Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 23, 1889, Page 1

W' “NINETEENTH YEA NOT THE USUAL PROGRAMME, | No Turbulent Mob Surged Through the Parisian Streets. NO STORMING OF THE BASTILE, Mild-Mannored Men Oast Their Votes Without Demonstration—A Disap- pointed Correspondent — The Battle of the Bill Posters, Berene Political Skies, [Comyright 189 by James Gordon Bennett. | Paris Sept. 20.—|New York Hera Cable—Special to Tie Bee|—From early morning there has beeh a considerablo amount of animation, more especially i tho quarters of the town principally inhabited by the working classes, Everything, how- ever, passed off in a good orderly manner. The majority of the voters recorded their votes in the moruing, 8o that having dono their duty as citizens they were freo to o and amuse themselves at tho exhibition. or elsewhere, as fancy prompted, Tho drizzling rain which fell until near noon had the effect of preventing idlers trom coneregating in the stroets around the voting stations, The biil stickers, who had been working hard all night, were stiil going on with their paper war, working hard to paste over bills stuck up by thoir predeccssors. Infthe one hundred and cighty eighth aron- disement one eneraetic bill sticker was in- dustriously occupying himself by pasting up Boulanger posters over those of Joffrin then those of Joffrin over Boulanger and so on. Inside the voting stations there wus no ex- citement. The scene was the samo in_every arondisement. Gentlemen sitting behind the ballot box examined the electoral certifi- cates of each vowr who immediately de- posited in the box his ballot, which 1 most cases he had carefully folded in four, before entering. There was an air of mystery about the whole proceedings that seomed to indicate that the French appreciate the sys- tem of secret voting. In frout, on the steps of each polling place, a score of men were discussing the ballots of the different candi- dates. Everyboay took the papers, but most people threw them away as soon as they had entered. The interior was thus carpeted with white papers which gave it a strange appearance, somewnat resembl- ing the gardens exhibition after a popular Sunday fete, 1 called 1n upon Maxime Lisbonue, the can- didate who, in his manifesto, proposes to deal in hovest peculations and not use his parlipmentary influence for any person who does not first hand him over a sum varying fron £20 to £2000. I found the former colonel of the cominune in the furthest corner of his Tavern du Bagne . playing at patienz His atteution seemed somewhat distracted from the game Dby telegrams which he was receiving every few minutes, at last Le guveun cards for politics and told me he fears Boulanger's success is certain. He also showed me a telegram saying that Jules Terry wus getting beaten in Vosges The strange tavern ho presides over is worth a visit. The wall 18 hang with cap- 1tal pictures portrayng scenes of the com- munist couvicr's history. ‘When you enter the guardian whistles and shouts to another life conviet. When you pay for what you have had a strange looking waiter in couvict dress hands you a circular pass upon which is a certificate signed by Maxime™ Lisbonue that the convict has con ducted himself well, and a8 ydu present this at an outer door a guardian informs you that are free, in Minilmontant, Montmartre and Belleville, People were strolling about as on any Sunday or holiday. Everywhere pub- lic buildings were hideously disfizured with electoral manifestoes, even the Lion on the Place de la Repub- lique” bad not escaped. His body was covered with brilliant tricolor posters of Boulangist candidates while his eye was closed by the name of vailiant and s tail sevbred as a staff for flugs, “*Where is the fight, cocher, and horsemen charging the mob and the naked sabers ruddy with Parisian gore and all that sort of thing " Such were the anxious queries put by the Herald correspondent this evening to the red headed Jehu who was driving him along the highways and byway The silly Mont- motre cocher shook bis bead blankly. He had seen no gore, no surging crowds, no riot, revolution or anything else—nothing but slippery pavements, mud and umbrellas, “Allez vite!” was the order and keen “on the scent of carnage, the carriage rattled away over the cobble stones. It was o use. Each new streot was as quiet and desolate as the one before it. In front of various voting headquarters were guthered groups of men brightened by the presence of an occasional woman, and good natured groups were smoking, langhing aud chatting about the elections. Therefore there was 10 wad frenzy, and no oratorical ravings, nor did these excellent people show the slightest disposition to toar one another or anybody else into pleces. There was nothing of the down trodden populace thirst- ing for the blood of it oppressors about them. Tear down the bastile! Not a bit of 1, Much more apt would they be to adjourn to & cosy cafe and to pass the mnightin ex- changing ready blagues. In the whole of his wanderings through this section of the city the correspondent saw absolutely nothing in the shave of vio- lent demonstrations, and yet it was precisely bere that General Boulanger was running for office as the avowed euemy of the gov- ernment and to the masses in Montmartre, General Boulanger is the hero of the hour. No better illustration could be given of the law abiding disposition of the Paris crowd, The nearest approach to @ row was a little incident which ocourred near the Marie, In tho center of anoisy group which uearly plocked the street stood a disreputable look- ing individual dressed in @ blue bluuse, He was gesticulating wildly and with evident indifference to the persous of those who came within the radius Of his swinging arms, “Mesdames et Messieurs,” he oried. Gen- eral Boulanger is alected. ‘The republic is at our mercy. Carnot, Constans and their gang are a lot of —— —— The orator commenced on a catalogue of the most uncomplimentary epithets which he emphasized by bringing his fist 10to close and emphatic contact with the visual organ of a black haired youth in fronv of him, whereupon