Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1888, Page 1

SEVENTEENTH YEAR. THE OMAHA DalLy BEE. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1888 NUMBER 254, THE GREAT STRIKE ORDERED. General Manager Stone Listens to the Ultimatum. DRIVE WHEELS STOP AT FOUR. At the Hour Named Sixteen Hundred Men Will Quit Their Posts— A Long and Bitter Fight to Be Waged. The War is On. Cnieaco, Feb, 26.—Four o'clock Monday morning was the hour officially aunounced to-day as th e for the great strike on the Chicago, Buriington & Quincy railroad: Between 11 and 12 o'clock this morning, S. C. Hoge, chairman of the grievance commit- tee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers on the Burlingtoir system, and J. H. Murphy, chairman of the grievance commit- tee of firemen, called on General Manager Stone at the company’s offices and gave him verbal notice thiat unless their demands were acquiesced in the men would strike atd o'clock to-morrow morning, Mr. Hoge jefly stated what the men wanted. . Stone heard them through and asked if that was the ultimatum. They said it was. They told him that they, with Chief Arthur, could be found at the and Pacific hotel until 4 o’clock in the morning if he desired to communicate with them. The interview was over and the committec- men retired. ] The grievance committee of the engineers, of which Mr. Hoge, of McCook, Ncb., is chairman, i8 composed of menbers of local divisions of the engineers brotherhood on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system. 1t is a standing committce and has had entire charge of the negotiations with Mr. Stone, general manager of the railroad. The chair- man says that the committee’s direct nego- tiations failing, Chief Arthur was sent for, and he attempted an adjustment of the diffi- culty. He also failed. The committee, after a strike was determined upon, agreed that it should begin at 4 a. m. At that hour most of the engincers will be at the end of thetr runs, and the fewest trains will be motion. All the local a jons, and through them every member of the order employed on the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy system have been notified not to go to work to-morrow morning unless lly advised by the chairman of the vince committee to report for duty. Firemen holding positions dependent to those of engineers have acted with the latter ything, and unless Mr. Stone con- cludes to accede to the terms of the engineers no engine will be run out by the membvers of either brotherhood to-morrow. Trains on the road will be run to the ends of the engine division and stopped. Passenger trains leav- ing any point before 4 o'clock will be run to the end of the division and side-tracked. The immense suburban trafiic of the road threatens to be put to great inconvenience, but it is quite generally expected by the men that the company will be able to employ enough outside peers to run a portion of these trains during the day. ‘0 u representative of the associated press Mr. Stone said there were about sixteen hundred engineers and firemen in their em- loy. How many of these belong to the rotherhood he did not kuow, but presumed they all did. What is your programme for to-morrow 1" asked the reporter. “We will not attempt to move any freight trains,” he replied. *‘Our object is to run most of our suburban and through passenger trains as usual. Our first endeavor will be to get m our suburban passenger and take care of all passengers for points not covered by competitors, There are alarge number of men in our employ capable of running engines, in addition to the yard foremen and road foremen, who nearly all are old engineers. At Aurora we have a large number of young men employed who have all learned the art of running locomotives All these will be pressed into the service to-morrow." “How about the report that you are bring- ingonalotof men from the Reading sys- tem?’ “We have no arrangement or contract to that effect,’” said Mr. Stone. But we have sent east advertisements for competent men, and we have also received a number of tele- grams from individuals in Philadelphia and other Pennsylvania points saying they would come and bring other engineers with them. To ull these I have replied that we will give £00d wages and permanent employment to all men of good character who are competent to do the work.” *‘But would you keep these men in case of settlement with the old men?” +Yes, sir,” said Mr, Stone, emphatically. ‘We want all competent men whom we can devend upon and they will be retained as long as I win manager of the road”, In regard to the freight trafic Mr. Stone said their first endeavor would be to take care of it on the same basis that the would passenger trafic as mentioned above. He could not tell how they would get on until they had sized up the situation. If tne strike was 80 serious as to stop their trafic they would have to lay off all their Ireight handlers and shop men and a number of others employed in a similar capacity, num- bering six or seven times as many as the en- gineers and firemen, He does not, however, anticipate auy such serious state of affairs. The managers ike were the cool- est men in t v, and at a seasonable hour this evening retired to their rooms. The ofticers of the railroad company were acting with equal deliberation. During all the. weeks of negotiations Mr. Stone had not been idle. An agent of his roud went to Reading, Pa., and employed all the train wen he could who had been recently thrown out of employment by the strike on the Philadelphia & Reading lines, Other points were reached by telegraph offering work to idle engineers ory man in the shops who could manage an engine was ordered to be ready to go out with one. Applicants for 1:.1». as engincers got them in a 3 carly this evening the officers of the road said they had enough men to run three trains each way. The company has been running twenty-six such trains daily. DIf the strike assumes the proportions that now seem probable about 11,000 men will be involved. This number includes employes that will be thrown out of employment by the strike of the engineers and tirem: The strike is not likely to involve ap; roads in the opinion of Mr. Arthur and Mr. Sargent, though they expressed no opinion on the contingency that some other company might endeavor to aid the