Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 12, 1888, Page 2

. TBROTHERHO0D MEN AROUSED They Demand the Recall of the Bur- lington Scabs. A GENERAL STRIKE THREATENED Unica Pacific M Will Do Nothing Until After the Hearing To ~Burlington Trains Run- ning Irregularly. .. The Brotherhood's Demands. Naw York, March 11.—A meeting with closed doors of delegates from different local assemblies throughout the United States of the brotherhoods of engincers and firemen was held in Tammany hall to-day. About spighteen hundred delegates, representing 20,000 engineers and firemen, were present. The situation on the Burlington road was explained by ono of the strikers and then a ¥¥solution. was adopted as folows: 5.2 Resolved, That we, as law abiding citizens of the United States, de- to the railway mnmlg{ern who have been secretly aiding and abotting the . Burlington road with a view to defeating the Just demands of its old engineers and firemen sending them incompetent and irresponsi- e porsons as engineers and firemen, thereby endangering the public safety, that if they do wot withdraw said men from the service of said company, we, as individuals, willuse our own discretion about remaining ' in their om- fl% after a certain date, ‘e do not say to the managers 6f certain railroads connecting with the Burlington ' that they shall not exchange traffic for being mware of the dutics of common carriers, we do not propose to interfere with the laws governing the same, but as individuals we recommend that each and every engincer and fireman in the employ of such a connect- ing road or systom use his own individual I‘;sgmtnt as to whether it will be to his in- est to remain in the employ of such rail- roads after a certain date. The resolutions further pledge moral and financial support to the strikers and condemn the action of the Burlington road as mean, nurious and worthy of the contempt.of all gl.r minded men, It is declared that the rlington road is positively misrepresenting resent condition. ‘hanks are extended to certain managers of railroads connecting with the Chicago, . Burlington & Quincy for kindnesses already ‘extended; to managers of the roads who have given the men the assurance of favor- ‘able eonsideration; also to their friends of the press, pulpit and elsewhere. It is recom- fmended that engincers and firemen call a Bpecial gession of their respective grand con- _yentions to be held at Chicago at an early its. Arthur Proud of the Brotherhood. “ Citroaao, March 11:—Chief Enginer Arthur said to an Associated press reporter this fternoon that he considered the decision of the Iowa railroad commissioners emiuently fair and impartial. He also thought the letter of ‘Governor Larrabee to President Perkins, of the Burlington, would be com- amended by the traveling public and the pub- » dic generally. \". ,/The governor, after a thorough investiga- tion,” said he, “has found there is something to arbitrate, the Burlington officials to the contrary notwithstanding, anda has advised o the president of te Q accordingly. 107 % A5 to the sittation haying been narrowed mdown to a game of ‘freeze out,’" continued Mr. Arthur, “it remains to be seen -how long " the directors and stockholders will sustain ,Ahe present bankrupt: policy - of man- «mgement—a policy with no sufficient cause. “For.our part wo aro confldent the brother- hood can stand it longer than the owners of - the road will be willing to sanction. Our ad- wvices are that but 30 per: cent of the usual local business is being done, and no through Eflnillesm The Burlington members of the rotherhood will be sustained by the entire * organization just ns long as the men wish or require help, and that is certainly lonegr than the Q can go on without froight or fast pas- isonger trains, “None of the brotherhood have deserted,” added the chief with evident pride, “and T predict nonc of them will.” ‘The chicf then referred to the clause in the constitution of requiring the instant, any member found notification to the road = employing him that he - was an unfit person to give charge of an engine as well as to the other tests of character and said: “During the past fourteen years not a single brother- hood engineer ever deserted his engine with- out using every possible precaution to save the lives of his passengers, and the public _ well know how many have died at the post of duty. Iatuwribute this remarkable record to the fact that these men are and must be sober, skilled, moral, intelligent men of nerve and principle. In all this the great public "‘has been benctitted during the life of the organization. I have only to say further that the nerve of these men has and will be demonstrated in the “Q" strike. € =1t is understood - that, to-morrow or next fay another gencral conference of grievance ‘committees will be held for the purpose of Miscussing the question of handlng Q Areight. At this meeting the eastern as well / ms the western roads will be represcnted. “~ Representatives of the Lake Shore and Penn- . Bylvania companies' men are already in tho city and delegates are expected to arrive to- smorrow from the Michigan Central, Balti- more & Ohio, Chicago & Eastern Tilinois, * Chicago & Grand Trunk, Chicago & Atlantic, the Nickle Plate and the Louisville; New “ Albany & Chi . It is not expected, un- \less something unlooked for happens, that any action will be taken until after the an- nouncement of tho decision by Judge Gresham 1n the case of the Wabash, the order expulsion of intoxicated and - Everybody Dissatisfied. YLast night an elderly, dignified appearing ~gentleman with a well selected and vigorous supply of swear words to fall back npon ‘when hus patience and good nature is imposed Lupon, gave a fow samples of his stock in trado @t the Burlington depot. He had purchased # ticket for Lincoln, with the expectation of _starting on train 8, which was scheduled to leaveat S p.m., The train not having ma- terialized at that hour, he pressed his well geveloped stomach against the rail of the ticket ofice and fired a few interrogatories at the ticket seller who peered out through the gvated window. Upon being told that the “rain was reported five hours late from the ““emst, and that m all likelihood a few hours .moroof delay would be tacked to it at mid- night, the old gentioman. fumed, swore and ythreatened in a manuver ~that shocked fthe ladies present, convulsed the men and caused the ticket seller 40 seek solace in u far off corner of the ticket ofice. ““This is getting to be pretty tough,” we; the faint words that fell on the ears of the +IBEE reporter a few moments later, . Looking about him for the source of this expression, and peering through she grated window, the eyes of the reporter were mot by an emaciated face with sunken and heavy eyes. The roporter was astounded, sud gazed into the wasted features with & queri- some look. “Don’t you kuow me 1" came the words .in tremulous and uncertain tones, with the addition, “*Can it be possiblo that you do not recognize the old friend that has énabled you 10 ‘scoop’ the other papers 80 many times !’ ‘The Bee mau was forced to confess that he did not identify in his skeleton interloc any one to whom he was obligated, and % wasted form turned sadly to one side and weakly sighed, “It is sad to be so soon tten.” Taking unother and more critical wnoe ut the abbreviated bulk, the reporter tified it as that of the eorpulent, happy and good-natured man that once greeted hiu “With a smile and joke before the strike com- menced. Apologies were quickly in order, and the ler expluined that he feared if the ike lasted another week he ~vould be u wman sure, and go to his grave with the wwecord of being the champion liar of the nineteanth contury. He assured the Bes man that the castigation given by the old man bound for Liucolu was only s small sanple of what he bad undergose - in the last erance, and went his way. ill be two weeks this morning since the strike was inaugurated, and the Burling- ~ officials continne Tgmslmunfl o in% that - is forced. efr represen tations that, everything 18 running smoothly is exaggerated and in the main un- truthful. The )-nnenfinr urvlvei as far as concerns Omaha, is gotling worse all the time, and the traveling public are beginning to show their disfavor. Trains are being run without any respect for scheduled time, and their ‘““fiyers” are still kept in abeyance. Business’ men are also beginning to get ag- gravated owing to the uncertainty of the mails, and unloss there is a spoedy c ngu they propose, it is said, taking o hand in the disturbance. Last night a train of twonty-five cars ad- vertising an eastern farming implement houso bound for San Francisco went over the road, and a west bound freight over. the Union Pacific had in its make up a number of Bur- lington cars. 'he ¢ngineers and firemen of the different roads centering in the city were in scssion the groater rm of yestordny at their hall on the corner of Douglas and Fourteentli streets. What was done is a socret that could not be fathomed by the reporters, who, in reply to questions, received the alrcady tircsome response, “‘nothing that the public are intor- asted in,? Everything was moving smoothly at the Union Pacific depots. and yards last night, and thera were no indications af an immediate disruption betyeen tho men and the company. This morning the temporary injunction franted by Judge Dundy against the Union Pacific and their.employes is returnable, and alively time is anticipated. General J. C. Cowin will appear for the brotherhood. Rock Island Men Declare Themselves. Kaxsas City, Mo, March 11.—Vice-Grand Master Hannahan of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen arrived here this after- noon and immediately went into a secret con- ference with S. M. Stevens who has charge of affairs here. Hannahan has, in the past few days visited Denver and points between there and Kansas City. He officiaily re- ported that he had found the engincers and firemen of other roads determined in their stand not to bandle any Chicago, Burling- ton and Quincy freightse The geweral grievance committee of the Cliicago, Rook Island ahd Pacific road met here this afterngon. They were in session for three hours, during which the situation was thoroughly aiscussed. No. final action was taken. The speeches mado were, to the effect that if the Rock Island touched the l!urliupiwn freight the enginecrs and firemen ‘would leave their positions. Stopped Handling Q" Freight. Sr. Louts, Mo, March 11.—All the rafl- foads terminating - in East St. Louis stopped handling Burlington freight at 6 o’clock this evening. This was due to a resolution adopt- ed at the meeting of enginecrs, firomen and brakemen this afternoon. Twelve roads are affected by the order. Governor Adams’ Views. Drnver, Col., March 11.—Governor Adams, in conversation with an Associated press re- porter to-night, - regarding Governor Larra- bee's letter to President Perkins and the decision of the railroad commissioners at Des Moines yesterday, smd: “I am of the opin- ion that the decision of the commissioners upon the matter of permitting . incompetent engincers to run passenger trains on the Bur- lington road is right and just. No man who has not proven himself fully competent to run a locomotive should be permitted to jeopardize the lives of hundreds of passen- gcrs, as well as the property of the company, v being put ‘in charge of a train. ““Were my opinion asked as to the best way to settle the present trouble, I would advise that the ofiicials of the Q" accede at once to the demands of the engineers and firemen upon the basis paid these men by other cor- porations having as extensive territory as tho Burlington. If this is impossible, “then I heartily agree with the ideas of the governor of Towa embodied in his letter to President Perkins, advising a settlement by arbitration immediately.” Yesterday at Lincoln. TaNcoLxy, Neb.,, March 11.--[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—The day in railroad cir- cles has been quiet and uneventful. A ro- port was in circulation that a monster peti- tion was going the rounds and obtaining sig- natures, the gist of which was a request to the state board of transportation that it take action similar to that taken by the Iowa commissioners and . aseertain whether or not the Burlington road is employing engincers that ave competent and who insure safety to the traveling public. The recent wreck on the A. & D. N. line and the wreck in the Burlington yards here, in addition to the fact that an experienced switchman was killed on duty while working with an engineer of six diys’ experience are facts sufficient in them- selves to call for a strict and rigid investiga- tion, Several visiting engineers from iowa and llinois were in the city today and in the morning talked to the members of the broth- erhood, From an cxamination dvring their trip to this city they asserted that not over one-half of the pluces made vacant when the n quit had been filled and those that had been filled were filled in a majority of cases with men totally unfit to handle trains. Sat- urday afternoon it was reported at the hall that engine 20 had dropped its crown sheet and the special train made up of disabled en- gines that was forwarded to the shops at Plattsmouth caused a great deal of discussion among the men. Another special of this character it 'was reported would be made up to go east after night. The brotherhood put in the greater part of the afternoon attending the prohibition meeting in response to a cor- dial invitation extended them by Bishop Skinner who had the meeting in cha Trouble With & . Lour Crry, Neb., March 11.