Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 27, 1888, Page 1

SEVENTEENTH YEAR. NUMBER 314, COLENAN AN ABLE LOBBYIST. He Has Probably Defeated the Pleuro-Pneumonia Bill. CUT OFF SOME OF HIS POWER. Senator Manderson Provides For Pos- sibilities On the Land Forfeiture Bill- McDonald’s Fight On Gov. Gray, of Indiana, The Plenro-Pneumonia Bill Beaten. WasnisaTox Buneav Tie OMana Bee, 513 FoURTEENTI STREET, Wasmixerox, D. C., April 26. Unless the usual signs fail the pleuro- pneumonia bill has been beaten and an in- vestigation of the agricultural department is Jikely to follow, which may or may not be to the welfare of the commissioner, Mr. Cole- man, of Missouri. The advocates of the bill make no secret of their opinion that Mr. Coleman has beaten them, although, as they claim, it was modified to meet his views and was expected to receive his support. Mr. Coleman has solidified the entire democratic side of the senate in opposition to the meas- ure and has been so effective a lotbyist as to win the two New York senators—Messrs. Hiscock and Evarts—to his support, while Benator Hawley is counted as doubtful. With these gentlemen voting against the bill it has no chance of passage and will probably 1ot be prossed. The friends of the bill claim that Coleman has beaten it by the liberal use of patronage and garden sceds, and he is re- ported to have told the president of the Mary- land Agricultural college that it required $40,- 000 worth of patronage to get the vote of Senator Gorman alone. The agricultural department does not come under the civil service commission. Coleman has more patronage to giveout than any othe officer of the government except the public printer, and is smart enough to use it where it will do the most good. 1tis churgred, too, that the special agents of the department, Wwho are numerous and are scattered all over the country, have been neglecting their legit- imate duties to raise a hue and cry against this bill; that they have represented it to be entirely different from what it is and that they have been devoting their time to per- suading catiemen to send, remonstrances to their senators and representatives in con- gress, If half that is charged is true the commissioner has been directing a very pow- erful lobby against the bill and has been suc- cessful in preventing its passage. Certain gentlemen claun to have evidence that the petitions have been printed on the presses of the department and sent through the mails under the frank of the commissioner, which i8 a serious charge. Mr. Coleman’s original objection to the bill was that it deprived him of much of his power and prestige, but it was altered so as to make him a mem- ber of a board of five persons who should have the duty of administering the law. With this he was supposed to be satisfied, but it appears that he was not, and from —the first has been engaged in trying to defeat the mensure aud leave the cattle burcau as it stands under his entire control. “I'ie proposed investigation is intended to cover the work of the cattle bureau as well as the operations of the commissioner as a lobbyist. It is freely charged that the in spectors of the department are incompetent® mtemperate and corrupt. The cattlemen say that in Westchester county, New York, for example, there huve been some very disgrace, ful and corrupt operations, The practice, claimed, Las been when a case of pleuro pneumonin has _been discovered, to drive into the pen a ot of worthless cattle and have them slaughtered as if diseased and paid for b; the government at four or five times thes value, The carcasses arc then sold for beef fnNew York. 'This practice is said to have been adopted by speculutors in other locali- tics also, but the direct charge is made with reference to Westchi county. Another charge criminal wastefulness of public money shown that the cost of sup- grnnnlng cattle discases by the several state oards has been buta compared with the enormous sums that have been expended by the agricultural department, and that_the results have been immensely greater. It is probable that the senate committee on fagr culture will be directed to make a thor investigution of the transactions of the d partment. THE UNEARNED LAND GRANT FORFEITURE BILL, Senator Matderson left this evening for short visit to Omaha, In the senate this af- ternoon, during consideration of the Dbill to forfeit unearned land grants he “Ex- pecting that I may be called away from the senate and may not be here wlen certain amendments that I desire to propose to this bill will be in order, I wish to submit them, and before doing so to state the reason why, in my opinion, the bill should be thus amended, This bill, unfortunately, is encum- bered by a good deal of matter that seems to me to be extraneous to it, and the senate for several days uppears to huve resolved itself intq a sort of a sub-committee upon the much- vexed question as to what is right with ref- erence to the Michigan canal grant. 1 think it unfortunate that this great diversity of opinion should exist as to the law and the facts, and that the proper measure of refief sbould not have been considered by the committee on public lands separute end apart from this bill. This bill in several of its scetions, those reported from the com- mittee of the 'whole, proposes that. where there is u loss of title by a_ purchaser son of the failure of the grant to the company there shall be recovery against tho Ulilted States to a certain degree, or rather that the purchaser may buv of the United Btates the land, the title to which has been forfeited, ut the rate of $2.50 per acre. 1 greatly fear that in the construction of this ot the courts may hold that that would be action operating for the benefitof the itor as well as the grantee, and that it might be construed chat the purchaser, whose title Lad failed, would not have his common law remedy against the railroad grantor for the purchase price that he had paid aud interest vom date of the payment; und, therefore, when it shall be in order, I hope that this amendment may be adopted to the bill: “Nothing in this act contained shall be con- strued as in any manner affecting any cause of acting existing in favor of any purchaser against his grantor for breach of any cove- nant of title.” % sk that 1t may be printed and that at the prover time it may be considered. On the third day of March, 1887, there was ap- proved an act entitled ‘An act to provide for the adjustment of land grants made by congress to aid i the construction of rail roads and for the forfeiture of uncarned lands and for other purposes.’ This act had most valoable provisions designed for the rotection of those who had purchased of tho and grant railroad companies where title bad fmled, and I fear also that if thisbill all become a law, it will operate to u cer- tain extent s a repeal of that act of March 8, 1887. 1do not think that would be tho de- sive of the senate, and [ therefore propose this further amendment: “Nothing 1n this act xontained shall be construed as limiting the rights granted pur- chasers or settlers by the act approved March 8, 1886, entitled, ‘An act to provide for the adjustiment of land grants made by congress to aid in the construction of ruil- s, und for the forfeiture of unearned d and for ulhe‘r punu‘\?m, or a3 repealing, lering or pmending said get.'” 1 n&i‘;ucmml?& both thosd to the ohairman of the committee on pub) g8, bud Iic thiaks with e thul they are Iravle amendments to this bill."? : Mr. Mauderson's amendment will be called up at the proper time by M. Piumb of Kau- sas aud offered when the bill is finally brought to a vote. A THE MDONALD-GMAY FIGHT IN INDIANA.. lndé-m'mn at the capitol commneted at dength wo day Gpon the exhorlation delivered to Governor Gray of their state, by ex-Sena- tor McDonald in an_open letter published at Indianapolis yesterday and re- produced in the dispatches here this morming. They declare fhiat McDonald’s open fight agaist Gray will re- sult in the defeat of the latter for the vice presidential nomination, and that his nomi- nation would open a breach in the party which would make republican success in the ““Hoosier" state much easier than otherwi They say that McDonald intends transferrin his fight to the convention in St. Loujs, and that Gray’s name will not be offered for the vice presidential nomination, and that Sen- ator Thurman of Ohio, Commissioner of Pen- sions Black, or First 'Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson of Tllinois, will be nomi- nated with President Cleveland. INGALLS WILL RE] TO VOORHEES AND BLACK- BURN, Senator Ingalls’ announcement this after- noon that he would on next ‘Tuesday reply to the speech delivered by Senator Voorhees yesterday, caused a good deal of agitation and comment, and will resnlt in filling the senate end of the capitol to overflowin on the day of the speech. It is understood that Mr. Ingalls will be personal and very bitter in_ his_remarks, which he will direct towards Mr. Voorhecs, and that he will take gccusion 1o pay his respocts to Senator Black- burn, of Kentucky, who, it will be remem- bered, made a brief speech some time ago in nswer to that of the senator from Kansas, n which the latter was bitterly arraigned for his attack upon the late Generals Hancock and McClellan, Senator Blackburn, during the late war, had a raiding company of cav- alry (war banditti), and Senator Ingalls has looked up his record, which is said to be very ursavory, and he will recur to it when he di- :nlus upon the war record of Senator Voor- ices, NEBHRASKA PARMERS OPPOSE THE MILLS DILL. Mr. Dorsey presented in the house to-day & petition signed by several hundred farmers n Nebraska asking him to vote against the Mills taviff bill and praying congress to more effectually protect, by tariff laws, the agri- cuitural interests of the country. The peti- tioners ask that the duty on sugar be re- moved, and that the duty of 1867 on wool be restored and so modified as to meet the later ferms of forcign competition and evasion. THE CIIEF JUSTICESIIP, Unless it is discovered that Melville W. Fuller, of Chicago, has done something to prejudice the Irish'or the Germans against him, he will b the next chief justice of the United States. The president has not yet announced his intention to appoint him, but Igetit from persons very near the appoint- ing power that Mr. Fuller's name is now almost the only one thought of, and that the president has about made up his mind to send it tothe senate. FINAL PASSAGE OF THE OMANA INDIAN BILL. In the house to-day Mr. Dorsey had the Omuha Indian bill, which Mr. Manderson se- cured the passage of in the senate last week, taken up and adopted, and it will now go to the presidect for his signature. The’ meas- ure pays in two annual installments $70,000 due the Omaha tribe of Indians in Nebraska, and extends for two years the time of pay- ment for lands settled upon in the Omaha Indian reservation. A full_synopsis of the bill was recently produced in"the B MISCELLANEOUS. The comptroller of the currency has au- thorized the Holdrege National bank of Hold- sge, Nob., to commence business. Capital, £500,000, With A. Zeazel president and W, E. Hymer cashic The postoflice at Mathews, Holt county, Neb., has been discontinued,’ The mail goes to O'Neill. Special Star mail service has been estab- lished at Scottsville from Mincola, Neb., eight miles and bacl, twice a week, by a two hours schedule, from’ July 1, 158, to July 1, 1889, After July 1, next, Shottsville will be omitted from mail service on the Star route extending from Paddock to O'Neill, Neb. Blackbird will be embraced, increasing the distunce one and a half miles. Hon. Frank D. Jackson, Towa’s secretary of state, is in the city, being calledhere by the sudden death of his father, Hiram W. Juckson, who passed away quictly and peace- v at his late residence, 1619 Nineteenth street, northwest, last Thursday, in his sev- enticth year, Mr. Jackson w23 a valuable clerk in the quartermaster general’s office for over twenty years. Perry S. Hearin A Hotel Scare. WasniNGToN, April 25.