Burlington, “It is purely our own affair,” said Mr. Sar- gent. “No other road is concerned and no order except the engineers and fivemen., The brakemen and switchmen will remain neu- tral. We have not asked them to help us and willnot, 1f we are beaten we propose to stand it alone.” When told of Mr. Stone's final determin tion not to yield to the employes Mr. Arthur's clouded for a moment. He said he was sorry; he hated to see a strike, but under the circumstances no other course could be taken. The men on the entire system were * unanimous for it. He told them of all the difficulty they would have to encounter, but they decided to go into it and the order will do the best it can. When asked if the company can get enough good men, r. Arthur said “1t annot. It may emHluy some men have Ol‘nuul for drunkenness or stealing, but will such men be safe! Can the road afford 0 put passenger trains in the hands of such wen! It won't be long till thése men get them into bigger trouble than we are now by striking for more wi You see how it was on the Reading road. The company can treat with us. We are an intelligent body of %.::e wen they get will not be reason g is the trouble Dbetween the in Reading road, Knights of Labor engincers and the Brotherhood “There is none that T know of. 1 deny the assertion that I sent men to take the places of those now on a strike on that rond. I did not send a man there, 1did not know of any brotherhood engineers had gone to work for that road.” “Have you heard of any Reading men com- ing_here " 1 have not. 1 told our men what they might expect. They discussed this view of the situation and decided to go out. If mu company can get other engincers to fill their our boys must acknowledge their de- Fourteen engineers from the Reading road arrived here to-night and were at once given employment by the Burlington company. The Situation in Omaha. When a Beg reporter visited the passenger depot of the Burlington last night the wait- ing rooms were deserted, and the affable gentleman who sells tickets peered through the wire screen in front of the ticket office, occasionally turning his head around to ad- vance a word in the conversation that was being carried on by a party of gentlemen in the ofice. The Kansas City train, which was scheduled to leave in thirty minutes, was already mude up, and stood on the tracks without waiting for passengers and the signal to start on the journey. There was an appurent look of agitation on the features of the officials present, who, however, retained their usual composure and affability when approached by the reporter and questioned as 10 the latest aspect of the threatened strike among the locomotive engineers of the Bur. lington system. “I know nothing, positively nothing,” said one of the gentlemen, addng, ~“All our trains have arrived = and de- parted on time to-day. and our ast train out, the Kansas City run, is made up and will leave on time us nearas I can rstand.” he reporter informed the gentleman that o dispateh had been received from Chicago to the effect that the strike had been ordered fowd a. m. To this he replied: “As to that 1 cannot say of my own personal knowledge. All the engineers 1 have spoken to are_dumb 2 oysters, and their mouths are sealed.” tepping out on the platform, the reporter encountered an almost wholly deserted train as far as passengers were concerned. With the exception of the two occ Pullman, the day conches were engine that was to pull the train wi attached, and snorted and puffed with dismal frequency. In the forward, or smoking coach, the engincer who was to preside over ' the train, lay stretched out between two seats attired in his overalls and walus, and leisurely pufing away on a cigar and talking to a fellow engineer. Others of the train hands sat close by, and the reporter mingled among them. An acquaintance wus struck, and the enginecer told the reporter that he was a member of the brotherhood. ““Have you been notified yet that the strike has been ordered for 4 o'clock to-morrow morning?" questioned the reporter. “No," was the curt reply. “Report has it that orders to that effect have been sent out from Chicago,” was the reportorial rejoinder, ! The engincer expressed no surprise over the news, and it occurred to him at that moment he had to go out and “oil up” his engine, Once outside the engineer stated that while he ha vot received any definite orders he was expecting them. When he did get them, however, it would not be in Omaha, as there i8 no one in authority in this city to promulgate them. There is no branch’ of the Burlington brotherhood in Omaha, the order centralizing at Lincoln and Plattsmouth, where the officers are lo- cated. It is from these points that official instructions will be issued, and further than that the engineer would not speak. Stepping over to the Union Pacitic depot the reporter encountered a man who solicited the ticket agent there to exchange a Burling- ton ticket for one on the Union Pacific line. “They told me,” spoke up the ticket ex- changer, “over to the Burlington depot that they would not guarantee me_transportation after 4 o'clock to-morrow morning, and as that would leave me a good ways this side of my destination, which 1 am anxious to reach, I came here upon their instructions to ex- change tickets and take the Union Pacific.” The ticket seller gave the applicant a Union Pacific pasteboard and he went his way rejoicing. To the reporter the ticket agent said that he had made a few such ex- changes during the evening. It was an un- usual thing to do, but he had received orders to make all exchanges on application. Meeting a Burlington ofticial a little later the reporter buttonholed him for information regarding the situation, but he expressed total ignorance, Questioned as to the causes leading to an exchunge of tickets h the Union Pacific road, he reluc- tantly said that the Burlington company an- ticipated the strike for Monday morning and were guarding against having any of their patrons laid out at points far from the des- tinations they had bought tickets to. A visit to the yards of the Burlington com- pany presented convineing proofs that trouble was anticipated. No freight trains were being sent out, and only two freights had been dispatched during the day. Tho yardmaster said that no more would be sent out during the night. and he and his crews were working like beavers crowding all the loaded cars up to nm-k;‘pumcmc freight house. The yard engfnes were manned by their regular engineers, and ‘when spoken to in reference to the rumored impending ‘“walk out” they refused to answer. At the yards it was learned from men in a position to know thut at 4 o'clock this morning every engineer on the whole Burlington system would refuse to work any longer, until the existing dificulty was settled. Last night there was not a road engineer in the city, some being compelled by their runs to be in Lincoln and Plattsmouth, and the others being absent by their own free wiil, It is understood that meetings of the brother- hood were held at Plattsmouth and Lincoln last night. At Lincoln. Lixcory, Neb,, Feb, 26.