Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 5, 1888, Page 1

il N U I, ISt EIGHTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA. MONDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 5, 1888 = ———3 NUMBER 144 REVIEW OF THE SITUATION. Bright Prospects For Republicans All Along the Line. NO DOUBT ABOUT NEW JERSEY. The State Certain to Roll Up a Good Bized Majority For Harrison— The Outlook in Con- necticut, Jersey Safe For Harrison, NrewArk, N. J., Nov. +.—| Speeial Telegram 1o Tk Brr. | —The situation in New Jerse, %0 far as the republican ticket is concerned, is more hopeful than it has been at any time, Thiat the republicans will carry the state thereis little doubt. Reports from the south- ern counties huve been so favorable that there is a general strengthening all along the line. The discovery of great democratic frauds has had & ereat deal to do with this renewed confidence. Leon Wi Kendrick of Hoboken has uncarthed a gigantic mass of fraud in the district, and under his super- vision the first day's registration hns been overhauled. It shows that 1,700 fraudulent names are cnrolled in the registry book: “The list is composcd of men who formerly r sided in_Hoboken, dead men and fictitious names. The names were copied from the old poll lists for the past fiftcen years, and names of men that were long. sice gathere 10 thei fathers, or have moved out of the were entered by scores regardless " will be a great falling off in the pro- vote in the state this year. It is to Fisk, prohibition hibitic be noticed that General candidate for president; has not boen stump- ing his BUppo The republican majority in this state is estimated ut 3,000, patis”: S Democratic Discord. New Yonk, Nov. 4.—[Special Telegram to Tk Ber: | —A portent of some significance in the midst of democratic boasting has cropped out. It is a reiteration on behalf of Senator Gorman and W. H. Barnum of the fact that they are managing the campaign in compliance with the president's wishes, and that they have deferred their own judement in mauy thiogs to the views of Chairmau Brice and Mr. Cleveland, Hen 1 Col. Brice's errand was hureying around the Fifth hotel last unight, and his prescnce brought out the story of the protest Gorman made against© the employment of an Ohio ex-congressman in_any confiden- tial capacity. A quarrel with Brice resulted, the chaivman declaring that Lefevre was his personal friend, and would have to stay. Gorman had 1o important business which he was willing to trust to Lefevre, but Chair man Brico sent him o the president at Wash ington with messages of the most confiden tial character.. Lately there have been some leaks about matters which were considerd campaign s, and rman_and Barnum have been furious. They have emphasized their former declarations coucerning the limit of their re. sponsiblity. Whatever disaster havpens, it 18 plain that these two shrewd 1 s'do not propose to have their ions wrecked, nor do they itend to be held up as scapegoats in the cvent of- Cleveland's ¢ at. Gorman was not._enthusiastic over the pa- rado last night. He thought the money us for it might have been spent te better pur. [m)«‘, and he did not agree with the local caders who explained that it vas nece for the boys to have a grand *whoop-up’ fore the election., A fresh contingent of Marylanders has been around, and through them some of (George's alleged views have been allowed to leak out. While Chairman Brice is babblis over with expectancy, and Barnum is claim- ing everything after his usual fashion, the Maryland leader is merely hopeful that the vote'in New York city will be big_enough to offset the republican majority above Harlem native state, us wight' have been Yoy, Avenue Resorting to Burglary. New Youk, Nov. 4.—[Special Telegram to Tur Bek. ] —Nothing more plainly illustrates the fact that the democrats realize that de- eat is staring them in the face than the desperate methods to which they are resort- ing in order to try to suve themselves, It bas been a pet project of Brice, Barnum and other democratic leaders in New York to devise some move whercby they eould arrest members of the republican national execu- tive committee under charges of corruption or contemplated violation of election laws The frantic attempt against Colonel Dudley in this way und the attempted forgery of the name of Senator Quay simply proves the desperation of the democrats. In further following tnis desperate resort the home of Hon. Samuel Fessenden, the Connecticut member of the national executive committee, was burgiarized Friday night and all the desks and tables in the house having drawers were broken open in the hope of finding some letters or papers which could be dis torted to the pet purpose of proving that the republicans are coutemplatiug corruption at the election. All papers that were found in the desks or drawers of the tables were opened and examined and the floor left strown with them. It was evidently the hope that something could be found that could be madeto serve the democratic party. It is needless to say that nothing was found in the home of Senator Fessenden either to scandalize the national committee or that could be used in_ furthering fhe democratic plot 10 gaim the vote of Conuccticut by foul weans. The Outlook in Connecticut, HaRTrORD, Conn., Nov. 4.—[Special gram to Tur Bre.) Tele- This state will giye the republican national ticket not less than 2,000 majority. Figures are herc in the posscssion of the state committee to show it. As fq the state ticket, the democrats coucede it to the republicans, The total vote of the state Is likely to raach 145,000, The republican es- timate is: Harrison, D00, or possibly 72,5005 Cleveland, 60,500, leaving. between 3,000 and 4,500 for the prohibitionist and labor tickets together. The democruts are not disposed to intrust anybody with their estimates, but from an authoritative source your correspon- dent learned that their veticence is due to the faet that a poll of the state shows such large gains for the republicans us to frighten the managers into silence. The troubles in the southern part of the state over the dis. vosal of patronage have been apparently e fectually smoothed, but if such is a fact it is due more to the local managers’ interference than 0 any action tuken by Chairman Bar- num, and it may be assumed that it witl not uffect the uesult. The Sackville letter won Lundreds of doubtful Irishmen, and the Irish vote of tho state is now practically solid for Harrison, Morton and protection. Praad Double Fatality at a Rally. CoLvMavs, Ind., Nov. 4.