Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 21, 1889, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE EIGHTEENTH YEAR. PROHIBITION IN [0WA, A Streak of Daylight From a Dark Lantern. GOVERNOR LARRABEE'S VERSION, The True Inwardness of Prohibition at Dos Moines SHAM AND THE Police Court Records That Knoock Out Pretenders. THE REAL. SOME DES MOINES SAMPLE ROOMS The Effect of Prohibitory Legislation in the Capita) City—Real Es- tate, Commerce and Industry. Docs Prohibition Prohibit? Under instructions of the managing editor of Tue Bek I have just completed o tour of observation in thes leading cities of lowa with special reference to the practical opera tion of prohibition in the Hawkeye state, 1 must state at the very outse that my in structions were not to write prohibition down or to color my reports with any bias, The facts as sabmitted herewith are the un- varnished truth and can be verified at any time by perties who are willing to get the bottom facts about prolubition rather than to bolster any particular version of the temperance fssue. My report is written purely from the standpoint of the newspaper reporter, whose ehicf aim is to present a faithful picture to the public of what he has seen and heard, The capital city of lowa was the first point visited by me, and I must say 1 encountered very little dificulty in familiarizing myself with the real status of prohibition, This s an unfavorable season of the year to visit Des Moiues, for the people tell me that in the summer time 1t is really a place of excecding loveliness, while now it is dreary, cold, dirty and begrimed, evincing hardly a redecming feature to make good the assertions of the mhabitants. I reached here o the middle of the night. Listless repose reigued throughout the city, and my first impressions of the place were naturally dismal and dreary. Under such circumscances one fecls badly the need of some sort of stimulus as 150 miles “roughing it" has had quite a racking effect upon both physique and mentality. But as this is one of the places, according to Gov ernor Larrabee, where the blessings of strict prohibition are exemplified to their fullest my ure, I had hittle hopes of indulging in thing of a liquid shape, and made up my wind that a good square meal and & cup of hot coffee was the most T could expect. The White Elephant. In a few minutes the sign of the White Elephant, a restaurant kept by an_accommo- dating young man named Terry Chambers, on Fourth street, just south of the Kirkwood house, caught my attention, and 1 walked in and set down my valise. The room is @ log ome, with a huge soda water fountain and cigar stand occupying the forward space on the left as you enter, and a row of dining tables runs down the right side of the apartment until the counter of the cuisine is reached, whileon the left, partioned off snugly is a series of wine rooms, with lock and key to each door, 1 walked back and entered the first of these and tapped the bell, A colored waiter was promptly at my service, and in an off hand, matter-of-fact sort of a way, 1 said: im, bring me a bottle of beer.” The darkey eyed me a moment, then said: *You's atraveling man, is you boss{” 1 replied: “Yes, 1 sell Chambers 'bout all his best cigars—hurry Jim with thiat beer, I want to get to the hotel.” A Bottld of Beer. “The next moment the waiter returned with & bottle of beer and a glass, and pulling the cork poured me out a draught. 1 drained the glass and smacked my lips as if the beverage regaled me much, but hon- estly such vile stuff, a sorvof a cross between drippings and dish-water, T ne ted be fore. 1 excused the waiter and looked at the bottle. It read: ‘Jos. Schhtz & Co,, bottled at Rock Island by Carse & Ohlweiller” and as I afterward learned was made espec- fally for the Iowa trade. The bottle cost me 85 cents. Aslleft the place, I ran into a knot of five or six men, all morcor less in toxicated, at the cornerof Walnut street. They were of course discussing the ikelihood o wropeal of the prohibition law, as overy- body does here when they got under the in- fluence of Schlitz's slop, or the forty-rod whisky obtainable at a hundred different places. But more of thut anon, A View of the Oity, Yesterday morning, after an ordinary breakfast at the Savery—their new grand hotel here—1I took a desulory stroil about the principal streets of the city, and I must ac- knowledge that it strikes me that the opinion 1 formed of the place atthe midnight hour was about the correct thing. In fact at this time of the year it is better to see Des Moines by eloctric light than in the full glare of the noonday sun, which might also be said of a good many other cities, The streets are painfully narrow, exces- sively muddy, and everything is dingy and dirty to & superlative degrec. There are but few attractive build- ings, the capitol, with its huge gilded dome, overlooking the entire city from a consider- able eminence across the river on the east side, being the most conspicucus, the post- office und government building coming next, and the Savery house rankinyg fourtl, ButI am not here to describe Des Moines, neither am I here to belittle or disparage by depre- clating comparisons, for it is o well known fact that it is & fine old town, and an aristo cratic one at that. Yet through force of cir- cumstances it has become in a large weasure stultified and deadened, hus fallen in desue- tude, so to speak, and is not marked with that stirving life and get-up that so charac- terizes all our western cities. The people here says the town is improving now eve day, but not as she would huve unproved had the state been spared the incubus of probi- Dbition, But the citizens of Des Moines would be unworthy of their ancestry Af they did not claim everything that wus good for her. 13ut that in nowise affects the impressions of the disinterested visitor, and 1o the majority of these it appears that the cityRis embosomed in the heart of one of the « greatest states in the uniomw, but that for some inexplicable reason she and in population, business, customs, man- mers, she remains fixed; while the great tor- rewt of wigration and unprovement whick is lies dormaut, | making such incessant changes in othor parts of this restless country sweeps by her un heeded. Des Moines is like one of the big payons bordering the Mississippi where the rift wood may be seen peacefy lodged against the shores or revolving slowly in the sluggish depths, undisturbed by the rash of the passing current beyond, A Talk With the Governor, + T went over to the capitol in the afternoon for a talk with Governor Larratee. I found him at leisure in his sumptuously appointed office and he received me cordially. 