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—The local brotherhoods of both engineers and firemen have been in session to-day and at this hour are holding a meeting, at the local headquarters of the road. Superintendent Calvert was at his of- fice during the evening hours, but nothing is divulged as to the course the road will take, The central position which Lincoln occupies in the Burling ton system in the state makes nearly two-hundred ensineers and firemen residents here and a strike will temporarily stop work for a large number of employes. Some eighty trains arrive and depart from this point and other roads here are preparing for extra busiuess. At McCook. McCook, Neb., Feb. 20.—[Special Tele- gram to the BEe. ] —About two hundred Bur- lington engineers and firemen are stationed at McCook. All trains, both passenger and freight, will be left at div n stations. The men at this point seem determined that this strike shall settle the long mooted question between them and the company. There will be no noise or display, but when the boys are called to go out on their runs to-morrow morning they will not respond. Passengers No. 2 east-bound and No. 15 and No. 8 west- bound, will remain in the yard here until S0WC one can b red to run them out. The brotherhood of engineers has offered the company 1o run its mail train if so requested. At Kansas City. Kaxsas City, Mo, Feb, 26.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bek.]—A meeting of the Kan- sas City division of the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Engineers was Leld this afternoon and the order for a strike on the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney to take effect at 4 0'clock to-morrow morning read and endorsed. The Kansas City, St, Joe & Council Bluffs and the Hannibal & St. Joe to-day ued a statement that until further notice no perish- able freight would be received. The Chi- cago & Alton will carry passengers of the Burlington bound for Chicago. The Bur- linzton officials here say thut they are ready for the strike and that it bas been. deter- \ mined not to accede to the demands of the strikers, The Knights Want Revenge. Cnicaco, Feb. 2%.—General Worthy Fore- man Richard Griffiths, of the Knights of Labor, said plainly this evening that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers need not expect the knights to kecp their hands oft. Mr. Grifiiths was scen at his home this evening and talked unrestrainedly of the im- pending strike in its relations to the Knights af Labor, He said: **The knights are lookers ‘How about the manner in which the knights were treated by the brotherhood dur- ing the Missouri Pacific strike two yearsago? Did not the brotherhood then replace about two hundred K. of L. strikers!" “Yes, they most certainly did."” “And do you not think but for this action on the part of the brotherhood that the strike inaugurated by the knights would have pFoven a success?” “There is very little doubt on that point. The same thing has just happened in the Reading strike, as every one who reads a newspaper knows. Just as soon as the strike was declarcd on, the brotherhood began fill- ing vacancies, These actions on the part of the brotherhood do not naturally tend to cement them and the knights, Tit for tat is a game that people of our day like to indulge in and I don’t see why knights should be ex- ceptions, If the locomotive engineers in our body see fit to accept positions on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail- road most certainly they are entitled to do as they please. It is a matter resting entirely in their hands, and with which we, as a body, have nothing to do. The adoption’ of retali- tory measures is mot a new thing, and I mit that T wonld not be surprised brought into use by the knights, Thus far, however, no action that 1 know of has been taken by the Chicago kmights.” “‘Dispatches from Reading state that the knights there are being rapidly and readily engaged by the Burlington people.” “Is that sot Well, I'm not surprised in the least, and now, since that is the case, you may look out for u similar order of things here.” A Conditional Promise. Pritaverenia, Feb, 26.--George I, East- man, national organizer of the Knights of Labor, 18 authority for the statement that the executive committee of the Reading rail- road strikers have notified General Mana, Stone, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quine, railroad, that in the event of a strike on hi: road and the failure of Chief Arthur to with- draw the brotherhood engineers who took the kers on the Reading rood will send him 300 engineers to-morrow morning, Searching For Scabs. READING, Pa., Feb, 25.—It is learned here to-night that an agent of the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy railroad has been in this vicinity several days recruiting striking engineers and firemen of the Reading rail- road whose places were taken by brother- hood men, to send them to Chicago in case the strike should occur on the western road. It is said he has obtained a promise of quite a number to o west. Started After Situations. POTISVILLE, 26.