he of the black hair - formed the speaker that he was all sorts of untranslatable things. Great wus the joke a8 the news spread. Boulanger Elected in Montmartre— A Riot at Avignon, Paws, Sept. 22 —Notwithstandivg the facy thut the electorate test was proceeding, the streots of Paris early wo-day brosented a de- serted aspect. The rain cleared the boule- vards and kopt the people within doors, |The sountry visiters 10 the exbibition left the R OMAHA, city yesterday for their respective depart- ments to participate in the elections, leaving the different sections of the exhibition less crowded than usual. Crowds of electors have thronged tho mairies for the last two s obtaining voting paper It is there- fore considered improbable that the pre- diction of a large falling off in the vote will be tulfilled. The voting began at18 a. m. Around the electoral urns the representation of the differcut parties kept assidious watch There was no excitement or bustle a where, Telegrams from the provinces ported equal tranquility. After3 o'clock the poiling places were thronged, still perfect order prevailed, The crowds were good- humored, and thero was no apparent ten- dency to disturbauce. The authorities had taken elaborate precautions against rioting, but there was no display of force on the streets. Soldiers were kept in readiness in barracks and the police were massed under cover at various points, with instructions to remain inactive unless compelled to interfere, Tho clergy of Moumartre ordered prayers in Boulanger's favor, There was a riot at Avignon. A crowd forced the doors of the building occupied by the Boulangist committee, burned the voting papers and set fire to the building. Then the crowd went to the Boulangist club, broke in the doors, wrecked the furniture and drove out the members, Joulauger has beon elected at Montmatre. In the First Seine district another baliot will be necessary, no candgidate having received the requisite’ majority. In St. George's pan- theon and the Faubourg St. Honore districts another ballot will be taken. Returns from the provinces are coming in slowly. Thevenet, minister of justice, is elected in the Second district of Lyons. In the other divisions of Lyons & second ballot Wwill be necessary. In all the divisions of Bordeaux a second ballot will have to be taken. In the First district of Huyre, Seigfried (republican) was defeated by Marchand (Boulangest). There wis a great uproar in tho office of the Presse in_Montmartre, when the an- nouncement of§Boulanger's victory iu Mont- martre was displuyed on a transparency. The news was received with mingled checrs and hoots by the rival contingents and as a row seemed imminent the police and mounted guards charged upon and dispersed the crowd. Several persons were arrested There was a free display of placards rep- resenting Boulanger on horseback trampling upon the corpses of workmen and inseribed the ‘‘murderer of the communists.” Most of the foreign diplomatic ‘representatives made it a point to be in Paris during the elections, Notable exceptions were the ambassadors of Germany and Ttaly. The voulevards were thronged until mid- mght, There was much crying of “down with Ferr, Edison Talks of His European Visit— His Deafness. LoNnoy, Sept. “[New ¥ork derald Cable—Special to Tne Bee. | —Edison is pass- ing his few duys in England at the beautiful country residence of Sir John Pender, at Foot's Crag, nour the village of Cutlip. A reporter who was granted a few minutes’ in- terview with him yesterday found him rather seriously indisposed. He caught a thorough chill, which has so aggravated the chronic but slight deafness from whicn he suffers as to render conversation with him a matter of considerable dificnlty. He was, however, as cheerfulas ever, and looks forward to the resumption of hard work which will im- mediately follow his return to America as most men look forward to holiday. “Ihad a very good time on the continent,” he said, *‘both in Paris and Berlin. I was received with the greatest coraiality, and L shall rememuer this visit to Europe ae one of the pleasantest of my life. It is delightfully quiet here, and I want quiet. Ihave nad a longg walk through the woods to-day, and it lins done me an immense mount of good “Your visit has not been purely one of pleasure, Mr. Edison? *No, I have gone about a good deal and seen many things which have interested me. Science 18 moving fast in Europe.” “Wlien are we going to hear from you?? “Hear from me,” repeated Edison. “How “When 18 your next fuvention coming outi” “I have two or three little things on stock which will be completed, I hope, in a month or two.” “Would “you their nature?’ “Well,” said Edison with a sly twinkle in his eyes, “they will not be altogethor un- connected with electricity. Fuarther than that I can’t say anything at present.” “Do you remuin with us longer?” “Only till Thursday, then I go back to Paris; not on business but bacause my wife and I have one or two friends thero to whom we wish to say goud bye. We shall leave Havre for America on Saturday and go direet home without touching England again this time, and now I must ask you to_excuse me. mind giving me a hint as to ——e S DAMAGES, WANT An Elixir Patient Coming Back at His Doctor. CINOINNATI, Sept. 22, —[Special Telegram to Tne Ber,]—The first action filed in the United States on account of damages arising from use of the “elixir of life” was filed in the court of coramon pleas late yesterday. Plaintiff is Cornelius Steele, the carpenter, builder and contractor. Dr. George K. Tay- lor is the defendant. Steele asks for dam- agos in the sum of $5,000 for mentul und suffering superinduced by the treat- ment he underwent, and 8300 for loss of em- ployment and expenses incurred for wedical and -urgioal services, Steelo was ally paralyzed. He clams that the doctor called him into his oMce and injected the elixir into his left leg wittout his knowledge of what the substance was. Steele's leg was finally cut open to complete the healing of tue ab- cesses caused by the eliie e Allin But One. Cnicaao, Sept. 22 —[Special Telegram to Tue Bek.]