Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 2, 1888, Page 2

- 2 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MARCH 2 1888, - CHARCED WITH WIFE MURDER A Post Mortem Examination Causes a Husband's Arrest. FOUND HER NECK WAS BROKEN. A Bridge Builder Fatally Shot in a i 8aloon Row-—The Sweney Bill Likely to 1'ass—Other lowa News, Her Neck Was Brokon. Onaxar Crry, In., March 1.—[Special Tele gram to the Ber.]—Last Saturday near Hull, in Sioux county, Mrs, James Lestor died. She'was buried Sunday, but yesterday her father, suspecting foul play, had the body exhuriied. To-day a coroner's jury found that. her neck had been broken. Her hus- band says he was in the barn shelling corn at the time, of her deth.” He will be ar- rested. * Fatally Shot. Storx Orty, Ia., March 1.—[Special Tele- gram to the BerJ-In a droogken row ina #aloon i Covington, Neb,, Louis Magruder wh fatally shot about 4 o'clock this after- noon. Magruder, in company with a half dozon other workmen on the new Omaha bridge, entered the saloon and made an as- sault on a party of negroes. A free fight en- sied in° which several revolver shots were fired. Mogruder was shot in the abdomen, and will probably die before morning. Sev- eral of the parties are undes rest. Coving- ton is just opposite Sioux City, and the clos- ing of the saloons here has caused an inigra- tion of tough characters thithe: itpon— An Engineer Killed. ATrANTIC, la, March 1.—Special to the Bee.]—Yesterday afternoon Harry Deeter, engineer on No. 207, was killed. His train left here about 3:80 o'clock. When he pulled out he gave orders to his fireman to start, and he would catch on to the caboose and walk up to the engine. The fireman ran to Wyata, ‘where inquiry was made for Deeter, but he was not found, The next freight brought his mangled body to this city. It was found about one and onc-half miles east of here. Deeter was a resident of Stuart and leaves a ‘wife and ohe child. —— ‘ Legialators at Soa. Des Moikgs, Ia., March 1.—[Special Tele- " gram to the Bzr.]—The scrap book style of wailroad legislation received a heavy back set ,'In the house to-day. The bill fixing a maxi- ‘mum schedule of rates had beou the special order for two days. It was made up hastily and crudely by a sub committee of the rail- road committee. The members generally have mo more idea of how to construct tarift rates for all kinds of freight than they haveof how to write a Greek grammar. They frankly said so, and declared that they didn't know the first thing about such matters. So in the debate yesterday they got all mixed up, espocially when the inconsistencies of the tariff as affecting different inters ests came out. This morning they all looked very weary and began to realize what clophant they had on their hands. It was wilth infinite relief, therefore, that they wel- comed a resolution to refer the whole matter ‘back to the committee and enlarge that com- mittee by adding twenty-two more members, representing every business interest in the house. So the chairman of the railroad com- mittee appointed two lumber dealers, two coal dealers, two stock dealers, two imple- ment dealers, six farmers, etc., making a total of thirty-nine members. From this motloy crowd of conflicting sectional and in- dividuul interests it is expected that somo wort of a crazy-quilt tariff will be evolved. But it is believed that all hope of passing a maximum tariff departed when the bill went back to this committee. s T " Discussing the Sweney Bill. Das Morxes, Ia., March 1.—{Special Tele- gram ‘to the Ber.]—The sonate took hold in good earnest to-day on the railroad legisla- tion and spent the whole day considering the Sweney bill. This applies the principles of the inter-state commerce 1aw to state traftic. 1t is very strong in proventing any forms of unjust discrimination to persons or places, and would forbid all of the abuses which grew up under the old system. The trouble in Jowa has been, that after the inter- state commerce law was passed, the raliroads while respecting it I inter-stato traftic, nisregarded it in local or state trafiic. Counsequently the people of m- terior lowa, eepecially the mauufacturers and jobbers, have suffered greatly by dis- criminations that have almost closed them up in some instances. This Sweny bill cov- ers the case pretty completely, and while the entire day has been spent in discussing it, the differences of opinion have been chiefly on minor amendments calculated to muke it more effective. Tho general scutiment of the senate is in favor of it and probably this will be the chief railroad measure enacted this session. P — PARENTAL DISCIPLINE, An Oregon Father's Btrange Treat- ment of His Two Sons. PoRTLAND, Ore., March 1.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bre.|—A strange and severe method was adopted by K. G. Warner, of Shis city, for the correction of hissons, In January the elder som, nineteen years of age, was ordered to lcave his father’s house. . Several months later a truce was patched up and the boy began working In his father's ofice. The father claims that the boy, learning the business secrots of the office, made improper use of them. This the son denies. ‘Wednesday Mr. Warner saw the chief of poliocand askod him to lock the boy up. Young Warner was seized by a couple of policemen and thrust intoa dark cell of the jail. His younger ‘brother attempted to secure his reloase but was himself locked up in another part of the jail also upon orders of the father. . When this became known #0 much indignation was created that the boys were released. The father talked of reconciliation, but this the eldor said was out ‘of the question. He said that he would ac- oept nothing from his father. The father of- lomd'}nhh: m;_::y.':\n h‘n;o doclu:go Rcd receive nger y fathor's i i — liberty renouncis all +one respounsibility for him. After this l.hnetlv was _an affecting: the father declaring that meant what was for the best and the son he hoped for forgiveness if he had Warner family _Iherahiu a member %ho boys are sail to be industrious and rep- utablo. bl Must Have Credontials. SraiNoriein, Tlls,, March 1.