—A number of the striking engineers and firemen of the Reading railroad m this city and Palo Alto have left for Chicago to t co with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad in view of the impending strike of locomotive engineers on thet road. The Feeling in Philadelphia. PuiLapeLria, Feb. In spite of the ad- vices from Pottsville und clsewhere, the opinion seems to prevail among the Knights of Labor here and Reading that any man who goes to take the places of the brother- hood men on the Burlington road will go on his individual preference and not under au- thority from the Knights of Labor. Master Workman Kelly said emphatically that the knights as a body would not make an_effort to defeat the brotherhood. Others said they favored rebuking the brotherhood for the ast unkindness by staying away from Chi- cago. Captured a Murderer. Sr. Joserm, Mo., Feb. 25 gram to the Bee.]—The pol t. Joseph believe that they have in their possession the murderer of Frank Matson, the Dane who was found dead in the Smoky Hill river near Junction City, Kan. Matson, it is thought, was murdered for lus money, it being proved at the coroner’s inquest that in Decembeghe had $40 in money and a fine gold wafch. Other facts go to prove that he was murdered at that time. Matson was last seen in com- with Fred Blackburn and his wife, who camping out near Junction C On last Thursday night a man by the name of Fred Blackburn was ‘-quun-d by the police in this city. in his posses- sion a bundle of clothes which had just been stolen from a clothes line, He was tried and sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the county jail. Blackburn and his wife came to St. Joseph from Fort Riley, Kan., about De- cember 1. The Junction City Dispatch says that the Blackburns, who were last seen with Matson, left about this time for Fort Riley to work on the improvements being made by the government there. In view of these facts the police are oonfident they have the right man and have telegraphed to the authorities at Junction City informing them of the fac Blackburn’s wife was arrested at 8 o'clock this morning. e The Fire Record. Burraro, Feb, 26 —The Curtiss building was destroyed by fire this morning. The loss to the various occupants and on the building aggregate £370,000, The Express newspaper and Mathews & Northrup print- ing and lithographing company are among the heaviest losers. Sureverort, La., Feb, 26.—'The Tilley hotel was burned last night. R. C. Craig, of wcinnatl, was burned to death. puc kit McGeoch “Cornered." Ciicaco, Feb, 26.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]—Mrs. M T, Libbey, of Ken- wood, and Peter McGeoch, of Milwaukee, the celebrated lard “‘cornerer,” were quictly married this afternoon at the residence of the bride’s sister, Mrs. Dexter G, Browne. There were only ten or adozen intimate friends present. The newly wedded couple left for their Milwaukee home at 6 o'clock. ———— Prince Ferdinand’s Position. CoNsSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 26.—Nelidorff, the Russian ambassador, handed the porte to-day a note on the illegal position of Prince Ferdi- nand of Bulgaria. The Count of Montebelio and Herr Von Radowitz, French and German ambassadors, also visited the porte. The supposed subject of their visit was to sup- port Nehdorff, - - ‘Wreck on the Canadian Pacific. St. Pa Feb. 26.—A serious accident oc- curred on theCanadia Pacific at Sudbury Junce- tion, east of Winunipeg, Thursd, A broken rail (threw one coach, the dining car and sleeper of the west bound train off the track, the dining car shing into the coach. All of the sixteen passengers in the coach were injured, six severel R England and Turkey. Pawis, Feb, 26.—Le Temps reports that England is negotiating with Turkey for the cession to England of Salonica and an island commanding the Dardanelles, England guar- anteeing to the sultan the possession of Stam- boul, with the immediate district of the Bos: phorous, Dardauelles and algythe Asiatic provinces, ——— Four Women Killed in a Panic, ‘Wansaw, Feb. 20.—A panic was caused in the Jewish synagogue yesterday by a false alarm of fire and in the struggle to escape four women were killed and sixteen other persons seriously injured, . CROOK IS THE COMING MA His Chances Oonsiderod Good As General Terry’s Successor. THE LATTER SOON TO RETIRE. Miles Said to Be in Bad Standing ‘With the President and Secre- tary of War—An Expor of Shylock: General Terry to Retire. WaAsHINGTON BUREAU THE OMANA HER, 513 FOURTEENTH STREET, ‘WasniNgron, D. C., Feb. 26. A writer 1n to-day’s Capital says: *'1 hear that Major General Alfred H. Terry is really going to retire from active service when his present leave of four months expires, and that President Cleveland will therefore have the appointment of a major general and a brigadier general in the army. Although General Miles is, as usual, making an active push for the major generalcy, there is little doubt that Brigadier General George Crook will be the man selected. He has always been a favorite with General Sheridan und it is well known that Miles has failed to es- tablish the best relations with the secretary of war and President Cleveland on account of the Apache business in 1836, There will be a lively contest for the major general's place and probably more than half a dozen candidates will put in their claims forit. Several of them have been in Washington already looking over the ground. I am told that either Colonel Brooks, of the Third, or Colonel Otis, of the Twentieth, will get the place.” The above is in accord with the statement made a month ago in a Bex special, MR, CORCORAN'S ESTATE. To-morrow the Di t oftices will be closed during the funeral hours of the venerable W. ‘W. Corcoran, the philanthropist who died on Friday morning. Mr. Corcoran’s will is to be offered for probate on Tuesday. Itis un- derstood that he has changed it many times. His estates will foot up something less than $4,000,000. Much of thisis in real estate in Washington. The Corcoran building is worth at least £500,000 and the Arlington hotel property as much more. Mr. Corcoran’s residence is willed to his grandsons and will be kept by them as their home. Mr. Corcoran signed a check for the last time about a week before his death. He retained intimate knowledge and control of his large affairs until the very last. It is hoped that the death of Mr, Corcoran, who was the instigator of and the principal subscriber to the fund with which it was proposed to purchase a house in this c‘le‘ for the widow of the late General W. S. Hancock, may not seriously interfere with the plan contemplated. Doubtless the eminent phi- lanthropist, who is Known to have given hie personal attention ta the most tr details of