—lhe mammoth trust has ab- sorbed the glass factories of northern Illi- neis, both at Streator and Ottawa. The Streator window glass works were sold to an eastern syndicate yesterday, The price paid was $100,000. The vew ‘‘trust” is kuown as the United Giass cowpany. The firty-five window glass factories of the country are to bo united, The trust conpeols all the factories in New York, Ohio, ln- diana and Llinow. The combine is capital ized at £3,000,000, and has already purchased the works at Rock Island and Ottawa, leav- ing the factory at Belleville the only one in the stute not yot in their coutrol, The local management of the Streator factory will not be changed. The stockholders accept stock in tne company for their loterest in the Streator Glass comvany. The works of the Ottawa Window Glass company and the Rock Island Window Glass company have also been purchased by the United Glass company. The main ofice will be i New York eity, a local manager and ofice man ouly being retained at the works. This movement points Lo an early opening of the factories. The plant at Ottawa is worth $400,000. Non manded. ariisans D CuricAw0, Sept, ‘elegram to Tur Ber.|-The popular demand for non- partisan nominations for judicial officers for Cook county is likely to bear fruit. A full meeting of the Chicago Bar association has been called for next Saturday to elect a new committee on politicul action, and to take into consideration the judicial nomina tions. ‘IT'he objoct of this move is to head off weak nowinations by either of the political parties and to secure the nowination of such jurists only whose knowa integrity will plzce them above suspicion of party bias in political sction, CLOSE OF THE ENCAMPMENT The Bluecoats Gladly Deserting Camp George Orool. THEY ALL LEARNE D SOMETHING. A Few Mild Criticisms—Some Uscless Drilts and Milicary Absurditios - Newspaper Correspondents Were Down on Their Luck. Striking Camp. Camr Gronrar Crooxk, (via Fort Robinson) Neb, Sept. 22.—[Special to Tne Bee.]— Tho first summer encampment of the depart- ment of the Platte is over. The troops which composed it, gathered from three states and territories, are rapidly and gladly moving homewards, and oy the time this letter is put into type Camp George Crook will be a thing of the past. The plain, for a month white with teats, will again boa grazing ground for cavalry horses; the valley of Sol- dier Creek, which has echoed with trumpet calls and the hoarse orders of drilling battal- 10ns, brigades and divisions, will lapse into its accustomed quietude, and the old buttes, which for long centuries have calmly looked down on the slopes of the ever flowing river, will once more stolidly survey a peaceful streteh of country where for weeks gone by clouds of dust have rolled from beneath the feet of half a thousand horses and the dry turfs been tramped by the tread of four times that number of men. Allof the commands with one exception have left for their former station, glad to re- linquish the tent and the drill ground for nfortable quarters and grassy parada. The Seventh infantry ulone will return home to pack up for a transfer. The historic old garrison of Fort Laramie, for more than forty years an outpost of civilization, is to be abandoned and Colonel Merriam his command will exchange the sage brush of Wyoming for the bracing air and the more congenial surround- ings of Fort Logan, near Denver. The last two woeks of tvha encampment were fully oceupied in grand strategy in the -fleld and a concluding series of division drills, Of the grand strategy in the field there s little to be said, Both ofticers and men are reticent over the urip to the Hat creck divide and Sowbelly canyon. A mis- take was made in the start and the retreat- ing force under General Kautz, which was down on the programmo for easy capture, upset the plans by refusing to be taken into camp as anticiated. But all reached home safely after a five days’ campalgn in rocky canyons, whero a couple of modern rapd firing guns would have knocked the command into smihtereens while the old-fashioned guns of the artillery were unlimbering to go into ac- tion. The soldiers learned something of campaigning, the staft officers something of riding and the dismounted officers something of profanity. So, altogether, something was learned and that was the object of the ma- neeuvres, Now. that the camp is over, it may be well to hurriedly glance at its objects, at how well those objects have been attained aud to note in what respects results have fallen short of anticipations. As said before, the camp was admirably located, excellently and thoughtfully planned for health wnd con- venienceand well administered from a purely military standpoint. General Brooke acted as if ho meant business and nog play. Ho was general commanding in fact a8 ‘well as in name. No ofcer stuck more rigidly to the hot and dusty val- ley than he did, none was up lier or later than the department commander or busied himselt more earnestly about details. He was sincerely anxious to make the first large summer’s encampment of the United States army a success, and much of the sucesss at- tained must be' credited to his endeavors. There was a daily increasing proficiency in drill by battalions and brigades not to be se- cured, of course, except where brigades and battalions could be brouzht tozether. There was unquestionably much new information acquired by recruits who had never been in the field before and knew ‘nothing of the minutiae of pitching and striking camp, of louding and unloading wagons, of acting as skirmishers and flankers on march and of the details of camp life as day by day they developed. Unfortunately the 1nstructions ceased at this point. The practical experience gained by officers for whose beuefit more than that of the men the camp was iustituted, was largely nil. Why Because of 176 officers supposed to be at- tached to fifuy-eight troops and companies, only seventy-six were present for duty with their companies. In the entire command, nineteen cavtains, fifty-one first lieutenants and twenty-nine second lieutenants were either absent on leave, on detached