—On aceount Of the large number of delegates who have signified their intention of being present at the coming convention of republican clubs in #his city ou the 5th and 0th inst., it will be . meccssary tostrictly enforee the rule as to eredentials. Every delegate n order to se- cure admission to the convention must have wmoertificate of election, signed by the president and secretary of the club which he represents. Mr. Tracy, member of the executive cam- of state, recommends the follow- form: This is to vertify that —— bave % elocted delogates to the Illinois conven- tion of republican clubs to be held in - sentatives' hall, ingfield, March 8§ and 9, 1888, by the (heve insert the name of the club with tofiice address), The above to x‘ the dent and secrotary of n\“ ese entials properly signed gfll~ ml 10 the executive comm [ on the arrival of dele- @ates in Springfie) it Six Thaes and Out. Eowson, N. ¥,, March 1.—-Oscar F. Beck) h ‘was hangod &t the court house in this MR 9:40 this morning for the miurder of Simon Vanderoock at Austerliva, January 10; 1882, This easebocomes celobrated from the fact that the ¢ondomned man had been sen- tenced to death six times. He has had two trials and his easo has heen twice passed npon by the ‘general termn of the - supreme court and the court of appeals and finally application was made to the governor for executive clemency, which was denied, —— GOING HOME TO DIE. The Strange. Btory of a Georgia ~ Moonshiner. Atlantn Constitution: Among the passengers wha, arrived at the union depot on the early train from St. Louis was a party condistihg of two gentle- men and a lady, - One of the former appeared to be iun the lasy stages of con- sumption, and the lady’s countenance gave evidence of long vigils and pun- gent sorrows, The invalid's robust companion proved to be Colonel Sam Johnson, a deputy United States marshal of Georgia, and he gave thie -names of lis companions as George Alrvow and wife. When asked if his relations taq the other two were officind, -he replied that he could not be said to have Alrow under arrest, but he felt it his duty to keep him under surveillance, thuuih he had no fears that an escape could be accomplished, it it were meditated, owing to the weak- ened condition of theinvalid. Colonel: Johnson’s story of Alrow's life was to the effect that he is about twenty-five ybars of age and liveson a farm on the Georgia side and near the base of the mountain range which di- vides that state from Tennessee. When very young, Alrow married Mary Rouen, a neighbor’s daughter, and the belle of the rural district. and went to housekeeping in the old homestead. This was some eight miles from the nearest village, and Alrow erccted a small storeroom and invested his sur- plus money id a stock of gobds suited to the wild section in which he lived. Less than a year had thus passed when late one e\'m\inf Mrs. Alrow heard an altercation in the store, and, taking her sleoping infant from its cradle, she hastened to- the store and entered hy she rear door. She saw her husband was quarreling with some one who was standing in front of the build- ing, and she advanced excitedly to the middle of the long, narrow room. Suddenly there was a bright flash, fol- fowed by a sharp report, the infant form in her arms quivered a moment, a death-like palor spread over its face and a low moan escaped its lips. The des- perado’s bullet, aimed at her husband, had missed its mark and had buried itself in the tender form which lay in the slecp of innocence in her arms. When the neighbors arrived they found Alrow in & state of mental an- guish which bid fair to dethrone his reason. For three hours he wandered mechanically from room to room with- out appearing to understand the cause of the solemnity which prevaded the house. Suddenly he seemed to be struggling with himself to recall the events, then there was a look of intelli- gent remembrance in his eyes, and he hent over the forin of his still uncon- scious wife and buret into tears. Re- covering himself a moment later, he arose, took down his rifle from the pegs over the door and quickly left the house, going in the direction taken by the des- perado after firing the fatar shot. The next two days passed without any sord from the absent husband. The infant remains were laid to rest in_the country church yard and the childless wife returned in sorrow to her home. As she was lifted from the heavy rond wagon in which the remains of the in- fant were horne to the grave, her hus- band appeared &t the dpor. Address- ing her calmly and without visible emotion, Alrow said: . “Mary, the vengeancé of God has ‘overtaken the murdever of our babe, Let this be enough to explain my absence and let this be forever a secret between us.” When three days later the assassin was found on the mountain side dead with a bullet in his brain, the péople knew that the infant’s death was indeed avenged. A formal inquiryonly was made into the death of the desperado, and while every one supposed that he had fallen by the hand of the man whose home he had deprived of its brightest jewel, no effort was made to hold him rosponsible for the deed before the law. Instead of acting as a curb upon Alrow, the terrible ordeal through which he had passed seemed to drive him to desperation, and an entire change - came over him, his associa- tions becoming of the most desperate character, In less than a year after the murder of his child he fell under the suspicion of the government officers and & watch was set upon him One ni&ht last summer a large box, which left higstore and was supposed to con- tain frésh eggs, was intercepted by the government. officials - and the guilt of Alrow was proven, as the box was found to contain several jugs of illicit whisky. Early in December a decent was' made on the stilt where the liquor was made, and in the fight that ensued Alrow was daungerously wounded in the side and slightly wounded in the leg. He was left at home for treatment that night and two offieers were left to guard him, while the other prisoners were taken at once to Atlanta. The wounded man trossed about on his bed with a burning fever, mwnd his wife made amumber of tripsto the large spring in the rear of the house to get him cooungaeraughu of water. What happened ring the mnight is not known, but the probabilities are that the guards fell msleep, foy when they thought that Mrs. Arlow remained at the spring longer than, usual, they went t0 the bed and found that she h: taken her husband’s place in it and that he hml]:fl.bdou‘t It was useless to seei him in that wild section, and the officers cotitentod themselves with keeping a close watch upon the move- ments of his wife, rightly judging that she would be4hie firet to get in com- munication with- him. : Whether she heard from him or notin the