Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 20, 1888, Page 2

s Y e Cr o N WSO WY THE OMAHA DAILY BEE! MONDAY, AUGUST 20. 1888 S50 NEAR, BUT NOW S0 FAR. fhe Base Ball Pennant Getting Clear Out of Sight. BEER JERKERS BEAT US AGAIN' Another New Man Was in the Box—S8t. Paul Increases Her Lead by a Game Won From Sioux City —Geneoral Bporting. Western Association Standing. Following is the official standing of the Western association teams up to and inclua- Ing yesterday's games: Playea Won Lost Pr Ct Bt. Paul 79 5L 928 .68 Chicago. Minneapoiis i Milwaukee 8, Omaha 4. MinwAUKEE,August 19.—[Special Telegram to Tur Bre.)—Pitcher Horner, recently re- Jeased by Milwaukee, went into the box for ©Omaha to-day. The home men commenced the game by pounding him hard and hit him safely six times in the first two innings. After that, however, his curves puzzled them and they got only two safe hits, Um- pire Cusick’s decisions were terribly rank and he was especially hard on the home beam. Horner will probably be signed by Omaha, Hits by Burns and Annis in succes- sion, a passed ball and a sacrifice gave Dmaha one in the first. In the same inning Miiwaukee scored twice on singles by Hawes and Walsh, a double by Lowe and® Btrauss’ triple. Omaha scored twice again #n the second on Tebeau’s hit, Strauss’ wild throw, Nagle's sacrifice and a wild piteh. In the sccond Milwaukee got two more on hits by McCabe and Maskrey and a passed ball Walsh's fumble and a wild pitch ullowed Omaha one in the third. In the fifth Mil- waukee scored one morc on a base on balls, & wild pitch, Winkleman’s steal and Nagle's wild throw. Lowe's hit and steal and O'Con- mell's fumble gave them auother in the eighth, The score: MILWAUKEE, > | emcorormre | cocromommm= o R 12 cummmmncar | cmemmemrmcr 2| ccomurmmwonE B © s 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 83 (V] B 15 .9 00000 0+ runs—Milwuukee 3. Bases on balls—Of Horner 1, off Winkleman 2. Struck oul—McAleér, Strauss, Walsh, Buras, Coone cle, Horner. Two buse hits—Lowe, Tebean, Three base hits— Btrauss. Double pliys—Crooks to_O'Con- oll. Passed balls—Crossley 1, Nagle 1. ild_pitches—Winkleman 2, ' Horner 1. Umpire—Cusick. Time—1 ettt Kansns City 2, Maroons 0, Cnioaco, Angust 19.—[Special Telogram to Tne Bre)-To-day's Maroon-Kansas City contest was a pitchers' game all throgh, marked by sharp, clean fiolding, and was disposed of in remarkably quick time. Long made two errors, and in doing so took ail that were chalked up to his club, They didn't count for much though as no harm re- sulted. Dwyer and Conway both had their complete assortment of curves, twists, drops, shoots and other puzzling mysteries of the itcher's art along with them, and it was ard to tell which of the two did the best work, Umpire Fessenden was in great form and did a fine job of umpirmg. Hanrahan Hengle, Nulton, Arduer, Lange, Bradicy and oriarty all did some brilliant bits of field- ing. The score: Maroons. 00000000 0—0 KansasCity. 02 0-2 Baso hits——Maroons 5, Kansas City 6. Er- rors—Maroon, Pitchers— Dwyer and Conway, Umpire—Fessenden. —— St. Paul 8, Sioux City 3. St. Pavn, Mion, August 18,—[Special Molegram to Tur Bek.]—To-day's game be- tween the Aposties and the Corn Huskers ‘was witnessed by 2,000 people, and was slow Bud tedious after the first inning., St. Paul t.ld no trouble in gauging Wells' curves from start, and he was hit hard throughout the ‘Tuckerman. on the other hand, scttled F=“ after the first inning, and allowed the isitors but four safe hits during the remain- g.‘)r of the game. The flelding of Phelan, ickett and Reilly was clever, while the bat- ::gof Carroll was the feature of the stick ', The score: t. Paul.....,...8 0 0 80011 0-8 ioux City 66 " 808 6=38 Base hits—St. rors—St, Paul 3, Sioux Tuckerman and Broughton, ®las, Umpire—Quest, OTHER GAMES, Yesterday's Winners in the American Association. CINCINNATI, August 19.—Result of to-day's 101 sinclnpuu 00001012 0—4 Athloti .5 1000020 0-8 ngusl 19.—Resuit of to- 01100200 0-4 0 0020000 0-2 Anms, m. Crooks, 2b, ©'Connell, 1b. Cooney, s4. Tebeau, 8 | cecxrcwco? Flasssscsas 0—0 Wels and Nich- 00100001 0-2 100018838 *-10 Uuion Pacifics 6, Jetter & Young 1. GRAND IsLAND, Neb., August 19.—[Special Pelegram to Tue Ber. | —The Jetter & Young base ball club met the Union Pacifies this afternoon, They would have been shut out entirely had it not been for a mistake made Dby Lytle of the Pacifics, who, in the second Balf of the second inning, put out two men, #nd, thinking that there were throe out, gorew down his mask, turned around and rolled the bull to the back stop., Shannon ‘Wwas on third and got home before Lytle dis- his mistake. Special trains were m and nearly two thousand five hundred 'sons were present to wituess the game. playing was done on both sides, but the cs showed superior batting and fielding. soore | Jotter& Young.