Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 27, 1888, Page 1

EIGHTEENTH YEAR, TWO MORE BANK FAILURES. One at Loup City and the Other at Clarks. CLEAN AND COMPLETE SWINDLE. The W. R. Morse Concern Fails to Show Any Assets- The ¢ man County Institutio Will Probably Settle. Bank Failure at Loup O Lovr City, Neb,, Dec. 26.—[Special Tele: gram to Tue Ber.]—The Sherman County Banking company of this city madean assign ment this morning. The immediate was the demand of the county treasurer on them for the county money depusited there, amounting to about §14,000, which they were unable to rase, and President Whaley turned the bank over to the sheriff, without consult ing with the board of dircctors. As yet nothing can ascertained as to the liabilities or asscts, although it is rumored that the affairs of the institution are in good shape. 1t is thought depositors will be paid in full, as the dircetors are men of considerable means. [. 8. Hayhurst, a hardware mer chant, and also a stockholder in the bank, will be one of the heaviest losers, The Loup City Milling company will also lose heavily. M. Mellor, general merchant, will be a light loser, besides many other small depositors. Cashier Thicss has been in the cast for several woeks. Noone scems to know what has brought abont this state of affairs, but it was probubly caused by other invesiments which turned out poorly use A Bunk Failu Cextian Crry, N Dae. 26— [Special Telegram to Tt Brr.|—The banking house of W. R. Morse, at Clarks, failed to open on Saturday morning, and the failure of the in stitution is now announ. 1. The habilitics are placed at £80,000 with no visible assots, everytning having disappeared. The Mor! rick county treasurer had £1,200 on deposit, the Clarks school district, £1,000: Oskamp Haincs, of Omat ; State Treasurer Willard, €1,000. As'the facts dovelope tho exeitement’ and indignation increases, and the end cannot be predicted. Morse is under the cure of 4 physician who will allow no one 10 see him. L. P. Albrizit Not Kesponsible. RED CrLovn, Neb., Dee. 26.—[Special Telo am to T Bee.| —From a reading of the report of the failure of the RRed Cloud Na- tional banlk in Tur Berof yesterday, it might be inferred that L. P, Albright, the former cashier, w etly responsible for the fail- ure, This is erroncous and should be cor- rected. From and after the date of Mr. Al- bright's retivement as a_stockholder, Mr. M. B. Edleman assuned charge of the bank, as cashicr, Mr. Albright having no conneetion therewith whatever. Mr. Edieman, there- fore, was responsible(whether through lack of experience or otherwise) for aliowing the Red Cloud Milling company to overdraw their account, which was the ultimate cause of the bank’s suspension. It is stated by a dircetor, this morning, that the amount over drawn by this company, and which the bauk will have 10 assume, f0ots up to £0,000. Whether any or’ all of this amount is sceurcd is not stated, but it was on their ac- count that the suspension came. As Mr. Al- bright was in no way connected with the bank durmg Mr. Edleman's term of super- vision and ceutral, he ¢gn in no way be held responsible, and though the former telogram did not so state or intimate, the omission to state that Mr. Edleman had succeeded Mr. Albright, might lead to_a misunderstanding of the facts, The bank examiner thinks it will be several woeks before o statement can Le rendered. at Ciarks, —— e=nBrownville Items, BrowxviLLe, Neb., Dee. 26.——[Special to Tur Bee]—The event of the season here was the marriage on Christmas night ot Mr. A. R. Davison, of Denver, Colo., ‘and Miss Cora Gates, of this city Miss Gates isa graduate of the New England Conscrvatory of Music, Boston, and is considered one of the finest vocalists in the west. Besides her muny other accomplishments she 1s also qUIte an amateur in painting. M. Davison is promincut in bunking circies, The affair created no little interest, and gucests from far and near were present, over #00 invitations having been sentout. The presents were numerous and expensive, Mr. and Mrs, Davison left for Denver, their future home, this morn Christmas v appropriately observed in our various churches, with good musical pro grammes and Christias trees, Our town has been infested for some time with a gang of foot One of our prom- inent citizens, Mr. 1. ailey, was held up on the street by three men and relieved of €00 in cash, and notes to the amount of §00. The Red Cloud Bank Failure. Ren CLoup, Neb, Dee. 26.—As near! can be leurned the Ited Cloud Natios owes its depositors about £30,000, and it is also understood that they have other liabil- itics amounting to something like but it is almost impossible to got hold of the fa as National Bank Examiver Grifiith is 10w in charge of tho concern, Itis cur- rently revorted this afternoon that he has found the assets to be largely in excess of the linbilities, and advises the oflicials to open up the bink as soon us they eun get the conscnt of the comptroller to do so. The bunk wus capitalized for $30,000. The prin- cipal creditors are ported to bo at Kansas City. © times and a fuilure to collect its outstsnding paper ave the prime causes of the failure, Cl DeWite vs C. B, Bailey. Diwiir, Neb, Dee, 26,—|Special to Tug B ~The district court, in session ot Wil- ber, under Judge Morris, adjourned last Sat- urday till January 7, 185, The most notice- able feature of the late session was the great number of eriminal cases furnished by the The most importunt of caves was that of the village of DeWitt . 