meantime the officer did not know, but in Janua he received word that Mrs. Arlow would loawve..for the weat. immedi- ately, and he was ordered to follow her. He started at onoe, and, upon reaching Cincinnati, found that-he was ut the same train with her, Learning from the conductor that Mrs. Alrow had a ticket to Santa Fe, N. M., the officer, without making his'éwn ideatity known fell into conversation with her. und was frankly told the objeot of her western trip. When theyreached their destination Colonel Johnson us frankly revealed the object of his visit, but informed her that. if her husband’s condition was as bad as she had represented it, he would not put him under arvest, but would furaish what. assistance he could in returning home, It scems that Alrow’s * wounds received no attention until he reached the west, several weeks after his escape from the officers, and, having contracted a severe cold, it settled on his lungs, and he weat rapidly into comsumption. His first wish expressed to his wifo was to be taken home that he might die sur- rounded by his friends, and after a stay of but two days in Sauta Fe, the party started to return, and had reached this city whea seen by the Press correspond- ent. I don't Think," said Colonel Johuson, in conclusien, “‘thatGeor; 0::‘_1 ly live more than a few weeks, 1 have telographed for permission to det him gv direct to his home." { THE JEMBER FROM DEPTEORD Reflections Suggested By His Ap- pearance in Parliament, -~ PAYING CHAMBERLAIN'S BILLS. The Suhject Calls out Severe Attacks on Slippery: Joe From Labou- chere and O'Connor—Glad- stone Praises Him. The Deptford Election LCopuright 1558 by James Gordon Bennatt.) LoNpoy, March 1.—~[New York Herald Cable—Special to the Bre]=Deptford was the word on cverybody's lps. to-night, and when the newly clected member-mads his ap- pearauce in the lobby was besicged by con- servatives anxious to give him a heatfy wel- coriie to these classic précincts, He was brought-up to bie sworn in after the ministry had been made to run .the usual gauntlet of questions and ‘‘wild swere the cheers which gent ‘the. ‘air. Gladstone sat with eyes shut as. if agsleep, but it is reasonable: to ‘ednjecturethat he suspected what was going on. ‘Darling is o little man, bearing upon his: fac® the marks of the severe contest o passed through. ‘There is no use in denying that his success, coupled with the conservativesuccess lnst weck at Doncaster, is & heavy blew for the Gladstonians. Imagine whdt would have been the effect of a metropalitan constituency roturning to parliament“the chief victim of the eoercion bill, there to. faco his enemy, Balfour, Banquo's ghost at Macbéth's' feast. ‘would have been mothing to It but Blunt is in jail and Darling is here. He had not been in his seat an hour before he voted: in: his first division. The ministry feels itself ‘stronger than ever and the enormous exerdions of the Parnellite party in Doncaster and Deptford have gons for nothing. 5 Such are the ups and downs of politios. As soon as the excitement had cooled oft Labouchere rose to make an ‘attack on Chamberlain, A vote for £3,900 . was asked > ininistry to defray tho expenses of in’s mission. Labouchere de- clared that anybody could live in ‘Washing- ton on #5 a day, board included, Whereas.our envoy cost the British taxpayer £30 a day. He was very dear at that price or~as Labby seems to think—at any price. The house laughed at Labby’s jokes and must also have laughed in its slecves at the pompous and inflated scntences of the under foreign secre- tary who undertook to defend Chamberlain, his mission and his little bill. Out came all the old platitudes about international rejoic- ing, one brotherhood, same blood aund the rvest of it. This official took it quite for eranted that the treaty will be ratified and the fisheries dispute finally settled. The house cheered every friendly allusion to the United States, but saw that the under secre- tary knew absolutely nothing of what he was talking about. He spoke after his kind. Up rose Gladstone, wide awake enough now. He was profuse in compliments to Chamberlain., Spoke of his eminent talents, praised the government for sendipg him out, said that Chamberlain had performed an act of public duty and spirit in going and heaped coads of fire on his former licutenant's head. Chamberlaia would have blushed to hear it. Recollect we are still in an era of conciliation, but it was too much forT. J. O'Connor, He took oft his coat and went at Chawmberlain tooth and nail. His money, his orchids, his assumptions of superi- ority, his treachery to Gladstone all afforded a grand field for the tomahawk of ‘‘Tay Pay.” 'He would not even allow that Cham- berlain had any ability, and, upos,the whole, thought Smith had more, though he had never been appaled at Smith's portion. Chamberlain's great friend, Jesse Uollins, sat just below Tay Pay and muttered some protest, ‘‘Oh, of course,” said the irate speaker,’ “‘the honorable gentleman thinks his chief a wonderful man, but what is his certificate worth? Ishould as soon think of asking for the character of Don Quixote from Sancho Panza.” The hit has already done duty in Punch, but the house roared all the same. Away went ‘Tay Pay like a flery steed. Chamberlain was hated by the Irish in America for treachery to their country aud by the Americans for his betrayal of Glad- stoue. Down came the shillalas. How very lucky for Chamberlain that his head was a gaod throe thousand miles away. Tay Pay ground him to powder and sat down evi- dently fecling much better having got that joboff his mind. *‘Why, I travelled seven months in the Umted States,” he cried, and enjoyed myself very much for iess than £450. “But Tay Pay doesu't dine off pickled orchids. Caine, a friend of Chamberlain’s, got up and strongly denounced the speech as 4 vitriolic and disgraceful personal attack. Labby pressed for areduction of the vote, and upon & division, 63 voted for him and 814 ogainst. o majority for the government of 246. Gladstone jvoted with the ‘tories, so Joining the bull posts of Chamberlain's ball. ‘After that the Trafalgar square question oc- cupied hour after hour till a pile of, a1 . had been built almost us high as Nelson"s column. Some said the square ought to be 'held’ sa- cred to public meetings. Others, that it ought not. Ding dong at it we went wntil the witching hour when the parliamentary bore ceascs from troubling. . To-merrew night we begin mio themé’ and there will bea division, but, {Yhéther Glad- stone will again be found voting with the tories or not is more than I.can:tell. i " A MrMBER OF PARLIAMES' THE GOULD-SAGE CASE. 1 b i Commeants of Prominent British At} torneys on the IMswpissal. . {Copyright 1583 by James Gordon Bewnett.