Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 18, 1888, Page 1

SEVENTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA, WEDNES DAY MORN ING, JANUARY 18, 1888, NUMBER 214 PACIFIC RAILROAD ROBBERS. COleveland's Message Accompanying the Commission Reports. VOTED MONEY TO THEMSELVES. erous Statesmen and Crooked Corporation Contractors — Scttle- ment Recommended Accord- ing to the Majority's Views. Over- Corporate Crime Recalled WasHise1oy, Jan. 17.—The president sent 10 congress to-day amessage transmitting the Pacitic railroad reports. The president said: The commissioners have prosecuted their inquiry with commendable industry, intel- ligence and thoroughucss. They have, how- ever, been unable to agree upon the manner in which these railronds should be treated respecting their indebtedness to the United States or to unite upon the plan best cal- culated to sceure the paymient of such in- debtedness. This disagreement has resulted in the proparation of two reports, The reports exhibit transactions and schemes connected with the construction of aided ronds and their management and suggests the invention of such devices on the part of those having them in charge for the apparent purpose of defeating any chance for the gov- ernment’s reimburscment that any adjust- ment or plan of settlement should be pre dicated upon the substantial interests of gov. ernment rather than any forbearance or gen- erosity deserved by the compan he majority report, while condemning the methods of those who' formerly had charge of the Union Pacifie, declarcs that since its present management was inaugurated in 1554 its uffairs have been fairly and properly con- ducted and that the present administration has devoted itself honestly and intelligently 10 the herculean task of rescuing the Union Pacific from the insolvency which seriously threatened it at the inception of its work. That 1t has devoted itself, by rigid _cconomy, by the application of every doliar of the earn while the great creditor, the United States, bids itself subsequently without adequate security for the repayment of its loan. “For the purpose of saving or improving the security afforded by its junior lien the wovernment should have the richt now to purge this paramount lien of all that is fraud- ulent, fictitious and unconscionable. If the transfer to innocent hands of bonds of this character secured by first mortgage prevents their cancellation, it might well seem that the remedy 18 against those who issued and transfered them. 1f legislation is needed to secure such remedy congress can supply it.” In regard to the land which had not yet be ouds, the president said. 1f the failure of such companics to perform in good faith their part of the contract justi- fied such course, the power rests with ~ con- gress to withhold further performance on the part of the government, If donated lands are not yet granted to these companics and if their Violations of contract and duty are such as, in justice and morals, as forfeit their rights to such lands, congressional action should intervene to prevent further consumption. The executive power must be according to existing laws, and Sxeeutive discretion 8 probably not broad enough to reach such dificul- ties. The California & Oregon railroad is now part of the Centra Pacific system aud is a land grant road. — Its construction been carried on with the ane features and incidents which have characterized other constructions of this system and is made apparent on pages 78, 79 and 80 of the report of the majority of the commissionc T have in my hand the report of the com- missiouers appointed to examine the two completed sections of this road. Upon_ the approval of these commissioners the Central weile company will be entitled to patents for alavge quantity of public land espe- cially commend to the attention of congress this condition of affairs, in order that it ma determine whether or not vene to save these lands for scttle: a course is justifiable. But i time that the troublesome complica- tions surrounding this entire subject, which has been transmitted to us usalegacy from former days, should be adjusted and settled, No one, I think, expects that the companies will be able to pay their immens indebtedness to the government at its ma- turity. Any proceedings or arrangement that would result now or at any other time it should inter- if such ing capacity of the system to its ment and betterment to place that compan, on asound and enduring financial founda “The condition of the present manage- ment of the Union Pacific company has an Himportant bearing upon its ability to comnly ‘with the terms of sett nts of its indebt- edness which may be offered by the govern- ment, “I have been furnished with statement or argument in defense of transactions connected with the construction of the Cencral Pacific road and its bradeh lines, from which it may not be amiss to quote for the purpose of show- ing how some operations of the dircetors of such roud, strongly condemued by the com- missioners, are defendea by the directors themselves. After speaking of the contract for the construction of one of these branch lines by a corporation called the Contract and Finance company, owned by certain directors fie railroad, this languag is used It may be said of this contract, as of many others that were let to the different construction companies in which the direet- ors of the Centrul Pacitic have been stock holde that they built the road with mone; furnished by themselves and had the road for their out In other words, they paid to the constriction companics bonds and stock of the railroads so constructed and waited until such time as they could develop suffi- cient business on the road built to in- duce the public to buy the bouds or stock. If the country through which the » road ran developed sufticient business, then the project was o suceess, 1f it did not, then the operation wasa loss. Any loss occurring was nccessarily their's and of right the profit belonged to them, But, it is said, they violated the well-known rule of equity in dealing with themselves; that they were trustees and that they were representing both sides of the contract. The answer is that they did not find anybody who would take the chiances of building the road through what was then almost uninhabited country und accept the bonds and stock of the road in payment, and when it is ,v« re trustees, if they did occupy such