Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 18, 1888, Page 1

THE OMAHA DALY BEE Ra— SEVENTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA, WEDNES DAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1888, NUMBER 805, ROSCOE CONKLING 1S DEAD, He Passes Peacefully Away at an Early Hour This Morning SURROUNDED BY HIS FRIENDS. An Unfounded Report Set Aflont Early in the Evening That he Had Died Receives Confirmation Before the Night Had Passed Away, The Ending Oame at Last. NEW YORK, April 18, 2:00 a. m.—Roscoe Conkling died at 1:50 o’clock this morning. Mr, Conkling passed away without moving a limb. He looked as though peacefully sleeping. There were a number of persons outside on the street waiting to catch the lnst report. Within the doors there were between forty and fifty persons also waiting to hear the worst. They were composed chiefly of representatives of the press and friends of the dead senator. Mr. Conkling died in the rear chamber on the second floor of his residence. “It was a dreadful struggle that the patient fought against death,” said Judge Coxe, “but the the end was peaceful and unaccompanied by pain. His sorrowing wife and daughter were weeping at his side, but once the keen eyes were glazed and set in the struggle Mrs, Conklingeand daughter bore up bravely, but the wife was the most prostrated. Mrs. Oakum supported her mother. An ashen pallor deepened upon the emaciated face. Mr. Conkling gasped three or four times and passed away. In death, the lines about the mouth and on the face were slightly drawn. He was much emaciated but still, in death the face secemed natural. Immediately after the death Judge Coxe and Dr. Anderton left the house. No arrangements can be made to-night for the funeral. Arrangements will be definitely settled when Mrs. Conkling becomes more composed. Judge Coxe said that in death Conkling’s mouth ‘was slightly open as though he had died with & gasp. Mrs, Conkling is alone with her daughter and is completely prostrated with grief, The interment will be at Utica. At 8:15 p. m. last night an Associated Press bulletin was received by the Ber, stating that Mr. Conkling had died. Shortly after came another bulletin stating the report was unfounded. The porter of the Hoffman house, who had been an attendant on Mr. Conkling during his illness, came out of the room at that hour, and in answer to a question from one of the watchers at the door, ‘‘Is Mr. Qonkling dead?” gave an affirmative nod. The report was quickly spread throughout New York aity and telegraphed over the country and as quickly contradicted. Throughout the night and up to the receipt of the above dispatch announcing his demise, came hourly bulletins, none of which gave the slightest hope that he could live until morning. His brother, Colonel Fred A. Coukling, was sent for and remained at his bedside until the end came. The following, received early in the night, is a graphic picture of the last hours of New York’s dead statesman and the universal in- terest taken in every bit of information ob- tainable from his death couch: “Dr. Fordyce Barker scemed quite over- come as he stood on the steps of Conkling’s house this afternoon and told the reporters of the impending dissolution of his patient. He made no effort to conceal the fact that death was ready at any moment to place its scal on the brow of the noble victim who had struggled so long when a weaker nature would have succumbed. “There was a hush in the corridors of the hotels near by and & pervading oppression of quiet and solemmty all this afternoon. The sick statesman lay motionless in his bid. Large crowds of people congregated in tho strect throughout the evening, owing to bulletins announcing that the end was near. Prominent politicians and members of the bar were seen in the corridors of the Hoffman house, discussing tho abilities of the dying senator, and inquiring the latest news, “A sorrowful group’surrounded the sick man’s side. Mrs, Conkling, whose vigils had peen beyond the endurance of many stronger ‘women, and who had watched her husband well on into the early morning, was ot his side looking worn and despondent. His nephews, Judge A. C. Coxe and Alder- man Conkling, and his brother, Colonel K. A. Coukling, and Mrs, Oakum were sorrow- ful observers of the passing away of the great senator. “Dr. Barker called at 10:50 and remained until 11 o'clock. He said Conkling was fall- lug rapidly. His extremities were becoming cold, His legs were quite cold all the way up. He wus nulseless and respiration was very quick. He didn’t think Conkling could live much longer. He was suffering from a general failure of the nervous system.’ 1kling was born at Albany, N. 8205 received an academic education; studied and practiced law; re- moved to Utica in 1840; was district attorney for Oueida county in was elected mayor of Utica in 1858; was elected a representa- tive in the Thir ixth cong , served during the Thirt, enth and Thirty-ninth congresses, and was re-elected & osenta- tive in the Fortieth congress, but was im- mediately afterward elected to the United States senate as a union republican, to suc- ceed Ira Harris, republican; took his seat in the senate in March, 1807, and was re-clec in 1878 and again in 157! From the beginnisg of his career in congress he took an active part amo the leaders of the republican party. In 1873 he was foremost in the ranks in support of the Grant administration against the defection of the liberal republicans to Horace Greeley. In 1576 he was a prominent candidate for the lential nomination, which, however, ven to Mr., Hayes. At the national convention of 1850 he endeave to secure the nomination of General Grant, but the public sentiment was too stron pposed to third terms for him to su Fail ing to obtain the support of the senate in opposing some of Presi- dent Garfleld's New York apppoint ments, Mr, Conkling, with his collcague, Senator Platt, res| his seat in the senate early in 1881, in order that the legislature of New York 'might pass judgment upon his quarrel with the president. After & pro- tracted contest, he failed in his attempt to secure a re-clection, and hus not since ap- ared in public life. Upon the accession to he presidency of Mr. Arthur, the position of ustice of the supremo court of the United States was offered him, but he declined it. His last years have been dovoted Lo the prac ice of law in New York City. THE ELDEK CONKLING, The father of Roscoe, Alfred Conkli Who was alsoan able lawyer and a promitent politician, located in Omaha in 1860, shortly after the expiration of his term as minister to Mexico. 