| Loxpox, March 1.—{Néw York 'Herhld Cable—Special tothe Bes.]--Cabte dispatchies received announcing the regult’ af the grand jury in the Gould matter have ‘causea much gossip to-day in legal circles at the strange precedent, unknown here, of a' grund- fury dociding law questions. Said & leading.Q.".j experienced in criminal - matters, Who. ye- fused to allow his name to be ased: - it hay long been a subject of surprise to the'Eng; lish bar the great odds American law scems to aliow accused persous, espeeially if.rich and influential, but permitting a -grand jury to interpret law of sclect g prima facio defense is @ mew surprise indeod. It is extraordinary, unless under some peculiar statute, with which 1 am un. acquainted. For instance, as the states have & written constitution, could the grand jury refuse to find @ bill because deciding it un- constitutional. Here in England, and T had supposed it was the same in America, the plea of statute of limitations is a personal plea in defense in civil or criminal cases, like @ plea of infancy. Many honorable wen re. fuse to file & ploa of infuney or limitations, regarding such a plea, except an extraordinury loss of ovidence has occurred, as dishonest. I assume Messrs. Sage and Gould to be high minded wen, and if indicted they might not see fit to plead the statute of limitations, but prefer an acquittal on the facts; but your courts have allowed the grand jury, it would seem, not only te cousider a defeunse, but to forcea plea on the acvused, who might waive. The dispatch to the Paris Herald you sbow ™e says that the prosecuters allege even the plea of lunitstions would be void. Surely only .the court @8 Argumenl ought to decide that. ., Queer games . you play in. America?’ | Then pypling his wig in place the Q. €T shaking his ocurled horde hair negativel ent into’ the queen’s divisional court to tef §livel case. Several barristers made sim remarks, One added : “But then you nllowuLa’l you know,in New York, oxtraordinary li®erties in the courts, and isn't this Mr. Gould' the same person whom the law permittéd years ago to compro- mise felony toward_the Erie stockholders by the restitution some extraordinary sum, calculated into th® millions, I know I had & client at time who held a Lot of questionablo bbrids of the Erie road, and he thought the afipie & queer job." Condition of the Crawn Prince. [Copyright 1855 by Jamea Gordon Bennett. | SAN Remo, March 1.—[New York Herald Cable—Spocial to the Bem.]—The crown prince’s condition is virtually unchanged. The weather is brighter. The prince walked on the balcony of villa Zirlo to-day. . Dangerously -Insecure, Loxpox, March 1-=2Stankope; seoretary for war. has fssued a memiorandum relative to army estimates. He udmits, after careful in- quiry, it has been ascertained that deficien- cies exist in its dcfencesof Portsmouth, Plymouth and the Thames, which render Eng- land’s position dangerously inscoure. Stand- hape proposes that active measures be im- mediatel! -rnswd by purlisament in order to remedy this weakness. He further states that the system of organization recently pre- vailing at the war office appears_singularly ill-calculated to promote a comprehensive ex- amination of the whole subject, and explains contemplated reforms. ———— The Panama Canal. Panis, March 1.—~M. De Losscps, in his re- port to the extra meeting of the Panama canal company to-day stated that owing to the difticulty in procuring workmen, he can hardly insure completion in 1860, The direc- tors have been induced to agree to the con- struction of locks, by means of which vessels of the largest tonnage may traverse the ca- nal in 1800 before the work is completed. Pending a decision of the governmentregard- ing the lottery loan it has been decided to proceed with the third issue of bonds to the value of 600,000,000 francs, repayment of which will be provided for by the creation of a guarantee fund invested in rentes, Juiotevel - ssireindnl To Investigate the Navy. Loxpox, March 1.—Lord Charles Bereford made a statement to-day before a parliament committee rogarding his reasons for resign- i“f the offico of junior lord of the admiraity. After hearing his views,on the mal-adminis tration of the navy the committee adopted a resolution demanding that the government appoint a commission to enquire into the con- dition of that branch of the service. St M. Wilson Oonvicted. Paris, March 1.—M. Wilson, son-in-law of ex-President Grevy, who has been on trial for complicity in the Logion of Honor decora- tion scandals, has been convicted. He has been sentenced to tyo years in the peniten- tiary, and to pay afineof 8,000 francs,and be deprived of his civil xights for five years. ———— Oaught a Sneak Thief. Jack Sisson, an old, time sneak thief who has served several s for larceny, and who just tinished serying one only a couple of days ago, has goneswok to hisold tricks and yesterday was caught stealing two over- coats, a hat and fur .ap from a boarding house on the corner of 'Sixteenth and Mason streets. The property belonged to Mike Orton, Chris Frick andJoe Barnes and these gentlemen detected him passing out of the front door with the clothes. They imme- diately seized and held him until the police arrived. He was taken:to the central station and to-morrow will have a chance to renow his acquaintance with prison life. g Nasby's Bimst Letter. Chicago Inter-Otean: Letters ap- Bonrqd during 1800 signed Petroleum » Nasby, but the Hrst of the remark- uble series that afterward - attracted so much attention was published in March, 1861. Mr. Locke looked upon the letter printed below as the first of the series after the definite purpose of using the character Nasby in discussion of public affairs had taken shape in his mind. This was the first of the war series of Nasby letters: THE SECESSION OF WINGERT'S CORNERS. WINGERT'S CORNERS, O., March 21, 1861.