—[Special Tele gram to Tux Bek. |-The republicans of this county held a rally at Hope, a small town twelve miles east of here yesterday. -Among those present were two young wen named Nibson Piercefield and Joseph Middleton, who live a few miles north of the city. They reviled some of the paraders and when Jucob Brennen, the town marshal, attempted 1o arrest them, turned upon and attacked him, Brennan was cornered, and draw revolver, he opened fire upon his assailants. Middleton was mortally wouuded and died iu @ short time, while Piercefield also re- ceived a dangerous wound which will cause bis dedth. . Brennan has been arrested. s How the Vote Will Be Collected. New Yok, Nov. 4.—Elaborate yrepara- tions have been wade for collecting the presidential vote on eleetion night. In New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania the re turns will be collected by the Associated press alone. In all the other states the work will be done by the Associated press and Western Union telegraph company, acting togethier, In all states, except Ohio, the vote will be compared with the presidential vote of 1584, In Olio a comparison will be made with the vote for covernor in 157, the com plete redistricting of the atate making acom- parison with the vote of 18%4 impracticable, The returns of New York City will be col- leeted by O'Rourke’s City Pross association No comparison can be made in general buile: tins, as many poiling districts have been sub divided since 1554, but a comparison with the vote of 1954 will be made by assembly dis- tricts as fast as these are fully reported. A Rally at Ravenna. Raves~a, Neb, Nov. 4.—Special to Tne Ber. | One of the largest republican rallies ever held here took place last night. Tt is es- timated that over four thousand people took part in the procession. i i GIVE HIM A LIFT. How General Thayer Defended Set- tlers Againat the Indians in '57. Prarzssovta, Neb., Nov. 4.—~To the Ed- tor of Tie Bee: Allow me 1o say a few words through your valuable columns in re ward to facts that Governor Thayer uttercd in his late speech and the pric due he was to our territory away back in 1857, In those days hie was & general of Nebraska's territorial militia and served in that position without a fuult. Late in the fall of 1557, the Indians were ransacking, plundering and destroying the property of the settlers of the Elkhorn and Loup Fork valley Those scttlers being unable to defend their rights, left home and property and fied for their lives, with children in arms, to Omaha for safet Thayer at once called for volunteers to go to these valleys and fight for the safety of the settlers, for their lives and their all I was one of a few that hastened, on foot, to their rescue. My shirt was given ta a bare- footed woman 1o bind her sore feet, while she was ficeing from danger with a childin her arms. Myself, George Mayticld, now editor of the Louisville Observer, and many others, ‘walked a day and night until wo reached the scene, There three longmonths were spent in the valley of the Elkhorn, guarding the property and houses left be: hind, and never yet have we reccived one it s recompense for what we did and the dangers we incurred, 1 will now close by asking, Why did Me- our recom- noble Shane vote ugainst a bill o pense! and will ask of all good and men o remember the old war horse and give him a lift. Yours respectfully, CADE ROGERS. e LEFT HIS FAMILY THREE CENTS, And Eloped With the Pretty and Stylish Miss Smith, Burrano, N. Y., Nov. 4.—Percy Sootheran, young murried man of Suspension haus deserted his famity and eloped nith, a pretty and stylish woman He was a in the West of ninetee Shore ruilroad oftice, and earned 80 a month, Until lately he was attentive to his fumily. Tda Swiith became acquainted with the Sooth- erans and lly induced Mrs. Sootheran to go shopping with her the day before the clopement, when she bought considerable new clothing. The same night Perey marched in a republican parade. He after- wards took his own upparel, his monti's pay and lotters addressed to western railroad of- ficials. He left his wife destitute excepting 3 cents which he gave their six-year-old bo, It is believed that the guilty couple went to East St. Louis, where Sootheran cxpected to work for a railroad. e A Ladies' Seminary Burned. Cnicaco, Nov. 4.—A special from Godfrey, Iil., says the Monticello ladies' seminary caught fire at 1 ollock this morning and by daylight was destroyed. Miss Haskell, the principal, aroused all the pupils, ordered them to 'secure what effects they could and escape. All got out without injury, though many failed to properly clothe themselves in their haste to escape. Of all the property in the school, only two pianos and three organs were saved. ‘The loss aggregates §160,000, with an insurance of ¥ The loss of the pupils and teachers in clothing and jewelry 18 not included in_ this estimate. The pupils are being cared for by the citizens until to- morrow, when they will be sent to their homes. —_—— ‘The Thundere Advice. Loxboy, Nov. 4.—The Times in a long edi- torial on the vresidential contest and the Sackville matter says there is not the slight- est reason to retaliate on Minister Phelps, and advises the government to show deliber- ation in choosing u successor to Lord Sack- ville. 1t adds that the election may involve & change in government, and that the matt: is one of perfect indifference to Englishmen, but that March next will be fully time enough 10 appoint a successor to Lord Sackville. The Stundard continues to y for some- thing to indicate England’s displeasure. e Zanzibar Advic es. Loxnoy, Nov. 4.—A dispatch to the Times from Zanzibar says the Germans have burned all the dhows and boats in Whindi harbor. Lieutenant Fitzherbert, of the Al gerine, in the face of & heavy Arab fire, chased a dhow with 20) slaves off the north coast of Madaguscar until the dhow grounded. The Sakalavas carried off all the slaves except forty-seven, which Licutenant Fitzherbert captured off the dhow. — - In Their Dead Child's Presence. Prersnvne, Nov. 4.