Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 25, 1889, Page 1

et 2 THE OwMAHA DAILY BEE | EIGHTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA SATURDAY ~ —— | MORNING, MAY 25 1889, NUMBER 344 CAN'TBEAT THE VOLUNTEER. The Valkyrie Won in Yesterday's Race at Gravesend. DOWNED HER LIVELIEST RIVALS, Connolsseurs Say Bhe May Be Good For a Britisher, But She Oen't Get the Ameri- can Cup. The Third Regatt [Copyright 18%9 by James Gordon Bennett.) LoNpoN, May 24.—[New York :Herald Cable—Special to Tur Bee.]—The Valkyrie won ber race at Gravesend to-day, and won it cloarly and well, but she 18 not as good a ‘boat as the Volunteer, unless some accident has happened to the American cup's cham- pion since her encounter with the Thistle a couple of years ago. Yesterday the regatta, if such it could prop- erly be termed, in connection with the Royal Thames Y acht club, was as pretty a one as has ever started from Gravesend in May. The match between the three first-cla boats, the Valkyrie, the Yarano and the Irex was, of course, the all absorbing event of the day; but the race betwoen the smaller crafts, Mohawk, Vreda and Deerhound, also carried a great deal of interest; and thero were many who unxiously watched the All- comers race, contested by the Foxglove, Deciwa, Dis, Maid Marian, Foxhound, Volau vent and Amphitrite. “Phe first-cluss race of the day, however, was the major item of attraction, and in the beginning created a vast amount of excite- ment because the Valkyrie started last, and maintained that position for a while. Long before she got to the Nore, howaver, sho had passed her two competitors, aud the race was a foregone conclusion, barring accidents, The first-class racors' course was fifty miles from the lower Hope light, round the Mouse lightship, and return to Gravesend. All the yachts started together, at half past 11 o'clock and the Yarana at once took the lead, closely followed by the Irex and Val- kyrio. The Valkyrie gradually pulled up oa and passed Jamoson’s old hero, and after a long sail, in which she gained steadily, inch by inch, she passed the Yarana, and sailed on liken swallow for the Mouse lightship, which she turned at 2:22:55. The Yarana was more than five minutes behind her, and the Irex nearly thirteen. After rounding tho lightship spinnakers were set and tho Valkyrie, with her enor- mous strotch of canvas, still maintuined her lead over the Yurana, though the Irex gained considerably during the run home, and passed the home flag-buoy but twenty sec- onds behind her opponent, the Yarana, which cume in about eight minutes later than the Valkyrie. The finish was made in the following time: Valkyrie, 5 Yarana, 5:14:20; Irex, 5:14:40. The time allowance was Irex, nil Valkyrie, 5 m. 50 secs: Yarana, 12m. 20 sces: tharefore the Valkyrie only beat the Yarana by 1 minute and 8 seconds, corrected time. Dogarding the crack boat'of the day the commnts were numerous and various, and though she had enthusiastic admirers enough, and many to praise the smartness she em- bodied 1n her small size, yet there were far- soeing experts who remembered the Thistle, the Galatea and the Genesta, and gave it as their opinion that the Valkyrie could not com- pete with the crack American, She is a good Dboat, no doubt, und a pretty oue at that, but, a8 has been said befora, if she is to bo re- garded as a British chumpion, there Is not a yacht, under English colors, afloat to-day that can beat the Volunteer, of Boston, s GLADSTONE KNOUKED DOWN. He is Struck By a Cab While Crossing Piccadilly. Loxpox, May 24.—While Gladstone was crossing Piccadilly at the junction of Berk- ley street, last evening, he was knocked down by a cab which was turning into the street at the same moment. He was imme- iately assisted to his feet by several specta- rs, and finding himself unhurt he in- stantly ran after the cab, which he stopped and detained until the driver had been taken into custody by the police. He attendea the commons to-night and appeared to be weil, e = Suffering at Panama. PANAMA, May 2+.—The unfortunate con- sequences of the canal smash are becoming more marked every day, and the deplorable condition of affairs has but one outlet— emigration. The commissionors sent by the Jamaica government has already sent uway 4,000 people and bas rssued tickets for 3,000 more, aud these will loave by the carliest steamers, People are concregated av the different depots with their tickets in their bands, but without food and almost without shelter, und the tropical wet season is in its full energy. After all the distressed for- eignors arve removed there will still be much suffering and want here, which cannot be sven ameliorated until the resumption of work in Junuary next shall have put money In circulation, § - Ay Disgraced H's Calling. Tonoxto, Muy 24.—[5pecial Telogram to Tue Bee.|—-Long, the correspoudent who sent the alleged interview with Cronin to the Chicago papers on May 11, still stubbornly maintains that it was bona fide. Cronin, he Insists, was actually here and must have gone back to Chicago aud been murdered afterwards. The Toronto pnlmru, however, refuse to believe Long and unite in denounc- ing him s @ disgrace to journalism. e, Capt, M 11 Again Honored, LoNDOX, May 24, —The lord mayor of Lon- don to-day presented testamonials to Captain Murrell and the other oficers and crew of the British steamer Missouri, which rescued the passengers and crew of the Danish steamer Danmars in widocean, The pre- sentations were mado at the mansion house, and the muyor also read a letter from Prince Bismarck, mn which the rescuers were spoken of in highly laudatory verms. T Intertnining the Shah 8. Perenssuns, May 24 —The czarina and the grand duchess received the Persian shah &t Mermesitage to-day. A bauguct was af- terward given at the winter palace in honor of the shah, who sat at the right bund of the czar. When the czar arose and offered a toast in bLouor of his guest, & salute of twenty-one guns waus fired by the artillery, The shub offercd a toust in honor of the czariny. - “he lmnd League's Books, Loxnox, Muy 24.