---South Carliny and several other uv the trooly dimikratic states hevin secesht--gone orf, I may say, onto a journey after ther rites-—-Wingert's Cornersg ez trooly dimikratic ez any uv em, hes follered soot. A meetin’ wuz held last nite, uv wich T wuz chairman, to take the matter uv our grievances into consideration. and it was finally resolved that nuthin’ short uv seceshin would remedy our woes. Therefore, the follerin’ address, which I rit, wuz adopted and ordered to be publisht: TO THE WORLD: In taking a step which may possibly involve the state uv wich we hev bin heretofore a part into blood and con- vulsions, a decent respeck for the opin- ion uv the world requires us to give our reasons for takin' that step, « ‘Wingert's corners hez too long sub- mitted to the impérious dictates uv a tyranikle government. Our whole his- tory hez bin wun of sggreshun on the part uv the state and uv meek and pa- tient endoorence on ours. 1t refoosed to locate the state capitol at the Corners, to the great detriment uv our patriotic owners of real estate. 1t refoosed to gravel the streets at the Corners or even relay the plank road. 1t refoosed to locate the penitenteary at the Corners, not-with-standin’ we do more toward fillin' it than any town in the state. . 1t refoosed to locate the state fair at the Corners, blastin’ the hopes uy our patriotic groserys. It located the canal 100 miles from the Corners. " We hev never had'a guvner, notwith- standin’ the president uy this meetin’ hezlived heve for yéers, a waitin’ to be urged to accept it. ¥ t hez compelled us.year after year to paty our share uv the saxes. t hez never lp‘lfim any citizen of the place to any offif ?Where theft wuz ‘possible, thus wflful& keepin’ capital away from us, L Tt refoosed to eithér pay our ralerode subscripshun or. slackwater our river. * Therefore, not Weia’. in humor to longer endoor sich outrages, we declare ourselves free anddidependent of the ‘state, and will m: n our position with arms, if necd be, . There wuz a livel! '*me next day. A compuny uv minit wuz raised, and wun uv two-minit #en, The seceshn flag, musrat rampant, iiwoasel couchan t, on a 1d d'egg-shell, waves from both (mnqrf 5 Our mer- chant feels hopef: Cut orf from the state; direct tr: with the Black Swamp follers; releest from his indept- pdness to Cinsinati, he will agin 1ift his bead. Our representative hev agreed to resine-—when his term expires. ‘We are in earnest. Armed withul— tice and shot-guns, we bid tyrants defi- ance.” P, -The feeling is intemse—the children have imbibed it. A lad fest past, displayin’ the seceshn flag. It waved from behind. Disdainin’ con- cealment, the fnoble, lion-hearted boy wore a roundabont. We are firm. N. B.—We are still firm, N. B.,2d—We are firm, unyeeldin’, calm and resoloot. - PETROLEUM V. NASBY. “Colgate & Co, are the oldest sanp makers in America, and have evideatly profited by their long experience.” | GROWING MORE COMPLICATED, fContinued From First Page that évery scab man the company is now working 'is an injury to the rolling stock and that the publie will not trust themselves in sheir care, Inthis line a traveling man in the city to-day received a dis paten from his house in Chicagt which said, “Do not travel on the Chieago, Burtington & Quincy railroad, as ‘it is dangerous," A larger number of dispatches were re- ceived by the men from different parts than usual to-day covering the territory from Ohi- cago west. A Creston, Ta., dispatch said: “Creston is solid to a man, The crown sheets are dropp- ing on the scubs.” A dispatch from Wymore said: _ “Wiper Pm]\lnlyvd as engineer on engine 57 bucked into his train and broke front eond of coach, causing passengers to ledve the train.' A second dispateh from Wymore said that @ conduetor running engine 166 had burned off an engine truck journal. This character of news received caused a great deal of enthusiasm and amusement among the brotherhood. The engineers state for (!l\:‘iullv!n' that the éngineer who left the city to«day on train 74 was discharged o fow months ago for drunkenness and stated ‘that he was to get $150 a month now. The Carpenters union No. 148 of this city sent the following to the hall of the engi- neers to-day: To the Brotherhood ot Locomotive Engi- neers: ‘GréBtifig. At a special meeting called for the purpose the following resolu- tion was adopted by the union : Resolved, t'to the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Engineers we offer our undivided sympathy. of firm lovalty and support in their resent struggle. May you prove victorious s the earnest hope of every loyal member ot our order; We watch the contest with un- flagging interost, and the success of its out- come should be. dear to the heart of every true union man. It is rumorad that the state board of trans- portation will 106k fnto the standing of men now employed by the company in the inter- est of safaty ‘to the publie. No Need of Guards. Prarrsyovrn, Neb., March 1.—(Special to the Ber.|—The following declaration was adovted last evening by the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engincers and Firemen by an unanimous show of hands. ‘W, as Tocomative engineers and firomen, solemuly pledge gurselves to abstan from all violence in any shape or form, and to strictly keep: away from .company property, and to show to cur citisens and others by our daily Walks and' couveraations that we are men, and do uot and will not sanction any violence or riptous actions whatever, and that we win the fight oy fair meansor not at all. The following preamble and resolutions were also unanimously adopted : ‘Whercas, The management of the B. & M. has sent a body of uniformed men to Platts- mouth for the avowed purpose of protecting the company's property here, and ‘Whereas, Such action is an unjust implica- tion that the striking cngneers and firomen are disposed to damage or destroy their prop- erty; therefore it is Resolved, Unanimout by the RBrother- hood of Engineers and Firemen, that wedeny that there is particle of danger to the B, & M. company’s property from unlawful acts of any member of these organizations, or by their influence or connivance, and that wo assure the company and the public that there is no necessity for the employment of any force whatever to preserve their property or any portion of it; that if any protection is neoded, we, as a body, through our officers, will furnish all the guards rcfauired. with the full assurance that they will do their duty in such capacity. A copy of the latter resolutions was or- dered 10rwarded to General Manager G, W. Holdrege. Everything is quiet in this city to-day. A special passenger train went east at 4 a. m. pulled by J. J. Hein, a man who was dis- charged as an engineer for incompetency two or three years since while living in this city, and who was long out of work. A freight train of twenty-five loaded cars went out at 6 a. m, to-day for Lincoin in care of & scab named Crawford from Omaha. At McCook. McCook, Neb,, March 1.