— the Bek,]—The scab engineers on this branch of tho B. & M. have had considerable troublo with their engines burning our, and in_other ways getting out of order, five having already gone to theshops. Probably through ignorance of the real cause, the scab engi- neers intimated that someone bad tampered with the water tanks and the company have now & day and mght watchinen in their yard. Avthur Indorsed. Prerswure, Pa, March 1L —A genoral moeting of brotherhood engineors, in which all local brotherhoods were represented, was held to-day. The Chicago, Burlington & Quiney strike and the manner in which it is being conducted was approved and the moral and financial support of all the lodges ropre- sented was pledged. As to tho matter of a strike on_«ll lines centering in Pittshurg nothing whatever was said, and several delo- gutes when spoken to said nothing was fur- er from their mind . Carpenters Extend Sympathy. Omans, Neb, Murch 10.—The following resolution’s were unanimously adopted at a meeting of Local Union No. 58 of carpenters and joiners of America. Resolved, That we, the members of union No. 55, carpenters and joiuers of America, ympathy to the striking engineers and firemen of the Chicago, Bur lington & Quincy system, and bope their day of victory may soon come. Resolved, That these resolutions be spread on the minutes of the union, and a copy be sent to the engineers and firemen and fur- nished the Omaha Bes for publication. F. P. CocurA¥N, Recording Seoretary, Local Union No. 53, Carpentersand Joiners o1 Amorica. P Reading Miners Return to Work, HazLetoxn, Pa.. March 11, —The Knights of Labor have declared the miners' strike in the Lehigh region off, and in a few days every colliery will be at work, The com- munity at large are highly elatod over tho prospect of resumption. e v~ Stuart Robson, the actor, asked In- gersoll not long since to define the difference between the pulpit and the This is what *“Pagan Bob” smd 'he pulpit is the pretense vy the stage is the honesty of pretense | UNITED LABO®R M A Call Issned For a National Conven- tion at Cincinnati. Ispraxarours, Ind.,, March 11.—The chaif- man of the national committee of the unioh Iabor party has issued a call for a national convention at Cincinnati, May 15. The basis of representation will be two delogates from each congressional district in the several states and territories and two at large from engh state, he call says m part: *“Thie is not a move- ment of politicians_intent on_capturing the spoils of office. Let the coming convention bo the nucleus for agrand federation of labor. Let us agroe upon the essentinl rinciples common to all and leave details of opinion and theorics to be settled in the respective state organizations as the diversified interests of the country may demand Pty ROMANCE OF THE SOUTHERN SEA. The Strange Tidings and Alabatross Brought. ! Springfiold Republican: An oxtra- ordinary story was published some weeks ago of the means employed by a com- pany of ship-wrecked sailors to inform the world of their perilous plight on a little island almost within sight.of Ant- arctic ice. The story came from official sources in France, and was tothe effect thut the French government had been informed by the British ambassador in Paris that word had been received from the governor of West Australia that on September 22 last a dead alabatross had been found on the beach at Freemantle, around whose neck was fastened a small piece of metal, on which bad been scratched in French: i Thirteen shipwrecked men took refuge upon the Crozet islands. August 4, 1887, The story excited some incredulity. The Crozet islande are hundreds of miles south of Madagascar, far out of the ordingry track of ships. Whalers are about the only vessels that visit this vast southern wasto of waters. 1t was, indeed, o wonderful series of fortunate events if castaways on these far-off islands had found a winged messenger which, unconsciously exerting in their behalf his far-famed powers of endur- ance on the wing, hat carried their tidings over thousands of milos of sea with few opportunities to rest on the way,and had finally dmpEml dead, prob- ably of exhaustion, on the shores of a civilized land. Considering the source from which the information was derived, the French government promptly = decided - that there could be no doubt that’ this alba- tross, with its important message, had been found at Freemantle, which is one of the larger towns in sonthwestern Australim The French minister of marine at once'sent orders to the com- mander of the naval division of the In- dian ocean to dispatch. the transport Meurthe as soon: as possible to the Cro- zets to search for the castaways. The strange atpry was published in the Paris newspapers, and . the ‘next day a communication came - from the commercial _house of Bordes & Son, of Bordeaux,- saying they had reason to fear that the "thir- teen sailors on the Crozets were ihe crew of their three-master Tamards, which had sailed many months before for New Caledonia, in the Pacific. She was some time overdue. - Her owners had expected her to take a course not far from the Crozet islands,and her crew numbered thirteen persons. This information gave additional interest and probability to the story.. The British government decided to take part’ also in the search,.and her majesty’s ship Thalia, which was about Yo leave: Eugland for Australia, was® ordered to go out of her course to call at the Crozet, islands. 