--[Special to the One of the most remarkable instances of lobbying against a popular proposition has been conducted by certain landlords in W ington to defeat the passage, by congress, of a bill to incorporate a hotel company for the construction of a hostelry in keeping with the progess and demands of Washington, In each congress for six or eight years bills have been introduced to incorpo e companies for th nstruction of large hotels—one to cost twoand one-half millions of dollars, and other smaller sums. Bach time these meas- ures have been defeated in committee or left to die on the calendars of one or the other house. It was only recently that the tactics by which these measures were defeated be- came known. Two-thirds of the men in con- gress live at hotels, which would be very ma- terinlly affected should there be o hotel of large and first-class proportions constructed, The landlords now doing business here have, it is said, so ingratinted themselyes into the ood graces of the legislators that they have ot cared to act upon _proposition which would injure their landlords, Washiugton has a population of about 225,00, and though she has more hotels and boarding houses than any city of her size in the United States there aré many cities of less than 100,000 povulation_having better hotels. There is no place in the country where a better first-class hostelry would succeed than right here, A has just been throttled in congress which, proposod a hotel that would be in keeping with the demands, and which would be a great improvement to the city. Everybody except the laudlords wanted the measure passed, and yet it is held up, Under the laws of the District of Columbia it is very desirable to have a special charter by congress, 80 s to have the liabil- ities of the corporation limited to the eapital stock. Nothing unreasonable has been pro- posed in auy of the bills looking towards the construction of hotels, and nothing that would not be granted under existing luws, but the laws of the District of Columbia are extraordinary, inasmuch as nearly all of them grow out of the blue laws of Maryland, which were brought over with the pilgrims that landed at Plymouth Rock. Postal Changes. WasmiNaToN, April 20.—(Special Tele- gram to the Bre|—A postoftice was estab- lished to-day at Highland, Hayes county, and Samuel Snoke appointed postmaster. The postofiice at Loyal Hill, Lancaster county, will be discontinued from May 10th, David Smith was to-day appointed postmaster at Spring Bank, Dixon county, vice Fred Frye, resigned, e A Prey For Cyclones. Pratr, Kan.,, April 20.—|Special Telegram to the BEr.)—At b o'clock this afternoon this unfortunate city was yisited by another cycloue, It cawe from the south, People saw it coming, and women ran wildly through the streets with chilaren in their arms in the greatest consternation, The eyclone struck the east edge of the town, which is thinly sopulated, demolishing several houses. A Mr. Fisher' residence was torn to splinters and scattered, holf a mile. His wife wos picked up out of the ruins fatally injured and will die. Other people were bruised aud y flying timber and debris, This is the second cyclone this town has had this ving, % Kansas Odd Fellows. Howrroy, Kan., April 26.—[Special Tele- (ramio the Bre.|—The Odd Fellows of aorthwestern Kausis oalcbrated the sixty- ninth anniversary of the order h2re to-day. Over four hundred membersef the vario lodges were in attendance. Whore only & ehor time ago there was nothing, to-ddy cyer 5,000 people witnessed the largest gatbering ever beld in nortbern Kumsus, TICKETS IN GREAT DEMAND. | Clarkeon Predicts a Largely At~ tended National Convention. HIS OPINION ON THE OUTLOOK. Indiana Democrats Mect and Select a State Ticket and Delegates—Maine Republicans and Other Conventions. Great Clamor For Tickets, New Yonk, April 2, —|Special Telegram to the Bek.]—J. S. Clarkson, of Towa, 18 in this city. When asked if a large attendance was expected at the convention, Clarkson said: “I havereccived over seven thousand applications for tickets, and about every other member of the committee has been similarly appealed to. There never has been such a clamor for tickets. Republicans everywhere secm to 100k on this as the most important couvention of the purty since Lin- coln was nominated, as on its deliberations the whole future of the party will depend. 1t promises to be a_deliberative council of men who will seck by conference and con- cession tho best intercsts of the party rather than those of any man. 18 will be a body that can’t be stampeded by any sensational movement. We have had enough dramatic conventions and tragic results.” What about the candidate?” “No one is wise enough to predict that now. 1 can only tell you the general party feeling in the west, more especially in Jown. In the first place, we consider Blaine absolutely out of the race by his own motion, Admiration and esteem for him in lowa has not_abated, but increased. I know personally that he' did nog want the nomination in 1584, and_yielded only to the earnest appeals of his friends to become a candidate.” ““How about the other candidates?” “Those talked of are Depew, Hiscock, Sherman, Harrison, Gresham, Alger, Rusk, Haywley, Stanford and Allison, There 1s 4 good deal of talk of Cullom and Foraker as background candidates. In Towa we think the whole question should be solved on the chances of party success. If there could be a popular vote—that is, if the republican party could itself bo a candidate—there is little doubt that it would, because of its “business and patviotic policy and good record, reccive & majority | of votes.' The ididate th shonld be one who most nearly repre the policy of the republican party; who has the maximum of personal trength and the minimum of personzl and factional animosities. He must be a man sound on the tariff and finance and true to American in- dustrics and labor. He must be a man whose nomination would exaltno faction and humiliate none. Above all he must have su- perior strength in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Indiana and the' Pacific coast. If Depew, who is one of the three or four greatest Americans of his day, was in private life he would undoubtedly be the candidate. His weakness is that of his business rela- tions in its effect on the anti-monopoly states of the west. Sherman, who has grown up contemporancously with the great party and figured prominently in ull its great acts, will 20 into the convention with more votes than any other candidate. I do mnot know whether the old _animosities against nim in New York have died out, mor do I Jmow if his record on silver and the Chinese question would weaken him_in the Pacific states. Either Harrison or Gresham would mak good president. If cither had his state for him without any of the local quarrels in- volved, ho would make an acceptable candi- date. Harrison is_c 1y popular in the states west of the Mississippi, and Gresham is looked upon as one of the rising men in American public affairs. ‘In fowa, we think that Mr. Allison, with his twenty'five years of level-he: cord in congress, always standing by country and by fill the mea ty strengt the one senator in the west who, in the da of inflation, stood squarely by hard money aud resumption. But beand the republicans of Towa believe that the main thing and the first duty is to unite m selecting a man who ainly be clected. We have no s a candidate against party judgment or interest, but will unite for any man the convention may select.” The Hoosicr State. IxpiANAPOLIS, April 26.