'He formed a partuership with Judge J. M. Woolworth under the firm name of Conkling & Woolworth, Their oftice was in the old Western Exchange bank building, on the southwest corner of Twelfth and Farnam streets, where the United States National bank buildiug now stands. He left his family ip Utica, and during his residence here, ‘Which only lasted @a. year, he badrded with Lucy A, Goodwili, who at that time lived on Davenport _street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth. He confined himself entirely to eivil practice and was engaged in several cases involving large sums of money and the title to exten: sive tracts of land. Owing to his advanced age, however, ho was unable to endure the labor imposed by the practice of his profes- sion and returned to Utica about a year after coming here. He prophesied the future greatness of Omaha, Which at that time was a rageed frontier town of about four or five thousand inhabitants, and bought some prop- erty here, among which was a lot on the southwest corner of Four- teenth and Howard streets, now occupied by the Casino garden, and a farm of about three hundred acres, located three miles southwest of the city, adjoining the Griftin farm on the south. Both pieces of property were disposed of a_few years after Mr. Conkling left here. He was reserved in his manner and showed very little interest in Nebraska politics. Ouwing to this austerity he made comparatively few acquaintances during his residence here, but was quite well known to Byron Reed, A. D, Jones, Dr. G. L. Miller and several other old settlers. i iy A JUSTIFIABLE SHOOTING. Investigation Shows That Desperado Moller Deserved His Fate. GrLeENWoOD SpriNes, Col., April 17.—|Spec- ial Telegram to the Ber.]—The sequel to the Moller-Thompson tragedy came sooner than expected. To-day word reached here from the camp of the Colorado Coal and Iron com- pany on Rifle creek, that Moller had been killed, there at 9 o'clock Sunday evening by Lewis Plummer, It appears that Constable Brown, as soon as he received the news of the killing of Thomp- son, sent out men il every direction to hunt the fugitive and his party. Among them was Plummer, They were stationed at the latter’s ranch, Abqut 8:30 Sunday evening the dogs began to bark and one of the men remarked that they had better get their guns and keep a sharp lookout. It was dark and Moller had crept up to the house unnoticed, and peeping into the window cried to the men inside: ‘‘Is that you, Mr. Mullensi” Plummer, who was standing outside, recognized Moller’'s voice and brought his Winchester rifle down upon him, ordering him to throw down his gun and hold up his hands, Moller attempted to throw up his rifle to shoot Plummer when the latter fired, the ball entering Moller's mouth and coming out back of his neck. Death resulted in- stantly. Plummer came to town, gave him- self up, but afterwards was released, the opinion being general that the killing was justifiable and that Moller's death was no more than he deserved. —————— THE COLOR LINE. Chicago Presbyterians Have a Heated Discusrion Over It. Cnicaco, April 17.—The Chicago Presby- tery occupied yesterday and to-day in a spirited discussion of the resolutions intro- duced by Rev. Dr. Herrick Johnson regard- ing organic union with the southern church. The clause which provoked the discussion says: ‘‘We cannot consent to the establish- ment of a separate African Presbyterian church, or to any provisional arraugement looking forward to the organization of such a church.” Many of the minis- ters scemed to think the adoption of such a resolution would widen the gap between the north and south. After a long debate the substitute by Dr. Worcester was adopted as follows: Resolved, That this presbytery is heartily in favor of a union with the southern church on _the basis of our common standards pure and simple, Dr, Worcester wished to add, ‘‘And the equal right of all disciples of Christ in every court of Christ’s church,” but after a discus- sion this was laid on the table. Dr. Worces- ter said the question of the color line is a great question to answer, and if it comes to the alternative between the sectional line and color line in the church he wished it un- derstood he preferred the color line. The church has no right to establish a caste, ckloceimeny In the Swim. New Yorxk, April 17.—The second day of the strike of the brewersopened with employes and employers as determined as ever. While the strikers assert that all their colleagues are standing firm, the brewers assert that already deserters are coming in from all sides. The secretary of the brewers’ associa- tion said to-day that the brewers were getting all the men they wanted, and that the strike would be a short-lived one. The journeymen’s contract has been signed by Schmidt and Schwannenfleigel, New York brewers and members of the association, This is the first break in the employers’ ranks, Jersey Crry, April 17.—The men in enforced idleness by the lockout at the breweries in Hudson county held a meeting this morning and decided to compromise if possible. The men agree to obey the osses, but continue in_their union., It is rumored the men will return to work to-morrow. The Coopers Join the Brewers. Curcaco, April 17.—All the coopers em- ployed in the Chicago breweries left their work to-day, refusing to work with non- union brewers. This caused considerable delay, but during the day the places were partly filled, e SR A Despicable Informer. KANSAS C1TY, Mo., April 17.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—A. Hartman, one of the four men arrested for selling liquor on Sun- day, was tried to-day. Hesaid: “I have no money and will have to go to the work house. My employer, Mr, Hermann, will do nothing for me. Hermann went to Leavenworth Sunday, leaving me in charge of the saloon. In the afternoon that policeman dressed in citizens clothes came in, A man I knew was with him. I refused them whisky, but the) argued with me so long, I thought' it would be a fayvor. That was all I soid that day.” Hartman was sent to the work house t afternoon. The Sunday law is rigidly en- forced now, RIRTH IR, Fixing His Fences. Cnicaco, April 17.