Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 2, 1888, Page 1

SEVENTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1888, A BLOODY ROW AT LAWRENCE The Kansas Town Has a Sanguin- ary Sunday Sensation. OUTGROWTH OF A MINING FEUD. A White Man, Attacked By Negroes, Kills One and Fatally Wounds Two Others — Pursued By a Mob, A Dead Shot. Lravexwonti, Kan., April 1.—This even- ing as James King, white, a cableman in the Leavenworth coal mine, was walking along the street, he met Harrison®oung, a no- torious colored ward politician, Sam Hed- spath and Ben Easton, also colored. The three negroes were standing at the spot where, a year ago, Hedspath had knocked down and brutally beaten King. King was accosted by Young and Hedspath, who wanted to fight. Hedspath drew a knife and sprang towards King, while Young put his hand in his pocket, saying: “Let's kill him." At this King drew n revolver and fired two #hots at Young, who dropped dead, with one bullet through his forchead and auother through his heart. King then turned on Hedspath and shot him in the right groin, inflicting a fatal wound. He then shot Easton in the left thigh. There had been bad fecling between the white and colored miners for some time, and the report thata white miner had killed three colored men created intense excitement among the negroes, who compose a large part of the population in that ueighborhood. Ina few minutes negroes flocked to the scene from every direction, carrying shot- guns, rifles, knives, revolvers and clubs of every deseription, all clamoring for revenge. King at once started to run. The mob fired Bix shots at King, who turned und returned the fire. Tn a short time King, now pressed by his ‘wrathful pursuers, turned and hid in the pumwuuo of the waterworks. The negroes searcht the place for an hour, but could not find him, While the excitement was at its height, Mayor Neely appearcd on the scene and at- tempted to order the turbulent erowd back. A dozen revolvers were pointed at him, and Chief of Police Roberts met with no better success, Mayor Neely made unsuccessful efforts to conmmnicate with the sheriff or deputies by telephone, and finally mounting his horse started for Fort Leavenworth to get a force of soldiers. In the meantime the entire police force of the city had arrived and aided n the scarch for King. A squad of policemen finally found him erouching under an obscure stair- way. They ordered him to surrender and he responded by leaping out with cocked re- volver rea to shoot. Policeman Street then shot him, the bullet entering the muscle of his arm just below the shoulder inflicting inful wouud. While several policemen guarded the prison, others went outside and informed the excited crowd that King was dead, having been shot by a policeman while resisting arrest, A cheer went up from the mob, and in a short time nearly all left under the impres- sion that King was dead. King was kept secreted in the building until a company of cavalry arrived from Fort Leavenworth, when he was tuken to the fort to prevent a lynching. He appeared cool and determined and said he did not regret shooting Young and Hedspath, wio notorious bullies and both of had threatencd to kill him, but s for shooting_Easton, whom he it to be a friend of bis. King beurs a good reputation. CUT HER TONGUE OUT. A Country Schoolmistress Brutally Outraged By Two Tramps. New Yori, April 1L.—[Special Telegram to the Brr.]—Miss Lizie Eastman, teaching school in one of the farming districts of Clearfield county, was found dead in the school house Friday night. Her tongue had becn cut from its roots and was found beside the dcad body. The school had been dis- missed as usual at 4 o'clock and the pupils left the teacher alone in the school house. In the right hand of the dead woman was found a lead pencll, and on the floor near her dead body was written the particulars of her death, Two tramps entered the school house after the pupils had been dismissed, ov powered and assaulted her, afterward severed er tongue with a knife,and fledleaving her for dead. She recovered sufficiently to write ou the school house floor, and had ‘succeeded in giving the above particulars, with a dc tion of her assailants, when she evidently rew too weak to write any wore and died ofore she was found. ‘Wholesale Robbery By Young Girls, CaRTHAGE, 111, April 1.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]—A decided sensation has been unearthed at La Karpe, in this county, by the discovery that the daughters of several reputable citizens have been engaged in a system of wholesale robbery of millinery and Gry goods stores in that city for over two weeks past, Goods amounting in value to a large sum of money were found secreted in barns, outhouses, under the sidewalks and Four of the girls are from ten s old. The parents are over- whelmed with grief and o to make all amends, It is intimated that there s sowme- thing behind this system of robbery, and that possibly other and older culprils’ may be found, PostofM Pans, Tex., Apr the Bie.|—Pat O'Donnell, who was shot by James Wilson with a Winchester thou the bowels as he jumped from a box car, on sus- picion, was one of the parties who robbed the postofiice at Roxton, Lamar county, on Thursday. He died in jail here this evening, Wilson was arrested on'the request of the county attorney, fearing O'Donnell’s death would cause bin to flee the country. Killed His W and Suicided, IKANsAS City, Mo, April 1.—As the result of a domestic quarrel Ellsworth Setzer shot his wife and bimself this morning. Both will dhe, to thirteen y Drowned in an Ie Sr. Joserw, Mo., April 1 gram to the Bee]—About 11 o'clock this mornng, Ella Angel, a patient at the insane asylum, broke away from her attendant, while exercising and running to an ice box jumped in head foremost. When the body was rocovered life was extinet. The woman camo from Nodaway county aud has been at the asylum about three moiiths, The attend aut was exonerated from blame, A Child Crushed to Death. Sr. Josl Mo, April 1—[Special Telegram to the 1SEE.