service or serving oo staff in the camp. Of tnese twenty-four were on staff duty in the camp tself and seventy-six were absont outside the camp or department limits, Two captains of the Eightniafantry, four of the Seventh, two of the Second, four of the Seventeenth, one of the Sixtecnth and five of the Twenty-first infantry failed to an appearance. Six first heutenants of Ninth cavalr, 1 of the kighth infantry two of the Seventh, three of the Second, six of the Seventeenth, two of the Sixteenth ‘and five of the Twenty-first were wuanted else- where, and ap equal proportion of second lieutenants found other occupation. There were a number of companies, five in all which bad no officer of their company pre ent for duty. Forty-cight company ofiicers were apsent on detatched service, fifteen on sick leave and tnirteen absent on leave. It was & curreat commont in the camp and in the army papers that there was too much staff, offering eoft berths for youngsters who above all needed the instruction and hard work of fleld duty, While old gray-headed captains who had fought throuzh the battles of the war and the Indian campaigns subsequent, did company duty, twenty young company officers were comfortably enjoying life on horseback or in the teut at the time when their seniors wers marching on foot, attend- ing roll calls or drilling in the broiling sun, For many of the details outside of camp there was excuse. Each regiment had its detail of recruiting officers, of oflicers at Leaveuworth, of officors selected for work as college instructors. In addition, oficers were necessarily left at the posts 'tempor- arily deserted, some not so necessarily. T'he pardonable absenteeism was lavge enough t have. caused @ rigid drawing of the lines i other casos, and should have induced a pariog down of ' the various staffs, at the expense of display aund easy berths and to the credit of hard work and instruc- tion whére both were most needed. There was much quict criticism among all grades of officers over the excessive mmount of noedless drills ordered under an August sun. A large portion of the moyewments exe- cuted will shortly be iwiped from tactics. he movaments in masses have almost disap- veared from modern tactics, shot to pieces by the long range rifle and itaproved artil- lery. Whether ofticers or mon become thor- oughly conversane or not Witk evo- lutions which would * be useless in @se of actual warfag, s really of no importance while a tactical hoard is sitting at the national capital to revise the military ideas of Frederick the Great into soue approach to conformity with changed couditions. It was a pitiful commentary on the subserviency of our army staff organiza- tion to exploded traditions to see ofilcers and men sweltering in the sun s thoy painfully performed with great precision movemeuts the command in the face of an army corps of the meanest European power, Thore was ao obportunity for laziness at Camp Crook. - It may be seriously questioned whetherthere was leisure onough in some quarters. At the outset the calls followed each other in such rapid succession that the cavalry had no time between afternoon drills to care for their horses and the horses no time to finish their feed. This was of course rectifled as soon as brought to the attention of tho commanding oficer, but it was a curi- ous mistake to have occurred at all. An hour was also taken off from the hot after. noon drills after the absolute necessity of 1 such a change made itself manifest. i which wonld have meant the annihilation of Everything possible was done by General Brooko to keen up the semblance of war days around the camp, sometimes with very amusing results, But_thero was nothing amusing in the entire affair to the general, ‘The minutest detail had to him an almost sacramental value, an_estimato whioh was often considerably higher than that placed upon it by otiers. Such difforancos of judy- ment may have given occasion for criticisms, charging lack of considration and uncalled for rigidness in rules and regulations, but criticism is inovitable wherever there i8 dif- feronce in rank and pay. A mora pertinent comont was that made on tho very trans- parent veil of secrecy thrown around tho orders to ome. o u oivilian mind, at least, it seomed absurd to witness the stately re- serve concerning some little move- ment about to take place, and which had been discassed i all 1ts details by company communders, pri- vates and cooks for days previously. The excitament by anticipation was conscquently not even intense enough to be dignified as *'a tempost in u tea pot.” But it is easy to pick flaws. It 1s much harder to map out and plan and administer, The encampment was an excollent startor of what will finally develop into annual divis- fon camps and perhaps later into encawp- ments of the entire urmy. In future gather- ings of the kind it would be advisable if some little consideration should be shown to reprosentatives of the press. At Camp Crook two correspondents detailed from papers tive hundred miles distant, wero handicapped ot all points in their attempts to gather 1nformation of interest to the public and not lacking in either interest or udvautage to the arn While encyclopadia peddlers and commercial travelers from New York and Ohicago were hospitably entertained and furnished tents and uccommodations, the newspaper men re- ferred to were placed deep in the “military soup” by being forced to make a trip on foot of throe miles every time they desired to visit the encampment or to secure material for a notice of drills or mancuvres. Their stuy was naturally a short one, It was a mistake, if for no other reason than that thorough public information of the workings and necessities of sumaer encampments must precede a voting of public funds by congress for their develapment and mainten- ance. W. E. ANNIN, e THE CLEARANCE RECORD. 1 Transactions of the Coun- try For the Past Week. Bostox, Sept. 22,—[Bpecial Telegram to Tue Bre.|—The following table, compiled from dispatches from.the cloaring housos in the named below, shows the gross hanges for the week ended September 21, 1889, with rates of percentage of increase or decrease as comparedlvith the amounts for the corresponding ek of 1888: Fi B |® A H | & CITIRS. CLBARINGS. 