rela- on it was merely technical, for they repre- sented only their own interests on both sides, here beini no one clse concerned in the tran. o wetion. They became the incorporators of e company that was to build the road, subscribed © for its _stock and were the only ‘subscribers. There- fire, it 1s dillicult to see how any one was wronged by their action. The rule of equit invoked, which has its origin in the injun tion that no man_ can serve two masters, ce ainly did not apply to them, because the; eting in their own interests and wer charged with the duties of caring for rights, there being no other persons interested in the subject matter. *In view of this stutement and facts devel- oped in the commissioners’ report, it scems proper to recall the grants and benefits de- rived from the general government by both the Union uud Central Pacific for the purpos of aiding the construction of the roads. SBy an act passed in 1862 it was provided there should be an advance to said compinics by the United Statds to aid in the construc- tion, bonds of the government and lands from the public domain, and that to secure the re- payment of the bonds advanced said bonds should constitute a first mortzage on the whole line of their voad, and on their prop- erty of every kind and déscription. The liberal donaticns, advances and pri leges provided for in this law were granted by the general government for the purpose of securing the construction of these which would complete the .conne tween our n and western cousts, and they were based upon a_consideration of the public benefits which would accrue to the entir untry from such construction. “But the projectorh of these roads were not content, and the sentiment which then secmed to pervade cong ad not reached the limit of 1ts generosity, Two years after the passaze of this law it was supplemented and amended in various important particu- lars in favor of these companies by an act which provided, among other things, that the government’s mortgage should become u Junior lien and be subordinated to a mort which the companies, by an_ amenda act, were authorized 1o exceute to se bouds which they might from time to time issue in sums not exceeding the amount of the United States loans which should be advanced to thom. The immense advantages to the companies of this amendatory act are appareni, and in these days we may well wonder that even the anticipated importance of the construe tion these roads induced what must now appear to be rather reckless and un ruarded appropriation of public funds and public domain. It is almost needioss 1o state that the companies have availed theiselves, to the utmost extent, of the permission xiven them to issue their bonds and to mortgage iLeir property to s cure the payment of the same Ly an encum brance having the preforence of the yovern ment's lien and precisely equal to it amount. When the relations ereated between the government und these companies by th legislation referred to is cousidered, it i tonishing that the claim should be mad the directors of these roads owed no duty copt to themselves in their construction that d regard no interests but their ' own vo justified m coutracting with themselves and making such bargains as re sulted in conveying to their pockets all the asscts of the companics. As leinor, the governiment was vital s that ex- y in terested in the amount of the mor to which its security had been subordinated, and 1t had a right to insist that nohe of the bonds secured by this prior mortgage should be issucd fraudulently or for the purpose of division among these stockholders, without consideration. The doetrine of complete Iidependence on the part of the divctors of these companics and_ their freedom of auny obligation to care for other interests than their own in the construction of these roads, seems to have developed the natural consequences of its ation, portrayed as follows in the ma y report of the com missioners. The vesult is that those wh have controlled and directed the construct and development of these companuies have been possessed of their surplus assets through issues of bonds and stock and the in putting these roads or any portion of them in possession or control of the government is, in my opinion, to be rejected—certainly as long as there is any chance for indemnifica- tion through any other means. I suppose wo are hardly justificd M in- dulging the irritation and indignation natur- ally arising from a contemplation of the mal- feasance to such extent as to lead to the use- less destruction of these roads, and the loss of the advances made by the government. 1 believe that our efforts should be in u more practical direction and should tend, with no condination of wrong doing, to the collection by the government, on behalf of the people, of the public money now in jeopardy. While the plan presented by the majority of the commission appears to be well devised and gives at least a partial promise of the results sought will not escape attention, that its success depends upon its acceptance, It is exceedingly important that any adjustment now made should be final and effectiv These considerations suggest the remedy provosed in the majority report might well be applied to a part of these aided railroad companies. The settle- ment and determination of the questions in- volved arc peculiarly within the provinee of congress. The subject has been made quite a familiar one by congressional discussion. This is now supplemented in a valuable man- ner, by the facts presented in the reports heréwith submitted. Public interest urges prompt and efficient action.” it i COERCING CONDUCTORS, Petty Tyranny Exercised By Pullman Over His Employes. Cnicaco, Jan. 17.