1 ap prised him of the nature of my crrand, to learn something about ®he resy of pro- hibition in SONS Cor Towa, and we got down to work the “How is law enforced, anyway, goy ernor ™ I enquired “Well,” he replied, “just abont as the or dinary law is enforced. It is a most satis- factory success h “You said, Govel were wovernor, in speech at Thayer's inaugural, that there enty-nine counties in this state where the law was absolute, and it was im- our lor possible to get a drink of mtoxicating erage.” “While T did not say that in so many words, it isa fact, in fact there are more than seventy-nine counties 1 this state where there is absolutely no liquor to be had under any circumstances,'” “Will you please name them? “It would be casier for me to name the towns und counties where the law is not en- forced thoroughly, and these, Allamakee, Dubuqué, Jackson, Clinton, Scott, Musca- tine, Pottawattamic and Johnson-—in all the rest of the counties in the state the law is enforced most rigidly, and it is next to an impossibility to get anything to drink. In Des Moines? Yes, sir, it is enforead hores but there are one or two places where un csoteric trade in beverages is maintained, but in time they will be extirpated root and branch.” “You will please enumerate somd of the most noticeable benetits of prohibition in your state governor, as [ desire to get as near the bottom facts as possible.” “To begin then, Mr. McLain, the saperin tendent of the county poor house, says he has but sixty paupers now, the same number he had a year ago; but (o years ago he had many more, and three years ago still a larger number, Again, three years ago there were venty-five saloons in full blast in Des Moines, now there is not a single one, and for a period of three years I have not scen a half dozen drunken men upon our streets. Before the passage of the law a reeling drunkard was a common sight. 1 have talked with our judges about the criminal vusiness before the courts, and three out, of four declare there is not half there was three years In fact the law business in both branches, civil and criminal, is at a low ebb in Towa, and attoracys everywhere are complaining.” “How about the river towns; is the laws enforced theret” 0. “Not so well. It is defled in Dav- enport, and everything is wide open there, and pretty much the same condition of things exists at Oskaloosa Ottumwa and Burlington. However, they'll all have to go; they can't withstand the pressure that 18 being brought to bear upon them. But here, read this letter, I just re- ceivea it before you came in, and it will give you an idea of how things are working,” and the governor handed me the following open letter: KEOKUK, Ta,, Jan. 7, 188 Hon. Willam Larrabee, Dear GoverNor:—Your letter of Dec. 30 received. 1doscarc for the good opinion of good men. I do not care for the good or bad opinion of saloon keepers and whisky men. [ have them down here now and will keep them down if I can. You estimate the crowd rightly. They care for nothing that is decent or right. 1 thank you heartily for your letter. Yours Sincerely, Jonx N. IRwIN, Sheriff of Lee County. Do you think, governor, that this law will ever be repealed “No sir, emphatically no—none of us will eversec such an unwgleome thing come to pass. But while I think of it I want you to say that I would not have mentioned the sub- tof prolubition before the Nebraska slature had not Governor Thayer given me my text and there was no getting out of i I think, however, that it was well enough, for in the country districts of that state there 18 & rapidly augmenting sentiment in favor of prohibition, and a bill submitting the question to & vote of the people is to be laid before the present legislature, Yes, I will confess there has oecn a shrinkage in real estate valuations since this law went into of- fect, but it was not prohibition that caused this diminution in values, for the same con- dition of things exist in mauy states " where prolibition does not reign. The argument that the closing of the saloons hurt business is the woakest of all. Our crobs erow just the same, and the produce is marketed, and it the people can’t spend their money in the sa- loons they will spend it elsewhere. You will be safe in chronicling, taking everything into consideration, that there will be no rest until the law of prohibition is absolutely en- forced in every nook and cranny of this state. As an evidence, Kinsie Jordan, of Ottumwa, one of the most obdurate saloon men in the state, just left my ofice before you came in, ufter decluring an un conditional capitulation, and agrecing to quit the business forever. He is notoriously known as “Stormy” Jordan, and hanging before his saloon in Ottumwa was a sign which read: “The Road to Hell,” and auother over the door entitled, “Nose Paint.” He has been pursued and arrested time and time again, and up to an hour ago there were fines stauding against him to the extont of 000 for violating the liquor law. I first re- leased his bondsmen, Jordan having made oath that he will heroafter refrain from the sale of intoxicating liquors and demean him- solf asa good and law-abiding citizen, I bve issued an order suspending execution of the sentence of the district court of Wapello county against Jordau, and he hias gone away bappy They Have Eyes, But Sea N Now to show how a great and good man like Governor Larrubee may be fooled, I will proceed to detail my subsequent investl gations in this city. Ou my way down town from the capitol T dropped in at the police station and with Clerk Johnson went over the criminal rec- ords of the city for the past three years, and 1 must say the information must strike Gov- ernor Lurrabee and the good people of Towa like a revelation. In 1853 the total number of persous arrested for iutoxication was 425 in 1884, the fivst year of prohibition, €48; in 1855, 555, and in 1888, 649, and at the ratio they are being run in now, 1859 will outstrip all former years. This, 1t must be understocd, 1s not the sum total of the ar. rests for iutoxication in this city by a long shot, for since the passage of the law cons‘a- bles have been vested with the power to make arrests for intoxication, and to search bouses for liquors, aud for each case es. cived a fee of from #1.50 to case, There are eleven justices of in the city, with two constables to tablished they £2.50 ¢ the pe a justice, and scores and scores of drunks are run in by these oflicials that are not recorded in the annual report of the clerk of the police court. However, enough has been ascer- tained to show that the arrests for drunken ness in the city of Des Moines since the cn cement of the prohibition law, have been when t The best citizens, reliable fi largely in excess of that were wide open. business men, tell me that where one drunken individual was encountered on the strects formerly, two are met with now. From police headquarters I made my way to the internal revenue office, but this being a deputy’s office I was unable to secure the number of lquor licenses issued. These fiy ures I shall have to procure at revenue head- quarters at Dubuque. The deputy collector assured me, however, that there was not much of a falling off in the issuing of govern ment licenses, an_average of four or five being taker. out daily. saloons Decline of. Real Valucs, From the internal revenue ofice I called upon the leading real estate men of the city, to obtain the comparative real estate valua: tions before and since prohibition, A unanimity of opinion prevails in theso I was told that there was any Qs quantity” of good property here now that wouldn't soll for any more than it would in 1883, They agreed that there was not the slightest question that the law had had indirectly a disastrous effect upon the real estate of the city. It had set the people to quarreling. One side attached an undue importance to the enforcement of the law in one way, and the other in another. This had 4 demoralizing influence. Peovle flad from the city ns 1f from a pestilenc 1 business suffered in a deplorable wi The shutting down of the mammoth Kidd distillery—the largest manufactory of re fined alconol and high wines 1o the world was a calamity within itself. Tho prodigious market it offered ceased entirely, and over 500 hands were thrown out of employment, and most of them were compelled to leave the city. This immense establishment made no beverages, and the prolibitionists claim that it 18 was not the enforcement of the law in this state that compelled this institution to discontinue operations, but the whisky pool that so completely controls the distilling in- terests of this country. But while in a way this is true, it was the passage of the law of prohibition in Towa that made it possible for the pool to compell Kidd to close down, While the real estate men now claim that pricesare firm, there is no hife in the market, and transfers are fow and far between. The city of Des Moines, in spite of the drawback given it by prohibition, has undergone much quarter: aud natural improvement, and her cit- zens hope to seo it continue and increase, as it certainly will. But under the prosent condition of things a boom is undreamed of. Views of Business Men. Business men claim their yearly showing has fallen off over one-third since the old days when prohibition was unknown, aud but meagre evidences of improvement are now reported in any branch of trade or trafiic. Unhampered by the law, Des Moines, with lier fourteen or fifteen railroads, and her thousand and one natural advantages, ex- haustless resources and business tact and enterprise, would be one of the largest, most populous, prosperous and thrifty citics in all the great west. No one can gainsay the truth of this statement after once going over the ground. And then, after all, there is but a sem- blance of prohibition here. It exists only in name, and not in actuality, A List of Places. Imade the rounds of the city last night and following will be found alist of the places where intoxicating beverages may be had: >at MeAtee's—a small frame building next to the International hotel, across from the Rock Island depot. A billiard parlor is the blind. Under the Aborn house isa place run by a man named by John Cavanaugh, a bona fide saloou, run on the sly, of course, D. T. McGee presides over a little store- box of a room next to the desk in the Aborn house, where whisky straight may be pur- chused at 15 cents a table spoon full. Juke Hugelon, on Court avenue, at the corner of the alley, botween Second and Third streets, whisky and beer. Day Rutterson, a shoemaker on Third stre near Court avenue, dispenses ‘‘rot- gut.” One side of the apartment is occupied with a fish market, and you go in a small voo to get your drinks, Tom Whalen, across the alley from the Whalen house, on Third street, runs a whisky shop. Further up Third street, between Walnut and Locust, just west of Wells' livery stable is u cigar stand that sells more whisky than cigars. At the corner of Fourth and Locust street is one of the most frequented resorts in the aity, where the yourg bloods go to get their “Sjag on.” 1t is owned by George Humey, a once noted gambler and suloon keeper here and is run by his woman, vari ously called Mrs. Parker and Winnic Rippeth. You entered a small room in front, ostensibly a cigar store, but on siguifyiug your wants you are dirccted to u rear apart- went, and sit there while Winnie goes out to the drug store and gets you a bLottle of whisky, beer, or whnatever you want in the bibulous line. The sign at the door is Del- monico’s Restaurant. On Walnut street, next to Foster's opera house, is George Johnson's place—lunch, whisky, beer, ete. On the South Side, at'his dwelling house, Frank Grogan runs a lushing dive for the miners. Nim Wyatt, at his dwelling, also dispenses liquid refreshments, without much fear or favor. Ou the East Side you can get your drinks at the Capital City botel, run by John Harty. Lew Foley runs the toughest hole ever known in Des Moines. 1t is an alloged bar- ber shop on Walnut street. This place is nightly the scene of the wildest orgics by an intemperate gang that rendezvous her Mrs. Day, on Sixth street, near Court ave- nue, runs & popular boarding house, where the chief diet is vile whisky and rotten be at Hoftman house prices. These are but a small number of the places where intoxicating beverages can be bud at any time, And This is Not All But these places do not drive the bulk of | the trade in liguors, as Des Moines 1s a city of drug stores, and out of u list of fifty of theso establishments, twenty-nine sell whisky by the drink over the counter, and ywith one or two exceptions, every drug store in the town sells it by the pintor quart, In my nest letter T propose to describe about wkirty odd sample rooms which I visited in company with some friends who knew just where the lateh strings bang. about NDAY MORNING, JANUARY DAKOTA'S OUTLOOK BETTER, Prospecta of a Speedy Roealization of Her Hopees. ANOTHER FIGHT ANTICIPATED Over the Suspension of the Rules for the Passage of the Oklahoma Tervitoral and the Pa- cific Funding Bill. WASHINGTON BUREAU THEOMATA Bra, } 513 FOURTERN T STREET, Wasnixatoy, D. C., Jan, 20, There is a more cheerful outlook for Da- kota's statehood. It hus been agreed by the delegation hexe from that territory, who are working for the division and admission to statchood of the southern half by proclama- tion of the president, with an enabling act for North Dukota, that the conference com- mittee, which will be appointed by the two houses, on the omnibus bill will likely reach an agreement, and work is to be concen- trated to that end. The delegation to-night determined to go in and do everything possi ble for an agrcement by the couferonce committee on the line indicated, aud the prospects are that there will be the state of South Dakota by the middle of next summer, without the inter- position of an extra session of the Fifty-first congress. The likelihood that a failure to legislate on the territorial statehood oill dur- ing the next six woeks, will have a potent influence towards an_extra session, is work- ing wonders on the democrats of the house. ANOTHER FIGHT EXCECTED, “To.morrow another sharp fight’ is antici- pated in the bouse for the suspension of the rules and the passage of the Oklahoma ter- ritorial and Pacitic railroad funding bills, Both measures will be adopted if a vote can bo reached, but it is expected that Anderson, of Kunsas, and others will_filibuster the day away. ‘The triends of these bills have been doing some very quiet, but exceedingly de- termined and effoctive work during the past and it is stated that promises «ds to the lobby, in the event of huve poen - mado without = limit. is bt gencral known, it is true, that one or two railrond companics ¢ behind the movement Lo organize Okla- homa, and this fact has dono the project wore harm than all things else. Of course, the Pacific railroads are oxeecdingly anxious to have their bill passed, and would be will- ing to “do the hundsome thing' to sccure success NEW YORK MEN. A senator who has just returned from New York says he had .a talk with ex-Senator Warner Miller, und a aamber of the frieads of that gentleman and also of ex nator Platt, M., Miller does mot expect to bs called into President Harrison’s cabinet, and regrets exceedingly that there has been an 1k upon Mr. Plattin connection with the cabinet speculations. The senator learned from the friends of the two distinguished New Yorkers named, that they belicve ® is more than likely that President Harrison will tender the English mission to +Senator Evarts, which will mako & vacancy in_the senate and which may be fillad by one of the ox-senators, and that they will be given an opportunity to test their popu- larity with the people through the legislature. Senator Kvarts prefers the position at the coart of St. James, where he can demonstrate his dipiomacy, to the one he now occuviea, or anything that could be given to him in the cabinet. If Mr. Evarts should be sent abroad the friends of Messrs. Miller and Platt believe that those two gentlemen will be left to scramble for the seuatorship, and that some other repub- in the Kmpire state will be called iuto the cabinet. PENSION BILLS VETOES. It is stated that the real reason why so many pension bills are becoming laws nowa- days without the president's signature is be- cause Commissioner Black has refused to write any more vetoes, Ten per cent of the bills which have become laws during the present session have done so without the name of President Cleveland. The presi- dent has quit the veto business, so far as pension bills are concerned, and the em- ployes of the pension bureau say that it is be- cause the bills are returned to the white house without the customary memorauduu for congressional messages. ARMY ORDERS, The following numed eulisted men having performed the duties assigned them January 12, at Fort Robinson, will return to that sta- tion with permission to delay fifieen days en route: Saddler Sergeant lobert Beajamin, Ninth cavelry and Private John W. Nichols, company I, Eighth infantry. Charles 1, Kennedy, now at Fort Sidney, is uetailed as o hospital steward at Fort Niobrara, % Major Charles H. Whipple, paymaster, is relieved from duty ih the Department of the Missouri, and will take his station at Chey- enne, Wyo., reporting by letter to the com- manding general, Department of the Platte, The leave of absenceon surgeon’s certificate of disability granted First Licutenant Rich- ard I, Barley, Second infantry, January 11, Department of the Platte, is "extended fv e months on surgeon's certificate of disability, with permission to go beyond the seca. 1L HOOM JOLN'S ABPIRATIONS, What promises to be a most vigorous cam- paign for a cabinet portfolio under President Harrison has been begun by Johoj Thurston and his fricnds. Mr. Thurston was here a week ago, and then went to New York, and is to be in Washington again to-morrow. His friends claim that he has done nothing to start this boom, but is being urged as the western and northwestern ropresentative, and that they will yet receive the endorse- ment of Senator Stanford, Senutor Quay, and alotof other monopolists. SUPERSTITIOUS ARTISTS, Strangers to the capitol during the past year have wondered why the brass relief work, which has been in progress for ten or fifteon years in the ewele up near the dome, and_which so admirably resembles work in marble, hus been at o standstill. 1t is be cause mo one can be found to complete it. Two Italian masters have already died while engaged oa this worlk, and there'scems to be a superstition among those who are capable of continuing it that to take this work means death, A couvle of artists were standing in the corridor on the west side of the first fioor of senate wing of the capitol the other day ad- miring the frescoing, when one of them said ; “I remember very well when this work was done. Old Burmidi, a well-known frosco artist, had charge of 'the work. You see, those cupid headsand frait pieces around on the ceiling look very beautiful at a glance, but they do not well stand criticism. This is because of the fact that there was not a large appropriation made for. the worlk, and it was done in great haste, Burmidi simply painted the leading figures, such as the largest cu pids and fruit piects, When he had com pleted his work and was ready to turn it over to the artists of lesser noté for the ‘fill- ing-in’ process, he called some of s artistic friends to look at his work. One of them, after gazing at the work for a few minutes iu sitence said, either through a spirit of real and honest criticism or jocu- Larly, that the worlk looked like the wail pa- ver in hotel corridors. Then the artist laughed at the scroll work, too, and agreed that ‘it was like hotel wall paper,’ and a few days later Burmidi killed himsclf, The criticisinplayed upon his mind until it frenzied him, and, like the cook who got h master's steak too well done, he preferred death to shame.” ARID LANDS, The chief of the geological survoy says he has already commenced active work, unde the luw of lust October providing for the survey of urid lands with a view o irriga- tion, sowie of which are located in Nebraska and Colorado. ~ Six parties have been organ- ized, and important surveys begun in two of the states and four terrilories. Sites for reservoirs and canals have been selected, lands to be withdrawn from sale have beeu indicated and a system hus been devised on which the surveys of the whole vast un- fertile region will be curried forward, It is xom 21, 1899. that estimated by N Powell not 150,000 square miles of land now_barren can or loss be redeemed and £50 an acre made worth from 25 to MISCELLANEOUS, To-day's Washington newspapers speak in high praise of the musical uccowplishments of Miss Rustin, of Omaha, who is the guest of Senator and Mrs, Paddock. Towa readers of Tur Ber will be pleased 10 learn that the Post to-day pays Joseph S Morgan, private secrotary to Senator Allison, A compliment of unusual proportions, Joe has been showing a_party of Hawleye r publicans around the city during the past few days, and they have voted lim extra ordinary thanks Itis said that Representative William L Scott, of Pennsylvania, who contributed so much cash to President Cloveland’s cam paign, is going to contest with Secrctary Whitney for the presidential nomination in 1802, Prxny S, HeArm, = ———— {E OLEARANCE RECORD, of the The Tra ast Week. Financial sactions Bostoy, Mass, 20.—[Speclal Tele gram to the Be 'ho following table compiled from dispatches to the Post from the managers of the leading clearing-houses of the United States, shows the Rross ex- changes for the week ended January 19, 1880, with rates per cent of increase or de- crease as compared with the amounts for the corresponding week m 1858: CITIES, CLEARINGS. New York Hoston Philaaciphia | Chicago, St. Louis San Francisec New Orleans, Baltimore Pittsburg Cinelnnati, 0 Kansas City. Louisville Providenc Detroit, Clevelund Minneapolis Den St. Paul Omahu Mempms. Hartford Richmond Milwankee. . Columbus Iveston L0 Angele: New Haven Portlana Peoria.. Springiield, Duluth. St. Josepn Worcester, Norfolk Wi 6.5 Syracuse Grana Rapids Topeka . Total o Outside New Y CONTRACT LABOR. A Large Consign rrives at Castle Garden. New York, Jan. 20.—What appears to be one of the biggest consignments of contract labor ever landed here in one ship was dis covered by uaccident at the landing of the passengers of La Champagne at Castle Gar- den to-day. It was noticed that more than half of the 213 steerage passengers were bound for Florida. It was found that all had come from Alsace, Germany, and that their passage money had been pard by a man named George Sturm, of that province. Later in the daya member of the firm of Straiton & Storm, of this city, appeared at Castlo G den. He said he was an Alsatian, and had arranged to have his countrymen come here, but denied having paid their fare. He had a large tract of land in Florida, and proposed to furnish each family with a house and forty acres of land, and start them at raising Su- matra tobacco. He would buy the product, The people, to the number of " 130, were de- tained, awaiting the action of Collector Ma- Rone. Died of Lockjaw. Fonr GArLAND, Colo., Jan. 20.—[Special Telegram to Tnr Bek.|—A sad accident oc- cared here last Friday which resulted in the death of Billy Carson, the son of the famous scout, Kit Carson. Iriday evening, while atte nding to his horses, one of them kicked him on the hip, striking a revolver, which ex ploded, the ball entering the fleshy part of the thigh, and, passing downward, came out near the knee, shattering the knce-cap, Medical aid was telegraphed for, but failed to reach here in tune to be of any assistance. From the excessive loss of blood” Carson be- came very weak, and late last _might died of lockjaw, He has been sheriff of Costilla county for a number of years, aud is almost the last of the famous Carson family, he hav- ing but oue surviving brother, who'is in the cattle business at The Nebraska Damaged. New Youx, Jaa. 20.—The steamer State of Nebraska, which sailed henco for Glasgow last Friday, rewurned to this city in a leaking condition this morning. The vesscl had pro- cecded a considerable distance on her voyage when the captuin discovered several feet of water in her hold. An oxamination was made and it was found that two pivots in the steamer’s stern post had been broken, It is expected that repairs will be completed and the vessel sail by noon to-morrow. She car- ries about one hundred passengers, i Big Fire at St. Joseph. . Josepi, Mo, Jan. 20.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.|—At 1 o'clock this morn- ing a fire broke out in the wholesale and re- tail art supply store of L. F. Indermill. The storc is in one of the handsomest blocks in the city, and the fire had reached the stock of mouldings on the third floor before the fire department arrived, The block was saved, but the entire stock of goods, valucd at 520,000, was totally destroyed, Insurance, £15,000. Wythe Demands a Hearing. NEw York, Jan. 20.—William L. Wythe, formerly managing clerk of W. 5. Lawson & Co., bankers, who was arrested several da ago, charged with the embezzlement of five first mortxzuge £1,000 bonds of the Evansy ille & Terre Haute railroad, - September lust, had a hearing in the Tombs police court to-day and demanded an_cxamination, HBail was fixed at $10,000, pending & hearing on the 24th inst. e Deprecate MeGlynn's Action NEw Yowi, Jao, 20.—Archbishop gan’s circular regarding Dr. McGlynn the meetings of the Anti-poverty society and those who attend them was read at all masses in the various Catholic churches of this city to-day. Some priests commented strongly on the action of Dr. McGlynn in continuing his_tirade of abuse against the church authorities A nd's © Pirtsnvre, Pa., Jan. 20.—Frank Hender shot went to his home last night and dis- covered John Fitzsimmons in company with his wife. Hendershot seeured a hammer and dealt Fitzsimmons several blows on the head, inflicting fatal injurie - - A Watchman Cremat Derrorr, Mich, Jan, 20.—The Detroit Stave and Heading company’s main building burned at midnight last night. Loss, £30,000. James R. Middleton, the watchman, was burned to death. ‘the fire was the work of an incendiary. rri- and - Shot His Orveditor, TostoN, Mont., Jan. 20 —At the village of Radersburg, Robert Hossfield was shot and killed by John P, Freeman, The eause of the shooting was Hossfeld’'s demand for the paywent of §28, which Freewan owed hiw. ~ v | COMING WEEK IN CONGRESS, the Important Matters Pending House and Senate. WASHINGTON, Jan, 20.— By agreement, the sonate 1s to proceed 1o & vote upon the sub stitute for the Mills bill at 1 o'clock, Tues day afternoon. But 1f that limit is not ex tended some important provisions will have ot 1o consideration to be voted on with little in the senate. Among the schedules yet un disposed of are those which concern lumber, wool and woolens, gloves and leather. Ovor wool —and lumber the principal conflict — has been raging be fore the subcommittea on fnauce in charge of the will, and members of the committee say that in cousequence of the continued pressure from iuterested parties no agreement can be reached respecting these subjects until the last moment. — Ther has been some talk about the vrobability of cortain ropublican Senators not voting for the bill, but_ well informed frionds f the measure say that there 18 no danger to be feared from that source. Itis believed, fur thermore, that Senator’ Brown, of Georgia, will vote for the bill When the tariff bill is disposed of the sen ate will find itself confronted by an acenmu lation of busincss demanding prompt atten tion. The first in_importance arc the appro priation bills which have come over from the house overal sonators, howeve ve other legislation which they desire to accom plish. Mr. Chandler will endeavor to have consideration of his resolution for election in vestigation, and _Mr. Frye wants to take " up the Pacific railroad fund ing bill, already a special - order, Among other bills in a position to be called up for action is one_upon the regulation of trusts and combinations. In the house on Monday —suspension day- the Oklahoma bill 18 unfinished business. Mr. Crisp expects to eall up the pending con tested election cases on Tuesday and Wednes day, but just what order the business of the week will assume it is not yet possible to state, as the committee on river and harbors have seleeted the same for consideration of the appropriation bill, while Mr. Randall in tends to move to proceed with the sundry civil appropriation bill, aiready before the hot In addition the conference report on the Nicaragua canal bill, which 1 prove to be a bone of contention, is likely to ve added. A DIS. CK. Five Men Drowned By the Breaking Down of a Bridge. EvansvitLe, Ind., Jan. 20.-Oficers of the steamer Dawes, which arrived here this evening, report a disastrous wreck on the Louisville, St. Lows & Texas railvoad bridge 0ss the Green river at Spottsville, Ky., eighteen miles above this city, in which five men were drowned and several fatally in- jured. There are no telegraphic or telephone communications from that point, but the facts are about as follows: Last Thursday the Louisville, St. Louis & Texas raidroad was granted an injunction by ourt of Henderson county against stone Bridge company for interfer- ing with the plaintiff's trains running over the bridge. The order, it scems, was obeyed until this morning, wheu the bridge compiny sent u force of men to the bridge, driving the railroad employes off and atonce commencing 10 tear up the track and ties from the draw of the bridge. ‘This afternoon, whilo the work of tearing up the ties was in progress, the dis- mantling of one of the draws caused the opposite end to overbalance, when it broke m two, preeipitating about twenty workmen into the river, five of whom are known to have been drowned and soven seriously if not fatally injured by the falling timbers and iron. A later report from the sceno says that a dozen were killed. No names of the dead are yet obtainabl D Strike of 1,800 M SeriNg VarLey, 1L, Jan, 20.~The ceal miners of this city, who have been in the employ of the Spring Valley Coal company, held a mass meeting in the opera house this morning, and, by a unanimous vote, decided to quit work as long as one, Thomas Mulvey, ‘works in the mines, Thisthrows abont 1,500 men out of employment. Several weeks ago the coal company shut down two of its minc throwing about 600 men out. Two shafts mained at work, and the men in these shafts agreed to share their work with the idle men. The idie men were to draw lots to determine which mine they wentto. One, Mulvey, who had been transferred to one of the mines re- maining at work about the time of the shut- ting down_of the two mines, refused to give up his work and draw lots with the rest of the men, or quit work. The miucrs applied to Manager Devhin to discharge Mulvey, but he refused to do so. A mass meeting of the pers. mine called this morning, at which they resolved not to work with him in the mines. Both the manager and tho miners . The strike All is determined not to give last u few days or six months. in town to-night. - Dakota’s Financial Condition, Paur, Minn., Jan. 20.—A Bismarck, correspondent of the Pioncer-Press sends thav paper a long array of figures and big extracts from financial reports regarding the financial condition of the territory, show} ing that the gencral fund has been over drawn 27,000 and the bond fund has been used to meet the drafts. He further says that the territorial treasury is bankrupt., are Axworthy’s Partial Restitution. CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 20.—Attorney Squire returned this morning from Toronto with paper 8 to which he had obtained the signa- ture of Thomas Axworthy, the defaulting treasurer of Cleveland, transferring to the trustee for the bondsmen allof Ax worthy's property. Axworthy’s wife is with bim, and the couple will scttle in nto. A Mexican Newspaper Wa Ciry oF Mexico, via Galveston, Jan. 20, The Voz de Mexico, the consorvative organ of Archbishop Labastide, has begun an tack upon the government for alltged mis management of the country’s finane The ofticial organ of the government denics the churges, and declares that the governient Was_never in @ more prosperous fuancial coudition. Thrown Erom the Sleigh, IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich., Jun, 20.--While a pleasure party were out sleighing this after noon the team ran away and overturned the sleigh, Herbert Armstrong, agent of the canal company, was fatally hurt Three other occupants' were slightly injured, el i e Mahdi Suffers Defeat. Suakiy, Jan, 20, —Pilgrims from the south of Berber report that the Mahdi, after suf- fering a severe defeat on the White Nile, to- ward Wadelai, ut the hands of regular troops (presumibly Emin i?asha’s), abuud oned further hostilities und has since suf- fered in civil wars. Drowned in Lake Michizan. EscANABA, Mich, Jan. 20. —Two boys, Willie Murch and John Peterson, have dis- appeared, and no doubt both are drowned, When last scen they were siating far out in thie lke. e Three Tranmen Killed, Kxoxvirie, Teun., Jan, 20, train on the East Tennessc -A passenger road ran into a freight ut Rader's station last evening. The or, fireman, and u wan named Rufus of Johnson City, were killed, and sov nded, cral others slightly w The Presi INDIANAPOLIG, Tnd., 20.—General Harrison passea the day v s family, at tending chureh in the moraing. No politi cal gossip of any significince developed to day, - - A Fatal Saloon How. NEWARK, O, Jan. 20.—In 4 saloor quarrel st uight over the payient of Soue Luguor, Faward Surton was fatally stabbed. [SHOT DOWN BY VIGILANTES. — ——— NUMBER 221 A Terrible Battle Botwoon Officers and a Mob. FIVE MEN INSTANTLY KILLED, Wwo Others Mortally and Several Scriousty Wounded — A Whole Family Murdered and Cr mated In Missouri, A Texas Tragedy St Lovis Mo, Jan 20.—A Fort Worth Tex., dispateh recoived lato last night says that Sheriff Richardson, of this county, re- ceived a telephone message at midnight from Graham, in Youne county, to the effect that at about 10 o'clock last night, while United States Marshal, Johnson, with a posse of Graham weitizons, was cscorting the four Marlow brothers, Buck Hart and anothor man named Pierco to the Parke at Weathierford, the prisoners s county Jail ing indicted for four murders and eight cases of horsa theft, o mob of citizens ate tempted to yneh them The marshal and a posse defended the when a terrible fight took place, Marshal Johuson, with his prisoners, occu- pied two backs. ' The mob pulled the mary shal from the hack and then fired into the prisoners, the hacks from each side of the road. Eph and Alf Marlow and Sam Creswell, one of the guards, were killed instantly. Bruce Wheeler and Frank Parmason, of the mob, were killed at the fist volley of the guards, while Marshal Johnson and Bu- gene Logan, the latter onc of the mob, wera fatally injured, The other two Marlows were chained to the two Marlows who were Killed. They secured a knife and cut off the legs of the dead brothers at the ankle, and, with Buek Hart- and the othér prisoner, escaped in one of the hacks. Both the Marlows who escaped and Buek ifart were wounded, and w forced o stay a farm house fourteen m from aham, Oficers have goue to thom, and it is thought their wounds are too serions to permit their escapy A large posse has been made up at Gra ham and are in pursuit of the fugitives and members of the mob, The report says that the excitoment at Graham is at fover heat affair was the sequel to curred Priday nignt. B 1t appears that this sther which oos ow, one of the four brothers mentioned of whom were in bad repute and accused of various thefts, killod Sherif Wallace, of Young county, on the 17th of last the latter was attempting to ar- rest him. Marlow cscaped, but his brothers were arrested ns ficcossorics, Later they broie juil but werc e od, und EFriday might a mob of about thirty men at- tacked tho jail with the purpose of lvnching them. The mob fuled, however, and at 9 o'clock Saturduy the prisoners,undor u strong guard, were started for Weatherford for safe keeping. It was while this party was en route that they were attacked with the abova result. Decenber whila A Terrible Tragedy. Kaxsas Ciry, Mo, Jan. 20.—[Special Tela gram to Tne BBem)—A special to the Times from Brookficld, Mo., says: At 10:30 o’clock lust night the house of Mrs. Minnie Hall, a young widow with four childe ren, living four miles south of here, was burned down, and when the neigh bors gathered they found the charred re- mains of the mother and the four children, the cldest being nine years old and the young- esf out two. There being fresh snow on the ground, it was discovered that hay had been placed under the house and five set to it, scattered hay being seen from the shed to the house. The tracks of a man were scen leading towards the city, and four men followed them, which resulted in James A. Howell being arrested about 8 o'clock this morning by Marshal Critehfield in a room at the Rabb hotel. Howell bad in his possession a revolver with no loads iu it, and he was going to tuke the early morning train, so he said, for Las clede, and would walk from there south to the Prairie Mound school house, where he ig teaching school. The accused murderer is a cousin of tha woman, and public sentiment scems to ba that eriminal malpractice was performed from which the woman died and that the fellow shot the four children and fired the house to cover his erime. He had been spending Saturdays and Sundays with the murdered family, There is & bigh fever of excitement among the farmers, and scveral from the neighbor | hood have been around the jail here to-day, and to-night it is well guarded. "The prisoncr 1s twenty-four years of age, sandy complexion, with a light mustache, He says ho is innocent and knows nothing about the erime. e seems to be very cook and not at all nervous, The five charred bodies nition and were put in a box all together. The remains of a criminal malpractica ope were found in a vessel which had not been entirely destroyed by the fire, - were past recoge Strung Up the O1d Man, St Lovis, Mo., Jan, 20.—The following was received from Bolivar, in Mereos Henry Thomas, un county, Missouri, to-day old furmer, bas four grown datghters, naned Hattie, Marzaret, Nancy and June, aged sixteen, cighteen, twenly and twenty-twa years respectively, Last Weanesday night Samuel and Charles Husburn, brothors, pros cured a | er and helped Margaret and 1 o1t of the second story window of theje her's house, and as they were about to clope with the girls the old man appeared o the seone, but oo late to prevent their eseapo, He at once procured the best horse he had and i suot gun and started in hot pursuit, When about twelve miles from home ha overtooi the fle rty, and immediately opened five, killing boys and fatally wounding Margarc After getting nearly home with the girls was told that the other two, Hattie and Nancy, had also eloped with Ned Gireuson and Thomas Allison. He at onee left tha girls he bad with him in charge of i bors and started after the others. After socuring the other two girls without any serious troublo, he sturted back, but when about two miles from home a mob took possession of Lim and strun, him up to a tree The old man was terribly strict with the girls, He would hardly let them out of his (ht; henee tihe elopment. He always Dragped that he would not be bothered with Public hing. fooling is strongly Murgaret died last lazy son-in-li in favor of the night v, A ball of the Beaudiful, New Yok, Jan. 20 —Snow commenced this afternoon, but soon afteg < turned to vain and sleet, with snow af als, At midnight the stormn bhad ceased. The thermometer is scveral degrees above the freezing point. LANCHBUKG, Vi, Jan. 20.—The first snow storn of the oceurred to-day, Diss pistehies frous other places (n Virginia repors snowing und sleeting, and that in somg places the snow is ten inches deep. Travel Is mueh obstructed WASHINGTON, Jan 'he first snow this winter began falling licrd early this morne ing. inthe afternoon it changed to raing making walking disag wable. Reports res cewed by the signal ofice show that the storm 15 general throughout the Umited States. The east Mississippi river ndicas tions are that the weather will clear up tos alling her int morrow and that the thermometor will falh conside Monday night s M