Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1889, Page 1

HE OMAHA DAILY BEE e — NINETEENTH YEAR. LAIRD'S CRITICAL CONDITION. The Becond District Congressman 8t the Point of Death AT HIS HOME IN HASTINGS. Attacked By a Sevore Ohill Thuraday Followed By a Violent Fever and Hemorrhages—Too Close Ate tention to Busine: Congressman Laird Very IiL HasTiNGs, Neb., August 16.—[Special Tel- ‘egram toTux Hn J—James Laird, member of congress from the Second Nebraska dis- trict, is lying at the point of death at his residence in this city. For the past few months his progress toward recovery has been so favorable that his friends and physi- cians have repeatedly expressed their ut- most confidence in his ultimately regaining his health. Since his arrival from Atlantic City last June -he has remained close at ‘home, but has transacted a large amount of public business. He daily received delega tions of from ten to twenty politicians from diffefent parts of the district. The pressure brought upon him by the clamorous place hunters has been something enormous, and & ‘well man would fhave found the burden of official cases almost too heavy to bear. His attendunts have vainly tried to stand between him and the men who have persisted in forcing their claims for offico upon him. With a zeal that would have been commendable had it been backed by health, Mr. Laird has listenad to overy appeal and carefully examined every petition. In addi- tian to his other troubles, Mr. Laird has been suffering from hemorrhage. On Wed- nesday, at his own request, an operation was performed upon him by Drs. Van Sickle and Cassell. He was placed under the influence of anesthetics and the operation was evi- dently. successfully performed. On Thurs- day morning the patient was taken with a chill und later in the day a violent fover set in. All the remedies used to check the pro- gress of the fever proved unavailing, and his phbysicians became alarmed. They advised consultation, and Drs. Cooke, Chavman, buhuulelberger and Irwin were called in and their examination gave Mr. Laird’s friends no encouragement, The truth soon dawned upon the minds of all that the congressman was slowly but surely dying. Disease had uudermined the cnce vigorous constitution and the patient was in no condition to rally from this sinking spell. At this writing, 10 p. m., Mr. Laird is lying in a stupor that sa sure forerunner of death. There 18 no hove of his recovery, and death will undoubtedly ensuo before morning. Even the most san- n:llne of his frienas and physicians concede 5. BRI ACCEF1IED A REDUCTION. The Illinois Miners Finally Agree to a Compromise Cut. Cur1cAGo, August 16.—W. L. Scott, of Penn- sylvania, and other owners of coul mines in northern lllinois are in the city to-day for the purpose of conferring with the repre- sontatives of the laborers at the various mines on the subject of wages. Each body held a conference with closed doors this morning, and they will bold a joint meeting and discuss the situation this afternoon. The miners want the price of mining ro- stored to the scale of last year, from which there has been a reduction of 10 per cent. ‘The mine operators say they can not do this without losing money. ‘When the mine owners and the represent- atives of the wage workers faced each other, Scott's nu‘)erlnwndsn! announced that the full reduction would be insisted upon. The uncompromising ultimatum was met by the miners with the instant adjournment of the convention sine die. ~Operator L., Mouser interposed with the jnformation that the announcement by cott’s representative was not altogether tisfuctory to the other mine owners. Three hours of hot debate ensued, and when a re- cess was finally taken there scemed little ~ prospect of a compromise. To-night the wrangling continued. The mino " owners finally offered o make a reduction of 7ly cents instead of Rleenia. Dockmeasutan Tawior: ana-aibes non-delegates were made to retire from the wage workers’ conference on the ground of being agitators who were preventing a set- tlement. After midnight the miners’ com- mitteo agreed to the figures proposed, con- glliolnad on an advaunce of 2! cents on Octo- er 1. e AFTER THREE YEARS. Dr. Bower:, of San Francisco, Dis- missed From Custody, SAN FrANOISCO, August 16.—Dr. J. Milton Bowers was convicted in this city in 1886 of poisoning his wife to obtain the insurance on _ her ife, amounting to about $17,000, and was " sentenced to be hanged. He took un appeal 1o tha supreme court of the state, and on Oc- taber 23, 1887, before that tribunal had ren- dered o deoision, the dead bodyof Honry Benhayon, a brother of Bower’s wife, was found in a'room in this city, A letter was found purporting to be a confession of Ben- bayon that he, and not Dr. Bowers, was the cause of his sister's deatn, The circum- stances led to the suspicion that the confes- . sion was fory and that Benhayon bad been murdered. ‘The supreme court granted Bow- ers a new trial. To-day before Judge Wul- Iace the district attorney moved for a dis missal of the case on the ground that not enough evidence could be secured to convict. The g\mgc .«,corun.gg dismissed the case, and Bowers was discharged from after having been imprisoned three vears, —_——— MINNESOTA'S MEAT MEASURE. custody in jail for General Belief That the Bill Will Be Declared Unconstitutional. S1. Paul, Minn., August 16,—|Special Tel- egram to Tus Bee.)—The Miunesota meat inspection law is doomed. As previously noted, the district judges of Duluth have declared it unconstitutional, on the ground that it restricts commerce between the states. To-day the butchers of St. Cloud formed a compact, refusing to have their mbat inspected by the state wspectors, Itis all over the ‘This will put the law to a test, and the supreme mnrt ‘will be called on to act at the Septembe: term, So confident are the meat men l.hu the law will be declared uvconstitutional that the Armours, of the Chicago and Kan- sas city firms, are already begiuning to ship beef 1nto the state again. The Boulanger Manifesto Issued. Loxpoy, August 10.—The manifesto signed by Geuneral Boulanger, Count Dillon sod Henrl Rochefort 18 published. It calls the action of the senate court an orgie of arbitrary rule, calumny and menduull.y. and deolares that {n spite of a fresh "etal ng in the dark, the signers have con- ued confidence in the elwwrfla of France. ———peeme Fostal Card Contract Awarded, WasmixaroN, August 16,—Acting Post- master General Clarkson to-day awarded the contract for furnishing postal cards to the postofiice devartment for four yea be- glnlv October next, 10 Albert l)u‘gel ow ol'd the lowul. bidder under the r - ceut calls for ympon 3 Death of a I'rornlnenl Lawyer. Bosrox, August 16.