—[Special Telegram to the Bek,]—1. P. Carbesry, a Pullman con ductor whose run is between here and New Orleans, is on trial before the criminal court charged with having failed to account for the proceeds of a sleeping berth, At the preliminary hearing a number of Pullman conductors were present, they having heard of the cf and aturally feeling an interest in it. The second trial was set for today ih the criminal court, and when the Pullman conductors arrived in this city from their different runs this morning, they were confronted with an order on “the black board” to report at headquarters. As cach man obeyed the command and entered the supermtendent’s office he was told in unmis- that it takably sienificant language was the wish of the Pullman company that no conductor in its service attend the trial of ex-co nductor Carberry whic probably come up in this city to-d of the conductors are very ind sult of such an order. “Of course we dare not be seen there if we want to hold our jobs,” said one conductor, *but just the same it is an impudent piece of business upon the part of the Pullman com- pany. Had the company prohibited the boys from going to the theater or church it could not have made them feel any hotter. We work hard enough, as it_is, while we are on duty, without being told what we shall do and not do after turning in our reports.” “Why is it that the company does not wish you to attend the trial 2 was asked, ““That's siluple enough,” was the reply. 1t s likely that a ialf dozen or, may be, more, of the company’s ‘spotters’ and special agents will be there to testify and they do not want the boys to take a mental photo- graph of their faces. A spotter who is un- known to a conductor thinks he stands so much the better chance of catehing our boys in a criminal action in some little negleet of duty, and they have got to earn their money, 1 suppose reporting unfavorably a certain percentrge of us in order to hold th To-day’s order, however, is but a ve sample of the arbitrary’ methods employed by the Pullman company in the coutrol of its employes,” An Hlinois Central Acquisition, NEW YORk, Jan. 17.—Railroad ofticials here state that the Hlinois Central has acquired control of the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas, and will extend that line to St. Louis. The 1linois Central also practically controls the Mobile & Ohio, and both the Mobile & Ohio and St Louis, Arkansas & Texas will be operated together, Attempts have also been made by the 1ilingis Central people to secure control of the St. Louis & Chicago, which is hsolutely necessary in order o connect the ntral with the St. [ Arkansas & Texas, but the owners of the St. Louis & Chicago refused to give up contro - Mexico Wants t Crry oF MEx1co, Jan. 17.—The government has forwarded to Washington papers request- ing the extradition of Mayer, alias Bourtone. There is great anxiety here to have Bour wize brought to this city to unswer for his stupendeus swindle, and if he is extradited he will receive extraordinary puuishuent should he be proven guilty wll b AT ision of Trains, tocnester, N, Y., Jan. 17.—A collision oceurred early this wornig +a the Erie rail road between Avoca and Kenna between two trains gincer Maynard was kil outright and Fireman Marsh was seriously would ome - Swindler. injured. Several passengers ave reported in- jured el e The Oil Market. New Youx, Jan, 17.—~The oil market was panicky again to-day, after a steady opening. Within a few minutes the price of pipe line certificates dropped from 904, @SS!ge. At 11 o'clock the wildest excitement prevailed, Toward noou the market became a little bet- ter and quotations were St - ual Machine. Ind., Jan. 17.—The mysteri- INDIANAPOLIS, ous box sent to Judge Woods, of the federal vourt, before whom the trial of the tally sheet forgers began yesterday, proves to be ual machine. Investinition will be payment of dividends voted by themselyve ‘1 made W discover the sender, if possible, DIED IN THE TEACHER'S ARMS | ¢ Tragic Fate of Three Little Children Near Plainview. PITIFUL TALES OF THE STORM. Reports From Interior Countles Show a Frightful Loss of Life-Six- teen Bodies Found in Two Counties. Appalling Fatalities NELiGi, Neb., Jan, 17.—[Special Telegram to the Ber.]—As reports come in from the recent storm, the loss of life is appalling. No accurate estimate of the loss of life of stock can yet be made. As far as heard from there were no fatalities in this county, and every portion, except the extreme northern, sent in reports, Southeastern Holt and the northern part Wheeler suffered ter- rible, this section, among the deaths are the following: A school teachers, and eight children, names un- known: five men named, Stickle, four frozen to death looking for a fifth who was out when the storm came. An old man named Gloze: aten year old boy named Miller, frozen to death and his mother frozen so she will loose both of her legs and one arm. Mrs. Miller was returning at the time from the funeral of another child. It is more than likely further reports will add to the list in Wheeler county and southeastern Holt as the country is very level and is thinly settled. The loss of stock will be great but no esti- mate is possible at the present Died in the Teacher's Arms, of In Praixview, Neb. .hl . 17.—[Special Tele- gram to the Be who has been teaching school eight miles north- cast of this place, having but three pupils on the day of the storm, started at 2 o'clock to a @ house about twenty rods distant. Having her hand full to keep the little ones from being blown away, and blinded with snow she soon found herself lost with three small children in the terrible storm. They wan- dered in vain to find shelter, At last the children were completely tired out they all laid on the snow - dispair. The teacher tried to shelter the little ones with her wraps, but early in the night one of the boys passed away in death. Later the other little boy died and about morning the little girl died in the arms of her teacher. Then Miss Royee left the little ones and went to the house only bout thirty rods away. Her feet are badly frozen and she will probably loose them. She is badly chilled and slighlty frozen else- wher The children were the son of H. Po- genses, eight years old and a son and daugh- ter of .C. Rosberg, aged seven and nine years, Two Little Boys Frozen. FosTer? Neb., Jan. 17.—[Spec Bee.]—The sudden storm of Thursday last was the worst known for many yca Two people living two miles from this place were frozen to death, Henry Keickhafer and his son, twelve years of age, left their home to drive their cattle out of the corn stalks into the yard. They lost their way and wan- dered with the storm for two and a half miles ecast, where their bodies were found to-day lymg side by side. They passed two houses but a few rods away. The storm was 80 blinding they were unable to find them and laid down in the open prairie to freeze. There was several other narrow gscapes, with frozen noses, faces and hands, But not very serious. It is, however, feared more deaths will be reported when farmers living further away come in. There is a great loss of cattle, nearly every farmer losing some. One farmer lost forty head and others one to twenty each. No trains have run on _this (Creighton) branch for three days. The first castern mail since Thurscay came this afternoon. to the The Hunting Party and the Blizzard. York, Neb.,Jan. 17.