|—The two year old child of Charles Tho! iving on South Fifth street, while playing in frout of the St Charles hotel to-day was run over by o street car and horribly wangled, so that it died; in two hours. pson, ————— Fanny Wants to Bo Free. New YOug, April 1.—[Special Teley het Bik.)—A rumor is current that Fanny Davenport has begun proceedings for diyorce from her husband, E. A. Price. One of the objects ascribed is her desire to marky Mel- bourne MeDowell, her leadiug support in La Tosca. Theatrical people profess to believe Ahe reporh NEBRASKA NEW New Enterprises at MeCook. McCook, Neb., March 80.—|Correspond- ence of the Ber.]—The citizens of McCook are getting ready for their first annual boom. Matters have been forming some time, and ere long the people over this entire country will be electrified by such an array of facts and figures relative to our advantages, our historic past and our prospective future that all who have money to invest will conclude that McCook is the Eldorado they long have sought. The people of our city are showing the con- fidence they have in its future greatness by the internal improvements they are making. Cn the 3d of April a vote will be taken on propositions to bond the city to erect a $20,000 school house and a )00 city hall. The school nouse is a ward building, and the plans show it will be one of the finest in the state. The city hall will be an elegant struc ture and will be a standing monument to the enter prise of McCook. An election has been called for the 23d of next month for the purpose of voting to have two wagon bridges built across the Repub lican river, one a mile westof town, the other two and a half miles east of town, These will accommodate the large trade south of the river which all comes to McCook, even when it has to travel several miles out of the The board of trade made arrangements with the Economic Light company of Den- ver to put in a gas plant here, 80 that soon the coal oil lamps will be relegated to the rear, and another metropolitan feature added to the city. At its meeting Saturday night a contract was_completed with the Hon. B. B, Duck- worth for the ercction here of a $20,000 grist mill with a capacity of 200 barrels of flour per day. The citizens raised a suficient bonus, and work will begin at once. The bricklayers will be soon at work on the monster block on Dodge and Main street, 5x120, two stories high. Hums, Brewer & Wilcox are getting ready to begin the erec- tion of a brick block, 60x90, on Main street, and many other private enterprises are under w A prominent contractor in- formed your correspondent that in no year since its birth has there been as much build- ing in MeCook as will be done this summer. The B. & M. machine shops are now positively assured. They will involve an expenditure of £200,000, Waxing Warm. Aunora, Neb., April 1.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—Local politics fever heat here and a hot fight is Tuesday. The anti-license and license people here have nominated strong tickets and will fight it out to the bitter end. It will be the hottest local contest in the history of Aurora. The license people are bound to down the prohibitionists or die in the ‘ast ditch. The ense men have pnt the following ket in the field: Formayor, A. N. Thomas; elerk, William P. Cellings; treasurer, D, P, Wilcox; police judge, D. A. Scovill; city en- ineer, D. B, Parks, the present incumbent. ‘ouncilmen—First ward, Dr. D. I. Gooden; nd ward, P, M. Green and C.' W, Wood; Third ward, 'W.'H. Alden. School dire tors, T. A. McKay, William Glover, Delevan Bates, W. L. Stark, A. H. Cole and D. A. Scovill. By the license advocates the following ticket w nominated last evening: Mayor, General Dele clerk, L. W. Shuman;: t Hoefer; police judge, Phil Likes; city engineer, D. B. Par} Councilmen rd, J. N. Cassel; S nd H. M. Kellog School directo Suit to Divide Cheyenne County. Sioxey, Neb., April 1.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]—Morris Davis, August New- mann and Frank Smith, commissioners of Cheyenne county, accompanied vy Judges Raynor and Norvell and County Reilly, departed for Lincoln to fend the mandamus suit_brought by the peo- ple of Potter to divide Cheyenne count, the supreme court. Considerable inte: manifested in the result. - A QUEF RREL. College Students Suspended Criticising the Faculty ToroNTo, Ont., April 1.—[Special Tel gram to the Be i where young men Methodist minist scenc of a curious d cement betw students and faculty, which may result in all the students leaving the nstitution in a body. The students in their college journal published a eriticism of the curriculumof the touching on the subject of miner ‘The faoulty 'demanded’ an humbie apology, under pain of suspension. The faculty contended that public criticisms of the college officers and regulations brought contempt upon the university, and were not permissable to be made by students who were under the discipline and control of the university senate. The editors refused to apologize, and at a meeting of the students last evening they were by the faculty sus. pended for one year, When the facuity re tired the students unanimously decided if their classmates were not reinstated they would leave the university. Another cause of grave offense was a paragraph in the col- lege journal suggesting that the course of lectures to the theological union might have been better, and hinting that there are some ollege students who could write just as good ays as those delivered by some divines from a distance that they had beard this winter, Fo are educated for v, was last The Firm of Ramscy & Sheldon Clos By Creditors, Pratr, Kan., April 1.—[Special Telegr: to the Beg.]