Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 15, 1888, Page 1

¢ 2 SEVENTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1888, DISCOVERED THE REMEDY. An Antidote Found For the Sickness of Union Pacific Men. CURED AFTER A CONFERENCE. Destructive Collision on the B. & M. at Bellevue—Engineers Reply to Dundy’s Injunction—Judge Gresham's Decision. Yesterday's Local Developments. A Bee reporter yesterday visited the Union Pacific shops in quest 6f whatever i formation he could obtain concerning the strike. . Ho first visited the roundhouse, which was almost deserted, there being only one or two men around the building. Irnqui- ries failed to elicit any information of mo- “ment and the scribe turned away, Just out- side the gate one of the striking engincers s met and in response to the inquiry, “What is the latest concerning the strike?” replied: “Well, we have struck, or a part of us have, the passenger ‘and some switch en- gincers have not and will not be re- uired to. Judge Dundy qid it when %’e issued his: order compelling the nion Pacific to handle the freight of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. It is justlike this. There is a suspicion existing that the ‘Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Union Paaific entered into an agreement by which this case was carried into the courts with the understanding that an order was to be served on the Union Pacific as I have said and that the engincers in the employ of the latter road were to be compelled to hpndle Q" cars ‘whether they wanted to or not. The force of that writ is shown right here. 1 hardly think that Judge Dundy will issue a writ ordering us to take our old places again.”” “‘What is the reason that you permit pas- senger trains to run?” asked the reporter. “Because we do not_wish to incommode the traveling public. We are not as mercenary as some suppose. We are bound to win this fight with the Chicago, Burlingfon. & Quincy, for it is a case of the downfull of the ‘brotherhood or its _existence. -We do not wish as 1 said before to inconvenience he traveling public and it is not necessary our success to refuse to run passenger trains, Had Judge Dundy's order included assengers from the ‘Q’ or its cars, I cannot ay what the result would have been. We will handle what freight that is absolutely necessary to be handled for the Union Pacific for a few days in order to protect its ship- pers, but will not under any circumstances touch a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy car. ‘We have no grievance with the Union Pacific, peither have we any grievance with any other road, but we are in this fight to win, . mud atany cost we will win. That is our po- sition exactly,” and with these words the en- -gineer walked away. AT THE DEFOT. The switch engines at the yards on Tenth street were all tied up yesterday and the cross- ing for once was clear. The ‘‘“flyer” left on time as usual, Suburban trains will con- tinue running between South Omaha and Council Bluffs, ~An order was sent out to all ggenta on the line yesterday to the effect t until further notice no stock or perish- able freight would be received. While noth- ing general could be learned it is given out on - the quiet that unless a settiement is reached ¢ tn a few days that no freight of any kind will o taken for shipment. : THE CONFERENCE, A copference of the grievance committee of engineers and firemen with Thomas L. Kimball was held at the Union Pacifi¢ head- quarters yesterday. What the result of the ecting was will be learned ‘in the following %lloquy when Mr. Kimball was asked as to e result of the conference by a BEE re- -porter: ° . ““You can say that everything is running smoothly and that the action of the men in striking this morniug was rather hasty.” ‘How about the handling of Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy cars " asked the reporter. “You that everythlng is running smoothly,” said Mr. Kimba] “Will the men handle Chicago, Burlington & Quincy carst” queried the Bek man, “Ilyerything is running smoothly,” said the ofticial. *“Will the men be asked to landle Chi Burlington & Quincy carst” wus the question. SEverything is running smeothly,” was the reply. i “How about your recciving freight1” “Everything 18 running smoothly." And tired of hearing this steréotyped ex- pression, the reporter, seeing that everything Wwas running smoothiy, took advantage of the situation and smoothly slid out and wended his way to th s on Marcy street, whero e found Mr. Kimball's statement correct as ar as the stock that running wis con- cerned. One solitary engine and perhaps a half dozen freight cars were ‘‘running smoothly” up and ‘down a side track, while perhaps’ a dozen more locomotives = were standing over the ash pits waiting for some one to put them to running “‘smoothly." Meeting an engineer who has until last night pulled the throttle on one of the afore- suid engives, he enquired: ““What is the latest " o “Well,” said the engineer, “‘we are sick and need rest.” “When are you going back to work?" “Oh, I don't know, We are sick and necd rest, “When you do go to work, will you handle Burlington cars if the present strike on the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney is not settied (" “Oh! Idon't know. You see the most of us are sick, need rest and cannot work.” “‘What was the result of the conference this afternoon between the engineers and Mr. Kimball “Well, T don't know. not attend.” “Did you talk with anyone that 'did at- tend ‘*Yes, but he was so sick he could not tell me.” ““'Were the men nsked to handlo ‘Q." cars?” really do not know, . 1 am so sivk.” “Would you handle them if asked on your return to work, provided the ‘Q." strike ‘was not yet ended 1 Well, I don't know. You see I am not feeling well enough to answer that question. 