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]—Among the many who suffered from the severe storm of last Thursday the worst yet reported was a party consisting of K. E. Post, cashier of the Boston bank, J rduer of this city, and a driver named Snyder. The party went out on Thursday o a hunting expedition with a team and sleigh. The storm came upon them with the sudden- ness which characterized its coming in all parts of the state. The men finding it im- possible to procecd in any direction with the team, unhitched and turned the horses loos and struck out on foot to find shelter. After A terrible expericnce they accidentally stumbled upou a wire fence whic they followed to the Fremgat, Elkhorn & Missouri Valle; raifvend track. Once on the track they followed it to Thayer, reaching there about dark. Mr, Post was the greatest suffercr, He succumbed several times and had it not been for the he- roic efforts of his companions would have frozen to death. The party found shelter for the night at Thayer and réturned to Poston Friday mornmng. The numerous reports which have appeared in the state press to the effect that Judge Post, of this city, was out in the storm and is still missing originated from this incident. The Bodics of Two Children Fuesmoxt. Neb, Jan. 17.—[Special to the Bek.]—The bodies of the two children be. longing to Jacob Westphalen, of this county, lost on their return from school in the storm Phursday night, were found by the scarch- ing party last evening, They were lying on the open praivie some distance from their direct route home. This family scems to be pursued by a relentless fate. ‘Two members of it were killed a few years ago in the Che, cune Indian raid in western Kansas und stock Found. stolen and driven off. Later anotl mem- ber committed suicide and now the loss of the two children fills their cup of sorrow full, Perished On the Way Home, NorroLk, Jan, 17.—[Special to the Bee.] — Normal winter weather has succeeded the stormy period of last week and with it come the reports from every hand of serious disas- ter. Edwin Record, a farmer living five miles from this city, was frozen to death ou Thurs- day in the effort to reach home. His team nad refused to go, and he had put up at a brother's and started off on foot, but perished after making the first mile. There is heavy loss of live stock among the furmers. Trains are running on all roads I from this city to-day, the Union breaiking the blockade Columbus Sunday noon. between and here Another Burt County V OakLaxn, Neb,, Jan, 17 tim [Special T gram to the Brk.]—Another Burt county victim of Thursday's storm, Chas. Gray, near Tekamah, died to-day. He was hauling hay frow the Missouri bottom and was un able to get nome. He walked all night be- tween his horses to keejp frow freezing. He was balf a wile from home when fo0nd next morning. He leaves o family. The Cold in Taylor County. , Ia., Jan. 17.—[Special Telegram to the BEe.]—The thermometer dropped to 2= below zero this morning, making the coldest rather of the season ck unsheltered is suffering greatly. The loss is not yet kuown, Two Hunters Missing. Siovx Crry, Ta, Jan. 17.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee, |—George W, Miller and L. C. DeGuibert, of this city, have probably perished in the blizzard. The men left for over the river to hunt jack rabbits on Tues- day, intending also to search for deer in the vicinity of Jackson. Nothing has been heard of them since leaving, Mrs. Miller and Mrs. DeCGuibert have waited, almost crazed but expecting to hoar from. thelr husbands, To. day they could bearthe great strain and agony 1o longer and adpealed to the officers to institute a search for the missing men. Showing a Frozen Corpse. SiLverR CRegk, Neb, Jan. 17.—[Special Telegram to the BEE.)—During the storm of last Saturday an Indian, one of the Omahas, was frozen to death near here. The band of twenty were here to-day exhibiting the bod, for a nickel a look. They departed fc Omaha and will exhibit their dead brother in the towns cast along the Union Pacific line, Three More Deaths in Dakota, S PAvL, Jan 17.—Reports of the loss of life in last week's storm continue to come in. The list numbers about 160 1t is probable that the final crease this to 200, Dispatches to-night say that Sarah Dolan, & school teacher of Goodwin, near Clear Lake, Dak., and Hugo Scheff, a favmer of Alamont. Dak., have been found frozen to death. So far' four deaths have been reported in this county. but it is feared that there are many more. News reached Jamestown, Dal., this afternoon of the f ing to death of M. Arman, a farmer living near Windsc Hriexa, Dak., Jan, 17.—The thermometer is vising rapidly here and at other points. Reliuble advices say that although cattle were pinched by the cold, feed was plenty and uncovered and no serious results are either reported or feared Other Northwestern Fatalities. St. Pavy, Jan. 17.—Dispatches from Alex- andria, Minn., say the frozen body of Hanby Countryman were found this morning. The death of Edwin Kylling, a farm boy, has been reported from Canton, Dak., and it ported that thirty-one school children are missing in Turner county. Three childr Mr. Heines, northwest of Leunnox, perished while going home from school. The lady teacher argued and pleaded with the scholars not to leave the sehool-room and finally locked the door, but they were too many for her and had their own way. This makes seven children lost in the vicinity of Lennox. The Blizzard Disastrous to Texas. St. Lovis, Jan. 17.—Reports from differ- ent sections of Texas note a cessation of the blizzard. Several deaths of farmers are re- ported. News comes from northern Texas of unheard of suffering among the people, and whoiesale destruction among cattle, many of which were frozen to death. Wyoming Cattle All Right. Rawrixg, Wyo, Jan, 17.—The storm of last week had but little effect on cattle, Re- ports from the Platte valley are very satis- factory. every part of Weather Indications, For Nebraska: Warmer, followed by colder, fair weather, light to fresh winds, e coming northerly. For lowa: Colder, fair weather, light to {resh northwesterly winds, B FAMINE INS A FORT. Commissary Stores at McKinney De- stroyed By Fire. Forr McKixsey, Wyo., Jan. 17.