—~Henry Weld Fuller, A prominent lawyer and horticulturist, died Woan:-d:l: nh\:h{. at Hoston Highlauds, Chief Justice W. Fuller is & nephew of \he nuud Margarer ¥ o gare! \flfil’ Was & "OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNIN AUGUST 17 1889, ~ N UMBLR 59 A TER RIBLE RAILROAD WRECK I Three Killed Outright and Twenty- five Injured. Prrranvns, August 16.—~The south bound passenger train on the Butler branch of the Western Pennsylvania railroad, which left Butler, Pa., at 2:35 o'clock this afternoon, jumped the track at Sarver’s station, and the entire train, consisting of two passenger conches and a combination smoking and bag- gage car went over the embankment and wero totally wrecked, Three persons were killed outright and twenty-five others in- jured, a number of whom will die. The killed and injured are as follows: Killed—W. Powers, Lawrenceville, Pa.; a child of Mrs, Farrell, of Butler; Mrs. Duff, an old lady, residence unknown. The wounded, as far as known, were: Ex- Mayor Lyon, of Pittsburg, seriously, in shoulder; Captain Lower, of Pittsburg, head badly cut; D. A. Jones and wife, of Pitts- burg, seriously hurt and bruised: J. A, Mc- Laughlin, of Pittsburg, fatally injured; Colonel Rowley, Pittsburg, slightly in- jured; Conductor Gray, Butler, seri- ously injured internally; Brakeman Karns, Butler, back broken: Mrs, Graff, Pittsburg, injured; Bessie Fuliwood, Pittsburg, cut in head; Captain Grace, Jamestown, N. Y. painfully injured. About fifteen others were more or less injured whose names are unob- tainable at this writing. The accident was caused by the spreading of the rails on a small bridge. The rails were on utrhlgnrl which had rotted with time long service, engine vassed over the safely, but the first car derailed and plun%ud down in the abyss some thirty feet below. The rails ploughed through the second car and the escapes were miraculous. One lady had her dress cut from wrist to shoulder; another lost a small piece of her chieek; a third had her chin cut, and many others in the second car narrowly escaped. et S TORN TO PIECES BY GLASS, A New York Man Meets With a Frighttal Death, New York, August 16.—At 8 o'clock this evening un explosion of gas in & a crockery store, at the corner of Grand and Clinton streets, drove the contents of the store through the plate glass windows into the streets and shook the neighborhood. One man was killed ana_another probably fatally injured, and about thirty persons wounded. Tmmeaiately after the explosion a volume of flames poured out into the strect. through which men, women and children ran screaming with blood gushing from cuts and gashes. Morris Jacobs, aged seventeen, bled to death almost instantly. He was passing the place when a huge piece of plate glass, flying_before the terrible force behind it, tore his right side and back, o that the flesh and clothing hung from him in chunks, Two men dragged his body away from tue flames and ran for an ambulance. Jacobs' agony was short, for ho died almost imme- diately. Jacob Seigle, covered with blood, rushed frantically about. He had been made insane and fonght the police desperately until he became exhausted. He was taken to Bellevue hospital with a fractured skull. S 10WA'S CITIZUEN SOLDIERY. Governor's Day at the Iowa Falls Encampment, Towa Faris, Ta., August 16.—[Special Tel- egram to Trs Bee.1—This was Governor's -day ut the encampment of the Sixth regi- ment, national guards, here. Governor Lar- rabee and staff, headed by Geueral Alexan- der, arrived on an early train and reached the camp about 10 o'clock. The review was conducted very creditably under the direc- tion of Colonel Boutin. After the review the battalion of the regular army from Fort Omaha gaves bayonet drill and skirmish review, which was greatly sdmired by the large number of visitors at tho camp. Tho city was gaily decorated, and_ the people of this vicinity have been greatly pleascd with the encampment. The troops break camp to- night and to-morrow, end the regular army detail go from here 1o Vinton for a weck's camp. A Creamery Burned, Des Moixes, In., August 16.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bei ‘Che Star creamery at Sutherland, O’Brien county, burned this morning. Loss §4,000. A car load of butter tubs were also burned. The fire started in a pile of slack coal, The Legion of Honor. Des Morxes, Tn., August 16. «[Succhl Tele- gram to Tue Bge.|—The grané council of the northwestern Legion of Honor ciosed its annual session in this city to-day. Delegates were present from Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri. The proceedings were devoted to the transaction of the business of the order, and were mnot public, but the -election of the following officers is announced: Grand commander, A. V. Teeple, of St. Paul, Minn,; vice grand commander, C. 8. Hyrkl"-, Des Moines; grand orator, Albert Peesley, Burlington, Kan,; grand secretary, D. M. Rowland, Marengo; grand treasurer, E. E. Alverson, Marengo; grand guide, H. M. Ulldurwoad Grand Junction; grand warden, S. H. Jennesl Pittsburg, Kan.; grand center, W. B, Ferris, Dubuque; grand trustees, C. W. Dorner, Munuheslor H. C. Parkinson, Council Bluffs, and A, ! Ryan, of Blair, Neb.; medical examiner-in- chief, Colonel W. bmllh Muscatine, Ia, Before adjourning the council decidea to establish a henefit fund, from which, on the sausfactory evidence of the death of a mem- ber of the order who has complied with all its lawful requirements, s sum not exceed- ing 83,000 shall be paid to the family, or- phans or dependents, as the member may have directed. Domestic Trouble Drove Him Crazy. Booxe, Ia., August 16,—|Special Telegram to Tug Bee. |—David B, Seliard, of Amaqua towanship, this county, 18 hopelessly insane, the cause being domestic trouble. His wife recently separated from him and secured ali- mony of $2,000, and got out attachments on bis property, 'The trouble vorked upon his mind, and last night he came to Ogden ana broké down completely, ——— The Weather Forecast. Local forecast for Omaha and vicinity— Fair weatner. For Nebraska—Fair, cooler in northwest, stationary temperature in southeast portion, southerly winds. For lowa—Cenerally fair, warmer, excent in extreme northwest parts, stationary tem- perature, southerly winds, For Dakota—Fair in southeast, local showers in northwest portion, cooler, west- erly winds. e Freight Wreck Near Columbus, Ohio. Corumsus, O., August 16—A freight wreck occurred ou the Cincinnuti, St. Louis & Pittsburg two miles west of here at 2:35 this morning. The first section of a train stopped to shift cars at & siding. The oa- boose and most of the cars cowposing the train were left standing on the main track. The second section ran into the caboose, wrecking five cars and the eagine. Jimfll Mears, a stock dealer of Steubenville, sloepitig In tho caboose and. was fatally in: ured, his neck being broken. Engineer Ed Stolz, of Bradford, and Fireman John Gard- ner, of Columbus, were slightly scalded and bruised. The company’s loss will probably L Forestors Take It Easy. MixNeAroLIS, August 16, —~The Foresters, having completed their war of independence, were not disposed to labor very hard this worning. It had beea determined yester- day to continue the office of permanent sec~ retary as a life office. This morning & mo- tion was made to reconsider this action and 0 establish a supreme secretaryship, the term of which should extend from one con- vention to the next. It was defeated. e~ Sy THE CONVENTIONS, Bismarck Made tne Capital of North Dakota, Brsmancg, N. D., August 16.—The conven- tion has completed the consideration of the article on corporations, Any combination between individuals, corporations or associa- tion, having for its object the controlling of the prlcn of any product’ or article of manu~ facture is prohibited, declared unlawful and against public policy, and that auy and all franchises shall, when the owners violate this article, be null and void, The article on education was adopted with fow amend- ments, The article on public lands was adopted after being amended so that the leasing of the lands shall be under the con- wrol of the board of university and school lands, The article on county and township organization was adopted after being amended so that it is virtually a copy of the Illinois system. A section was added defin- ing the county oftices to be filled. All this afternoon has been occupied in the consideration of the article on revenue and taxation to be established by the legislature. The gross earning system was dofeated. The article as adopted provides that all property shall be taxed alike. The article providing for future amendment of the constitution was adopted. The section providing that all flowing streams and natural waterways shall forever remain the property of the state for irrigating, min- ing or other purposes was adopted by unani- mous vote. Parsons made another, and this time a successful attempt to incorporate an anti-black-list section in the coustitution. The section prohibits the exchange of black-hsts between railroad or other companies or em- ployers. Av the night_session Bismarck was made the capital of Nurth Dakota, in the constitu- tion, and the other public institutions were located as previously published. When the vote was announced the immense concourse of visitors shook the capitol with applauso. Hats were thrown in the air, ladies waived their fans and handkerchiefs, and everybody save the representatives of the defeated candidates for the capital rejoiced over the settlement of the vexed question. A Chance Kor Woman Suffrage. Orywmris, Wash,, August 16,—Woman suf- frago was adopted ns a separate proposition to be submitted to the people with the con- stitution., The debute was on school lands to-day, whether they should be sold or re- tained by the state, A Brief Session at Helena, HreLexa, Mont., August 16.—The conven- tion had but a brief session to-day. The work is finished, Adjournment, is expected to-morrow. Three thousand dollars were appropriated from the state funds to pay the extra expenses. A memorial was sent to congress asking tor an additional $7,000, that being the amountof the mortgage. The con- vention adjourned to allow the revision com- mittee to finish their work. - A lal‘.G Al PROBLEM. Several Criminal Cases in Chivago in a Peculiar Situation. Cn10AGO, August 10.— [Special Telegram to Tre Bee.]—Tbe death of Judge William- son has left soveral cases, which were pend- ing before him in the criminal court, in a peculiar situation. It has always been the invariable rule that wheo a case is tried be- fore a particular judee, that same judge shall have control of it until it is finished. If, after a verdict of guilty, & motion for a new trial is entered, \he same judge must always hear the arguments on the motion, either granting a new trial or sentencing the counvicted man, 1t happened that during the last six weeks of Judge Williamson’s service on the bench he tried several important cases, in_some of which severe penalties were imposed by the juries. One of these cases was that of Pletz and Jobnson, the young burglars who re- cewved ten and five years, respectively. The men mentioned took their punishment very hard, and their attorneys asked for another trial, but the judge was too sick to hear the arguments, and_went to his country home, where he died. The matter has been much talked about among the lawyers who fre- quent the criminal courts, there is a dif- ference of opinion as to ether another jndge can dispose of the motions for & new trial. ates Attorney Lougenecker is of the opinion that any judge can take up the cases where they were left by Judge Will- 1amson, but Judge McConnell, who suc- ceeded the deceased in branch No. 2 of the criminal court, has already expressed a dif- ferent opinion, Unless he changes his mind Johnson and Pletz, as weil as a number of other convicted criminais, are likely to re- ceive punishment; at any rate, it is probable that each will secure a new trial and’ haye another chance to escape, WANT A COMPLETE VICTORY, Connellsville Strikers Resolve Continue the Fight. Prrrsnurg, August 16.—At @ meeting of the miners and cole workers of the Con- nelisville region at Scottsdale, this aftor- noon, resolutions were adopted to continue the strike at those works where the scale has not been signed and requesting those woriing under the scale to contribute to their supnort. A special from Greensburg says Sheriff Byers and posse this evening brought to Greensburg sixteen more Hun- garians and committed them to jail. A Hungarian woman, into whose houso Shoriff Byers entered by knocking the door off with a pick, rushed at him with a_hatchet, and had he not thrown up his rifle, she would have struck him. There are now Afty-one Hungarians in jail, connected with the re- cent rioting, to el T An Immence Coal Field Deal, SewiNe Vaney, TIL, August 16.—Forty thousand acros of coal flolds in Bureau, Put- nuw and LaSalle counties has just been pur- chased by the Spring Valley Coal company, one of the northern Iliinois corporations whose workmen are on a strike agalnst a re- duction of wages. All bottom coal lands lying along the Tilinois river for about six miles on each side have been purchased. e il Steamship Arrivals. At Hamburg—The Gellert, from New York. At Gravesend—The Colorado, from New York At Glasgow—The Nestorian, trom Phila- delphia. At New York—The Amsterdam, from Am- sterdam; the Augusta Victoria, from Ham- burg; the buule, from Bremen, o Bl N il A Supposed Counterfeiter. Lurrie Rock, Ark., August 16,—A deputy United States marshal has prought here from Howard county William Hefliing, who, it is claimed, is the leader of the desperatd counterfeiters who have their headquarters in tho fastuesses of the mountains in tho southwestern part of the state, where they Take bogus coln. 1t is betleved e will maie @ confession and reveal bis confederates Lo Special Commodity: Rates Revised. Cuicago, August 10.—At the Western Freight associstion meeting to-day special commodity rates between Chicago and St. Paul were revised. Some of them were canceled and others were advanced on an average of about 20 per cent. The date on which the new rates are to become effective was left to the chairman to decide, o < The Tithes Bill Withdrawn, LoxpoN, August 10.—After & serious and protracted opposition, Mr, Smith, the gov- ernment leader, stated to-day what the Bov- zmmeut would not introduce the uew tithes RECULARS IN 'THE FIELD. United States Troops Gdnosntrating at Fort Robinson, AN HISTORIC BATTLEGROUND. Bcenes In the White River Valloy Which Recall the Sfoux Uam- paign of '76—The Turner- fest at Fremont., At Oamp Crook. Fonr RominsoN, Neb, August 16.— (Special to Tur Brr]—Never since the thrilling days of 1876-77, when the entire fighting force of the Dep-rumunz of the Platte was gathered in this neighborhood engaged in hostile operations against the Sioux, has there been so much excitement as at present prevails in the valley of the White river, Two battalions of ln{antry and cavalry, equipped for active campaigning, are already in the fleld, one moving rapidly up the valley to Intercept the approaching Seventh in- fantry, and the other with pickets and flankers advancing in solid ranks eastward to join the coming command of regulars from Fort Niobrara. It1s still five days before general orders will be fully carried out by the concentration of all commands at Camp George Crook, but the visiting columns, when they do arrive, will find department headquarters on the ground awaiting them and all preparations fully made for the pitch- ing of tents, the hanging of camp kettles, the sound of the seutry and the blare of martial music, General Brooke, as already telegraphed, reached here on Monday with staff and headquarters. A few hours later he was on the road to the site salected for the camp, with orders for the establishment of his headquarters on the grounds. Tents were promptly pitched, and the encampment opened by orders for thrée troops of cavalry and three of infantry from the garrison of Fort Robinson to take the field, advancing up the White river valley towards the Run- ning water to meet the Seventh infantry en ronte for Fort Laramie. Wagons were quickly packed, and the command started on Tuesday with orders to march as if in face of the enemy. All Wednesday Major Worth and Captain Hughes were in expectancy of the word of command ordering a second battalion eastward to meet the Ninth cav- alry and Eighth infantry command, which was reported as moving raplaly on Rushville. In an incredibly short time after the order arnved from the communding general the battalion faced east and took up their line of march down the White river, leaving the few in the garrison not entirely acfenseless against wternal insurrection or assault from the neighboring town of . Crawford. portions of two companies remaining on guard duty. Major Worth’s command left under orders not to avoid an encowrnter with the approach- ing troops and to defend their wagon train against expected attack. There need be no surprise if a heavy skirmish takes place once more in me White river valley in which the vali major will be found gallantly defen pl lus little command against superior numbers on the banks of the Bordeaux. But the skirmishes of ‘the Fort Robinson command in the valley of the White river will be only the prelilningries to the more important manewuvres to take place after tho concentration of treops, when all the opera- tions of actual campaigning will be faithfully carried out under General Brooke's orders. Cavalry, infantry and artillery will all be envaged in uction and the plateau of Soldier creek will re-echo, as it has several times be- fore, to the sullen_thunder of guns and the shrill whistle of bullets. A battery of ar- tillery will bombard the buttes, twenty-four hundred hoofs will clatter and stamp oa the field of war, and two thousand riflemen, not to mention more than half that number of troopers armed with carbines, will be pitted agaiust each other on the old Ogallale Sioux buttle ground. There will be marches and countermurches, attacks and retreats, skirmishes in force m the face of the enemy, the crossing of rivers with an opposing forco holding the banks, atwacks and defenseof convoy trains, cayalry engagements on the open plain and grand tactics on every line laid down in the books. The camp is to be emphatically a camp of instruction, Iv is the aun of General Brooke to familiarize officers and men, so tar as pos- sible, with the operations in' camp, on the march and in the field, as exhibited in actual warfare. There will be little of dress pa- rade; there will bo @ great deal of bhard work. In the month devoted to the exercises ity is expected that o considerable amount of practical knowl- edge will be required by those to whom graud tactics bas been unexpecte field of knowledge. With neadly a seventh of the army of the United States engaging in fleld operations in a country hustoric in the annals of campaigning, and whose very atmosphere is tremulous with recollections of stirring scenes of border warfage, the manceuvres in the field around Camp trook will attain an importance which thosg at its sister encamp- ment can scarcely hope to reach, As this dispatch goes forward, all the roads leading to Fort Robinson are resounding with the martial tread of uniformed men, the tramp of cavalry and the rumble of the wheels of artillery and wagon trains. A few days more will see the tired infantrymen and troovers resting on the beautiful grassy plateau which the keen militaty eye of the commanding general Las selected us the base of military operations, Kearney’s Great Sham Battle, Keanrxey, Neb,, August 16.