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Tmmit THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE " SEVENTEENTH YEAR. A" PEACEFUL SLEEP. The Emperors Repose Unbroken For Several Hours, IN GOOD SPIRITS AND APPETITE The Crown Prince Becoming De- cidedly More Tractable. GRANDMA GOVERNS THEM BEST. Alarm at the Resurrection of the Pauslavist Party. DISCUSSION IN THE REICHSERATH, Called Into Court For Bidding the Editors Bow to Their Knees and Refusing Pummehing Them —German News. The Emperor’s Condition. (Copyright 1888 by New York Associated Press.] BenLiy, May 5.—The emperor's sleep was unbroken for several hours toward morning. It was the best sleep he has enjoyed for many weeks, and he awoke from it with a good appetite and in good spirits. He cannot walk @ step, though he was able to stand occasion- ally, The danger is thatin the eventof a recurrence of the crisis, with his powers of resistence have reduced to the minimum, there will be no chance for him to survive long. The crown prince, though absorbed in extensive duties, confers daily with the em- press apart from his visit to his father. This marked change in the crown prince's demeanor was coincident with the visit of Queen Victoria, whose success in counciliat- ing him proves to be more enduring than was anticipated. The return of Prince Bismarck’s rheuma- tism has shown the advisability of an early resort to Ems, but the condition of the em- peror still forbids his leaving his post. The resurrection of the pan-Slavist party in Russia has awakened alarm in official cir- cles. The czar's reinstatement of General Bogdanovitah in his former position in the Russian service is but an isolated proof that the open adoption of an offensive policy ap- vroackes. The czar's assent to the revival of the Slat associations, closed ten years'ago under an edict of the late czar, has been obtained. General Tohernaieff will become the president, and a kindred association, the so-called ‘‘Slav Committee of Charity,” with General Ignatieff as presi- dent, will afiliate, thus forming a formidable body embracing both wealth and energy. The avowed aim is to incite insurrections among the Slav people and increase agitation until Russia comes into possessions of Con- stantinople, It is impossible that the sudden reappearance of the three foremost men of the Slavoppil party is a mere coincidence. General Bogdenovich’s promotion might have been due to the influence of his friend Pobodonotzf with the czar, but simul- taneous with the appearance of Stounbard, Tchernainft and Tgnatief!, there is a warning of a coming tempest in the unmistakable re- vivalof the hostility of the German semi- official press, preceded by a distinct change in the attitude of Prince Bismarck towards the czar. The Cologne Gazette suggests that pan- Slavism has grown mightier than the czar himself and may force his hand and cause him to enter into a fighting alliance with France, The Oficial Gazette, of Berlin, in- terprets the position in a similar way. It is believed the war party convinced the czar that the next French elections will return a war ministry, and Russia ought to be ready 0 co-operate with France. The sensation of the week has been the failure of the manufacturer Heinrich Hoffer, whose works were at Crimitzschaw. The event attracts attention beyond its intrinsic Importance, as a result of the tariff measures of Russia, The unterhaus of the reichsrath has been the arena of some of the liveliest encounters ever known in the Austrian parliament, For three days the groups have been forming. The majority has been engaged in a flerce attack upon Dr. Jautsch, minister of public instruction, aprepos of his edueation budget. For once the members, old and young, of the Tscheque gaoup, found common cause with the German group, it is thought from utterly opposite reae sons. The Germans charged Gautsch with orgaunizing Slaviation in Austria. The Bo- hemian deputy, Knepek, in the course of a violent oration against the clerical and anti- German tendencies embodied in the proposals of Prince Lichtenstein, as approved by the government, declared that their adoption would lead to a rising of the German population of Bohemia. On the other hand the Acheque deputies reproached Herr Gautsch with partiality toward the Ger- mans, and charged him with ofiicial corrup- tion. Some of the speakers did not share the reflections upon his private life, and finally demanded to know why Count Von Taafe kept such a man in his cabinet. Hap- pily for Dr. Gautsch the coalition groups @id not imperil his post. Count Von Taafe declared himself in accord with his col- leagues and that the rejection of the educa- tion budget meant the resignation of the whole ministry. Throughout the attacks Dr. Gautsch re- plied with the greatest moderation. He ig- nored persoual abuse and dealt with general priveiples. He declared that the funda- mental line of bis programme was to place all the people of the empire upon an equal foot- ing, aud that thor education must be treated from an exclusive point of view, . Count Von Taafe consulted with the emperor, and in retuwining Thursday cvening told the chiefs of the opposition group that the ministry adhered to their intention of re- signing if the education budget was defeated, whereupon the oppositica decided to vote for the budget. Theirsybunssion, however, is but OMAHA SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1888—SIXTEEN PAGES temporary, and Dr, Gautsch will be assailed by special resolutions, It is probable that Count Von Taafe's adherence to him will lead to fatal results in the ministry. During the debate Deputy Lueger accused Herr Swoboda of Moravia of embezzlement and the latter demanded an immediate inquiry. The committee of inquiry, which is now sitting, insists that Herr Lueger cannot shel- ter himself behind the excuse of words ut tered in the heat of debate, but must pro- duce proof ot his charge. Von Schoenerer's trial was opened in Vienna yesterday and s followed with interest in both Austria and Germany. Von Schoenerer is the leader of the anti-semetic movement in Austria. He is charged with forcing his way into the office of the Nue Wiener Tageblatt und assaulting the editors. Von Schoenerer and twelve other members of his party, becoming enraged by reading two special editions of that paper on March 8, one announcing and the next contradicting the death of Emperor William, entered the ofiice at midnight and ordered the editors to their knees to beg pardon for the insult to Germany. The editors refusea and a fight I'THE LATEST HORROR. Further Details of the Frightful Ca- lamity at Arlington. AN UNFATHOMABLE MYSTERY Not a Clue as to How Came the Family in the Barn. MANY THEORIES AND SURMISES. Nothing Left of the Charred Re- mains to Denote Fou.l_ Play. A LOVE STORY IN THE FAMILY Miss Emma, the Unmarried Daughter, Too Frantic With Grief to Throw Any Light on the Terrible Catastrophe. with fists ensued, in which the Von 8 choen-| erer party was worsted. The prosecution demands that the accused be sentenced to pay a fine and serve a two year's imprison- ment. The law permits imprisonment of from one to five years. The socialist fund for the aid of the famly of Herr Hasencleve, the member of the reichstag who became insane last winter, ex- ceeds 14,000 marks. The shoemakers strike in Berlin is extend- ing. There are 5200 workmen out. The employers are weakening and a number of them are ready to accede to the demands of their men for an increase of wages. Henry Villard has gone for a sojourn at ‘Weisbaden. Carl Schurz is making arrangements for a banquet at the Kaiserhof hotel, at which will assemble the leading men in politics, science and literature. G oy Sample Anarchist Rantings. NEew York, May 5.—[Special Telegram to the Bee]—A dispatch from Zurich says: Activity among the refugee leaders of the German socialists has for the last few days been felt all over the German empire, par- ticularly in Berlin, The propaganda of high treason has probably at no time since the anti-socialist law went into effect twelve years ago been so fiercely conducted. Thous- ands upon thousands of incendiary circulars and revolutionary literature are turned out on the presses of the propaganda. An an- archist circulur is given, which ponts to a conflict with Bismarck when the Battenburg marriage seemed merely as an out- ward pretext, and it says of Emperor Fred- erick: ““When his majesty’s death occurs who.| will then seize the crown and wield the staft of ruler over the ever patient German nation ; who will decide its life or death? The decis” ion 1s near. The fatherland has been a field of wretched servility on the one hand and impotent rage on the other. You know the body of automaton butchers called the army has obtained as a barrier against an uprising, but insidiously the spirit of rebellion has stolen & march upon self-reliant royalty. The same hand that tempered the steel of the surgeon’s keen blade has also the grand power of thrusting the pointed pointed dagger of a Teutonic Brutus. Ke- member, then, the hour of Frederick’s death must toll the death-knell of the vampire of despotism which has sucked the life-blood of our country, and is threat- ening to make the Germans a nation of serfs.”” Johan Most was interviewed about the anarchist manifesto, and was much de- lighted. “This is merely the first bugle blast,” said Most. AL For Assaulting an Editor, ViENNA, May 5—Deputy von Schoenerer, who was charged with having forced his way into the office of the Neuewiecner Tagblatt and assaulting the editor, has been deprived of his title and sentenced to four months im- prisonment at hard labor, with compulsory fasts on certain days. His accomplice, Gerst- grasser, has been sentenced to two months imprisonment with compulsory fasts. LT The Sultan Will Arbitrate. TANGIERS, May 5.—The sultan has agreed to submit the differences between his gov- ernment and the United States government to arbitration on the following terms: The difference shall be settled by an arbitration court; the Moorish government promises that no time shall be specified for the pay§ ment of personal or individual claims, debts or amounts due on credit, e E—— Winding Up Business, Loxnox, May 5.—The business of Morgan's New York exchange in London has been ordered wound up under the supervision of the courts, ———— Preservers of Public Health, CINCINNATI, May 5.—The national confer- ence of state boards of health, Dr. J, M. McCormack, of Kentucky, presiding, and C. O. Probst, of Ohio, secretary, is now in session Here. To-day was spent in discussing a resolution offered by Dr. Benjamin Lee, of Philadelphia, that the conference, recogniz- ing the failure of local authorities to admin- ister quarantine effectually in a large number of cases, respeccfully urges upon the natioual government the duty of assuming control of quarantine at all ports of entry. Dr. Hewitt, of Minnesota, Dr. J. H. Rauch, of Ilinois, D Barker, of Michigan, Dr. J. F. Kennedy, of 1owa, and Dr. B. Ityce, of Ontario, Canada, spoke on the resolution, but & vote Was post: poned to Monday. Al O b No Accident Occurred. Cnicaao, May 5.—E. §. Greenleaf, super- intendent of the Jacksonville & Southeastern railway, telegraphs the Associated press under date of Jucksonville, Ills., May 5, as follows: *The report published in al] the moruing papers of o coillsion on- the. Jack: sonville & Southeastern, stating that two men were killed and many others. seriously injured, is u walicious cauurd entirely with ont fouhdation. We have not hud aa ac dent aud uever has & passenger beeu Kille 588 & Damooge The Fire Record. ANDERSONVILLE, G, May 5.—Last night a fire which originated in ‘& small grocery, spread and burned up 8 whole block of busi. ness buildings. The town had 1o haequate fire apparatus. The l0ss aggregates $100,000; insurance, §20,000, St, loNack, Mich., May 5.—The round ouse of uhe Thaluth, Bouth Suore & Adluntic railroaq, together with four engine: to-duy. 'Loss, $60,000. taon bimod Too Deep Kor Solution. Anrrxaroy, Neb., May 5.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.|—The mystery of the cre- mated family still remains the topic of the day, and guessing is the only ability one seems td need in order that he may use much time about the affair, It ap- vears that the Bee misinterpreted its re- porter’s language. Louis, Fred's brother, was the hired man for three years past, so that only seven persons were burned. 25014 42228 g eLuiGroe Horse Stable Taregretchensns . jh:éu! a,;:? o5, Freese ng the diagram the reader will notice that the barn had three apartments. The north was the cow stable, the south the horse stable, and between the two the feed room or gang way. On the east was the calf stable opening into the feed room. From the west was a large sliding door, and from the feed room into each of the other apartments were smail openings for the men’s use in getting through the barn. At the southeast corner of the feed room was the entrance to the mow and the wusual place of throwing down hay. Louis, the brother, was found about ten feet from the large door with his head away from the door, and it transpires that the cause of his shirt being partly preserved was that he ap- peared to have a great many clothes about him, evidently horse blankets, as buckles were found by him, It also appears that the men must have gone out from breakfast and gone to shelling corn, as the crib some dis- tance from the barn shows a hand shelier stopped with corn in it and & measure par- tially filled. While the women were doing the work that has been mentioned pre- viously and the men were doing this portion of the shelling, the barn was as it was left before breakfast, and very likelya spark from Louis’ pipe was doing its work, so that when the family discovered the fire the whole of the mow was in flames und the lower story being accessable by the large door all rushed in to try to save the horses and cattle, the children following. Over the large western door there was a mow door, which 1tis ascertained was always fastened with a string inside. Shortly after they were all in the barn and had gotten some horses loosened, we will suppose that the string, having burnt off, the door burst open, and with a rush and dash the ferocious flames enveloped that end of the barn and extended to the door below, and with a strong wind from the northwest the blaze and smoke soon made its rapid rush into the feed room, only increasing its force by the draft caused by the hole at the farther end of the room opening into the mow, which was by this time partially exposed to the air by the fastly disappearing roof. Imagining this current rushing into and through the feed room and fastly filling the whole barn, and knowing, as we do, that. the west slide door was the only one used to enter from without, and that the door on the north where Fred and the two children fell, as well as all others of the shed stable doors, were latched on the outside, orie can rea dily see how securely they were all trapped for destruction and too late to have strength enough left to break a door open. Returning to Louls® position we find that it is quite likely he saw their danger, and wrapping a blanket around him, tried to push through the flames to the outside, and becoming stified he turned to go back and staggered down where he was found with the appearance of extra clothing, and Fred, with the two children, and who knows but also with the clinging, relying wife, always 8o closo to her husband, seeing the situation, rushed to the north door, and finding it fast on the outside, he remains pounding and lunging snd frantically ki ing at the door, while his faithful wife with' the screaming babe clinging to her neck rushes back to the feed room, either at her husband's request or from her own presence of mind, to getthe axe or a fork, one or the other of which usually stood by the ladder entering the mow, with which to burst open the door, Arriving there a frantic horse rushes against her and she falls with her child and the horse soon follows, all three suffocating with very little struggling, and Fred exhausted and strangled sinks down with the two little ones at the spot where he fought for their lives, trying to burst the door open in the meantime. The old lady may be supposed to have been the second to have fallen, as she was immediately following Louis, the first to start to rush out through the flames. The axe and forks were found near and partially under the wife and babe and horse, So much for the theory that all seem to think most explanatory of the incredulous affawr, Inexperienced in fires, a wild rush to save the brutes, a sudden bursting of the flames across the entrance, aud all are doomed. Aeother theory: Your reporter was at the passenger traln arriving to-day frow Aios- NUMBER 823, worth, on which came Miss Emma Frecse, the daughter of Mrs, Frgese. Miss Emma is the only unmarried member of the family remaining. She happened to be with her married sister at Aissworth, who was very sick at the time of this norrible affair. Her other tor lives in Kansas, and is married to a minister named Freese, Edward Smith, heretofore named, and the said-to-be af- fianced of Miss Emma, was delegated to carry the news to her, and he arrived there on the night following the accident, but it seems he had not the courage to break the sad news until within a very short distance from home on the train, and the result was a heartrending scene, Miss Emma fainting repeatedly from the mental effect of the ne: She was look- ing like one insane when she was helped from the train at this place. She was taken to the family of Mr. Smith for the time being, but it is feared she will never recover from the awful shoek. And strange as it may seem, the funeral is postponed uutil Monday, though it will be al- most impossible to haundle the remains even though encased at that time. The funeral will be conducted by the Lutheran church, 1t 18 reported by a very credible witness that the skull of one of the adults was mashed in, though it does not appear in the evidence before the coroner's jury. Yet the informer, one whom no one will question as to veracity, insists that it is true. It is also said that Louis, Fred's brother, has for some time sought Miss Emma’s hand in marriage, but said to a neighbor that he had no hopes of ever succeeding. The German neighbors almost to a single one believe this affair was not accidental, but the result of some foul play. Some say that perhgps Louis and Fred quarreled and Louis killed Fred, and the women and children rushing to the fray were all dispatched by the axe in the hands of Louis, who half or wholly crazy therijset fire to the barn and destroycd himself. But a theory for the manner he made way with himself is not ad- vanced. It docs certuinly look strange that his bed up-stairs was made up and his room clean and tidy so early in the morning, while down-stairs the beds were as left by the sleepers—in fact, it looks like Louis had not slept there that night. An interview with Miss Emma is very likely to develope some very important new facts connecting this sad affair with a clue to the cause. But she cannot be interviewed for some days yet, as she is very much pros- trated. et Army Matters, ‘WasnINGTON, May B~|Special Telegram to the Ber.]—The superintendent of the re- cruiting service wilkeaue thirty recruits to be assigned to the Twenty-first infantry and forwarded under proper charge to such point or points in the Departiient of the Platte as the commanding general of the department shall designate. After arrival in that depart- ment the recruits will be distributed as equitably as practical afiong the companies of the regiment. ‘ Private Peter C. Millér, company K, Thir- teenth infantry, now;: with his company at Fort Leavenworth, is transferred to Com- pany H, Seventeénth infantry, and will be sent to the station of that company, Fort Bridger, Wyoming. #} The superintendent 9f the recruiting ser- vice will cause thirty ¥ecruits to be assigned to the Fifteenth - infantry and forwarded under proper charise to such’ point or points i the Department of Dakota as the com- manding general of the department shall designate. 4 Post Chaplin John F., Dolphin, recently ap- pointed. will report in person to the com- manding general, Départment of Dakota, for assignment to duty at Fort Snelling, Minne- sota. The discharge of Sergeant Henry Keerl, Company B, Thirty-second Iowa 'infantry voluntecrs, July 21. 1804, is amended to take effect April 13, 1864, his muster into service as first lieutenant, same company and regi- ment, July 22, 1864, is amended to date_April 14, 1864, and he is' mustered for pay in said grade, during the period embraced between the aforesuid dates, Paragraph 2003 of the regulations are fur- ther amended to read as follows: Officers of the army, except when upon journeys for which the draw mileage, clerks ‘and agents in the military service traveling under orders on public business, post quartermasters, ser- geants, commissary stewards and other non- commissioned officers of like grade, se geants of the signal service, general service men when traveling on_duty without troops and, when necessary, invalid soldiers tray- eling under orders,” shall be allowed one double berth in a sleeping car or the custom- ary stateroom accommodations on bouts and steamers. Where an extra charge is made for such accommodatlons ofticers of the army traveling as aforesaid shall also be allowed one seat in a day parlor car. These allow- ance will be provided by the quartermaster’s department if practjcable when transporta- tion in kind is furnished, Private Theatricals at Washington WasiiNGroN, May 5.—The National th atre was crowded to-night with a notabl distinguished and brilliant audience, Th occasion was o performance given under the auspices of President and Mrs. Cleveland and a committee of ladies very prominent in the social life of the capital for the benefit of a fund from which it is proposed to pro- cure a statue of George Washington for pre- sentation to the French republic. Nebraska and Iowa Pensions. WasiNGrox, May 5.—[Special Tel to the Bee.]—The following pensions were granted Nebraskans to-day: Increase—Tim- othy Cosgrove, Mound. Reissue—James H. Showalter, Unadilla. Pensions for Towans: Original Nathan S, Snow, Hambarg; Abram J. § Wapello. Increase—Thomas McClure, ster City. Mexican subvivors—Henry White- man, Pierro, in Superintendent Nash Resigns. WasHINGTON, May 5, —F, E. Nash, general superintendent of the railway mail servi has tendered his resignation to the post- master general, to take effect when his suc- cessor {8 appointed, He proposes to devote his attention to his private business at his home in Wisconsin, which he left at the solicitation of Vilas, who was then post- master general, \ Civil Serviee Bxaminations. WAsHINGTON, May B.—Civil Service Com- wissioner Lyman will leave Washington 8001 to organize boards of examiners and to conduct the first examinations at Columbus, O., and Des Moines, Ia. He will be in Co- lumbus on the 10th and at Des Moiucs on the 12th of the present month. —— e No More Trouble Feared. MoNTGOMERY, Ala.; May 6.—The troops re- turned from the scene of the trouble in Lowndes county this afternoon, They as- sisted the sheriff in arresting a number of the negroes for whom warrants were The presence of the troops had a good effect all around. It is thought the trouble is all over. The deputies who were shot are doing well and 2 of them was on duty Friday, It is not known that any of the negroes were hurt duriug the trouble. L Lightning Strikes a School. * CLEVELAND, May B.—Lightning struck the country schiool house in Delaware county yesterday® afterncon. John Bowers, aged twelve, was instantly killed. The teacher and tweoty other school scholars were thrown from their chairs and benchics to the floor, remaining uncomscious for half an bour. ' e SHE WANTS A BEAU M. Victorien Sardou’s Explanation of Boulanger’'s Popularity. FRANCE'S FEMININE INSTINCTS. The Great Playwright Gives His Views On Politics. MUST HAVE A CROWN ABOVE IT. He Prophesies the Overthrow of the Present Governmenty AIMEE'S TREASURES AT AUCTION. Many Rare Jewels and Much Costly Furniture to Go Under the Ham- mer—Victor Hugo's Draw- ings—Shivering Spring. The Republic Doomed. [Copyright 1888 by James Gordon Bennett.] Panis, May 5.—[New York Herald Cable —Specialto the Bex.]—M. Victorien Sardou, the king of French playwrights, received the Herald reporter's card the other day. As he cntered his medievally draped drawing room on the ground floor of M. Sardou’s resi- dence on the General Fay, Jane Hading, the divorced madame, and Victor Koning fitted out. “‘Now what am I to tell you,” said M. Sar- dou. “Ihope you donot want me to talk politics, for God knows I have haa enough without making any declarations outside of my pieces. The fact is that many of my al- lusions are in the nature of things. Look at ‘Dora,” which was reproduced the other night at the Gymnase. That was written twelve years ago and generally would apply equally to the present situation. My pieces have always had a political flavor about them, what may be called ‘philosophy poli- tics.’ This was the case in ‘Rabagas’ and in other pieces.” “1 suppose, cher maitre, marked political leanings? “Of course I have. Ihate and execrate a republic, There is no secret about that. I believe as a Frenchman with a fair share of patriotism that our national temperament is entirely anti-republican. France has female nstincts and she consequently wants a beau, This is the secret of the Boulanger business which is the beginning of the end of the re- public. In America a republic is rational and the best form of government, but in France people always want to know who is the man. If you say a parliamentary gov- ernment, they change and grumble.” “What do you think will be the end of the present situation” “Well, let me keep to my trade. Iam so uncertain that I have nothing in stock. Sarah would like something and Jane Had- ing wants a piece and Coquelin is going away. I think politics have something do with all this. Bonapartism is all off. Prince Victor is too much of a gamin and not the best sort of gamin. His father is too old and too unpopular, Ah, if the prince imperial had only lived, Remember I am not talking poli- tics as a politician, but my ideas are well known.” ‘“‘And what about royalism#’ “Que voulez, vous! France has got her soldier with plumes now. There may be another one after im. There was another general and that it was Duc d’Aumale. He had the plumes and he had merited them. Le Comte de Paris is an admirable man, but of course he cannot be expected to ride a black horse down the boulevard. I am cur- ious to see how the young Due d Orleans turns out.” “But do you think that the republics will soon break up?”? #Yes, through an emeute. The municipal council or some other precious gang will turn Paris upside down. The nation will natur- ally be anxious, congress will lose its head and then the king will come and we shall have a truer republic in France than we have had since Louis Philippe was driven out: A constitutional government with a crown at the top of it.” The meteorologists will look back with wonder to the long, long Paris winter which is only just giving up the ghost. Spring will have been almost suppressed this year, May is @ delusion. One night we have a bitter cold and freeze, and next comes a sub-tropical heat and we broil, the doctors rubbing their hands over our misfortune, Americans, who have begun to crowd in on their way south, speak less savagely of blizzards. Since the chamber of deputies broke up politics have given us a rest. Nothing troubles us but Paul Deroulede and his part of the divided league patriots, the Derouled- ists. ‘The minority have changed the raison de etre of their orgamzation, affecting to think the republicans of the day have so crippled the prestige of France that it is im- possible for her to go to war, They exist as a factor in some politics, only with Revision and Boulanger as the watch words., “Le bra 1" finds them useful, On Wednesday, the 16th inst., houschold effects of the late Mille, will be sold at the Hotel De Roux. The cata- logue is long and interesting and includes jewels of rare quality and beauty, hand- some furniture for salon, dining and sleep- that you have all the Almee ing .rooms, sets of books, paintings, silver und gold table services, porcelain, bronzes and toilet articles, Among other objects which will be put up at auction the first day 1s Aimee's watch, a dainty bit of gold with chain trinkets. Aimee's stage orna- ments include a gold diadem, three large pairs of pins ornamented with topazes, & number of gold and silver purses, Chate- lain watches, bracelets, buckles, rings, brooc turquois buttons, scarf pins and wany dainty articles of ladies' finery which will be disposed of. The curious will have plenty of scope for speculation in wondering where the diva’s trinkets came from, Inter- est at the sale, however, will surely center in Aimee’s bedroom suite which will show the intime side of her life. The furniture is of the Louis XV order. The bedstead is beautifully carved. It has four grooved columns supporting & canopy of transparent rose silk on which is a border of knotted white bed fringe. The curtains are made of white crepe chine shawl, embroid- ered with pink roses and having a border of old gold satin with antique embroidery. At the bottom of the hangings falls a knotted white fringe. Another bed is of mahogony wood, Louis XVI. in style, upholstered in antique silk. A Louis XV. sofa is of red and white brocaded satin, The dining room chairs are of the Henri IL style in red silk, Six Dutch chairs made of ornamental leather, several handsome mantel ornaments of silver and bronze, a few old books, a Beaumarchais, two volumes of La Fontaine with engravings, Rosseau’s ‘‘Control Sesial Retif” and De la Brellone's “‘La Paysenno Pervertie'’ complete the collection. The exhibition of Victor Hugo's drawings and jwood carvings, which was opened at Petit's gallery yesterday is a revalation to most people. Indiis long days of exileon the lonely rock of Guernsey the poet spent hours sketching, letting his pen stray over the paper haphazard sometimes, using a pen or pencil for correction, contending himself with amateh or a piece of sharpened wood dipped in ink. The friends of Victor Hugo treas- ured the scraps and some were later used as illustrations to the poet's works, others have been given play in private galleries where they take an honorable place beside the draw- ings of Dore or. Jacque Callot. Insome moods Hugo as an artist outdoes Dore, while at times the likeness of the two men's inspirations is positively startling. There are over a hundred and fifty drawings in Petit's collection, small and great, from the tiny sepia sketches to great and striking pen and ink compositions of the Guernesy period when Hugo's inspiration was the loftiest, and truly he saw visions. ———— FIRED THE FEMALES., The Methodist General Conference Excludes Women Delegates. New York, May 5.—Bishop Hurst decided on the point of order raised yesterday that Dr. Buckley could not continue his speech, The committee on fraternal delegates re- ported that they had arranged for a reception to the foreign delegates Tuesday evening. Bishop Andrews made the announcement of committees appointed by the bishop. General Fiske took the floor in favor of women as delegates. He said there was nothing in the law of the church which says lay delegates shall not be women. It would be revolutionary to turn vomen out by a vote of the general conference, and the church, could not afford to exciude them. ‘“‘Are we so cowardly,” asked General Fiske, “that we would refuse to admit women for fear she would fill the place of manf” Rev. A. J. Kynett, of the Upper Iowa con- ference and secretary of the church exten- sion society, favored the admission of women, and said that the Baptists and Con- gregationalists admitted them to their con- ferences. Rev. D, H. Moore, of the Colorado confer- ence, contended that women should not be tted. He offered a substitute to all the previous substitutes. It was to the effect that the eligibility of women lay delogates] having been challenged on constitutional grounds, it was of the most importance that no doubt should exist in regard to the intro- duction of women without giving an inter- pretation to the rule of the church and dis- claiming all intention of establishing a prece- dent by the action now proposed by the reso- lution. The substitute further provided that during October, 1890, a general election shall be held in each church, and that all members be called upon to vote either for or against the admission of women as lay delegates. Should a majority of the church be in favor of the admission of women as lay delegates, then the general conference in 1892 can complete the change. Unexpectedly Rev. A, C. Pendleton moved the previous question. ‘The motion was recorded and it looked as if the question would be settled then and there. Considerable excitement existed while the vote was being taken, when the announcement was made it was discovered that the motion was lost. The vote stood 132 ayes, 187 nays. Rev. W. McElroy of Illinois was in favor of women, while Rev. D. Gray, presi- dent of the district female seminary of Williamsport, Pa., was opposed to women, being present while the vote was being taken on the question. After some desultory discussion an ad- journment was taken until Monday. ——— An Old Iowan Dead. Dunvque, Ia, May 5.—General Warner ,Lewis, one of the most preminent men of this region, died late last night. He de- scended from one of the old families of Vir- ginia, where, in Goochland county, he was born in 1505 ing a distant relative of Gen- eral Washington, He came to this region in 1828, served in the Blackhawk war, was a member of the territorial and state legisla- tures, and served as speaker of the house, He was surveyor general of Iowa, Wisco; sin and a under Presidents Pie He was very popular v His wife, a relat Genera jette, survives him. lived together fifty-seven years, bl i ], Tascott Found Again, Des Moixes, Ia, May b.—[Special Tele- gram 1o the Bee.]—It is reported to-night that Tascott, the Chicago murderer, has been scen at Kingsley in Northwestern Towa and that detectives are now on his track, Censured the Lawyer, Towa Ciry, Ia., May 5.—The committee of lawyers who have been investigating the case of Attorney A. E. Maine, against the county clerk, Mux Otto, in which Maine Otto with altering the filing mark oy ;ument, reported to-day ly exonerat Clerk Otto and se censuring — Governor Rusk For President. MiLwAUKEE, May 5.—The republicans of Fourth congressional district to-day elected Henry J. Baumgartner and Charles A. Chapin delegates to the republican con vention. Itesolutions were passed eudorsing Governor J. M. Rusk for president. ——— Pugilistic Politici Derioir, Mich, May 5.—D. Hampau, collector of the Post, and William G. Thompson, ex-mayor of the city, two of Detroit's most prominent citizens, and brothers-in-law, had @ personal dispute this afternoon ending in a fierce fight in which Thompson was badly whipped. - Weather Indicdtions. For Nebraska—Ruin, followed by fair weather, warmer, fresh to brisk winds be- coming northerly and dimmnishing in force. For Iowa—Cooler, fair weather, followed by local rains, fresh to brisk southwesterly winds. For Dakota—Warmer, fair weather, winds becoming light to fresh easterly. BERLIN IS PLEASED. May Flowers and Green Grass Rens der Life More Endurable. THE KAISER'S MANLY STRUGGLE. His Demise Deferred Fills His Loyal Empire With Joy. SCHURZ THE LION OF THE HOUR, Foted and Feasted as an Evidence of Friendship For America. BOULANGER IS ON EXHIBITION, A Life-Size Wax Figure of “Der Gene eral” Attracting Attention in a Shop Window—Movements of Americans, They Sup in the Open Air, LCopyright 1888 by James Gordon Bennett.] Beruiy, May 5.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to the Bre.]—Superb spring weather has taken Berlin almost by storm, The trees in the Linden and Thiergarten are at last fringed with grass. Kroll's summer opera opens to-night and all Berlin now breakfast and dinner in the open air, Oute door life on the spree has full swing. The kaiser’s gallant struggle against t) fatal catastrophe still continues to give Bete liners a breathing time. In several churches prayers were offered to God to end his terris ble sufferings, but these prayers for death have been severely ridiculed by the Germ: press, and to-morrow such prayers will be discontinued. The manifestations of symi- pathy from all parts of Germany is mos touching and unbounded. Carl Schurz yesterday's call by appointe ment upon the crown prince and his dinne# with Bismarck are spoken of as two moré very pleasant evidences of Germany’s kindly feeling towards America. The conversation Wwith the crown prince turned largely upon American affairs, in which he showed not only a lively interest, but information and sympathy, ending by desiring Schurz to ex= press at home the pleasure given the Gers mans by American sympathy on the occur- rence of the death of Kaiser William and with the sufferings of the present emperor. The dinner with Bismarck was most informal, Prince Bismarck came in directly from a ride in the Thiergarten and Count Herbert from the foreign office. The princess ana her daughters were also present. After dinner the grand-children came in, Prince Bis- marck stretched himself at full length on & lounge, lit his long pipe and the rest drew their chairs around him, Here again thq conversation was largely about America, Bismarck asking questions and talking ani matedly about American life and American frauleens for over two hours. Schurz was considerably tired by the week of festivities, but leaves Berlin in good health and high spirits, charmed with the place and greatly pleased by German good feeling toward America, Schurz leaves Berlin Sunday morning by the 8 o’clock train for Hamburg. Boulanger crops up everywhere. A Berlin statistican has discovered that nine thousand caricatures and political squibs of the brava general have appeared in Germany during the past two months, and here in Berlin one of the most popular spectacles 18 a window in the Kaiser arcade near Unter den Linden, in which a wax life size figure of “Der General” is exhibited in full war paint, The general wears the plumed cocked hat of @ French general and all his decorations. His coat, his white breeches and top boots have been obtained in Paris from General Boulanger's own tailor and bootmaker, 80 that the chest measurement and exact proportions of the popular hero are now as familiar to Ber liners as to Parisians, Hundreds of men, women and children are seen cvery day standing looking at this wax figure, while the efigy of President Carnot in an adjoine ing window is scarcely noticed.t I over heard a stalwart cuirassier remark as he stood looking at the resplendent efMgy, “When the general comes to Berlin he will find a chungé of uniforms all ready for him,”” The famous “Revenant de la Revue” has at last been set to German words, and is Dbemg played and sung in the Berlin concert halls, and the go and suap to this catching air scems to be keenly rel- ished by the Berliners, The opening couplet in German is: “Wo ist ein Preusse, Dass ich ihn zerreisse." Luther Wishard, the of the Young Men's Christian asso- ciation has arrived in Berlin after a five-year tour around the world, undertaken with the view of establishing christian asso- ciations, colleges and uniyersities throughout the world, Sunday evening he addressed the students of Berlin university. Doctor W. K. and Rev, C. H. Butler, song of the chaplain of the United States senate, have come to Berlin to study. They g0 soon to Viennfl. Colonel Price, president of the Scranton board of trade, has come to Berlin to make a special study of municipal affairs, Mr. Dean and Mr, Steele, of Scranton, are also here, Mrs. L ovil and party left Berlin for Vienna to go thenes to England, Alexander Ryanch, of New York, with hig daughter and Miss Fink, are in Berlin, Dr. Frederick Dernburg, editor of the National Zeitung, leaves this week on the steamer Soale for a pleasure trip to the United States. college sccretary o~ A California Lynching, S1. HeLexa, Cala., Muy 5.~John Wright, who shot and killed & young man named Budd Van in this town about two weeks ago, was taken from the jail by & mob of masked men early this moruing and bup, 0 @ bridge ut the end of the street,

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