-8. D, Sullivan, a mem- ber of the cqumons and formerly treasurer of the land league, testified before the Par- ell commission to-day that a portion of the e's books aud documents bad been taken to the residence of Mrs. Maloney in Dublin, Arthur O'Connor took some of \hatf"w London und Egan took others to Par — el Gold For Europe. New Yok, May %4.--The total amount of gold ordered for suipment to Europe to-day was $3,500,000, Foreign bankers say the shipments are due wholly to remittance on t of trade but in Wall street Abaorted they aro the proceeds of sul d’:mh(prluuzl Acsounta. © o Py o DEATH OF LAURA BRIDGMAN, The Nineteenth Century Marvel Im- mortalized By Dickens. Bostox, May 24.—[Special Telogram to Tue Ber.)—Laura Bridgman died rather suddenly of hoart failure to-day at the Per- kins Tnstitute for the Blind, in South Boston, which has been her homo for the past fifty years. The heart faflure was accelorated by congestion of the lungs, both superinduced by =& severe attack of erysipilas last summer. This was not her original sickness, for she never really recovered from the effectof the death, in 1876, of Dr. Howe, her famous instructor. She has naturally been an invalid ever since. Last summer her condition became 8o bad that she was sent away to Lebanon, N. H., to recuperate, Instead of so doing sho be- came violently homesick, hor usual fato when away from the asylum for any length of time, and erysipelas ensued. She was brought back to Boston, and by strict attention to her on the part of Dr. Anangas, the superintendent, and J. D. Bridgam, the surgeon, she rallied suficiently to be con- sidered out of all danger. She began,a month ago,to steadily weaken, the erysipelas having scemingly caused such an aspect to her systom that her vitality lessencd, and, a week ago, her heart failed her so that 1t was apparent that her end was very near. A num- ber of her friends and relatives were summonod from New Hampshire and attended her bedside. These she seemed delighted to know were about her, and this morning she was believed to be greatly im- proved. She suffered none and her faculties were perfectly clear, She seamed fully to 6 her situation, but conducted herself h amazing coolness and indifference, as if she considered death a boon to her poor, long-imprisoned soul. Shortly before noon a sudden change alarmed the doctors, and an examination showed that dissolution was imminent. All her friends and attendants were summoned to her bedside, but she seemed to enter into & swoon, from which she never recovered, dying at the time stuted. The details of her funeral have not yet been completed, but it will take piace’ at 3:30 p. m. next’ Sunday from the asylum and promises to be large. ‘When Charles Dickeus visited this coun- try, in 1841, he saw Laura Bridgman in Bos- ton, and in his ‘“‘American Notes” wrote about her one of the most beautiful sketches to be fonnd in all his works. By a severe illness at the age of two years, she lost her sight and hearing, and, couséquently, her speech. The sense of smell was destroyed and the sense of taste impaired. She recov- ered her health gradually but uone of her lost senses were restored. At the age of cight she became an inmate of the Perkins mstitute for the blind, in Bos- ton. By thoe exercise of wonderful patience and skill. Dr. S. G. Howe taught her so that she could wander about the various apart- ments of the building unattended, and then instructed her in the useof the manual alphabet, used by the blind, so that she could spetl out'the names of the various objects, such_as spoons and forks, with which she was familiar, All this was accomplished in three months. Then she was taught to write, and her first effort was to write a letter, unassisted, to her mother. She subsequently acquired the rudiments of arithmetic, took lessons on the piano on which she became a skillful player, and acquired a practical knowledge of needle- work and of some household ‘duties. She made much of her own clothing and ran a sewing machine. Sne one doy asked, with the type which had been prepared for her, this question: “‘Man made houses and vessels, but who made the land and the sea?” that it was God who made all things, and upon his character being described to he: together with the doctrine of the resurre n, the fear of death which had formerly distressed her passed away, aud she ex- pressed the greatest happinoss at the thought of a life beyoud the graue. ,lbm:(\\'as born in New Hampshire, Decem- 21, 18%). LIBERTY'S LONGINGS. Convicts Caught Planning for to Satisfy Ir. Jersey City, N, J,, May 24.—A plot was unecarthed this morning for the general de- livery of the convicts confined in the Hud- son county penitentisory at Snake Hill, At- tention being attracted to the suspicious counferences of five long term conviets,search was made of the cells occupied by the con- victs, The investigation resulted in the dis- covery of nincteen files, six knives, five saws, ten drills, a pair of compasses and other articl The files were smuggled into the prison from the outside, and the other tools we made by a convict blacksmith now at liber Kéys made of lead were found in the pocket of one of the convicts which would have readily opened the doors of the cells and that of the corridor. The men were at once put in close confinement and for some time will subsist on bread and wate The other prisouers are believed to be implicated and a searching investigation is now in prog: ——— Off For Nicaragua. New Yonrk, May 24.