—[Special Tel- egram to Tie Beg.|—This morning opened clear and beautiful, with promise of a larger attendance than any previous day. Nothing eventful transpired during the ‘ early hours of the forenoon, there being simply a stream of people iuto thecamp. The daily guard mount, bard concert gnd fnfantry drew the usual morning crowds. There seemed no abatement of the large crowds coming on specials during the day, ; 'The sham battle in the afternoon drew the largest crowd of any entertainment. The Sedond regiment of regulars, in a well congtriutted fort, were at- tacked by battery A, Natioual guard, the In- dustrial school cadets and a few companies of theG. A. R. Many old soldiers who watched the manguvres nearly went wild with ecstacy. The immense crowds began to disperse aiter the battle, aud this evening the camp-tires of one of the most successful reunions ever held in the state are burning low. Breaking camp and good-byes are the features of the camp to-morrow and by even- ing Camp Brooke will nave been deserted, But the occasion, its pleaSures and friend- ships, will be an endless store for plmulul, reminiscences. Each old yeteran will, marches on alone to the last eneampmunt, recall this event with a thrill of many happy thoughts. Thousands answered to the roll vall, aged, lnnrm aud war-worn, but with light and happy h The followin; s l- Genenl Van Wyck's speech to the old soldiers : ‘We come to this beautiful city, aod amid © kind and generous people, to &nswer once more to the annual roll call of the veteraus of the Union army in Nebraska, ‘We come with joy in our hearts and praise on our lips. 'We come to live over again, the march, the camp, the battle fleld, hospital and prison pen, 10 rehearse your and your comrades part in the grandest army and the grandest results reécorded in the World’s his- tor, \Von not only made the United States free in theory, but in fact; established the uni- versal brotherhood of man. Better still, s universal freedom, giving, as you supposed, the ballot to the humblest o govern and re- strain the strongest, You uot ouly deepened and strengtheved the foundations of the republic, but you raised the tower 8o high that its revolving light would show clearer the pathway to_the trnxil:ra for freedom 1n all nations. You, also, demonstrated the power of eenerosity of a people self-reliant, who srlnwd right to the old world, and would yield to no other claim from it8 monarchs. = Your prowess and victories secured a peace for ages to come. There is to-day no foreign nation or combina- tion of foreign despots who will hazard an encounter with the giant of the west. The strugglo was costly; millions of treas- ure, thousands of lives, occans of blood, gave us unity and peace at home and security from the world besides, Of all this you have a right to be proud, Yet there 18 another closing to this picture, There is a timo of sadness anid the throng- ing memories—of the comrades who fell Ilpon the fleld or wasted away in hospitals. shade of disappointment at tho want of grnll» tude, of nonesty, which has allowed their widows and ory (thn- to strugele, sometim suffer for bread; at the ingratitude towards you of great government. There is no special virtue in singing poems to the heroism of the buried soldier or the veteran wrestling with poverty, All nations have done that much, and even in a republic called civilized end christian a stern offort is always required to obtain more. And even here we find a groat government said to be of the people, by the people, and for the people, sometimes waring against the honest demunds of her ueuglo. and_soldiers, as wholly as that wazed by christian Eng- land against the laborers in Judea and Egypt. The great multitude who pay most of the $1,000,000 every day collected by teriff and internal revenue duties are ln sympathy with you and asking that your claims be rec- ognized, yet the majority do notin fact rule much more than do the su &wu of Queen Victoria. You have been and are now satis- fiea that if you accomplish what you desire it will only be by well-directed effort—a struggle. I know we are frequently admonished not to murmur or complain and uccept the few crumbs with obeisance and thanks, This doctrine of acquiescence and submission has been preached in all nges of the world. Even Christ was bitterly denounced by the sameclass of men in the same spirit, be- causo he saw the need of reform and as he had no money to give he insisted that the gospel at least should be preached to the poor, while the saintly Pharasees and priests with loud phylacteries proclaimed thav he brought a sword instead of peace. So the same doctrine was preached to our colonial fathers, but they threw the tea in Boston harbor. So for years it was preached to the slave, Even those who ministered 1n sacred things and claimed to have the conscience of man to the supposed approbation of his Maker, enjoined submission,cheerfulness and thanks for the lash of the driver, finally and for years demanding from white, free men the Bame obsequious servility, and controlling every department of the government by its unpious and unholy decrees. But the cowardly submission in the end cost us the horrors of civil war., Now the same class and spirit again coun- sels acquiescence and submission, For our encouragement we have the com - forting assurauce that all distinctions end at the grave. They should end at the pension department. Every man, no matter what his rank, should have the same amcunt for the same disability. You do not insist upon this although there s naturally indignation when the man, strong, vigorous, and apparently in full health, should receive early and ample pen- sion, while you, a soldier, equally true und brave, bent with disease, suffering and tot- tering to the grave, is denied the pittance which would give bread, at least, if not en- joyment. There are many soldiers in Ne- braska who should receive pensions; there are many receiving, Few can be found of the rank and file wbo do not kunow that the government has been ungenerous and nig- gardly in its dealings with them. There are thousands of soldiers in the almshouse to-day who were promised at en- listment that the treasury of the nation ‘would never be shut against thom, One of the national issues scttled at the lasv election was that the soldier hereafter should be more honestly if not generously treated, No doctrine ot acquiescence then. You knew then, as did the nation, that the veteran would fare badly unless he would struggle for his rignts—that he must strike his own blow. In accordance with the decree of the ballot-box and the demands of the people, President Harrison appointed Corporal Tan- ner commissioner, and he supposed the pres- ident and people meant what they said; in- troduced reforms—and he intended that ob- taining pensions and increasing some al- ready issued should be made more honest and easy, and he re-rated in earnest. Then, as usual, came up a howl from the money centers. The administration was besieged and future defeat was threatened if the long-deferred claims of thousands of vet- erans were acknowledged. The influence of corporate power and com- bined capital at Washington seems gencrally irresistible, and at the first fire of this crowd there were concessions. While Tanner was in Nebraska on the 4th day of July speaking to the old soldiers, who looked upon him as the Moses, tl(lim.s came like a clap of thun- der out of a clear sky that Dr. Carpenter, his trusted acting medical referee, had been summuarily removed, without notice, without hearing, and_the only reason assigned that he was oo liberal 1n re-rating. Dr. Carpenter was an old soldier, on the pension roll, had been surgeon duriug the ‘war, was_appointed to the pension depart- ment by General Grant and had served satis factorily eighteen years through all admi 'l'xllnm“ with no complaint or stain against m, It was a cruel thrust against Tanner, for it was well known that he had approved all that Dr. Carpenter had done; and thus the hands have been again set back on the dial of reform, Your constant enemies and the enemy of the omasses in the republic, Wall street and its allies, have gained another victory. The stone that was partly rolled away, we fear, will roll back again and paraiyze the good intentions of those who meant to deal justly. There is danger that the justness of your claiws, as your wounds and disabilities have been, is to be guaged by the amount of money to be taken from the treasury. The financial pirates who wunt no money taken from the treasury unless it passes thirough their hands by the aid of their imaginations fizured to the assistant secretary the amount it would cost, and he was 8o severely shocked that I fear he is less active in his weil begun work of allowing pensions heretofore rejected. When Vgl 1 street can control any branch of this government, it meavs no good to the masses—never did. In the flush of victory this is to be regret- ted, because to many old soldiers poverty ond the grave arojust in sikht. Certainly Dr, Carpenter and others did not deserve this harsh treatment. They were not felons; committed no crime, but th monster giant power demanded @ vietim— o sacrifice that would strike terror to the whole department; that too much liberality would be punished with ofticial death. Suppose Commissioner Tanner and Dr. Carpenter were over zealons and hasty, it were easy to have counseled with them and then reyoked or unuulled any improper rat- ings. As yet most of those benefitted are in the employ of the depirtment or general offices, members of congress, and not in dan- ger of immediate want. of the class who are Eumrnlly posted and ready to rush in at the rst flood tide; the rank and file are not so iortunzte. Inquiry has fréquently been made why Dr. Carpenter was removed and why i sloner Tanner has been antagonized. ‘'he secretary of the interior in: the reratings were made to surgeons, clerks and officers in the pension departuient, to general officers, members of cougress and senators, without proper application or com- Llnmt by such persous, often with too much te, in five days, sometimes less. That thousands of dollars have been given in ar- rears where there has been no re-exawmina- tion or proof of increased disabilities. He cites cases where there had been no examin- ation for five years, ten years, even twelve years, and he insists such procedure s llegal. Grant that such are the facts, Dr. Carpentor ought not to be summarily removed unless he scted corrupwd' “The secretary can easily afnul such reratings and collect any mouney 1mflup¢rly paid. t that be done and o complaint will be made by you. Butall this 18 no reason or iusllflcn(on for stopping reforms, for still longer denying pensions to thousands of sol- diers who are entitled,and refusing reratings 1o the masses who are receiving a beggarly $2 or &3 per month. Stop, if you please, tho thousands to those who are receiving ample Walaries and not specially disabled, but spurn not those who struggle for brey d, ‘whose in- firmities and disabilities are Tumwll of all men. The soldiers of the revolutionary war, of the war of 1812 and the Moxican war had this samo struggle, Itis evident to-day, and has been for yoars, that there is no just or p ble solution of this question except a a so ice pension. Every soldier in any war who took his iife in his hands, still more placed his life in the hands of others, can never receive adequatoly dollars for the rifice. It is hollow mockery, base ingratitude, rank injustice to fiod & pretense on which to deny the claims of such men. .\ nation which will allow its money changers and shylocks to overcome and control to the denial of jus- tice will nover deserve an army of brave men to defend its liberties or save its exist- ence. ‘The men who depict all kinds of horrors if a few millions are paid to soldiers are always urging the sacredness of the publio debt, During the last year millions have been paid in premiums to bordholders while other mil- lions are spent in building ships on the se board which will rot at the docks long before nn& nation will bid them deflance on the sea. f course the national debt should be fully paid once, and ® hundred cents on the dollar in coin or curronoy, but why pay a_premium of twenty-five cents on each dollar, one-fourth more zhan the debt if they will consent to acce) ment before due. When we remem el' Llle bondholders were paid a like or greater amount in the first place to accept the bonds, certainly makes the debt sacred and profit- able at both ends, but the debt to the soldier ‘was not sacred either end. 'Mie $16 a month was scaled more than 25 per ocent dis- count by the government paving him not gold, but depreciated currency, an the same or greater rate of discount or loss has been going on since the war. The vromise for pensions fearfully dis- counted its redemption. Fought at ever, point by special agents, spies, detectives, slic) and well paid, prowling through the country, nvestiguting from the cradle whether in in- fancy you had cholera infantum or in boy- hood measles or mumps, rheumatism or growing pains. The other promise of the nation, that he should enjoy at least & share in the offices of honor and trust, has been as generously dis- counted. Congress gave the usual protection by providiug that he should not be rejected or removed from office because he had been a union soldier. At caucuses, primaries, conventions and the ballot-box he is px\tu.d on the back, but the offices come even slower than the pen- sions. It is evident to the veterans and their friends that the only fair ana honest solu- tion of the matter is in a service pension. Congress must meet this matter, and sooner the better. We must remember that nearly thirty years have passed since the war began. ~ The ordinary hardships of the service wealened and paralyzed the energies of every soldier, if it does not_shorten his life. Many are onfeebled and disabled now who were not when the war ended, and it is impossible to find a hospital record, or sur- geons or comrades who can testify to all that the shrewdness or cold calculation of pon- sion examiners may demand, O'Neill Preparing For the Reunion. O'NEiLL, Neb., August 16.—|Special Tele~ gram to Tie Beg,]—Great preparations are being made for the reunion, which is to be held here next week. The large pavillion ‘which was used at the Norfolk reunion has been securea and will be fitted up with seats to accommodate a large audience, and tents sufficient for the accommodation of all com- ers have been provided for. - It is the opinion of the managers that there will be a very large attendance. Arrangements have been perfected with the railroad whereby all bag- gage can be carried to the grounds, which are about one mile from the depot, and re- turn baggage will be checked from the grounds to any point in the United States. A large grain palace has been erected by the people of O'Neill, on which will be displayed the samples of all kinds of produce raised in this country, which, owing to the exceed- ingly large good crops throughout the coun- try, will be a grand display and will astonish those who do not know of the great fertility of the soil in Holt county. Samples were brought in to-day from the farm of William Lell, in the South Fork valley, of oats, rye, wheat, flax, millett, grass and vegetables, which could scarcely be excelled in the agricultural districts of the older states. One of the attractions of the reunion will be Mrs, Charles V. Ozier and her four babes, born on the 14th inst. An admission fee will be charged to see them, which will g0 0 the benefit of the little ones and their parents, who are very poor, A large amount of money has been subscribed to make the quadruplets neat as possible. Holt Connty T.achers’ Institute, O'NiLL, Neb., August 16.--|Special Tele- gram to Tue L\rn]—’rnu sixth annual ses- sion of the Holt county teachers' ins titute closed to-day. The session has been the best and most largely attendea ever held in the county. The number of teachers en- rolled reached 210, several from other coun- ties being in attendance. ‘I'he institute was under the control of the following instruct- ors; Superintendent Manville, of O'Neill, conductor and instructor in ' arithmetic; Superintendent Bond, of Blair, Neb., con> ductor in civil government and 'physiology; Principsl Bland, of O'Neill, in géograpny and commercial law; C. M, Stevens, A. M., of Long Pine, in history, book-keeping and grammar; Prof. Miller, of New York, in Tenmunulup‘Mln Della Rodgers, of Boone, in reading and elocution; Miss Lizzie Ferris, in Dbotan . W. P, Laswell, in vocal music. Classes in algebra, uemuu.ry and philosophy were conducted b, y Phelps, F. A. Archer and S, F. ({nrmu The instructors all did well 1n_their depart- ments and the teachers go to their schools filled with new ideas and advanced methods which will tell for good in our public schools. The Nebraska Turnerfest. Frexoxt, Neb., August 10.—[Special to Tae Ber.]—The phhlln and private buildings of Fremont were to-day gaudily bedecked in honor of the German Turnerfest, which opened for a three days’ session. Handsome banners are suspended across the streets in many places, many of them bearwng appio- priate inscriptions; nearly every business house is profusely decorated with Hags, (German and American,) bunting and de- 8igns in evergreen. The decorating commit- tees of the local Turners have been eficient in creating @ general interest in the work and the result is Fremont never presented such a handsome appearance. Turn hall, which will be headquarters during the fes- tivities, has been ewmbellished in a manner becoming the occasion. The firsy delegations arrived this evening, but the big crowd is expected to-morrow and Sunday when, 1t is anticipated, there will be two or three thou- sand visitors in the city, To-night a grand banquet to the Turners was given at Turn ball. E. Schurwan, of this city, made a neat address of welcome and several toasts were appropriately responded to. funyway, NeuRAsKA City, Nob,, August 16, —| Spocial to Tun Bre.)—-Mrs. Walters, s German lady, aud two children were this afternoon se- riously injured in & runaway. She had both arms broken and was internally wjured and is considered in a critical condition, Frexoxt, Néb., August 16, —(8pecial to Tuz Beg. |- —l'o-duy was “Fremont day” at the camp meeting. The usual admittance fee was omitted and free ’busses were run from the city to the grounds, the idea being to give the poor pauylo of the city who mmm memuai on Fyth Page) BEFORE THE HOME OFFICE, A Conference Reported Held on the Maybrick Case. TOXICOLOGISTS ALSO PRESENT, No Reliance Placed in the Rumor That a Commutation of Her Sens tence Has Already Been Decided Upon, Oonsidering the Maybrick Case. 1Copyright 1859 by James Gordon Bennat) LoxpoN, August 16.—|New York Herald Cable—Special to Tue Bek. | —Little roliance is to ve placed in the report in circulation to- night that the home socretary has decided to commute Mrs. Maybrick's sentence to im- prisonment for lifo. Had he reached such a conclusion not more than two or three per- sons would be in his confidence, and this, after the fashion of Englisn officials, would be close-mouthed to a dogree difoult for Americans to understand. To ask a judge here a question touching a criminal case tried by him would be considered a deadly insult, it Dot cause for sending the questioner to jail, There was a consultation lasting four hours to-day at the home ofice. Those who p: ticipated were Home Secretary Matthews, the lord chancellor, Justice Stephens and several toxicologists, The latter wore ad- mitted singly. Lord Salisbury, the lord chancellor, is called the ‘‘keeper of the queen’s conscience,” and as such is always consulted upon matters touching the exer- cise of her majesty's prerogative of merey. The rumor that Mrs. Maybrick’s senvence is to be commuted rests on the lord chancellor's presence at the consultation between the home secretary and Justice Stephens, The press 1s still filled with communica- tions from people who claim that Mrs. May- brick is innocent. The London edition of the Herald is making a splendid fignt for at least the semblance of such a trial as would be granted a person accused of murder in the United States. Mrs. Maybrick may be pos- sessed of wany desires, but one is pre- eminent from morning till night—she wi to be permitted to wrte to the quec.. She has not been allowed to do 80, She is l)uta wreck of her former self. Her attire is blue homespun. Her fooa is the regular prison fare. To-day her mail con- sisted of eleven hundred lettors. None con- taining any reference to the case are given to her, sothat she is not allowed to read many. Baroness Von Roque wanted Lo give her a peach to-day, but was not permitted to do 80. Sl NEGOTIATIUNS CHECKED, The Cheroken Commission Can Do Nothing Tiil November, Muskoere, L T,, August 16.—All negotia- tions between the Cherokee nation and the commission is at an end until the council meets in November, Chief Mayes holding that if he had the authority to abpoint a con- ference committee their action would not be binding without the ratification of the council. Judge Wilson and Governor Fair- child, of the commission. are being enter- tained by the oity, and after a few days’ rest they will go to the Chickasaw country. Judge Wiison said to-night: “Chief Mayes objects very strongly, but, it is only a question of @ lttle time when the Indians wiil not only favor the sule of the strip, but the opening of the territory, as the power of the press canuot long be resisted, Colonel Boudinot is preparing for an exhaustive réply to Chief Mayes' letter to the commission.” - Nebraska and lowa Pensions. WASHINGTON, August 16.—[Special Tele- gram to Tug Bez.]—Pensions allowed Ne- braskans: Original invalid—George W. Be- craft, Irael Adams, Charles A. Wintersteen, Increase—Albert J. Stafford, John W. Okane, Horaco A. Cowles. Reissue—Wil- liam H, Monroe. Pensions granted Iowans: valid—Joshua Long, Henr James B. Roach, Thomas W. C. Burgess, Newton Strode, Incrense—Au- gust Soechtig, Henry B. Hawley, Joseph Thrailkall, Alvin M. Poor, William Corr. Re- issue—Alden Whitney. Orlgmul widows, cto Sarah, mother of Uriah Farlow. Original in- B. Doolittle, Batten, Walter S B A Desperate Murderer. JacksoN, Tenn., August 16.—A terrible tragedy was enacted this morning ten miles northeast of this place. Henry Prewit, an ex-cowboy from Texas, shot his young wife through the neck, fatally wounded - his mother-in-law, and then shot himself through the head, dying instantly. A war rant was out for Prewit's arrest for moon- shining, and he was _cndeavoring to_induce his wife to accompany him to Weakly county, which she refused to do on account of ill healtn. Prewit was & desporate char- acter and had boasted 10 his wifo that he had been married four times und had killed one wife and four men, The couple had been married but four months, e g R The Northwestern Wheat ¥Yield. MINNEAPOLIS, August 16.—Telegrams from various points covering the entire northwest show that the yield of wheat s much above expectations. Of the whole not one reported a single untavorable condition. At Huron, §. D., where three bushels to eight bushels was predicted, the threshing shows n yield of twelve to fourteen bushels, and in Grand Forks county whent is vieldiug an average of twenty bushels, and that is claimed to be the average of the county, Bismarck, James- town and Fargo, in North Dakota, ulso say the yield is above expectations. ——————— hnlllvnn Found Guilty, Purvis, Miss., August 16.—The jury at § p. m. returned a verdict finding Sullivan guilty of prize-fighting. A motion in arrest of judgment was made and will be heard to- MOFrow. A petition is being gotten up by the grand and petit jurors, and others, to the judge asking tbatonly'a fine, and no imprison- ment be found against Sullivan, B A Grain Laden Vesse Warerrowx, N. Y., August 1 masted schooner A, Vn.kuy, with a cargo of 21,000 bushels of corn, bound from Chicago to Prescott, Ontario, struck u shoal near the Rock Islaud light-house, opposite Thousand Istand park, lust night and sank. The crew escaped in boats. The schooner is valued at 818,000, The vessel was partially insured and the cargo wtirel; Alone in a Strange Land. New York August 16.—A young Hunga- risn woman with two children is beiug cared for by the Castle Garden suthoritios. She has learned that her husband, who sent her money to come to this country, was lost in the Johnstown calamity. Her grief on hearing of us death was terrible, - aughtor of Annnias, New Youk, August 16, ~-1da Harris, the fourteen-year-0ld girl who was found in the rooms of Haunah Pearlstein on Mondaay, and for whose alleged outrage Mrs. Pearl- stein and five men were arreste: wd\y developed such advanced ability a lar that Police Justice Power dhuhu‘adlu the prisoners in disgust, — - Sanctions Tolstol's Scheme. 1. PTERSBURG, August 16.—A ukase has becn issued sanctioning proyincial reorgaus ization under Count Tolstol's schewe,