—[Special Telegram to the Ber.]—A- disastrous fire oc- curred this morning at 1 o'clock. The post commissary building was entirely consumed with its contents. Estimated loss, £100,000; no insurance. The building was stocked with commissary supplies o last until May next. The companies at the post have a supply of rations to last ten dgys, not.including officers familics. The fire’ originated in some way from a_fire kept in the building to keep the goods from freezing—supposed to be a defec- tive flue. The garrison has been ordered on half rations. Flour, pork and fresh beef can be purchased in oper market, but of sugar, coffce and canned goods there are none in the country. The snow both ways, north and “south, is drifted five to ten feet deep, and it is al- most impossible to run goods into the country oning to the extreme cold weather. Water could not be got ontothe fire and for some time the headquarters build- ings and quartermaster’s store houses were in great danger. There was no wind at the time or the post would have been entirely de- stroyed. The post trader's store and mer- cbants in Bufflo have only a small stoek of groceries and canned good: and the prospects are for a famine, The commanding ofticer of the post, General Bris bin, has telegraphed to the department head- quarters for provisions to be forwarded by fast ht from the nearcst post, but owing to the extreme cold and deep snow it is im possible to say when supplies can et here. The Wyoming Inland telegraph and tele phione wires were burned and prostrated. The thermometer at some plices registered 52 de- grees below. Other Fires. Moxrrest, Jan. 17.—A disastrous fire which broke out this morning in Thompson’s auction room burned out several other esta lishments, causing a loss of $150,000, which i partly covered by insurance, T PATL 17.—Beaupre, Keogh, & e grocery house, with stock, ely destroyed by firc this afternoon. Loss on stock, £300,000; on building, 75,000; both fully insured. Cremated at a Christening. Movxt Canmer, Pa., Jan. 17.— Early this morning three men were burncd to death in a fire which consumed scven frame houses. The fire started in 4 house where Hungs were congregating for a christening, A woman and a child are also missing. TERRIBLE ASTIN ACCID! Seventeen Persons Injured By a § Collision at Kansas City Kaxsas Ciry, Jan, 17— ul Telegram to the Bee. | —A fearful coastlng aceutent oc- curred about 11 o'clock to-night at E uth and Broadway by which sevente persons were injured, three badly. A large verse sled—52 feet long by 31 wide, and coutaining fifty-two persons — was going down the hill ata terrific rate of speed, when it collided with another sled, both being_overturned. The seriously mjured were Miss Maud MeRonald, left leg broken below the knee, collar bone broken and wrist sprained; Miss Maud Wolsey, left avm broken above the elbow and a severe scalp wound: Miss Jennie Tracy, three fingers of right hand broken, left arm broken below the elbow and face cut S — BURNED SEA. Fate of an American hlll]i*(\ Number of Lives Lost, [ Copyright 1558 by James Gordon Bennett.] Panis, Jan. 18.—~[New York Herald Cable —Special to the BEe.]—A telegram from Sydney, N. S. W, states that the American ship, J. T. Berry, was burned at sea January 4 in latitude 32 = south, longitude 164= east, Fourtee persons are known to have been saved, and one boat with eleven or board is missing. Part of the crew and passengers have been landed at Nambruceria Heads. —— The Bradtord Disaster. HAVERHILL, Mass., Jan. 17.—John Madden, the fourteenth vietim of the Bradford disas- ter, who was fijred at the tank house, died at the hospital this morning. 1@ belonged at hfirad!urd, and leaves a wife and four kil ren. Charles F. Emerson, injured while ing lust evening, is dead. coast - llhlulllk a Mexican Belle, Crty oF Mexico, Jan. 17.—The daughter of the president, Amanda Diaz, was warried yesterday to De La Torre. The ceremony was private. ‘Ihere were many superb wed- ding gifts, The brideis one of the belles of Mexican society and is very han dsome, THE OMAHA-BLUEFS BRIDGE. Senator Manderson Asks the Secre- tary of War For Information. THE RESOLUTION LAID OVER. Its Object to Compel the Company to Fully Carry Out the Require ments of the Charter—Lamar's Commission Signed. Cleveland Issues Three Commission WASHINGTO ¥ BUREAU THE OMAIA BeE, } 513 FoURTEENTH STRERT, Wasiisaros, D, C., Jan. 17. Lucius Quintus C. Lamar, of Mississippi, is an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, Don M. Dickerson, of Michigan, is postmaster general and William . Vilas, of Wisconsin, is sccretary of the interior. It was hardly expected that there would be such haste in the case of Mr. Lamar, but the president signed the commis- sion of all three of these officers to-day and the latter two qualified and entered upon their duties. Mr. Lamur introduced his suc- cessor at the cabinet meeting, took his final leaveof the cabinet and expects to be for- mally inducted to-morrow. He will borrow a black silk gown of onc of his associates, us 1t requires fifteen days to make one. The order has been sent to New York. There was a great deal of comment to-day in high circles upon the influences which worked the confirmation of Mr. Lamar. They are gen- erully referred to, as I intimated last night, as “the Pacific railroad combination.” AKER CARLISLE'S CHILLS, There were many inquiries and much ap- prehension at the capitol to-day about the condition of Speaker Carlisle. He was taken with a congestive chill at dinner last evening andhad to be assisted to his room. At 4 o'clock this morning he was attacked with a second chill, and it was feared that he might die. He slept some this afternoon and is better to-night. He has not been fecling well for several days, and his present condi- tion may be rightly termed a collapse. Un- less he has a relapse he will recover within w days. There are some fears by h physicians, however, that he may have pneu- mona. For some time last night the speaker was delivious, and his _condition early this mornmg was precarious. The house to-duy chose Mr. 8. 