2 2 § 5 |# New York... Boston......... Philcde!pnia,, Chicago . St. Louls. San Francisco, Baltimore.s ... Pitisbarg... Cincinnatf | .. *Montreal. . Kan as City New Orieads. ..., Louisviile. .. Minneapolis || Providence Detroit. . Denver, Milwaukee. Clevel: St Paul . Omaha.... )\ Galveston......... Columbns /111111 Indinnapolis. . Dalias... ... Richmond Rartfora *Portiand, Ore. . ¥ A, Duluth Mempils. .. Worcester .1 New Ilaven.., Springfiold. Portlend, Me, | Fort Worth..,. .. 2,136,000 12.0 EHalfax s s 1,147,208 St. Joseph'. ...\ L4LG 22,1 Grand Rapids’) TBLE0| 43,5 2.7 Des Moines. . *Tacoma *Bloux City.. *Buffalo......... Topeka. 1,044,080,7 Total Outside New York. 381,650,026| 0.8 “Not included in totais; no clearing houso at this time last yeu 3 At TIC INVELICITY, DOMES Tale of Woe of a Beautiful Young Leavenworth Bride. LeaveNworra, Kan.,, Sept. 22.—[Special to Tue Bee.) —Soclety circles in this city are stirred from center to circumference over the skeleton 1n the closet of one of our most prominent society couples. Less than a year ago Mr, Ed S. Phelps, the junior partuer of the comwission firm of Phelps Bros., was wedded with all the eclat with which a wedding among the ‘400" is attended, to Bessie Nathan, a charming and beautiful girl of Topeks. Since then the couple huve lived in this city, For some time it has been whispered be- hind fans aud over teacups and crazy quilts that the highest domestic felicity had not attended this union. So it was not with much surprise that the announcement that divoree proceedings had been instituted was received. Mrs. Pheips is the plamtiff, In her peti- tion she alleges that her husband has made life an unbearable burden for her; thav he has been guilty of extreme uokindness; has failed to provide for her, although amply able 80 to do; has compelled her to live during his protracted absences, otc., in_the house of his mother, where she has been subjected to insults and indignities; that her purity and womanhood will not allow her to live louger with him, Mrs. Phelps is a beautiful girl of nineteen, and alone 1o the world, She has left her husband and is living with friends, The affair bhas profoundly stirred social circles here, from the high position occupied by the defendant and bis family. The petition is a pathetic recital of heartlessness which has shadowed the life of @ trusting sud affec- tionate girl, I e A Tervible Shock. Barrie Cieek, Mich., Sept. 22—[Special Telegram to Tuk Bee. |—~One week ago W, A. Dentuson, a brakemun, was killed in the Graud Trunk yards here, and since then his wife hus been in @ sort of trance. Her body i isrigid and she seems uncouscious. She took no nourishment for six days, but yes- terday a little baef tea was forced between her lips. Violent spasws occasionally shake her frame, —~— Burst a Biood Vessel. Sr. Lovis, Sept. 22.—Judge Edward Lew: late presiding justice of the St. Louis court of appeals, died suddenly last night frow the burstng of » blood vessel 1o his head, AMERICA'S GRETNA GREEN. The District of Columbia Becoming a National Marrying Mart, ONLY ONE DOLLAR AND COS1S. The Price of the Process Redueed to the Minimum and no Questions Adked—Omaha Capitalists Lo vesting in Maryland, Wasmsarox Bun AU Tis Ovuna Brr, | 513 FOURTEENTIL STRERT, Wasnisatos, D. C., Sopt. 22, | There have been 80 many Funaway mar- riages in Washington during the past year that the city is becoming a veritablo Gretaa ireen. Children failing to receive a marriage license or to get a minister to perform a mar- riage ceremony have ouly to fly to Washing- ton and their hearts are quickly made to beat as one. Attention was to-day called to the loose condition of affairs in this respect by the clopement and marriage of Claiborn A. Wilson and Miss Maude Glasscott, of this city. He is twenty, sho sovonteen, He is a nephew of President Arthur's United States marshal of this district; sho was a belle in the youngest channels of upper so- cioty. On both sides of the match there is @& protest, but it is too late. In the multiplicity of complications which have brought forth hundreds of sensational marriages in the District of Columbia during the past three years, making this a resort far-famed for all Who huve obstacles in the way of marriage, 1o one has ever been mado to suffer. It is not a crime in the eyes of society and the law aids and abets amusements of this character, From Maryland, Virginia and all directions they come every day, till the list of mavriage licenses issaed by the elork of the district court runs as high as that of a whole large state. Congress will not, how- ever, be involed to stop this tralic for the people here seem to enjoy it, on the contrary it will bo cacouraged. No troublesom e questions are asked when a man applies _for & license in Washington to wed the girl of his choi e, All that is necessary to socure a wife is to get the girl to say * " oand to iso $1 in cash for the liconse and secure a minister to tie the knot. 1t does not matter whetoer you are white or black or copper colored, or whether your aweetheart is ono #color and you are another. It makes no differcnce whother youare twenty-one or seventecn, whothor vour girl is fifteen or forty or whether your parents are willing or unwilling, $1 will eo- cure tiie ordor of the court upon a minister of the gospel to solemnize the rites of mar- riage and no questions will be asked. So much encouragement is just now afforded young people to elope to Washington that fathers and mothers in the surrounding couutry are not a little worried. TWO INTERESTING SUBJECTS. Two subjocts have been thesource of much inquiry atwong the officials at the treasury department during the past week. The in- terest is general throughout the country aud with the approuch of December it will be- come greater. Thoy are as to what congress will do on the coiuage of silyer and for anew basis of national baulk circulation. “The impression provails that tiin prosident will make' iinportant recommendations