—[Special Telegram to —A dispatch from Philadelphia says that in spite of Washington contradictions, the truth of the reported engagement of Sec- retary Bayard and Mrs, Folsom, mother of Mrs. Cleveland, has been confirmed, and it is understooa that the wedding will take pla some time in June, probably June 2, the an niversary of President Cleveland's wedding, but this has not been definitely settled. Friends of Mr. Cleveland think the union will be a powerful element of success in the president’s coming campaign, High Wate MirLwAUKEE, April 17.—An Evening Wis- cousin special from Alma, Wis., says the water in the Mississippi river at that point has risen twenty inches in twelye hours. Twenty families have been driven from their homes. The old brewery that has stood uy the river bank for thirty vears has b washed away and the Burlin Bay railroad tracks have suffered g age. The Minneiska boom has gone out and 2,600,000 feet of lumber was lost. - A Maniac's Terrible Crime. HENRIETTA, Tex., April 17.—[Spevial Tele- gram to the Bee.]—Jobn Hoffmen, becoming deranged, during the absence of his family set fire to his house. It was burned with the contents and also three of his children. The other children escaped with bikns, Evi- dences poiut toa struggle and it is not known whether he was assaulted and the house burm'-'d to destroy the evidence of burglary or not. e o P L The President Dines. WASHINGTON, April 17.—Postmaster Gen- eral Dickinson gave a dinner. to-night in honor of President and Mrs. Cleveland. Among the other guests were Secretaries Hayard and Vilas aud Justices Field and Yanr, : THE FIRST ROUND FOUGHT, The Tariff Debate Commenced in the Lower House. MILLS AND KELLY THE LEADERS. The Former Fights Valliantly for his Favorite Measure and Pig Tron Puts in His Best Licks Against 1t, House. ‘Wasmixaron, April 17.—~At 11 the house went into committee of the whole, Mr. Springer of Illinois in the chair, for consid- eration of the tariff bill Mr. Mills began his speech by saying that the great increase of duties made during the war had been, at the time they were made, stated to be only temporary, yot a quarter of a century later these duties were higher than they were during the war, and they now averaged 47.10 per cent on imports, An in- come tax had been imposed to meet expenses. It was gone. Itwas a tax on wealth, and $72,000,000 annually realized from that source was swept away, But the war tax on clothing, on food, on implements of labor, re- mained, and the war was still being prose- cuted against the people—a fiscal war, ex- hausting in its demands—and every effort to remove or lower that taxation had been re- sisted and defeated. @ There had been a tax on railroads, but it was gone. It had not lived long after the war. It had been a tax on wealth. It was said to be oppressive to the wealthy. There had been a tax on insurance companies; it ‘was gone. There had been a tax on express companies; it was gone. There had been a tax on bank deposits; it was gone. Three hundred millions of dollars that had been paid by the wealthy had been swept away and the burden of taxation had been made heavier, as it has been loaded on the shoul- ders of those who had to support themselves and the government. Was a tax of 8 per cent 10 be paid out of the pockets of manufac- turers of blankets a tax weight more onor- mous than the tax of 79 ger cent paid by con- sumers on imported and domestic products? ‘Was o tax of 3 per cent on incomes more op- pressive than a tax of 100 per cent on Wo- men'’s and children’s dress goods. Yet all these taxes on wealth had gone, and the gen- tlemen of the minority boasted they had re- duced taxes to the amount of §360,000, while the democratic party had reduced it only a bagatelle. That was a splendid col- umn those gentlemen had erccted. All the tax on wealth had passed away and all the burdens had been cast upon the shoulders of the laboring men. In 1883 taxation still further had been reduced, and the magniticent shaft which the party then in power had erected to commemorate its legisiative wisdom and the beneficence of its laws was crowned with a cap-stone taking off the international revenue on playing cards and the putting of 20 per cent on bibles. The democrats have been taunted with the charge that they had failed to reduce taxa- ation. This charge had been made by the minority, which had been guilty of prevent- ing action on many bills brought into t| house by the committee on ways and mean Mr. Mills turned hisattention to the woolen manufactures and argued that the public at large was injured by the present excessive tax and nobody benefitted. High duties pro- hibited and limited importations and exporta- tions. We were feeding the people of Europe, and when we put high duties on the goods they sent us in exchabge for food 1t amounted to taxing our own agricultural exports, A reduction of duties could not, as asserted, check manufacturers and cramp labor, We always imported more goods when prices were high. Under low duties we could export more goods, our man- ufactures would run steadily, and labor would be constantly employed. Not more than 10 per cent of the goods consumed in the United States would be imported if all the custom houses were torn down and the government supported by direct taxes. The protectionists argue that manufactured arti- cles are cheaper here than in any other coun- try as a result of protection. It is not so, but supposing that it is, why then should they resist 80 strenuously any effort to lower _duties if they were able to undersell European manufacturers! Did the manufacturers pay higher wages be- cause protection enabled them to doit{ No, Higher wages were made by coal, steam and machinery, and higher wages mean a lower cost of production. This accounted for the fact that free trade England paid higher Wages than protection France and Germany, and yet controlled the world’s markets, He had requested the present chief of the labor bureau to ascertain if there was any