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bge.}-—The report that this city is o hot-bed of strikers is false. The strikers here are some of our best citizens, men of family, who have moans and, with the eox- ception of the disturbance Monday afternoon nothing has been done by the strikers; and that was caused by hard words with the fel- low who was going to take the train out and some of the strikers. The strikers are staying at their homes attending peacefully to their duties and not in any way interfering with the company's running trains. Men to run engines are hard to get und in consequence the few who are working are kept on the ecngines pretty regularly. The Pinkerton ‘men patrol the yard from morning to night, and while trains are coming and going no one except persons going away are allowed near the platform. Two trains arrived from the west to-day and one from the east. No effort has been made to run freight. Super- intendent Campbell says that new men are coming in at once and that trains will shortly be running regularly. The arrest of the en- gineers yosterday for interfering with the mail .is considered & bluff. It is said the train had no mail—only a couple of empty pouches. - The strikers held a meeting this afternoon and report all men standing firm, At Hastings. Hastings, Neb.,, March L—[Special Tele- gram to the Brr.]—There is no mater:l change in the strike situation at this point exept that the company is graduaily getting matters in better shape. Trains are begin- ning to run with a little more of their ola- time regularity. ©On the Kearney division passenger trains are running daily each way butno freight ' trains are moviug. Oa the Aurora division a mixed passenger sand freight train went out to-day in charge of Conductor Willis, who has been running an engine on the main line since the strike com- menced, Number 5 went west, via Red Cloud, -sohedule time. Number 6 went cast to-day noon in. charge of Engineer Mil- ler. ‘The company now has a sufficient num- ber of engineers to run passenger trains as soon, as fhe diviglon west of McCook is oponed. Four engines were souped last night by umknows), pariies and rendered useless. One man wis a hore this moraing for an't"mn with the United States mails but was relopsed:alter giving bonds for his ap- pearnce; 1 »d&?cum,ms are le‘:j ¥ special police and) none employes al- lowed lp‘re:dq upon the premiscs. ~About twenty-five of the men concerned in the strike called for their pay yesterday accord- ing 1o the, ol er of Supei nt Calvert and accepted their discharge. % At Jied Cloud. Rep Croun, Nob., March 1.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee']—The great Burlington & Quincy strike his virtually isolated this vi- cinity from the rest of the world. Ouly now and then a train comes in and is manned by inexperienced engineers and firemen. Busi- ness 18 at a stand still and people are waiting axniously 1o haye something turn up. About @ dozen engineers are tied up here and rail way employes are idle, and everything has a Sunday appearance. The engineers are hopo- ful that they will win the day. The excite- ment is grpwing intenso and we are looking fora warm time near at hanud. The order restrictiug the strikers goi on the com- pany’s ground created some feecling among the strikers. Itis reported that Pinkerton men are here watching thiogs, preparing w quell any trouble that may arise. At Nebraska City. Neuraska City, Neb,, March 1.—[Special Telegram to the Bexs.)—Several freight trafns on the B. & M. went out to-day and all passengers, except the dummy between East Nebraska City and the junction. Sev- eral ongineers arrived here to take the strikers’ places, and the officials say all trains from here will be moving 10-morrow, The Firet Traia to O Omp, Neb., March 1.—(Bpecial Telegram 1o the Ber.] —The first train on the B. & M. since Suturday last, comsisting of a coach and 10 o'clock 1ast night and returned west, bound Zrow Burnell at 1330 ». m. to-day. A M. Baldwin, formerly & freight handler at Grand Island, was in charge of the engine, Protesting Against Green Enginecrs, Drs Maises, Ta., March 1, —{Speoial Téle gram to the Bre.]-«The only new develop- ment inthe railway ‘strike to-day was the arrival of some formidable petitions to the governor and railroad commissioners from Creston, - There was one petition signed by & large number of citizens_ of Creston headed by the names of eight physicians, .stating that tho Chicago, Burlington & Quiney rail- road was emploging incompetent engineers, thus endangering the safety of the traveling public. The petitioners bogged the railroad commissioners to make a personal’invostiga- tion of the charge. . The petition to ‘the gov- ernor was from a committee representing the striking engineers, in' which’ he was ro minded of his promise to protect them it the railronds '« should attempt to treat them unfairly and it was statod their places were being filled by incompetent pef sons, to their prejudice and hurt. The gov- ernor referred the whole matter to_ the rail- road commissioners and Commissioner Dey started for Creston this evening to fuvesti- gate the charges, A bill is now before the senato railway committee forbidding any railroad, under hoavy penalty, from employing as engineer any person who has ot had at least one year's experience. as an engineer. The bill was fntroduted at the request of the brotherhood and its effoct, if passed, would atly help cnginoots 1n ny further strike by preventing the conipétition of inexperi- enced or incompatent men. At Creston. Crestox, Ia, March 1.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bre.]—The west lowa division have run thirty-nine trains since midnight last night on the main line and all branches. Good order still prevvils here. The Commission Will Investigate. Des Moixes, In., March 1.—[Special Tele- egram to the Br.]—The Iowa railroad com- mission will visit Creston, Ia., soon to inves- tigate the charges made by the engincors' brotherhood u{ulnut the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, that passenger trains were being run by incom| it engineers. The brother- hood have published tomight the names of eighteen men now running—engineers whom they claim are inexperienced. *At 8t. Joseph. St. Joserm, Mo., March 1.