—The firm of Rumsey & Sheldon, general merchants, operated two stores, or at Medicine Lodge and one at Sarato stocks on March 1 invoiced §30,000. Credito with claims amounting to* §5,000 have at- tached. They purchased a large stock of boots and shoes of Barton Bros., Kansas City, valued at #,000. Owing to their sclling than cost, the creditors presented the before Judge Ellis, and be granted a large number of attachments, among_ them Tootle, Hosea & Co., of St. Joséph, for $,000, Sheldon applied to Judge Leslicr, of King- man, for an injunction, on the ground that the ‘restraining order had been obtained through fraud, A temporary restraining order was granted. but dissolved yesterday, and a s2le in full ordered to Other ereditors are Harber Burnham, Hanna & My Brown Bros., 8t. Lou cents on the dollar ———— Floods and Flames. Viexsa, April 1.—Several more vil Hungary have been flooded and the inhabit- aots are starving. At Hetthrarus 120 houses have been burnea and 700 persons rendered homeless. Two lives were lost in the flames, The villages of Mezo, Bereny and Huudsdorf have also been destroyed by fire, 3ros., Chicago; Kailsas Ci They will pay 50 Sacrificed For Spite. Loxooy, April The bark British Princess has been wrecked off Caminha Portugal. Twenty-three persons we drowned. It is reported that Spanish custom ofticers prevented the saving of lives by fir- ou o Portuguese lifeboat which had gone o the rescue, naications. or, fair weather, light to fresh variable winds. For JIowa: Colde weather, light to veering to easterly, Southye: mer, followed by slightly. colder, fair weather, light to fresh Borthisly winds. be- coming variable, CROOK WILL SUCCEED TERRY. His Claims Are Conceded To Be Impregnable. GENERAL HARRISON'S BOOM. The Ex-S8enator Developing Consider- able Strength As a Presidential Candidate—Failare of a Real Estate Scheme—Pensions, The Strife For Promotion. WASHINGTON BUREAU THEOMATA BRE, 513 FOURTRRNTI STRRET, WassiNeron. D. C., April 1. Now that General Terry’s retirement is a certainty, u quiet strife is going on among the onels of the army for promotion to tk forthcoming vacancy in the ranks of the it The ranking colonels of cavalry rierson, of the Tenth, and Edward Hatch, of the Ninth, both of whom have been twenty-two years in command of regiments. Colonel Smith, of the Nineteenth infantry, leads in that arm of of the service, and Colonel Ayers in the artillery. Tt is not likely that a selection will be made from any of the staff corps. There is a general impression that Colonel John R. Brooks, of the Third in- fantry, has the inside track in the race for promotion, although General Hatch, of the Ninth cavalry, and Morrow, of the Twenty- first infantry, are favorably and prominently mentioned, General Terry's successor will be General George R. Crook. This is conceded by the powers nearest the throne. General Crook’s record, combined with his rank as senior among the brigadiers, make his claims impregnable, In addition, since the president has had occasion to in- vestigate General Miles' performances in A na, and the method which he and his friends used in their endeavors to build themselves up at the expense of General Crook, he has spoken very strongly in dis- approbation of the Miles clique. It can be surely stated that Crook will be the next major general, and that without any efforts on the part of his friends or petitions from the delegations. The retiring board is expected to be an- nounced within a very few days. The detail is made up and will be made public as soon as it is learned what date will be most con- venient for General Terry to appear. The board will meet in Washington. It is under- stood that Major General Schofield, who is the only ofticer in the active list, except Gen- eral Sheridan, senior to General Terry, is to be president of the board. General Schoficld is now in the city in consultation with Gen- eral Sheridan. Two or three of the chiefs of the staft bureau, probably Generals Bennet and MacFeely, and two surgeons of high rank now on duty in Washington, will make up the remainder of the board. As General Terry 18 expected north enroute to his home in New Haven, Conn,, in a few days, the ex- amination may be looked for during the com- ing week, and as there is a vacancy in the disability retired list, his retirement will no doubt immediately follow. To-day’s Washington Herald, commenting upon this retirement, says: “There is no longer any reason to doubt that General Terry is a very sick man, The surgeons all ag that he has Brights dise: The general himself has accepted the nevitable, and informed the department that glthough benefitted by his trip south, he does not expect ever again to be able to perform active service, tment, being assured that he pr tirement to a further extension of sick I will comply with his request by ordering retiring board at once for his ¢ MAJOR BEN WANTS TO K Major Benteen, of the D cavalry, ' y of the Seventh probably be called before a ret the expiration of, or before, the time has e pired for which he was suspended. Benteen was court martialed at Fort Du- schane, Utah, last autumn and suspended f @ year on the charge of intemperance, hinted that he asks to be examined for ret ment, commended for it by a board, y ident may rewmit the remainder of his sentence. A BIG PENSION BUSINESS, During the month just closed there were filed in the pension office 5,530 original appli- cations, 1556 application of widows, and 17,142 applications for increase of pensions, a tot 24,858, This is the largest number sion applications ever reccived at the office in a month except during the period when there w great rush for arrears of pensions during the last days of the arrcars act in 1880, At the present rate of business there will be received at the oftice during the year about two hundred and fifty thousand applications for pensions, ANOTHER REAL LRTA Real estate speeulators who secured an op- tion on alot of land in Virginia, between ‘Washington and Mount Vernon, and ex- pected to get congress to appropriate money to build a national road to the old home of the Father of his Coun- try, the enhancing the value of the property along the road, and making a handsome profit for the schemers, have been quietly sat down upon. Congress refuses to take hold of the project on the ground that if the state of Virginia cannot build