his extensive business relations, was care- ful to make provision while still mgm ession of s faculties for the execution of this de- sign. Mrs. Hancock, by the way, far from at- tending the fair of the Grand Army of the Republic, as stated in the papers of the city, has been contined , to her room at the Fes dence of Captain @Griffin, U. S. A, Dby severe indisposil She has, however, evinced the warm intevest she takes in the object of the exhibition by contributing various articles to the booth dedicated to her husband. : DEPARTMENT CLERKS AS BROKERS, A clerk in the war department has resigned and written a letter to the secretary of war, stating that he was financ ruined by the department brokers, who had loaned him money and charged him 5 per cent a month or 60 per cent & yeur. The letter coutained the names of the ‘‘clerks’ brokers” and also gave the names of some of their customers, The writer said he had paid one of them nearly the amount he owed him without de- asing the debt any, as it all went in inter- t. As he saw no prospect of getting out of their clutches and as nearly all his salary went to them in interest, hé resigned to start life anew in New York. He closed the letter by stating that he wrote it to relieve, if pos- sible, the unfortunates who were now in their clutches and requesting that they be ated. He says he is willing to sub- stantiate his allegations at any time. There is a rule in the war department prohibiting employes from engaging in a brokerage busi- The matter created a great deal of nt among the clerks, as it is thought nations of the men mentioned in the letter will be called for. WOMEN AND STATESMANSHIP, Samuel J. Randall is at his home on Capi- tol Hill recuperating under the watchful care of Mrs. Randall from the illness which at- tended his political journey to Philadelphia a week ago. Speaker Carlisle is in Wichita, Kan., in close attendance on-Mrs. Carlisle, who'is needed there to care for her son and daughter-in-law. Mrs. Carlisle did some hard traveling between Suturday and Wednesda, She left Wichita Saturday night, arrived here Monday mornmg, and left again on Tuesday with the speaker, ar- riving in Wichita on Thursday. MRS, HICKS-LORD. ‘The new society swell, Mrs. Hicks-Lord, has taken for two months the house at 1510 N street, owned by Captain Mills, of the army, and is now m New York making preparations to return in the course of the present week. The recent visit of Mrs. Lord to Washington was for the purpose of attend- ing the dinner given the cardinal by Mrs. Dahlgreen, and during her stay at the Arlington she was accompanied by her maid and two relatives, whose duty is to attend heron all occasions when she wears her diamonds in public. At that time Mrs. Lord had no idea of making other than ashort stay, but she was 8o pleased with the it that she decided to return here to reside dur- ing the months of March and April to escape the bleak winds of New York, which are apt to produce a throat trouble. Mrs, Lord will give a series of dinner parties and quiet en- tertainments during her stay, as her recent experience in New York has decided her never to give another lurge party. MINOR MATTERS. To-day's Post says: *The engagement of Lieutenant Bennutt and Miss Hayden, of Ne- braska, who visited friends here during the past season, has been recently announce Associate Justice Lamar, of the supi (;;mll'l,lmxb:ll last nwlod.llll 'nm.n'luu:‘ fame, e has been photographed in his flowing silk gown .nfi wviewed asone in a group of nine justices. He looks remarkably well, The picture of which he is a part is the larg- cst ever taken in this city, the dimensions of the actual plate being 25x36 inches. Mrs. Senator Hawley has entered largely into the charities of our city and has shown a keen interest, mot, only theoreti practically, 1 the work of the diffe tutions, more especially all that concerns the welfare of the Garfield hospital. The amendment to be made to the senate rules which prohibited a report by the com- mittee on appropriations on a bill which has been received from the house under five days, will, it is thought, huve the effect, as i tended, of hurrying up work in the lower house on the aporopriation bils. Perny S, Heatn, Gossips About Blaine. WasniNaroy, Feb. 26.—[Special Pelegrame to the Bee.] —That Mr. Blaine is now clear outside of the way of the range of presi dential possibiliti no omne in Washington secis to doubt to-night. The last interview with him, cabled from Florence and pub- lished to-day, puts at vest all of the hopes that he intended to secure a. renomination and accept as the unanimous and persistent, wish of his party. The staunch Blaine wen in Washington now acknowledge that their leader means tp force himself, if nccessar; really does mot” want the race under any circumstances. As & somewhat remarkable coincident a local newspaper to-day publishes a confidential circular jssued by ex-Senator Mahone from the republican state exccutive committee at his home in Petersburg, Va., announcing that Mr. Blaine could not fearry’ New Yor! and advising the republicans of the Old Do- minion to seek a national leader elsewhere. Mahone states in his confidential circular that it wag Blaine who bargamed with the democrats when ho (Mahone) entered the senate in 1881, to do nothing to help the Ma- hone party in'Virginia, in consideration tha the democrats would help the administration to defoat Conkling, and up to the date of Garfleld’s death the administration did noth- ing " Mor T the o Mahono peopl that during Garfleld’s life as president Mahone could not get a democratic post- master or route agent removed; that Biaine had bargained with the democrats that_noth- ing should be done to help the liberal mov ment in Virginia, ete. Mahone states further in his circular that if Blaine should be nom- inated now no one ought to doubt that the re. publicans in Virginia would be given the cold shoulder ns in 1884; that they would be abs abandoned ‘and given neither help, ition nor encouragement unless a very solid south and the manly deport- ment of every delegation at _Chicago would compel this_consideration, “Mahone says further that Indiana and Virginia, inde- pendent of New York, will elect the 'ticket and for those two states and West Virginia the fight ought to be earnestly made and will be made with any other candidate than Blaine. The circular contains & number of other reflections and charges against Blaine, and its author calls upon those receiving it to bave resolutions passed at the meetings to elect delegates endorsing his own course at the head of the party and_instructing dele- gates to vote as a unit for Sherman, The Removal of Libby Prison. WASHINGTON, al Telegram to the Ber.]— in a com- munication to the Ricmond Dispatch in re- gard to the proposed transfer of Libby prison from Richmoud to Chicago, writes as fol- lows: 4 would not like to see the old house removed, as around it clusters some of the memorics ot a happy youth and early man- hood, but if it is to be carried to Chicago and converted into a museum, whose walls are to be decorated with seenes of incidents relative to the prison, I could furnish a pen picture from facts, which, if faithfully portrayed on canvas, should have @ conspicuous place among them. It is this: An old, gray-haired man (whoso only offense against the United States government was in having o person numed after him by accident and a sonin the confederate army) being carried through the streets of Boston hand- cuffed, and followed by a jeering and hooting | Also my mother, auntand sister, the Jast with o nursing babe in her_arms, being conducted to the alms house in Norfolk, V., by a colored guard with drawn sabres. ' But 1'am now a loyal citizen of the United States and think such scenes and_incidents should be forgiven and forgotten.” The Coming Week in Congress. ‘Wasnixgrox, Feb. 26.—The unfinished business for the morning hour in the senate is the Nicaragua canal bill and that for 2 o'clock is the dependent pension bill. Sena- tor Plumb has given notice of his purpose to call up as soon as possible the bill to forfeit unearned land grants, and Senator Allison has announced & similar purpose respecting the undervaluation bill. Both measures are likely to be brought forward before the end of the weck. The regulaa order will be set aside temporarily for consideration of the urgent deficiency bill, which the appropria- ticns<ommittee promises to report within a day or two. In the house the whole of the coming week has been disposed of in advance by the as- signment of days to the committees for action upon measures recommended by them. On Tucsday the house will consider public building bills. Wednesday afternoon eulo- gies will be delivered on the late Representa- tive Moffatt, of Michigan. Thursday the committee on foreign affairs will call up the Paris exposition bill and McCready's meas ure to provide -for a congress of A nations, Saturday, if the house is in - sion, will be resumed discussion of the Pa- cific railroad telegraph bill, Preparing For the Campaign. WasniNGToN, Feb, 2.—Representative J. T. Jones, of Alabama, chairman of the demo- cratic congressional campaign committee, on the part of the house of represcntatives, has appointed the following exceutive commit- tees: Bentou McMillin, of Tennessce, H. W. Townshend, of Illinois, Levi Maish, of Pennsylvania, Samuel Dibble, of South Carolina, L. 8. Boyce, of New York,"S. O. Fisher, of Michigan, George D. Wise, of V ginia, John A. Macdonald, of Minnesota, John'A. McShane, of Nebraska, and I F. McKinney, New Hampshir The democratic exceutive committee on the partof the senate are: Scnators John k. KKenna, of West Virginia, George Hearst, of California, and James K. Jones, of Arkansas. it s THE PIANO PRODIGY. Little Josef Hofmann to Play No More For Some Years, New York, Feb, 26.—[Special Telegram to the Bek.]-The caseof Josef Hofmann, is exciting a good deal of interest and opin- 1ons are divided as to the justice of Herr Casimer Hofmann's action in suddenly with- drawing his son from the concert stage. Mr. and Mrs, Hofmamn are unquestionably alarmed about the boy's health, and they have some reason to be. Dr. Shrady’s com- ments on the boy’s state caused his parents to believe that further appearance would lead to a serious illness. Mr. Hofmann is firm in his decision that the boy shall not play any move for some years. He wishes to take his gifted child back to Europe as soon as possible and no have him appear in public again before he is fifteen years of age. He believes his son is a genius and that his own duty is to foster the boy's gifts and let nothing stand in the way of their full devel- opment., Josef hunself appears to be tired, and declared that he does not want to play and«will not be forced to. The trouble from which he is suffering, and ‘which gives evi- ce of nervous unsettlement, made its ap- pearance some time ago and was detected by his mother, he father at first deemed it of no consequence, but subsequently, when it grew worse and the mother's fears increased, Mr. Hofmann, without consulting anyone, wrote his lettér to Mr. Abbey. S, A Woman's Divorce Mania. , Feb. 26.—[Special Telegram Another one of the series of actions which Anna Zolalka has brought against her husband, John Zolalka, for di- vorce was on the special calendar yesterday This woman has sued for divorce several times before and her husband has been successful in defeating them. The woman's efforts to get a divorce extend over ten or twelve years. Some of the attorneys in the case say the woman has a mania in this di- rection, The defendant is a farmer at Hop- kins, His property is valued atabout $50,000. B e Weather Indications. For Nebraska: Fair weather, slowly ris- ing temperature, light to fresh northerly. winds, shifting to north, For lowa: Fair weather, stationary, fol- lowed by slowly rising temperature, slight to fresh northerly winds, becoming variable, For Eastern and Southwestern Dakota: Warmer, fair weather, light to fresh varlable winds, becoming southerly. B Steamship Arrivals. New Youk, Feb, 2. —[Special Telegram to the Bek.)—Arived—The Umbria, from Liver- pool; La Champaigne, from Havre; the Scandinavia, from Mediterrancan ports; the Le Erden, from Rotterdam. ; Havie, Feb, 26, —Arrived—La Gascoigne, out of the presid ntal race, and that he ‘(rom New York, NEWSPAPERS." An English Clergyman Pays Compli- ments to the Press. Copyright 1888 by James Gordon Bennett.| Loxvoy, Feb. 26.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to the Bee.]