1 am ggng overto that drug store now to get some medicime. Call and see me when I get ‘well,” aud the engincer left. KETUKNED T0 WORK LAST NIGHT, The embargo that developed the freight and switching interests of the Union Pacific Tuesday night and all of the day of yester- day was lifted last night when the hour came for the six or moreyard switch cngines to roport for duty and prepare freights for their departure to various points in the west. That ’:-vulinr whistle which an engineer is capa- lo of muking nis engine carol when he is in hign glee was teoted and re-echoed over and over again, and switching and the making up of trains was done with remarkable-expe- dition by men who twenty-four hours pr vious had complained of sickness and others who kd said they were tired and, did .uot wish to work any longer. Several Q" cars looked lonesome on the sidé tracks and were completely ignored. Regular freights de- parted on time and several specials were auled away in vigorons and specdy style, “Have you become tully rested up ' asked 8 reporter of the BEr of & switch engine- man who grew suddenly tived Tuesduy night and put his engine o sleep. *Yes," was the entnusiastic reply; »Iam greatly refreshed and feel as though I could stand on the' footbourd for a week and never get tired." The same. interrogation was fired at a knight of the lever who had complained of bemg sick and he answered : Wi doetor gave the kind of physic tha 1 was in need of and it fixed me out in great shape. I don't think I'will get sick again for some time.” *'Was it ‘Dr.! Kimball?” facetiously asked the reporter, “No, that was not his name,’ T was sick and could was - the. re- t this stage of the interview a member of the grievance ‘committee who had been in gonsultation with- Mr. Kimball during the day stepped up, and smd: “The Ber is co 19 all the news we cun give it aud 1 ao | Quin ot feel that T am doing anything wrong in telling you that the boys came back to_work to night with assyrances from Union Pacific officials that they would not be asked to handle ‘Q' cars." “‘Was that the outcome 6f the interview with Mr. Kimball{" was the reportorial quiz “Now don’t impose on good nature and in- tents,” responded the gentleman, who went his way, “Everything is lovel y and- trains are leav- ing on time to-night,” “was .all that Night Yard Master East would say. The Burlington Injunction Case. Thé celebrated injunction case of the €hi- cago, Burlington & Qaincy vs. the Union Pa- cific, attracked a large crowd of railroad men and citizens to the Unitéd States cireuit court room yesterday The * case wus to come up for argiment before Judge Dundy, but owing‘ to "the ¢haracter . of . the answer filod “yesterday hy Nicholas Weéeks in behalf of the locomotive enginecys, it was ntitually agreed by the attorneys— Judge Thurston for the Union Pacific; C. .J. Green, for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and General Cowin, for the engineers—to hold the matter over until Friday morning, in order that the Chicago, Burlington & ¢ people might have an’ opportamty to secure affidavits to offset thd Week’s answer, A murmer of dissutisfaction and disappoint- ment was heard among the assembled en- gincers at this announcement. ~They are anxious that the matter bo settled av as early a moment as possible, in order to_avoid . fu ther comphications, arrd think that the raj road company should haye had its evidence in readiness yesterday, the time set for the hearing of the case. In_his answer in behalf of the engincers Weeks admits the phaintiff company to be an corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of Illinois; that plaintiff owns, controls gnd operates o railway system covering a large area of. territory through different states and - territories, to what just extent he knows tiot. As -to. the number of their engineers and cars ho hasno knowledge, He pdmlts-that an annual tax amounting to large sum has ‘been hevetofore levied and asgessed pon- plaintiff’s property by the authorities ~ of . the’ different states, ‘but denies that the .plaintiff has‘ promptly met and. paid the same as -it be came due, but alleges has resisted payment of taxes wherever and whenever it could, and sought to avoid payment of its taxes to the extent of prolonized litigation and _great expense to the taxing authorities. Ho udmits plaintiff has been compelled to employ a latge number-of employes to carr; ot their business, but denies that they pi them fair and just wages. Admits that 800 of these are skilled ' locomotive engineers; mits that they are peaccable, law-abiding eitizens, most of whom have famitics depend- ing on them for support and maintaimance, but denies that any.of them are satisfied with the wages paid tlem for their services. He ‘admits that ‘their. gross carnings amounts to $2,900,000 per year, and for many years has been considered valuable railroad property, and its business one of the largest and most prosperous in the world, and its bonds quoted among the highest of the great railroad systeins of the country; all this, the answer claims .is _attributable to fhie skill, intelligence, integrity and- discipline of its firemen‘and engincers. - & Denies that the Union Pacific disregarded its obligations as a common carrier in open violation of the interstate commerce law, has and continues to refuse to receive trafiic from plaintiff 4t any point named in the bill, but on the contrary does exchange trafiic with the plaintiff as with all other connecting lines, He alleges the present action-was in- :stigated and is being prosecuted by the plain- tiff railroad company upon an agreement and understanding with " the Union Pacific_com- pany, and that the instigation of the suit was the result of an agreement and by collusion of the two ‘railroad companies’ to hbel, in- timidate and. oppress the defendants to said bill,and the locomotive engineers of the Union Pucifie, who they seck to make defend- ants, wrongfully and wickedly * intend- ing “to. compell them to submit to every arbitrary order- that the two corapanies might' dgree- upon .for. the benefit of the plaintiff compauy it a personal attempt - to oppress and degrado and drive out of employ mcnt the plaintifi’s entire corps of 800 eng neers, or to compel thewy to work for insuf- ficient compensation, or to compel a-gene abandonment of worl by the engineers of the different compunigs, - ‘thereby. throwing the blame of a suspension of . trafiic and com- upon their shoulders and assist plain- company in its present efforts to defeat engineers in their application for r sonable_wages- for their service, Hus no knowledge of notice served upon-plaintiff- by employers. of plajntiff cowpany not to re- - ceive or handle the freight of the plaintiff company, but denies all such allegations. Ad- mits that the Brotherhood of. Locomotive Engineers practically includes all the skilled engincers in the country. They number over 80,000, and their members operated all the railroads in the country. Denles that defendants are guilty of any of the charges embodied in the bill of complaint, and that it is not competent for this court to require defendants, by injunction or other proceedings, to remain in the employ of the Union Pacific company, or to com- pell them to work as engineers or otherwise for said company. Denies all_unlawful com- bination and confederacy specified in the bill and humbly prays that he be dismissed. Bad Collision at Belleyue. At Bellevue, ten miles from Omaha, on the B. & M., a collision occurred about 7 0'clock last night between two freight trains that completely blocked the tracks, damaged two locomotives, mashed several cars iuto splin- ters, killed @ hundred live stock and slightly njured’ a number of train hands. The authorities in this . city were