her own ds they should not be built, and that if 1 estate men want a road built for the neing their property there is W to prevent them going ahead and co: structing it at their own expense, HOUK LIKES HARKISON. iite a boom is developing here for ex- or Ben Harrison, of Indiana, among republicans, who are indulging in presiden tial talk. Judge Houk, one of the oldest and most vigorous republican members of the house, whose district is about Knoxville, in the castern portion of mountainous Ten: nessee, which “turned out so y union soldiers during the 3 whom he commanded in batti®, is some good talk for Harrison. SIf General Harrison were in the he would be wentioned as frequently as man spoken of for the {)rmmh He unobstrucsive man, and practicing law as he is and bemng out’ of publie life, attention throughout the country is not directed to- wards him by the same influences that are forcing other' men to the front as presi- dential candidate But he is often men- tioned as one likely to receive the mnomin tion, and I am sure that he would be v ceptable. General Harrison has many warm and true friends in Tennessce, where he is known for his services in the w ana is a magniticent lawyer and a statesman’ equal in ability to any wan. He has friends in Ten- nessee that * I believa will support bun at the Chicago convent The delegates gre never instructed in any state, and we have no regard for the unitrule. I was very forcibly 1mpressed with this fact when I tried to make the delegation solid for Arthur in 1884, 1 frequently hear Harrison's nawme mentioned among the influential repub- ns of Tennessee, and you need not be sur- prised if he is given some votes in the co veution by our people, Senator Sherman is exceptionally strong in the south, but I ex e the Indiuna man get some votes 1 that section on the first ballot. HOLDING BACK PPROPIIATIONS, Just half of what is usually regarded u very long session of congress is past and onl) appropriation bill has become a law. teen regular appropriation bills are yet to be acted upon by the house. Five of these a on the calendar of the house. Two or three of them have been resiing there for w and despite this glariug fact of unusual backwardness in action upon measures which must necessarily be passed before the session can close, and despite the fact that nearl everybody in congress is talking about this delay, and is openly denouncing the chair- men' of commitiees’ that comple appropria- tion bills for failure 10 ct, nothing has been \\lvnu towards thg passage of the pills, L e, morrow or Tuesday the house is likely to re ceive the tariff bill, and an effort will be made to begin the general debate upon it within ten days or twe weeks, This debate and the discussion upon amendments which will be proposed to the tariff bill, will ran about six weeks. It can be seen that a great waste of time 18 going to follow and that many injustices will be the result of de laying the appropriation bills. The object in not taking up the appropriation bills al- ready report and not reporting those which are held back in committee, is to con- trol legislation, the appropriation bilis being privileged matters and entitled to the floor at any time, so that measures which the domi- nant party wants to kill can be sidetracked at any time. It is about time that the coun- try sat down upon the democrats in the house, who have for years been delaying ap- propriations that other bills may be defeated, whereby inuch harm and no good is done. Along towards the last of the session there will be a seramble to have the appropriation bills passed, and necessarily there will be a great waste of money and many things over- looked which should” have been attended to. BOURKE AND ANNIN ENTERTAINED. Captain John G. Bourke, of the army, and W. E. Anuin, Senator Paddock's private sec- retary, were among the guests at the Grid- iron club at its dinner at Welcker's last night. The Gridiron club is composed of leading newspaver correspondents here, The table was laid for thirty guests and the decorations were beautiful in their sim- plicity. Easter flowers in pots, with garlands of smilax, were arranged around the table, producing a pretty effect. On this occasion the conventional dinner card was ignored and an Easter egg with the guest's name inscribed thereon, substituted. The napkins were arranged to represent nests in which the colored eggs rested. The speeches were bright and happy and the other characteristic features of the club were most pleasing. BESIEGING MRS, CLEVELAND—HER RECEPTIONS, Mrs. Cleveland is contemplating the re- newal of the morning receptions which last season proved so pleasant. These receptio were abandoned because of the abuse of tl privilege extended by the mistress of the white house to her friends of meeting her informally. At present Mrs. Cleveland has literally no time tocall her own. She is besieged at any and all hours with letters, notes and cards from persons, strangers in the city, for the most part, pleading for an audience. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland did not come to the convention last week, as was ex- pected, nor will she visit the white house this season, as her many friends had hoped. A KEMARABLE CRIMINAL OASE. There is a very extraordinary case here of a man who committed a crime to assist a friend, then made a confeseion, picaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary where he is now and from which the president will this week be asked to grant him a pardon, To begin at the beginning, there was for many years a private banking firm in this city, run by the two sons of Mr. Middleton, the clerk of the supreme court. hey turned out to be consummate rascals, One of them is in St. Paul, the other somewhere around Washington, Both will be called to answer for their crimes in court at the present term and all who know how they swindled widows and orphans hope to see them severely punished. But it is not likely that they will be con- victed. They were pious men, active in the church and Sunday