—Thomas Kune fatally stabbed his wife this morning. The woman was sitting up with her dead cnild, und Kane, who had been drinking, came into the room and used her of laughing. She denied the accusation, but without warning, he drew a knife and thrust it ber abdomen., further into Bostox, Nov. 4.—Hoen. Mahlon D. ing died last night after long illness, aged sixty-oue. He was a member of many lead- ing clubs of Boston. a director in the Union Pacific_and Boston & Alvany railroads. He was widely known for unostentatious char- ities. e Hence the Coolness. LoxnoN, Nov. 4.—The Chronicle's corre spiondent at Rome says: The pope has re- fused to comply with Count Hervert Bis marck’s request to use his influence in behalf of the government candidates in the election the landtag. Heuce the coolness be- 0 Germany and the vatican. il b Wrgck on the Ivon Mountain. St. Lovis, Mo., Nov. 4.—A report reached here at & late hour to-uight of a serious freight wreck on the Iron Mountain near Beverly. No particulars are obtainable. el el Business Troubles Mewnrms, Teon., Nov. 4,—Buck, Taylor & Trexler, general merchants of -Crawfords- wille, Ark., have failed. Liabilities $100,000; assots, §90,000. P e He Remembers Sackville, Or1awa, Ont.,, Nov. 4.—Han. Mackenzie Bowell will not make public tne letter sent him asking his advice how to vote jn the presidential election until after election day. e Cardinal Newn mproving. Loxnoy, Nov. 4.—~Cardinal Newwau is out of dauger. THEOUTLOOK IN NEW JERSEY. ‘William Walter Phelps Confident of Republican Success There. SOME ASTONISHED CEMOCRATS. They Will Be Heard From When the Result in New York is Made Known--Cleveland's Spe- cial Wire. Phelps Feels Confldent. SHINGTON BURRAU Tii OvciA Bre, } 13 FOURTEENTI STRERT, Was D. C., Nov. 4. Representative William Waiter Phelps, of NewJersey, arrived in the city late last night after five weeks of persistent work in the re- publican cause. “I cate to Washington,” said Mr. Phelps to-night, *'s0 that I might secure a little rest. Washington is the only city on the American contineut where a politician can find peace on the. Sunday preceding the presidential clection. I have been continuously on the stump in New Jersey for more than a month past, und consequently know almost nothing personally of political matters outside of the state. Frowm all that I have seen, however, and all that I can gather there can be no doubt of the success of Harrison and Morton, New Jersey is the only doubtful state and the chances there are decidedly favorable for the republicans. ‘1 have the utmost confl dence in the result so far as the state legis luture is concerned. We shall have that cer- tainly. New York's majority for Harrison will startle some of those democrats who haye been putting up their money so freely.” Mr. Phelps returns to New Jersey to-mor- row morning. ADJIUTANT GENERAL DRUM'S RETIREMENT. Adjutant General Drum, who goes on the retived list at the end of next May, has already eiven up to a iarge extent the duties of his oftice, und evidently does not intend to labor very. hard curing the remainder of his term of active service as an oficer of the army. Ho has divided up the dutics of bis office” between two of his principal subordi- nates, General Kelton and General Me- Keever, giving General Kelton the control of all matters relating to the regulur_army, and placing the large amount of work rela tive to volunteer and pension matters in the hands of General McKeever, who has just been ordered here from the Pacific const. General Kelton, who is the senior officer, will undoubtedly be the next udjutant gen' eral, but General McKcever is also. a candi- date for the place and has some political backing. During the next six months, at any rate, General Kelton will be practically the adjutant general of the army. General Drum has become president of the Tennalty- town street railroad and will have plenty of to engage his attention when he £oes on the retired list, THE PRESIDENT'S WIRE, The president will receive the election re- uesday at the white house, There is a wire running into the executive man- sion und an operator theve all day, and on special occasions at night, to send messages 1o any part of the city of of the country aud to reccive any message addressed to the president. BBoth of the press associations ima the Wostern Union Telegraph company will tender the president the use of their bulletins, and they will be run into the white house dircet und handed to the president for his perusal even before they are posted on the bulletin boards. If the president should wish o be placed in communication with the democratic headquarters in New York, with the exceutive mansion at Albany or with the headquarters of any of his cabinet lieuten- ants in the different states where they will be working, he will only have to express the wish and 1t will be but a question of minutes when it will be gratified. PERRONA NTION. J. P. Dunn, of Beatrice, Neb., is at the Howard house, An early report is expected from the board of ofticers appointed to recommend for pur- chase a site for the new military post near Omaha. After this report is received Gen- eral Schotield will go on and 100k at the lo cation sclected. Perky S. Heati. e A MINE EXPLOSION. Fifteen Men Killed and Several Others Severely Injured. LOCKHAVEN, Pa., Nov. 4.—There was an explosion last night in the Kettle Creek Coal company’s mine, thirty mites west of this city. The explosion occurred in a new drift in which twenty-oue persons were at work. As soon as possible after the explosion the mine was entered and fifteen dead bodies carried out. Four other men badly injured were found, one of whom has since died, and the others are likely to -die. The cause of the explosion is unknown, but is supposed to have been the striking' of a fissure ora pocket of gas. This_afternoon the disfigured and naked body of a miner was found fifty feet from the mouth of the air shaft, through which it hud been blown. The names of the dead 8o far as learned arc: Samuel Killinger, Park Donnelly Michael Curran and the three Carlsto; brothers. All but those named above were Hungari- ans or Italians, whose names ure not fur- nished. A driver named Farrel was entey inye the drift when the explosion occurred- He was thrown toward the mouth and es, caped. His mulo was lalled, The force of thie explosion was shown in_the fact thut the bodics were blown cloar out of the mouth of the drift. Everything possible was done for the injured by the wine physician. The bodies of the dead were taken charge of by an undertaker and prepared for interment, The coronerof the county was notified and will hold an inquest to-morrow. The mine fuspector of the district has also been sur moned. Although the accident occurred before durk yosterday, it was not given out by the ofticials of the company until to-day, they being advised of it late last night. ' Tt is thought that in making a blast a*'gas feeder” was struck, filling the chamber with gus, which, coming in contact with a naked lanp, produced the explosion. A ‘gas feeder” is & pocket of gus Lmbedded ‘in the coal. ' The superintendent says that the aceident could not have been foreseen, and uo blame at- taches to anycns Priavkiviia, Pa, Nov. 4.—A special from Williamsport says: It 1s rumored that the direct cause of the explosion was the in- expericneed use of dynamite. In conversa- tion with one of the drivers who escaped, it was learned that an Italian had gotten 100 sticks of dynamite from the store-keeper in the morniug and had also gotten 100 caps, and had returned after a fuse, but as there were none in stock, it is supposed that he tried o set it off in' some_other. way, thus causing the explosion. Tn & blacksmith shob near the scenc of the disaster.luys the charred and unrecognizable remains of August Pierson, who was blown out through the air shaft Afty feet in the air, and some of his clothes can bo seen hanging ta the limb of a large tree near by. Next to hiw is Mike Curran, who was blown 200 feet out of the .iouth of the mine, and was found cead in @ diteh, still ehoging to the handle of his shovel. He leaves a wife and seven small chileren. Heside him lay P. J. Don- nelly, who was also blown out of the mouth of the mive. Doauelly leaves & wife and four children. Joun Farrel, the mule driver, tells this ory: 1 was behind pushiug a car, and in up my head, saw o flash. 1 immediately dropped to the ground, and, moviug as quickly as possible towarvis the mouth of the drift, escaped uninjured. My mule and a Swede miner alongside of the animal were kilied instantly. 1 felt but lit- tle of the effect of the explosion, and its farce must have been all above me, although all the timbers ‘ut the mouth of the shaft were carried out 200 feet beyond the mouth of the drift.” THE CLEARANGE RECORD. The Financlal Tradsactions of the st Week. Bostoy, Mass, Nov. 4.—[Special Tele- gram to the Brk)—The following table eompiled from dispatohes to the Post from the managers of the leading clearing-houses of the United States, shows the gross ex- «ehanges for the weck ended November 3 1888, with the rate per cent of increase or de creaseas compared with the amounts for the corresponding week last year: mmm e g g | cmies, CLEARINGS. g g 8 New York BT, TSR350 s Roston B, ik 106001 0K Philadeiphia’’’, "] eoKmA 12 Chicago..... . 67,085,000 3 St. Louts ... .. Baltimors. Cineinnaty New Orleans, San Francisco, Pittsburg. Kansas City Loufsvil Providence, Milwaukee St Paul.. Omaha. ... Minneavolis, . Denver ) Gulveston... .1 2,190, Detroit i 410,715 Indianapois. | 1902 Memphis. 07,708 198 veland mous... . i0 Harttord .11 |18 New Haven. | ... 129 Peoria.. HEEE el Portland 01 Sorinetield. |87 Wichita ? 248 Duluth. 1117 (1213 Norfolk Vet 19,9/ St. Josephi 7 ' (X1 Worcester. oo tibloay Lowell 2910 10,6/ Syracuse. " 5,000 0.0 1 Grana Rapids. . Topeka . Total Outside New Vork . S Paa NORTHWESTERN WHEAT. Result of the Farmers' Movement— How It Affects the Market. MiNNEAPOLIS, Nov. 4.—The large farmers’ movement in wheat that sprang up so sud- denly a fow days ago continues well up to the high mark and s , beginning to be felt in large receipts at the terminal stations. There are large arrivals at Duluth and Minneapo- lis. ‘The result of the latter is felt in the in reasing numbers of ‘cars on side tracks in this city. A countof the side tracked cars s 1,25 in the several railroad vards of city tnis morning. It is thought by t country buyers: that as soon as a little money is raised to meet notes due this. mohth and for otuer present necds the, mevément will diminish suddenly as it expguded. Northwest s are all bullsnosw, and being so it is hardly to be expected they will part with more of their surpius this fall than will be required to carry them well into the winter, ‘The flour murket was dull and almost life- less, due in u great measure, perhaps, to the evere break in wheat prices. - There is stag- nation in the trade, bechuse there have been mills enough running it this country for the last three months ‘to make flour enough to last not alone through t eriod, but for cly an equal lougth . There 1s one ble view of th ing of Americda’ and foreign uctations to the same commoit basia of values that will, it 18 hoped, permit laxger exports now. AN ERRING BISHOP. He Dies While Traveling in Europe With His Mistress. GrAND RaPIDS, Mich., Nov. 4.—Ever since the death in Francs, a month ago, of Bishop D. D. Patterson of the little sect known as *“The Children of Zion," scandalous stories have been afloat regarding his relations to Mary Hawley, a woman of his flock, who was designated as “The Handmaid of Christ.” When the bishop, who was married and had a family, left here two years ago, Mary joined him in New York and accompanied him in his European travels until his death. A child was born to them, and when Elder Spencer of this city visited the oishop in - Scotland and became ac- quainted with all the facts, he deposed Bishop Patterson, relegating him to private life. Since the bishop's death the story hus becn spreading, and at last the church lead- ers have been compelled to take notice of it. After frequently considering the subject, an address has been issued to the public, signed by Elders John Patterson, who is & brother of the dead bishop, David' Spencer and C. E. Revell, saying thoy had felt every confidence in Bishop Patterson, and could” not believe the rumors of wrong until they had complete evidence that evil existed, They have inves- tigated and discovered the shameful truth, und now clear tnemsetves and wish the pub lic to know they uphold no evil. Hencoforth all meetings of these “Children of Zion” will be open to the public, and the mysterious se cret rites established by the bishop will be abolished. - The Weather Indications, For Nebraska: Fair, followed by light rain or snow in eastern portion, hight rain or snow in western “portion, slightly colder, northerly winds. For lowa: Fair, followed by light local showers during Monday ufternoon or even- ing, slightly colder, variable winds. For Dakota: Snow or rain_and colder in southcast portioh, fair and shghtly warmer in northeast portion, northerly winds. prliac B i did The Wurtemburg Sensation. Loxvox, Nov. 4.—Woodcock and Hendrick, the American favorites of the king of Wur- temburg, left Nice suddenly on Saturday. The king located them in a pretty villa oppo site his own hotel. Woodcock, who was seen by a reporter before his departure, refused to deny the charges againsy him. The Wur- tewburg court officials are silent in regard to the matter. o A Collision at Sea. Loxvoy, Nov. 4.—The Norwegian bark Nor, Captain Bjdrnes, from New York Octo- ber, for Stellin, collided with and sank the steamer Sax Mudham,_off Cowes. Twenty. two persons are mi and_are supposcd to be drowne: En%t.- survivors landed at Weymouth., The Nor was abandoned. Derailed By a Cow. Vicksnura, Noy. 4.~A freight train on the Louisville, New Orleans & Texus railroad struck a cow to-day and was thrown from the track. ‘'he engihe and thirteen cars were wrecked. Three meu were killed and two wounded, e Steamship Arrivals, At New York—The Saaudam, from Am sterdam. AY Rhaetia—The Hamburg. At Queensaown—The British from Philadelphia. - - Detroit's New Bishop. BaLtiMoke, Nov. 4.—Rev, John 8. Foley was ' this morning censecrated as bishop of Detroit, Mich., at the cathedral here, with most impressive coremonies. Cardinal Gib- bous celebrated high muss. Princess, it L B Three Men Drowned. Bostoy, Nov. 4.—While four young men, Jamies Dayes, Honry Gormley, William Sel- lon and Charles' €ogin, were sailing in Dor- chester bay thiswfternoon the boat capsized aud the three first mentioned were drowne ——ie— Nussian Suspecis Arrested. g Benuix, Nov. 5, —Fifty persons have been arrested in. Moseow, ineluding Prof. Holzoff, editor of the pan-Slavist paper, Ruski Mysol. Other arrests have boén made ut Charkoft, and that is the | LED BY PARTY BELLWETHERS The People Fall Into the Clutches of Corporation Wolves. SOME OIL ROOM REMINISCENCES The Means Employed By Thurston ) His Aldes to Prevent Legis- tion Hostile to the Union Pacific, Methods of the Monopolies. Avneny, Neb,, Nov. 4.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bre.|—An immense meeting was held at Johnson, Nemaha county last mght Daily and others spoke for the union labor varty, and General Van Wyck for the repub- lican, from an anti-mouopoly standpoint. Among other things the general said : You have probably heard anaread many political speeches during the campaign, all bearing upon the question of tariff, but few upon the matter which more interests you, viz, transportation. Therefore, if 1 make sowe supgestions upon that subject, its hard- ships, the remedy agaiost admitted wrongs, the motives of party leaders with the view of entrapping the people and subserving cor porations, you will, I trust, consider it alone aud beyond polities. . 1t s to be hoped we are reaching the dividing line between patient suffering, submission and the arrogance of pride and the avarice of wealth. This you can only approach through the avenue of legslation and by the arm of the law. That the producers have just cause of complaint against railroad corporation appeals, poti- tions, high taxes, high rates of interest, mortzoges on farnis and chattels attest. The people of this state have sought relief by ogislation and failed. They have sought it by commissioners and failed, These attemots have usually been followed by corporations giving & stone when you asked for bread and incrensing the stripes to punish your temerity. In impotent despair you sometimes ask: How long, oh Lord, how long¢ 1 reply. when you can as- sume the feeling of indignation, if vou have not the courage to imitate the deeds ot your revolutionary tathers, when to check wrong they threw the tea in Boston harbor. When you can organize, unite and act for your own interest. When politics shall end ‘with the national ticket and you can say to the ringster, the corporation capper, Thus far and no farther. Three fourths of the people of this state are farmers, Wnat secures and protects the interest of one does of all re gardless of politics. By cqualizing the boards whom the railroads nouinate and the people elect the railroads are not properly assessed, not one-half; in this state only £,000 per wile, while in lowa $12,000. Neither legisluture nor commission furnish redress aguinst extortionate rates. Even to-day charges are doubled and trebled west of the Missouri river. A very eminent lawyer—one of the com. mission clerks, Judge Mason—after illus- trating the enormity of these excesses spoke of them as “like highway robbery.” The commission boiled over with indignation and were begging sowe one, any one to hold them, and were eager apparently that the court should decide if it had power to fix rates. Fiually the court so held and the commission, except Attorney General Leese and Treasurer Willard, collapsed. Its courage ull departed und 1t at once became as dovelike as the most grasping corporation might desire. Until the time for nominating state officers by the republican or dominant ioa cama®, When it rallied iuto life. Then the commiission actually issued an order | cowpelling roads to transport on something ‘nehr the badis of charges east of the river. "This spasm of virtue served its purpose. Laws wus renominated. Then the cry went up that the order would bankrupt the roads, confiscate their property, und organ, lawyer and statesman wrung their hands, fell on each other's necks and wept, and Laws wilted. He was equal to the occasion. With- out coirage to reverse the order, he cunning- ly submits a resolution, carried’ by his vote- soliciting corporation, which the voads will probably not answer until the day after the day of judgment. ‘The politics of the man who fills the office of the secretary of state is of no importance to either party, but his action as member of the commissior: is of great importance to the people, and he has notified them in advanc that he is against them. It will be curious to note how far the people will stand for their own interests by rebuking a faithless public officer. S0 with the whip and spur of this same corporation controlled machine you will, under the threat of political damnation, be forced to elect a legislature to do their bidding, and you must endure the same humiliation you aiways experience at the solution of every legislature, of wanton ex- travagance, reckless expenditure, base be- trayal, by corrupt use of money. This was fully illustrated two years ago when the Union Pacific and B. & M. generously pro- vided shrewd attorneys, eloquent politicians and unscrupulous editors to manipulate pri- maries, conventions and the legislature. The Union Pacific not only robbed the peopie extortionate rates, but robbed the govern- ment by refusing to make payment even of the interest on the bonds loaned, and con- gress provided a commission to examine how their enormous_revenues were disposed of, and they did. Princely salaries were paid to president, attorneys, managers, and officials generally. To-day your state issues are real. The only question is whether: corporations or the people shall control. You know 1t well, and vou know in some counties the roads run con- ventions and nominate men known to be their tools, and then the people are forced by party ties to be their own executioners, by electing corrupt men to power, well knowing that power will be exercised to their injury, ad some testunony taken before the Union Pacific investigating commission. Mr. Thomas L. Kimbali, a general officer of the Union Pacific with a large salary, with all his infiuence, patronage and mouey to be used for the road against the people—a straight republican when straight republi canism, 08 generally happens, can be made subservient’ to the roads—when sworn as a witness and asked as to his duties, suid: “T have written for the press more or less in de fense of the policy of the Union Pacific com- ny, not voluntarily but by request of the company. Also, when questions of legisla- tion have come up, I have been detailed o casionally to ussist in explaining to the law. makers, the position of the Union Pacific company, the effect of the proposed legisla- tion against its interest and, in some in stanees, to do what 1 could on my own judg- ment o defeat the proposed legislation.” That fully explains the straight politics of men like Kimball. and Thurston. He also says his articles were often used as editoriuls in many papers. This Tully expls ogrity of aus, When asked who assisted, he said: “The ewployes, the legal department.” Their duties were the same as his, they would be at the legislature for the purpose of venting the passage of unfriendly legislation, hostile. legislation, measures that 1 wanted defeated in the interests of the company.” When asked if he aided inthe defeat of mem- bers he replied: “I kave influeticed the nom ination and the election or defeat of candi- dates for the legislature.” It was also proven that the other pious, straight republican, Thurston, organized and paid Union Pacific mouey to u Hessian band of men, who agreed to be called straight re publicans und solid democrats and were massed upon the men the people elected legislators,. us illustrated in the testimouy of Crawford; a solid democrat, evidentiy “the most conscientious and truthful of the ‘band. He said he was employed as a lobbyist by John M. Thurston, and. paid by him “'to_en. lighten” members of the legislatur That was good, “'to enlighten.” The people had ‘better send men who need no. enlightenjug from such source. ‘‘Employed ta mfluen lezislation in the interest of the company, counsel with Mr. Thurston as to the methods best to udopt in opposing legislutiou inimical t0 railroads —all railroads.” Did you entertain members of the logis- laturet Y What entertainment! ins the independence and straight republican railroad That which sug wind and that which th What ¢ Sociul conversation and ancedotes, What else? Sometitmes | would ask them to take cigars and perhaps drink wine, The efforts we made were successful and Jegistation inim- ical to the Union Pacitic railway wes pre vented. Who work ! Mr. Van Dervort, Mr. Gurley Thurston, of course, After Thurston finished fishing he conde- ended to testity, and said: “A part of my duty was 1o take charge of the intercsts of the Union | ¢ in the legislature of the Tamended bills to make thew reason from a railroad standpoint. Bear in mind, I was not thero arbitrating between the people and the railways: 1 was. there representing the railway interest, from a railwiy standpoint, and endeavorite to mod ify provosed legislation as the managers of the company r ‘nted 10 me were proper for railway interests “Watched for bills that were dangerous to ated itsélf to my seemed to desire. were associated with you in th and Mr. interests.” Here yon have the couspiracy. A humiliating picture. There is no objection that Mr. Kimball and Thurston should give to the Union P cific all their talent for a liberal salary. Mr. Thuraton's salary is now said to be §1,000 per month, and his principal business for the last five months has been to organize clubs and make political speeches, For whose benefit ¢ A company which cannot pay its debts cer tainly will ot donate the eloquent attorney to defend the people against their encroac ments. Mr. Thurston_ is frank. He swears he acts and’ thinks from the ad stand point as against the people. But we do ob. ject that the people—that the republican party—should place its interests and destiny in tho hands of men who are paid and pledged to defeat their interest, When men like Thurston, masked behind saintly cowls, wear broad phylacteries and thank God they are not us other men, and refuse to cut wtit publicans and sinners, yet boldly swear they endeavor to control legislation from a ruil- road standpoiut. They ask you to duplicate such a legislature a8 they had last session. _You are asked for sympathy toward the suffering corporations, while they have mocked at your complaints these many years. 'The roads arc unchecked and defiant and extortionate to-day. Let me give you two cases: Within a fow miles of this very spot one of vour neighbors sends apples by the car load to Broken Bow, Custer county, about two hundred and twenty miles, and pays over ¥120 per car loud, while from here to Chicago, double the distance, one-half that sum' is chirged, so that four times us ma. tween Nebraska points, sold where farmers pay from 3 to per month for the use money and wet 15 cents per bushel for corn, Yesterday another of your neighbors returnec from Omaha, where he conferred with a railroad manager us to the rate for apples by carload to Chadron, a_distance of 500 miles, He was startled when told & He asked what was the rate to Chicag same dis tance,and wi asked oh is charged for 4 Nebraska product, be in a county per cent th answered $60. He meekl, why this difference, why charges were five times as much within the state s and was politely informed that ap) very high af Chadron, that they r 5 cants each. That was the bold wous excuse of the highwayman. The road, meancr than an ordinary thicf, takes the dif ference between the cost of apples in Ne- maha county and the fabulous price induced by their highway robbery and puts it in their own treasury, and when the legislature kv the asked to elect another such legislature as the last, who will vote against the wishes and in- terests of three-fourths of the people of this county and state. Wonderfyl that paity zeal and devotion can be mdulgc3 1 at such fear- ful cost, They Wint you to élect ‘the same men who Wwill ‘assist Thurston’s gang of straight ropublicans and solid democruts to beat the people. Crawford says this Hessian band sang songs, told unecdotes, fod them on ciggars and wiue, but don't believe that _influ- enced legislators. Evidently Thurston or some other official came along afterwards with the saddie bag which contamed the thirty pieces of silver. £ S A FATAL RUNAWAY, John H without, were tailed at and infa man Sustains a Concussion of the Brain. A probably fatal runaway occurred last evening on Thirteenth street just north of Douglas. John Haman, who resides with his mother and sister on Davenport street, was out driving in a single rig with another young man whose name could not be ascer- tained. In rounding the corner from Doug- las into Thirtcenth street in front of ‘the Millard at a moderate rate of speed, one of the rear axles of the buggy gave away with 8 loud crack, and the horse becoming frightened by the letting down of the ve- hicle started down Thirteenth street ava furious pace. Both men kept their scats in the buggy until in front of the Turf and Field, when they were both thrown out, Haman first, with the other man on top of him The horse with the shattered buggy kept on down Thir- teenth. The man, whose name could not be learned, leaped to'his feet and _pursued the fiving horse, leaving Haman outstretched in the street unconscious. He was picked up by Officer Shields and scveral bystanders and carried into Dr. Coe's office in_the m ical iustitute, where & hasty examination showed that ' there was no fracture of the skull, but that the man had sustained a seri ous if not fatul concussion of the brain. His breathing came in short, quick gasps and the froth and blood exuded from his lips in great clots. The doctor thought he could not 1, In the course of an hour his fricnds arrived. He was still unconscious, and nothing could be learned of the man who was with him. —— ARRESTED IN DENVER, A Swindler Who Worked the Frank James Deal Here, in the Toils. Word has reached this city 1o the effect that an individual, passing himself off on the uninformed public as being Frank James, the well-known bandit, was arrested at Den- ver, Colo, Friday. This same individual visited Omaha about three weeks ago, and mud ur pretentions. The fact that he swind un Farrell, of Council Bluffs, out of &0, was made kuown, but that he oper ated extensively in Omuba, has just been ud mitted by the authoritics.” He re himsclf to the management of the { cific here as being Frank James, and stated that he was in the employ of the Union’ P cific us wspy. He produced a letter to that effect, purporting to have been written by General Manager Kimball, and upon the strength of this was furnished transporta tion over the road and was advanced money to defray expenses. He made u similar cull on the Burlington, and reaped & like harvest Other roads were visited, in each case t sharper being remunerated for his “‘trouble but to what extent_has not yet been di vulzed. At the time he called “ut the Union ducific Mr. Kimball was absent from the city, and he experienced no difficalty in ob taining anything he requested. He left Omahia afier . brief sojourn, and was not ) nntil the news of his arrest He was engaged in transact ing the same deal in Denver when arrested Suicide at Des Moines. Drs Moixes, Ia, Nov. 4.—~This evening a young lady on the south side of Dos Moines named Thompson W found dead in her room, She is supposed. to have shot herself. She had just reccived a call from g young mun who was waiting on ber, and after he left o sbot was heard and friends rushed in and foupd her deal. She left a uote to a neighbor, which. w.ll probubly explain. the shooting; hut it bds not as been nude public, res: jon I 1 The John J. Harain aud C. £, Mayne City Ipague teams closel the scason with & game at the ball park vesierday afternoon. There was a good crowd present, and the struggle was quite spirited. . The score Hardins. .. 201 0 2.8 0.0 2-10 Mayne W0 002000 4 people of this state no relicf, you arc | THE BRITISH LION GROWLS. General Discussion of the Approache ing Presidential Election. AN INSULT TO HER MAJESTY; Thus an Indignant English Orate Characterizes the Dismissal of Lord SackvilleThe lay Observer's Comments. As John Bull Seen Us. [Copuright 1888 b James Gordan Henet.\ Loxpoy, Nov. 4 <[New York Herald Cable—Special to Tre Bre]—All the Sun- day papers, more or less, pay attention te the eve of a presidentiul elect ject matter urises from the” Suckville inci- dent and the great conservative mecting Saturday night. At this meeting there were n. The sube several speeches and o rattling letter from Lord Randolph Churchill. The leading oras tor said: “Parlinment on Tuesday wust pay attention to the insult President Cleve- land has paid England. 1o order to win Irish support the United States government has stooped to an act of gross vulgarity and barbarous insolence to her majesty's am< bassador, which placed it beyond the pale of civilized politics for the low and paltry pur- pose of catehing the Irish vote. The presis dent of the United States has turned her majesty’s ambassador out of doors with as little ceremony as a publican ejects @ drunken pot-boy. What 1 wish you to mari about that incident was that in America the short, plain way to get the Irish vote was ta assume a foaming hatred towards England and to load England with insults,” Inasmuch as the sunday Observer is to church day what the Times is to week day readers in cost and inftuence, I select its edi- torials as a perfect echio of the general sen ments of the English public on the presiden- tial question, It thus begins its leader: It is Just s well, perhaps, in the interest of Anglo-American amity that unext Tuesday determines the presidential contest. Be- tween now and then thero is scarcely time to developfa fresh oceasion for twisting the tail of the Hritish lion with a view to propitia- ting the Trish vote. Once tho quadrennial saturnalia of the professional politician are over the common sense of the American na- tive is surc to assert itself, and all the sooner, perhaps, bhecause of the sorry specta- cle which its first magistrate has presented within the last fow days.” After reviewing the Sackville incideat the Observer continu *“There i8 nothing that pleases the American public better than for a secretary of state to take down w Britisher apez or two, and, paradoxical as it may seem, the feeling is not uncomplimentary to us. There isno nation for whose opinion the Ame car straw a8 compared with that of the mother country. Tf this be a sentiment we ought to know noth- ing about, the Americans have themsalves to blame, as any Englishman who has en joyed the unbounded hospitality of our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic can testify. But there is nothing that an Awmer- ican hates worse than for his country to be put in the wrong with s, It imatters not whether through ofticial zeal or stupidity or more interested motives.” The editorial in respect to English inter- ests in the presidential contest remarks: *'If there was anything of moment in the words Lord Sackville used it would be the implica- tion that the American democratic party fav- ored England more than the republican party did. As a matter of fact this country has nothing to choose between them. From President Buchanan's time to that of Presi- dent Cleveland our foreign ofice has had to do with a United States government drawn exclusively from the republican party, and barring the episodes connected with the war of the secession and the Fenian raids om Canada, we have had nothing whatever to complain of. During this long republican ascendancy our relations with the United States were most amicable, and even as regards the fisheries question it as scttled for the time being in the most friendly way by the Washington treaty of 1571, nor must it be forgotten that it was President Arthur, a republican of re- publicons, who first suggested in his presi- dential message the formation of an interna- tional commission to determine the rights and wrongs of the fisheries matter, The evi- dence of an open mind which the Cleveland administration manifested during the nego- tiations identified with Mr, Chamberlain in- dicated rather the fuir-mindedness of the American nation than the policy of a polit- ical party. ITtis in that light certamly that we in this country accept it. Nor is there anything to show that Americans, whether they choose Mr. Clevelund for their next president or Mr. Harrison, mean to depart from the common sense course which they have pursied during such time as we have indicated. Theidea of the British government secking to take up a party side in American domestic politics is 5o absurd as to make us incredulous of the whole accusation. It ean not be too distinctly understood that whether the democrats or republicans triumph at next Tucsday’s election, we in this country shiall still expect that the American nation will deal With foreigu matters s & people and not s a faction,” 1 learn from the foreign office that a blue book containing the correspondence of tho Suckville incident, now in course of rapid preparation, will Le laid before parliament as soon as possible after the resumption of the session next Tuesday. - German Journals Co Beruiy, Nov. 4.--|Special Cablegram to Tue Bee.|—The Fresinnige Zeitung and other journals deny the exist of a con- corted plan to misrepresent Emperor Wil liam and declare that the municipal authori- ties have no influence over the press, The papars express a regret that the kaiser did not distinetly specify the offensive articles in his remarks 0 th ipal delegation, mu v Sackville: James Gordon Bennett.) New York Herald Bee.}—A Tribuce al. legeil dispiteh is re 10 the Daily News stuting that Lord Salisbury assured Mr, Phelps he ‘would not resenta dismissal of Suckville and then Clevelund acted. 1 have the best authority for stating thut Lord Saliss bury gave absolutely uothing definite by way of assurances, ane way or the othier, Salishury (Copyright 1858 Loxpox, Nov Cable—Special to 1 . Will Buiia Ironciads. Nov. 4.=|Special Cablegram te Tue Bek.|-The government proposes 1o re- sume the building of large ironclads, which was stopped after the wreck of the Grossew Kurfurst. A bill providing & credit for thé building of eight irenclads will be sent to the reichst Beuus, S - The Czar at St. Petersburg. Sr. Perirsnung, Nov. 4.—The czur and czaring arvived here to-aay und were accord- €d 4u entbusiastic receplion by the populuoge { |