excep- tion to the rule that wages depended on the efticiency of labor and if the result of highly paid, efiicient labor was a low cost of the product. In answer, he read a tabulated statement prepared by Wright, giving the result of an inquiry in @ number of cases, which appeared to fully bear out the rule, Mr. Mills then proceeded with frequent ci- tations from economic authors and from tab- ulated statements to elucidate his argument that a high rate of wages in this country was not the result of the protective system. We had grown rich, prosperous and powerful, not by the aid of restrictions on foreign co; merce, but in spite of them. He quoted tables to show that the tariff was not intended 1o benefit laborers—that the benefits of tar- iffs pass into the pockets of the manufactures and never come into the pockets of the labo ers, ‘Laking up the case of a pair of blankets ere the tariff exceded the labor by $1.5%, Mills decl d that every dollarof the excess was reaped by the manufacturer, lrain of Texas interrupted to ask how and means committee had treated those blankets. Mr. Mills replied it had reduced the tariff on blankets from £1.77 to 71 cents, [Applause.] Continuing, he suid it was asserted congress had intended to benefit the laborer by the tariff. It had failed and not a dollar of the protection offered had got beyond the manu- facturer. He, however, hired his labor at the lowest rate in open market. The committee had left in the bill more than enough pro- tection to pa; v all the labor and bonds besides, The present policy was making a vast distinction in this country between two classes—one the poor and numerous; one the small and powerful and rich, The concen- tration of the wealth of the country was in the hands of the government, In conclusion, he said the bill was a very moderate one, yet it would send comfort and happiness into all the homes and bosoms of the poor laboring people of the country, and he asked the house, in behalf of these people, to consider their claims and help reduce the burdens that had been loaded upon them. Mr, 1ls spoke about an hour and three quarters, and as he took his seat he was su rounded by a crowd of democratic member who pressed forward to tender congratula: tions, N :lly, of Pennsylvania, next took the floor in opposition to the bill. He said its enactment would paralyze the enterprise and energy of the peopl Arow our manu- facturing supremacy un” duce our com- manding commercial position to colonial de- pendence, It was studiously designed to produce these dire results and nicely adopted Tor its purposes. 1t was confessedly a parti- san measure, and was framed in the intcrests of the party whose lead appeared to be oblivious to the overwhelming social and eco- nomiec changes wrought by the abolition of slavery. Tne geutlemen who framed this Dbill and could brook neither wmodifica- tion nor discussion Of its proyisions by their associates in committee, were with two exceptions, the representatives of what was the slave territory, The bill was an anachronism; it had no relation to this era; it belonged to the saddest epoch in our national hmtory. During that period slavery dominated our national councils and guided the administration of our national in hostility to national interests and in the interest of free trade twice threatened war, By putting weol an the free list the bill would abolish sheep husbandry, destroy the immense capitol embarked therein and impoverish more than a million men who own flocks or are employed in their care, and by working this rein it would diminish the supply of cheap and Healthful animal food now furnished by the wool growers to mining and manufacturing labor- ers of the country. It would always render the production of American tin piates and cotton ties imposeible by placing these arti- cles on the free list with wool. By the trans- fer of these and other products of coal and iron ore to the free list, und by reducing the duties on steel rails, structural iron, and many other forms of iron and stoel, it would, though it maintained existing duties on coal and iron ore, close majority of the bitu- minous coal fields ang ore banks which were now giving profital dn:gé}'mcnt 0 hun- dreds of thousands of fabor8Fs, not only in northern states but in the south; but while professing 10 have abandoved their purpose to Eut coal and ore on the free list, its framers ad ingeniously contrived to make importa- tlon, by such measures of indefection as might enable them to saddle the treasur department or the judiciary with the politi- cal consequences of their deliberate ter- giversations, To illustrate the puerile absurdity of Pres- ident Cleveland’s assumption that duty was always added to cost, not only of imported commoditics but to theprice of like commodi- ties produced here, Mr. Kelly invited the president’s attention to the fact that although the duties on sugars, when reduced to ad- valorem standards, were never so high ‘as now, the price of sugar was never so low in this country as now. The progress of sugar making in Louisiana since 1867 might be cited as an {llustration vitalizing the in- fluence of protection duties, Coming to the subjet of the surplus, Mr. Kelly said he would #0 legislate on the ques- tion of the surplus and the sources whence it flows as to increase the wealth, power and dignity of the couniry by promoting the development of its natural resources and the diversification of its industries, and thus diminish 1ts dependence upon foreign im- portations upon which duties are collected. e would derive the national revenues from customs duties, so adjusted as to stimulate and defend home profluctions, while prevent- ing combinations, trusts and monopolies of any kind. A reduction of taxation should be effected immediately by the abolition of the sources of income receipts, from which it mu‘v be computed month by month, i mot day by day. The politics of this conntry are now domi- nated by the whisky trust as they were by slavery before the war, and King Alcohol ‘was proving he is as hostile to national de- velopment as King Cqtton ever was. Tn concluding Mr. Kelly eaid: ‘‘The per- petuation of internal taxes is the issue pre- sented 10 the American people by the presi- dent in his free trade