Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 11, 1888, Page 1

St AV e (VL s e N o b G BN ARA % re KBI vholii NNA, . "THE OMAHA Dany BEE BLAINE BACK IN AMERICA, Mot by the Reception Committee Off Sandy Hook, HE HAS A PLEASANT VOYAGE. Greeted With Cheer After Cheer as the Vessel Steams Up the Bay ~A Reception at Madie son Square. The Plumed Knight Home Again, New Yonrk, August 10.—The steamer Btarin, which was substituted for the Sam Sloan, took the Blaine reception party from Picr 18 at 7:08 this morning, and reached quarantine af 7:48, About 8 o'clock the City of New York was met outside the Narrows and both vesscls steamed up the bay. As soon as Blaine's form was made out cheer after cheer arose from the deck of the Starin, to which he responded with repeated bows. He ‘was nattily dressed in a dark cutaway coat, light trouse and brown derby hat. The Chicago Blaine club's little tug had been the first to grect the steamer as it came up the bay. Cappa's band on board the tarin played “Home Again,” *Home, Sweet ome” and “The Star Spangled Banuer,” while advancing up to quarantine. At 9:15 both vessels came to anchor and Blaine got on board the Starin, accompanicd by Whitelaw Reid and Mr. Pool. The sels then resumed their journey up the North river, the Starin leading, and both hand- somely decorated with flags and bunting, the tugs in the harbor blowing salutes as they passed. Mr. Bartlett, in behalf of the reception committee, delivered an address of welcom e, to which Mr. Blaine responded as follows: “Mr. President aud Gentlemen of the Republican Club and Fellow Citi- zens—To enable you to appreciate this welcome, each and every one of you should be absent from home and country “for a long period of fourteen mouths, 1 am sure you can have little conception of the great gratification of that instant when Isaw the shores of the great republic, I cannot tell you how deeply grateful I am to be remembered in this manner by you and these assembled gentlemen,” After alluding with som death of ( eral Sheridan, he continued: “The campaign on which you are about to en- ter should be prefaced, if that were possible, by every voter inthe United tes seeing what [ have seen and hearing what I have heard during the last year. The pro- ress of the campaign’ in the United States 18 viewed from a European standpoint with interest as profound as it is in the United States. It is the opportunit of England. It is the long looked-for oeca- sion upon which the cheaper labor and cheaper fabries of the old world expect to in- vade the new world and lower the wages of American workingmen to the European andard. It is not a contest of capital aguinst capital; it is not a contest of partisan against partisan. It is much higher than either of these, It transcends all party motive. Whether the great s of American cit- jzens who their bread by the sweat of their brow shall be seriously re duced in their element from day to day is the whole pith and momwent of this ques- tion Anything that diverts the question from that single point is a weakening of the campaign. I say here—as 1 hope to say with much more elaboration—I say her that the wages of the American laborcr can- not be reduced except. with the consent and the votes of the American laborer himself.” In closing he said: “Ican only add my fervent thanks to each and every member of the club, and to all my friends, for the gen- erous and joyous welcome they have ex- tended to me in the harbor of New York.” Duriug his specch he was interrupted re- peatedly by cheers, and at its conclusion he was heartily cheered. Addresses were presented by William Fit: sident of the workingmen's pro- feeling to the erald, pr ctive league, and by Murat Halstead on behalf of the young men’s Blaine club of incinnati, at the conclusion of which Mr, laine held a reception in the ladies’ saloon nd shook hands with a nuwber of his riends. Blaine was asked by a reporter as to what part e would take in the campaign, plied that he could say nothing at present. Te did not think that he would go outside of his state until after the state elcction there, in September next. When asked health, he said that he was perfect The 'Starin, meanwhile, was st North river, escorted by the pol trol, the Ch vessels, ming up e boat pa- cago Blaine club’s tug, and other hile a constant series of shrill ‘Whistl from the steamboats it passed marked its progress to the pier at Twenty- second street and North river, where Blaine and the party disembarked. The corridors of the Fifth Avenue hotel ere crowded by prominent republicans who had gathered to greet Blaine qu his arrival there, Among those most prominent were Levi P. Morton, Whitelaw Reid, William Walter Phelps, Murat Halstead, Chairman Quay, of the national committee, and Thomas C. Platt. Blaine arrived shortly after 11 o'clock, and was greeted with cheers. He went immediately to his room. At 1 0'clock the members of the republican national campaign committee, headed by Chairman Quay of Pennsylvania, and vice Chairman Clarkson of lowa, filed into the room to pay their respeets to the republican chieftian, This ovening a serenade and reception was tendered to Biaine at Madison square. Be- fore sunset people commenced to gather on tho curbs and among the trees of the park, Wealthy merchants who could not obtain seats on the stand jostled against the poor workingmen, each’ vieing with the other to see who could cheer the loudest. Cappa's full band was th and the crowds joined in every air with a chorus of cheers. Clubs and hoteis were illuminated with fireworks added another element to the excitement of the scene. Meanwhile the corridors of Fifth avenue were crowded with prominent people, all waiting to sce Blaine, About 9 o’clock he appeared, lean- ang on the arm of the republican candidate for vico president, and walked down the main stairway. He was met by Police Cap- tain Reilly aud a squad of patrolmen, who immediately formed a hollow square and thus escorted Blaine to the grand stand. ‘When the crowd sighted the guest of the eveniug there rose upon the air deep, hoarse murmurs that swelled into a cheer, The crowd seemed to have gone wild in the cxcess of their enthusiasm. Blaine bowed his acknowledge- ments, and seemed deeply affected. When he reached the reviewing stand another wild burst of cheering shook the air. When quiet ‘was finally restored, David Healy, ou behalf of the workingmen of New York, read au address. Substautially the address is as fol- W James G, Blaine, Our First and' Best Loved Fellow Citizen: On behalf of the working people of Awerica we bid you welcome home. In an especial manner are the wage workers and roducers of America permitted to ask r precedence in welcoming you thus on Your landing and to take counsel with you upon the pressing issues of the hour affect- fng the immediate interests of their homes and families, and as to whether we would be doing our duty to our families or to our coun- try by voting to make our industrial markets & world's common, and trusting to the possi- bility of our competing with those foreign pations in the markets for which it is now thmpoud to surrender our own. 1o accocding @ courtesies extended to you by foreign governments and statesmen you have not committed the erioi of confounding the lflendor of the court. with the happiness of the geople. and we scek your nfident that your judgment has not yences, and that sel will be ustainted by selfishn and free from sophistry, and that it will rep- resent the best interesis of the republic, and therefore of American labor, Our consciefics assures us that should your advice be ac- cepted. by thus wun,!.r.‘ e enemwies of our iustit in Fort Sumter or St. james, sball have it to say again that they humbled the flag of this supreme and unviolable land, “*We find those who are secking the over- throw of our protective system repeating to the working people the charge that ‘prote tion does not protect,’ and they point to our great industrial centers, where many are found in poverty and out of employment. We appeal to you to turn the light of your ex) e and judgment upon this problem with a view to reassuring the wage workers and all patriotic citizens who may be i flunced by the sophistries of those who re gard with contempt the legitimate efforts of working people to better their condition and maimtain a higher standard of wages and hold the comforts than prevail in Europe. There hias not bee during that period an nly avowed determination by any political party tooverthrow the protective system until the present admimstration threw down the gauntlet. ‘T'o this Mr. Blaine responded: “Mr, Chair- man: It would be considerable egotism on my part to take this magnificent demors tion as personal, altogether to myself. rather signifies the great popular interest in the question upon which 1 am_ supposed at least to have a consistent record and an earn- est zeal. And you have before you a contest in sue is to bo settled by the American people for perhaps an indefi nite period, one way or the other, The year 1857 wus prosperous, and the president at its close proposed a radical change in the indus- trial system which sduced that great ity, and si t day there has been confusic ree and manufacto) ies of the United States. The question before the American people is whether he and his administration shall be sustained in that movement, Agumst the republicans having the best cause, they have nominated the best men, They have 1 to you for resident a man of sound e heroic record in war, great purit great firmuess and worthy of the bes of administration in this country, and you have associated with him & wan whom to New Yorkers 1 need not further describe than to say that his name is Levi P. Morton, a man of most generous character, intelli gent comprehension of affairs and the widest and most statesmanlike views on all public questions pending before the American peo- ple. Avainst this you have two gentlemen of m 1 would not'speak in_terms other than those of entire personal respect. Of their vice presidential candidate 1 have a friend of many AL standing od 1 am a personal admirer of Judge Thurman. But I beg you to observe that at a critical period in th untry the vice president, George M, as. in casting a vote in a tied senate, ved the protective tariff of 1542, If do not nt them Thurman will be in a position to re-enuct the vote of irge M. Dallas in 1342, Therefore the more amiable and more able a man may be, the more wiil be his influcnce before the American peop! “Now, gentlemen, I know that in disc ing the question of & protective tarid w always pointing out what Englund is doing. ) been i England for some mon nd 1 found a very great difference of o n upou alnost all ques- tions. But » is one opinion they are umted on, and that is that Hq rover Cleveland, president of the United States, cmbodies in bis person the regular form of revenue and free trade for the Umted States which they like. Now I have no objection to their right of opinion, nor do I intend to spe srespectfuily of the English have receivad at their hands a very graceful and cordial hospitality which 1 would be a churl not to acknowledge before an Ameri- can_audience. Buv that docs not affect pending conditions —that the Ameri Ple tind their interest in one policy, and that the English want to change icy 80 us better to conform to the that, gentlemen, is the prim you at the next November election, “Iam glad this mecting is called in the name of the laboring people, because this question is from first to last, ' from skin to core, a question of labor. 1f you will ugree to live in as poor a house and cat as poor food and receive as low wages as the peoplo of England recewve, we can produces as cheap goods as a democratic administration wants to sce. But it will be otherwise if you wish to better your condition, and want the industrial system of = pro- tected interests that prevail in this country now, to be maintained. Thesavings of the wage-workers of England, Scotland and fireland are not near ks greatas lie to-night 1n the savings banks of Massachu- setis to the credit of the wage-workers of that small state. 1f you turn the adwinistra- tion of this republic to-day into free-trade channels yon may not expect those great savings, for you will put our laboring men throughout = the country into com- petition with the laboring men of Great Britain, and in five or ten years you will make them as pooron this side as they are on the other side of the water. “I will not in this campaign stop to argue the question upon any other basis. I bave no personalities to indlgoin,no sores to heal, I would rather have your cordial, heart-felt sympathy and welcome than any office you care 10 bestow upon v But in this canvuss, in which I shall take a greater or le 1 shall hold this questiou from beging end as a question that interests ev woman and child in this count pends upon daily labor for There is no need to make any laws to protect cupital—capital always takes eare of itself and gets a full share. Hut there are laws that can elevate the condition of tue lal man, and there are luws that can de him, and the lLican party has stood for twenty-five and it will stand, I be- lieve, with the blessing of God and the willof the Ameriegn people, tiventy-five years more, upholding and maintaining the laboring man, for a government which takes care of the bone and sinew and working muscle of the land is taking care of the men who created wealth in the country, and who are the, entitled to the patronage awd protection of rnment.” Vow, gehtlemen, you representa critical ou represcut the State of New Yor votes are to tell in that issue and your tes can be decisive upon that one issue, Do not be diverted from that one Guestion by a side issue. Do not be mislend by petty squabbles on this or that small issue, orupon personal questions of abuse on the one hand or the other, but give your votes as in- dependent laboring men and them for the interests of your own homes your own firesides, and thereby for the great interests of a great republic. I never, Mr. Chairman, thought of that republic as I do to-night. I have seen the other side; I have devoted mauy of the last fourteen months to seeing the condition of labor and laboring men in the other hemisphere, and 1 say with- out fear of contradiction that in no counrtry of Europe, in no part of Europe, or part of any country is the condition of 'labor com- arable to thut which it holds in the United States, Are you willng togive up that_po- sition, or are you willing to maintain it You can maintain it by a strong pull and a long pull and a pull all together for Harrison and orton.” The crowd broke into wild and tumultous cheers as Blaine concluded, and again taking e wru of Morton Lo walked back to the otel. Blaine will leave for the east at 8 a. m. on Monday. His intention of starting to-mor- row was changed out of respect to the fu- neral of General Sheridau, R The Immigration Investigation. New Youg, August 10.—0O'Donnovan Rossa was a witness for the immigration in- vestigation committee this morning. He told what he knew about the sending of ex- convicts from English prisons. He said that the worst thieves and convicts of England were anxious to come to America. The gov- ernors of prisons persuaded them to go. After a recall of Witness Xeltner relative to the immigration of Russian Jews, Mr. Ford said that ofticial duties called him to Wash- ington and that the committee would ad- journ until Tuesday next. B A New Distance Tariff. CuicaGo, August 10.—The roads interested in lowa traflic agreed to-day to adopt a new distance taniff for the state, to go into effect August 13. The rates vow in effect are con- bly reduced by the new schedule, the object of e reduction being to harmonize rates within the state with hose of inter- state trafic z question before OMAHA. SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1888, MAXWELL MEETS HIS MAKER. The St. Louis Murderer Pays the Penalty for His Crime. PRELLER'S DEATH IS AVENGED. Henry Landgraf Launched Into Eter- nity on the Same Gallows— How They Spent Their Last Hours On Earth. Two Murderers Executed. St. Louts, August 10, —[Spacial Telegram to Tie Bee, | ~Maxwell was hungat 9 o'clock At daylight he turned to one of the deputies and said: I wish that telegram would come.” “Do you exprct a telegram?” was the re- sponse. “I do, news." At 5:50 Maxwell and Landgraf sat down to THEIR FINAL MEAL, which had been prepared by the jailer’s wife. h was served with like dishes, and the breakfast consistod of fried oysters, fried egus, hot buscuits and pancakes, with jelly, bre and butter and coffe Maxwell par- took of the repust quite sparingly. As he sat at the table it was plain to see that all of his assumed indifference had departed and IS FACE WAS BLANCHED, while a troubled, haunted look had taken pos. session of lis keen eyes, He was evidently growing weaker and had lost all hope of staying the executioner’s hand. Landgraf maintained the same old stolid look. At8:47 Sheriff Harrington, pre detail of police, entered the inner yard of the Jail and the sheriff entered Maxwell’s cell, where he and Landgraf had been placed to- gether, and announced that THE FINAL MOMENT IAD ARRIVED, Maxwell paled and pulled his finzers nery- ously. His was the first death w nt read, and he stood up and heard his doom calmly, though he was plainly growing weaker all the time. While his arms were being pinioned Maxwell bit his lower lip and galped sever times. and I know it will bring me good ded by a AN ENCOU TELEGRAM. At 8:10 Martin r 1the following tele- gram from Fauntleroy, dated Jefferson City, Mo., which was delivered to Maxwell: governor has ed another tele; Minister West, but he persists in the position. Hold on as long as possible, may hear in time. My heartfelt sympathy to the accused and his loved ones. Wire my father.” The receipt of this telegram created quite a sensation, as it was the general opinion that, the goveruor would graut at least a brief stay. TO THE GALLOWS, The procession to the scaffold was then formed, Father Tihan walking between M: well and Landgraf, pr ad by Sheriff Har- rington and deputies and followed by the police, reporters and witnesses. As Maxwell passed through the inner yard he walked firmly butslowly. His face looked pinched and drawn, of ashen blue, and his eyes were swollen, Ho glanced about him piteously, his lips twitched, There was no time lost in reaching the scaffold, which the condemned ascended without assistan Maxwell wa then asked if he had anything to say, and in an almost inaudible tone responded, *‘No."” There was AN AWFUL LOOK OF DESPAIR on Maxwell's face as the cap hid 1t from view, and his knees showed weakness, The nooses were adjusted quickly, and at 56 the drop fell. Landgraf never moved nor did a muscle twitch. Not so with Maxwell. ‘When he fell his breast heaved convulsively and his limbs were drawn upward, while the spectators were shocked by A STREAM OF BLOOD pouring down the right breast of fhis coat, which was afterward found to have been caused by a cut on the nose inflicted by the rope in some mysterious way. MAXWELL'S ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE. Atan carly hour this morning Maxwell gave to the press an aadress, of which the following 15 a part: o the People of England: My English countrymen will doubtless remember the ir t boasts that have now and at all times heen made by the American people in regard to the fair aud just way in which they treat all people, tisfled that you are not acquainted the unlawrul, un- in which I have been ince you are accustomed in England 10 see justice administered impartially in the courts, the examination of the records in my case will ehow that the prosecution resorted 1o every unfair means in their power, even to crime itself.”? He then went on to detail several instances in which he alleged fraud had been practiced Dy the prosceution, and declared that if he should die ke would suffer the penalty of the law without having hud a fair trial, JIE THANKS 118 COUNSEL. When Muartiu left the cell of his con deinned client, after having notificd him that all hope was gone, Maxwell desired him to personally thank Fauntleroy for bhim and hunded a letter to Martin for Ceresche, m which he thanked Geresche for the efforts made to secure his pardo: (B 1OUSE-TOPS vard where the execu- ned patiently - their od positions from 5 o'clock this I'e the hour of exccution, The of spectators admitted to the jail 1s unusually small. For the first time in U d in the build- ing by the Asso and the leading papers of the city for the prompt trausimis- sion of news to the public. To-day Maxwell finished a document whi he called his dying statement. In it he re. nnocence of the willful killing of ller, and then gives an epitome stutement of the case as herctofore published. LANDGKAF'S CRIME, ‘The evime for which Landgraf suffered the death penalty was committed tho nightof arch 5, 1585, The victim was his sweet- Tische, & beautiful girl less than eighteen years old, wh e murdered because of his jealou: el A Ravisher Lynched. NasuviLLe, Tenn., August10.—Amos M7l ler (colored), who outraged Mrs, Scott, in Maury county, two months ago, was taken from the court room at Franklin, Tenn, to- day, by a mob of fifty men and Lauged to the baldony of the building. Lo, ERIN A Delaware Execution. New Castie, Del, August 10.-Charles Riedel was hanged at 12:42 this afternoon for the murder of Lis wife and child last Sep- tember, e ——— THE EMIGRANT RATES, The Alton Refuses to Acquiesce in the Proposed Reductions. Cnicago, August 10.—General Passenger Agent Charleton, of the Chicago & Alton road, has addressed u circular to the general passenger agents of western competing lines, in which he refuses to acquiesce in the re- ductions which have been made by the east- ern trunk lines in emigrant rates. In doing this he calls attention to the fact that for- eigners should not be given special and better rates than those accorded to American citi- zens. He concludes with a warning that if the lines to which the letter uStmwl carry out Mr, Pierson's recent suggestion for a reduction, the Chicago & Afwn will make suitable cus ou first and second cla- u an L s THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT. The Parnell Bill Discussed in the House of Lords. Loxpox, August 10.—In the house of lords to-day Lord Salisbury moved a second read- ing of the Parnell commission bill, In recent years, he said, agitation in Ireland had gone on two parallel lines. One party proposed to act constitutionally, and to a certain extent 80 acted. The other party was connected with crime, violence, intimidation, mutila- tion and murder, which means were used to intimidate the constitutional opponcnts and to force from England a concession which England was not prepared to grant. Ordi- narily the men accused of complicity in mur- ders tried to clear themselves legally, but the en incriminated refused to take that although the government offered them every assistance in its power, Instead of taking the case into the courts the gen men accused proposed to refer the matter to @ committee ot the house, a course which as not approved either by the government / the hous n Herschell indimantly repudiated alisbury’s insinuation on his (Hersch- ) late colleagues for having taken in the house a course which, holding the views they did, they were bound to take. The commis- sion bill was unfortunate in its origin, scope and object, and in the mcidents connected with its passage through the house of com- mons. The measure formed a novel prece- and one that was fraught with danger. trongly protested against the doctrine that if newspapers brought charges against apublic man the accused person must be ulty if hie did not immcdiatel The speaker said that the government had offered Parnell a hard alternative of either *pting such & commission or incurring re- proach for shirking an inquiry. Belvr > ps THE CROP REPORT. A Slight Advance Noted in the Oon- dition of Corn. WAsnINGTON, August 10.~The department of agriculture reports a small advance in the condition of corn, from 93 last month to o Rains have been generally seasonable, though in excess in some districts and deficient in some others, In Massachusetts, the Caro- linas, Delaware and New York the condition is reduced by local drouths. In the south- west theré has been an improvement, and a large crop is already assured. In the corn states a high condition prevails, with some advance over the figures of last month. The percentages of the stutes of the central val- ley are: Kentucky 98, Ohio 95, Indiana 99, , Towa 08, Missouri 04, Kansas 91, There will be a heavy crop in this re ally expected in o s one of extreme drouth. A high condition of > also prevails i the northern border states and territories, Dakota standing lowest. at 84, Spring wheat has fallen from its high position of a month ago. Chinch bugs stand at the head of disasters reported, involving moro or less Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska and in places doing serious dam- High temperature, excessive rains, blights, rusts and army worms are locally reported, evidently without seriously reducing the general “condition, Dakota~ stands highest with an average of 91, a loss of seven points, Reported yields run an extreme range from a few bushels to 40 per eent. The reduction of percentage in Minnesota is from 94 to 85, in Wisconsin from 91 to 83, in Iowa from Y 84, in Nebraska from 95 to 84, The crop of Washington, Colorado and other territories and of New England is od, and fair in northern 1ilinois, northern New York and in the high latitudes and altitudes of winter wheat ' states, The general condition has been reduced from 95.9 ‘to 87.8 during July. The changes that have occurred in the gen- eral averages of other crops during the month are: Oats from 95.2 to 91.7, barley from 91 to 89, spring rye from ¢6.5 to Y1.4. Al A MILLIONS ALMOST IN SIGHT' The Sunken Sloop Braak at Last Thought to Be Located. PriLADELPIIA, August 10 —[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—Dr. Seth Pencoast, who has spent $12,000 in the past two ycars trying to locate the sunken English sloop of war Braak, came up from the breakwater yester- day morning. After remaining at his home long enough to write some telegrams he hur- ried to the Broad street station and took the train for New York. He is excited over a discovery made by Captain Charles A, Adams and Licutenant George P, Blow, of the navy , who are positive they have at last located the Braak, which was supposed to have on board $10,000,000 in gold and silver wiien she went down on the 25th of May, 793. The steamboat City of Long Branch, which was fitted up at an expense of several thousand dollars, left this city ten days ago thoroughly equipped to spend the summer and next winter searching for the sunken sloop. Captain Adams, who has been in the navy twenty-five ycars, and Licuten- ant Blow, had charge of ‘the expedition, All the ne: v charts and nautical implements were furnished by the government. The dis- covery of the sloop was made late Tuesday, when a diver brought up a_petrified niece of teakwood, of which the Braak was built, ‘Phe grappling irons were covered with verdi- gris. Strong evidences were found that the irons had come in contact with the copper which was on the Braak at the time she sunk. The City of Long Branch lies directly over the supposed wreck. The ircns were lowered in twelve fathoms of water, three- quarters of a mile out¥from the breakwater. The search will be redewed with redoubled vigor now. The explorers are very sanguine, painda Aid Nebraska and Iowa Pensions. WasimixGros, Augldst 10,—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—Pensions granted Ne- braskans: Increase—Francis M. Rickarde, Ueatrice; Amos N, :}h-s!brmk, Somerford; Alfred T orle; Eliza W. Wells, Cowles; Joseph Pollogk, Arlington; Allen O, Vernan, Western: Martin Van Buren Rice, Ny CGilbert Cole, Pawnee City. Pensious for Towans: Incroas Sexton, New Sharon; Richard B. Bloomfield; Alfred Larkins, Westley; John D. bridge, Mount Pleasant; Rudolph Brazor, Alta; Thomas 1. Biggs, Martins- burg; Luman Jones, Toolesborough; Giles Lahne, Garrison; Levi Jarvis, Harland; David E. Cress, St. Charles; Abram V. Murry, Greeley: Nicholas Snyder, West Point; Wesle; f Hudson, Coldwater; John Cooper, Corydon; William H. Locke, Rut- laud; Mondley Hollister, Fairfield. Ll T Army Affairs. WasniNGTON, August 10.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.|—The extension of leave of absence on surgeon's certificate of dis- ability granted First Lieutenant John Car- land, Sixth infagtry, is still further extended to September 80 on adcaunt of sickness. Private Charles Smith, Company I, Second infantry, now in confinemeut at Fort Totter, Dakota, will be discharged without character from the service of the United States to date September 11, 1853, by the commanding of- ficer of that post. The president to-day nominated Lieutenant Colonel Nathan W, Osborne, of the Sixth infantry to be colonel of the Fifth infantry and the consequent promotions, Allender, e Milllonaire Crocker's Illness. New Youk, August 10.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.)—A rumor was prevalent in Wall strect yesterday that Charles Crocker, the California millionaire, was lying at the point of death at his home in San Francisco, It was also stated that Mrs, Crocker was at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Alexander, on Fifth avenue, and was keeping the news from her, fearing the shock to her health, which was represented tobe delicate. Henr{'M. Alexander, in his office in the Equitable building, this morning said: “Mr. Crocker had a slight attack of something that resembled pleurisy, but is much lwproved and well on the way to re- covery. rs. Crocker is staying with her daughter, but the health of the latter is quite restored,” WHEN WILL THEY ADJOURY Indications That Congressis to Last For Some Time Yet. SHERIDAN LYING Striking Simplicity of the Surround- ings—~The Cattle Combination In- quiry Postponed—Speculation as to General Baird's Successor. IN STATE. The Congressional Outlook. WasaiNGToN Bureau Tue OMana Bre, 513 FOURTEENTH STKEET, WasuiNagron, D. C., August 10, The prospects for the adjournment of con- gress are daily growing less, Senator Pugh to-night said that there would be a very gen- eral debate upon the repubiican tariff bill in the senate, and that the democratic side of that body proposed to fall hard upon the bill when it came before them for consideratien. The twenty-niue senators who have already spoken on the president’s message will again discuss the tariff from the standpoint of the republican tariff bill. This promises to pro- tract the session beyond all anticipation, In addition it has developed t there is almost certain to be a deadlock on the fisheries treaty. It will arise on the motion to indefiuitely postpone it, which is practi- cally that made by Senator Morgan, If put to a vote it would dcubtless be defeated. The democrats, however, in the senate have practically agreed to abstain from voting, thus preventing a quorum, and have decided to pursue this plan whenever the question is taken up. Republican senators on the other hand, insist that they will not be driven to abandon the final consideration of the treaty by any such means, and declare that the mo- tion will be regularly brought forward, no matter how often defeated by such filibus- tering. LYING IN STATE. Several thousand people passed through the aisles of St. Matthew’s church to-day to view the catafalque on which rested the re- mains of General Sheridan. The same ab- sence of display_and ostentation which has marked every office for the dead since the removal from Nonquitt characterized the lying in state, Some effort had been made to drape the old chureh, but the drooping flags and festoons of crape could not conceal the cracked walls, the homely pews and the rusty carpet, worn with the knees of a gen- eration of worshippers, A single artillery- man stood in front of the catafalque. Two artillery officers sat silently in the front pew. These, with a sentry at the oven entrauce, comprised the mil guard over the body of the man who had led thousands of armed soldiers, the greatest cavalryman of modern times, the dashing trooper who revolutionized in his branch of the army the cavalry tactics of the a In the galleries two orderlies were tacking the folds of the national colors across a great beam in the wood work., On the floor straggling groups of visitors passed slowly down the aisle, little knots dropping now and then upon their knees, on the rude benches and in the pews, to offer a prayer for the departed soul. The rattle of carriages on the hard street pave- ment alone broke the solewn stiliness. Gen- eral Sheridan’'s body lies immediately in front of the chancel to the left of the throne, erected for Cardinal Gibbons. The cata- falque which bears it is the same used for the funeral ceremonies in honor of King Al- fonso. It is so arranged as to give a full view of the face of the casket which, how- ever, was not open, The handsome casket was covered with the national flag. Across its upper corner rests the dead general's chapeau and upon it the well worn army sabre which he swung at Wichester, fes- tooned with his old cavalry sash. Depend- ing from the corners of the chancel above hung the battle-stained headquarters flags of the dead commander, As the morning wore on the visitors increased in number. The homely simplicity of the scene struck particularly the foreign visitors. They unconsciously contracted it with the pomp and pageant which in their own countries characterized the lying in state of the mighty dead. No lines of stoled priests knelt around the bier. No ranks of soldiery in glittering panoply guard the remains of their old com- mander. Men, women and children g assed in and out without formality or hindrance and worshippers bowed their heads and knelt in prayers as they did every day wlen the church was otherwise unoccupied. Republi- can simplicity and_entire absence of display marked the scene, Inthose simple arrange- ments Mrs, Sheridan has only carried “out the expressed wishes of her dead husband in prohibiting anything like a pageant. The daughter of a soldier, the wife of a soldier, she has in- sisted that his funeral be restricted to the strictly military honors duc to tho com- mander of the army. The regulations will not be exceeded and the ceremonials will be no more elaborate than if they occurred on the frontier. THE CATTLE COMBINATIO The special committee designated by the senate, with Mr, Vest of Missouri at its head and Mr. Manderson as one of its members, to visit Kansas City, St. Louis and points in Towa and Nebraska and the northwest to in- vestigate the cattle trade, will not begin its work this year. Chairman Vest says that congress will remain in session 8o long that there will be 1o opportunity to attend to the duties of this committee this year. He says the senate will be asked to continue the ex- pense of the committes and the authority im- posed in it, 80 that it may pursue the investi gation after the adjournment of the next ses- sion ot congress. He states that the commit- tee expects to develop a good deal of interest- ing facts to ranchmen and farmers and tle dealers, inasmuch as the rates and fac ties for the tranportation of cattle, the lo and general trade and general combinations and trusts will be inquired into. It is ex- pected that there willbe one or two sittings of the committee in Nebruska, PERSONAL TO CAPTAIN BOURKE, Captain John . Bourke, who has been appointed one of the aides at the funeral of Sheridan to-morrow, was deputed this after- noon to receive Cardinal Gibbous at the rail- way station. ‘L'he cardinal came over from Baitimore and was received with military honors, There is & renewal of the report that Captain Bourke is to succeed Inspector General Baird. This evening's Critic says: “General Absalom Baird, inspector general of the army, will be placéd on the retired list August 20, und gossip is rife conceruing s successor, The names most prominently mentioned in this regard are Captain Law- ton of the Fourth cavalry and Captain Bourke of the Third cavalry, the Indian fighter and writer, The chances are con- ceded in favor of the latter, as it is under- stood that Secretary Endicott favors his ap- pointment.” MISCELLANEOUS, It is believed that the bill passed by the senate to-day appropriating 25,000 for the encouregement of the use of flax in the way of manufaciuring bmding twine, ete., will do much good in the diréction indicated. It _is rumored to-night that Geagral John F. Farnsworth, of Illinos, is thought of by the president for the Russian mission, to succeed Minister Lathrop, of Michigan, re- signed. General Farnsworth served several terms in congress immediately before and after the war asa republican, but Le has Dbeen a democrat & number of years. ‘The president has approved the bill author- izing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri near Plattsmonth. Senator Manderson left for New York in company with Mrs. Manderson, who will {oin the Patrick coaching club to the moun- tains, The senator will return on Sunday or Monday to the national capital. In executive session this afternoon the nomination of Frank N- Goldbraith of Al- bion, to be land ofticer av Neligh was con- firmed., PeTRY 8. Heatn, el Deaths From Floods, BeruiN, August 10.—Aavices from the flooded districts report several death Fourteen le are wmissing in the Lauben district l!m QUIRY, FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Senate. Wasnixaroy, August 10.—-The genate pro- ceeded to business on the calendar, dispos- ing of bills to which no objection was made. Awmong the bills passed was the senate bill to " ratity and confirm the agreement with the Indians of Fort Berthold agency, Dakota. At 2 p. m. the senate proceeded to the con- sideration of the fisheries treaty in open ex- ecutive session, Mr. Call, who was to speak on the treaty, said he was not prepared to do so to-day, and suggested that the matter go over till' Mon- day. Consent was given and the senate re- sumed consideration of legislative business under unanimous consent to proceed with bills on the calendar to which no objection should be made, The senate bill reducing the postage on fourth class matter to 1 cont for every three ounces having 1 reached, Mr. Heck of- fered a substitute for it, making the postage on first-class mail matter 1 cent an ounce from Januar) l'm'x(. Without action the sido. 1l to regulate comm : having been ched, it was a very im- portant bill, and asked the ehairman of the inter-state commerce committee whether the Teport was unanimous, Mr. Cullom stated that it was. There had been no disagreement whatever in the com- mittee on the subject. The bill was read in full and passed without discussion, objection or division. 1t is the bill introduced by Mr. Spooner and reported back from the commit- tee on inter-state commerce with amend- ments. Its provisions have been published, The senate bill appropriating £35,000 to im- prove and encourage the cultivation and manufacture of flax and hemp was passed. The conference report on the bill to aid state soldiers’ homes, was presented and agreed to. The senate then proceeded to executive busipess with closed doors and soon ad- journed till Monday. o car- House. WasniNGToN, August 10.—In tho house Mr. Townshend of Illinois submitted the conference report on the bill granting aid to state homes for disabled volunteers, and it was agreed to. The provisions of the bill are extended to territorial homes,and its bene- fits are confined to homes entirely under state or territorial control. Mr. Springer gave notice that he would ask the house on Tuesday next to proceed to further consideration of the Oklahoma bill, The house then went into committee of the whole on the private calendar. Almost the entire afternoon was consumed in the consid- eration of the war claim bill, the discussion turning upon the loyalty of the claimants. No action was taken and the committee rose. After passing half a dozen private bills the house took a recess. The house at its evening session passed thirty-five private pension bills, and at 10:30 adjourned until Monda —_——— BAD FOR INVENTORS, Much Unnecessary Delay Issue of Pat WasHINGTON, August 10.—[Special to Tre Bre.]—The extraordinary delays in the issu- ance of patents—caused principally by efforts of the admiaistration to cconomize—often bring about inconvenience and expensive burdens to the inventors, A casc is pending in congress which arose out of an inexcusa- ble delay at the patent oftice, which illus- trates the point in question. A Virginian some time ago made application for a patent on a cigarette machine. Soon after his pa- pers were filed in the patent oftice in this city application wus made for patents on an invention in Germany, Belgium and other countries. Although the patent was applied for in Sc“wmber, it was June before 1t was issued. It appears that the business in for- eign countries isiexpedited with much greater rapidity than ~in the United States, and the foreign patents were issued before the one in the United States, although the latter was applied for first. 'The American laws provide that when any foreign patent ante-dates an American patent for the same invention, the American patent shall expire with any ' such foreign patent, and it has been decided by the supreme court that when any such foreign patent_is forfeited th?lumwd States pateat shall be null and void. The life of* foreign patents is generally about four or five y By this bungling and inexcusable delay in our patent office, it will be seen that the life of American pat- ents is frequently reduced from seventeen to four or five years. It becomes necessary for an inventor to make application for a foreign patent about the same timo that he does for his domestic patent, because he exposes his invention as soon ns he makes applica- tion for a_domestic patent, and any rogue can take it up and steal it by making applica- tion in his own name in a forcign country. Congress, when it acts, is in favor of pro- tecting inventors in instances of this kind; but it frequently happens that, after an in- ventor has lost about a dozen years on the life of us patent by having the forcign pat- ent first, the delay in congressional ac- tion exposes the inventor's work to_pirates, asany one can jump in and get a domestic patent when the life of a foreign patent ante- dating the domestic patent expires Under the circumstances it is wisdom for inventors to not make applicati until the domestic patent is issucd, though there is a good deal of risk run'in’ so doing. in the St. Matthew's Church Visited by Thousands of People. WASHINGTON, August 10.—At 8 o'clock this morning Mrs. Sheridan, accompanied by General and Mrs. Rucker, her father and mother, Colonel Sheridan nd other mem- bers of the family, entered St. Matthew’ church, where thie' remains of the dead gen- eral lioin state. A special requicm mass was celebrated by Father Kerrick, At the conclusion of the service the church was clearcd und Mrs. Sheridun remained alone with Ler dead. As she left the church, the guard resumed their places and visitors were igain admitted. A steady stream of people poured 1n aud out of the churel ail day. The church will remain open until 8 o'clock to- morrow morning, the usual parochial mass being celebrated at 7 o'clock. Marks of Kespect. Cuicaco, August 10.—Muyor Roche has issucd an order that all municipal depart- ments be closed to-morrow, and that the alarm bell be tolled from 10:30 a. m. to 11:30 a. . during the funeral of General Sheridan, ———— Washington Brevities, The postmaster general issued an order this nmrninf, closing the postofiices between the hours of 10 and 2, August 11, the day of Sheridan’s funeral, ‘The president has approved the act for two additional associate justices of the supreme court of Dakota; also the act in regard to the marriage of Indian women and white men, and the act authorizing a bridge across the Missouri river near Plattsmouth, Neb. Senator Call introduced a joint resolution to appropriate §200,000 to be paid out in the discrection of the seretary of the treasury for the vrevention and suppression of yellow fever under the conditions and regulations to be prescribed by ti cretary of the treas- ury, any infected personal or Sther property which is communicating infection and dissase in inter-stute commerce, may bo co demned, This condemned property, it is provided, shall be paid for out of thé money up'l-roprinlod by the resolutions. 'he postmaster general has transmitted to the secrotary of the treasury the aunual re port of the second assistant postmaster gen- eral, which shows a transportation of $562,48: The president to-day vetoed mine private pension bills all of which originated in the ouse. T Towa P ter Appointed, Wasnxaroyn, August 10.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee)—Douglas Debard was to-day appointed postmaster ‘at Patterson, Madison county, lowa, vice Harvey Brown, removed, TARRED AND FEATHERED HIM Iowa Citizens Deal Summarily With a Dastardly Brute, ORDERED TO LEAVE THE TOWN. He Becomes Defiant and Thoy Plags a Rope Around His Neck and Jerk a Confession From Him. Shenandoah's Sensation. In., August 10.—[Special Teles Bk ]—The town of Shenans douh, in Page county, is wild with excites ment over the attempted rape yesterduy of a six-year-old daughter of K. J, Pine by Frank Phillips, also a resident of Shenans doah, aged twenty-five. Phillips was placed under arrest for the crime, and o medical ex~ amination was held by physicians over the little girl and proofs found that rape had been attempted. A preliminary examination was held before Justice Carter, the little girl telling the facts of the crime with child-like innocence. The substance of her story is a8 follow: Phillips had met her on the street and had enticed her into a barn, where the attempted rape was made. Failing in his purpose he threatened to take her life if she ever expose what he had done. Phillips was to have been taken to Clar- mda to the county jail last night, as the feel- ing in the city was greatly against him, and reports of lynching and tar and feathers was talked of frecly, the officers failed to get him to the train and he was immedi placed in the city jail under strong gu for the night. About 10 o'clock a mob of 200 men suddenly appearcd at the back entrance of the city jail.* After strong resistance by the city ofticers they broke down the door with a sledee hammer and tore open the door of the cage in which Phillips was & prisoner. The mob took him from the jail stripped him, and applied a cout of tar ‘ane feathers, after this they threatened a sever@ threshing with a large blacksuake whip, During the proceedings he refuscd to say & a word about his crime, but pleaded pitifully for life. The oficers rescued him from the mob and ain placed him in thecity jail. He was warned to leave town but became defiant and swore vengeance against the mob ang suid he would leave when he got ready. This ated new excitement, and at 2 o'clock ten determined and masked men entered the jail and placing a rope around Phillips’ neck led him out into the street toa telephone pole, The rope was thrown up over the Cross arme He was asked if he was guilty, but he claimed that he was innocent. He wus hauled up and let down, when he confessed the plead for his life and the mob re and demanded that he leave town at on vhich he was glad enough to do. Phillij it is claimed, is guilty of similar atiempts bes fore with other little girls of about the same age as this one, A Famous Case Decided. Des MoiNes, Ta., August 10.—[Special Tele- gram to Tur Bee.]—The somewhat famous case regarding the publishing of the Iows supreme court reports has been just ended by a decision of Judge Henderson, refusing to enjoin the state from carrying out its come tract., The law requires the executive couns eil to make a contract for their publication for a term of eight years, The counci! fixed on 12 o’clock m., May 81, as the time when bids would be closed. Most of the bids were filed at 12 sharp, but the Mills l'ublismns company of his city filed a bid at 12:42, an the attorney general, when consulte said that it would be 12 until {f was 1, and so the bid should stapd, und the council thercupon _awarded it the contract. But the Stevens PPublishing company, of Columbia, Mo., who otherwise had the lowest bid, contested this ruling of the attorney general, and the council re« versed its action and gave it the contract, Then the Mills compady applied tothe district court for an injunction to restrain the coup- cil from carrying out the contract, and 'u‘i‘- judge overruled it on the ground that the council has discretionary powers to glve the contract to whom it pleascs: and, second, that suit against the council is virtually & suit against the state, and so cannot be enter- tained. A Murder at Afton. Ta., July 10.—[Special Telegram to Tue Br H. Bollinger shot and killed David Arnold at Afton, the county seaf of Union county, this afternoon, between and 8 o'clock. Arnold was shot directly through the heart and died instandy. The The trouble was partly an old foud existing between the two men, but which had been recently been revived by a liquor case, Last weels Arnold, who has been drinking and handling considerable liguor of late, was arrested by a United Stal marshal_and taken to Council mun'ulgé CRESTON On his return to Afton he aceu: er of being the cause of his arres A quarrel ensued in which Arnold seized Bollinger by the throat. The latter shool him off and'drew a revolver with the al result. Bollinger gave himself up to the authorities. Both are old residents of Aftog and both bave families, The murdered mam leaves a wife and three children. The Brown Poisoning Oase. Masox Ciry, [a., August 10.—[Special Tele- graw to Tuge Bee.)—The state occupied the entire day in the Brown hes 7, introducing circumstantial evidence, The case 18 an ex~ tremely hard one, and it will tuke several days before it can be completed. Let purporting to have been written by l“d‘:q Brown to her friend, Mrs. Bessie Lake, af Monticello, containing what now app be ver uging testimony, will o enee to-morrow. It is generally isidered that the stato has a_very strong against the accused, Mrs, H, E. Browns k By Lightning, HERNDON, To., August 10.—[Special "Teles gram to Tue Bee.]—Petton 13ros. broom factory was struck by lightning a7 4 o'clock this morning and was totally destroyed. Ine surance §700, in the Capital of D3s” Moin ) meltzer's barn, four miles south of here, was also struck by lightning at tl same time and burned with bhorses and fari machinery, A Bridge Builder Drowned. Sioux City, Ia., August 10.—[Special Tele- gram to Tug Bee,)—A workman on the rail road bridge named Robert Powers to-day fell from the trestle work 140 feet into the river and was drowned. e More Suits Against the Roads, Des MoiNes, Ia., August 10.—Seven addls tional suits agaivst the railroads were filed yesterday. e BECOMING EPIDEMI1O, Latest Reports From the I Stricken Districts, ‘WasniNaron, August 10.—-The president of the state board of health atJacksouville, Fla., telegrapiis to-day that the yellow fever is assuming an epidewio form, Tu¢ ureean general is taking active steps to sbreud of the diseass. Thstructions hev been given for the establishment of fumigate ing stations for all mail and b [roma the dangerous districts, podoe 2l e An Important Decision, Durvri, August 10.—An important declse ion of the assistant commissioner of the gens eral land office was recelved to-day, It ree vokes the decision of Register M invo ves the title of the Byrne lru:fléllilm“l: the Vermillion reglon, we tho Vermt Klo, urv.hbvml'm.m- Feve