loth to give the particulars, and at 11:80 arrangements were being perfected ond a wrecking train to the scene of the 1t is known, however, that. it was u rear end coliision, but to whom to lay the blame could not be scertained. Owing to the collision passenger trafiic on the Burlington was greatly annoyed and con- ducted with much care and worriment. The -ain from the west that should Liave béen in at 5:45, already reported several hours late, did not show up until nearly 10 o'elock, and then - it was - tied to the Kansas City run, due about 8 o’clock. Both trains came in by the way of Council Bluffs, and the train cast that should have departed at 7 o'clock aud the Kgnsas City contingent scheduled to depart at 9 o'cloc] 10 o'clock, both going by the way of Council Bluffs ovér the Union Pacific bridge. Train 3, whicl is due from the east at 7 o'clock "nightly, hiid 1ot shown up at mid- night and_was 1ot ‘expected much pefore morning. Its crew .has reccived orders to bring the train around by the way of Ash- land. Judge Gresham's Decision. Cuicago, March 14, —After a formal state- ment of the ease Judge ham delivered the following opinion in the Wabash case this worning: “Although the property of the Wabash company is in the custody of the court, it is operated by a recciver as a com- woun carrier, His rights and duties are those of a carrie He is bound to afford to all railway companies whose Lines connect with his, equal facilities for the exchange of trafic. It is Lis duty to receive from and deliver to other counecting roads both loaded and empty cars. He cannot dis- criminate against one road by maintaining @ policy of uon-intercourse. More d not be said of this question as the receiver has wisely rescinded its instructions which dis- erimiuited agaiust the petitioner, and he has no purpose or desire to deny to the petitioner any of its kegal 1ights. Although the peti tioner has accomplished its chief purpose in aid invoking i.of the court, it is urged by its counsel that the persons belonging to the Brotherhood: of Locowotive Engineers, and especiaily P, M. Arthur, who is the chief oficer of the organization, has inteérfeved . with- the yeceiver and his subordinates in’ the . management of the Wubash property and that they should be punished for tneir iilegal @nd contumacious, condyet, The receiver and his counsel make uo such coniplaint. - On the contrary the re- veiver declares there hos beew no’ interfer- ence with him, while'the affidavits submitted |Cuntinued on Seeond Puage. | ‘ reached Newark IT BEATS DAKOTA BLIZZARDS | More Stories of the Great Storm in the Bast. ROSCOE CONKLING'S EXPERIENCE How He Nearly Perished n: Endeay oring to Reach the New York Clup—Many People Are Frozen to Death, e The Blizzard in New York. NEW YORK, Mirch 14.—The sun is shining brightly this morning ana the temperaturo moderating. Travel on the elevated roads is fully resumed but the surface ronds are still impassable, - There is no‘ improvement in the condition of telegraph wites... The south and ecist is still entirely cut off and littls if any communication with the' west. Mengte ‘ro- ports - received shows the people living in New Jersey. towns who “started for New york Monday had dreadful expériences, Muny- trains are srotvéd in a few mile from the city and passengers have been conr. pelled to sicep on the trains of wade through the snow to look for sheltor in u village.- A number of persons are reported to have per- ished from cold and_exhauetion at Eiizabeth- port. A dozen employes of Singer's sewir machine works started home' and several of them . were ) frozen.. One man . ‘named Kilis ‘was picked up out of the snow breathless. He was carried into the railway etation where' he soon died. By strenuous effort the “Pennsylvania road £ot o single track clear to Newark, Trains: were kept running all night_ between there - and Jersey City to keep the track open. None of the other roads have been able to move traing.. Above New York, oo the roads of the ‘New . York Central 'the. situation - is unimproved. . The Chicago limited vestibule trafn on the Pennsvlvania road, which was stalled for s day near Harrison, on the Jérsey meadows, stnight. Fhe' relie{ car of supplies had been sent-out in the morning with three engines pulling and thrée more pushing to insure the passengers agdinst starvation. ¥ At South Etizabeth there was a stock train blocked on a'siding and muny sheep and cat- tle were frozen'to death. - in the Pennsyl- vx;ui‘x; freight yard a carload of sheep per- 18he L. i i Several hundred passengers reavhed Long Island City this morning who were forty- eight hours enroute from Roradwiy. . The, strects are still blocked. Twenty funcrals on the way to Calvary cemetery were stuck in swow drifts, The corpses had to be taken into houses near by over might. Some un- dertakers, drivers and horses . dug out were nearly frozen to death, 5 Thé milk famine is becoming alarming. It is almost impossible to get_anything but con- densed, One botel yesterday paid 50 cents a quart for the last fifty gallons a'dealér had. The meat supply.is getting short and prices are advancing. ' Fiffeen dollars aton is being paid for coal. -There -is plonty of it in the yards of New York and Brooklyn, but the difficulty is to deliver it. Twothousand busi- ness men from Mott Haven are, snowed in near Pelhamville, a suburb of New York, since Monday morning. 8 The afternoon estimates of the business loss, -contingent; loss and actual pecuniary outlay which the storm will occasion in New York city is not less than $7,000,000 and the loss to the states involved $20,000,000. Of the twenty-nine boats that make up the harbor fleet two are safe in port, having outridden the storm. Nine were wrecked Monday and eight which -were out in the open seéa are unheard of. ' The experience of the men of the wrecked boats was terrible. New York, March 14.—Steady progress’ toward an ultimate release from the effocts of the great storm have been made to-day. Large gangs of laborers worked all day. ‘Two or three lines of surface cars began {o. run this afternoon; and others. will follow. more rapidly. It must be some days before ull of the side streets, especially in the poorer quarters, can be opencd, and greatly needed supplies of fuel and provisions he taken . in. Fortunately the temperature has risen, and suffering from the lack of coal will be much lessened, Trunk Lines of railroads renewed their battle against the drifts, with a better measure of success than for 'the past - two days, as the drifting ceased. . The ‘managers expect to have trains running with some ap- proach to regularity by to-morrow. ALBANY, N. Y., March 14.—The storm con- tied here with unabated fury until early this morning, very little business Belng tran- sacted. TioY, N. Y., March 14.—There is no rail communjcation for this city either by stéam or horse cars with the rest of the world Over four feet of snow has fallen on a le and the drifts are so high in some_places as to reach above the second story windows of houses. Hundreds of men aré at work try- ing to render the principal streets passable. Terrible Tales of Suffering. Lerrns, Del, Maren 14—Additional ‘ad vices were reccived here to-day from the Delaware breakwater fully corroborating the terrible tales of exposure, loss of life, and damage to the_shipping which prevailed on Sunduy night during the heavy storm. It is stated twenty-two persons’ were' drowned or frozen to death. A number of vessels - of ~ all . descriptions were sunk. Several were so badly damaged that they are practically uscless, while many were stranded so far up on the bench that it will very likely require weeks to float them. The privations of the crew were extremely pitiful, as in- their efforts to head the vesscls from the shore they were drenched to the skin, while an arctic atmosphere soon con- verted the water on their garments into ice, Tho steamboat pier parted in threo places, and at the extreme end were eleven men survivors of vessels which sank, whe had taken refige there. They wore cut off from all communication with the land for twenty- three hours and during that time the frail haven threatened to be carried away by the heavy seas which broke over them, while their experiences werd even. more horrible than those of the men who were ashore, The brave band fought the terrors of dcath until rescued from their perilous condition, When taken off several wer pable of movement and hud to be lifted into und from ‘the boats which came to their assistance. The Storm in Jersey. PateEnsoy, N.J., March 14,—The suow storm which set in Sunday night was the greatest ever known here, The fearful gale piled up enormous drifts and did great damage. Drifts in the streets are fifteen and twenty feet high, Inmates of many dwellings are com- ptetely shut in. Business and trafiic is com- pletely at a standstill. No news from the out- side - world received since Monday morn- ing. New York pupers got through last night after g journey of thirty-six hours from Jersey City.” Hundrods of persons who left here for New York Monday morning were snow bound in the cars for two_days a few miles awny and could not get either way to' communicate with their: families. . Hun- dreds had narrow escapes from perishing in the streets * Monday night:. The police rescued scores of ien, women and children who " bad to sleep the station houses. Many ‘buildings w dumaged by the wind, The Market st Methodist church spire is bent and twisted. Mills were unroofed and huge trees blown down. Several persons are reported missing and are perhaps lost in the snow. There are fears of loss of life in the country districts. Coal und milk are scarce and poor people are suffering for the necessaries of life, The Penusylvania Drifts, Prrrspuka, March 14.—The saow blockatle east of this city is over and from indications trains will be running this evening. The mail train . which left New York Sunday night arrived at. midnight. . The railway officials think the tracks are now cleared and that they will be able tq move traius as usual within the next twenty-four hours, . The pas- sengers and - traimmeén: on the mail last . wight . report.. an - gveuddul . Wip. | here and Pottstown. Expressman Colling, of this city, smd he spent forty:two hours in_his car without getting off once. . '“We left Philadelphia at Monday morning in @ terrible stofm., We got along until 8 in the afternoon when we ar- rived at Lemon _ Place, fifty-seven miles this side of Philadelphia. = There we wero -completely snowed n. The gale bigw at the rate of fifty miles an honr, and it was snowlng as hiard as it could, The snow saon covered the ground all around the train until it reached up to the door of my car, It must have beén four fect deep. We had to stay there until 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when four engines -pulled- us out of the drift. . PRILADELPHIA, March 14.—The animated scenes which presented themsélves at the stations of the various railway lines in this city and. Camden to-day Indicated plainly that the back bone of the greatest blogkade in $he history of modern ' tifes was at last broken, With the exception of two lines be- tween this city and New York, all railroad traffic was resumed to-day, and. it ‘was ex- nected that New York trains swill be oper- ated through to-morrow morning. The oper- ing of the Jersey roads will" break the milk “famine, the .effects of - which were folt . quite deverely ‘in this city to-duy. The: wind_ caused stich & low tide that Camden has suffered from a water famino, the pnmps at the water works hiv- ing been idle since Sunday: * Nothing can bo donie to relteve the city until-the tide rises. Danger from fire. caused extrn_refiauh‘mm. Telegraph companies have made consider- able progress in réstoring communieation in various directions' t6-day, Tt is estimated that- at least 10,000 poles are down hétwaen New York and. Washingtonl, and forces of the companies @re being concentrated be- tiveen the two points for the parpose of con- structing @ temporary line, " The effécts of the storm in the vieinity of the. Deleware breakwator have been more anything within the recollection of this gen- eration. . o ¥ . T M SUSQUENANNA, - ‘Pa., March 14.—Six hundred men are at work between hero and Port Jervis clearing thé railroad - tracks. All through Erie passenger trains have been delayed since Monday.,- READING, Pa., March 14.—On the Wilming- ton & Northern rond there is a train in.the snow drifts near Dupont, whicb has been there with six passengers on. -board since 11 o'clock Monday night. Their sufferings from hunger and cold can be better imagined than described. Severil. other trains on' the same roud are snowed in. and _the passengers and crews have taken shelter in’furm houscs Terrible stories of sufferiug are told by men engraged in opening - the roads, bodies of three men hiaye been found between Many cattle have pet- ished. Farmers are still'unable to reach the eity and milk and country. praduce com- mand & premium. L g " Frozen to Death, Et1zsogrn, N. J., March 14.—Alexander Bentiett, Jahn Leo ‘and another employe of the Singer sewing machine compeny, left Elizabethport Mooday morning in.a small row boat" for Staten Island. The boat was found in the ice empty far out of its course. It is thought the men reached Staten Island shore, but perished_in crossing the meadow. Wareriows, N. Y., March 14.—James W. Pitzgerald, a farmer residing three miles from the Village of Lorraine, went there Monday to'buy groceries and lett for ‘howe at 8 in the ‘evening: ‘Yesterday morning his horse was found in @ field hulf frozen: Fitz- gerald is undoubtedly buried in the snow: Jersey City, N. J., March 14—Yesterday was the day set.for the spring clections. On account of the cold some of the polls. were not even opened. Yery few got out to vote, | owng to the blockaded. condition of the roads. The yote was the lightest ever polled in New Jersdy. The Penusylvania road is now clear to Philadelphia. e Ne: N.J. 14, “/Three nasons in this vieinity are row known to ha frozen to deatl in Monday's blizzird. . milk, meat and coal famine is threatened, Getting Warmér in Massachusetts, Bostoy, March 14,-~The storm _in this inity seems to be over. The temperature isrising, the wind dying ot and the snow melting rapidly. Telegraphic. communicas tion i Inproving as far as the western ser- vice is concerned, but Philadelphia and New York aro still cut off and it is believéd a week will elapse before the linés to New Yorlk can be fully restored.. The -mail from Philadelphia 1s coming'in_slowly, papers of Tuesday being received. here to-day, but no New York journals have reached tius city since Sunday last. Played Poker Thirty-six Hours, ALpaNy, N. Y., March 14.—A number of members of the state legislature who have been snowhound near Schnectady, to-day. The whole crowd of pla; poker for thirty-six hour: sleep. Pies cost- 84 apiece; sandwiches, 50 hard boiled oxgs, A bottle of liquor so0ld at suction on the train_and brought § Roscoe Conkling in the Drifts. NEw Youk, March 14.—[Special ‘Telegram to the Bre.]—Roscoe Conlkling said last evel ing that he had a fair constitution and bad been in some pretty tight places in his life, but never found himself as far' gone, phys- ically, us on Monday night in Union square. He continued: “I had been at the Stewart building in the afternoon and had some work to do in my offiee and not thinking the city would be dark atnight,went to Wall strect to look after the matter. Shortly after 6 o'clock I'wanted to go home, There wasn't a carriage of any kind to be had so I started up Broad- way on my pins. It was dark, and uselcss to pick out a path, so I went along, flounder- ing through drifts and headed for the north. 1 was pretty well -exhausted when T got to Union square and wiping the snow from my yes tried 1o muke out the triangles, but it was impossible. There wis no light ana 1 plunged right on through, in us straight a line as was possible to determine on. 1 have Tun ACcross passages in novels where there would be vivid descriptions of man's stru gles on a windy,snowswept plain,but ha ways considered the preseatation an exagges ation. Ishall never say so again, for after what 1 encountered in lust night's blizzard I cun believe that the strongest description’ would fail to approximate the truth, I had gotto the middle of the .park and was up to my arms in a drift. Ipulled ice and snow from my eyes and held my hands there until every- thing was melted off so I might see, but it waus {00 dark and the snow too blinding, T came as near giving up and sinking down to die as a man can and not do it After twenty minutés or 8o I got out somehow and made my way to the New York ctub, completely exhausted.” Dakota Sympathizers. New Yonk, Mardh 14.—Mayor Hewitt has received telegrams from sympathetic people of Bismarck and Huron, Dak., and St. Paul and other places in the west, offering relief for storm sufferers in-New York and vicinity. A DESPERATE LOVER. He Kills His Sweetheart and Father and Then Suicides, Dixoy, 1L, Mareh 14.—Samuel Whitmeyer killed George Albright and fatally shot Bar bara Albright and then blew his own brains out this morning, - Whitmeyer was a liborer on Albright's furm and feil'in love with Bar- bara, He wus ordered off the plice some time ago. This morning he returned for his clothes und withou warning drew his® r volver aud begau shooting, with the - above results, Her - It Was George Gillwman. Juxeat, Wis.,, March 14.—The man cap tured in the marshes south of this city two weeks ago, and who a grest many were led to believe was Tascott, turns oyt to be George Gallman, of Denver, Col. He is' insane aud has been at the county asylum siucé he was taken. His sister, Mrs. E. A. Hoard, and Charles Lerchen, of Denvér, took him to Ba- tavia, IlL, this moruing, swhere he will be placed in a private- institution for treatment. Gillman was brought up in Walertown, his father being one of the tirst hotel proprictors of that city, . serious than’ The dead . on. | H _congressional district. I thin] IT ASTONISHED MR. DORSEY. Judge Dundy's Injunction Against tho Board of Transportation. MAY HURT THE UNION PACIFIC, Sherman's Strength in Ohio—Hal After Blaine's Shoes—Potitions Fa- voring Fractional Currency —Thé Storm Continues. An Alarming Doctrine. WasmiNGToN Buseav e Osana Ber, 513 FOURTEENTH STREET, } WasitxatoN, D..C., March 14, * This afteenoon I asked Representative Dorsey what he thonght of the deciswn of Judge Dundy, holding that tho Nebraska state board of transportation, neither as ofi- cérs nor individuals, can .in any way _inter- fece with the Union Pacific railroad in its construction, repair, running or operating, ot by fixing and enforcing rates of travel’ or transportation or enforcing any regulation with reference to either, and granting the Union Pacific’s permanent iujunction against the boatds, ry i . "1 bave just read Judge Dundy’s decision,” said My, Dorsey, “and Iam simply aston- ighed. If the law fs'ds stated by -the judge, then it is time for the people of Nebraska' to -understand the situation. It is partioularly unfortunate at this time, 8o far as. the rai rond is concerned aé thero i8 a feeling on the | part of members representing the. states ‘traversed by.the Union, and Kansas Pacific, especially to fayor the Qutinwaite bill, giving an extension of time to the cdompanies within ~ which to . pay their * indebtedmess: *to.- the - ‘government. -But if no gtate has any. authority over these Pacific railroads because, as Dundy says, they were authorized by the federal govern- ment.when constru¢ted, no such hill as that proposed by Mr. Quthwaite could possibly pasd congress without anch an amendment s will define und fix the status of the com- panies und give the states in which the roads are operated, the power—guaranteed under their. construction—to regulate aud control railways. I cannot believe yet when. this questian is presented favorably, that the in- junction allowed by ‘Judge: Dundy. will re- main in force.” * - SENTATIVES MKINLEY AND SHERMAN, “A: dispatch was published here this ‘morn- ing from Columbus announcing that Repre- sentative McKinley of-that state had refused to allow the ‘use of his name as a delegite to the Chicago convention and that it _was e latest defection ‘of promi- neny republicans from - the ranks of Sherman - supporters, Major McKinley was seen this evening and in reply said: - “T am for Sherman for president as earnestly as I'ever was. The statement that I refused tho use of my. name as a delegate to the hational convention s true, but to this ex- tent only:. 1 have declined to have my name presented for - district delegate from any, that Sherman whll be nominated and elected.” ] He was to be a delegate-at-large from -his state which would give him a state recogni- tion 'and take him out of the way of other republicans wtho ‘want to be delegates from his district. He says as second choice he is for ex-Senator Harrison, of Indiana, and next to Sherman he would prefer Harrison, of Indiana, to any other man" spoken of * for the nomination. 4 Jn' D : General Grosvenor, anotber well kiown representative from Obio, ‘was present when Major ‘McKinley made %nis statement, and he tao preferred Harrison as a second choi The Ohio delegation at Chicago, the republ cans_here from the state say, will be solid for Sherman. 4 Senator ‘Hale, of Maine, who formany years has been aforceful manager of - Mr, Blaine's -gspirations, 1s announced as being ambitious to inherit the plumed ‘knight's strength, and to be working, not only for the delegation. from his own’ state, but the entire country. It is said he is specially laying plans to capture the Blaine following” in_ tho east and «hat his resolution to inv the alleged disregard of the service law by the present administration is a carefully played trump card in this presidential game. Of coutse Mr. Hale, as_author of the resolu- tion will be made chairman of the investigat- ing committee and if the move shall prove a success he will reap the benefit, 3 THE DEMORALIZATION BY STORM. There has been very little improvement in telegraph, railrond and mail facilities at the national capital during the past twenty-four hours. General demoralization abounds. Trains are running irregularly between this city and Philadelphia, . but nothing has arrived by ruil from New York, leaving there Jater than Sunday, midnight. 'The weather has moderated and linemen are at work on the telegraph, telephone and- fire alarm systems, There is a slight improvement in the latter but nothing encouraging in the for- mer. Fhere is no direct telegrapl communi- cation with New York, and but two or three uncertam wires are 'working to the west. To-night it is clear and cold, but the officers at the weather bureau, who are nothing more than animal prophets now, say there will be a continual moderation and that we will have warmer weather within thirty-six hours. The telegraph people say the wires will not be all right again till the end of the week. Nothing can be learned of the condition of “the railroad or telegraph between Philadelphia_and New York as no com- munication has been received from there. FRAGTIONAL PAPER MONEY, There will be considerable opposition to the proposition in the house to issne $30,000,000 worth of silver certificates fu denominations of 5,10, 15, 25, and 50 cents. ‘fhe bill has been reported from the committeo on bank- ing and currency and is indorsed by all of the members except Mr. Bacon, of New York, who holds that there” is not’ a general demand from the country for this currency and to issue it would be in conflict with the general principle that the treasury of the United States should not become a- bank of deposit for the money of private peopie nor issue its negotiable certificates of deposit to. its depositors, He holds that it will o so if it issues a cluss of money which will be a convenlence only to s small class of the peoplo He holds further, that this frac tional paper money would' be largely coun- terfeited, as it was many years ago, und that it would drive from circilation the subsidi- 'y coins, one-third of whose issue lies idle in casury ut present, Chairman Wilkins, of the committee on banking and currency, says he has an im- mense quantity of letters aud telegrams and potitious trom various business interests in Nebraska, Towa, Michigan and other central, as well as the southern states and the east, in fayor of the fractional paper mouey, show- ing that its advocates are confined in po special locality, - He says the merchants and the people who make purchases of goods, by mail are extremely anxious for this money, and that the -newspaper publishers every- where want it becausa it can be 80 conven- transmitted by mail. Most of the pe- s have askéd for the reissue of the old onal curréncy, not as i substitute for , but to supplement .it, especially for in' the muls. The proposition to nake this money silver certificates, and deduct it from the regulur issuance of silver certifi- cidtes, also meets with very. general approval, und it is believed that the aduitiona) expense will be ‘quite trivial, inasmuch as only the engraving of the plates wil be neéw ex- peuse. Silver cortificates are being issued almost constantly, and the printing is about the same for the'bills of large and bills of snod denomination. Mr. Wilkins thinks his bill will ‘pass both branches of congress and becote & law. THE SALE OR.INDIAN LANDS. . In the senate to-day Mr.Paddock intro- duced & resolution directing the. secretary of the interior to furnish for the information of the - senate @ statement of the number of i ment and sile vation . of the confederated Otge and Missouri tribes of Indians in the state of Nebraska and Kansas under the provisions of the ‘act of eorgress thp\iu‘ thereto, approved March 8, 1591, aud published in volume 21 Unitod Statos statutes- at-large, page 350, said statements to show a8 nearly as may be the appraised valuation of each subdivision of said reservation and tho price at tvhich it was sold together with the name of the purchaser thercof in each case, He is also requested to report whether or not proclamation was made of said salo or any advertisement of the same and if so furnish copies thereof. This was suggested by a pe- tition of the Actual Settlers' association .on the Otoe and Missouri reservations . calling for examination into the legality of the dates of May 27 and December 18, 1883, The ques- tion seems’ to have been raised whetber tho sale at prices above tha appraised value was legal under the provisions of the act. TOOMING ROSCOE CONKLING: Republican members of tha house of repre- sontatives haye been amazed during the Jast few days at receiving from some’ orguniza- tion in‘central New York' a_circular printed in type so as to make i lopk as if it were written oni a type writer, asking immediate -2_ml curerul answer 0 tho *Tollowing ques- ion 1. “Are you iri favor of Roscoe Conkling re- turning to his old' place -as the leader of the republican party! “If. so, please. give your reasons therofor and {f.not, your reasons for vour opposition, 3 2. Do you not thitik that undor the leader- ship of: Rosdoe Conkling the republican party would be more certain of -success at the next presidential electionf * In giving tho answer please state the reasonsas fully a8 possible, 3. Would you favor Roscoe Conkling ns the republican candidate . for ‘the prosidency at the next presidential election} % 4. What candidate would you stggest that would.make A more enthusiastic campaign or be more likely to succeed? . I learn of ‘but. very few members who answered the circular. Most of those wlhio received them .threw them at once into the waste paper basket, but they have caused | a good deal of talk, and Mr. Conkling’s old eriemies, particulayly the Biuime men, pro- foss to believe that he hgs instigated this singular movement. for. the purpose of build- hn§ abridge upon which he may. return to his old party. It is more probauble that somoe idiotic adwmirer of the New Yark statesman has taken tho liborty to.use his name in this hanner for the purpose of bringziig him again before' the puplic. Those Who know Mr: Conkling can think ‘of no schieme’ that would be' 8o utterly abhorrent-te him, He has never denied his republicanism, but only refused, as .many other good re- publicins did, to .support thoe -cancidate of the party in the last campaign, During his recent visitto Washington and ‘he has been ‘over 'frequently of late to argue the telephone ihterference’.case before the com- missioner of patents—Mr. Conkling - hay spoken freély of his past attitude and present conditians and has said that “while . ho will never again take an active Jeadership in poli- tics he wlli cordially support on the stump and at the polls any gnmf uran the ‘republi- cans will nominate. - His personal, choice is Justice Miller of the, supreme court;. but to the seyeral other gentlemen -now - talked of hehas nv objections. 2 s " PERSONAL, Sy General Bangs, of Westerville, Me,, and Mr. Hall, of Belfust, Mé.,-have formed a-co- partnership with W.'H. Stout, of Lincoln, in the granite business; and will be among the bidders for gianite contracts for the con- .| gressional” library. - They will pstablish an immense stone mill. in Washington soon, Paul Van Dervoort will be the manager; ‘Dr. J. N. Conklin, of Omaha, has’ arrived hero from ‘the south and will Femuin some me. 3 Ve Representative McShane was in his seat in the house to-day. & 3 Perny S. Hearn, | . Army Orders. Wasnrxatoy, Marely 14.—[Special Pele: gram to_the Brr]—Tho secretaty of war “has proniotéd to bo second.lieutenant Joseph Q: Beardslby, Eighth infantry, (from- ser- geant Company B, Fourth infantry), Com- | ‘pany D, Fort Ropinson, and- directed him to- Join his company at’ that place, and also pro- moted to be corporal Earl €. Carnahap, Com- pany.C, Twelfth infantry, and ordered him, - as'second licutenant, to proceed to Company C, Fort-Sully, Dak.. - : Charles Kieser, Compariy A, Twenty-sce- ond infantry, ilow at Fort Lewis, Col., trans- fered ta the hospital corps-as a private.. Upon the receipt of this order at the post the com- manding officer will -order him to reportto the post surgeon for duty at the hospital. Frederick Schumacher, hospital corps, now on duty at Fort Meade, Dalk., is detatléd as actine hospital steward-and assigned to duty at Fort Bennett, Dak. Hewill proceed with- out delay to Fort Bennett, reporting upon Ins arrival to the commanding ofticer. tain Witllam S. Marshall is ordered to rélieve Major as engineer of- ficer of the Division of the Missouri. Major Hundbury i 110 take station at Port land, Ore ng Captain Charles F. Powell, who is oridered to duty at-Memphis Tenn., relieving Captain William T. Russ of his_dutfos in connection with the Missis- sippi river improvement commission. Nebraska and lowa Pensions. WasmiNarox, March 14.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]—Pensions were granted Ne- braskans to-day as follows: Original inva lid~Francis M. Alexander, Hastings; Thomas B. Harrison, Blackbird; Wm. T ., Shively, O'Neill, Increase—Julius H. Guer- ney, Neiigh. Reissue—Jefferson P. Bailey, Atkinson; Harry B, ‘Burge, Reynolds. Original widows, etc.—Nancy, widow of William Davis, Ashland. Pensions for Jowans: Original invalid. Abram Bonnell, Montezuma; Isaac O. Bax- ter, Tyngley; Charles S, Duncan, Emmets- burg; Henry F. Geiskins, Blairstown. Increase—John W. Meeker, Metz; Frank Cummins, Muscative; Thomas Foley, West Des Moines. Re-issue—Oliver F.-Purdum, Davis City; Martin V. Landon, Glencoe, R issue and increase—Johu M. Shipley, Corn- ing. Original widow, ete.—Mnnie C.;widow of John*Richards, Munso, Mexican surviv- ors—Thomas H, Miller, Council Bluffs; Sam- uel Mitchell, Cedar Rapids; Mexican, widow of Danie! McGee, Hastings; Adsline, widow, of Patterson, Land Grant Frauds. ‘WAsHINGTON, March 14.—The secretary of the interior sent the president for transmis- sion to congress a report relative to the land grant for gon roads in Oregon, The re- port shows grants were made by congress in 1864 and 1866 to aid the constriction of these roads aggregating 2,508,520 acres, None of these roads were ever constructed, although several governors of the state certified ‘to their completion on reports of their agents, On these reports of the governors, patents have been issued to differeut road comparties for 911 meres. Immediately on securing certificates of completion the land grants were sold, the report says, with thie view of putting the lands in the hands of nominally lunocent purchas The secretary submits the draft of a bill forfeiting: all grants and restoring to the public domain all land grants excepting such us may have been sold to i nocent purchasers who are * actual The secreta) hinks it the duty of th ernment to press judicial inquiry into these frauds, . Disposed to Disregard the Treaty. Wasminaroy, March 14 arly in the present week the state' depurtment received a telegram from ‘Consul General Lewis; at ngier, stating that the Moorish authoritics were disposed to disregard the treaty of 1850 i refusing to welease from prison certain Moorish subjects who are: under Ametican protection: Secretary Bayard said to-night the persons in custody aré'not American citi zeus, but are native moors, probably, Jews or ‘Arabs, who, under the treaty, cluim the pro- tection of the United Sta He did pot un- ticipate dny serious troubl The Cost of Oollec Custo WasmiNgToN, March 14.—Thie: se the treasury. has transmittéd to the house an estimate of the cost’of - collacting . Customs revenues far the fiscul year ending Juue 30, 1850, aggregating $9,800,202. Of this amount 210,618 is for salaries, and #1,630,555 for miscellaneous items. The expeuses at the port of New York, asshown .by the table, are cstimated at §2,105,047, l HE BURNED OUT HER EYES. Assault of a Prominent Physiclaty on His Son's Mistresa. DISFIGURED HER FOR LIFEY Bound to Break the Boy's Infatuation For a Variety Actress, the Father Resorts to a Fearful Crime. The Miskouri Method. SrRmurie Mo,, March' 14.—[Speclal Telegram' to the Bee. |-Great excitement prevails herd ind the streots were a surging sea ‘of humanity to-day on account of the startling fews which spread over the oity , - about 6 o'clovk this thorning that Dr. G. M, Cox; who is w prominent, physician and member of the state board’ of pension ex- aminers at this place, hid met pretty Miss - Isabélla Dowd, sseaulted and beaten her badly, and throwni carbolic acid in her face, and ahmost:destroyed her cyes. Dr, Cox hi aavild and wayward son, Feuton, who has given him mtch trouble: Fenton got ac- guaivted tvith Miss Isabella about a year agd when she. was here: in .a variety theatery When she left here . she wel:f % Memphis and F enton went too. The docto) folloyred after his son aud brought him baclk but'the intimacy was not thus to be broken up-. ¢ depot here this morning, but the docter wenf himself. She states that after she ‘was seat in.the hack she recoghized . the' doctary. having been chastised severoly by him af Memphis. Wheh they left the depot she and the doctor were the only occupants of txr:x {'mvk, {'\ndkm? doctor )Imumcg mldhcr snd Degan, beating her.' She screamed an B him not to kill her. He said: 5 bsx T am not going to il you, but worse than . e you for. life.” and then : he threw the acid into her faco, and s mashed. the bottle over her head. * The driver kept right-ahead till he got to South street, when sha. wus let. out. of .the. .. vehicle and wandered to g drug store and at once received treatment. Sho wad taken from there to a_bourdmg house -where shd ‘now lies in a very critical and pitiable condbs tion. Hor eyes are frightfully” burned withi the acid and she ‘is nuflerlnq severely. Lfi . ivas drrested promptly: and gave bond fof ™ ° 000. . BABY BURGLARS. '\ They Are Caught in the Act of Rob- 5 - bing a’ Store. SRR Sr. Josern, Mo., March 14. —[Special Tele-* gram'to the Bir.]—About 1:30. o’clock this marnink two of the smallest urchins -againsg whom there has ever been a charge preferredf in the police court were brought toy polied' headquarters, The boys'naites were Georg Edmunds and Sam Criig, and they werg - cight_and nine years.of agh respéctivels. They had started out about-11:30 o’clock {qéy the express purpose of, burglarizing u storé, ' They broké out'a window light and hed,. by thie time they were discovered, succeeded 1_5 nearly- emptymg the store, = carrying ‘thé. - #0048 to the window und lmmling them to palon the outside. Judge Dolinan tirned the Craig boy over.to his father this morast. Fing with the injuuoction that he give good thrashing and keop him doors for ont vear. Young Edmunds’ father has not n an appegrance, and nothing has been don: - _:- ' Anlngult to'the French. - . MoxprEAL, March 14.—[Speclal Telogra: , tq tho-BrE.)—French circles aro greatly ‘oxi| cited oyer the action. of *Mr. Schowb, Vica " consul of France, who has hoisted. the trjs calor at half mast oyer tle consulate as & tribute of respect to the mewory - of the latd, Emperor William of Germany. . O1d soldigrs of Napolcon, of which theré are a large num=’, ber here, are indignant at what they term an . insult to the national flag. This feeling finds vent in the Freneh press, whichi contains bita ter articles anghe ‘subject. The Patri, tha. recognized: month-picce of ~the RKuropean French, as distimguished from the Canadan French! and which is " edited by a veteran o the imperial army, terms ‘the action “a dee anjiiry for French’ putriots,” and contjnues “The emperor who snatched from France hel two finest-provinces, and who has lm'mme'd o them for cighteen years an’ fron rule, des serves not even the' hackneyed courteby inf which the diplomatic code is so prodigal. The body of a dead enemy always smells slot, : . Tlt s our opinion. and we rofuse to reco nize any right- of official traditions to s snamefully insult public opinfon.” M Sehowb, who' is an Alsatian by birth, main- tains that his action’is justified; and declares he will keep tho flag at” half mast until the emperor is buried. N ‘Will Furnish Beef to the [-‘renc!} 4 - Dexver, Colo, March 14.—[Special Tele- gram to tho Bke.]—The cattle trust of this city, of which President Head, of the Inters national range association, and ex-Governor Routt, both of Denver, are the heéad, have just closed a contract with the French gova: ernment w supply the French army with 150,000 head of beef annually. The trust wag orgi shortly after the mecting of tHe International range associstion & year agop and within that time has succeeded in monopl‘v olizing a part of the foreign beef trade, Ve ¢ little has been smd as to its transaotion: but from oficers of the . trust ior this city, negotiations ‘have been conducted. | The contract with the French governments will be- filled with cattle tuken from thy ranges of the west and will be the larges single contract eyer filled by an American cattle conce Shipments begin _immedi- ately to Chicago aud St. Louis, where the cattle will be slaughtered. The other bidders were the Platte company, of South America, the Armours, of Chicagh, and a large cattlo firm of Canada. - - Colorado Departm CueyeNNe, Wyo,, March 14,—fSpecial Teles gram to the Big.]—The G, A. R. encampe ment of the Department of Colorado closed this_evening with & public instullation of officers. The reports of the officers of the organizuation show the membership of the' departnient to he 2,750, Nine new posts mva been mustered in during the past year, Tk election bf oficers resulted in the selectio of Johny W. Brow , 48 departe ment conuuander seley, Colo., wi chosen s the bace of ioldiny the uext wall nual encampment. e — The e Record, Grass VaLLky, Cal, ‘March 14.—A fird broke out n the dry house of the Empire ming, near town, to-day, and the flames. soor d to 200 pouuds of Vigorite powderg d in' the building: - An-explosion fols lowed, domolishing. the_ structure, instantly, Jilling a young man named Din bilou and injuring six other persons, two of whou will probably die The Chinese h WasiinGToN, March 14, y Bays ard suid to-night the treaty with Ching ‘hus been. igned and would be sent to the presi- dent_at' ouce for transmission to congress, He deelined to speak as 1o the provisions of the trcaty. o s S Lynched. $r. Louis, March 14.—John Skinnes, & noted desporado and ‘mirderer, was tal e.’ feom the juil at Hopkinsonville, Ky., thig morning sud lynched. - Sl Being Reorganized, 1. Lovis, March J4.—The old trust to cbns frol the output of corn Jfueal, hominy and grists is being rearganized here in a stronged shape. Bete, of Springfield, 111, Wald,' of Cineinnati,’ and @ dozen GLbGr mauplact € Presesty They _arranged for @ mecting ot the. .