message and by five southern gentlemen who have dominated the councils of the committee on ways and means. For myself 1 will stand for & good protective system and the maintenance of such rates of duties as will insure theidevelopment of all the resources of the eoumtry, increase the number of its industries, and per- petuate international independence, commer- cial and industrial as well as political. This cannot be dome, if the internal tax system is to be maintained, for the surplus is in a condition that it canmot be perpetuated with safety to our republican institutions. The purity of the gevernment, the safety of business and the moralsof the public demand an abatement of the surplus by the repeal of the internal taxes, from which it flows.” Mr. Kelly spoke for two hours and when he resumed his scat was loudly applauded and received the congratulations of his party friends. The committee then arose and the house adjourned, ‘ Sengte. ‘WASHINGTON, A 17.—Mr. Riddleberg- er’s resolution, ofteréd yesterday, in regard to executive sessions, was called up, and on motion of Mr. Edmunds, galleries were cleared and the doors closed. In ten minutes the doors were opened and after some rou- tine business the Dakota bill was taken up for consideration. Mr. Vest spoke in opposi- tion. He taunted Mr. Spooner with having waved the bloody shirt, and referring to this statement that there was no difference be- tween states trying ta break out of the union and trying to break in, said if any community had undertaken to do what the people of Dakota had done, there would be an outery im- mediately only exceeded by that in regard to Fort Sumpter, and the senator from Vermont would have proposed a piece of legislation equivalent to that celebrated legislation he had conceived in 1876, which put Hayes into the presidential chair, and *"To Arms, To Arms,” would have been the cry all over the north, Mr. Edmunds saxd with emphasis that he believed and thought nine-tenths of the people believed President Hayes was lawfully and fairly elected by the voters of the states, Mr. Vest took issue with this statement. As to the purpose of the democratic op- position to the bill being the keeping out of the three electoral votes of South Dakota, Mr. Vest denied it energetically. The demo- cratic senators were willing to admit the whole territory, but not willing to divide it. The senate bill for the relief of the Omaha tribe of Indians jn Nebraska (authorizing the payment of $40,000, being ten annual in- stallments under atreaty), was amended by authorizing the secretary of the interior to extend the time for the payment of the pur- chase money for lands sold on the Omuha Indian reservation, The senate bill for a public building at Burlington, Ta., to cost §5,000, was passed, and the senate adjourned, R Patents to Westerners. WASHINGTON, April17. to the Bee,]—Patents were to-day granted Nebraska and Iowa inventors s follows: Charles C. Ducray, lowa county, assignor to himself and H. J. Webb, Dubuque, Ta., corn Charles C. and D, C. Jewett, Sand huy loader; Joseph N. Long and ey, Lecaire, Ia., bearin, 5 port of rudder stock upon ve: 34 Norton, Odebolt, Ia.. and J. A. Stones, Chi- cago, 111, paper reel for shorthand machine Henry W. Ramsay, Lincoln, Neb., truss bridge: Austin Warner and' J. J.'Scoles, Knoxville, Ia., two-wheel vehicle, —— Postal Changes. WasHINGTON, April 17.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]--A postoffice was established to-day at Bruno, Butler county, N ka, Frank J. Vossvar appoiuted postmaster. The following Towa postmasters were appointed to-day: Jacob Kluspigs, Arcadia, Carroll county, vice Lewis 8. Stoll, removed; “Thomas B. Carr, Epworth, Dubuque county, vice H, Young, removed: Wiliiam Vessen- berg, Rowan, Wright eounty, vice Diantha R. Pierce, resigned, et The Excess to Be Returned, WaASHINGTC April 17.—Senator Cullom to-day introduced & bill providing that in all cases where it shall appear that parties havy paid §2.50 per acry 10§ acre by theact of June 15, 1880, the secretary of the interior shall be author- ized to repay such parties the excess price of the land, NEw ORLEANS, April day was generally very quiet, as far as known, throughout the state. The shooting scrape at Poll 8, of this city, was the only affray here of any consequence. Reports from the outside indicate that Nichols, demo- andidate for governor, has been elec- he counting is progressing slowly. — e He Will Sue for Damages. Durvrs, Minn., April 1 gram to the Beg.]—George M. Eby, agent in Duluth for the large carpet house of Gold- smith & Co., of Milwaukee, was placed in fail this morning on complaint of the senior member of the-firm. He 1s said t4 be consid- erably behwnd in his accounts: - My. Eby was veleased from custody later and will institute 3:“(‘;!9' #10,000 damages ggaingt Goldswith [Special Telegram , | GERMANY'S SICK EMPEROR, He No Longer Attempts to Use His Voice. THE ANXIETY OF HIS SUBJECTS. Russian Official Circles Stirred Up By the Election of Boulanger—A Disruption in the Austrian Relchrath, Makes Signs and Writes. [Copyright 1888 by James Gordon Bennett.] Benuty, April 17.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to the Ber.)—The events of this day’s watchfuluness outside and inside Charlotteville palace can be briefly stated. A large crowd collected around at an early hour and increased as the day wore on. The emperor rose about 11 and doubtless read the second edition bulletin, signed by all his physicians, which was cautiously hope- ful. He breakfasted well. He has happily @ good appetite and he has repeatedly taken milk mixed with egg and strong beef tea. Afterwards he dressed in military uniform and showed himself at the window. Doubt- less the volume of cheers which arose was his best medicine. He transacted some nec- essary business and next received family visitors, He does not attempt to speak, but answers by signs or pencil, He is represented as looking wan and worn, but strong in general feeling. When one of the doctors was leaving, his coachman could not drive through the throngs, Some climbed on the carriage, and when the doctor said, ‘The Kaiser is better,” s* Thank heaven!” they exclaimed, and another great cheer brought the German emperor again to the window. This time the empress was in the back ground. She is us unfailing as at San Remo in her attendance. Medical men in America may consider how grave the case has been that yesterday the emperor’s temperature reached 103 Fahren- heit, while the pulse was 104, and there were thirty respirations in the minute. When his respiration is slower, to keep the tempera- ture low antipyrine is used. To-morrow a new canula will be inserted, as the present one must be cleansed. As the emperor coughs more in a recumbent position he is now kept in a half-sitting posture on a couch. Doc- tors Krause and Mackenzie, I hear at mid- night, remain in an adjoining room all to- night. Berui, April 17.