school and more the livery of heaven to serve the devil in, One of their intimate friends was Cyril P. Bene- dict, agent of the Adams Express company and being in financial stress one afternoon they went to Mr, Benedict with a pitiful plea for a small loan to carry them until morning when they expected a remittance. Rather than see their bank closed Mr. Benedict loaned them money belonging to the express company upon the stipulation that he should have it again the next day. [t did not come, of course, but the Middletons got more to save that and so on until the had drawn Benedict into _the whi {poul. Then they failed. He restor as much of the amount as he could realize by stripping himself of all his savings and then altered the books to conceal the rest of his embezzle- ment. Then remorse commenced to prey upon hi He became ill and no doctor was able to assist him, Finally he went to the superintendent of his company, revealed the whole truth and asked to be punished. He that the first good night's rest he had the one foliowing his confession. As I have said, he pleaded guilty and wenoup to Albany for three years but he will likely be pardoned. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL. Holy week has been variously occupied by different people. The church services were numerous, and the faithful were kept busy who attended all its formalities, The sessions of the Women's International to the opera house, and compar: tew ladies were enabled to give any attention to the millinery and costume openings that have been featy of the dry goods trade in this and other citie A fow quiet dinners were given in honor of passing guests, No late evening events have marked the week. Early hours, that is com- parativel; 1y hours, have been the order of retiring to rest. Some of the quiet din. ners of the week Lave been notable events in their occasions and guests, ker and Mrs. Carlisle are thinking of purchasing a house here by next season and going to housekeeping. The new minister from Venezuela will repch Wasbington on Tuesday, when he will take immediate possession of his apartments on Connecticut avenue, An event of interest in the near future will be the large reception and housewarming 1o be given toward the latter part of the month by Minister and Madame Romero, at the handsome new legation building on I street near Fourteenth, The delightful en- tertainwents and receptions held during the past season by this cnarming hostess give promise of a truly enjoyable affair on this occasion, and the spacious saloons and large ball room of the mansion will doubtless be tested to their utmost, capacit Mrs. Cochran, daughter of Senator Pugh, and Mrs, Commissioner Black will leave for New York on the 10th inst to ¢ rone about thirty young men and maidens of our city who have been invited to perform the Indian dance, in whieh they took part lust year, at the kirmess to be given there on that date for the benefit of the Homeopathic hos- pital. The affair is to be under the auspices of Mrs, Vunderbilt, Mrs, Depew and a num- ber of other prominent ladies of New York. Peiny S, Heatn, The Conncil of Women, WasmiNgroy, April 1.—The afternoon meeting of the international council of women was occupied with addresses by Matilda n Gage, Antoinette Brown Blacky ell, Elizabeth Boynton, Isabella Bereher Hooker, Frances Willard and others, The evening session was given up principally to forcign delegates, who expressed their pleasure at the reception they had met, and their faith in the good accomplished. Mrs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton made the closing add ress. She said” the council had been & success and had proven that women are ready fc ed action, She complimented tl said she has alwayp ooked fc pter- ing the kingdom of heaven enfranchised, and introducing herself to St. Peter at’ the gate a_ ocitizen of America. A letter was receivéd this morning from a Rus- sian Nihilist which compictss the countrics sonding greeting to the council, s sent different countries show the universal {2* terest in the council all over the world, She ted the difference hetween the man- in which the press received the conven- tion of forty yoars ago and the reception of the present international council. The result of the latter must be of lasting effect. She contrasted the queen of England's jubilee with this jubileeof women. Mus. Stanton further smd they asked the men to celebrate this woman’s jubilee by placing in woman's hand the ballot. When womun hus no caré to take part in govern- ment it _proves that she has not a ripened mind. ~ Woman is hedged about with old prejudices and sustained In these prejudices nen of common sense, o-morrow at 8 o'clock the final meeting of delegates will be held at the Riggs house, s i Tendered His Resignation. Buonarest, April L—Premier Bratiano has tendered his resignation, Prince Ghika has beew suwmoned 10 forw @ gabivet, GROWING MORE COMPLICATED. A Tie-Up On the Chicago Belt Line Imminent. ASSAULTED BY PINKERTONS, An Unprovoked Attack On Platts- mouth Citizens—A Little Disturb- ance In the Omaha Yards Quelled By the Police. Prospects of a Belt Line Tic-up. Citreaco, Avril 1.—The prospect of an im- mediate tie-up of the belt line added a graver aspect to the railroad situation this evening, than at any time since the commencement of the Burlington strike. Every railroad enter- ing Chicago depends almost wholly upon the belt line as a means by which an interchange of freight is to be conducted with any other road. Practically every railroad track stretehing from Chicago is intersected by the belt line. The employes of the latter line have all along been among the staunchest al- lies of the brotherhood, while the management of the belt line company has apparcntly sought as far as possidle, to maintain a posi- tion of so-called neutrality. A new face was put on affairs when some time yesterday President Porter, of the Eastern Illinois road, which holds a controling interest in the belt line, sent a strongly worded letter to the management of the belt line, demanding that it transfer cars for every railroad and indi- vidual in the same manner, and that any and all employes who did not chose to do their Quty be dismissed. To-day n meeting of belt liné employes was held at which the whole subject was carnestly debated, It was cur- rently roported this cvening that the belt men had decided to stand by their guns and see whetlier the company would discharge them. The Burlington road to-day aid not attempt 1o do any switching m their freight yards. The St. Paul people, however, made mo strenuous efforts to keep things mov- ing, and as a result, it 18 probable the strike on the St. Paul will_culminate to-morrow in & ronewal of the strike on the Pan Handle. A train was got in readiness, so that to-mor- row the attempt can be made to transfer St. Paul freight to that road, and as the Pan Handle switchmen are pledged to_support the St. Paul men, trouble is expected. The St. Paul roud got out four freight trains and the suburban passenger service was in a much better shape than Saturday. At a meeting of the St. Paul strikers: a_inajority of the engineers and firemen are said to have favored a return to work on_the terms of- fered_ by General Manager Miller, while the switchnien and brakemen iusisted on staying out. No conclusion was reached. The Strike in the City. The stationing of a detail of police from the regular force in the yards of the Burling- ton railroad yesterday had a refreshing effect on the switchmen who threw up their jobs some days ago, and with only one exception the scenes of strife and discord of Saturday were not repeated. Mingling among thereg- ular police were representatives of the Pink- erton outfit, who were very quiet and reserved in their demeanor, resigning all authority to the regular policemen, who did not allow crowds to congregate but kept the streets an@ highways open by ordering the strikers and their .sympathizers to move on. There was only one outbreak during the day, and that was about 2 o'clock, when the attention of the city police was called in another direction. With a whoop and a hur- rah hundreds of men -and boys congre- gated at the Seventh street cros jeered at the Pinkerton represeriat hurled epithets at them and threw ck wd into tneir ranks. The men accepted these taunts with forbearance, and at a time when it scemed as if a riot was imminent a number of Union Pacific switchmen came up and counseled their brethren to refrain from violence. Their words had a soothing ef- feet on the mob, who dispersed as quickly as they had assembled. Lust night everything was quiet in the yards and about the_depot, and no further trouble was anticipated. WIIY TILE BOARDERS LEFT. The strike yesterday assumed a rather lu- dicrous phase, boycott was_entered against the proprictor of the European on Tenth There had been rding at this place fiftecn men in the em- ploy of the Union Pacific and other roads in _ various o few da ago angered because the proprietor enteen of the Pinkerton police to enjoy his larder and lodgings. The bourders entered a protest on having to dwell under the same roof with the policemen, and receiving no en- tests the fiftee d their and took quarters elscwhere, A B porter was told by the clerk in charg office last evening that the house was full of boarders anyhow, and they could get along without the fiftecn who had left. AT SOUTH OMATIA, bills The situation remgined unchanged about s of the Burlington in South Omaha lay. But few of the striking switch- inen werc to be seen about the premises of the railway at any period during the day, although it was thought that trouble might ensue at any moment. The police were no- tified to be’ prepared for uny eruption that might occur, and a = close watch was kept during the entie - day. The five cars that were wrecked in some unknown way night were restored to the track yesterday. Two of the cars are almost a complete wreck, As a_reporter for the Bee was investigat- ingaffairs connected with the strike in South Omaha, it was learned that ( 1 Man, Holdrege had dete members of the by instituting pro ainst h charging them with the malicious destruc tion of property. 1t i stated that the ofice of the company have all but located the parties and that in a few days arrests will follow. Commercial Agent Check, who has charge of the business of the y in South Omaha, when questioned ning the tenor of thé report said : “Idonot wish to make any concerning the strike otherwisc than to state we are getting along nicely, and ot being inconvenienced by the strike to great extent. Yesterday we handled * loads of stock here and could have taken care of as much more, There is no doubt in my mind but that the strike will prove a gigantic failure on tne part of the switchmen. ~ As regards the wrecking or do- stroying of our property, I would state that we are gleaming testimony o certian _ individuals _ which no will ninate in arrests made. The statement made by Herald to the effect that the car that was ditehed on the main line near Gibson was one that broke away from one of our trains is ab- solutely false in every particular, The car s started by some one and was forced from the track by an open switeh which was securely locked.” statements uent at Creston. CresToN, Ta., April I.-=/Special Telegram to the Bee.]—Four enginemen in the cwiploy of the “Q.” have been assaulted on thé streets by strikers in the past twenty-four hours. But one of the strikers was arrested, and ke by a company policeman, A mob followed him to the city jail and compelled his release. The strikers, who have hercto- e been orderly and quict, were aroused by arrival of Pinkerton men. The city is in no condition to suppress a riot, having no extra police and the excitement is running bigh to-night. Assaulted By Pinkertons, Prarrsvorta, Neb., April . L—[Special Telegram to the Bee.)—A granery near the railroad track in this city, was the scene of 8 brutal assault this afternoon about 3 o'clock, MBER 280 by a force of Pinkerton guards on several citizens, The men who were assaulted say v were setting down attending to their own business when the Pinkertons, drawing their clubs, attacked them. Being entirely unarmed they were at_the mercy of their as nts who beat them severcly about the head and face. Public sympathy is with the men, and the guards are vigorously de. nounced. Eight of them were arrestcd and taken before Judge Stiles who bound them over in sums of §00 each to appear for trial on Wednesday next, F. Latham becoming surety for their appearance, Will Not Handle “Q" Freight. Kaxsas City, April 1.—The switch en gineers and firemen of all roads entering the city except the Burlington, held a meeting late last night at which they resolved that after 12 o'clock noon Monday, they would re- fuse to handlo avy Burlington cars of freight, except it be live stock or_perishable freight, which had been started previous to that hour. A committee called on the superin tendents to-day and notified them of the order. 1f road engincers are put in the yards 10 do the switching, or new men are hired in their places, then the switchmen will refuse to work. The managers of the lincs have not yet made known what they will do, but it is presumed they will attempt to handle the freight. Will Support the Q" Strikers. Prrrsnuna, April 1.—The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engincers in the Pittsburg di- vision held a mecting this afternoon. After discussing the rumored strike of the Pitts- burg & Fort Wayne freight engineers, fire- men and switchmen, it was stated that no strike on the line had taken place, nor would any oceur. Afteran interesting’ discussion it was agreed to support the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quiney strikers through thick and thin. Apprehension at Indianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS, April 1.—There is & pros- pect that the engincers, firemen, brakemen and switehmen of the Ohio, Indiana & West- ern will strike. The ground of compluint s that the company hauls a through “Q" sleeper, So far as is known at_present the strike will be confined to the Ohio, Indiana & Western men at this point, but there are indications that_a general tic-up of all roads leading west from here will take place within three days. Demands of Milwankee Switchmen. MiLwavkeg, April 1.—The switchmen of the St. Paul company in this city have form- ulated a demand to be presented to General Roswell Miller, that no “Q" freight shall be handled by the road under any circum- stances, In the event that the demand is not ied with, they will quit work at 11 o'clock to-morrow. St. Joe Brakemen Out, St. Josern, Mo., April 1.--All freight brakemen on the Kansas City, St. Joe & Council Bluffs roads struck to-da They as- sign as a reason the danger to their lives in working with cab engineers.” This makes ikers now in the city, Did Not Strike. Cmicaco, April The reported ordering of the strike in Chicago on the Lake Shore, Pan Handle, Alton and Sunta Fe roads, late Saturday miht, proves to nave been errone- ous, Nosuch action was decided on. THE Cl;l-}x\ih\ RECORD. The Financial Transactions of the Past Week. BostoN, Mass, April L—[Special Tele- gram to the Ben]—The following table compiled from dispatches to the Post from the managers of the leading clearing-house: of the United States, shows the gross ex} changes for the weck ended March, 31, 1888, with the rate per cent of increase or de- crease as compared with the amounts for the corresponding weelk last year: -asvazoa(| crnies, New York.. Boston Chicage Philad; Pittsburg Cincinnati Kansas New Orle Loutsville. Providence Milwaukeo 8t. Paul Detroit. ... Minneapolis . Omaha Cleveland Denver Memphis', Columbus Indianapolis. *Duluth Worceste Springtield ortland. . T Outside New ¥ Paul and Detroit partly approximat *Not included in totals, —_— The Congressional Progra WaAsHINGTON, April 1.—Although th mittee on rules has mup) for the government of th during the w as given rise to so much dissatisfaction among many committees which have been left out of the arrangement that it is extremely doubtful if it be adhered to. The appropriations com mittee has determined to press to passage the pension and District of Columbia appropria tion bils, and if these measures are called up they will practically consume the we 1n the senate the Palmer bill to create a ¢ animal industry and_the Platt bill imission of South Dakota are men tioned as y » subjects of attention dur. ing the w thing depends upon th action of 1 regard to the motion now pending in the senate to recommit the bond bill, which is unfinished business, ol tu sake Shocks in Arizona, HoLuRook, Ariz., April 1.—[Special Tcle gram 1o the Bre|—At 10:80 last night a slight shock of carthquake was felt, lasting uds. ‘The vibrations were from cast to west, and quite perceptible. Houses trembled. A strong wind from the south wus blowing at the t B, dings Earthg ten s . The Fire Record, Jensey Crry, April 1.—The residence of William Walter Phelps, two miles from En glewood, burncd The fire was caused by the explosion of the gas in the art gallery. The is, very b i Was in New York - Carnot Denies It Paii;®, April 1.—President Carnot denies the truth of th¢ “Hatement that he quarreled in oftice to. i 1o shoot duri the with Boulanger when th2}wer gether because the general refusd down the De Cazeville miners rioting there e Americans Cannot Win, Loxpoy, April 1.—Phillips and Barnitt, American sporting men, s d on the truria on Saturday for New York. clare it is impossible for an Ame list to win in Europs ‘Fhey waintain that Heenan, Kilrain and Sullivau all really won notwithstandiug the fact that draws were declared, v de- can pugi JAY JUNPS ONTO JAMES. Gould Makos a Venomous Attack on Editor Bennott. OPEN AN ABUSIVE LETTER. Disgraceful Drunken Acts Alleged To Have Been Committed By Bennett—The Document the Talk of the Town. Shooting Poisoned Arrows. v Yo, April 1.—[Special Telogrant 1 the Bek]-—Jay Gould has written an open letter to James Gordon Bennett, in reply to what he (Gould) is known in the Herald office as “Scrcam,” in which Bennett denics the statements made by Gould. Gould denics that he ever said Bene nett was a director of the American cable company, What he (Gould) aidsay was that some years ago the clder Bennett bought 1,000 shares of stock of the cable company in order to make the present proprietor of the Herald a director in the board, and that he demanded lower rates and precedence for the Herald in all cable business over othex yapers, which was refused: that on account of his (Bennett) making himsell offensive, his name was dropped from the board at tho first opportunity Gould accuses the Herald of being actuated by personal malice and sclfish interests in its attack on lim, und charges that during the last thirty years Bennett's life has been ong of shame, He continues: *“Your private lifg has been but a succession of debauches and scandals, so that your name is associated on every tongue as ‘Bennett, the libertine,’ and however gentlemen might meet you at the clubs or hotels, not & gentleman in New Yy as you well know, would allow you to cross the threshold of his residence, where virtug and family honor are held sacred. Your very touch in the social circle is contaminating, A few instances, such as decency permits ta be put in print, will suftice to illustrate and contirm what I have to on this head.” Mr. Gould particu ono instan when Bennett was arrested for drunkennes on the street, and screamed: “Iam the pros prictor of the Herald, let me go.” But he was locked up, notwithstanding, and in ane other instance, at a dinner party given by him, Bennett drew a revolyer and shot the globes from the chandalier, sending the broken glass in the of the guests, who fled in t fow oxtracts from the milder ch Most of the charges of disgraceful, drunken acts alleged to have been committed by Bennett are omitted from this excerpt of the letter, which is the tally of the city to-day. Gould, after defending himself from attacks, closes as follows? “Since I exposed the fact that no bondholders ever complained, that Andrews and Crouch had no_clients, that they went tg Europe to find clients, that Andrews and such were all there was to this persecus tion and their motive was revenge and gain, Andrews and Crouch have taken to theit holes and have not since been seen, and_only feebly heard from. But the Herald still con tinues to “seream.” This remarkable docus ment from Gould is over a column in lengt He gave it to ail the papers in New York last night except the Herald. That paper, howy ever, sceured a copy somewhere, and printd it in full to-day, with a very lively introdues tion and ‘the following _head-liness “The Corsair Raves—The Pirate, Mads d With Malice, Adopts the Weanons of o Vituperation—A Brutal ‘Open Lets 'he Red Handed Buccancer Himseld, s an Infamous P laught_on Herald's Proprictor—Honored By Hig Abuse—He, Not His Inemy, Must Finally Walk the Plank—Attack of a Sneak and Coward—While Addressed to the Editor o the Herald, the Secrced is Refused Us for Publication. But We Seeure It and Print I8 in Full to Show What Kind of an Animal Jay Gould is—Isu't He a Skunk of the Western Scason d at Kansas City, Ciry, Mo, April 1.—[Special to the Ber.|The Kansas City team of the Western association played its first game at the new grounds to-day, before: fully four thousand tators. The Beae tons, of Armourdale, a semi-professional team were their opponents. The Western association supplied the Beatons with a bate tery—MceCarty and Wells, 'The contest satise fied Kansas City people that they could des pend on this club to play good ball, Managex Munning having sclected the finest nine alk around which las ever represented Kans: y. Fine sport will be the result of his d judgment. The game was simply fory practice, but at the end of the cighth innin; rore stood b . The westerns cam to the front with an y 8 und gave th Beatons 3 custer eggs, for their last innin the score standing 8 to b in favor of th westerns, e A DESERTED VILLAGE, Goldsmith's Idyl Outdone By the Ex( perience of Saratoga, Kan, SauAToGA, Kan., April 1,—{Special el gram to the Bee.)—This place has at las succumbed to the pressure of the county seaf fight. 1t is b the memory of a town noy One year ago it contained 2,000 populatio Now it has but 150, Of our fifty-one bus} houses, all have been moved away, of been razed 1o tl nd or carted off. Thos stunding are four brick buildings an cannot he moved at a profit. Wo have n mereantile house, we il gone more favored cen We are wrecked comy ey Kaxsas Telegram s embr vupidly thin. 1oy, Mertill niniscence - Weather Crop Bulletin, WASHINGTON following is synopsis of the w rop bulletin for th week ended Suturday: Reports from Miok igan, Ohio, Indiana, N. olinu, Kentucky and ‘I the weather of the p e, although the sc and farm work South Carolina 81 opportunit the ranl: we s00n will be rate tha t week has been favol son is reported as 1af wded, Reports fro Alabama, Mississippi, Loy isiana, Missouri, [llinois, Nebraska —an Kansas indic that the weather of the week was Iy unfavorable for grow ing erops le conditions are wted for the or part of Iarm work in the south atly interfered with on aecc d in some loca rms have inj The ¥ ' Trust, 1 Toreka, Kan, A A call hos beeni issued for a convention to mect at Topek May 1, for the purpose of orgunizing a farmsi ers’ trust. Circulars have been sent to th governors of all states west of the Mums!lp& and to llinois and Wisconsin to scnd del gates to the convention = 2 $10,000 More Needed, Paso, Tex., April 1.--[Special Tele# gram to the Bem.[--Subscriptions to th White Oaks, New Mexico & Bl Paso roi reach §00,000. This place is required to giv 100,000, As soon as the other $10,000 i reuchid, work begins frow this end. - the woel ates hus bee it of heav igh winds an | Steamst:in Areivals, New Yok, April 1.—(Special Telegram the Bee Avrcived-—The Aurania, from Li erpool; the Trave, from Bremen; the Auralfil frows Humburg;. the Moravia, from Haie urg b Loxbor il 1.~1'he Servia, from New l York for Liverpoo), passed Browliead o8y - I8