on those subjects, A treasury official says the coinage of silver will romain s at present, but that i all prebability a recommendation fora? per cent bond, especially for na- tional bank circulation security, will be recommended. Ho contends that the most experienced men in the department favor and seo the necessity of it and ho believes that the president and sscretary of the treasury will urge it. This oficial ‘sugzests that those interested should address their senators and representatives in congress and say what they wish done und say it now. I¥ IE WERE NOT AN INDIANA MAN. To-day's Post says tuat President Harri- son would be willing, knowing the man as he doos and upon the recommendations given, to appoint General Fred Kneffler, of Indianapolis, commissioner of pensions—if he were not an Indiaua man, It adds that Merrill, of Massachusetts, had talked bim- sclf to death, 80 far as the commissionership is coucerned. MISCELLANEOUS, Congressman Samuel J. Randall with his family 18 now, and has been nearly all sum- mer, at Walibgford, Pa, Mr. Ranaall is suffering again from his old enemy the gout, He will, however, be on hand at the conven- ing of the house. Quits a number of prominent republicans and democrats will go to Abingdon, Va., to- morrow to witness the formal opening ot the campaign waging in that state, General Mahone is expected to lay down the 1ssues defining his position on the state debt and throw the gauatlet at his democratic adver- saries. The republican candidate for attor- ney general is a cousin of Stonewall Jack- son. He will talk with Guneral Mahone, Secretary Tracy will ask congress to g $100 each instead of $60, as provided by law, to the enlisted man of the navy who were wrecked on the Nipsic, Vandalia and Tren- toif av Samoa last March. . Chief Justice Fuller of the United States supreme court,whose district is Virginia aud the Carolinas, wants to trade districts with Justice Harlan, whose district embraces llinois. It has been discovered that some of the handsomest costumes worn in Washington socicty are made by the sisters of charity in charge of St, Rose’s industrial school in thie nerthwestern part of the city. ‘A plague is visiting the national capital in the form of caterpillars, They are denucing and killing trees and makiog the sidewalis slippery by falliog from overnanging branches. They even invade houses and crawl over the seats 1o the street cars till especial attention is required to keep them out of the way. Iv is expected that Miss Wannamaker, daughter of the postmaster general, will be the reigning belle of society here as soon as she returns from her visit to Mrs, Harrison at Deer Park, Hor good sense and winning manners are her charms., With fair weather for two weeks the con- tractors announce that they will complete Pennsylvania avenue, which is being recov- ered with asphalt, aud nave it in prime order for the Knights Templar conclave, There is & good deal of amusement here over the report telegraphed from Chicago that Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt would be a candidate for United Stutes sen- ator from Dakota. United States seuators are required to be residents of the states which they represent, and as Mr. Roosevelt is now holding an office as a citizen of New York, it is not very likely that he will appear before the public as a citizen of Dakota, ‘To-day’s Post says: Nathan Shelton, of Omaha, bas just bought a farm in Anue, Arunder county, Md., and a uumber of other capitalists from Omaha and olse- where out west are negotiating for property in the*sume vicinity. T'he old rule secms to be reversed. 18 the Wesl coming east Lo grow up with the countryf AlMY NEWS. Eiéutenant Stanley C. Carbaugh, of the Fifth artillery, aud Mrs. Carbaugh, will spend the winter in Washinglon with Mrs. Carbaugh's mother, Mrs, Isaac Henderson. They will arrive on the 1st of Ogtober, First Lieutenant William C. Mclarland, Sixteenth infautry, on duty at Fort Duchesne, Utab, arrived in the oity on fhursday. He ' has been granted four montus’ leave. Licutenant Edwara V. Stockham, assigned to the Seventeenth infantry from the grad- uating class of 1550, bas sent his resizuution to e secretary of war, ‘The important business interests of his father demand at, teution, and as the prospeets in that direction give brighter promise finaucially than @ military career, Lieutenant Stockham has decided Lo gmbark 1n wercantile pursuits, Persy 8. Heary, RTLING ANNOUNCEMENT, O'Grady Said to Be Orime of ¥ Cnicaqo, Sept. 22.—|Special Telegram to Tue Bes.]—The startling announcement that Timothy O'Grady, who is serving a sove enteen-your sentence at Joliet for the mur- der of Policeman O'Brien, is innocent and that the crime was committed by another man named Dyer Scanlan is not believed by the state's attornoy, notwithstanding Scanlan's Guiltless of the nrde confession and afMidavit to the contrary. The case is exciting great attention all over the state and already the governor has been called upon to exercise the pardoning powor iv behalf of the prisoner. The rosccution in this caso wus conducted by Assistant State's Attornoys Baker und Jampolis, and they stoutly mututain the corrctness of their position “O'Grady was dentified by O'Brien’s dying statement and the testimony of Police: said Mr, ne court man Dillon, who was with him,’ Baker to-diy, “and whon the s on & writ of error reviewed the evidence of the case from a comvlote trans- cript prepared by us the result was that the wentiiic ady was lurgely com- plete, If O'Grady was pardoned out and Scanlan brought to trial in spite of his con- fession, it would bo impossible to convict him, on account of that identification of O'Grady standiug in the way, and the result would be that the crime would go unpun- ished. Tdon't kuow what led Scaglan to ko that alleged confession, but I do know there ist't a word of truth in i “It was ramored at tho tune of the trial," sald Mr. Jampolis, “that Scanian was the man who did the shooting and we investizatod tho rumor thoroughly, with the result that wo were convinced that therg was no foun- dation for it. ('Grady tridd to prove an alibi, but it was knocked oot, and there is no more in Scanlan's confession’ thau there was in O'Grady's alivi.”” PADDY RYAN NANOW Items From the Rockies. SAN Fraxcrsco, Sept. 22 —[Special Telo- gram to Tne Bee.]