—The democratic state convention was called to order at ten this morning. Jewett, chuirman, addressed the convention, In the course of his remarks he puid a glowing tribute to the administra tion and President Cleyeland. When he sug- gested that the new tick might be Elev lund and Gray, he was greeted with and continued applause. W. E. - block, George V. Hawk und Allen Zollars were nominated judges of the supreme court for the first, second and third districts respectively. ' Courtland C. Watson, of Putnam county, and William R. Myers, of Madison county, were unanimously nomi- nated for governor and lieutenant-governor respectively. The district state convention selected D, Voorhees, David Turpie, John G. Shanklin and John H. Bass delegates at large to St. Louis convention. William H. English, chairman of the com- mittee on resolutions, submitted a platiorm to the convention, It renews the pledges to the constitution and the doctrines taught by the founders of the party, und_aunounces @ determination to resist all efforts to deprive the federal government of any of ifs powers as delegated in the constitution. The coun- try is congratulated upon the successful ad- ministration of Cleveiand, that he has earn- estly labored to dischirge the duties of his great office in the intercsts of all the people, there can be no question. That he has suc’ ceeded so well is a source of pride and grati- fication to those who elected him, as 1t should be to all his countrymen. Not 'even party malice dares to assail his honest : rity, and all his acts have not only becn clean but above suspicion. The country 1s at peace with all the world, the laws are faithfully administered, good order and cconomy pre- vail wherever the executive has control the whole country is enjoying rem prosperity under his wise and beneficent ad- ministration, therefore the democry of In- diaua feel that it would be unwise to risk the hazard of a change, and declare them- selves emphatically in favor of his re-elec- tion, The tariff plank demands a_reduction of the tariff as recommended in the president’s message. The platform further declares that preference in appointments to ofice should be given 1o those who would harmon- ize in principle and policy with the par having the responsibility of tho administra- tion; that legislation should be enacted to protect tho interest of labor and promote harmony between labor and capital: that it 18 the duty of the government to repossess itself of all forfeited land grants and that laws should be enacted to prevent the owner- ship of large tracts of laud by corporations or aliens; that the sale of intoxicants should be regulated by a license spstem; condemus the action of the republican party ¢ last gen- eral assembly as revolutionary ; declares it the democratic party favors fair and honcst elections ; favors liberal legislation in behalf of soldiers; and concludes with un endorse- ment of the administration ef Goverror Gray and instructs the delegates to the national €O ution to cast their votes as a unit r Bim as long as Lis name is before the conven tiou as a caudidate for the vice présidency. The platform was unanimously adopted. Robert W. Miers, of Monroe county, was nowipated for secretary of state; for auditor, Charles A. Munson, ‘of Allen' county; for reasurer, Phomas B, Byrnes, of Evansville, For attorney general, John R. Wilson, of for superintendent of public in- struction, A. F. Grifiiths, of Clinton, .The couvention then adjourned sine inois Labor Party. Decitus, I, April ‘0,—Fhe union libor tion at Decatur to-day with 100 delegates present and had & stormy time, The com- mittee reported & platform promising equal and exact justiceto all, strict obedience to and enforcement of all laws, with an appeal to the ballot to rid the statute books of ob- noxious laws; the reduction of state taxe that the nolders of all mortgages shall be taxed; that United States senators and mem- bers of the state board of railway and ware- house commissioners shall bo élected by the people; that the means of transportation and communication shall be owned and controlled by the people; that % _national monetary sye- tem in the interest of the producer instead ot the speculator. shall = be established; that saviogs banks bo established and that there bo & prompt payment of tho national debt: that in all cases arbitration shall take the place of strikes; that both sexes be given equal pay for equal work; thag the party is opposed to any child_labor that a graduated income tax be established removing all hardships to the farmer; that the employment of armed men by, private in- dividuals shall be prohibited, and that the party favor prohibition of the liquor trafiic. Andrew J. Bell, of Peoria, and_Willis W. Jones, of Camargo, were nominated for gov- ernor after considerable wrangling and much ill feeling. The ballot taken gave Jones votes and Bell 44 votes. Jones was declared the nominee, Charles Dixon, of Chicago, was nominated for lieutenant governor; Bert Stewart, of Decatur, for sccretary of' state; George W. Collins, of Evanston, for auditor, The thirty-cight delegates to the national convention which meets at Cincinnati May 1, were partly chosen by the convention. W. W. Jones and Ben Goodhue are del large. ites at — Maine Kepuvlicans. BaxGor, Me., April 26.