5. Cox, of New York, speake pro tempore and the chaplain prayed for the recovery of Mr. Carlisle, It was the intention of the republicans in the honse to-day to roast Public Printer Benedict for his manifest izeempetency, but the serious s of the speaker led thei 10 postpon: ter. Benedict has done very little, it appears, to prove his efticien It will be remembered that a_fight was made against his contirmation by the laboring men on the ground that he was not a practical printer and he was not a union man. 1E OMAIIA AND COUNCIL BLUFFS BRIDGE, Senator Manderson to-day followed up h action taken in Omaha two weeks ago in erence to the wagon brigge between Council Bluffs and Omaha, by presenting a resolu- tion calling upon the secretary of war to in- vestigate whether the bridge company was complying with its charter by constructing a combined wagon and railroad bridge, as called for by the act of congress, or not. The senator asked for_immediate considera- tion of the resolution, but Senator Wilson, of Iowa, objecting, the resolution went over under the rule until to-morrow. Senator Manderson is_ very much in_earncst in the matter. He thinks that one of the chief ob- jeets of the act, was to sceure a genuine competition with the Union Pacific bridge, which for long_years was the robber’s toll: gate between Omaba and the east. The con- struction of a wagon bridge alone will, in the senator's opinion, meet the aims fc which the law was passed, wna he proposes to make a vigorous fight against any such diversion of the congressional gft. OMAIA'S NEW PUBLIC BUILDING, Senator Manderson and Representative McShane called upon the supervising arch- itect of the treasury to-day and had a long talk with him regarding the bill for a new government building at Omaha, which comes up in the senate to-morrow. They got many points affecting architecture to be employed, the necds of the federal officers who have offices at Omaha and other matters which will be of use in the consideration of the bill. They reecive the iudorsement of the supe vising architect in_ their efforts to procure a better building at Omala, and are pleased with the position he takd SENATORIAL KICKELS, There is a wovement to recognize a portion of the ofticial force of the scuate. There some dissatisfaction with the present geant-at-arms, Colonel Canaduy, of North Carolina. Colonel George ”nnk(‘l' of Ver- mont, a member of the republican national committee, n very popular man and well- known here, the intimate friend of Senator Fdmunds and serizcant-at-aris in the _forty seventh congress, is spoken of as_Cojonel Canaday's successor in the event a change is made. Colonel Canaday was endorsed by Senator Sherman and other promiuent repub- licans, and it is not likely a_change will be made. No grave objection is urged agamst him, 8o far as T have heard. PONTAL CHAN The following low; postmasters were appoiuted to-day: William G Mullarkey, M. D., Holland, Grundy county, viceS. W. Burroughs, resizned; Miss Murtha E. Hackett, North Liberty, Johuson county, vice Henry A. White, resigned. The ‘second assistant postmaster general to-day informed Representative Dorsey that the department had established mail service between Platte River Junction (new oftice) and Hastings via the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railvoad. A rvequest for this service was also made by the other members of the Nebraska delegation. The site of the postoffice at McCan, Cherr, county, Neb., has been remoy ters of a mile to the north moyal approv postofic Changes hav n” made in schedule of the star mail rout from Cottonwood Springs to Cartis. Leave Cottonwood Springs Tues- idays at S 4. m.: arrive at Curtis by 4 p. m. Leave Curtis Mondays and ‘Thurs- duys at S a. m.; arrive at Cottonwood Springs by 4 p.m. 1 route from Blackbird to been changed as follows: Le Tuesdays and Saturdays at 530 at Turner by 6:45 p.m. Leave days and Saturdays at 4 p. m Blackbird by 5:15 p. m. AGAINST CONFIRMATION. number of the citizens of Holt oSt against and States land allege fa- ave been on public the time xtending Neb., us Turner has e Blackbird m.; arrive urner Tues- rrive at A large Receiver Charde, of the United office at Niobrara. The chary voritism and general unfitness and filed with the scnate committes lauds. THE NIOURAKA LAND OFFICE. » It is rumored iu Nebraska circles that the old effort to the United States land oftice at Niobrara removed to O'Neill is to newed and with vigor. Sam Draper, of Niobrara, is here to look after the matter and make a protest. SMALL TALK. Mrs. Representative Lyman, of Council Biufts, uunounces that she will Feceive at the Hotel' Windsor, corner of Fiftecuth street and New York avenue, on Tuesday from 2 to b o'clock. nator Paddock to-day introduced a il «ating an additional justice of the supreme Court for{5* Sult Luke district Perey 8. Heatn Patents For Western Inve WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—[Special Telegram to the Bek]—Patents were issued for the following Nebraska and Iowa inventors to- day: Lewis Burg, Farmington, Ia, road cart; William H. H. Dobney, Oallund, la., attachment for windmill pump rods; Rickurd Luking, Randolph, Neb, ecar pushing machine; Edward P, Lynch, Davenport, la., combined corn and cotton planter and wheel plow; James Peterson, Burlington, Ta., run- guard for harn Edward F. Stevens and J. Packard, Greene, la, draft cqwalize Thomas B. Swan, Atlantic, Ta., dewmev for feeding_and watering hogs: Willtam R. White, Washington, Ta., gate lateh: John C Williams and H. C.'Hodper, Neb., device for sharpening_ toc calks; Edwin C. Woodruff, Knoxville, Ta., fluc top or spark catcher, Speaker Car! |ull‘ 's Condition WASHINGTON, Jan, [Spocial Telegram to the Bee. | —Great \'llll\'l‘l‘fl is felt this morn- ing about Speaker Carlisle. He had a second congestive chill at 4 o'clock and has three doctors working over him to prevent a third, of which there are marked symptoms, The third chill is almost alw; fatal. At 11 o'clock the doctor reported the spea or's condition much improved, At 9 o'clock to-night Mr. Carlisle was rest- ing quietly, and on the whole, was considera- bly better ttan he was this morning, He had, however, another chill during the after- noon, to which the doctor seemed to attach but little importance. Dr. Sowers was asked: “Is hie dangerously or even seriously ill#" “1do not so regard him,” was the reply. “It may be some time before he is able to be abont, but he sits up in bed, has never for a moment lost conscipusness and has had sev- eral hours of refréshing sleep, and I think that without a repeated and violent recur- rence of the chills he will et along without any serious trouble. On the whole he iy certainly improving." . Nebraska and lowa Pensions, WasmiNgroy, Jan, 17.