—More blizzard weather, The only living Londoner appar- ently happy was the polar bear at the Zoo. The metropolitan Sunday is therefore sadder to-day than ever. Hearing that Rev. Stop- ford Brooke, who has a species of independent Episcopal church in the Bloomsbury district, was soon to visit New York, I attended upon his ministrations this morning and inter- viewed him. His church is a fashionable one, but his congregation was low Jn figures to-day, like the thermometer. He warmed his audience, however, with a capital sermon from Luke xi.—about Martha, the care- ful and troubled, and Mary, choos- ing the good part, Giving an es- sayist much like the late Rev. Henry A. Giles, of Boston, and a speaker who makes rhetorical sketches as a word painter upon this contrast of the two sisters in connection with the opposites of worldly worries and salvation seeking, and one can readily imagine what a fine elocutionary ser- mon was produced. After the sermon ended Mr. Brooke had very little to say in an interview r cting his American intentions. He expected to en- gage in a short lecturing tour, of which the details were now arranging, His state of health demanded some change of scene, = He is well built, very tall, healthtully burley with a courtesy of manner and a smile very winnin, He invited me to his evening dis- course, which was on “Newspapers.” The evening congregation was a large one. Mr. Brooke spoke for an hour and a half. The general scope of his discourse was in défense of them in general, without detail or specifi- cations. He arvgued against the usual flip- pant allusions to the press in common conversation or dramas, ete. He gave the newspaper a high position as a teacher of the people and claimed that even a flippast and what Carlyle called & “frothy gazette,” had its uses in appealing to certain classes, who thus bgan rexding by being attracted because themselves flippant and frothy, and thus they were led on to wishing for and reading better. He con- tended that the newspapers adapted them} selves to the local or popular taste of the neighborhood of their circulation. Their errors were instigated often by popular de- . He said the newspaper aided books cience and discoveries. For instance, Darwin's theories were put twenty yeal ahead of their ordinary book growth by newspaper discussion. The newspapers con- stituted the condiment to the larger feast of reason. His whole effort, in logical sequences and apt illustrations, tended to assign to moder newspapers of the highest grades the very first places over all educators. The di: course is to be published in pamphlet shap - THE CL| RANC RECORD. The Financial Transactions of the Past Week. BostoN, Mass., Feb. 20.—[Special Tele- dam to the Bee.]—The following table compiled from dispatches to the Post from the managers of the leading clearing-houses of the United States, shows the gross ex- changes for the week ended February 25, 1888, with the rate per cent of increase or de- crease as compared with the amounts for the sponding week last ye CITIES, CLEARINGS asvazou! Boston Philade Pittsburg, Baltimore. New Orlea Cincinnati Kansas Ci Louisvill Proylden Detroit Milwauks 8t. Paul, Cleveland; Minneapol Omabha. Memphi Denv Columt Indianapolis Hartford . Peoria. 240,207 St. Josepil.. 1L111016 New Haven Springficld *Duluth. Worcester Norfolk Portland Galyeston Wichita. Lowell Grand “Rapid Syracus *Quinc; Total. Outside New York *Not included In totals, S SMALLPOX An Epidemic of the Disease on the Little 1sland. NEew York, Feb. 26.—[Special Telegram to ng in Cuba writes from Havana under date of February 16 that smallpox is raging in Cuba to an alarming extent. A protest, he suys, from the local board of charity to the mayor of that place draws attention to the fact that between last May and January of this year 2,000 persons have died of the plague in Havana, and during the same time 4,000 have fallen victims to it in other parts of the island. Regala and Quanabacoa, at the harbor of Havana, are full of the dise: and the authorities, accagding to the protest quoted, are doing nothing to quell the epidemic, Recently it was discovered that the only at- tempt at a hospital in Ha ashed i which forty-eight patients were c for by a negro attendant, whose only provisions consisted of a few quarts of mnilk. Quarantine Commissioner Nichols and Sec- retary Millen said to-day that they had no official reports of the small pox epidemic in Cuba and did not kuow of any special quar- antine regulations upon vessels arriving from Cuban ports, Meantime two lines of steam- ships, carrying as many passengers as they can, regularly ply between this port and Havana, Santiago and other Cuban cities without any quarantine detention or special examination upon their arrival here, e Light Losses 1n Range Cattle. Dexver, «Colo. 'h, 20,—President Head, of the International Range association, who has returned from an extensive trip through southern Colorado, New Mexico and T , says the orts in eirculation that the loss on range cattle this winter will reach from 50 to 35 per cent are false. The losses, he says, will be comparatively light. sl lin- b Dominick Going to England. ¢ Youk, Feb. 26.—|Special Telegram to the Bee.]—The report that Dominick MecCaffrey, the Pittsburg pugilist, had sailed for Europe is confirmed, much t the sur prise of everyone here. His intention is to make & match with Smith as an “*Unknown" for the English championship and for heavy stakes, T ¢ 01,440 A 600,020 584, ITL;‘ SRS e Return of the President. WasHiNaTo, Feb, he presidential party arrived ut 8 o'clock this morning from their trip to Florida and the south. ~All ex- ACQUITTED OF THE MURDER. A Denver Jury Diecharges the Slayer of Effile Moore. —_ TRANSITORY FRENZY THE PLEA, Young Henry Plays the Impassioned Lover on «he Witness Stand— The Public Not Satisfiéd With the Verdict, Set at Liberty., Dexver, Colo., Feb. 20.