Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1889, Page 12

AY 19 — 20 1880.~TWENTY-FOUR PAGE Mercer Avenue Investment Compan T0 PERSONS DESIRING THEIR OWN HOME ‘_ The undersigned will Build You a House, with all! the Modern Improvements, on Easy Payments, posite the Palatial Residence of Dr. Mercer, in Walnut Hill. Lots are 50x150 feet in size with a 16-foot alley in the rear. X dence portion of Omaha and now is the accepted time. s DINING Room |[Emmal| KiTcHEN l 13X 16 ek dhis l = | 1 — 1 “ F=Dice l E o> O —- ] A Ly IR = SITTING Roop HALL, I Iy - - | == - For Particulars, call on M. H. Sloman, Roomns 216 - X PARLOR /ax/eR' =1 Room & X /8 610 Paxton Building, Positively no residence built to cost less than $1,500.00, This is the finest J’W“NG Room First National Bank Building or J. G. Salishury, y LINCOLY'S FUNERAL CAR. ‘Where it Originated and Where its Solemn Duties Finded. ITS FIRST PLEASURE JOURNEY. The Ignoble Uses to Which the Mar- tyr's Imposing Coach Has Been Put in These Degenerate Days—Ete., Etc. A Funeral Coach. Car 04, which is now used for out- fitting purposes by the Union Pacific, has & remarkable record. It was once the property of the Pennsylvania rail- road. At the time, the people through- out the world were shocked because the news was flashed along the wires, that Abraham Lincoln, then President of the United States,had been assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. A few days later, preparations were made for the removal of the remains of the martyr from Washington to Spring- field, Illinois, This coach, 04, was selected as the funeral car. After the remains had been laid to resi at the early home of the honored dead, the Union Pacific company pur- chased the car as a memento of the lamented chief. It was brought to this city,decorated with the funeral draper, which distinguished it during its sol- emn journey tothe grave. It wus care- fully” stored away in a little building constructed for ~ its shelter in the lower yards at this place. There it was one of the principal features noted b‘y tourists who visited this city. Though it remained there several years, old-time residents state that not a day passed without bringing some cents was found by tho man with the microscopic eye. This was in the case of the dismissal of an old-timg con- ductor whose face is very familiar on the streets of Omaha. His reports were subjected to the closest serutiny, and with the above result. Aftera lengthy consideration, the deficit was classified as a ‘“matter of circum- stance,” and the conductor was allowed to resume his rum, after the horrors of the penitentiary and living in Canada had been pictured to him in graphic terms. «*x “Restore my name to good standing, and wipe it from the black list or I'll blow out your brains.” This was the command that escaped the lips of & young man as he addressed a Union Pacific official in the latter’s room in the Paxton hotel not many years ago. Owing to the present standing of both parties no names are mentioned. Neither have they appeared in the pa- pers up to this time. A fow years ago u gentleman, well-know in Omaha, at one time holding an official position with the Union Pacific and now asso- ted officially with the Missouri Pa- cific, eaused the discharge of a young man, who, at that time, was one of tha chief clerks of the form charged the young man with being too intimate with his spouse, who, at that time, was prominent in society circles here. The official was not sa with ousting the young clerk from his position, but ulso had his name en- grossed upon the black list—a book which all the names upon which final judgment has been pronounced, is written. Once, the name written in_this bool, no employment or favors will be shown the owner, and, if foundin a position with any other company, in serious cases, will warrant the handing over of the record to the latest employer. To be blacklisted, therefore, means a boy- cott on one’s services. curlosity-seeker to see the great me- mento. But the advanca of time is marked with many changes in railway as well #s in other circles. One day a party of official tourists desired to make a irip, and there being no available coach on the Union Pucific for the purpose, the Lincoln car was pressed into service. The drapery was laid aside, and the wheels, which had remained motion- less and silent so long, moved again. Auother trip was taken later, then another, and finally the car dropped into usage in common with all the others, The shed was then torn down, and the fact of the existence of the memorial coach lived in the memory of those who loved the past. At present the car which, as has been referred to, was converted to outfitting mlrplt’nen. is on the western section of @ Union Pacific, where it recalls only 10 those who are well posted, the hal- lo:‘;d memories which cluster about its walls, * e Within the past