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]—Pensions were granted to the following Nebraskans to-aa; Minorsof John Williams, Tekamah, Mexican war— Joshua B. Walsh, Creighton; Stephen Wood- row, Wayne. Original—John Williams, (deceased,) Tekamat Pensions for Towans; Sarah, mother of John W. Garland, Chariton: Mary, mother of Thomas W. Titus, Vinton; Nancy D., widow of Sylvester A. Kimball, Harper's' Ferry, Original—Edward Maule, Foote; Samucl Moody, Clemens: Peter Gates, Staurt (navy)’; Francis Stewart, Luke City. Army Ordera. WasiiNgToy, Jan, 17,—[Special Telegram to the Bee.|—Licutenant Colonel John G. Chandler, deputy quartermaster general ordered to assume charge of the g depot of the quartermaster’s department in this city, Private I're ond artillery. Walters have list. 1 A. Schroto and Hospit been pl , batt 1 Steward od on the Lamar, Vilas and Dickinson Installed. WasniNgroy, Jan. 17.—One of the first acts of the president this morning was to at- ch his signature to the commissions of Justice Lamar, Secretary Vilas and Post- master General Dickinson, who called at the while house ved them. Vilas and Dickinson subsequeéntly touk the oath of ofice and were duly installed in time 1w ai~ tend the cabinet meeting at noon. Inter-Stste Commissioners Confirmed WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The senate has con- firmed the nominations of the inter-state commerce commissioners, - STOLE GOLD ) 'l'(;GI‘jTB. ave Charges Brought Against a Young Mining Speculator. Dexver, Colo., Jan. 17.—[Special Tele- gram to the Be.]—As Oliver Gratton, a prominent mining man from Breckenridge, stepped from a Soiuth Park train at the union depot this morning he was very much surprised to find oficers awaiting him with a warrant for his arrest. Mr. Gratton is charged by Colonel Ware, of Breckenridge, Colo., with stealing gold nuggets from the property of the Victoria mimng company of that place and secreting them until he could dispose of them with safety, and that he had disposed of a considerable umount. Gratton has been suspected of these thefts for a long time and hias been watehed until yestord when it was ascertained that he would pass through the ity on his way to Canada. His effects were seized and scarched and in his trunks were found 50,000 in mint certificates the procecds of his latest speculations, The sum of his robberics, it is stated, will amount up into the thousands, as they have been continued over a considerable period of time, and most of the money, it is said, has been investea in real estate’ somewhere in Canada, where it is supposed he was found He was placed in the county jail pending triul, whieh will probubly come up soon. His wife, who is with him, is a young lady not over'sixtecn, and but recently married to In an interview this afternoon the mer said the whole matter was a case of malicious persecution, resulting from some trouble he had with Colones Ware last sum- mer. The property in quéstion is what is known as the Gratton placer, and until some time last summer he and Col- onel Ware had each half intere in it, The colonel and himself could not agree as to the management of the mine and the col- onel sued him in the urt. of Summit county. After the case was settled he sold his half interest to Colonel Ware and has since had nothing to do with th property. He says he started yesterday from Brecken- ridge to go cast with his wife to spend the re- mainder of the winter and that his arrest was a total surprise to him, as he never suspected that Colonel Ware was contemplating a move of the kind. Mr, Gratton is a pleasant in- telligent looking young man of good address and has uot at all the look of a felon, ——— Want Cheap Rate Dexver, Colo., Jun, 1 = wer, —~[Special ram to the Ber.]—The committee appointed by the chamber of commerce to o to Chicago and confer with President Cable with refer- ence to the Rock Island’s entrance into Den and to consult with regard to 5 rate 10 Dey 1 ads into Den ver, ure this afternoon arranging a plan_of procedure. Mr. Fisher, the chairman of the committee, is now in Chicago, where he will be joined by his collea The other mem- bers of the committec are Hon, N. P, Hill, Hon. T. M. Patterson, . 8. Morey, L. C. Ellsworth and H. C. Low e, 'The commit tee will leave for € ago to-night, - Mrs. Keep Satisfied Loxa Istaxp Croy, Jan. 17.—Coroner Rob- inson has granted the application of Mrs. Mary T. Keep to have the bod,y of Char D. Keep exhumed, and has issucd a summons to the authorities of Calvary cemetery to open the grave and take up the casket. This morn- ing the order was ca »d out and the casket taken to the re eiving v ult, where, in the presence of My b, Coroner Robinson and a reporter of the Associated press, it was opened. Though t s evident in an advanced st mposition, the features were as pe lmost as in_life, and Mrs. Keep immedi ognized the body as that of her de sed husband, e Bucking the Knights. OTTAWA, Ont,, Jan. 17.—The movement against the Knights of Labor, headed by the apitalists of the province of Quebec, has been organized. It has been decided to in troduc bill at the coming meeting of the legislature at Quebee to regulate the Knights of Labor and all combinations having fc their object compulsory and arbitrar stoppage of industrial and mercantile oS tablishinents - - A Committee of Co-operation. New Youk, Jun, 17.—A meeting of vidua! bondholders of the Cedar Falls & Minnesota ¥aiivoad compnny was held b to-day and an auxiiliary defense commit was formed for the purpose cosoperating with the bondholders’ compmittec nominated by the trustees. | EXECUTION BY ELECTRICITY, The New York Legislature Receivos a Report Regarding It, ITS ADOPTION RECOMMENDED; Capital Punishment By Shootingy Hanging, the Guillotine or Gare rotte Strongly Condemned By the Commission, Quick and Painless Shufling Off. NEW Yonk, Jan, 17.—[Special Telogram to the Beg.]