—The Nicaragua Canal company announced the steamship Alvena to sail for Greytown, Nicuragua, on May 25 She will carry about tifty men and a quantity of implements and stores for the Nicaragua Canal Construction company. This is the pioneer expedition for the commencement of the work of building the Nicaragua inter- oceanic canal. Similar consignments of men ond materials for the prosecution of work will follow one another at short intervals. & vugineers of the surveying expedition of 1887-88 have remaived in Nicaragua in the service of the company, and will meet the construction party at Greytown. They have collected about five hundred native laborors there in readiness to begin oporations & once. A Mormon Oolony. eLexa, Mont., May —A considerable nuwber.of emigrants are passing through Montana, en route to the British possessions, traveliug by wagon. It has been ascertained they ave wormons from Utah and Idabo, ana their destination is the country through which the Galt railway passes, Some time ago the Alberta Railway and Coal company was approached by un agent of the Mormon hierarchy with a proposition to buy several thousand nmcres of the company’s land in the northwest lerritory, upon which to set- tle a colony of saints, The negotiations were flually completed about a month ago, but it is not known what the consideration was, nurJux\l how many acres of land were purchased, ‘T'he deal was a lurge one, how ever, and the province is hkely to have o very considerable Mormon population soon. - G. A, R. Mutters, Kaxsas Crry, May 24, —Past Comwander- in-chief Lucian Fairchid, of Milwaukee, was to-day appointed on the National Grand Arwmy republican pension committee to suc ceed Corporal Tauner, commissioner of pen- sions, who lust week sent in nis resignation. Colonel Nelson, of St. Louis, hus been made a member of the John A. Logan monument committee, vice Gen Jdoun M. Palmer. Commander-in-chiefl Major William Warner aod Adjutant-General Weigel Jeave to-night for Milwaukee, to arrange the final details for the national encampment of the G. A. R. in the last week in August. —— The Oheyenne Shops. Cuevexye, Wyo., May 24.—|Special Tele- gram w0 Tue Bee |—July 10 has been set as the date of laying the corner stone of the Union Pacific shops, subject to the approval of Chief Enginecr Hoguce. On the 9th and 10th of next mounth, the annual tournament of northern Colorado and Wyoming firemen will be held here. Great preparations are being wade for that event, and it was thought that if the celebrations could be cou- solidated a much wore satiefactory result could be obtained, She was told, WAS CRONIN KILLED HERE? An Empty Oottage With Floors Blood Stained. DISCOVERED BY THE POLICE, Evident Attempta Had Been Made to Remove the Ghastly Stains By Daubing Brown Paint Over Them. The Murder Mystery Deepens. Cnicaco, May 24.—It was learned to-day that the police struck quite an important clue in the Cronin mystery. It scems to be beyond doubt that they have discovered the place where Cronin was murdered, 8 vacant cottage in Lake View. The authorities have had some information about the place for several days, and since the discovery of the body an officer has been constantly watch- ing the suspected cottage. The reporters heard of this surveillance, but the police would give no information. Accordingly, this morning, three reporters watched their opportumty, and when the officer was in the rear of the house forced an entrance at the front. Stains resembling blood were seen on the front steps, but when the report- ers entered the front room or parlor, they found undoubted blood stains on the floor, also in the corner of the back parlor and in the hallway. The parlor floor is cov- ered with bloody marks, although here the assassins evidently made strenuous efforts to destroy the stains, The floor is doubed reck- lessly with brown paint and it can be plainly seen that the work was not that of an ex- pert. It was evidently done in such haste that several places were left where the blood-stains are perceptible, notably in the center of the floor. In the painu were prints of bare feect. Evidently the person who made the marks was much excited, for the foot prints are seen in every direction, indi- catiag that the person had rushed all over the room. i The reporters had not completed their in- vestigation before the arrival of the ofticers, who put a stop to the work. Before breaking into the house the report- ers had pecred through the basement win- dows and discovered & spade standing against a post, and that the carth had been freely turned up. [t is said that the police found bloody clothing concealed in the house or basement, but on this point they refuse to talk, The cottage in question is situated within a few hundred feet of the home of P. O, Sullivan, the ice man. ‘The cottage belongs to a man named Carl- son, who lives on the rear of the same lot. It appears that about seven weeks ago a young woman rented the house, paying a month in advance, People were given to undorstand that the woman had rentea it for her brothers, who had been hired by Sullivan. Sullivan declares that he did not hire any such men. Moreover, though the rent was paid, the house remained unoccupied until about the time of Cronin’s disappearance, when men came with what appeared to be a bundle of carpets. If they were preparing for Cronin's assassination, this would be a ood way to smuggle into the house the farge bundie of cotton batting found with the body. B Proceeding on the theory that Cronin was murdered here, it is pointed- out that the house is admrably located for that purpose. Being so near Sullivan’s house, ~Cronin could be conducted to it without exciting his suspicion while, at the same time, it would furnish a perfect hiding-place for them to spring upon him as soon us he cntered the place. It is also surmised that the carpet may have been put upon the hallway or other front room to give the place the appearance of being vccupied. ‘The attention of the police was directed to the house by Carlson, the owner. This afternoon it was visited by Inspector Eber- sold aund the coroner. When Licutenant Schuettler found the re- porters had gained entrance to the house he was very angry. He suspended the officer who had been on the watch and sent another to tue place. The lieutenant himself, how- ever was not more successful in keeping the secret, for a reporter succeeded in drawing from him some important admissions, among them that the police had a clue to the mur- derer. The most inportant admission was that the clothes of the dead man had been recovered and identified, Late this afternoon Mrs. Carlson turned over to the polica a letter signed ‘“Frank Williams,” which she said wus written by one of the two strange men who occupied the cottage und disappeared after the mur- der, The police would not divulge the date or contents, but it is supposed to relate to the renting of the house, The police ofMicials appear to think to- night that Cronin’s assassins may have imitated “‘Boodler” McGarigle's famous es- cape up Lake Michigan. It is said that two men were noticed carly the Sunday morning following Cronin's disappearance, in a row boat on the lake, making for the North pier. They were heading almost in o straight lino from the beach in Lincoln Park, near where Prisoner Woodruff said a balt had been made with the mysterious trunk. Since that night a row boat has been missing from an establishment close by. The suburban police have always claimed that there were three men seen In the wagon supposed to contain the mysterious truuk. Woodruff from the first talked of two others besides himself. ‘The police are very anxious to hear from the missing boat. WAS ORONIN A sPY1 A Qisagrecable rumor was started, to-day, regarding Dr. Cronin, which is vizorously denounced by his friends, It was to the eftect that Dr, Cronin was a spy in the cm- pioy of the London Times; that his being so came to the ears of the Irish nationalists, and his fate was that of other informers. It will be remembered that one of the spics of the Times was in Chicago all last year, until November, He was an excellent talker, magnetic, and possessed 10 a large degree of the quality of making friends, His identity was disclosed in the Parnell case about the same time that Le Caron's duplicity came to light. Dr. Cronin, it is claimed, was ulso a frequenter of the nlace where the detective made his headquarters, and that the two were acquainted is not at all improbable, It1s certain that the infor- mation possessed by Dr. Cronin was of a na- tureto be extremely desirable to the op- ponents of Paruell, and just the kind of in- formation this spy was after. During the tes- timony of Le Caron he was asked to tell who his associates aud fellow-workers were in America he declined to say at first for fear that he would be wurdered for doing so. ‘The court ruled t| he might give Lis in- formation preseuce of the judge and counsel only, that that part of his testi- wony would not be published, He did so, and, according to the rumor, Dr. Cronin's name was in the list. Some section which was looking out for informers sent delegates to Chbicago to attend to the case of Dr. Cronin. They came here tfrom abroad, did their job, departed, and are now probably back in their foreign homes. Although Dr, Cronin’s friends are indignant at this story, detectives say the theory thut the murder was done by strangers imported here for the purpose, and that the wmurder- ers are now thousands of miles away is & #ood onc. It 18 not necessary, the police say, that the murder should have been done for the object stated in the rumor. If, for in- stance it was, as claimed by Dr. Cronin's friends, the outcome of a row awong the members of the Irish wovement in this coun- try, that fact would not detract from the idea that outsiders were used to do the bloody work. AN IIPORTANT FIND. In the vacant cottage where the blood stains were discovered, there was found by the detectives, night, & brand pew key. The officers decided at once to try it in the lock of the mysterious trunk found: by the roadside the morning after Cronin disap peared. The key fhited exactly. All douot Dow of & geuuine counection between Pris ‘ oner Woodruff, the dovior's dead body, the ‘ beguest, trunk and the blood-stained cettage has been | \ extlod beyona quostion: | CAPTAIN PETERS APPOINTED Dr, Cronin's remains will .be taken to- morrow to one of the hrgn pablic halls on the lake front, where all who dosire may gazo on the whastly corpse. Sunday there will bo a strent parade from the hall to the cathedral. ~ After services the remams will go by train to Calvary cemetery. Fifty cents will be charged each person go- ing to the cemetery, an amount which 1t is estimated will net the committee of afrange- ments 85 oents for euch fare. The sum thus raised, it is announced, will be devoted to the discovery and prosecution of the doctor's murderers. The Carlson cottage has been thoroughly Collector of Internal Revenue For tho Nebraska District. COLONEL M'LEAN WILL RETIRE. Hiram Smith, of Cameron, Missoari. to Bacceed Him as First Dep- uty Commissioner of ransacked. A new brush, such as painters Pensions, ordinarily use in coarse work, was found in the attic. The hairs were smeared with paint similar to that with which the blood stains had been partly obliterated* In the attic was also found apot containing a of the same sort of paint. The in- were that the painting had been done some time after the killing, possibly in} volving a return to the house by the mur- derers or their accomplices, w of old man_Carlson to-night e was rented in March, and the rent vnifi in advance. The man who brought tha bed, bureau and some rugs to the house, told Mrs. Carlson his sister was in 8 hospital, sick, and that before moving he 513 FOURTRENTI STREET, Wasnixatox. D. C., May 23. Captain Johin Poters, of Nobraska, was to- day appointed collector of internal revenuo for the district of Nebraska. Captain Peters was indorsed by all of the state delogation, but is recognized as the special appointee of Senator Paddock, in whose regiment hie was during the war. Nebraskans say tho ap- pointment is a good one and will give gen- eral satisfaction. The commission was WasmixaTox Bureau, TarOvana Brn, } would wait until she was able to leave | made out late this evening, but the apvoint- the institetion. Afterwards he came | ment is not yet officiully announced. back with another man, They then COLONEL M'LEAN TO RETIRE. Colonel William E. MoLean, of Terre Haute, Ind., first deputy commissioner o pensions, will retire from his ofice in & few days. He is to bo succeeded by Hiram Smith, of Cameron, Mo. Smith has but one arm and one leg. He went out at the beginning of the war with the First Vermont heavy artillery, and was an excellent union soldier. He 18 indorsed by Socretary Noble, his per- sonal friend, Generul Warner, ex-congress- man from Kansas City, now grand com- mander of the G. A. R., and other prominent Missouri republicans. Colonel McLean has made one of the best deputies the office has informed the Carlsons that they were broth- ers und that their name was Williams. When the month was up, on the 20th of April, they came around and paid another month's rent saying their sister was il sick. The old folks beoamo suspicious after this and determined there was something wrong and decided not to let the man have the house after this mouth. The singular thing is that last Thursday another man who had not be secn before, came to the house to vay the third month’s rent. Mrs. Carlson refused to rent the house longer, saying thoy proposed to sell it. The man said he would return next day to take the furniture away. He did not come the next day and the furni- ture is in the house pomttd s over had. Ho was a brave union soldier, and V. )] N has administered his office with firmness, \WHITE AND BUACK OHRISEIANS. | i oyt partisanship, and in such an efcieut The Northern Presbyterians Refuse to Discriminate on Color, NEW York, May 24—At to-day's session of the Presbyterian assembly almost the first thing done was the reading of a telegram from the southern assembly, now in session, aunouncing that that body had adopted the majority report in favor of co-operation in the home and foreign fields,in the evangelization of the colored people,and co-operation in mat- ters of publication, etc. Rev. John Fox, of Kentucky, spoke in op- position to co-operation.| He said thav he would vote against the majority report be- cause it advocated separate churches for white and colored, The debate on the third section of the ma- jority report—co-operatioh. in the evangeliza- tion of the colored people—was continued. and satistactory manner as to secure, With- out his _solicitation, the indorsement of a large number of republicans in congress for retention. Colonel McLean is a very large property owner at Terre Haute, where oil has been discovered, and he will' return im- mediately to his home to look after his in- terests, ROSECRANS' HOPES, General Rosecrans has said to his personal friends that he does not expect w be asked to step out of the position of register of the treasury, although he is drawing a_salary of $4,100 a year ou the retired list_of the army nd is a very strong partisan democrat. He has brought tho G, A, 1. influence 10 bear to have himself retained. Notwithstanding this, it is stated that he will go out before snow flios. MAIL SERVICE DISCONTINUED, Special mail service in Towa has been or- Rev. John Stryker, bf Chicago, said | dered discontinued after June 80 to Bluft that he would vote for no re- | Creek, Monroe county; Boxholm, Boone port that asked obe christian to | county; Buck Creek, Bremer county; stand aside at the commmnion table in | Burrell, Decatur county; Crather, Ply- favor of another. He mpved to strike out | mouth county; Fielding, Cherokee counts that part of the reports which reads: *‘While | Fissus, Audubon county; Liken, Benton conceding the existing | situation, it (the | county; North Des Moines, Des Moines northern assembly), approves the policy of | county; Olmitz, Lusas county; Red Rocl Marion county} Glencoe, Poweshick county between Muscatine, Ia., and Ferdinard, II Logan and Persia; Glidden and Coon Rap- ids: Secor and Endora; Midland aud Tr: Changes have been ordered in the time schedule of the Star Mail route extending from Carbon to Cumberlaud, Ia., as follows: ve Carbon Tuesdays, Thursdays nndfiufi m. Leave Briscoe Mondays, Wednesdays and I'ridays at 8:30 a. m. Arrive at Cumber- land by 12 m. Leave Cumberland Mond ays, ‘Wednesdays and Fridays at 1 p. m. Arrive at Briscoe by 4:30 p. m. MINOR MATTERS, It is understood that the first, second and third auditors of the treasury will be named next week. ‘Their successors have been agreed upo “Ihe appointment, to-daz, of Judge Glkin- son, of Pennsylvania, to bg 2d comptrol- scparate churches, presbyteries and synods, subject to the choice of he colored peoplo themselves.” I The amendment was sfiopted. With this section the paper aswa jvhole was adopted, and the paper on co-operation -also approved. The majority report ‘usi 8 whole, and as amended, was almost uggyi and the result was_ord the southern assembly. + The report of tho" standing - committee on church erection was:jude. It stutes that during the year the board has aided in build- ing 18 churches, and expended over $93,000. The estimates for thel commg year ' are $150,000. The report was then adopted. On the overtyrs of fifteen Presbyterians asking fora_revision of { the Wwest minister confession of faith, Dr. - Crossby advised if any action be taken with this standard of the church it should be done with the utmost caution. In conclusion he recommended the | Jor thirew somie of the slates fixed ur, all out adoption of the reportiof the committee, | of gear. It scts afloat ex-Congressmin John which recommended that all Presbyterians | R Thomas, of 1linois, who oxpcted it, but should be asked: ‘‘Do you require arevision | jt’ i3 reported that he is to be given one of of the confession of faith, and if so to what | tho auditorships-unless he is made director extent?’. The report was accepted and th2 | ot the mint, assembly adjourned.” Surprise is expressed at the délay in the appointment of William M. Meredith, of Tilinois, to bo chief of the bureau of engray- ing and printing. His name is hourly ex- pected to appear among the appointments, The hitch over the appomtment of a com- missioner of navigatioa is causing consider. able inconvenience and doing damage to the public service, ~ The present incumbent has not rendered decisions in a number of cases, which involve large interests, and which have long been pen Mrs. Clarkson, wife of the postmaster-general, is spending a fortnight in her lowa home. Periy 8. HEATIL EXPORTING. The'Southern Presbyterians. CHATTANOOGA, Muy 24.—In tho Southern Presbyterian general assembly to-day several members, who voted against the action of the assembly in adopting tbe co- operation report, filed a written dissent, stating that the assembly should have first referred tho matter to the presbyteries for an expression of opinion, The report of the standing committee on foreign missions, while approving co-operation in foreign fields, discourages every union of mission- aries or churches where ‘*‘distinctive fea- tures of our government are surrendered,” and says, “those entering into such a union will no longer be considered our missionaries.” This report was referred 1o a special committee to report at the next assembly. A telegram was received from the northern assembly at New York stating their action on co-operation. The telegram was referred to a special committee, This committee reported this evening the follow- Ll;g answer to tho northern general assem- y: **We concur in the action of your assem- bly as couveyed in your telegram.” *This report was adopted, those who op- posed the joint report last’ night being ex- cused from voting. OATTL The Argentine Republic to Pay a Five Per Cent Bounty. ‘WasmxyGToN, May 24--E. L. Baker, United States consul at Buenos Ayres, in a report to the department of state, says tho cattle industry of the Argentine Republic is in such a languishing condition that a law has been passed offering a guarantee of & per cent for ten years on the capital em- ployed in the business of exporting fresh or preserved beef. The report says it is understood that several establishments are preparing to take advantuge of the guurantee provided by the government and are going into the business oun a large scale, with special steamers fitted up for the traffic and warehouses in England and France. Great things are exp: the bounty law. But Consul Baker does vot believe the law will hurt the U States beef shippers much untilnow me are adopted for the preparation of f for exportation, Stall-fed cattle are quite un- known in the country and all bullocks for market are taken dircctiy off the grass, the meat, of course, being soft and wats Nebraska and lowa Postmasters, ‘WasmiNGroy, May 24.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bre.|—Nebraska postmastors ap- FIG HTI!\E THE SCALPER! Mecting of the Western States Pas- senger Amsaciation. CiicAGo, May 24.—[Special Telegram to Tne Bee.)—The Western States Passenger association had another tussle with the cir- cuitous route tickets used for cut rate and scalping purposes. It was agreed to either withdraw them from sale or limit them to a continuous ride, and require the signature of the buyer. ‘The trouble batween tha Union Pacific and orthern Pacific, in regard 1o the Puget ited hods Sound business, was referrgd to those two | pointed: William Reilly, Bartlett, Wheeler lines for settiemont. The summer tourist | county, vice E. B. Mitchell, resignea; W. rate, from St. Louls to St. Paul, was lowered | H, Crouch, Hawley, Blaine county, vice from §24 to §22. A one-fare round trip rate | Cora Pitt, declined; W. F. McFarlund, wae made to the G. A. R.' annual encamp- ment in Milwaukee, nexs, August; one fare and a third will be charged on all roads in the asso ion for Memorial day excursion: Other excursion rated were as follows 1llinois state fair, Peorid, Beptembe — 2 American fat stock apd show, Chicago, October 30 to November#; Typographical union, annual convention, Denver, June 3-18: also to all Fourth of July aud summer state militia encampments, Stanton, Stanton county, vice A. K. Hum- phrey, resigned. Towa postmasters appointed: Howell, Adair, Adair county, vice M removed; Frank Choat, Bussctt, Chi county, vice Dillenbec! 3 W. Furrow, Carson, Pottawattamie county, vice W. H. Graff, removed: I. M, Wilson, Conrad Grove, Grundy county, vice D. Steel e Smith, removed; 1. D. Carlton. Oxford A Storm-Tossc(l Sseamer. Mills, Jones county, viee W. H. Thurston, New Yo, Moy 8o United States | rosighed; James I, dohnson, Sully, Jusper e i ) @ county, vice Thomas Thompson, remo 5 C. G, Turner, removed; E. 8. Cox, Nesley, south, thrown ou her botto, wnd lay in that | [eavenworth county, vice L. .J. Morgan, re Wallace Lynch, lasaw conditvion for an hour, To right the ship | signed. the launch and foremast were cut away. - Three small boats were also lost, and the Prosid ixl Appointments. main and mizzen topmasts and purt of tho bowsprit curricd away. BSome of the crew were slightly injured. WasHiNerox, May 24.—Among the ap pointments made by the uresident to-day was Kl that of Charles P. Hitch, of Illinois, Tho s aasieriiarr il to be United States marshal for For Nebrasiu and Iows: Fair. except | the southorn district of fllinois Judge Gilkinson, of Penn ania, second comptroller of the treasu 8. B. Holliday, of Pennsyivania, commissioner of customs, treasury department, und David Martin, col- lector of int. nue for the Phila delphia districi; Charles S, Zane, of Utah, to be chief justice of the supreme court of the territory of Utah, showers 10 westorn poitions; northerly winds, slightly warmer iy northera portions, stationary temperature in southern portions. For Dakota: Fuir, except showers in southern portious, slightly warmer, variable winds, shiftiog southerly. i JoLn Bright's WAL Loxnox, May 24, —The will of the late John Bright .‘uwurn ) today. The tes- Lator beqgu the cstate, valued ab £30,154, 10 his children. Tie will contains 0o public Nebraska and lowa Pension i, smINGTON, May 24, —[Bpecal Telegram —Pensions granted to Nebras Origiual invalid—William W. Slatel, 15amum Lllis, Jumes M. Foster (uavy), first assistant ® Georeo H. Bashford, Sylvanus B. Rowe Charles P, Manville, David W. Williams, Samuel D, Huddleson. Increase—Henry A. Chase, John S. Harper. | Ponsions for lowans: Original_invalid— Harrison C. MoFarland, Thomas F. Jones, Christian F. Wetzel, Silas B. Parkhurst, TERRIBLE RAILROAD WRECK. A Missourl Passonger Train Goef Over an Embankment. James Patterson, Leonard W. Archer, Caroy i \ V. Swartz, Theopolus Vierting (deceased), Johin R. Elliott, Willinm M. Castor, George | EVERY ~ PASSENGER INJURED) W. Bailey, Increase—John W. Holmes, James G. Galloway, Horace B. Allen, Aouillg Belt Crow, George D, Erwin, Henry Coom; Widows of 1812—Polly A., widow of Thomas Roberts, While Going at Full Speed the Traiw is Deralled—Forty-Five Badly Hurt—No Deaths Reported, e ONLY A SLIGHT FAVOR. Mrs. Core Makes a Peculiar Request Which Her Husband Refuses. New Yonrg, May 24.—|Special Telegram to Tne Bee. | —The first favor Mrs. Sadie J. Core says she ever asked her husband, Was It Train Robbers' Work? S Louvts, May24.