fortnight over a score of conductors on the Union Pa- oific have been ushered before the officials of that road. It is not a secret that the boys avoid coming in contact with their superiors as much as possi- ble, but when they are confronted with “Your presence {s desired by L they involuntarily become the guests of the author. Just at present the knights of Lhtfunoh are experiencing the re- wilt of expert accounting. As yet, none of them have been released, but small discrepancies have been found in the cash bulance in the accounts of sjome of them, which may result in their being ‘furloughed’ for an indofi- bite time. Iu oue vase » shortage of 20 The young mau vacated his.chair and contented himself with the hopes of soon finding as good, if not a more de- sirable position. He had abuut made arrangementsfor a vosition with the Burlington, and was requested to **call again in a few days,” after having given references as to his former field of labor. The **few days” rolled by and the young man put in an appearance only to be in- formed that the Burlington did not make a practice of furnishing employ- ment to blacklisted men, This aroused the labor secker’s anger and made him desperate. He was firm in his belief that, had his name not been on the black-list of tue Union Pacific, he would have been given the position. He resolved Lo re- move the stigma and, that night, paired to the apartments of the official, and upon entering, drew his revolver and uttered the words above quoted. The official, say the officors, promisod to withdraw his™ charges, but on the black-list ledger of the Union Pacific to-day stand the words: ‘'—— s, Discharged for good cause.” The facts have never been made pub- li¢, although the mere meuntion of the names would set gossip into a lively The voung man may occasionally be seen in Omaha, but has no longer here an abiding place. ONAL. EDUOA A. J. Drexel, the bauker, Is about {0 found an Industrial college for women av Wayue, Pa., at & cost of $1,500,000, . Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, Mass., will endow & pow in'the American church in Berlin, Germany, at a cost of $1,000. 2 ‘That ex-Minister Pholps will rosume bis autles as professor of the law school at Yalo is confirmed by the appoAFance of his uwwe in that relation in a prospectus issued within a day or two. Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson is employed in thé university of Denver, Col., at a salary of £3,300. The authorities do not feel that she should have less mouney because she is a woman. The ladies of Colorado ave raising an endowment fund of $10,000 for a chair to be alway fitled by o woman The importance of the of hygiene is becommg recognized each year more and more. One gentleman - has offered to give 25,000 toward the endowmeat of a chair of hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania on condition that a like sum be raised to com- plete the sum of §50,000. The endowment of Wesleyan has just received two_substantial additious. Daniel Ayres, M. D., LL. D., has given $25,000 to the chair of biology, and 30,000 comes to tho wencral fund of the college from the Hollis estate. It 1s rumored that at this year's commencement sever: gifts will be announced. Senator Leland Stanford’ s expected to visit Cornell this term for the purpose of studying the methods and equipment of the university, and perhaps, as the Kra inti- mates, with the object of securing several of the Cornell professors for the faculty of the new Stanford university in California. The new president of the Michigan agri- cultural college, vice Edwin Willetts, as- sistant commissioner of agriculture, will be Oscar Clute of California, who has teacher, editor and minister. He is fo eight years old, and a graduate of the insti- tution over which he is called to preside. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence 'Lurnbull, of Balti- more, ndowed with the sum of $20,000 a memorial lectureship of poetry in the John Hopkins university, _The trusices have de- termined to invite Prof. James Russell Lowellto be the first lecturer on this founda- tion. They have also elected Prof. Grifiin, of Williaws coliege, professor of the history of philosophy and dean. President Gilmap of Hopkins has an- nounced that an emergency fund of §100,000 for the benefit of the university has been contributed by s number of persons, so that during the next three years the university will go forward without contraction. He als0 announces that & citizen of Baltimore, Mr. Eugene Levering, has offered the sum of $20,000 for the comstruction of a much- needed buildin, Tt university - TIES. There are peovle who pray so hard that they have no breath left for active well- doing. A western religious sect locates heaven noar Rockford, 11l. This 15 a blow between the eyes for Chicago. If the serpent in the Garden of Eden had been a mouse, the human race might yet be in a state of primeval happiness, An Ohio church deacon exclaimed: “Osg- sarn it all to Texas!" and the verdict of the chureh investigation was: **Not guilty, but in bad taste.” “The weigh of the transgressor is light," is the way Johuny's mother put it when fio came back from the butcher's with an al- leged two pounds of meat. Massachusetts must be a highly religious state. “A prominent civil ougineer’ has been able to find only thirteen dams in the state which are liable o broak loose. AT the Chinese Mission: Teacher—And now, Hoog Koy, can_you tell me the mean- ing of the words “Go to,” so frequently found in the holy seriptures! Hong Foy— Yesse, ma'am! Him allee samley *Come oft.” ¥ A queer world 1s this. 71he Camden min- isters rosqyvith horror at the prospect of running th®street cars in that city on Sun- day, and yet most of them will assist in nul- litying the Peunsylvania marriage license law and sccept wedding fees on the Sabbath without ever stopping to ask if they are helping people to ome bigamists. Someone asked a plain brother about a crying preacher, aud inquired: “Why is it that he cries and the congregation does not ory! How is it that he does all the crying!” The old man replied : *'1f you had to stand there whera he stands, and had to tuli as 1ong as Lo has to, and yet had as little to say a8 he has, you would cry, wo, —~—— Ladies take Augostura Batters gener- ally when they leel low spirited. It brightens them up. Dr. Siegert & Sous, sole manufacturers. At all druggists. REVOLVER SHOTS IN TEXAS Still Resounding in the Ears of a Traveling Manager. THE BRUTAL MURDER OF PORTER A Lively Fusitade n the Dark at the timely Ending of a Perigrinat- ing Magician's Entertamn- ment—Etc. Etc. In the Lone Star State. For twenty years W. J. McKinney has been on the road as agent and man- ager of theatrical attractions. He is well known and greatly admired all over the country. Everywhere he goes warm friends meet ana greet him. He bhas a retentive memory, strong powers of ‘observation, and is an interesting talker. His mind is a perfect store house of bre: reminiscences, and he takes great delight, when requested so to do, in detalling them. While in the v one day last week, en route to San neisco, Mr. McKinney was solicited by a reporter for TiE BEE to chat, and very willingly devoted an hour weayv- ing stories about some of the more ex- citing events in his career. I think,” he hegan, after lighting a weet Caporal,” **that there are not five men of my profession who can say they have witnessed as many thrilling episodes as your obedient servant. I am not an old man yet you see my hair is white. Once I chanced to stop at Calvert, a tough little town in Texas, run bv bowboys, and during my sojourn 1 got into a scrape and came very near being murdered. “Robert McWade was playlng the town and his treasurer, Walter Berry, asked me to watch the door a few mo- ments, which I dily consented to.do, and took my station. Directly a great, big,dirty,extremely, hard-looking indi- vidual approached and was going to valk rightin. I demanded his ticket.” Haven’t got any ticket,) and he growled it out in the most approved prize-ring style., ' “iCan't go iy here without one, said L, i40h, y-a-8, 1 kin,an’ I'm goin’ i ‘* ‘What claimg hyve you that entitle you to passage without something to Show for it? : 1 kuow the show, peonle.’ “Guess you'rp mob very well ac- quainted with mfp ompuny, or some of them would have giyen you a pass.’ “iWell, I'm foin’ in an’ see this show, or there’ll be trouble.’ “The fellow put his hand back and was going to pull a gun. I looked around, but could see nobody, and, de- siring that the performance should not be disturbed, and thinking. also, that my life was worth more than a dollar, I told him it was- all right, and he could go ahead, **A few moments later I looked in and the brute was perched on the back of a bench smoking an old black plre, Just then the town marshal walked over to where 1 was and inguired whether there had been any trouble. 1 told him about the bully. The marshal walked in, took that fellow by the coat collar, waod threw him bodily, with an accom- panying kick, out of the house. The tough gave me a very black ook when going down the stairs. “After the performance, McWade, Berry and I were standing at the hotel ) bar, when this same felluw came in ca; rying a long knife and undertoolk 1o as- sault me. As I turned around facing him he made a h and cut my hat rim in two. The point of the knife just nicked the end of my nose. I jumped back quick enough to save being badly wounded, The men with me caught and held him until I could make my es- cape. That was the closest call T ever had. , Only a short time previously, B. C. Porter, the actor, was deliberately shot by another cowboy. just such aspecimen as this villain of mine, consequently you can bet there was not the least dis- Dosition in me to fight. And, by the way, let me say to you that the true animus with which Tom Curry was prompted to kill Porter has, to my knowledge, never been written. It was at Marshall that the murder oceurred. Curry posed there as a_bully and had every man, woman and child in the town with the exception of Ed Jackson afraid of him. Jackson was a gambling house keeper, who, in size and general appearance, was a perfect match for Juck Haverly. Atone time when Jack- went into his ed everything he could and cut a wide swath. On returning home, and being informed of Curry’s conduet, Juckson called the desperado down ana gave him to understand thag, if he ever repeated the act, his friends would be called on to bury him the next day, and you will not die in your stock- ing foet,eithar,’ was the hitle gambler’s significant warning. Curry was big enough to eat Jackson, but he didn’t do it. ‘“The nignt he shot Porter, Curry heard that Ed had gone out of town, and, thinking the time appropriate to get even, he again visitad the gambling shops, determined to riddlc it. I think he had kicked overa table,when Jackson opened a side-door and stood in front of him with a cockeéd revolyer drawn. 4T will give you two minutes to leave here,’ said the owner, ‘and 1f you don’t, your dead body will be carried out.’ “Curry knew that Jackson meunt it and didn’t linger to argue the question, but got out in a hurry. After reaching the street, where he heard people talk- ing how a little runt of a fellow had made him run, Curry became enraged and was in a frame of mind to do anything desper- ate, He walked over to the depot curs- ing everybody that came in his way. Porter, Maurice Barrymore and Ellén Cummings were at the lunch counter eating, Cuvry went up to Ellen and commenced calling her all kinds of vile names, Porter and Barrymore inter- fered, whereupon Curry whipped out his revolver and commenced firing. The first bullet struck Porter in the stomach, the second caught Barrymore’s left arm and a third grazed Miss Cum- ming’s head, Curry wasarrested, tried and acquitted, but it cost his brothe wealtey New Orleans banker $200.000. He afterwards emigrated to where & cowboy put an end to his ence. “] pemember a very funuy incident,” coptinued McKinney, “‘that occurred a few years ago at Columbus. Barlow, Primrose & West's minstrels were tour- ing through Texas and had Kddie Fox, the popular little red- haiped violinist with them as leader of their orchestra. After the performance he went ioto a saloon car- rying his violin and called for some- thing to drink. A steapping big ranger inquired what he bad ‘in that hu.hy coffin,’ und being informed invited Ed- die to open it.” - ++No, not here,’”” replied the 1 s 4Y'es, you will,” quictly obse: ranger, and as he spoke a large navy six-shooter dropped on the counter. “Eddie’s wbIYA begau to chatter, and he opened the box to let his new founa friend sce what was in it.” “‘Give us a tune,’ commanded Mr. Texas.” ‘T can’t do that,” protested Fox, ‘my contract witn the managers says I shan’t play outside of the theater.’” “*‘Give us atune,’ repeated the oth and he made his demand more forcible by cocking his ‘navy.’ “Eddie played, and as a_result the gang kept him playing until 4 o'clock the next morning.” I don’t think he has everbeen in ‘Texas since that trip. I was going one time from San An- tonio to Houston, and on account of an accident to the engine our train was detained several hours at Magnolia, a small station. It was dark when we stopped. 1 saw a brightly lighted school house near the depot and went over to see what was going on. The attraction proved to be a sleight-of-hand orm- ance given by some fakir and his wife. The audiencé was composed entirely of noisy cowboys, half of them partly drunk. They were simply raising old Harry, and the magicians wers so frightened they could do nothing. It was not long until one of the boys drew his revolver and shot a light out, That scemed to be the signal, and they all commenced shooting. I sncaked, made a wide detour to keep out of the range of bullets, and got back to the train. McKinney nssumes the managemer i of Effie Ells company at Portlnad, to-morrow. He has managed **Stm’l of Posen,” M’lle Rhea, Richard Muns- field, Rose Coghlan, Roland Rend, Clara Morris and others. He is the only man who ever succeeded in getting Miss Morris to go through her season without losing a performunce. —_————— THE WESTERN IRON TRADE. Exceedingly Quiet this Year—What May Happen in the Future, For several years the month of April has not been characterized by an active condition of busincss in the west, says the Iron Age. DBut h year there were peculiar circumstances affecting the cousuming interests and interfering with trade prospects which were thought exceptional in their nature. IFor instance, in 1886 the eight hou agitation was & prominent factor