—The report of the commission ap- pointed by the legislature in 1886 to report. on the most humane and practical method known to modern science of carrying into effect the sentence of death in capital punish- ment was transmitted to - the legislature yes- terday. It recommends the killing of cul- prits by cleetricity. The report says: “Your commission have examined with care the accounts which exist of the various modes of capital punishment, which are or have been used among different communities, with tho result of feeling that the element of barbar- ous cruelty is so prominent in each that no existing mode can be considered as embody- ing suggestions of an improvement of that now in use in this state. Any change to deserve commendation must be to a system substantially new, and the careful reader ef a description of those punishments cannoty without prejudice, arrve ata different conclus sion, The chief objection to the guillotina by the commission is that it is too bloody and that it is associated with scenes of the Frenchy revolution, Garrotting is objectionable because physis cians say that the fatal screw cannot be de= pended upon to be so quick and cortain in operation that there may not be great agony on the part of the criminal. Shooting, if used in civil life, would ba bloody in character and effects, would some- times lack celerity, would require a larga number of executioners and would be demor- alizing because of its tendency to_encouraga an untaught populace to think lightly of tha fatal use of firc arms. ‘The first objection to hanging is that the effect of giving stimulants to the condemned immediately before execution is demoralizing, The prevalance of the practice, commission- ers say, is well known even in prisons whera prisoners are debarred from aleohol to drink. When the unarchists were hanged in Chicago recently, at the suggestion of the sheriff, the county physician went to the cons demned men's cells ana asked them to take stimulants. Engel drank two or three times of port wine and Spies sparingly of Rhine wine. One reason assigned for giving liquor to a criminal is that it is a y to lessen his preception of the pain of ing. Another is that he ¢ an_thus fortify Limself with unnatural strength for the or- As These reanois are objectionable. ing liquor to stupefy a priseior, it is & part of the punishment, then the prisoner should suffer it. Thomas A. Edson writes” that dynamo electric machinery which employs intermit- tent currents would be the most suitable ap- paratus. The passage of a current from these machines through the body causes stant death. The commissioners des number of experiments with electricity in destroying animals, witnessed in llufhllo by one of the commissioners last year, for the purpose of ascertaining the effect of an elec tric light current on the action of the heart. The borax of a chloro- formed dog was opencd so that the lungs and heart could be scen in action by forcing respiration, a8 in conscious life, At the instant when the current passed through the heart it beeame & mass of quiver- ing flesh. The ordinary conditions of dying were absent. It was noticed that an attémpt. to breathe was made after the current was passed through the dog. This indicated that the brain had not lost its susceptibility to im- pressions and shows that in execution the current should be passed through the center of the functions in the brain, The commis- sion recommends that a chair, with a head and a foot rest, should be used. in which the condemned man could be seated in a half reclining position. One wire could be con- nected with the head rest, which would be a metal plate. The clectric current_could be supplied by electrie light wires. The com- mission recommends that the date of execu- tion be made uncertain, so that the eriminal mav not know what day he is to die, and that the corpse g0 to the doctors or to u namelcss #rave without religious rights and that news- pers be forbidden to describe the ex- ecution. - Langtry's High F EW Yourk, Jan. 17.—[Special Te Langtry is the city authorities in consequenc fence she recently crected in front residence on West Twenty-tnird street. The fence is the result of Mrs. Langtry's distaste 1o the curiosity which a certain class of the general public manifests in her movements. Her pretty little house, to which she was driven by her liveried servants,in her own egram to involved with of u high of her carringe, when she, then a subject of the queen, lanaed on a second visit to this country, stands some distance back from tho street and an iron ralling formerly drew the line between the yard and the sidewalk, Along this railing a crowd was wont to gather nightly to stare at the ex-Jersey, now the California lily, as she walked from the front door to the carriage, to be driven to the theater. She possessed a soul of patience, hoping tne custom would glut the curious and enable her to move about like an ordi- nary mortal, not, as she expressed it, like a hunted animal. Though the nuisance abated considerably and the nightly gatherings grew smallér with the passage of time, they wer no meuns discontinued. So- thic fair actress, a month ago, in desperation had o gh board fence erccted, shutting off the view of the house from the street, enabling her to reach the gate, at least, uvobserved. The fence by no meuns lacks ' picturesques ness, The gate post is of brick, surmounted by wsthetic lanterns, But alus’ it Is outside the stoop line and the authorities said she must move it back, A young man first called attention to the encronchment of the side- walk. Whether he was one of the usual nightly throng, and complained out of spite becausg his pazing had been interrupted, is not redorded. i Brith Convention. The annual convention Cureaco, Jan. 1 of District No, 6, Independent Order of Bnai Brith, ended to-night with a secret session, The proposition to increase the membership by admitting yousie men to the order without. compelling them to undertake the responsi- bilities of endowment members was lost by a tic vote. The proposition to employ the £0,000 10w in the surplus fund for the erec tion of a building for the purposes of the or- in Chicago was defeated — An_ additional £30,000 was voted for the extension of the building which will shortly be erected in Cleveland for the orphan asylum, as the original sum of E150,000 appropriated w found to be inadequate. - Representatives Meet., S1. Lovis, Jan. 17.—The passenge of the transcontinental agents lines met to-day and completed their work, adopting ulars aad rules for the guidance of the commissioner and members. A general meeting will be held to-morrow and followed by freight meeting, at which all the details will be arvanged and the association be in working order, practica e — Ireland. Jan. 17 ctment notices have i the Countess of Kingston's earite ut Mitchillstown against 120 teiante Who adopted the plan of campaigu. Eviction DUBLIY been posted ¢