—[Special Teles gram to the B he ju in the case of Charles E. Henry, charged with the murder of little Efie Moore, the variety actress at the Palace theater in this city on the night of the 15th of November last, at 1:45 this morne ing returned a verdict of acquittal after have ing been out two hours, The case has been on trial for three days and has created no littlo interest among all classes of people, The verdict does not seem to be generally pleasing, as the killing was doubtless cold blooded and the public scems to think the de- fendant should have at least reccived o lighty punishment for his act. Henry, who is only nineteen years of age, came here from Lone don, Ont., some time last October, and began gambling, at which he was quite successful, as at the time of his arrest ho had about £5,000 on his person. He visited the Palace theater, a variety in thy lower part of the city, a few days after his arrival, and fell desperately in love with Effe Moore, a song and dance girl. He made her acquaintance, and in a short time asked her to marry him, to which she consented. Their love affair ran along merrily until a few days befora the tragedy, when Henry learned that his love was the wife of William Carroll, an actor in the same theater, and it was also told him that the girl was keeping her marrisge from him for the purpose of working him for all the money she could. On the night of the 1ith Henry went to the theater, called Effic intoa box, ordered wine, and while she was sitting on his lap ac- cused her of deceiving him. She acknowl- edged that she had, but said she still loved him and was willing to get a divorce from Carroll and marry him. Before any further conversation coule take place, she was called to the stage to do her turn, after which she returned to the box, where Henry was still sitting. She had hardly closed the door before three shots rang out through the theater, and when the attendants entered Henry's boy they found him standing over Eftie Moore, With 4 smoking revolver in his hand, while’ the gigI lay upon the floor dead, with one_ bullet through her heart, another in her breast to the right of the heart, and a third through her left hand, Henry sted, jailed, und on prelim- in was admitted to bail in the sum. kS hich was furnished by his fam ily in’ Ontario. He, how efused to accept bail, and remained in juil until the trial. Some of the hest attorneys in the city were employed in the defense and the plea of ‘“transitory frenzy” was entered, Henry, on the witness stand, cried and talked with all the ardor of an impassi lover. He said he had always loved the girl, and always would, and that while she was sitting on_his lap talking love, he suddenly felt a Tinging in his ears, dullness in his head, and @ pain as though struck on the head with something hard, and remembered 1o more until he saw the glrl lying at his foet dead. Henry's people are among “the most promi- nent in'Canada, and his two brothers were here during the trial. He will ro to-morrow. The pai de in Kansas City. A WYOM Strange Lif 'TE CRISTO, of the Old Hermet of the Devil's Bite." Laxoer, W, . 20.—[Correspondenco of the BeE.]—Ten yearssince there appeared in this section a Jew named Abraham Solo- mons, who has since become famous in the annals of the Lander valleys and the Wind mountains, Towering above the long abandoned but traditionally rich gold diggings of the “Devil’s Bite” is Spruce peak. Hulf way up oneof the steep sides of this lofty pealk, hid~ den in a dense forest of spruce timber is an immense cave,or rather grotto—for it is mora wide than decp. In this grotto, Abraham Solomons, self-withdrawn from his kind, with no companionship but the birds of the air, the beasts of the mountain and nature in her most unbending and savage uspect, ten years ago made his home, and in that home he has since dwelt. When Solomons first entered into possess sion of his singular and isolated habfs tation, he frequently appeared in the settle- ments of the Lander valley, and regular)y called for the numerous letters of which he was in receipt from various castern points, nctably New York City, As time passed on this correspondenca gradually fell off, and with its final cessation there ceased also the pilgrimages of Solos mons to frontier civilizatien, and now for the past seven years the solitary of Spruce Peak has been a stranger to all that i human, except an_occasional visit from wans dering mountain hunters and trappers. Solomons is probably a man of sixty years of age, though with his long and tangied iron gray hair and beard, and the dress throughs out of the skins of wild beasts, he bears little resemblance to a man of any kind. This singular being has not tasted bread for loag years, depending entirely for sustenanca upon the flesh of mountain game and the pulse of mountain borrics, He carries hg arms, offensive or defensive, except a sling, but ' with this he i as expert as was David of old, and the animal finding itself with the range of this sling is as surcly doomed us though it stood as a target for the most uncrring hunter’s rifle of the mountaing Custom aud necessity have also made Solos mons an adept in the minor branches of woodcraft, and the snares spread and traps set by this mountain hermit truely fail of their prey. ‘The most popular local theory regarding the singular life led by Abraham Solomons is that he is familiar with hidden and rich placers of the deserted diggings of the “‘Dey= il's Bite,” and that during all of these lone} years he has amassed gold untold. ~ The e: planation is fascinating and possible, Bad Fire at Sioux City, Siovx Ciry, Ia., Feb. 26.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—Kingsnoth & Buxton's livery stable was completely destroyed by fire this afternoon. The fire originated in the harness room and spread with great ra- ndity, the building being in flames almost as soon as the alarm was turned in. The stable was the most ext n the city and the loss about £25.000, be ed to be fulll covered by insurance, A violent win threatened to spread the flames for a time, but it was finally gotten under control, only one other building, that of Dr. Douglas, hay- idg been burned. About fifty horses were taken out of the barn, ~ Fifteén of them aro badly scorched, six of them so badly that will have to be killed, Jold in Dakota, Siovx Ciry, la., Feb, 26.—[Special Teles gram to the Her.|—(ntense cold and high w inas are reported from various points in southern Dakota, again blocking or seriously delaying trains on nearly all the railroads. Close of the Revival, Siovx Ciry, la, Feb. 26.—[Special Telos gram to the Bee.]—Mr. Moody closed his revival meetings to-day, There were threa services, each one attended by immen: crowds. Hundreds of people were me away from the doors, Mr. Moody leaves press themselves us dehighted with thelr trip. | the morning for Sioux Falls, el