—The west bound pase songoer train which left St. Lows last night at 8:15, was wrecked threo miles west of Sullivan, Mo., and not a passonger ess Francis R Core, to grant, was o most ox- ' e ) \ ' . Fortyfive passen- traordinary one. The modest request was ;:::' nr::""";‘“own ht bl A - for permission to marry another man. This ; Y . seriously injured though mo deaths sre was tho way sho put the matter to him fna | USRS e wRORE B0 Esh RO letter: “1 have an offer of marriage from a man whom I have thought a great deal of for a long time, 80 what I writo is to either give you a divorce or get one from you, for that is the only way I will ever be happy. And if that docsn’t habpen, 1 shall only go from bad to worse. As you have been married three times, I would rather let you have me got a divorce from you, but if you want the public to think you have left me, you can have it the other way, if you wish. Youalways said you would do anything in the world to make me happy, and now is your chance, This is the first time I have asked you a favor. ‘What 1s the use of being linked to a woman who cares nothing foryou?" Mr. Core was unreasonable enough to im- agine that she could ask for something be- sido a divorce, and he declined to grant the littlo favor, Mrs, Core waited patiently for rate of speed whon tho track, suddenly and without warning, gavedway, and the locomo- tive, baggage car and five coaches went over an embankment. The trainmen and those slightly injurod at once set to work to aid the others, Ina short timo forty-five past sengers, all badly hurt, had boen released from the debris, A tomporary hospital was improvisedl at Sullivan and those most seriously injuved were taken there, while the others were brought to St. Louis on a special train, It was 11:25 p. m. whon the accident oc- curred. Most of the passengers on the train had gone to slecp, and others were about to doso. There isacurve in the road about three miles west of Sullivan, and when this point was reachied, u sudden jolt and jar was alittle while, and then began a suit for sepa- | falt all ovor the train. ration, whicli came up before Judgo Sedge- | "y orack is crossed by a road at that polnty wick yestorday on @ motion for heavy ali- Sedidy el il mony. Coro is a man of large incomo, well- [ and there is a stecp embankment thirty feo high. In an instant all the coaches except two sleopers had been thrown from the rails. The passengers were throwa in all directions, and some of them were hurled from the couches and down the embankment. The train was made up of & mail car, express car, baggage car, smoker, ladies’ coach, reclining chair car, and two Pulluan sleep= ors, aud back of theso were hitched five empty coaches. Fortunately there were 1o fires in any of the cars, und tho jolt extin- guished the hights immediatoly. The explanation of the accident given by the trainmen was that tho spikes aud fish plates had been removed from the rail at the curve, thus leaving the rail loose on the ties® "The forward portion_ of the locomotive passed overall vight, but the tender jumped the track and was thrown down the em- bankment. Who removed the spikes and plates is un- known, but the supposition is that the work was doue by train robbors. Still no robbers pat in an appeavance, and 1f the uccident was caused by them they must have either weak- ened in their purpose or have thrown the wrong train. On_ bos was a large body of physicians rewrning from the state medical convention at Springfleld, and they randered valuablo nid incaring for the injured. doliowing s a list of the injured: D. 5. Weigert, Wentzville, Mo., both legs y lose ono of them. . Simpson, Hancock county, Iilinois, od und cut on the left sido of the fuce: Patrick O'Day, aged sevon years, fracture - SESIET. WL DeQbaOLy 1o, « Mrs. Kate O'Day, bruised about: the hoad, neck aud side, and injured internally, Martin O’Day, cut and bruisea on the face, also right foot ‘cut, and bruised about the breast. William Doherty, left hand cut and bruised. kuown 1n business circles, S - A BLOODY AFFPAIR. A Wyoming Banker Slashed With a Butcher Knife. 3 Cu eyeNNE, Wyo., May 24.—|Special Tele- gram to THe Ber.|—Information reaches here from Greon River, Wyo., of an unfor- tunate affray, Hunter & Morris are banxers at that point. Sowe rumors vefiecting upon their business were traced by Mr. Hunter to a rather shiftless fellow named Peter Appel The pair wetin a butcher shop. Hunter ac cused Appel of setting the rumor afloat. whis Appel acknowledged, but claimed to have ob- tained his information from a rachman liv- ing thirty wiles distant. Hunterdoubted the stutement, and a wrangle followed, during which Hunter struck Appel and knocked him down. The latter, upon arising, grabbed up a butcher's carving knife and siashed Hunter across the face. The blow tore the cheek from the bone, completely severed the end of the nose, and ed his throat, but for tunately' without severing the jugular or any artery.” Hunter was picked up bleeding pro- fuse A surgeon was ciose at hand, and immediately replaced the scvered nose, tied up the biood vessels and sewed the wound up with u hundred stitches. Hunter is in a bad way. Appel was at ouce arrested and bound over to await the result of the injuries. R s Sons of Veterans in Camp. LaRAviE, Wyo.,, May 24.-—[Special Tele- gram to Tur Bue.]—The Colorado division™ of the Sons of Veterans held its fourth an- nual encampment here to-day. This division includes the camps in Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico and Colorado, there being at present ten camps. The Civision was shown to be in excellent condition and steadily | ~Mrs. Mary Grifith, Fair Creel, L., in growing. The fallowing officers were electod: | Jured on the forchead, and right clbow Colonel commanding, I, 'F'. Beltz, Laramie; lieutenant coloncl, C. 1. Anderson, Denver major, C. E. Reynolds, Pueblo; division couucil, W. O. Breck, . 'C. MeArthur, Den- ver; George Delorrest, Taramie, Delegates John O, Oatley, Rolla, Mo., right shoulder injured and thumb dislocated, 3. Hollow, Cuba, Mo.. badly brujscd. Mrs. Mary Hash, loomington, Ind., bruised on the left side and soverely shocked. to national encampment, Earl M. Branston, sed on the le L e Denver, andGoorge. Dockleman, Laramic, | (G W Phillivs, springdate, Ak, urm The next encampment will be held at Pueblo. | FACHared g cut o A . severs = flesh wounds, ear torn off and’ cut’ on the Trouble in Guthr head; severely shoc Gurnue, Oklahowa, Muy The meez- | Mrs, Russell, cut on the head. ings held cvery night for u week by themen | 1. H. Nowman, Cuba, Mo., cut in the mouth, D. Railey, New Yorl, arm aud leg broken. D. W. Graves, Marshfield, Mo., arm, leg and back bruised, John Kendrick, Fort Smith, Ark., bruised. Joe Harlin, Cuba, Mo., badly bruised. Walter Davidson, St. Louis, badly bruised. J. B. Sally, Rolla, Mo., bruised on the leg arm, B. N. McIntosh, Richland, Mo., cut on the who lost their lots through contests and by the opening of the streets, culminated in o riot yesterday. The trouble was over the cjection of a man from & lot which had been awarded to a Chicago man. A mob of 1,200 men collected and drove the marshals away, and was about to attack the city hall, when Captain Cavenaugh arrived upon the scence with lus company and dispersed the crowd. | head slightly. The work of ejection will continue to-day, | Olma Patterson, Docatur, IlL, face and more trouble isanticipated. Last night | ben the soldiers guarded the principal streets, | Mrs. W. J. Wright, Decatur, IlL, cheek and business men have organized to expel | bruised. the disturbing element from the city. e and back, A Bad Steer for Burglars, Mary O'Day, wrist cut. Hor SpriNGs, Dak., May 24.—|Special to | E. J. Shaw, Durang Tue Bee | —An attempt was made last night “‘;\ “J"l;\‘f"‘ ""'j“"»;“‘ 10 rov the Minnckahta. bank, of this place. | 4, Auion Mars, St Lo The burglars effect au entrance through J. J. Brinton, Sparta, Mo., cut on the head, the rear door by bursting off the locks and | right hand and'left 1 bolts. A hole was drilled through the top of the safe; and & long hall-inch augur run down through the nside drawers of the safe, wus left there by the cracksmen. The top of the safe was coverod witn powder. Shortly after midnight a mad yearling steer was cavorting around i the nmmediate vicinity of the vanlk, bunting into puildings and making considerable noise. Th antics of th animul oused some citizens, and 1t is thought that this is ed the bank safe. ‘T'he steer made mad by eating some poisonous weed and was found dead- this morning, in the rear of I"argo & Co's. store, -~ ushed By Falling Rock, nAmie, Pa, May 24.—A terrible ac- cident occurred in the Pettibouc shaft of the | A Delaware, Lackawauna & Western railroad this evening. 'Ten men were blasting rock Ricumosp, Va,, May 24.—(special Tele- atithe bottom of the shaft, 1,180 fect from | gyam to Tue Bre.|—It is stated on the sus the surfuce. [Thoy louded DI Iron DUCKEL | thority of a prominent, thoroughly well- ncer at the top, 1o hoist. When the bucket | informed Mahono Lo is about to be effcoted between the warring was ten feet {rom the surface the iron rope factions of the party in Virginia. President broke and the bucket and contents came thundering down the shaft. crushing the | Huerison has of laté boen giving considers able atten tion 10 Muhone's peculiar methol men at the bottowm, lid Jones was killed of controlling the party machinery in the outright. The following w state. 'Ihe basis of the proposed compro- jured: Sam German, Jauies nellus Cann, e Wert, George Gussloy. | miso is the changing of the present plan of party organization 80 as to place £ie selection All the injured will probably die during the night. of county and city chwirmen in the hands of the beople instead of with Mahone or auy other chairman of the state committee, The point proposed to be conceded under this plan is one for which ex-Governor Cam- eron, Joln 5. Wise aud other anti-Mahone leaders in this stato Lave contended for sevs eral years. It is said to have been submitted M. Lipo, St. Louis, brused on the shoulder ol., burmsed on t on the forchead. s, cut and bruised on J. C. Hovele, Litehtield, T1L, badly bruised. Corel Crusler, foot and arm. T 1 salyeston, Ind., vraised on Cone, Iireast, Mo., cut on the head ised on the back und shoulder. . Louis, cut on the nead. C. J, Wright, baggagemar, bruised on the knee and rigit'side and cut on the face. Paul Horn, Mount I>ulaski, Iil., cut on the head and bruiscd on the shoulder. Mra. W. J. Wayne, Decatur, 1L, bruised. il Manager’ Morrill ‘has offered @ 100 Wi will arty or p L what o had been i reward of £10,009 for inforn lead to the detection of the who removed the bolts from the fish plates e and thus caused the wreck, VIRGINIA POLITICS iffort to b Made to Reconcile the Kepublican Factions, i Strikers Threaten Trouble, SeiiNGrgLy, 1L, May 24.—The situation in the mining district of Will county appears 10 be still threatening. Sberilf Houston, of that county, teleg I the goveruor to- day sbout thie matter, and it is thought by o e ThAL It taay B essary. o mend tiw | 10 President Harrison and to meet with his militia thore, ILepresentative IRoss, of La- | hoarty avproval. Secretavy Bluino is sald Salle, however, doos not thnk that the | 10 manifest a deep interest in effccting the reconciliation, Colonel H. C. Fairsons, who is Blaine's most ve coadjutor i tne state, has several times of late discussed the matter with President Harrison and the sec- % y i rotary of state. A the plau is carried out, Kaxsas Ciry, May 24.—Tremendous bail | 4o campaign for state ofiices this fall wi and rain storms lust cvening caused serious | be an interesting one. wasbouts on the Union Pacific road, and de- N layed trains somewhat. Vassengers from Chinaman Convicted of Rape, western and northern Kansas report fierce MILWAUKEE, May 24.—Sam Gip Jah, one hail wnd wind storms. of the Chinamen charged with mvishing lit tle children and whoso arrest some tine age led 1o serious rioting andl the demolition of various Chinese laundries, was this mornin g found guilty. The jury was out only elgven minutes. ‘The penalty of the crime is thirty- five years' imprisonment, ‘The other Chinese striking miners will violence. ort to acts of open e 2 Huil and Run in K as, . Will Beview Brooklyn's Parade. New Youk, May 24, —It is announced that President Harrison will veview the Decora- tion day parade in Brooklyn, 1 which it is | expected 40,000 men wiil take part. prisoners will ncw be placed on trial for & e el ; . imilar crime. Arrastel For Embezziement. ggg | Mmiarenme o New Haves, Coun, May 24, —John C Steamsnip Arrivals, Bradley, cashier of the Merchants' National | At Bremen—The Aller and Eider, bank, and Charles W, Paimer, are under ar- New York, vest for embezzlemen i 1088 to the bauk | At New York-—The Gecmanie, from Liw 1 way awouut Lo §100,000, \ erpool, aud the Trave, from Brewen, ! trom der that a reconciliation |