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—1 ‘Waion Paclfics..1 0 1 0110 2 0—6 ‘Base hits—Pacifics 8, Jetter & Young 5. ble plays—Rouke, Moody and Quinn, [{ays, Lucas and Quinn, i1d pitches— uke 1, Struck out—By Rouke 14, by ughes 6. Errors—-Pacifics 2, Jetter & ngs 7. Time—1:40. Umpire—W, (. e Javas 12, O. O. D. Browns 9. The Javas and C. O. D. Browns played a ‘Wery interesting game of ball yesterday. The foature of the game was the battery work J)phmn and QGoodman for the Javas, nmukw game after the C. O, ‘mad runs in first in- The score stood 12 to § in favor of the innings. ¥ Laumarymen 21, Barbers 5. Yestorday afterncon there was au inter- of the City steam laundry and that of the ymen barbors, resulting in a score of 2 5 in favor of the former. The laundry battery consisted of Stockham and ‘Stewart and of the barbers of Hudson and Burk. i — Neversweats 25, Lightweights 5. The boys at the Union Pacific transfer on the other side have a ball team, known as the Neversweats, They defeated the Light- weights of Council Bluffs yesterday by a score of Batteries—Montgomery and Millet, Stovenson and Priest. Hardin 14, Missouri Valley 3. The Hardins of this city went to Missouri Valley yesterday and defeated the local team by a score of 14 to 8. Batteries—Hardins, Hurly and Hart, and Hurly and Shields; for vhe Valley, Kimes and Donney. - CANINE WARRIORS, They Battie Almost to Death at Lake Manawa. There was a dog fight on the beach above Wright's landing at Lake Manawa § aftornoon, between Jack Nugent's brindie bull terrier Blutch, and Jim Doyle's white purp Frank. The fight was for a purse of 25 made up among the select few who wero on hand to witness the scrap. After consid- erable wrangling Bob_ Clancy was chosen referce, and the crowd being forced back upon the high bank, the purps were eut loose, Reddy O'Neil' handling Bluteh and Doyle looking nficr the interests of Frank. At'the first scratch Bluteh got a_terrible throat hold, and for eight minutes the strug- glo between the two savage brutes w torrible to belold. Exert nimself as he might Frank could not extricato himself from Bluteh's deadly hold, and he was wallowed and shaken and dragged around in the sand until both animals rolled over into the lake from sheer exhaustion. Even here Blutch never relaxed his deathiike hold, but hung on until Frank, half drowned, hung limp and almost lifeless in his dripping jaws. Finally Blutch dragged Frank out of the water upon the sand, and here for a_moment it fooked as if the tide of battic might turn i the white's favor. He got a hold on Bluteh's for d chowed aw if en- joying himself. This, howover, only enraged Nugent's purp the more, and taking an extra mouthful of Doy neck in his fanglike teeth, he shook him like alion would a jackal, and when the dogs broke, he turned tail and ran up the bank. Clancy, amidst the cheers of the backers of the Omaha_canine, im- mediately awarded the fght to Nugent. ' Just iummy pulled out, Doyle, the owner of Police Lucas, at the instigation of State At- torney Daily, who was at Odell's when the gang left for the scene of the battle. NO HABEAS CORPUS IN THEIRS Guide Rock Citizens Impatient of the Law's Delay. Guipe Rock, Neb, August 19.—[Special Telegram to Tik Brk.]—Young Grant, tho victim of tho shooting at Tallbot's hall, is still alive and doctor's have some hope of ving his life. Au immense crowd of peoplo were on the streets all night, notwithstand- ing the he: hat fell at 4 a. m. Cole’s accomplice, a young tough from Red Cloud, was arrested to-day and remanded to jail without bail, awaiting the result of the shoot- ing, Anattorney from Red Cloud was hero y in the interest of the accomplice und scatens to procure his release on a writ of corpus, An attempt 1o that line will 58 cause trouble, as the citizens de- For want, import- and th people here have small_faith i their holding him if they get him. The idea of lynching is by no means nbandoned, but is held in check ting results, Holt County's Crops. O'NgiLi, Neb,, August 19.—[Special to Tue B ]—The dispatch dated at this place on the 10th inst. and published in Tur i suying that small grain is a bad failure is misleading. As the dispatch pur- ports to have been sent from this place, and as our county (Holt) is situated on the north- ern boundary of the state and nearer to its enstern than' to its western line, it would ba atural for a person unacquainted with the facts to Infer that we shared the fate of tho unfortunate district, if it_be true that any portion of northenstern Nebraska is 80 un- fortunate, which is very doubtful. As for Holt county, farmers here have just finished harvesting a good averago crop of small grain, and the corn and root crops, except whert the ground was too wet last spring to allow seasonable planting, have never looked better at this season for the past thirtecn years Corunnus, Neb., August 18.—The special telegram to Tk Bkg, dated at O'Nell Au- gust 16, to the efféct that small grain is a failure, is wholly false and unfounded, There ‘never was a better yield of smail zeain in the history of Nebraska than were harvested this year. Corn is looking finely and_there has not been a better prospect for an abundant crop than this year. The First Freight Train. Norrorx, Neb., August 19.—[Special to Tur Beel—Friday the first freight train over the now branch of the Fremont, Klk- horn & Missouri Valley railroad made its way to the little village of Verdigre, twelve miles beyond Creighton and within five, miles of the Sioux reservation. The rails are laid along the Verdigre valley to the new town, and_about September 1 a regular ac- commodation train will be put in service, Were the reservation thrown open the branch would be extended still further and herds of cattle would take the place of the elk, deer, antelope and bear that now share the district with the Indians, Settlers are coming in rapidly, and the town site of Ver- digre is one of the best in ths state. There is an excellent water power close by, and an honest, industrious class of setticrs occupy ibe aajucent farms. Good building stone can be quarried within two wiles of the depot. Rock Center's Bright Prospects. Newrort, Neb., August 18.—[Special to Tik BEe. |—On a beautiful plateau, midway betwoen Newport and Bassett, on the Fre- mont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railway, has been located a_new town called Rock Center, which is beyond doubt to be the county us Rock counf 1se Brown county di- vides, which is generally conceded throu; out the county, the east half of Brown county will be Kock county. The land which Rock county will embrace will place it among the leading agricultural counties of this state. The founders of Rock Center are euergetic men of push and capital. Banker Altschuler has already opened a gencral merchaudise store, and several other build- ings ave in course of erection. The farming population is delighted with the town, as it is located at & contral point. With tho pres- ent outlook Rock Center bids fair to be @ town of 500 people before the holidays. — —-— Loup Valley tiiremen’s Tournament, Onrp, Neo.,, August 19.—[Special to Tug Bre. | —The committee of the Loup Valey Tireman’s association have decided to hold their tournament at Ord during the county fair in October. There will be four contests —first, second and third woney in each. Dry test: Run 200 yards and lay 100 yards of hose; purse §0. Wet test: Run 200 yards, lay fifty yards of hose, attach to hydrant and show water; purse §70. Hub and hub race: Ruu 200 yards and lay 100 yards of hose; purse $100, Coupling race: Run fifty yards, break joiuts and place pipes; purse &30, Valley County Teachers. Onp, Neb,, August 19.—[Special to Tar Ber.]—The Valley county teachers institute is in session at Ord. It began Monday the 1th inst. and will close onthe 25th inst. About seventy-five teachers are in attend- ance. Profs. J. J. Taylor, M. B.C. True, D. McQall, J. . Kates, Mrs. £auna G, Gil- lespie and Miss Jennie Cauticld are conduct- ing the mstitute. ———— A G. A. R. Post Established. Prarre Cexren, Nob., August 10— [Special Telegram to Tue Bem]—A Grand Army st was formed here yesterday, Command It ST Sy Comesir ————— Crispl Goes to Carisbad. Roue, August 10.—Premier Crispi has gone to Carlsbad. IT FELL BEFORE NEW FACES. Rringing Back the Memories of a Score of Years Ago. LAST NIGHT AT THE CALIFORNIA, With a Benefit Performance For the Old Attaches—San Francisco's Lepers—A Romance of' Two Continents, Gossip of the Balmy Coast. SAN Frawcisco, August 18,—[Cor- respondence of TnE Beg.[—The curtain fell Saturday night for the last time on the last play that will ever be performed in the old California theater. Nineteen years ago the theater was opened with Bulwer Lytton's play, bearing the sus- picious name of “*Mooney;” last night it was closed with o dranfa appropriately titled *“*For-Get-Me-Not.” The drama was for the benefit of the old attaches, and in goodly numbers the public re- sponded. Some of the old-time memories mate- rialized. Bob Eberle acted as stago manager, and Charley Schultz, with his head not the least bit balder, and with his chestnut hair cropped just as short, waved the violin bow as a leader of the orchestra in the old style. Ghosts of the past seemed to lurk in the dark shadows of the private boxes and in the retired nooks of the building. Here it was that Neil Warner, the ) P scholar; Walter Mont- v, who played Hamlet in a blonde wig and blue tights, and afterwards committed suicide; Bill Barr, prince of grave-diggers: T. W, Keene, of eclassic memo) ervont Thayer, who wrecked his lifo as a fitting end to a blasted earcer; genial John MeCul- lough, who pabbled of green fields and running brooks in a mad house with his dying breath: Montague, the adored of adoring women, whose life welled out in a erimson stroam from between his pallid hps; Adelaide Neilson, the petted and spoiled beauty, who died suddenly in a cabinet particulier of a Paris vestaurant; here it was t at one time or another within the past two decades they trod the boards and moved their listeners alternately to laughter and to tes Nor should it be forgotten that it was here that W. H. L. Barnes essayed tho role of an actor in the play of “*Solid Silver.” and that Ha Edwards, jolly actor-student and collector of spec- imens of all the bugs that are in the heavens, on the earth, or in the waters under the carth, gave to Shakespeare's lines in Mercuti eality that is now seldom witnessed by playgoers. Booth and Barrett, in the portrayals of the sterner passions, Bill Mestayer and Willie s, and Maggie Moore and Joe Murphy and J. €. Williamson. in producing resemblances of the lighter and more frolicsome moods of humanity, added fresh laurels to their histrionic wreaths on the California Theater stage. sophie Bdwi Ella Wilton, Helen Tracy, Rose Eytinge, Mrs. Saunders and that incomparable queen of old women, Mrs. Judah, delighted some of the largest audiences that ever assem- bled within the walls of the Old Drury. BiLooking around at the large audi- ence one could not help missing with a shavp feeling of disappointment the faces of ninoteen years ago. The blooded speculators on the rialto of Pine street—the men who made and lost for- tunes for themselves and others—were absent from the dress circle last night. The dashing Jime Keene, the jovial B. Howard Colt, Sandy Austin, Dave Por- ter, W. C. Ralston, John McComb, Fred McCrellish, Jim Fair, W. S. O'Brien John Mackay, and none of the rest ol them that are alive were seen at the old California theater to bid the cld land mark a fond farewell. In their places were young men and women who twenty years ago were “‘mewling and puking ‘in their nurses’ arms,” while many of the older people who attended weré shivering in eastern blizzards when the old theater was first opened. THREE HUNDRED LEPERS, No one denies the fact that there are lepers in the Chinese colony of San Francisco. The newspapers have hi quently published the fact that the dread disease exists in this city, but owing to the almost Giberaltran fastn of Chinatown and the fact that there are y few physicians in the city who would recognize symptoms of leprosy if they saw it, it is almost impossible to detect. There is now in this city a gen- tleman who is an suthority upon this subjeet, Captain J, H. Brown, hend of the executive department of the Hawaiian Health department, who ar- rived from Honolulu during the month of June. He made the passage on the sameo ship which conveyed the German girl, Mina Schultz, to this country. In conversation with a reporter upon this subject the eaptain gave it as his opinion that there ave at least three huudred cases of leprosy in the Chinese quarter of San Francisco. In support of this astounding statement the captain stated that leprosy was not always con- tagious. Especially was this the case with persons who had the d e in its first stages. That such people might bo thus aillicted for years and get noworse. and that it was because Chinamen knew that they were perfeetly safo from its ravages which made them take carve of and hide those of their countrymen who were aflicted. “I give it as my opnion,” stated Captain Brown, “‘that there is not one physician in the whole of San Francisco who would kunow a case of leprosy were he too see it. It requires an expert to recogn symptoms.” LIFE LOST IS CHABM, A life romance came near its close at Los Angeles the other night. It began to the sound of the guitar and mandolin in the gem of the Antilles, where Ma- rino Seco fell in love with and was loved by Josepha Mugica. With the ensy Cuban custom tho two cast aside the troublesome muarriage rites and lived together for several years, two children being born to them. Josepha was gifted with a rare voice and allied her fortunes with the Spaunish Ope company, and came with that organiza- tion on its Americun tour, giving her partoer the cold shake. He followed her, however, and, land- ing on Mexican soil, nearly laid down his life at Vera Cruz through yeliow fever. On his recovery he followed his lady love to this city, where soon after, by perforce of untoward circumstances, the company broke up. Several days ago some of the members of the defunct opera company went east, and Josepha was oue of them. She said nothing to her admirer, and when he found it impossible to raise money to follow her and saw uo prospect of a liv- ing, he beeame very despondent, wrote a hitter, passionate letter to his inamo- rita, and swallowed a big dose of lauda- num, » He was discovered in time and atonce | taken to the police station, where for hours after he was dosed with antidotes and trotted up and down & corridor, and finally rescued from the grim monster. YELLOW FEVER. ‘Some nervous people here have been afraid that yeNow fever would reach here from Florida, but Health Officer Barger does not apprehend any danger. He says: “Yellow fever is unlike other epidemic disenses in thatjt usually ex- hausts itself in the luv:\f‘i(y where it starts, The state board of health of Florida is using every means to stamp it out. It might, of course, reach here by the railroad, but the chanee is very small, If it did come that way we would be obliged to watch the trains ns we did when smallpox was prevalent in the south. Yellow fever was never epi- demic here.” Dr. Simpson declared there was small probability of the disease getting beyond the control of Surgeon General Hamil- ton, the head of the quarantine service. “Of course continued, those southern cities sometimes suffer a great deal before this scourge is suppressed, | but the yellow fever epidemic in Mem- phis, which weill nigh decimated the place, taught them a lesson, and now they pay particular attention to theur sanitary conditions. The south of late years has received large numbers of set- tlers, who, being unacclimated, are more susceptible to the disease than a native. They are exposed until the first frost, which mukes an end of the epidemi “Florida, you observe,” pointing to the map, *‘is in the extreme southeast- arn portion of our land, and we are on the western shol Look at the number of states this yellow fever must pa through in order to reach us, And re- member that in each one of those states there is a health board ready to combat dvance. San Francisco has had vory fow cases of yellow fever, All of them came in by vessel. Prompt mes ures by the board of health removed all danger. The quarantine stations which wiil shortly be cstablished on this const will thoroughly protect our seaside Our only danger then will be by rail. From that source we have little or no cause to fear, as the railroad companies always side-track any carcondemned by a board of health, s e An Eleetrified River. Ever since the electric street railrond Ansonia, Conn., has been in oper: tion, great diflienlty has been expe! ienced with the escaping current. I the system adopted the current is conveyed to the motors from the central plant by a system of overhead wi I'rom the motor the current passes through the wheels to the rails, and it is supposed to return to the plant gai But it does not—all of it. There big quanti £ all the varying intensity according to whether the cars are running light and on a level stretch of track, of whether they are heavily loaded or going up some of the steep grades. of which there are several on the line. The electricity escaping intothe ground affects the telephone system and causes le;and annoying buzzing des, it causes the drops to ntraloftice, and no way to remedy the difficulty has been found. Last weelk alocal electrician determined to test the power of the escaping cu vent. A wire was grounded near t} electric plant in Derby, no_connection being m 0 the and was then run into his office in Ansonia, some threc miles away lere it was connected with the gas | was cut, and & Maxim lamp was attachod to th volts or 16- ping andle power. The carbon at once began to glow, and as a car passed along Main street in front of his office, the lamp gave forth a clear light. as strong as if on a regular light wire car rolled further and further away the hight grew dim, but when the grade at the foot of Derl Hill was reached, and the motor took more of the current from the wire, the mp again shown as bright as eve An Edison lamp was also attached, and though this re- quired 120 volts to cause u regulation light, it showed up clearly and gave light enough to'read by. It remained for the ever present small boy to di v benefit in the eseaping elect ot far from the street where the are laid runs “the Naugatuc In this the boys are wont to bath ,when the youngsters went swimming, they re astonished by the peculiar sensation they expevienced. It was not at ail disagreeable. On the contrary, it was pleasant, though at times some of the beys would give a jump as though they had stepped on 4 piece glass and cut their fe The feeling was so pleasant that some of ihem vemained in ihie water for hours, and only came oui when hunger forced them out to go home for supper. Tt is learncd by ex- periment that the sensations were caused by electricity, and it is proposed by the shrewd Yankees of this money making town to lease the banks of the river and establish bathing houses, that !muple may trlie a pleasant, invigorat- ng electric bath at small cost. i ot Too Oft So Sadie in the Oase. to be married to- nd of al! men, to Jac Why, he hasp'tgot a cent she becomes Mrs. Hardupp Rackett at ace church at 2 p.m. What does the n. stand for, [ wonder? Ylora---Poor mateh, I presume, - - A Family Faning. Daughter—Papa, dear, Mr. Samp- son is coming to-night, and T wish when you go to bed that you would close the transom over your door.” Father (humbly)—*""Do [ snore so loudly as all *Yes, papa; and I don’t want ampson to think that that sort of thing runs in the family.” e Captain Rivers, of the ship A. G. Ropes, that left Boston for San Fraucisco on July 3 r on Mon- with a six sast, the top incetown tha day, the 16th, while saili knot breeze from t spars suddenly began falling. There was no percoptible change in the wind or atmos- phere pefore or after the accident, and he cannot account for it only on the supposition that a whiriwind pas ust high enough to strike the spars, of wh he lost nineteen, ¢d in Auckland June 24, aged 104 years, . Ho bousted, a few weeks before his death, that he had drank all the whisky he wanted for eighty-scven years, and had never ex- perienced gny sickness. But he didu’t want as much whisky as some other men do. He preserved his strength until a fortnight, before death, and was noted for his jovial habits Maurice Kelly e amery in lowa was started fourteen years ago.' Now there are 495 creameries in the state, besides fifty-six cheese factories, and 55,000,000 pounds of butter are exported yearly, EXTERNALUSE of el For PAINS Axp SDRiNigi Rla!ima FBOM g ol b the s| Sl oy inho{ water and wrung out. BOLD BY DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS &2 CHA? AVOGELER £ Bacto. Moe The first 'Bvrlin’grfin} Route .| C.BRQ.R.R. The Burlington takes the lead. Butlington] Route C.B&QNI It was in advance of all lines in developing Nebraska. It was in advance ofall lines in establishing dining-car service between Missouri river points and Chicago. It was in advance of all lines Omaha and the West a fast mail service. giving the people of It was in advance of all lines in running its trains from the East into Omaha propsr. It was in advance of all lines in reducing the time of passenger trains between Omaha and Chicago. It was in advance, and is the only line by which you can feave Omaha in the morning and arrive in Denver the evening of the same day. It has been progressive in the past. It will lead in the future. Travel and ship via the Burlington. Ticket Office, 1223 Farnam Street. Depot on Tenth Street. THE WILY STREET CAR LINES. Dr. Mercer Believes in the Nine Points in Law. CAPTURING DOUGLAS STREET. An Injunction Served at 1 A. M., But Mercer's Motor Line Has Pos- of the Right of Way. session Fighting For the Bridge Ti The work of laying track for Dr motor line was continued all d and until 12 o’clock last night. pected that the horse car compa have an injunction ready to serve as soon as Monday was ushered in, and the gang of Ttaiian and Ivish laborers was called off the street to await developments, The interpreter stood the dagoes in line on the sidewalk, numbered them, and gave them instructions in Italian. Then he marched them around the block out of sight. The Irishmen were sent elsewhere, ostensi- bly to get a lunch. After waiting an hour, during which neither sheriff, deputy nor injunction put in an appearance, the gang resumed work. The picks had hardly been raised when Sheriff Coburn and Deputy Grebe drove up and training order. Work was in between Tenth and Eleventh ‘The gang of laborers was moved to tion between Twelfth and Eleventh and began operations again. Rails had been laid from the new river ge at Ninth street westward on Douglas to Tenth, 1 rods of paving had been torn up from Tenth street westward, also from Tweiith street eastward. This gave Possession, tempor: at least, of the right of way forthose blocks, and insured Mercer's ‘Twelfth street line of a counection with tie d clectric rafliway on the bridg *s line has a *‘loop” that encircles six blocks, It up Douglas street from Twelfth to Fourteenth, on Fourteenth to Howard, on Howard to Twelfth and thence back to Douglas, Captain Ma pany, when what he proposed doing, said : It has been our policy to pursue our busi- ness peacefuliy and carefully. We have rights and we shall take legal steps to main- tain them.” In answer to the question how that would Dbe done, he said: “In the usuul way.” By injunction he was asked. Yes, sir. e lLad a permit from the board of public works S; v to lay our line from Farnam street on Ninth to Doug- las aud thence on Douglas to Tenth, Our intention was to build up to Eleventh and then back to the Farngm street line. But we couldn't ot a permit for more than two blocks at a time. ‘The board of public works scems to have adopted that rule in order not to have too much of a street torn up _at We cut the paving on N to the bridge and luid out ou i cate that we had waken possession and 1 the right of way. ‘The loop 2d making was in- tended especially for our cable line, but would have been used in conu on with our present systom until its conversion into a cable line Dr. Mercer was the suvervising spirit in the seizure of Douglas street, and was as busy as @ bee yesterday in pushing the forward as rapidly as possible. permit from the board of publ id the doctor in response to u r i extends from the e of Tentht up Douglus to Tw What good would it bave done the hors company to build on Douglas str They could not go beyond the side of Tenth st iy and it would have been a deadlock. They couldn’t complete their loop. It was only adog-in- the-wanger scheme to keep us from the Dbridge and to force the bridge company into turning over the passengers of the bridge railway to the horse car lineor to force a big bonus. We have had an understanding with the bridge company _ for wmonths that our track should laid to the bridge and they should come up into town on it. They were to use our Loup on Douglas, Fifteenth, Howard and Twelfth streets in order o turn aroundd The horse car company got an inkling of it and began their operations. ‘When we heard of their scheme Suturday afternoon we gol our permit and laid our plans.” “Under what authority do you tear up Douglas street, between Ninth and Teuth, when your permit is for the two blocks from Tenth to Twelfth” “Oh, we didn't do that,” was the doctor's ready answer. *“The work from the bridge to Tenth street was done by the bridge com- pany. We leased thom our charter for that part of Douglas street. The permit is & matter of form, Anyway. Judge Wakeley decided in the Leavenworth streot case that it wasn't necessary and didn’t have much binding force. We had the permit for that street and the hovse car com- pany had possession. The 1ud58 decided progress of the horse car com- seen yesterday and asked _that we had no right to the street. “Have you & contract, doctor, with the bridge company for the use of your track up into the city " was asked. “No, sir, ne written It rested the upon anor parties to the understanding. sangements with Mr. T, J. Evans and Mr. Stuart of Council Bluffs, Mr. Ivans is gen- cral manager of the bridge and has had most to do with securing its construction.” Mr. Guy C. Barton and possibly othors are interested in'both the horse car and the bridge companies. It has been sup. posed that these wentlemen would control the affairs of the bridge company sufficiently to sccure an aliilance betweon its railway and that of the Horse Car company. But Mr. Barton is out of town and things have taken a turn. It wus rumored on the streets vestorday that the Horse Car company had taken pos. session of Sherman avenue for s track ex- tension, but the report proved untrue. Ve had made THE FLA) PIONIC, Thousand Pcople Go Over to Manawa With Them, The excursion given by the Flambeau club to Lake Manawa yesterday proved a suc socially at least, the opportunity for a brief outing being taken by nearly one thousand Omaha_people and several dozen from Lin- coln. The attendance wonld doubtless have been much larger had it not been for the treatening aspect of the weather in_the morning. Before leaving, the Flambeau club, commanded by Captain Kaspar and Lieutenants Masterman _and Broderick, and _headed by the Bohemian band, paraded the principal streets. Two trains were necessary to carry the excursion- ists, one leaving at 9:30 a. m. and the other at 2:30 p. m. The Manawa motor line, which is distinguished mainly for its lack of accom- modations, conveyed the excursionists to the lake, where a delightful day was spent. Boat riding. bathing, daneing and tho nu- merous other pleasures the place affords were entered into with great z in the evening a beautiful pyrotechnic display was given Irom the top of the large steamboat in front of Manhattan beach. At 11 p. m. the excursionists returncd home. An Early Moj Fire. A fire at 1 0'clock this morning burned out the inside of a small frame building on Fif- teenth street near Davenport. It was owned by Lucien Woodworth aud occupied for a mitlinery shop by Mrs., Martin. A German-African Lake Company. One BERLIN, August 19.—It 15 announced that Licutenant, Wissman, who is now in Egypt, en route to Zanzbar, is a member of the Emin Bey relicf committee, If the relief ex- pedition proves successful it is intended to form and maintam & commercial highway with stations from the lukes castward. Ior this purpose the “German-African Lakes company” will be formed, Telephone Burlington < Route LUBRQARE A Parnell Defense Fu Duniiy, August 10.-The Ireeman's Journal gives prominence to au authorized paragraph declaring that Parnell is able to make the clearest case of disproof of tho charge that he was the author of the Times’ letters by a chain of evidence of the most perfect churacter. The Freeman’s Journal has op ense fund with a subscrip- tion of & \bishop Walsh, with a simi- lar subscription, sends a warm letter endors- ing Parnell’s action, Boulanger Sweeps the Field. Parts, August 10.—General Boulanger was elected to the chamber of deputies in the de- t of Somme to-day by a majority He also neads the polls in the ite and Nord departments, The an- nouncement of the figures caused great ex- citement in this city e el The Union Pacific Train Robbers. RAWLINS, Wyo., August 19.~The latest re- ports from the train robbers are that they arc fifteen miles north of Medicme Bow river heading for Shirly Basin. The Rawlins v on their trail. «d_of §1,000has been offered by the Union Pacifie for e bher, dead or live. Five Cents to See the Wreck. HALIFAX, August 19.—Pcople wishing to sce the damaged steamer Thingvaila, which was in a collision with the Geiser, are charged 5 cents. The money gocs to the Halifax sailors’ home, e P Mabmoud Pasha an Embezzier. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 19.—Mahmoud Pasha, ex-minister of finauce, is accused of embezzling 15,000 pounds. An open inquiry will be held immediately ) Earthquake. Rowe, August 19.—The Lipari volcano is again in a state of eruption. Port Maurice, in Rivierra, was shaken by an earthquuke to-day. e e Jack Matson, agel cighty-cight, is said to be the oldest man in the Black Hills. is as straight as an arrow and as lively as a youth of sixteen, and boasts of his abilities as a sprinter. His has been an eventful life—a caveer full of romance and rich with thrilling ad- ventures. For forty years he traveled with @ circus, and he has probubly trained apd taken care of more ele- phants than anpy man livlnfh At pres- handling L&e Shaken By A ent he is employed in thoroughbred horses on a ranch, and takes great pride in his work, ) EXIONGE | 1888 " THE GREAT 1888 OMAHA FAIR AND EXPOSITION Held September 3 to 8, Inclusive. Most Complete and Best Arranged Fair Grounds in the West The best accommodations for stock, which can be unloaded from carsat the grounds. fastest teack in the country. cept in racing purses. Superior accommodations for agricultur: Competition open to the world. | exhibits., The best and No entry foe ex- Special Attraction Each Day. GRAND AND MAGNIFICENT Pyrotebhnical Display every evening of th SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. KFor premium lists, cireularsand infore tion, address sescuent. | J, H, McSHANE, Secretary, Omaha, Nebraska,