1. Bailey. Bailey formerly ran a sa- loon here, before the adoption of local option. e then started a flour and feed store and a so-called “tomperance billiard hall.” The town board piled up a number of counts against i, Twenty of these were proven in the justice's court, znd upon each ono he was tined 8100 and costs, Bailey then ap- pealed to the district court, A tost case of one was made and both the village ordinance and the decisions of the lower court were sustained, but he will appeal to the sups e court. S rachers' Assoc Corvnnus, Nob,, Doe, 20, gram to Ber, |~Tto Teachers’ association conve house this evoning. The house was filled chors and citizeus. A mueh larger nee s expected to-morrow. The prosident, 13 A, Enright, of Albion, deliverod an oxcelleat address, The Missos” May and Nellie North, assisted by Zura Morse, enter tained the teuchiers for the balance of the evening with recitations. The evening's Prosrainy was interspersed with music by the b ool choir, ation. pecial Tele- Noith Nebras od at the opors i Snow at Loup City. Lo Ciry, Nob., Dec. 20.—{Special to Tng Bk, | -Snow to the depth of four iuches foll bewween 8 p. m, yesterday and this morning, The thermometer has fullen several degrecs, but there is no wind —— Blaine Appointed, Avrousta, Ga, Dec. 2,—George Marble, Ras appointed Hen, James G. Blaive, among other commissioners to attend the conte niz! celebration of Washington's insugura- Aon in New York cu Aprll 50. from Mulliken's LOGAN'S RE NS Transferred to Their Finil Resting Place i Logan Chapel. WasnisGros, D, C., Dee. 26.—The remains of General John A. Logan were to-day re moved from Hutchinson vault in Rock Creek cemetery, were placed a week to the new Logan where they less than fwvo years ago chapel in the national soldiers’ tery. There present at the remoy John A. Logan, jr, and wife, Major and Mrs. William Tucker and their son Logan, Mr. and Mrs. Danicl Shepard and Miss M of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Mul . Hall, formerly secretary to i Rev. (. H. Currie, of this eity several artillerymen who for n have kept constant watch over the The transfer was made without and_as the little company were cemctery John A, Logan, jry in @ fow words, thanked the guards for their watehfu and fidelity, and pinned on the breast of each a gold medal bearing al Logan's head in bas relief on one cription on the other, hang om a bar bearing the word “fidelity.” smains will be encased in a steel est on a tiled floor in the center | visible to the public through a heavy grated ivon door., WESTERN PACKING. Price Ou Outpat of Cixeisyaty, 0., Dee. [Special Tele gram to Tie Ber]—To-morrow's Price Current will say: Fifteen prominent points have handled 280,000 hogs for the week compared with 310,000 for the cor week last year. The approximate packing for all points has been 320,000 for the weelk, inst 20,000 last year, and a tot 0,000 since November 1, against zo. The movement of hogs the past ardly been up to expectations. A houses have closed temporarily, ex 1g to start again after the 1st of Janu- Packing from November 1 to Decem home ceme: remains, The nt's Review of the fow acking, Nov. 1 to dave. Chicago ansis Clty Omalia St. Louls Indinnapolis Cincinnati Milwaiikee e Rapids eland Loutsville 418000 3000 135,800 165,000 10| 20,001 4000, MURDERED BY THE MINISTER. Fatal kight in a Country Church in Georgia, Macoy, Ga., Dee. At a country church n Coffee county a few days ago a man who was disturbing public worship was killed by the preacher in charge of the church, The! had been considerable trouble about the r tention of the pastor, who was voted in for another year. One of the members most bitterly opposed to the pastor approached the pulpit where the reverend gentleman was sitting and engaged in conversation with him. They became very much excited, and finally the memoer began to strike the minister, accompanying his blows with vile epithets und also spitting in the minister's face. The minister drew a kmfe and stabbed his assailant re- peatedly. Women sereamed and wen looked aghast, while the unfortunate man fell down by the pulpit and died. The fricnds of the minister hurried him away, and it is re- ported that he fled the country. - - The Tariffon Packing House Products Cuicaco, Dec. 26.--Chicago packers c! that they have been discriminated by western railroads in the adjustment of rates that is to go into effect January 1. The new tariffs make a higher rate on live hogs than on pac king house products from Kan- sas City and Omaba to Chicago, thereby giving the packers at Missouri river points an 1 Shicago packers, It is claimed that these two classes of freight should take the sane rate, or that if any difference is made a higher rate should be applied to live stock shipments. The Chi- cago freight burean has taken up the mat ter and will lay the complaint before the terstate commission. = . A Noted Horse Dead. New Yonux, Dee. ~The Turf Field and Farm, in its current issue, says: The fastest of the Hambletonian star stallions, Startle, is dend. He was o bay, bred by Charles Buckman at Stonyford, got by Risdyke's Hambletonian, out of Lizzie Walker, and was foaled in 1867, He obtained a reco) 2:30 8 a three-year-old, and then was sold to Robert Bonner for §0.000. He never again_started for a purse, but he trotted at the old Fleetwood track in 2:19, a perform- ance cqual to 2:17 on the present track, and went to the hulf-mile pole in 1:0417, a 2:00 gait. The trouble with Startle was an ulcer n the mouth, caused by o bad tooth, und the stallion litterally sturved to death. e ‘An Ex-Judge Suicides, CINCINNATY, O, Dec. 26,—Ex-Judge Robert A. Johnston shot himself through the head this morning at his residence. About two months ago his wife, daughter of the late Judge Swing, died after a long illness. Since then Judge Johnston has been broken down with grief. After dinner yesterday visited the grave of his wifc 1 morning about 7 o'clock he arose and, without dress. ing himself, took a revolver and deliberatel fircd a ball'through his head, causing in- stant death, There is no canse for the act except tho loss of his wife. He was about sixty years of ag —~— han Fiend. EscANABA, Dec. 26.—The Mirror gives details of @ borrible affair just made public, From au investigation made it ap- pears that Dr. W. W. Mulliken, who has een practicing medicine here for many years, Lius been in the Labit of debauching children, mapy of them us young as ten years. The evidence aguinst Mulliken is of so pronounced a character that the ac- cused was arrested and put. under bonds of §1,000 for & hearing. He bhus disappeared and forfeited his bon It is charged that 8 than forty children have suffercd ruelty, ARl Mespnis, Tenu., Dec. 26.—A private tele- gram was received here to-night saying there was & negro riot in progress in Lamar, Miss,, and asking that some Winchester rifles be sent on the first train, Lamar is just twelve miles south of Grand Junction, Ténn., on the line of the Illinois Central railroad. Every offort has been made to get at the facts, but no response to telegraws sent has been ro- ceived up to midnight, It is rumored that two whites and five negroes Lave been killed, S The Winona & Southwestern. Masox City, la., Dee, 20— [Special Tele- gram to Tug Ber. ]—Work on the Winona & Southwestern is being pushed rapidly for- ward. It was supposed by many that the road would not lay any truck in lowa until railroad legislation was in some way settted, | but Engineor Morse & now making w in: spection preparatory Lo commencing work in e carly spring. A surveying party is at worlk establishing a route between this city and Osage, - Death of Hoardman Smith, Eryvims, N. Y, Dee. 25.—Hon. H. oard- man Smith, ex-congressman, ex-justice of the supreme court, and futher of the present Jus- tice W, L. Smith, died at Lis bowe in this it this worning. Ho was sixty-Lwo years old, Y| OMAHA. THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1888, 27, WINTER'S FIRST BLIZZARD. A Heavy Snow Storm Throughout Iowa and Missouri, DELAYING RAILROAD TRAFFIC, The Snow is Drifting Badly in Places —Serious Loss to the Telephone and Telegraph Companies at Kansas City. Snow and Wind Storm. QCmesco, Dee Signal service officer here reports a cold wave coming from the north and northwest. The thermometer will fall from 15 to 20 degrees by to-morrow mornin A heavy snow storm, accompanied by a high wind, has provailed all day at Cedar Rapids, la. As far as heard from, the storm extends throughouy lowa, Northwestern Missouri, and part of Kansas, Throughout the most of this region a wet snow is falling. In the neighborhood of Kansas City it has taken the form of sleet. About noon to-day telegraphic crvice between this city and Kansas City was almost entirely prostrated. Since then some improvement has taken place, In Towa, Masox Crry, Ta, Dee. 2. —[Special Tele- cram to Tur Bee.)-—This section has been visited with a heavy snowfall to-day, in some localities assuming the appearance of @ bliz zard. East of Emmettsburg to the Dakota line there is an average fall of one inch; be- tween Emmettsburg and Chickasaw, about six inches; cast of Chickasaw to the' river, about two ' incties, Trains are all on time and no blockades reported. WaterLoo, Ia, Dec. 96.—{Special Tele gram to Tie Bee.|—A genuine blizzard, the fivst of the winter, reached here carly this morning. Over a foot of snow has already fallen and the storm continues unabated. The snow is drifting badly, and great delay in travel and shipping will result throughout the storm’s track. Des Mores, Ia., Dee. Snow began falling about 10'0'clock and has continued pretty steadily ever since, accompanied by a St “wind, About a_ foot vf snow on the level, but badly drifted in places. IRailw: travel is not much impeded. Temperature failing. Kansas Crry, ight's sleet and snow storm worked havoc among the wires. The telegraph companies cscaped with the usual embarrassments, delay and roundabout service. The electric light com- any loses 1,500, and the railroads suffer ry inconvenicnees. The heaviest loser s the telephone company, wiich es mates its loss at 20,000, To-night it is grow ing colder and the snow fall has increased. In Minnesota, St. Pavr, Dec. 26.—From the mild weather of thie last few days a change has come, und to-night a big suowstorm is raging in the southern parts of both this state and Dakota. Chamberlain, Dak., reports the Missouri river still open'and the weather to the north is milder than in the states to the south of here, e L DE LANGTRY WINS, An Interesting Oasc in a Kansas Di trict Court. Torrxa, Kan., Dec. 26, —| Special Telegram to Tue Ber.]—A caseof unusual interest was decided to-day in the district court of Reno county; entitled, the Banlk of Commerce of Kansas City vs. Mrs. Marquette P. De Lang try. The defendant, who was tie wife of a prominent F'rench officer, came o this coun- try about five years ago, having fallen heir to a large fortune. Soon after her arrival she formed the acanaintance of Mrs. Minnie B. Lloyd, a clerk in the interior department, who pot the F'rench lady very much interested n cattle raising as conducted in Kansas, as- suring her that a fortune could casily be made in tho busincss. Kinally the two em- barked in the business on an extensive scale: Mrs. Lloyd contributing her knowledge and experience against 15,000 capital furnished by Mrs. De Langtry, with which they pur- chased @ big ranch in Reno county. In a fow months this amount was exhausted and $12,- 000 more was put in the business, and later another large sum was furnished by Mrs. De Langtry, The case decided to-day was an action brought by the bank to recover the sum of §22,108 on a promissory note assigned by Mrs. Lloyd as collateral security, and a dicision was given for Mrs. De Langtry, It developed in the testimony that the enter- prise had been a total failure, and that Mrs. De Langtry sunk a large share of her fortune in it. i = The McAutiffe-Jackson Prize Fight. New Youk, Dec. 26.—The foliowing di patch was received from the California At letic club, San Francisco: A prizo fight for u §,500 purse offered by this club between Joe MeAuliffe, champion of the Pacific slope, and Peter Jackson, the heavyweight champion of New South Wales, will be fought Friday. The betting is 100 to & on McAuliffe. 1f John L. Sullivan re- fuses to fizht Jake Kilrain for 20,000 and the Police Guzette belt, which represents the championship, MeAuliffe, the Pacific slope champion, wil{take Sullivan’s place, Kennedy Wants a New Trial. Dunvque, la., Dee. 2.—[Speclal Telegram to Tue Bee]—The attorueys for Barnoy Kennedy, the wife murderer, have nearly ready an appeal to the supreme court for a new trial. Kennedy's execution is set for March 1, next, and the court meets in Janu- ary. Kennedy has already had two trials, conviction and the death penalty following in both. His attorneys think, however, he will get another, mainly on the grounds that one of the jurors was drunk during the trial, 2 = = Will Row With Gaudaur, New York, Dee. 20.—William J. O'Con- ner, champion oarsman of American, arrived in the city to-day., He will start for San Prancisco with George W. Lee in two weeks to row Jake Gaudaur for §2,000, O'Conner said that he would leave for Australia on March 7 to row Searle, the champion of the world, for §,000 a side and the champion- ship cup, They Were Not Fresent. Loxnoy, Dee. 26.—A dispatch from Malta says that neicher the Duke nor the Ducl of Edinburg was present at the theater when the attempt was made 10 blow up the build- ing with @ bomb. The Russian csnsul at Malta, who was arrested for complicity n tlic attempted outrage, has been released, as there was no evidence whatever against him, —— iw's Rainfall Dec. 2.-The rainfall pia up to the present time hus been considerably in excess of the aver- ago rainfall for tho first two months of the rainy season, and is largely in excess of the total rainfall of last year for the same period, Sl e Opposed to Boulanger. Pans, Dec. 20.~The senators and deputies of the republican groups held a meeting to- day and adopted resolutions in_favor of the candidature of M. Plerre Baudin against Genucral Boulanger. e s B One More Victim Die: LovisviLie, Ky. —Miss Mary Weanard, oae of the victims of the railroad coibsion ut Bardstowa Juuction Monday, died this woruing, Califc SAN Fraxcrsco, throughout Califo TO BRING RAILROADS TO TI r Cullom Preparing an Inter- State Commercé BN Amendment. Wasnixaros, Dec. 3.-[Special Telegram to Tne Ber. |—Senstér Cullom is devoting most of his time to studying up the inter stato commerce act. Certatn amendments to the inter-state commerce bill have been proposed by the senate, which the house is expected to coneur in, Another amendment has been proposed to the bill, which if en acted into law, will materially strengthen the administrative feature of the bill. This amendment proposes to protect individuals acting as complainant against raifroads for violation of the bill. The railroads and com mon carricrs, to a great oxtent, pay little or no attention to the law now in vogue, and do not fear_any consequences attending viola. tions, The’ penalty for offenses agaiust the law is a fina of §5000, and this fine in any case, if collected, all goes to the general government. Wha the amendment proposes to do 18 to give any fine thus collected to the complainant 1n any case, 80 as to offer some inducement for de tecting and convicting common carriers violating the law. This is the amendment in contemplation by Senator Cullom at the re- quest of shippers and others interested in the enforcement of the inter-state act. e i MARRIED HIS MAID SERVANT. How a Wealthiy Old California Wid- ower Caused a Sensation. Povoxa, Cal., Déc. 26.—This town has had a social sensation in the marriage of Danicl Hamilton, a wealthy widower of seventy- nine years, to a young English servant of six- teen named Alice Bragham. Hamilton and his married daughter, Mrs. Bastian, came to Cucumenga, ono of the colony towns near here, two years ago. _They hired Alice, who was pretty and a good worker, 4s_household servant. ‘Old Hamilton madé much of the irl and taught her to read and write. Nothing was thought of this until a _fow weeks ago, when he suddenly asked Mrs. *Bastian what kind of a wife she thought Alico would make him, Mrs. Bastian dis charged the girl, who came_ to Pomona and wrote to her old admirer. He madearrange- ments for the marfiage, which took place yesterday. The bride and ancient groom then returned to Cucumenga. Hamilton says he will build the handsomest house in the piace. He owns much property in Brooklyn und is well known there. He has four chil- dren, thirteen grandeaildren and one great grandchild. . Sena e DIVORCED FROM A SERVANT. The Callow Son of a Wealthy Mother Must Pay Alimon New Youk, Dec. 96.—A pretty girl, a boy of sixteen and a fortune figured Monday in the Brooklyn city court. Harry Stuyvesant Kearney wvas being sued for ab- solute divorce by Mary E. Kearney. His y in an aristocratic part of this city, ana at his death left nearly $30,000. The boy's father recently died, likewise leaving property m which Harry will have half ir st. Miss Kearney was i wiitress in_his mother's house. Harry fell in love with her, and the puir were secretly married in Ma ast. They returned to the house and lived together, but Harry's mother did not know anything about the marriage until a month later. There was a terrible storm over the affair, and the upshot was that the mother-in-law discharged the daughter-in- law from the house aad cautioned her never to enter again, The indignant mother thought the best thing to do with Harry was to pack him off-to Bt Thomas, Ont. There he struck up an acquaintance with a girl named Kate Scott. - Ta: court to-duy Harry admitted the marragd, the trip to Canada and many other unpleasant things, and cor- roborated the plaintifPs testimony. Judge Van Wyck granted, an absolute divorce, and decreed that Mrs. Kearney should receive £200 per year alimony, e/ L The Presid nt-Elect. INpIaNAroL1s, Dee. 26.—General Harrison was able to-day to give his almost undivided attention to work in his lib; . being inter- rupted by but few callers. His mail does not diminish and it requires a good deal of his time. Presents still continue to arrive by mail and express. Some of them are from old fricnds and others are from stran- ers. His health remains excellent and he able to get through an astonishing amount of work. The weather was stormy and dis- agreeable, but it did not prevent him from taking his usual walk. Senator Spooner argived during the after- noon and went at once to the residence of the general, where he remained until quite late, he beibg the only caller of special prom- inence. He was passiug through the city and stopped off to make the call. The gen- eral said there was no political significance in the visit. The afternoon receptions will not be resumed until after New Years, e The Practice Wil Be Discontinued. WASIINGTON, Dee, 26.—Complaint has been made at the treasury department against the tion of the surveyor of customs at Kansas City, Mo, in requiting a bond for the pro- duction of bills of lading, 1 addition to those attached to the immediate transportation entries of goods foawarded to that port. Secretary Fairchild has informed the sur- veyor thut the determination of the question ot the ownership of merchandise in such cases rests with the collectors at the port of first arrival, and has nstructed him to dis- continue the practic@of requiring other evi- dence of ownership thun is furnished by the transportation entry and accompanying doc meuts, servant ——— Business. Troubles. Louisauig, Ky, Dec. 26—W. C. Kaye, wholesale boot and shoe dealer, has assigued. Liabilities, £50,000;a8sets, not giy LouvisviLie, Kyy Déc. 25.—W. C. stock, until lately, /lessec of the Mammoth Cave hotel, made sn assignment this morn- ing, His assiguee gives no figures, Pirrsnuna, Dec. 98,—Executions were is sued to-day againgrRobert C. Toten, of the firm of Totten & Ce., iron founders and ma- chinists, for §114,6%° The cause of the em- barrassment is uot known. It is asserted that it will nov affect the firm, B - Preparing to Retreat, SuakDY, Dec. 28,44 deserter from the rebel forces reports that there are many wounded Arabs in Handoub. Osman Digna, he says, is sendimg his women to Erywert preparatory to (retreating to the Nile, Friendly shicks gly urge the British authorities 1o ad upon Handoub. Chief Gamilabas. uflen‘g d a force of 1,000 war- riors in co-oper: with the British, and promises that u-a.n Digna, if once expelled, will not be allowed to return. Killed His Wife's Paramour. Sr. Louis, Doc,’ $0.—Tuesday night in the little village of Old Mines, in Washing- ton county, Leon Dean returned home and found a man named Perville Rover with his Dean_ pre an ax and struck Rover three blowson the head, crushing the skull and killing Ayt instantly’. Dean ga: himself up to the sheriff. Robert uq;u Raving Mad, Rixawoon, N. &, Dec. 26.—|Special Tel gram to Tue Be Robert Garrett had a violent spell whilp ‘out walkiug yesterday afternoon with attendants. The latte had much diMeulty in removing Mr. Garrett to the Miller mangion, where he was confined in his room. Dr, Jacobs immediately placed him under treatment. The Fanama Canal Paxaya (via lveston) Dec. 26.—Work on the canal contibues, although in sowe sec- tions labor hus o reduced. Altogether 2,000 men haye discharged in the past 1wo months owing to disputes between the canal compapy contractors. The high- est authorities sider total suspension of the work as veky improbable. There are now about §,000 Ieborers aetually cogaged on the works, Bl | PLUNGED SIX HUNDRED FEET. Further Details of the Wreck on the Midland, ONE MAN'S REMARKABLE ESCAPE. Twenty-Four Lives Are Now Known to Have Been Lost in the John . Hanna Disaster—Other Casualties. Down a Precipice. Luapvirie, Colo, Dee, 26.—[Special Tele- gram to Tie Bee. | —The details of the wreck which occurred ou the Midland road yeste day evening, did net roach here until this morning. The freight train for Aspen left here on the usual time, and when thirty miles from here, near Lime Creek, and going down a steep grade, the enginecr attempted to ap ply the air brakes, but they would not work. the train meantime going faster and faster, The engincer then climbed up on the tho boiler in order to bo able to escape when the erash came, The brakeman, L. F. Harlan, who was standing on the second ear, attempted to apply the brake, while the fire- man, Robert Martin, who was standing at his place, saw no chance to jump, as the train Was running about sixty miles an hour. In the secona car from the rear train avother brakeman sat await imy his terrible fate. Fast and faster the ill-fated train swept down the track and suddenly rounded a short curve and then plunged into the side of the moun- tain. The force of the shock was fearful. ‘The rear freight car was thrown bodily over the others, and landed in & heap near the engine. The engine was broken into small pieces and practically annibilated. The shock was 8o terrible that great piecces of timber weighing 500 pounds, together with several cars were hurled down the precipice into the river 600 feet below. Ingineer Croughfinger, who was riding on the boiler, was thrown a great distance, and escaped with only a few bruises. Brakeman L. F. Harlan, who remained at his post at- tempting to check the train, was buried under the acbris, and when his Lody was found it presented a terrible appearance, His head was crushed, his right arm was gone and his face was cut into slices, Martin, the fireman, was found near the bo The ur fortunate man had been badly scalded, sev fingers were gone, both legs were broken below the knees, and every bone in his body fractured. The other men on the train were badly bruised, but not seriously hurt, ———— The Marblehead Fire MarnLeuean, Mass, Dee. 'he fire which wrought such destruction last night was gotten under control at 3 o'clock this morning after having destroyed between fifty and sixty buildings in the business portion of the town, The most reliable estimates of the total losses are $300,000, and 1,000 or more men thrown out of employment and many fam lies rendered temporarily homeles seven structures were destroyed. Thirte were dwelling houses, twelve shoe factorie and thirteen miscellancous buildings. So quickly did the flames spread that whole blocks were ruined in fifteen minutes. It is now estimated that between cight and nive acres were burned over. Charles Choate, who broke his leg by jumping from the second-story indow, is the only injured persca reported. The heat on all sides was so intense that the curb stones were cracked and crumbled and car rails were twisted out of shape. The water supply was inadequate. None of the manu- facturers think it possible to build this winter and there is a general fecling of depression in towi, A Fatal Accident. Dexver, Col, Dec. 26.—A fatal accident occurred this afternoon, on Fiftcenth strect, which resulted in the instant death of four wen ard mortally wounding two others. The Denver Gas company had 10 men employed excavating a ditch six fect deep alongside of and underneath the track of the cable car line, when sudacnly the track for an entirce block fell, crushing the hfe out of and im- prisoning’ the men underncath. Men were immediately sct to work removing the fallen track, and the four dead and two badly wounded were removed. The other men escaped with more or less brui: 1t is not yet known whether any more are underncath the track or not. The Christmas MiLwAukEE, Wis, . 26.—A four-ycar- Lold son of Emil T. Leidel, a letter carrier, was burned to death yesterday morning, Mr, Leidel had gone to the postofficaand his wife stepped out to the grocery. During her absence the little boy got out of bed and started to light the candles on a Christmas tree which he had scen illuminated Monday night. His night .dress took fire, and to es cape his mother on her return the little fel low ran back to bed again with his clothes still burning. Th 1 clothes took fire and were burning R came home i time to rescue another child slecp- ing in the bed. The little boy was horrioly burned about the body and died shortly afterwards. OCaught Fire, A Santa Claus Fatally Burned. DaxviLLe, T, Dec —Christmas even- ing a few familics, consisting of the imme diate relatives of F. W, Smith, jr,, a_conduc tor of the Chicago & Eastorn Iilinois railroad, gathered at his house for Christmas festiy- it Mr. Smith took the part of Santa Claus, covered himself with cotton batting, and had cotton batting whiskers 1o his false face. In lighting the candles on the Christmas tree the cotton batting became ignited. M. Smith ran out of the house a living mass of Hames, Before they could be subdued he was 80 horribly burned that his recovery is not anticipated. The Hanna Disaster, NEw Orieans, Dee, 26,—The total 1oss of life s0 far by the burning of the stcamer Hanna is placed at twenty-four, Of the in- jured men in the hospital four or five will , among them Givens, the sailor, who was the hero of the disaster. His face is horri- burned, nose gone, and_eyes burncd out; left arm is completely burned away, and his left side and leg charred ‘The funeral of such victims as have been recovered took place to-day, flags of steamers in the harbor being placed 4t a balf mast. o —— The Building Coflapsed. Youx, Pa. While a Christmas entertainment was being held last evening in the hall at East Prospect, this county, the building collupsed and 800 people were hurled by the broken timbers from the sec- ond to the first floor. To add to the terrors of the situation a stove set fire to the ruins. A large number were badly bruised and cut, but fortunately there were no fatal casui ties, and-only a few were seriously injurcd. Jumped the Track. Herexa, Mont, Dec, 26,-~The morning pas- senger train on the Montana Central jumped the track at the outskirts of this city, owing 10 an open switch, killing the fireman, Juck Moore, and Deputy Sheriff Lathrop was badly burned, the stove having fallen ou hin. All the others escaped uninjured. - Certificats of Election Issue Wasmixaroy, Dec. 26.—A special to the post from Charleston, W, Va., says that Governor Wilson to-day issued certificates of election to Congressman-clect Pendleton (dem.) fi the First, and Wilson (dem.) from the ond district. Certificates were not issued to congressmen from the Third aod Fourth districts, THE Finth HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, Annual Mecting of the Society in Washington Wasnivaroy, Dee, The American His. torical association, recently incorporated by actof congress, began its fifth annual meet- ing this evening in the lecture room of the Columbian university. W ool L.L. D., librarian of the Newberry hbrary, Chicago, as president of the association, de livered the opening address, He said that if the history of the United States wore pre pared on the principles taught in the histort al department of the John Hopkins uni versity, such a history would recognize the fact that a large and import ant portion of our country lies wost of the Allegheny mountains.” Few of the tern historians, he said, had been tall enough to look over the Appalachian range. “The northwoestabounded in unwritten his. torical material, Dr. Poole called attention 1o the fact that publications purporting to be the journals of the continental cong were not what they professed to be, but were selections made on some capricious and incomprehiensible principle. A new and re wvised edition of the journals of the couti nental congress was needed for historical study. 1In closing his address Dr. Poole said there were many manuscripts of great im portance to thiscountry in European archives, B. ', Stevens, an officer of the late depart ment, residing in London, for twenty years has boen engaged at his own expense in - the work, copying and arranging these records. Sucecssive secretarios of state had recon miended congress to make appropriations for the purchase and publication of the Steven's papers, but nothing has ever been done. Stevens mbw propesed to issue five volumes of these papers at a cost to each subscriber of $500. A preat government like ours, Poole said, should not require students of its own history to supply themselves with this mate rial at private expense. Professor George B, Steward's “Worl on Leeal Constitutional Histor, 1s deseribed by his colleague, ruer, of the niversity of Neb l’.f\l'l'lr‘;ll IMMIGRATION. Testimony Before the Investigating Committ at Detroit, Detroir, Dec. 20— Chairman Ford re sumed the immigration investigation this morning. Charles A, Ward, collector of customs at Port Huron, said that at present there was no insvector to detect of the eriminal, pauper, or insane classes. There wore instructions to enforee the law to prevent the importation of laborers under contract. Complaints had been mado of Cunadians working on this side of the river and living in Canada, and in several in- stances this had been stopped. R. H. Day, of Port Huron, agent of the Sarnia & Duluth hne ot steimers, testified that he had observed a great many Canadian laborers come over every year in the fall and €0 back in the spring. They worked in the Tumber woods. — There was no attempt made to prevent paupers and crimmals from com ing over. Sigman Simon, of Detroit, president of the Wayne county board of poor commissioners, testified that a large number of Canadian and European paupers and lunatics were thrust on their hands. Theso would remain in the house until it could be uscertained where they came from. Did not know for certuin that the Canadian_officials had helped them to cross the line, but many paupers s The alms house now_coutains from 1 2,000 iInmates, and the insano asylum con tams about the same number. A large por- tion of these are alicns. 1f it were not for this state of affairs there would be no o casion to eniarge the county poor louse which isnow being done at an expense of £50.000. "The only witness examined this afternoc was Deputy Collector of Customs Choistane of Detroit, who testified that he has exam’ ined the custom entries of kits of tools within the present year and that there were 474, Twenty-seven ver eent-of these were car: ponters' tools. There were 2,958 entries of emigrant’s houschold effec - THE STOLEN BONDS, A Council Bluffs” Citizen Indicted by the Chicago Grand Jury. Ciicago, Dee. 20.—The grand jury, after cousidering the stolen bond case, m which Lawyer Cutting was so prominently impli- cated, to-day found two trae bills of buvg- lary and two of receiving stoled property, knowing the same to be stolen, azainst each of the following: W. K. Shaw, Henry Pless ner, C. D. Taylor and Otis Corbett. The lt is Shaw's father-in-law, and will be brought from Council Bluffs, ', to-morrow, the requisition pupers having been obtained and forwarded. Inspector Bonfield testified before the grand jury and told his discoveries in the case, Ho said he had recovercd ail the honds tuken from Kellogg, Jolmson & Cohn, Wam pold & Co., and was ordered to produce them, which he did. ‘The bonds were imme- diately identified by their owners, eatidiisods Beats Jules Verne. [Copright 1585 by Jam:s Gordon Bennstt,] Loxnoy, Dec. 2.—|New York Herald Cabie—Special to Tug Ber]—The perform ance of Jules Verne's hiero, who went around the world in cighty days, has been supassed by an English post card, which has just re turned from its interesting travels. It was mailed by a gentleman October 10t a friend in Hong Kong by way of the United States and Yokohama, It reached Hong Kong No- vember 23 and was redirected to London by way of Brindisi, It wasidispatched November 25 and reachied the original owner Monday mormng, within seventy-five days. The card only cost i}g pence, — Want a Keceiver Appointe CricaGo, Dee. 26,0, N. Eddy, president; 1. I, Shaffer, first vice vresident, and Curtis A. Lugh, sceretary, to-day filed a bill asking for a receiver for the Columbus Building and Savings association, und for an injunction vestraining W. SHhaw, its manager, from transucting any further busiess for it haw is the man arrested sorec duys azo for negotiating fort return totheir owners of a 1ot of stolen bonds. The petitioncrs declare that the association is solvent and there is very little evidence of sccurity for $14,000, which it appears has been loaiied by the as sociution, & *hoot. Dr, Carver, in his up to 1 p. m., His r hit Dr. Carve MINNEAPOLIS, Dec, % third day's shooting, 7,100 balls, and missed three days is 20,535 below the av be necessary to insure suce:ss in his attempt to break 60.000 bulls in six days. To-uight his_ physical condition is bad. His head and arms are much d he suffess great pain, It is not believed ae will be able 10 contiuue to the cad of the week. - An Unprovoked Muarder, Siovx Ciry, la, Dec. 2.—|Special Tele gram to Tur Bee. A man by the namie of Swan to day shot and instantly killed Will inm Myers, a young man living near Akron, In, ‘The murder was doliberate and abso lutely without provocation. Swau is o worth- less character, und accustomed to swagger i make threats, He met Myers, and, drawing a revolyer, shot him uefore he raised @ hand, Myers' family reside at Praivie du Chicn, Wis, balls A Criminal Co S1. PErERsBUIG, Dec The second in quiry into the receut aceident to the czar's train at Borkier results in attributing the disaster 10 a ecriminul conspiracy. All the recently discharged railway cmployces will shortly be arrested, o b A Missourl Pacific Change, S. Lovis, Dec, 2,—C. M. Rathburn will succeed W. 13, Doddridge as superintendent of the Missouri Pacific lines in ISansas uud Nebraska, MBER 196 T0 BE WHITNEY'S SUCCESS 'R The Naval Officors Working for Thomas, of Illinois. COLORED CATHOLICS TO MAROH, A Remarkable Gathering tion in the ment Consterna. Dopart- hip Treasur Speake Candidates. WASHINGTON Bunkav Tie Ovana Bee, 518 IOURTERNTIL STIR 3T, Wasmixaroy, D, O., Doc, 26 There is an organized movement on the part of the naval oficers in this city to securd the appointment of Congressman J. B, Thomas, of Illinois, as secretary of the navy, it possible. Captain Thomas is very popular among this branch of the service, and s m member of the committoo on naval affairs of the house of representatives, has always been active and earnest in looking ufter their interests, They think that with him at the head of the department they will bo well taken care of. A REMARKABLE GATHERING. Thero will bs a remarkable gathering in Washington on the 1st of January next, composed of 600 delegates representing the colored members of the Catholic church in the United States. o object is to start a boom for the church amoung that race, and Cardinal Gibbons is to presiae over the sas- sion. STOLEN CANCELLED NOTES. The oflicials of tho treasury department bad another shock to-day when word caté from the Central National bank, of this city, that the receiving teller of that institution had taken over the counter another of the cancelled notes which bore ovidence of have ing passed through the redemption division, In the present instance the note is of the §10 denomination, and it is rewarded s more dangerous than the other, which was' @ twenty, because there was 80 many more of the tens in circulation, und’ it will be so much the more casy for he thief to dispose of his plunder, he treasury people utterly at aloss 10 trace the notes back to the person who stola them. Under the present system it wad considered impossible that any of the re- decmed motes could be abstracteds but the reappearance of two within a week indu hat there are more out, and further, that the stealing is of very recent ate. The system of checks now in uso was inaugurated some years ugo, after a very suce cessful raid by on¢ of the men employed, to see thatall redecmed notes were properly destroyed. In those days it was the custom to burn all redeemed obligutions in the presence of a committee of three. Constant work of this character made the committeo careless, )t it soon devolved upon one of the throe to sec to all the details. He had things all his own way until one day the littic son of one of theothers said: *‘Pa, what is that man putting in his pocket?” 1L was discovered that he was pocketing buncies of half notes. His house was found to be literaily filled with these halves, and he had a habit of sub- stituting the eut notes for wholo ones when- ever the opportunity presented itself, 1t was estimated _at the tuwie that he had stolen £30,000 or §60,000 before he was discovered, SPEAKEUSHIP CANDIDATES, 7 Three new candidates for the spenkersiiip were brought ovt to-day by their fricuds, bug neither of them mean business. One of them is Mr. Heur bot Lodge, the young fand brilliaut It member ' from” Massachus setts, who 18 probably intended to divert some of the N gland votes from Mr, Reed. The second is John M. Farquhar, of Buffaio, an old wrinter and ex-president of the Typographical union, who is one of the most useful men in the house, but will not get much support for the speakership; and the third is Thomas M. Bayue, an_old mem- ber of the Pennsylvania delegation, who worships before the throne of Mr. Blaine, and is always fighting the Camerons, Bayne has been mukingup to Quay lately, ana is we L along towards the head of the ‘@nnsylf vania procession at present. e probably is cking a good comuiittee. AMERIOAN IUSTOKICAL ASSOCIATION. The fifth annual meeting of the American Historieal association commenced this even- ing i this city and will continue over to- morrow and 1riday. Willinm M. Poole, Ll D., curator of the Newderry library at’ Chi- cago, delivered the opening address, and papers on American biography by General Jumes Grant Wilsou, and an local constitu- tional history by Prof. George 1. Howard, of the Nebrasku university, were read this evening. MISCELLANEOUS, or Davis, of ‘West' Virginia, will the eabinet of President-Bloet thot ry warm friend leman, and the nilics have for many years. Davisis & sion, but neis as thorough rotection as ’ig Iron Kelloy himself, and Senator Gorman is for that mate ter, and MePherson of New Jersey, and Brown of Georgia, and Voorhees was ' until reeently. One of the most convineing docus ments the tarift leaguo ever published is & rch that Voorhees delivered at Atlants, eurs ago, and millions of copies of i en circulated throughout tho United of that been intin: lave b States. Juis rather amusing to read in the Evens ing Star, an_interview with an anonyumous Towa politician, who announces as u moss important pointer for 1842, thatJoin N. Irwil of Keolulk, Ia. has purchiascd a controlling ine terest in the Chicago Times, aud will tuke the munagewment of that o in the interest of Senator Allison, for the presidency, The comptroller of the currency has ap proved the selection of the Comniercinl Nas tional bank, of Omaha, as ryo agent for National bank, of Priiy 8, F - Patents to Western Inventa WasmiNgrox, Dee. %.—(Speciul Telegram to'luk Bee.|-~The following patents were issued to inventors: dmund Bucklew, i’ v coupling; Jumes 17, Jutter, nurser; William B, and J, . Coftin aud W. 13, Coffin, assignors to T, K. Coftin, Bliss, Neb., well sinlang machines Daniel 1. Davis and ). J. Fisher, Luramje, Wyo., car coupiing; Ovlando ' Huffman, assignor of one-half w T, i, Browne, Uriend, ‘b, animal v 1 nd Forks, 1 vide; I're ger, Allian shurpener; Johm Shatto, Hebron, La., 1 ' - > Kansas Toach “y Torexa, Kan, Dec. 26 am to Pun B |—Th sus State rs’ ussociation convensd in this city ay, the attendance bl largor than eyer o at an annual convention. The address ome was delivered by Hea, R B, and the resp by Dr. Lippincott, chancollor of the university, . G, Larimer, president of the ussociation, delivered an ine tercsting annual address, — The Weather Indications, For Nebraska: air, continued low tems perature, followed Thurslay by warmer, southwesterly winds, becoming variable, For | Lignt snow, continued low tems perature, followed Thursday by slightly winds, becoming southwesterly, Dakota: 1%, continued 10w teigperge ids becoming veri - -~ Mudd Will Contest, Barmiyonr, Dec. 20 —Sydncy . Mudd,the republican candidate for congress in the FifthioMaryland district, has, through his counsel, sent notice to Hurncs Cowpton thy he will gonteot his seat in - eongres: Mu, alloges fraud in connting the vot - Steamship Arvivals, At New Yo uo Wyvwing, frow Live CEpovls