in uo- scttling business onterprise 1877 the railronds precipitated a i of chaos by their rearrangement of freight rates in order to com- ply with the provisions of the inter-state commerce act, and in 1888 the railroads were again cnarged with causing an unsatisfactory state of trade by their controversies with their employes. In each ciuse the opinion was generally entertained if the special disturbance bad not oc- curred the: would bave beena fair volume of business and prices would not have dropped. This year, however, the eding quietness of trade can not be ascribed to any such specific cause, yot the dullness is much more profound ind far-reaching than during the pe- riods previously cited. Th are no strikes in progress which affect any con- siderable number of workingmen. Of course the dulluess must be for in some othe afford a convenient scapegout. They are purchusing very spuringly, and as long as they are 50 cconomical business must perforce be dull, Assuming that this view of th is thoroughly sound, especially as it is 80 well fortified by corroboratory cir- cumstances. nuiml.fy puts April of this year in line with April of last year and the year before, and s0 on. No matter what the cause may be, April scems < make it such. We ignore the fact that February and March wore months of roasonable activity in iron circles, oven though the railroads were buying as sparingly then as in April. With the quiotness of previous correspondin, periods intensified this year, the mont] of April has seen lower prices for most iron and steel products thag were ever before known in the west. Competition between sellers hag been very bitter, notwithstandong the comparative insignificance of the prizes contended for in the shape of small orders. At the present writing there is less business transacting in heavy material than at any time of the year for several years, and prospects are nof bright for a speedy improvement. But what of the future? Itison just such a condition of affairs as now ob« tains that the foundation for a frapid appreciation of values are !aid. Manu< fucturers get discouraged and withdraw from a business in which they are merely wasting their substance instead of increasing their accumulations. A movement of this kind has already begun, and the voluntary withdrawals are accompanied by others, whose retirement has been hastened by legzal process. A continuance of this depres= sion throughout May and June woulds result in such a decided restriction of production that the supply would be found unequal to the demand, and the usual after-harvest activity in all branches of business would send prices, upward with a bound. Considering the excellent financiak predestined to be a dull month,whether one thing or another must huppeun to condition of the country, the abun< dancde of unemployed ~ capital, the absence of disturbing influences gen« erally, and the progressive nature of our people, it is impossiblo that trade should continue to go from bad to worse until we reach a flnality of uns iversal ruin, The downward course will be checked, and probably ba checked very suddenly, as is the casa with all reactions. Then there would be danger of a **boom,” which is to ba foared, and, if possible, avoided. The boom of 1879-1880, with its wild excesses and extravagant transace tions, was & serious blow to legitimate business. whose effects were felt fop years. We desire and need prosperity, but not of such a violent character, Yot with all the dullness existing at pmxcn: 1 this prospect looms up in the future. the railroads are really as bare of nec sary supplios as they are represented to be, and are in a8 great need of track materials and rolling stock as1sre< ported, they will ail be in the market about the same time, and their pure chases will enormously stimulate trade, It is a time for caution and conservas tism by manufacturers, particularly in making contracts for long-time delivs eries. Materials of all kinds are low, wages in western mills are not likely to undergo any change of consequenco, and it appears altogether incredible that six months from to-day the prices now prevailing will seem high, Attacked By Kive Snakes. William Swartz, of Beale, was out huyln‘; cows for the eastern markot, sa s the Philadelphia Enquirer. When he arrived at a certain place in the road he was attacked by five huge black snakes of the racer species, They ute tacked by flank, front and rear. One mounted the shafts and made desperate efforts to secure their vietim, Mr. Swartz had no other weapon than a small stick, with which he succeeded in killing three of them, i The Baptist denomination has 182 char tered institutions of learning whose roperty and endowments amount to $19,676.879. They bave 1,030 profossors, sud 17,608 students, The richest is Hrowa university, wilh its $2.575.000, and the poorest is—well, we dey cline 1o name it. A e