—The emperor passed a tolerably fair night last night. He had some sleep and there was no change for the worse. At 11:50 this morni: there was no change in his feverish condition. The National Zei- tung says the emperor's new trouble is not a case of simple bronchial inflammation, but of extension of disease in the larynx to the bronchial tubes and thus to the lungs them- selves. Ben! April 17, 2:15 p. m.—Emperor Frederick now feels better. He slept half the night without any considerable breaks. He arose shortly affer 11, and afterwards appeared at the window of his bedronm. The fever is abating and his appetite is im- proved. A consultation of his physicians this morning is reported to have resulted in an agreement that there is no inflammation of the lungs, and thav the bronchitis is abating. It is said there is a divergence of opinion among the doctors as to whether bronchitis has appeared at all, or whether fever and dificulty in breathing ‘were not traceable toan abeess in the trachea. A London dispatch from Berlin to the BEx- change Telegraph company says it is learned from a direct source that the physicians at their consultation to-day agreed that the cm- peror’s malady was approaching its last stage. This news has been guardedly con- veyed to the members of the royal family. The following bulletin was issued at 4 this afternoon; ‘“‘Symptoms' of bronchitis have considerably dimmished since yesterday and the fever has abated. The emperor passed a better night and his general condition 18 satisfactory.’” The emperor's fever increased toward night., Otherwise there is no change in- his condition: —— THE SLUGGERS LOSERS. Mitchell and Kilrain Depositors With the Defunct Gillig Concern, Loxpox, April 17,—[Special Cablegram to the 1see.]—The phychological moment so greatly dreaded by the employes of the American Exchange has passed and they again breathe freely, The first thing the cashier said when the cablegram stopping all came was “What will Mitchell and Kil- rain do? Will they clean the shop out?’ for the Englishman is a depositor to the ex- tent of £300 and the Baltimore man of £400. So when Mitchell and Kilrain, arm in arm, swaggered into the exchange at mid-day the collective heart of the concern ceased to beat and the doors and windows were opened wide* to facilitate the exhibition of that part of valor which is discretion, “Give us a tenner, Moneybags,” said Mitehell, ‘“Me and Jake are off for a canter.” “Why. hav’ent you heard, Mr. Mitchell,” said the cashier, presupposing with the igno- rance of the average financial man, that the report of the smashup had penetrated the region about the Criterion, and the St. James halls, where the sluggers are wont to saunter. ‘When the truth at length dawned on the pugilistic comprehension of Mitchell, he whistled, and Jake cracked his fingers, At last both went oft with broad grins on their faces, because within the last weck Kilrain has transmitted £1,000 to America and Mitchell has dimin- ished his account by two-thirds, They were also willing because they did not know, as does the liquidator, that the depositors on this side of the water will only get about three shillings to the pound. In settling up affairs, the money now deposited in the English branch will bu doled out to the creditors here, and the money at the offices in America to those on that side of the water, which is good for the American creditors, as almost all the monecy of the councern is now in New York. Affairs at St, Petersburg. ST, PETERSBURG, April 17.—[Special Cable- gram to the Ber.]—The election of General Boulanger is viewed with concern in official circlss, It is feared that the internal dis- orders in France will paralyze her action abroad at a time when international questions will require to be dealt avith. A diff nce has arisen between General Vaunnovski, minister of war, and M, Vysh- negradski, minister of finance, The former demands and the latter refuses a grant for the proposed month's drill of 1,000,000 re- serves, Dhuleep Singh has gone to reside perma- nently at Kieff, Disse ions. ~[Special Cablegram to the Bee.]—The young Czech party has se- ceded from the majority in the Austrian reichrath and it is feared this will leaa to the secession of the other groups and thus break up the heterogenous party. which has for eight years supported Count von Taafe, the prime minister, Austria VIENNA, April What to Do With Boulanger. Bunuiy, April 17.—[Spectal Cablegram to the Bip.)—The Berlin Post suggests that Floquet, De Tréyeinet and. Goblet should warn General Boulanger that he is unneces- y playing a dangerous game in aiming at a dictatorship. They should, it says, after declaring war, send him to conduct opera- tions, telling him that if he is victorious, the sovereignty of France will fall to him, while if defeated, he will avoid the further disgrace of being a usurper, —_— Colonel Mapleson's Finances. Loxvox, April 17.—[Special Cablegram to 10 the Bee.]—The bankruptey case of Colonel Mapleson, the operatic manager, was heard in the bankruptey court to-day. His liabili- ties were stated to be £42,410. He has no available assets. Colonel Mapleson attributes his failure to the non-completion of the Na- tional Opera house, on account of which he estimates ho loses £30,000. He intends to submit a scheme to his creditors by which a settiement may be arranged. ———— In Hock. Dunrin, April 17—John Dillon was arrested here this morning. Dillon was taken before a magistrate. and Eflfir a preliminary hearing was liberated on ail. Loxpox, April 17.—O'Brien_in an inter- view said the arrest of himself and Dillon simply proved that Balfour was compelled to recommence the work he began in Septem- ber. Coercion always had been and always would be the work of weariness and failure, el desting Royalty Will Greet Royalty. Loxnow, April 17.—[Special Cablegram to the Bee]—Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, will welcome Queen Victoria in the Tyrol if her majesty takes Brenner route from Florence to Berlin. This meeting. if it takes place, will be the first between the queen and the Emperor Francis Joseph. —————— Another Boulanger Sensation. Loxpox, April 17.—The Paris correspond- ent of the Times is informed that startling revelations are about to be made regarding Boulanger's election expenses. The stories about Bennett and others giving Boulanger money the Times correspondent says are ab- surd, —_— Preparing for Contingencies. Panis, April 17.—Troops will be kept in the barracks all day Thursday, and in addi- tion to the extra brigades of police an excep- tionally large force will be detailed to guard the chamber of deputies. oAl s The Death Record. LoxpoN, April 17.—John Baring, the banker, is dead. k=S Ordered to Migrate. Obrssa, April 17.—Forty thousand foreign Jews residing in the province of Kherson have been ordered to cross the frontier. s nd g lamay UNCLERICAL CONDUCT. Racy Developments Promised in a Philadelphia Church Trial. PuLaveLenia, Apnl 17.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.|—The Rev. Howard Twide- mor, rector of the Episcopal church of the Beloved Disciple, was put on trial to-day for unclerical conduct. The charges are that he persuaded his wife to agree to live apart from him; that after the lapse of suffi- cent time, he secured a divorceon the ground of desertfon, and that he secured the consent of his bishop to his second marriage by stat- ing that his ground of divorce was adultery. The day was given up to a formal presenta. tion of legal papers. The names of three wo- men are to be brought into the case, and at the request of counsel it was decided that, ‘while they should be written on the record, they were to be known in the trial only as A, Band C. ———— SPORTING NEWS, Radbourne Bas Not Signed. BosTox, April 17.—|Special Telegram to the BEE.]—*We have heard absolutely noth- ing from Radbourne,” said President Soden, of the Boston club, this morning when ques- tioned upon the subject. “So far as we know he s still in Illinois, and may remain there.” “Does your club not care for his services, then?” “Most certamly we do, but we do not think Radbourne worth the money he asks for lus services. Upon this point Radbourne and the Boston club differ?” “Has Radbourne asked for his release?” “No, sir.” “Would you sell himi» “Av no figures.” “1t 18 reported that the Boston club has offered $2,000 salary and $100 for every win- ning game he pitclies in. Is this correct?” “That fs about it. Inmy opinion that_is the only correct basis upon which to employ a pitcher. The amount of his income from the season’s work, you see, is largely de- termined by his own skill and efforts.’” Radbourne was the star pitcher of the Boston club Jast season, and until within the last two years, before Clarkson’s advent,was looked upon as one of the most brilliant ‘pro- fessional twirlers in the country. Ho is not quite as steady in his personal habits as ho might be, however, and it is thought by many that his cffectiveness ns a_pitcher has decreased in consequence. That he has not igned with Boston for this season is aue to a difference of opinion between himself and the Boston management as to his salary, It is stated that he reccived $4,000 for his work last season and wants an equal amount this year, The Newmarket Races. Loxpoy, April 17.—[Special Cablegram to the BEe.|--At the Newmarket Craven meeting to-day the Crawford Plate, threc- quarter mile, was won by the Duke of Mon- s four-year-old bay colt Dazzle, 2, Wi year-old chesnut horse, Monsieur , second, Baron C. do Tuyll's fiye- horse, Argow, third. The Newmarket biennial stakes for three- year-olds, was won by General Pearson’s black colt, Anarch, Ernest’s chestnut colt, yandieman's Land, second, Lord Durham’s bay filley, Ballatrix3third. el TV Steamship Arrivals. BALTINORE, April 17.—|Special Telegram to the Bek.]--Arrived.—The America, from Bremen QUEENSTOWN, April _ 17.—Arrived—The Lalke Ontario and the Italy from New York. MoviLie, April 17.—Arrived—The De- voma, from New York lasgow. LoXD0X, April 17.--Arrived—13ritish Queen from Boston. et Western Railroaders Meet. Kaxsas Ciry, Mo, April 17.—[Special Telegram 1o the BEeE.]—The Colorado Trafc association was in session yesterday evening. No business was transacted, owing 1o the absence of Missouri Pacific representa. tives, There will be another meecting to- night. e —— Will Die of His Wounds. Macox, Mo., April 17.—[Special Telegram to the Bze.]—Dr. Q. J. Morrison, editor of the Democrat, who was assailed with a cane by J. A. Hudson, of the Times, is_at death’s door, ~ Congestion of the brain with menen- gitis has supervened which renders the case hopeless. e Deserved Promotion. New Youk, April 17.—[Special Telegram the Bee.]—Inspector Byrnes, the great thief catcher, has been made chief inspector of police and deputy superintendent of police of this city, with right of succession to superin- tenden e Die By 8hocks. AvLpAXY, N.'Y., April .17.—The assembly to-day passed by & vote of 86 to § the bill which substitutes electricity for hanging. THEY MADE A SILENT MOVE. O'Neill Captured the Niobrara Land Office on the Quiet. OUR SENATORS WERE IGNORANT, The President Orders Its Removal Without Consulting Them—Dorsey Argues for the Forts Robinson and Niobrara Appropriation, O'Neill Stole a March. WasnixaroN Burrav e OMAnA Brs, 513 FOURTEENTI STRERT, Wasnixaroy, D. C., April 17. Senator Manderson said this afternoon that no one was more surprised than himself to learn of the removal of the United States land office from Niobrarato O'Neill, and that it was an extraordinary proceeding of the secretary of the interior and done without consulting the two senators from Nebraska, He had no objection to changing the location of the oftice 1f, after all parties intorested were consulted, it was found to be to the ine verest of those most aircotly affected by ity but he objected to the summary manner in which it was done. Some time ago he learned that the proposed removal was in contemplation; and Senator Paddock. and himself asked that before any action was taken the people in the northeastern part of the state be heard on the subject. The first that he learned about the order directing the removal was through the Washington dis- patch to the Bee. He has received some tel- egrams from citizens at Niobrara protesting against the proceedings, and immediately sent copies of them to the president and See- retary Vilas, at the same time requesting a suspension of the order till the citizens at Niobrara, Creighton, O'Neill and elsewhere were permitted to make their arguments on both sides. Senator Manderson and a number of other prominent Nebraskans look upon the re- moval of the office to O'Neill as inexpedient at this time, in view of the proposed opening to settlement of the Sioux Indian reservation, which lies near the present lo- cation of the office, and making Niobrara more easy of access for settlers on the reser- vation and those having business at the land office than if it were located at O'Neill. Tne order directing the removal comes in the form of snap judgment, and cuts out all pro- tests and is likely to make a good deal of dis- turbance, Neverthéless, a large number of protests are pouring into the interior depart- ment and the white house, and there is likely to be a pretty lively time before the office is finally transferred. Tho opponents of thd proposition to remove the office boldly assers that behind it all are a lot of real estate speculators, FTS. NIODRARA AND ROBINSON APPROPRIATIONy Mr. Dorsey to-day made an argument bés fore the house committee on military affaire in_behalf of the senate bill np‘%‘mprintln £100,000 for the improvement of Forts Niot brara and Robinson. He urged that the bill be reported to the house at once in order that it may secure consideration at this session, Chairman Townshend indicated that the bxfl would be promptly reported, but that would be amended by adding Fort Sidney. He stated that the appropriation for these improvements ought to be incorporated in & regular aprropriation bill. Mr. Dorseft has urged Chairman Randall ~ of the committee on appropriations to incors porate the £100,000 for these forts im the regular fortification appropriation bill, and Chairman Townshend has promised to assist Mr. Dorsey when the fortification bill comes up for action on the floor of the house for securing the amendment. If this is done the measure will be given final action, as the appropriation bill is privileged matter, and can secure consideration at any time and will be passed. Senator Manderson says that he has no doubt that if the §100,000 for Forts Niobrara, Kobinson and Sidney is put in the fortification bill in the house, that the senate will accept it without hesitancy. FOR THE OMANAS AND SETTLERS, In the senate this afternoon Mr. Mander- son had called up and passed the bill provid- ing that the £70,000 due the Omaha tribe of Indians in Nebraska be paid to them in two annual instalments to enable them toimprove their homesteads by the purchuse of stocl, agricultural implements, "ete. He had the bill amended by adding the measure which has been favorably reported im the house extending the time of pay- ment to- the purchasers of lands the Omaha Indian reservation for the periw of two years beyond that now fixed by law. The bill further provides for the sale at pub- lic auction of all forfeited lands on this re- servation, the money to be covered into the treasury for the use of the Omaha Indians. Also that there shall be allotted of the un- assigned lands on this reservation a tract of five acres for the usc and occupancy of the ‘Women’s national Indian association, to be used by 1t for missionary and educational purposes among the Indians. THE RANK OF GENERAL OF THE ARMY. During his argument before the committes on military affairs, Mr. Dorsey also spoke it support of his bill creating the rank of gen- erul of the army. The committee indicated that 1t was inclined to amend the bill, by in- serting the name of General Phil Sheridan, for whom the rank is proposed, although he is not named. Mr. Dorsey was also assured lhu'i: this bill would receive a favorable re- port, A PENSION BOAKD FOR CHADRON, A petition largely signed by citizens of Chadron was filed by Mr. Dorsey with the commissioner of pensions to-day, asking that there be established at Chadron a medical board of pension examiners. The commis- sioner stated that he would_take the applica- tion under advisement and that he was in- clined to look upon it favorably, MISCELLANEOUS, Miss Jennic Wallace, nicce of Senatos Manderson, after a visit'of several days in Washington, has returned Lo schoolut Northe ampton, A The W 1 Nationat bank of New York y accepted by the comptroller of \cy as reserve agent for the Charles City, Ta., and 1lcof Chicago as reserve st National of Mo Peuny 8. Hearn, Secret of its Defeat, Wasnixarox, April 17, —Chateman Blanch- ard, of the house committee on rivers and harbors, claims the secret of the opposition which suddenly developed and defeated the river and harbor bill yesterday was due to the resolve of a number of republican repre- sentatives to oppose its passage as o means of obstructing the passage of the tariff bill, They calculated the friends of the former ould 1 ced to defend it, even to the extent of antagonizing tariff legislation, Will Buy Back Bonds, WasmiNGroN, April 17. poretary Fair- child gaye notice this afternoon that Mone day, April 23, and daily thereafter, at noon, until further notice, proposals will be re- ceived in the office of the secretury of the treasury for sale to the governs Jnited States bonds of the acts of July 14 20, 1871, Proposals should character of the bonds of- ered, whether coupon or registered, and must' be for the sale of the bonds with s cred interest to and including date of sele, "The right is reserved to reject any and proposals for the sale of bonds if it is thought 10 be for the iuterest of thie government to do so, Public Building Report, ) WasiiNgToN, April 17.—Bills were reporte od in the house for the . erection of publie buildings at Sioux City, Ia., and Racine, Wisy