- Thoe event of the week in sporting circles was the license of £5,000 for slugging clubs. This order of the board of supervisors will close up dozens of small sporting clubs here and causo ta large de crease in the number of prize figuts, Great things are expected of the fight next week between young Mitchetl and Johnuy Regan. The famous Paddy Ryan has discovered u sing unknown who appears shortly in Lring. Betting on the comng Mur- phy-Warren fight gives odds in favor of Warren. Lucky Baldwin has beon sued for £10,000. A locul actor sang *‘Slide, Vally, Slide” m a bar room of the Baldwin hotel ana Baldwin ejected him, doing him Dbodily harm. By the way, once pretty Verona Baldwin is re- ported W be dying in the Napa insaue asylum, California raisins have become an import- ant figure of trade with the Ausuralian colo- nies. Every stoamer carries large consign- ments of California raisins, California ohions also have a bix demand 1 Australia, ‘The tenth week in the famous Blythe case concluded to-night, This time has becn con- sumed by attorneys. Florence Blythe is an Englisn girl, claiming to be the daughter of Thomas H. Blythe, and thereare half a hun- dred other claimants. Scveral months will be consumed in taking testimony. Thus far everything points to Florence winning the case and securing $4,000,000. She certainly has a stroug case. The best legal talent iv the state concede her a winner, Forest fires have baen raging in various parts of California during the week. Fires are sull burning fiercely in the mountains, nd much property is destroyed. The loss in Sun Muteo county alone reuches ~$1,000,000. The people in Nevada county have been fightiniz all the week to save their homes from destruction. Heavy lossesare reported in the Simi river district. It is some wecks yet before the rainya sea-on, consequently the fires may still do great damage. The state fair at Sacramento clos day night, after the most successful exhibi- tion on record. A promment feature this year was the ladies’ equestrian tournament, Which brought out the wealth and beauty of the state. John Dillon and party arrive here from Australia October 20, and will remain two weoks, and be given a grand reception by the Irish nationalists, —— A PROBABLE O:her Beyona PIERRE WINNER. Indications That She Will the Oupital Race. Pienre, S, D., Sept. 22.—[Special Tele- gram to Tug Bee.|—A dispatch from Bridgewater this evening announced that Pierre has captured another invesument con- cern named the Farmors' Capital Invest- ment company. ‘Tnis institution was organ- ed about the same time as the Woonsocket company, having the same cbject in view, but the stock was disposed of principally to members of the Farmers' alliance in Mc- Cook and adjacent countics. The action of the stockholders in coming to Plerre was based ob the apparbnt lead of Pierre in tho capital race, and from what is known no other candidate was given consideration in choosing thie place, as it was considered pracuically settled that Pierre would win. The company has secured an interest in a iarge amount of city proverty and will boom Pierre all iv can, The affairs of the company were shown up, from which it is learned that 4,000 stockholders are interested and will cast a solid vote for Pierre, as their vote to in this city was ubanimous. A careful canvass of every couuty bas just been submitted to the Pierre board of trade by friends working in every section of South Dakota, which shows thal FPierre can count on over thirty thousand votes for the apital. Twenty-two thousand are consi d- ered enough o locate, Lead in A DOUBLE MURDER. A Pennsylvania Man Kills His Wife and Mother-in-Law, BeLLroNTE, Pa., Sept. 22.—At Phillips- burg to-day, Secly Hopkins, aged twenty- five, shot and killed both bis wife and moth- er-n-law and then made an unsuccessful at- tempt to kill himself. Hopkins has engaged in numerous quarrels with his wife during the past two or three mouths, Two weeks ago he left home, re- turring yesterday. ‘Thoy had another quar- rel this ‘morming, when Hopkins shot his wife dead. He then rvshed to the third story ,where bis wmother-n-law was, and shot her too, killing her instantly. Hopkins then went to a neighboring livery stable, where he attempted to kill himself, « dring two shots into his head, doing little damage, When taken into custody u letter was found in his pocket accusing his wife of fidelity, - - The Wild Man of Adrian Cnrcado, Sept. 22 —|Special Tele Tue Bee]—Itis reported that a wild man is parading himself in the woods sixteen miles north of Adrian, Mich,, in @ perfectly nude coudition, scaring the natives half out of their wits, Squads of furmers have been chiasiog him up and dowa the timber, but no man hus you baen within shooting distanco. He can run like & deer. 1t is thought be sLops in the trunks of hollow trees and feeds ou what nuts he can gathor and on the young lambs and chickeos stolen from farmors. Places have been found whore he has du holes in the ground and buried some of his vlunder. He is cousidered harmless by the men, but the women and children are kopt in mortal terror. Cold weather will shelter, probably drive him to e The Weath, Forecanst, For Nebraska and Jlowa - Light winds shifting to westerly, cooler in Towa, higher temperature. For Dakota—Ktaius, winds westerly, lower tewperature. raius, eastern sbifting %0 FROM THE HAWKEYE STATE, The Ropublicans Preparing to Opon the Campaign, EXASPERATING TRAIN SERVICE, Attomptod Murder and Suicide ag Carson—~Th. nback Candis date on the Stump— Other Itewms, Opsning the Camnaigen Drs Morses, In, Sept. 22.—[Special to Tre Bre.]