—The republican state convention was called to order here at noon to-day. The following electors-at-large were chosen: Horace H. Shaw, Samuel N. Campbell; delegates-at-large, Charles H. Prescott, Joseph H. Manley, S. H. Allen and Charles A. Bentille, Tho committee on res- olutions reported the platform, which was unanimously adopted and the convention ad- journed. : The platform favors the protection of home industry and home markets, to the end that American labor may be shielded against_for- eign labor; asserts tHat it is the duty of re- publicans in congress to resist the attempt now being made to force the passage of the Mills bill through the house; favors the abo- lition of so much of the internal revenue tax as will bring the total annual receipts of the treasury to cqual as nearly as practic able the just expenditures of government. The platform ends by saying that *James G. Blaine, our long and trusted statesman, is deserving of the thanks of the people of Maine and the entire nation for the prompt- ness and remarkable ability with which, in his Paris letter, he auswered the free trade manifesto of ' President ~ Cleveland, and pointed out the duty of maintaining Amer- ican industries and markets for the Amer- ican people.” The defeat of the dircct tax bill by the democratac house is denounced, and timidity of our executive departments in dealing with foreign nations deprecated; the civil service law is approved and the present administration arraigned for a wanton viola- tion of its provisions. Declaration of hostil- ity to saloons is renewed. For Biainc. Baxcor, Me., April 26.—The republicans of the Fourth congressional district this morning, nominated C. A, Boutelle for con- gress and Fred A. Powers and Benjamin B. Thatcher, delegates to the Chic Resolutions strongly endor: e tion. e Blaine, Blaine's Programme. NEW YORrE, April 26,—[Special Telegram to —The Sun says: ‘‘A political ru- mor reaches us from a high ‘republican source, and of so important a character that we publish it prommently. According to this intimation, the last thing Blaine will do as he embarks on board the steamship which is to bring him home to the United States, will be to renew in most positive language his re- fusal to bea republican candidate for the presidency. This time the declaration will bsolute it will give to all his friends ¢ which they cannot ignore. He will ay even if he should be nominated by the republican convention he will refuse to stand. And as it will be impossible to commu- nicate with him after the publication of this new refusal until the convention has met and done its work and adjourned, his most enthu- siastic supporters will no longer be able to find any reason for hoping he may be induced to change his mind. _Such a course would be most creditable to Mr. Blaine, and while it would leave a majority of the r licans to regret that they cannot have him for their undidate, it would endear him to his party his moral power in it much 1 it could be increased in any other e Why Grant Accepted, York, April 26.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]-—General Sherman has given to the North American Review a copy of the letter received by him in 1868 from arant, in which the great soldier gives his reason for accepting the republi tion for president. The lett cal and interesting. It is as follow: Headquarters, Army U. Washington, June, 186s—Dear Sir: Yourkind favor written from New Mexico is received. You under- stand my position exactly; it is one I would not occupy for any mere personal considera- tion, but from the nature of the contest, since the close of active hostiliti I have been forced into it in spite of myself. I could not back down ‘without, as it secms to me, leaving the contest for power for the next four years between mere trading politicians, the elevation of whom, no mutter which party won, would lose to us largely the re- sults of the costly war which we have gone through, Now the democrats will be forced to adopt a good platform, and put upon it a reliable man who, if elected, will disappoint the copperhead element of their party. This will be a great point gained if nothing more is accomplished, y to the oficers of ouy 3 achievements madé my reputation as well as their own, to know that they support me in this new field, I do mot expect or want ac- tive support, but merely the satisfaction of knowing what your Jletter assures me of on Officers who expect to make the r home for life have to serve under administrations und should not make themselves obmoxious to any party likely to come into po 1 shall not ask you to come toWastingion until after Noy- ember, and probably pot then, For myself, 1 expect 1o be away from here “most of the time, but I shall kéep' within telegraph, and being within the limits of juy ¢ nand, will exercise it. You L U. & histori- - xeiting Case. MiLwavker, April 20.—Judge Gresham this morning decided the suit of the heirs of 8. Merrill, general m: of the Chi- Milwaukee § iinst C. H. r, for an accounting in_connection with ain collossal land transactions in Minnesota and Dakota, involving pro supposed to be in thene whood of on million dollars, ‘The decision was in fa of the defendant, ‘Fhe casc excited great at- tention and the court room was filled with prominent attorneys when the decision was rendered, A bl A Deal. New York, April 26.—In 1886 the national bank of Albion, N. Y., failed and was placed in the hands of & receiver. The president, George H. Warner, had run away to Canada after haviog lost $225,000 of the bank's money in stock speculations through Kissain Whituey & Co., stock brokers, of this city, against Kissain, of this money u @ verdict for & Co. for recovery 2he jury brought party of llinols bad her first stalg conven- qu banl for §105,000 and for §1,000 interest. |FAST LOSING ITS TRAFFIC. Shippers Thoroughly Alarmed By the Burlington's Daily Mishaps, A GRAVEYARD OF DEAD ENGINES, New Victims of Scab Incompetency Constantly Arriving at the Lincoln Shops—0dd Fellows' Celebras tions—Over the State. Losing Its Grain Trade. Davin Ciry, Nob,, April20.—Special Tele- gram to the Bre.]—Shippers along this branch of the B. & M. from Lincoln to Columbus are greatly disappointed with their treatment from that company and are haul- ing grain to competing points on the Union Pacific and Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley. Only one freight a day has been run since the commencement of the strike and this has invariably been four or five hours Iate. Atseveral B. & M. points the grain trade has been nearly suspended owing to this continued irregularity. Ran Off the Track. Prarrsmouri, Neb., April 26.—[Special to the Bee,]—Engine No. 105, drawing train No. 4, ran off the track in the yards here yes- terday and caused a delay of two hours, An open switch was the cause of the trouble. The engine and one car were derailed, but no one was injured. The engine will have to go into the shops, as it was quite badly dam- aged. Engines Disabled Daily. LixcoLy, Neb., April 26.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bie.]