14 v B 1t 18 now possible to give the setluol of this romance of the sea. The French transport Meurthe, returning from her search early this yerr, reached the ba of Diego Suarez, in north Madags January 6. On that day-her comma wrote a report of his voynge. He said that the first of the four Crozet islands at wh he touched was .the little island of Cochcous: He found no human beings there, but plenty of evidence that the island had recently been occu- pied. - Traces of rccent camp fires, and biseuit boxes and other debris, compara- tively fresh in appearance, were seat- tered around. A heap of stones had been piled up to attract attention, and in this heap was ashect of paper on which this communication had been written in French with a Jead peneil: The iron ship Tamaris of Bordeaux, with thirteen men in the créw, went ashore on that island of Cochous during a heavy fog. Some time after she got clear and floated off; but three hours later she filled and sank. Tho crew escaped in two small boats to theisland, taking with them 100 kilogrammes of biscuit. The crew have lived on Cochous island nine months, and their food being exhausted, they are about to set out for Possession island, September 30, 1887, Possession island, which i3 also one of the Crozet group, is eighty niiles from Cochous. The Meurthe at once went to that island, ~but found no trace whatever of the shipwrecked men. Then she went to st Island, another istand of the group, where she found some American whalers that had been there for some weeks. They had neither seen nor heard anything of the castawa, All the other islands in those waters were visited without re- sult, It is firmly believed that the un- fortunate men were lost in their peril- ous passage by small boats to Possession island, though there isn bare chance that they were picked up by some American whaler, Of course the 230 pounds of biscuits with which the men reached Cochous island was only a small part of the pro- visions they required during tvheir nine mouth’s sojourn there, At last one of their crew has been shipwrecked on the Crozets, and it subsisted until rescued on peuquin flesh and eggs and fish, In this way doubtless the men of the Ta- maris eked out of their food resources, and it is not propable they would have starved had their patience held out a little longer until velief came, They robably thought that at Possession i and the chances would better that some whaler would discover them. They knew there was not one chance in many thous- ands that the ‘“‘man-o-war” bird to whom they intrusted their brief mes- sage would carry it safely and quickly thousands of miles to the civilized world, They little dreamed that eight days be- fore they set out from the desolate rock where they had lived so forlornly the bird they sent skimming over the wat- s had finisned his wonderful flightand had told the world of their unhappy situation. Few stories of the animal kingdom equal in pathetic intérest that of this strong-winged bird, whose happy fulfilment of the mission intrusted to him set two nations at work to rescue men in sore distress, Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. When Baby was sick, wo gave her Castoria. When she was & Child, she eried for Castoria, ‘When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When shie had Children, she gave tem Castoria. oo | WAKING POLITIGAL CAPITAL. The Eleotion N%:;November Con- stantly Before Qongressmen. 108 STUMP-SPEAKING®N BOTH SIDES 15 Every Measare h“‘oflnoofl s Dis- cussed With alView to Secnring Votes at the Yext Prosi- dential, Ejection. ] The Petiston Bill. ‘Wasnixatoy, March 9.—[Correspondenco of the Bak.|—The principal business of con- gress for the next four months will be mak- ing political capital. The statesmen of both parties have the coming prosidential canvass constantly bofore their eyes. Every mens- ure which comes up for discussion is exam- ined with a political microscope, with a_view to discovering what effect, its passage or de- feat will have upon votes next November. The grand army pension bill is a case in point. 1t was reported from the senate com- mittee on pensions by a unanimous vote. In the form in which it reached the senate it carried out the recommendations of the grand army and would have probably secured the presidential approval, but the moment that it reactied the stage of discussion, both dem- ocrats and republicans dovoted themselves to loading it down with amendments. On the democratic side it was proposed to include Mexicaw war veterans and veterans of vari- ous Indian wars, in order that needy confed- erate soldiers might share in its benefits, On the republican side, ' statésmén - who are anxious to secure the soldier vote and the . support of the pension agents, proposed a half a dozen riders, the effect of which would be to add many mil- 1tons to the bill. As’ a result, stump speak- ing on both sides was the order of the day. The depondent pension bill is stilk being vigorously discussed, and, ifit passes the senate at all, will do so in such a wmutilated form that neither. the Grand Army nor the pension committee are likely to recognize it. The principal abject of the debate has been to make capital, and the speeches for which the dependent pensiongr gave the cue are already being spread broadcast through the country on both sides of Mason and Digon’s line. S ‘The tariff bill, haying been reported to the house, will afford a great opportunity for the manufacture of political capital in the vari ous sections of tlie country which its pro- visions affect.. The New England and Penn- ‘sylvania statesmen are up to their ears in statistics, preparing to show that any reduc- tion ‘in the ' tariff ivhich = will ben- efit the public by furnishing them with cheaper food and cheaper clothes wiil be destructive to American in- dustry. - The iron men are posting - their representatives in congress with schedules and tables which theyelaun will demonstrate that a reduction of $3, top,on steel rails will result in starvation , wages to the already starved coal and coke_men, and will close half the furnaces whith #re now working on short hours throughotit /the country. ' These arguments when wonkedup in speeches will be circulated extensively throughout the re- gion where they can make the. most votes. Michigan and -Wisopsin, which are cot sidered doubtful states, are about to be de- luged with speeched Showing the iniquity of making any change in the tarift on lumber and salt, while the praitie states will bp treated to n serics of speeches showing that the most iniquitous of‘all the duties are those impased on salt and limber, while any reduc- tion in the duty on wéot will result in paralyz- ing the farming interest of the country, It is to be a fight between ingdiyidual interests with votes as the prize in view and *‘danger to American industr§”’ as the club with which opposition is 1o be battered out of the way. Another vote making topic with which the senate will soon.wrestle is the fisheries treaty. The codfish and mac are already prespirmg in thei over speeches showing theshameful betrayal of the interests of American fishermen through the treaty which has recently been concluded between the plenipotentiaries of Great Britain and this country. While the west is not expected to take much interest in this topic, it is hoped that New Engiand from Maine to' Long Island sound will cheer en- thusiastically over the showing which will be made, and will rise in_indignation at the polls next November to overtbrow the ad- ministration which has dared to permit a compromise of the claims of the United States regaxding the intérpretation of the treaty of 1818, An attempt is noted in some quarters to re- vive the “bloody shirt” issue and to make capital out of the suppression of the negro votes in the south. This has not materialized in any marked degroe up 1o tho present timo but will probably be an issue later on_in the session, in time to affect the delegations to the national convention at Chicago. On the democratic side of the house tho only issue out of which votes are expected to bo made in any large numbers is that of the tariff, This will not be as clear sailing ns was expected, inasmueh as the manufact ing regions of the south are already begin- ning to make themselyes heard for protection to their industries. Senator Vest hopes to make votes in Missouri by retaining the duty onzine. Tho senators from Louisiana_are confident that their state can only be held firm by aretention of the duty on sugar, 'l senators from Alabama feel that any rad reduction of the duties on iron ore or manu- facture of iron would be political destruction for the repnblicans in their state, while New y and New York, through ‘their demo- eratic representatives, are already warning their colleagues that the protective principle must not be attacked. ‘There will be a gon- eral dodging in many democratic states upon the question of radical tariff reform and capital will be attempted to be made by re- ducing the tariff on articles produced chiefly in other states while retaining the tariff taxes on articles manufactured or produced in their own. There are several issues of great moment which, if congress had the honesty o investi- gate and courage to attack them, would male more votes for the party taking them in charge than any of those mentioned, One of these is the relations of the corporations to the public. Another is the growing dissen- sions between labor and’ capital, and still an- other is the problem of “trusts.” So far neither political party has shown any desire to get at the bottom of these graye questions, The congressional committees have merely scratched the surfac party leaders, fortul of awakenig tagonism which might lose the votes o und wealthy in- terests, dre with shordighted policy over- looking the votes of tHe gréat mass of wage earners, who will surelghold the national legislature to an accopmabjlity for neglecting to JPI‘U\'IL\B some remedy Jfor the wrongs under which they are sufferlng. A, E. W. ——— Breviglos. The first meoting of the Ladies’ Mu- sical society at Meyew's :new music holl has been postpoued from March 14 to March 21. 7 There is considerstles tomplaint about he condition of Piesth strect betw went, ond and Fwemty-fourth, recent rains have ‘washed out gullies from two to six feet thére, and driving theve after night js dbsdlutely danger- ous, The regular meeting of the Fourth ware republican elub will be held Tues- day evening, March 13, at8 ho office of Gustave Anderson, No. Farnam strect. At this weeting th delegates will be elected to represent the club at the state convention to be held in Omaha March 15, A large attend- ance is requested. John Regan,a eontractor Oimaha, died yesterday mornir age of fifty-five. His remains ar sentto Des Moines for interment. James Edney, the wholesale hard ware dealer at 1212 Leavenworth street, died esterday morning at sidence, i;us Douglas. He was yet young, being but thirty . i at South it the to be RECEPTION, Emperor Fredorfok Sadly Welcomed to Berlin, gy Brnviy, March 11.—All members of the ministry laft by special train at 8:15 this afternoon to meet Emperor Frederick as he roturns from' Sa Remo. Thoe special train conveying the royal party arrived at Munich this morning and their m: ties met with a sympathetic reception at the station. J)mvnsnr Emdarm Augusta last night re- ceived Prince Bismarck, who had previous passed some time by the dead monarch. After the interview Bismatck visited Princo William. Another requiom service was held tg-day attonded by a targe number of distinguished mourners, It has now been decided to remove the re- mains of the emperor to tho cathedral to- night, where they will He in state. From noon to-morrow the public will be admitted. CHARLOTTENBERG, March 11.—The imperial train_arvived here at half past 11, having been delayed by a severe snow storm, The emperor and empress were grected by the crown prince and his wife and Princes Henry, Saxe and Meinengen. The emperor and empress immediately alighted from the train and proceeded through a pavillion pro- fusely decorated ‘with flowers to thejr car- riage, They were driven direct to the castlo along a route densely crowded with people, who ‘manifested much_enthusiasm. The royal princesses with Prince Bismarck and suite continued their journoy. Taken to the Cathedral. BeRrLIN, March 12—2 a. m.—The remains of the emperor have been transferred to the cathedral. ' The coffin was carriod on the shoulders of ecighteen soldiers of the body- guard through the vestibule of the palace, where it was banded to a number ¢f non- commissioned officers, The strects were lined with double rows . of soldiers, every tenth man holding ' a torch, The funeral procession was headed by a squadron of Grivassiers. These were fol- lowed by detachments of the foot guards and & numerous train of servants of the imperial household. . Then came the coffin. The ¢rown prince and other princes followed on foot, and the cortege closed with a detach- ment of cavalry., The throng on the streots was dense.. The cathedral bell_began to toll at midnight, when Emperor Frederick ar- rived to visit the remains at the palace. The Late Emperor's Will. BeruiY, March 11.—The late emperor's will has been opsued. It directs that his Dbody shall be interred dressed in field uni- form, with a gray military cloak over: the shoulders, and u fleld cap on his head. Upon thebody are to be placed decorations of the orders ‘of Black Eagle and Iron Cross, the cross of the Russian Orderof St. George, war medals of 1814, 1804, 1866 and 1870, and the Hobenzollern medal of 1840, Post. Mortem Held. * BerLIN, March 11L—Prof. Hartmann, as- sisted by Drs. Von Lauer, Leutpold and Thiemanu, coriducted a post mortem examin- ation of the emperor’s body.. They found a calcuius the sizo of a pigeon’s egg, which must have caused mtanse pain. Press Comments, St. PETERSBURG, March 11.—The papers to-day all agree'in expressing the wish that Emperor Frederick would continue . the friendly policy of the deceased monarch toward Russin.. The Official Messenger and Invalide Russe publish artfcles with mourn- ing borders, paying warm tributes to the mentory of Emperor William. The Army in Mourning. Br. PETERSBURG, March 11.—The whole army,. by special order of the czar, will wear mourning for four weeks and rogiments of which the dead emperor was an honorary colonel for five wecks. On the day of the funerai the whole army will wear full mourn- ing, and full use of the bugles will be pro- hibited. The Kalaga regiment will continue to bear that name. Its vacant honorary col- oneley has been conferred upon Emperor Frederick, who also has been appointed titulav commander of the St. Pelersburg regiment of grenadiers. 5 Lot WIRES BROKEN DOWN, Telegraphic Communication Almost Entirely Cut Off in the East. New Yonrk, March 12, 1:80 2, m.—A furi- ous stovm of wind foliowed successively by rain, snow, hail and sleet broke over the At- lantic coast In this section early Sun evening. It travelled in-a northeasterly rection, as is evidenced by the loss of tele- graphic communication, first with Washing- ton, then with Baltimore, lastly with Phila- delphia. It1s safe to say no such destructive storm to telegraph wires has been experi- enced in many years, Nota single wire can sed to Philadelphin and telegranhic fa- cilities betwoen that city and New York ano probably uncqualled in any similar distance in any other country. For the first time in ars the daily weather report has failed. Strenuous efforts have been made to reach the capital by way of Chicago, but they wero in vain. ———— Blackmailer Arrested. Stratanoy, Ont., Mareh 10.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]—Rev. John Stono- house, a Methodist minister, residing av Adelaide village, las been arrested here on the charge of blackmail. Stounehouse, it scems, has sent several letters dated from Toronto under an assumed name to hotel keepers hore stating that he was a detective and had charges against them of _violation of the liquor law, but would withdraw th charges if they would pay him 25, Tt « was put into the hands of a tive and a letter was mailed to the address given, which was called for by a brother of Stone house, The latter when accused produce letter from his brother giving him autho to receive letters and forward them to his address here The hotel men intend to prosecute him, S ey A Lazy Man, San Francisco Chronicle: Tazy Bill handed down the parrot cage, which us deposited in a box, from where the ccupant of the cage could obtain a good view of his surroundings. Tho wagon was cleared of its freight and Tom stepped upon the wagon and undid the fastenings of the goat, but inadver- tently he let the rope by which the goat” had been tied slip through his fingerg and the goat made a dush for liberty Lazy Bill was standing with his back toward the goat, talking to Collector Miller His legs were spread out, and between the goat saw his only avenue of cscape. Unfortunately for Bill, the goat was too large to pass through the nurrow space without touching, and the result was terrible. The goat reached the ground, but Bill’s feet slipped from under him and he sat down on the bottom of the wagon with a force that started the horses forward **Ha! ha! ha! rloe “Blame the blamed thing!” yelled Bill, thtowing his hat at the parrot and siipping from the wagou to give chase to the goat, He cornered the goat after a run which brought the prespiration out of his foreheat, but the goat was not yet caught, he suddenly lowered his head and gave Bill an upper cut that caused him to gasp and cluteh his vest convulsively 4 The parrot shrieked with delight, but his tune was soon changed when the horns of the goat became entangled in his cage and bird and beast rolled on the whuef together. “Now you've got him, Bill!” cried Miller, but Bill did not weant him, for picking up his hat he mounted to his seat and prepared to watch the scene from a safe place. Tom disentangled the cage from the horns and Miller picked up the cage, whereat the parrot, who had evideutly formed several . ae- quaintanees in the forecastle coming over, found his tongue. “Lam the lubber!” he cried, Knock ~=—out of him,” crouked the parrot in 10WA LEGISLATIVE ~ [TE The House Passes the Maximum Tarift Bill ANOTHER RAILROAD MEASURE., The Sweeney Bill Disonssed in the Senate—Defeat of the Woman Buffragists—The School Board Lobby. The Max¥mum Tariff Bill. Des Moixes, Ia., March 11.—[Correspond- ence of the Bem.]—After discussing the mat- ter for fully a week, the house on Thursday suspended the rules and passed the maximum tariff bill by the magnificont vote of 87 to 12 The negative votes were cast by Buell and | Curtis of Clinton, Dietaand Hipwell of Scott, Cummins of Polk, Moore of Tama, Thompson of Clayton, Custer of Jasper, Evans of Mus- eatine, Limback of Dubuque, Luke of Frank- lin, and Speaker Redman. Craig, of Leo, who was opposed to the measure, was absent, The main objection to the bill was the sus- picion that the schedule was gotten up in the interest of the lumber dealers in the cities along the Mississippl, but thé fact tnac nearly all of the representatives from tho river counties voted against the bill, effeot- ually disproves of the charges. Every one of the fifty farmer members, with a single exception, supported the measure. An . out- line of the principal features of the bill was given in my lettor last- woek. ‘The rates on coal and lumber, especially to remote points, are only half as high as were fixed by the ‘‘old granger tariff,” and are a great reduction from the rates established by the raillroads themselves at ‘a. recent meeting. This feature of the bill makes it extremely popular in the northwestern part of the state, and it received the solid support of every member from that section. The fight on this bill wall now be transferred to the senate, which is extremely cloge, there not being more than two or three majority either way. The Sweeney bill, covering another phase of the railroad problem, has already engaged the attention of the senate for more than a week. This bill extendsthe provisions of the inter-state commerce act to local shipments in 80 far as it prevents pooling discrimination and charging more for a short than a long haul. Every inch of ground has been hotly con- tested by the railroads. A strong effort was made to retain the' qualifying words “undue and unreasonable’ in the clause forbidding railroad couipanies from granting any advan- tageor preference to one shipper over an- other, but it failed, only thirteen senators voting “aye.” Senator Woolson, of Henry, whe, it is understood, is posing us the corpor- ation candidate for the nomination for gover- nor against Lafe Young, leads the fight for the railroads. - Senator McCay, of Nebraska, Dodge, of Burlington, and Gatch, of this city, are his chief supporters. Bolter, of Hacri- son, the leading democratic senator, and most polished orator in the upper house, occupies a neutral position, and will hardly support 80 radical & measure as the maximum tariff bill. As he rcpresents the strongest anti monopoly district in the state, if he faiters in this struggle he will likely hear from his constituents in no complimentary terms. WOMAN SUFFRAGE. The suffragists met with an ignoble defeat inthe house this week. After engrossing the bill granting municipal and school suf- frage to women, the house defoated the bill on final passage, much to.the disgust of the large lobby . of women present who were clamoring for the franchisa. To placate them that body approved the amendment to_strike out the word *‘male” from the constitution, which in some measure appeased thoir wrath. The senate will likely approve this amend- ment, but as it will have to go fover to un- other legislature before being submit- ted to the people, it will not become a politi- cal issue for a couple of years.. The republi- can party, having the prohibition elephant on its hands, is disposdd to go a little slow with new fangled issues until its majority of only 1,000 takes an upward turn, TRUSTS . This logislature does not take kindly to trusts and other combfnations to enhance the value of the necessaries of life. A bill has been favorably reported in the senate absolutely prohibiting such combinations from dofng business in this state, and pun- ishing all parties concerned with a heavy fine. A similar measure is also pending in the house, and some bill of this character will probably be adopted. SCHOOL BOOKS, From prosent appearances it would seom that the school book lobby have got in their work, and so confused the friends of cheap books and a uniform system, that no relicf against extortionate prices will likely be off- ered. For some reason or other the teachers of the state are strongly opposed to a uni- form system, and have made their influence felt in that direction, The senate committee has approved the Finn bill which provides for uniformity by districts, and this may pos- sibly become a law. THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE, This organization is wielding a powerfui influence in shaping legislation, especiully on the railroad question. ~ Hon, Jesse Kennedy, the president of the state alliance, is a con- stant attendant at Lhe legislative sessions, and practically has cL.arge of all sures desired by the alliance, Petitions bearing fally 20,000 names in favor of the maximum tariff, and the 2cent fare bill have come in from 700 subordinate alliances in the state, L of under the direction of P Several senators, who are naturally pathy with the railroads, have yielde overwhelming sentiment of their ents s expressed in_these petitions, support the desired legislation. As wight bo expocted, Mr, Kennedy has drawn the fire of the corporation organs all over the state. The Stato Register pokes fun at him without stint and calls him the “‘general superintend- ent of legislation.” Conseious of the power behind him, he pursues the even tenor of his ways and urges the claims of the farmers in a modest and unobtrusive manncr. How- ever, there is no doubt that the alliance will make it interesting for the politicians who disregard their demands in this crisis, should thoy seek public fuyors in the future, BMALL GOSSIP, The lawyers, bankers, loan agents and druggists in some sections of the state are extremely disgusted with this legislature, if Kennedy in sym- and others, of Humboldt, sent in & 1! which wns read ~in the %nnm' asking that laws should be passed to hang al druggists, to abolish all raiiroals and send their officers to the penitentiary, to provide apublic guardian in each township to see that no one made a bad bargain, and to_com- pel banks to loan money at { pof cent without excessive seourity, 80 requested the logislature %o adjourn and move out of the state, and send the committeo clorks to the orphans’ home, Instead of being reforred to the committee on the incurable insane the petition was sent to the committee on re- trenchment and reform. The house is wrestling with the question of taxing mortgages, and a bill to that effect has been approved by the committee on ways and means. The railroad feeling took a new turn in the sonate this morning. Senator Dodge, of Hurlin‘g\nu. offerad a resolution commemora- tive of the life and services of Tom Potter. Several members objected to the considora- tion of the resolution and it was quickly withdrawn. Ex-Speaker Hoad, of Groon, who is posin as a farmer but who is in reality a banker o the shylock variety, had the wind taken out of his” sails very nicoly one ‘day this wook, Having moved an amepdment, to the rajiwoad bill imposing the same fine on & shipper who receives rebates as on the railroad which grants them, Mr, Russcll, of Adams, proposed we may Judge from the petitions thut they send in. A few aays ago Mr. J. N. Prouty, Good health depends upon pure blood; therefore, to keep well, purify the blood by taking Hood's 5 sapurilla. This medicine is pecullarly desikned to et upon the blood, nnd through that upon all the or- jnns aud Uskaes of the body. 1t hus & specitic action, ala, upon the secretions wnd excretions, and assists nAture 10 expel 1row the system ull bumom, twpure A effote watter through the luwies, 1 ¥ and skin. It effoctuntly wlds w pitred @ud debilitated ansans,invigorstes Ui a8 s thie ) s new life and y to all the funetions of the body. A pecoliacity Hood's Barsaparilla, {3 that It strevgthens and bailds up the system while it eradicates Qisunse, I must suy Hood's Sarsaparllia is the best medi- cino 1 ever used. Lastspring | had no appetite, and the lewst work I did fatigued me ever so much. 1 be- gan to take Hood's Sarsaparilla, and soon 1 feltas it T could do ws much in u day as I ad formerly done in & week. My appesite Is voracious.” Mrs. M. V. Bay: ard, Atlantie City, N.J N. B. If you have made up yous mind to get Hood's Baursaparills do not take uny other. Purify Your Blood. Yo apply the provisions of the act to every banker who received extortionate rates of interest, a sally which brought down the house. The position taken by Senator Young, of Atlantic, in favor of reasonable railway log- islation, is giving him & decided boom for the nomination for governor, to succeed Larra- bee. Betweon Woolson and Young, the latter ‘would have almost a walk away. The house will take up the temperance bills the coming week, while tho senate grinds away at tho railroad problom. Rex. —— Their Work Scarcely Begun, Des Moines, Ta., March 11.—[Special to the Brr.]—More than two months have’ passed since the Twenty-second goneral assembly began its session, and yet the statesmen are still -lingering with their work scarcely be- gun. The delay in getting down to. business seems more marked this winter than ever before. . One reason is that the membors—so large a proportion of them new-—haven't known just how to go to work to accomplish what they desired. They came here with & strong anti-monopoly sentiment and wanted to enact some legistation for railroad regula- tion and control, but hardly knew how to go atit. *I'he more the problem was studivl the largor it seomed, and the more difficult o do what seemed -necessary without doing in- justice to_any interest. So the weeks have passed and tho logisiature is just really tak- ng hold of the subject, and getting its forces in hand to treat it intellegently, The time has come, when ordinarily, a legislative would begin to talk about ndjo\lmmon!? but ths legislative has the greater part of its work ahead of “it. The senate has been mare dilitory than the house. It has not yet passed a single measure of railroad regulation.. A number of bills are awaiting consideration, and it has two or three weeks' work nearly on this one subject before it. The great -questions of amending the pharmacy bill so as to pre- vent drug stores from succeeding the sa- loons, the achool book monopoly and other tmportant subjects are yet untouched. Then comes the appropriation bills, always a large subject, and this yoar as much so as ever, and they are all waiting action. S0 it looks as if the middle of April would find the leg- islature still in'session, and possibly & later date. However, if the spring. should open pretty early’ and the plowing languish for want of a master, the fifty-one. farmers of the house would get pretty uncasy and soon settle the question of adjournment. OFf Interest to Hotel Keepers. Drs Morxes, In., March 11.—[Special to the Bee.]-~The railroad commissioners have rendered a decision that will interest hotel keepers who send ruuners to the trains to solicit patronage. The case of complaint came from Manilla, a small station on the Milwaukee road, where proprietors of a hotel claimed that their runners who went to the trains to solicit patronage were kept so far away by the station agent that they could do no good. It secms that the railroad main- tains a hotel and eating house in . connection with the station, and takes the passengers into the fold before the outside hotel gets a chance at them. The comn ioners say that the railroad platform is the property of the railroad, and 8o long as they do not interfere ‘with the rights of the traveling public they can make such rules and restrictions regard- ing occupancy as they please, even if it gives them a monopoly of the hotel business at that place, A Persiste Olass, Des Morxes, Ia., March 11.—[Special Tele- gram to the Ber.]—The wom#n suffragists are nothing if not persistent. They take ono knock down and get up and ask the privilego of being knocked down again. Tho houso kiiled the bill to give the sweet suffering sisters the right to .vote at manicipal eleo- tions. The very mnext day their champions were on hand with another policy, and a joint resolution was introduced to submit to the people the question of amending the con- stitution 80 as to give women the right to vote at all elections. As this resolution has to pass two general assemblies before it can be submitted it is quite likely that the present legislature may send it on_its way. That in the judgment of many is the easlest way to get rid of the importunities of the suffragists, for the present at loast, and it very conyeniently unloads tho responsibility upan the next general assembly. The people of the state would make quick work of dis- posing of the matter if once left to them, for the sentinent against woman suffrage is very strong. The peoplo of Iowa think that they are carrying about all the reforms that they can staud now. Allison's Boom Drs Moixes, In, March 10.—[Special to the BEx.|—The boom for Senator Allison is growing steadily and very satisfactorily. Ho is developing great strength in the east as well as west, ana the calm second strength is boginning to recognize the many qualtities that make him so available. An amusing incident occurrod recently in Fort Smith, Ark. A d paper of that city inter- or Hughes, the democratio i president governor it the second place on the ticket would be given to Allison, of lowa, or Stoneman, of California. A goy- ernor who doesn’t know to what party Sen- ator Allison, whose public ife as & leading figure in the republican party covers twenty five years, belongs, is & preity good repre- the ignorant democracy of Now i the thine to purify the blood, for 8t B0 other sewson 16 the body o suscoptible to benefit from medivine, The peculisr puritylng and reviving qual- itus of Hood's Sursuparills ure Just whit are necded 0 expel di d tortfy the systom agslnst tho dobilitating effects of wild weather. Kvery yoar in- cronses tie popularity of Hood's Sarsaparilla, for it i5 Just what jeoplo need at this sesson. Itis the ideal spring wedicine, 11 you have never tried it, do 80, 4nd you will be convinced of 1t peculiar morit, “H00d's Surswparilla has driven the polson from my blood, and though 6 I feel nctive and stiong a3 P I GROKABECK, Brooklyn, N. Yo Spring Medicine. 1 take Hood s Sarsapanilia for @ spring medicine, and 1 find it just the thing. 1t tones up my syste: and wakes me feel like & differentitan. My wife takes It or dyspep from it FRANK C. TURN KL, Hook wud Ladder No, 1, Friend Steeet, Boston. 1 hiad salt rheum on my left arm three years, suf- ferig terribly; it almost disabled wme from work. [ (0ok three botties of 100d's Bursaparla, and the sa it rheum bas entirely disappeared.” H. M.MiLLS, 11 Frouch Bireet, Lowell, Mass, Hood’'s Sarsaparilla 801d by ull draggista, 81 aix for 8. Propased only by } C. L HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. . 100 Doses Oue Dollar B0ld by all rugyiste. §1; six for 8. Prepared oaly by ©. 1. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar