Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 26, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNI TERMS OF S{'BSCRIPTIO Datly Morning Edition) including § BEP, 016 YORT....c0uiriiiryenes For six Months For Thres Months TAE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE, mailed to any address, r 08,014 ANDOIB FARN JEFICE, ROOMS 1§ AND BUILDING. W ASHINGTON OFFL FOURTEENTH STREET, waand sl 1l communicatic All commini; the Eprroi T torial matter should be & or TiE Bek. i pittances should bo HING COMPAN office orders bl 10 the order of the company. nddressed to DMATA. D bewade pa The Bee Pablishing Company, Proprietors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. ®worn Statement ot Circulation. Etataof Nebraska, County of Douglas, obert Hunter, otk for The Bes Pub- solemnnly swear that the e DALY Bex for the 0, 1485, was as follows Tuesday, Oct, Wednesday, Oct, Thursday, Oct Friday, Oct. 19 Baturday, Oct. 20, ROBERT HUNTER. Sworn %0 befors me and subscribed in my ence this 20th day of October A. D , 1888, N. P, FEIL, Notary Fublic. | f Douglas, | "% Georie B, Tzsehuck, heing duly sworn, de- a5 and siya that he I8 secretary of The Hee Publishing com {hat tlio actual average daily circilation ik DALY DEg for the montn_of October, 14,553 copies; for No- vember, 1K, 19,224 copies; for December, 18 16,041 coples; for | , 06 copies: for February, 18, opies: tor' March, 1884, m.-wa;:&nm; for April, 1888, 14,74 coples; 188, 18, Jiine, 18, 10 . f Dies; oK, iU Sworn to befors and subscribed in my ence, this 9th day of October, A, D, I8, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. THE bank cashier of eastern cities takes his hat off now when he passes the city trensurer on the streets. BOSTON is far more anxious to find out who will be the captain of her base ball nine next soason, than she is interested to know who will be the president of the United States in 1889, Tr ONE of the four trans-Atlantic steamships now racing across the ocean should come to grief, it would teach the reckless companies who wink at this de- fiance of the laws, a costly und terrible lesson. Tie fact that Emperor William dined with Professor Von Bergmann and Doctor Gerhardt so soon after the ap- pearance of Doctor Mackenzie's book, shows what side of the controversy he espouses. Tnree Amer “corner” on the affections of the king of Wurtemburg. It is quite evident that three Americans have struck a deal in which even Jay Gould and “Old Huteh™ are strangers. d to have a CHAIRMAN BRICE is said to have shed more tears over the conviction of the unlucky New York tramp for ille- gal registration than he grieved for the ninety and nine democrats who went over to Harrison. —_— Ir 1T was J. Sterling Morton who called Cleveland *‘a butcher, a bungler and an unpleasant incident in this struggle,” he had better wrap up his candidacy for governor in a pieco of brown meat-paper. The “butcher” has his hand on the cleaver. —_— Tuar giant monopoly, the Alaska Commercial company, seems to have a provision that a republican government will either control it or annul its char- ter, for it is utilizing its advantages most tremendously. Recently an Alaska steamer arrived in San Fran- cisco with a hundred thousand seal skins on board. How long will sealing coutinue if such devastation is permit- ted, — THERE may be considerable truth in the rumor that the Canadian Pacific is seeking to obtain terminal facilities in LChicago,, Itis well known that the Ca- nadian road has for a long time been throwing sheep’s eyes towarfl Chicago. But heretofore it has not been able to carry its project into effect. The en- croachment of American railroads into Manitoba may have spurred the Cana- dian Pacific to retaliate on the Northern Pacific by forcing its way through St. Paul to Chicago. If it should succeed in its purpose, another trunk line would be added, and the Canadian roads would dispute with the American railroads for Mhrough traf T statistics of pork packing for the past twelve months show that two new centres have been created, at Sioux City, and at Ottumwa, both in Towa. Both of these have drawn from Ch cago, and the latter perhaps from con- tres to the south. All other packing places show a diminution with the ex- ception of Omaha, which marks a slight increase. It must be remembered that rtof the decroase may be explained by hog cholera, but having taken that Into consideration there still remains a falling off difficult to account for. Prob- ably there has been a considerable gain in local packing all over the country, showing that the farmers find good home markets close to them. —_— No oNE who knew Claus Spreckels’ record of gross monopoly upon the Pa- cifio slope for a moment believed his assertions that he had gone east to fight the sugar trust and to inaugurate an era of cheap sugar. They took with many grains of allowance his assertion that he had been working all his life for Claus Spreckels and that he intended from that time forward to work for the American people. It now appears that his big refinery in Philadelphia has been erected in the interests of Have- meyer’s trust in order to kill the trade of two Philadelphia sugar refineries who have been deaf alike to the bland- §shments and the menaces of the Brook- Jyn sugar boss. As such an explanation is procisely in accordance with the past life of Claus Spreckels, he will now be recognized not only as a most arrogant ) ;lmmvoufl. but also as & monumental iar, THE SUBMISSION SPOOK. At the outset of the present state cam- paign, the hue and cry was raised by the domocrats that the submission plank in the republican platform, makes it a matter of vital importance to opponents of prohibition to defeat Governor Thayer and elect the democratic candi- dato whose party pledged him to op- posa the submission amendment. This was pronounced by us a delusion and a snare, and the editor of TitE Brg went 50 far as to venture the assertion that constitutional amendment did not quire the sanction of the governor, for the reason that the constitution vests the authority to submit amendments to the constitution in the legislature, whenever three-fifths of each of the two houses agree upon the same. Aud now this view of the question is endorsed by the judges of the state su- preme court, in the following letter: State of Nebraska, Supreme Court—Hon. J. M. Thayer, Governor of the State of Ne- braska—Dear Sir: In reply to yours of this date we have to say that the governor has no connection with the submission by the legislature of the proposed amendment to the constitution of the state. Such a propo- sition does not go to him for his approval. This question, under a similar constitutional provision, was decided in the negative by the supremo court of the United States in Collingsworth vs. Virginia, 3 Dallas, rep. 878, See also Paschal's Annotated Constitu- tion, 247, Very respectfully yours, (Signed] M. B. Reese, Awmasa Conp, SAMUEL MAXWELL. his knocks the bottom out of the pretense soindustriously instilledamong the liquor dealers and citizens of for- cign birth who were frightened by the prohibition spook. It is manifest that the governor can have no agency in promoting or defeating hbmission amendment. Mr. Me- Shane must stand or fall upon his own merits, and not upon a fictitious issue. RICATING CORRESOND- ENT. The correspondent who is sent out to write up the political situation so as to agree with the attitude of the paper he represents, regardless of the real facts, or with reference only to such as run his way, has been abroadin the land for some time. His busines: not to sce the whole truth, or rather not to tell it, but to use only such knowledge as will prove encouraging to the class of read- ers he is to cater to, and his value is proportioned to hisability toexaggerate his information and array it in the most formidable way, One of the most skillful correspond- ents of this class in the country is at- tached to the New York Z%im-s, and he has been devoting s well-developed talents for a month or more past to the western and northwestern siates, He probably came out to these sections about the time Chairman Brice visited Chi- cago to organize a great movement which was to swoep half a dozen west- ern and northwestern states into the democratic column, but while the head of the democratic campaign committee discovered the hopelessnoss of the task he had set himself to do, the corre- spondent remained to do what he could to cheer the hopes of the eastern democracy. And his effort, it must be conceded, has been remarkably well maintained in the face of d ifficulties that would have discouraged most men having a conscience. In the last issue of the Zimes at nand this precious prevaricator sums up his investigations in six states and his con- clusions are entertaining and instruc- tive as to what can be done by a person proficient in the art of making things appear the reverse of what they are, Of Illinois he says Harrison may get the state, but it will be by an extremely small margin, although a careful can- vass by the republican committee leaves no room for doubt that the republican plurality will be greater than four years ago. Dropping into Iowa he found the democratic situation there of the most hopeful character. There were all sorts of conditions adverse to the republicans, and he blandly sug- gests that unless the pacty has waked up, “Chairman Hunter of the demo- cratic state committee will entertain the country about November 7 with a sucprise party.” Well, the republican party, as everybody knows hereabout, has been pretty wide awake throughout the campaign, and nevor more so than at present, with the effect of drawin steadily from the democratic ranks. The intelligent farmers of Iowa under- stand their interests and the country will learn by November 7 that by a large majority they desive to intrust them to the care of the republican party. Over in Minnesota the cor- respondent discovered what was not known to anybody else, and there are some pretty shrewd and vigilant newspaper men in that state, that the Scandinavian vote was desert- ing the republican par ty, the fact, on the contrary, being that this vote has not been for some years so nearly unani- mous in gupportof the republican ticket as it is this year. His courage faltered in the presence of the formidable plu- rality of four yearsagoand he could not promise a possible surprise party from Minuesota, but he did not wholly dash eastorn democratic hopes by teli- ing them what is the truth, that Minne- sota will give Harrison and Morton as lurge a plurality, and very likely larger, than it gave Blaine. We need not follow vavicator into Wiscousin, Indiana and Michigan, where - his well- trained faculty found even more ex- tended opportunity. The examples noted are sufficient Lo show the sort of misrepresentation the organs of dem- ocracy in the east have been supplying from the west and northwest, in order to strengthen and stimulate the confi- dence and zeal of the demoorats of the east. When the west and northwest speak through the ballot box on the 6th of November these organs will find somo difficulty in explaining the result in the face of the statements of the pre- varicating correspon deuts. THE PREY this pre- A GRAVE INJUSTICE. Amoug the injustices of the present oampaign none has been graver or more unfounded than the charge - that Judge Gresham and his friends were hostile to General Harrison, and were eovertly doing all they could in Illinois and In- diana to compass thé defeat of the re- publican candidate. This charge has been repoated numberless times, in one plausible form and another, and every incident or circumstance that could be perverted to the purposs of giviug the charge an appearance of eradibility has been given the widest circulation. If any friend or admirer of Judge Gresham expressed a regret that he was not made the republican candidate, or ven- tured the opinion that he would have proved stronger with the people, or by any outgiving manifested a feeling that he would have been better pleased with the judge as the republican stan- dard bearer, the t was heralded to the country as an evidence of the hos- tility of the Gresham men to Harrison. No man who ever occupied a judicial position has a higher sense of its obli- gations than Judge Gresham, and among these he rogards none more binding than that of refraining from any active part in politics. When his own wuame was most prom- inent before the country as a possible candidate he could not be in- duced to utter a word regarding poli- tics, and his refusal todo so commended him more strongly to the respect and confidence of the countr The same high seuse of duty to his oficial trust he has maintained since, and because he has done so his silence has been at- tributed to the disappointment of defeat and he has been charged with inspir- ing his friends to antagonize Harrison. As with so many other democratic misrepresentations and falsehoods in this campaign, a quietus has at last been put to this fabrication. After having received numerous and urgent invitations to take part in the Indiana campaign, Judge Gresham has finally written a letter to a personal friend defining his position, and it is such a letter as a pable of undorstanding him might have expected. He states that he cheerfully and in good faith acquicsced in nom- inating General Harrison, “and imme- diately informed him by telegraph that he would receive my earnest support.” But Judge Gresham did not intend to be understood by this that he was to enter the arena of politics, which would violate the proprieties of the position he occupies. “It is gratifying to know, howoever,” says Judge Gresham, *‘that my friends are supporting the ticket in good faith, and I do mot think any fair-minded persons doubt that T earnestly desire its success.” There is really as much ser- vice done the republican cause by this simple, direct and sincere expression of Judge Gresham as would have resulted from a score of speeches, and he has maintained his high example of fidelity to judicial obligations. Thus another democratic misrepre- sentation has been silenced, to the ma- terial advantage of the republican can- didate. If the party that professed so great a desire to make this an educa- tional campuign has any more to bring forward it should make haste to do so, as the time is short in which they may be made profitable. THE International grain market at Vienna has obtained sufficient data for computing the wheat shortage of the world, and places it at one hundred and forty-five millions of bushels. As this is only a difference of one-twelfth from last year's cropit would not have caused much of a rise had it not happened that the greater part of the deficiency is in the harvests of those countries that ave habitually compelled to import more or less wheat. France and Germany, that import a little, have a big deficit and must import largely. Austria hasa deficit and must import a litble instead of exporting considerably. The harvests of Epgland are sald to be normal, but the English have to import always twenty-five million tons, anditis the cortainty that Englaud must this year buy chiefly from the United States that has sent the price up and is keeping it up. Itisnotinthe power of all the castern papers and all the English pa- pers combined to change the facts. The advice of Farmer Dalrymple, that those farmers who had notes to meet should sell their wheat, is sound because under such circumstances delay would be costly even if not dangerous. But there seems to be little doubtthat prices must oventually . go higher, and that the av- erage te will be one dollar and twenty-five cents, At no time has the demand ceased at Minneapolis for the higher grades, and at no time has the price failed to be above the Chicago rates. High prices for wheat and flour have come tostay, and, therefore, care- ful housewives who study economy had better give their minds to corn. I7 is very pleasant to learn that Dead- wood, the most important city of west- ern Dakota, and the nucleus of all the business arising from the great mineral wealth of the Black Hills region, is having a spell of great prosperity. To call it & boom would not be correct, for ivis a legitimate growth based largely upon the agricultural developments of that part of Dakota. When a republi- can administration governs the country there can be no doubt that the mineral workers will be largely benefitted by the change of policy with regard to lead and silver which is guaranteed. In the meanwhile Deadwood is being built up by the granger clement, and business-has so increased that the Dead- wood Central railway has begun build- ing, giving employment to a very large force of men. Omaha has close connec- tions with southwestern Dakota, and would rejoice at its prosperity, even if it would receive no benefit itself. But the fact is that its commerce does feel an additionsl impetus from the good times there, and it has therefore yery substantial reasons for its good wishes and sympath ies. THE coal beds in Carbon, Wyoming Territory, are very far from exhausted, as has been reported. The Union Pacific is the proprietor, and takes out daily some fifteen hundred tons, which are used solely by the railcond. It has bee computed that the cost to the Union P cific is $1.25 per ton minus the hauling from Carbon to its depots, and it would be interesting to compare this with the prices paid-by consumers of other Wy- oming coal, also owned by the Union Pacifie, which furhishes this groat staple of lifo to nine-tenths of - the paople of Nebraska and Wyoming. Owning both | the coal and: the transportation the | Union Pacifid®an do virtually what it pleases, ThiSwafses the question if a common carrior has any elght to enga in other busingss for it is obvious that | when both ends of the string are in the same hand it must be bad for the com- munity. THE constity tan of Nebraska requires that the governor shall reside in Lin- coln. Itisdn -entirely proper provis- ion, and contemplates something more than a nominal residence at the state capital. Mr. McShane does not pro- pose, it by any possibility he should be elected governor, to reside in Lincoln in conformity with the obvious intent of the law. His home would continue to be in Omaha, and he would be but nominally a resident at the state cap- ital, probably spending only such time there as his oflicial duties should render necessary. Nebraska's governor shouid be at all times accessible to the people of Nebraska at the place where the state constitution requires him to veside, AT LEAST one-third of the candidates for the legislature nominated by the two political parties in Douglas county are men whom no experienced and judicions business man would place in control of his affairs. Neither their character or their capacity would rec- ommend them for any position of re- sponsibility. Yet the people of Douglas county are asked to send such men to legislate for this prosperous and grow- ing commonwealth, which should have the services of its ublest and most trust- worthy citizens. Voters should take care that the least worthy of these can- didates on both tickets are kept at home. THE people of Omaha would like to know who is right with regard to Dako- ta’s tin, the governor or the Chicago Mining Review. One says there is not a pound of tin produced in the terrvitory, and the other declares that the discov- eries of tin mear Harney's Peak will soon enable America to supply her needs from her own resources. Surely the governor ought to know. If he is mistaken, he cannot be too severely criticized for having ventured so po: tive a contradiction on insufficient knowledge. SoME cringing, dependent, croas- roads postmaster has discovered that a republican United States senator has been franking campaign literature, and sends the news to his masters. The Herald in commenting upon the abuse, and it is an abuse, makes no mention of the tons of democratic campaign bom- bast which have been received at demo- cratic headquarters here, transmitted under the franking privilege of mem- bers of congress. The practice is old— too old. WHATEVER the prejudice may be with regard toelevating the colored man to oftice, one thing may be said truthfully with regard to Mr. Williams, the colored man nominated for the house on the republican ticket. Ho is strictly honest and will not betray any trust. That much cannot be said for some of the white men on the same ticket. S————— BTATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The citizens of Minden are contemplating putting 1u an electric light plant. An old lady writing to her son in Minden tells him to beware of “‘billious saloons’ and “bawl alleys.” Mr. Heller, of Lincoln, is digging a twelve hundred foot well, He says he proposes to have good water if he has to dig through to China for it. The Chase county court has sentenced Charles Senter to pay $1,152 for the support of his illegitimate child, born to Miss Cora B. Nedrow, paying $5 ver month in advance and giving @ bond for $1,200 for its perform- ance. A defective switch at Clarks caused the ditching of & Union Pacific freight train Wednesday noon, wrecking the engine and nine fruit cars.e Thejengineer and fireman jumped and saved their lives, but the former was baaly bruised. Charles Stevens, the Chase county man who shot Charles Field, was convicted of assault with intent to wound and maim, at the term of court just closed at Imperial, and sentonced to two years in the penitentiary. Field still carries the bullet in his body and will probably be a cripple for life. The cook, dishwasher and chamber maid of the Arlington hotel at Davenport are out on a strike, and the starving boarders have been obliged to vamoose the ranch and hustle for their grub. The landlady has refused to pay off the strikers, and the matter will bo contested in the courts. The only lawyer in town has been retained by the girls. The residents of Nebraska City will be treated to a week’s religious debate, beg . ning November 12. Elder Williams, of Ne- braska City, and Elder Bronson, of St. Jo- seph, Mo., will discuss the difference between the Christian and Latter Day Saints’ church, Mr. Williamson speaking in behalf of the former and Mr. Bronson for the latter. The North Platte Democrat remarks: The wild geese are beginning to arrive and C, M. Wherry and Willlam Neville were out one day this week constructing ‘‘blinds.” Is this an indication that the average federal ofticeholder expects to rum short of meat after election, and that they are endeavoring to fix themselves ! A Brush creek young man has made a bet with two girls on'the presidential outcome. If the republicans win he is to marry the brunette; if the domocrats win he is o es- pousa the blonde. The Cleveland girl is worth $10,000 and the Harrison girl is poor, But if this bot helds the young man will warry the brunctte and a sensible girl—too good for him. Great prep republican rally at Fremot o it is interd »d to make the occa ffair. During the afternoon, o'clcck, there will be speaki ©-ators of Nebraska, including Se derson, Governor Thaver, Congressman Dorsey, and many others. At 5o'clock a 000, old-fashioned barbecue will be given. il night there will be an illuminatiou of lk‘ city and a mammoth torchlight parade of the republican clubs of the Nebraska State league. All the statgpficers will be present. The railroads have all made a rate of ope fare for the round trip from all points in Ne- braska. rations ave being made for the the 31at, and on & state from 2 to 5 The Great Northwest. Some of the Denver policemen are accused of robbing the prisoners whom thoy arres Twenty-cight prisoners confined at the Spo- Kan Fals (W, 1) Jail made their escape rej cently William W, Secor, a Colorado pioneer, died at Longmeut recently. “He was ono of the most public-spirited citizens of the place, Clackamas county, Oregon, is building a suspension bridge over the river at Oregon City, Or., and it will be open to travel in & month, An old-fashioned outting affray occurred over a game of cards in asaloon at Rocky Bar, Idaho, the other day, Jack Davis and Juck Vettors being fataily stabbed. Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon, has for- warded to Washington'a claim for lands in lieu of state lands taken up by the Klamath Indian reservation amon nting to 20,000 acros. H. C. Smith, of the lumber firm of Moors & Smith, of San Fra: oo and Stockton, has made o bet of §2,000 with Michael F. Tarpey that California will give Har n 5,000 plu- Shattuck, of Portland, Ore., has de- cided that & man who makes a bet and loses can recover his monoey from the stakeholder ds it before it has been paid to The street car conductor's ‘‘brother-in- law" has been Introduced in Los Angeles, Cala., and the little instrument has cost the company from $100 to $200 a day. Many ar- rests have been made. A gigantic apple taken by a Bolse Valley (Idatio) girl to Baltimore is astonishing the residents of that city, It is twenty inches in circumference, weighs four pounds, and is said to be a fair sample of fruit grow in that wonderful valley. Poter Allen, for many years postmaster at San Gabriel, 'Cala., dropped dead recently. Mary Rae, his wife, and from whom he has been separated, and who is an occupant of a disreputable house at Los Angeles, will fall heir to all his property, worth somethiog like $50,000. The Idalia (Colo.) Sentinel says: M. M Hively has a smali piece of white corn which he planted between tree rows, making the corn rows eight feet apart. He husked a row one day last week and on figuring up found that the corn yielded at the rate of seventy-five bushels to the acre. The Breece & Wheeler mine at Bath, Placer county, is just now the bonanza of California. The working place is about one mile and a half from the entrance to the tunnel, and the breast is probably 40 feet wide and 6 foet high. The bulk of the gravel is richer than usual, while the bedrock is covered with coarse gold, some of it actually going as high as $1000 to the pan. el GOVERNOR AND SUBMISSION, Nothing to Do With the Question. .Y, Neb, Oct. 25 ~[Special Tele- gram to Tie Bre.|—The following ruling has been handed down by the supreme court: STATE 07 NERRASKA, SUPREME COURT— J. M. Thayer, Governor of the State of Dear Sir: In reply to yours of this date, we have to say that' the governor has no connection with the submission by the legisiature of a proposed amendment to the constitution of the state. Such a proposi- tion does not goto him for his approval. “This question, undera similar constitutional provision, was decided in the negative by the supreme court of the United States in Hollingsworth_vs. Virginia, 3 Dal b 478, Sec alsg Paschal's Annotated Constitu- tion, 247, Very respectfully yours, M. B. Reesk, Axasi Cons, SAMUEL MAXWELL, ——— AXWORTHY'S D LOATION. Later Developments Concerning Cleveland's ex-City Treasurer. CrLeveELAND, O., Oct. 25.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue B -When Thomas Ax- worthy, the defaulting city treasurer, bade Cleveland a hasty good-bye, on September 23, he had on his person bills of exchange representing more than $100,000, drawn on Drexel, Morgan & Co., of New York City. This was independent of the cash he had with him, which is known to be at least $31,000, How much more money he took away with him, if any, will probably be learncd s the oficial investigation pro- gresses. The manner in which he obtained the bills of exchange and his disposi- tion of them disproves all theories advanced by his friends in support of the belief that he had not deliberately freed the city of whatever he could lay his handson when he saw that a crash was coming and fled. On the day before he left the city he visited the National City bank, Ohio National bank, Union National bank, Cleveland National bank, and Commercial National bank, and purchased bills of ex- change on Drexel, Morgan & Co., of New York, amounting to sums slightly in excess of £19),0). The only national banks he did wWot ' visit _for this purpose were the Mer- chants Bank of Commerce, and the reason is plain, for Lis = bondsmen, Mr. Wade, and Senator H. B. Payne, are connected, one or the other of them, with those institutions, and would have had their suspicions aroused by such an action. Axworthy gave his personal checks in payment for the bills. Drexel, Morgan & Co. have a number of branch of- fices in Europe. and the simplest logic leads to the conclusion that Mr. Axworthy con- verted his Cleveland paper into foreign bills of exchange at the New York office before he went to Montreal. The defalcation at least #440,000, and may be still more, No trace of the missing man after he left Mon- treal on October 2 has yet been found. His friends say he is probably in Belgium. e Registered Matl Pouch Robbed. Cuicago, Oct. 25.—The mail pouch which left Boston Tuesday and arrived in Chicago last evening over the Michigan Southern road was robbed of all the first-class matter it contained. The stolen package consisted of registered letters, and the supposition is that a large amount of money was obtained by the thief. The bag had been cut open, the thief taking the package containing the first-class matter only. This leads to the be- Lief that the perpetrator of the robbery some one connected with the postal servic The robbery is supposed to have been coum- mitted some time after leaving 1oston and before reaching Cleveland. Bostoxn, Oct. The news of the rob- bery of the letters from the Boston mail pouch in a Chicago dispatch to-day was re- ceived this morning at the postofice. The pouch contained sixty-seven packages, of which thirty-five were first-class mat- ter. the sixty-seven packages twelve of the first-class pieces were going to Chicago and all others going further west. Each package contained from one to twelve lotters, all of which must have either con- tained money or checks. Itis thought by the oficials in Boston that it will be difficulv to find the thieve: Sl e An Interesting Law Suit. New York, Oct. 25.—[Special Tele- gram to Tne Bee.|—A novel suit for $10,000 damages is being tried before Judge Pratt in the supreme court circuit in Brooklyn. Pat- rick McHugh, head porter at Brighton Beach hotel, Coney Island, alleges that on July 4, 1857, he saw Daviel Vanvorst, a nophew of Judge Vanvorst, misconducting himself. Some words passed between the two men, and Vanvorst, applying an evil epi- thet to McHugh, was knocked down. In falling he struck @ boot-blacking stand and broke three ribs. At the trial before Judge Waring at Coney Island McHugh was fined $10 for criminal ‘assault. Vauvorst refused to allow Dr. James I, Moran, the physician of the hotel, to &scertain the extent of his injuries. Now Vanvorst has brought a suit for dnmages against General James Jourdan, who was receiver of he hotel at the time, Charles L. Cunningham and John J. Mc- Grath, managers, and Patrick McHugh, the head porter. In his complaint Vanvorst holds General Jourdaa and Cunningham and McGrath respousible for the actions of the head porter. The lawyers say that the points at issue are very interesting ones. et dil Ll s Big Steamship Race. New Yok, Oct. 25.—[Special Telegram to Tne Ber. |—Four steamships left this port at almost the same hour yesterday and they may do some racing on the way over. The vessels were the new Inman-liner, City of New York; the Cunarder, Gallia; the North German Lloyd boat, the Trave, and the Britannic of the White Star line. With the exception of the Trave, the ships all got under way at precisely 7:30 a. m. The Trave left the dock at 8 o'clock. The recent trip of the Clty of New York from Liverpool to New York in 6 days, 15 hoursand £5 minutes, places her in the lead of her competitors on this trip and makes hev a big favorite with shipping men. - His Neck Was Broken. New Yous, Oct. 25.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee)—Philip J. Beer, collector for Yurngling's brewery, was found yes day morning with his neck broken ou the stalrs of his residence, No. 1431 Washington street, Hoboken, N. J. - Ou the evening be- fore he Laa left.his wife to attend to some busiusss at the brewery, RAILROAD NEWS, The New Appointments in the U, P, Service, The oficera of the Union Pacifie, eleoted Wodnesday appeared in the telegraphic columns of that fssuo of Titk Ber. Speaking on the aubject, another official said ““Yos, this appointment of Mr. Holoomb as M. Potter's successor is a popular one among those who know him, for he isa practical railroad man of thirty years experience. He began at the foot of the ludder and has worked his way to the top, and a man like that can appreciate the services of a desery ing employe, because he is thoroughly famil iar with oll’ tho dotaily of working o road From all I knowof him ho is a quiet, unassuming gentleman but @ thorough busiuess mau, and fully competent, o fill the important position 1o which he has boon ap: pointed.” Mr. Holcomb is ahout fifty years of ago and commenced railroading Whon it was com- ively a new business. in 185, he was braking on a freight train of the Peoria & Oquaka railroad, aud soon afterwards tried his hand at firing. In 1571 he was appointed 0 & lowa, and the following year, gencral freight agont of the roud. Shortly afterward he was choson as assistant treasurer, and when the road went into the hands of a recciver in 1887, his knowledge of the business secured him' the appointment, In 1882 he was made goneral superintendent, and_remained with the com- pany until 1857, when the lato Vice-President Sotter recognized his merits, and secured his services as general mauager of the Oregon Railway & Navigation company. He was in Omaha a few weeks ago, but was unable to leave his car through iliness, and afterwards met President Adams in St. Paul, where doubtless the position wi offered him. When the overland train was leaving tho Tenth street depot yesterday the coupling pin, connecting the tender with the mail car, broke, and the train was brought to a sudden stop at_ Twelfth stroet, though the engine went oua few hundred feet. The safoty chains, however, stood the strain for a while, but when they went the platform buffer and buffer beam went with them. The accident delayed the train some minutes. A freight train ran off the end of a switch at Clark's Wednesday morning but without doing scrious damage. Trainmaster English of the $Burlington n the city yesterday. five Union Pacific flat cars are be- ing provided with aprons to enable them to carry earth, and on Monduy next the ap- proaches to'the Union Pacitic bridge will be filled in. J. 8. Cameron, of Boston, went west on the Union Pacific in a special car yesterday, <. iquie, division superintendent of Pacific, Idaho, is in the city, H. 8. Rich, commissioner of the Colorado Railroad association, is in the city on his re- turn from St. Louis whore the cast bound rates from Denver have been restored. with headquarters i Public Works. The confirmation of ex-Councilman Kier- stead as a member of the board of public works, fills all the vacancies in that body, the other members being Chairman Bal- combe and Major J. B. Furay. Mr. Kicrstead was asked what he proposed to do as a member of the board in question. He said that he was in favor of and would endeavor to have the board run on business vrinciples. He would endeavor to discharge the duties of the office without fear or favor, and have the board run in so far as he was concerned as he would run his own busi- ness. There was no reason why the board should not be so managed. With regard to the usc of material, Mr. Kierstead said that he was personally op- posed £0 the uss of perishable material in pavements, such as cedar and cypress, and was emphatically in favor of 8to; He pre- ferred Colorado sandstone especially on side- hills, because, while Sioux Falls was hard and durable, it wore slippery and it was hard for horses to travel on it. He instanced the cases of the car horses on the Farnam street hill, west of Fiftcenth, where he had seen a number of them slip and fall in endeavering to pull sometimes only an empty car. He had also scen express horses on rounding corners fall to their knoes, which he had never noticed on Colorado stone, which afforded an easier and moro yielding surfa He held it would be to the advan- tage of over property owner to think seri- ously over the matter of signing petitions for paving. A great deal of this had been done indiscriminately aud great injury had re- sulted. Between this time and the opening of the paving scason next spring people ought to cousider the paving question and select only the material which would give a promise of permanency which would be to their own as also the advantage of the city. He also spoke in favor of sand foundation with stone, which, with Colorado would be no dearer than wood with concrete for base. It would have the advantage that when it was required to be torn up there would be no concrete to be broken through and no dificulty in patch- ing up the hole made. Mr. Kierstead was hopeful of harmony in the board and said that he proposed to devote to the position all the time that was required for the transaction of its business. 'Twixt Life and Death. The remarkable survival of Mrs. Walter Edwards, who was. 8o horribly mutilated with a dagger in the hands of her husband last Friday, is attracting considerable atten- tion from the medical fraternity in the city. tis the universal opinion that nine out of ten women thus wounded would bave died ina few hours after the assault. It is the indom- itable will of the woman apparently that keeps her alive, and Dr. Ricketts says that if soul and body keep together for forty- eight hours longer there are hopes of her recovery, Till then nothing encouraging can be said of her condition. “Only yester- day she was thought to be dymg. The hor- rible wound in her breast which extends into the lung is the oue on which her fate depends, The brochial tube is severed, the lung lac erated and a large quantity of pus is being discharged. To prevent congestion a rubber tube has been fastened in the wound to act as a conduit to the discharge. Rate Questions Settled. Cmicago, Oect. 25 e general freight agents of the northwestern lines met to-day to investigate the charge of rate cutting against the Chicago, Burlington & Northern. It was discovered that the road had been hauling shipments of apples from Chicago to St. Paul at 15 cents per 100 pounds, whereas the regular rate is 20 cents. The representa- tives of the Burlington & Northern agreed to rostore the rate, and gave formal notice to that effect. The general passenger agents of lines in the territory of the Western States Passeuger association met to-day and agreed to place winter tourist tickets on sale Novem ber 1, rates and conditions 1o be agreed upon by @ rate committee and published, Pz R Dissected by a Train. New Yok, Oct. 25,—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee]—The dismembered parts of a man’s body were found scattered along the Long Island railroad track near Sayville at an early hour yestorday morning by a track walker. The mangled remains were gath- ered together and finally recognized as those of Edward Davis, aged eighteen, son of Cap- tain Davis, of Hayport. It has been sug- gested that the young man committed sui- Cide, but no motive for this can be shown. It was evident that more than oune train had passed over his body. e Twenty-seven Horses Cremated. Patersoy, N. J., Oct. 25.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.|—Fire broke out at 3 a. m. yesterday inthe large two-story brick stable of Abram R. Rutan, undertaker, in Godwin street. The building, owned by Mr. Rutan, was damaged about $3,000. There were twenty-eight horses in the building and only one was suved. The aggregate loss is estimated at $25,000, with about two-thirds insurance. ———— The Railroad Brakemen. Covumpus, O., Oct. 25.—The brotherhood of railroad brakemen to-day elected the fol- lowing officers: W. G. Edens, Bucyrus, O. first vice grand master; 8. C. Foster, Ithaca, N. Y., second vice grand master; T. S. Slat- terly, Butte City, Mont,, third vice grand master. e The most efficacious stimulant to ex- cite the appetite is Angostura Hitters, 'é:;o genuine of Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & s, The O1d Rebel Yell. Houston Post: = A singular dramatio incident occurred in the superior court room at W neshoro during the trial of the Rogers brothers for the killing of the Symses, father and son. The kill- ing occurred at McBean's Station in Oc- tober lust. Eminent counsel had beon engaged by the prosecution and defense, for both parties were prominent and woalthy. The evidence closed, and the spoaking began Friday morning, con- tinuing all during the day. When the court assembled after toa” the seats and the aisles within the bar wore crowded with ladies, while without a dense throng of men filled up the audi- torium., It was before this assembly that Mr. Twiggs began his argument. Twiggs is an cloquent speak ticed in and nnlm\ for his ors graces. In the course of his threo hours' address he at one time referred i the most feeling manner to the courage and devotion of women. Tho hour, the o on, the andience, and the dim light from which the rapt faces were bent upon him, all combined o form a surrounding well caleulated to inspire the orator to_his greatest ef- fort, He closed his address upon the women as follows: At the battle of Gottysburg, General Pickett was or- dered to begin the charge which was to make him famous. As he went Into the terrible battle his young bride on horseback followed him. When the hail of death was beating down men on_all sides, and the plunging shot and shell mingled their fierce screams with the moans and cries of the mangled, Pickett suddenly found himself in the presence of his wife. In an agony of fear for her safety, he cried out to her, as she sat cool and collected asa veteral ‘Go back! back! For God's sake go to the rear!' ‘No,'re- plied the devoted woman, ‘in the hour of danger a_wife's place is by her hus- band’s side.’ At this moment through the court room there rang out one wild* thrilling ¢ which nearly lifted the excited throng to its feet. It was the old rebel yell, heard upon a hundred battlefields and never to be forgotten. A deep silence followed. All eyes were turned toward the outer circle. en Judge Royne’s cold voice was heard bid- ding the sheriff arrest the offender. A man was scen dodging through the crowd, and the judge continued: *‘The man who is leaving is probably the ono wanted.” **No, judge,” exclaimed a voice, slowly; “I am the man.” Tho speaker stood in the aisle with folded arms, quietly contemplating the bench. “I shall have to fine you 810 then, for disturbing the court.” ‘‘Very well your honor, I shall pay the money, said the man, without moving; *“‘but I meant no disrespeet. I was a confed- erate soldier at Gettysburg, and just could not help from hollering.” The ladies present sprang to their feet, and inan instant the money was made up and paid to the clerk. The involuntary vell of the old soldier was an irresisti- ble tribute to womanhood. Lsirmuge sl A Long Wedding Tour. New York World: Undoubtedly the longest honeymoon tour on record is that recently completed by Mr, Sigour] ney and his wife. George Sigonrnoy married Miss Imogene Henriques in Buffalo in 1882, Mr. gourney is the son of a wealthy Californian, and Miss Henriques lived in one of tho small towns near Buffalo. Their cards caused ment, for they read, At home, Thursday, in Sac California, beginning May 10, 1888," for all the in- terval they contemplated spending on a bridal tour. Neither had traveled to any great extent, and both were fond of movement and adventure, and anxions to see the world, so concluding that it they once scttlod down they probably would never have the energy to com- plete their proposed explorations, they agreed to travel forsix years. Five days after their marriage they left this port for England, with letters of credit to every quarter of the globe. After going through Great Britain and Ire- land carefully, they fairly covered every point of special orest France, Germany, Italy, Aus Russia. They ited ~Greece, mark, Turkey, China, Japan; sailed up the Nile, ed the Canary islands, Borneo, ( , Persia, and spent nearly a in traveling through India. From Australia they crossed to the south of Africa, and from there to South America. Commencing at Pata. gonia they traveled north, zigzaggin through Pe Chili, Bolivia, Brazi ' the Argentine Republic, and after e: ploring Mexico and the West Indies, re- turned to England,where they remained the last six months of the allotted time. Of the four children, the twins wore born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and are boys now of five years. The gicl was born in China, and the youngest boy in Brazil. M. Sigourney suys it is impos- sible to estimate the namber of miles they have covered, as they so often ro- crossed their track, besides which hao made no attempt to kcep count, The journey cost them about $75,000. Both are darkly bronzed,and have gained something like pounds apicce. Thoy have curios from every land they have visited, and in their train a Rus- sian nurse for the twins and a Brazilisn to take care of the two youuger chil- dren. hey arvived in’ New York, went immediately to Buffalo, thence to Sacramento, where they began to re- ceive their friendson May 10, as was announced on their cards. ——— Loyal to His Employe. Time: Minister (to grocer’s boy)— “Little boy, by thrift and economy you may some day be able to embark in busiuess for yourself, and you must noever forget that honesty is the best policy.” Grocer’s boy (dubiously)—*I don't know about that. I heard the boss say that he made 810,000 last year.” Its superior excellence proven In millio homes for more tha uarter of a mnlur:. ?s 1s used by the United tes Government. Eu- dorsed by the A8 of the great Universities as the strougest, rest and most healthful, Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder does not coutafn ammonia. lime or alum. Sold only {n cung. 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