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bir.]—The strike still remains quiet at this point, and, with the exception that the company seems to be strengthening its position, affairs are unchanged. A large number of engincers arrived from Chicago this afternoon and immediately assembled at Goneral Manager Merrill's office. The man- agement refuse to state where they came from, but the strikers are of the opinion they arc Reading engincers. In answer to the question as to where they were from, one of them said: ‘“We are from the east.” “Do you belong to the brotherhood “No, not one of us. If we did, we wouldn't be here, I suppose.”” “Do you belong to any labor organiza- tion?” “Yes, wo belong to the Knigntsof La- bor. " “Youare not taking Powderly's advice, then?” “No, but we are paying the brotherhood back for taking our places. We have a right to retaliate, and it is but just that we should do it. The brotherhood took our places, we'll take theirs.” Gencral Manager Merrill is confident that his road will win the strike. “You can say we are succeeding admira- bly,” said he to-day. “We are empjoying a large number of men every day and it will not be long until we will have our trains in operation and doing business as usual. All passenger trains are running to-day with the exceptions of Nos, 15 and 16 on the Han- nilmlfi We will probably start these to-mor- row. “‘Arc you moving any freight trains?" ““Yes, we started one to Council Bluffe this morning, and_another one will go out over the Creston branch this evening. I think ‘we will have about fiye freights out to-mor- row. Of course we are only doing a local business. Wo will probably not attempt to hg:tll‘lc any through freights fora few days ““Then you are not thinking of yielding to the demands of the strikers!™ “No, indeed. We shall not yield a point. We will be all right in a very short time." The engineers still remain confident and say they are not afraid of the Knights of La- bor taking their places. This afternoon the ‘Chicago, rlington & Quincy attemptod to iteh two of its freight cars to a St. Joseph, Su. Louis & Suata e westbound train, but the cngineer discovered the fact and refused to draw the train until the cars were taken away. At Cheyenne, Cuevexse, Wyo., March 1.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bex.|—The Burlington officials succeeded in sending a passcnger train out from Cheyenne this morning. The engincer and fireman were importatious, who came in from the east over the Union Pacific. No trains have arrived here over the Burlington since the strike commenced. At Holyoke. HowLvoke, Colo., March 1.—|Special Tele- gram to the Bex.]—The striking engineers are very quiet here. The passenger traiu from Cheyenne arrived at 2:30 p. m. and left for Holdrege at 540 p. m, the engine in charge of a man named Lee, supposed to bo from the Union Pacific. A passenger train is expected from the east to-night. oThe First Train from Denver. Dexven, Colo., March 1.—The Burlington got a train out last night for the east, but without any passengers, 1t is the first train since Monday. Freight Conductors Strike. A1BUQUERQUE, N. M., March 1.— A1 freight conductors and brakemen on the Atlantic & Pacific road struck last night against a re- duction of wages, Freight truffic is aban- doned for the present. y —_—— HOW THEY DANCE. Differeat Ways in Which People Go Through the Mazy Whirl. Roston Globe: National characteris- tics display themselyes worg couspicu- ously iu relation to the amugement of dancing than to more common aund less srivolous practices, says the London Telegraph. The eating and dainking habits of all civilized people ure pretty nearly identical nowadays, not so their dancing mein apd bearing, Englis men aad Frenchmnen,Germans and Rus- sians, Italians and Spaniords of a cer- tain social class, dress alike, but do not dance alike. Broadly speaking, . occi dentals do their own dancing, while ori- entals get it done for them. To the Latin vece rhythinical inotion is a source of exuberant ztwely and ion- ate enjoyment. hen inns, Frenchmen, Spaniards and Rou- manians are daneing they arc performing an exercise in “which they take unfeigned delight, and their faces. as well as their movements, ex- press the exhilaration that they unques- tionably feel. Men of Teutonic and Slav origin are either less susceptible of the pleasures derived from rapie move- ment to the strains of music or more ex- rt in codcealing their emotions. sermans are active aud assiduous, but as 8 rule serious damcers, Russians, Crechs, Serbs and Croats dance hewvily and persistently, but unsmilingly. The average Englishwan of society is far ln;‘guin a gay and lightsome dancer, ‘When he ?l told off to saunter through the Laucers or gyrate with a free-going partaer in the giddy waltz, the expres- sion of his festures is often 1ndicative of settled and mournful resolve or of ago- nized despair. He walks toward the scene of his approaching ardeal with the y calm of a religious martyr marching to the stake, When fairly embarked in the v,ar{uiclmren enter- rise he bears himsel il.i' and reluc- :ally. as though ashamed of the adven- tuve to which e stands irretriovably committed, ) A HUSBAND'S INHUMANIIY. Mrs. Jonson's Sad Story of Dostitus tion and Abuse. THE FATHER'S FIENDISH ACTS. He Feeds the Boay of Ris,Dead Child to the Hogs—Another Lifos less Infant Throwa in a Creck, A Slckening Story, A terrible tale of destitution and abuse was poured into the cars of Mr. Muliohey, the poormaster, yesterday afternoon. Mrs, Jensen, who lives near the cotnor of Milton and Stanley steets, West Sidg, is the. vietinr, and the story as told by friends is most sick- ening in its details. Her husband, they sy, is a drunken Brute, who ' not onily vofuses ‘to provide for bis family, but has treated them in a most inhuman manner, She aud' her children have lived all winter in an unptas- tered shanty, the gréater part of the time without fuel, and the: only article ot ‘feod that they have subsisted upon is bread - A week or two ago Mrs. Jensen gave birth to a child, and Jensen refused to call a physician or midwife to wait upon her during her cone finement. ‘A few days later, while still con- fined to her, bed, he cime home drunk and attempted to turn _her out of doors, and because she refused to go he gavo the helpless woman o morciless beating. Threo days ago he left the house and has not since returned, Meanwhile she has been without fuel and would have been ‘without any food had it not been for the family of I, Jorgen, who live on T'hirtieth and Douglis, and who have known for some tiwme the ecir cumstances of the poar woman, Yesterday a member of the Jorgen family called on Mr. Mahoney, the poormaster, and got an order ‘for some grocerios and coal. They are anxious to have something done with Jensen so as to protect his wife, as they say that a number of times he has threatencd to kill her and the children, and she is mor- tally afraid of him. At one time, whon ‘frenzied with rage, ho attempted to choke one of the children to death, and was only prevented by the intervention of his wife. {e then turiied his attention to her, and as she tled through the doorwny he throw a hatchet @t her, which mar- rowly cscaped hitting her, but struck tho door instead, leaving a deep dent in the panel that can vet be seen. A most horrible story is told of his brutalify about a yoar ago. At thav time, shortly before she gave birth to a child, he gave her a terrible beating that rendered her helpless for a aay or two, and when her child was born it was lifeless. . As A crowning act to his brutishness the unfeel- ing father is said to have taken the body and thrown it In the creck that flows nedr his solitary shanty, leaving it to_docay like tho body of a beast to feed tho fishes. At an- other time when an infant child of his took sicle and died, Mrs. Jensen says that' her husband refused the body of her baby a de- cent burial, and to her horror he took the little corpse out after night and fed it to the . The poor woman was willing to stand all the personal nbuse she roccived uncom- plainingly, but this unfecling treatment of hor dead baby broke the poor waman's heart and she has never re- covered from the shock. Mrs. Jensen is described by those wh know her as a woman of rarc sweethess of character. She is a loying mother -and, de- spite tho treatment she has recoived, ado- voted wife. A year ago Jensen was arrested for abusing his family and was given fiftecn days in the county jail. She was thus given a brief respite from her troubles, but since then she has been afraid to again cause his arrest. s is the story as told yesterday. i STATE ASSOCIATION FORMED, Veterinarians Meet and Establish an Organization in Nebraska, Dr. J. Gorth, Jr., the state vetorinarian, with aine other veterinary surgcons, as- sembled in room 48, Paxton hotel, last night and organized the Vetorinary Medical as- sociation of Nebraska. By way of prelimin- ary Dr. Gerth was called to the chair, aud he infornied the gathering of the object of the meeting, which in personnel comprised the doctor, and Drs. M. A, ‘Balloy, of Albion; G. M. Osborne, of Fromont; Riéhard Ebbitt, Omaha; A. Cornichen, Déwitt; G. R. Young, Omaha: W. 8. Hrayton, Hent- rice; C, Britell, St. Edward; L. E. Simpkins, Kearney, and _H. L. Ramacciothi, the eity veternarian. Dr, Young was called to” pre- side #s secretary, and read the counstitution and by-laws which were adopted, Then followed the election of officers which resulted as follows: President, Dr. Gerth, Lincoln; vice-president, Dr. Ramaceiothi, Omaha; secretary, Dr. Young, Omaha; treasurcr, Dr. Brayton, Beatrice: board of diroctors, Doctors Simpkius, Ebbitt and Bertel!, Drs. Foster and Chambers, of Omaha,were made charter members. The next meeting of the association will be held at Linvoln on the second Thursday of June, ‘when Doctors Osborne and Brayton will be the essayists. Came in Tike a Lion. March came in stormy and lionlike, and before even the earliest risers were up tho rain had commenced to fall, With scarcely any intermission the drops feil steadily until abouv 1 o'clock when thoy began to congeal as they fell and turn to sleet, making the pavements slippery and dangerous. By 6 o'clock the fall of minute hail had ended and the water and mud in the streets were frozen up, to the satisfaction of all pedestrians. The rain falling on the telegraph and telephone wires had frozen fast, forming a thick crust of ice that in many cases proved tod heavy for the poles to sustain, On St, Mary's avenue alone no less than cight poles were prostrate. Trpes jn the various parts of the city also yielded to the crushing weight upon them. The thick crust of ice on the electric light wires seemed to interfere greatly with the oleciri- cal fluid and it was with great difficulty that the lights in the central part of the eity wore sustained, while those more remotely ed cast ouly a faint and uncertain ray. A great many telograph poles arc reported down along the variods railroad lines, and in a number of cases the wires have also becn broken, rendering the telegraph instruments uscless. All telegraph connection with the west was thus -l?r od, and all news from that quarter cut off. The icy rails impeded the progress of the various trains, and all trains due from the east last pight were on this account behind tiwe, doluyluuzheflhy all the outgoing trains for the wast. The evenipg passenger train for Califorania did aot leave until 11 o'clock. ' e —— Got a Second Dose, On the 20th of January Joo Brown: ‘was arrestod for stealing a clothes wringe ‘While in his cell awaiting trial it ‘was dis- covered that he had been robbing his fellow prisoners, having stolen @ gola toothpiclk fromone and s ring from amother. ¥or stealing the wringer he got thirtytwo days. He served out his time and was released yes- terday morning and immediately wended his wa) to the central station to get the 30 cents taken from um when arrested. Sergoant Sigwart, who was present, had n warrant for Brown's arrest for his thievery from the prisoners and served it on the spot. Brown most_ stoutly objected to beéing ngam put be- hind the bars, but the stern representatives of the law had therr own way about it and he was sgain juiled. Omaha Will Be Represented, At the twenty-second annual mecting of the Nebraska State Teachers' assockation that meets at Fremont, Marcl 27, 28 and 29, the following named from this city will take part in the exercises: James B. Brumer, county superintendeny of schools; Miss Helen L. Wykoff, Miss Lizzie M. Shopard and H. M. Jumes, eity superintendeat of sehools, ———— Edwin Cools has filed information wath Judge Anderson against Cook's stepson, Randall C. Palmer, a youth of sixteen whom he charges with mendicancy and incorrigibility. A warrant has been issued for his srrest aud 1t is the inten- . tion of his stepather to bave him sent to the reform school if possible.