. Eve church ring the one of the iitt taught to recite the appropria the sound of the . The parrot watched her carefully, and the other evening, at the first sound of the chimes, dropped to the bottom of the cage, put down his head, and d the first w words of the prayer. He hus kept this up ever since, and is adding other words of the prayer us the littie girl teuchies them to i, ¢ was - Stockslager to Suc. Wasiixe1oN, Dec. 81.—[Special Telegram 1o the B Ttis ported to-night that the president will appoint the present deputy und weting commissioner of the land oMice, 8. M. S ser, us successon to General Sparks, ced Sparks. tal Changeh. WasmyaroN, Dee, pecial Telegram to the Ber Postofices were established at Halsey, Blaine county, and Linscott, Blaine county, to-day. Sl Bank Statement, New Youk, Dec. 81.—The weekly bank tement shows the reserved decreased The banks now hold §560,000 in ex- ab requirements, BILLINGS 1S A NURDEREA So Says tho Oo;x:\r'r Jury ln. } Kingley Caso. Y A SYSTEMATIC PERSECUTION, The Malignant Course of the Accused Towards the Young Towa's Legistation Law Dec Hlegal-Hawkeye The Crime of Cai WaverLy, la., Dee. 81.-The col has brought in a verdict against Billings of murder inthe first shooting W. 8. Kingsley. This case is one of the most sensational and has more peculiar features in it than any which was ¢ leveloped before in the state of lowa Billings, a man of forty five years of age, was a respected lawyer of the town of Waverly, His wife wasa woman of fine! figure and with many charims of foature and manners, but a good deal younger than her Husband. Will Kingsley was but tw, rs of uge, but brilliant to a dog Eraduate and so well read and populs he was easity successful in bemg el county attorney. The two men at one time had an oftice together and business relations. One day, two weeks ago, Billings called at Kingsl oftic Suddenly passers by on the street were startled by the report o pistol shots and Billings o running down the stairs erying out that Kingsley had shot: him. Citizens ran up staivs and on entering Kingsley's office found him dead on the floor bullet in his brain, Billings clain that the dead man had shot himself. A month previous to this il lings had had the young man urrested, the ant charging him with seduction, it 1z sworn Lo by a girl in poor eircum- stances. She afterward confessed that the charge was not true and that Billings had in duced her to swear to the warrant, From tes timowy adduced at the inquest of Kingsley it developed that Billings had set about effect ing the ruin of Kingsley in the most systoma- tic manner. He had forged his own wife's name to notes directed to the law , the contents of the notes being full of loving terms and asking Kingsley to meet her ut her own house while Billings was away. Kingsley replicd in wood faith declining to make the assignation und warning the sup posed female writer to desist from her course. OF course the reply fell into the hands of Biliings. Later, he even went so far as to prepare notes of hand, it ha found out,conveying allof Kingsley's pr to himself. It is believed that on the the shooting Billings went to Kingsle oftice to try by bluckmail to get him to put his signature to the notes. The evider to the blackmail and forgeries was direct, but there was no witness to the shooting and that part will have to be proven by cirenm stantial evidenc Fdw degree forl - The Towa Registry Law. Cepar Ravios, Ta, Dee. #1.—Judge Stone man, of the supreme court, to-day declared the registry law uncoustitutional. The case was one brought by Colonel Clark vs the clection judges of the Fifth ward of this city, who was refused the privilege of voting ou clection day, not being registered. The com plainant averred t during ~ the time when under the law he have otherwise became registered he was absent at Des Moines in attendance upon the United States court, in which he was a peticing attorney. The defendant demurred to plaintift’s petition. The démurrer raised the question of the con- stitutionality of the v act. The de cision of unconstitutionality which was ren- 1 was bascd upon o Massachusetts case stor and similar cases in Penn- sylvania, Ohio, Michi sconsin, Ne a and Oregon, the holding that decisions the legisluture could enact no which would deprive a voter of & constis__ tutional right. e The Storm in Eastern Towa. Siovx Crry, Ta, Dee. 81.—[Special Tele- gram to the 1 ‘The snow storm now raging has placed the railroads _entering this city in a bad condition. The Illinois Central passenger train, due here this_morning was five,hours late, and the Sioux City and Pacific train, oue hour late. On the St. Paul line the night trains have been pulled off. The day trains lofton time to-day. If the storm continues much longer a blockade will fol low. R~ T MISER PAINE'S MONEY. Wardell's Alleged Lost Will is De- lared to Be Invalid. New Youk, Dec. 81.—Tho famous tontest over the estate of the late Jumes H. Paine, a wiser of refined tastes and_ extraordinary in telligence, who lived and died in a Blecker street attic, leaving over $400,000 in cash, was decided to-day by Surrogate Rllins, Ho declined to admit the will, of which James H. Wardell was sole legatee and proponent, holding that Paine was incapacitated, The victory is won by the Cleggetts, of Boston, the, old miser's relatives who opposed the attempt to prove the alieged lost will, Archbiskop Purcell's Case. Cixcixyar, Dee, 8L—In deciding the question of J. B. Manning, last assignee of Archbishop Purcell, us to how much of the assignee's defalcation belonged to the. estate of the archbishop and how much to the estato of lis brother Edward, Judge Schroeder to day for the first time made judicialannounce- ment of the defaleation. It reached the sum of §)5,000. Of that sum $65,000 belonged to the estate of Archbishop Purcell, —— A Chicago Judge's Fall. Cnicaco, Dee. 31.—Jud, Williamson, while walking in front of the criminal court building this afgernoon, slipped on some ico and fell to the pavement, striking on his wad. A gash that bled badly was cut in his Ip, and it is thought that his injuries are very scrious, T Apaches Running Loose :s, A. T., Dec, 81--Ncws has been stating that a small band of Apaches uning in the mountaing in Montezuir & killing and stealing. A number-gY, s have been wiylaid and shot on the, entering Bavispe. A few duys ag Clements Ropse was killed at Los Nogalos yanch, just across the line in the United tutes. A troop of federal soldiers sturted on trail but failed to find the Indians. Thy Ptain of the custom house guards ut Bavisp the other day found a number of cattle which had been killed by the m all diseases caused by any derangement of the Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels. 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