—The Burlington road 1s daily going from bad to worse in its attempt to transact business. Freight trains are daily abandoned for lack of locomotives and disabled engines continue to accumulate. The engine pulling the fiyer died in the Lin- yards to-day and another engine was hauled in dead from Havelock. Engime 130 is reported dead at Utica and engine 183 was in a freight wreck at Seward. Grain ship- monts are practically suspended on the road. An elevator man declared to-day that g could not be moved on the Burlington with any prospect of delive Local dealers complain_ of the impossibility of getting goods. Bills dated Apreil 1 have not been followed by the goods yet, A shipper states that there are some sixty cars in the yards here that were loanded before the middle of March, Short orders are as impossible to secure us large ones and local shippers are abandoning the B, & M. lines. o — Fremont Odd Fellows. Frevoxt, Neb., April 26.—[Special Tele- gram to the B 'his has been a gala day for Fremont, the oceasion being the celebra- tion of the sixty-ninth anniversrry of Odd Fellowship in America, in the usual elabo- rate manner of Fremont Odd Fellows. The citizens and business men of the place neatly decorated their residences and stores with flags and bunting in honor of the event. In addition to the regular annual celebration the first annual meeting of the cantons of patriarchs militant of the state was held. The forenoon was devoted to the reception of visitors from abroad by the local committees. The first to arrive was Canton Excelsior from Kearney. The special train from Omaha, bearmg Canton Ezra Millard, a band of thirty picces and membersifrom one or two subordinate Omaha lodges, arrived about 11 o'clock. They were met at the depot and escorted to headquarters by the committee, the procession being headed by the Fremont band. The other cantons present ‘are: CGanton Fremont No. 4, Canton Ford No. 2, from Lincoln and Canton No. 5, from Be- atrice. The street parade by the patriarchs militant and members of the order took place There were several hundred in line and they made a glitter- The line of march was th streets and thence to a g nue, where the annual d 3 to 4 o'cloc] ing feature of the day was wit- 1 by hundreds of spectat The drill vision of Majo hols was From 5 to o'clock the members of Canton, grand officers and v ing Odd Fellows were royally banquetted by od und seventy Omaha Union Pacific furnished music and a number of toasts ponded to by Grand Representatives bson of Fremont, Major Nichols and Mr, ns of Omaha, Grand Master Cutting and Olliver of (Kearney. At 8 o'clock the 0dd Fellows marched in uniform to the Con- gregational church where, with 500 citizens, masterly address was listencd to from Hon, Samuel Phelps Leland, the well known lec- turer. At 10 o'clock the visiting delegations departed on special trains, The Odd Fellows at Crete, Neb,, April 26.—[Special to the .]—The celebration of the anniversary of the establishment of the Independent Order of Qdd Fellows was a grand success, The city was filled with strangers and breth- ren of the order from early morning. There was constant stream of people coming and going to and from the assembly grounds during the greater portion of the day. The has a holiday appearance, many of the stores and dwelling houses throughout the city being beautifully and tastefully deco- rated with flags and bunting. There was botween six and seven hundred persons in the line of the procession, which marched through the principal streets headed by Prof. Vance's cornet band. By order of Mayor Milleg, all of the streets were thor- oughly cleancd. The different lodges in the county were represented by over five hun- dred memb On bel f the people of Crete and Crete lodge, ex-Governor I welcomed the brethren in a few well chosen words, after which W. H. Woodward, of Lincoln, delivered a brilliant address lasting ove hour, In the evening a grand ball was given at Band's opera house which proved a social and financial success, The Standard’s Catile Ranch, Fuemoxt, Neb., April 26.—[Special to the Be The Standard cattle company, whose immense ranch is located at Ames, six miles west of Fremont, have begun to empty their barn which contains 8,000 head of cattle, They are shipping from thirty to forty c per week to the Chicago and Omaha markets, "This company has this winter fed 6,000 head, keeping one-half in their barn, covering about six acr and the other half in out- door feed y They are probably the largest fe in the world, Odd F ing disy the princip plot on Ny rds, ders Huving now placed about twelve hundred head of their-barn-fed cattle on the market are able to closely approximate the ability of feeding in barns and in the brought from the company’s western r and put into the barn six months a steer is given a e stall and is kept in it from the day arrives from the range until he is fat enough to ship. These cattle when put in the barn averaged about 930 pounds in weight. Those new taken out, which are about the average for size and condition, show @ gain in these six months of about’ 400 pouuds each. This is a littie wore than two pounds per day, which all stock men know to be a- good showing. Chicago commission Inen say this stock 18 among the best fed that has been placed upon that market this year, which attests the thoreugh manuer in which it Ras been cared for. The company wus satisfied with the résults, so far as good feeding was concerned, Thenarket is, however, 50 extremely low that there will be no profit in it this year. "LLic cattl are fed on corn zatul ground by | the company’'s own mill, which runs night and day, and turns out_about two thousand bushels 'in_twenty-four hours—the amount consumed per day by the 6,000 cattle. Over three hundred thousand bushels of corn has been fed. The price paid for all of it has been from 1 to 2 cents per bushel more than the regular market price. The farmers who have sold to the company have therefore profited about £3,000 by reason of the com- pany being located there, The company has herctofore devoted its entire 5,000 acres of land surrounding its barn and feed yards ex- clusively to the production of hay, but the present high price of hay has induced it to put in this year 1,000 acres of corn, Why Mr. McGinnis is Mad. MixpEy, Neb,, April 20.—([Special Tele- gram to the Bre.]—Owing to the economical administration in postal affairs the presont postmaster of this place, Mr. W. T.Me- Ginnis, tendered his resignation to the de- partment some time ago. As yet there has been no action in the matter and unless there 18 s0on Mr, McGinmis threatens to turn the office over to his bondsmen, He says the work and responsibility attached to the duties of the oftice are not_commensurate with the salary received and he is tired and disgusted with working for honor alone. Promise after promise has been made for his aid but nothing has materialized from them and without doubt there will bea vacancy soon in the branch of the postal department av this place. Norfolk Preparing For the Reunion. Norrorx, Neb,, April 20.—[Special to the Ber.)—The state G. A, R. reunion committee held a meeting in the city to make arrange- ments for the state reunion of veterans to be held in this city during the last week 1n Au- gust. An executive committee consisting of P, Schwenk, W. H. Widaman, H. C. Matrau Rome Miller and C. A. Mast, of Nofolk, and Captain Allee, of Omaha, was appointed to have general charge of tho preparatious for the reunion. The oficers of the committo are A. Allee, chairman; H. C. Matrau, secre- tary; L. C. Washburn, quartermaster, The committee adjourned to meet May 8, —— On a Tour of Inspection HastiNGs, Neb., April 20.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—S. H. H. Clark, gencral manager of the Missouri Pacific, with Church Howe, vice president of the Misssouri Pa- cific in Nebraska, went over to the new line yesterday on a tour of inspection. The board of trade and ns generally gave Mr. Clark an informal reception at the board of trade rooms this mormmng. Mr. Clark ex- pressed himself well ed with the line and expressed his admiration of Hastings as a commercial center, Still Owes For His Board. PENDER, Neb., April 26.—To the Editor of the Bee: ‘The statement in a dispatch in the BEE that one S. R. Weiser had money stolen from him while stopping at the Pender house is false. The facts in the case aro that the above S. R. W. was dead broke when he came here, and was in debt for aweek’s board which is yet unpaid, and took that dodge to work the proprictors of the Pender house for a stake. RMON & THOMAS, Proprietors Pender House, A Much Needed Rain. Love Ciry, Neb., April 26.—|Special Tele- gram to the Ber.]—The threatenings of the list few days have materialized in a heavy rain which set 1 this afternoon and bids fair to give the ground a good soaking. This as- sures abundant crops to Sherman county far- mers und & prosperous year to her trades- men, A Trip to Europe. St, Pavr, Neb., April 20.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—Judge Paul Andersen, C., Jensen and Jens Andersen started on a to Europe to-day. ———— 10WA NEWS, A Slim Attendance at the Third Party Convention, Di:s Moixes, la., April 20.—[Special Tele- gramto the Bek.|—Sixteen third party pro- hibitionists stole into town to-day and erept up into the Y. M. C. A. halland insisted they were holding a state convention. They rep- resented the sizo of the St.John par Towa. Last year they had nineteen in their couvention; this y ty has dwindled to sixteen, They had just enough delegates to fill the usual committees and go through the form of holding a state convention, They nominated the followii state, James Mickelwiit Mills coun treasurer of state, Rc H. Dollive Cherokee county; auditor of state, Malcolm mith of Lann ounty; ¢l k of the supreme court, E. O. Sharre of Polk county. 0ad Fellows at Hamburg. HAMBURG, Ta., April 26.—[Special Telegram to the Ber.]—The sixty-ninth anniversary of the establishment of Odd Fellowship was ob- served here to-day on an extensive scale. Delegations from Red Oak, Shenandouh, Farragut, Rockport, Mo., and other towns in the immediate vieinity werepresent. An ap- propriute and able address was delivered by Rev. C. W. Blodgett, of Atlantic, Ia, A grand parade, splendid music and a bounteous dinner were some of the pleasant features of the occasion, An Aged Iowan Dead. Lyoxs, In., April 26.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]—E. W, Thomas, a wealthy and well known old settler, died at his home north of Lyons to-day, aged severty-six. He was one of the contractors on the Mis. suri Pacific road in M uri, and was also in the service of the government in construct- ing public works along the Mississippi in the arly M40's, In the carly '50' he was a slave iolder in Smith county” Missouri, moving to Lyons in 1867, where he hus been perma- neutly engaged in business cver since, Bridge Builders Strik S1oux Ciry, T, April 26.—[Special Tele gram to the Bre.]—Forty of the employes of the bridge compuny struck this morning be oauso tho company would not"gusrantoo them work all summer. They were caisson men, and instead of four or five days it will take four or five wecks now to complete th filling of the third pier caisson, piers remain to be built. Welcome Moist Siovx Ciry, Ia,, April -[Special Tele- gram to the Beg.]—A soaking rain has fallen here to-d. T'he rain is general and covers a gooa portion of northwestern lowa and ad- cent portions of northern Nebraska and southern Dakota, The drought had begun 1o be injurious, R —— A Disastrous Fire, Bostox, April 25,—The Atlantic Machine works burned here this morning, causing a loss estimated at over $150,000. The fire, it is thought, caught from electric light wires The walls fell, carr, with them all the machinery and comy ing the en- gine room, Four workinen injured, one of whom will die. The loss is probably covered by insurance, A Saw Mill in Ashes. Fort Mapisoy, Ia., March 26.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]-This morning the large lumber mill of the Fort Madison Lum company, was destroyed by fire. Loss, 30,0003 insurance The fire 15 sup poscd to have originated firom a spavk of a passing loco - MiLwaAvKkEe, April 50. y news 18 obtainable of an accident on the Lake Shore & Western road early this morning. A freight train collided with a work train Which was ou a side track, badly wrecking both and badly wjuring ten or ele ©rs 0n the work train, N0 one was killed. DELIRIOUS, HE SEEKS DEATH, A Denver Official's Desperate At< tempt at Suicide. IN A FRENZY FROM DISSIPATION. Plunging a Pocket Knife Into Hig Throat, He Endeavors to Tear the Wound Open to Reach the Jugular Veiu. The Failure Not His Fault, DrxveR, Colo, April 20.—[Special Tele« gram to the Ber.]—This morning at 11 o’cloclk a melancholy affair ocourred at 1645 Curtis stroet, which, on account of the prominence of the gentleman, has caused the greatest excitement all over the city. Ben S. Rqb- Dins, assistant United States district attors ney for Colorado, while suffering from an attack of delirium tremens, attempted suicide by catting his throat with a pocket~ knife. About ten days ago his friends noticed that he was indulging somewhat in intoxicating liquors, but entertained no fear whatever of his going beyond bounds, Thoy were, however, doomed to disappointment, for they discovered that he was frequently under the influence of stimulants. They ex- postulated, but he laughed it off, At last, owing partly to alcoholic influences and partly to the altitude, he became seriously affocted and more or less delirious, This merning he was unusually affected when two of his old Kentucky friends, Messrs. Puckett and Berry, went to callon him. Mr, Berry, sceing his friend was in delirium, stepped out to call Dr. Craig and have Mr. Robbins preseribed for. It was while he was absent that the latter made the attempt to kill himself, Mr. Puckett says that pro- ducing a knife suddenly he jabbed it into the left side of his neck, withdrew it and then commenced hacking violently at the exterior, still holding the weapon. He_thrust the finger of tho other hand into the deep wounds us if feeling for the jugular vein, all the time endeavoring to tear the wound open. All was done in_a minute aud as soon as Mr, Puckett could realize the situation he graps pled with his friend, disarmed him and held him uhough not without a_fearful strugle, the cffect of which he said he felt severely. The patrol wagon was hastily sum- moned and when it urrived the wounded man presented a ghastly appearance. his face and neck were one mass of gashes and blood was streaming over him in tor- rents, He was quickly driven to the, station, where the wounds were dressed, and then conveyed to the hospital, where he was handcuffed _to prevent him re-opening the wounds. Physicians think it is nov neces- sarily fatal, though he is in a very bad condi- tion. Robbins came here from Lagrange, Ky. about two monuths ago, and was appointed assistant to District - Attorney ~ Hobson. He was well known in his native state, being o state senator und @ prominent democratic pohtician. For some reason or other, in all probability on account of their decp attachment to their Kentucky home, Mrs. Robbins and her family were greatly obposed to coming to Denver, and in fuct resolutely refused to make the change. This scemed to affect Mr. Robbins very deeply, and to change his demeanor aus drive Nim to driuk and to attempt his life, His wifé and daughters have been notified, et Yol INVITED HIS FR4ENDS, A Deliberate Self-Destroyer Asks Ate tendance at the Bloody Feast. Durvrn, Minn,, April 20.—|Special Tele- gram to the Br Andreas Reifer's suicide | at Tower is probably unparalleled in one respect at least. He invited a number of guests at the Pioneer hotel to come and see him kill himself. Thinking that Reifer was up to sogie practical joke the gentlemen ac- companied him to see the fun, Arriving at his room he deliberately pulled the trigger., Fortunately the ball struck a button and glanced off and the spectators were spared the awful sight the crazea man had prepared for them. TRealizing now that he was in ear- nest, efforts were made to secure Reifer and induce him to desist from his terrible design, but he managed to elude his pursuers and finally succeeded in putting a ball through a vital organ, which ended his hfe yesterday. s Riefer was known by all old set- at the head of the lake, and he was the anybody ever suspacted would take his own life. Ie had lived in and_about Du- luth for many years and followed the calling of an explorér. He was not known to have any relutions in this coantry, but was pos- sessed of considerable mean el TRIAL. DIS DE A Photographer Explains the Method of Making Spook Pictures, New Youk, April 26.—[Special Telegram to the Bre.]—The examination into the case of Mme, Dis De Bar and her alleged co-con- spirators was continued to-day. The first witness D. N. Carvalho, a photographer, ex- hibited the trick of producing a portrait in colors of Adelaide Neilson upon an appar- ently blank piece of paper by rubbing a wet sponge over it. He acknowledged he could not produce a portrai in oils upon blank paper. William Feran, a reporter, testified that General Dis De Bar had acknowledged to him that he was not married to th madame; that he had a wife i Pniladelphia, and that he had been married at Cincinnati; that he had bought canvas, paints and oils ut un artist’s supply store und had taken them to ‘“Tho T where hLe used them in restoring picture The remainder of the session was occupied in listening to the testimony ofs spiritualists, all of whom declared their belief in the mediumship of the Madame, and se whom had seen pictures of her produc the process of materialization on One of these was the venerable John O'Sul- livan, ex-minister to Portu, ., A Kansas City Wholesale Feed House Under the Weather, Kaxsas Ciry, Mo., April 20.—[Special legram to the Bee.)—The firm of Baker & osse, wholesale dealers in feed and stable supplies, filed a voluntary assignment for the benefit of their creditors this morning. The firm is located on East Fifth street and for the past two years transacted a good busi ness, The failure is due to bad collections, Alfred G. Heitz was made assignee. The liabilities are 5.50, including their scales, 'The asscts are placed at a littla over $),000. A suit in equity was instituted against the firm in the circuit court to-day by Cecil I3ros., for $600 for rental of thé stoye room. Thoy allege that the assignment was made with intent to defraud them of the rent and ask the court to set aside the assignment as Lo their claim, B A Heavy Business, ~The annual re« Pugh, of the Penne sylvania d yesterday, shows the gross carnings of the Pennsylvania diy sion, comprising the main line from Philadels phia to Pittsburg, as §25,306,000 for last years Hauged To-day. Woobsury, N, J., April ieorge Mo~ Clennan Dunham was hanged in the jail yard at 10:20 this morning for the murder of b wother-iu-luw, Mrs. Kindle, Novembes last, - Damaging Frost. Non#oLk, Va., April 28.—A beavy frost in this section last night damaged carly fruite PuiLaves port of G n labor- |-and vegetables from oue balf 10 threo quaks l ters of @ willion dollars: