Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 2, 1889, Page 2

ARSI ' “Among the number TRV R PV IO THE OMAHA DAILY BEB: SATURDAY. MARCH 2. 1850 IS iR USELESS EMPLOYES MUST 0. | The House Concludes to Discharge Forty Clerks. A LIVELY CIRCUS OF THE WHOLE. The Senate Indefinitely Postpones Taggart's Bill to Prohibit the Vot- ing of Bonds to Aild Kall« road Construction, The House Employes Squabble. LixcoLy, Neb,, March 1.—|Special to Tie Ber.|—A lively squabble took placo to-day over the report of the Hampton committee 10 the effect t tho house was employing forty persons who wero rendering no ade quate servive to ghe state, and recommending that the above named number be discharged. to be dischargod were weven engrossing clorks, all to be selected by lot from the Lancastor county contingent, Majors moved that the roport of the com- mittee be adopted, aud after several fili- bustering motions had been voted down, the report adopted Majors asked if the adoption of the report discharged the emplo, The speaker said it would not. Truesdell then moved that the committee We directed to discharge the employe Hall moved that Buker and - Majo gointed to discharge the supersery help. Baker declined which it could pial talking against time Olmstend raised point after point of order, and then moved to instruct the committee to dischurge all relatives of membors. tion was finally reached on the Truesdell motion as amended, when Cald- well, Hall, McBride and Severin, from Lan- caster, demanded a call of the house. A large number of members wero found to be absent and they were sent for. The house now degenerated into a good natured mob, No semblance of order was maintained, and both partics became dofiant. Motion after motion to dispense with further proceedings under the call were made and voted upon. At 12:30 the pages and ladies were excused. Members shipped out and went up_into the llery to enjoy the fun. At length a motion nstructing the sergeunt-at-arms to clear the gallery was carried. and Cady, Westover and Winters were brought down’ to answer for absence, Cady said he had been interviewing the “superintendent of cuspido as to the actual number of employes required, so he could vote understandingly, and was ex- cused. Winters said he had only gone up there to getaway from the mob, and be was set free With a_hurrah, Tho Douglas county delegation went off by themselves in a corncr, and Caldwell called in a sarcastic specch, in ly be seen that he was the attention of the chair to the fact that from appearances théy were about to commence a game of “penny-ante,” and the crowd rapidly dis- persed. At length the blockade was broken and Fielagrove was observed eating pie, which was the signal for a rush to the lunch counter, Pics, cake and sandwiches soon became plentiful, and each motion to adjourn was voted down with a thundering cheer. Olmstead discovered that the pending mat ter would come up again when the house met, and could not be avoided. The motion was lost, and the fun continued. “I'he speaker announced that all the mem- bers were prosent except Mr. iRayner, and at 2:15 Mr. Caldwell moved that further pro- cecdings under the call be dispensed with, which carried. Towle now moved that the whole matter be laid on_the table, which the speaker de- clared carried by a voto of 43 to Majors_disputed the count aud a roll call was finally reached, which resultedas fol- lows Yeas—Baker, Ballard, Beckman, Berlin, Bohacek, Brink, Caldwall, Christy of Clay, Christy of Dodge, Coleman of ~Antelope, Coleman of Polk, Gruzen, Dompster, Dickin® son, Diller, Ficldgrove, Gilehrist, Hahn, Hall, Horne, Leo.Ley, McBride, MeNickle, Meeker, O'Brien, Olmstead, ‘O'Sullivan, Satehell, Scoville, ‘Severin, Shephard, Sny der, Spect, Sweet, Towle, Westover, Why- man, Wmnter, Mr. Speaker—3s. Nays— Abrahamson, Bailey, Berry, Bis- bee, Bortis, Braucht, Cady, Cameron, Cor- bin, Cushing, Delaney, Denman, Dunn, EL- liott, Everett, Farley, Fenton, Fuller, Gard- ates, Gilbert, Hampton, Hanna, 'Han thorn, Harding, Hill of Butler, Hill of Gage, Hooper, Hungate, Hunter, Johnson, Keiper, Larson, Lash, Ley, Majors, Mattes, jr., Mc- Millan, Neve, Potter, Khodes, Robb, Secd, Shephard, Stirk, Swartsley, Truesdell, Weber, Weller, Wells, White, Whitehend, Whitford, Wilcox, Williams, Yitzy—54, dy moved a substitute, *'That the com- mittee be directed to discharge the employes. according to their recommendation,” and with due regard to their cfiiciency and char- acter, and without reference to locality, which carried by a voto of 71 to 17. Caldwell and Hall of Luncaster declined to vote. The members who voted against dis. charging any of the forty unnecessary em- ployes wore ns follows : Bakor, Brink, Christy of Dodge, Christy of Clay, Fieldgrove, Hampton, Hanna, Horne, MeBride, O'Brien, O'Sullivan, Scoville, Towle, McNickle, Meeker, Westover and Mr! Speaker, Hawpton and Hanua voted “no” because they were members of the committeo on whom the disagrecable duty of discharging the employes would devolve. And thus the long fight ended by tho triumph of the ele- ment pledged to ecouomy and reform. Pl Hampton's Report. LixcoLy, Neb., March 1.-#[Special to Tne Ber,)—The report of the committee to whom was referred the matter of determining the number of employes necessary for the proper travsaction of business in the house, after enumerating the employes in each dopart- ment, concludes as follows: Your committee, from investigation of the subject, have arrived at the conclusion that the force of employes can be safely re. duced at least forty in number, which would still leave 144 on the pay roll of the house, and from the fact that forty employes appear to be county, we recommend that the discharged employes be made principally from Luucas- ter connty. Your committee do further recommend that the following reauctions in offices and Ppositions bo made : “Clerks of committecs, 11 clerks, janitors, 0; custodians, 7; clerks, 2; clerk of ‘sceretary of state, engrossing bill proof reader, 1; copy holder, 1; watchman, 1; timekeeper, 1; bookkeeper, 1 to governor, 13 total, 40, “Your committee has refrained from mak- ing any further specific dismissals until ro- cleivng further orders from the house, for the reasons above nssigned. *“*In examining the pay roll of the house for the session of 1557 wd find that during the BIXty-two days' session, commenciug with January 4, and ending March 31, some con- mittee clorks received pay for as’ high as 150 and 157 days, To avoid & hke recurrence during this session we recommend the adop- tion of the following resolution “Resolved, That the chief clerk is hereby requested to furnish this heuse with a copy of the pay roll of the employes of this house @8 far paid, showing the number of days paid, amount and o what date paid. And hat the chiel clerk is hereby instructed, after this date, before completing each pay roll for the clerks and employes, Lo submit to this house a statcment of all extra time any clerk or employe is entitled to under the res olution of January 10, and such extra time shall not be credited on the pay roll unless approved and ordered by this house.” Got 1t On the List. LancoLy, Neb., March L—{Special o Tne Bgee.]—The senate has put on its little list the bill of Sonator Paulsen to logalizo a deed that has gone unquestioned ten years and is properly made and recorded, except for the mbsence of the attesting witness or the seal of the acknowledging officer. T'wo similar Dills have already heen smothered in tho house, and a third has met an untimely fate in the senate. Like measures have been bo- fore former legislatures, but so far none of hgl:l;flr;m thew enemios is the outgrowt of the noted Gaslin-O'Brien suit, which has had various ups and downs in the conrts. It in- volves the title to sixty-two acros of fand be- tween Hanscom park in Omaha and the county poor farm, said to be worth over £500,000. The dofondant in the case is George M. O'Brien, jr., now a momber of the house, who succeeded in killing the bill two years ago. Judge Gaslin, now of the southwestern part of the state, has a claim 1o & part of the land, but it is imperfect. It rests on a deed made many years ago in Ohio that lacka the signatures of witnesses and tho seal of a notary before whom the paper was acknowledged. The Pauls en bill, while general in its ap- plication, is intended to fit this particular case. Tho sonate judiciary committee rec ommended 1ts indefinite postponement, but, ot of fraternal courtesy, it was put on the goneral file at Sonator Paulseu's request Itepresentative O'BBrien has his knife un ond sheathed, and the bill hus a dangerous to travel. Senate, LixcoLy, Neb,, March 1.—[Special to Tie Bre.|—~The senate, in comuwittee of the whole, has approved the Jewett alien land bill. It prohibits non-resident aliens and cor- porations not incorporated in Nebraska from acquiring or holding real estate in this state, but, as amended, exempts property in cities and towns., The bill allows non-resident aliens now owning land to make a_bona fide sale auring their life. The important modi- fication of the existing law is contained in the following section: ““This act shall not, nog, shall anything in the statutes of Nebraska, prevent the hold- ers, whether nou-resideat aliens or corpora- tions not organized under the laws of the state of Nebraska, of liens upon real estate or any interest therem, whether heretofore or hereafter acquired, from holding or taking a valid title to the real estate subject to sucn liens, nor shall it prevent any such alien or corporation from enforciug any lien or judg- ment for any debt or liability now existing, or which may hereafter be created, nor from becoming a purchaser at any sale made for the purpose of collecting orenforcing the col- leetion of such debt or judgment. Provided, however, that all lands so acquired shail bo sold within ten years after the title thereto shall be perfected in such non resident alicn or forcign corporation, and in default of such salo within such time, such real estate shall revert and escheat to the state of Nebraska, as provided in this act.” i A lively debate followed on Tagzart's bill prohibiting any county, precinct, township or city from voting bonds'in aid of the construc- tion of railroads, Senator Church Howe argued that without the voting of such aid many rail- road extensions would not be made. He cited the case of Hastings, Senator Norval said that was a scare-crow, and cited the case of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe in Kansas, which raised the same cry, but did build through some counties without aid. Senator Ransom argued that a railroad would not build to any town, no matter how large the bonus, uniess the traflic of that town promised to prove profitable. He be- Lieved that railroads would make extensions rardless of bonuses, and asserted thatsuch bouds never reach the railroad companics, They go into the pockets of construction com- panies, officers and other schemers who form a ring within a ring. Otoe county is bonded for three generations; men are paying bonds for railroads that do not come within ten miles of their homes, and the legisla- ture should save the western coun- ties from such a fate, He denie the right of one-half of the people to mortgago the property of the other half, and he cited an instance in his county in which 462 men voted $160,000 of bonds. Senator Howe said he had long wondered how Ransom happened to get_into the sen- ate, but he now understood. The gentleman from Otoe had explained that his people did hot know what they were voting on. What ‘was the condition of Nebraska City, with one road! It slumbered for twenty-five , and half the busincss places on its i were tenanted by rats. When the Missouri Pacific came and gave com- petitive rates the ity revived, and has been prosperous ever since, To-day the gentle- man from Nebraska City says to the coun- ties of western Nebraska, Stand still—go to sleep. enator Lindsay explained how railroads sent out sharp politicians to corrupt voters and work up a sentiment for voting bonds, He quoted the statement of a man con- nected with the Rock Island to the effect that railroads seldom realized 20 per cent on the jbonds voted in their aid. Tne remainder was used in carrying the clection or stuck to the fingers through which 1t passed. Senator Howe said he represented a rail- road and everybody understood that, but he wore no collar and was earnestly for the people. The railroads grab at everything in sight, but they are no exception to"the gea- eral rule. .We know that railroads have wheels within wheels, and the day 1s coming vhen stockholders will demand accounting 8 n their construction companies. Judge ham has just established o precedent will bear print. A land company had been pocketing bonuscs given for establish- ing town sites, and the court held that such bonuses must be turned over to the treasury of the railroad company, This bill is a scheme of the B. & M. to prevent othor rail- rouds from enteriug their field. When Adams county voted bond tos the Missouri Pacific, who was back of the move to prevent the issue of the bonds! Why, the B. & M. The same thing was done at Crete and other places. Senator Ransom asked how much influence Howe expe: to wield as the mouthpicce of the Missouri Pacific. The gentleman from Nemaha raises his hand and says he is rep- resenting a railroad here—the same hand that took 8125000 from Adams county, not oue cent of which ever reached the coffers of the railroad. Take tho case of Brownville, the only town in Nemaha of any conse- quence.” Years ago it voted a lot of bouds, and as soon as the money was realized the ils were taken up. The railroad bank- rupted that town, and the people are still paying those bonds, When the Missouri Pa- cific built north from Atchison, Jay Gould promised to go to Nebraska City, but nis subordinates made a corrupt bargain with Dunbar and diverted the road. Afterwards, to get the road, the citizens of Nebraska City give 865,000 out of their private pockets and voted £40,000 of bonds, every cent of which went to the officers manipuluting the scheme, Senator Tageart made a gallant fight for his bill, whicl provoked the sharpest contest of the session. RdYorring to the bonds voted by his county’(Adams) tothe Missouri Pacifle, he said a largs part of the county Was almost unaninious against the proposi- tion. The road would not materially benetit them, and the bill was intended to prevent such injustice, Senator Nesbitt argued at length that the irage railroad building in ka and was unfair to that ction. e committee recommended the indoflnite postponement of the bill, and when the ro- port of the committee came before the senate the friends of the bill made a desperato fght to save it. Several of their motions were de- foated by a yote of 15 10 15, nud the bill was tinaliy killod after the worning session had extended until half-past 1 o’clock. The flual vote for indefinitely postponing the bill was as follows: Ayes—Heardsley, Conner, Cornell, Funcl, Howe, ijams, Jewett, Keckley, Manning, Nesbitt, Paulsen, Paxton, Raymond, Robin- tll,‘ Koche, Shanner, Sutherland and Wol- 118, Nays—Burton, Dern, Gallogly, Hoover, Hurd, Lindsay, Linn, Maher, Norval. Pickett, Polk, Pope, Rausom, Laggart und Wetherald 15, A groat many bills were reposted from committees, and the following wero indefl: ' postpon Norval's bill, providing the manuer of oning and drawing jurors. 5 bill, for the publication of the pro- 18 0f couuty comumissioners and su. pervisors. Maoning's bill, incroasiug the fees of county unl police judges and. justices, uncli's registration bill aud the house bill aporopriating §20,000 for @ boiler house at the Lincoln insane asylum, were recom- for passage. Senator Pualsen, from the committee on actures and’ commeroe, reported the following bills, which were. put on the gen- val fllo without recomniendutio! Ransom’'s bill for the inspection of meat on the hoof. 1jame' bill for the regulation of pools and trusts +he house bill to probibit lumber and coal dealers from pooling oF combining o raise prices. ; Norval's bill for the suppression of bucket shops, v Seiutor Tiims' bil llmiting justices of the b poace in metropolitan, cities to six was put on the general file without recommendation ; also the Noligh normal school bill. APTERNOON AESSION. The Raymond bauking bill came back from the committee with its disjointed pieces put together in intelligible order, and the committee of the whole readopted its amend monts. An amendment excepting savings bapks from the clause, and grading capital stock according to population, was defeated and the billapproved. The following bill passage Authorizing the governor on July 4 of each year to pardon two long term conviets recou- mended by certain oficers. Making it unlaw- ful to contract in notes, bills of exchange, bonds or mortgages for the pagment of at: torneys® fe nd declaring such contract null and void. Providing that action 10 re- cover on an insurance policy may begin at any time within five years after loss. Pri viding for the incorporation of towns in two countics. Fixing penalties for killin dogs or defacing marks of identification Prohibiting the supreme court from com- muting death sentences, "The following bills were indefinitely post- voned : Limiting omployes of each house to fifty wore recommended for eight. Prohibiting insurance companic from having more than one agent each in a city. House. Liscory, Neb., March 1.—[Special to T ~A number of important bills were made special orders as follows: Stout's claim for $49,000 for oxtras in con- nection with the capitol building, 2:30 p, m. to-day, und all other claims for Tuesday and Thursday evening of next wook. All msur- ance bills for 3 p. m. Wednesday; all appro- priation bills for Tuesday, to continue from day to day until disposod of. The speaker announced that he had signed senate filo No. 87, the valued policy insur- ance bill. McBrides's bill to compol railroads to fur- nish cards to shippers on forty-cight hours’ notice wae placed on the general file. A bill by Potter providing that all railroad tickets shall be good until used, or the money refunded, was indefin itely postponed. The Hampton committee, to investigate the numbar of house employes, handed in their report. The committee found an ex- cess of forty employes, and recommended that number be discharged. On motion of Majors the report was adopted after some time spent in filibustering. AFTERNOON SESSION. The house took up, as special orders, Olmstead’s bill, providing for & modifiod Australian_ballot, and Baker's bill, provid- ine for a_gencral registration law' for vil- Iages and cities of 1,000 inhabitants aud over. * The registration bill was first considered. The bill is a very long measure and is an embodiment of the very best laws on the subject now in force in other states. The house bill was considerea scetion by section and ordered to a third reading with- out any material changes. Tne modified Australian ballot system was discussed at longth but final action was not reached. Legistative Gossip, Lixcory, Nob., Mareh 1.—|Speclal to e B, |—Dotective Tom Ormsby, of Omaha, arrived to-day to urge the house to adopt the police relief fund bill. Senator Wolbach had a_visitor in the per- son of Sherift Wedgewood, of Grand Island. Farmer Walker, who has figured largely inthe discussion of Billings’ hog cholera oxploits, is at the capital and loudly pro- claiming his faith in the theory of inocula- tion, The Omakia charter bill has not yet come before the senate committe Representative ~ Whitehead, of Custer, made a strong fizht against tho bill provid’ ing that it shall hereafter require a three- 1ifths majority to re-locate a county seat. He thought the same law under which the older counties were organtzed ought to be_good &nough for the newer counties. Custer county people wanted the right to settle such questions by a majority vote. Dick Berlin of Douglas has grown weary of aftixig his signature to the petitions of oftice-seckers and has put up a sign on his desk which reads: “Positively no petitions signed here.” The house is in no mood to allow the whole bill of cxpenses in_the Douglas county con- test cases. The attorney fees will be cut in two in the middle and various items will be omitted entirely. A $00 attornoy fao is looked on by the average legislator gs good pay for full three months’ work. Twenty bills were quictly laid fn their littlo graves yestorday to rest for two years at least, If this work could be kept up the file would soon be cleared. The bill ncreasing compensation for burying old soldiers from $2) to $35 was lost. < Among the bills rocommended for passago yesterday was one of special interest to the people of Burt county. 1t proviges that the board of supervisors may levy a special tax to keep ditches ia repair, but contains a provision that no more thaxa $50 shall ve used in removing auy one obstruction, — Another Railroad Provlem Solved. Cuicaco, March 1,—A meeting of repres- entatives of the roads, which are in the terri- tory of the Central Trafiic association, but are not members thereof, was hcld at Chair- man Blanchard’s oftice to-day. The object of the conference was to prevail upon the inde- pendent lines to agree upon a course of action that would put a stop to the manipulation of through rates at such junction points as Peoria, St. Louis, ete. Ali the roads repres ented agreed to the establishmont of inspec tion bureaus at vavious points, and to submit to the exammation of way bills by the authorized inspectors of the association. Indiana, 1llinois and Iowa were not repres- ented. — Vines Declared Insane. Cnicaco, March 1L.—Thomas R. Vines, the clerk who had himself shipped in a trunk to St. Louis with $4,062 stolen from his employ- ors, was declare] insane by a jury this after- noon, Dr. Fenger testified that less than ayear ago Vies' nose was injured in o sparring match, and that insanity was causod by worrying over the injury. Afte he had properly dressed the organ Vines called twice and insisted on having his nose resot ach time. Dr, Clevingor, au insanity expert, also tostified that Vines was insanc. The court ordered Vines sent to the Kanka- kee asylum and kept there until cured. The Naturalization Bill, WasniNGtoy, March 1. —Representative Seney, on behalf of himself ana Collins & Buckalew, to-day submitted from the com- mittee on judiciary the minority réport on the naturalization bill introduced by Representa- tive Oates. ‘Che report cites the proyisions of the present laws on the subject. and says that there is no necessity for making any change, The report proceeds to discuss the bill, and says that obviously its intent is to discourage the immigration of alicns into this_country, and the minority thinks thero can be no doubt that if the bill be enacted into law it will operate in many cases as a denial of citizenship to aliens. - - Steamsnip Arrivals. At Liverpool—The Micligan, from Bos- ton, At New York—The Denmark, from Lon- don; the Amsterdam, from Rotterdam, and the Trave, from Hromen, ; At Glasgow—The Norwegian, from Phila- delphia. Palace Train. Cuicaao, March L.—The lowa corn palace train, on its way to Washington, arrived here from Sioux City this morning. It has stood all day in the depot and been constantly sur- rounded by crowds of people. The train leaves at 11 o'clock to-night for Washington. S5 A 1) A Barn Burned. StioMsURG, Neb, March 1.—|Special to Tk Bee, | —Toorsdiy evening at 6 o'clock & fire was discovered in & smail barn & blook and @ half from the nearost hydrant, und cx- tinguishod before the building fell. T contents of the barn, consistiug of one Lorse and one doubie haruoss, with feed, were to- tally destroyed. e Comedian Roland Recd says he is fond of perusing novels when- at sea, be- cause there he can roll and vead. DEAD ALONG TRE TRACK An Unknown Man Ground Under rithe Wheels. THE BODY, HORRIBLY MANGLED, Nothing Found to Identify the Victim Who is Supposed to Be n Water Works Sinploye. Anothér Fatal Accident. Last night the mangled remains of what onco bad been a man were picked up along the Missouri Pacific tracks near the inter- scction of Fifteenth and Grace stroets, It was midnight, and no one could tell how the accident occtrred further than that en- gine 207, with seven loadod cars and a o boose, had passed over him. The coroner was summoned, and at once went to the scenc, where the night crow of a switch engine heiped to pick up the scattered por- tions of the bedy. Not even intl are of the headlight of the engine could the age of the victim be told or his appearance be de- seribed, and the body was removed to the morgue. 1t is thought ho was un omploye of the waterworks at Florence, as an envelope was found in one of the pockets Learing that address. A roceipt for a registored letter to the National Bank of New Orloans was also found, and 1o doubt represented an investment in_the Louisiana state lottery. It was dated Feb- ruary 20, and is the only thing by which the body ean be recognized. An inquest will be held this mornng at 10 o'clock. s iy LABOR IN COUNCIL. Workingmen and Women Meet in Their Own interests, Friends of the Knights of Labor met in the Grand Army hall last night, to talk on the labor question. They were all workingmen and were not talking anarchistic or soci istic sentiments, but plain every aay that would benetit themselves and their fam- ilies. The front row of seats was reserved for the ladies interested in the order, and they were all filled. The chair was taken by Darcy B. Howell, who in a few words intro. duced Louis llm. He spokeof the events that led.to the French revolution, and drew from them practical lessons for to-day. Then Mr.Lynch too the floor and spokeof the work being done by the Kuights of Labor. They not only looked after the interests of the skilled mechant but of those whose misfor- tune it was never to learn a trade, but who were workingmon all the same and earned “their living by the sweat of their brow. It was not so much the capitalists the order had to con- tend with, as dissentions among the ranks of- the workingmen themselves. He advised those presont to listen to the voice of friends, rather than enemies, and to stand united as workingmen, To accomplish angthing they must use what political influence they had and work at the primaries as well as at the polls. The workingmen of America had the controlling influence in the land, and if they would but stand together that iufluence would be felt in‘aw improved condition of af- fairs among workingmen, If a workingman ran for office stand by him, irrespective of party. ) Mrs. Fitch coincided with the remarks made. They should be true to each othor if they wished 1to gain anything. Be- fore asking, for shorler hours, thoy shouid 'adjcate the workingman to use of the hiojirssaved, so that they would not spend them in the bar-rooms that' eat up s0 large a portion 0¥ their wages. Sho was glad that workinzwen were beginning to see that strikes as a rule were failures, for in many cases the éffects of a strike re folt most keenly by, the women and children at home. ~ She askéd that the women's unions should not be forgatten, and cited the New York sewing girls, who were grinding out their hves making ghicts at 30¢ per dozen. She advised those present to bring their i and (aughters into the assem- themselves advocated. or, though not a Knight, of or nuion man, indorsed the remarks, and wanted to see all classes of ingmen pulling together. He thought they should lay aside party and work for their own wen at the volls, and advised them to dropthe title ‘‘workingmau,” when they had a candidate, and christen him either a dm"uocrur, or republican, as occasion might re quire, Mr. Kilgour of Council Bluffs spoke in the same strain; and told of forty-seven years' experience as a workingman. He drew a wora picture of the poverty at prosent oxist- ing, not only in larger cities, but in the vicin- ity of Omaha, and warned them to stand united. The meeting then came to a close. DUFE IS MIGHTYX. He Does Not Approve of Pillow Fights On the Stage. A sparring contest was booked for the “afterpicce” at the Pcople’s thoater last night. It was to have been participated in by two well known pugilists, one of whom is quite a reputable young man with a family in this city. The contest_did not take place. The police, or rather Duff Green, put a stop to it before the pugilists had time to go upon the stage, or even enter the theaier. The management of the house, it is sald, pro- tested that it was not a 'prize fight, or any- thing else but a “turn in the performance, the same as any other act. Ho put it on to draw a house. The pugilists, when it was learned that they could not “contest,” were 2oing upon the stage to make an apology to the audience and explain why they could not fight, when they were told that they would be run in as vags if they made any kind of an appearance. They made their escape through the rear end of the theater. John Sellon, of the theater, is vel indignant, claiming that he pays a licouse to run a va- riety show, and so long as he does not con- duct an indeceut or a disorderly house he thinks he should be allowed to say what kind of acts shouid go on his stage, AMUSEMENTS, The dual attraction of Katie Putnam and Billy Emerson drew o large audience at the Grand opera house lust night. Both are well known here, although Miss Putnam has not made her appearance frequently cnough to sustain the reputation which she formerly achicved in this city. Nearly all of the #ady’s cnaracters are of the mad-cap order, and in_them she dispiays an abandon which savors rather ot nature than of art, In the lighter scenes her playfulness has the svontaniety of youth, and is ulways worthy of apprevigion. Ter success last night "in “Krmajethe EIf," a new picce to Omaha, was deeided. Sheé was frequently brought before tle curtain. Her company furnished very gopd‘support, Billy IZmerson, and it is many years since the name was firkt! noted on a programme, ed in almost inimitable whito fac and song, and could not get away audience or half an hour, e ke defferion Square to the Front. Jefferson squard still seems to be hoodoed, and last night wasthe scene of a somewhat mysterious stabhiuig affray. About 12 o'clock L. E. Oveiton and George Jewett were passing aloms ffuteunth street, and Labor, but when just in Yfihnt of it, & man sprang ~from the:' shade and stabbed Overton 1 tho 8 snoulder, inflicting @ painful and seridfts'wound. The would-bo assassin withdrewithe kuoife and started to run, but slipped and*fel!, the knife cutting a dech gash across hie oin face and cutting his ear in two. On being picked up he gave the name of Gilbert Boyd, but refused to say anything further, As both men were blead- ing freely they were taken to the police station, and Overton for the first time saw his assailant, He said he was an -entire stranger to him, ana he had not the slightest idea as to why such an attack was made. Both men were placed 1n care of a physician, and their wants ttended to at headquarters. HBoth are dressed well and have the appearaunce of re- spectability. Harrison's Per.onal Escort. INDIANAPOLIS, March 1.—One bundred and sixty survivors of the Seventicth Indiana regiment, which was commanded by Gencral Harrison, left this* afternoon for - Washig- ton. On inauguration day thoy will got #s 4 persoual escort to President Harrison. THIRD A CPORT. UAL R FORTY Of the Connecttcut Matual Life Insur- ance Company. To the Members: Excopting a loss, which was fully made known immediatoly on dis covory, the year 1888 has been one of great prospority. In every direction the company experiences a_steady increaso of size and strength, with a decreasing ratio of ex ponses; so that, while it becomes thereby in- creasingly attractive to new insurers, it is also increasingly valuablo to its older menm. bers, its new business being sccured on such terms as to make it an advantage and not an expense to them OPERATIONS FOR 1988, In 1888 the company rece For premiums 81, For interest and rents W 197,100,064 Total receipts.......... $T43 4 During tho year it paid out For claims by death and matured endow- men coeeaaees o 89,005,752.04 Surplus returned to policy holders ... 1,160,367 Lapsed and surrend- ered policies. ... Total paid polic 18,98 Commissions to agents, salarics, medical examiners’ feos, print g, advertising, logal, real os. tato and all_other expenses of munagement. . . ST Profit and los 604,555.24 £0,600,144.614 Total expenditure.......... Leaving a balance of §724,331.33 to be ried to increase net or ledger assets, MORTALLTY The death losses for the year wore some. what above our average experience, but were 0 far inside the mortality to be expected by the table and provided for by our premiums as to leave a suving of about $180,000. For rs the death rato been above our average. 13ut even at its highest it Las been far below the wortality table, proving at once the carcful sciection of our business and the abundant safety of the table on which our operations are bused Our lossos huve been paid with equal re- gard to the prompt satisfaction of every just claim and to the protection of the honest members against every unjust claim. EXUENSES. We still follow the principle that when a company has reached any considerable size, not only is it better for” both old_and new members that new business should be taken only at such a price as does not reduce the dividends on the old. but that there should be a general tendency to a reduction in the ex- pense ratio to offset the showiy increasing cur dificulty of caruing lurge dividends. Whatever is got in violation of this principle is & source of ultimate wealkness and not of strength, whatever its magnitude. It isa_great satisfaction to the management that the company has beon able to increase 1ts business ata reduced rate of expense. Its new business is, therefore, paculiarly valuable. The expe io_for 1838 was only 8.06 por cont, a ratio less than that of any other company. INTERESTS AND RENTS® The income from investments during the vear, while yielding a good margin for sur- blus, indicates the dificulty of finding quite as ready and satisfactory cmployment for uioney as in the previous year. PROFITS OX SAL In 1883 we sold for $775,762,4 roal ostate which cost us $659,670.2), & net profit. of $36,- 032,15, Tuis brings real cstate sales to January 1, 1580, up to a grand total of $7,168,726.19 of property which cost us ,330,438.57; a net Drofit of $883,267.52 Of the twanty-eight parcels sold during. the year twenty-six sold ata profit of &3 17520, and two sold ata loss of 205 balance, £6,042.15. On bonils sold and paid at maturity during the year there was a net profit of $£15,075: on sundry items there was a 10ss of $2,210 74, giving u total income from profit and loss items of $125,020.41. Loss, For the first time in its history of forty- three years the company has to_record u loss by the default of one of its financial cor- respondents, u class of men through whom most of its 1oans are placod according to the general business custom of such inve: ments, and who are selected with exceptional care for the characterand ability requisite for the most impoitant and confidential relations which they boid; men who, except in this in- stance, have served this company with rare fidelity and success in il thso years, to whoso wisdom and faithful service much of the success of this company has been due. The amount chargeable from profit and 1085 to this cause proves to be $183.445.01; do- ducting the income from profit and 'loss above stated, the balance charged to profit and 10ss is $454,527.60. No eredit 18 taken for the value of property restored to us, nor will there be until it is realized by During the time tiis money v stracted this correspondent handle over §17,000,000, and possessed not own confidence but that of the busir.css men of his owa city and stats in w very murked degree. His fitness wes unaualifiedly in- dorsed by the most compeient man who knew him intimately. To rightly approciate the offect of this loss upon the standiug of the company and the safoty of its contracts it should be considered in its proportions and not simply in its agere- gate. That is small to one concern which is large to another. A bank with 21,000,00) of resources, of which $100,000 was surplus, could meet a loss of $10,000 without thought of injury to its credit. But less than what $10,000 s 10 such u bank, #434,00) is to a com- pany with 7,500,000 of 'resources, and with 5,505,030 surplus_ remaining after the loss. it'will not affect the company’s dividend. ‘Tho conditions which, upart from our en- tire confidence in the man, made this loss and its concealment possible, were peculiar to the times 1n Indianapolis’ following the finaucial depression of the lust decade, and the methods by which it was effected were skillfully framed out of those conditions. No such condition exists clsewkere, nor has since that period. 1t is probably needless to say that whatever lossons as to the methods there are in tis matter will be properly ap- plicd. BONDS ar wo have sold in order to save the preuiums und have bad paid off, bonds that had cost us #42,257.50. We have purchused bonds costing $1,402,040,25, mak ing our holding at cost on January 1, 1359, £0,340,075.54, The excellent charactér of those honds will appear from an inspoction of the itemized schedule, WEAL FSTATE LOANS. Wo have loaned during the year upon real estate security £,794,170.40; loans have bee paid off to the amount of §7,00%,355.90, leav ing the amount so invested %31,650,443.0), neerning these we cau only say that thoy o made with constantly increasing care, in ly those localities where values are of the most pormanent characte STANDING OF THE COMPAN > company hud in force December 31, 1885, (3,660 policies, insuring §151,261,913. 1ts on that day were $57,460, 64,20 its | During the ye ass 3 bilitics by the highest legal staudurd of s enoy were #51,505,000.61, leuving i clear sur. plus of Our own standard of itten since April, 1882, al standard or that of 0% U8 L0 Carry Teserve on business w is higher than any leg any other compauy, and raqu an additionul reserve of ¥l surplus by our own standurd) £,214,700 The premiums and reserves of the com pany are grounded upou Uhe Wost conserva- tive basis, which have be approved by expérieuce ugain &nd again ; its contracts are of the simplest, most legitimate character, £104,162,485.15 has beon already returned to wolicy holdors or their beneficiarios by pay ment of death clnims, ondowments, dividonds and for lapsed and surrendered policies; $055,852,500.87 is held as net assets to protect | existing policios; that is to say, we have re- turned to policy fioldors or still hold for their protection $190,015,355 B01,848.05 more than the ontire premiums r od from | them. Wo submit this as no_slight evidence | of neial management of which we need not be ashame: These remarkable rosnlts have been ac complished atan average cxpense ratio of 8.4 per cent of the income. Upon these facts we stand, and to all who desire the protection of th families we of r experionce, equity, simp onomy Respect fu Jacom L, € e CAVE FULL OF SNAKES. But Bolle Starr Entered—~A Murderor Brought to Justio Writing of the recent assassination of Belle Starr,a Fort Smith correspond- ent of the New York World says: The World correspondent, in com- pany with her husband, Bill July, alias Jim Stare, visited Belle's houso after the murder. Upon leaving the muin road the path becomes gradually nar- rower and moro intricate, and finally stops at the base of a steep hill. Horses were then abandoned and a hand-to- hand tussle followed with briers, sap- lix nd adense undergrowth of and strength Between this hill and the a decp eavo, forty feet down st cabin is ght on all sides, where one of the most extraor- dinary and heinous crimes ever com- mitted in the tervitory took place in April, 1882, while Belle was on a trip to Texas, On this spot Martin Joseph alias “Bully Josoy,” Chickusaw Indian-negro with a "villainous reputa- tion, ably” sustained by every align- ment of his body, assaulted and mur- dered a white woman named Stephens. ome days before the murder Josey nduced the woman’s husband to go into the brush with him. Havdly had they plunged into tho denso thicke when Josoy murdered Stephens in cold blood, leav- ing his body uncaved for on the ground. The fiend incarnate then returned to Stephens’ house and told Mrs, Steph- ens her husband was sick in the moun- tamn and wanted her assistance. The good woman suspected no wrong, put her baby to sleep, took some simplo household remedios in her hands and accompanied the scoundrel to this cluded spot, where he murdered her and threw the poor woman’s dead body into this cave The baby starved to death in its cradle and was found by some Texas travelers nearly a month later. In a year or so Bellé returned from T and, learning of the ghastly murde she organized a scarching party to look for the remains and fasten the guilt where it belonged. Stephens body was found first, and finally the searching purty, headed by Bella herself, came to the cave. A rough windlass was con- structed and a man lowered into @ spot where no human eye had ever pene trated, Suddenly "those above him heard him shout as if in great terror, besecching them to haul him up aquickly, ond once on terra firma the poor fellow was speech- less with fright. He finally managed to tell them the cave was filled, bottom and sides, with rattlesnakes; that he had been'on the very odge of a nest of thousands of them; that they had rat- tled and hissed in his very ears, and that all the rewards in Christendoin would never induce him to enter the SCROFULA 18 that Impurity of the blood which produces unsightly lumps or swellings fn the neck; which causes running sorcs on tho arms, logs, or foet; which develops wleers fn the €yes, ears, or nose, often eausing blindnoss or deatuess; which is the origin of pimples, can- cerous growths, or *humors;” which, fastens ing upon tho lungs, causes consumption and death. 1t1s tho most ancient of all discases, and very few persons are eutirely free from it. “wee CURED It Be By taking Tood's Sarsaparilla, which, by tho romarkablo curcs it has accomplished, lias proven itself to bo a potent and peculiar wmedicine for. this discase, If you suffer fiom scrofula, try Tood's Sarsaparilla. “ Every spring my wifo and children have been troubled with serofala, my little boy, three years old, boing & terrible suffercr, Last &pring he was ono mass of sores from headtofeot, Wealltook Hood's Sarsaparilla, and all have been cured of tho serofvia, My little boy is entirely free from sores, and all four of my ehildren look bright and kealth W. B, ATHERTON, Passale City, N. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. §1;six forgs, Proparedonly by C.L 100D & CO., Apothecatios, Lowell, Mass, 100 Doses One Dollar i CALIF(l)R.NIA! The Land of Discoveries! AUFORNI (U MOS. HEONLY— T\(qmc:n‘l. UARANTEED figa[ L NS CURE ¥0 Stao TR CIRCVLA DNSUMPT Astivd-Covcks, ng = U%Qn];hfg}% i S:hfi,s" S DISEASES+THROAT S “"“D\NLUNAGS —E{.Su& Gunra(Ti Send for circolan$] prbttl3pro 2 / &LEJJ,INLM[ 1 CO.8ROVILLE, (AL Santa-Abia -de - Cat-R Cure For Sale by Goodman Drug Company. NPRECEDENTED ATTRAC TION place again. Naturally enough, his companions shuddered at this descrip- tion, and not a man among them would have gone into the cave if his life de- pended on Belle was the first to act. She fastened the rope around her waist and in veply to the astonished look of the party this intrepid woman announced her determination to enter the cave and find the body if it was there. She took two loaded pistols and atorch, with which she proposed to frighten the snakes into their holes, Then she slipped over the edge of the bank and disappeared, waving he torch and firing the pistols in eve direction, frightening her unwelcome hosts into th ces. She afterw liter, aid the plue ally swarmed with snakes, big and little: and she admitted having been frigh- tened, but her pride at having outdone the men spurred her to the very bottom, where Mrs. Stevens's skeloton lay | blackened with snakes. Having frightened them off she picked up an armful of bounes---all that was left of Josey’s vietim-—-and groped her way to the surface. With these bones and other evidence of Josey's guilt, Belle went to ort Smith, procured a writ for his arrest and led the deputy marshals to the murderer's dug out, where he was arrested. He was hanged at Fort Smith July, 1884, Belle boasted that this was the first and last time she ever aided in bring- ing an offender to justice, but the hide- ous atrocity of the erime, added to the fact that it occurred pear her home and some suspicion was attached to Belle berself, led her to lay aside her hatred for the lnwand order and consign Bully Josey to the gailows, - W Ith Bebind a Mivror. An astonishing find w mado to-day by a carpenter employed to repair the big mirror in Palsey Manley's b room on South Sixth sireet, says a St Louis dispatch, The room has been used as a saloon for thirty yeurs, and the mirror has been an ornament as far back as the memory of the oldest inhab- itant runncth, While prying behind the gluss tho earpenter’ raked out enough money to fill a hat. It was in gold and greenbacks, and some of it had heen utilized by & colony of mice for nests. Manley took possession of the treasure and refused to say what the total mnount is, but the finder put it at 82,500, No one knows how the moncy got behind the mivror. LB A Great Invy ion. Philadelphia Record: Peddlop---T leftone of our new patent fountain pens with you yesterday Lo try. Lawyer ~(writing)--Goes fivst-rate; wonder 1 never thought of trying a fountain pen before, See this impor- nt legal document? Wrote every ne of v with this pen. How much—-— Jerusulom evickets! The document is ruined, Look at this horrible blot I just dropped, Great Scott! there's an- s, big as & mill-pond. {dler (complacently)---Oh, that’s devoid of speculutive features ;Its business is solocted with grea® care; its economy of munagement 18 unrival in actunl cost of insurance furnished its record is believed tw be at least unsurpassed; its growth is whotly healthful, being worth more than it Ircady insured; its assets are led for solidity and produc- tiveness; its surplus is smple 1o provide for every ndverse contingency. In'its forty-throe years of business this company has recel For Premiums Interest and 3 Balance profiv and 1088 ¥ Iva,rm. ,041.70 Disbursed : For Death claims aund endow: IO 1oviisiareisiiaeen s s o $08,800,777.00 Surplus returned.. ... .. ... 4h22,530,80 Lapsed and surrendered pol- R PR . 10,082,186.45 EXPEnses ......... 18,005,501.57 Taxes. Balance, net assets ight, “Chatmerely shows thot the pen needs refilling. SICK HEADACH Poxitively Oured by A MILLION DISTRIBUTE Louisiana State Lottery Company. Incorporated by the legislature n 1865, for Educational and Charitable purposes, and its franchise male u part of the present State Con: stitution, n 1579, by an overwhelming popular Yoto, Its MAMMOTH DRAWINGS tako pluce Seml- (June and Decomber) and {ts GRAND RINGLE NUMBER DRAWINGS tako place in each of the other ten months of the year, and are all drawn in public, at the Academy of Music, New Orleans, Lit. FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS, For Integr! s Drawings, and Prompt ayieit of Prize SIED AS )y certity arrangements for all the Mg nual Drawisgs of Tho Lout Company, al in pe o Drawings themsvives, are conductod with hon faivness, and i wood fatth toward all parties, and wo aiithorizo the company o use this cortificate, with fac- similes of oun signatures attached, in its advor tisements AT n ate Lottery wnage and _control nd that the sams COMMISSIONERS, We, tho undersigned T pay all Prizos drawn in Th Lotteries which may bo pre and Bankers, wil Lonisinna State nted af our coun- ¥, Pros, Loulsiana Nat, Dank, I L 1 X, Pres, Stato Nat'l Bank, A. BALDWIN, Pras, New Orleans Nat'l Bunk. CARL KOHN, Pres, Union National Bank, GRAND MONTHLY DRAWING, At the Acudemy of Muste, Noew Cr- leans, Tucesday, March 12, 1880, CAPITAL PRIZE, $300,000. 100,600 Tickets at Twonty Dollars each, Halves, $10; Quartars, §5; Tonths, $2; Twon- tloths, §1. OF $200,0% 5 0,000 OF 100,000 15 101,000 OF 0 o 25000 i 805 10) are 2000 Ol 500 e 000 OF 1,000 are 25001 100 OF 50 are 0 20 o ro 0 oy ) are h APPHOXIMATION Di12ns, 100 Prizes of #500 are. e 10 Prizes of #0 are 0 10 Prizes of #0) are TERMINAL PIIZES # Prizes of M0 are 4 Prizes of 100 are J15h Prizes, amounting to 05480 Tickets Drawligraies P Capitn uro nove ) torminal i 1L it uny furthor infol L wito Touibly 't the anidorsigned, with Bute Btating your resi N i roturn mail 4011, sured by your enclosing un enclosing b Tail widrons, ni POSTAL NOTE New York Kxehaig in APross (0t Our expense. OF M. A DALPHIN, Washington, D, C. Address Registered Lettars to . W ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, t Now Orleans, La. REMEMBER will b s Fing yous Money Orders, or stior, Curcen DLATDAUPIIN, Now Orle Tuat BY FOUI NATIONAT 1A NKH thio (ekels the i ehest couriat G theso Little Pills, Indigestion and T [Hearty Eat'og » ot tect remedy (6 1k neas, Nausea. Drowst uess, Bad Taste in th Mouth,Costed Tongue, Pain In the Bide, TOX and prevent Constipation sod Piles smallcat and casiost to take, Only ous pill doso. 40 inavial Purely Vegetable. Pri 25 cents. (QARTER MEDIOINE 00., Prop'ss, How ¥ W10y 0us b ONE DOLLAR 13 the pr milest part or ot IsaUkh WY U I any drawing. me offerad for loss thin o dolmr, T. E. CIL.PIN, FIRE |NSURANCE BROKER, Koom 63 Traders' Bullding, CHICAQO. lielerences—| ropoli | Bank. e B A 208 iR reut 08 KIDNEY a2 urinary troubles cantly, qulo 1y and sately cured by DOCTURA Cap: the s sules. Beverul cuses cured in seven days. Sold AL per box, all drugglats, or by.mail froi Doo ura Mfy Co,, 112 Walte BLN. ¥, Fulldizections \ 1 (} | [/