—The chalrman of the republican stato ceatral committoo has opened hoade quartors in this oity, and is now actively ory ganizing ‘he campaign, It has boen decided to have spoeches by Sonator Allison, Senas tor Wilson, Congressman Henderson, Cone ssman Cear and Governor Larrabse at large catherings within the next fow days, aud formally open the speaking campaign in this way. Then tho smaller guns will open up all along the live. dshaw Suicide t. 23, —Special Tologram ik, ] —At 6 0'clock this evening, as ler was passing the house of J, J. Bradsnaw, he was shot at by Bradshaw. The shot did no damaze and Bradshaw im= mediately placed tho revolver to his own forehead and fired, killing himself instantly, He loaves a wife and a largo fawly of smalt nd in poor circurmstances, H accused Tylor of unduo intimucy with Lis wife, and has threatened to shoot both his wife and Tyler. The Railcond Comnussioners Busys Drs MoiNes, In, Sept. 23.—|Special to Tug Bee.]—The raiiroad commissione about the busiest officials around the house these days. Their powers are 8o broud that they have all manner of com= plaints relating to railroad mattors reforred to them. Thoy were at Mouut Ayr a part of last weel, where they heard complaints against the poor train service on that br of the Chicago, Burlington & Quin number of traveling men testified that tho train service was 8o irregular that they had virtually been compelled to give up thetowns. along the branch. They complained es= pecially of the long waits at stations, where trains scomea to sty long after the ordinary childron traftic had had boen disposed of. Thoy saig that in some instances tho trainmen would have a game of ball while waiting, Another traveling man claims ne got offt the regnlar passenger train a Bethany Junction, transacted all his business at that station, then walked to L= mou, three miles up tho track, visited all his customers thero and sold * some bills of goods, invoiced a stock of implements and got back to the Lamoni station in time to catch the passenger train which he had left at Bethany Junction three miles away. The commissioners have been notified that the Chicago & Northwestern road hus ap- pealod from its decision in what is known as the Maurice crossing case. The Sioux City & Northern road wants to cross the Northa western at that point, but to enable that road to do so, according to the plan proposed b the commissioners, would cost™ the NortHs western $10,000. That road thinks that ? praying pretty high for a change that made solely to accommodate another rou‘f 50 it has asked for an injunction to prever the Sioux City & Northern road from af tempting to build the crossing. lows's Labor Bureau. Des MoiNes, Sept. 22.—[Special to Trp Bee. |—-The Towa bureau of labor and statis. tics has been organized and in operation fop nearly six years, aud in that time has dong some excellent work. Commissioner 1utel ins will soon have ready his third biennig} report to the governor, Some very interosta ing information has been secured from thé advance sheets aud is now made public. The effort of the commissioner has been to pub himself in direct communication with tl workingmen of the state so as to bo able know their condition and their necds, und to ve prepared to make ' recommendations for appropriate legislation. His forthcoming res port mcludes returns from 2,140 workings men. These represent forty-nine trades and. mdustries, and th report the average wages, anily and yearly, the cost of living, ete. The following are some of the facts obs tained from this sour Number owning their own homes, 1,1673 number of howes that are mortgaged, 4943 number who rent homes, 505: number who have saved money, 1,0815 number who are i debt, 6153 number 'who have life m-urnn;é' 7315 number who have fire insurance, 1,156} number belonging to labor oranizations, 724f The question was asked by the comm sioner: “Is prohibition a good thing for the wageworker{’" One thousand three hundred and twontys eight answer yes and 876 answer no. Dugs ing the past year 500 workmen of those res sponding have had their wages increaso 223 have had their wages decreased; 1.5 learned their trades in the United Suateg and 73 in Kurope; 442 state that there is vhild labor in_their localitieg and 620 reply that there is none. One chapter is devote to *views of workingmen,” in which thei suggestions and opinions about the condls tion of labor, and reforms that are needed are printed. ' 1t makes very interesting rend’I ing. Attention is also given the subject o savings banks, and the extent to which they used by workiagmen. The relations bes sen capital and labor, strikes, lockouts, ete., are also freely discussed. City and College Y. M. O, A, Des MoiNes Ta., Sept. 22 —[Special to Tas Beg, |—The call has veen issued for the twens tieth annual convention of the City and Col= lege Young Mens' Christian associations at Ottumwa, beginning October 9, Reduced rates over the different ronds have been secured, and a_very large attendance is expecied, Mr, Nash, the state secrotary of Nebraska, and several prominent workers from the eastare to be present, Mr, D. L. Moody, the famous evanugelist, has been specially Jn* vited to avtend. The exercises will begin on Wedaesiay evening and coutinue Lurough the week. back Harangue, Ta., Sept. 22—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee|-The greenback candidate for governor, Elias Dooley, opened the greenback cawpaign Saturday night in th's city with a speech which for it pungeat wit and scathing sarcasm was @ great surorise. He took up each plank of A Gre CEDARORAPIDS, the greenback platform and paid his respects to the old parties and the union labor party without the formality of gloves. He re. ferred wo the democratic party as a *‘putrid reminiscence of the stone age.” He argued for a single tax according to the Henry George idea and for the abolition of uational bauks, Huling=Yurner, Sept. 22.—[Special to Tuw B; dward Huling, of Lincoln, Neb., and Mrs. Mary J. Turner, daughter of John D, Carter, oue of the most promiuent citizens of Ringgold county, were murried at the resls the bride's brother, J. 1. Carter, September 15, Maloy, 1 Steamstop Arrivals, At New York—The Aluska, from Livery pool: La Gascogne, from Havre, for Queenss town; the Etruria, from New York for Live erpool At Plymouth—The Gullert, from New York for Hamburg. Passed the Lizard~La Chawpagoe, from New York for Havre,